Commit 615d2de
config.c: avoid segfault with --fixed-value and valueless config
When using `--fixed-value` with a key whose value is left empty (implied
as being "true"), 'git config' may crash when invoked like either of:
$ git config set --file=config --value=value --fixed-value \
section.key pattern
$ git config --file=config --fixed-value section.key value pattern
The original bugreport[1] bisects to 00bbdde (builtin/config:
introduce "set" subcommand, 2024-05-06), which is a red-herring, since
the original bugreport uses the new 'git config set' invocation.
The behavior likely bisects back to c90702a (config: plumb
--fixed-value into config API, 2020-11-25), which introduces the new
--fixed-value option in the first place.
Looking at the relevant frame from a failed process's coredump, the
crash appears in config.c::matches() like so:
(gdb) up
#1 0x000055b3e8b06022 in matches (key=0x55b3ea894360 "section.key", value=0x0,
store=0x7ffe99076eb0) at config.c:2884
2884 return !strcmp(store->fixed_value, value);
where we are trying to compare the `--fixed-value` argument to `value`,
which is NULL.
Avoid attempting to match `--fixed-value` for configuration keys with no
explicit value. A future patch could consider the empty value to mean
"true", "yes", "on", etc. when invoked with `--type=bool`, but let's
punt on that for now in the name of avoiding the segfault.
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/CANrWfmTek1xErBLrnoyhHN+gWU+rw14y6SQ+abZyzGoaBjmiKA@mail.gmail.com/
Reported-by: Han Jiang <jhcarl0814@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>1 parent dbecc61 commit 615d2de
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