When reset_repository_shallow() is called, Git clears its cache of
shallow information, so that if shallow information is re-requested, Git
will read fresh data from disk instead of reusing its stale cached data.
However, the cache of commit grafts is not likewise cleared, even though
there are commit grafts created from shallow information.
This means that if on-disk shallow information were to be updated and
then a commit-graft-using codepath were run (for example, a revision
walk), Git would be using stale commit graft information. This can be
seen from the test in this patch, in which Git performs a revision walk
(to check for changed submodules) after a fetch with --update-shallow.
Therefore, clear the cache of commit grafts whenever
reset_repository_shallow() is called.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
It is useful to know when a branch first diverged in history
from some integration branch in order to be able to enumerate
the user's local changes. However, these local changes can
include arbitrary merges, so it is necessary to ignore this
merge structure when finding the divergence point.
In order to do this, teach the "rev-list" family to accept
"--exclude-first-parent-only", which restricts the traversal
of excluded commits to only follow first parent links.
-A-----E-F-G--main
\ / /
B-C-D--topic
In this example, the goal is to return the set {B, C, D} which
represents a topic branch that has been merged into main branch.
`git rev-list topic ^main` will end up returning no commits
since excluding main will end up traversing the commits on topic
as well. `git rev-list --exclude-first-parent-only topic ^main`
however will return {B, C, D} as desired.
Add docs for the new flag, and clarify the doc for --first-parent
to indicate that it applies to traversing the set of included
commits only.
Signed-off-by: Jerry Zhang <jerry@skydio.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
All of our callers have an object_id, and are just dereferencing the
hash field to pass to us. Let's take the actual object_id instead. We
still access the hash to pass to hash_pos, but it's a step in the right
direction.
This makes the callers slightly simpler, but also gets rid of the
untyped pointer, as well as the now-inaccurate name "sha1".
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The changed-path Bloom filter is improved using ideas from an
independent implementation.
* sg/commit-graph-cleanups:
commit-graph: simplify write_commit_graph_file() #2
commit-graph: simplify write_commit_graph_file() #1
commit-graph: simplify parse_commit_graph() #2
commit-graph: simplify parse_commit_graph() #1
commit-graph: clean up #includes
diff.h: drop diff_tree_oid() & friends' return value
commit-slab: add a function to deep free entries on the slab
commit-graph-format.txt: all multi-byte numbers are in network byte order
commit-graph: fix parsing the Chunk Lookup table
tree-walk.c: don't match submodule entries for 'submod/anything'
clear_##slabname() frees only the memory allocated for a commit slab
itself, but entries in the commit slab might own additional memory
outside the slab that should be freed as well. We already have (at
least) one such commit slab, and this patch series is about to add one
more.
To free all additional memory owned by entries on the commit slab the
user of such a slab could iterate over all commits it knows about,
peek whether there is a valid entry associated with each commit, and
free the additional memory, if any. Or it could rely on intimate
knowledge about the internals of the commit slab implementation, and
could itself iterate directly through all entries in the slab, and
free the additional memory. Or it could just leak the additional
memory...
Introduce deep_clear_##slabname() to allow releasing memory owned by
commit slab entries by invoking the 'void free_fn(elemtype *ptr)'
function specified as parameter for each entry in the slab.
Use it in get_shallow_commits() in 'shallow.c' to replace an
open-coded iteration over a commit slab's entries.
Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix in-core inconsistency after fetching into a shallow repository
that broke the code to write out commit-graph.
* tb/reset-shallow:
shallow.c: use '{commit,rollback}_shallow_file'
t5537: use test_write_lines and indented heredocs for readability
In previous patches, the functions 'commit_shallow_file' and
'rollback_shallow_file' were introduced to reset the shallowness
validity checks on a repository after potentially modifying
'.git/shallow'.
These functions can be made safer by wrapping the 'struct lockfile *' in
a new type, 'shallow_lock', so that they cannot be called with a raw
lock (and potentially misused by other code that happens to possess a
lockfile, but has nothing to do with shallowness).
This patch introduces that type as a thin wrapper around 'struct
lockfile', and updates the two aforementioned functions and their
callers to use it.
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Helped-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are many functions in commit.h that are more related to shallow
repositories than they are to any sort of generic commit machinery.
Likely this began when there were only a few shallow-related functions,
and commit.h seemed a reasonable enough place to put them.
But, now there are a good number of shallow-related functions, and
placing them all in 'commit.h' doesn't make sense.
This patch extracts a 'shallow.h', which takes all of the declarations
from 'commit.h' for functions which already exist in 'shallow.c'. We
will bring the remaining shallow-related functions defined in 'commit.c'
in a subsequent patch.
For now, move only the ones that already are implemented in 'shallow.c',
and update the necessary includes.
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
In bd0b42aed3 (fetch-pack: do not take shallow lock unnecessarily,
2019-01-10), the author noted that 'is_repository_shallow' produces
visible side-effect(s) by setting 'is_shallow' and 'shallow_stat'.
This is a problem for e.g., fetching with '--update-shallow' in a
shallow repository with 'fetch.writeCommitGraph' enabled, since the
update to '.git/shallow' will cause Git to think that the repository
isn't shallow when it is, thereby circumventing the commit-graph
compatibility check.
This causes problems in shallow repositories with at least shallow refs
that have at least one ancestor (since the client won't have those
objects, and therefore can't take the reachability closure over commits
when writing a commit-graph).
Address this by introducing thin wrappers over 'commit_lock_file' and
'rollback_lock_file' for use specifically when the lock is held over
'.git/shallow'. These wrappers (appropriately called
'commit_shallow_file' and 'rollback_shallow_file') call into their
respective functions in 'lockfile.h', but additionally reset validity
checks used by the shallow machinery.
Replace each instance of 'commit_lock_file' and 'rollback_lock_file'
with 'commit_shallow_file' and 'rollback_shallow_file' when the lock
being held is over the '.git/shallow' file.
As a result, 'prune_shallow' can now only be called once (since
'check_shallow_file_for_update' will die after calling
'reset_repository_shallow'). But, this is OK since we only call
'prune_shallow' at most once per process.
Helped-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We renamed the actual data structure in 910650d2f8 (Rename sha1_array to
oid_array, 2017-03-31), but the file is still called sha1-array. Besides
being slightly confusing, it makes it more annoying to grep for leftover
occurrences of "sha1" in various files, because the header is included
in so many places.
Let's complete the transition by renaming the source and header files
(and fixing up a few comment references).
I kept the "-" in the name, as that seems to be our style; cf.
fc1395f4a4 (sha1_file.c: rename to use dash in file name, 2018-04-10).
We also have oidmap.h and oidset.h without any punctuation, but those
are "struct oidmap" and "struct oidset" in the code. We _could_ make
this "oidarray" to match, but somehow it looks uglier to me because of
the length of "array" (plus it would be a very invasive patch for little
gain).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Correct code that tried to reference all entries in a sparse array
of pointers by mistake.
* as/shallow-slab-use-fix:
shallow.c: don't free unallocated slabs
Found with "git grep '^#include ' '*.c' | sort | uniq -d".
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Fix possible segfault when cloning a submodule shallow.
Signed-off-by: Ali Utku Selen <auselen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
There are a couple of places where 'struct repository' is already passed
around, but the_repository is still used. Use the right repo.
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When fetching using protocol v2, the remote may send a "shallow-info"
section if the client is shallow. If so, Git as the client currently
takes the shallow file lock, even if the "shallow-info" section is
empty.
This is not a problem except that Git does not support taking the
shallow file lock after modifying the shallow file, because
is_repository_shallow() stores information that is never cleared. And
this take-after-modify occurs when Git does a tag-following fetch from a
shallow repository on a transport that does not support tag following
(since in this case, 2 fetches are performed).
To solve this issue, take the shallow file lock (and perform all other
shallow processing) only if the "shallow-info" section is non-empty;
otherwise, behave as if it were empty.
A full solution (probably, ensuring that any action of committing
shallow file locks also includes clearing the information stored by
is_repository_shallow()) would solve the issue without need for this
patch, but this patch is independently useful (as an optimization to
prevent writing a file in an unnecessary case), hence why I wrote it. I
have included a NEEDSWORK outlining the full solution.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git repack" in a shallow clone did not correctly update the
shallow points in the repository, leading to a repository that
does not pass fsck.
* js/shallow-and-fetch-prune:
repack -ad: prune the list of shallow commits
shallow: offer to prune only non-existing entries
repack: point out a bug handling stale shallow info
The `prune_shallow()` function wants a full reachability check to be
completed before it goes to work, to ensure that all unreachable entries
are removed from the shallow file.
However, in the upcoming patch we do not even want to go that far. We
really only need to remove entries corresponding to pruned commits, i.e.
to commits that no longer exist.
Let's support that use case.
Rather than extending the signature of `prune_shallow()` to accept
another Boolean, let's turn it into a bit field and declare constants,
for readability.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Various codepaths in the core-ish part learn to work on an
arbitrary in-core index structure, not necessarily the default
instance "the_index".
* nd/the-index: (23 commits)
revision.c: reduce implicit dependency the_repository
revision.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
ws.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
tree-diff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
submodule.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
line-range.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
userdiff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
rerere.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
sha1-file.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
patch-ids.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
merge.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
merge-blobs.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
ll-merge.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
diff-lib.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
read-cache.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
diff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
grep.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
diff.c: remove the_index dependency in textconv() functions
blame.c: rename "repo" argument to "r"
combine-diff.c: remove implicit dependency on the_index
...
These methods are now declared in commit-reach.h. Remove them from
commit.h and add new include statements in all files that require these
declarations.
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a repository argument to allow the callers of deref_tag
to be more specific about which repository to act on. This is a small
mechanical change; it doesn't change the implementation to handle
repositories other than the_repository yet.
As with the previous commits, use a macro to catch callers passing a
repository other than the_repository at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a repository argument to allow callers of lookup_commit to be more
specific about which repository to handle. This is a small mechanical
change; it doesn't change the implementation to handle repositories
other than the_repository yet.
As with the previous commits, use a macro to catch callers passing a
repository other than the_repository at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a repository argument to allow callers of
lookup_commit_reference_gently to be more specific about which
repository to handle. This is a small mechanical change; it doesn't
change the implementation to handle repositories other than
the_repository yet.
As with the previous commits, use a macro to catch callers passing a
repository other than the_repository at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git fetch --shallow-since=<cutoff>" that specifies the cut-off
point that is newer than the existing history used to end up
grabbing the entire history. Such a request now errors out.
* nd/reject-empty-shallow-request:
upload-pack: reject shallow requests that would return nothing
The in-core "commit" object had an all-purpose "void *util" field,
which was tricky to use especially in library-ish part of the
code. All of the existing uses of the field has been migrated to a
more dedicated "commit-slab" mechanism and the field is eliminated.
* nd/commit-util-to-slab:
commit.h: delete 'util' field in struct commit
merge: use commit-slab in merge remote desc instead of commit->util
log: use commit-slab in prepare_bases() instead of commit->util
show-branch: note about its object flags usage
show-branch: use commit-slab for commit-name instead of commit->util
name-rev: use commit-slab for rev-name instead of commit->util
bisect.c: use commit-slab for commit weight instead of commit->util
revision.c: use commit-slab for show_source
sequencer.c: use commit-slab to associate todo items to commits
sequencer.c: use commit-slab to mark seen commits
shallow.c: use commit-slab for commit depth instead of commit->util
describe: use commit-slab for commit names instead of commit->util
blame: use commit-slab for blame suspects instead of commit->util
commit-slab: support shared commit-slab
commit-slab.h: code split
Shallow clones with --shallow-since or --shalow-exclude work by
running rev-list to get all reachable commits, then draw a boundary
between reachable and unreachable and send "shallow" requests based on
that.
The code does miss one corner case: if rev-list returns nothing, we'll
have no border and we'll send no shallow requests back to the client
(i.e. no history cuts). This essentially means a full clone (or a full
branch if the client requests just one branch). One example is the
oldest commit is older than what is specified by --shallow-since.
To avoid this, if rev-list returns nothing, we abort the clone/fetch.
The user could adjust their request (e.g. --shallow-since further back
in the past) and retry.
Another possible option for this case is to fall back to a default
depth (like depth 1). But I don't like too much magic that way because
we may return something unexpected to the user. If they request
"history since 2008" and we return a single depth at 2000, that might
break stuff for them. It is better to tell them that something is
wrong and let them take the best course of action.
Note that we need to die() in get_shallow_commits_by_rev_list()
instead of just checking for empty result from its caller
deepen_by_rev_list() and handling the error there. The reason is,
empty result could be a valid case: if you have commits in year 2013
and you request --shallow-since=year.2000 then you should get a full
clone (i.e. empty result).
Reported-by: Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Developer support update, by using BUG() macro instead of die() to
mark codepaths that should not happen more clearly.
* js/use-bug-macro:
BUG_exit_code: fix sparse "symbol not declared" warning
Convert remaining die*(BUG) messages
Replace all die("BUG: ...") calls by BUG() ones
run-command: use BUG() to report bugs, not die()
test-tool: help verifying BUG() code paths
It's done so that commit->util can be removed. See more explanation in
the commit that removes commit->util.
While at there, plug a leak for keeping track of depth in this code.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We need to convert the shallow functions all at the same time
as we move the data structures they operate on into the repository.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Migrate all git_path_* functions that are defined in path.c to take a
repository argument. Unlike other patches in this series, do not use the
#define trick, as we rewrite the whole function, which is rather small.
This doesn't migrate all the functions, as other builtins have their own
local path functions defined using GIT_PATH_FUNC. So keep that macro
around to serve the other locations.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a repository argument to allow callers of is_repository_shallow
to be more specific about which repository to handle. This is a small
mechanical change; it doesn't change the implementation to handle
repositories other than the_repository yet.
As with the previous commits, use a macro to catch callers passing a
repository other than the_repository at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a repository argument to allow callers of check_shallow_file_for_update
to be more specific about which repository to handle. This is a small
mechanical change; it doesn't change the implementation to handle
repositories other than the_repository yet.
As with the previous commits, use a macro to catch callers passing a
repository other than the_repository at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a repository argument to allow callers of register_shallow
to be more specific about which repository to handle. This is a small
mechanical change; it doesn't change the implementation to handle
repositories other than the_repository yet.
As with the previous commits, use a macro to catch callers passing a
repository other than the_repository at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a repository argument to allow callers of set_alternate_shallow_file
to be more specific about which repository to handle. This is a small
mechanical change; it doesn't change the implementation to handle
repositories other than the_repository yet.
As with the previous commits, use a macro to catch callers passing a
repository other than the_repository at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a repository argument to allow callers of lookup_commit_graft to
be more specific about which repository to handle. This is a small
mechanical change; it doesn't change the implementation to handle
repositories other than the_repository yet.
As with the previous commits, use a macro to catch callers passing a
repository other than the_repository at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add a repository argument to allow callers of register_commit_graft to
be more specific about which repository to handle. This is a small
mechanical change; it doesn't change the implementation to handle
repositories other than the_repository yet.
As with the previous commits, use a macro to catch callers passing a
repository other than the_repository at compile time.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
This should make these functions easier to find and cache.h less
overwhelming to read.
In particular, this moves:
- read_object_file
- oid_object_info
- write_object_file
As a result, most of the codebase needs to #include object-store.h.
In this patch the #include is only added to files that would fail to
compile otherwise. It would be better to #include wherever
identifiers from the header are used. That can happen later
when we have better tooling for it.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Placing `struct lock_file`s on the stack used to be a bad idea, because
the temp- and lockfile-machinery would keep a pointer into the struct.
But after 076aa2cbd (tempfile: auto-allocate tempfiles on heap,
2017-09-05), we can safely have lockfiles on the stack. (This applies
even if a user returns early, leaving a locked lock behind.)
These `struct lock_file`s are local to their respective functions and we
can drop their staticness.
For good measure, I have inspected these sites and come to believe that
they always release the lock, with the possible exception of bailing out
using `die()` or `exit()` or by returning from a `cmd_foo()`.
As pointed out by Jeff King, it would be bad if someone held on to a
`struct lock_file *` for some reason. After some grepping, I agree with
his findings: no-one appears to be doing that.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@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>
Memory leaks in various codepaths have been plugged.
* ma/leakplugs:
pack-bitmap[-write]: use `object_array_clear()`, don't leak
object_array: add and use `object_array_pop()`
object_array: use `object_array_clear()`, not `free()`
leak_pending: use `object_array_clear()`, not `free()`
commit: fix memory leak in `reduce_heads()`
builtin/commit: fix memory leak in `prepare_index()`
Many codepaths did not diagnose write failures correctly when disks
go full, due to their misuse of write_in_full() helper function,
which have been corrected.
* jk/write-in-full-fix:
read_pack_header: handle signed/unsigned comparison in read result
config: flip return value of store_write_*()
notes-merge: use ssize_t for write_in_full() return value
pkt-line: check write_in_full() errors against "< 0"
convert less-trivial versions of "write_in_full() != len"
avoid "write_in_full(fd, buf, len) != len" pattern
get-tar-commit-id: check write_in_full() return against 0
config: avoid "write_in_full(fd, buf, len) < len" pattern
In a couple of places, we pop objects off an object array `foo` by
decreasing `foo.nr`. We access `foo.nr` in many places, but most if not
all other times we do so read-only, e.g., as we iterate over the array.
But when we change `foo.nr` behind the array's back, it feels a bit
nasty and looks like it might leak memory.
Leaks happen if the popped element has an allocated `name` or `path`.
At the moment, that is not the case. Still, 1) the object array might
gain more fields that want to be freed, 2) a code path where we pop
might start using names or paths, 3) one of these code paths might be
copied to somewhere where we do, and 4) using a dedicated function for
popping is conceptually cleaner.
Introduce and use `object_array_pop()` instead. Release memory in the
new function. Document that popping an object leaves the associated
elements in limbo.
The converted places were identified by grepping for "\.nr\>" and
looking for "--".
Make the new function return NULL on an empty array. This is consistent
with `pop_commit()` and allows the following:
while ((o = object_array_pop(&foo)) != NULL) {
// do something
}
But as noted above, we don't need to go out of our way to avoid reading
`foo.nr`. This is probably more readable:
while (foo.nr) {
... o = object_array_pop(&foo);
// do something
}
The name of `object_array_pop()` does not quite align with
`add_object_array()`. That is unfortunate. On the other hand, it matches
`object_array_clear()`. Arguably it's `add_...` that is the odd one out,
since it reads like it's used to "add" an "object array". For that
reason, side with `object_array_clear()`.
Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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>
The previous commit taught the tempfile code to give up
ownership over tempfiles that have been renamed or deleted.
That makes it possible to use a stack variable like this:
struct tempfile t;
create_tempfile(&t, ...);
...
if (!err)
rename_tempfile(&t, ...);
else
delete_tempfile(&t);
But doing it this way has a high potential for creating
memory errors. The tempfile we pass to create_tempfile()
ends up on a global linked list, and it's not safe for it to
go out of scope until we've called one of those two
deactivation functions.
Imagine that we add an early return from the function that
forgets to call delete_tempfile(). With a static or heap
tempfile variable, the worst case is that the tempfile hangs
around until the program exits (and some functions like
setup_shallow_temporary rely on this intentionally, creating
a tempfile and then leaving it for later cleanup).
But with a stack variable as above, this is a serious memory
error: the variable goes out of scope and may be filled with
garbage by the time the tempfile code looks at it. Let's
see if we can make it harder to get this wrong.
Since many callers need to allocate arbitrary numbers of
tempfiles, we can't rely on static storage as a general
solution. So we need to turn to the heap. We could just ask
all callers to pass us a heap variable, but that puts the
burden on them to call free() at the right time.
Instead, let's have the tempfile code handle the heap
allocation _and_ the deallocation (when the tempfile is
deactivated and removed from the list).
This changes the return value of all of the creation
functions. For the cleanup functions (delete and rename),
we'll add one extra bit of safety: instead of taking a
tempfile pointer, we'll take a pointer-to-pointer and set it
to NULL after freeing the object. This makes it safe to
double-call functions like delete_tempfile(), as the second
call treats the NULL input as a noop. Several callsites
follow this pattern.
The resulting patch does have a fair bit of noise, as each
caller needs to be converted to handle:
1. Storing a pointer instead of the struct itself.
2. Passing the pointer instead of taking the struct
address.
3. Handling a "struct tempfile *" return instead of a file
descriptor.
We could play games to make this less noisy. For example, by
defining the tempfile like this:
struct tempfile {
struct heap_allocated_part_of_tempfile {
int fd;
...etc
} *actual_data;
}
Callers would continue to have a "struct tempfile", and it
would be "active" only when the inner pointer was non-NULL.
But that just makes things more awkward in the long run.
There aren't that many callers, so we can simply bite
the bullet and adjust all of them. And the compiler makes it
easy for us to find them all.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When close_tempfile() fails, we delete the tempfile and
reset the fields of the tempfile struct. This makes it
easier for callers to return without cleaning up, but it
also makes this common pattern:
if (close_tempfile(tempfile))
return error_errno("error closing %s", tempfile->filename.buf);
wrong, because the "filename" field has been reset after the
failed close. And it's not easy to fix, as in many cases we
don't have another copy of the filename (e.g., if it was
created via one of the mks_tempfile functions, and we just
have the original template string).
Let's drop the feature that a failed close automatically
deletes the file. This puts the burden on the caller to do
the deletion themselves, but this isn't that big a deal.
Callers which do:
if (write(...) || close_tempfile(...)) {
delete_tempfile(...);
return -1;
}
already had to call delete when the write() failed, and so
aren't affected. Likewise, any caller which just calls die()
in the error path is OK; we'll delete the tempfile during
the atexit handler.
Because this patch changes the semantics of close_tempfile()
without changing its signature, all callers need to be
manually checked and converted to the new scheme. This patch
covers all in-tree callers, but there may be others for
not-yet-merged topics. To catch these, we rename the
function to close_tempfile_gently(), which will attract
compile-time attention to new callers. (Technically the
original could be considered "gentle" already in that it
didn't die() on errors, but this one is even more so).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If close_tempfile() encounters an error, then it deletes the
tempfile and resets the "struct tempfile". But many code
paths ignore the return value and continue to use the
tempfile. Instead, we should generally treat this the same
as a write() error.
Note that in the postimage of some of these cases our error
message will be bogus after a failed close because we look
at tempfile->filename (either directly or via get_tempfile_path).
But after the failed close resets the tempfile object, this
is guaranteed to be the empty string. That will be addressed
in a future patch (because there are many more cases of the
same problem than just these instances).
Note also in the hunk in gpg-interface.c that it's fine to
call delete_tempfile() in the error path, even if
close_tempfile() failed and already deleted the file. The
tempfile code is smart enough to know the second deletion is
a noop.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The setup_temporary_shallow() function creates a temporary
file, but we never access the tempfile struct outside of the
function. This is OK, since it means we'll just clean up the
tempfile on exit. But we can simplify the code a bit by
moving the global tempfile struct to the only function in
which it's used.
Note that it must remain "static" due to tempfile.c's
requirement that tempfile storage never goes away until
program exit.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
