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[PATCH v3] promisor-remote: fix segfault when remote URL is missing

From
Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 12, 2025, 11:46 UTC
Message-ID
<20250312114628.2744747-1-christian.couder@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<20250311152413.1059343-1-christian.couder@gmail.com>

Using strvec_push() to push `NULL` into a 'strvec' results in a segfault, because `xstrdup(NULL)` crashes.

So when an URL is missing from the config, let's push the remote name instead of `NULL` into the 'strvec' that stores URLs. This is similar to what other Git commands do. For example `git fetch` uses the remote name to fetch if no url has been configured. Similarly `git remote get-url` reports the remote name if no url has been configured.

We leave improving the strvec API and/or xstrdup() for a future separate effort.

Note that an empty URL can still be configured using something like `git remote add foo ""`.

While at it, let's warn and reject the remote, in the 'KnownUrl' case, when no URL or an empty URL is advertised by the server, or when an empty URL is configured on the client for a remote name advertised by the server and configured on the client. This is on par with a warning already emitted when URLs are different in the same case.

Let's also warn if the remote is rejected because name and url are the same, as it could mean the url has not been configured.

While at it, let's also use git_config_get_string_tmp() instead of git_config_get_string() to simplify memory management.

Also let's spell "URL" with uppercase letters in all the warnings.
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
---
 promisor-remote.c                     | 46 ++++++++++++++++++---
 t/t5710-promisor-remote-capability.sh | 59 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 100 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/promisor-remote.c b/promisor-remote.c
index 6a0a61382f..479b9a27af 100644
--- a/promisor-remote.c
+++ b/promisor-remote.c
@@ -323,13 +323,19 @@ static void promisor_info_vecs(struct repository *repo,
 	promisor_remote_init(repo);
 
 	for (r = repo->promisor_remote_config->promisors; r; r = r->next) {
-		char *url;
+		const char *url;
 		char *url_key = xstrfmt("remote.%s.url", r->name);
 
 		strvec_push(names, r->name);
-		strvec_push(urls, git_config_get_string(url_key, &url) ? NULL : url);
 
-		free(url);
+		/*
+		 * No URL defaults to the name of the remote, like
+		 * elsewhere in Git (e.g. `git fetch` or `git remote
+		 * get-url`). It's still possible that an empty URL is
+		 * configured.
+		 */
+		strvec_push(urls, git_config_get_string_tmp(url_key, &url) ? r->name : url);
+
 		free(url_key);
 	}
 }
@@ -356,7 +362,7 @@ char *promisor_remote_info(struct repository *repo)
 			strbuf_addch(&sb, ';');
 		strbuf_addstr(&sb, "name=");
 		strbuf_addstr_urlencode(&sb, names.v[i], allow_unsanitized);
-		if (urls.v[i]) {
+		if (*urls.v[i]) {
 			strbuf_addstr(&sb, ",url=");
 			strbuf_addstr_urlencode(&sb, urls.v[i], allow_unsanitized);
 		}
@@ -409,12 +415,42 @@ static int should_accept_remote(enum accept_promisor accept,
 	if (accept != ACCEPT_KNOWN_URL)
 		BUG("Unhandled 'enum accept_promisor' value '%d'", accept);
 
+	if (!remote_url) {
+		warning(_("no URL advertised for remote '%s'"), remote_name);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	if (!*remote_url) {
+		/*
+		 * This shouldn't happen with a Git server, but not
+		 * sure how other servers will be implemented in the
+		 * future.
+		 */
+		warning(_("empty URL advertised for remote '%s'"), remote_name);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
+	if (!*urls->v[i]) {
+		warning(_("empty URL configured for remote '%s'"), remote_name);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 	if (!strcmp(urls->v[i], remote_url))
 		return 1;
 
-	warning(_("known remote named '%s' but with url '%s' instead of '%s'"),
+	warning(_("known remote named '%s' but with URL '%s' instead of '%s'"),
 		remote_name, urls->v[i], remote_url);
 
+	if (!strcmp(remote_name, urls->v[i]))
+		warning(_("remote name and URL are the same '%s', "
+			  "maybe the URL is not configured locally"),
+			remote_name);
+
+	if (!strcmp(remote_name, remote_url))
+		warning(_("remote name and URL are the same '%s', "
+			  "maybe the URL is not configured on the remote side"),
+			remote_name);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/t/t5710-promisor-remote-capability.sh b/t/t5710-promisor-remote-capability.sh
index d2cc69a17e..05ae96d1f7 100755
--- a/t/t5710-promisor-remote-capability.sh
+++ b/t/t5710-promisor-remote-capability.sh
@@ -193,6 +193,25 @@ test_expect_success "clone with 'KnownName' and different remote names" '
 	initialize_server 1 "$oid"
 '
 
+test_expect_success "clone with 'KnownName' and missing URL in the config" '
+	git -C server config promisor.advertise true &&
+
+	# Clone from server to create a client
+	# Lazy fetching by the client from the LOP will fail because of the
+	# missing URL in the client config, so the server will have to lazy
+	# fetch from the LOP.
+	GIT_NO_LAZY_FETCH=0 git clone -c remote.lop.promisor=true \
+		-c promisor.acceptfromserver=KnownName \
+		--no-local --filter="blob:limit=5k" server client &&
+	test_when_finished "rm -rf client" &&
+
+	# Check that the largest object is not missing on the server
+	check_missing_objects server 0 "" &&
+
+	# Reinitialize server so that the largest object is missing again
+	initialize_server 1 "$oid"
+'
+
 test_expect_success "clone with promisor.acceptfromserver set to 'KnownUrl'" '
 	git -C server config promisor.advertise true &&
 
@@ -228,6 +247,46 @@ test_expect_success "clone with 'KnownUrl' and different remote urls" '
 	initialize_server 1 "$oid"
 '
 
+test_expect_success "clone with 'KnownUrl' and url not configured on the server" '
+	git -C server config promisor.advertise true &&
+
+	git -C server config unset remote.lop.url &&
+	test_when_finished "git -C server config set remote.lop.url \"file://$(pwd)/lop\"" &&
+
+	# Clone from server to create a client
+	# It should fail because the client will reject the LOP as URLs are
+	# different, and the server cannot lazy fetch as the LOP URL is
+	# missing, so the remote name will be used instead which will fail.
+	test_must_fail env GIT_NO_LAZY_FETCH=0 git clone -c remote.lop.promisor=true \
+		-c remote.lop.fetch="+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/lop/*" \
+		-c remote.lop.url="file://$(pwd)/lop" \
+		-c promisor.acceptfromserver=KnownUrl \
+		--no-local --filter="blob:limit=5k" server client &&
+
+	# Check that the largest object is still missing on the server
+	check_missing_objects server 1 "$oid"
+'
+
+test_expect_success "clone with 'KnownUrl' and empty url, so not advertised" '
+	git -C server config promisor.advertise true &&
+
+	git -C server config set remote.lop.url "" &&
+	test_when_finished "git -C server config set remote.lop.url \"file://$(pwd)/lop\"" &&
+
+	# Clone from server to create a client
+	# It should fail because the client will reject the LOP as an empty URL is
+	# not advertised, and the server cannot lazy fetch as the LOP URL is empty,
+	# so the remote name will be used instead which will fail.
+	test_must_fail env GIT_NO_LAZY_FETCH=0 git clone -c remote.lop.promisor=true \
+		-c remote.lop.fetch="+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/lop/*" \
+		-c remote.lop.url="file://$(pwd)/lop" \
+		-c promisor.acceptfromserver=KnownUrl \
+		--no-local --filter="blob:limit=5k" server client &&
+
+	# Check that the largest object is still missing on the server
+	check_missing_objects server 1 "$oid"
+'
+
 test_expect_success "clone with promisor.advertise set to 'true' but don't delete the client" '
 	git -C server config promisor.advertise true &&
 
-- 
2.49.0.rc2.1.g28c2a23e4a
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