From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, dstolee@microsoft.com, gitster@pobox.com,
jrnieder@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/10] packfile: prepare for the existence of '*.rev' files
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 19:27:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YBNWXU8xzw0087DC@coredump.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6f8b70ab276c0579c957c315743fdab63462a605.1611617820.git.me@ttaylorr.com>
On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 06:37:14PM -0500, Taylor Blau wrote:
> +struct revindex_header {
> + uint32_t signature;
> + uint32_t version;
> + uint32_t hash_id;
> +};
> [...]
> + struct revindex_header *hdr;
> [...]
> + data = xmmap(NULL, revindex_size, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, fd, 0);
> + hdr = data;
> +
> + if (ntohl(hdr->signature) != RIDX_SIGNATURE) {
I guess this technique was pulled from the .idx code paths, but IMHO we
should avoid this kind of struct-casting. It relies on the compiler's
struct packing, and I'm not 100% sure it doesn't violate some weird
pointer-aliasing rules.
OTOH, as long as we do not ever care about sizeof(revindex_header), this
is likely to work in practice, since every field is at least 4-byte
aligned (but there is probably an extra 4 bytes of padding at the end).
The "right" way is probably something like:
const char *header = data;
if (get_be32(header) != RIDX_SIGNATURE)
error...;
header += 4;
if (get_be32(header) != 1)
error...;
header += 4;
...etc...
I thought we had helpers to read and advance the pointer, but it looks
like those are specific to the bitmap code (e.g., read_be32(), though it
uses a separate offset variable).
I dunno. Maybe I am being overly picky. The .idx code already does it
like this, and I believe the index (as in .git/index) does, too. We have
run into problems (as in b5007211b6 (pack-bitmap: do not use gcc packed
attribute, 2014-11-27)), but that was due to a more odd-sized struct, as
well as using sizeof().
The rest of the patch looks good to me.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-29 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 82+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-08 18:19 [PATCH 0/8] pack-revindex: introduce on-disk '.rev' format Taylor Blau
2021-01-08 18:19 ` [PATCH 1/8] packfile: prepare for the existence of '*.rev' files Taylor Blau
2021-01-08 18:20 ` [PATCH 2/8] pack-write.c: prepare to write 'pack-*.rev' files Taylor Blau
2021-01-08 18:20 ` [PATCH 3/8] builtin/index-pack.c: write reverse indexes Taylor Blau
2021-01-08 18:20 ` [PATCH 4/8] builtin/pack-objects.c: respect 'pack.writeReverseIndex' Taylor Blau
2021-01-08 18:20 ` [PATCH 5/8] Documentation/config/pack.txt: advertise 'pack.writeReverseIndex' Taylor Blau
2021-01-08 18:20 ` [PATCH 6/8] t: prepare for GIT_TEST_WRITE_REV_INDEX Taylor Blau
2021-01-12 17:11 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-01-12 18:40 ` Taylor Blau
2021-01-08 18:20 ` [PATCH 7/8] t: support GIT_TEST_WRITE_REV_INDEX Taylor Blau
2021-01-12 16:49 ` Derrick Stolee
2021-01-12 17:34 ` Taylor Blau
2021-01-12 17:18 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-01-12 17:39 ` Derrick Stolee
2021-01-12 18:17 ` Taylor Blau
2021-01-08 18:20 ` [PATCH 8/8] pack-revindex: ensure that on-disk reverse indexes are given precedence Taylor Blau
2021-01-13 22:28 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] pack-revindex: introduce on-disk '.rev' format Taylor Blau
2021-01-13 22:28 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] packfile: prepare for the existence of '*.rev' files Taylor Blau
2021-01-14 7:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-14 12:07 ` Derrick Stolee
2021-01-14 19:57 ` Jeff King
2021-01-14 18:28 ` Taylor Blau
2021-01-14 7:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-14 18:13 ` Taylor Blau
2021-01-14 20:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-22 22:54 ` Jeff King
2021-01-25 17:44 ` Taylor Blau
2021-01-25 18:27 ` Jeff King
2021-01-25 19:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-25 19:23 ` Taylor Blau
2021-01-13 22:28 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] pack-write.c: prepare to write 'pack-*.rev' files Taylor Blau
2021-01-22 23:24 ` Jeff King
2021-01-25 19:15 ` Taylor Blau
2021-01-26 21:43 ` Jeff King
2021-01-13 22:28 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] builtin/index-pack.c: write reverse indexes Taylor Blau
2021-01-22 23:53 ` Jeff King
2021-01-25 20:03 ` Taylor Blau
2021-01-13 22:28 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] builtin/pack-objects.c: respect 'pack.writeReverseIndex' Taylor Blau
2021-01-22 23:57 ` Jeff King
2021-01-23 0:08 ` Jeff King
2021-01-25 20:21 ` Taylor Blau
2021-01-25 20:50 ` Jeff King
2021-01-13 22:28 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] Documentation/config/pack.txt: advertise 'pack.writeReverseIndex' Taylor Blau
2021-01-13 22:28 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] t: prepare for GIT_TEST_WRITE_REV_INDEX Taylor Blau
2021-01-13 22:28 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] t: support GIT_TEST_WRITE_REV_INDEX Taylor Blau
2021-01-13 22:28 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] pack-revindex: ensure that on-disk reverse indexes are given precedence Taylor Blau
2021-01-25 23:37 ` [PATCH v3 00/10] pack-revindex: introduce on-disk '.rev' format Taylor Blau
2021-01-25 23:37 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] packfile: prepare for the existence of '*.rev' files Taylor Blau
2021-01-29 0:27 ` Jeff King [this message]
2021-01-29 1:14 ` Taylor Blau
2021-01-30 8:39 ` Jeff King
2021-01-25 23:37 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] pack-write.c: prepare to write 'pack-*.rev' files Taylor Blau
2021-01-25 23:37 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] builtin/index-pack.c: allow stripping arbitrary extensions Taylor Blau
2021-01-29 0:28 ` Jeff King
2021-01-29 1:15 ` Taylor Blau
2021-01-25 23:37 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] builtin/index-pack.c: write reverse indexes Taylor Blau
2021-01-25 23:37 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] builtin/pack-objects.c: respect 'pack.writeReverseIndex' Taylor Blau
2021-01-25 23:37 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] Documentation/config/pack.txt: advertise 'pack.writeReverseIndex' Taylor Blau
2021-01-29 0:30 ` Jeff King
2021-01-29 1:17 ` Taylor Blau
2021-01-30 8:41 ` Jeff King
2021-01-25 23:37 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] t: prepare for GIT_TEST_WRITE_REV_INDEX Taylor Blau
2021-01-29 0:45 ` Jeff King
2021-01-29 1:09 ` Eric Sunshine
2021-01-29 1:21 ` Taylor Blau
2021-01-30 8:43 ` Jeff King
2021-01-29 2:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2021-01-25 23:37 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] t: support GIT_TEST_WRITE_REV_INDEX Taylor Blau
2021-01-29 0:47 ` Jeff King
2021-01-25 23:37 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] pack-revindex: ensure that on-disk reverse indexes are given precedence Taylor Blau
2021-01-29 0:53 ` Jeff King
2021-01-29 1:25 ` Taylor Blau
2021-01-30 8:46 ` Jeff King
2021-01-25 23:37 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] t5325: check both on-disk and in-memory reverse index Taylor Blau
2021-01-29 1:04 ` Jeff King
2021-01-29 1:05 ` Jeff King
2021-01-29 1:32 ` Taylor Blau
2021-01-30 8:47 ` Jeff King
2021-01-26 2:36 ` [PATCH v3 00/10] pack-revindex: introduce on-disk '.rev' format Junio C Hamano
2021-01-26 2:49 ` Taylor Blau
2021-01-29 1:06 ` Jeff King
2021-01-29 1:34 ` Taylor Blau
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