On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 03:12:50PM -0700, Brian Norris wrote: > On the latest version of git-send-email, I see this error just before > running SMTP auth (I didn't provide any --smtp-auth= parameter): > > Use of uninitialized value $smtp_auth in pattern match (m//) at /usr/local/google/home/briannorris/git/git/git-send-email.perl line 1139. > > Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > git-send-email.perl | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl > index c5a3f766f7fd..e3ff44b4d0cd 100755 > --- a/git-send-email.perl > +++ b/git-send-email.perl > @@ -1136,7 +1136,7 @@ sub smtp_auth_maybe { > > # Check mechanism naming as defined in: > # https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4422#page-8 > - if ($smtp_auth !~ /^(\b[A-Z0-9-_]{1,20}\s*)*$/) { > + if ($smtp_auth && $smtp_auth !~ /^(\b[A-Z0-9-_]{1,20}\s*)*$/) { > die "invalid smtp auth: '${smtp_auth}'"; > } Thanks, makes sense. I wonder if moving the check to the point where $smtp_auth is actually used (despite the noisier diff) would be cleaner, like this: --- 8< --- diff --git a/git-send-email.perl b/git-send-email.perl index c5a3f76..2a5ceda 100755 --- a/git-send-email.perl +++ b/git-send-email.perl @@ -1134,12 +1134,6 @@ sub smtp_auth_maybe { Authen::SASL->import(qw(Perl)); }; - # Check mechanism naming as defined in: - # https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4422#page-8 - if ($smtp_auth !~ /^(\b[A-Z0-9-_]{1,20}\s*)*$/) { - die "invalid smtp auth: '${smtp_auth}'"; - } - # TODO: Authentication may fail not because credentials were # invalid but due to other reasons, in which we should not # reject credentials. @@ -1154,6 +1148,12 @@ sub smtp_auth_maybe { my $cred = shift; if ($smtp_auth) { + # Check mechanism naming as defined in: + # https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4422#page-8 + if ($smtp_auth !~ /^(\b[A-Z0-9-_]{1,20}\s*)*$/) { + die "invalid smtp auth: '${smtp_auth}'"; + } + my $sasl = Authen::SASL->new( mechanism => $smtp_auth, callback => { --- 8< --- -- 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