On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 11:00:56AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > While looking at [1], I noticed that v2 servers will read a few bits of > > client input into strvecs. Even though we expect these to be small-ish, > > there's nothing preventing a client from sending us a bunch of junk and > > wasting memory. > > The title of the topic says "reducing", but it smells more to me > like this is about "limiting" allocations to protect ourselves. Am > I reading the series correctly? Yeah, I think "limiting" is probably a better word. We will still allocate for ref-prefix, of course, but we'll limit the number of allocations. We did "reduce" the number of spots that allocate, since capabilities no longer do so. :) But I think your understanding of the series is correct. -Peff
