On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 03:45:01PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > When I first read the above, I thought it was going to be about a > NUL-terminated string that was missing a NUL. But in fact, the issue > is that strlen(path) can be < 2. > > In other words, an alternative fix would be > > if (*path == '.' && path[1] == '/') { > ... > } > > which would not require passing in 'len' or switching to index-based > arithmetic. I think I prefer it. What do you think? Yes, I think that approach is much nicer. I think you could even use skip_prefix. Unfortunately you have to play a few games with const-ness, but I think the resulting signature for cleanup_path() is an improvement: diff --git a/path.c b/path.c index 00ec04e7a5..2e09a7bce0 100644 --- a/path.c +++ b/path.c @@ -34,11 +34,10 @@ static struct strbuf *get_pathname(void) return sb; } -static char *cleanup_path(char *path) +static const char *cleanup_path(const char *path) { /* Clean it up */ - if (!memcmp(path, "./", 2)) { - path += 2; + if (skip_prefix(path, "./", &path)) { while (*path == '/') path++; } @@ -47,7 +46,7 @@ static char *cleanup_path(char *path) static void strbuf_cleanup_path(struct strbuf *sb) { - char *path = cleanup_path(sb->buf); + const char *path = cleanup_path(sb->buf); if (path > sb->buf) strbuf_remove(sb, 0, path - sb->buf); } @@ -64,7 +63,7 @@ char *mksnpath(char *buf, size_t n, const char *fmt, ...) strlcpy(buf, bad_path, n); return buf; } - return cleanup_path(buf); + return (char *)cleanup_path(buf); } static int dir_prefix(const char *buf, const char *dir)