Subject: [PATCH v2 6/7] pack-objects: do not truncate result in-pack object size on 32-bit systems

From: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 17:44:03 +0200

A typical diff will not show what's going on and you need to see full
functions. The core code is like this, at the end of of write_one()

	e->idx.offset = *offset;
	size = write_object(f, e, *offset);
	if (!size) {
		e->idx.offset = recursing;
		return WRITE_ONE_BREAK;
	}
	written_list[nr_written++] = &e->idx;

	/* make sure off_t is sufficiently large not to wrap */
	if (signed_add_overflows(*offset, size))
		die("pack too large for current definition of off_t");
	*offset += size;

Here we can see that the in-pack object size is returned by
write_object (or indirectly by write_reuse_object). And it's used to
calculate object offsets, which end up in the pack index file,
generated at the end.

If "size" overflows (on 32-bit sytems, unsigned long is 32-bit while
off_t can be 64-bit), we got wrong offsets and produce incorrect .idx
file, which may make it look like the .pack file is corrupted.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <[email-masked]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
---
 builtin/pack-objects.c | 15 ++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/pack-objects.c b/builtin/pack-objects.c
index a3a98c5..ac7a3a5 100644
--- a/builtin/pack-objects.c
+++ b/builtin/pack-objects.c
@@ -341,8 +341,8 @@ static unsigned long write_no_reuse_object(struct sha1file *f, struct object_ent
 }
 
 /* Return 0 if we will bust the pack-size limit */
-static unsigned long write_reuse_object(struct sha1file *f, struct object_entry *entry,
-					unsigned long limit, int usable_delta)
+static off_t write_reuse_object(struct sha1file *f, struct object_entry *entry,
+				unsigned long limit, int usable_delta)
 {
 	struct packed_git *p = entry->in_pack;
 	struct pack_window *w_curs = NULL;
@@ -415,11 +415,12 @@ static unsigned long write_reuse_object(struct sha1file *f, struct object_entry
 }
 
 /* Return 0 if we will bust the pack-size limit */
-static unsigned long write_object(struct sha1file *f,
-				  struct object_entry *entry,
-				  off_t write_offset)
+static off_t write_object(struct sha1file *f,
+			  struct object_entry *entry,
+			  off_t write_offset)
 {
-	unsigned long limit, len;
+	unsigned long limit;
+	off_t len;
 	int usable_delta, to_reuse;
 
 	if (!pack_to_stdout)
@@ -491,7 +492,7 @@ static enum write_one_status write_one(struct sha1file *f,
 				       struct object_entry *e,
 				       off_t *offset)
 {
-	unsigned long size;
+	off_t size;
 	int recursing;
 
 	/*
-- 
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