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2025-04-15object-store: merge "object-store-ll.h" and "object-store.h"Patrick Steinhardt
The "object-store-ll.h" header has been introduced to keep transitive header dependendcies and compile times at bay. Now that we have created a new "object-store.c" file though we can easily move the last remaining additional bit of "object-store.h", the `odb_path_map`, out of the header. Do so. As the "object-store.h" header is now equivalent to its low-level alternative we drop the latter and inline it into the former. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-04-15object-file: drop `index_blob_stream()`Patrick Steinhardt
The `index_blob_stream()` function is a mere wrapper around `index_blob_bulk_checkin()`. This has been the case since 568508e7657 (bulk-checkin: replace fast-import based implementation, 2011-10-28), which has moved the implementation from `index_blob_stream()` (which was still called `index_stream()`) into `index_bulk_checkin()` (which has since been renamed to `index_blob_bulk_checkin()`). Remove the redirection by dropping the wrapper. Move the comment to `index_blob_bulk_checkin()` to retain its context. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-04-15object-file: split up concerns of `HASH_*` flagsPatrick Steinhardt
The functions `hash_object_file()`, `write_object_file()` and `index_fd()` reuse the same set of flags to alter their behaviour. This not only adds confusion, but given that every function only supports a subset of the flags it becomes very hard to see which flags can be passed to what function. Last but not least, this entangles the implementation of all three function families. Split up concerns by creating separate flags for each of the function families. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-04-15object-file: split out functions relating to object store subsystemPatrick Steinhardt
While we have the "object-store.h" header, most of the functionality for object stores is actually hosted in "object-file.c". This makes it hard to find relevant functions and causes us to mix up concerns. Split out functions relating to the object store subsystem into a new "object-store.c" file. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-04-15object-file: move `xmmap()` into "wrapper.c"Patrick Steinhardt
The `xmmap()` function is provided by "object-file.c" even though its functionality has nothing to do with the object file subsystem. Move it into "wrapper.c", whose header already declares those functions. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-04-15object-file: move `git_open_cloexec()` to "compat/open.c"Patrick Steinhardt
The `git_open_cloexec()` wrapper function provides the ability to open a file with `O_CLOEXEC` in a platform-agnostic way. This function is provided by "object-file.c" even though it is not specific to the object subsystem at all. Move the file into "compat/open.c". This file already exists before this commit, but has only been compiled conditionally depending on whether or not open(3p) may return EINTR. With this change we now unconditionally compile the object, but wrap `git_open_with_retry()` in an ifdef. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-04-15object-file: move `safe_create_leading_directories()` into "path.c"Patrick Steinhardt
The `safe_create_leading_directories()` function and its relatives are located in "object-file.c", which is not a good fit as they provide generic functionality not related to objects at all. Move them into "path.c", which already hosts `safe_create_dir()` and its relative `safe_create_dir_in_gitdir()`. "path.c" is free of `the_repository`, but the moved functions depend on `the_repository` to read the "core.sharedRepository" config. Adapt the function signature to accept a repository as argument to fix the issue and adjust callers accordingly. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-04-15object-file: move `mkdir_in_gitdir()` into "path.c"Patrick Steinhardt
The `mkdir_in_gitdir()` function is similar to `safe_create_dir()`, but the former is hosted in "object-file.c" whereas the latter is hosted in "path.c". The latter code unit makes way more sense though as the logic has nothing to do with object files in particular. Move the file into "path.c". While at it, we: - Rename the function to `safe_create_dir_in_gitdir()` so that the function names are similar to one another. - Remove the dependency on `the_repository` by making the callers pass the repository instead. Adjust callers accordingly. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-03-21treewide: replace assert() with ASSERT() in special casesElijah Newren
When the compiler/linker cannot verify that an assert() invocation is free of side effects for us (e.g. because the assertion includes some kind of function call), replace the use of assert() with ASSERT(). Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Acked-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-03-10hash: stop depending on `the_repository` in `null_oid()`Patrick Steinhardt
The `null_oid()` function returns the object ID that only consists of zeroes. Naturally, this ID also depends on the hash algorithm used, as the number of zeroes is different between SHA1 and SHA256. Consequently, the function returns the hash-algorithm-specific null object ID. This is currently done by depending on `the_hash_algo`, which implicitly makes us depend on `the_repository`. Refactor the function to instead pass in the hash algorithm for which we want to retrieve the null object ID. Adapt callsites accordingly by passing in `the_repository`, thus bubbling up the dependency on that global variable by one layer. There are a couple of trivial exceptions for subsystems that already got rid of `the_repository`. These subsystems instead use the repository that is available via the calling context: - "builtin/grep.c" - "grep.c" - "refs/debug.c" There are also two non-trivial exceptions: - "diff-no-index.c": Here we know that we may not have a repository initialized at all, so we cannot rely on `the_repository`. Instead, we adapt `diff_no_index()` to get a `struct git_hash_algo` as parameter. The only caller is located in "builtin/diff.c", where we know to call `repo_set_hash_algo()` in case we're running outside of a Git repository. Consequently, it is fine to continue passing `the_repository->hash_algo` even in this case. - "builtin/ls-files.c": There is an in-flight patch series that drops `USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE` in this file, which causes a semantic conflict because we use `null_oid()` in `show_submodule()`. The value is passed to `repo_submodule_init()`, which may use the object ID to resolve a tree-ish in the superproject from which we want to read the submodule config. As such, the object ID should refer to an object in the superproject, and consequently we need to use its hash algorithm. This means that we could in theory just not bother about this edge case at all and just use `the_repository` in "diff-no-index.c". But doing so would feel misdesigned. Remove the `USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE` preprocessor define in "hash.c". Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-03-10object-file: split out logic regarding hash algorithmsPatrick Steinhardt
While we have a "hash.h" header, the actual implementation of the subsystem is hosted by "object-file.c". This makes it harder than necessary to find the actual implementation of the hash subsystem and intermingles the different concerns with one another. Split out the implementation of hash algorithms into a new, separate "hash.c" file. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-03-10object-file-convert: stop depending on `the_repository`Patrick Steinhardt
There are multiple sites in "object-file-convert.c" where we use the global `the_repository` variable, either explicitly or implicitly by using `the_hash_algo`. All of these callsites are transitively called from `convert_object_file()`, which indeed has no repo as input. Refactor the function so that it receives a repository as a parameter and pass it through to all internal functions to get rid of the dependency. Remove the `USE_THE_REPOSITORY_VARIABLE` define. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-03-10environment: move access to "core.bigFileThreshold" into repo settingsPatrick Steinhardt
The "core.bigFileThreshold" setting is stored in a global variable and populated via `git_default_core_config()`. This may cause issues in the case where one is handling multiple different repositories in a single process with different values for that config key, as we may or may not see the correct value in that case. Furthermore, global state blocks our path towards libification. Refactor the code so that we instead store the value in `struct repo_settings`, where the value is computed as-needed and cached. Note that this change requires us to adapt one test in t1050 that verifies that we die when parsing an invalid "core.bigFileThreshold" value. The exercised Git command doesn't use the value at all, and thus it won't hit the new code path that parses the value. This is addressed by using git-hash-object(1) instead, which does read the value. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-03-05Merge branch 'ps/path-sans-the-repository'Junio C Hamano
The path.[ch] API takes an explicit repository parameter passed throughout the callchain, instead of relying on the_repository singleton instance. * ps/path-sans-the-repository: path: adjust last remaining users of `the_repository` environment: move access to "core.sharedRepository" into repo settings environment: move access to "core.hooksPath" into repo settings repo-settings: introduce function to clear struct path: drop `git_path()` in favor of `repo_git_path()` rerere: let `rerere_path()` write paths into a caller-provided buffer path: drop `git_common_path()` in favor of `repo_common_path()` worktree: return allocated string from `get_worktree_git_dir()` path: drop `git_path_buf()` in favor of `repo_git_path_replace()` path: drop `git_pathdup()` in favor of `repo_git_path()` path: drop unused `strbuf_git_path()` function path: refactor `repo_submodule_path()` family of functions submodule: refactor `submodule_to_gitdir()` to accept a repo path: refactor `repo_worktree_path()` family of functions path: refactor `repo_git_path()` family of functions path: refactor `repo_common_path()` family of functions
2025-02-28path: adjust last remaining users of `the_repository`Patrick Steinhardt
With the preceding refactorings we now only have a couple of implicit users of `the_repository` left in the "path" subsystem, all of which depend on global state via `calc_shared_perm()`. Make the dependency on `the_repository` explicit by passing the repo as a parameter instead and adjust callers accordingly. Note that this change bubbles up into a couple of subsystems that were previously declared as free from `the_repository`. Instead of marking all of them as `the_repository`-dependent again, we instead use the repository that is available in the calling context. There are three exceptions though with "copy.c", "pack-write.c" and "tempfile.c". Adjusting these would require us to adapt callsites all over the place, so this is left for a future iteration. Mark "path.c" as free from `the_repository`. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-25unpack_loose_rest(): rewrite return handling for clarityJeff King
We have a pattern like: if (error1) ...handle error 1... else if (error2) ...handle error 2... else ...return buf... ...free buf and return NULL... This is a little subtle because it is the return in the success block that lets us skip the common error handling. Rewrite this instead to free the buffer in each error path, marking it as NULL, and then all code paths can use the common return. This should make the logic a bit easier to follow. It does mean duplicating the buf cleanup for errors, but it's a single line. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-25unpack_loose_rest(): simplify error handlingJeff King
Inflating a loose object is considered successful only if we got Z_STREAM_END and there were no more bytes. We check both of those conditions and return success, but then have to check them a second time to decide which error message to produce. I.e., we do something like this: if (!error_1 && !error_2) ...return success... if (error_1) ...handle error1... else if (error_2) ...handle error2... ...common error handling... This repetition was the source of a small bug fixed in an earlier commit (our Z_STREAM_END check was not the same in the two conditionals). Instead we can chain them all into a single if/else cascade, which avoids repeating ourselves: if (error_1) ...handle error1... else if (error_2) ...handle error2.... else ...return success... ...common error handling... Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-25unpack_loose_rest(): never clean up zstreamJeff King
The unpack_loose_rest() function has funny ownership semantics: we pass in a z_stream opened by the caller, but then only _sometimes_ close it. This oddity has developed over time. When the function was originally split out in 5180cacc20 (Split up unpack_sha1_file() some more, 2005-06-02), it always called inflateEnd() to clean up the stream (though nowadays it is a git_zstream and we call git_inflate_end()). But in 7efbff7531 (unpack_sha1_file(): detect corrupt loose object files., 2007-03-05) we added error code paths which don't close the stream. This makes some sense, as we'd still look at parts of the stream struct to decide which error to show (though I am not sure in practice if inflateEnd() even touches those fields). This subtlety makes it hard to know when the caller has to clean up the stream and when it does not. That led to the leak fixed by aa9ef614dc (object-file: fix memory leak when reading corrupted headers, 2024-08-14). Let's instead always leave the stream intact, forcing the caller to clean it up. You might think that would create more work for the callers, but it actually ends up simplifying them, since they can put the call to git_inflate_end() in the common cleanup code path. Two things to note, though: - The check_stream_oid() function is used as a replacement for unpack_loose_rest() in read_loose_object() to read blobs. It inherited the same funny semantics, and we should fix it here, too (to keep the cleanup in read_loose_object() consistent). - In read_loose_object() we need a second "out" label, as we can jump to the existing label before opening the stream at all (and since the struct is opaque, there is no way to if it was initialized or not, so we must not call git_inflate_end() in that case). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-25unpack_loose_rest(): avoid numeric comparison of zlib statusJeff King
When unpacking the actual content of a loose object file, we insist both that the status code we got is Z_STREAM_END, and that we consumed all bytes. If we didn't, we'll return an error, but the specific error message we produce depends on which of the two error conditions we saw. So we'll check both a second time to decide which error to produce. But this second time, our status code check is loose: it checks for a negative status value. This can get confused by zlib codes which are not negative, such as Z_NEED_DICT. In this case we'd erroneously print nothing at all, when we should say "corrupt loose object". Instead, this second check should check explicitly against Z_STREAM_END. Note that Z_OK is "0", so the existing code also produced no message for Z_OK. But it's impossible to see that status, since we only break out of the inflate loop when we stop seeing Z_OK (so a stream which has more bytes than its object header claims would eventually yield Z_BUF_ERROR). There's no test here, as it would require a loose object whose zlib stream returns Z_NEED_DICT in the middle of the object content. I think that is probably possible, but even our Z_NEED_DICT test in t1006 does not trigger this, because we hit that error while reading the header. I found this bug while reviewing all callers of git_inflate() for bugs similar to the one we saw in unpack_loose_header(). This was the only other case that did a numeric comparison rather than explicitly checking for Z_STREAM_END. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-25unpack_loose_header(): avoid numeric comparison of zlib statusJeff King
When unpacking a loose header, we try to inflate the first 32 bytes. We'd expect either Z_OK (we filled up the output buffer, but there are more bytes in the object) or Z_STREAM_END (this is a tiny object whose header and content fit in the buffer). We check for that with "if (status < Z_OK)", making the assumption that all of the errors we'd see have negative values (as Z_OK itself is "0", and Z_STREAM_END is "1"). But there's at least one case this misses: Z_NEED_DICT is "2". This isn't something we'd ever expect to see, but if we do see it, we should consider it an error (since we have no dictionary to load). Instead, the current code interprets Z_NEED_DICT as success and looks for the object header's terminating NUL in the bytes we've read. This will generaly be zero bytes if the dictionary is mentioned at the start of the stream. So we'll fail to find it and complain "the header is too long" (ULHR_LONG). But really, the problem is that the object is malformed, and we should return ULHR_BAD. This is a minor bug, as we consider both cases to be an error. But it does mean we print the wrong error message. The test case added in the previous patch triggers this code, so we can just confirm the error message we see here. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-25unpack_loose_header(): fix infinite loop on broken zlib inputJeff King
When reading a loose object, we first try to expand the first 32 bytes to read the type+size header. This is enough for any of the normal Git types. But since 46f034483e (sha1_file: support reading from a loose object of unknown type, 2015-05-03), the caller can also ask us to parse any unknown names, which can be much longer. In this case we keep inflating until we find the NUL at the end of the header, or hit Z_STREAM_END. But what if zlib can't make forward progress? For example, if the loose object file is truncated, we'll have no more data to feed it. It will return Z_BUF_ERROR, and we'll just loop infinitely, calling git_inflate() over and over but never seeing new bytes nor an end-of-stream marker. We can fix this by only looping when we think we can make forward progress. This will always be Z_OK in this case. In other code we might also be able to continue on Z_BUF_ERROR, but: - We will never see Z_BUF_ERROR because the output buffer is full; we always feed a fresh 32-byte buffer on each call to git_inflate(). - We may see Z_BUF_ERROR if we run out of input. But since we've fed the whole mmap'd buffer to zlib, if it runs out of input there is nothing more we can do. So if we don't see Z_OK (and didn't see the end-of-header NUL, otherwise we'd have broken out of the loop), then we should stop looping and return an error. The test case shows an example where the input is truncated (which gives us the input Z_BUF_ERROR case above). Although we do operate on objects we might get from an untrusted remote, I don't think the security implications of this bug are too great. It can only trigger if both of these are true: - You're reading a loose object whose on-disk representation was written by an attacker. So fetching an object (or receiving a push) are mostly OK, because even with unpack-objects it is our local, trusted code that writes out the object file. The exception may be fetching from an untrusted local repo, or using dumb-http, which copies objects verbatim. But... - The only code path which triggers the inflate loop is cat-file's --allow-unknown-type option. This is unlikely to be called at all outside of debugging. But I also suspect that objects with non-standard types (or that are truncated) would not survive the usual fetch/receive checks in the first place. So I think it would be quite hard to trick somebody into running the infinite loop, and we can just fix the bug. Co-authored-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-25unpack_loose_header(): report headers without NUL as "bad"Jeff King
If a caller asks us to read the whole loose object header value into a strbuf (e.g., via "cat-file --allow-unknown-type"), we'll keep reading until we see a NUL byte marking the end of the header. If we hit Z_STREAM_END before seeing the NUL, we obviously have to stop. But we return ULHR_TOO_LONG, which doesn't make any sense. The "too long" return code is used in the normal, 32-byte limited mode to indicate that we stopped looking. There is no such thing as "too long" here, as we'd keep reading forever until we see the end of stream or the NUL. Instead, we should return ULHR_BAD. The loose object has no NUL marking the end of header, so it is malformed. The behavior difference is slight; in either case we'd consider the object unreadable and refuse to go further. The only difference is the specific error message we produce. There's no test case here, as we'd need to generate a valid zlib stream without a NUL. That's not something Git will do without writing new custom code. And in the next patch we'll fix another bug in this area which will make this easier to do (and we will test it then). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-25unpack_loose_header(): simplify next_out assignmentJeff King
When using OBJECT_INFO_ALLOW_UNKNOWN_TYPE to unpack a header that doesn't fit into our initial 32-byte buffer, we loop over calls git_inflate(), feeding it our buffer to the "next_out" pointer each time. As the code is written, we reset next_out after each inflate call (and after reading the output), ready for the next loop. This isn't wrong, but there are a few advantages to setting up "next_out" right before each inflate call, rather than after: 1. It drops a few duplicated lines of code. 2. It makes it obvious that we always feed a fresh buffer on each call (and thus can never see Z_BUF_ERROR due to due to a lack of output space). 3. After we exit the loop, we'll leave stream->next_out pointing to the end of the fetched data (this is how zlib callers find out how much data is in the buffer). This doesn't matter in practice, since nobody looks at it again. But it's probably the least-surprising thing to do, as it matches how next_out is left when the whole thing fits in the initial 32-byte buffer (and we don't enter the loop at all). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-25loose_object_info(): BUG() on inflating content with unknown typeJeff King
After unpack_loose_header() returns, it will have inflated not only the object header, but possibly some bytes of the object content. When we call unpack_loose_rest() to extract the actual content, it finds those extra bytes by skipping past the header's terminating NUL in the buffer. Like this: int bytes = strlen(buffer) + 1; n = stream->total_out - bytes; ... memcpy(buf, (char *) buffer + bytes, n); This won't work with the OBJECT_INFO_ALLOW_UNKNOWN_TYPE flag, as there we allow a header of arbitrary size. We put into a strbuf, but feed only the final 32-byte chunk we read to unpack_loose_rest(). In that case stream->total_out may unexpectedly large, and thus our "n" will be large, causing an out-of-bounds read (we do check it against our allocated buffer size, which prevents an out-of-bounds write). Probably this could be made to work by feeding the strbuf to unpack_loose_rest(), along with adjusting some types (e.g., "bytes" would need to be a size_t, since it is no longer operating on a 32-byte buffer). But I don't think it's possible to actually trigger this in practice. The only caller who passes ALLOW_UNKNOWN_TYPE is cat-file, which only allows it with the "-t" and "-s" options (neither of which access the content). There is one way you can _almost_ trigger it: the oid compat routines (i.e., accessing sha1 via sha256 names and vice versa) will convert objects on the fly (which requires access to the content) using the same flags that were passed in. So in theory this: t='some very large type field that causes an extra inflate call' sha1_oid=$(git hash-object -w -t "$t" file) sha256_oid=$(git rev-parse --output-object-format=sha256 $sha1_oid) git cat-file --allow-unknown-type -s $sha256_oid would try to access the content. But it doesn't work, because using compat objects requires an entry in the .git/objects/loose-object-idx file, and we don't generate such an entry for non-standard types (see the "compat" section of write_object_file_literally()). If we use "t=blob" instead, then it does access the compat object, but it doesn't trigger the problem (because "blob" is a standard short type name, and it fits in the initial 32-byte buffer). So given that this is almost a memory error bug, I think it's worth addressing. But because we can't actually trigger the situation, I'm hesitant to try a fix that we can't run. Instead let's document the restriction and protect ourselves from the out-of-bounds read by adding a BUG() check. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-07path: drop `git_path_buf()` in favor of `repo_git_path_replace()`Patrick Steinhardt
Remove `git_path_buf()` in favor of `repo_git_path_replace()`. The latter does essentially the same, with the only exception that it does not rely on `the_repository` but takes the repo as separate parameter. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-07path: drop `git_pathdup()` in favor of `repo_git_path()`Patrick Steinhardt
Remove `git_pathdup()` in favor of `repo_git_path()`. The latter does essentially the same, with the only exception that it does not rely on `the_repository` but takes the repo as separate parameter. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-02-03Merge branch 'tb/unsafe-hash-cleanup'Junio C Hamano
The API around choosing to use unsafe variant of SHA-1 implementation has been updated in an attempt to make it harder to abuse. * tb/unsafe-hash-cleanup: hash.h: drop unsafe_ function variants csum-file: introduce hashfile_checkpoint_init() t/helper/test-hash.c: use unsafe_hash_algo() csum-file.c: use unsafe_hash_algo() hash.h: introduce `unsafe_hash_algo()` csum-file.c: extract algop from hashfile_checksum_valid() csum-file: store the hash algorithm as a struct field t/helper/test-tool: implement sha1-unsafe helper
2025-01-31global: adapt callers to use generic hash context helpersPatrick Steinhardt
Adapt callers to use generic hash context helpers instead of using the hash algorithm to update them. This makes the callsites easier to reason about and removes the possibility that the wrong hash algorithm is used to update the hash context's state. And as a nice side effect this also gets rid of a bunch of users of `the_hash_algo`. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-01-31hash: provide generic wrappers to update hash contextsPatrick Steinhardt
The hash context is supposed to be updated via the `git_hash_algo` structure, which contains a list of function pointers to update, clone or finalize a hashing context. This requires the callers to track which algorithm was used to initialize the context and continue to use the exact same algorithm. If they fail to do that correctly, it can happen that we start to access context state of one hash algorithm with functions of a different hash algorithm. The result would typically be a segfault, as could be seen e.g. in the patches part of 98422943f0 (Merge branch 'ps/weak-sha1-for-tail-sum-fix', 2025-01-01). The situation was significantly improved starting with 04292c3796 (hash.h: drop unsafe_ function variants, 2025-01-23) and its parent commits. These refactorings ensure that it is not possible to mix up safe and unsafe variants of the same hash algorithm anymore. But in theory, it is still possible to mix up different hash algorithms with each other, even though this is a lot less likely to happen. But still, we can do better: instead of asking the caller to remember the hash algorithm used to initialize a context, we can instead make the context itself remember which algorithm it has been initialized with. If we do so, callers can use a set of generic helpers to update the context and don't need to be aware of the hash algorithm at all anymore. Adapt the context initialization functions to store the hash algorithm in the hashing context and introduce these generic helpers. Callers will be adapted in the subsequent commit. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-01-31hash: stop typedeffing the hash contextPatrick Steinhardt
We generally avoid using `typedef` in the Git codebase. One exception though is the `git_hash_ctx`, likely because it used to be a union rather than a struct until the preceding commit refactored it. But now that it is a normal `struct` there isn't really a need for a typedef anymore. Drop the typedef and adapt all callers accordingly. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-01-31hash: convert hashing context to a structurePatrick Steinhardt
The `git_hash_context` is a union containing the different hash-specific states for SHA1, its unsafe variant as well as SHA256. We know that only one of these states will ever be in use at the same time because hash contexts cannot be used for multiple different hashes at the same point in time. We're about to extend the structure though to keep track of the hash algorithm used to initialize the context, which is impossible to do while the context is a union. Refactor it to instead be a structure that contains the union of context states. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-01-31Merge branch 'tb/unsafe-hash-cleanup' into ps/hash-cleanupJunio C Hamano
* tb/unsafe-hash-cleanup: hash.h: drop unsafe_ function variants csum-file: introduce hashfile_checkpoint_init() t/helper/test-hash.c: use unsafe_hash_algo() csum-file.c: use unsafe_hash_algo() hash.h: introduce `unsafe_hash_algo()` csum-file.c: extract algop from hashfile_checksum_valid() csum-file: store the hash algorithm as a struct field t/helper/test-tool: implement sha1-unsafe helper
2025-01-23hash.h: drop unsafe_ function variantsTaylor Blau
Now that all callers have been converted from: the_hash_algo->unsafe_init_fn(); to unsafe_hash_algo(the_hash_algo)->init_fn(); and similar, we can remove the scaffolding for the unsafe_ function variants and force callers to use the new unsafe_hash_algo() mechanic instead. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-01-23hash.h: introduce `unsafe_hash_algo()`Taylor Blau
In 253ed9ecff (hash.h: scaffolding for _unsafe hashing variants, 2024-09-26), we introduced "unsafe" variants of the SHA-1 hashing functions by introducing new functions like "unsafe_init_fn()" and so on. This approach has a major shortcoming that callers must remember to consistently use one variant or the other. Failing to consistently use (or not use) the unsafe variants can lead to crashes at best, or subtle memory corruption issues at worst. In the hashfile API, this isn't difficult to achieve, but verifying that all callers consistently use the unsafe variants is somewhat of a chore given how spread out all of the callers are. In the sha1 and sha1-unsafe test helpers, all of the calls to various hash functions are guarded by an "if (unsafe)" conditional, which is repetitive and cumbersome. Address these issues by introducing a new pattern whereby one 'git_hash_algo' can return a pointer to another 'git_hash_algo' that represents the unsafe version of itself. So instead of having something like: if (unsafe) the_hash_algo->init_fn(...); the_hash_algo->update_fn(...); the_hash_algo->final_fn(...); else the_hash_algo->unsafe_init_fn(...); the_hash_algo->unsafe_update_fn(...); the_hash_algo->unsafe_final_fn(...); we can instead write: struct git_hash_algo *algop = the_hash_algo; if (unsafe) algop = unsafe_hash_algo(algop); algop->init_fn(...); algop->update_fn(...); algop->final_fn(...); This removes the existing shortcoming by no longer forcing the caller to "remember" which variant of the hash functions it wants to call, only to hold onto a 'struct git_hash_algo' pointer that is initialized once. Similarly, while there currently is still a way to "mix" safe and unsafe functions, this too will go away after subsequent commits remove all direct calls to the unsafe_ variants. Note that hash_algo_by_ptr() needs an adjustment to allow passing in the unsafe variant of a hash function. All other query functions on the hash_algos array will continue to return the safe variants of any function. Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-01-16Merge branch 'ps/object-collision-check'Junio C Hamano
CI jobs gave sporadic failures, which turns out that that the object finalization code was giving an error when it did not have to. * ps/object-collision-check: object-file: retry linking file into place when occluding file vanishes object-file: don't special-case missing source file in collision check object-file: rename variables in `check_collision()` object-file: fix race in object collision check
2025-01-06object-file: retry linking file into place when occluding file vanishesPatrick Steinhardt
Prior to 0ad3d65652 (object-file: fix race in object collision check, 2024-12-30), callers could expect that a successful return from `finalize_object_file()` means that either the file was moved into place, or the identical bytes were already present. If neither of those happens, we'd return an error. Since that commit, if the destination file disappears between our link(3p) call and the collision check, we'd return success without actually checking the contents, and without retrying the link. This solves the common case that the files were indeed the same, but it means that we may corrupt the repository if they weren't (this implies a hash collision, but the whole point of this function is protecting against hash collisions). We can't be pessimistic and assume they're different; that hurts the common case that the mentioned commit was trying to fix. But after seeing that the destination file went away, we can retry linking again. Adapt the code to do so when we see that the destination file has racily vanished. This should generally succeed as we have just observed that the destination file does not exist anymore, except in the very unlikely event that it gets recreated by another concurrent process again. Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-01-06object-file: don't special-case missing source file in collision checkPatrick Steinhardt
In 0ad3d65652 (object-file: fix race in object collision check, 2024-12-30) we have started to ignore ENOENT when opening either the source or destination file of the collision check. This was done to handle races more gracefully in case either of the potentially-colliding disappears. The fix is overly broad though: while the destination file may indeed vanish racily, this shouldn't ever happen for the source file, which is a temporary object file (either loose or in packfile format) that we have just created. So if any concurrent process would have removed that temporary file it would indicate an actual issue. Stop treating ENOENT specially for the source file so that we always bubble up this error. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2025-01-06object-file: rename variables in `check_collision()`Patrick Steinhardt
Rename variables used in `check_collision()` to clearly identify which file is the source and which is the destination. This will make the next step easier to reason about when we start to treat those files different from one another. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-30object-file: fix race in object collision checkPatrick Steinhardt
One of the tests in t5616 asserts that git-fetch(1) with `--refetch` triggers repository maintenance with the correct set of arguments. This test is flaky and causes us to fail sometimes: ++ git -c protocol.version=0 -c gc.autoPackLimit=0 -c maintenance.incremental-repack.auto=1234 -C pc1 fetch --refetch origin error: unable to open .git/objects/pack/pack-029d08823bd8a8eab510ad6ac75c823cfd3ed31e.pack: No such file or directory fatal: unable to rename temporary file to '.git/objects/pack/pack-029d08823bd8a8eab510ad6ac75c823cfd3ed31e.pack' fatal: could not finish pack-objects to repack local links fatal: index-pack failed error: last command exited with $?=128 The error message is quite confusing as it talks about trying to rename a temporary packfile. A first hunch would thus be that this packfile gets written by git-fetch(1), but removed by git-maintenance(1) while it hasn't yet been finalized, which shouldn't ever happen. And indeed, when looking closer one notices that the file that is supposedly of temporary nature does not have the typical `tmp_pack_` prefix. As it turns out, the "unable to rename temporary file" fatal error is a red herring and the real error is "unable to open". That error is raised by `check_collision()`, which is called by `finalize_object_file()` when moving the new packfile into place. Because t5616 re-fetches objects, we end up with the exact same pack as we already have in the repository. So when the concurrent git-maintenance(1) process rewrites the preexisting pack and unlinks it exactly at the point in time where git-fetch(1) wants to check the old and new packfiles for equality we will see ENOENT and thus `check_collision()` returns an error, which gets bubbled up by `finalize_object_file()` and is then handled by `rename_tmp_packfile()`. That function does not know about the exact root cause of the error and instead just claims that the rename has failed. This race is thus caused by b1b8dfde69 (finalize_object_file(): implement collision check, 2024-09-26), where we have newly introduced the collision check. By definition, two files cannot collide with each other when one of them has been removed. We can thus trivially fix the issue by ignoring ENOENT when opening either of the files we're about to check for collision. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-12-06global: mark code units that generate warnings with `-Wsign-compare`Patrick Steinhardt
Mark code units that generate warnings with `-Wsign-compare`. This allows for a structured approach to get rid of all such warnings over time in a way that can be easily measured. Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-18object-file: inline empty tree and blob literalsJeff King
We define macros with the bytes of the empty trees and blobs for sha1 and sha256. But since e1ccd7e2b1 (sha1_file: only expose empty object constants through git_hash_algo, 2018-05-02), those are used only for initializing the git_hash_algo entries. Any other code using the macros directly would be suspicious, since a hash_algo pointer is the level of indirection we use to make everything work with both sha1 and sha256. So let's future proof against code doing the wrong thing by dropping the macros entirely and just initializing the structs directly. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-18object-file: treat cached_object values as constJeff King
The cached-object API maps oids to in-memory entries. Once inserted, these entries should be immutable. Let's return them from the find_cached_object() call with a const tag to make this clear. Suggested-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-18object-file: drop oid field from find_cached_object() return valueJeff King
The pretend_object_file() function adds to an array mapping oids to object contents, which are later retrieved with find_cached_object(). We naturally need to store the oid for each entry, since it's the lookup key. But find_cached_object() also returns a hard-coded empty_tree object. There we don't care about its oid field and instead compare against the_hash_algo->empty_tree. The oid field is left as all-zeroes. This all works, but it means that the cached_object struct we return from find_cached_object() may or may not have a valid oid field, depend whether it is the hard-coded tree or came from pretend_object_file(). Nobody looks at the field, so there's no bug. But let's future-proof it by returning only the object contents themselves, not the oid. We'll continue to call this "struct cached_object", and the array entry mapping the key to those contents will be a "cached_object_entry". This would also let us swap out the array for a better data structure (like a hashmap) if we chose, but there's not much point. The only code that adds an entry is git-blame, which adds at most a single entry per process. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-18object-file: move empty_tree struct into find_cached_object()Jeff King
The fake empty_tree struct is a static global, but the only code that looks at it is find_cached_object(). The struct itself is a little odd, with an invalid "oid" field that is handled specially by that function. Since it's really just an implementation detail, let's move it to a static within the function. That future-proofs against other code trying to use it and seeing the weird oid value. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-18object-file: drop confusing oid initializer of empty_tree structJeff King
We treat the empty tree specially, providing an in-memory "cached" copy, which allows you to diff against it even if the object doesn't exist in the repository. This is implemented as part of the larger cached_object subsystem, but we use a stand-alone empty_tree struct. We initialize the oid of that struct using EMPTY_TREE_SHA1_BIN_LITERAL. At first glance, that seems like a bug; how could this ever work for sha256 repositories? The answer is that we never look at the oid field! The oid field is used to look up entries added by pretend_object_file() to the cached_objects array. But for our stand-alone entry, we look for it independently using the_hash_algo->empty_tree, which will point to the correct algo struct for the repository. This happened in 62ba93eaa9 (sha1_file: convert cached object code to struct object_id, 2018-05-02), which even mentions that this field is never used. Let's reduce confusion for anybody reading this code by replacing the sha1 initializer with a comment. The resulting field will be all-zeroes, so any violation of our assumption that the oid field is not used will break equally for sha1 and sha256. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-11-18object-file: prefer array-of-bytes initializer for hash literalsJeff King
We hard-code a few well-known hash values for empty trees and blobs in both sha1 and sha256 formats. We do so with string literals like this: #define EMPTY_TREE_SHA256_BIN_LITERAL \ "\x6e\xf1\x9b\x41\x22\x5c\x53\x69\xf1\xc1" \ "\x04\xd4\x5d\x8d\x85\xef\xa9\xb0\x57\xb5" \ "\x3b\x14\xb4\xb9\xb9\x39\xdd\x74\xde\xcc" \ "\x53\x21" and then use it to initialize the hash field of an object_id struct. That hash field is exactly 32 bytes long (the size we need for sha256). But the string literal above is actually 33 bytes long due to the NUL terminator. This is legal in C, and the NUL is ignored. Side note on legality: in general excess initializer elements are forbidden, and gcc will warn on both of these: char foo[3] = { 'h', 'u', 'g', 'e' }; char bar[3] = "VeryLongString"; I couldn't find specific language in the standard allowing initialization from a string literal where _just_ the NUL is ignored, but C99 section 6.7.8 (Initialization), paragraph 32 shows this exact case as "example 8". However, the upcoming gcc 15 will start warning for this case (when compiled with -Wextra via DEVELOPER=1): CC object-file.o object-file.c:52:9: warning: initializer-string for array of ‘unsigned char’ is too long [-Wunterminated-string-initialization] 52 | "\x6e\xf1\x9b\x41\x22\x5c\x53\x69\xf1\xc1" \ | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ object-file.c:79:17: note: in expansion of macro ‘EMPTY_TREE_SHA256_BIN_LITERAL’ which is understandable. Even though this is not a bug for us, since we do not care about the NUL terminator (and are just using the literal as a convenient format), it would be easy to accidentally create an array that was mistakenly unterminated. We can avoid this warning by switching the initializer to an actual array of unsigned values. That arguably demonstrates our intent more clearly anyway. Reported-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-10-02Merge branch 'tb/weak-sha1-for-tail-sum'Junio C Hamano
The checksum at the tail of files are now computed without collision detection protection. This is safe as the consumer of the information to protect itself from replay attacks checks for hash collisions independently. * tb/weak-sha1-for-tail-sum: csum-file.c: use unsafe SHA-1 implementation when available Makefile: allow specifying a SHA-1 for non-cryptographic uses hash.h: scaffolding for _unsafe hashing variants sha1: do not redefine `platform_SHA_CTX` and friends pack-objects: use finalize_object_file() to rename pack/idx/etc finalize_object_file(): implement collision check finalize_object_file(): refactor unlink_or_warn() placement finalize_object_file(): check for name collision before renaming
2024-09-27hash.h: scaffolding for _unsafe hashing variantsTaylor Blau
Git's default SHA-1 implementation is collision-detecting, which hardens us against known SHA-1 attacks against Git objects. This makes Git object writes safer at the expense of some speed when hashing through the collision-detecting implementation, which is slower than non-collision detecting alternatives. Prepare for loading a separate "unsafe" SHA-1 implementation that can be used for non-cryptographic purposes, like computing the checksum of files that use the hashwrite() API. This commit does not actually introduce any new compile-time knobs to control which implementation is used as the unsafe SHA-1 variant, but does add scaffolding so that the "git_hash_algo" structure has five new function pointers which are "unsafe" variants of the five existing hashing-related function pointers: - git_hash_init_fn unsafe_init_fn - git_hash_clone_fn unsafe_clone_fn - git_hash_update_fn unsafe_update_fn - git_hash_final_fn unsafe_final_fn - git_hash_final_oid_fn unsafe_final_oid_fn The following commit will introduce compile-time knobs to specify which SHA-1 implementation is used for non-cryptographic uses. Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-27finalize_object_file(): implement collision checkTaylor Blau
We've had "FIXME!!! Collision check here ?" in finalize_object_file() since aac1794132 (Improve sha1 object file writing., 2005-05-03). That is, when we try to write a file with the same name, we assume the on-disk contents are the same and blindly throw away the new copy. One of the reasons we never implemented this is because the files it moves are all named after the cryptographic hash of their contents (either loose objects, or packs which have their hash in the name these days). So we are unlikely to see such a collision by accident. And even though there are weaknesses in sha1, we assume they are mitigated by our use of sha1dc. So while it's a theoretical concern now, it hasn't been a priority. However, if we start using weaker hashes for pack checksums and names, this will become a practical concern. So in preparation, let's actually implement a byte-for-byte collision check. The new check will cause the write of new differing content to be a failure, rather than a silent noop, and we'll retain the temporary file on disk. If there's no collision present, we'll clean up the temporary file as usual after either rename()-ing or link()-ing it into place. Note that this may cause some extra computation when the files are in fact identical, but this should happen rarely. Loose objects are exempt from this check, and the collision check may be skipped by calling the _flags variant of this function with the FOF_SKIP_COLLISION_CHECK bit set. This is done for a couple of reasons: - We don't treat the hash of the loose object file's contents as a checksum, since the same loose object can be stored using different bytes on disk (e.g., when adjusting core.compression, using a different version of zlib, etc.). This is fundamentally different from cases where finalize_object_file() is operating over a file which uses the hash value as a checksum of the contents. In other words, a pair of identical loose objects can be stored using different bytes on disk, and that should not be treated as a collision. - We already use the path of the loose object as its hash value / object name, so checking for collisions at the content level doesn't add anything. Adding a content-level collision check would have to happen at a higher level than in finalize_object_file(), since (avoiding race conditions) writing an object loose which already exists in the repository will prevent us from even reaching finalize_object_file() via the object freshening code. There is a collision check in index-pack via its `check_collision()` function, but there isn't an analogous function in unpack-objects, which just feeds the result to write_object_file(). So skipping the collision check here does not change for better or worse the hardness of loose object writes. As a small note related to the latter bullet point above, we must teach the tmp-objdir routines to similarly skip the content-level collision checks when calling migrate_one() on a loose object file, which we do by setting the FOF_SKIP_COLLISION_CHECK bit when we are inside of a loose object shard. Co-authored-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Helped-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2024-09-27finalize_object_file(): refactor unlink_or_warn() placementTaylor Blau
As soon as we've tried to link() a temporary object into place, we then unlink() the tempfile immediately, whether we were successful or not. For the success case, this is because we no longer need the old file (it's now linked into place). For the error case, there are two outcomes. Either we got EEXIST, in which case we consider the collision to be a noop. Or we got a system error, in which we case we are just cleaning up after ourselves. Using a single line for all of these cases has some problems: - in the error case, our unlink() may clobber errno, which we use in the error message - for the collision case, there's a FIXME that indicates we should do a collision check. In preparation for implementing that, we'll need to actually hold on to the file. Split these three cases into their own calls to unlink_or_warn(). This is more verbose, but lets us do the right thing in each case. 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>