odb_mkstemp: write filename into strbuf

The odb_mkstemp() function expects the caller to provide a
fixed buffer to write the resulting tempfile name into. But
it creates the template using snprintf without checking the
return value. This means we could silently truncate the
filename.

In practice, it's unlikely that the truncation would end in
the template-pattern that mkstemp needs to open the file. So
we'd probably end up failing either way, unless the path was
specially crafted.

The simplest fix would be to notice the truncation and die.
However, we can observe that most callers immediately
xstrdup() the result anyway. So instead, let's switch to
using a strbuf, which is easier for them (and isn't a big
deal for the other 2 callers, who can just strbuf_release
when they're done with it).

Note that many of the callers used static buffers, but this
was purely to avoid putting a large buffer on the stack. We
never passed the static buffers out of the function, so
there's no complicated memory handling we need to change.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 6c01e27..4f3bdd0 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -1679,7 +1679,7 @@ extern void pack_report(void);
  * usual "XXXXXX" trailer, and the resulting filename is written into the
  * "template" buffer. Returns the open descriptor.
  */
-extern int odb_mkstemp(char *template, size_t limit, const char *pattern);
+extern int odb_mkstemp(struct strbuf *template, const char *pattern);
 
 /*
  * Generate the filename to be used for a pack file with checksum "sha1" and