[Python-Dev] cpython (merge 2.7 -> 3.1): complain when nbytes > buflen to fix possible buffer overflow (closes #20246)

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014, at 01:17 AM, Ned Deily wrote:
> In article <3f3JH11tMgz7Lln at mail.python.org>,
>  benjamin.peterson <python-checkins at python.org> wrote:
> > http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/715fd3d8ac93
> > changeset:   88454:715fd3d8ac93
> > branch:      3.1
> > parent:      86777:b1ddcb220a7f
> > parent:      88453:87673659d8f7
> > user:        Benjamin Peterson <benjamin at python.org>
> > date:        Mon Jan 13 23:06:14 2014 -0500
> > summary:
> >   complain when nbytes > buflen to fix possible buffer overflow (closes 
> >   #20246)
> 
> Benjamin, I think you may have mistakenly merged from 2.7 to 3.1 here 
> and then left the 3.1 branch open (i.e. unmerged to 3.2).

The name of the game is graft-gone-horribly-wrong. I think we can just
ignore it, snce 3.1 is on its last legs anyway.