Merge branch 'jk/validate-headref-fix'

Code clean-up.

* jk/validate-headref-fix:
  validate_headref: use get_oid_hex for detached HEADs
  validate_headref: use skip_prefix for symref parsing
  validate_headref: NUL-terminate HEAD buffer

Author: gitster

path.c

@@ -637,8 +637,9 @@ void strbuf_git_common_path(struct strbuf *sb,
 int validate_headref(const char *path)
 {
 	struct stat st;
-	char *buf, buffer[256];
-	unsigned char sha1[20];
+	char buffer[256];
+	const char *refname;
+	struct object_id oid;
 	int fd;
 	ssize_t len;
 
@@ -662,24 +663,24 @@ int validate_headref(const char *path)
 	len = read_in_full(fd, buffer, sizeof(buffer)-1);
 	close(fd);
 
+	if (len < 0)
+		return -1;
+	buffer[len] = '\0';
+
 	/*
 	 * Is it a symbolic ref?
 	 */
-	if (len < 4)
-		return -1;
-	if (!memcmp("ref:", buffer, 4)) {
-		buf = buffer + 4;
-		len -= 4;
-		while (len && isspace(*buf))
-			buf++, len--;
-		if (len >= 5 && !memcmp("refs/", buf, 5))
+	if (skip_prefix(buffer, "ref:", &refname)) {
+		while (isspace(*refname))
+			refname++;
+		if (starts_with(refname, "refs/"))
 			return 0;
 	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Is this a detached HEAD?
 	 */
-	if (!get_sha1_hex(buffer, sha1))
+	if (!get_oid_hex(buffer, &oid))
 		return 0;
 
 	return -1;