From f5914f4b6bcdb517733c761fe5ba9d94471eb01d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff King Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2020 15:44:28 -0400 Subject: parse_config_key(): return subsection len as size_t We return the length to a subset of a string using an "int *" out-parameter. This is fine most of the time, as we'd expect config keys to be relatively short, but it could behave oddly if we had a gigantic config key. A more appropriate type is size_t. Let's switch over, which lets our callers use size_t as appropriate (they are bound by our type because they must pass the out-parameter as a pointer). This is mostly just a cleanup to make it clear this code handles long strings correctly. In practice, our config parser already chokes on long key names (because of a similar int/size_t mixup!). When doing an int/size_t conversion, we have to be careful that nobody was trying to assign a negative value to the variable. I manually confirmed that for each case here. They tend to just feed the result to xmemdupz() or similar; in a few cases I adjusted the parameter types for helper functions to make sure the size_t is preserved. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- config.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'config.h') diff --git a/config.h b/config.h index 9b3773f778..d57df283b3 100644 --- a/config.h +++ b/config.h @@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ int git_config_include(const char *name, const char *value, void *data); */ int parse_config_key(const char *var, const char *section, - const char **subsection, int *subsection_len, + const char **subsection, size_t *subsection_len, const char **key); /** -- cgit v1.2.3