Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] config: clear the executable bits (if any) on $GIT_DIR/config

From: Michael Haggerty <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 10:03:58 +0100

On 11/16/2014 09:06 AM, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> Am 16.11.2014 um 08:21 schrieb Michael Haggerty:
>> @@ -559,9 +562,21 @@ int cmd_config(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>>  		if (given_config_source.blob)
>>  			die("editing blobs is not supported");
>>  		git_config(git_default_config, NULL);
>> -		launch_editor(given_config_source.file ?
>> -			      given_config_source.file : git_path("config"),
>> -			      NULL, NULL);
>> +		config_file = xstrdup(given_config_source.file ?
>> +				      given_config_source.file : git_path("config"));
>> +		launch_editor(config_file, NULL, NULL);
>> +
>> +		/*
>> +		 * In git 2.1, there was a bug in "git init" that left
>> +		 * the u+x bit set on the config file. To clean up any
>> +		 * repositories affected by that bug, and just because
>> +		 * it doesn't make sense for a config file to be
>> +		 * executable anyway, clear any executable bits from
>> +		 * the file (on a "best effort" basis):
>> +		 */
>> +		if (!lstat(config_file, &st) && (st.st_mode & 0111))
> 
> At this point we cannot be sure that config_file is a regular file, can
> we? It could also be a symbolic link. Wouldn't plain stat() be more
> correct then?

You make a good point. But I'm a little nervous about following symlinks
and changing permissions on some distant file. Also, the bug that we are
trying clean up after would not have created a symlink in this place, so
I think the cleanup is not so important if "config" is a symlink.

So I suggest that we stick with lstat(), but add S_ISREG(st.st_mode) to
the && chain above. Does that sound reasonable?

>> +			chmod(config_file, st.st_mode & 07666);
>> +		free(config_file);
>>  	}
>>  	else if (actions == ACTION_SET) {
>>  		int ret;

Michael

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Michael Haggerty
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