From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:46:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix segfault in diff-delta.c when FLEX_ARRAY is 1
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999999.0712180941250.8467@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vwsrc1idm.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:
> 
> > But there's a few that aren't obviously allocations (this is a list done 
> > with grep and sparse, I didn't look at whether the values used are then 
> > all allocation-related):
> >
> >  - diff-delta.c:250        memsize = sizeof(*index)
> 
> I haven't studied this codepath.

Harmless overallocation.  Nothing to worry about.


Nicolas