utf8: fix truncated string lengths in `utf8_strnwidth()`

The `utf8_strnwidth()` function accepts an optional string length as
input parameter. This parameter can either be set to `-1`, in which case
we call `strlen()` on the input. Or it can be set to a positive integer
that indicates a precomputed length, which callers typically compute by
calling `strlen()` at some point themselves.

The input parameter is an `int` though, whereas `strlen()` returns a
`size_t`. This can lead to implementation-defined behaviour though when
the `size_t` cannot be represented by the `int`. In the general case
though this leads to wrap-around and thus to negative string sizes,
which is sure enough to not lead to well-defined behaviour.

Fix this by accepting a `size_t` instead of an `int` as string length.
While this takes away the ability of callers to simply pass in `-1` as
string length, it really is trivial enough to convert them to instead
pass in `strlen()` instead.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/column.c b/column.c
index 1261e18a72..fbf88639aa 100644
--- a/column.c
+++ b/column.c
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ struct column_data {
 /* return length of 's' in letters, ANSI escapes stripped */
 static int item_length(const char *s)
 {
-	return utf8_strnwidth(s, -1, 1);
+	return utf8_strnwidth(s, strlen(s), 1);
 }
 
 /*