# [PATCH] Fix overwriting of files when applying contextually independent diffs

2 messages from 2007-04-18 to 2007-04-18. Participants: Alex Riesen, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/7729

## Alex Riesen, 2007-04-18 21:58

Subject: [PATCH] Fix overwriting of files when applying contextually independent diffs
Message-ID: <20070418215856.GA2477@steel.home>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20070418215856.GA2477%40steel.home

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Noticed by applying two diffs of different contexts to the same file.

The check for existence of a file was wrong: the test assumed it was
a directory and reset the errno (twice: directly and by calling
lstat). So if an entry existed and was _not_ a directory no attempt
was made to rename into it, because the errno (expected by renaming
code) was already reset to 0. This resulted in error:

    fatal: unable to write file file mode 100644

For Linux, removing "errno = 0" is enough, as lstat wont modify errno
if it was successful. The behavior should not be depended upon,
though, so modify the "if" as well.

The test simulates this situation.

Signed-off-by: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
---

Found it. Somewhat unusual situation, I admit, but splitting
patches just to apply them would be too annoying. GNU patch
accepts such patches too, not even a warning.

 builtin-apply.c        |    3 +--
 t/t4121-apply-diffs.sh |   33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 t/t4121-apply-diffs.sh

diff --git a/builtin-apply.c b/builtin-apply.c
index fd92ef7..94311e7 100644
--- a/builtin-apply.c
+++ b/builtin-apply.c
@@ -2416,8 +2416,7 @@ static void create_one_file(char *path, unsigned mode, const char *buf, unsigned
 		 * used to be.
 		 */
 		struct stat st;
-		errno = 0;
-		if (!lstat(path, &st) && S_ISDIR(st.st_mode) && !rmdir(path))
+		if (!lstat(path, &st) && (!S_ISDIR(st.st_mode) || !rmdir(path)))
 			errno = EEXIST;
 	}
 
diff --git a/t/t4121-apply-diffs.sh b/t/t4121-apply-diffs.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..2b2f1ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/t/t4121-apply-diffs.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+test_description='git-apply for contextually independent diffs'
+. ./test-lib.sh
+
+echo '1
+2
+3
+4
+5
+6
+7
+8' >file
+
+test_expect_success 'setup' \
+	'git add file &&
+	git commit -q -m 1 &&
+	git checkout -b test &&
+	mv file file.tmp &&
+	echo 0 >file &&
+	cat file.tmp >>file &&
+	rm file.tmp &&
+	git commit -a -q -m 2 &&
+	echo 9 >>file &&
+	git commit -a -q -m 3 &&
+	git checkout master'
+
+test_expect_success \
+	'check if contextually independent diffs for the same file apply' \
+	'( git diff test~2 test~1; git diff test~1 test~0 )| git apply'
+
+test_done
+
-- 
1.5.1.1.876.ge36f76

```

## Junio C Hamano, 2007-04-18 22:32

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix overwriting of files when applying contextually independent diffs
Message-ID: <7vtzvde2kr.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/7vtzvde2kr.fsf%40assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net
In-Reply-To: <20070418215856.GA2477@steel.home>

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> Noticed by applying two diffs of different contexts to the same file.
>
> The check for existence of a file was wrong: the test assumed it was
> a directory and reset the errno (twice: directly and by calling
> lstat). So if an entry existed and was _not_ a directory no attempt
> was made to rename into it, because the errno (expected by renaming
> code) was already reset to 0. This resulted in error:
>
>     fatal: unable to write file file mode 100644
>
> For Linux, removing "errno = 0" is enough, as lstat wont modify errno
> if it was successful. The behavior should not be depended upon,
> though, so modify the "if" as well.
>
> The test simulates this situation.

Ok.  I briefly thought this might disable a more important
safety to refuse overwriting an untracked working tree file with
a creation patch, but that is caught much earlier in an
independent codepath already, so this should be safe to apply.

Thanks.

```