On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:20:41AM -0500, Jeff King wrote: > Ok, that _is_ big. ;) I wouldn't be surprised if there is some corner of > the code that barfs on a single object that doesn't fit in a signed > 32-bit integer; I don't think we have any test coverage for stuff that > big. Sure enough, that is the problem. With the patch below I was able to "git add" and commit a 3 gigabyte file of random bytes (so even the deflated object was 3G). I think it might be worth applying as a general cleanup, but I have no idea if other parts of the system might barf on such an object. -- >8 -- Subject: [PATCH] avoid 31-bit truncation in write_loose_object The size of the content we are adding may be larger than 2.1G (i.e., "git add gigantic-file"). Most of the code-path to do so uses size_t or unsigned long to record the size, but write_loose_object uses a signed int. On platforms where "int" is 32-bits (which includes x86_64 Linux platforms), we end up passing malloc a negative size. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> --- sha1_file.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c index 360f7e5..8868b80 100644 --- a/sha1_file.c +++ b/sha1_file.c @@ -2340,7 +2340,8 @@ static int create_tmpfile(char *buffer, size_t bufsiz, const char *filename) static int write_loose_object(const unsigned char *sha1, char *hdr, int hdrlen, void *buf, unsigned long len, time_t mtime) { - int fd, size, ret; + int fd, ret; + size_t size; unsigned char *compressed; z_stream stream; char *filename; -- 1.6.1.1.259.g8712.dirty -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html