Re: [PATCH 0/3] some minor memory allocation cleanups

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On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 1:53 AM Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> These are a result of me poking at the results of:
>
>   git grep 'x[mc]alloc.*[+*] '
>
> looking for any buffer allocation computations that could overflow (and
> hence under-allocate).
>
> There are a few hits left after this in the commit-graph code. Those
> will be dealt with in a separate series (coming soon!) since they have
> other problems, as discussed in:
>
>   https://lore.kernel.org/git/20191027042116.GA5801@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> (those have to do with normalize_path_copy(), hence the only
> semi-related documentation patch here).
>
>   [1/3]: normalize_path_copy(): document "dst" size expectations
>   [2/3]: walker_fetch(): avoid raw array length computation
>   [3/3]: traverse_trees(): use stack array for name entries
>
>  path.c      |  2 ++
>  tree-walk.c | 13 ++++++++-----
>  walker.c    |  4 +++-
>  3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> -Peff

Other than introducing (or extending?) a cyclic dependency between
tree-walk and unpack-trees that I'd prefer to remove, this series
looks good to me.



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