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authorSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org>2018-10-18 20:33:10 +0300
committerSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org>2018-10-18 20:33:10 +0300
commit00ba17479ff31c6825f0e6f28b965f11525e83f6 (patch)
treefea289bb407672a6c03f73e7ba1157a0d32ae86d
parent852ff1b6e81ce13fdcd1fd4fb272b17d760760b3 (diff)
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Restore backward compatibility with older databases
* src/gdbmopen.c (validate_header): Silently accept databases with next_block pointing beyond end of file.
-rw-r--r--src/gdbmopen.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/gdbmopen.c b/src/gdbmopen.c
index fe2527e..42f429d 100644
--- a/src/gdbmopen.c
+++ b/src/gdbmopen.c
@@ -171,3 +171,9 @@ validate_header (gdbm_file_header const *hdr, struct stat const *st)
171 171
172 if (hdr->next_block != st->st_size) 172 /* Technically speaking, the condition below should read
173 hdr->next_block != st->st_size
174 However, gdbm versions prior to commit 4e819c98 could leave
175 hdr->next_block pointing beyond current end of file. To ensure
176 backward compatibility with these versions, the condition has been
177 slackened to this: */
178 if (hdr->next_block < st->st_size)
173 result = GDBM_NEED_RECOVERY; 179 result = GDBM_NEED_RECOVERY;

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