Read and write each 1024 byte buffer, rather than trying to buffer the entire content of the file. Previous code would crash on all files > 2 Gib, when the offset variable became negative (perhaps below the level of perl), resulting in a crash. On a 32 bit system, or a system with low memory it might crash before reaching 2 GiB due to memory exhaustion. Signed-off-by: Joshua Clayton <stillcompiling@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- perl/Git.pm | 12 +++++------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/perl/Git.pm b/perl/Git.pm index 931047c..cc91288 100644 --- a/perl/Git.pm +++ b/perl/Git.pm @@ -949,13 +949,16 @@ sub cat_blob { last unless $bytesLeft; my $bytesToRead = $bytesLeft < 1024 ? $bytesLeft : 1024; - my $read = read($in, $blob, $bytesToRead, $bytesRead); + my $read = read($in, $blob, $bytesToRead); unless (defined($read)) { $self->_close_cat_blob(); throw Error::Simple("in pipe went bad"); } - $bytesRead += $read; + unless (print $fh $blob) { + $self->_close_cat_blob(); + throw Error::Simple("couldn't write to passed in filehandle"); + } } # Skip past the trailing newline. @@ -970,11 +973,6 @@ sub cat_blob { throw Error::Simple("didn't find newline after blob"); } - unless (print $fh $blob) { - $self->_close_cat_blob(); - throw Error::Simple("couldn't write to passed in filehandle"); - } - return $size; } -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html