read_pack_header: handle signed/unsigned comparison in read result

The result of read_in_full() may be -1 if we saw an error.
But in comparing it to a sizeof() result, that "-1" will be
promoted to size_t. In fact, the largest possible size_t
which is much bigger than our struct size. This means that
our "< sizeof(header)" error check won't trigger.

In practice, we'd go on to read uninitialized memory and
compare it to the PACK signature, which is likely to fail.
But we shouldn't get there.

We can fix this by making a direct "!=" comparison to the
requested size, rather than "<". This means that errors get
lumped in with short reads, but that's sufficient for our
purposes here. There's no PH_ERROR tp represent our case.
And anyway, this function reads from pipes and network
sockets. A network error may racily appear as EOF to us
anyway if there's data left in the socket buffers.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c
index 4fa4b18..20a9d39 100644 (file)
--- a/sha1_file.c
+++ b/sha1_file.c
@@ -3722,7 +3722,7 @@ int index_path(unsigned char *sha1, const char *path, struct stat *st, unsigned
 
 int read_pack_header(int fd, struct pack_header *header)
 {
-       if (read_in_full(fd, header, sizeof(*header)) < sizeof(*header))
+       if (read_in_full(fd, header, sizeof(*header)) != sizeof(*header))
                /* "eof before pack header was fully read" */
                return PH_ERROR_EOF;