document why we only allow 64 flags in votes

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Nick Mathewson 2012-09-14 10:10:16 -04:00
parent c8b98ba41c
commit 68caa834f4

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@ -3006,6 +3006,11 @@ networkstatus_parse_vote_from_string(const char *s, const char **eos_out,
}
if (ns->type != NS_TYPE_CONSENSUS &&
smartlist_len(ns->known_flags) > MAX_KNOWN_FLAGS_IN_VOTE) {
/* If we allowed more than 64 flags in votes, then parsing them would make
* us invoke undefined behavior whenever we used 1<<flagnum to do a
* bit-shift. This is only for votes and opinions: consensus users don't
* care about flags they don't recognize, and so don't build a bitfield
* for them. */
log_warn(LD_DIR, "Too many known-flags in consensus vote or opinion");
goto err;
}