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From: "Joachim Schmitz" <jojo@schmitz-digital.de>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] archive-tar: fix sanity check in config parsing
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:17:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <kd0evl$ac0$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20130113200044.GA3979@sigill.intra.peff.net

Jeff King wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 06:42:01PM +0100, René Scharfe wrote:
>
>> When parsing these config variable names, we currently check that
>> the second dot is found nine characters into the name, disallowing
>> filter names with a length of five characters.  Additionally,
>> git archive crashes when the second dot is omitted:
>>
>> $ ./git -c tar.foo=bar archive HEAD >/dev/null
>> fatal: Data too large to fit into virtual memory space.
>>
>> Instead we should check if the second dot exists at all, or if
>> we only found the first one.
>
> Eek. Thanks for finding it. Your fix is obviously correct.
>
>> --- a/archive-tar.c
>> +++ b/archive-tar.c
>> @@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ static int tar_filter_config(const char *var,
>>  const char *value, void *data) if (prefixcmp(var, "tar."))
>>  return 0;
>>  dot = strrchr(var, '.');
>> - if (dot == var + 9)
>> + if (dot == var + 3)
>>  return 0;
>
> For the curious, the original version of the patch[1] read:
>
> +       if (prefixcmp(var, "tarfilter."))
> +               return 0;
> +       dot = strrchr(var, '.');
> +       if (dot == var + 9)
> +               return 0;
>
> and when I shortened the config section to "tar" in a re-roll of the
> series, I missed the corresponding change to the offset.

Wouldn't it then be better ti use strlen("tar") rather than a 3? Or at least 
a comment?

Bye, Jojo 

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-14  8:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-13 17:42 [PATCH] archive-tar: fix sanity check in config parsing René Scharfe
2013-01-13 20:00 ` Jeff King
2013-01-14  8:17   ` Joachim Schmitz [this message]
2013-01-14 12:44     ` Jeff King
2013-01-14 14:58       ` Jeff King
2013-01-14 15:00         ` [PATCH 1/6] config: add helper function for parsing key names Jeff King
2013-01-14 18:08           ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-15 16:04             ` Jeff King
2013-01-15 17:07               ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-18 20:53                 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-23  6:21                   ` [PATCHv2 0/8] config key-parsing cleanups Jeff King
2013-01-23  6:23                     ` [PATCHv2 1/8] config: add helper function for parsing key names Jeff King
2013-01-23  6:23                     ` [PATCHv2 2/8] archive-tar: use parse_config_key when parsing config Jeff King
2013-01-23  6:24                     ` [PATCHv2 3/8] convert some config callbacks to parse_config_key Jeff King
2013-01-23  6:25                     ` [PATCHv2 4/8] userdiff: drop parse_driver function Jeff King
2013-01-23  6:25                     ` [PATCHv2 5/8] submodule: use parse_config_key when parsing config Jeff King
2013-01-23 20:45                       ` Jens Lehmann
2013-01-23  6:26                     ` [PATCHv2 6/8] submodule: simplify memory handling in config parsing Jeff King
2013-01-23 20:51                       ` Jens Lehmann
2013-01-23  6:27                     ` [PATCHv2 7/8] help: use parse_config_key for man config Jeff King
2013-01-23  6:27                     ` [PATCHv2 8/8] reflog: use parse_config_key in config callback Jeff King
2013-01-23  7:04                       ` Junio C Hamano
2013-01-23  7:27                     ` [PATCHv2 0/8] config key-parsing cleanups Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-14 15:02         ` [PATCH 2/6] archive-tar: use match_config_key when parsing config Jeff King
2013-01-14 15:03         ` [PATCH 3/6] convert some config callbacks to match_config_key Jeff King
2013-01-14 16:55           ` Jonathan Nieder
2013-01-14 17:06             ` Jeff King
2013-01-14 18:05               ` Jeff King
2013-01-14 15:04         ` [PATCH 4/6] userdiff: drop parse_driver function Jeff King
2013-01-14 15:04         ` [PATCH 5/6] submodule: use match_config_key when parsing config Jeff King
2013-01-14 15:07         ` [PATCH 6/6] submodule: simplify memory handling in config parsing Jeff King

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