When we report an error to the client, we format it into a fixed-size buffer using vsprintf(). This can't actually overflow in practice, since we only format a very tame subset of strings (mostly strerror() output). However, it's hard to tell immediately, so let's just use a strbuf so readers do not have to wonder. We do add an allocation here, but the performance is not important; the next step is to call die() anyway. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- builtin/upload-archive.c | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin/upload-archive.c b/builtin/upload-archive.c index 32ab94c..dbfe14f 100644 --- a/builtin/upload-archive.c +++ b/builtin/upload-archive.c @@ -49,15 +49,14 @@ int cmd_upload_archive_writer(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) __attribute__((format (printf, 1, 2))) static void error_clnt(const char *fmt, ...) { - char buf[1024]; + struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT; va_list params; - int len; va_start(params, fmt); - len = vsprintf(buf, fmt, params); + strbuf_vaddf(&buf, fmt, params); va_end(params); - send_sideband(1, 3, buf, len, LARGE_PACKET_MAX); - die("sent error to the client: %s", buf); + send_sideband(1, 3, buf.buf, buf.len, LARGE_PACKET_MAX); + die("sent error to the client: %s", buf.buf); } static ssize_t process_input(int child_fd, int band) -- 2.6.0.rc2.408.ga2926b9 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html