SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Since 583b7ea31b (upload-pack/fetch-pack: support side-band > communication, 2006-06-21) the abort message sent by upload-pack in > case of possible repository corruption ends with a null character. It is so so old that makes me wonder if it is safe to "fix" it, but I cannot think of a sensible way to write a third-party client that may have been working fine and would break when this fix is made. > This can be seen in several test cases in 't5530-upload-pack-error.sh' > where 'grep <pattern> output.err' often reports "Binary file > output.err matches" because of that null character. > > The reason for this is that the abort message is defined as a string > literal, and we pass its size to the send function as > sizeof(abort_msg), which also counts the terminating null character. > > Use strlen() instead to avoid sending that terminating null character. > > Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > upload-pack.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/upload-pack.c b/upload-pack.c > index 2537affa90..6e0d441ef5 100644 > --- a/upload-pack.c > +++ b/upload-pack.c > @@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ static void create_pack_file(struct upload_pack_data *pack_data, > > fail: > free(output_state); > - send_client_data(3, abort_msg, sizeof(abort_msg), > + send_client_data(3, abort_msg, strlen(abort_msg), > pack_data->use_sideband); > die("git upload-pack: %s", abort_msg); > }