Re: [PATCH 0/9] reducing memory allocations for v2 servers

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 15, 2021, 00:25 UTC
Message-ID: <871r5qof8k.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <YUC/6n1hhUbMJiLw@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Sep 14 2021, Jeff King wrote:

> While looking at [1], I noticed that v2 servers will read a few bits of
> client input into strvecs. Even though we expect these to be small-ish,
> there's nothing preventing a client from sending us a bunch of junk and
> wasting memory.

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> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/YT54CNYgtGcqexwq@coredump.intra.peff.net/

When I first read this I expected it to be a link to https://lore.kernel.org/git/YPCsDLoiiAG%2FC%2Fft@coredump.intra.peff.net/; i.e. that the object-info leak discussion back in July had encouraged you to work on this ... :)

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