[pacman-dev] [PATCH] detect pkghash allocation failure
Allan McRae
allan at archlinux.org
Wed Jan 10 00:52:10 UTC 2018
On 08/01/18 10:30, Andrew Gregory wrote:
> If rehash ever failed with a full hash it would return the old hash
> that is already full. get_hash_position would then loop forever
> because it would never find an empty bucket.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Gregory <andrew.gregory.8 at gmail.com>
> ---
>
> We still don't actually handle pkghash creation errors anywhere, but
> at least it won't loop forever anymore.
>
Ack.
We don't really handle failure well throughout the codebase...
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