Re: [PATCH] packfile: avoid overflowing shift during decode

> On 11/11/2021 02:58, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> writes:
>> 
>>> diff --git a/packfile.c b/packfile.c
>>> index 89402cfc69..972c327e29 100644
>>> --- a/packfile.c
>>> +++ b/packfile.c
>>> @@ -1068,7 +1068,7 @@ unsigned long unpack_object_header_buffer(const unsigned char *buf,
>>>   	size = c & 15;
>>>   	shift = 4;
>>>   	while (c & 0x80) {
>>> -		if (len <= used || bitsizeof(long) <= shift) {
>>> +		if (len <= used || (bitsizeof(long) - 7) <= shift) {
>
> This seems to cause troubles now for 32-bit systems (in my case Git
> for Windows 32-Bit): `shift` will go through 4, 11, 18 and for 25 it
> finally errors out. This means that objects >= 32MB can't be processed
> anymore. The condition should probably be changed to:
>
> +		if (len <= used || (bitsizeof(long) - 7) < shift) {
>
> This still ensures that the shift can never overflow and on 32-bit
> systems restores the maximum size of 4G with a final shift of 127<<25 
> (the old condition `bitsizeof(long) <= shift` was perfectly valid for
> 32-bit systems).