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When we have a remote.*.promisor config variable, we know that we're in a partial clone. Usually there's a matching remote.*.partialclonefilter option, which tells us which filter to use with the remote. If that option is missing, we skip setting up the filter at all. But something funny happens: we stick a NULL entry into the string_list storing the text filter spec. This is a weird state, and could possibly segfault if anybody called called list_objects_filter_spec(), etc. In practice, nobody does, because filter->choice will still be LOFC_DISABLED, so code generally realizes there's no filter to use. And the string_list itself is OK, because it starts in non-dup mode until we actually parse a filter spec. So it blindly stores the NULL without even looking at it. But it's probably worth avoiding this confused state. It's an accident waiting to happen, and it will be a problem if we replace the lazy initialization from7e2619d8ff(list_objects_filter_options: plug leak of filter_spec strings, 2022-09-08) with a real initialization function. The history is a little interesting here, as the bug was introduced during the merge resolution in627b826834(Merge branch 'md/list-objects-filter-combo', 2019-09-18). The original logic comes fromcac1137dc4(list-objects: check if filter is NULL before using, 2018-06-11), where we had a single string via core.partialCloneFilter, and a simple NULL check was sufficient. And it even added a test in t0410 that covers this situation. Later, that was expanded to allow per-remote filters infa3d1b63e8(promisor-remote: parse remote.*.partialclonefilter, 2019-06-25). After that commit, we get a promisor struct with a partial_clone_filter string, which could be NULL. The commit checks only that the struct pointer is non-NULL, which is enough. It may pass NULL to gently_parse_list_objects_filter(), but that function is smart enough to consider it a noop. But in parallel,cf9ceb5a12(list-objects-filter-options: make filter_spec a string_list, 2019-06-27) added a new line of code: before we call gently_parse_list_objets_filter(), we append the filter spec to the string_list. By itself that was OK, since we'd have returned early if the string was NULL. When the two were merged in627b826834, the result is that we return early only if the struct is NULL, but not the string. And we append to the string_list, meaning we may append NULL. The solution is to return early if either is NULL, as it would mean we don't have a configured filter. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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