Recently, a vulnerability was reported that can lead to an out-of-bounds
write when reading an unreasonably large gitattributes file. The root
cause of this error are multiple integer overflows in different parts of
the code when there are either too many lines, when paths are too long,
when attribute names are too long, or when there are too many attributes
declared for a pattern.
As all of these are related to size, it seems reasonable to restrict the
size of the gitattributes file via git-fsck(1). This allows us to both
stop distributing known-vulnerable objects via common hosting platforms
that have fsck enabled, and users to protect themselves by enabling the
`fetch.fsckObjects` config.
There are basically two checks:
1. We verify that size of the gitattributes file is smaller than
100MB.
2. We verify that the maximum line length does not exceed 2048
bytes.
With the preceding commits, both of these conditions would cause us to
either ignore the complete gitattributes file or blob in the first case,
or the specific line in the second case. Now with these consistency
checks added, we also grow the ability to stop distributing such files
in the first place when `receive.fsckObjects` is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Both the padding and wrapping formatting directives allow the caller to
specify an integer that ultimately leads to us adding this many chars to
the result buffer. As a consequence, it is trivial to e.g. allocate 2GB
of RAM via a single formatting directive and cause resource exhaustion
on the machine executing this logic. Furthermore, it is debatable
whether there are any sane usecases that require the user to pad data to
2GB boundaries or to indent wrapped data by 2GB.
Restrict the input sizes to 16 kilobytes at a maximum to limit the
amount of bytes that can be requested by the user. This is not meant
as a fix because there are ways to trivially amplify the amount of
data we generate via formatting directives; the real protection is
achieved by the changes in previous steps to catch and avoid integer
wraparound that causes us to under-allocate and access beyond the
end of allocated memory reagions. But having such a limit
significantly helps fuzzing the pretty format, because the fuzzer is
otherwise quite fast to run out-of-memory as it discovers these
formatters.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In `strbuf_utf8_replace()`, we call `utf8_width()` to compute the width
of the current glyph. If the glyph is a control character though it can
be that `utf8_width()` returns `-1`, but because we assign this value to
a `size_t` the conversion will cause us to underflow. This bug can
easily be triggered with the following command:
$ git log --pretty='format:xxx%<|(1,trunc)%x10'
>From all I can see though this seems to be a benign underflow that has
no security-related consequences.
Fix the bug by using an `int` instead. When we see a control character,
we now copy it into the target buffer but don't advance the current
width of the string.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The return type of both `utf8_strwidth()` and `utf8_strnwidth()` is
`int`, but we operate on string lengths which are typically of type
`size_t`. This means that when the string is longer than `INT_MAX`, we
will overflow and thus return a negative result.
This can lead to an out-of-bounds write with `--pretty=format:%<1)%B`
and a commit message that is 2^31+1 bytes long:
=================================================================
==26009==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x603000001168 at pc 0x7f95c4e5f427 bp 0x7ffd8541c900 sp 0x7ffd8541c0a8
WRITE of size 2147483649 at 0x603000001168 thread T0
#0 0x7f95c4e5f426 in __interceptor_memcpy /usr/src/debug/gcc/libsanitizer/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_common_interceptors.inc:827
#1 0x5612bbb1068c in format_and_pad_commit pretty.c:1763
#2 0x5612bbb1087a in format_commit_item pretty.c:1801
#3 0x5612bbc33bab in strbuf_expand strbuf.c:429
#4 0x5612bbb110e7 in repo_format_commit_message pretty.c:1869
#5 0x5612bbb12d96 in pretty_print_commit pretty.c:2161
#6 0x5612bba0a4d5 in show_log log-tree.c:781
#7 0x5612bba0d6c7 in log_tree_commit log-tree.c:1117
#8 0x5612bb691ed5 in cmd_log_walk_no_free builtin/log.c:508
#9 0x5612bb69235b in cmd_log_walk builtin/log.c:549
#10 0x5612bb6951a2 in cmd_log builtin/log.c:883
#11 0x5612bb56c993 in run_builtin git.c:466
#12 0x5612bb56d397 in handle_builtin git.c:721
#13 0x5612bb56db07 in run_argv git.c:788
#14 0x5612bb56e8a7 in cmd_main git.c:923
#15 0x5612bb803682 in main common-main.c:57
#16 0x7f95c4c3c28f (/usr/lib/libc.so.6+0x2328f)
#17 0x7f95c4c3c349 in __libc_start_main (/usr/lib/libc.so.6+0x23349)
#18 0x5612bb5680e4 in _start ../sysdeps/x86_64/start.S:115
0x603000001168 is located 0 bytes to the right of 24-byte region [0x603000001150,0x603000001168)
allocated by thread T0 here:
#0 0x7f95c4ebe7ea in __interceptor_realloc /usr/src/debug/gcc/libsanitizer/asan/asan_malloc_linux.cpp:85
#1 0x5612bbcdd556 in xrealloc wrapper.c:136
#2 0x5612bbc310a3 in strbuf_grow strbuf.c:99
#3 0x5612bbc32acd in strbuf_add strbuf.c:298
#4 0x5612bbc33aec in strbuf_expand strbuf.c:418
#5 0x5612bbb110e7 in repo_format_commit_message pretty.c:1869
#6 0x5612bbb12d96 in pretty_print_commit pretty.c:2161
#7 0x5612bba0a4d5 in show_log log-tree.c:781
#8 0x5612bba0d6c7 in log_tree_commit log-tree.c:1117
#9 0x5612bb691ed5 in cmd_log_walk_no_free builtin/log.c:508
#10 0x5612bb69235b in cmd_log_walk builtin/log.c:549
#11 0x5612bb6951a2 in cmd_log builtin/log.c:883
#12 0x5612bb56c993 in run_builtin git.c:466
#13 0x5612bb56d397 in handle_builtin git.c:721
#14 0x5612bb56db07 in run_argv git.c:788
#15 0x5612bb56e8a7 in cmd_main git.c:923
#16 0x5612bb803682 in main common-main.c:57
#17 0x7f95c4c3c28f (/usr/lib/libc.so.6+0x2328f)
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow /usr/src/debug/gcc/libsanitizer/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_common_interceptors.inc:827 in __interceptor_memcpy
Shadow bytes around the buggy address:
0x0c067fff81d0: fd fd fd fa fa fa fd fd fd fa fa fa fd fd fd fa
0x0c067fff81e0: fa fa fd fd fd fd fa fa fd fd fd fd fa fa fd fd
0x0c067fff81f0: fd fa fa fa fd fd fd fa fa fa fd fd fd fa fa fa
0x0c067fff8200: fd fd fd fa fa fa fd fd fd fd fa fa 00 00 00 fa
0x0c067fff8210: fa fa fd fd fd fa fa fa fd fd fd fa fa fa fd fd
=>0x0c067fff8220: fd fa fa fa fd fd fd fa fa fa 00 00 00[fa]fa fa
0x0c067fff8230: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
0x0c067fff8240: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
0x0c067fff8250: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
0x0c067fff8260: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
0x0c067fff8270: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
Shadow byte legend (one shadow byte represents 8 application bytes):
Addressable: 00
Partially addressable: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
Heap left redzone: fa
Freed heap region: fd
Stack left redzone: f1
Stack mid redzone: f2
Stack right redzone: f3
Stack after return: f5
Stack use after scope: f8
Global redzone: f9
Global init order: f6
Poisoned by user: f7
Container overflow: fc
Array cookie: ac
Intra object redzone: bb
ASan internal: fe
Left alloca redzone: ca
Right alloca redzone: cb
==26009==ABORTING
Now the proper fix for this would be to convert both functions to return
an `size_t` instead of an `int`. But given that this commit may be part
of a security release, let's instead do the minimal viable fix and die
in case we see an overflow.
Add a test that would have previously caused us to crash.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `utf8_strnwidth()` function calls `utf8_width()` in a loop and adds
its returned width to the end result. `utf8_width()` can return `-1`
though in case it reads a control character, which means that the
computed string width is going to be wrong. In the worst case where
there are more control characters than non-control characters, we may
even return a negative string width.
Fix this bug by treating control characters as having zero width.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The `%w(width,indent1,indent2)` formatting directive can be used to
rewrap text to a specific width and is designed after git-shortlog(1)'s
`-w` parameter. While the three parameters are all stored as `size_t`
internally, `strbuf_add_wrapped_text()` accepts integers as input. As a
result, the casted integers may overflow. As these now-negative integers
are later on passed to `strbuf_addchars()`, we will ultimately run into
implementation-defined behaviour due to casting a negative number back
to `size_t` again. On my platform, this results in trying to allocate
9000 petabyte of memory.
Fix this overflow by using `cast_size_t_to_int()` so that we reject
inputs that cannot be represented as an integer.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When a formatting directive has a `+` or ` ` after the `%`, then we add
either a line feed or space if the placeholder expands to a non-empty
string. In specific cases though this logic doesn't work as expected,
and we try to add the character even in the case where the formatting
directive is empty.
One such pattern is `%w(1)%+d%+w(2)`. `%+d` expands to reference names
pointing to a certain commit, like in `git log --decorate`. For a tagged
commit this would for example expand to `\n (tag: v1.0.0)`, which has a
leading newline due to the `+` modifier and a space added by `%d`. Now
the second wrapping directive will cause us to rewrap the text to
`\n(tag:\nv1.0.0)`, which is one byte shorter due to the missing leading
space. The code that handles the `+` magic now notices that the length
has changed and will thus try to insert a leading line feed at the
original posititon. But as the string was shortened, the original
position is past the buffer's boundary and thus we die with an error.
Now there are two issues here:
1. We check whether the buffer length has changed, not whether it
has been extended. This causes us to try and add the character
past the string boundary.
2. The current logic does not make any sense whatsoever. When the
string got expanded due to the rewrap, putting the separator into
the original position is likely to put it somewhere into the
middle of the rewrapped contents.
It is debatable whether `%+w()` makes any sense in the first place.
Strictly speaking, the placeholder never expands to a non-empty string,
and consequentially we shouldn't ever accept this combination. We thus
fix the bug by simply refusing `%+w()`.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
An out-of-bounds read can be triggered when parsing an incomplete
padding format string passed via `--pretty=format` or in Git archives
when files are marked with the `export-subst` gitattribute.
This bug exists since we have introduced support for truncating output
via the `trunc` keyword a7f01c6b4d (pretty: support truncating in %>, %<
and %><, 2013-04-19). Before this commit, we used to find the end of the
formatting string by using strchr(3P). This function returns a `NULL`
pointer in case the character in question wasn't found. The subsequent
check whether any character was found thus simply checked the returned
pointer. After the commit we switched to strcspn(3P) though, which only
returns the offset to the first found character or to the trailing NUL
byte. As the end pointer is now computed by adding the offset to the
start pointer it won't be `NULL` anymore, and as a consequence the check
doesn't do anything anymore.
The out-of-bounds data that is being read can in fact end up in the
formatted string. As a consequence, it is possible to leak memory
contents either by calling git-log(1) or via git-archive(1) when any of
the archived files is marked with the `export-subst` gitattribute.
==10888==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x602000000398 at pc 0x7f0356047cb2 bp 0x7fff3ffb95d0 sp 0x7fff3ffb8d78
READ of size 1 at 0x602000000398 thread T0
#0 0x7f0356047cb1 in __interceptor_strchrnul /usr/src/debug/gcc/libsanitizer/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_common_interceptors.inc:725
#1 0x563b7cec9a43 in strbuf_expand strbuf.c:417
#2 0x563b7cda7060 in repo_format_commit_message pretty.c:1869
#3 0x563b7cda8d0f in pretty_print_commit pretty.c:2161
#4 0x563b7cca04c8 in show_log log-tree.c:781
#5 0x563b7cca36ba in log_tree_commit log-tree.c:1117
#6 0x563b7c927ed5 in cmd_log_walk_no_free builtin/log.c:508
#7 0x563b7c92835b in cmd_log_walk builtin/log.c:549
#8 0x563b7c92b1a2 in cmd_log builtin/log.c:883
#9 0x563b7c802993 in run_builtin git.c:466
#10 0x563b7c803397 in handle_builtin git.c:721
#11 0x563b7c803b07 in run_argv git.c:788
#12 0x563b7c8048a7 in cmd_main git.c:923
#13 0x563b7ca99682 in main common-main.c:57
#14 0x7f0355e3c28f (/usr/lib/libc.so.6+0x2328f)
#15 0x7f0355e3c349 in __libc_start_main (/usr/lib/libc.so.6+0x23349)
#16 0x563b7c7fe0e4 in _start ../sysdeps/x86_64/start.S:115
0x602000000398 is located 0 bytes to the right of 8-byte region [0x602000000390,0x602000000398)
allocated by thread T0 here:
#0 0x7f0356072faa in __interceptor_strdup /usr/src/debug/gcc/libsanitizer/asan/asan_interceptors.cpp:439
#1 0x563b7cf7317c in xstrdup wrapper.c:39
#2 0x563b7cd9a06a in save_user_format pretty.c:40
#3 0x563b7cd9b3e5 in get_commit_format pretty.c:173
#4 0x563b7ce54ea0 in handle_revision_opt revision.c:2456
#5 0x563b7ce597c9 in setup_revisions revision.c:2850
#6 0x563b7c9269e0 in cmd_log_init_finish builtin/log.c:269
#7 0x563b7c927362 in cmd_log_init builtin/log.c:348
#8 0x563b7c92b193 in cmd_log builtin/log.c:882
#9 0x563b7c802993 in run_builtin git.c:466
#10 0x563b7c803397 in handle_builtin git.c:721
#11 0x563b7c803b07 in run_argv git.c:788
#12 0x563b7c8048a7 in cmd_main git.c:923
#13 0x563b7ca99682 in main common-main.c:57
#14 0x7f0355e3c28f (/usr/lib/libc.so.6+0x2328f)
#15 0x7f0355e3c349 in __libc_start_main (/usr/lib/libc.so.6+0x23349)
#16 0x563b7c7fe0e4 in _start ../sysdeps/x86_64/start.S:115
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow /usr/src/debug/gcc/libsanitizer/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_common_interceptors.inc:725 in __interceptor_strchrnul
Shadow bytes around the buggy address:
0x0c047fff8020: fa fa fd fd fa fa 00 06 fa fa 05 fa fa fa fd fd
0x0c047fff8030: fa fa 00 02 fa fa 06 fa fa fa 05 fa fa fa fd fd
0x0c047fff8040: fa fa 00 07 fa fa 03 fa fa fa fd fd fa fa 00 00
0x0c047fff8050: fa fa 00 01 fa fa fd fd fa fa 00 00 fa fa 00 01
0x0c047fff8060: fa fa 00 06 fa fa 00 06 fa fa 05 fa fa fa 05 fa
=>0x0c047fff8070: fa fa 00[fa]fa fa fd fa fa fa fd fd fa fa fd fd
0x0c047fff8080: fa fa fd fd fa fa 00 00 fa fa 00 fa fa fa fd fa
0x0c047fff8090: fa fa fd fd fa fa 00 00 fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
0x0c047fff80a0: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
0x0c047fff80b0: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
0x0c047fff80c0: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
Shadow byte legend (one shadow byte represents 8 application bytes):
Addressable: 00
Partially addressable: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
Heap left redzone: fa
Freed heap region: fd
Stack left redzone: f1
Stack mid redzone: f2
Stack right redzone: f3
Stack after return: f5
Stack use after scope: f8
Global redzone: f9
Global init order: f6
Poisoned by user: f7
Container overflow: fc
Array cookie: ac
Intra object redzone: bb
ASan internal: fe
Left alloca redzone: ca
Right alloca redzone: cb
==10888==ABORTING
Fix this bug by checking whether `end` points at the trailing NUL byte.
Add a test which catches this out-of-bounds read and which demonstrates
that we used to write out-of-bounds data into the formatted message.
Reported-by: Markus Vervier <markus.vervier@x41-dsec.de>
Original-patch-by: Markus Vervier <markus.vervier@x41-dsec.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
With the `%>>(<N>)` pretty formatter, you can ask git-log(1) et al to
steal spaces. To do so we need to look ahead of the next token to see
whether there are spaces there. This loop takes into account ANSI
sequences that end with an `m`, and if it finds any it will skip them
until it finds the first space. While doing so it does not take into
account the buffer's limits though and easily does an out-of-bounds
read.
Add a test that hits this behaviour. While we don't have an easy way to
verify this, the test causes the following failure when run with
`SANITIZE=address`:
==37941==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x603000000baf at pc 0x55ba6f88e0d0 bp 0x7ffc84c50d20 sp 0x7ffc84c50d10
READ of size 1 at 0x603000000baf thread T0
#0 0x55ba6f88e0cf in format_and_pad_commit pretty.c:1712
#1 0x55ba6f88e7b4 in format_commit_item pretty.c:1801
#2 0x55ba6f9b1ae4 in strbuf_expand strbuf.c:429
#3 0x55ba6f88f020 in repo_format_commit_message pretty.c:1869
#4 0x55ba6f890ccf in pretty_print_commit pretty.c:2161
#5 0x55ba6f7884c8 in show_log log-tree.c:781
#6 0x55ba6f78b6ba in log_tree_commit log-tree.c:1117
#7 0x55ba6f40fed5 in cmd_log_walk_no_free builtin/log.c:508
#8 0x55ba6f41035b in cmd_log_walk builtin/log.c:549
#9 0x55ba6f4131a2 in cmd_log builtin/log.c:883
#10 0x55ba6f2ea993 in run_builtin git.c:466
#11 0x55ba6f2eb397 in handle_builtin git.c:721
#12 0x55ba6f2ebb07 in run_argv git.c:788
#13 0x55ba6f2ec8a7 in cmd_main git.c:923
#14 0x55ba6f581682 in main common-main.c:57
#15 0x7f2d08c3c28f (/usr/lib/libc.so.6+0x2328f)
#16 0x7f2d08c3c349 in __libc_start_main (/usr/lib/libc.so.6+0x23349)
#17 0x55ba6f2e60e4 in _start ../sysdeps/x86_64/start.S:115
0x603000000baf is located 1 bytes to the left of 24-byte region [0x603000000bb0,0x603000000bc8)
allocated by thread T0 here:
#0 0x7f2d08ebe7ea in __interceptor_realloc /usr/src/debug/gcc/libsanitizer/asan/asan_malloc_linux.cpp:85
#1 0x55ba6fa5b494 in xrealloc wrapper.c:136
#2 0x55ba6f9aefdc in strbuf_grow strbuf.c:99
#3 0x55ba6f9b0a06 in strbuf_add strbuf.c:298
#4 0x55ba6f9b1a25 in strbuf_expand strbuf.c:418
#5 0x55ba6f88f020 in repo_format_commit_message pretty.c:1869
#6 0x55ba6f890ccf in pretty_print_commit pretty.c:2161
#7 0x55ba6f7884c8 in show_log log-tree.c:781
#8 0x55ba6f78b6ba in log_tree_commit log-tree.c:1117
#9 0x55ba6f40fed5 in cmd_log_walk_no_free builtin/log.c:508
#10 0x55ba6f41035b in cmd_log_walk builtin/log.c:549
#11 0x55ba6f4131a2 in cmd_log builtin/log.c:883
#12 0x55ba6f2ea993 in run_builtin git.c:466
#13 0x55ba6f2eb397 in handle_builtin git.c:721
#14 0x55ba6f2ebb07 in run_argv git.c:788
#15 0x55ba6f2ec8a7 in cmd_main git.c:923
#16 0x55ba6f581682 in main common-main.c:57
#17 0x7f2d08c3c28f (/usr/lib/libc.so.6+0x2328f)
#18 0x7f2d08c3c349 in __libc_start_main (/usr/lib/libc.so.6+0x23349)
#19 0x55ba6f2e60e4 in _start ../sysdeps/x86_64/start.S:115
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow pretty.c:1712 in format_and_pad_commit
Shadow bytes around the buggy address:
0x0c067fff8120: fa fa fd fd fd fa fa fa fd fd fd fa fa fa fd fd
0x0c067fff8130: fd fd fa fa fd fd fd fd fa fa fd fd fd fa fa fa
0x0c067fff8140: fd fd fd fa fa fa fd fd fd fa fa fa fd fd fd fa
0x0c067fff8150: fa fa fd fd fd fd fa fa 00 00 00 fa fa fa fd fd
0x0c067fff8160: fd fa fa fa fd fd fd fa fa fa fd fd fd fa fa fa
=>0x0c067fff8170: fd fd fd fa fa[fa]00 00 00 fa fa fa 00 00 00 fa
0x0c067fff8180: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
0x0c067fff8190: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
0x0c067fff81a0: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
0x0c067fff81b0: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
0x0c067fff81c0: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
Shadow byte legend (one shadow byte represents 8 application bytes):
Addressable: 00
Partially addressable: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
Heap left redzone: fa
Freed heap region: fd
Stack left redzone: f1
Stack mid redzone: f2
Stack right redzone: f3
Stack after return: f5
Stack use after scope: f8
Global redzone: f9
Global init order: f6
Poisoned by user: f7
Container overflow: fc
Array cookie: ac
Intra object redzone: bb
ASan internal: fe
Left alloca redzone: ca
Right alloca redzone: cb
Luckily enough, this would only cause us to copy the out-of-bounds data
into the formatted commit in case we really had an ANSI sequence
preceding our buffer. So this bug likely has no security consequences.
Fix it regardless by not traversing past the buffer's start.
Reported-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Reported-by: Eric Sesterhenn <eric.sesterhenn@x41-dsec.de>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When using a padding specifier in the pretty format passed to git-log(1)
we need to calculate the string length in several places. These string
lengths are stored in `int`s though, which means that these can easily
overflow when the input lengths exceeds 2GB. This can ultimately lead to
an out-of-bounds write when these are used in a call to memcpy(3P):
==8340==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x7f1ec62f97fe at pc 0x7f2127e5f427 bp 0x7ffd3bd63de0 sp 0x7ffd3bd63588
WRITE of size 1 at 0x7f1ec62f97fe thread T0
#0 0x7f2127e5f426 in __interceptor_memcpy /usr/src/debug/gcc/libsanitizer/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_common_interceptors.inc:827
#1 0x5628e96aa605 in format_and_pad_commit pretty.c:1762
#2 0x5628e96aa7f4 in format_commit_item pretty.c:1801
#3 0x5628e97cdb24 in strbuf_expand strbuf.c:429
#4 0x5628e96ab060 in repo_format_commit_message pretty.c:1869
#5 0x5628e96acd0f in pretty_print_commit pretty.c:2161
#6 0x5628e95a44c8 in show_log log-tree.c:781
#7 0x5628e95a76ba in log_tree_commit log-tree.c:1117
#8 0x5628e922bed5 in cmd_log_walk_no_free builtin/log.c:508
#9 0x5628e922c35b in cmd_log_walk builtin/log.c:549
#10 0x5628e922f1a2 in cmd_log builtin/log.c:883
#11 0x5628e9106993 in run_builtin git.c:466
#12 0x5628e9107397 in handle_builtin git.c:721
#13 0x5628e9107b07 in run_argv git.c:788
#14 0x5628e91088a7 in cmd_main git.c:923
#15 0x5628e939d682 in main common-main.c:57
#16 0x7f2127c3c28f (/usr/lib/libc.so.6+0x2328f)
#17 0x7f2127c3c349 in __libc_start_main (/usr/lib/libc.so.6+0x23349)
#18 0x5628e91020e4 in _start ../sysdeps/x86_64/start.S:115
0x7f1ec62f97fe is located 2 bytes to the left of 4831838265-byte region [0x7f1ec62f9800,0x7f1fe62f9839)
allocated by thread T0 here:
#0 0x7f2127ebe7ea in __interceptor_realloc /usr/src/debug/gcc/libsanitizer/asan/asan_malloc_linux.cpp:85
#1 0x5628e98774d4 in xrealloc wrapper.c:136
#2 0x5628e97cb01c in strbuf_grow strbuf.c:99
#3 0x5628e97ccd42 in strbuf_addchars strbuf.c:327
#4 0x5628e96aa55c in format_and_pad_commit pretty.c:1761
#5 0x5628e96aa7f4 in format_commit_item pretty.c:1801
#6 0x5628e97cdb24 in strbuf_expand strbuf.c:429
#7 0x5628e96ab060 in repo_format_commit_message pretty.c:1869
#8 0x5628e96acd0f in pretty_print_commit pretty.c:2161
#9 0x5628e95a44c8 in show_log log-tree.c:781
#10 0x5628e95a76ba in log_tree_commit log-tree.c:1117
#11 0x5628e922bed5 in cmd_log_walk_no_free builtin/log.c:508
#12 0x5628e922c35b in cmd_log_walk builtin/log.c:549
#13 0x5628e922f1a2 in cmd_log builtin/log.c:883
#14 0x5628e9106993 in run_builtin git.c:466
#15 0x5628e9107397 in handle_builtin git.c:721
#16 0x5628e9107b07 in run_argv git.c:788
#17 0x5628e91088a7 in cmd_main git.c:923
#18 0x5628e939d682 in main common-main.c:57
#19 0x7f2127c3c28f (/usr/lib/libc.so.6+0x2328f)
#20 0x7f2127c3c349 in __libc_start_main (/usr/lib/libc.so.6+0x23349)
#21 0x5628e91020e4 in _start ../sysdeps/x86_64/start.S:115
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow /usr/src/debug/gcc/libsanitizer/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_common_interceptors.inc:827 in __interceptor_memcpy
Shadow bytes around the buggy address:
0x0fe458c572a0: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
0x0fe458c572b0: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
0x0fe458c572c0: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
0x0fe458c572d0: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
0x0fe458c572e0: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
=>0x0fe458c572f0: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa[fa]
0x0fe458c57300: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0fe458c57310: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0fe458c57320: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0fe458c57330: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0x0fe458c57340: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Shadow byte legend (one shadow byte represents 8 application bytes):
Addressable: 00
Partially addressable: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
Heap left redzone: fa
Freed heap region: fd
Stack left redzone: f1
Stack mid redzone: f2
Stack right redzone: f3
Stack after return: f5
Stack use after scope: f8
Global redzone: f9
Global init order: f6
Poisoned by user: f7
Container overflow: fc
Array cookie: ac
Intra object redzone: bb
ASan internal: fe
Left alloca redzone: ca
Right alloca redzone: cb
==8340==ABORTING
The pretty format can also be used in `git archive` operations via the
`export-subst` attribute. So this is what in our opinion makes this a
critical issue in the context of Git forges which allow to download an
archive of user supplied Git repositories.
Fix this vulnerability by using `size_t` instead of `int` to track the
string lengths. Add tests which detect this vulnerability when Git is
compiled with the address sanitizer.
Reported-by: Joern Schneeweisz <jschneeweisz@gitlab.com>
Original-patch-by: Joern Schneeweisz <jschneeweisz@gitlab.com>
Modified-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttalorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Allow tests that assume a 64-bit `size_t` to be skipped in 32-bit
platforms and regardless of the size of `long`.
This imitates the `LONG_IS_64BIT` prerequisite.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Similar as with the preceding commit, start ignoring gitattributes files
that are overly large to protect us against out-of-bounds reads and
writes caused by integer overflows. Unfortunately, we cannot just define
"overly large" in terms of any preexisting limits in the codebase.
Instead, we choose a very conservative limit of 100MB. This is plenty of
room for specifying gitattributes, and incidentally it is also the limit
for blob sizes for GitHub. While we don't want GitHub to dictate limits
here, it is still sensible to use this fact for an informed decision
given that it is hosting a huge set of repositories. Furthermore, over
at GitLab we scanned a subset of repositories for their root-level
attribute files. We found that 80% of them have a gitattributes file
smaller than 100kB, 99.99% have one smaller than 1MB, and only a single
repository had one that was almost 3MB in size. So enforcing a limit of
100MB seems to give us ample of headroom.
With this limit in place we can be reasonably sure that there is no easy
way to exploit the gitattributes file via integer overflows anymore.
Furthermore, it protects us against resource exhaustion caused by
allocating the in-memory data structures required to represent the
parsed attributes.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are two different code paths to read gitattributes: once via a
file, and once via the index. These two paths used to behave differently
because when reading attributes from a file, we used fgets(3P) with a
buffer size of 2kB. Consequentially, we silently truncate line lengths
when lines are longer than that and will then parse the remainder of the
line as a new pattern. It goes without saying that this is entirely
unexpected, but it's even worse that the behaviour depends on how the
gitattributes are parsed.
While this is simply wrong, the silent truncation saves us with the
recently discovered vulnerabilities that can cause out-of-bound writes
or reads with unreasonably long lines due to integer overflows. As the
common path is to read gitattributes via the worktree file instead of
via the index, we can assume that any gitattributes file that had lines
longer than that is already broken anyway. So instead of lifting the
limit here, we can double down on it to fix the vulnerabilities.
Introduce an explicit line length limit of 2kB that is shared across all
paths that read attributes and ignore any line that hits this limit
while printing a warning.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When reading attributes from a file we use fgets(3P) with a buffer size
of 2048 bytes. This means that as soon as a line exceeds the buffer size
we split it up into multiple parts and parse each of them as a separate
pattern line. This is of course not what the user intended, and even
worse the behaviour is inconsistent with how we read attributes from the
index.
Fix this bug by converting the code to use `strbuf_getline()` instead.
This will indeed read in the whole line, which may theoretically lead to
an out-of-memory situation when the gitattributes file is huge. We're
about to reject any gitattributes files larger than 100MB in the next
commit though, which makes this less of a concern.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Explicitly cloning over the "file://" protocol in t1092 in preparation
for merging a security release which will change the default value of
this configuration to be "user".
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Explicitly cloning over the "file://" protocol in t1092 in preparation
for merging a security release which will change the default value of
this configuration to be "user".
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
When git-shell is run in interactive mode (which must be enabled by
creating $HOME/git-shell-commands), it reads commands from stdin, one
per line, and executes them.
We read the commands with git_read_line_interactively(), which uses a
strbuf under the hood. That means we'll accept an input of arbitrary
size (limited only by how much heap we can allocate). That creates two
problems:
- the rest of the code is not prepared to handle large inputs. The
most serious issue here is that split_cmdline() uses "int" for most
of its types, which can lead to integer overflow and out-of-bounds
array reads and writes. But even with that fixed, we assume that we
can feed the command name to snprintf() (via xstrfmt()), which is
stuck for historical reasons using "int", and causes it to fail (and
even trigger a BUG() call).
- since the point of git-shell is to take input from untrusted or
semi-trusted clients, it's a mild denial-of-service. We'll allocate
as many bytes as the client sends us (actually twice as many, since
we immediately duplicate the buffer).
We can fix both by just limiting the amount of per-command input we're
willing to receive.
We should also fix split_cmdline(), of course, which is an accident
waiting to happen, but that can come on top. Most calls to
split_cmdline(), including the other one in git-shell, are OK because
they are reading from an OS-provided argv, which is limited in practice.
This patch should eliminate the immediate vulnerabilities.
I picked 4MB as an arbitrary limit. It's big enough that nobody should
ever run into it in practice (since the point is to run the commands via
exec, we're subject to OS limits which are typically much lower). But
it's small enough that allocating it isn't that big a deal.
The code is mostly just swapping out fgets() for the strbuf call, but we
have to add a few niceties like flushing and trimming line endings. We
could simplify things further by putting the buffer on the stack, but
4MB is probably a bit much there. Note that we'll _always_ allocate 4MB,
which for normal, non-malicious requests is more than we would before
this patch. But on the other hand, other git programs are happy to use
96MB for a delta cache. And since we'd never touch most of those pages,
on a lazy-allocating OS like Linux they won't even get allocated to
actual RAM.
The ideal would be a version of strbuf_getline() that accepted a maximum
value. But for a minimal vulnerability fix, let's keep things localized
and simple. We can always refactor further on top.
The included test fails in an obvious way with ASan or UBSan (which
notice the integer overflow and out-of-bounds reads). Without them, it
fails in a less obvious way: we may segfault, or we may try to xstrfmt()
a long string, leading to a BUG(). Either way, it fails reliably before
this patch, and passes with it. Note that we don't need an EXPENSIVE
prereq on it. It does take 10-15s to fail before this patch, but with
the new limit, we fail almost immediately (and the perl process
generating 2GB of data exits via SIGPIPE).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
We have no tests of even basic functionality of git-shell. Let's add a
couple of obvious ones. This will serve as a framework for adding tests
for new things we fix, as well as making sure we don't screw anything up
too badly while doing so.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To prepare for the default value of `protocol.file.allow` to change to
"user", ensure tests that rely on local submodules can initialize them
over the file protocol.
Tests that interact with submodules a handful of times use
`test_config_global`.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To prepare for the default value of `protocol.file.allow` to change to
"user", ensure tests that rely on local submodules can initialize them
over the file protocol.
Tests that only need to interact with submodules in a limited capacity
have individual Git commands annotated with the appropriate
configuration via `-c`. Tests that interact with submodules a handful of
times use `test_config_global` instead. Test scripts that rely on
submodules throughout use a `git config --global` during a setup test
towards the beginning of the script.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To prepare for the default value of `protocol.file.allow` to change to
"user", ensure tests that rely on local submodules can initialize them
over the file protocol.
Tests that only need to interact with submodules in a limited capacity
have individual Git commands annotated with the appropriate
configuration via `-c`.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To prepare for the default value of `protocol.file.allow` to change to
"user", ensure tests that rely on local submodules can initialize them
over the file protocol.
Tests that only need to interact with submodules in a limited capacity
have individual Git commands annotated with the appropriate
configuration via `-c`. Tests that interact with submodules a handful of
times use `test_config_global` instead. Test scripts that rely on
submodules throughout use a `git config --global` during a setup test
towards the beginning of the script.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To prepare for the default value of `protocol.file.allow` to change to
"user", ensure tests that rely on local submodules can initialize them
over the file protocol.
Tests that only need to interact with submodules in a limited capacity
have individual Git commands annotated with the appropriate
configuration via `-c`. Tests that interact with submodules a handful of
times use `test_config_global` instead. Test scripts that rely on
submodules throughout use a `git config --global` during a setup test
towards the beginning of the script.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To prepare for the default value of `protocol.file.allow` to change to
"user", ensure tests that rely on local submodules can initialize them
over the file protocol.
Tests that only need to interact with submodules in a limited capacity
have individual Git commands annotated with the appropriate
configuration via `-c`. Tests that interact with submodules a handful of
times use `test_config_global` instead. Test scripts that rely on
submodules throughout use a `git config --global` during a setup test
towards the beginning of the script.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To prepare for the default value of `protocol.file.allow` to change to
"user", ensure tests that rely on local submodules can initialize them
over the file protocol.
Tests that only need to interact with submodules in a limited capacity
have individual Git commands annotated with the appropriate
configuration via `-c`. Tests that interact with submodules a handful of
times use `test_config_global` instead. Test scripts that rely on
submodules throughout use a `git config --global` during a setup test
towards the beginning of the script.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To prepare for the default value of `protocol.file.allow` to change to
"user", ensure tests that rely on local submodules can initialize them
over the file protocol.
Tests that only need to interact with submodules in a limited capacity
have individual Git commands annotated with the appropriate
configuration via `-c`. Tests that interact with submodules a handful of
times use `test_config_global` instead.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
To prepare for changing the default value of `protocol.file.allow` to
"user", update the `prolog()` function in lib-submodule-update to allow
submodules to be cloned over the file protocol.
This is used by a handful of submodule-related test scripts, which
themselves will have to tweak the value of `protocol.file.allow` in
certain locations. Those will be done in subsequent commits.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
When cloning a repository with `--local`, Git relies on either making a
hardlink or copy to every file in the "objects" directory of the source
repository. This is done through the callpath `cmd_clone()` ->
`clone_local()` -> `copy_or_link_directory()`.
The way this optimization works is by enumerating every file and
directory recursively in the source repository's `$GIT_DIR/objects`
directory, and then either making a copy or hardlink of each file. The
only exception to this rule is when copying the "alternates" file, in
which case paths are rewritten to be absolute before writing a new
"alternates" file in the destination repo.
One quirk of this implementation is that it dereferences symlinks when
cloning. This behavior was most recently modified in 36596fd2df (clone:
better handle symlinked files at .git/objects/, 2019-07-10), which
attempted to support `--local` clones of repositories with symlinks in
their objects directory in a platform-independent way.
Unfortunately, this behavior of dereferencing symlinks (that is,
creating a hardlink or copy of the source's link target in the
destination repository) can be used as a component in attacking a
victim by inadvertently exposing the contents of file stored outside of
the repository.
Take, for example, a repository that stores a Dockerfile and is used to
build Docker images. When building an image, Docker copies the directory
contents into the VM, and then instructs the VM to execute the
Dockerfile at the root of the copied directory. This protects against
directory traversal attacks by copying symbolic links as-is without
dereferencing them.
That is, if a user has a symlink pointing at their private key material
(where the symlink is present in the same directory as the Dockerfile,
but the key itself is present outside of that directory), the key is
unreadable to a Docker image, since the link will appear broken from the
container's point of view.
This behavior enables an attack whereby a victim is convinced to clone a
repository containing an embedded submodule (with a URL like
"file:///proc/self/cwd/path/to/submodule") which has a symlink pointing
at a path containing sensitive information on the victim's machine. If a
user is tricked into doing this, the contents at the destination of
those symbolic links are exposed to the Docker image at runtime.
One approach to preventing this behavior is to recreate symlinks in the
destination repository. But this is problematic, since symlinking the
objects directory are not well-supported. (One potential problem is that
when sharing, e.g. a "pack" directory via symlinks, different writers
performing garbage collection may consider different sets of objects to
be reachable, enabling a situation whereby garbage collecting one
repository may remove reachable objects in another repository).
Instead, prohibit the local clone optimization when any symlinks are
present in the `$GIT_DIR/objects` directory of the source repository.
Users may clone the repository again by prepending the "file://" scheme
to their clone URL, or by adding the `--no-local` option to their `git
clone` invocation.
The directory iterator used by `copy_or_link_directory()` must no longer
dereference symlinks (i.e., it *must* call `lstat()` instead of `stat()`
in order to discover whether or not there are symlinks present). This has
no bearing on the overall behavior, since we will immediately `die()` on
encounter a symlink.
Note that t5604.33 suggests that we do support local clones with
symbolic links in the source repository's objects directory, but this
was likely unintentional, or at least did not take into consideration
the problem with sharing parts of the objects directory with symbolic
links at the time. Update this test to reflect which options are and
aren't supported.
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
* maint-2.33:
Git 2.33.4
Git 2.32.3
Git 2.31.4
Git 2.30.5
setup: tighten ownership checks post CVE-2022-24765
git-compat-util: allow root to access both SUDO_UID and root owned
t0034: add negative tests and allow git init to mostly work under sudo
git-compat-util: avoid failing dir ownership checks if running privileged
t: regression git needs safe.directory when using sudo
* maint-2.32:
Git 2.32.3
Git 2.31.4
Git 2.30.5
setup: tighten ownership checks post CVE-2022-24765
git-compat-util: allow root to access both SUDO_UID and root owned
t0034: add negative tests and allow git init to mostly work under sudo
git-compat-util: avoid failing dir ownership checks if running privileged
t: regression git needs safe.directory when using sudo
* maint-2.31:
Git 2.31.4
Git 2.30.5
setup: tighten ownership checks post CVE-2022-24765
git-compat-util: allow root to access both SUDO_UID and root owned
t0034: add negative tests and allow git init to mostly work under sudo
git-compat-util: avoid failing dir ownership checks if running privileged
t: regression git needs safe.directory when using sudo
* maint-2.30:
Git 2.30.5
setup: tighten ownership checks post CVE-2022-24765
git-compat-util: allow root to access both SUDO_UID and root owned
t0034: add negative tests and allow git init to mostly work under sudo
git-compat-util: avoid failing dir ownership checks if running privileged
t: regression git needs safe.directory when using sudo
Previous changes introduced a regression which will prevent root for
accessing repositories owned by thyself if using sudo because SUDO_UID
takes precedence.
Loosen that restriction by allowing root to access repositories owned
by both uid by default and without having to add a safe.directory
exception.
A previous workaround that was documented in the tests is no longer
needed so it has been removed together with its specially crafted
prerequisite.
Helped-by: Johanness Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a support library that provides one function that can be used
to run a "scriplet" of commands through sudo and that helps invoking
sudo in the slightly awkward way that is required to ensure it doesn't
block the call (if shell was allowed as tested in the prerequisite)
and it doesn't run the command through a different shell than the one
we intended.
Add additional negative tests as suggested by Junio and that use a
new workspace that is owned by root.
Document a regression that was introduced by previous commits where
root won't be able anymore to access directories they own unless
SUDO_UID is removed from their environment.
The tests document additional ways that this new restriction could
be worked around and the documentation explains why it might be instead
considered a feature, but a "fix" is planned for a future change.
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
bdc77d1d68 (Add a function to determine whether a path is owned by the
current user, 2022-03-02) checks for the effective uid of the running
process using geteuid() but didn't account for cases where that user was
root (because git was invoked through sudo or a compatible tool) and the
original uid that repository trusted for its config was no longer known,
therefore failing the following otherwise safe call:
guy@renard ~/Software/uncrustify $ sudo git describe --always --dirty
[sudo] password for guy:
fatal: unsafe repository ('/home/guy/Software/uncrustify' is owned by someone else)
Attempt to detect those cases by using the environment variables that
those tools create to keep track of the original user id, and do the
ownership check using that instead.
This assumes the environment the user is running on after going
privileged can't be tampered with, and also adds code to restrict that
the new behavior only applies if running as root, therefore keeping the
most common case, which runs unprivileged, from changing, but because of
that, it will miss cases where sudo (or an equivalent) was used to change
to another unprivileged user or where the equivalent tool used to raise
privileges didn't track the original id in a sudo compatible way.
Because of compatibility with sudo, the code assumes that uid_t is an
unsigned integer type (which is not required by the standard) but is used
that way in their codebase to generate SUDO_UID. In systems where uid_t
is signed, sudo might be also patched to NOT be unsigned and that might
be able to trigger an edge case and a bug (as described in the code), but
it is considered unlikely to happen and even if it does, the code would
just mostly fail safely, so there was no attempt either to detect it or
prevent it by the code, which is something that might change in the future,
based on expected user feedback.
Reported-by: Guy Maurel <guy.j@maurel.de>
Helped-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Randall Becker <rsbecker@nexbridge.com>
Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Originally reported after release of v2.35.2 (and other maint branches)
for CVE-2022-24765 and blocking otherwise harmless commands that were
done using sudo in a repository that was owned by the user.
Add a new test script with very basic support to allow running git
commands through sudo, so a reproduction could be implemented and that
uses only `git status` as a proxy of the issue reported.
Note that because of the way sudo interacts with the system, a much
more complete integration with the test framework will require a lot
more work and that was therefore intentionally punted for now.
The current implementation requires the execution of a special cleanup
function which should always be kept as the last "test" or otherwise
the standard cleanup functions will fail because they can't remove
the root owned directories that are used. This also means that if
failures are found while running, the specifics of the failure might
not be kept for further debugging and if the test was interrupted, it
will be necessary to clean the working directory manually before
restarting by running:
$ sudo rm -rf trash\ directory.t0034-root-safe-directory/
The test file also uses at least one initial "setup" test that creates
a parallel execution directory under the "root" sub directory, which
should be used as top level directory for all repositories that are
used in this test file. Unlike all other tests the repository provided
by the test framework should go unused.
Special care should be taken when invoking commands through sudo, since
the environment is otherwise independent from what the test framework
setup and might have changed the values for HOME, SHELL and dropped
several relevant environment variables for your test. Indeed `git status`
was used as a proxy because it doesn't even require commits in the
repository to work and usually doesn't require much from the environment
to run, but a future patch will add calls to `git init` and that will
fail to honor the default branch name, unless that setting is NOT
provided through an environment variable (which means even a CI run
could fail that test if enabled incorrectly).
A new SUDO prerequisite is provided that does some sanity checking
to make sure the sudo command that will be used allows for passwordless
execution as root without restrictions and doesn't mess with git's
execution path. This matches what is provided by the macOS agents that
are used as part of GitHub actions and probably nowhere else.
Most of those characteristics make this test mostly only suitable for
CI, but it might be executed locally if special care is taken to provide
for all of them in the local configuration and maybe making use of the
sudo credential cache by first invoking sudo, entering your password if
needed, and then invoking the test with:
$ GIT_TEST_ALLOW_SUDO=YES ./t0034-root-safe-directory.sh
If it fails to run, then it means your local setup wouldn't work for the
test because of the configuration sudo has or other system settings, and
things that might help are to comment out sudo's secure_path config, and
make sure that the account you are using has no restrictions on the
commands it can run through sudo, just like is provided for the user in
the CI.
For example (assuming a username of marta for you) something probably
similar to the following entry in your /etc/sudoers (or equivalent) file:
marta ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
Reported-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
