Hi, I'm attaching patch for bug in sparse diff mode, randomly detected by testsuite on i686 Fedora: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1853469
Pavel
>From f7d4cda53aebcab50fb1aa91027f2da9da2251bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Raiskup <prais...@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 21:22:10 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Bugfix --sparse --diff mode Originally reported in: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1853469 * src/sparse.c (check_data_region): Only compare the part of buffer really fed by safe_read(), not whole rdsize. --- src/sparse.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/sparse.c b/src/sparse.c index e60b16a..cc3c515 100644 --- a/src/sparse.c +++ b/src/sparse.c @@ -684,7 +684,7 @@ check_data_region (struct tar_sparse_file *file, size_t i) } size_left -= bytes_read; mv_size_left (file->stat_info->archive_file_size - file->dumped_size); - if (memcmp (blk->buffer, diff_buffer, rdsize)) + if (memcmp (blk->buffer, diff_buffer, bytes_read)) { report_difference (file->stat_info, _("Contents differ")); return false; -- 2.26.2