[1/2] mingw: special-case administrators even more

Commit Message

Johannes Schindelin March 25, 2025, 10:38 a.m. UTC

From: Johannes Schindelin <[e-mail]>

The check for dubious ownership has one particular quirk on Windows: if
running as an administrator, files owned by the Administrators _group_
are considered owned by the user.

The rationale for that is: When running in elevated mode, Git creates
files that aren't owned by the individual user but by the Administrators
group.

There is yet another quirk, though: The check I introduced to determine
whether the current user is an administrator uses the
`CheckTokenMembership()` function with the current process token. And
that check only succeeds when running in elevated mode!

Let's be a bit more lenient here and look harder whether the current
user is an administrator. We do this by looking for a so-called "linked
token". That token exists when administrators run in non-elevated mode,
and can be used to create a new process in elevated mode. And feeding
_that_ token to the `CheckTokenMembership()` function succeeds!

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[e-mail]>
---
 compat/mingw.c | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
index f524c54d06d..305a999f1fc 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.c
+++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -2826,31 +2826,44 @@  static void setup_windows_environment(void)
 	}
 }
 
-static PSID get_current_user_sid(void)
+static void get_current_user_sid(PSID *sid, HANDLE *linked_token)
 {
 	HANDLE token;
 	DWORD len = 0;
-	PSID result = NULL;
+	TOKEN_ELEVATION_TYPE elevationType;
+	DWORD size;
+
+	*sid = NULL;
+	*linked_token = NULL;
 
 	if (!OpenProcessToken(GetCurrentProcess(), TOKEN_QUERY, &token))
-		return NULL;
+		return;
 
 	if (!GetTokenInformation(token, TokenUser, NULL, 0, &len)) {
 		TOKEN_USER *info = xmalloc((size_t)len);
 		if (GetTokenInformation(token, TokenUser, info, len, &len)) {
 			len = GetLengthSid(info->User.Sid);
-			result = xmalloc(len);
-			if (!CopySid(len, result, info->User.Sid)) {
+			*sid = xmalloc(len);
+			if (!CopySid(len, *sid, info->User.Sid)) {
 				error(_("failed to copy SID (%ld)"),
 				      GetLastError());
-				FREE_AND_NULL(result);
+				FREE_AND_NULL(*sid);
 			}
 		}
 		FREE_AND_NULL(info);
 	}
-	CloseHandle(token);
 
-	return result;
+	if (GetTokenInformation(token, TokenElevationType, &elevationType, sizeof(elevationType), &size) &&
+	    elevationType == TokenElevationTypeLimited) {
+		/*
+		 * The current process is run by a member of the Administrators
+		 * group, but is not running elevated.
+		 */
+		if (!GetTokenInformation(token, TokenLinkedToken, linked_token, sizeof(*linked_token), &size))
+			linked_token = NULL; /* there is no linked token */
+	}
+
+	CloseHandle(token);
 }
 
 static BOOL user_sid_to_user_name(PSID sid, LPSTR *str)
@@ -2931,18 +2944,22 @@  int is_path_owned_by_current_sid(const char *path, struct strbuf *report)
 	else if (sid && IsValidSid(sid)) {
 		/* Now, verify that the SID matches the current user's */
 		static PSID current_user_sid;
+		static HANDLE linked_token;
 		BOOL is_member;
 
 		if (!current_user_sid)
-			current_user_sid = get_current_user_sid();
+			get_current_user_sid(&current_user_sid, &linked_token);
 
 		if (current_user_sid &&
 		    IsValidSid(current_user_sid) &&
 		    EqualSid(sid, current_user_sid))
 			result = 1;
 		else if (IsWellKnownSid(sid, WinBuiltinAdministratorsSid) &&
-			 CheckTokenMembership(NULL, sid, &is_member) &&
-			 is_member)
+			 ((CheckTokenMembership(NULL, sid, &is_member) &&
+			   is_member) ||
+			  (linked_token &&
+			   CheckTokenMembership(linked_token, sid, &is_member) &&
+			   is_member)))
 			/*
 			 * If owned by the Administrators group, and the
 			 * current user is an administrator, we consider that