Merge branch 'jk/cap-exclude-file-size'

An overly large ".gitignore" files are now rejected silently.

* jk/cap-exclude-file-size:
  dir.c: reduce max pattern file size to 100MB
  dir.c: skip .gitignore, etc larger than INT_MAX

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
index f6066cc01d..ad2b7ebe2d 100644
--- a/dir.c
+++ b/dir.c
@@ -30,6 +30,13 @@
 #include "symlinks.h"
 #include "trace2.h"
 #include "tree.h"
+#include "hex.h"
+
+ /*
+  * The maximum size of a pattern/exclude file. If the file exceeds this size
+  * we will ignore it.
+  */
+#define PATTERN_MAX_FILE_SIZE (100 * 1024 * 1024)
 
 /*
  * Tells read_directory_recursive how a file or directory should be treated.
@@ -1148,6 +1155,12 @@ static int add_patterns(const char *fname, const char *base, int baselen,
 		}
 	}
 
+	if (size > PATTERN_MAX_FILE_SIZE) {
+		warning("ignoring excessively large pattern file: %s", fname);
+		free(buf);
+		return -1;
+	}
+
 	add_patterns_from_buffer(buf, size, base, baselen, pl);
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -1204,6 +1217,13 @@ int add_patterns_from_blob_to_list(
 	if (r != 1)
 		return r;
 
+	if (size > PATTERN_MAX_FILE_SIZE) {
+		warning("ignoring excessively large pattern blob: %s",
+			oid_to_hex(oid));
+		free(buf);
+		return -1;
+	}
+
 	add_patterns_from_buffer(buf, size, base, baselen, pl);
 	return 0;
 }