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[PATCH 3/3] Use /dev/null for update hook stdin.

From
Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date
Dec 31, 2006, 02:55 UTC
Message-ID
<20061231025522.GC5530@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To
<a0aecffe21074288c911c396f92901bfb558d591.1167533707.git.spearce@spearce.org>

Currently the update hook invoked by receive-pack has its stdin connected to the pushing client. The hook shouldn't attempt to read from this stream, and doing so may consume data that was meant for receive-pack. Instead we should give the update hook /dev/null as its stdin, ensuring that it always receives EOF and doesn't disrupt the protocol if it attempts to read any data.

The post-update hook is similar, as it gets invoked with /dev/null on stdin to prevent the hook from reading data from the client. Previously we had invoked it with stdout also connected to /dev/null, throwing away anything on stdout, to prevent client protocol errors. Instead we should redirect stdout to stderr, like we do with the update hook.

Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
---
 receive-pack.c |    6 ++++--
 run-command.c  |    6 +++---
 run-command.h  |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/receive-pack.c b/receive-pack.c
index 64289e9..cf83109 100644
--- a/receive-pack.c
+++ b/receive-pack.c
@@ -73,7 +73,8 @@ static int run_update_hook(const char *refname,
 
 	if (access(update_hook, X_OK) < 0)
 		return 0;
-	code = run_command_opt(RUN_COMMAND_STDOUT_TO_STDERR,
+	code = run_command_opt(RUN_COMMAND_NO_STDIN
+		| RUN_COMMAND_STDOUT_TO_STDERR,
 		update_hook, refname, old_hex, new_hex, NULL);
 	switch (code) {
 	case 0:
@@ -188,7 +189,8 @@ static void run_update_post_hook(struct command *cmd)
 		argc++;
 	}
 	argv[argc] = NULL;
-	run_command_v_opt(argv, RUN_COMMAND_NO_STDIO);
+	run_command_v_opt(argv, RUN_COMMAND_NO_STDIN
+		| RUN_COMMAND_STDOUT_TO_STDERR);
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/run-command.c b/run-command.c
index 7e4ca43..cfbad74 100644
--- a/run-command.c
+++ b/run-command.c
@@ -9,12 +9,12 @@ int run_command_v_opt(const char **argv, int flags)
 	if (pid < 0)
 		return -ERR_RUN_COMMAND_FORK;
 	if (!pid) {
-		if (flags & RUN_COMMAND_NO_STDIO) {
+		if (flags & RUN_COMMAND_NO_STDIN) {
 			int fd = open("/dev/null", O_RDWR);
 			dup2(fd, 0);
-			dup2(fd, 1);
 			close(fd);
-		} else if (flags & RUN_COMMAND_STDOUT_TO_STDERR)
+		}
+		if (flags & RUN_COMMAND_STDOUT_TO_STDERR)
 			dup2(2, 1);
 		if (flags & RUN_GIT_CMD) {
 			execv_git_cmd(argv);
diff --git a/run-command.h b/run-command.h
index 8156eac..59c4476 100644
--- a/run-command.h
+++ b/run-command.h
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ enum {
 	ERR_RUN_COMMAND_WAITPID_NOEXIT,
 };
 
-#define RUN_COMMAND_NO_STDIO 1
+#define RUN_COMMAND_NO_STDIN 1
 #define RUN_GIT_CMD	     2	/*If this is to be git sub-command */
 #define RUN_COMMAND_STDOUT_TO_STDERR 4
 int run_command_v_opt(const char **argv, int opt);
-- 
1.5.0.rc0.g6bb1
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