Re: [PATCH] Avoid infinite loop in malformed packfiles

> In packfile.c:1680, there's an infinite loop that tries to get
> to the base of a packfile. With offset deltas, the offset needs
> to be greater than 0, so it's always walking backwards, and the
> search is guaranteed to terminate.
> 
> With reference deltas, there's no check for a cycle in the
> references, so a cyclic reference will cause git to loop
> infinitely, growing the delta_stack infinitely, which will
> cause it to consume all available memory as as a full CPU
> core.
> 
> This change puts an arbitrary limit of 10,000 on the number
> of iterations we make when chasing down a base commit, to
> prevent looping forever, using all available memory growing
> the delta stack.