Prevent git blame from segfaulting on a missing author name The human-readable author and committer name can be missing from commits imported from foreign SCM interfaces. Make sure we parse the "author" and "committer" line a bit more leniently and avoid segfaulting by assuming the name always exists. Signed-off-by: David Reiss <dreiss@facebook.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/builtin-blame.c b/builtin-blame.c index dd16b22..98e818c 100644 --- a/builtin-blame.c +++ b/builtin-blame.c
@@ -1305,6 +1305,7 @@ error_out: /* Ugh */ *tz = "(unknown)"; + strcpy(person, *tz); strcpy(mail, *tz); *time = 0; return; @@ -1314,20 +1315,26 @@ tmp = person; tmp += len; *tmp = 0; - while (*tmp != ' ') + while (person < tmp && *tmp != ' ') tmp--; + if (tmp <= person) + goto error_out; *tz = tmp+1; tzlen = (person+len)-(tmp+1); *tmp = 0; - while (*tmp != ' ') + while (person < tmp && *tmp != ' ') tmp--; + if (tmp <= person) + goto error_out; *time = strtoul(tmp, NULL, 10); timepos = tmp; *tmp = 0; - while (*tmp != ' ') + while (person < tmp && *tmp != ' ') tmp--; + if (tmp <= person) + return; mailpos = tmp + 1; *tmp = 0; maillen = timepos - tmp;
diff --git a/t/t8003-blame.sh b/t/t8003-blame.sh index 13c25f1..ad834f2 100755 --- a/t/t8003-blame.sh +++ b/t/t8003-blame.sh
@@ -144,4 +144,17 @@ git blame HEAD^.. -- path ' +test_expect_success 'blame to a commit with no author name' ' + TREE=`git rev-parse HEAD:` + cat >badcommit <<EOF +tree $TREE +author <noname> 1234567890 +0000 +committer David Reiss <dreiss@facebook.com> 1234567890 +0000 + +some message +EOF + COMMIT=`git hash-object -t commit -w badcommit` + git --no-pager blame $COMMIT -- uno >/dev/null +' + test_done