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Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] Verify index file before we opportunistically update it

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 10, 2014, 19:28 UTC
Message-ID
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In-Reply-To
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Yiannis Marangos <yiannis.marangos@gmail.com> writes:
> +	n = xpread(fd, sha1, 20, st.st_size - 20);
> +	if (n != 20)
> +		goto out;
I think it is possible for pread(2) to give you a short-read.

The existing callers of emulated mmap and index-pack are prepared to handle a short-read correctly, but I do not think this code does.

I'll queue this instead in the meantime.
-- >8 --
From: Yiannis Marangos <yiannis.marangos@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 21:31:21 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] read-cache.c: verify index file before we opportunistically update it

Before we proceed to opportunistically update the index (often done by an otherwise read-only operation like "git status" and "git diff" that internally refreshes the index), we must verify that the current index file is the same as the one that we read earlier before we took the lock on it, in order to avoid a possible race.

In the example below git-status does "opportunistic update" and git-rebase updates the index, but the race can happen in general.

  1. process A calls git-rebase (or does anything that uses the index)
  2. process A applies 1st commit
  3. process B calls git-status (or does anything that updates the index)
  4. process B reads index
  5. process A applies 2nd commit
  6. process B takes the lock, then overwrites process A's changes.
  7. process A applies 3rd commit

As an end result the 3rd commit will have a revert of the 2nd commit. When process B takes the lock, it needs to make sure that the index hasn't changed since step 4.

Signed-off-by: Yiannis Marangos <yiannis.marangos@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
---
 cache.h      |  3 +++
 read-cache.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 wrapper.c    | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index ce377e1..9244c38 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -279,6 +279,7 @@ struct index_state {
 		 initialized : 1;
 	struct hash_table name_hash;
 	struct hash_table dir_hash;
+	unsigned char sha1[20];
 };
 
 extern struct index_state the_index;
@@ -1199,6 +1200,8 @@ extern void fsync_or_die(int fd, const char *);
 
 extern ssize_t read_in_full(int fd, void *buf, size_t count);
 extern ssize_t write_in_full(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count);
+extern ssize_t pread_in_full(int fd, void *buf, size_t count, off_t offset);
+
 static inline ssize_t write_str_in_full(int fd, const char *str)
 {
 	return write_in_full(fd, str, strlen(str));
diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
index 33dd676..f4a0d61 100644
--- a/read-cache.c
+++ b/read-cache.c
@@ -1464,6 +1464,7 @@ int read_index_from(struct index_state *istate, const char *path)
 	if (verify_hdr(hdr, mmap_size) < 0)
 		goto unmap;
 
+	hashcpy(istate->sha1, (unsigned char *)hdr + mmap_size - 20);
 	istate->version = ntohl(hdr->hdr_version);
 	istate->cache_nr = ntohl(hdr->hdr_entries);
 	istate->cache_alloc = alloc_nr(istate->cache_nr);
@@ -1747,6 +1748,50 @@ static int ce_write_entry(git_SHA_CTX *c, int fd, struct cache_entry *ce,
 	return result;
 }
 
+/*
+ * This function verifies if index_state has the correct sha1 of the
+ * index file.  Don't die if we have any other failure, just return 0.
+ */
+static int verify_index_from(const struct index_state *istate, const char *path)
+{
+	int fd;
+	ssize_t n;
+	struct stat st;
+	unsigned char sha1[20];
+
+	if (!istate->initialized)
+		return 0;
+
+	fd = open(path, O_RDONLY);
+	if (fd < 0)
+		return 0;
+
+	if (fstat(fd, &st))
+		goto out;
+
+	if (st.st_size < sizeof(struct cache_header) + 20)
+		goto out;
+
+	n = pread_in_full(fd, sha1, 20, st.st_size - 20);
+	if (n != 20)
+		goto out;
+
+	if (hashcmp(istate->sha1, sha1))
+		goto out;
+
+	close(fd);
+	return 1;
+
+out:
+	close(fd);
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static int verify_index(const struct index_state *istate)
+{
+	return verify_index_from(istate, get_index_file());
+}
+
 static int has_racy_timestamp(struct index_state *istate)
 {
 	int entries = istate->cache_nr;
@@ -1766,7 +1811,7 @@ static int has_racy_timestamp(struct index_state *istate)
 void update_index_if_able(struct index_state *istate, struct lock_file *lockfile)
 {
 	if ((istate->cache_changed || has_racy_timestamp(istate)) &&
-	    !write_index(istate, lockfile->fd))
+	    verify_index(istate) && !write_index(istate, lockfile->fd))
 		commit_locked_index(lockfile);
 	else
 		rollback_lock_file(lockfile);
diff --git a/wrapper.c b/wrapper.c
index 5b3c7fc..bc1bfb8 100644
--- a/wrapper.c
+++ b/wrapper.c
@@ -232,6 +232,26 @@ ssize_t write_in_full(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count)
 	return total;
 }
 
+ssize_t pread_in_full(int fd, void *buf, size_t count, off_t offset)
+{
+	char *p = buf;
+	ssize_t total = 0;
+
+	while (count > 0) {
+		ssize_t loaded = xpread(fd, p, count, offset);
+		if (loaded < 0)
+			return -1;
+		if (loaded == 0)
+			return total;
+		count -= loaded;
+		p += loaded;
+		total += loaded;
+		offset += loaded;
+	}
+
+	return total;
+}
+
 int xdup(int fd)
 {
 	int ret = dup(fd);
-- 
1.9.2-590-g468068b
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  2. Verify index file before we opportunistically update itYiannis Marangos, Apr 9, 2014
  3. Verify index file before we opportunistically update itYiannis Marangos, Apr 9, 2014
  4. Junio C HamanoApr 9, 2014
  5. Verify index file before we opportunistically update itYiannis Marangos, Apr 9, 2014
  6. Verify index file before we opportunistically update itYiannis Marangos, Apr 10, 2014
  7. Verify index file before we opportunistically update itYiannis Marangos, Apr 10, 2014
  8. Duy NguyenApr 10, 2014
  9. Yiannis MarangosApr 10, 2014
  10. Junio C HamanoApr 10, 2014
  11. Verify index file before we opportunistically update itYiannis Marangos, Apr 10, 2014
  12. 1/2 Add xpread() and xpwrite()Yiannis Marangos, Apr 10, 2014
  13. 2/2 Verify index file before we opportunistically update itYiannis Marangos, Apr 10, 2014
  14. Junio C HamanoApr 10, 2014
  15. Duy NguyenApr 11, 2014
  16. Junio C HamanoApr 11, 2014
  17. Junio C HamanoApr 11, 2014
  18. Yiannis MarangosApr 11, 2014
  19. Duy NguyenApr 12, 2014
  20. Junio C HamanoApr 12, 2014
  21. Junio C HamanoApr 12, 2014
  22. Duy NguyenApr 12, 2014
  23. Junio C HamanoApr 14, 2014
  24. Torsten BögershausenApr 11, 2014
  25. Yiannis MarangosApr 11, 2014
  26. Duy NguyenApr 11, 2014
  27. Junio C HamanoApr 10, 2014
  28. Yiannis MarangosApr 10, 2014
  29. 1/2 Add xpread()Yiannis Marangos, Apr 10, 2014
  30. Johannes SixtApr 10, 2014
  31. Junio C HamanoApr 10, 2014

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