Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > We could also just make a NUL-terminated copy of the input > bytes and operate on that. But since all but one caller > already is passing a string, instead let's just fix that > caller to provide NUL-terminated input in the first place, > by swapping out mmap for strbuf_read_file(). > ... > Let's also drop the "len" parameter entirely from > link_alt_odb_entries(), since it's completely ignored. That > will avoid any new callers re-introducing a similar bug. Both design decisions make perfect sense to me. > sha1_file.c | 29 +++++++++-------------------- > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) And diffstat also agrees that it is a good change ;-)