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author | Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> | 2017-10-08 14:29:37 -0400 |
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committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-10-10 08:57:24 +0900 |
commit | 19716b21a4255ecc7148b54ab2c78039c59f25bf (patch) | |
tree | 5f1cecbffc543c64e7c4c4f371d204424e1ce1bb /packfile.c | |
parent | 217f2767cbcb562872437eed4dec62e00846d90c (diff) | |
download | git-19716b21a4255ecc7148b54ab2c78039c59f25bf.tar.gz |
cleanup: fix possible overflow errors in binary searchds/avoid-overflow-in-midpoint-computation
A common mistake when writing binary search is to allow possible
integer overflow by using the simple average:
mid = (min + max) / 2;
Instead, use the overflow-safe version:
mid = min + (max - min) / 2;
This translation is safe since the operation occurs inside a loop
conditioned on "min < max". The included changes were found using
the following git grep:
git grep '/ *2;' '*.c'
Making this cleanup will prevent future review friction when a new
binary search is contructed based on existing code.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'packfile.c')
-rw-r--r-- | packfile.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/packfile.c b/packfile.c index eab7542487..4a5fe7ab18 100644 --- a/packfile.c +++ b/packfile.c @@ -1743,7 +1743,7 @@ off_t find_pack_entry_one(const unsigned char *sha1, sha1[0], sha1[1], sha1[2], lo, hi, p->num_objects); while (lo < hi) { - unsigned mi = (lo + hi) / 2; + unsigned mi = lo + (hi - lo) / 2; int cmp = hashcmp(index + mi * stride, sha1); if (debug_lookup) |