On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:22:18 -0800 Brandon Williams <bmwill@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > + if (len < 0) { > die("protocol error: bad line length character: %.4s", linelen); > - if (!len) { > + } else if (!len) { > packet_trace("0000", 4, 0); > - return 0; > + return PACKET_READ_FLUSH; > + } else if (len < 4) { > + die("protocol error: bad line length %d", len); > } > + > len -= 4; > - if (len >= size) > + if ((unsigned)len >= size) > die("protocol error: bad line length %d", len); The cast to unsigned is safe, since len was at least 4 before "len -= 4". I can't think of a better way to write this to make that more obvious, though. > +/* > + * Read a packetized line into a buffer like the 'packet_read()' function but > + * returns an 'enum packet_read_status' which indicates the status of the read. > + * The number of bytes read will be assigined to *pktlen if the status of the > + * read was 'PACKET_READ_NORMAL'. > + */ > +enum packet_read_status { > + PACKET_READ_EOF = -1, > + PACKET_READ_NORMAL, > + PACKET_READ_FLUSH, > +}; > +enum packet_read_status packet_read_with_status(int fd, char **src_buffer, > + size_t *src_len, char *buffer, > + unsigned size, int *pktlen, > + int options); jrnieder said in [1], referring to the definition of enum packet_read_status: > nit: do any callers treat the return value as a number? It would be > less magical if the numbering were left to the compiler (0, 1, 2). I checked the result of the entire patch set and the only callers seem to be packet_read() (modified in this patch) and the soon-to-be-introduced packet_reader_read(). So not only can the numbering be left to the compiler, this function can (and should) be marked static as well (and the enum definition moved to .c), since I think that future development should be encouraged to use packet_reader. The commit message would also thus need to be rewritten, since this becomes more of a refactoring into a function with a more precisely specified return type, to be used both by the existing packet_read() and a soon-to-be-introduced packet_reader_read(). [1] https://public-inbox.org/git/20180213002554.GA42272@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/