Subject: Re: [PATCH] t7406: submodule.<name>.update command must not be run from .gitmodules

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2017 12:21:27 +0900

Stefan Beller <[email-masked]> writes:

> submodule.<name>.update can be assigned an arbitrary command via setting
> it to "!command". When this command is found in the regular config, Git
> ought to just run that command instead of other update mechanisms.
>
> However if that command is just found in the .gitmodules file, it is
> potentially untrusted, which is why we do not run it.  Add a test
> confirming the behavior.
>
> Suggested-by: Jonathan Nieder <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <[email-masked]>
> ---

Earlier, we saw:

    Ideally we want this test to be super robust: e.g. if it runs the
    command but from a different directory, we still want the test to fail,
    and if it runs the command but using exec instead of a shell, we still
    want the test to fail.

and this one (i.e. signal that it is a command by prefixing with
'!', and then have a single command that would fail whether it is
run via run_command() with or without shell) would satisfy that
criteria, I would think.

>> This test for a missing file is certainly a remnant from the
>> previous iteration, isn't it?
>
> Yes. This is a good indicator I need some vacation.

Or just take a deep breath before making a knee-jerk reaction public
and instead double-check before sending things out ;-)

Will queue.  Thanks.

>
> Thanks,
> Stefan
>
>  t/t7406-submodule-update.sh | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/t/t7406-submodule-update.sh b/t/t7406-submodule-update.sh
> index 034914a14f..6f083c4d68 100755
> --- a/t/t7406-submodule-update.sh
> +++ b/t/t7406-submodule-update.sh
> @@ -406,6 +406,14 @@ test_expect_success 'submodule update - command in .git/config' '
>  	)
>  '
>  
> +test_expect_success 'submodule update - command in .gitmodules is ignored' '
> +	test_when_finished "git -C super reset --hard HEAD^" &&
> +	git -C super config -f .gitmodules submodule.submodule.update "!false" &&
> +	git -C super commit -a -m "add command to .gitmodules file" &&
> +	git -C super/submodule reset --hard $submodulesha1^ &&
> +	git -C super submodule update submodule
> +'
> +
>  cat << EOF >expect
>  Execution of 'false $submodulesha1' failed in submodule path 'submodule'
>  EOF