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[PATCH 15/15] commit: record buffer length in cache

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jun 9, 2014, 18:15 UTC
Message-ID
<20140609181538.GO20315@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To
<20140609180236.GA24644@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Most callsites which use the commit buffer try to use the cached version attached to the commit, rather than re-reading from disk. Unfortunately, that interface provides only a pointer to the NUL-terminated buffer, with no indication of the original length.

For the most part, this doesn't matter. People do not put NULs in their commit messages, and the log code is happy to treat it all as a NUL-terminated string. However, some code paths do care. For example, when checking signatures, we want to be very careful that we verify all the bytes to avoid malicious trickery.

This patch just adds an optional "size" out-pointer to get_commit_buffer and friends. The existing callers all pass NULL (there did not seem to be any obvious sites where we could avoid an immediate strlen() call, though perhaps with some further refactoring we could).

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 builtin/blame.c         |  2 +-
 builtin/fast-export.c   |  2 +-
 builtin/fmt-merge-msg.c |  2 +-
 builtin/index-pack.c    |  2 +-
 builtin/log.c           |  2 +-
 builtin/rev-list.c      |  2 +-
 commit.c                | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 commit.h                |  8 ++++----
 fsck.c                  |  2 +-
 log-tree.c              |  2 +-
 merge-recursive.c       |  2 +-
 notes-merge.c           |  2 +-
 object.c                |  4 ++--
 pretty.c                |  4 ++--
 sequencer.c             |  2 +-
 sha1_name.c             |  2 +-
 16 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/blame.c b/builtin/blame.c
index cde19eb..58a2c54 100644
--- a/builtin/blame.c
+++ b/builtin/blame.c
@@ -2313,7 +2313,7 @@ static struct commit *fake_working_tree_commit(struct diff_options *opt,
 		    ident, ident, path,
 		    (!contents_from ? path :
 		     (!strcmp(contents_from, "-") ? "standard input" : contents_from)));
-	set_commit_buffer(commit, strbuf_detach(&msg, NULL));
+	set_commit_buffer(commit, msg.buf, msg.len);
 
 	if (!contents_from || strcmp("-", contents_from)) {
 		struct stat st;
diff --git a/builtin/fast-export.c b/builtin/fast-export.c
index 7ee5e08..05d161f 100644
--- a/builtin/fast-export.c
+++ b/builtin/fast-export.c
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ static void handle_commit(struct commit *commit, struct rev_info *rev)
 	rev->diffopt.output_format = DIFF_FORMAT_CALLBACK;
 
 	parse_commit_or_die(commit);
-	commit_buffer = get_commit_buffer(commit);
+	commit_buffer = get_commit_buffer(commit, NULL);
 	author = strstr(commit_buffer, "\nauthor ");
 	if (!author)
 		die ("Could not find author in commit %s",
diff --git a/builtin/fmt-merge-msg.c b/builtin/fmt-merge-msg.c
index 01f6d59..ef8b254 100644
--- a/builtin/fmt-merge-msg.c
+++ b/builtin/fmt-merge-msg.c
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ static void record_person(int which, struct string_list *people,
 	const char *field;
 
 	field = (which == 'a') ? "\nauthor " : "\ncommitter ";
-	buffer = get_commit_buffer(commit);
+	buffer = get_commit_buffer(commit, NULL);
 	name = strstr(buffer, field);
 	if (!name)
 		return;
diff --git a/builtin/index-pack.c b/builtin/index-pack.c
index 995df39..25e3e9b 100644
--- a/builtin/index-pack.c
+++ b/builtin/index-pack.c
@@ -786,7 +786,7 @@ static void sha1_object(const void *data, struct object_entry *obj_entry,
 			}
 			if (obj->type == OBJ_COMMIT) {
 				struct commit *commit = (struct commit *) obj;
-				detach_commit_buffer(commit);
+				detach_commit_buffer(commit, NULL);
 			}
 			obj->flags |= FLAG_CHECKED;
 		}
diff --git a/builtin/log.c b/builtin/log.c
index 2c74260..c599eac 100644
--- a/builtin/log.c
+++ b/builtin/log.c
@@ -919,7 +919,7 @@ static void make_cover_letter(struct rev_info *rev, int use_stdout,
 				&need_8bit_cte);
 
 	for (i = 0; !need_8bit_cte && i < nr; i++) {
-		const char *buf = get_commit_buffer(list[i]);
+		const char *buf = get_commit_buffer(list[i], NULL);
 		if (has_non_ascii(buf))
 			need_8bit_cte = 1;
 		unuse_commit_buffer(list[i], buf);
diff --git a/builtin/rev-list.c b/builtin/rev-list.c
index 3fcbf21..ff84a82 100644
--- a/builtin/rev-list.c
+++ b/builtin/rev-list.c
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ static void show_commit(struct commit *commit, void *data)
 	else
 		putchar('\n');
 
-	if (revs->verbose_header && get_cached_commit_buffer(commit)) {
+	if (revs->verbose_header && get_cached_commit_buffer(commit, NULL)) {
 		struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
 		struct pretty_print_context ctx = {0};
 		ctx.abbrev = revs->abbrev;
diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
index 1b344bd..b833b9f 100644
--- a/commit.c
+++ b/commit.c
@@ -245,22 +245,31 @@ int unregister_shallow(const unsigned char *sha1)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-define_commit_slab(buffer_slab, void *);
+struct commit_buffer {
+	void *buffer;
+	unsigned long size;
+};
+define_commit_slab(buffer_slab, struct commit_buffer);
 static struct buffer_slab buffer_slab = COMMIT_SLAB_INIT(1, buffer_slab);
 
-void set_commit_buffer(struct commit *commit, void *buffer)
+void set_commit_buffer(struct commit *commit, void *buffer, unsigned long size)
 {
-	*buffer_slab_at(&buffer_slab, commit) = buffer;
+	struct commit_buffer *v = buffer_slab_at(&buffer_slab, commit);
+	v->buffer = buffer;
+	v->size = size;
 }
 
-const void *get_cached_commit_buffer(const struct commit *commit)
+const void *get_cached_commit_buffer(const struct commit *commit, unsigned long *sizep)
 {
-	return *buffer_slab_at(&buffer_slab, commit);
+	struct commit_buffer *v = buffer_slab_at(&buffer_slab, commit);
+	if (sizep)
+		*sizep = v->size;
+	return v->buffer;
 }
 
-const void *get_commit_buffer(const struct commit *commit)
+const void *get_commit_buffer(const struct commit *commit, unsigned long *sizep)
 {
-	const void *ret = get_cached_commit_buffer(commit);
+	const void *ret = get_cached_commit_buffer(commit, sizep);
 	if (!ret) {
 		enum object_type type;
 		unsigned long size;
@@ -271,29 +280,38 @@ const void *get_commit_buffer(const struct commit *commit)
 		if (type != OBJ_COMMIT)
 			die("expected commit for %s, got %s",
 			    sha1_to_hex(commit->object.sha1), typename(type));
+		if (sizep)
+			*sizep = size;
 	}
 	return ret;
 }
 
 void unuse_commit_buffer(const struct commit *commit, const void *buffer)
 {
-	void *cached = *buffer_slab_at(&buffer_slab, commit);
-	if (cached != buffer)
+	struct commit_buffer *v = buffer_slab_at(&buffer_slab, commit);
+	if (v->buffer != buffer)
 		free((void *)buffer);
 }
 
 void free_commit_buffer(struct commit *commit)
 {
-	void **b = buffer_slab_at(&buffer_slab, commit);
-	free(*b);
-	*b = NULL;
+	struct commit_buffer *v = buffer_slab_at(&buffer_slab, commit);
+	free(v->buffer);
+	v->buffer = NULL;
+	v->size = 0;
 }
 
-const void *detach_commit_buffer(struct commit *commit)
+const void *detach_commit_buffer(struct commit *commit, unsigned long *sizep)
 {
-	void **b = buffer_slab_at(&buffer_slab, commit);
-	void *ret = *b;
-	*b = NULL;
+	struct commit_buffer *v = buffer_slab_at(&buffer_slab, commit);
+	void *ret;
+
+	ret = v->buffer;
+	if (sizep)
+		*sizep = v->size;
+
+	v->buffer = NULL;
+	v->size = 0;
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -374,7 +392,7 @@ int parse_commit(struct commit *item)
 	}
 	ret = parse_commit_buffer(item, buffer, size);
 	if (save_commit_buffer && !ret) {
-		set_commit_buffer(item, buffer);
+		set_commit_buffer(item, buffer, size);
 		return 0;
 	}
 	free(buffer);
@@ -589,7 +607,7 @@ static void record_author_date(struct author_date_slab *author_date,
 			       struct commit *commit)
 {
 	const char *buf, *line_end, *ident_line;
-	const char *buffer = get_commit_buffer(commit);
+	const char *buffer = get_commit_buffer(commit, NULL);
 	struct ident_split ident;
 	char *date_end;
 	unsigned long date;
diff --git a/commit.h b/commit.h
index 02f894b..9ac7954 100644
--- a/commit.h
+++ b/commit.h
@@ -54,20 +54,20 @@ void parse_commit_or_die(struct commit *item);
  * Associate an object buffer with the commit. The ownership of the
  * memory is handed over to the commit, and must be free()-able.
  */
-void set_commit_buffer(struct commit *, void *buffer);
+void set_commit_buffer(struct commit *, void *buffer, unsigned long size);
 
 /*
  * Get any cached object buffer associated with the commit. Returns NULL
  * if none. The resulting memory should not be freed.
  */
-const void *get_cached_commit_buffer(const struct commit *);
+const void *get_cached_commit_buffer(const struct commit *, unsigned long *size);
 
 /*
  * Get the commit's object contents, either from cache or by reading the object
  * from disk. The resulting memory should not be modified, and must be given
  * to unuse_commit_buffer when the caller is done.
  */
-const void *get_commit_buffer(const struct commit *);
+const void *get_commit_buffer(const struct commit *, unsigned long *size);
 
 /*
  * Tell the commit subsytem that we are done with a particular commit buffer.
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ void free_commit_buffer(struct commit *);
  * Disassociate any cached object buffer from the commit, but do not free it.
  * The buffer (or NULL, if none) is returned.
  */
-const void *detach_commit_buffer(struct commit *);
+const void *detach_commit_buffer(struct commit *, unsigned long *sizep);
 
 /* Find beginning and length of commit subject. */
 int find_commit_subject(const char *commit_buffer, const char **subject);
diff --git a/fsck.c b/fsck.c
index 8223780..a7233c8 100644
--- a/fsck.c
+++ b/fsck.c
@@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ static int fsck_commit_buffer(struct commit *commit, const char *buffer,
 
 static int fsck_commit(struct commit *commit, fsck_error error_func)
 {
-	const char *buffer = get_commit_buffer(commit);
+	const char *buffer = get_commit_buffer(commit, NULL);
 	int ret = fsck_commit_buffer(commit, buffer, error_func);
 	unuse_commit_buffer(commit, buffer);
 	return ret;
diff --git a/log-tree.c b/log-tree.c
index e9ef8ab..4447021 100644
--- a/log-tree.c
+++ b/log-tree.c
@@ -588,7 +588,7 @@ void show_log(struct rev_info *opt)
 		show_mergetag(opt, commit);
 	}
 
-	if (!get_cached_commit_buffer(commit))
+	if (!get_cached_commit_buffer(commit, NULL))
 		return;
 
 	if (opt->show_notes) {
diff --git a/merge-recursive.c b/merge-recursive.c
index 0dd6039..d38a3b2 100644
--- a/merge-recursive.c
+++ b/merge-recursive.c
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ static void output_commit_title(struct merge_options *o, struct commit *commit)
 			printf(_("(bad commit)\n"));
 		else {
 			const char *title;
-			const char *msg = get_commit_buffer(commit);
+			const char *msg = get_commit_buffer(commit, NULL);
 			int len = find_commit_subject(msg, &title);
 			if (len)
 				printf("%.*s\n", len, title);
diff --git a/notes-merge.c b/notes-merge.c
index 7885ab2..26360e2 100644
--- a/notes-merge.c
+++ b/notes-merge.c
@@ -671,7 +671,7 @@ int notes_merge_commit(struct notes_merge_options *o,
 	DIR *dir;
 	struct dirent *e;
 	struct strbuf path = STRBUF_INIT;
-	const char *buffer = get_commit_buffer(partial_commit);
+	const char *buffer = get_commit_buffer(partial_commit, NULL);
 	const char *msg = strstr(buffer, "\n\n");
 	struct strbuf sb_msg = STRBUF_INIT;
 	int baselen;
diff --git a/object.c b/object.c
index 67b6e35..9c31e9a 100644
--- a/object.c
+++ b/object.c
@@ -197,8 +197,8 @@ struct object *parse_object_buffer(const unsigned char *sha1, enum object_type t
 		if (commit) {
 			if (parse_commit_buffer(commit, buffer, size))
 				return NULL;
-			if (!get_cached_commit_buffer(commit)) {
-				set_commit_buffer(commit, buffer);
+			if (!get_cached_commit_buffer(commit, NULL)) {
+				set_commit_buffer(commit, buffer, size);
 				*eaten_p = 1;
 			}
 			obj = &commit->object;
diff --git a/pretty.c b/pretty.c
index 8fd60cd..280d7d0 100644
--- a/pretty.c
+++ b/pretty.c
@@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ const char *logmsg_reencode(const struct commit *commit,
 	static const char *utf8 = "UTF-8";
 	const char *use_encoding;
 	char *encoding;
-	const char *msg = get_commit_buffer(commit);
+	const char *msg = get_commit_buffer(commit, NULL);
 	char *out;
 
 	if (!output_encoding || !*output_encoding) {
@@ -642,7 +642,7 @@ const char *logmsg_reencode(const struct commit *commit,
 		 * the cached copy from get_commit_buffer, we need to duplicate it
 		 * to avoid munging the cached copy.
 		 */
-		if (msg == get_cached_commit_buffer(commit))
+		if (msg == get_cached_commit_buffer(commit, NULL))
 			out = xstrdup(msg);
 		else
 			out = (char *)msg;
diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c
index 5609ab3..d83f810 100644
--- a/sequencer.c
+++ b/sequencer.c
@@ -666,7 +666,7 @@ static int format_todo(struct strbuf *buf, struct commit_list *todo_list,
 	int subject_len;
 
 	for (cur = todo_list; cur; cur = cur->next) {
-		const char *commit_buffer = get_commit_buffer(cur->item);
+		const char *commit_buffer = get_commit_buffer(cur->item, NULL);
 		sha1_abbrev = find_unique_abbrev(cur->item->object.sha1, DEFAULT_ABBREV);
 		subject_len = find_commit_subject(commit_buffer, &subject);
 		strbuf_addf(buf, "%s %s %.*s\n", action_str, sha1_abbrev,
diff --git a/sha1_name.c b/sha1_name.c
index 0a65d23..c2c938c 100644
--- a/sha1_name.c
+++ b/sha1_name.c
@@ -869,7 +869,7 @@ static int get_sha1_oneline(const char *prefix, unsigned char *sha1,
 		commit = pop_most_recent_commit(&list, ONELINE_SEEN);
 		if (!parse_object(commit->object.sha1))
 			continue;
-		buf = get_commit_buffer(commit);
+		buf = get_commit_buffer(commit, NULL);
 		p = strstr(buf, "\n\n");
 		matches = p && !regexec(&regex, p + 2, 0, NULL, 0);
 		unuse_commit_buffer(commit, buf);
-- 
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  1. 0/15 store length of commit->bufferJeff King, Jun 9, 2014
  2. 01/15 alloc: include any-object allocations in alloc_reportJeff King, Jun 9, 2014
  3. 02/15 commit: push commit_index update into alloc_commit_nodeJeff King, Jun 9, 2014
  4. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2014
  5. 03/15 do not create "struct commit" with xcallocJeff King, Jun 9, 2014
  6. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2014
  7. Jeff KingJun 10, 2014
  8. 04/15 logmsg_reencode: return const bufferJeff King, Jun 9, 2014
  9. Eric SunshineJun 10, 2014
  10. 05/15 sequencer: use logmsg_reencode in get_messageJeff King, Jun 9, 2014
  11. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2014
  12. Jeff KingJun 10, 2014
  13. 06/15 provide a helper to free commit bufferJeff King, Jun 9, 2014
  14. 07/15 provide a helper to set the commit bufferJeff King, Jun 9, 2014
  15. 08/15 provide helpers to access the commit bufferJeff King, Jun 9, 2014
  16. Eric SunshineJun 10, 2014
  17. 09/15 use get_cached_commit_buffer where appropriateJeff King, Jun 9, 2014
  18. 10/15 use get_commit_buffer to avoid duplicate codeJeff King, Jun 9, 2014
  19. Eric SunshineJun 10, 2014
  20. Jeff KingJun 10, 2014
  21. 11/15 convert logmsg_reencode to get_commit_bufferJeff King, Jun 9, 2014
  22. 12/15 use get_commit_buffer everywhereJeff King, Jun 9, 2014
  23. Junio C HamanoJun 9, 2014
  24. Jeff KingJun 10, 2014
  25. Jeff KingJun 10, 2014
  26. Junio C HamanoJun 10, 2014
  27. Jeff KingJun 10, 2014
  28. 13/15 commit-slab: provide a static initializerJeff King, Jun 9, 2014
  29. 14/15 commit: convert commit->buffer to a slabJeff King, Jun 9, 2014
  30. 15/15 commit: record buffer length in cacheJeff King, Jun 9, 2014
  31. Christian CouderJun 10, 2014
  32. Jeff KingJun 10, 2014
  33. Jeff KingJun 10, 2014
  34. Christian CouderJun 10, 2014
  35. 0/17 store length of commit->bufferJeff King, Jun 10, 2014
  36. 01/17 commit_tree: take a pointer/len pair rather than a const strbufJeff King, Jun 10, 2014
  37. 02/17 replace dangerous uses of strbuf_attachJeff King, Jun 10, 2014
  38. 03/17 alloc: include any-object allocations in alloc_reportJeff King, Jun 10, 2014
  39. 04/17 commit: push commit_index update into alloc_commit_nodeJeff King, Jun 10, 2014
  40. 05/17 do not create "struct commit" with xcallocJeff King, Jun 10, 2014
  41. 06/17 logmsg_reencode: return const bufferJeff King, Jun 10, 2014
  42. 07/17 sequencer: use logmsg_reencode in get_messageJeff King, Jun 10, 2014
  43. 08/17 provide a helper to free commit bufferJeff King, Jun 10, 2014
  44. Junio C HamanoJun 12, 2014
  45. Jeff KingJun 12, 2014
  46. Jeff KingJun 12, 2014
  47. 09/17 provide a helper to set the commit bufferJeff King, Jun 10, 2014
  48. 10/17 provide helpers to access the commit bufferJeff King, Jun 10, 2014
  49. 11/17 use get_cached_commit_buffer where appropriateJeff King, Jun 10, 2014
  50. 12/17 use get_commit_buffer to avoid duplicate codeJeff King, Jun 10, 2014
  51. 13/17 convert logmsg_reencode to get_commit_bufferJeff King, Jun 10, 2014
  52. 14/17 use get_commit_buffer everywhereJeff King, Jun 10, 2014
  53. 15/17 commit-slab: provide a static initializerJeff King, Jun 10, 2014
  54. Junio C HamanoJun 12, 2014
  55. Jeff KingJun 12, 2014
  56. 16/17 commit: convert commit->buffer to a slabJeff King, Jun 10, 2014
  57. 17/17 commit: record buffer length in cacheJeff King, Jun 10, 2014
  58. Jeff KingJun 10, 2014
  59. Junio C HamanoJun 12, 2014
  60. reuse cached commit buffer when parsing signaturesJeff King, Jun 13, 2014

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