From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2013 22:30:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] receive-pack: close sideband fd on early pack errors
Message-ID: <7vr4i6xifk.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130419212429.GA20873@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> This was triggered in the real world by attempting to push a ref from
> a corrupted repository. pack-objects dies on the local end, we get an
> eof on the receive-pack end without any data, notice that it's a bogus
> packfile, and hit the deadlock.
>
> The bug was introduced by a22e6f8, which is in v1.7.12.3, so it should
> be maint-worthy.

Hmm, well spotted.  Will queue.  Thanks.