ui: output age in seconds if under 0 minues

Before this patch, the program will output the age as "0 min."
Which isn't as specific as it can be... Although this patch
doesn't do any fancy automatic crap like use javascript to update
the value realtime, it still adds a much needed feature...
do not write outside heap buffer

* parsing.c (substr): Handle tail < head.

This started when I noticed some cgit segfaults on savannah.gnu.org.
Finding the offending URL/commit and then constructing a stand-alone
reproducer were far more time-consuming than writing the actual patch.

The problem arises with a commit like this, in which the user name
part of the "Author" field is empty:

    $ git log -1
    commit 6f3f41d73393278f3ede68a2cb1e7a2a23fa3421
    Author: <T at h.or>
    Date:   Mon Apr 23 22:29:16 2012 +0200

Here's what happens:

(this is due to buf=malloc(0); strncpy (buf, head, -1);
 where "head" may point to plenty of attacker-specified non-NUL bytes,
 so we can overwrite a zero-length heap buffer with arbitrary data)

 Invalid write of size 1
    at 0x4A09361: strncpy (mc_replace_strmem.c:463)
    by 0x408977: substr (parsing.c:61)
    by 0x4089EF: parse_user (parsing.c:73)
    by 0x408D10: cgit_parse_commit (parsing.c:153)
    by 0x40A540: cgit_mk_refinfo (shared.c:171)
    by 0x40A581: cgit_refs_cb (shared.c:181)
    by 0x43DEB3: do_for_each_ref (refs.c:690)
    by 0x41075E: cgit_print_branches (ui-refs.c:191)
    by 0x416EF2: cgit_print_summary (ui-summary.c:56)
    by 0x40780A: summary_fn (cmd.c:120)
    by 0x40667A: process_request (cgit.c:544)
    by 0x404078: cache_process (cache.c:322)
  Address 0x4c718d0 is 0 bytes after a block of size 0 alloc'd
    at 0x4A0884D: malloc (vg_replace_malloc.c:263)
    by 0x455C85: xmalloc (wrapper.c:35)
    by 0x40894C: substr (parsing.c:60)
    by 0x4089EF: parse_user (parsing.c:73)
    by 0x408D10: cgit_parse_commit (parsing.c:153)
    by 0x40A540: cgit_mk_refinfo (shared.c:171)
    by 0x40A581: cgit_refs_cb (shared.c:181)
    by 0x43DEB3: do_for_each_ref (refs.c:690)
    by 0x41075E: cgit_print_branches (ui-refs.c:191)
    by 0x416EF2: cgit_print_summary (ui-summary.c:56)
    by 0x40780A: summary_fn (cmd.c:120)
    by 0x40667A: process_request (cgit.c:544)

 Invalid write of size 1
    at 0x4A09400: strncpy (mc_replace_strmem.c:463)
    by 0x408977: substr (parsing.c:61)
    by 0x4089EF: parse_user (parsing.c:73)
    by 0x408D10: cgit_parse_commit (parsing.c:153)
    by 0x40A540: cgit_mk_refinfo (shared.c:171)
    by 0x40A581: cgit_refs_cb (shared.c:181)
    by 0x43DEB3: do_for_each_ref (refs.c:690)
    by 0x41075E: cgit_print_branches (ui-refs.c:191)
    by 0x416EF2: cgit_print_summary (ui-summary.c:56)
    by 0x40780A: summary_fn (cmd.c:120)
    by 0x40667A: process_request (cgit.c:544)
    by 0x404078: cache_process (cache.c:322)
  Address 0x4c7192b is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd

 Invalid write of size 1
    at 0x4A0940E: strncpy (mc_replace_strmem.c:463)
    by 0x408977: substr (parsing.c:61)
    by 0x4089EF: parse_user (parsing.c:73)
    by 0x408D10: cgit_parse_commit (parsing.c:153)
    by 0x40A540: cgit_mk_refinfo (shared.c:171)
    by 0x40A581: cgit_refs_cb (shared.c:181)
    by 0x43DEB3: do_for_each_ref (refs.c:690)
    by 0x41075E: cgit_print_branches (ui-refs.c:191)
    by 0x416EF2: cgit_print_summary (ui-summary.c:56)
    by 0x40780A: summary_fn (cmd.c:120)
    by 0x40667A: process_request (cgit.c:544)
    by 0x404078: cache_process (cache.c:322)
  Address 0x4c7192d is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd

 Process terminating with default action of signal 11 (SIGSEGV)
  Access not within mapped region at address 0x502F000
    at 0x4A09400: strncpy (mc_replace_strmem.c:463)
    by 0x408977: substr (parsing.c:61)
    by 0x4089EF: parse_user (parsing.c:73)
    by 0x408D10: cgit_parse_commit (parsing.c:153)
    by 0x40A540: cgit_mk_refinfo (shared.c:171)
    by 0x40A581: cgit_refs_cb (shared.c:181)
    by 0x43DEB3: do_for_each_ref (refs.c:690)
    by 0x41075E: cgit_print_branches (ui-refs.c:191)
    by 0x416EF2: cgit_print_summary (ui-summary.c:56)
    by 0x40780A: summary_fn (cmd.c:120)
    by 0x40667A: process_request (cgit.c:544)
    by 0x404078: cache_process (cache.c:322)

This happens when tail - head == -1 here:
(parsing.c)

  char *substr(const char *head, const char *tail)
  {
          char *buf;

          buf = xmalloc(tail - head + 1);
          strncpy(buf, head, tail - head);
          buf[tail - head] = '\0';
          return buf;
  }

  char *parse_user(char *t, char **name, char **email, unsigned long *date)
  {
          char *p = t;
          int mode = 1;

          while (p && *p) {
                  if (mode == 1 && *p == '<') {
                          *name = substr(t, p - 1);
                          t = p;
                          mode++;
                  } else if (mode == 1 && *p == '\n') {

The fix is to handle the case of (tail < head) before calling xmalloc,
thus avoiding passing an invalid value to xmalloc.

And here's the reproducer:
It was tricky to reproduce, because git prohibits use of an empty "name"
in a commit ID.  To construct the offending commit, I had to resort to
using "git hash-object".

git init -q foo &&
( cd foo &&
  echo a > j && git add . && git ci -q --author='au <T at h.or>' -m. . &&
  h=$(git cat-file commit HEAD|sed 's/au //' \
    |git hash-object -t commit -w --stdin) &&
  git co -q -b test $h &&
  git br -q -D master &&
  git br -q -m test master)
git clone -q --bare foo foo.git

cat <<EOF > in
repo.url=foo.git
repo.path=foo.git
EOF
CGIT_CONFIG=in QUERY_STRING=url=foo.git valgrind ./cgit

The valgrind output is what you see above.

AFAICS, this is not exploitable thanks (ironically) to the use of strncpy.
Since that -1 translates to SIZE_MAX and this is strncpy, not only does it
copy whatever is in "head" (up to first NUL), but it also writes
SIZE_MAX - strlen(head) NUL bytes into the destination buffer, and that
latter is guaranteed to evoke a segfault.  Since cgit is single-threaded,
AFAICS, there is no way that the buffer clobbering can be turned into
an exploit.