If you feed nonsense config like:
git -c core.checkstat=foobar status
we'll silently ignore the unknown value, rather than reporting an error.
This goes all the way back to c08e4d5b5c (Enable minimal stat checking,
2013-01-22).
Detecting and complaining now is technically a backwards-incompatible
change, but I don't think anybody has any reason to use an invalid value
here. There are no historical values we'd want to allow for backwards
compatibility or anything like that. We are better off loudly telling
the user that their config may not be doing what they expect.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When parsing fsck.*, receive.fsck.*, or fetch.fsck.*, we don't check for
an implicit bool. So any of:
[fsck]
badTree
[receive "fsck"]
badTree
[fetch "fsck"]
badTree
will cause us to segfault. We can fix it with config_error_nonbool() in
the usual way, but we have to make a few more changes to get good error
messages. The problem is that all three spots do:
if (skip_prefix(var, "fsck.", &var))
to match and parse the actual message id. But that means that "var" now
just says "badTree" instead of "receive.fsck.badTree", making the
resulting message confusing. We can fix that by storing the parsed
message id in its own separate variable.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When parsing the "key", "command", and "cmd" trailer config, we just
make a copy of the value string. If we see an implicit bool like:
[trailer "foo"]
key
we'll segfault trying to copy a NULL pointer. We can fix this with the
usual config_error_nonbool() check.
I split this out from the other vanilla cases, because at first glance
it looks like a better fix here would be to move the NULL check out of
the switch statement. But it would change the behavior of other keys
like trailer.*.ifExists, where an implicit bool is interpreted as
EXISTS_DEFAULT.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
We record the submodule branch config value as a string, so config that
uses an implicit bool like:
[submodule "foo"]
branch
will cause us to segfault. Note that unlike most other config-parsing
bugs of this class, this can be triggered by parsing a bogus .gitmodules
file (which we might do after cloning a malicious repository).
I don't think the security implications are important, though. It's
always a strict NULL dereference, not an out-of-bounds read or write. So
we should reliably kill the process. That may be annoying, but the
impact is limited to the attacker preventing the victim from
successfully using "git clone --recurse-submodules", etc, on the
malicious repo.
The "branch" entry is the only one with this problem; other strings like
"path" and "url" already check for NULL.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When showing all config with "git help --all", we print the list of
defined aliases. But our config callback to do so does not check for a
NULL value, meaning a config block like:
[alias]
foo
will cause us to segfault. We should detect and complain about this in
the usual way.
Since this command is purely informational (and we aren't trying to run
the alias), we could perhaps just generate a warning and continue. But
this sort of misconfiguration should be pretty rare, and the error
message we will produce points directly to the line of config that needs
to be fixed. So just generating the usual error should be OK.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
If you have config with an implicit bool like:
[trace2]
envvars
we'll segfault, as we unconditionally try to xstrdup() the value. We
should instead detect and complain, as a boolean value has no meaning
here. The same is true for every variable in tr2_sysenv_settings (and
this patch covers them all, as we check them in a loop).
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
The "partialclone" extension config records a string, and hence it is an
error to have an implicit bool like:
[extensions]
partialclone
in your config. We should recognize and reject this, rather than
segfaulting (which is the current behavior). Note that it's OK to use
config_error_nonbool() here, even though the return value is an enum. We
explicitly document EXTENSION_ERROR as -1 for compatibility with
error(), etc.
This is the only extension value that has this problem. Most of the
others are bools that interpret this value naturally. The exception is
extensions.objectformat, which does correctly check for NULL.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
When the config parser sees an "implicit" bool like:
[core]
someVariable
it passes NULL to the config callback. Any callback code which expects a
string must check for NULL. This usually happens via helpers like
git_config_string(), etc, but some custom code forgets to do so and will
segfault.
These are all fairly vanilla cases where the solution is just the usual
pattern of:
if (!value)
return config_error_nonbool(var);
though note that in a few cases we have to split initializers like:
int some_var = initializer();
into:
int some_var;
if (!value)
return config_error_nonbool(var);
some_var = initializer();
There are still some broken instances after this patch, which I'll
address on their own in individual patches after this one.
Reported-by: Carlos Andrés Ramírez Cataño <antaigroupltda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"To dereference" and "to peel" were sometimes used in in-code
comments and documentation but without description in the glossary.
* vd/glossary-dereference-peel:
glossary: add definitions for dereference & peel
A few stray single quotes crept into the usage string in a2ce608244
(send-email docs: add format-patch options, 2021-10-25). Remove them.
Signed-off-by: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Add 'gitglossary' definitions for "dereference" (as it used for both symrefs
and objects) and "peel". These terms are used in options and documentation
throughout Git, but they are not clearly defined anywhere and the behavior
they refer to depends heavily on context. Provide explicit definitions to
clarify existing documentation to users and help contributors to use the
most appropriate terminology possible in their additions to Git.
Update other definitions in the glossary that use the term "dereference" to
link to 'def_dereference'.
Signed-off-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
"git rev-list --unpacked --objects" failed to exclude packed
non-commit objects, which has been corrected.
* tb/rev-list-unpacked-fix:
pack-bitmap: drop --unpacked non-commit objects from results
list-objects: drop --unpacked non-commit objects from results
Leakfix.
* ps/leakfixes:
setup: fix leaking repository format
setup: refactor `upgrade_repository_format()` to have common exit
shallow: fix memory leak when registering shallow roots
test-bloom: stop setting up Git directory twice
Another step to deprecate test_i18ngrep.
* jc/test-i18ngrep:
tests: teach callers of test_i18ngrep to use test_grep
test framework: further deprecate test_i18ngrep
"git merge-file" learns a mode to read three contents to be merged
from blob objects.
* bc/merge-file-object-input:
merge-file: add an option to process object IDs
git-merge-file doc: drop "-file" from argument placeholders
"git rev-list --missing" did not work for missing commit objects,
which has been corrected.
* kn/rev-list-missing-fix:
rev-list: add commit object support in `--missing` option
rev-list: move `show_commit()` to the bottom
revision: rename bit to `do_not_die_on_missing_objects`
Teach "git show-ref" a mode to check the existence of a ref.
* ps/show-ref:
t: use git-show-ref(1) to check for ref existence
builtin/show-ref: add new mode to check for reference existence
builtin/show-ref: explicitly spell out different modes in synopsis
builtin/show-ref: ensure mutual exclusiveness of subcommands
builtin/show-ref: refactor options for patterns subcommand
builtin/show-ref: stop using global vars for `show_one()`
builtin/show-ref: stop using global variable to count matches
builtin/show-ref: refactor `--exclude-existing` options
builtin/show-ref: fix dead code when passing patterns
builtin/show-ref: fix leaking string buffer
builtin/show-ref: split up different subcommands
builtin/show-ref: convert pattern to a local variable
The codepath to traverse the commit-graph learned to notice that a
commit is missing (e.g., corrupt repository lost an object), even
though it knows something about the commit (like its parents) from
what is in commit-graph.
* ps/do-not-trust-commit-graph-blindly-for-existence:
commit: detect commits that exist in commit-graph but not in the ODB
commit-graph: introduce envvar to disable commit existence checks
Further limit tree depth max to avoid Windows build running out of
the stack space.
* jk/tree-name-and-depth-limit:
max_tree_depth: lower it for MSVC to avoid stack overflows
When performing revision queries with `--objects` and
`--use-bitmap-index`, the output may incorrectly contain objects which
are packed, even when the `--unpacked` option is given. This affects
traversals, but also other querying operations, like `--count`,
`--disk-usage`, etc.
Like in the previous commit, the fix is to exclude those objects from
the result set before they are shown to the user (or, in this case,
before the bitmap containing the result of the traversal is enumerated
and its objects listed).
This is performed by a new function in pack-bitmap.c, called
`filter_packed_objects_from_bitmap()`. Note that we do not have to
inspect individual bits in the result bitmap, since we know that the
first N (where N is the number of objects in the bitmap's pack/MIDX)
bits correspond to objects which packed by definition.
In other words, for an object to have a bitmap position (not in the
extended index), it must appear in either the bitmap's pack or one of
the packs in its MIDX.
This presents an appealing optimization to us, which is that we can
simply memset() the corresponding number of `eword_t`'s to zero,
provided that we handle any objects which spill into the next word (but
don't occupy all 64 bits of the word itself).
We only have to handle objects in the bitmap's extended index. These
objects may (or may not) appear in one or more pack(s). Since these
objects are known to not appear in either the bitmap's MIDX or pack,
they may be stored as loose, appear in other pack(s), or both.
Before returning a bitmap containing the result of the traversal back to
the caller, drop any bits from the extended index which appear in one or
more packs. This implements the correct behavior for rev-list operations
which use the bitmap index to compute their result.
Co-authored-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
