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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2021-03-15 08:53:36 -0400
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2021-03-15 08:53:36 -0400
commitefca9ce41c96bb0044f504ced36a2734b1689ee2 (patch)
treeea9f1d5cdb28da2871a6e84886e5199647cc4cfd /src
parentf46f4562cf6f47fe6c00752f61b04dc18a454253 (diff)
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Clarify new intended strategy with TROVE-2021-001
We're going to disable this feature in all versions for now.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/feature/dirparse/unparseable.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/feature/dirparse/unparseable.c b/src/feature/dirparse/unparseable.c
index a547335452..1d623fe701 100644
--- a/src/feature/dirparse/unparseable.c
+++ b/src/feature/dirparse/unparseable.c
@@ -493,8 +493,11 @@ dump_desc,(const char *desc, const char *type))
tor_assert(desc);
tor_assert(type);
#ifndef TOR_UNIT_TESTS
- /* On older versions of Tor we are disabling this function, since it
- * can be called with strings that are far too long. */
+ /* For now, we are disabling this function, since it can be called with
+ * strings that are far too long. We can turn it back on if we fix it
+ * someday, but we'd need to give it a length argument. A likelier
+ * resolution here is simply to remove this module entirely. See tor#40286
+ * for background. */
if (1)
return;
#endif