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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff•net>
Cc: Bernhard Posselt <mail@bernhard-posselt•com>, git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Memory corruption when rebasing with git version 1.8.1.5 on arch
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:02:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vobefjs26.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130319134452.GA6752@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:44:52 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff•net> writes:

> and so on. I haven't quite figured out what is going on. It looks like
> we call update_pre_post_images with postlen==0, which causes it to just
> write the fixed postimage into the existing buffer. But of course the
> fixed version is bigger, because we are expanding the tabs into 8
> spaces (but it _doesn't_ break if each line starts with only one tab,
> which confuses me).

I used to be intimately familiar with the update_pre_post_images()
function, but the version after 86c91f91794c (git apply: option to
ignore whitespace differences, 2009-08-04), I won't vouch for it
doing anything sensible.  We recently had to do 5de7166d46d2
(apply.c:update_pre_post_images(): the preimage can be truncated,
2012-10-12) to fix one of its corner cases but I would not be
surprised if there are other cases the function gets it all wrong.

I'd come back to the topic after I finish other tasks on my plate,
so if somebody is inclined please go ahead digging this a bit
further; I won't have much head start to begin with in this code
X-<.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-19 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-08 12:19 Memory corruption when rebasing with git version 1.8.1.5 on arch Bernhard Posselt
2013-03-08 21:28 ` Jeff King
2013-03-09  0:08   ` Bernhard Posselt
2013-03-09  4:48     ` Jeff King
2013-03-09 10:54       ` Bernhard Posselt
2013-03-10  7:05         ` Jeff King
2013-03-10 11:04           ` Bernhard Posselt
2013-03-10 11:45           ` Bernhard Posselt
2013-03-11  5:18             ` Jeff King
2013-03-19 10:42               ` Bernhard Posselt
2013-03-19 13:44                 ` Jeff King
2013-03-19 16:02                   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2013-03-22 18:08                     ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-22 21:24                       ` Jeff King

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