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authorMichael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>2016-04-24 09:48:26 +0200
committerMichael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>2016-06-13 11:23:49 +0200
commitc52ce248d63a185eb0a616b361d1fd72c5c66451 (patch)
tree035bec75e98005be432d414db665abdac2e25be0
parent0568c8e9dce2aa0dd18f41f23e3465f3639e371e (diff)
downloadgit-c52ce248d63a185eb0a616b361d1fd72c5c66451.tar.gz
ref_transaction_create(): disallow recursive pruning
It is nonsensical (and a little bit dangerous) to use REF_ISPRUNING without REF_NODEREF. Forbid it explicitly. Change the one REF_ISPRUNING caller to pass REF_NODEREF too. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
-rw-r--r--refs.c3
-rw-r--r--refs/files-backend.c2
-rw-r--r--refs/refs-internal.h2
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
index ba14105959..5dc2473fbb 100644
--- a/refs.c
+++ b/refs.c
@@ -790,6 +790,9 @@ int ref_transaction_update(struct ref_transaction *transaction,
if (transaction->state != REF_TRANSACTION_OPEN)
die("BUG: update called for transaction that is not open");
+ if ((flags & REF_ISPRUNING) && !(flags & REF_NODEREF))
+ die("BUG: REF_ISPRUNING set without REF_NODEREF");
+
if (new_sha1 && !is_null_sha1(new_sha1) &&
check_refname_format(refname, REFNAME_ALLOW_ONELEVEL)) {
strbuf_addf(err, "refusing to update ref with bad name '%s'",
diff --git a/refs/files-backend.c b/refs/files-backend.c
index c978fe49c9..35d37ce58b 100644
--- a/refs/files-backend.c
+++ b/refs/files-backend.c
@@ -2087,7 +2087,7 @@ static void prune_ref(struct ref_to_prune *r)
transaction = ref_transaction_begin(&err);
if (!transaction ||
ref_transaction_delete(transaction, r->name, r->sha1,
- REF_ISPRUNING, NULL, &err) ||
+ REF_ISPRUNING | REF_NODEREF, NULL, &err) ||
ref_transaction_commit(transaction, &err)) {
ref_transaction_free(transaction);
error("%s", err.buf);
diff --git a/refs/refs-internal.h b/refs/refs-internal.h
index de7722e323..1f94f7a262 100644
--- a/refs/refs-internal.h
+++ b/refs/refs-internal.h
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
/*
* Used as a flag in ref_update::flags when a loose ref is being
- * pruned.
+ * pruned. This flag must only be used when REF_NODEREF is set.
*/
#define REF_ISPRUNING 0x04