Re: [PATCH 0/7] oid_array cleanups

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Hi Peff,

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 10:02:47AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> I recently encountered a repo in the wild that had over 2^31 objects,
> and found that cat-file barfed:
>
>   $ git cat-file --batch-all-objects --batch-check
>   fatal: size_t overflow: 32 * 18446744071562067968
>
> The issue is that we use an "int" to store the count and the allocation.
> Fortunately our st_mult() protection kicks in before we end up with an
> undersized buffer, so this shouldn't be dangerous. And while I'd argue
> that having that many objects is probably silly and likely to cause
> other problems, I'd just as soon we kept our allocating code as robust
> as possible.
>
> The first patch is the actual fix, followed by some related type
> cleanup. The rest of it is just leftovers from the
> s/sha1_array/oid_array/ transition a few years back.
>
>   [1/7]: oid_array: use size_t for count and allocation
>   [2/7]: oid_array: use size_t for iteration
>   [3/7]: oid_array: rename source file from sha1-array
>   [4/7]: test-tool: rename sha1-array to oid-array
>   [5/7]: bisect: stop referring to sha1_array
>   [6/7]: ref-filter: stop referring to "sha1 array"
>   [7/7]: oidset: stop referring to sha1-array

Thanks for this. I reviewed the patch, which was a breeze thanks to how
you broke it out. I don't think that I said anything useful in my actual
review, which is to say that this looks good from my perspective.

Sorry that I let it sit in my inbox for a few days. Trying to get better
about that :).

  Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Taylor



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