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Re: [RFC] Git.pm: stat the FD to ensure the file is really open

From
Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 31, 2014, 00:13 UTC
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On Oct 30, 2014, at 15:08, Eric Wong wrote:
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> For a (currently) unknown reason, Git::SVN::Fetcher::close_file
> sometimes triggers "Bad file descriptor" errors on syswrite when
> writing symlink contents on the "svn_hash" tempfile.
>
> The current IO::Handle::opened call in Git.pm is not a
> sufficient check, as the underlying file descriptor is closed
> without the PerlIO layer knowing about it.  This is likely a bug
> inside libsvn (1.6.17), as none of the Git.pm or Git::SVN
> modules close IOs without the knowledge of the PerlIO layer.
>
> Cc: Kyle J. McKay <mackyle@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net>
> ---
> Kyle/Junio: thoughts?  I'm running out of time to track this down
> so it might be necessary for 2.2-rc0.  What's even stranger is
> I cannot always reproduce the problem even without this patch,
> so it may be only triggered by network latency...
> Thanks.
With this patch added, do you then see the warning:
   carp "Temp file '", $name,
	"' was closed. Opening replacement.";
 From _temp_cache?  It would seem odd if you didn't unless there was  
only one symlink involved.

I suspect that symlinks were rare in the repositories I was testing against. I wonder if having a test svn repo that adds several new symlinks for several revisions in a row might trigger this problem more robustly.

The _repository->temp_acquire('svn_hash') call is assigned to a "my" variable and then has Git::temp_release called on it later in the same function and the only calls made on it in between are Git::temp_path, so I don't see how the libsvn library could be responsible for closing it since it looks to me like it never sees it. But I'm looking at v2.1.2 of Fetcher.pm, so if some other calls have been inserted there since then.

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> perl/Git.pm | 18 ++++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/perl/Git.pm b/perl/Git.pm
> index b5905ee..f1f210b 100644
> --- a/perl/Git.pm
> +++ b/perl/Git.pm
> @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ increase notwithstanding).
> =cut
>
>
> -use Carp qw(carp croak); # but croak is bad - throw instead
> +use Carp qw(carp croak cluck); # but croak is bad - throw instead
> use Error qw(:try);
> use Cwd qw(abs_path cwd);
> use IPC::Open2 qw(open2);
> @@ -1206,6 +1206,16 @@ sub temp_acquire {
> 	$temp_fd;
> }
>
> +sub _temp_really_open {
> +	my ($fh) = @_;
> +
> +	if (defined($fh) && $fh->opened) {
> +		return 1 if stat($fh);
> +		cluck("$fh closed independently of PerlIO\n");
> +	}
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
> =item temp_is_locked ( NAME )
>
> Returns true if the internal lock created by a previous  
> C<temp_acquire()>
> @@ -1232,7 +1242,7 @@ sub temp_is_locked {
> 	my ($self, $name) = _maybe_self(@_);
> 	my $temp_fd = \$TEMP_FILEMAP{$name};
>
> -	defined $$temp_fd && $$temp_fd->opened && $TEMP_FILES{$$temp_fd} 
> {locked};
> +	_temp_really_open($$temp_fd) && $TEMP_FILES{$$temp_fd}{locked};
> }
>
> =item temp_release ( NAME )
> @@ -1264,7 +1274,7 @@ sub temp_release {
> 		carp "Attempt to release temp file '",
> 			$temp_fd, "' that has not been locked";
> 	}
> -	temp_reset($temp_fd) if $trunc and $temp_fd->opened;
> +	temp_reset($temp_fd) if $trunc && _temp_really_open($temp_fd);
>
> 	$TEMP_FILES{$temp_fd}{locked} = 0;
> 	undef;
> @@ -1276,7 +1286,7 @@ sub _temp_cache {
> 	_verify_require();
>
> 	my $temp_fd = \$TEMP_FILEMAP{$name};
> -	if (defined $$temp_fd and $$temp_fd->opened) {
> +	if (_temp_really_open($$temp_fd)) {
> 		if ($TEMP_FILES{$$temp_fd}{locked}) {
> 			throw Error::Simple("Temp file with moniker '" .
> 				$name . "' already in use");
> -- 
> EW

The changes themselves look okay, but eeewwww. I don't see how libsvn can see the svn_hash fd to close it unless it's randomly closing fds.

--Kyle
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