[PATCH] Flag empty patches as errors

A patch that contains no actual diff, and that doesn't change any
meta-data is bad. It shouldn't be a patch at all, and git-apply shouldn't
just accept it.

This caused a corrupted patch to be silently applied as an empty change in
the kernel, because the corruption ended up making the patch look empty.

An example of such a patch is one that contains the patch header, but
where the initial fragment header (the "@@ -nr,.." line) is missing,
causing us to not parse any fragments.

The real "patch" program will also flag such patches as bad, with the
message

	patch: **** Only garbage was found in the patch input.

and we should do likewise.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/apply.c b/apply.c
index 964df2db10..f8862722fd 100644
--- a/apply.c
+++ b/apply.c
@@ -723,6 +723,16 @@ static int parse_single_patch(char *line, unsigned long size, struct patch *patc
 	return offset;
 }
 
+static inline int metadata_changes(struct patch *patch)
+{
+	return	patch->is_rename > 0 ||
+		patch->is_copy > 0 ||
+		patch->is_new > 0 ||
+		patch->is_delete ||
+		(patch->old_mode && patch->new_mode &&
+		 patch->old_mode != patch->new_mode);
+}
+
 static int parse_chunk(char *buffer, unsigned long size, struct patch *patch)
 {
 	int hdrsize, patchsize;
@@ -733,6 +743,9 @@ static int parse_chunk(char *buffer, unsigned long size, struct patch *patch)
 
 	patchsize = parse_single_patch(buffer + offset + hdrsize, size - offset - hdrsize, patch);
 
+	if (!patchsize && !metadata_changes(patch))
+		die("patch with only garbage at line %d", linenr);
+
 	return offset + hdrsize + patchsize;
 }