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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Cc: Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] revert: fix buffer overflow in insn sheet parser
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:30:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v8vogbgai.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1319058208-17923-4-git-send-email-artagnon@gmail.com> (Ramkumar Ramachandra's message of "Thu, 20 Oct 2011 02:33:25 +0530")

Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com> writes:

> Check that the commit name argument to a "pick" or "revert" action in
> '.git/sequencer/todo' is not too long, to avoid overflowing an
> on-stack buffer.  This fixes a regression introduced by 5a5d80f4
> (revert: Introduce --continue to continue the operation, 2011-08-04).

Given that this function is going to be fixed properly so that it does not
even need to use the "on-stack buffer", is this really necessary?

  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-20  1:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-19 21:03 [PATCH v2 0/6] Sequencer fixups mini-series Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-10-19 21:03 ` [PATCH 1/6] revert: free msg in format_todo() Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-10-19 21:03 ` [PATCH 2/6] revert: simplify getting commit subject " Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-10-19 21:03 ` [PATCH 3/6] revert: fix buffer overflow in insn sheet parser Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-10-20  1:30   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-10-20  8:03     ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-10-20  8:48       ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-10-20  9:09         ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-10-20 15:36           ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-10-20 17:15           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-20 18:05             ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-10-20 18:55               ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-22 18:57                 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-10-19 21:03 ` [PATCH 4/6] revert: make commit subjects in insn sheet optional Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-10-19 21:03 ` [PATCH 5/6] revert: allow mixed pick and revert instructions Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-10-19 21:03 ` [PATCH 6/6] revert: simplify communicating command-line arguments Ramkumar Ramachandra
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-10-08 17:36 [PATCH 0/6] Sequencer fixups mini-series Ramkumar Ramachandra
2011-10-08 17:36 ` [PATCH 3/6] revert: Fix buffer overflow in insn sheet parser Ramkumar Ramachandra

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