On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 06:38:43PM +0100, Thomas Gummerer wrote:
> In ef283b3699 ("apply: make parse_git_diff_header public", 2019-07-11)
> the 'parse_git_diff_header' function was made public and useable by
> callers outside of apply.c.
>
> However it was missed that its (then) only caller, 'find_header' did
> some error handling, and completing 'struct patch' appropriately.
>
> range-diff then started using this function, and tried to handle this
> appropriately itself, but fell short in some cases. This in turn
> would lead to range-diff segfaulting when there are mode-only changes
> in a range.
>
> Move the error handling and completing of the struct into the
> 'parse_git_diff_header' function, so other callers can take advantage
> of it. This fixes the segfault in 'git range-diff'.
>
> Reported-by: Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <[email protected]>
This patch also makes git work again for the originally problematic
usecase.
Tested-by: Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]>
Thanks for your quick reaction to my bug report,
Uwe Kleine-König
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