Merge branch 'jk/tighten-alloc' into maint

* jk/tighten-alloc: (23 commits)
  compat/mingw: brown paper bag fix for 50a6c8e
  ewah: convert to REALLOC_ARRAY, etc
  convert ewah/bitmap code to use xmalloc
  diff_populate_gitlink: use a strbuf
  transport_anonymize_url: use xstrfmt
  git-compat-util: drop mempcpy compat code
  sequencer: simplify memory allocation of get_message
  test-path-utils: fix normalize_path_copy output buffer size
  fetch-pack: simplify add_sought_entry
  fast-import: simplify allocation in start_packfile
  write_untracked_extension: use FLEX_ALLOC helper
  prepare_{git,shell}_cmd: use argv_array
  use st_add and st_mult for allocation size computation
  convert trivial cases to FLEX_ARRAY macros
  use xmallocz to avoid size arithmetic
  convert trivial cases to ALLOC_ARRAY
  convert manual allocations to argv_array
  argv-array: add detach function
  add helpers for allocating flex-array structs
  harden REALLOC_ARRAY and xcalloc against size_t overflow
  ...

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 21 deletions

diff --git a/builtin/remote-ext.c b/builtin/remote-ext.c
index e3cd25d580..7457c743e8 100644
--- a/builtin/remote-ext.c
+++ b/builtin/remote-ext.c
@@ -114,30 +114,14 @@ static char *strip_escapes(const char *str, const char *service,
 	}
 }
 
-/* Should be enough... */
-#define MAXARGUMENTS 256
-
-static const char **parse_argv(const char *arg, const char *service)
+static void parse_argv(struct argv_array *out, const char *arg, const char *service)
 {
-	int arguments = 0;
-	int i;
-	const char **ret;
-	char *temparray[MAXARGUMENTS + 1];
-
 	while (*arg) {
-		char *expanded;
-		if (arguments == MAXARGUMENTS)
-			die("remote-ext command has too many arguments");
-		expanded = strip_escapes(arg, service, &arg);
+		char *expanded = strip_escapes(arg, service, &arg);
 		if (expanded)
-			temparray[arguments++] = expanded;
+			argv_array_push(out, expanded);
+		free(expanded);
 	}
-
-	ret = xmalloc((arguments + 1) * sizeof(char *));
-	for (i = 0; i < arguments; i++)
-		ret[i] = temparray[i];
-	ret[arguments] = NULL;
-	return ret;
 }
 
 static void send_git_request(int stdin_fd, const char *serv, const char *repo,
@@ -158,7 +142,7 @@ static int run_child(const char *arg, const char *service)
 	child.in = -1;
 	child.out = -1;
 	child.err = 0;
-	child.argv = parse_argv(arg, service);
+	parse_argv(&child.args, arg, service);
 
 	if (start_command(&child) < 0)
 		die("Can't run specified command");