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Re: [PATCH] fast-import.c: detect fclose- and fflush-induced write failure

From: Shawn O. Pearce <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:43:18

Jim Meyering [off-list ref] wrote:
There are potentially ignored write errors in fast-import.c.
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diff --git a/fast-import.c b/fast-import.c
@@ -793,7 +793,9 @@ static void end_packfile(void)
 					fprintf(pack_edges, " %s", sha1_to_hex(t->sha1));
 			}
 			fputc('\n', pack_edges);
-			fflush(pack_edges);
+			if (fflush(pack_edges))
+				die("failed to write pack-edges file: %s",
+				    strerror(errno));
Hmm.  That's a valid bug, if the disk is full we might not
be able to flush.  But that linewrapping looks pretty ugly.
 
+static int
+close_stream(FILE *stream)
+{
+	int prev_fail = (ferror(stream) != 0);
+	int fclose_fail = (fclose(stream) != 0);
+
+	if (prev_fail || fclose_fail) {
+		if (! fclose_fail)
+			errno = 0;
+		return EOF;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void
+close_wstream_or_die(FILE *stream, const char *file_name)
+{
+	if (close_stream(stream)) {
+		if (errno == 0)
+			die ("%s: write failed: %s", file_name, strerror(errno));
Don't you mean "if (errno != 0)" here?  Right now you are printing
"No Error" when there is no error and tossing the errno when there
is an error.
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@@ -1369,7 +1396,18 @@ static void dump_marks(void)
 	}

 	dump_marks_helper(f, 0, marks);
-	fclose(f);
+	if (close_stream(f) != 0) {
What about just "if (close_stream(f)) {" ?
+		int close_errno = errno;
+		rollback_lock_file(&mark_lock);
+		failure |=
+		  (close_errno == 0
+		   ? error("Failed to write temporary marks file %s.lock",
+			   mark_file)
+		   : error("Failed to write temporary marks file %s.lock: %s",
+			   mark_file, strerror(close_errno)));
Ugh.  The ternary operator has many uses, but using it to decide
which error() function you are going to call and have both cases
bit-wise or a -1 into failure is not one of them.  This would be
a lot cleaner if the ternary operator wasn't abused here.

And looking at this code I'm now wondering about the code above
for close_stream().  If it returns EOF but doesn't supply a valid
errno its because you tossed the errno that was available when you
did the fclose().  So I'd actually say the close_stream() is bad;
if we have an error and we're going to explain there was an error
we should explain what the error was.
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@@ -2015,6 +2053,7 @@ static const char fast_import_usage[] =
 int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 {
 	int i, show_stats = 1;
+	const char *pack_edges_file = NULL;
This is only ever used in the "--export-pack-edges=" arm of the
option parser.  It should be local to that block, not to the
entire function.
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@@ -2052,10 +2091,13 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 			mark_file = a + 15;
 		else if (!prefixcmp(a, "--export-pack-edges=")) {
 			if (pack_edges)
-				fclose(pack_edges);
-			pack_edges = fopen(a + 20, "a");
+				close_wstream_or_die(pack_edges,
+						     pack_edges_file);
Oh, I see, its actually being reused to issue an error that we
couldn't close the prior file.  The more that I look at this we
probably should just die() if we get a second arg with this option.
What does it mean to give --export-pack-edges twice?  Apparently
under the current code it means use the last one, but I'm not sure
that's sane.

-- 
Shawn.
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