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2024 Feb 01
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A couple of questions about OpenSSH codebase
...couple of questions
arose while I was investigating it, and I guess this is the place where I
can find answers.
1. There are a lot of allocations, even for short lived objects like
sshbufs and sshkeys. Creating an sshbuf always requires at least one
allocation, two allocations if it is created with sshbuf_new(). There are a
lot of times when they are allocated and freed within the same function.
Same thing with bitmaps. What is the reason behind not allocating them on
the stack?
2. A lot of stuff in sshbuf's functions is checked against max_size. What
is the reason behind setting the max_size in...