[pacman-dev] [PATCH] do not rely on name hashes for matching

Andrew Gregory andrew.gregory.8 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 21 04:22:36 UTC 2017


6cfc4757b98e813428d261dbc185e20618ca83a6 was overzealous in attempting
to optimize away a call to strcmp based on a comparison of hashes.  The
call can be skipped if the hashes are different, but different strings
could have the same hash.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8 at gmail.com>
---
 lib/libalpm/deps.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/libalpm/deps.c b/lib/libalpm/deps.c
index 96f91739..3d3f8ef2 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/deps.c
+++ b/lib/libalpm/deps.c
@@ -698,10 +698,8 @@ static alpm_pkg_t *resolvedep(alpm_handle_t *handle, alpm_depend_t *dep,
 		}
 		for(j = _alpm_db_get_pkgcache(db); j; j = j->next) {
 			alpm_pkg_t *pkg = j->data;
-			/* with hash != hash, we can even skip the strcmp() as we know they can't
-			 * possibly be the same string */
-			if(pkg->name_hash != dep->name_hash && _alpm_depcmp(pkg, dep)
-					&& !alpm_pkg_find(excluding, pkg->name)) {
+			if((pkg->name_hash != dep->name_hash || strcmp(pkg->name, dep->name) != 0)
+					&& _alpm_depcmp(pkg, dep) && !alpm_pkg_find(excluding, pkg->name)) {
 				if(alpm_pkg_should_ignore(handle, pkg)) {
 					alpm_question_install_ignorepkg_t question = {
 						.type = ALPM_QUESTION_INSTALL_IGNOREPKG,
-- 
2.15.1


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