From: Jacob Keller <[email protected]>

The git submodule--helper clone command will fail with a segmentation
fault when given a null url or null path variable. Since these are
required for proper functioning of the submodule--helper clone
subcommand, add checks to prevent running and fail gracefully when
missing.

Update the usage string to reflect the requirement that the --url and
--path "options" are required.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <[email protected]>
---
This bug was discovered when trying to test the usage string of the
previous change. I bisected and this has been in the submodule--helper
code since the first iteration of module_clone. I am not really sure how
much we care, since only internal callers will be using
submodule--helper, but I suspect that it was not intended to segfault.

I fixed the usage string to remove the [] around the url and path
options, hopefully indicating they aren't "optional". Alternatively we
could start requiring them as regular arguments if we wanted.

Note the error message resulting from --url="" or --path="" are not very
obvious but they do not result in a segfault so I didn't check for those
in this patch.

 builtin/submodule--helper.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/submodule--helper.c b/builtin/submodule--helper.c
index 3c4d3ff7f4af..35ae85a7e1bc 100644
--- a/builtin/submodule--helper.c
+++ b/builtin/submodule--helper.c
@@ -186,15 +186,15 @@ static int module_clone(int argc, const char **argv, 
const char *prefix)
 
        const char *const git_submodule_helper_usage[] = {
                N_("git submodule--helper clone [--prefix=<path>] [--quiet] "
-                  "[--reference <repository>] [--name <name>] [--url <url>]"
-                  "[--depth <depth>] [--path <path>]"),
+                  "[--reference <repository>] [--name <name>] [--depth 
<depth>] "
+                  "--url <url> --path <path>"),
                NULL
        };
 
        argc = parse_options(argc, argv, prefix, module_clone_options,
                             git_submodule_helper_usage, 0);
 
-       if (argc)
+       if (argc || !url || !path)
                usage_with_options(git_submodule_helper_usage,
                                   module_clone_options);
 
-- 
2.7.1.429.g45cd78e

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