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buffer: remove unreachable overflow check in atob #60161

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buffer: throw RangeError on atob overflow
haramj Oct 8, 2025
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buffer: fix lint-js
haramj Oct 8, 2025
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buffer: remove unreachable overflow check in atob
haramj Oct 12, 2025
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buffer: add assert.fail()
haramj Oct 13, 2025
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buffer: fix lint error
haramj Oct 13, 2025
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3 changes: 0 additions & 3 deletions lib/buffer.js
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Expand Up @@ -1302,9 +1302,6 @@ function atob(input) {
throw lazyDOMException(
'The string to be decoded is not correctly encoded.',
'InvalidCharacterError');
case -3: // Possible overflow
// TODO(@anonrig): Throw correct error in here.
throw lazyDOMException('The input causes overflow.', 'InvalidCharacterError');
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An unrecognised error state shouldn't be ignored.

I was thinking something like

    case -3:
      assert.fail('Unrecognized simdutf error');

with internal assert added to the imports in the script header:

@@ -97,10 +97,11 @@ const {
 } = require('internal/util/types');
 const {
   inspect: utilInspect,
 } = require('internal/util/inspect');

+const assert = require('internal/assert');
 const {
   codes: {
     ERR_BUFFER_OUT_OF_BOUNDS,
     ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE,
     ERR_INVALID_ARG_VALUE,

default:
return result;
}
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