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Fix numerous and mostly long-standing segfaults in consumers of the *_config_*value_multi() API. As discussed in the preceding commit an empty key in the config syntax yields a "NULL" string, which these users would give to strcmp() (or similar), resulting in segfaults. As this change shows, most users users of the *_config_*value_multi() API didn't really want such an an unsafe and low-level API, let's give them something with the safety of git_config_get_string() instead. This fix is similar to what the *_string() functions and others acquired in[1] and [2]. Namely introducing and using a safer "*_get_string_multi()" variant of the low-level "_*value_multi()" function. This fixes segfaults in code introduced in: -d811c8e17c(versionsort: support reorder prerelease suffixes, 2015-02-26) -c026557a37(versioncmp: generalize version sort suffix reordering, 2016-12-08) -a086f921a7(submodule: decouple url and submodule interest, 2017-03-17) -a6be5e6764(log: add log.excludeDecoration config option, 2020-04-16) -92156291ca(log: add default decoration filter, 2022-08-05) -50a044f1e4(gc: replace config subprocesses with API calls, 2022-09-27) There are now two users ofthe low-level API: - One in "builtin/for-each-repo.c", which we'll convert in a subsequent commit. - The "t/helper/test-config.c" code added in [3]. As seen in the preceding commit we need to give the "t/helper/test-config.c" caller these "NULL" entries. We could also alter the underlying git_configset_get_value_multi() function to be "string safe", but doing so would leave no room for other variants of "*_get_value_multi()" that coerce to other types. Such coercion can't be built on the string version, since as we've established "NULL" is a true value in the boolean context, but if we coerced it to "" for use in a list of strings it'll be subsequently coerced to "false" as a boolean. The callback pattern being used here will make it easy to introduce e.g. a "multi" variant which coerces its values to "bool", "int", "path" etc. 1.40ea4ed903(Add config_error_nonbool() helper function, 2008-02-11) 2.6c47d0e8f3(config.c: guard config parser from value=NULL, 2008-02-11). 3.4c715ebb96(test-config: add tests for the config_set API, 2014-07-28) Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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