Search for a space character only within the current line in read_commit_extra_header_lines() instead of searching in the whole buffer (and possibly beyond, if it's not NUL-terminated) and then discarding any results after the end of the current line. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> --- commit.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c index 2cf85158b4..173c6d3818 100644 --- a/commit.c +++ b/commit.c @@ -1354,8 +1354,8 @@ static struct commit_extra_header *read_commit_extra_header_lines( strbuf_reset(&buf); it = NULL; - eof = strchr(line, ' '); - if (next <= eof) + eof = memchr(line, ' ', next - line); + if (!eof) eof = next; if (standard_header_field(line, eof - line) || -- 2.12.0