Re: [PATCH 2/9] ref-filter: avoid extra copies of payload/signature

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On Tue, Sep 10, 2024 at 08:09:22AM +0200, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:

> > But parse_signature() would never find such a buffer! It only looks for
> > signature lines (like "-----BEGIN PGP") at the start of each line,
> > without any header keyword. So this code will never find anything except
> > the usual in-body signature.
> 
> Okay. So in other words the intent was to parse in-header signatures,
> but the code failed to do so correctly and thus this never worked in the
> first place?
> 
> In any case, `parse_signature()` is only a glorified wrapper around
> `parse_signed_buffer()` in the first place, so in the end they would
> both parse the buffer in the same way.
> 
> Nice cleanup, even though it leaves one wondering why the in-header
> signatures have only been wired up partially.

I, too, was confused. See this exchange with brian:

  https://lore.kernel.org/git/20240908233636.GA4026999@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

-Peff




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