Re: [PATCH v10 0/4] cat-file: add support for "-allow-unknown-type"

[karthik nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>]

On 05/04/2015 09:00 AM, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 10:55 PM, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 8:14 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Hmmmm... you do not seem to pass your own test.
>>>>
>>>> expecting success:
>>>>          echo $bogus_type >expect &&
>>>>          git cat-file -t --allow-unknown-type $bogus_sha1 >actual &&
>>>>          test_cmp expect actual
>>>>
>>>> --- expect      2015-05-04 00:09:24.327335512 +0000
>>>> +++ actual      2015-05-04 00:09:24.335335473 +0000
>>>> @@ -1 +1 @@
>>>> -abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234679
>>>> +abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123467abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1234679
>>>> not ok 86 - Type of broken object is correct when type is large
>>>
>>> Perhaps it would have a better chance of being correct with this
>>> squashed in.
>>
>> Interestingly, neither test passes on Mac OS X even with this fixup.
>> In fact, the git-hash-object invocation which computes/retrieves
>> 'bogus_sha1' with the extra long bogus type crashes with SIGABRT in
>> write_sha1_file_prepare(). Still investigating.
>
> It's a buffer overflow problem. I'm preparing a patch.
>
Just saw your patch, thanks Eric.