column: disallow negative padding

A negative padding does not make sense and can cause errors in the memory allocator since it’s interpreted as an unsigned integer. Reported-by: Tiago Pascoal <tiago@pascoal.net> Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Haugsbakk <code@khaugsbakk.name> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Kristoffer Haugsbakk committed Feb 13, 2024 at 17:01 UTC f2d31c69ce38e4515d5dfac34c69423c833b85f9
2 files changed +13
builtin/column.c
+2
index e80218f81f..10ff7e0166 100644 --- a/builtin/column.c +++ b/builtin/column.c @@ -45,6 +45,8 @@ int cmd_column(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) memset(&copts, 0, sizeof(copts)); copts.padding = 1; argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, options, builtin_column_usage, 0); + if (copts.padding < 0) + die(_("%s must be non-negative"), "--padding"); if (argc) usage_with_options(builtin_column_usage, options); if (real_command || command) {
t/t9002-column.sh
+11
index 348cc40658..d5b98e615b 100755 --- a/t/t9002-column.sh +++ b/t/t9002-column.sh @@ -196,4 +196,15 @@ EOF test_cmp expected actual ' +test_expect_success 'padding must be non-negative' ' + cat >input <<\EOF && +1 2 3 4 5 6 +EOF + cat >expected <<\EOF && +fatal: --padding must be non-negative +EOF + test_must_fail git column --mode=column --padding=-1 <input >actual 2>&1 && + test_cmp expected actual +' + test_done