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From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
To: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwenn@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/8] reftable/stack: do not overwrite errors when compacting
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 08:43:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zc3AsEu0FYzU6tMX@tanuki> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOw_e7b72HVQob_hiV0gtRhGWsb=rz40WL=oaV63t7oOmEA-mw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 04:12:54PM +0100, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> Good catch!
> 
> Sorry for messing this up.

Nothing to be sorry about, bugs happen to all of us.

> > In the worst case,
> > this can lead to a compacted stack that is missing records.
> 
> Yeah, that would be an insidious corruption. Have you considered
> writing a test to reproduce this (and thus verify that the fix really
> fixes the problem?)
> 
> I think it wouldn't be too difficult: you could create a custom
> blocksource wrapper that returns I/O error on the Nth read, and then
> create a reftable with two ref blocks (could just be 2 records if you
> use a small blocksize and a large refname) and two log blocks.  Merge
> that with an empty table, and see if the compacted result is what you
> got in. Loop over N to get coverage for all error paths.

Ah, that's a feasible way to write such a test indeed. I may come back
to it in the future and will add it to our backlog. Thanks!

Patrick

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  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-15  7:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-20  9:17 [PATCH 0/7] reftable: fixes and optimizations (pt.2) Patrick Steinhardt
2023-12-20  9:17 ` [PATCH 1/7] reftable/stack: do not overwrite errors when compacting Patrick Steinhardt
2023-12-20  9:17 ` [PATCH 2/7] reftable/writer: fix index corruption when writing multiple indices Patrick Steinhardt
2023-12-20  9:17 ` [PATCH 3/7] reftable/record: constify some parts of the interface Patrick Steinhardt
2023-12-20  9:17 ` [PATCH 4/7] reftable/record: store "val1" hashes as static arrays Patrick Steinhardt
2023-12-20  9:25   ` Patrick Steinhardt
2023-12-20  9:17 ` [PATCH 5/7] reftable/record: store "val2" " Patrick Steinhardt
2023-12-20  9:17 ` [PATCH 6/7] reftable/merged: really reuse buffers to compute record keys Patrick Steinhardt
2023-12-20  9:17 ` [PATCH 7/7] reftable/merged: transfer ownership of records when iterating Patrick Steinhardt
2023-12-20 19:10 ` [PATCH 0/7] reftable: fixes and optimizations (pt.2) Junio C Hamano
2023-12-28  6:27 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] " Patrick Steinhardt
2023-12-28  6:27   ` [PATCH v2 1/8] reftable/stack: do not overwrite errors when compacting Patrick Steinhardt
2023-12-28  6:27   ` [PATCH v2 2/8] reftable/stack: do not auto-compact twice in `reftable_stack_add()` Patrick Steinhardt
2023-12-28  6:27   ` [PATCH v2 3/8] reftable/writer: fix index corruption when writing multiple indices Patrick Steinhardt
2023-12-28  6:27   ` [PATCH v2 4/8] reftable/record: constify some parts of the interface Patrick Steinhardt
2023-12-28  6:27   ` [PATCH v2 5/8] reftable/record: store "val1" hashes as static arrays Patrick Steinhardt
2023-12-28 17:03     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-12-28  6:28   ` [PATCH v2 6/8] reftable/record: store "val2" " Patrick Steinhardt
2023-12-28  6:28   ` [PATCH v2 7/8] reftable/merged: really reuse buffers to compute record keys Patrick Steinhardt
2023-12-28 17:03     ` Junio C Hamano
2023-12-28  6:28   ` [PATCH v2 8/8] reftable/merged: transfer ownership of records when iterating Patrick Steinhardt
2023-12-28 17:04     ` Junio C Hamano
2024-01-03  6:22 ` [PATCH v3 0/8] reftable: fixes and optimizations (pt.2) Patrick Steinhardt
2024-01-03  6:22   ` [PATCH v3 1/8] reftable/stack: do not overwrite errors when compacting Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-14 15:12     ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2024-02-15  7:43       ` Patrick Steinhardt [this message]
2024-01-03  6:22   ` [PATCH v3 2/8] reftable/stack: do not auto-compact twice in `reftable_stack_add()` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-01-03  6:22   ` [PATCH v3 3/8] reftable/writer: fix index corruption when writing multiple indices Patrick Steinhardt
2024-01-03  6:22   ` [PATCH v3 4/8] reftable/record: constify some parts of the interface Patrick Steinhardt
2024-01-03  6:22   ` [PATCH v3 5/8] reftable/record: store "val1" hashes as static arrays Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-05 11:39     ` Karthik Nayak
2024-02-06  6:03       ` Patrick Steinhardt
2024-01-03  6:22   ` [PATCH v3 6/8] reftable/record: store "val2" " Patrick Steinhardt
2024-01-03  6:22   ` [PATCH v3 7/8] reftable/merged: really reuse buffers to compute record keys Patrick Steinhardt
2024-01-03  6:22   ` [PATCH v3 8/8] reftable/merged: transfer ownership of records when iterating Patrick Steinhardt
2024-02-05 13:08   ` [PATCH v3 0/8] reftable: fixes and optimizations (pt.2) Karthik Nayak

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