real_path: remove unsafe API

Returning a shared buffer invites very subtle bugs due to reentrancy or
multi-threading, as demonstrated by the previous patch.

There was an unfinished effort to abolish this [1].

Let's finally rid of `real_path()`, using `strbuf_realpath()` instead.

This patch uses a local `strbuf` for most places where `real_path()` was
previously called.

However, two places return the value of `real_path()` to the caller. For
them, a `static` local `strbuf` was added, effectively pushing the
problem one level higher:
    read_gitfile_gently()
    get_superproject_working_tree()

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/1480964316-99305-1-git-send-email-bmwill@google.com/

Signed-off-by: Alexandr Miloslavskiy <alexandr.miloslavskiy@syntevo.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Alexandr Miloslavskiy
2020-03-10 13:11:22 +00:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 0915a5b4cd
commit 3d7747e318
13 changed files with 59 additions and 24 deletions

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@ -2170,6 +2170,7 @@ void absorb_git_dir_into_superproject(const char *path,
const char *get_superproject_working_tree(void)
{
static struct strbuf realpath = STRBUF_INIT;
struct child_process cp = CHILD_PROCESS_INIT;
struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
const char *one_up = real_path_if_valid("../");
@ -2231,7 +2232,8 @@ const char *get_superproject_working_tree(void)
super_wt = xstrdup(cwd);
super_wt[cwd_len - super_sub_len] = '\0';
ret = real_path(super_wt);
strbuf_realpath(&realpath, super_wt, 1);
ret = realpath.buf;
free(super_wt);
}
strbuf_release(&sb);