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[v2] object-file: use real paths when adding alternates

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Glen Choo Nov. 21, 2022, 11:49 p.m. UTC
From: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>

When adding an alternate ODB, we check if the alternate has the same
path as the object dir, and if so, we do nothing. However, that
comparison does not resolve symlinks. This makes it possible to add the
object dir as an alternate, which may result in bad behavior. For
example, it can trick "git repack -a -l -d" (possibly run by "git gc")
into thinking that all packs come from an alternate and delete all
objects.

	rm -rf test &&
	git clone https://github.com/git/git test &&
	(
	cd test &&
	ln -s objects .git/alt-objects &&
	# -c repack.updateserverinfo=false silences a warning about not
	# being able to update "info/refs", it isn't needed to show the
	# bad behavior
	GIT_ALTERNATE_OBJECT_DIRECTORIES=".git/alt-objects" git \
		-c repack.updateserverinfo=false repack -a -l -d  &&
	# It's broken!
	git status
	# Because there are no more objects!
	ls .git/objects/pack
	)

Fix this by resolving symlinks and relative paths before comparing the
alternate and object dir. This lets us clean up a number of issues noted
in 37a95862c6 (alternates: re-allow relative paths from environment,
2016-11-07):

- Now that we compare the real paths, duplicate detection is no longer
  foiled by relative paths.
- Using strbuf_realpath() allows us to "normalize" paths that
  strbuf_normalize_path() can't, so we can stop silently ignoring errors
  when "normalizing" paths from the environment.
- We now store an absolute path based on getcwd() (the "future
  direction" named in 37a95862c6), so chdir()-ing in the process no
  longer changes the directory pointed to by the alternate. This is a
  change in behavior, but a desirable one.

Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
---
    object-file: use real paths when adding alternates
    
    Thanks for the feedback on v1. This version takes nearly all of Peff's
    patch [1] except for the comment about making an exception for relative
    paths in the environment. My reading of the commit [2] is that it was a
    workaround for strbuf_normalize_path() not being able to handle relative
    paths, so the only reason to special-case the environment is to preserve
    the behavior of respecting broken paths, which (unlike relative paths) I
    don't think will be missed.
    
    Changes in v2:
    
     * Do realpath when storing the alternate's directory entry instead of
       only during the usability check.
     * Update commit message to reflect the relationship to [2]
    
    [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/Y3aBzbzub7flQyca@coredump.intra.peff.net
    [2] 37a95862c6 (alternates: re-allow relative paths from environment,
    2016-11-07)

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-1382%2Fchooglen%2Fobject-file%2Fcheck-alternate-real-path-v2
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-1382/chooglen/object-file/check-alternate-real-path-v2
Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/1382

Range-diff vs v1:

 1:  9392725ad01 ! 1:  ed9e12c0051 object-file: use real paths when adding alternates
     @@ Commit message
                  ls .git/objects/pack
                  )
      
     -    Fix this by resolving symlinks before comparing the alternate and object
     -    dir.
     +    Fix this by resolving symlinks and relative paths before comparing the
     +    alternate and object dir. This lets us clean up a number of issues noted
     +    in 37a95862c6 (alternates: re-allow relative paths from environment,
     +    2016-11-07):
     +
     +    - Now that we compare the real paths, duplicate detection is no longer
     +      foiled by relative paths.
     +    - Using strbuf_realpath() allows us to "normalize" paths that
     +      strbuf_normalize_path() can't, so we can stop silently ignoring errors
     +      when "normalizing" paths from the environment.
     +    - We now store an absolute path based on getcwd() (the "future
     +      direction" named in 37a95862c6), so chdir()-ing in the process no
     +      longer changes the directory pointed to by the alternate. This is a
     +      change in behavior, but a desirable one.
      
          Signed-off-by: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>
      
       ## object-file.c ##
     -@@ object-file.c: static int alt_odb_usable(struct raw_object_store *o,
     - 			  struct strbuf *path,
     - 			  const char *normalized_objdir, khiter_t *pos)
     +@@ object-file.c: static int link_alt_odb_entry(struct repository *r, const struct strbuf *entry,
       {
     -+	int ret = 0;
     - 	int r;
     -+	struct strbuf real_path = STRBUF_INIT;
     + 	struct object_directory *ent;
     + 	struct strbuf pathbuf = STRBUF_INIT;
     ++	struct strbuf tmp = STRBUF_INIT;
     + 	khiter_t pos;
       
     - 	/* Detect cases where alternate disappeared */
     - 	if (!is_directory(path->buf)) {
     - 		error(_("object directory %s does not exist; "
     - 			"check .git/objects/info/alternates"),
     - 		      path->buf);
     --		return 0;
     -+		goto cleanup;
     + 	if (!is_absolute_path(entry->buf) && relative_base) {
     +@@ object-file.c: static int link_alt_odb_entry(struct repository *r, const struct strbuf *entry,
       	}
     + 	strbuf_addbuf(&pathbuf, entry);
       
     - 	/*
     -@@ object-file.c: static int alt_odb_usable(struct raw_object_store *o,
     - 		assert(r == 1); /* never used */
     - 		kh_value(o->odb_by_path, p) = o->odb;
     +-	if (strbuf_normalize_path(&pathbuf) < 0 && relative_base) {
     ++	if (!strbuf_realpath(&tmp, pathbuf.buf, 0)) {
     + 		error(_("unable to normalize alternate object path: %s"),
     +-		      pathbuf.buf);
     ++			pathbuf.buf);
     + 		strbuf_release(&pathbuf);
     + 		return -1;
       	}
     --	if (fspatheq(path->buf, normalized_objdir))
     --		return 0;
     -+
     -+	strbuf_realpath(&real_path, path->buf, 1);
     -+	if (fspatheq(real_path.buf, normalized_objdir))
     -+		goto cleanup;
     - 	*pos = kh_put_odb_path_map(o->odb_by_path, path->buf, &r);
     - 	/* r: 0 = exists, 1 = never used, 2 = deleted */
     --	return r == 0 ? 0 : 1;
     -+	ret = r == 0 ? 0 : 1;
     -+ cleanup:
     -+	strbuf_release(&real_path);
     -+	return ret;
     - }
     ++	strbuf_swap(&pathbuf, &tmp);
     ++	strbuf_release(&tmp);
       
     - /*
     + 	/*
     + 	 * The trailing slash after the directory name is given by
      @@ object-file.c: static void link_alt_odb_entries(struct repository *r, const char *alt,
       		return;
       	}
       
      -	strbuf_add_absolute_path(&objdirbuf, r->objects->odb->path);
     +-	if (strbuf_normalize_path(&objdirbuf) < 0)
     +-		die(_("unable to normalize object directory: %s"),
     +-		    objdirbuf.buf);
      +	strbuf_realpath(&objdirbuf, r->objects->odb->path, 1);
     - 	if (strbuf_normalize_path(&objdirbuf) < 0)
     - 		die(_("unable to normalize object directory: %s"),
     - 		    objdirbuf.buf);
     + 
     + 	while (*alt) {
     + 		alt = parse_alt_odb_entry(alt, sep, &entry);
      
       ## t/t7700-repack.sh ##
      @@ t/t7700-repack.sh: test_expect_success 'loose objects in alternate ODB are not repacked' '


 object-file.c     | 12 ++++++------
 t/t7700-repack.sh | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)


base-commit: 319605f8f00e402f3ea758a02c63534ff800a711

Comments

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason Nov. 22, 2022, 12:56 a.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, Nov 21 2022, Glen Choo via GitGitGadget wrote:

> From: Glen Choo <chooglen@google.com>

Aside from some small nits this looks good to me.

>  object-file.c     | 12 ++++++------
>  t/t7700-repack.sh | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/object-file.c b/object-file.c
> index 957790098fa..ef2b762234d 100644
> --- a/object-file.c
> +++ b/object-file.c
> @@ -508,6 +508,7 @@ static int link_alt_odb_entry(struct repository *r, const struct strbuf *entry,
>  {
>  	struct object_directory *ent;
>  	struct strbuf pathbuf = STRBUF_INIT;
> +	struct strbuf tmp = STRBUF_INIT;
>  	khiter_t pos;
>  
>  	if (!is_absolute_path(entry->buf) && relative_base) {
> @@ -516,12 +517,14 @@ static int link_alt_odb_entry(struct repository *r, const struct strbuf *entry,
>  	}
>  	strbuf_addbuf(&pathbuf, entry);
>  
> -	if (strbuf_normalize_path(&pathbuf) < 0 && relative_base) {
> +	if (!strbuf_realpath(&tmp, pathbuf.buf, 0)) {
>  		error(_("unable to normalize alternate object path: %s"),
> -		      pathbuf.buf);
> +			pathbuf.buf);

This is a mis-indentation, it was OK in the pre-image, not now.

>  		strbuf_release(&pathbuf);

Doesn't this leak? I've just skimmed strbuf_realpath_1() but e.g. in the
"REALPATH_MANY_MISSING" case it'll have allocated the "resolved" (the
&tmp you pass in here) and then "does a "goto error_out".

It then *resets* the strbuf, but doesn't release it, assuming that
you're going to pass it in again. So in that case we'd leak here, no?

I.e. a NULL return value from strbuf_realpath() doesn't mean that it
didn't allocate in the scratch area passed to it, so we need to
strbuf_release(&tmp) here too.

Perhaps this on top is simpler (but also see below)?:
	
	diff --git a/object-file.c b/object-file.c
	index ef2b762234d..d5d502504bb 100644
	--- a/object-file.c
	+++ b/object-file.c
	@@ -510,6 +510,7 @@ static int link_alt_odb_entry(struct repository *r, const struct strbuf *entry,
	 	struct strbuf pathbuf = STRBUF_INIT;
	 	struct strbuf tmp = STRBUF_INIT;
	 	khiter_t pos;
	+	int ret = -1;
	 
	 	if (!is_absolute_path(entry->buf) && relative_base) {
	 		strbuf_realpath(&pathbuf, relative_base, 1);
	@@ -520,11 +521,9 @@ static int link_alt_odb_entry(struct repository *r, const struct strbuf *entry,
	 	if (!strbuf_realpath(&tmp, pathbuf.buf, 0)) {
	 		error(_("unable to normalize alternate object path: %s"),
	 			pathbuf.buf);
	-		strbuf_release(&pathbuf);
	-		return -1;
	+		goto error;
	 	}
	 	strbuf_swap(&pathbuf, &tmp);
	-	strbuf_release(&tmp);
	 
	 	/*
	 	 * The trailing slash after the directory name is given by
	@@ -533,10 +532,8 @@ static int link_alt_odb_entry(struct repository *r, const struct strbuf *entry,
	 	while (pathbuf.len && pathbuf.buf[pathbuf.len - 1] == '/')
	 		strbuf_setlen(&pathbuf, pathbuf.len - 1);
	 
	-	if (!alt_odb_usable(r->objects, &pathbuf, normalized_objdir, &pos)) {
	-		strbuf_release(&pathbuf);
	-		return -1;
	-	}
	+	if (!alt_odb_usable(r->objects, &pathbuf, normalized_objdir, &pos))
	+		goto error;
	 
	 	CALLOC_ARRAY(ent, 1);
	 	/* pathbuf.buf is already in r->objects->odb_by_path */
	@@ -552,7 +549,11 @@ static int link_alt_odb_entry(struct repository *r, const struct strbuf *entry,
	 	/* recursively add alternates */
	 	read_info_alternates(r, ent->path, depth + 1);
	 
	-	return 0;
	+	ret = 0;
	+error:
	+	strbuf_release(&tmp);
	+	strbuf_release(&pathbuf);
	+	return ret;
	 }
	 
	 static const char *parse_alt_odb_entry(const char *string,
	
	

>  		return -1;
>  	}
> +	strbuf_swap(&pathbuf, &tmp);
> +	strbuf_release(&tmp);
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * The trailing slash after the directory name is given by
> @@ -596,10 +599,7 @@ static void link_alt_odb_entries(struct repository *r, const char *alt,
>  		return;
>  	}
>  
> -	strbuf_add_absolute_path(&objdirbuf, r->objects->odb->path);
> -	if (strbuf_normalize_path(&objdirbuf) < 0)
> -		die(_("unable to normalize object directory: %s"),
> -		    objdirbuf.buf);
> +	strbuf_realpath(&objdirbuf, r->objects->odb->path, 1);
>  
>  	while (*alt) {
>  		alt = parse_alt_odb_entry(alt, sep, &entry);
> diff --git a/t/t7700-repack.sh b/t/t7700-repack.sh
> index 5be483bf887..ce1954d0977 100755
> --- a/t/t7700-repack.sh
> +++ b/t/t7700-repack.sh
> @@ -90,6 +90,24 @@ test_expect_success 'loose objects in alternate ODB are not repacked' '
>  	test_has_duplicate_object false
>  '
>  
> +test_expect_success '--local keeps packs when alternate is objectdir ' '
> +	git init alt_symlink &&
> +	(
> +		cd alt_symlink &&
> +		git init &&

The tests pass without this re-"git init", left over from development?

> +		echo content >file4 &&
> +		git add file4 &&
> +		git commit -m commit_file4 &&
> +		git repack -a &&
> +		ls .git/objects/pack/*.pack >../expect &&
> +		ln -s objects .git/alt_objects &&
> +		echo "$(pwd)/.git/alt_objects" >.git/objects/info/alternates &&
> +		git repack -a -d -l &&
> +		ls .git/objects/pack/*.pack >../actual
> +	) &&
> +	test_cmp expect actual
> +'
> +

I think this is better squashed in:
	
	diff --git a/t/t7700-repack.sh b/t/t7700-repack.sh
	index ce1954d0977..79eef5b4aa7 100755
	--- a/t/t7700-repack.sh
	+++ b/t/t7700-repack.sh
	@@ -91,13 +91,11 @@ test_expect_success 'loose objects in alternate ODB are not repacked' '
	 '
	 
	 test_expect_success '--local keeps packs when alternate is objectdir ' '
	-	git init alt_symlink &&
	+	test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" &&
	+	git init repo &&
	+	test_commit -C repo A &&
	 	(
	-		cd alt_symlink &&
	-		git init &&
	-		echo content >file4 &&
	-		git add file4 &&
	-		git commit -m commit_file4 &&
	+		cd repo &&
	 		git repack -a &&
	 		ls .git/objects/pack/*.pack >../expect &&
	 		ln -s objects .git/alt_objects &&

Because:

 * If it's not a setup for a later test let's call it "repo" and clean
   it up at the end.

 * The "file4" you're creating doesn't go with the existing pattern, the
   file{1..3} are created in the top-level .git, here you're making a
   file4 in another repo.

   This just calls it "A.t", and makes it with test_commit, since all
   you need is a dummy commit.

 * I think we typically use "find .. -type f", not "ls", see
   e.g. t5351-unpack-large-objects.sh, but I left it in-place. I think
   aside from that test there's some other "let's compare the packed
   before & after" in the test suite, but I can't remember offhand...
Jeff King Nov. 22, 2022, 7:40 p.m. UTC | #2
On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 11:49:17PM +0000, Glen Choo via GitGitGadget wrote:

>     Thanks for the feedback on v1. This version takes nearly all of Peff's
>     patch [1] except for the comment about making an exception for relative
>     paths in the environment. My reading of the commit [2] is that it was a
>     workaround for strbuf_normalize_path() not being able to handle relative
>     paths, so the only reason to special-case the environment is to preserve
>     the behavior of respecting broken paths, which (unlike relative paths) I
>     don't think will be missed.

Yeah, that makes sense. If realpath fails because a path isn't present,
then we would throw it away anyway. So we don't need to quietly
tolerate, unless we really care about the difference between reporting
"this directory doesn't seem to exist" versus "I couldn't run realpath
on this directory". One is a subset of the other.

> diff --git a/object-file.c b/object-file.c
> index 957790098fa..ef2b762234d 100644
> --- a/object-file.c
> +++ b/object-file.c
> @@ -508,6 +508,7 @@ static int link_alt_odb_entry(struct repository *r, const struct strbuf *entry,
>  {
>  	struct object_directory *ent;
>  	struct strbuf pathbuf = STRBUF_INIT;
> +	struct strbuf tmp = STRBUF_INIT;
>  	khiter_t pos;
>  
>  	if (!is_absolute_path(entry->buf) && relative_base) {
> @@ -516,12 +517,14 @@ static int link_alt_odb_entry(struct repository *r, const struct strbuf *entry,
>  	}
>  	strbuf_addbuf(&pathbuf, entry);
>  
> -	if (strbuf_normalize_path(&pathbuf) < 0 && relative_base) {
> +	if (!strbuf_realpath(&tmp, pathbuf.buf, 0)) {
>  		error(_("unable to normalize alternate object path: %s"),
> -		      pathbuf.buf);
> +			pathbuf.buf);
>  		strbuf_release(&pathbuf);
>  		return -1;
>  	}
> +	strbuf_swap(&pathbuf, &tmp);
> +	strbuf_release(&tmp);

So here we are looking at an alternates entry (either from a file or
from the environment). We do note all errors, even in relative ones from
the environment, but we don't die, so we'll just ignore the failed
alternate. Good.

> @@ -596,10 +599,7 @@ static void link_alt_odb_entries(struct repository *r, const char *alt,
>  		return;
>  	}
>  
> -	strbuf_add_absolute_path(&objdirbuf, r->objects->odb->path);
> -	if (strbuf_normalize_path(&objdirbuf) < 0)
> -		die(_("unable to normalize object directory: %s"),
> -		    objdirbuf.buf);
> +	strbuf_realpath(&objdirbuf, r->objects->odb->path, 1);

And here we are resolving the actual object directory, and we always
died if that couldn't be normalized. And we'll continue to do so by
realpath. Good.

> diff --git a/t/t7700-repack.sh b/t/t7700-repack.sh

And then that's all we needed in the C code, since we already do
duplicate checks. Good. :)

> index 5be483bf887..ce1954d0977 100755
> --- a/t/t7700-repack.sh
> +++ b/t/t7700-repack.sh
> @@ -90,6 +90,24 @@ test_expect_success 'loose objects in alternate ODB are not repacked' '
>  	test_has_duplicate_object false
>  '
>  
> +test_expect_success '--local keeps packs when alternate is objectdir ' '
> +	git init alt_symlink &&
> +	(
> +		cd alt_symlink &&
> +		git init &&
> +		echo content >file4 &&
> +		git add file4 &&
> +		git commit -m commit_file4 &&
> +		git repack -a &&
> +		ls .git/objects/pack/*.pack >../expect &&
> +		ln -s objects .git/alt_objects &&
> +		echo "$(pwd)/.git/alt_objects" >.git/objects/info/alternates &&
> +		git repack -a -d -l &&
> +		ls .git/objects/pack/*.pack >../actual
> +	) &&
> +	test_cmp expect actual
> +'

This probably needs to be protected with a SYMLINKS prereq.

-Peff
Jeff King Nov. 22, 2022, 7:53 p.m. UTC | #3
On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 01:56:09AM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> > @@ -516,12 +517,14 @@ static int link_alt_odb_entry(struct repository *r, const struct strbuf *entry,
> >  	}
> >  	strbuf_addbuf(&pathbuf, entry);
> >  
> > -	if (strbuf_normalize_path(&pathbuf) < 0 && relative_base) {
> > +	if (!strbuf_realpath(&tmp, pathbuf.buf, 0)) {
> >  		error(_("unable to normalize alternate object path: %s"),
> > -		      pathbuf.buf);
> > +			pathbuf.buf);
> 
> This is a mis-indentation, it was OK in the pre-image, not now.
> 
> >  		strbuf_release(&pathbuf);
> 
> Doesn't this leak? I've just skimmed strbuf_realpath_1() but e.g. in the
> "REALPATH_MANY_MISSING" case it'll have allocated the "resolved" (the
> &tmp you pass in here) and then "does a "goto error_out".
> 
> It then *resets* the strbuf, but doesn't release it, assuming that
> you're going to pass it in again. So in that case we'd leak here, no?
> 
> I.e. a NULL return value from strbuf_realpath() doesn't mean that it
> didn't allocate in the scratch area passed to it, so we need to
> strbuf_release(&tmp) here too.

We don't use MANY_MISSING in this code path, but I didn't read
strbuf_realpath_1() carefully enough to see if that is the only case.
But regardless, I think it is a bug in strbuf_realpath(). All of the
strbuf functions generally try to leave a buffer untouched on error.

So IMHO we would want a preparatory patch with s/reset/release/ in that
function, which better matches the intent (we might be freeing an
allocated buffer, but that's OK from the caller perspective). In theory
it ought to just roll back the length for whatever it put into the
buffer, but it looks like the rest of the function is happy to clobber
what's in the buf, even on non-error. That's why we have
strbuf_add_real_path(), but of course it doesn't allow for setting the
die_on_error flag.

-Peff
Glen Choo Nov. 24, 2022, 12:20 a.m. UTC | #4
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

>>  object-file.c     | 12 ++++++------
>>  t/t7700-repack.sh | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>>  2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/object-file.c b/object-file.c
>> index 957790098fa..ef2b762234d 100644
>> --- a/object-file.c
>> +++ b/object-file.c
>> @@ -508,6 +508,7 @@ static int link_alt_odb_entry(struct repository *r, const struct strbuf *entry,
>>  {
>>  	struct object_directory *ent;
>>  	struct strbuf pathbuf = STRBUF_INIT;
>> +	struct strbuf tmp = STRBUF_INIT;
>>  	khiter_t pos;
>>  
>>  	if (!is_absolute_path(entry->buf) && relative_base) {
>> @@ -516,12 +517,14 @@ static int link_alt_odb_entry(struct repository *r, const struct strbuf *entry,
>>  	}
>>  	strbuf_addbuf(&pathbuf, entry);
>>  
>> -	if (strbuf_normalize_path(&pathbuf) < 0 && relative_base) {
>> +	if (!strbuf_realpath(&tmp, pathbuf.buf, 0)) {
>>  		error(_("unable to normalize alternate object path: %s"),
>> -		      pathbuf.buf);
>> +			pathbuf.buf);
>
> This is a mis-indentation, it was OK in the pre-image, not now.

Strange, this came from "make style", and in the GitHub web UI, it shows
the next line as aligned with the opening ". Meh, I'll undo it.

> Doesn't this leak? I've just skimmed strbuf_realpath_1() but e.g. in the
> "REALPATH_MANY_MISSING" case it'll have allocated the "resolved" (the
> &tmp you pass in here) and then "does a "goto error_out".
>
> It then *resets* the strbuf, but doesn't release it, assuming that
> you're going to pass it in again. So in that case we'd leak here, no?
>
> I.e. a NULL return value from strbuf_realpath() doesn't mean that it
> didn't allocate in the scratch area passed to it, so we need to
> strbuf_release(&tmp) here too.

Yeah, you're right. At any rate, it's a lot of cognitive overload to
check if strbuf_realpath() will or won't allocate, so free()-ing in the
caller makes sense.

Separately, Peff mentioned that strbuf_realpath() not free()-ing is a
real bug, but I'll leave that for a future cleanup.

>> +		echo content >file4 &&
>> +		git add file4 &&
>> +		git commit -m commit_file4 &&
>> +		git repack -a &&
>> +		ls .git/objects/pack/*.pack >../expect &&
>> +		ln -s objects .git/alt_objects &&
>> +		echo "$(pwd)/.git/alt_objects" >.git/objects/info/alternates &&
>> +		git repack -a -d -l &&
>> +		ls .git/objects/pack/*.pack >../actual
>> +	) &&
>> +	test_cmp expect actual
>> +'
>> +
>
> I think this is better squashed in:
> 	
> 	diff --git a/t/t7700-repack.sh b/t/t7700-repack.sh
> 	index ce1954d0977..79eef5b4aa7 100755
> 	--- a/t/t7700-repack.sh
> 	+++ b/t/t7700-repack.sh
> 	@@ -91,13 +91,11 @@ test_expect_success 'loose objects in alternate ODB are not repacked' '
> 	 '
> 	 
> 	 test_expect_success '--local keeps packs when alternate is objectdir ' '
> 	-	git init alt_symlink &&
> 	+	test_when_finished "rm -rf repo" &&
> 	+	git init repo &&
> 	+	test_commit -C repo A &&
> 	 	(
> 	-		cd alt_symlink &&
> 	-		git init &&
> 	-		echo content >file4 &&
> 	-		git add file4 &&
> 	-		git commit -m commit_file4 &&
> 	+		cd repo &&
> 	 		git repack -a &&
> 	 		ls .git/objects/pack/*.pack >../expect &&
> 	 		ln -s objects .git/alt_objects &&
>
> Because:
>
>  * If it's not a setup for a later test let's call it "repo" and clean
>    it up at the end.
>
>  * The "file4" you're creating doesn't go with the existing pattern, the
>    file{1..3} are created in the top-level .git, here you're making a
>    file4 in another repo.
>
>    This just calls it "A.t", and makes it with test_commit, since all
>    you need is a dummy commit.
>
>  * I think we typically use "find .. -type f", not "ls", see
>    e.g. t5351-unpack-large-objects.sh, but I left it in-place. I think
>    aside from that test there's some other "let's compare the packed
>    before & after" in the test suite, but I can't remember offhand...

It seems like t7700-repack.sh itself isn't consistent either (which is
probably how I ended up with "ls"). I'll also leave it alone unless
someone has strong opinions.
Glen Choo Nov. 24, 2022, 12:50 a.m. UTC | #5
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

>> Doesn't this leak? I've just skimmed strbuf_realpath_1() but e.g. in the
>> "REALPATH_MANY_MISSING" case it'll have allocated the "resolved" (the
>> &tmp you pass in here) and then "does a "goto error_out".
>> 
>> It then *resets* the strbuf, but doesn't release it, assuming that
>> you're going to pass it in again. So in that case we'd leak here, no?
>> 
>> I.e. a NULL return value from strbuf_realpath() doesn't mean that it
>> didn't allocate in the scratch area passed to it, so we need to
>> strbuf_release(&tmp) here too.
>
> We don't use MANY_MISSING in this code path, but I didn't read
> strbuf_realpath_1() carefully enough to see if that is the only case.
> But regardless, I think it is a bug in strbuf_realpath(). All of the
> strbuf functions generally try to leave a buffer untouched on error.
>
> So IMHO we would want a preparatory patch with s/reset/release/ in that
> function, which better matches the intent (we might be freeing an
> allocated buffer, but that's OK from the caller perspective).

Is that always OK? I would think that we'd do something closer to
strbuf_getcwd():

  int strbuf_getcwd(struct strbuf *sb)
  {
    size_t oldalloc = sb->alloc;
    /* ... */
    if (oldalloc == 0)
      strbuf_release(sb);
    else
      strbuf_reset(sb);
  }

i.e. if the caller passed in a strbuf with allocated contents, they're
responsible for free()-ing it, otherwise we free() it. That does fix the
leak in this patch, but I don't feel strongly enough about changing
strbuf_realpath() to do it now, so I'll do without the change for now.
Jeff King Nov. 24, 2022, 1:06 a.m. UTC | #6
On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 04:50:02PM -0800, Glen Choo wrote:

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> >> Doesn't this leak? I've just skimmed strbuf_realpath_1() but e.g. in the
> >> "REALPATH_MANY_MISSING" case it'll have allocated the "resolved" (the
> >> &tmp you pass in here) and then "does a "goto error_out".
> >> 
> >> It then *resets* the strbuf, but doesn't release it, assuming that
> >> you're going to pass it in again. So in that case we'd leak here, no?
> >> 
> >> I.e. a NULL return value from strbuf_realpath() doesn't mean that it
> >> didn't allocate in the scratch area passed to it, so we need to
> >> strbuf_release(&tmp) here too.
> >
> > We don't use MANY_MISSING in this code path, but I didn't read
> > strbuf_realpath_1() carefully enough to see if that is the only case.
> > But regardless, I think it is a bug in strbuf_realpath(). All of the
> > strbuf functions generally try to leave a buffer untouched on error.
> >
> > So IMHO we would want a preparatory patch with s/reset/release/ in that
> > function, which better matches the intent (we might be freeing an
> > allocated buffer, but that's OK from the caller perspective).
> 
> Is that always OK? I would think that we'd do something closer to
> strbuf_getcwd():
> 
>   int strbuf_getcwd(struct strbuf *sb)
>   {
>     size_t oldalloc = sb->alloc;
>     /* ... */
>     if (oldalloc == 0)
>       strbuf_release(sb);
>     else
>       strbuf_reset(sb);
>   }
> 
> i.e. if the caller passed in a strbuf with allocated contents, they're
> responsible for free()-ing it, otherwise we free() it. That does fix the
> leak in this patch, but I don't feel strongly enough about changing
> strbuf_realpath() to do it now, so I'll do without the change for now.

That's what I was getting at with "that's OK from the caller
perspective". strbuf_realpath() is also unlike other strbuf functions in
that it clobbers the contents of the buffer, even on success (rather
than adding on success and rolling back to the original state on error).

Since the caller is OK with the buffer being clobbered anyway, it should
not matter to it whether we clobbered an allocated buffer back to an
unallocated one on error. The confusing thing (and the current behavior)
is when we do the opposite: change an unallocated one to an allocated
one.

-Peff
diff mbox series

Patch

diff --git a/object-file.c b/object-file.c
index 957790098fa..ef2b762234d 100644
--- a/object-file.c
+++ b/object-file.c
@@ -508,6 +508,7 @@  static int link_alt_odb_entry(struct repository *r, const struct strbuf *entry,
 {
 	struct object_directory *ent;
 	struct strbuf pathbuf = STRBUF_INIT;
+	struct strbuf tmp = STRBUF_INIT;
 	khiter_t pos;
 
 	if (!is_absolute_path(entry->buf) && relative_base) {
@@ -516,12 +517,14 @@  static int link_alt_odb_entry(struct repository *r, const struct strbuf *entry,
 	}
 	strbuf_addbuf(&pathbuf, entry);
 
-	if (strbuf_normalize_path(&pathbuf) < 0 && relative_base) {
+	if (!strbuf_realpath(&tmp, pathbuf.buf, 0)) {
 		error(_("unable to normalize alternate object path: %s"),
-		      pathbuf.buf);
+			pathbuf.buf);
 		strbuf_release(&pathbuf);
 		return -1;
 	}
+	strbuf_swap(&pathbuf, &tmp);
+	strbuf_release(&tmp);
 
 	/*
 	 * The trailing slash after the directory name is given by
@@ -596,10 +599,7 @@  static void link_alt_odb_entries(struct repository *r, const char *alt,
 		return;
 	}
 
-	strbuf_add_absolute_path(&objdirbuf, r->objects->odb->path);
-	if (strbuf_normalize_path(&objdirbuf) < 0)
-		die(_("unable to normalize object directory: %s"),
-		    objdirbuf.buf);
+	strbuf_realpath(&objdirbuf, r->objects->odb->path, 1);
 
 	while (*alt) {
 		alt = parse_alt_odb_entry(alt, sep, &entry);
diff --git a/t/t7700-repack.sh b/t/t7700-repack.sh
index 5be483bf887..ce1954d0977 100755
--- a/t/t7700-repack.sh
+++ b/t/t7700-repack.sh
@@ -90,6 +90,24 @@  test_expect_success 'loose objects in alternate ODB are not repacked' '
 	test_has_duplicate_object false
 '
 
+test_expect_success '--local keeps packs when alternate is objectdir ' '
+	git init alt_symlink &&
+	(
+		cd alt_symlink &&
+		git init &&
+		echo content >file4 &&
+		git add file4 &&
+		git commit -m commit_file4 &&
+		git repack -a &&
+		ls .git/objects/pack/*.pack >../expect &&
+		ln -s objects .git/alt_objects &&
+		echo "$(pwd)/.git/alt_objects" >.git/objects/info/alternates &&
+		git repack -a -d -l &&
+		ls .git/objects/pack/*.pack >../actual
+	) &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'packed obs in alt ODB are repacked even when local repo is packless' '
 	mkdir alt_objects/pack &&
 	mv .git/objects/pack/* alt_objects/pack &&