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2018-08-30test-delta: read input into a heap bufferLibravatar Jeff King1-4/+4
We currently read the input to test-delta by mmap()-ing it. However, memory-checking tools like valgrind and ASan are less able to detect reads/writes past the end of an mmap'd buffer, because the OS is likely to give us extra bytes to pad out the final page size. So instead, let's read into a heap buffer. As a bonus, this also makes it possible to write tests with empty bases, as mmap() will complain about a zero-length map. This is based on a patch by Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> which actually aligned the data at the end of a page, and followed it with another page marked with mprotect(). That would detect problems even without a tool like ASan, but it was significantly more complex and may have introduced portability problems. By comparison, this approach pushes the complexity onto existing memory-checking tools. Note that this could be done even more simply by using strbuf_read_file(), but that would defeat the purpose: strbufs generally overallocate (and at the very least include a trailing NUL which we do not care about), which would defeat most memory checkers. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-03-27t/helper: merge (unused) test-delta into test-toolLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-2/+3
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-14avoid "write_in_full(fd, buf, len) != len" patternLibravatar Jeff King1-1/+1
The return value of write_in_full() is either "-1", or the requested number of bytes[1]. If we make a partial write before seeing an error, we still return -1, not a partial value. This goes back to f6aa66cb95 (write_in_full: really write in full or return error on disk full., 2007-01-11). So checking anything except "was the return value negative" is pointless. And there are a couple of reasons not to do so: 1. It can do a funny signed/unsigned comparison. If your "len" is signed (e.g., a size_t) then the compiler will promote the "-1" to its unsigned variant. This works out for "!= len" (unless you really were trying to write the maximum size_t bytes), but is a bug if you check "< len" (an example of which was fixed recently in config.c). We should avoid promoting the mental model that you need to check the length at all, so that new sites are not tempted to copy us. 2. Checking for a negative value is shorter to type, especially when the length is an expression. 3. Linus says so. In d34cf19b89 (Clean up write_in_full() users, 2007-01-11), right after the write_in_full() semantics were changed, he wrote: I really wish every "write_in_full()" user would just check against "<0" now, but this fixes the nasty and stupid ones. Appeals to authority aside, this makes it clear that writing it this way does not have an intentional benefit. It's a historical curiosity that we never bothered to clean up (and which was undoubtedly cargo-culted into new sites). So let's convert these obviously-correct cases (this includes write_str_in_full(), which is just a wrapper for write_in_full()). [1] A careful reader may notice there is one way that write_in_full() can return a different value. If we ask write() to write N bytes and get a return value that is _larger_ than N, we could return a larger total. But besides the fact that this would imply a totally broken version of write(), it would already invoke undefined behavior. Our internal remaining counter is an unsigned size_t, which means that subtracting too many byte will wrap it around to a very large number. So we'll instantly begin reading off the end of the buffer, trying to write gigabytes (or petabytes) of data. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-06Merge branch 'jk/common-main-2.8' into jk/common-mainLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
* jk/common-main-2.8: mingw: declare main()'s argv as const common-main: call git_setup_gettext() common-main: call restore_sigpipe_to_default() common-main: call sanitize_stdfds() common-main: call git_extract_argv0_path() add an extra level of indirection to main()
2016-04-15test helpers: move test-* to t/helper/ subdirectoryLibravatar Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy1-0/+78
This keeps top dir a bit less crowded. And because these programs are for testing purposes, it makes sense that they stay somewhere in t/ Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>