Fix for "Warning: unexpected read size of 0 in map_ptr" in rsync 2.5.2
Dave Dykstra
dwd at bell-labs.com
Thu Jan 31 10:01:26 EST 2002
I happened to notice that Redhat fixed this on Sunday already:
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58878
I wish one of them would have reported it to rsync at samba.org.
- Dave Dykstra
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 03:36:18PM -0600, Dave Dykstra wrote:
> I upgraded to rsync 2.5.2 and started to get the error
> Warning: unexpected read size of 0 in map_ptr
> when sending just about any file from a Solaris 2.5.1 system to Linux
> systems, and then the file that is sent ends up being the wrong size.
>
> Through gdb and trial & error I discovered that if I back out the security
> fix in rsync.h at
> http://cvs.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/rsync/rsync.h.diff?r1=1.116&r2=1.117&f=h
> and recompile match.c on only the sender side then the problem goes away.
> Further trial & error resulted in the patch below to fix the problem.
>
> Martin, I think this is probably serious enough to warrant an immediate new
> release.
>
> - Dave Dykstra
>
>
> --- match.c.O Tue Jan 29 15:31:37 2002
> +++ match.c Tue Jan 29 15:31:54 2002
> @@ -246,7 +246,7 @@
> match. The 3 reads are caused by the
> running match, the checksum update and the
> literal send. */
> - if (offset-last_match >= CHUNK_SIZE+s->n &&
> + if (offset-last_match >= CHUNK_SIZE+(int)s->n &&
> (end-offset > CHUNK_SIZE)) {
> matched(f,s,buf,offset - s->n, -2);
> }
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