From: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 08:11:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] vcs-svn: Start working on the dumpfile producer
Message-ID: <20110115081128.GB9277@kytes>
In-Reply-To: <20110115073925.GA21744@m62s10.vlinux.de>

Hi Peter,

Peter Baumann writes:
> > +	while ((t = buffer_read_line(&input))) {
> > +		val = strchr(t, ' ');
> > +		if (!val) {
> > +			if (!memcmp(t, "blob", 4))
> > +				active_ctx = BLOB_CTX;
> > +			else if (!memcmp(t, "deleteall", 9))
> > +				;
> > +			continue;
> 
> Having actually no idea what the input you are reading from might look like, but
> seeing those two memcmp compares above makes me wonder if 't' might ever be smaller
> than 4 (or 9 for the else part). Which obviously would lead to a SEGFAULT. 
> In the code below there are also memcmp class which might step out of the
> buffer.

Right. Silly mistake on my part. Thanks for pointing it out.

There are probably many more trivial mistakes- I was in a hurry to get
/something/ working, and didn't have a chance to clean up the code.

-- Ram