parse_config_key(): return subsection len as size_t

We return the length to a subset of a string using an "int *"
out-parameter. This is fine most of the time, as we'd expect config keys
to be relatively short, but it could behave oddly if we had a gigantic
config key. A more appropriate type is size_t.

Let's switch over, which lets our callers use size_t as appropriate
(they are bound by our type because they must pass the out-parameter as
a pointer). This is mostly just a cleanup to make it clear this code
handles long strings correctly. In practice, our config parser already
chokes on long key names (because of a similar int/size_t mixup!).

When doing an int/size_t conversion, we have to be careful that nobody
was trying to assign a negative value to the variable. I manually
confirmed that for each case here. They tend to just feed the result to
xmemdupz() or similar; in a few cases I adjusted the parameter types for
helper functions to make sure the size_t is preserved.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Jeff King
2020-04-10 15:44:28 -04:00
committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 021ba32a7b
commit f5914f4b6b
12 changed files with 16 additions and 15 deletions

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@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ int git_config_include(const char *name, const char *value, void *data);
*/
int parse_config_key(const char *var,
const char *section,
const char **subsection, int *subsection_len,
const char **subsection, size_t *subsection_len,
const char **key);
/**