archive: expand only a single %(describe) per archive

Every %(describe) placeholder in $Format:...$ strings in files with the
attribute export-subst is expanded by calling git describe.  This can
potentially result in a lot of such calls per archive.  That's OK for
local repositories under control of the user of git archive, but could
be a problem for hosted repositories.

Expand only a single %(describe) placeholder per archive for now to
avoid denial-of-service attacks.  We can make this limit configurable
later if needed, but let's start out simple.

Reported-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/archive.h b/archive.h
index 33551b7ee1..49fab71aaf 100644
--- a/archive.h
+++ b/archive.h
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #include "pathspec.h"
 
 struct repository;
+struct pretty_print_context;
 
 struct archiver_args {
 	struct repository *repo;
@@ -22,6 +23,7 @@ struct archiver_args {
 	unsigned int convert : 1;
 	int compression_level;
 	struct string_list extra_files;
+	struct pretty_print_context *pretty_ctx;
 };
 
 /* main api */