From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Petteri Hintsanen <petterih@iki.fi>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bindat can exhaust memory when unpacking to vector
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2024 17:08:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv5xxic4nx.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a5mukmpj.fsf@iki.fi> (Petteri Hintsanen's message of "Tue, 19 Mar 2024 22:09:44 +0200")
>> (defconst foo-bindat-spec
>> (bindat-type
>> (length uint 32)
>> (data vec (bounded 1 length 1234))))
>>
>> so we signal an error if the length is less than 1 or larger than 1234.
>
> Sure. But I'm not sure which kind of helpers would be the most
> beneficial for general use. Like said, I don't have that many examples,
> and for my few validation cases I have found the "unit type" to be good
> enough.
Same here.
>>> I also played around with the idea of patching bindat.el itself to do
>>> trivial checking against the input data size, like this:
>>> [...]
>> Actually, this is a nice solution, I think.
>> It seems hypothetical enough that I think we should go with your patch.
> Feel free to apply it in whatever form you want, if you think it is
> appropriate.
I did, thank you :-)
>>> Checking should be optional and somehow programmable, perhaps
>>> a separate "checked vec" type? (I don't have any good, concrete
>>> ideas, sorry).
>> I don't see the benefit of not-checking, to be honest.
> I probably thought about efficiency here.
In theory it can have an impact, but I think in practice it's hard to
imagine a case where it will be significant.
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-19 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-22 19:36 Bindat can exhaust memory when unpacking to vector Petteri Hintsanen
2023-10-23 11:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-10-23 19:36 ` Petteri Hintsanen
2023-10-24 4:34 ` tomas
2023-11-12 19:11 ` Petteri Hintsanen
2023-11-04 7:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-11-04 8:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-03-10 21:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2024-03-19 20:09 ` Petteri Hintsanen
2024-03-19 21:08 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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