git/submodule-config.c, branch v2.17.2

Sync with 2.15.3

2018-09-27T18:35:43Z

* maint-2.15: Git 2.15.3 Git 2.14.5 submodule-config: ban submodule paths that start with a dash submodule-config: ban submodule urls that start with dash submodule--helper: use "--" to signal end of clone options

Sync with Git 2.14.4

2018-09-27T18:20:22Z

* maint-2.14: Git 2.14.5 submodule-config: ban submodule paths that start with a dash submodule-config: ban submodule urls that start with dash submodule--helper: use "--" to signal end of clone options

submodule-config: ban submodule paths that start with a dash

2018-09-27T16:34:59Z

We recently banned submodule urls that look like command-line options. This is the matching change to ban leading-dash paths. As with the urls, this should not break any use cases that currently work. Even with our "--" separator passed to git-clone, git-submodule.sh gets confused. Without the code portion of this patch, the clone of "-sub" added in t7417 would yield results like: /path/to/git-submodule: 410: cd: Illegal option -s /path/to/git-submodule: 417: cd: Illegal option -s /path/to/git-submodule: 410: cd: Illegal option -s /path/to/git-submodule: 417: cd: Illegal option -s Fetched in submodule path '-sub', but it did not contain b56243f8f4eb91b2f1f8109452e659f14dd3fbe4. Direct fetching of that commit failed. Moreover, naively adding such a submodule doesn't work: $ git submodule add $url -sub The following path is ignored by one of your .gitignore files: -sub even though there is no such ignore pattern (the test script hacks around this with a well-placed "git mv"). Unlike leading-dash urls, though, it's possible that such a path _could_ be useful if we eventually made it work. So this commit should be seen not as recommending a particular policy, but rather temporarily closing off a broken and possibly dangerous code-path. We may revisit this decision later. There are two minor differences to the tests in t7416 (that covered urls): 1. We don't have a "./-sub" escape hatch to make this work, since the submodule code expects to be able to match canonical index names to the path field (so you are free to add submodule config with that path, but we would never actually use it, since an index entry would never start with "./"). 2. After this patch, cloning actually succeeds. Since we ignore the submodule.*.path value, we fail to find a config stanza for our submodule at all, and simply treat it as inactive. We still check for the "ignoring" message. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

submodule-config: ban submodule urls that start with dash

2018-09-27T16:34:58Z

The previous commit taught the submodule code to invoke our "git clone $url $path" with a "--" separator so that we aren't confused by urls or paths that start with dashes. However, that's just one code path. It's not clear if there are others, and it would be an easy mistake to add one in the future. Moreover, even with the fix in the previous commit, it's quite hard to actually do anything useful with such an entry. Any url starting with a dash must fall into one of three categories: - it's meant as a file url, like "-path". But then any clone is not going to have the matching path, since it's by definition relative inside the newly created clone. If you spell it as "./-path", the submodule code sees the "/" and translates this to an absolute path, so it at least works (assuming the receiver has the same filesystem layout as you). But that trick does not apply for a bare "-path". - it's meant as an ssh url, like "-host:path". But this already doesn't work, as we explicitly disallow ssh hostnames that begin with a dash (to avoid option injection against ssh). - it's a remote-helper scheme, like "-scheme::data". This _could_ work if the receiver bends over backwards and creates a funny-named helper like "git-remote--scheme". But normally there would not be any helper that matches. Since such a url does not work today and is not likely to do anything useful in the future, let's simply disallow them entirely. That protects the existing "git clone" path (in a belt-and-suspenders way), along with any others that might exist. Our tests cover two cases: 1. A file url with "./" continues to work, showing that there's an escape hatch for people with truly silly repo names. 2. A url starting with "-" is rejected. Note that we expect case (2) to fail, but it would have done so even without this commit, for the reasons given above. So instead of just expecting failure, let's also check for the magic word "ignoring" on stderr. That lets us know that we failed for the right reason. Signed-off-by: Jeff King Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Sync with Git 2.15.2

2018-05-22T05:18:06Z

* maint-2.15: Git 2.15.2 Git 2.14.4 Git 2.13.7 verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules update-index: stat updated files earlier verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment verify_path: drop clever fallthrough skip_prefix: add case-insensitive variant is_{hfs,ntfs}_dotgitmodules: add tests is_ntfs_dotgit: match other .git files is_hfs_dotgit: match other .git files is_ntfs_dotgit: use a size_t for traversing string submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths

Sync with Git 2.14.4

2018-05-22T05:15:14Z

* maint-2.14: Git 2.14.4 Git 2.13.7 verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules update-index: stat updated files earlier verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment verify_path: drop clever fallthrough skip_prefix: add case-insensitive variant is_{hfs,ntfs}_dotgitmodules: add tests is_ntfs_dotgit: match other .git files is_hfs_dotgit: match other .git files is_ntfs_dotgit: use a size_t for traversing string submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths

Sync with Git 2.13.7

2018-05-22T05:10:49Z

* maint-2.13: Git 2.13.7 verify_path: disallow symlinks in .gitmodules update-index: stat updated files earlier verify_dotfile: mention case-insensitivity in comment verify_path: drop clever fallthrough skip_prefix: add case-insensitive variant is_{hfs,ntfs}_dotgitmodules: add tests is_ntfs_dotgit: match other .git files is_hfs_dotgit: match other .git files is_ntfs_dotgit: use a size_t for traversing string submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths

submodule-config: verify submodule names as paths

2018-05-22T03:50:11Z

Submodule "names" come from the untrusted .gitmodules file, but we blindly append them to $GIT_DIR/modules to create our on-disk repo paths. This means you can do bad things by putting "../" into the name (among other things). Let's sanity-check these names to avoid building a path that can be exploited. There are two main decisions: 1. What should the allowed syntax be? It's tempting to reuse verify_path(), since submodule names typically come from in-repo paths. But there are two reasons not to: a. It's technically more strict than what we need, as we really care only about breaking out of the $GIT_DIR/modules/ hierarchy. E.g., having a submodule named "foo/.git" isn't actually dangerous, and it's possible that somebody has manually given such a funny name. b. Since we'll eventually use this checking logic in fsck to prevent downstream repositories, it should be consistent across platforms. Because verify_path() relies on is_dir_sep(), it wouldn't block "foo\..\bar" on a non-Windows machine. 2. Where should we enforce it? These days most of the .gitmodules reads go through submodule-config.c, so I've put it there in the reading step. That should cover all of the C code. We also construct the name for "git submodule add" inside the git-submodule.sh script. This is probably not a big deal for security since the name is coming from the user anyway, but it would be polite to remind them if the name they pick is invalid (and we need to expose the name-checker to the shell anyway for our test scripts). This patch issues a warning when reading .gitmodules and just ignores the related config entry completely. This will generally end up producing a sensible error, as it works the same as a .gitmodules file which is missing a submodule entry (so "submodule update" will barf, but "git clone --recurse-submodules" will print an error but not abort the clone. There is one minor oddity, which is that we print the warning once per malformed config key (since that's how the config subsystem gives us the entries). So in the new test, for example, the user would see three warnings. That's OK, since the intent is that this case should never come up outside of malicious repositories (and then it might even benefit the user to see the message multiple times). Credit for finding this vulnerability and the proof of concept from which the test script was adapted goes to Etienne Stalmans. Signed-off-by: Jeff King

Correct mispellings of ".gitmodule" to ".gitmodules"

2018-02-14T19:34:34Z

There are a small number of misspellings, ".gitmodule", scattered throughout the code base, correct them ... no apparent functional changes. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'bw/submodule-config-cleanup'

2017-08-27T05:55:08Z

Code clean-up to avoid mixing values read from the .gitmodules file and values read from the .git/config file. * bw/submodule-config-cleanup: submodule: remove gitmodules_config unpack-trees: improve loading of .gitmodules submodule-config: lazy-load a repository's .gitmodules file submodule-config: move submodule-config functions to submodule-config.c submodule-config: remove support for overlaying repository config diff: stop allowing diff to have submodules configured in .git/config submodule: remove submodule_config callback routine unpack-trees: don't respect submodule.update submodule: don't rely on overlayed config when setting diffopts fetch: don't overlay config with submodule-config submodule--helper: don't overlay config in update-clone submodule--helper: don't overlay config in remote_submodule_branch add, reset: ensure submodules can be added or reset submodule: don't use submodule_from_name t7411: check configuration parsing errors