Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Restrict ref-like names immediately below $GIT_DIR

From: Michael Haggerty <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:42:59 +0200

On 10/12/2011 08:07 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Michael Haggerty <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
>> On 10/12/2011 07:49 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>>> diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c
>>> index e3692bd..e54c482 100644
>>> --- a/refs.c
>>> +++ b/refs.c
>>> @@ -994,12 +994,34 @@ const char *ref_fetch_rules[] = {
>>>  	NULL
>>>  };
>>>  
>>> +static int refname_ok_at_root_level(const char *str, int len)
>>> +{
>>> +	int seen_non_root_char = 0;
>>> +
>>> +	while (len--) {
>>> +		char ch = *str++;
>>> +
>>> +		if (ch == '/')
>>> +			return 1;
>>> +		/*
>>> +		 * Only accept likes of .git/HEAD, .git/MERGE_HEAD at
>>> +		 * the root level as a ref.
>>> +		 */
>>> +		if (ch != '_' && (ch < 'A' || 'Z' < ch))
>>> +			seen_non_root_char = 1;
>>> +	}
>>> +	return !seen_non_root_char;
>>> +}
>>> +
>>
>> Nit: the seen_non_root_char variable can be replaced by an early "return
>> 0" from the loop and "return 1" if the loop falls through.
> 
> Hmm, I thought that would fail when you feed "refs/heads/master" to the
> function.

You're right.  My brain must be scrambled from all of the rebasing that
I have been doing ;-)

How about adding

/*
 * Accept strings that are either ALL_CAPS or include a '/'.
 */

(I think the underscore is implied by the example, but the comment could
be expanded if necessary to be explicit.)

Michael

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