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Re: [PATCH/RFC v2 01/16] Modify cache_header to prepare for other index formats

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 7, 2012, 15:45 UTC
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<20120807124105.GA913@tgummerer>
Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com> writes:
> This part is called even before we know what version of the index
> we will read, and before the file is mmaped.  The best solution
> i think is to drop the check and just call verify_hdr, ...

Exactly. And do the length checking inside verify_hdr() or its callee where we know what the minimum length is depending on the version as necessary to avoid over-reading.

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  1. 0/16 Introduce index file format version 5Thomas Gummerer, Aug 5, 2012
  2. 01/16 Modify cache_header to prepare for other index formatsThomas Gummerer, Aug 5, 2012
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 6, 2012
  4. Thomas GummererAug 7, 2012
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 7, 2012
  6. 02/16 Modify read functions to prepare for other index formatsThomas Gummerer, Aug 5, 2012
  7. 03/16 Modify match_stat_basic to prepare for other index formatsThomas Gummerer, Aug 5, 2012
  8. 04/16 Modify write functions to prepare for other index formatsThomas Gummerer, Aug 5, 2012
  9. Junio C HamanoAug 6, 2012
  10. Thomas GummererAug 7, 2012
  11. 05/16 t2104: Don't fail for index versions other than [23]Thomas Gummerer, Aug 5, 2012
  12. Junio C HamanoAug 6, 2012
  13. 06/16 t3700: sleep for 1 second, to avoid interfering with the racy codeThomas Gummerer, Aug 5, 2012
  14. Junio C HamanoAug 6, 2012
  15. Thomas GummererAug 7, 2012
  16. Junio C HamanoAug 8, 2012
  17. Junio C HamanoAug 8, 2012
  18. Thomas GummererAug 9, 2012
  19. Junio C HamanoAug 9, 2012
  20. Thomas GummererAug 9, 2012
  21. 07/16 Add documentation of the index-v5 file formatThomas Gummerer, Aug 5, 2012
  22. 08/16 Make in-memory format aware of stat_crcThomas Gummerer, Aug 5, 2012
  23. Junio C HamanoAug 6, 2012
  24. Thomas GummererAug 7, 2012
  25. 09/16 Read index-v5Thomas Gummerer, Aug 5, 2012
  26. Junio C HamanoAug 6, 2012
  27. Thomas GummererAug 8, 2012
  28. Junio C HamanoAug 8, 2012
  29. Thomas GummererAug 8, 2012
  30. Junio C HamanoAug 8, 2012
  31. 10/16 Read resolve-undo dataThomas Gummerer, Aug 5, 2012
  32. Junio C HamanoAug 6, 2012
  33. Thomas GummererAug 7, 2012
  34. 11/16 Read cache-tree in index-v5Thomas Gummerer, Aug 5, 2012
  35. 12/16 Write index-v5Thomas Gummerer, Aug 5, 2012
  36. 13/16 Write index-v5 cache-tree dataThomas Gummerer, Aug 5, 2012
  37. 14/16 Write resolve-undo data for index-v5Thomas Gummerer, Aug 5, 2012
  38. 15/16 update-index.c: add a force-rewrite optionThomas Gummerer, Aug 5, 2012
  39. Junio C HamanoAug 6, 2012
  40. Thomas GummererAug 8, 2012
  41. 16/16 p0002-index.sh: add perf test for the index formatsThomas Gummerer, Aug 5, 2012
  42. Nguyễn Thái Ngọc DuyAug 6, 2012
  43. 1/2 Move index v2 specific code out of read-cacheNguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 6, 2012
  44. 2/2 Add index-v5Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy, Aug 6, 2012
  45. Robin RosenbergAug 7, 2012
  46. Thomas GummererAug 8, 2012
  47. Junio C HamanoAug 6, 2012
  48. Thomas GummererAug 6, 2012
  49. Junio C HamanoAug 6, 2012
  50. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 7, 2012
  51. Junio C HamanoAug 8, 2012
  52. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 8, 2012
  53. Junio C HamanoAug 8, 2012
  54. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 9, 2012
  55. Thomas RastAug 7, 2012
  56. Junio C HamanoAug 7, 2012
  57. Thomas RastAug 8, 2012
  58. Junio C HamanoAug 8, 2012
  59. Nguyen Thai Ngoc DuyAug 8, 2012

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