On Sat, Oct 20, 2018 at 12:08:59AM -0700, Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón wrote:
> NONCE_BAD is explicitly set when needed with the fallback
> instead as NONCE_SLOP
> 
> Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <care...@gmail.com>
> ---
>  builtin/receive-pack.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/builtin/receive-pack.c b/builtin/receive-pack.c
> index 95740f4f0e..ecce3d4043 100644
> --- a/builtin/receive-pack.c
> +++ b/builtin/receive-pack.c
> @@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ static const char *check_nonce(const char *buf, size_t 
> len)
>       char *nonce = find_header(buf, len, "nonce", NULL);
>       timestamp_t stamp, ostamp;
>       char *bohmac, *expect = NULL;
> -     const char *retval = NONCE_BAD;
> +     const char *retval;
>  
>       if (!nonce) {
>               retval = NONCE_MISSING;


Thanks for the patch.
The motivation feels a little bit weak, at least to me.
Initializing a variable to "BAD" in the beginning can be a good thing
for two reasons:
- There is a complex if-elseif chain, which should set retval
  in any case, this is at least what I expect taking a very quick look at the
  code:
        const char *retval = NONCE_BAD;

        if (!nonce) {
                retval = NONCE_MISSING;
                goto leave;
        } else if (!push_cert_nonce) {
                retval = NONCE_UNSOLICITED;
                goto leave;
        } else if (!strcmp(push_cert_nonce, nonce)) {
                retval = NONCE_OK;
                goto leave;
        }
        # And here I started to wonder if we should have an else or not.
        # Having retval NONCE_BAD set to NONCE:BAD in the beginning makes
        # it clear, that we are save without the else.
        # As an alternative, we could have coded like this:
        
        const char *retval;

        if (!nonce) {
                retval = NONCE_MISSING;
                goto leave;
        } else if (!push_cert_nonce) {
                retval = NONCE_UNSOLICITED;
                goto leave;
        } else if (!strcmp(push_cert_nonce, nonce)) {
                retval = NONCE_OK;
                goto leave;
        } else {
                /* Set to BAD, until we know better further down */
                retval = NONCE_BAD;
        }

# The second reason is that some compilers don't understand this complex
# stuff either, and through out a warning, like
# "retval may be uninitialized" or something in that style.
# This is very compiler dependent.

So yes, the current code may seem to be over-eager and ask for optimization,
but we don't gain more that a couple of nano-seconds or so.
The good thing is that  we have the code a little bit more robust, when changes 
are done
in the future.




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