sparse-checkout: fix segfault on malformed patterns

Then core.sparseCheckoutCone is enabled, the sparse-checkout patterns are
used to populate two hashsets that accelerate pattern matching. If the user
modifies the sparse-checkout file outside of the 'sparse-checkout' builtin,
then strange patterns can happen, triggering some error checks.

One of these error checks is possible to hit when some special characters
exist in a line. A warning message is correctly written to stderr, but then
there is additional logic that attempts to remove the line from the hashset
and free the data. This leads to a segfault in the 'git sparse-checkout
list' command because it iterates over the contents of the hashset, which is
now invalid.

The fix here is to stop trying to remove from the hashset. In addition,
we disable cone mode sparse-checkout because of the malformed data. This
results in the pattern-matching working with a possibly-slower
algorithm, but using the patterns as they are in the sparse-checkout
file.

This also changes the behavior of commands such as 'git sparse-checkout
list' because the output patterns will be the contents of the
sparse-checkout file instead of the list of directories. This is an
existing behavior for other types of bad patterns.

Add a test that triggers the segfault without the code change.

Reported-by: John Burnett <johnburnett@johnburnett.com>
Reviewed-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/t1091-sparse-checkout-builtin.sh b/t/t1091-sparse-checkout-builtin.sh
index 272ba1b566..3921ea8013 100755
--- a/t/t1091-sparse-checkout-builtin.sh
+++ b/t/t1091-sparse-checkout-builtin.sh
@@ -708,4 +708,25 @@ test_expect_success 'cone mode clears ignored subdirectories' '
 	test_cmp expect out
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'malformed cone-mode patterns' '
+	git -C repo sparse-checkout init --cone &&
+	mkdir -p repo/foo/bar &&
+	touch repo/foo/bar/x repo/foo/y &&
+	cat >repo/.git/info/sparse-checkout <<-\EOF &&
+	/*
+	!/*/
+	/foo/
+	!/foo/*/
+	/foo/\*/
+	EOF
+
+	# Listing the patterns will notice the duplicate pattern and
+	# emit a warning. It will list the patterns directly instead
+	# of using the cone-mode translation to a set of directories.
+	git -C repo sparse-checkout list >actual 2>err &&
+	test_cmp repo/.git/info/sparse-checkout actual &&
+	grep "warning: your sparse-checkout file may have issues: pattern .* is repeated" err &&
+	grep "warning: disabling cone pattern matching" err
+'
+
 test_done