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[PATCH v2] fsck: handle NULL return of lookup_blob() and lookup_tree()

From
René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Date
Oct 5, 2017, 19:41 UTC
Message-ID
<6bbe21c0-024e-ceed-6076-25f2330e598d@web.de>
In-Reply-To
<54f5877b-a143-11c2-d8f6-ff28ed9e7e38@web.de>

lookup_blob() and lookup_tree() can return NULL if they find an object of an unexpected type. Accessing the object member is undefined in that case. Cast the result to a struct object pointer instead; we can do that because object is the first member of all object types. This trick is already used in other places in the code.

An error message is already shown by object_as_type(), which is called by the lookup functions. The walk callback functions are expected to handle NULL object pointers passed to them, but put_object_name() needs a valid object, so avoid calling it without one.

Suggested-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
---
Changes from v1:
- Don't abort on encountering an object with a mismatched type.
- Added a test for showing the problem with SANITIZE=address,undefined.
 fsck.c          |  8 ++++----
 t/t1450-fsck.sh | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fsck.c b/fsck.c
index 2ad00fc4d0..032699e9ac 100644
--- a/fsck.c
+++ b/fsck.c
@@ -358,15 +358,15 @@ static int fsck_walk_tree(struct tree *tree, void *data, struct fsck_options *op
 			continue;
 
 		if (S_ISDIR(entry.mode)) {
-			obj = &lookup_tree(entry.oid)->object;
-			if (name)
+			obj = (struct object *)lookup_tree(entry.oid);
+			if (name && obj)
 				put_object_name(options, obj, "%s%s/", name,
 					entry.path);
 			result = options->walk(obj, OBJ_TREE, data, options);
 		}
 		else if (S_ISREG(entry.mode) || S_ISLNK(entry.mode)) {
-			obj = &lookup_blob(entry.oid)->object;
-			if (name)
+			obj = (struct object *)lookup_blob(entry.oid);
+			if (name && obj)
 				put_object_name(options, obj, "%s%s", name,
 					entry.path);
 			result = options->walk(obj, OBJ_BLOB, data, options);
diff --git a/t/t1450-fsck.sh b/t/t1450-fsck.sh
index 4087150db1..cb4b66e29d 100755
--- a/t/t1450-fsck.sh
+++ b/t/t1450-fsck.sh
@@ -222,6 +222,28 @@ test_expect_success 'unparseable tree object' '
 	test_i18ngrep ! "fatal: empty filename in tree entry" out
 '
 
+hex2oct() {
+	perl -ne 'printf "\\%03o", hex for /../g'
+}
+
+test_expect_success 'tree entry with type mismatch' '
+	test_when_finished "remove_object \$blob" &&
+	test_when_finished "remove_object \$tree" &&
+	test_when_finished "remove_object \$commit" &&
+	test_when_finished "git update-ref -d refs/heads/type_mismatch" &&
+	blob=$(echo blob | git hash-object -w --stdin) &&
+	blob_bin=$(echo $blob | hex2oct) &&
+	tree=$(
+		printf "40000 dir\0${blob_bin}100644 file\0${blob_bin}" |
+		git hash-object -t tree --stdin -w --literally
+	) &&
+	commit=$(git commit-tree $tree) &&
+	git update-ref refs/heads/type_mismatch $commit &&
+	test_must_fail git fsck >out 2>&1 &&
+	test_i18ngrep "is a blob, not a tree" out &&
+	test_i18ngrep ! "dangling blob" out
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'tag pointing to nonexistent' '
 	cat >invalid-tag <<-\EOF &&
 	object ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff
-- 
2.14.2
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  1. tag: avoid NULL pointer arithmeticRené Scharfe, Oct 1, 2017
  2. Junio C HamanoOct 2, 2017
  3. Jeff KingOct 2, 2017
  4. René ScharfeOct 2, 2017
  5. Jeff KingOct 2, 2017
  6. SZEDER GáborOct 3, 2017
  7. René ScharfeOct 3, 2017
  8. fsck: check results of lookup_blob() and lookup_tree() for NULLRené Scharfe, Oct 3, 2017
  9. Junio C HamanoOct 4, 2017
  10. René ScharfeOct 5, 2017
  11. fsck: handle NULL return of lookup_blob() and lookup_tree()René Scharfe, Oct 5, 2017
  12. Junio C HamanoOct 6, 2017
  13. René ScharfeOct 6, 2017

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