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[PATCH] name-rev: avoid cutoff timestamp underflow

From
SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 22, 2019, 18:01 UTC
Message-ID
<20190922180143.25026-1-szeder.dev@gmail.com>

When 'git name-rev' is invoked with commit-ish parameters, it tries to save some work, and doesn't visit commits older than the committer date of the oldest given commit minus a one day worth of slop. Since our 'timestamp_t' is an unsigned type, this leads to a timestamp underflow when the committer date of the oldest given commit is within a day of the UNIX epoch. As a result the cutoff timestamp ends up far-far in the future, and 'git name-rev' doesn't visit any commits, and names each given commit as 'undefined'.

Check whether substacting the slop from the oldest committer date would lead to an underflow, and use a 0 as cutoff in that case. This way it will handle commits shortly after the epoch even if we were to switch to a signed 'timestamp_t' (but then we'll have to worry about signed underflow for very old commits).

Note that the type of the cutoff timestamp variable used to be signed before 5589e87fd8 (name-rev: change a "long" variable to timestamp_t, 2017-05-20). The behavior was still the same even back then, but the underflow didn't happen when substracting the slop from the oldest committer date, but when comparing the signed cutoff timestamp with unsigned committer dates in name_rev(). IOW, this underflow bug is as old as 'git name-rev' itself.

Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
---

This patch adds a test at the end of 't6120-describe.sh', so it will conflict with my non-recursive name-rev patch series, which adds a test there as well, but the conflict should be wasy to resolve.

  https://public-inbox.org/git/20190919214712.7348-7-szeder.dev@gmail.com/
 builtin/name-rev.c  | 15 ++++++++++++---
 t/t6120-describe.sh | 15 +++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/name-rev.c b/builtin/name-rev.c
index c785fe16ba..a4d8d312ab 100644
--- a/builtin/name-rev.c
+++ b/builtin/name-rev.c
@@ -9,7 +9,11 @@
 #include "sha1-lookup.h"
 #include "commit-slab.h"
 
-#define CUTOFF_DATE_SLOP 86400 /* one day */
+/*
+ * One day.  See the 'name a rev close to epoch' test in t6120 when
+ * changing this value
+ */
+#define CUTOFF_DATE_SLOP 86400
 
 typedef struct rev_name {
 	const char *tip_name;
@@ -481,8 +485,13 @@ int cmd_name_rev(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
 		add_object_array(object, *argv, &revs);
 	}
 
-	if (cutoff)
-		cutoff = cutoff - CUTOFF_DATE_SLOP;
+	if (cutoff) {
+		/* check for undeflow */
+		if (cutoff - CUTOFF_DATE_SLOP < cutoff)
+			cutoff = cutoff - CUTOFF_DATE_SLOP;
+		else
+			cutoff = 0;
+	}
 	for_each_ref(name_ref, &data);
 
 	if (transform_stdin) {
diff --git a/t/t6120-describe.sh b/t/t6120-describe.sh
index 2b883d8174..965e633c32 100755
--- a/t/t6120-describe.sh
+++ b/t/t6120-describe.sh
@@ -424,4 +424,19 @@ test_expect_success 'describe complains about missing object' '
 	test_must_fail git describe $ZERO_OID
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'name-rev a rev shortly after epoch' '
+	test_when_finished "git checkout master" &&
+
+	git checkout --orphan no-timestamp-underflow &&
+	# Any date closer to epoch than the CUTOFF_DATE_SLOP constant
+	# in builtin/name-rev.c.
+	GIT_COMMITTER_DATE="@1234 +0000" \
+	git commit -m "committer date shortly after epoch" &&
+	near_commit_oid=$(git rev-parse HEAD) &&
+
+	echo "$near_commit_oid no-timestamp-underflow" >expect &&
+	git name-rev $near_commit_oid >actual &&
+	test_cmp expect actual
+'
+
 test_done
-- 
2.23.0.597.gb58f4577a1
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