The current way we generate random file names is by taking the seconds
and microseconds, plus the PID, and mixing them together, then encoding
them. If this fails, we increment the value by 7777, and try again up
to TMP_MAX times.
Unfortunately, this is not the best idea from a security perspective.
If we're writing into TMPDIR, an attacker can guess these values easily
and prevent us from creating any temporary files at all by creating them
all first. Even though we set TMP_MAX to 16384, this may be achievable
in some contexts, even if unlikely to occur in practice.
Fortunately, we can simply solve this by using the system
cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator (CSPRNG) to
generate a random 64-bit value, and use that as before. Note that there
is still a small bias here, but because a six-character sequence chosen
out of 62 characters provides about 36 bits of entropy, the bias here is
less than 2^-28, which is acceptable, especially considering we'll retry
several times.
Note that the use of a CSPRNG in generating temporary file names is also
used in many libcs. glibc recently changed from an approach similar to
ours to using a CSPRNG, and FreeBSD and OpenBSD also use a CSPRNG in
this case. Even if the likelihood of an attack is low, we should still
be at least as responsible in creating temporary files as libc is.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are many situations in which having access to a cryptographically
secure pseudorandom number generator (CSPRNG) is helpful. In the
future, we'll encounter one of these when dealing with temporary files.
To make this possible, let's add a function which reads from a system
CSPRNG and returns some bytes.
We know that all systems will have such an interface. A CSPRNG is
required for a secure TLS or SSH implementation and a Git implementation
which provided neither would be of little practical use. In addition,
POSIX is set to standardize getentropy(2) in the next version, so in the
(potentially distant) future we can rely on that.
For systems which lack one of the other interfaces, we provide the
ability to use OpenSSL's CSPRNG. OpenSSL is highly portable and
functions on practically every known OS, and we know it will have access
to some source of cryptographically secure randomness. We also provide
support for the arc4random in libbsd for folks who would prefer to use
that.
Because this is a security sensitive interface, we take some
precautions. We either succeed by filling the buffer completely as we
requested, or we fail. We don't return partial data because the caller
will almost never find that to be a useful behavior.
Specify a makefile knob which users can use to specify one or more
suitable CSPRNGs, and turn the multiple string options into a set of
defines, since we cannot match on strings in the preprocessor. We allow
multiple options to make the job of handling this in autoconf easier.
The order of options is important here. On systems with arc4random,
which is most of the BSDs, we use that, since, except on MirBSD and
macOS, it uses ChaCha20, which is extremely fast, and sits entirely in
userspace, avoiding a system call. We then prefer getrandom over
getentropy, because the former has been available longer on Linux, and
then OpenSSL. Finally, if none of those are available, we use
/dev/urandom, because most Unix-like operating systems provide that API.
We prefer options that don't involve device files when possible because
those work in some restricted environments where device files may not be
available.
Set the configuration variables appropriately for Linux and the BSDs,
including macOS, as well as Windows and NonStop. We specifically only
consider versions which receive publicly available security support
here. For the same reason, we don't specify getrandom(2) on Linux,
because CentOS 7 doesn't support it in glibc (although its kernel does)
and we don't want to resort to making syscalls.
Finally, add a test helper to allow this to be tested by hand and in
tests. We don't add any tests, since invoking the CSPRNG is not likely
to produce interesting, reproducible results.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Remove the unused wrapper function.
Reported-by: Randall S. Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add fatal wrappers for setenv() and unsetenv(). In d7ac12b25d (Add
set_git_dir() function, 2007-08-01) we started checking its return
value, and since 48988c4d0c (set_git_dir: die when setenv() fails,
2018-03-30) we've had set_git_dir_1() die if we couldn't set it.
Let's provide a wrapper for both, this will be useful in many other
places, a subsequent patch will make another use of xsetenv().
The checking of the return value here is over-eager according to
setenv(3) and POSIX. It's documented as returning just -1 or 0, so
perhaps we should be checking -1 explicitly.
Let's just instead die on any non-zero, if our C library is so broken
as to return something else than -1 on error (and perhaps not set
errno?) the worst we'll do is die with a nonsensical errno value, but
we'll want to die in either case.
Let's make these return "void" instead of "int". As far as I can tell
there's no other x*() wrappers that needed to make the decision of
deviating from the signature in the C library, but since their return
value is only used to indicate errors (so we'd die here), we can catch
unreachable code such as
if (xsetenv(...) < 0)
[...];
I think it would be OK skip the NULL check of the "name" here for the
calls to die_errno(). Almost all of our setenv() callers are taking a
constant string hardcoded in the source as the first argument, and for
the rest we can probably assume they've done the NULL check
themselves. Even if they didn't, modern C libraries are forgiving
about it (e.g. glibc formatting it as "(null)"), on those that aren't,
well, we were about to die anyway. But let's include the check anyway
for good measure.
1. https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009604499/functions/setenv.html
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If the flags O_CREAT and O_EXCL are both given then open(2) is supposed
to create the file and error out if it already exists. The error
message in that case looks like this:
fatal: could not open 'foo' for writing: File exists
Without further context this is confusing: Why should the existence of
the file pose a problem? Isn't that a requirement for writing to it?
Add a more specific error message for that case to tell the user that we
actually don't expect the file to preexist, so the example becomes:
fatal: unable to create 'foo': File exists
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some callers of open() would like to use O_NOFOLLOW, but it is not
available on all platforms. Let's abstract this into a helper function
so we can provide system-specific implementations.
Some light web-searching reveals that we might be able to get something
similar on Windows using FILE_FLAG_OPEN_REPARSE_POINT. I didn't dig into
this further.
For other systems without O_NOFOLLOW or any equivalent, we have two
options for fallback:
- we can just open anyway, following symlinks; this may have security
implications (e.g., following untrusted in-tree symlinks)
- we can determine whether the path is a symlink with lstat().
This is slower (two syscalls instead of one), but that may be
acceptable for infrequent uses like looking up .gitattributes files
(especially because we can get away with a single syscall for the
common case of ENOENT).
It's also racy, but should be sufficient for our needs (we are
worried about in-tree symlinks that we ourselves would have
previously created). We could make it non-racy at the cost of making
it even slower, by doing an fstat() on the opened descriptor and
comparing the dev/ino fields to the original lstat().
This patch implements the lstat() option in its slightly-faster racy
form.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This patch fixes a bug where xrealloc(ptr, 0) can double-free and
corrupt the heap on some platforms (including at least glibc).
The C99 standard says of malloc (section 7.20.3):
If the size of the space requested is zero, the behavior is
implementation-defined: either a null pointer is returned, or the
behavior is as if the size were some nonzero value, except that the
returned pointer shall not be used to access an object.
So we might get NULL back, or we might get an actual pointer (but we're
not allowed to look at its contents). To simplify our code, our
xmalloc() handles a NULL return by converting it into a single-byte
allocation. That way callers get consistent behavior. This was done way
back in 4e7a2eccc2 (?alloc: do not return NULL when asked for zero
bytes, 2005-12-29).
We also gave xcalloc() and xrealloc() the same treatment. And according
to C99, that is fine; the text above is in a paragraph that applies to
all three. But what happens to the memory we passed to realloc() in such
a case? I.e., if we do:
ret = realloc(ptr, 0);
and "ptr" is non-NULL, but we get NULL back, is "ptr" still valid? C99
doesn't cover this case specifically, but says (section 7.20.3.4):
The realloc function deallocates the old object pointed to by ptr and
returns a pointer to a new object that has the size specified by size.
So "ptr" is now deallocated, and we must only look at "ret". And since
"ret" is NULL, that means we have no allocated object at all. But that's
not quite the whole story. It also says:
If memory for the new object cannot be allocated, the old object is
not deallocated and its value is unchanged.
[...]
The realloc function returns a pointer to the new object (which may
have the same value as a pointer to the old object), or a null pointer
if the new object could not be allocated.
So if we see a NULL return with a non-zero size, we can expect that the
original object _is_ still valid. But with a non-zero size, it's
ambiguous. The NULL return might mean a failure (in which case the
object is valid), or it might mean that we successfully allocated
nothing, and used NULL to represent that.
The glibc manpage for realloc() explicitly says:
[...]if size is equal to zero, and ptr is not NULL, then the call is
equivalent to free(ptr).
Likewise, this StackOverflow answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/2135302
claims that C89 gave similar guidance (but I don't have a copy to verify
it). A comment on this answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/2022410
claims that Microsoft's CRT behaves the same.
But our current "retry with 1 byte" code passes the original pointer
again. So on glibc, we effectively free() the pointer and then try to
realloc() it again, which is undefined behavior.
The simplest fix here is to just pass "ret" (which we know to be NULL)
to the follow-up realloc(). But that means that a system which _doesn't_
free the original pointer would leak it. It's not clear if any such
systems exist, and that interpretation of the standard seems unlikely
(I'd expect a system that doesn't deallocate to simply return the
original pointer in this case). But it's easy enough to err on the safe
side, and just never pass a zero size to realloc() at all.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When parsing capabilities for the pack protocol, there are times we'll
want to compare the value of a capability to a NUL-terminated string.
Since the data we're reading will be space-terminated, not
NUL-terminated, we need a function that compares the two strings, but
also checks that they're the same length. Otherwise, if we used strncmp
to compare these strings, we might accidentally accept a parameter that
was a prefix of the expected value.
Add a function, xstrncmpz, that takes a NUL-terminated string and a
non-NUL-terminated string, plus a length, and compares them, ensuring
that they are the same length.
Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The codebase uses tabs for indentation. Convert an erroneous space
indent into a tab indent.
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Miscellaneous code clean-ups.
* ah/cleanups:
git_mkstemps_mode(): replace magic numbers with computed value
wrapper: use a loop instead of repetitive statements
diffcore-break: use a goto instead of a redundant if statement
commit-graph: remove a duplicate assignment
The magic number "6" appears several times in the function, and is
related to the size of the "XXXXXX" string we expect to find in the
template. Let's pull that "XXXXXX" into a constant array, whose size we
can get at compile time with ARRAY_SIZE().
Note that we probably can't just change this value, since callers will
be feeding us a certain number of X's, but it hopefully makes the
function itself easier to follow.
While we're here, let's do the same with the "letters" array (which we
_could_ modify if we wanted to include more characters).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
A check into the history of this code revealed no particular reason for
the code to be written in this way. All popular compilers are capable of
unrolling loops if it benefits performance, and once this code is
replaced with a loop, the magic number 6 used in multiple places in this
function can be replaced with a named constant.
Reviewed-by: Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Long ago, in 97bfeb34df (Release pack windows before reporting out of
memory., 2006-12-24), we taught xmalloc() and friends to try unmapping
pack windows when malloc() failed. It's unlikely that his helps a lot in
practice, and it has some downsides. First, the downsides:
1. It makes xmalloc() not thread-safe. We've worked around this in
pack-objects.c, which installs its own locking version of the
try_to_free_routine(). But other threaded code doesn't.
2. It makes the system as a whole harder to reason about. Functions
which allocate heap memory under the hood may have farther-reaching
effects than expected.
That might be worth the tradeoff if there's a benefit. But in practice,
it seems unlikely. We're generally dealing with mmap'd files, so the OS
is going to do a much better job at responding to memory pressure by
dropping individual pages (the exception is systems with NO_MMAP, but
even there the OS can probably respond just as well with swapping).
So the only thing we're really freeing is address space. On 64-bit
systems, we have plenty of that to go around. On 32-bit systems, it
could possibly help. But around the same time we made two other changes:
77ccc5bbd1 (Introduce new config option for mmap limit., 2006-12-23) and
60bb8b1453 (Fully activate the sliding window pack access., 2006-12-23).
Together that means that a 32-bit system should have no more than 256MB
total of packed-git mmaps at one time, split between a few 32MB windows.
It's unlikely we have any address space problems since then, but we
don't have any data since the features were all added at the same time.
Likewise, xmmap() will try to free memory. At first glance, it seems
like we'd need this (when we try to mmap a new window, we might need to
close an old one to save address space on a 32-bit system). But we're
saved again by core.packedGitLimit: if we're going to exceed our 256MB
limit, we'll close an existing window before we even call mmap().
So it seems unlikely that this feature is actually doing anything
useful. And while we don't have reports of it harming anything (probably
because it rarely if ever kicks in), it would be nice to simplify the
system overall. This patch drops the whole try_to_free system from
xmalloc(), as well as the manual pack memory release in xmmap().
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
0620b39b3b ("compat: add a mkstemps() compatibility function", 2009-05-31)
included a function based on code from libiberty which would result in
undefined behaviour in platforms where timeval's tv_usec is a 32-bit signed
type as shown by:
wrapper.c:505:31: runtime error: left shift of 594546 by 16 places cannot be represented in type '__darwin_suseconds_t' (aka 'int')
interestingly the version of this code from gcc never had this bug and the
code had a cast that would had prevented the issue (at least in 64-bit
platforms) but was misapplied.
change the cast to uint64_t so it also works in 32-bit platforms.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
is_empty_file() can help to refactor a lot of code. This will be very
helpful in porting "git bisect" to C.
Suggested-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
Mentored-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Mentored-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Signed-off-by: Pranit Bauva <pranit.bauva@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In d8193743e0 (usage.c: add BUG() function, 2017-05-12), a new macro
was introduced to use for reporting bugs instead of die(). It was then
subsequently used to convert one single caller in 588a538ae5
(setup_git_env: convert die("BUG") to BUG(), 2017-05-12).
The cover letter of the patch series containing this patch
(cf 20170513032414.mfrwabt4hovujde2@sigill.intra.peff.net) is not
terribly clear why only one call site was converted, or what the plan
is for other, similar calls to die() to report bugs.
Let's just convert all remaining ones in one fell swoop.
This trick was performed by this invocation:
sed -i 's/die("BUG: /BUG("/g' $(git grep -l 'die("BUG' \*.c)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Rename C++ keyword in order to bring the codebase closer to being able
to be compiled with a C++ compiler.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All other error messages in the file use quotes around the file name.
This change removes two translations as "could not write to '%s'" and
"could not close '%s'" are already translated and these two are the only
occurrences without quotes.
Signed-off-by: Simon Ruderich <simon@ruderich.org>
[jc: adjusted tests I noticed were broken by the change]
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The return value of write_in_full() is either "-1", or the
requested number of bytes[1]. If we make a partial write
before seeing an error, we still return -1, not a partial
value. This goes back to f6aa66cb95 (write_in_full: really
write in full or return error on disk full., 2007-01-11).
So checking anything except "was the return value negative"
is pointless. And there are a couple of reasons not to do
so:
1. It can do a funny signed/unsigned comparison. If your
"len" is signed (e.g., a size_t) then the compiler will
promote the "-1" to its unsigned variant.
This works out for "!= len" (unless you really were
trying to write the maximum size_t bytes), but is a
bug if you check "< len" (an example of which was fixed
recently in config.c).
We should avoid promoting the mental model that you
need to check the length at all, so that new sites are
not tempted to copy us.
2. Checking for a negative value is shorter to type,
especially when the length is an expression.
3. Linus says so. In d34cf19b89 (Clean up write_in_full()
users, 2007-01-11), right after the write_in_full()
semantics were changed, he wrote:
I really wish every "write_in_full()" user would just
check against "<0" now, but this fixes the nasty and
stupid ones.
Appeals to authority aside, this makes it clear that
writing it this way does not have an intentional
benefit. It's a historical curiosity that we never
bothered to clean up (and which was undoubtedly
cargo-culted into new sites).
So let's convert these obviously-correct cases (this
includes write_str_in_full(), which is just a wrapper for
write_in_full()).
[1] A careful reader may notice there is one way that
write_in_full() can return a different value. If we ask
write() to write N bytes and get a return value that is
_larger_ than N, we could return a larger total. But
besides the fact that this would imply a totally broken
version of write(), it would already invoke undefined
behavior. Our internal remaining counter is an unsigned
size_t, which means that subtracting too many byte will
wrap it around to a very large number. So we'll instantly
begin reading off the end of the buffer, trying to write
gigabytes (or petabytes) of data.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix configuration codepath to pay proper attention to commondir
that is used in multi-worktree situation, and isolate config API
into its own header file.
* bw/config-h:
config: don't implicitly use gitdir or commondir
config: respect commondir
setup: teach discover_git_directory to respect the commondir
config: don't include config.h by default
config: remove git_config_iter
config: create config.h
Stop including config.h by default in cache.h. Instead only include
config.h in those files which require use of the config system.
Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We often try to open a file for reading whose existence is
optional, and silently ignore errors from open/fopen; report such
errors if they are not due to missing files.
* nd/fopen-errors:
mingw_fopen: report ENOENT for invalid file names
mingw: verify that paths are not mistaken for remote nicknames
log: fix memory leak in open_next_file()
rerere.c: move error_errno() closer to the source system call
print errno when reporting a system call error
wrapper.c: make warn_on_inaccessible() static
wrapper.c: add and use fopen_or_warn()
wrapper.c: add and use warn_on_fopen_errors()
config.mak.uname: set FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES for Darwin, too
config.mak.uname: set FREAD_READS_DIRECTORIES for Linux and FreeBSD
clone: use xfopen() instead of fopen()
use xfopen() in more places
git_fopen: fix a sparse 'not declared' warning
Our code often opens a path to an optional file, to work on its
contents when we can successfully open it. We can ignore a failure
to open if such an optional file does not exist, but we do want to
report a failure in opening for other reasons (e.g. we got an I/O
error, or the file is there, but we lack the permission to open).
The exact errors we need to ignore are ENOENT (obviously) and
ENOTDIR (less obvious). Instead of repeating comparison of errno
with these two constants, introduce a helper function to do so.
* jc/noent-notdir:
treewide: use is_missing_file_error() where ENOENT and ENOTDIR are checked
compat-util: is_missing_file_error()
Using the is_missing_file_error() helper introduced in the previous
step, update all hits from
$ git grep -e ENOENT --and -e ENOTDIR
There are codepaths that only check ENOENT, and it is possible that
some of them should be checking both. Updating them is kept out of
this step deliberately, as we do not want to change behaviour in this
step.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
After the last patch, this function is not used outside anymore. Keep it
static.
Noticed-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When fopen() returns NULL, it could be because the given path does not
exist, but it could also be some other errors and the caller has to
check. Add a wrapper so we don't have to repeat the same error check
everywhere.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In many places, Git warns about an inaccessible file after a fopen()
failed. To discern these cases from other cases where we want to warn
about inaccessible files, introduce a new helper specifically to test
whether fopen() failed because the current user lacks the permission to
open file in question.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
gethostname(2) may not NUL terminate the buffer if hostname does
not fit; unfortunately there is no easy way to see if our buffer
was too small, but at least this will make sure we will not end up
using garbage past the end of the buffer.
* dt/xgethostname-nul-termination:
xgethostname: handle long hostnames
use HOST_NAME_MAX to size buffers for gethostname(2)
If the full hostname doesn't fit in the buffer supplied to
gethostname, POSIX does not specify whether the buffer will be
null-terminated, so to be safe, we should do it ourselves. Introduce
new function, xgethostname, which ensures that there is always a \0
at the end of the buffer.
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twosigma.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The last call to the mkstemps() function was removed in commit 659488326
("wrapper.c: delete dead function git_mkstemps()", 22-04-2016). In order
to support platforms without mkstemps(), this functionality was provided,
along with a Makefile build variable (NO_MKSTEMPS), by the gitmkstemps()
function. Remove the dead code, along with the defunct build machinery.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The last caller of git_mkstemp() was removed in commit 6fec0a89
("verify_signed_buffer: use tempfile object", 16-06-2016). Since
the introduction of the 'tempfile' APIs, along with git_mkstemp_mode,
it is unlikely that new callers will materialize. Remove the dead
code.
Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
General code clean-up around a helper function to write a
single-liner to a file.
* jk/write-file:
branch: use write_file_buf instead of write_file
use write_file_buf where applicable
write_file: add format attribute
write_file: add pointer+len variant
write_file: use xopen
write_file: drop "gently" form
branch: use non-gentle write_file for branch description
am: ignore return value of write_file()
config: fix bogus fd check when setting up default config
Fix recently introduced codepaths that are involved in parallel
submodule operations, which gave up on reading too early, and
could have wasted CPU while attempting to write under a corner
case condition.
* sb/submodule-parallel-fetch:
hoist out handle_nonblock function for xread and xwrite
xwrite: poll on non-blocking FDs
xread: retry after poll on EAGAIN/EWOULDBLOCK
At least for me, this improves the readability of xread and
xwrite; hopefully allowing missing "continue" statements to
be spotted more easily.
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are many callsites which could use write_file, but for
which it is a little awkward because they have a strbuf or
other pointer/len combo. Specifically:
1. write_file() takes a format string, so we have to use
"%s" or "%.*s", which are ugly.
2. Using any form of "%s" does not handle embedded NULs in
the output. That probably doesn't matter for our
call-sites, but it's nicer not to have to worry.
3. It's less efficient; we format into another strbuf
just to do the write. That's probably not measurably
slow for our uses, but it's simply inelegant.
We can fix this by providing a helper to write out the
formatted buffer, and just calling it from write_file().
Note that we don't do the usual "complete with a newline"
that write_file does. If the caller has their own buffer,
there's a reasonable chance they're doing something more
complicated than a single line, and they can call
strbuf_complete_line() themselves.
We could go even further and add strbuf_write_file(), but it
doesn't save much:
- write_file_buf(path, sb.buf, sb.len);
+ strbuf_write_file(&sb, path);
It would also be somewhat asymmetric with strbuf_read_file,
which actually returns errors rather than dying (and the
error handling is most of the benefit of write_file() in the
first place).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This simplifies the code a tiny bit, and provides consistent
error messages with other users of xopen().
While we're here, let's also switch to using O_WRONLY. We
know we're only going to open/write/close the file, so
there's no point in asking for O_RDWR.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are no callers left of write_file_gently(). Let's drop
it, as it doesn't seem likely for new callers to be added
(since its inception, the only callers who wanted the gentle
form generally just died immediately themselves, and have
since been converted).
While we're there, let's also drop the "int" return from
write_file, as it is never meaningful (in the non-gentle
form, we always either die or return 0).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
write(2) can hit the same EAGAIN/EWOULDBLOCK errors as read(2),
so busy-looping on a non-blocking FD is a waste of resources.
Currently, I do not know of a way for this happen:
* the NonBlocking directive in systemd does not apply to stdin,
stdout, or stderr.
* xinetd provides no way to set the non-blocking flag at all
But theoretically, it's possible a careless C10K HTTP server
could use pipe2(..., O_NONBLOCK) to setup a pipe for
git-http-backend with only the intent to use non-blocking reads;
but accidentally leave non-blocking set on the write end passed
as stdout to git-upload-pack.
Followup-to: 1079c4be0b ("xread: poll on non blocking fds")
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We should continue to loop after EAGAIN/EWOULDBLOCK as the
intent of xread is to try until there is available data,
EOF, or an unrecoverable error.
Fixes: 1079c4be0b ("xread: poll on non blocking fds")
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The code for warning_errno/die_errno has been refactored and a new
error_errno() reporting helper is introduced.
* nd/error-errno: (41 commits)
wrapper.c: use warning_errno()
vcs-svn: use error_errno()
upload-pack.c: use error_errno()
unpack-trees.c: use error_errno()
transport-helper.c: use error_errno()
sha1_file.c: use {error,die,warning}_errno()
server-info.c: use error_errno()
sequencer.c: use error_errno()
run-command.c: use error_errno()
rerere.c: use error_errno() and warning_errno()
reachable.c: use error_errno()
mailmap.c: use error_errno()
ident.c: use warning_errno()
http.c: use error_errno() and warning_errno()
grep.c: use error_errno()
gpg-interface.c: use error_errno()
fast-import.c: use error_errno()
entry.c: use error_errno()
editor.c: use error_errno()
diff-no-index.c: use error_errno()
...
Its last call site was replaced by mks_tempfile_ts() in 284098f (diff:
use tempfile module - 2015-08-12) and there's a good chance
mks_tempfile_ts will continue to successfully handle this job. Delete
it.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Update various codepaths to avoid manually-counted malloc().
* jk/tighten-alloc: (22 commits)
ewah: convert to REALLOC_ARRAY, etc
convert ewah/bitmap code to use xmalloc
diff_populate_gitlink: use a strbuf
transport_anonymize_url: use xstrfmt
git-compat-util: drop mempcpy compat code
sequencer: simplify memory allocation of get_message
test-path-utils: fix normalize_path_copy output buffer size
fetch-pack: simplify add_sought_entry
fast-import: simplify allocation in start_packfile
write_untracked_extension: use FLEX_ALLOC helper
prepare_{git,shell}_cmd: use argv_array
use st_add and st_mult for allocation size computation
convert trivial cases to FLEX_ARRAY macros
use xmallocz to avoid size arithmetic
convert trivial cases to ALLOC_ARRAY
convert manual allocations to argv_array
argv-array: add detach function
add helpers for allocating flex-array structs
harden REALLOC_ARRAY and xcalloc against size_t overflow
tree-diff: catch integer overflow in combine_diff_path allocation
...
REALLOC_ARRAY inherently involves a multiplication which can
overflow size_t, resulting in a much smaller buffer than we
think we've allocated. We can easily harden it by using
st_mult() to check for overflow. Likewise, we can add
ALLOC_ARRAY to do the same thing for xmalloc calls.
xcalloc() should already be fine, because it takes the two
factors separately, assuming the system calloc actually
checks for overflow. However, before we even hit the system
calloc(), we do our memory_limit_check, which involves a
multiplication. Let's check for overflow ourselves so that
this limit cannot be bypassed.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Some codepaths used fopen(3) when opening a fixed path in $GIT_DIR
(e.g. COMMIT_EDITMSG) that is meant to be left after the command is
done. This however did not work well if the repository is set to
be shared with core.sharedRepository and the umask of the previous
user is tighter. They have been made to work better by calling
unlink(2) and retrying after fopen(3) fails with EPERM.
* js/fopen-harder:
Handle more file writes correctly in shared repos
commit: allow editing the commit message even in shared repos
Some codepaths used fopen(3) when opening a fixed path in $GIT_DIR
(e.g. COMMIT_EDITMSG) that is meant to be left after the command is
done. This however did not work well if the repository is set to
be shared with core.sharedRepository and the umask of the previous
user is tighter. They have been made to work better by calling
unlink(2) and retrying after fopen(3) fails with EPERM.
* js/fopen-harder:
Handle more file writes correctly in shared repos
commit: allow editing the commit message even in shared repos
Add a framework to spawn a group of processes in parallel, and use
it to run "git fetch --recurse-submodules" in parallel.
Rerolled and this seems to be a lot cleaner. The merge of the
earlier one to 'next' has been reverted.
* sb/submodule-parallel-fetch:
submodules: allow parallel fetching, add tests and documentation
fetch_populated_submodules: use new parallel job processing
run-command: add an asynchronous parallel child processor
sigchain: add command to pop all common signals
strbuf: add strbuf_read_once to read without blocking
xread: poll on non blocking fds
submodule.c: write "Fetching submodule <foo>" to stderr
It was pointed out by Yaroslav Halchenko that the file containing the
commit message is writable only by the owner, which means that we have
to rewrite it from scratch in a shared repository.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When getpwuid() on the system returned NULL (e.g. the user is not
in the /etc/passwd file or other uid-to-name mappings), the
codepath to find who the user is to record it in the reflog barfed
and died. Loosen the check in this codepath, which already accepts
questionable ident string (e.g. host part of the e-mail address is
obviously bogus), and in general when we operate fmt_ident() function
in non-strict mode.
* jk/ident-loosen-getpwuid:
ident: loosen getpwuid error in non-strict mode
ident: keep a flag for bogus default_email
ident: make xgetpwuid_self() a static local helper
