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From: sternenseemann <sternenseemann@systemli•org>
To: Linus Heckemann <git@sphalerite•org>, depot@tvl.su
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix(tvix/eval): allow negative substring lengths
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2023 15:02:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <367effc8-45fc-8074-3480-cb8b4894ac3a@systemli.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230601192258.1159372-1-git@sphalerite.org>

On 6/1/23 21:22, Linus Heckemann wrote:
> Nix uses string::substr without checking the sign of the length[1].
> The NixOS testing infrastructure relies on this[2], and on the
> implicit conversion of that to the maximum possible value for a
> size_t.
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/blob/ecae62020b64914d9859a71ce197d03688c6133c/src/libexpr/primops.cc#L3597
> [2]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/c7c298471676ac1c7789ab3c424fbcebecaa6791/nixos/lib/testing/driver.nix#L29

Proposed as <https://cl.tvl.fyi/8692> and added my comments there. You 
should be able to sign in with GitHub (at least according to 
https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/9429#issuecomment-1568241222) 
and comment there.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-06-02 13:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-01 19:22 Linus Heckemann
2023-06-02 13:02 ` sternenseemann [this message]
2023-06-02 13:07 ` Vincent Ambo

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