svn-fe errors out on revision 59151 of the ASF repository:
fatal: invalid dump: unexpected end of file
The proximate cause is a property with an embedded NUL character.
Previously such anomalies were ignored but commit c9d1c8ba
(2010-12-28) introduced a check strlen(val) == len to avoid reading
uninitialized data when a property list ends early and unfortunately
this test does not distinguish between "foo" followed by EOF and the
string "foo\0bar\0baz".
Fix it by using buffer_read_binary to read to a strbuf and checking
the actual length read. Most consumers of properties still use
C-style strings, so in practice an author or log message with embedded
NULs will be truncated, but a least this way svn-fe won't error out
(fixing the regression).
Reported-by: David Barr <david.barr@cordelta.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
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