41 bytes is the exact number of bytes needed for having the returned
hex string represented. 50 seems to be an arbitrary number, such
that there are no benefits from alignment to certain address boundaries.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Previously, get_sha1_hex() would read one character past the end of a
null-terminated string whose strlen was an even number less than 40.
Although the function correctly returned -1 in these cases, the extra
memory access might have been to uninitialized (or even, conceivably,
unallocated) memory.
Add a check to avoid reading past the end of a string.
This problem was discovered by Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
using valgrind.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
As the documentation says, this is primarily for debugging, and
in the longer term we should rename it to test-show-index or something.
In the meantime, just avoid xmalloc (which slurps in the rest of git), and
separating out the trivial hex functions into "hex.o".
This results in
[torvalds@nehalem git]$ size git-show-index
text data bss dec hex filename
222818 2276 112688 337782 52776 git-show-index (before)
5696 624 1264 7584 1da0 git-show-index (after)
which is a whole lot better.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
