From: John Szakmeister <john@szakmeister.net>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] loose-object fsck fixes/tightening
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 06:18:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEBDL5XfZDipTNf73q1bNN+xatEvLD29uicSim-a7bqUV1Z=NQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170113175258.e66taigy4wpokohk@sigill.intra.peff.net>
On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 12:52 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 04:15:42AM -0500, John Szakmeister wrote:
>
>> > I did notice another interesting case when looking at this. Fsck ends up
>> > in fsck_loose(), which has the sha1 and path of the loose object. It
>> > passes the sha1 to fsck_sha1(), and ignores the path entirely!
>> >
>> > So if you have a duplicate copy of the object in a pack, we'd actually
>> > find and check the duplicate. This can happen, e.g., if you had a loose
>> > object and fetched a thin-pack which made a copy of the loose object to
>> > complete the pack).
>> >
>> > Probably fsck_loose() should be more picky about making sure we are
>> > reading the data from the loose version we found.
>>
>> Interesting find! Thanks for the information Peff!
>
> So I figured I would knock this out as a fun morning exercise. But
> sheesh, it turned out to be a slog, because most of the functions rely
> on map_sha1_file() to convert the sha1 to an object path at the lowest
> level.
Yeah, I discovered the same thing when I took a look at it a week or so ago. :-(
> But I finally got something working, so here it is. I found another bug
> on the way, along with a few cleanups. And then I did the trailing
> garbage detection at the end, because by that point I knew right where
> it needed to go. :)
I don't know if my opinion counts for much, but the changes look good to me.
-John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-19 11:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-07 12:50 "git fsck" not detecting garbage at the end of blob object files John Szakmeister
2017-01-07 21:47 ` Dennis Kaarsemaker
2017-01-08 5:26 ` Jeff King
2017-01-13 9:15 ` John Szakmeister
2017-01-13 17:52 ` [PATCH 0/6] loose-object fsck fixes/tightening Jeff King
2017-01-13 17:54 ` [PATCH 1/6] t1450: refactor loose-object removal Jeff King
2017-01-13 17:54 ` [PATCH 2/6] sha1_file: fix error message for alternate objects Jeff King
2017-01-13 17:55 ` [PATCH 3/6] t1450: test fsck of packed objects Jeff King
2017-01-13 17:58 ` [PATCH 4/6] sha1_file: add read_loose_object() function Jeff King
2017-01-13 17:59 ` [PATCH 5/6] fsck: parse loose object paths directly Jeff King
2018-10-30 20:03 ` Infinite loop regression in git-fsck in v2.12.0 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-30 21:35 ` Jeff King
2018-10-30 22:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-30 22:56 ` Jeff King
2018-10-30 23:12 ` Jeff King
2018-10-30 23:18 ` [PATCH 1/3] t1450: check large blob in trailing-garbage test Jeff King
2018-10-30 23:23 ` [PATCH 2/3] check_stream_sha1(): handle input underflow Jeff King
2018-10-31 4:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-31 4:30 ` Jeff King
2018-10-31 4:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-31 5:03 ` Jeff King
2018-10-31 5:13 ` Jeff King
2018-10-31 5:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-30 23:23 ` [PATCH 3/3] cat-file: handle streaming failures consistently Jeff King
2018-10-31 12:42 ` [PATCH 0/3] Add a GIT_TEST_FSCK test mode Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-31 12:42 ` [PATCH 1/3] tests: add a "env-bool" helper to test-tool Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-31 12:42 ` [PATCH 2/3] tests: mark those tests where "git fsck" fails at the end Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-11-01 3:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-31 12:42 ` [PATCH 3/3] tests: add a special test setup that runs "git fsck" before exiting Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-31 13:33 ` [PATCH 3/3] cat-file: handle streaming failures consistently Torsten Bögershausen
2018-10-31 14:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-31 14:37 ` Jeff King
2018-10-31 17:38 ` Eric Sunshine
2018-10-31 20:29 ` Jeff King
2018-10-30 21:56 ` Infinite loop regression in git-fsck in v2.12.0 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-30 23:08 ` Jeff King
2017-01-13 18:00 ` [PATCH 6/6] fsck: detect trailing garbage in all object types Jeff King
2017-01-19 11:18 ` John Szakmeister [this message]
2017-01-13 9:16 ` "git fsck" not detecting garbage at the end of blob object files John Szakmeister
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