Re: [BUG] serious inflate inconsistency on master

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [off-list ref] writes:

By the way I searched the commit that introduces that check with "git
log --follow -p builtin/index-pack.c" but I could not find it. What
did I do wrong?

Your commit 8a2e163cc shows changes to the file at ll.535-540; these
come from 776ea370 builtin-index-pack.c ll.383-388.

  $ git show 776ea370:builtin-index-pack.c

The get_data_from_pack() function in that commit gives sufficient
buffer to output side (avail_out starts out as obj->size), and feeds
the data from the packfile in chunks.  With the arrangement this
commit makes to call git_inflate(), it should never get stuck
because it ran out of output buffer.  In each iteration of the loop,
when the function returns, status should read Z_OK and the function
should have consumed all input.

But the version that uses consume() function does not give
sufficient output buffer to ensure that the input will always be
inflated fully (avoiding to use large output buffer is the whole
point of your patch after all), so with your patch, that no longer
holds true.