When realloc(3) fails, it returns NULL and keeps the original allocation
intact. REFTABLE_ALLOC_GROW overwrites both the original pointer and
the allocation count variable in that case, simultaneously leaking the
original allocation and misrepresenting the number of storable items.
parse_names() avoids the leak by keeping the original pointer if
reallocation fails, but still increase the allocation count in such a
case as if it succeeded. That's OK, because the error handling code
just frees everything and doesn't look at names_cap anymore.
reftable_buf_add() does the same, but here it is a problem as it leaves
the reftable_buf in a broken state, with ->alloc being roughly twice as
big as the actually allocated memory, allowing out-of-bounds writes in
subsequent calls.
Reimplement REFTABLE_ALLOC_GROW to avoid leaks, keep allocation counts
in sync and still signal failures to callers while avoiding code
duplication in callers. Make it an expression that evaluates to 0 if no
reallocation is needed or it succeeded and 1 on failure while keeping
the original pointer and allocation counter values.
Adjust REFTABLE_ALLOC_GROW_OR_NULL to the new calling convention for
REFTABLE_ALLOC_GROW, but keep its support for non-size_t alloc variables
for now.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When realloc(3) fails, it returns NULL and keeps the original allocation
intact. REFTABLE_ALLOC_GROW overwrites both the original pointer and
the allocation count variable in that case, simultaneously leaking the
original allocation and misrepresenting the number of storable items.
parse_names() and reftable_buf_add() avoid leaking by restoring the
original pointer value on failure, but all other callers seem to be OK
with losing the old allocation. Add a new variant of the macro,
REFTABLE_ALLOC_GROW_OR_NULL, which plugs the leak and zeros the
allocation counter. Use it for those callers.
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We include "hash.h" in "reftable/system.h" such that we can use hash
format IDs as well as the raw size of SHA1 and SHA256. As we are in the
process of converting the reftable library to become standalone we of
course cannot rely on those constants anymore.
Introduce a new `enum reftable_hash` to replace internal uses of the
hash format IDs and new constants that replace internal uses of the hash
size. Adapt the reftable backend to set up the correct hash function.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The hash format IDs are used for two different things across the
reftable codebase:
- They are used as a 32 bit unsigned integer when reading and writing
the header in order to identify the hash function.
- They are used internally to identify which hash function is in use.
When one only considers the second usecase one might think that one can
easily change the representation of those hash IDs. But because those
IDs end up in the reftable header and footer on disk it is important
that those never change.
Create separate constants `REFTABLE_FORMAT_ID_*` and use them in
contexts where we read or write reftable headers. This serves multiple
purposes:
- It allows us to more easily discern cases where we actually use
those constants for the on-disk format.
- It detangles us from the same constants that are defined in
libgit.a, which is another required step to convert the reftable
library to become standalone.
- It makes the next step easier where we stop using `GIT_*_FORMAT_ID`
constants in favor of a custom enum.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Convert the reftable library to use the `reftable_buf` interface instead
of the `strbuf` interface. This is mostly a mechanical change via sed(1)
with some manual fixes where functions for `strbuf` and `reftable_buf`
differ. The converted code does not yet handle allocation failures. This
will be handled in subsequent commits.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Implement a new `reftable_buf` interface that will replace Git's own
`strbuf` interface. This is done due to three reasons:
- The `strbuf` interfaces do not handle memory allocation failures and
instead causes us to die. This is okay in the context of Git, but is
not in the context of the reftable library, which is supposed to be
usable by third-party applications.
- The `strbuf` interface is quite deeply tied into Git, which makes it
hard to use the reftable library as a standalone library. Any
dependent would have to carefully extract the relevant parts of it
to make things work, which is not all that sensible.
- The `strbuf` interface does not use the pluggable allocators that
can be set up via `reftable_set_alloc()`.
So we have good reasons to use our own type, and the implementation is
rather trivial. Implement our own type. Conversion of the reftable
library will be handled in subsequent commits.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
The reftable library uses pluggable allocators, which means that we
shouldn't ever use the standard allocator functions. But it is an easy
mistake to make to accidentally use e.g. free(3P) instead of the
reftable-specific `reftable_free()` function, and we do not have any
mechanism to detect this misuse right now.
Introduce a couple of macros that ban the standard allocators, similar
to how we do it in "banned.h".
Note that we do not ban the following two classes of functions:
- Macros like `FREE_AND_NULL()` or `REALLOC_ARRAY()`. As those expand
to code that contains already-banned functions we'd get a compiler
error even without banning those macros explicitly.
- Git-specific allocators like `xmalloc()` and friends. The primary
reason is that there are simply too many of them, so we're rather
aiming for best effort here. Furthermore, the eventual goal is to
make them unavailable in the reftable library place by not pulling
them in via "git-compat-utils.h" anymore.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We have several calls to `FREE_AND_NULL()` in the reftable library,
which of course uses free(3P). As the reftable allocators are pluggable
we should rather call the reftable specific function, which is
`reftable_free()`.
Introduce a new macro `REFTABLE_FREE_AND_NULL()` and adapt the callsites
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Handle allocation failures in `parse_names()` by returning `NULL` in
case any allocation fails. While at it, refactor the function to return
the array directly instead of assigning it to an out-pointer.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The reftable library provides the ability to swap out allocators. There
is a gap here though, because we continue to use `xstrdup()` even in the
case where all the other allocators have been swapped out.
Introduce `reftable_strdup()` that uses `reftable_malloc()` to do the
allocation.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The split between "basics" and "publicbasics" is somewhat arbitrary and
not in line with how we typically structure code in the reftable
library. While we do indeed split up headers into a public and internal
part, we don't do that for the compilation unit itself. Furthermore, the
declarations for "publicbasics.c" are in "reftable-malloc.h", which
isn't in line with our naming schema, either.
Fix these inconsistencies by:
- Merging "publicbasics.c" into "basics.c".
- Renaming "reftable-malloc.h" to "reftable-basics.h" as the public
header.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We're about to enable `-Wwrite-strings`, which changes the type of
string constants to `const char[]`. Fix various sites where we assign
such constants to non-const variables.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When doing the binary search over restart points in a block we need to
decode the record keys. This decoding step can result in an error when
the block is corrupted, which we indicate to the caller of the binary
search by setting `args.error = 1`. But the only caller that exists
mishandles this because it in fact performs the error check before
calling `binsearch()`.
Fix this bug by checking for errors at the right point in time.
Furthermore, refactor `binsearch()` so that it aborts the search in case
the callback function returns a negative value so that we don't
needlessly continue to search the block.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `binsearch()` function can be used to find the first element for
which a callback functions returns a truish value. But while the array
size is of type `size_t`, the function in fact returns an `int` that is
supposed to index into that array.
Fix the function signature to return a `size_t`. This conversion does
not change any semantics given that the function would only ever return
a value in the range `[0, sz]` anyway.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
While the stack length is already stored as `size_t`, we frequently use
`int`s to refer to those stacks throughout the reftable library. Convert
those cases to use `size_t` instead to make things consistent.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similar to the preceding commit, let's carry over macros to allocate
arrays with `REFTABLE_ALLOC_ARRAY()` and `REFTABLE_CALLOC_ARRAY()`. This
requires us to change the signature of `reftable_calloc()`, which only
takes a single argument right now and thus puts the burden on the caller
to calculate the final array's size. This is a net improvement though as
it means that we can now provide proper overflow checks when multiplying
the array size with the member size.
Convert callsites of `reftable_calloc()` to the new signature and start
using the new macros where possible.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Throughout the reftable library we have many cases where we need to grow
arrays. In order to avoid too many reallocations, we roughly double the
capacity of the array on each iteration. The resulting code pattern is
duplicated across many sites.
We have similar patterns in our main codebase, which is why we have
eventually introduced an `ALLOC_GROW()` macro to abstract it away and
avoid some code duplication. We cannot easily reuse this macro here
though because `ALLOC_GROW()` uses `REALLOC_ARRAY()`, which in turn will
call realloc(3P) to grow the array. The reftable code is structured as a
library though (even if the boundaries are fuzzy), and one property this
brings with it is that it is possible to plug in your own allocators. So
instead of using realloc(3P), we need to use `reftable_realloc()` that
knows to use the user-provided implementation.
So let's introduce two new macros `REFTABLE_REALLOC_ARRAY()` and
`REFTABLE_ALLOC_GROW()` that mirror what we do in our main codebase,
with two modifications:
- They use `reftable_realloc()`, as explained above.
- They use a different growth factor of `2 * cap + 1` instead of `(cap
+ 16) * 3 / 2`.
The second change is because we know a bit more about the allocation
patterns in the reftable library. In most cases, we end up only having a
handful of items in the array and don't end up growing them. The initial
capacity that our normal growth factor uses (which is 24) would thus end
up over-allocating in a lot of code paths. This effect is measurable:
- Before change:
HEAP SUMMARY:
in use at exit: 671,983 bytes in 152 blocks
total heap usage: 3,843,446 allocs, 3,843,294 frees, 223,761,402 bytes allocated
- After change with a growth factor of `(2 * alloc + 1)`:
HEAP SUMMARY:
in use at exit: 671,983 bytes in 152 blocks
total heap usage: 3,843,446 allocs, 3,843,294 frees, 223,761,410 bytes allocated
- After change with a growth factor of `(alloc + 16)* 2 / 3`:
HEAP SUMMARY:
in use at exit: 671,983 bytes in 152 blocks
total heap usage: 3,833,673 allocs, 3,833,521 frees, 4,728,251,742 bytes allocated
While the total heap usage is roughly the same, we do end up allocating
significantly more bytes with our usual growth factor (in fact, roughly
21 times as many).
Convert the reftable library to use these new macros.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This commit provides basic utility classes for the reftable library.
Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com>
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>