From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 27 May 2018 05:02:05 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] packfile: Correct zlib buffer handling
Message-ID: <CACsJy8CNmDkxzhkdfwjVHjGF4JeUzzPHGnp1x647NxU-GxkxvA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqq8t86m0m3.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 1:57 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 12:56 AM, Jeremy Linton <lintonrjeremy@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> @@ -1416,7 +1416,7 @@ static void *unpack_compressed_entry(struct packed_git *p,
>>>                 return NULL;
>>>         memset(&stream, 0, sizeof(stream));
>>>         stream.next_out = buffer;
>>> -       stream.avail_out = size + 1;
>>> +       stream.avail_out = size;
>>
>> You may want to include in your commit message a reference to
>> 39eea7bdd9 (Fix incorrect error check while reading deflated pack data
>> - 2009-10-21) which adds this plus one with a fascinating story
>> behind.
>
> A bit puzzled---are you saying that this recent patch breaks the old
> fix and must be done in some other way?

No. I actually wanted to answer that question when I tried to track
down the commit that adds " + 1" but I did not spend enough time to
understand the old problem. I guess your puzzle means you didn't think
it would break anything, which is good.
-- 
Duy