reftable/basics: handle allocation failures in `parse_names()`

Handle allocation failures in `parse_names()` by returning `NULL` in
case any allocation fails. While at it, refactor the function to return
the array directly instead of assigning it to an out-pointer.

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

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/reftable/basics.h b/reftable/basics.h
index f107e14860..69adeab2e4 100644
--- a/reftable/basics.h
+++ b/reftable/basics.h
@@ -38,9 +38,12 @@ size_t binsearch(size_t sz, int (*f)(size_t k, void *args), void *args);
  */
 void free_names(char **a);
 
-/* parse a newline separated list of names. `size` is the length of the buffer,
- * without terminating '\0'. Empty names are discarded. */
-void parse_names(char *buf, int size, char ***namesp);
+/*
+ * Parse a newline separated list of names. `size` is the length of the buffer,
+ * without terminating '\0'. Empty names are discarded. Returns a `NULL`
+ * pointer when allocations fail.
+ */
+char **parse_names(char *buf, int size);
 
 /* compares two NULL-terminated arrays of strings. */
 int names_equal(const char **a, const char **b);