format_sanitized_subject: Don't trim past initial length of strbuf

If the subject line is '...' the strbuf will be accessed before the
first dot is added; potentially changing the strbuf passed into the
function or accessing sb->buf[-1] if it was originally empty.

Reported-by: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/pretty.c b/pretty.c
index c57cef47c93912a709fc67fe98cdcff15ed34dc6..a0ef356558f4cdb148010f1b47dbd3fcc363d8ba 100644 (file)
--- a/pretty.c
+++ b/pretty.c
@@ -502,6 +502,7 @@ static int istitlechar(char c)
 static void format_sanitized_subject(struct strbuf *sb, const char *msg)
 {
        size_t trimlen;
+       size_t start_len = sb->len;
        int space = 2;
 
        for (; *msg && *msg != '\n'; msg++) {
@@ -519,8 +520,9 @@ static void format_sanitized_subject(struct strbuf *sb, const char *msg)
 
        /* trim any trailing '.' or '-' characters */
        trimlen = 0;
-       while (sb->buf[sb->len - 1 - trimlen] == '.'
-               || sb->buf[sb->len - 1 - trimlen] == '-')
+       while (sb->len - trimlen > start_len &&
+               (sb->buf[sb->len - 1 - trimlen] == '.'
+               || sb->buf[sb->len - 1 - trimlen] == '-'))
                trimlen++;
        strbuf_remove(sb, sb->len - trimlen, trimlen);
 }