Re: [PATCH v2 5/8] hook(clone protections): add escape hatch

> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > In either case, we're considering config to be a trusted source of
> > truth, so I think the security properties are the same. But for the
> > system here, a user updating a hook needs to do multiple steps:
> >
> >   - compute the sha256 of the hook (for which we provide no tooling
> >     support, though hopefully it is obvious how to use other tools)
> >
> >   - add the config for the sha256
> >
> >   - install the new hook into $GIT_DIR/hooks
> 
> I am not sure why any of the above is needed.  
> 
> Hmph.
> 
> I was somehow (because that is how "git config --help" explains
> "safe.hook.*") led to believe that this "safety" was only about "git
> clone would prefer not to run ANY hook before it finishes operation
> and gives back the control to the end user, but historically it ran
> any enabled hooks in the resulting repository that was freshly
> created by it---so let's at least make sure the contents of the
> hooks are known-to-be-good ones when 'git clone' runs the hooks".
> Most importantly, once "git clone" gives control back to the end
> user and the end user had a chance to inspect the resulting
> repository, the files in $GIT_DIR/hooks can be updated and the hooks
> will run without incurring any cost of checking.
> 
> Isn't that what happens?

> Looking at the control flow, hook.c:find_hook() is the one that
> calls the function is_hook_safe_during_clone() to reject "unsafe"
> ones (and allow the white-listed ones), but I do not know offhand
> how the code limits the rejection only during clone.  So perhaps
> this set of patches need further work to restrict the checks only to
> "while we are cloning" case?