submodule: don't access the .gitmodules cache entry after removing it

Commit 5fee995 introduced the stage_updated_gitmodules() function to
add submodule configuration updates to the index. It assumed that even
after calling remove_cache_entry_at() the same cache entry would still be
valid. This was true in the old days, as cache entries could never be
freed, but that is not so sure in the present as there is ongoing work to
free removed cache entries, which makes this code segfault.

Fix that by calling add_file_to_cache() instead of open coding it. Also
remove the "could not find .gitmodules in index" warning, as that won't
happen in regular use cases (and by then just silently adding it to the
index we do the right thing).

Thanks-to: Karsten Blees <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>

Author: jlehmann

submodule.c

@@ -116,30 +116,7 @@ int remove_path_from_gitmodules(const char *path)
 
 void stage_updated_gitmodules(void)
 {
-	struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
-	struct stat st;
-	int pos;
-	struct cache_entry *ce;
-	int namelen = strlen(".gitmodules");
-
-	pos = cache_name_pos(".gitmodules", namelen);
-	if (pos < 0) {
-		warning(_("could not find .gitmodules in index"));
-		return;
-	}
-	ce = active_cache[pos];
-	ce->ce_flags = namelen;
-	if (strbuf_read_file(&buf, ".gitmodules", 0) < 0)
-		die(_("reading updated .gitmodules failed"));
-	if (lstat(".gitmodules", &st) < 0)
-		die_errno(_("unable to stat updated .gitmodules"));
-	fill_stat_cache_info(ce, &st);
-	ce->ce_mode = ce_mode_from_stat(ce, st.st_mode);
-	if (remove_cache_entry_at(pos) < 0)
-		die(_("unable to remove .gitmodules from index"));
-	if (write_sha1_file(buf.buf, buf.len, blob_type, ce->sha1))
-		die(_("adding updated .gitmodules failed"));
-	if (add_cache_entry(ce, ADD_CACHE_OK_TO_ADD|ADD_CACHE_OK_TO_REPLACE))
+	if (add_file_to_cache(".gitmodules", 0))
 		die(_("staging updated .gitmodules failed"));
 }