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[PATCH v2 3/4] builtin/pack-objects.c: ensure included `--stdin-packs` exist

From
Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Date
May 24, 2022, 18:54 UTC
Message-ID
<cdc3265ec27f04accc433d9e4e54ac0edc3b3746.1653418457.git.me@ttaylorr.com>
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A subsequent patch will teach `want_object_in_pack()` to set its `*found_pack` and `*found_offset` poitners to NULL when the provided pack does not pass the `is_pack_valid()` check.

The `--stdin-packs` mode of `pack-objects` is not quite prepared to handle this. To prepare it for this change, do the following two things:

  - Ensure provided packs pass the `is_pack_valid()` check when
    collecting the caller-provided packs into the "included" and
    "excluded" lists.
  - Gracefully handle any _invalid_ packs being passed to
    `want_object_in_pack()`.

Calling `is_pack_valid()` early on makes it substantially less likely that we will have to deal with a pack going away, since we'll have an open file descriptor on its contents much earlier.

But even packs with open descriptors can become invalid in the future if we (a) hit our open descriptor limit, forcing us to close some open packs, and (b) one of those just-closed packs has gone away in the meantime.

`add_object_entry_from_pack()` depends on having a non-NULL `*found_pack`, since it passes that pointer to `packed_object_info()`, meaning that we would SEGV if the pointer became NULL (like we propose to do in `want_object_in_pack()` in the following patch).

But avoiding calling `packed_object_info()` entirely is OK, too, since its only purpose is to identify which objects in the included packs are commits, so that they can form the tips of the advisory traversal used to discover the object namehashes.

Failing to do this means that at worst we will produce lower-quality deltas, but it does not prevent us from generating the pack as long as we can find a copy of each object from the disappearing pack in some other part of the repository.

Co-authored-by: Victoria Dye <vdye@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
---
 builtin/pack-objects.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++---------------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin/pack-objects.c b/builtin/pack-objects.c
index ec3193fd95..ffeaecd1d8 100644
--- a/builtin/pack-objects.c
+++ b/builtin/pack-objects.c
@@ -3201,10 +3201,8 @@ static int add_object_entry_from_pack(const struct object_id *oid,
 				      uint32_t pos,
 				      void *_data)
 {
-	struct rev_info *revs = _data;
-	struct object_info oi = OBJECT_INFO_INIT;
 	off_t ofs;
-	enum object_type type;
+	enum object_type type = OBJ_NONE;
 
 	display_progress(progress_state, ++nr_seen);
 
@@ -3215,20 +3213,25 @@ static int add_object_entry_from_pack(const struct object_id *oid,
 	if (!want_object_in_pack(oid, 0, &p, &ofs))
 		return 0;
 
-	oi.typep = &type;
-	if (packed_object_info(the_repository, p, ofs, &oi) < 0)
-		die(_("could not get type of object %s in pack %s"),
-		    oid_to_hex(oid), p->pack_name);
-	else if (type == OBJ_COMMIT) {
-		/*
-		 * commits in included packs are used as starting points for the
-		 * subsequent revision walk
-		 */
-		add_pending_oid(revs, NULL, oid, 0);
+	if (p) {
+		struct rev_info *revs = _data;
+		struct object_info oi = OBJECT_INFO_INIT;
+
+		oi.typep = &type;
+		if (packed_object_info(the_repository, p, ofs, &oi) < 0) {
+			die(_("could not get type of object %s in pack %s"),
+			    oid_to_hex(oid), p->pack_name);
+		} else if (type == OBJ_COMMIT) {
+			/*
+			 * commits in included packs are used as starting points for the
+			 * subsequent revision walk
+			 */
+			add_pending_oid(revs, NULL, oid, 0);
+		}
+
+		stdin_packs_found_nr++;
 	}
 
-	stdin_packs_found_nr++;
-
 	create_object_entry(oid, type, 0, 0, 0, p, ofs);
 
 	return 0;
@@ -3346,6 +3349,8 @@ static void read_packs_list_from_stdin(void)
 		struct packed_git *p = item->util;
 		if (!p)
 			die(_("could not find pack '%s'"), item->string);
+		if (!is_pack_valid(p))
+			die(_("packfile %s cannot be accessed"), p->pack_name);
 	}
 
 	/*
-- 
2.36.1.94.gb0d54bedca
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  1. 0/2 pack-objects: fix a pair of MIDX bitmap-related racesTaylor Blau, May 13, 2022
  2. 1/2 pack-bitmap: check preferred pack validity when opening MIDX bitmapTaylor Blau, May 13, 2022
  3. Junio C HamanoMay 13, 2022
  4. Taylor BlauMay 13, 2022
  5. 2/2 builtin/pack-objects.c: ensure pack validity from MIDX bitmap objectsTaylor Blau, May 13, 2022
  6. Jonathan TanMay 13, 2022
  7. Taylor BlauMay 14, 2022
  8. Jonathan TanMay 16, 2022
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  10. Jonathan TanMay 16, 2022
  11. 0/4 pack-objects: fix a pair of MIDX bitmap-related racesTaylor Blau, May 24, 2022
  12. 1/4 pack-bitmap.c: check preferred pack validity when opening MIDX bitmapTaylor Blau, May 24, 2022
  13. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 24, 2022
  14. Taylor BlauMay 24, 2022
  15. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 24, 2022
  16. 2/4 builtin/pack-objects.c: avoid redundant NULL checkTaylor Blau, May 24, 2022
  17. Junio C HamanoMay 24, 2022
  18. Taylor BlauMay 25, 2022
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  20. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 24, 2022
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  25. Victoria DyeMay 26, 2022
  26. Taylor BlauMay 26, 2022
  27. 4/4 builtin/pack-objects.c: ensure pack validity from MIDX bitmap objectsTaylor Blau, May 24, 2022
  28. Junio C HamanoMay 24, 2022
  29. Taylor BlauMay 25, 2022

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