From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Luat Nguyen <root@l4w.io>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ewah_read_mmap: bounds-check mmap reads
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2018 12:44:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqsh5nzvfs.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180615172656.GB3067@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Fri, 15 Jun 2018 13:26:56 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 10:05:42AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> > - memcpy(self->buffer, ptr, self->buffer_size * sizeof(eword_t));
>> > - ptr += self->buffer_size * sizeof(eword_t);
>>
>>
>> > + data_len = st_mult(self->buffer_size, sizeof(eword_t));
>>
>> This is a faithful conversion from the original, but I somehow would
>> have appreciated if the latter were not sizeof(eword_t) but rather
>> sizeof(self->buffer_size[0]), especially as I wondered ...
>
> I actually thought about going the _other_ way. The sizeof(eword_t) is
> not something we can change, but is actually decided by the on-disk
> format. So I wondered if this should be much more clearly "hey, this is
> 8 bytes". Possibly with an assert(sizeof(*self->buffer_size) == 8).
Hmph, that's a thought.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-15 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-14 22:59 security: potential out-of-bound read at ewah_io.c |ewah_read_mmap| Luat Nguyen
2018-06-15 3:28 ` Jeff King
2018-06-15 3:31 ` [PATCH 1/3] ewah_read_mmap: bounds-check mmap reads Jeff King
2018-06-15 9:14 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-06-15 16:20 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-06-15 17:10 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-06-15 17:21 ` Jeff King
2018-06-15 19:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-06-15 17:05 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-06-15 17:26 ` Jeff King
2018-06-15 19:44 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2018-06-16 14:35 ` SZEDER Gábor
2018-06-16 19:14 ` Jeff King
2018-06-15 3:31 ` [PATCH 2/3] ewah: drop ewah_deserialize function Jeff King
2018-06-15 3:32 ` [PATCH 3/3] ewah: drop ewah_serialize_native function Jeff King
2018-06-15 13:56 ` Ramsay Jones
2018-06-15 14:07 ` Ramsay Jones
2018-06-15 14:30 ` [PATCH 0/8] Delete unused methods in EWAH bitmap Derrick Stolee
2018-06-15 14:30 ` [PATCH 1/8] ewah/bitmap.c: delete unused 'bitmap_clear()' Derrick Stolee
2018-06-15 14:46 ` Ramsay Jones
2018-06-15 15:11 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-06-15 14:30 ` [PATCH 2/8] ewah/bitmap.c: delete unused 'bitmap_each_bit()' Derrick Stolee
2018-06-15 15:03 ` Ramsay Jones
2018-06-15 14:30 ` [PATCH 3/8] ewah_bitmap: delete unused 'ewah_and()' Derrick Stolee
2018-06-15 14:30 ` [PATCH 4/8] ewah_bitmap: delete unused 'ewah_and_not()' Derrick Stolee
2018-06-15 14:30 ` [PATCH 5/8] ewah_bitmap: delete unused 'ewah_not()' Derrick Stolee
2018-06-15 14:30 ` [PATCH 6/8] ewah_bitmap: delete unused 'ewah_or()' Derrick Stolee
2018-06-15 14:30 ` [PATCH 7/8] ewah_io: delete unused 'ewah_serialize()' Derrick Stolee
2018-06-15 14:30 ` [PATCH 8/8] ewah_io: delete unused 'ewah_serialize_native()' Derrick Stolee
2018-06-15 15:01 ` Ramsay Jones
2018-06-15 15:10 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-06-15 14:35 ` [PATCH 0/8] Delete unused methods in EWAH bitmap Derrick Stolee
2018-06-15 18:27 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] " Derrick Stolee
2018-06-15 18:27 ` [PATCH v2 1/7] ewah/bitmap.c: delete unused 'bitmap_clear()' Derrick Stolee
2018-06-15 18:27 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] ewah/bitmap.c: delete unused 'bitmap_each_bit()' Derrick Stolee
2018-06-15 18:27 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] ewah_bitmap: delete unused 'ewah_and()' Derrick Stolee
2018-06-15 18:27 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] ewah_bitmap: delete unused 'ewah_and_not()' Derrick Stolee
2018-06-15 18:27 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] ewah_bitmap: delete unused 'ewah_not()' Derrick Stolee
2018-06-15 18:27 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] ewah_bitmap: delete unused 'ewah_or()' Derrick Stolee
2018-06-15 18:27 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] ewah_io: delete unused 'ewah_serialize()' Derrick Stolee
2018-06-15 18:51 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] Delete unused methods in EWAH bitmap Junio C Hamano
2018-06-15 18:56 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-06-15 19:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-06-15 20:35 ` Jeff King
2018-06-15 14:15 ` [PATCH 3/3] ewah: drop ewah_serialize_native function Derrick Stolee
2018-06-15 17:51 ` Jeff King
2018-06-15 18:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-06-15 18:46 ` Jeff King
2018-06-15 3:44 ` [PATCH 4/3] ewah: adjust callers of ewah_read_mmap() Jeff King
2018-06-15 11:23 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-06-15 16:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-06-15 17:31 ` Jeff King
2018-06-15 18:23 ` Derrick Stolee
2018-06-15 20:38 ` Jeff King
2018-06-15 17:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2018-06-15 16:11 ` security: potential out-of-bound read at ewah_io.c |ewah_read_mmap| Junio C Hamano
2018-06-19 19:00 ` Dyer, Edwin
2018-06-19 19:56 ` Jeff King
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