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Re: [PATCH 3/8] daemon: recognize hidden request arguments

From: Jonathan Tan <hidden>
Date: 2017-09-21 00:24:55

On Wed, 13 Sep 2017 14:54:43 -0700
Brandon Williams [off-list ref] wrote:
A normal request to git-daemon is structured as
"command path/to/repo\0host=..\0" and due to a bug in an old version of
git-daemon 73bb33a94 (daemon: Strictly parse the "extra arg" part of the
command, 2009-06-04) we aren't able to place any extra args (separated
by NULs) besides the host.

In order to get around this limitation teach git-daemon to recognize
additional request arguments hidden behind a second NUL byte.  Requests
can then be structured like:
"command path/to/repo\0host=..\0\0version=1\0key=value\0".  git-daemon
can then parse out the extra arguments and set 'GIT_PROTOCOL'
accordingly.
A test in this patch (if possible) would be nice, but it is probably
clearer to test this when one of the commands (e.g. upload-pack) is
done. Could a test be added to the next patch to verify (using
GIT_TRACE_PACKET, maybe) that the expected strings are sent? Then
mention in this commit message that this will be tested in the next
patch too.
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@@ -574,7 +583,7 @@ static void canonicalize_client(struct strbuf *out, const char *in)
 /*
  * Read the host as supplied by the client connection.
  */
-static void parse_host_arg(struct hostinfo *hi, char *extra_args, int buflen)
+static char *parse_host_arg(struct hostinfo *hi, char *extra_args, int buflen)
 {
 	char *val;
 	int vallen;
@@ -602,6 +611,39 @@ static void parse_host_arg(struct hostinfo *hi, char *extra_args, int buflen)
 		if (extra_args < end && *extra_args)
 			die("Invalid request");
 	}
+
+	return extra_args;
+}
+
+static void parse_extra_args(struct argv_array *env, const char *extra_args,
+			     int buflen)
+{
+	const char *end = extra_args + buflen;
+	struct strbuf git_protocol = STRBUF_INIT;
+
+	for (; extra_args < end; extra_args += strlen(extra_args) + 1) {
+		const char *arg = extra_args;
+
+		/*
+		 * Parse the extra arguments, adding most to 'git_protocol'
+		 * which will be used to set the 'GIT_PROTOCOL' envvar in the
+		 * service that will be run.
+		 *
+		 * If there ends up being a particular arg in the future that
+		 * git-daemon needs to parse specificly (like the 'host' arg)
+		 * then it can be parsed here and not added to 'git_protocol'.
+		 */
+		if (*arg) {
+			if (git_protocol.len > 0)
+				strbuf_addch(&git_protocol, ':');
+			strbuf_addstr(&git_protocol, arg);
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (git_protocol.len > 0)
+		argv_array_pushf(env, GIT_PROTOCOL_ENVIRONMENT "=%s",
+				 git_protocol.buf);
+	strbuf_release(&git_protocol);
 }
I would rewrite this with parse_extra_args() calling parse_host_arg()
instead (right now, you have 2 functions with 2 different meanings of
"extra_args"). If you want to keep this arrangement, though, add a
documentation comment about the meaning of the return value of
parse_host_arg().
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