The "struct object" type implements basic object
polymorphism.  Individual instances are allocated as
concrete types (or as a union type that can store any
object), and a "struct object *" can be cast into its real
type after examining its "type" enum.  This means it is
dangerous to have a type field that does not match the
allocation (e.g., setting the type field of a "struct blob"
to "OBJ_COMMIT" would mean that a reader might read past the
allocated memory).

In most of the current code this is not a problem; the first
thing we do after allocating an object is usually to set its
type field by passing it to create_object. However, the
virtual commits we create in merge-recursive.c do not ever
get their type set. This does not seem to have caused
problems in practice, though (presumably because we always
pass around a "struct commit" pointer and never even look at
the type).

We can fix this oversight and also make it harder for future
code to get it wrong by setting the type directly in the
object allocation functions.

This will also make it easier to fix problems with commit
index allocation, as we know that any object allocated by
alloc_commit_node will meet the invariant that an object
with an OBJ_COMMIT type field will have a unique index
number.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <p...@peff.net>
---
 alloc.c         | 18 ++++++++++--------
 blob.c          |  2 +-
 builtin/blame.c |  1 -
 commit.c        |  2 +-
 object.c        |  5 ++---
 object.h        |  2 +-
 tag.c           |  2 +-
 tree.c          |  2 +-
 8 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/alloc.c b/alloc.c
index d7c3605..fd5fcb7 100644
--- a/alloc.c
+++ b/alloc.c
@@ -18,11 +18,11 @@
 
 #define BLOCKING 1024
 
-#define DEFINE_ALLOCATOR(name, type)                           \
+#define DEFINE_ALLOCATOR(name, flag, type)                     \
 static struct alloc_state name##_state;                                \
 void *alloc_##name##_node(void)                                        \
 {                                                              \
-       return alloc_node(&name##_state, sizeof(type));         \
+       return alloc_node(&name##_state, flag, sizeof(type));   \
 }
 
 union any_object {
@@ -39,7 +39,8 @@ struct alloc_state {
        void *p;   /* first free node in current allocation */
 };
 
-static inline void *alloc_node(struct alloc_state *s, size_t node_size)
+static inline void *alloc_node(struct alloc_state *s, enum object_type type,
+                              size_t node_size)
 {
        void *ret;
 
@@ -52,20 +53,21 @@ static inline void *alloc_node(struct alloc_state *s, 
size_t node_size)
        ret = s->p;
        s->p = (char *)s->p + node_size;
        memset(ret, 0, node_size);
+       ((struct object *)ret)->type = type;
        return ret;
 }
 
-DEFINE_ALLOCATOR(blob, struct blob)
-DEFINE_ALLOCATOR(tree, struct tree)
-DEFINE_ALLOCATOR(tag, struct tag)
-DEFINE_ALLOCATOR(object, union any_object)
+DEFINE_ALLOCATOR(blob, OBJ_BLOB, struct blob)
+DEFINE_ALLOCATOR(tree, OBJ_TREE, struct tree)
+DEFINE_ALLOCATOR(tag, OBJ_TAG, struct tag)
+DEFINE_ALLOCATOR(object, OBJ_NONE, union any_object)
 
 static struct alloc_state commit_state;
 
 void *alloc_commit_node(void)
 {
        static int commit_count;
-       struct commit *c = alloc_node(&commit_state, sizeof(struct commit));
+       struct commit *c = alloc_node(&commit_state, OBJ_COMMIT, sizeof(struct 
commit));
        c->index = commit_count++;
        return c;
 }
diff --git a/blob.c b/blob.c
index ae320bd..5720a38 100644
--- a/blob.c
+++ b/blob.c
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ struct blob *lookup_blob(const unsigned char *sha1)
 {
        struct object *obj = lookup_object(sha1);
        if (!obj)
-               return create_object(sha1, OBJ_BLOB, alloc_blob_node());
+               return create_object(sha1, alloc_blob_node());
        if (!obj->type)
                obj->type = OBJ_BLOB;
        if (obj->type != OBJ_BLOB) {
diff --git a/builtin/blame.c b/builtin/blame.c
index d3b256e..8f3e311 100644
--- a/builtin/blame.c
+++ b/builtin/blame.c
@@ -2287,7 +2287,6 @@ static struct commit *fake_working_tree_commit(struct 
diff_options *opt,
        commit = alloc_commit_node();
        commit->object.parsed = 1;
        commit->date = now;
-       commit->object.type = OBJ_COMMIT;
        parent_tail = &commit->parents;
 
        if (!resolve_ref_unsafe("HEAD", head_sha1, 1, NULL))
diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
index fb7897c..21ed310 100644
--- a/commit.c
+++ b/commit.c
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ struct commit *lookup_commit(const unsigned char *sha1)
        struct object *obj = lookup_object(sha1);
        if (!obj) {
                struct commit *c = alloc_commit_node();
-               return create_object(sha1, OBJ_COMMIT, c);
+               return create_object(sha1, c);
        }
        if (!obj->type)
                obj->type = OBJ_COMMIT;
diff --git a/object.c b/object.c
index 9c31e9a..a950b85 100644
--- a/object.c
+++ b/object.c
@@ -141,13 +141,12 @@ static void grow_object_hash(void)
        obj_hash_size = new_hash_size;
 }
 
-void *create_object(const unsigned char *sha1, int type, void *o)
+void *create_object(const unsigned char *sha1, void *o)
 {
        struct object *obj = o;
 
        obj->parsed = 0;
        obj->used = 0;
-       obj->type = type;
        obj->flags = 0;
        hashcpy(obj->sha1, sha1);
 
@@ -163,7 +162,7 @@ struct object *lookup_unknown_object(const unsigned char 
*sha1)
 {
        struct object *obj = lookup_object(sha1);
        if (!obj)
-               obj = create_object(sha1, OBJ_NONE, alloc_object_node());
+               obj = create_object(sha1, alloc_object_node());
        return obj;
 }
 
diff --git a/object.h b/object.h
index 6e12f2c..8020ace 100644
--- a/object.h
+++ b/object.h
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ extern struct object *get_indexed_object(unsigned int);
  */
 struct object *lookup_object(const unsigned char *sha1);
 
-extern void *create_object(const unsigned char *sha1, int type, void *obj);
+extern void *create_object(const unsigned char *sha1, void *obj);
 
 /*
  * Returns the object, having parsed it to find out what it is.
diff --git a/tag.c b/tag.c
index 7b07921..79552c7 100644
--- a/tag.c
+++ b/tag.c
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ struct tag *lookup_tag(const unsigned char *sha1)
 {
        struct object *obj = lookup_object(sha1);
        if (!obj)
-               return create_object(sha1, OBJ_TAG, alloc_tag_node());
+               return create_object(sha1, alloc_tag_node());
        if (!obj->type)
                obj->type = OBJ_TAG;
        if (obj->type != OBJ_TAG) {
diff --git a/tree.c b/tree.c
index c8c49d7..ed66575 100644
--- a/tree.c
+++ b/tree.c
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ struct tree *lookup_tree(const unsigned char *sha1)
 {
        struct object *obj = lookup_object(sha1);
        if (!obj)
-               return create_object(sha1, OBJ_TREE, alloc_tree_node());
+               return create_object(sha1, alloc_tree_node());
        if (!obj->type)
                obj->type = OBJ_TREE;
        if (obj->type != OBJ_TREE) {
-- 
2.0.0.566.gfe3e6b2

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