Steffen Prohaska <proha...@zib.de> writes:

> This patch should be applied on top of sp/stream-clean-filter.

... or it can be squashed in as a fix, as the topic is not yet in
'next'.

> index_stream() might internally also be able to handle large files to
> some extent.  But it uses size_t for its third argument, and we must
> already die() when calling it.  It might be a good idea to convert its
> interface to use off_t and push the size checks further down the stack.
> In general, it might be good idea to carefully consider whether to use
> off_t or size_t when passing file-related sizes around.  To me it looks
> like a separate issue for a separate patch series (I have no specific
> plans to prepare one).
>
>  sha1_file.c | 13 +++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/sha1_file.c b/sha1_file.c
> index 5b0e67a..6f18c22 100644
> --- a/sha1_file.c
> +++ b/sha1_file.c
> @@ -3180,17 +3180,22 @@ int index_fd(unsigned char *sha1, int fd, struct stat 
> *st,
>            enum object_type type, const char *path, unsigned flags)
>  {
>       int ret;
> -     size_t size = xsize_t(st->st_size);
>  
> +     /*
> +      * Call xsize_t() only when needed to avoid potentially unnecessary
> +      * die() for large files.
> +      */
>       if (type == OBJ_BLOB && path && would_convert_to_git_filter_fd(path))
>               ret = index_stream_convert_blob(sha1, fd, path, flags);
>       else if (!S_ISREG(st->st_mode))
>               ret = index_pipe(sha1, fd, type, path, flags);
> -     else if (size <= big_file_threshold || type != OBJ_BLOB ||
> +     else if (st->st_size <= big_file_threshold || type != OBJ_BLOB ||
>                (path && would_convert_to_git(path)))
> -             ret = index_core(sha1, fd, size, type, path, flags);
> +             ret = index_core(sha1, fd, xsize_t(st->st_size), type, path,
> +                              flags);
>       else
> -             ret = index_stream(sha1, fd, size, type, path, flags);
> +             ret = index_stream(sha1, fd, xsize_t(st->st_size), type, path,
> +                                flags);
>       close(fd);
>       return ret;
>  }
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