Re[2]: [PATCH] fetch: allow running as different users in shared repositories

On Mon, 04 May 2020 09:32:44 -0700 Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

JCH> Vadim Zeitlin <vz-git@zeitlins.org> writes: JCH> JCH> > So I'd just like to ask directly, hoping that it's not inappropriate: JCH> > Junio, do I need to do anything to get this patch accepted or am I just JCH> > being too impatient? JCH> JCH> I do not even recall seeing the discussion, so you are right to JCH> suspect that it fell thru the cracks, and it is quite appropriate to JCH> ping the thread directly like you did. Mind resending the patch to JCH> the list, just to make sure nobody else sees any problems with it?

 Hello,

 Thanks for your reply and here is the patch, with its commit message and
the extra notes about it, as it was sent initially. As you can see, it's a
pretty trivial change, I'm mostly just puzzled how did it go unnoticed
since ~4 years and was afraid I could be missing something, but it finally
seems like my use case, i.e. calling git-fetch in shared repositories, is
just much more rare than I thought.

 Thanks in advance for looking at this!
VZ

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From: Vadim Zeitlin <vz-git@zeitlins.org>
Subject: [PATCH] fetch: allow running as different users in shared repositories

The function fopen_for_writing(), which was added in 79d7582e32 (commit: allow editing the commit message even in shared repos, 2016-01-06) and used for overwriting FETCH_HEAD since ea56518dfe (Handle more file writes correctly in shared repos, 2016-01-11), didn't do it correctly in shared repositories under Linux.

This happened because in this situation the file FETCH_HEAD has mode 644 and attempting to overwrite it when running git-fetch under an account different from the one that was had originally created it, failed with EACCES, and not EPERM. However fopen_for_writing() only checked for the latter, and not the former, so it didn't even try removing the existing file and recreating it, as it was supposed to do.

Fix this by checking for either EACCES or EPERM. The latter doesn't seem to be ever returned in a typical situation by open(2) under Linux, but keep checking for it as it is presumably returned under some other platform, although it's not really clear where does this happen.

Signed-off-by: Vadim Zeitlin <vz-git@zeitlins.org>
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I couldn't find any system that would return EPERM for a "normal"
permissions denied error, so maybe it's not worth checking for it, but I
wanted to minimize the number of changes to the existing behaviour. At the
very least, testing for EACCES is definitely necessary under Linux, where
openat(2) returns it, and not EPERM, in the situation described above, i.e.
non-writable file (even if it's in a writable directory, allowing to unlink
it without problems).
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 wrapper.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)