diff-delta: bound hash list length to avoid O(m*n) behavior
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1 /*
2 * diff-delta.c: generate a delta between two buffers
4 * Many parts of this file have been lifted from LibXDiff version 0.10.
5 * http://www.xmailserver.org/xdiff-lib.html
7 * LibXDiff was written by Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
8 * Copyright (C) 2003 Davide Libenzi
10 * Many mods for GIT usage by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>, (C) 2005.
12 * This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
13 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
14 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
15 * version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
17 * Use of this within git automatically means that the LGPL
18 * licensing gets turned into GPLv2 within this project.
21 #include <stdlib.h>
22 #include <string.h>
23 #include "delta.h"
26 struct index {
27 const unsigned char *ptr;
28 struct index *next;
31 static struct index ** delta_index(const unsigned char *buf,
32 unsigned long bufsize,
33 unsigned long trg_bufsize,
34 unsigned int *hash_shift)
36 unsigned long hsize;
37 unsigned int i, hshift, hlimit, *hash_count;
38 const unsigned char *data;
39 struct index *entry, **hash;
40 void *mem;
42 /* determine index hash size */
43 hsize = bufsize / 4;
44 for (i = 8; (1 << i) < hsize && i < 24; i += 2);
45 hsize = 1 << i;
46 hshift = (i - 8) / 2;
47 *hash_shift = hshift;
49 /* allocate lookup index */
50 mem = malloc(hsize * sizeof(*hash) + bufsize * sizeof(*entry));
51 if (!mem)
52 return NULL;
53 hash = mem;
54 entry = mem + hsize * sizeof(*hash);
55 memset(hash, 0, hsize * sizeof(*hash));
57 /* allocate an array to count hash entries */
58 hash_count = calloc(hsize, sizeof(*hash_count));
59 if (!hash_count) {
60 free(hash);
61 return NULL;
64 /* then populate the index */
65 data = buf + bufsize - 2;
66 while (data > buf) {
67 entry->ptr = --data;
68 i = data[0] ^ ((data[1] ^ (data[2] << hshift)) << hshift);
69 entry->next = hash[i];
70 hash[i] = entry++;
71 hash_count[i]++;
75 * Determine a limit on the number of entries in the same hash
76 * bucket. This guard us against patological data sets causing
77 * really bad hash distribution with most entries in the same hash
78 * bucket that would bring us to O(m*n) computing costs (m and n
79 * corresponding to reference and target buffer sizes).
81 * The more the target buffer is large, the more it is important to
82 * have small entry lists for each hash buckets. With such a limit
83 * the cost is bounded to something more like O(m+n).
85 hlimit = (1 << 26) / trg_bufsize;
86 if (hlimit < 16)
87 hlimit = 16;
90 * Now make sure none of the hash buckets has more entries than
91 * we're willing to test. Otherwise we short-circuit the entry
92 * list uniformly to still preserve a good repartition across
93 * the reference buffer.
95 for (i = 0; i < hsize; i++) {
96 if (hash_count[i] < hlimit)
97 continue;
98 entry = hash[i];
99 do {
100 struct index *keep = entry;
101 int skip = hash_count[i] / hlimit / 2;
102 do {
103 entry = entry->next;
104 } while(--skip && entry);
105 keep->next = entry;
106 } while(entry);
108 free(hash_count);
110 return hash;
113 /* provide the size of the copy opcode given the block offset and size */
114 #define COPYOP_SIZE(o, s) \
115 (!!(o & 0xff) + !!(o & 0xff00) + !!(o & 0xff0000) + !!(o & 0xff000000) + \
116 !!(s & 0xff) + !!(s & 0xff00) + 1)
118 /* the maximum size for any opcode */
119 #define MAX_OP_SIZE COPYOP_SIZE(0xffffffff, 0xffffffff)
121 void *diff_delta(void *from_buf, unsigned long from_size,
122 void *to_buf, unsigned long to_size,
123 unsigned long *delta_size,
124 unsigned long max_size)
126 unsigned int i, outpos, outsize, inscnt, hash_shift;
127 const unsigned char *ref_data, *ref_top, *data, *top;
128 unsigned char *out;
129 struct index *entry, **hash;
131 if (!from_size || !to_size)
132 return NULL;
133 hash = delta_index(from_buf, from_size, to_size, &hash_shift);
134 if (!hash)
135 return NULL;
137 outpos = 0;
138 outsize = 8192;
139 if (max_size && outsize >= max_size)
140 outsize = max_size + MAX_OP_SIZE + 1;
141 out = malloc(outsize);
142 if (!out) {
143 free(hash);
144 return NULL;
147 ref_data = from_buf;
148 ref_top = from_buf + from_size;
149 data = to_buf;
150 top = to_buf + to_size;
152 /* store reference buffer size */
153 out[outpos++] = from_size;
154 from_size >>= 7;
155 while (from_size) {
156 out[outpos - 1] |= 0x80;
157 out[outpos++] = from_size;
158 from_size >>= 7;
161 /* store target buffer size */
162 out[outpos++] = to_size;
163 to_size >>= 7;
164 while (to_size) {
165 out[outpos - 1] |= 0x80;
166 out[outpos++] = to_size;
167 to_size >>= 7;
170 inscnt = 0;
172 while (data < top) {
173 unsigned int moff = 0, msize = 0;
174 if (data + 3 <= top) {
175 i = data[0] ^ ((data[1] ^ (data[2] << hash_shift)) << hash_shift);
176 for (entry = hash[i]; entry; entry = entry->next) {
177 const unsigned char *ref = entry->ptr;
178 const unsigned char *src = data;
179 unsigned int ref_size = ref_top - ref;
180 if (ref_size > top - src)
181 ref_size = top - src;
182 if (ref_size > 0x10000)
183 ref_size = 0x10000;
184 if (ref_size <= msize)
185 break;
186 if (*ref != *src)
187 continue;
188 while (ref_size-- && *++src == *++ref);
189 if (msize < ref - entry->ptr) {
190 /* this is our best match so far */
191 msize = ref - entry->ptr;
192 moff = entry->ptr - ref_data;
197 if (!msize || msize < COPYOP_SIZE(moff, msize)) {
198 if (!inscnt)
199 outpos++;
200 out[outpos++] = *data++;
201 inscnt++;
202 if (inscnt == 0x7f) {
203 out[outpos - inscnt - 1] = inscnt;
204 inscnt = 0;
206 } else {
207 unsigned char *op;
209 if (inscnt) {
210 out[outpos - inscnt - 1] = inscnt;
211 inscnt = 0;
214 data += msize;
215 op = out + outpos++;
216 i = 0x80;
218 if (moff & 0xff) { out[outpos++] = moff; i |= 0x01; }
219 moff >>= 8;
220 if (moff & 0xff) { out[outpos++] = moff; i |= 0x02; }
221 moff >>= 8;
222 if (moff & 0xff) { out[outpos++] = moff; i |= 0x04; }
223 moff >>= 8;
224 if (moff & 0xff) { out[outpos++] = moff; i |= 0x08; }
226 if (msize & 0xff) { out[outpos++] = msize; i |= 0x10; }
227 msize >>= 8;
228 if (msize & 0xff) { out[outpos++] = msize; i |= 0x20; }
230 *op = i;
233 if (outpos >= outsize - MAX_OP_SIZE) {
234 void *tmp = out;
235 outsize = outsize * 3 / 2;
236 if (max_size && outsize >= max_size)
237 outsize = max_size + MAX_OP_SIZE + 1;
238 if (max_size && outpos > max_size)
239 out = NULL;
240 else
241 out = realloc(out, outsize);
242 if (!out) {
243 free(tmp);
244 free(hash);
245 return NULL;
250 if (inscnt)
251 out[outpos - inscnt - 1] = inscnt;
253 free(hash);
254 *delta_size = outpos;
255 return out;