From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] xdiff: introduce memory allocation macros
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 12:46:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <220630.86h742e81q.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <pull.1272.git.1656516334.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
On Wed, Jun 29 2022, Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget wrote:
> This patch series introduces macros for allocating and growing arrays in
> xdiff. The macros are similar to ALLOC_ARRAY()/ALLOC_GROW() from the rest of
> the code base but return an error on failure to allow libgit2 to handle
> memory allocation failures gracefully rather than dying. The macros
> introduce overflow checks but these checks are currently redundant as we
> limit the maximum file size passed to xdiff and these checks alone are
> insufficient to safely remove the size limit. The aim of this series is to
> make the xdiff code more readable, there should be no change in behavior (as
> such I'm open to the argument that these are just churn and should be
> dropped).
I think it's a good direction, but why not make such new macros
non-XDL_* specific, add them to git-compat-util.h, and then define our
existing macros that call xmalloc() now in terms of these new macros?
I realize that it'll take a bit more careful hacking in wrapper.c and
git-compat-util.h, but it would allow us to eventually make some other
low-level APIs of ours use such an API.
E.g. we have some hand-rolled replacements for "struct strbuf" in at
least a couple of places (e.g. vreportf() in usage.c). If you pull on
that thread you'll see that it's for no reason other than strbuf.c calls
ALLOC_GROW(), which we'll die() in, and we don't want to die on malloc
failure in e.g. BUG().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-30 10:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-29 15:25 [PATCH 0/3] xdiff: introduce memory allocation macros Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget
2022-06-29 15:25 ` [PATCH 1/3] xdiff: introduce XDL_ALLOC_ARRAY() Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget
2022-06-29 15:25 ` [PATCH 2/3] xdiff: introduce XDL_CALLOC_ARRAY() Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget
2022-06-30 18:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-07-06 13:17 ` Phillip Wood
2022-06-29 15:25 ` [PATCH 3/3] xdiff: introduce XDL_ALLOC_GROW() Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget
2022-06-30 10:54 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-06-30 12:03 ` Phillip Wood
2022-06-30 12:38 ` Phillip Wood
2022-06-30 13:25 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-06 13:23 ` Phillip Wood
2022-07-07 11:17 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-08 9:35 ` Phillip Wood
2022-07-08 14:20 ` [PATCH 0/7] xdiff: use standard alloc macros, share them via git-shared-util.h Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-08 14:20 ` [PATCH 1/7] xdiff: simplify freeing patterns around xdl_free_env() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-08 14:20 ` [PATCH 2/7] git-shared-util.h: move "shared" allocation utilities here Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-08 14:20 ` [PATCH 3/7] git-shared-util.h: add G*() versions of *ALLOC_*() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-11 10:06 ` Phillip Wood
2022-07-08 14:20 ` [PATCH 4/7] xdiff: use G[C]ALLOC_ARRAY(), not XDL_CALLOC_ARRAY() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-11 10:10 ` Phillip Wood
2022-07-08 14:20 ` [PATCH 5/7] xdiff: use GALLOC_GROW(), not XDL_ALLOC_GROW() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-11 10:13 ` Phillip Wood
2022-07-11 10:48 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-13 9:09 ` Phillip Wood
2022-07-13 10:48 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-13 13:21 ` Phillip Wood
2022-07-08 14:20 ` [PATCH 6/7] xdiff: remove xdl_malloc() wrapper, use malloc(), not xmalloc() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-08 17:42 ` Phillip Wood
2022-07-08 21:44 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-08 19:35 ` Jeff King
2022-07-08 21:47 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-11 9:33 ` Jeff King
2022-07-08 14:20 ` [PATCH 7/7] xdiff: remove xdl_free(), use free() instead Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-08 17:51 ` Phillip Wood
2022-07-08 21:26 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-11 9:26 ` Phillip Wood
2022-07-11 9:54 ` Phillip Wood
2022-07-11 10:02 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-13 13:00 ` Phillip Wood
2022-07-13 13:18 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-06-30 18:32 ` [PATCH 3/3] xdiff: introduce XDL_ALLOC_GROW() Junio C Hamano
2022-07-06 13:14 ` Phillip Wood
2022-06-30 10:46 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2022-07-08 16:25 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] xdiff: introduce memory allocation macros Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget
2022-07-08 16:25 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] xdiff: introduce XDL_ALLOC_ARRAY() Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget
2022-07-08 16:25 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] xdiff: introduce xdl_calloc Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget
2022-07-08 16:25 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] xdiff: introduce XDL_CALLOC_ARRAY() Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget
2022-07-08 16:25 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] xdiff: introduce XDL_ALLOC_GROW() Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget
2022-07-08 22:17 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-11 10:00 ` Phillip Wood
2022-07-12 7:19 ` Jeff King
2022-07-13 9:38 ` Phillip Wood
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