Re: git-fetch in 1.5.4 fails versus 1.5.3.8

From: Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date: Feb 8, 2008, 07:18 UTC
Message-ID: <20080208071835.GA11807@glandium.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080208003239.GA18856@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 07:32:39PM -0500, Jeff King wrote:

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> On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:02:43PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> 
> > Sorry, I've had trouble opening my eyes and actually reading messages I
> > reply to... anyways, I tried to reproduce with curl-gnutls and...
> > couldn't... How did you manage that ? Is the server you were trying on
> > public ? Do you have any http.ssl* variables set in your configuration ?
> 
> No, my test repo is not public. I have no special ssl configuration
> (though I do use GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=1 since I just had a test self-signed
> cert). The exact recipe on my Debian system is:
>

(...)

Okay, I've been able to reproduce the problem. I don't know what I've been doing wrong to have it hidden...

Anyways, the interesting thing is to look at what curl has to say in its verbose mode:

GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1 git fetch
* Couldn't find host localhost in the .netrc file, using defaults
* About to connect() to localhost port 8443 (#0)
*   Trying 127.0.0.1... * connected
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 8443 (#0)
* found 102 certificates in /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
*        server certificate verification FAILED
*        common name: localhost (matched)
*        server certificate expiration date OK
*        server certificate activation date OK
*        certificate public key: RSA
*        certificate version: #1
*        subject: C=GB,ST=Some-State,L=Some-Locality,O=One Organization,OU=One Organization Unit,CN=localhost,EMAIL=webmaster@localhost
*        start date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:27:36 GMT
*        expire date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:27:36 GMT
*        issuer: C=GB,ST=Some-State,L=Some-Locality,O=One Organization,OU=One Organization Unit,CN=localhost,EMAIL=webmaster@localhost
*        compression: DEFLATE
*        cipher: AES 256 CBC
*        MAC: SHA

> GET /foo/.git//info/refs HTTP/1.1

User-Agent: git/1.5.4.7.gd8534-dirty
Host: localhost:8443
Accept: */*

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:10:09 GMT
< Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Debian) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.8g
< Last-Modified: Fri, 08 Feb 2008 06:52:19 GMT
< ETag: "61d82e-3b-445a0080d0ec0"
< Accept-Ranges: bytes
< Content-Length: 59
< Content-Type: text/plain
< 
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
* Couldn't find host localhost in the .netrc file, using defaults
* About to connect() to localhost port 8443 (#0)
*   Trying 127.0.0.1... * connected
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 8443 (#0)
* error reading ca cert file /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt (ASN1 parser: Element was not found.)
* gnutls_handshake() failed: ASN1 parser: Element was not found.
* Expire cleared
* Closing connection #0
error: gnutls_handshake() failed: ASN1 parser: Element was not found. (curl_result = 35, http_code = 0, sha1 = e0aa43ffb1a1e7052a936b9ed5e0a1462cfc343e)
Getting pack list for https://localhost:8443/foo/.git

So, it looks like either gnutls or curl is doing something wrong and can't parse /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt a second time. This looks like a bug in either curl or gnutls.

A simplified testcase would probably be to do two requests in a row, but I don't have time right now to do this testing.

Mike