pkt-line: share buffer/descriptor reading implementation

The packet_read function reads from a descriptor. The
packet_get_line function is similar, but reads from an
in-memory buffer, and uses a completely separate
implementation. This patch teaches the generic packet_read
function to accept either source, and we can do away with
packet_get_line's implementation.

There are two other differences to account for between the
old and new functions. The first is that we used to read
into a strbuf, but now read into a fixed size buffer. The
only two callers are fine with that, and in fact it
simplifies their code, since they can use the same
static-buffer interface as the rest of the packet_read_line
callers (and we provide a similar convenience wrapper for
reading from a buffer rather than a descriptor).

This is technically an externally-visible behavior change in
that we used to accept arbitrary sized packets up to 65532
bytes, and now cap out at LARGE_PACKET_MAX, 65520. In
practice this doesn't matter, as we use it only for parsing
smart-http headers (of which there is exactly one defined,
and it is small and fixed-size). And any extension headers
would be breaking the protocol to go over LARGE_PACKET_MAX
anyway.

The other difference is that packet_get_line would return
on error rather than dying. However, both callers of
packet_get_line are actually improved by dying.

The first caller does its own error checking, but we can
drop that; as a result, we'll actually get more specific
reporting about protocol breakage when packet_read dies
internally. The only downside is that packet_read will not
print the smart-http URL that failed, but that's not a big
deal; anybody not debugging can already see the remote's URL
already, and anybody debugging would want to run with
GIT_CURL_VERBOSE anyway to see way more information.

The second caller, which is just trying to skip past any
extra smart-http headers (of which there are none defined,
but which we allow to keep room for future expansion), did
not error check at all. As a result, it would treat an error
just like a flush packet. The resulting mess would generally
cause an error later in get_remote_heads, but now we get
error reporting much closer to the source of the problem.

Brown-paper-bag-fixes-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsay1.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/pkt-line.h b/pkt-line.h
index fa93e32071..0a838d1656 100644
--- a/pkt-line.h
+++ b/pkt-line.h
@@ -25,9 +25,16 @@ void packet_buf_flush(struct strbuf *buf);
 void packet_buf_write(struct strbuf *buf, const char *fmt, ...) __attribute__((format (printf, 2, 3)));
 
 /*
- * Read a packetized line from the descriptor into the buffer, which must be at
- * least size bytes long. The return value specifies the number of bytes read
- * into the buffer.
+ * Read a packetized line into the buffer, which must be at least size bytes
+ * long. The return value specifies the number of bytes read into the buffer.
+ *
+ * If src_buffer is not NULL (and nor is *src_buffer), it should point to a
+ * buffer containing the packet data to parse, of at least *src_len bytes.
+ * After the function returns, src_buf will be incremented and src_len
+ * decremented by the number of bytes consumed.
+ *
+ * If src_buffer (or *src_buffer) is NULL, then data is read from the
+ * descriptor "fd".
  *
  * If options does not contain PACKET_READ_GENTLE_ON_EOF, we will die under any
  * of the following conditions:
@@ -50,7 +57,8 @@ void packet_buf_write(struct strbuf *buf, const char *fmt, ...) __attribute__((f
  */
 #define PACKET_READ_GENTLE_ON_EOF (1u<<0)
 #define PACKET_READ_CHOMP_NEWLINE (1u<<1)
-int packet_read(int fd, char *buffer, unsigned size, int options);
+int packet_read(int fd, char **src_buffer, size_t *src_len, char
+		*buffer, unsigned size, int options);
 
 /*
  * Convenience wrapper for packet_read that is not gentle, and sets the
@@ -61,11 +69,14 @@ int packet_read(int fd, char *buffer, unsigned size, int options);
  */
 char *packet_read_line(int fd, int *size);
 
+/*
+ * Same as packet_read_line, but read from a buf rather than a descriptor;
+ * see packet_read for details on how src_* is used.
+ */
+char *packet_read_line_buf(char **src_buf, size_t *src_len, int *size);
 
 #define DEFAULT_PACKET_MAX 1000
 #define LARGE_PACKET_MAX 65520
 extern char packet_buffer[LARGE_PACKET_MAX];
 
-int packet_get_line(struct strbuf *out, char **src_buf, size_t *src_len);
-
 #endif