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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, derrickstolee@github.com, peff@peff.net,
	ps@pks.im, wfc@wfchandler.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] commit-graph: fix corruption during generation v2 upgrade
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 10:41:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqk08gdi5i.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1657667404.git.me@ttaylorr.com> (Taylor Blau's message of "Tue, 12 Jul 2022 19:10:18 -0400")

Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> writes:

> This brief series resolves a bug where a commit-graph would become
> corrupt when upgrading from generation number v1 to v2, as originally
> reported in [1].
>
> Some speculation occurred as to what might be causing that bug in the
> thread beginning at [1], until the problem was explained in more detail
> by Will Chandler in [2].
>
> The crux of the issue, as is described in [2] and [3], is that the
> commit_graph_data slab is reused for read and write operations involving
> the commit-graph, leading to situations where data computed in
> preparation of a write is clobbered by a read of existing data.
>
> The first patch demonstrates the issue, and the second patch prepares to
> fix it by introducing a helper function. The crux of the issue is
> described and fixed in the third patch.
>
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/YqD5dgalb9EPnz85@coredump.intra.peff.net/
> [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/DD88D523-0ECA-4474-9AA5-1D4A431E532A@wfchandler.org/
> [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/YsS7H4i5DqUZVQ5i@nand.local/

Thanks.  Do we know where this breaks?  Applying [1/3] on Git 2.32,
2.34, and 2.35 seems to claim that "known breakage vanished".

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-07-13 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-12 23:10 [PATCH 0/3] commit-graph: fix corruption during generation v2 upgrade Taylor Blau
2022-07-12 23:10 ` [PATCH 1/3] t5318: demonstrate commit-graph generation v2 corruption Taylor Blau
2022-07-15  3:15   ` Derrick Stolee
2022-07-15 22:05     ` Taylor Blau
2022-07-16  0:01       ` Junio C Hamano
2022-07-16  0:17         ` Taylor Blau
2022-07-12 23:10 ` [PATCH 2/3] commit-graph: introduce `repo_find_commit_pos_in_graph()` Taylor Blau
2022-07-15  3:17   ` Derrick Stolee
2022-07-12 23:10 ` [PATCH 3/3] commit-graph: fix corrupt upgrade from generation v1 to v2 Taylor Blau
2022-07-13 17:41 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2022-07-15  2:02   ` [PATCH 0/3] commit-graph: fix corruption during generation v2 upgrade Taylor Blau
2022-07-15  3:20 ` Derrick Stolee

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