From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 06:57:20 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: "git fmt-merge-msg" SIGSEGV
X-Git-Tag: v1.4.4.1~16
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6b1f8c32b1a602734f14b9cf8a9f59a767752677;p=git.git

"git fmt-merge-msg" SIGSEGV

Ok, this is a _really_ stupid case, and I don't think it matters, but hey,
we should never SIGSEGV.

Steps to reproduce:

	mkdir duh
	cd duh
	git init-db
	git-fmt-merge-msg < /dev/null

will cause a SIGSEGV in cmd_fmt_merge_msg(), because we're doing a
strncmp() with a NULL current_branch.

And yeah, it's an insane schenario, and no, it doesn't really matter. The
only reason I noticed was that a broken version of my "git pull" into an
empty directory would cause this.

This silly patch just replaces the SIGSEGV with a controlled exit with an
error message.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
---

diff --git a/builtin-fmt-merge-msg.c b/builtin-fmt-merge-msg.c
index 3d3097d29..87d3d63ec 100644
--- a/builtin-fmt-merge-msg.c
+++ b/builtin-fmt-merge-msg.c
@@ -278,6 +278,8 @@ int cmd_fmt_merge_msg(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 
 	/* get current branch */
 	current_branch = resolve_ref("HEAD", head_sha1, 1, NULL);
+	if (!current_branch)
+		die("No current branch");
 	if (!strncmp(current_branch, "refs/heads/", 11))
 		current_branch += 11;