[PATCH v3] http.postbuffer: allow full range of ssize_t values

[David Turner <dturner@twosigma.com>]

Unfortunately, in order to push some large repos, the http postbuffer
must sometimes exceed two gigabytes.  On a 64-bit system, this is OK:
we just malloc a larger buffer.

Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twosigma.com>
---

This version fixes the definition of git_parse_ssize_t to return int.

Sorry for the sloppiness.

 cache.h  |  1 +
 config.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 http.c   |  4 ++--
 http.h   |  2 +-
 4 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index fbdf7a815a..5e6747dbb4 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -1900,6 +1900,7 @@ extern int git_parse_maybe_bool(const char *);
 extern int git_config_int(const char *, const char *);
 extern int64_t git_config_int64(const char *, const char *);
 extern unsigned long git_config_ulong(const char *, const char *);
+extern ssize_t git_config_ssize_t(const char *, const char *);
 extern int git_config_bool_or_int(const char *, const char *, int *);
 extern int git_config_bool(const char *, const char *);
 extern int git_config_maybe_bool(const char *, const char *);
diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index 1a4d85537b..de5b155a4e 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -834,6 +834,15 @@ int git_parse_ulong(const char *value, unsigned long *ret)
 	return 1;
 }
 
+static int git_parse_ssize_t(const char *value, ssize_t *ret)
+{
+	ssize_t tmp;
+	if (!git_parse_signed(value, &tmp, maximum_signed_value_of_type(ssize_t)))
+		return 0;
+	*ret = tmp;
+	return 1;
+}
+
 NORETURN
 static void die_bad_number(const char *name, const char *value)
 {
@@ -892,6 +901,14 @@ unsigned long git_config_ulong(const char *name, const char *value)
 	return ret;
 }
 
+ssize_t git_config_ssize_t(const char *name, const char *value)
+{
+	ssize_t ret;
+	if (!git_parse_ssize_t(value, &ret))
+		die_bad_number(name, value);
+	return ret;
+}
+
 int git_parse_maybe_bool(const char *value)
 {
 	if (!value)
diff --git a/http.c b/http.c
index 96d84bbed3..22f8167ba2 100644
--- a/http.c
+++ b/http.c
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ long int git_curl_ipresolve;
 #endif
 int active_requests;
 int http_is_verbose;
-size_t http_post_buffer = 16 * LARGE_PACKET_MAX;
+ssize_t http_post_buffer = 16 * LARGE_PACKET_MAX;
 
 #if LIBCURL_VERSION_NUM >= 0x070a06
 #define LIBCURL_CAN_HANDLE_AUTH_ANY
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ static int http_options(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
 	}
 
 	if (!strcmp("http.postbuffer", var)) {
-		http_post_buffer = git_config_int(var, value);
+		http_post_buffer = git_config_ssize_t(var, value);
 		if (http_post_buffer < LARGE_PACKET_MAX)
 			http_post_buffer = LARGE_PACKET_MAX;
 		return 0;
diff --git a/http.h b/http.h
index 02bccb7b0c..f7bd3b26b0 100644
--- a/http.h
+++ b/http.h
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ extern struct curl_slist *http_copy_default_headers(void);
 extern long int git_curl_ipresolve;
 extern int active_requests;
 extern int http_is_verbose;
-extern size_t http_post_buffer;
+extern ssize_t http_post_buffer;
 extern struct credential http_auth;
 
 extern char curl_errorstr[CURL_ERROR_SIZE];
-- 
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