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From: Chris Wilson <cwilson@vigilantsw.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Fix useless comparison bug
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 10:01:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110526140152.GA19748@localhost> (raw)

The variable 'actual' was declared with a size_t type. In this line:

  actual = read_in_full(fd, buf, sz);

read_in_full returns a ssize_t type. Since size_t is unsigned and
ssize_t is signed, the value is implicitly converted from a signed
type to an unsigned type. That makes this comparison useless,

  if (actual < 0)
    die_errno("index-stream: reading input");

as it will always be false. This means, on an error path, git will
continue when it should die gracefully.

This bug was introduced in 4dd1fbc.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <cwilson@vigilantsw.com>
---

Hi Folks,

Sentry found this committed in last nights snapshot.

Chris Wilson
http://vigilantsw.com/
Vigilant Software

 sha1_file.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c
index 064a330..c251af8 100644
--- a/sha1_file.c
+++ b/sha1_file.c
@@ -2704,7 +2704,7 @@ static int index_stream(unsigned char *sha1, int fd, size_t size,
        while (size) {
                char buf[10240];
                size_t sz = size < sizeof(buf) ? size : sizeof(buf);
-               size_t actual;
+               ssize_t actual;

                actual = read_in_full(fd, buf, sz);
                if (actual < 0)
-- 
1.6.3.3

                 reply	other threads:[~2011-05-26 14:02 UTC|newest]

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