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[PATCH] pack-bitmap: Don't perform unaligned memory access

From
James Clarke <jrtc27@jrtc27.com>
Date
Jun 26, 2017, 15:16 UTC
Message-ID
<20170626151612.64019-1-jrtc27@jrtc27.com>

The preceding bitmap entries have a 1-byte XOR-offset and 1-byte flags, so their size is not a multiple of 4. Thus the name-hash cache is only guaranteed to be 2-byte aligned and so we must use get_be32 rather than indexing the array directly.

Signed-off-by: James Clarke <jrtc27@jrtc27.com>
---

This was noticed thanks to the recent tests added to t5310-pack-bitmaps.sh, which were crashing with SIGBUS on Debian sparc64. All tests (excluding those marked with known breakage) now pass again.

 pack-bitmap.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/pack-bitmap.c b/pack-bitmap.c
index a3ac3dccd..327634cd7 100644
--- a/pack-bitmap.c
+++ b/pack-bitmap.c
@@ -627,7 +627,7 @@ static void show_objects_for_type(
 			sha1 = nth_packed_object_sha1(bitmap_git.pack, entry->nr);

 			if (bitmap_git.hashes)
-				hash = ntohl(bitmap_git.hashes[entry->nr]);
+				hash = get_be32(bitmap_git.hashes + entry->nr);

 			show_reach(sha1, object_type, 0, hash, bitmap_git.pack, entry->offset);
 		}
--
2.13.2
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  3. Jonathan NiederJun 27, 2017

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