On February 17, 2019 8:50, Joe Ranieri wrote: > "git ls-files -m" can show deleted files, despite -d not having been specified. > This is due to ls-files.c's show_files function calling lstat but not checking the > return value before calling ie_modified with the uninitialized stat structure. What version of git are you looking scanning? Commit 8989e1950a (2.21.0-rc1) has the following: err = lstat(fullname.buf, &st); if (show_deleted && err) ... You may be correct that the following check: if (show_modified && ie_modified(repo->index, ce, &st, 0 may need to include !err. Is that your conclusion? Is there a test case you have to demonstrate this that I can include in the test suite? The patch would be (subject to my bad mailer messing it up): diff --git a/builtin/ls-files.c b/builtin/ls-files.c index 29a8762d46..fc21f47954 100644 --- a/builtin/ls-files.c +++ b/builtin/ls-files.c @@ -348,7 +348,7 @@ static void show_files(struct repository *repo, struct dir_struct *dir) err = lstat(fullname.buf, &st); if (show_deleted && err) show_ce(repo, dir, ce, fullname.buf, tag_removed); - if (show_modified && ie_modified(repo->index, ce, &st, 0)) + if (show_modified && !err && ie_modified(repo->index, ce, &st, 0)) show_ce(repo, dir, ce, fullname.buf, tag_modified); } } Regards, Randall -- Brief whoami: NonStop developer since approximately 211288444200000000 UNIX developer since approximately 421664400 -- In my real life, I talk too much.