[tor-bugs] #7191 [Tor]: smartlist_bsearch_idx() is broken for short lists

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#7191: smartlist_bsearch_idx() is broken for short lists
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 Reporter:  andrea                       |          Owner:  andrea            
     Type:  defect                       |         Status:  needs_review      
 Priority:  major                        |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.3.x-final
Component:  Tor                          |        Version:  Tor: 0.2.4.3-alpha
 Keywords:  tor-relay denial-of-service  |         Parent:                    
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Comment(by andrea):

 Replying to [comment:10 nickm]:
 > Maybe we should forget that I said "for 0.2.3 purposes" then and just
 look whether any of these asserts could/should be LD_BUG.
 >
 > "No they shouldn't'" is one possible answer.

 To repeat and amplify from IRC: all the asserts in the new
 smartlist_bsearch_idx() I wrote are either "someone passed us a NULL
 argument" or "something is inconsistent with what the logic of the
 function requires should be the case, so this can only happen if this is
 horribly buggy."  I don't think there's any reasonable thing the function
 can return in those cases, so asserting is the right choice.

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