The configuration reader to enumerate branches that have configuration
data were not careful enough and failed to skip "branch.<variable>"
entries (e.g. branch.autosetupmerge). This resulted in bogus attempt to
allocate huge memory.
Noticed by David Miller.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
if (!prefixcmp(key, "branch.")) {
name = key + 7;
subkey = strrchr(name, '.');
- branch = make_branch(name, subkey - name);
if (!subkey)
return 0;
if (!value)
return 0;
+ branch = make_branch(name, subkey - name);
if (!strcmp(subkey, ".remote")) {
branch->remote_name = xstrdup(value);
if (branch == current_branch)