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[PATCH 5/6] index-pack: optionally reject packs with duplicate objects

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Aug 24, 2013, 00:02 UTC
Message-ID
<20130824000239.GE25833@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20130824000111.GA20255@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Git should never generate packs with duplicate objects. However, we may see such packs due to bugs in Git or other implementations (e.g., JGit had such a bug a few years ago).

In theory, such packs should not be a problem for us (we will simply find one of the instances of the object when looking in the pack). However, the JGit bug report mentioned possible infinite loops during repacking due to cycles in the delta chain. Though this problem hasn't specifically been reproduced on modern git, there is no reason not to be careful with incoming packs, given that only buggy implementations should be producing such packs, anyway.

This patch introduces the pack.indexDuplicates option to allow or reject such packs from index-pack. The default remains to allow it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
---
 builtin/index-pack.c              |  4 ++++
 pack-write.c                      | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 pack.h                            |  2 ++
 t/t5308-pack-detect-duplicates.sh |  8 ++++++++
 4 files changed, 38 insertions(+)
diff --git a/builtin/index-pack.c b/builtin/index-pack.c
index 79dfe47..72e19a0 100644
--- a/builtin/index-pack.c
+++ b/builtin/index-pack.c
@@ -1364,6 +1364,10 @@ static int git_index_pack_config(const char *k, const char *v, void *cb)
 #endif
 		return 0;
 	}
+	if (!strcmp(k, "pack.indexduplicates")) {
+		opts->allow_duplicates = git_config_bool(k, v);
+		return 0;
+	}
 	return git_default_config(k, v, cb);
 }
 
diff --git a/pack-write.c b/pack-write.c
index ca9e63b..da946a7 100644
--- a/pack-write.c
+++ b/pack-write.c
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ void reset_pack_idx_option(struct pack_idx_option *opts)
 	memset(opts, 0, sizeof(*opts));
 	opts->version = 2;
 	opts->off32_limit = 0x7fffffff;
+	opts->allow_duplicates = 1;
 }
 
 static int sha1_compare(const void *_a, const void *_b)
@@ -37,6 +38,19 @@ static int need_large_offset(off_t offset, const struct pack_idx_option *opts)
 			 sizeof(ofsval), cmp_uint32);
 }
 
+static void *find_duplicate(void *vbase, size_t n, size_t size,
+			    int (*cmp)(const void *, const void *))
+{
+	unsigned char *base = vbase;
+	while (n > 1) {
+		if (!cmp(base, base + size))
+			return base;
+		base += size;
+		n--;
+	}
+	return NULL;
+}
+
 /*
  * On entry *sha1 contains the pack content SHA1 hash, on exit it is
  * the SHA1 hash of sorted object names. The objects array passed in
@@ -68,6 +82,16 @@ const char *write_idx_file(const char *index_name, struct pack_idx_entry **objec
 	else
 		sorted_by_sha = list = last = NULL;
 
+	if (!opts->allow_duplicates) {
+		struct pack_idx_entry **dup;
+
+		dup = find_duplicate(sorted_by_sha, nr_objects,
+				     sizeof(*sorted_by_sha), sha1_compare);
+		if (dup)
+			die("pack has duplicate entries for %s",
+			    sha1_to_hex((*dup)->sha1));
+	}
+
 	if (opts->flags & WRITE_IDX_VERIFY) {
 		assert(index_name);
 		f = sha1fd_check(index_name);
diff --git a/pack.h b/pack.h
index aa6ee7d..45217b6 100644
--- a/pack.h
+++ b/pack.h
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ struct pack_idx_option {
 	uint32_t version;
 	uint32_t off32_limit;
 
+	int allow_duplicates;
+
 	/*
 	 * List of offsets that would fit within off32_limit but
 	 * need to be written out as 64-bit entity for byte-for-byte
diff --git a/t/t5308-pack-detect-duplicates.sh b/t/t5308-pack-detect-duplicates.sh
index 04fe242..97ce2e0 100755
--- a/t/t5308-pack-detect-duplicates.sh
+++ b/t/t5308-pack-detect-duplicates.sh
@@ -70,4 +70,12 @@ test_expect_success 'lookup in duplicated pack (GIT_USE_LOOKUP)' '
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'index-pack can reject packs with duplicates' '
+	clear_packs &&
+	create_pack dups.pack 2 &&
+	test_must_fail \
+		git -c pack.indexDuplicates=0 index-pack --stdin <dups.pack &&
+	test_expect_code 1 git cat-file -e $LO_SHA1
+'
+
 test_done
-- 
1.8.4.rc2.28.g6bb5f3f
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  1. Jeff KingAug 14, 2013
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 14, 2013
  3. Junio C HamanoAug 14, 2013
  4. Nicolas PitreAug 14, 2013
  5. Jeff KingAug 16, 2013
  6. 0/4 duplicate objects in packfilesJeff King, Aug 21, 2013
  7. 1/4 sha1-lookup: handle duplicate keys with GIT_USE_LOOKUPJeff King, Aug 21, 2013
  8. 2/4 index-pack: optionally reject packs with duplicate objectsJeff King, Aug 21, 2013
  9. Duy NguyenAug 22, 2013
  10. Jeff KingAug 22, 2013
  11. 0/6 duplicate objects and delta cycles, oh my!Jeff King, Aug 22, 2013
  12. 1/6 test-sha1: add a binary output modeJeff King, Aug 22, 2013
  13. 2/6 sha1-lookup: handle duplicate keys with GIT_USE_LOOKUPJeff King, Aug 22, 2013
  14. Junio C HamanoAug 23, 2013
  15. Jeff KingAug 23, 2013
  16. Nicolas PitreAug 23, 2013
  17. Jeff KingAug 23, 2013
  18. 0/6 duplicate objects and delta cyclesJeff King, Aug 24, 2013
  19. 1/6 test-sha1: add a binary output modeJeff King, Aug 24, 2013
  20. 2/6 sha1-lookup: handle duplicate keys with GIT_USE_LOOKUPJeff King, Aug 24, 2013
  21. 3/6 add tests for indexing packs with delta cyclesJeff King, Aug 24, 2013
  22. 4/6 test index-pack on packs with recoverable delta cyclesJeff King, Aug 24, 2013
  23. 5/6 index-pack: optionally reject packs with duplicate objectsJeff King, Aug 24, 2013
  24. 6/6 default pack.indexDuplicates to falseJeff King, Aug 24, 2013
  25. Johannes SixtAug 23, 2013
  26. Jeff KingAug 23, 2013
  27. 3/6 add tests for indexing packs with delta cyclesJeff King, Aug 22, 2013
  28. 4/6 test index-pack on packs with recoverable delta cyclesJeff King, Aug 22, 2013
  29. 5/6 index-pack: optionally reject packs with duplicate objectsJeff King, Aug 22, 2013
  30. 6/6 default pack.indexDuplicates to falseJeff King, Aug 22, 2013
  31. Nicolas PitreAug 22, 2013
  32. 3/4 reject duplicates when indexing a packfile we createdJeff King, Aug 21, 2013
  33. 4/4 index-pack: optionally skip duplicate packfile entriesJeff King, Aug 21, 2013
  34. Junio C HamanoAug 21, 2013
  35. Jeff KingAug 22, 2013
  36. Junio C HamanoAug 21, 2013
  37. Nicolas PitreAug 14, 2013

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