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From: Gregor Hoffleit <gregor@hoffleit.de>
To: William Morgan <wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net>
Cc: sup-devel <sup-devel@rubyforge.org>
Subject: Re: [sup-devel] sup-server revisited
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 22:53:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1302900208-sup-1898@sam.mediasupervision.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1302887129-sup-7325@masanjin.net>

* William Morgan <wmorgan-sup@masanjin.net> [Fr Apr 15 19:16:43 +0200 2011]
> Reformatted excerpts from Gregor Hoffleit's message of 2011-04-15:
> > The source of this problem is in whistlepig's tokenizer. I'm hurt by an
> > overflow in posarray->next and posarray->size, which are defined as
> > uint16_t. I was able to fix my problem by defining these to uint32_t:
> 
> Thanks! This is totally good. I will admit I got distracted by some
> other tasks and forgot to come back to this. Maybe that's a sign I
> should start using Github's vaunted issue tracker.
> 
> What I don't understand is that the posarray stuff is all for token
> offsets, isn't it? So why would the number of lines actually matter?
> Large messages can overflow this but it should be in terms of tokens,
> not lines.

Yep. In fact the number of lines is a pure coincidence.

The mail that got stuck was a logcheck report, which had 35.000 lines
all starting with the current date. I guess whistlepig tried to append
some 35.000 instances of "Feb" to the posarray, which lead to an
infinite loop.

Regards,
    Gregor
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-15 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-21 21:02 William Morgan
2011-02-22 13:46 ` Mark Alexander
2011-02-22 17:55   ` William Morgan
2011-02-22 18:44     ` Tero Tilus
2011-02-22 19:00       ` William Morgan
2011-02-22 14:09 ` Nicolas Pouillard
2011-02-22 20:17 ` Tero Tilus
2011-02-22 21:29   ` William Morgan
2011-02-23  9:48     ` Nicolas Pouillard
2011-02-23 18:43       ` William Morgan
2011-02-23 18:53         ` Alvaro Herrera
2011-02-23 21:08           ` William Morgan
2011-02-23 21:30             ` Alvaro Herrera
2011-03-03 19:38         ` Sascha Silbe
2011-02-26 19:15 ` Hamish
2011-02-26 22:04   ` William Morgan
2011-02-26 23:15     ` William Morgan
2011-03-01 19:38       ` Hamish
2011-03-02 12:43         ` Gregor Hoffleit
2011-03-02 18:51           ` William Morgan
2011-03-03 17:32             ` Gregor Hoffleit
2011-03-03 19:17               ` William Morgan
2011-04-15 10:46                 ` Gregor Hoffleit
2011-04-15 17:16                   ` William Morgan
2011-04-15 20:53                     ` Gregor Hoffleit [this message]
2011-04-17 16:58                   ` William Morgan
2011-04-17 17:55                     ` William Morgan

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