From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 07:50:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tree-walk: disallow overflowing modes
Message-ID: <Y8zquGar3rLyRdTp@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <d673fde7-7eb2-6306-86b6-1c1a4c988ee8@web.de>

On Sat, Jan 21, 2023 at 10:36:09AM +0100, René Scharfe wrote:

> When parsing tree entries, reject mode values that don't fit into an
> unsigned int.

Seems reasonable. I don't think you can cause any interesting mischief
here, but it's cheap to check, and finding data problems earlier rather
than later is always good.

Should it be s/unsigned int/uint16_t/, though?

-Peff