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[PATCH 7/3] Make index preloading check the whole path to the file

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Jul 9, 2009, 20:50 UTC
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 13:37:02 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 7/3] Make index preloading check the whole path to the file

This uses the new thread-safe 'threaded_has_symlink_leading_path()' function to efficiently verify that the whole path leading up to the filename is a proper path, and does not contain symlinks.

This makes 'ce_uptodate()' a much stronger guarantee: it no longer just guarantees that the 'lstat()' of the path would match, it also means that we know that people haven't played games with moving directories around and covered it up with symlinks.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
Totally trivial, now that we have a thread-safe symlink checker.

If we have leading symlinks in the cache-entry path, we will refuse to mark it up-to-date. There's no need to even try to stat anything under that directory.

 preload-index.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/preload-index.c b/preload-index.c
index 88edc5f..c3462dc 100644
--- a/preload-index.c
+++ b/preload-index.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ static void *preload_thread(void *_data)
 	struct thread_data *p = _data;
 	struct index_state *index = p->index;
 	struct cache_entry **cep = index->cache + p->offset;
+	struct cache_def cache;
 
 	nr = p->nr;
 	if (nr + p->offset > index->cache_nr)
@@ -49,6 +50,8 @@ static void *preload_thread(void *_data)
 			continue;
 		if (!ce_path_match(ce, p->pathspec))
 			continue;
+		if (threaded_has_symlink_leading_path(&cache, ce->name, ce_namelen(ce)))
+			continue;
 		if (lstat(ce->name, &st))
 			continue;
 		if (ie_match_stat(index, ce, &st, CE_MATCH_RACY_IS_DIRTY))
-- 
1.6.3.3.415.ga8877
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  18. 5/3 Prepare symlink caching for thread-safetyLinus Torvalds, Jul 9, 2009
  19. 6/3 Export thread-safe version of 'has_symlink_leading_path()'Linus Torvalds, Jul 9, 2009
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