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fast-import: disallow "." and ".." path components

Message ID pull.1831.git.1732557520428.gitgitgadget@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State Superseded
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Series fast-import: disallow "." and ".." path components | expand

Commit Message

Elijah Newren Nov. 25, 2024, 5:58 p.m. UTC
From: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>

If a user specified e.g.
   M 100644 :1 ../some-file
then fast-import previously would happily create a git history where
there is a tree in the top-level directory named "..", and with a file
inside that directory named "some-file".  The top-level ".." directory
causes problems.  While git checkout will die with errors and fsck will
report hasDotdot problems, the user is going to have problems trying to
remove the problematic file.  Simply avoid creating this bad history in
the first place.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
---
    fast-import: disallow "." and ".." path components

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1831%2Fnewren%2Fdisallow-dotdot-fast-import-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1831/newren/disallow-dotdot-fast-import-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1831

 builtin/fast-import.c  |  3 +++
 t/t9300-fast-import.sh | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)


base-commit: 04eaff62f286226f501dd21f069e0e257aee11a6

Comments

Eric Sunshine Nov. 25, 2024, 6:15 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 12:58 PM Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
<gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:
> If a user specified e.g.
>    M 100644 :1 ../some-file
> then fast-import previously would happily create a git history where
> there is a tree in the top-level directory named "..", and with a file
> inside that directory named "some-file".  The top-level ".." directory
> causes problems.  While git checkout will die with errors and fsck will
> report hasDotdot problems, the user is going to have problems trying to
> remove the problematic file.  Simply avoid creating this bad history in
> the first place.
>
> Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/builtin/fast-import.c b/builtin/fast-import.c
> @@ -1466,6 +1466,9 @@ static int tree_content_set(
>         e->name = to_atom(p, n);
> +       if (!strcmp(e->name->str_dat, ".") || !strcmp(e->name->str_dat, "..")) {
> +               die("path %s contains invalid component", p);
> +       }

Probably not worth a reroll, but is_dot_or_dotdot() might be usable here.

(And -- style nit -- the braces could be dropped.)
Elijah Newren Nov. 25, 2024, 6:24 p.m. UTC | #2
On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 10:15 AM Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2024 at 12:58 PM Elijah Newren via GitGitGadget
> <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If a user specified e.g.
> >    M 100644 :1 ../some-file
> > then fast-import previously would happily create a git history where
> > there is a tree in the top-level directory named "..", and with a file
> > inside that directory named "some-file".  The top-level ".." directory
> > causes problems.  While git checkout will die with errors and fsck will
> > report hasDotdot problems, the user is going to have problems trying to
> > remove the problematic file.  Simply avoid creating this bad history in
> > the first place.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
> > ---
> > diff --git a/builtin/fast-import.c b/builtin/fast-import.c
> > @@ -1466,6 +1466,9 @@ static int tree_content_set(
> >         e->name = to_atom(p, n);
> > +       if (!strcmp(e->name->str_dat, ".") || !strcmp(e->name->str_dat, "..")) {
> > +               die("path %s contains invalid component", p);
> > +       }
>
> Probably not worth a reroll, but is_dot_or_dotdot() might be usable here.
>
> (And -- style nit -- the braces could be dropped.)

Good catches, thanks.  I think they are worth a reroll; I'll send one in.
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Patch

diff --git a/builtin/fast-import.c b/builtin/fast-import.c
index 76d5c20f141..e0e0ca3657a 100644
--- a/builtin/fast-import.c
+++ b/builtin/fast-import.c
@@ -1466,6 +1466,9 @@  static int tree_content_set(
 		root->tree = t = grow_tree_content(t, t->entry_count);
 	e = new_tree_entry();
 	e->name = to_atom(p, n);
+	if (!strcmp(e->name->str_dat, ".") || !strcmp(e->name->str_dat, "..")) {
+		die("path %s contains invalid component", p);
+	}
 	e->versions[0].mode = 0;
 	oidclr(&e->versions[0].oid, the_repository->hash_algo);
 	t->entries[t->entry_count++] = e;
diff --git a/t/t9300-fast-import.sh b/t/t9300-fast-import.sh
index 6224f54d4d2..caf3dc003a0 100755
--- a/t/t9300-fast-import.sh
+++ b/t/t9300-fast-import.sh
@@ -522,6 +522,26 @@  test_expect_success 'B: fail on invalid committer (5)' '
 	test_must_fail git fast-import <input
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'B: fail on invalid file path' '
+	cat >input <<-INPUT_END &&
+	blob
+	mark :1
+	data <<EOF
+	File contents
+	EOF
+
+	commit refs/heads/badpath
+	committer Name <email> $GIT_COMMITTER_DATE
+	data <<COMMIT
+	Commit Message
+	COMMIT
+	M 100644 :1 ../invalid-path
+	INPUT_END
+
+	test_when_finished "git update-ref -d refs/heads/badpath" &&
+	test_must_fail git fast-import <input
+'
+
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