Re: [PATCH 0/3] limit the size of the packs we receive

[Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:16:58AM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:
>
>>   - changed strtoul() to strtoumax() in the first 2 patches, as
>>     suggested by Peff,
>>
>>   - changed git_config_ulong() to git_config_int64() and used PRIuMAX
>>     and uintmax_t in the last patch, as suggested by Peff,
>
> Thinking a bit, off_t is actually signed. So maybe PRIdMAX (which we
> don't seem to have compat macros for) would make more sense. I dunno if
> anybody actually cares. This value shouldn't be signed anyway, and
> nobody should be approaching the limits of a 64-bit number anyway (there
> is no point in limiting the incoming pack to the exabyte range).
>
> So I'm inclined not to worry about it.

Yeah, you previously wrote:

> We seem to use strtoumax() elsewhere, so that's probably a good match
> (technically it can overflow an off_t, but in practice this value comes from
> the admin and they will set something sane).

and I thought that the same would apply to using PRIuMAX and uintmax_t
in this patch.

I can add something along your explanations in the commit message if
it is prefered.