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authorLibravatar Jeff King <peff@peff.net>2013-09-08 04:33:08 -0400
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2013-09-09 11:04:29 -0700
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config: properly range-check integer values
When we look at a config value as an integer using the git_config_int function, we carefully range-check the value we get and complain if it is out of our range. But the range we compare to is that of a "long", which we then cast to an "int" in the function's return value. This means that on systems where "int" and "long" have different sizes (e.g., LP64 systems), we may pass the range check, but then return nonsense by truncating the value as we cast it to an int. We can solve this by converting git_parse_long into git_parse_int, and range-checking the "int" range. Nobody actually cared that we used a "long" internally, since the result was truncated anyway. And the only other caller of git_parse_long is git_config_maybe_bool, which should be fine to just use int (though we will now forbid out-of-range nonsense like setting "merge.ff" to "10g" to mean "true", which is probably a good thing). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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