Cast 64 bit off_t to 32 bit size_t

Some systems have sizeof(off_t) == 8 while sizeof(size_t) == 4.
This implies that we are able to access and work on files whose
maximum length is around 2^63-1 bytes, but we can only malloc or
mmap somewhat less than 2^32-1 bytes of memory.

On such a system an implicit conversion of off_t to size_t can cause
the size_t to wrap, resulting in unexpected and exciting behavior.
Right now we are working around all gcc warnings generated by the
-Wshorten-64-to-32 option by passing the off_t through xsize_t().

In the future we should make xsize_t on such problematic platforms
detect the wrapping and die if such a file is accessed.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
index 32b57f0125..b48e19dc09 100644
--- a/dir.c
+++ b/dir.c
@@ -130,13 +130,13 @@ static int add_excludes_from_file_1(const char *fname,
 {
 	struct stat st;
 	int fd, i;
-	long size;
+	size_t size;
 	char *buf, *entry;
 
 	fd = open(fname, O_RDONLY);
 	if (fd < 0 || fstat(fd, &st) < 0)
 		goto err;
-	size = st.st_size;
+	size = xsize_t(st.st_size);
 	if (size == 0) {
 		close(fd);
 		return 0;