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[PATCH v7 1/3] bundle-uri: verify oid before writing refs

From
XGXing Xin via GitGitGadget <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 17, 2024, 13:55 UTC
Message-ID
<fc9f44fda0032ab1e5ee0c9bcc2886ddb8e17722.1718632536.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<pull.1730.v7.git.1718632535.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
From: Xing Xin <xingxin.xx@bytedance.com>

When using the bundle-uri mechanism with a bundle list containing multiple interrelated bundles, we encountered a bug where tips from downloaded bundles were not discovered, thus resulting in rather slow clones. This was particularly problematic when employing the "creationTokens" heuristic.

To reproduce this issue, consider a repository with a single branch "main" pointing to commit "A". Firstly, create a base bundle with:

  git bundle create base.bundle main

Then, add a new commit "B" on top of "A", and create an incremental bundle for "main":

  git bundle create incr.bundle A..main
Now, generate a bundle list with the following content:
  [bundle]
      version = 1
      mode = all
      heuristic = creationToken
  [bundle "base"]
      uri = base.bundle
      creationToken = 1
  [bundle "incr"]
      uri = incr.bundle
      creationToken = 2

A fresh clone with the bundle list above should result in a reference "refs/bundles/main" pointing to "B" in the new repository. However, git would still download everything from the server, as if it had fetched nothing locally.

So why the "refs/bundles/main" is not discovered? After some digging I found that:

1. Bundles in bundle list are downloaded to local files via
   `bundle-uri.c:download_bundle_list` or via
   `bundle-uri.c:fetch_bundles_by_token` for the "creationToken"
   heuristic.
2. Each bundle is unbundled via `bundle-uri.c:unbundle_from_file`, which
   is called by `bundle-uri.c:unbundle_all_bundles` or called within
   `bundle-uri.c:fetch_bundles_by_token` for the "creationToken"
   heuristic.
3. To get all prerequisites of the bundle, the bundle header is read
   inside `bundle-uri.c:unbundle_from_file` to by calling
   `bundle.c:read_bundle_header`.
4. Then it calls `bundle.c:unbundle`, which calls
   `bundle.c:verify_bundle` to ensure the repository contains all the
   prerequisites.
5. `bundle.c:verify_bundle` calls `parse_object`, which eventually
   invokes `packfile.c:prepare_packed_git` or
   `packfile.c:reprepare_packed_git`, filling
   `raw_object_store->packed_git` and setting `packed_git_initialized`.
6. If `bundle.c:unbundle` succeeds, it writes refs via
   `refs.c:refs_update_ref` with `REF_SKIP_OID_VERIFICATION` set. Here
   bundle refs which can target arbitrary objects are written to the
   repository.
7. Finally, in `fetch-pack.c:do_fetch_pack_v2`, the functions
   `fetch-pack.c:mark_complete_and_common_ref` and
   `fetch-pack.c:mark_tips` are called with `OBJECT_INFO_QUICK` set to
   find local tips for negotiation. The `OBJECT_INFO_QUICK` flag
   prevents `packfile.c:reprepare_packed_git` from being called,
   resulting in failures to parse OIDs that reside only in the latest
   bundle.

In the example above, when unbunding "incr.bundle", "base.pack" is added to `packed_git` due to prerequisites verification. However, "B" cannot be found for negotiation because it exists in "incr.pack", which is not included in `packed_git`.

Fix the bug by removing `REF_SKIP_OID_VERIFICATION` flag when writing bundle refs. When `refs.c:refs_update_ref` is called to write the corresponding bundle refs, it triggers `refs.c:ref_transaction_commit`. This, in turn, invokes `refs.c:ref_transaction_prepare`, which calls `transaction_prepare` of the refs storage backend. For files backend, it is `files-backend.c:files_transaction_prepare`, and for reftable backend, it is `reftable-backend.c:reftable_be_transaction_prepare`. Both functions eventually call `object.c:parse_object`, which can invoke `packfile.c:reprepare_packed_git` to refresh `packed_git`. This ensures that bundle refs point to valid objects and that all tips from bundle refs are correctly parsed during subsequent negotiations.

A set of negotiation-related tests for cloning with bundle-uri has been included to demonstrate that downloaded bundles are utilized to accelerate fetching.

Additionally, another test has been added to show that bundles with incorrect headers, where refs point to non-existent objects, do not result in any bundle refs being created in the repository.

Reviewed-by: Karthik Nayak <karthik.188@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Signed-off-by: Xing Xin <xingxin.xx@bytedance.com>
---
 bundle-uri.c                |   3 +-
 t/t5558-clone-bundle-uri.sh | 150 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 147 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/bundle-uri.c b/bundle-uri.c
index 91b3319a5c1..65666a11d9c 100644
--- a/bundle-uri.c
+++ b/bundle-uri.c
@@ -400,8 +400,7 @@ static int unbundle_from_file(struct repository *r, const char *file)
 		refs_update_ref(get_main_ref_store(the_repository),
 				"fetched bundle", bundle_ref.buf, oid,
 				has_old ? &old_oid : NULL,
-				REF_SKIP_OID_VERIFICATION,
-				UPDATE_REFS_MSG_ON_ERR);
+				0, UPDATE_REFS_MSG_ON_ERR);
 	}
 
 	bundle_header_release(&header);
diff --git a/t/t5558-clone-bundle-uri.sh b/t/t5558-clone-bundle-uri.sh
index 1ca5f745e73..2dcdd238a90 100755
--- a/t/t5558-clone-bundle-uri.sh
+++ b/t/t5558-clone-bundle-uri.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 test_description='test fetching bundles with --bundle-uri'
 
 . ./test-lib.sh
+. "$TEST_DIRECTORY"/lib-bundle.sh
 
 test_expect_success 'fail to clone from non-existent file' '
 	test_when_finished rm -rf test &&
@@ -19,10 +20,22 @@ test_expect_success 'fail to clone from non-bundle file' '
 
 test_expect_success 'create bundle' '
 	git init clone-from &&
-	git -C clone-from checkout -b topic &&
-	test_commit -C clone-from A &&
-	test_commit -C clone-from B &&
-	git -C clone-from bundle create B.bundle topic
+	(
+		cd clone-from &&
+		git checkout -b topic &&
+
+		test_commit A &&
+		git bundle create A.bundle topic &&
+
+		test_commit B &&
+		git bundle create B.bundle topic &&
+
+		# Create a bundle with reference pointing to non-existent object.
+		sed -e "/^$/q" -e "s/$(git rev-parse A) /$(git rev-parse B) /" \
+			<A.bundle >bad-header.bundle &&
+		convert_bundle_to_pack \
+			<A.bundle >>bad-header.bundle
+	)
 '
 
 test_expect_success 'clone with path bundle' '
@@ -33,6 +46,16 @@ test_expect_success 'clone with path bundle' '
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'clone with bundle that has bad header' '
+	# Write bundle ref fails, but clone can still proceed.
+	git clone --bundle-uri="clone-from/bad-header.bundle" \
+		clone-from clone-bad-header 2>err &&
+	commit_b=$(git -C clone-from rev-parse B) &&
+	test_grep "trying to write ref '\''refs/bundles/topic'\'' with nonexistent object $commit_b" err &&
+	git -C clone-bad-header for-each-ref --format="%(refname)" >refs &&
+	! grep "refs/bundles/" refs
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'clone with path bundle and non-default hash' '
 	test_when_finished "rm -rf clone-path-non-default-hash" &&
 	GIT_DEFAULT_HASH=sha256 git clone --bundle-uri="clone-from/B.bundle" \
@@ -259,6 +282,125 @@ test_expect_success 'clone bundle list (file, any mode, all failures)' '
 	! grep "refs/bundles/" refs
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'negotiation: bundle with part of wanted commits' '
+	test_when_finished "rm -f trace*.txt" &&
+	GIT_TRACE_PACKET="$(pwd)/trace-packet.txt" \
+	git clone --no-local --bundle-uri="clone-from/A.bundle" \
+		clone-from nego-bundle-part &&
+	git -C nego-bundle-part for-each-ref --format="%(refname)" >refs &&
+	grep "refs/bundles/" refs >actual &&
+	test_write_lines refs/bundles/topic >expect &&
+	test_cmp expect actual &&
+	# Ensure that refs/bundles/topic are sent as "have".
+	test_grep "clone> have $(git -C clone-from rev-parse A)" trace-packet.txt
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'negotiation: bundle with all wanted commits' '
+	test_when_finished "rm -f trace*.txt" &&
+	GIT_TRACE_PACKET="$(pwd)/trace-packet.txt" \
+	git clone --no-local --single-branch --branch=topic --no-tags \
+		--bundle-uri="clone-from/B.bundle" \
+		clone-from nego-bundle-all &&
+	git -C nego-bundle-all for-each-ref --format="%(refname)" >refs &&
+	grep "refs/bundles/" refs >actual &&
+	test_write_lines refs/bundles/topic >expect &&
+	test_cmp expect actual &&
+	# We already have all needed commits so no "want" needed.
+	! grep "clone> want " trace-packet.txt
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'negotiation: bundle list (no heuristic)' '
+	test_when_finished "rm -f trace*.txt" &&
+	cat >bundle-list <<-EOF &&
+	[bundle]
+		version = 1
+		mode = all
+
+	[bundle "bundle-1"]
+		uri = file://$(pwd)/clone-from/bundle-1.bundle
+
+	[bundle "bundle-2"]
+		uri = file://$(pwd)/clone-from/bundle-2.bundle
+	EOF
+
+	GIT_TRACE_PACKET="$(pwd)/trace-packet.txt" \
+	git clone --no-local --bundle-uri="file://$(pwd)/bundle-list" \
+		clone-from nego-bundle-list-no-heuristic &&
+
+	git -C nego-bundle-list-no-heuristic for-each-ref --format="%(refname)" >refs &&
+	grep "refs/bundles/" refs >actual &&
+	cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
+	refs/bundles/base
+	refs/bundles/left
+	EOF
+	test_cmp expect actual &&
+	test_grep "clone> have $(git -C nego-bundle-list-no-heuristic rev-parse refs/bundles/left)" trace-packet.txt
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'negotiation: bundle list (creationToken)' '
+	test_when_finished "rm -f trace*.txt" &&
+	cat >bundle-list <<-EOF &&
+	[bundle]
+		version = 1
+		mode = all
+		heuristic = creationToken
+
+	[bundle "bundle-1"]
+		uri = file://$(pwd)/clone-from/bundle-1.bundle
+		creationToken = 1
+
+	[bundle "bundle-2"]
+		uri = file://$(pwd)/clone-from/bundle-2.bundle
+		creationToken = 2
+	EOF
+
+	GIT_TRACE_PACKET="$(pwd)/trace-packet.txt" \
+	git clone --no-local --bundle-uri="file://$(pwd)/bundle-list" \
+		clone-from nego-bundle-list-heuristic &&
+
+	git -C nego-bundle-list-heuristic for-each-ref --format="%(refname)" >refs &&
+	grep "refs/bundles/" refs >actual &&
+	cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
+	refs/bundles/base
+	refs/bundles/left
+	EOF
+	test_cmp expect actual &&
+	test_grep "clone> have $(git -C nego-bundle-list-heuristic rev-parse refs/bundles/left)" trace-packet.txt
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'negotiation: bundle list with all wanted commits' '
+	test_when_finished "rm -f trace*.txt" &&
+	cat >bundle-list <<-EOF &&
+	[bundle]
+		version = 1
+		mode = all
+		heuristic = creationToken
+
+	[bundle "bundle-1"]
+		uri = file://$(pwd)/clone-from/bundle-1.bundle
+		creationToken = 1
+
+	[bundle "bundle-2"]
+		uri = file://$(pwd)/clone-from/bundle-2.bundle
+		creationToken = 2
+	EOF
+
+	GIT_TRACE_PACKET="$(pwd)/trace-packet.txt" \
+	git clone --no-local --single-branch --branch=left --no-tags \
+		--bundle-uri="file://$(pwd)/bundle-list" \
+		clone-from nego-bundle-list-all &&
+
+	git -C nego-bundle-list-all for-each-ref --format="%(refname)" >refs &&
+	grep "refs/bundles/" refs >actual &&
+	cat >expect <<-\EOF &&
+	refs/bundles/base
+	refs/bundles/left
+	EOF
+	test_cmp expect actual &&
+	# We already have all needed commits so no "want" needed.
+	! grep "clone> want " trace-packet.txt
+'
+
 #########################################################################
 # HTTP tests begin here
 
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