[PATCH 3/3] parse_commit(): handle broken whitespace-only timestamp
- From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
- Date
- Apr 22, 2023, 13:50 UTC
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- <20230422135001.GA3942563@coredump.intra.peff.net>
The comment in parse_commit_date() claims that parse_timestamp() will not walk past the end of the buffer we've been given, since it will hit the newline at "eol" and stop. This is usually true, when dateptr contains actual numbers to parse. But with a line like:
committer name <email> \n
with just whitespace, and no numbers, parse_timestamp() will consume that newline as part of the leading whitespace, and we may walk past our "tail" pointer (which itself is set from the "size" parameter passed in to parse_commit_buffer()).
In practice this can't cause us to walk off the end of an array, because we always add an extra NUL byte to the end of objects we load from disk (as a defense against exactly this kind of bug). However, you can see the behavior in action when "committer" is the final header (which it usually is, unless there's an encoding) and the subject line can be parsed as an integer. We walk right past the newline on the committer line, as well as the "\n\n" separator, and mistake the subject for the timestamp.
The new test demonstrates such a case. I also added a test to check this case against the pretty-print formatter, which uses split_ident_line(). It's not subject to the same bug, because it insists that there be one or more digits in the timestamp.
We can use the same logic here. If there's a non-whitespace but non-digit value (say "committer name <email> foo"), then parse_timestamp() would already have returned 0 anyway. So the only change should be for this "whitespace only" case.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> --- commit.c | 10 ++++++++++ t/t4212-log-corrupt.sh | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 39 insertions(+)
diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c index ede810ac1c..56877322d3 100644 --- a/commit.c +++ b/commit.c @@ -120,6 +120,16 @@ static timestamp_t parse_commit_date(const char *buf, const char *tail) if (dateptr == buf || dateptr == eol) return 0; + /* + * trim leading whitespace; parse_timestamp() will do this itself, but + * it will walk past the newline at eol while doing so. So we insist + * that there is at least one digit here. + */ + while (dateptr < eol && isspace(*dateptr)) + dateptr++; + if (!strchr("0123456789", *dateptr)) + return 0; + /* dateptr < eol && *eol == '\n', so parsing will stop at eol */ return parse_timestamp(dateptr, NULL, 10); } diff --git a/t/t4212-log-corrupt.sh b/t/t4212-log-corrupt.sh index af4b35ff56..d4ef48d646 100755 --- a/t/t4212-log-corrupt.sh +++ b/t/t4212-log-corrupt.sh @@ -92,4 +92,33 @@ test_expect_success 'absurdly far-in-future date' ' git log -1 --format=%ad $commit ' +test_expect_success 'create commit with whitespace committer date' ' + # It is important that this subject line is numeric, since we want to + # be sure we are not confused by skipping whitespace and accidentally + # parsing the subject as a timestamp. + # + # Do not use munge_author_date here. Besides not hitting the committer + # line, it leaves the timezone intact, and we want nothing but + # whitespace. + test_commit 1234567890 && + git cat-file commit HEAD >commit.orig && + sed "s/>.*/> /" <commit.orig >commit.munge && + ws_commit=$(git hash-object --literally -w -t commit commit.munge) +' + +test_expect_success '--until treats whitespace date as sentinel' ' + echo $ws_commit >expect && + git rev-list --until=1980-01-01 $ws_commit >actual && + test_cmp expect actual +' + +test_expect_success 'pretty-printer handles whitespace date' ' + # as with the %ad test above, we will show these as the empty string, + # not the 1970 epoch date. This is intentional; see 7d9a281941 (t4212: + # test bogus timestamps with git-log, 2014-02-24) for more discussion. + echo : >expect && + git log -1 --format="%at:%ct" $ws_commit >actual && + test_cmp expect actual +' + test_done
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