From: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> If some code sets up the data structures for a merge, but then never actually performs one before calling merge_finalize(), then merge_finalize() wouldn't notice that result->priv was NULL and return early, resulting in following that NULL pointer and getting a segfault. There is currently no code in the git codebase that does this, but this issue was found during testing of some proposed patches that had the following structure: struct merge_options merge_opt; struct merge_result result; init_merge_options(&merge_opt, the_repository); memset(&result, 0, sizeof(result)); <do N merges, for some value of N> merge_finalize(&merge_opt, &result); where some flags could cause the code to have N=0, i.e. doing no merges. Add a check for result->priv being NULL and return early to avoid a segfault in these kinds of cases. While at it, ensure the FREE_AND_NULL() in the function does something useful with the nulling aspect, namely sets result->priv to NULL rather than a mere temporary. Reported-by: Derrick Stolee <derrickstolee@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@xxxxxxxxx> --- merge-ort: fix calling merge_finalize() with no intermediate merge See https://lore.kernel.org/git/CABPp-BHCdjOutYqdMO1NbYKNA0BgkXRgwUEKK=MX0kXM-5G_DQ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1518%2Fnewren%2Ffix-merge-finalize-with-no-merge-v1 Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1518/newren/fix-merge-finalize-with-no-merge-v1 Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1518 merge-ort.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/merge-ort.c b/merge-ort.c index 5bf64354d16..cba3662e497 100644 --- a/merge-ort.c +++ b/merge-ort.c @@ -4718,14 +4718,14 @@ void merge_switch_to_result(struct merge_options *opt, void merge_finalize(struct merge_options *opt, struct merge_result *result) { - struct merge_options_internal *opti = result->priv; - if (opt->renormalize) git_attr_set_direction(GIT_ATTR_CHECKIN); assert(opt->priv == NULL); - clear_or_reinit_internal_opts(opti, 0); - FREE_AND_NULL(opti); + if (!result->priv) + return; + clear_or_reinit_internal_opts(result->priv, 0); + FREE_AND_NULL(result->priv); } /*** Function Grouping: helper functions for merge_incore_*() ***/ base-commit: 667fcf4e15379790f0b609d6a83d578e69f20301 -- gitgitgadget