On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 03:29:26PM +0200, Lars Schneider wrote:
>
> > On 10 Aug 2016, at 15:15, Jeff King <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 03:03:59PM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
> >
> >> From: Lars Schneider <[email protected]>
> >>
> >> format_packet() dies if the caller wants to format a packet larger than
> >> LARGE_PACKET_MAX. Certain callers might prefer an error response instead.
> >
> > I am not sure I agree here. Certainly I see the usefulness of gently
> > handling a failure to write(). But if you are passing in too-large
> > buffers, isn't that a bug in the program?
> >
> > How would you recover, except by splitting up the content? That might
> > not be possible depending on how you are using the pkt-lines. And even
> > if it is, wouldn't it be simpler to split it up before sending it to
> > format_packet()?
>
> Good argument. I agree - this patch should be dropped.
Actually, after reading further, one thought did occur to me. Let's say
you are writing to a smudge filter, and one of the header packets you
send has the filename in it. So you might do something like:
if (packet_write_fmt_gently(fd, "filename=%s", filename) < 0) {
if (filter_required)
die(...);
else
return -1; /* we tried our best; skip smudge */
}
The "recovery" there is not to try sending again, but rather to give up.
And that is presumably a sane outcome for somebody who tries to checkout
a filename larger than 64K.
It does still feel a little weird that you cannot tell the difference
between a write() error and bad input. Because you really might want to
do something different between the two. Like:
#define MAX_FILENAME (PKTLINE_DATA_MAXLEN - strlen("filename"))
if (filename > MAX_FILENAME) {
warning("woah, that name is ridiculous; truncating");
ret = packet_write_fmt_gently(fd, "%.*s", MAX_FILENAME, filename);
} else
ret = packet_write_fmt_gently(fd, "%s", filename);
-Peff
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