From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:04:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fsck: do not crash on tag objects which do not contain an empty line
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.99.0706072158160.12885@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <200706080128.48637.johan@herland.net>

On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Johan Herland wrote:

> I agree that we should fail gracefully, and my code is clearly not doing 
> that in this case. My bad.
> 
> But the code should also detect invalid tag objects, and in this case I'm 
> not yet convinced that the tag object causing the failure is in fact valid. 
> If someone can convince me that the blank line after headers is optional, 
> then I'll gladly fix the code.

That's irrelevant.

Because you are fed invalid data is no excuse for crashing.

Especially in a tool like fsck, you should _expect_ and cope with 
invalid data. That's why it exists in the first place: to identify such
data.


Nicolas