Re: SHA1 collision in production repo?! (probably not)

[Jeff King <peff@peff.net>]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 01:45:15PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:

> I suspect this may improve things, but I haven't dug deeper to see if
> there are unwanted side effects, or if there are other spots that need
> similar treatment.
> 
> diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c
> index 43990dec7..38411f90b 100644
> --- a/sha1_file.c
> +++ b/sha1_file.c
> @@ -2952,7 +2952,7 @@ static int sha1_loose_object_info(const unsigned char *sha1,
>  	if (status && oi->typep)
>  		*oi->typep = status;
>  	strbuf_release(&hdrbuf);
> -	return 0;
> +	return status;
>  }
>  
>  int sha1_object_info_extended(const unsigned char *sha1, struct object_info *oi, unsigned flags)

Er, no, that's totally wrong. "status' may be holding the type. It
should really be:

  return status < 0 ? status : 0;

-Peff