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<title>delta/git.git/run-command.c, branch sb/string-list-split-appends</title>
<subtitle>github.com: git/git.git
</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'jk/push-client-deadlock-fix' into HEAD</title>
<updated>2016-05-18T21:40:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-18T21:40:06+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Some Windows SDK lacks pthread_sigmask() implementation and fails
to compile the recently updated "git push" codepath that uses it.

* jk/push-client-deadlock-fix:
  Windows: only add a no-op pthread_sigmask() when needed
  Windows: add pthread_sigmask() that does nothing
  t5504: drop sigpipe=ok from push tests
  fetch-pack: isolate sigpipe in demuxer thread
  send-pack: isolate sigpipe in demuxer thread
  run-command: teach async threads to ignore SIGPIPE
  send-pack: close demux pipe before finishing async process
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<pre>
Some Windows SDK lacks pthread_sigmask() implementation and fails
to compile the recently updated "git push" codepath that uses it.

* jk/push-client-deadlock-fix:
  Windows: only add a no-op pthread_sigmask() when needed
  Windows: add pthread_sigmask() that does nothing
  t5504: drop sigpipe=ok from push tests
  fetch-pack: isolate sigpipe in demuxer thread
  send-pack: isolate sigpipe in demuxer thread
  run-command: teach async threads to ignore SIGPIPE
  send-pack: close demux pipe before finishing async process
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>run-command: teach async threads to ignore SIGPIPE</title>
<updated>2016-04-20T20:33:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff King</name>
<email>peff@peff.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-19T22:49:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/git.git/commit/?id=c792d7b6cebe302d6e0377d9d983608309bcd775'/>
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Async processes can be implemented as separate forked
processes, or as threads (depending on the NO_PTHREADS
setting). In the latter case, if an async thread gets
SIGPIPE, it takes down the whole process. This is obviously
bad if the main process was not otherwise going to die, but
even if we were going to die, it means the main process does
not have a chance to report a useful error message.

There's also the small matter that forked async processes
will not take the main process down on a signal, meaning git
will behave differently depending on the NO_PTHREADS
setting.

This patch fixes it by adding a new flag to "struct async"
to block SIGPIPE just in the async thread. In theory, this
should always be on (which makes async threads behave more
like async processes), but we would first want to make sure
that each async process we spawn is careful about checking
return codes from write() and would not spew endlessly into
a dead pipe. So let's start with it as optional, and we can
enable it for specific sites in future patches.

The natural name for this option would be "ignore_sigpipe",
since that's what it does for the threaded case. But since
that name might imply that we are ignoring it in all cases
(including the separate-process one), let's call it
"isolate_sigpipe". What we are really asking for is
isolation. I.e., not to have our main process taken down by
signals spawned by the async process. How that is
implemented is up to the run-command code.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King &lt;peff@peff.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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Async processes can be implemented as separate forked
processes, or as threads (depending on the NO_PTHREADS
setting). In the latter case, if an async thread gets
SIGPIPE, it takes down the whole process. This is obviously
bad if the main process was not otherwise going to die, but
even if we were going to die, it means the main process does
not have a chance to report a useful error message.

There's also the small matter that forked async processes
will not take the main process down on a signal, meaning git
will behave differently depending on the NO_PTHREADS
setting.

This patch fixes it by adding a new flag to "struct async"
to block SIGPIPE just in the async thread. In theory, this
should always be on (which makes async threads behave more
like async processes), but we would first want to make sure
that each async process we spawn is careful about checking
return codes from write() and would not spew endlessly into
a dead pipe. So let's start with it as optional, and we can
enable it for specific sites in future patches.

The natural name for this option would be "ignore_sigpipe",
since that's what it does for the threaded case. But since
that name might imply that we are ignoring it in all cases
(including the separate-process one), let's call it
"isolate_sigpipe". What we are really asking for is
isolation. I.e., not to have our main process taken down by
signals spawned by the async process. How that is
implemented is up to the run-command code.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King &lt;peff@peff.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'jk/tighten-alloc' into maint</title>
<updated>2016-03-10T19:13:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-10T19:13:43+00:00</published>
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* jk/tighten-alloc: (23 commits)
  compat/mingw: brown paper bag fix for 50a6c8e
  ewah: convert to REALLOC_ARRAY, etc
  convert ewah/bitmap code to use xmalloc
  diff_populate_gitlink: use a strbuf
  transport_anonymize_url: use xstrfmt
  git-compat-util: drop mempcpy compat code
  sequencer: simplify memory allocation of get_message
  test-path-utils: fix normalize_path_copy output buffer size
  fetch-pack: simplify add_sought_entry
  fast-import: simplify allocation in start_packfile
  write_untracked_extension: use FLEX_ALLOC helper
  prepare_{git,shell}_cmd: use argv_array
  use st_add and st_mult for allocation size computation
  convert trivial cases to FLEX_ARRAY macros
  use xmallocz to avoid size arithmetic
  convert trivial cases to ALLOC_ARRAY
  convert manual allocations to argv_array
  argv-array: add detach function
  add helpers for allocating flex-array structs
  harden REALLOC_ARRAY and xcalloc against size_t overflow
  ...
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* jk/tighten-alloc: (23 commits)
  compat/mingw: brown paper bag fix for 50a6c8e
  ewah: convert to REALLOC_ARRAY, etc
  convert ewah/bitmap code to use xmalloc
  diff_populate_gitlink: use a strbuf
  transport_anonymize_url: use xstrfmt
  git-compat-util: drop mempcpy compat code
  sequencer: simplify memory allocation of get_message
  test-path-utils: fix normalize_path_copy output buffer size
  fetch-pack: simplify add_sought_entry
  fast-import: simplify allocation in start_packfile
  write_untracked_extension: use FLEX_ALLOC helper
  prepare_{git,shell}_cmd: use argv_array
  use st_add and st_mult for allocation size computation
  convert trivial cases to FLEX_ARRAY macros
  use xmallocz to avoid size arithmetic
  convert trivial cases to ALLOC_ARRAY
  convert manual allocations to argv_array
  argv-array: add detach function
  add helpers for allocating flex-array structs
  harden REALLOC_ARRAY and xcalloc against size_t overflow
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'sb/submodule-parallel-fetch'</title>
<updated>2016-03-04T21:46:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-04T21:46:30+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/git.git/commit/?id=bbe90e7950456bf1bb1ab17a9ee626f6fad7a7c6'/>
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<content type='text'>
Simplify the two callback functions that are triggered when the
child process terminates to avoid misuse of the child-process
structure that has already been cleaned up.

* sb/submodule-parallel-fetch:
  run-command: do not pass child process data into callbacks
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<pre>
Simplify the two callback functions that are triggered when the
child process terminates to avoid misuse of the child-process
structure that has already been cleaned up.

* sb/submodule-parallel-fetch:
  run-command: do not pass child process data into callbacks
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>run-command: do not pass child process data into callbacks</title>
<updated>2016-03-01T17:42:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefan Beller</name>
<email>sbeller@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-29T21:57:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/git.git/commit/?id=2a73b3dad09ef162eb5917e9e0d01d7c306f6b35'/>
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<content type='text'>
The expected way to pass data into the callback is to pass them via
the customizable callback pointer. The error reporting in
default_{start_failure, task_finished} is not user friendly enough, that
we want to encourage using the child data for such purposes.

Furthermore the struct child data is cleaned by the run-command API,
before we access them in the callbacks, leading to use-after-free
situations.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller &lt;sbeller@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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<pre>
The expected way to pass data into the callback is to pass them via
the customizable callback pointer. The error reporting in
default_{start_failure, task_finished} is not user friendly enough, that
we want to encourage using the child data for such purposes.

Furthermore the struct child data is cleaned by the run-command API,
before we access them in the callbacks, leading to use-after-free
situations.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller &lt;sbeller@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'jk/epipe-in-async'</title>
<updated>2016-02-26T21:37:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-26T21:37:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/git.git/commit/?id=8ef250c55908d1c752267ea4a05e0a421a729723'/>
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<content type='text'>
Handling of errors while writing into our internal asynchronous
process has been made more robust, which reduces flakiness in our
tests.

* jk/epipe-in-async:
  t5504: handle expected output from SIGPIPE death
  test_must_fail: report number of unexpected signal
  fetch-pack: ignore SIGPIPE in sideband demuxer
  write_or_die: handle EPIPE in async threads
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<pre>
Handling of errors while writing into our internal asynchronous
process has been made more robust, which reduces flakiness in our
tests.

* jk/epipe-in-async:
  t5504: handle expected output from SIGPIPE death
  test_must_fail: report number of unexpected signal
  fetch-pack: ignore SIGPIPE in sideband demuxer
  write_or_die: handle EPIPE in async threads
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'jk/tighten-alloc'</title>
<updated>2016-02-26T21:37:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-26T21:37:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/git.git/commit/?id=11529ecec914d2f0d7575e6d443c2d5a6ff75424'/>
<id>11529ecec914d2f0d7575e6d443c2d5a6ff75424</id>
<content type='text'>
Update various codepaths to avoid manually-counted malloc().

* jk/tighten-alloc: (22 commits)
  ewah: convert to REALLOC_ARRAY, etc
  convert ewah/bitmap code to use xmalloc
  diff_populate_gitlink: use a strbuf
  transport_anonymize_url: use xstrfmt
  git-compat-util: drop mempcpy compat code
  sequencer: simplify memory allocation of get_message
  test-path-utils: fix normalize_path_copy output buffer size
  fetch-pack: simplify add_sought_entry
  fast-import: simplify allocation in start_packfile
  write_untracked_extension: use FLEX_ALLOC helper
  prepare_{git,shell}_cmd: use argv_array
  use st_add and st_mult for allocation size computation
  convert trivial cases to FLEX_ARRAY macros
  use xmallocz to avoid size arithmetic
  convert trivial cases to ALLOC_ARRAY
  convert manual allocations to argv_array
  argv-array: add detach function
  add helpers for allocating flex-array structs
  harden REALLOC_ARRAY and xcalloc against size_t overflow
  tree-diff: catch integer overflow in combine_diff_path allocation
  ...
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<pre>
Update various codepaths to avoid manually-counted malloc().

* jk/tighten-alloc: (22 commits)
  ewah: convert to REALLOC_ARRAY, etc
  convert ewah/bitmap code to use xmalloc
  diff_populate_gitlink: use a strbuf
  transport_anonymize_url: use xstrfmt
  git-compat-util: drop mempcpy compat code
  sequencer: simplify memory allocation of get_message
  test-path-utils: fix normalize_path_copy output buffer size
  fetch-pack: simplify add_sought_entry
  fast-import: simplify allocation in start_packfile
  write_untracked_extension: use FLEX_ALLOC helper
  prepare_{git,shell}_cmd: use argv_array
  use st_add and st_mult for allocation size computation
  convert trivial cases to FLEX_ARRAY macros
  use xmallocz to avoid size arithmetic
  convert trivial cases to ALLOC_ARRAY
  convert manual allocations to argv_array
  argv-array: add detach function
  add helpers for allocating flex-array structs
  harden REALLOC_ARRAY and xcalloc against size_t overflow
  tree-diff: catch integer overflow in combine_diff_path allocation
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>write_or_die: handle EPIPE in async threads</title>
<updated>2016-02-25T21:51:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff King</name>
<email>peff@peff.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-24T07:40:16+00:00</published>
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When write_or_die() sees EPIPE, it treats it specially by
converting it into a SIGPIPE death. We obviously cannot
ignore it, as the write has failed and the caller expects us
to die. But likewise, we cannot just call die(), because
printing any message at all would be a nuisance during
normal operations.

However, this is a problem if write_or_die() is called from
a thread. Our raised signal ends up killing the whole
process, when logically we just need to kill the thread
(after all, if we are ignoring SIGPIPE, there is good reason
to think that the main thread is expecting to handle it).

Inside an async thread, the die() code already does the
right thing, because we use our custom die_async() routine,
which calls pthread_join(). So ideally we would piggy-back
on that, and simply call:

  die_quietly_with_code(141);

or similar. But refactoring the die code to do this is
surprisingly non-trivial. The die_routines themselves handle
both printing and the decision of the exit code. Every one
of them would have to be modified to take new parameters for
the code, and to tell us to be quiet.

Instead, we can just teach write_or_die() to check for the
async case and handle it specially. We do have to build an
interface to abstract the async exit, but it's simple and
self-contained. If we had many call-sites that wanted to do
this die_quietly_with_code(), this approach wouldn't scale
as well, but we don't. This is the only place where do this
weird exit trick.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King &lt;peff@peff.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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When write_or_die() sees EPIPE, it treats it specially by
converting it into a SIGPIPE death. We obviously cannot
ignore it, as the write has failed and the caller expects us
to die. But likewise, we cannot just call die(), because
printing any message at all would be a nuisance during
normal operations.

However, this is a problem if write_or_die() is called from
a thread. Our raised signal ends up killing the whole
process, when logically we just need to kill the thread
(after all, if we are ignoring SIGPIPE, there is good reason
to think that the main thread is expecting to handle it).

Inside an async thread, the die() code already does the
right thing, because we use our custom die_async() routine,
which calls pthread_join(). So ideally we would piggy-back
on that, and simply call:

  die_quietly_with_code(141);

or similar. But refactoring the die code to do this is
surprisingly non-trivial. The die_routines themselves handle
both printing and the decision of the exit code. Every one
of them would have to be modified to take new parameters for
the code, and to tell us to be quiet.

Instead, we can just teach write_or_die() to check for the
async case and handle it specially. We do have to build an
interface to abstract the async exit, but it's simple and
self-contained. If we had many call-sites that wanted to do
this die_quietly_with_code(), this approach wouldn't scale
as well, but we don't. This is the only place where do this
weird exit trick.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King &lt;peff@peff.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>prepare_{git,shell}_cmd: use argv_array</title>
<updated>2016-02-22T22:51:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff King</name>
<email>peff@peff.net</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-22T22:44:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/git.git/commit/?id=20574f551bcc5fcf0f0e20236af174754fa11363'/>
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These functions transform an existing argv into one suitable
for exec-ing or spawning via git or a shell. We can use an
argv_array in each to avoid dealing with manual counting and
allocation.

This also makes the memory allocation more clear and fixes
some leaks. In prepare_shell_cmd, we would sometimes
allocate a new string with "$@" in it and sometimes not,
meaning the caller could not correctly free it. On the
non-Windows side, we are in a child process which will
exec() or exit() immediately, so the leak isn't a big deal.
On Windows, though, we use spawn() from the parent process,
and leak a string for each shell command we run. On top of
that, the Windows code did not free the allocated argv array
at all (but does for the prepare_git_cmd case!).

By switching both of these functions to write into an
argv_array, we can consistently free the result as
appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King &lt;peff@peff.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
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These functions transform an existing argv into one suitable
for exec-ing or spawning via git or a shell. We can use an
argv_array in each to avoid dealing with manual counting and
allocation.

This also makes the memory allocation more clear and fixes
some leaks. In prepare_shell_cmd, we would sometimes
allocate a new string with "$@" in it and sometimes not,
meaning the caller could not correctly free it. On the
non-Windows side, we are in a child process which will
exec() or exit() immediately, so the leak isn't a big deal.
On Windows, though, we use spawn() from the parent process,
and leak a string for each shell command we run. On top of
that, the Windows code did not free the allocated argv array
at all (but does for the prepare_git_cmd case!).

By switching both of these functions to write into an
argv_array, we can consistently free the result as
appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King &lt;peff@peff.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'nd/clear-gitenv-upon-use-of-alias'</title>
<updated>2016-01-20T19:43:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junio C Hamano</name>
<email>gitster@pobox.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-20T19:43:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://git.baserock.org/cgit/delta/git.git/commit/?id=5135d1c3d2a2c8c6c9701bd0cbcf57ce587f750d'/>
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<content type='text'>
d95138e6 (setup: set env $GIT_WORK_TREE when work tree is set, like
$GIT_DIR, 2015-06-26) attempted to work around a glitch in alias
handling by overwriting GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable to
affect subprocesses when set_git_work_tree() gets called, which
resulted in a rather unpleasant regression to "clone" and "init".
Try to address the same issue by always restoring the environment
and respawning the real underlying command when handling alias.

* nd/clear-gitenv-upon-use-of-alias:
  run-command: don't warn on SIGPIPE deaths
  git.c: make sure we do not leak GIT_* to alias scripts
  setup.c: re-fix d95138e (setup: set env $GIT_WORK_TREE when ..
  git.c: make it clear save_env() is for alias handling only
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d95138e6 (setup: set env $GIT_WORK_TREE when work tree is set, like
$GIT_DIR, 2015-06-26) attempted to work around a glitch in alias
handling by overwriting GIT_WORK_TREE environment variable to
affect subprocesses when set_git_work_tree() gets called, which
resulted in a rather unpleasant regression to "clone" and "init".
Try to address the same issue by always restoring the environment
and respawning the real underlying command when handling alias.

* nd/clear-gitenv-upon-use-of-alias:
  run-command: don't warn on SIGPIPE deaths
  git.c: make sure we do not leak GIT_* to alias scripts
  setup.c: re-fix d95138e (setup: set env $GIT_WORK_TREE when ..
  git.c: make it clear save_env() is for alias handling only
</pre>
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