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run-command: avoid `close(-1)` in `start_command()` error paths
authorJohannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Sun, 5 Jul 2026 08:24:21 +0000 (08:24 +0000)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Sun, 5 Jul 2026 16:12:09 +0000 (09:12 -0700)
When `start_command()` fails to set up a pipe partway through, it rolls
back by closing the pipe ends it has already opened. For descriptors
supplied by the caller rather than allocated locally, that rollback
tested `if (cmd->in)` / `if (cmd->out)` before calling close(). The
CHILD_PROCESS_INIT default of -1 ("no descriptor") is non-zero and so
passes the test, meaning a caller that sets cmd->no_stdin or
cmd->no_stdout without supplying a real fd ends up triggering close(-1)
on the error path.

The stdin-pipe failure branch a few lines above already uses the right
idiom, `if (cmd->out > 0)`, which rejects both the -1 sentinel and 0
(the parent's own standard streams). Apply it to the three remaining
rollback sites.

Reported by Coverity as CID 1049722 ("Argument cannot be negative").

Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
run-command.c

index e70a8a387b9042f6ca19354d08116eb140988a3e..ce84db878242620a95a645f9a80c20d367efb40d 100644 (file)
@@ -706,7 +706,7 @@ int start_command(struct child_process *cmd)
                        failed_errno = errno;
                        if (need_in)
                                close_pair(fdin);
-                       else if (cmd->in)
+                       else if (cmd->in > 0)
                                close(cmd->in);
                        str = "standard output";
                        goto fail_pipe;
@@ -720,11 +720,11 @@ int start_command(struct child_process *cmd)
                        failed_errno = errno;
                        if (need_in)
                                close_pair(fdin);
-                       else if (cmd->in)
+                       else if (cmd->in > 0)
                                close(cmd->in);
                        if (need_out)
                                close_pair(fdout);
-                       else if (cmd->out)
+                       else if (cmd->out > 0)
                                close(cmd->out);
                        str = "standard error";
 fail_pipe: