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authorJeff King <peff@peff.net>2015-05-15 02:29:27 -0400
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2015-05-15 11:13:47 -0700
commit7253a02348c1c44c84f8a13309d6d30b443bf23c (patch)
tree314496f9d5741f933e2d0b9ad15d79486849b8a7 /http-backend.c
parentfdf96a20acf96a6ac538df8113b2aafd6ed71d50 (diff)
downloadgit-7253a02348c1c44c84f8a13309d6d30b443bf23c.tar.gz
http-backend: fix die recursion with custom handler
When we die() in http-backend, we call a custom handler that writes an HTTP 500 response to stdout, then reports the error to stderr. Our routines for writing out the HTTP response may themselves die, leading to us entering die() again. When it was originally written, that was OK; our custom handler keeps a variable to notice this and does not recurse. However, since cd163d4 (usage.c: detect recursion in die routines and bail out immediately, 2012-11-14), the main die() implementation detects recursion before we even get to our custom handler, and bails without printing anything useful. We can handle this case by doing two things: 1. Installing a custom die_is_recursing handler that allows us to enter up to one level of recursion. Only the first call to our custom handler will try to write out the error response. So if we die again, that is OK. If we end up dying more than that, it is a sign that we are in an infinite recursion. 2. Reporting the error to stderr before trying to write out the HTTP response. In the current code, if we do die() trying to write out the response, we'll exit immediately from this second die(), and never get a chance to output the original error (which is almost certainly the more interesting one; the second die is just going to be along the lines of "I tried to write to stdout but it was closed"). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'http-backend.c')
-rw-r--r--http-backend.c14
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/http-backend.c b/http-backend.c
index b6c0484fb2..3ad82a894d 100644
--- a/http-backend.c
+++ b/http-backend.c
@@ -500,21 +500,24 @@ static void service_rpc(char *service_name)
strbuf_release(&buf);
}
+static int dead;
static NORETURN void die_webcgi(const char *err, va_list params)
{
- static int dead;
+ if (dead <= 1) {
+ vreportf("fatal: ", err, params);
- if (!dead) {
- dead = 1;
http_status(500, "Internal Server Error");
hdr_nocache();
end_headers();
-
- vreportf("fatal: ", err, params);
}
exit(0); /* we successfully reported a failure ;-) */
}
+static int die_webcgi_recursing(void)
+{
+ return dead++ > 1;
+}
+
static char* getdir(void)
{
struct strbuf buf = STRBUF_INIT;
@@ -569,6 +572,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
git_extract_argv0_path(argv[0]);
set_die_routine(die_webcgi);
+ set_die_is_recursing_routine(die_webcgi_recursing);
if (!method)
die("No REQUEST_METHOD from server");