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From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>, <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] bundle: keep around names passed to add_pending_object()
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 23:22:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obsggdwh.fsf@thomas.inf.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vehtckmee.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:05:13 -0800")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch> writes:
>
>> The 'name' field passed to add_pending_object() is used to later
>> deduplicate in object_array_remove_duplicates().
>>
>> git-bundle had a bug in this area since 18449ab (git-bundle: avoid
>> packing objects which are in the prerequisites, 2007-03-08): it passed
>> the name of each boundary object in a static buffer.  In other words,
>> all that object_array_remove_duplicates() saw was the name of the
>> *last* added boundary object.
>
> Ouch.

Actually, I just noticed that object_array_remove_duplicates() is much
newer than 18449ab, from b2a6d1c (bundle: allow the same ref to be given
more than once, 2009-01-17).  However it did pass in the same buffer all
the time starting from 18449ab, which is a bug waiting to happen (and
perhaps NULL would have been more appropriate).

Archaeology sure is fun.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

      reply	other threads:[~2012-03-01 22:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-01 21:40 [PATCH 0/4] Another bundle fix: reading freed memory Thomas Rast
2012-03-01 21:40 ` [PATCH 1/4] t5510: refactor bundle->pack conversion Thomas Rast
2012-03-01 21:40 ` [PATCH 2/4] t5510: fix indent with spaces Thomas Rast
2012-03-01 21:40 ` [PATCH 3/4] t5510: ensure we stay in the toplevel test dir Thomas Rast
2012-03-01 21:57   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-01 22:09     ` Thomas Rast
2012-03-01 22:32       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-01 22:33       ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-01 21:40 ` [PATCH 4/4] bundle: keep around names passed to add_pending_object() Thomas Rast
2012-03-01 22:05   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-03-01 22:22     ` Thomas Rast [this message]

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