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From: "Srujith A Poojary via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>,
	Srujith A Poojary <poojarysrujith@gmail.com>,
	Srujith A Poojary <poojarysrujith@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v6] diff-delta: use safe integer arithmetic
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2026 04:51:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pull.2276.v6.git.1793076683043.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.2276.git.1792727808109.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

From: Srujith A Poojary <poojarysrujith@gmail.com>

In create_delta_index(), buffer sizes for allocating the delta index
are calculated using arithmetic operations on entries and hsize:

  memsize = sizeof(*hash) * hsize + sizeof(*entry) * entries

To prevent potential size_t wrap-around when computing allocation sizes
on 32-bit systems, replace manual arithmetic with overflow-checked
helpers (st_mult, st_add, st_add3).

For the unpacked index allocation:
- sizeof(struct unpacked_index_entry) is 12 bytes on 32-bit systems,
  which may be padded to 16 bytes depending on compiler alignment rules.
- sizeof(struct index_entry *) is 4 bytes.
- entries is capped by (0xffffffu / RABIN_WINDOW) where RABIN_WINDOW is 16,
  limiting entries to 1,048,575.
- hsize is the smallest power of 2 greater than or equal to entries,
  capped at 1,048,576.

While entries is bounded in current code, using st_mult() and st_add()
guarantees that any unexpected growth in struct sizes or bounds changes
will safely die() on size_t overflow instead of wrapping around.

For the packed index allocation:
- (hsize + 1) is passed to st_mult(), which is evaluated as an argument
  inside st_add3(), and is safe from overflow because hsize is capped at
  1,048,576 early in the function.

Signed-off-by: Srujith A Poojary <poojarysrujith@gmail.com>
---
    [Outreachy PATCH] diff-delta: use safe integer arithmetic

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-2276%2Fpoojarysrujith%2Fc-refactor-target-name-v6
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-2276/poojarysrujith/c-refactor-target-name-v6
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/2276

Range-diff vs v5:

 1:  23fcfd3227 ! 1:  b91a1ed54b diff-delta: use safe integer arithmetic
     @@ Commit message
          will safely die() on size_t overflow instead of wrapping around.
      
          For the packed index allocation:
     -    - Passing (hsize + 1) as an argument to st_add3() is safe from overflow
     -      because hsize is capped at 1,048,576 early in the function.
     +    - (hsize + 1) is passed to st_mult(), which is evaluated as an argument
     +      inside st_add3(), and is safe from overflow because hsize is capped at
     +      1,048,576 early in the function.
      
          Signed-off-by: Srujith A Poojary <poojarysrujith@gmail.com>
      


 diff-delta.c | 10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/diff-delta.c b/diff-delta.c
index 7cbedeb507..efebce3aca 100644
--- a/diff-delta.c
+++ b/diff-delta.c
@@ -162,8 +162,8 @@ struct delta_index * create_delta_index(const void *buf, size_t bufsize)
 	hmask = hsize - 1;
 
 	/* allocate lookup index */
-	memsize = sizeof(*hash) * hsize +
-		  sizeof(*entry) * entries;
+	memsize = st_add(st_mult(sizeof(*hash), hsize),
+			 st_mult(sizeof(*entry), entries));
 	mem = malloc(memsize);
 	if (!mem)
 		return NULL;
@@ -258,9 +258,9 @@ struct delta_index * create_delta_index(const void *buf, size_t bufsize)
 	 * Now create the packed index in array form
 	 * rather than linked lists.
 	 */
-	memsize = sizeof(*index)
-		+ sizeof(*packed_hash) * (hsize+1)
-		+ sizeof(*packed_entry) * entries;
+	memsize = st_add3(sizeof(*index),
+			  st_mult(sizeof(*packed_hash), hsize + 1),
+			  st_mult(sizeof(*packed_entry), entries));
 	mem = malloc(memsize);
 	if (!mem) {
 		free(hash);

base-commit: 47fdf2208c5b94c8cc01c106b8f7c85efb91c926
-- 
gitgitgadget

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-10-27  4:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-23  3:56 [PATCH] [Outreachy PATCH] diff-delta: use safe integer arithmetic Srujith A Poojary via GitGitGadget
2026-10-23  5:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-23  5:29   ` Srujith Poojary
2026-10-23 15:30     ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-23 16:56       ` Srujith Poojary
2026-10-23 18:45         ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-23  5:56 ` [PATCH v2] " Srujith A Poojary via GitGitGadget
2026-10-23 15:15   ` Phillip Wood
2026-10-23 18:49     ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-24  3:44       ` Srujith Poojary
2026-10-24  3:48 ` [PATCH v3] " Srujith A Poojary via GitGitGadget
2026-10-24 16:15   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-24 17:26     ` Srujith Poojary
2026-10-25 18:10       ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-25 19:21         ` Srujith Poojary
2026-10-24 18:00 ` [PATCH v4] " Srujith A Poojary via GitGitGadget
2026-10-25 19:20 ` [PATCH v5] " Srujith A Poojary via GitGitGadget
2026-10-26 17:37   ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-26 18:47     ` Srujith Poojary
2026-10-27  4:50     ` Srujith Poojary
2026-10-27  4:51 ` Srujith A Poojary via GitGitGadget [this message]
2026-10-27 10:33   ` [PATCH v6] " Pablo Sabater
2026-10-27 11:01     ` Srujith Poojary
2026-10-27 11:32       ` Pablo Sabater
2026-10-27 11:00 ` [PATCH v7] " Srujith A Poojary via GitGitGadget
2026-10-27 11:52   ` Pablo Sabater
2026-10-27 14:18     ` Srujith Poojary
2026-10-27 16:27     ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-27 16:57       ` Srujith Poojary
2026-10-27 14:21 ` [PATCH v8] " Srujith A Poojary via GitGitGadget
2026-10-27 16:56 ` [PATCH v9] " Srujith A Poojary via GitGitGadget

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