user/sven/git.git/path.c, branch v1.0rc6

[PATCH] daemon.c and path.enter_repo(): revamp path validation.

2005-12-04T07:17:42Z

The whitelist of git-daemon is checked against return value from enter_repo(), and enter_repo() used to return the value obtained from getcwd() to avoid directory aliasing issues as discussed earier (mid October 2005). Unfortunately, it did not go well as we hoped. For example, /pub on a kernel.org public machine is a symlink to its real mountpoint, and it is understandable that the administrator does not want to adjust the whitelist every time /pub needs to point at a different partition for storage allcation or whatever reasons. Being able to keep using /pub/scm as the whitelist is a desirable property. So this version of enter_repo() reports what it used to chdir() and validate, but does not use getcwd() to canonicalize the directory name. When it sees a user relative path ~user/path, it internally resolves it to try chdir() there, but it still reports ~user/path (possibly after appending .git if allowed to do so, in which case it would report ~user/path.git). What this means is that if a whitelist wants to allow a user relative path, it needs to say "~" (for all users) or list user home directories like "~alice" "~bob". And no, you cannot say /home if the advertised way to access user home directories are ~alice,~bob, etc. The whole point of this is to avoid unnecessary aliasing issues. Anyway, because of this, daemon needs to do a bit more work to guard itself. Namely, it needs to make sure that the accessor does not try to exploit its leading path match rule by inserting /../ in the middle or hanging /.. at the end. I resurrected the belts and suspender paranoia code HPA did for this purpose. This check cannot be done in the enter_repo() unconditionally, because there are valid callers of enter_repo() that want to honor /../; authorized users coming over ssh to run send-pack and fetch-pack should be allowed to do so. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Check repository format version in enter_repo().

2005-11-27T09:32:59Z

After daemon, upload-pack and receive-pack find out where the git directory is and chdir() there, make sure that repository is in a format we understand, after putenv("GIT_DIR=.") so that it knows to pick up the configuration file from there. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Fix "do not DWIM" patch to enter_repo"

2005-11-21T07:37:13Z

We wanted --strict to mean "do not DWIM", but the code required to see absolute path. daemon does its own path verification and chdirs to the verified repository, so enter_repo() called from upload-pack will always enter ".". Requiring absolute path does not make any sense. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Fix sparse warnings

2005-11-21T06:14:16Z

Make some functions static and convert func() function prototypes to to func(void). Fix declaration after statement, missing declaration and redundant declaration warnings. Signed-off-by: Timo Hirvonen Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Do not DWIM in userpath library under strict mode.

2005-11-20T04:50:38Z

This should force git-daemon administrator's job a bit harder because the exact paths need to be given in the whitelist, but at the same time makes the auditing easier. This moves validate_symref() from refs.c to path.c, because we need to link path.c with git-daemon for its "enter_repo()", but we do not want to link the daemon with the rest of git libraries and its requirements. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Library code for user-relative paths, take three.

2005-11-20T04:50:37Z

This patch provides the work-horse of the user-relative paths feature, using Linus' idea of a blind chdir() and getcwd() which makes it remarkably simple. Signed-off-by: Andreas Ericsson Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

[PATCH] Provide access to git_dir through get_git_dir().

2005-09-27T07:16:39Z

Signed-off-by: Sven Verdoolaege Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Retire support for old environment variables.

2005-09-09T21:48:54Z

We have deprecated the old environment variable names for quite a while and now it's time to remove them. Gone are: SHA1_FILE_DIRECTORIES AUTHOR_DATE AUTHOR_EMAIL AUTHOR_NAME COMMIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL COMMIT_AUTHOR_NAME SHA1_FILE_DIRECTORY Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Fix ?: statements.

2005-08-24T03:41:12Z

Omitting the first branch in ?: is a GNU extension. Cute, but not supported by other compilers. Replaced mostly by explicit tests. Calls to getenv() simply are repeated on non-GNU compilers. Signed-off-by: Jason Riedy

[PATCH] git_mkstemp() fix

2005-08-09T05:51:44Z

git_mkstemp() attempted to use TMPDIR environment variable, but it botched copying the templates. [jc: Holger, please add your own Signed-off-by line, and also if you can, send in future patches as non attachments.] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano