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From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] numparse module: systematically tighten up integer parsing
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 11:20:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <55095159.40106@alum.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150318100338.GA26998@peff.net>

On 03/18/2015 11:03 AM, Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 10:47:40AM +0100, Michael Haggerty wrote:
> 
>> But in case you have some reason that you want upload-pack.c to be
>> converted right away, I just pushed that change (plus some related
>> cleanups) to my GitHub repo [1]. The branch depends only on the first
>> patch of the "numparse" patch series.
>>
>> By the way, some other packet line parsing code in that file doesn't
>> verify that there are no trailing characters on the lines that they
>> process. That might be another thing that should be tightened up.
> 
> Do you mean that upload-pack gets a pkt-line of length N that contains a
> line of length M, and then doesn't check that M==N?  We use the space
> between M and N for passing capabilities and other metadata around.
> 
> Or do you mean that we see lines like:
> 
>   want [0-9a-f]{40} ...\n
> 
> and do not bother looking at the "..." that comes after the data we
> expect? That I can believe, and I don't think it would hurt to tighten
> up (we shouldn't need it for extensibility, as anybody trying to stick
> extra data there should do so only after using a capability flag earlier
> in the protocol).

The latter. For example here [1], the "have" command and its SHA-1 are
read from the line, but I don't see a check that there are no characters
after the SHA-1. The same here [2].

Michael

[1]
https://github.com/gitster/git/blob/9ab698f4000a736864c41f57fbae1e021ac27799/upload-pack.c#L404-L429
[2]
https://github.com/gitster/git/blob/9ab698f4000a736864c41f57fbae1e021ac27799/upload-pack.c#L550-L565

-- 
Michael Haggerty
mhagger@alum.mit.edu

  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-18 10:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-17 16:00 [PATCH 00/14] numparse module: systematically tighten up integer parsing Michael Haggerty
2015-03-17 16:00 ` [PATCH 01/14] numparse: new module for parsing integral numbers Michael Haggerty
2015-03-18 18:27   ` Eric Sunshine
2015-03-18 22:47     ` Michael Haggerty
2015-03-20  8:54       ` Eric Sunshine
2015-03-20 17:51   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-17 16:00 ` [PATCH 02/14] cacheinfo_callback(): use convert_ui() when handling "--cacheinfo" Michael Haggerty
2015-03-17 16:00 ` [PATCH 03/14] write_subdirectory(): use convert_ui() for parsing mode Michael Haggerty
2015-03-17 16:00 ` [PATCH 04/14] handle_revision_opt(): use skip_prefix() in many places Michael Haggerty
2015-03-17 16:00 ` [PATCH 05/14] handle_revision_opt(): use convert_i() when handling "-<digit>" Michael Haggerty
2015-03-19  6:34   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-17 16:00 ` [PATCH 06/14] strtoul_ui(), strtol_i(): remove functions Michael Haggerty
2015-03-17 16:00 ` [PATCH 07/14] handle_revision_opt(): use convert_ui() when handling "--abbrev=" Michael Haggerty
2015-03-17 16:00 ` [PATCH 08/14] builtin_diff(): detect errors when parsing --unified argument Michael Haggerty
2015-03-17 16:00 ` [PATCH 09/14] opt_arg(): val is always non-NULL Michael Haggerty
2015-03-17 16:00 ` [PATCH 10/14] opt_arg(): use convert_i() in implementation Michael Haggerty
2015-03-17 16:00 ` [PATCH 11/14] opt_arg(): report errors parsing option values Michael Haggerty
2015-03-17 16:00 ` [PATCH 12/14] opt_arg(): simplify pointer handling Michael Haggerty
2015-03-17 16:00 ` [PATCH 13/14] diff_opt_parse(): use convert_i() when handling "-l<num>" Michael Haggerty
2015-03-17 16:00 ` [PATCH 14/14] diff_opt_parse(): use convert_i() when handling --abbrev=<num> Michael Haggerty
2015-03-19  6:37   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-17 18:48 ` [PATCH 00/14] numparse module: systematically tighten up integer parsing Junio C Hamano
2015-03-17 19:46   ` Michael Haggerty
2015-03-19  6:31     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-17 23:05 ` Duy Nguyen
2015-03-18  9:47   ` Michael Haggerty
2015-03-18  9:58     ` Duy Nguyen
2015-03-18 10:03     ` Jeff King
2015-03-18 10:20       ` Michael Haggerty [this message]
2015-03-19  5:26 ` Jeff King
2015-03-19  6:41   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-19  7:32   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-24 16:06     ` Michael Haggerty
2015-03-24 16:49       ` René Scharfe
2015-03-25 21:14         ` Michael Haggerty
2015-03-25 21:59           ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-24 15:05   ` Michael Haggerty
2015-03-19  6:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-24 15:42   ` Michael Haggerty
2015-03-24 15:58     ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-24 16:09       ` Junio C Hamano
2015-03-24 17:39       ` Michael Haggerty
2015-03-24 18:08         ` Junio C Hamano

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