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Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Improve tag checking in fsck and with transfer.fsckobjects

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Sep 10, 2014, 13:58 UTC
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Hi Junio,
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> Still unaddressed:
> 
> - getting rid of struct object altogether in fsck (I felt this was quite a big
>   task, getting much more familiar with the non-tag code paths, and I did not
>   want to delay this patch series up any further)
> 
> - ensuring that index-pack passes only NUL-terminated buffers to fsck (again,
>   I am not familiar enough with the code, and IIRC the problematic unit test
>   that revealed that these buffers are not always NUL-terminated exercised the
>   unpack-objects code path, not index-pack, again nothing I wanted to let
>   delay this patch series any further).

To clarify: I am planning to address these issues later this year, but consider them not critical enough to finish the fsck-tag patch series.

Please let me know if you disagree.

Ciao, Dscho

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Message 25 of 68 in “Improve tag checking in fsck and with transfer.fsckobjects”
  1. 0/6 Improve tag checking in fsck and with transfer.fsckobjectsJohannes Schindelin, Aug 28, 2014
  2. 1/6 Refactor type_from_string() to avoid die()ing in case of errorsJohannes Schindelin, Aug 28, 2014
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 28, 2014
  4. 2/6 Accept object data in the fsck_object() functionJohannes Schindelin, Aug 28, 2014
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 28, 2014
  6. Jeff KingAug 29, 2014
  7. Jeff KingAug 29, 2014
  8. 3/6 Make sure fsck_commit_buffer() does not run out of the bufferJohannes Schindelin, Aug 28, 2014
  9. Junio C HamanoAug 28, 2014
  10. Jeff KingAug 29, 2014
  11. 4/6 fsck: check tag objects' headersJohannes Schindelin, Aug 28, 2014
  12. Junio C HamanoAug 28, 2014
  13. Junio C HamanoAug 28, 2014
  14. Jeff KingAug 29, 2014
  15. Junio C HamanoAug 31, 2014
  16. Jeff KingSep 3, 2014
  17. Junio C HamanoSep 3, 2014
  18. Jeff KingSep 4, 2014
  19. Jeff KingAug 29, 2014
  20. Junio C HamanoSep 2, 2014
  21. Jeff KingSep 3, 2014
  22. 5/6 Add regression tests for stricter tag fsck'ingJohannes Schindelin, Aug 28, 2014
  23. 6/6 Make sure that index-pack --strict fails upon invalid tag objectsJohannes Schindelin, Aug 28, 2014
  24. 0/6 Improve tag checking in fsck and with transfer.fsckobjectsJohannes Schindelin, Sep 10, 2014
  25. Johannes SchindelinSep 10, 2014
  26. Junio C HamanoSep 10, 2014
  27. Junio C HamanoSep 10, 2014
  28. Johannes SchindelinSep 11, 2014
  29. 0/6 Improve tag checking in fsck and with transfer.fsckobjectsJohannes Schindelin, Sep 11, 2014
  30. 1/6 Refactor type_from_string() to avoid die()ing in case of errorsJohannes Schindelin, Sep 11, 2014
  31. 2/6 Accept object data in the fsck_object() functionJohannes Schindelin, Sep 11, 2014
  32. 3/6 Make sure fsck_commit_buffer() does not run out of the bufferJohannes Schindelin, Sep 11, 2014
  33. 4/6 fsck: check tag objects' headersJohannes Schindelin, Sep 11, 2014
  34. 5/6 Add regression tests for stricter tag fsck'ingJohannes Schindelin, Sep 11, 2014
  35. 6/6 Make sure that index-pack --strict checks tag objectsJohannes Schindelin, Sep 11, 2014
  36. Junio C HamanoSep 11, 2014
  37. Junio C HamanoSep 11, 2014
  38. 0/3 hash-object --literallyJunio C Hamano, Sep 11, 2014
  39. 1/3 hash-object: reduce file-scope staticsJunio C Hamano, Sep 11, 2014
  40. 2/3 hash-object: pass 'write_object' as a flagJunio C Hamano, Sep 11, 2014
  41. 3/3 hash-object: add --literally optionJunio C Hamano, Sep 11, 2014
  42. Johannes SchindelinSep 12, 2014
  43. 0/6 Improve tag checking in fsck and with transfer.fsckobjectsJohannes Schindelin, Sep 12, 2014
  44. 1/6 Refactor type_from_string() to avoid die()ing in case of errorsJohannes Schindelin, Sep 12, 2014
  45. 2/6 Accept object data in the fsck_object() functionJohannes Schindelin, Sep 12, 2014
  46. 3/6 Make sure fsck_commit_buffer() does not run out of the bufferJohannes Schindelin, Sep 12, 2014
  47. 4/6 fsck: check tag objects' headersJohannes Schindelin, Sep 12, 2014
  48. 5/6 Add regression tests for stricter tag fsck'ingJohannes Schindelin, Sep 12, 2014
  49. 6/6 Make sure that index-pack --strict checks tag objectsJohannes Schindelin, Sep 12, 2014
  50. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2014
  51. Johannes SchindelinSep 13, 2014
  52. 1/6 Refactor type_from_string() to avoid die()ing in case of errorsJohannes Schindelin, Sep 10, 2014
  53. 2/6 Accept object data in the fsck_object() functionJohannes Schindelin, Sep 10, 2014
  54. 3/6 Make sure fsck_commit_buffer() does not run out of the bufferJohannes Schindelin, Sep 10, 2014
  55. Junio C HamanoSep 10, 2014
  56. Johannes SchindelinSep 11, 2014
  57. Junio C HamanoSep 11, 2014
  58. Eric SunshineSep 10, 2014
  59. 4/6 fsck: check tag objects' headersJohannes Schindelin, Sep 10, 2014
  60. Junio C HamanoSep 10, 2014
  61. 5/6 Add regression tests for stricter tag fsck'ingJohannes Schindelin, Sep 10, 2014
  62. Junio C HamanoSep 10, 2014
  63. Johannes SchindelinSep 11, 2014
  64. 6/6 Make sure that index-pack --strict fails upon invalid tag objectsJohannes Schindelin, Sep 10, 2014
  65. Junio C HamanoSep 10, 2014
  66. Johannes SchindelinSep 11, 2014
  67. Junio C HamanoSep 11, 2014
  68. Johannes SchindelinSep 11, 2014

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