From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>, Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>,
"D . Ben Knoble" <ben.knoble@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/4] midx repack: fix overflow on 32 bit systems
Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 16:55:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cover.1747929225.git.phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1747753388.git.phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Thanks to Taylor and Ben for their comments on V1.
Changes since V1:
- Patch 1: style fix and clarified commit message
- Patch 4: reworded commit message and documentation
Cover Letter for V1:
This series fixes an overflow when running "git multi-pack-index
repack" on an old raspberry pi and a couple of other small issues I
noticed while reading the code. I'm unsure how realistic the example
of integer overflow on 64 bit systems in patch 2 is. I'm happy to drop
it if people who work with large repositories think its not worth
worrying about.
Base-Commit: cb96e1697ad6e54d11fc920c95f82977f8e438f8
Published-As: https://github.com/phillipwood/git/releases/tag/pw%2Fmidx-repack-overflow%2Fv2
View-Changes-At: https://github.com/phillipwood/git/compare/cb96e1697...a140181bd
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/phillipwood/git pw/midx-repack-overflow/v2
Phillip Wood (4):
midx repack: avoid integer overflow on 32 bit systems
midx repack: avoid potential integer overflow on 64 bit systems
midx: avoid negative array index
midx docs: clarify tie breaking
Documentation/git-multi-pack-index.adoc | 11 +++++++----
git-compat-util.h | 16 ++++++++++++++++
midx-write.c | 22 ++++++++++++++++------
3 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
Range-diff against v1:
1: cbc5e69b908 ! 1: 9a1e6c81688 midx repack: avoid integer overflow on 32 bit systems
@@ Commit message
can overflow as both total_size and estimated_size can be greater that
SIZE_MAX / 2. This is addressed by using saturating arithmetic for the
- addition.
+ addition. Although estimated_size is of type uint64_t by the time we
+ reach this sum it is bounded by the batch size which is of type size_t
+ and so casting estimated_size to size_t does not truncate the value.
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
@@ midx-write.c: static void fill_included_packs_batch(struct repository *r,
continue;
- total_size += expected_size;
-+ if (unsigned_add_overflows (total_size, (size_t)expected_size))
++ if (unsigned_add_overflows(total_size, (size_t)expected_size))
+ total_size = SIZE_MAX;
+ else
+ total_size += expected_size;
2: 9f07da4fe71 = 2: 54303d96c31 midx repack: avoid potential integer overflow on 64 bit systems
3: 688b0273604 = 3: 5b6cfb9d212 midx: avoid negative array index
4: 29769df1c60 ! 4: a140181bd57 midx docs: clarify tie breaking
@@ Commit message
midx docs: clarify tie breaking
Clarify what happens when an object exists in more than one pack, but
- not in the preferred pack. If the user does not pass a preferred pack
- then the pack with the lowest mtime is chosen as the preferred pack. For
- objects that are not in the preferred pack the pack with the highest
- mtime is used. "git multi-pack-index repack" relies on this behavior. If
- ties were resolved in favor of the oldest pack as the current
- documentation suggests the multi-pack index would not reference any of
- the objects in the pack created by "git multi-pack-index repack".
+ not in the preferred pack. "git multi-pack-index repack" relies on ties
+ for objects that are not in the preferred pack being resolved in favor
+ of the newest pack that contains a copy of the object. If ties were
+ resolved in favor of the oldest pack as the current documentation
+ suggests the multi-pack index would not reference any of the objects in
+ the pack created by "git multi-pack-index repack".
+ Helped-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
## Documentation/git-multi-pack-index.adoc ##
@@ Documentation/git-multi-pack-index.adoc: write::
+ +
+ --
--preferred-pack=<pack>::
- Optionally specify the tie-breaking pack used when
- multiple packs contain the same object. `<pack>` must
+- Optionally specify the tie-breaking pack used when
+- multiple packs contain the same object. `<pack>` must
- contain at least one object. If not given, ties are
- broken in favor of the pack with the lowest mtime.
-+ contain at least one object. If not given the pack with
-+ the lowest mtime is used as the preferred pack. Ties
-+ for objects that are not contained in the preferred
-+ are resolved in favor of the pack with the newest mtime.
++ When specified, break ties in favor of this pack when
++ there are additional copies of its objects in other
++ packs. Ties for objects not found in the preferred
++ pack are always resolved in favor of the copy in the
++ pack with the highest mtime. If unspecified, the pack
++ with the lowest mtime is used by default. The
++ preferred pack must have at least one object.
--[no-]bitmap::
Control whether or not a multi-pack bitmap is written.
--
2.49.0.897.gfad3eb7d210
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-05-22 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-05-20 15:04 [PATCH 0/4] midx repack: fix overflow on 32 bit systems Phillip Wood
2025-05-20 15:04 ` [PATCH 1/4] midx repack: avoid integer " Phillip Wood
2025-05-20 17:54 ` Taylor Blau
2025-05-21 15:19 ` Phillip Wood
2025-05-23 0:34 ` Taylor Blau
2025-05-21 13:10 ` D. Ben Knoble
2025-05-21 15:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-05-21 15:20 ` Phillip Wood
2025-05-20 15:04 ` [PATCH 2/4] midx repack: avoid potential integer overflow on 64 " Phillip Wood
2025-05-20 17:59 ` Taylor Blau
2025-05-21 15:20 ` Phillip Wood
2025-05-20 15:04 ` [PATCH 3/4] midx: avoid negative array index Phillip Wood
2025-05-20 17:58 ` Taylor Blau
2025-05-20 15:04 ` [PATCH 4/4] midx docs: clarify tie breaking Phillip Wood
2025-05-20 18:07 ` Taylor Blau
2025-05-21 15:20 ` Phillip Wood
2025-05-21 13:14 ` D. Ben Knoble
2025-05-22 15:55 ` Phillip Wood [this message]
2025-05-22 15:55 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] midx repack: avoid integer overflow on 32 bit systems Phillip Wood
2025-05-22 15:55 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] midx repack: avoid potential integer overflow on 64 " Phillip Wood
2025-05-22 15:55 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] midx: avoid negative array index Phillip Wood
2025-05-22 15:55 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] midx docs: clarify tie breaking Phillip Wood
2025-05-23 0:36 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] midx repack: fix overflow on 32 bit systems Taylor Blau
2025-05-27 8:26 ` Phillip Wood
2025-05-27 15:42 ` Junio C Hamano
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