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2021-12-15Merge branch 'hn/allow-bogus-oid-in-ref-tests'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-23/+30
The test helper for refs subsystem learned to write bogus and/or nonexistent object name to refs to simulate error situations we want to test Git in. * hn/allow-bogus-oid-in-ref-tests: t1430: create valid symrefs using test-helper t1430: remove refs using test-tool refs: introduce REF_SKIP_REFNAME_VERIFICATION flag refs: introduce REF_SKIP_OID_VERIFICATION flag refs: update comment. test-ref-store: plug memory leak in cmd_delete_refs test-ref-store: parse symbolic flag constants test-ref-store: remove force-create argument for create-reflog
2021-12-15Merge branch 'hn/reflog-tests'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+5
Prepare tests on ref API to help testing reftable backends. * hn/reflog-tests: refs/debug: trim trailing LF from reflog message test-ref-store: tweaks to for-each-reflog-ent format t1405: check for_each_reflog_ent_reverse() more thoroughly test-ref-store: don't add newline to reflog message show-branch: show reflog message
2021-12-10Merge branch 'hn/create-reflog-simplify'Libravatar Junio C Hamano4-9/+6
A small simplification of API. * hn/create-reflog-simplify: refs: drop force_create argument of create_reflog API
2021-12-07refs: introduce REF_SKIP_OID_VERIFICATION flagLibravatar Han-Wen Nienhuys1-21/+29
This lets the ref-store test helper write non-existent or unparsable objects into the ref storage. Use this to make t1006 and t3800 independent of the files storage backend. Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-07refs: update comment.Libravatar Han-Wen Nienhuys1-2/+1
REF_IS_PRUNING is right below this comment, so it clearly does not belong in this comment. This was apparently introduced in commit 5ac95fee (Nov 5, 2017 "refs: tidy up and adjust visibility of the `ref_update` flags"). Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-12-02refs/debug: trim trailing LF from reflog messageLibravatar Han-Wen Nienhuys1-2/+5
On iteration, the reflog message is always terminated by a newline. Trim it to avoid clobbering the console with is this extra newline. Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-11-29Merge branch 'ab/refs-errno-cleanup'Libravatar Junio C Hamano3-73/+113
The "remainder" of hn/refs-errno-cleanup topic. * ab/refs-errno-cleanup: (21 commits) refs API: post-migration API renaming [2/2] refs API: post-migration API renaming [1/2] refs API: don't expose "errno" in run_transaction_hook() refs API: make expand_ref() & repo_dwim_log() not set errno refs API: make resolve_ref_unsafe() not set errno refs API: make refs_ref_exists() not set errno refs API: make refs_resolve_refdup() not set errno refs tests: ignore ignore errno in test-ref-store helper refs API: ignore errno in worktree.c's find_shared_symref() refs API: ignore errno in worktree.c's add_head_info() refs API: make files_copy_or_rename_ref() et al not set errno refs API: make loose_fill_ref_dir() not set errno refs API: make resolve_gitlink_ref() not set errno refs API: remove refs_read_ref_full() wrapper refs/files: remove "name exist?" check in lock_ref_oid_basic() reflog tests: add --updateref tests refs API: make refs_rename_ref_available() static refs API: make parse_loose_ref_contents() not set errno refs API: make refs_read_raw_ref() not set errno refs API: add a version of refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() with "errno" ...
2021-11-22refs: drop force_create argument of create_reflog APILibravatar Han-Wen Nienhuys4-9/+6
There is only one caller, builtin/checkout.c, and it hardcodes force_create=1. This argument was introduced in abd0cd3a301 (refs: new public ref function: safe_create_reflog, 2015-07-21), which promised to immediately use it in a follow-on commit, but that never happened. Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-25Merge branch 'jt/no-abuse-alternate-odb-for-submodules'Libravatar Junio C Hamano6-11/+44
Follow through the work to use the repo interface to access submodule objects in-process, instead of abusing the alternate object database interface. * jt/no-abuse-alternate-odb-for-submodules: submodule: trace adding submodule ODB as alternate submodule: pass repo to check_has_commit() object-file: only register submodule ODB if needed merge-{ort,recursive}: remove add_submodule_odb() refs: peeling non-the_repository iterators is BUG refs: teach arbitrary repo support to iterators refs: plumb repo into ref stores
2021-10-16refs API: post-migration API renaming [2/2]Libravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-9/+9
Rename the transitory refs_werrres_ref_unsafe() function to refs_resolve_ref_unsafe(), now that all callers of the old function have learned to pass in a "failure_errno" parameter. The coccinelle semantic patch added in the preceding commit works, but I couldn't figure out how to get spatch(1) to re-flow these argument lists (and sometimes make lines way too long), so this rename was done with: perl -pi -e 's/refs_werrres_ref_unsafe/refs_resolve_ref_unsafe/g' \ $(git grep -l refs_werrres_ref_unsafe -- '*.c') But after that "make contrib/coccinelle/refs.cocci.patch" comes up empty, so the result would have been the same. Let's remove that transitory semantic patch file, we won't need to retain it for any other in-flight changes, refs_werrres_ref_unsafe() only existed within this patch series. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-16refs API: make files_copy_or_rename_ref() et al not set errnoLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-4/+6
None of the callers of rename_ref() and copy_ref() care about errno, and as seen in the context here we already emit our own non-errno using error() in the case where we'd use it. So let's have it explicitly ignore errno, and do the same in commit_ref_update(), which is only used within other code in files_copy_or_rename_ref() itself which doesn't care about errno either. It might actually be sensible to have the callers use errno if the failure was filesystem-specific, and with the upcoming reftable backend we don't want to rely on that sort of thing, so let's keep ignoring that for now. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-16refs API: make loose_fill_ref_dir() not set errnoLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-2/+3
Change the refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() invoked in loose_fill_ref_dir() to a form that ignores errno. The only eventual caller of this function is create_ref_cache(), whose callers in turn don't have their failure depend on any errno set here. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-16refs API: remove refs_read_ref_full() wrapperLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-14/+22
Remove the refs_read_ref_full() wrapper in favor of migrating various refs.c API users to the underlying refs_werrres_ref_unsafe() function. A careful reading of these callers shows that the callers of this function did not care about "errno", by moving away from the refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() wrapper we can be sure that nothing relies on it anymore. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-16refs/files: remove "name exist?" check in lock_ref_oid_basic()Libravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-24/+24
In lock_ref_oid_basic() we'll happily lock a reference that doesn't exist yet. That's normal, and is how references are initially born, but we don't need to retain checks here in lock_ref_oid_basic() about the state of the ref, when what we're checking is either checked already, or something we're about to discover by trying to lock the ref with raceproof_create_file(). The one exception is the caller in files_reflog_expire(), who passes us a "type" to find out if the reference is a symref or not. We can move the that logic over to that caller, which can now defer its discovery of whether or not the ref is a symref until it's needed. In the preceding commit an exhaustive regression test was added for that case in a new test in "t1417-reflog-updateref.sh". The improved diagnostics here were added in 5b2d8d6f218 (lock_ref_sha1_basic(): improve diagnostics for ref D/F conflicts, 2015-05-11), and then much of the surrounding code went away recently in my 245fbba46d6 (refs/files: remove unused "errno == EISDIR" code, 2021-08-23). The refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() code being removed here looks like it should be tasked with doing that, but it's actually redundant to other code. The reason for that is as noted in 245fbba46d6 this once widely used function now only has a handful of callers left, which all handle this case themselves. To the extent that we're racy between their check and ours removing this check actually improves the situation, as we'll be doing fewer things between the not-under-lock initial check and acquiring the lock. Why this is OK for all the remaining callers of lock_ref_oid_basic() is noted below. There are only two of those callers: * "git branch -[cm] <oldbranch> <newbranch>": In files_copy_or_rename_ref() we'll call this when we copy or rename refs via rename_ref() and copy_ref(). but only after we've checked if the refname exists already via its own call to refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() and refs_rename_ref_available(). As the updated comment to the latter here notes neither of those are actually needed. If we delete not only this code but also refs_rename_ref_available() we'll do just fine, we'll just emit a less friendly error message if e.g. "git branch -m A B/C" would have a D/F conflict with a "B" file. Actually we'd probably die before that in case reflogs for the branch existed, i.e. when the try to rename() or copy_file() the relevant reflog, since if we've got a D/F conflict with a branch name we'll probably also have the same with its reflogs (but not necessarily, we might have reflogs, but it might not). As some #leftoverbits that code seems buggy to me, i.e. the reflog "protocol" should be to get a lock on the main ref, and then perform ref and/or reflog operations. That code dates back to c976d415e53 (git-branch: add options and tests for branch renaming, 2006-11-28) and probably pre-dated the solidifying of that convention. But in any case, that edge case is not our bug or problem right now. * "git reflog expire <ref>": In files_reflog_expire() we'll call this without previous ref existence checking in files-backend.c, but that code is in turn called by code that's just finished checking if the refname whose reflog we're expiring exists. See ae35e16cd43 (reflog expire: don't lock reflogs using previously seen OID, 2021-08-23) for the current state of that code, and 5e6f003ca8a (reflog_expire(): ignore --updateref for symbolic references, 2015-03-03) for the code we'd break if we only did a "update = !!ref" here, which is covered by the aforementioned regression test in "t1417-reflog-updateref.sh". Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-16refs API: make refs_rename_ref_available() staticLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason2-14/+29
Move the refs_rename_ref_available() function into "refs/files-backend.c". It is file-backend specific. This function was added in 5fe7d825da8 (refs.c: pass a list of names to skip to is_refname_available, 2014-05-01) as rename_ref_available() and was only ever used in this one file-backend specific codepath. So let's move it there. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-16refs API: make parse_loose_ref_contents() not set errnoLibravatar Han-Wen Nienhuys2-13/+24
Change the parse_loose_ref_contents() function to stop setting "errno" and failure, and to instead pass up a "failure_errno" via a parameter. This requires changing its callers to do the same. The EINVAL error from parse_loose_ref_contents is used in files-backend to create a custom error message. In untangling this we discovered a tricky edge case. The refs_read_special_head() function was relying on parse_loose_ref_contents() setting EINVAL. By converting it to use "saved_errno" we can migrate away from "errno" in this part of the code entirely, and do away with an existing "save_errno" pattern, its only purpose was to not clobber the "errno" we previously needed at the end of files_read_raw_ref(). Let's assert that we can do that by not having files_read_raw_ref() itself operate on *failure_errno in addition to passing it on. Instead we'll assert that if we return non-zero we actually do set errno, thus assuring ourselves and callers that they can trust the resulting "failure_errno". Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-16refs API: make refs_read_raw_ref() not set errnoLibravatar Han-Wen Nienhuys3-10/+13
Add a "failure_errno" to refs_read_raw_ref(), his allows refs_werrres_ref_unsafe() to pass along its "failure_errno", as a first step before its own callers are migrated to pass it further up the chain. We are leaving out out the refs_read_special_head() in refs_read_raw_ref() for now, as noted in a subsequent commit moving it to "failure_errno" will require some special consideration. Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-11Merge branch 'jk/ref-paranoia'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-21/+40
The ref iteration code used to optionally allow dangling refs to be shown, which has been tightened up. * jk/ref-paranoia: refs: drop "broken" flag from for_each_fullref_in() ref-filter: drop broken-ref code entirely ref-filter: stop setting FILTER_REFS_INCLUDE_BROKEN repack, prune: drop GIT_REF_PARANOIA settings refs: turn on GIT_REF_PARANOIA by default refs: omit dangling symrefs when using GIT_REF_PARANOIA refs: add DO_FOR_EACH_OMIT_DANGLING_SYMREFS flag refs-internal.h: reorganize DO_FOR_EACH_* flag documentation refs-internal.h: move DO_FOR_EACH_* flags next to each other t5312: be more assertive about command failure t5312: test non-destructive repack t5312: create bogus ref as necessary t5312: drop "verbose" helper t5600: provide detached HEAD for corruption failures t5516: don't use HEAD ref for invalid ref-deletion tests t7900: clean up some more broken refs
2021-10-08refs: peeling non-the_repository iterators is BUGLibravatar Jonathan Tan4-2/+17
There is currently no support for peeling the current ref of an iterator iterating over a non-the_repository ref store, and none is needed. Thus, for now, BUG() if that happens. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-08refs: teach arbitrary repo support to iteratorsLibravatar Jonathan Tan3-3/+9
Note that should_pack_ref() is called when writing refs, which is only supported for the_repository, hence the_repository is hardcoded there. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-08refs: plumb repo into ref storesLibravatar Jonathan Tan4-6/+18
In preparation for the next 2 patches that adds (partial) support for arbitrary repositories to ref iterators, plumb a repository into all ref stores. There are no changes to program logic. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-10-06Merge branch 'ab/retire-refs-unused-funcs'Libravatar Junio C Hamano3-100/+19
Code cleanup. * ab/retire-refs-unused-funcs: refs/ref-cache.[ch]: remove "incomplete" from create_dir_entry() refs/ref-cache.c: remove "mkdir" parameter from find_containing_dir() refs/ref-cache.[ch]: remove unused add_ref_entry() refs/ref-cache.[ch]: remove unused remove_entry_from_dir() refs.[ch]: remove unused ref_storage_backend_exists()
2021-10-03Merge branch 'hn/refs-errno-cleanup'Libravatar Junio C Hamano4-39/+145
Futz with the way 'errno' is relied on in the refs API to carry the failure modes up the call chain. * hn/refs-errno-cleanup: refs: make errno output explicit for read_raw_ref_fn refs/files-backend: stop setting errno from lock_ref_oid_basic refs: remove EINVAL errno output from specification of read_raw_ref_fn refs file backend: move raceproof_create_file() here
2021-10-03Merge branch 'ab/refs-files-cleanup'Libravatar Junio C Hamano4-103/+46
Continued work on top of the hn/refs-errno-cleanup topic. * ab/refs-files-cleanup: refs/files: remove unused "errno != ENOTDIR" condition refs/files: remove unused "errno == EISDIR" code refs/files: remove unused "oid" in lock_ref_oid_basic() refs API: remove OID argument to reflog_expire() reflog expire: don't lock reflogs using previously seen OID refs/files: add a comment about refs_reflog_exists() call refs: make repo_dwim_log() accept a NULL oid refs/debug: re-indent argument list for "prepare" refs/files: remove unused "skip" in lock_raw_ref() too refs/files: remove unused "extras/skip" in lock_ref_oid_basic() refs: drop unused "flags" parameter to lock_ref_oid_basic() refs/files: remove unused REF_DELETING in lock_ref_oid_basic() refs/packet: add missing BUG() invocations to reflog callbacks
2021-09-28refs/ref-cache.[ch]: remove "incomplete" from create_dir_entry()Libravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason3-9/+7
Remove the now-unused "incomplete" parameter from create_dir_entry(), all its callers specify it as "1", so let's drop the "incomplete=0" case. The last caller to use it was search_for_subdir(), but that code was removed in the preceding commit. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-28refs/ref-cache.c: remove "mkdir" parameter from find_containing_dir()Libravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-24/+12
Remove the "mkdir" parameter from the find_containing_dir() function, the add_ref_entry() function removed in the preceding commit was its last user. Since "mkdir" is always "0" we can also remove the parameter from search_for_subdir(), which in turn means that we can delete most of that function. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-28refs/ref-cache.[ch]: remove unused add_ref_entry()Libravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason2-16/+0
This function has not been used since 9dd389f3d8d (packed_ref_store: get rid of the `ref_cache` entirely, 2017-09-25). Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-28refs/ref-cache.[ch]: remove unused remove_entry_from_dir()Libravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason2-51/+0
This function was missed in 9939b33d6a3 (packed-backend: rip out some now-unused code, 2017-09-08), and has been orphaned since then. Let's delete it. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-27refs: add DO_FOR_EACH_OMIT_DANGLING_SYMREFS flagLibravatar Jeff King2-0/+11
When the DO_FOR_EACH_INCLUDE_BROKEN flag is used, we include both actual corrupt refs (illegal names, missing objects), but also symrefs that point to nothing. This latter is not really a corruption, but just something that may happen normally. For example, the symref at refs/remotes/origin/HEAD may point to a tracking branch which is later deleted. (The local HEAD may also be unborn, of course, but we do not access it through ref iteration). Most callers of for_each_ref() etc, do not care. They don't pass INCLUDE_BROKEN, so don't see it at all. But for those which do pass it, this somewhat-normal state causes extra warnings (e.g., from for-each-ref) or even aborts operations (destructive repacks with GIT_REF_PARANOIA set). This patch just introduces the flag and the mechanism; there are no callers yet (and hence no tests). Two things to note on the implementation: - we actually skip any symref that does not resolve to a ref. This includes ones which point to an invalidly-named ref. You could argue this is a more serious breakage than simple dangling. But the overall effect is the same (we could not follow the symref), as well as the impact on things like REF_PARANOIA (either way, a symref we can't follow won't impact reachability, because we'll see the ref itself during iteration). The underlying resolution function doesn't distinguish these two cases (they both get REF_ISBROKEN). - we change the iterator in refs/files-backend.c where we check INCLUDE_BROKEN. There's a matching spot in refs/packed-backend.c, but we don't know need to do anything there. The packed backend does not support symrefs at all. The resulting set of flags might be a bit easier to follow if we broke this down into "INCLUDE_CORRUPT_REFS" and "INCLUDE_DANGLING_SYMREFS". But there are a few reasons not do so: - adding a new OMIT_DANGLING_SYMREFS flag lets us leave existing callers intact, without changing their behavior (and some of them really do want to see the dangling symrefs; e.g., t5505 has a test which expects us to report when a symref becomes dangling) - they're not actually independent. You cannot say "include dangling symrefs" without also including refs whose objects are not reachable, because dangling symrefs by definition do not have an object. We could tweak the implementation to distinguish this, but in practice nobody wants to ask for that. Adding the OMIT flag keeps the implementation simple and makes sure we don't regress the current behavior. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-27refs-internal.h: reorganize DO_FOR_EACH_* flag documentationLibravatar Jeff King1-19/+27
The documentation for the DO_FOR_EACH_* flags is sprinkled over the refs-internal.h file. We define the two flags in one spot, and then describe them in more detail far away from there, in the definitions of refs_ref_iterator_begin() and ref_iterator_advance_fn(). Let's try to organize this a bit better: - convert the #defines to an enum. This makes it clear that they are related, and that the enum shows the complete set of flags. - combine all descriptions for each flag in a single spot, next to the flag's definition - use the enum rather than a bare int for functions which take the flags. This helps readers realize which flags can be used. - clarify the mention of flags for ref_iterator_advance_fn(). It does not take flags itself, but is meant to depend on ones set up earlier. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-27refs-internal.h: move DO_FOR_EACH_* flags next to each otherLibravatar Jeff King1-8/+8
There are currently two DO_FOR_EACH_* flags, which must not have their bits overlap. Yet they're defined hundreds of lines apart. Let's move them next to each other to make it clear that they are related and are a complete set (which matters if you are adding a new flag and would like to know what the next available bit is). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Reviewed-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-09-09refs/files-backend: remove unused open mode parameterLibravatar René Scharfe1-1/+1
We only need to provide a mode if we are willing to let open(2) create the file, which is not the case here, so drop the unnecessary parameter. Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25refs: make errno output explicit for read_raw_ref_fnLibravatar Han-Wen Nienhuys4-30/+34
This makes it explicit how alternative ref backends should report errors in read_raw_ref_fn. read_raw_ref_fn needs to supply a credible errno for a number of cases. These are primarily: 1) The files backend calls read_raw_ref from lock_raw_ref, and uses the resulting error codes to create/remove directories as needed. 2) ENOENT should be translated in a zero OID, optionally with REF_ISBROKEN set, returning the last successfully resolved symref. This is necessary so read_raw_ref("HEAD") on an empty repo returns refs/heads/main (or the default branch du-jour), and we know on which branch to create the first commit. Make this information flow explicit by adding a failure_errno to the signature of read_raw_ref. All errnos from the files backend are still propagated unchanged, even though inspection suggests only ENOTDIR, EISDIR and ENOENT are relevant. Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25refs/files-backend: stop setting errno from lock_ref_oid_basicLibravatar Han-Wen Nienhuys1-9/+2
refs/files-backend.c::lock_ref_oid_basic() tries to signal how it failed to its callers using errno. It is safe to stop setting errno here, because the callers of this file-scope static function are * files_copy_or_rename_ref() * files_create_symref() * files_reflog_expire() None of them looks at errno after seeing a negative return from lock_ref_oid_basic() to make any decision, and no caller of these three functions looks at errno after they signal a failure by returning a negative value. In particular, * files_copy_or_rename_ref() - here, calls are followed by error() (which performs I/O) or write_ref_to_lockfile() (which calls parse_object() which may perform I/O) * files_create_symref() - here, calls are followed by error() or create_symref_locked() (which performs I/O and does not inspect errno) * files_reflog_expire() - here, calls are followed by error() or refs_reflog_exists() (which calls a function in a vtable that is not documented to use and/or preserve errno) Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25refs: remove EINVAL errno output from specification of read_raw_ref_fnLibravatar Han-Wen Nienhuys1-3/+3
This commit does not change code; it documents the fact that an alternate ref backend does not need to return EINVAL from read_raw_ref_fn to function properly. This is correct, because refs_read_raw_ref is only called from; * resolve_ref_unsafe(), which does not care for the EINVAL errno result. * refs_verify_refname_available(), which does not inspect errno. * files-backend.c, where errno is overwritten on failure. * packed-backend.c (is_packed_transaction_needed), which calls it for the packed ref backend, which never emits EINVAL. A grep for EINVAL */*c reveals that no code checks errno against EINVAL after reading references. In addition, the refs.h file does not mention errno at all. A grep over resolve_ref_unsafe() turned up the following callers that inspect errno: * sequencer.c::print_commit_summary, which uses it for die_errno * lock_ref_oid_basic(), which only treats EISDIR and ENOTDIR specially. The files ref backend does use EINVAL. The files backend does not call into the generic API (refs_read_raw), but into the files-specific function (files_read_raw_ref), which we are not changing in this commit. As the errno sideband is unintuitive and error-prone, remove EINVAL value, as a step towards getting rid of the errno sideband altogether. Spotted by Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>. Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25refs file backend: move raceproof_create_file() hereLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-0/+109
Move the raceproof_create_file() API added to cache.h and object-file.c in 177978f56ad (raceproof_create_file(): new function, 2017-01-06) to its only user, refs/files-backend.c. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25refs/files: remove unused "errno != ENOTDIR" conditionLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-2/+1
As a follow-up to the preceding commit where we removed the adjacent "errno == EISDIR" condition in the same function, remove the "last_errno != ENOTDIR" condition here. It's not possible for us to hit this condition added in 5b2d8d6f218 (lock_ref_sha1_basic(): improve diagnostics for ref D/F conflicts, 2015-05-11). Since a1c1d8170db (refs_resolve_ref_unsafe: handle d/f conflicts for writes, 2017-10-06) we've explicitly caught these in refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() before returning NULL: if (errno != ENOENT && errno != EISDIR && errno != ENOTDIR) return NULL; We'd then always return the refname from refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() even if we were in a broken state as explained in the preceding commit. The elided context here is a call to refs_resolve_ref_unsafe(). Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25refs/files: remove unused "errno == EISDIR" codeLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-25/+3
When we lock a reference like "foo" we need to handle the case where "foo" exists, but is an empty directory. That's what this code added in bc7127ef0f (ref locking: allow 'foo' when 'foo/bar' used to exist but not anymore., 2006-09-30) seems like it should be dealing with. Except it doesn't, and we never take this branch. The reason is that when bc7127ef0f was written this looked like: ref = resolve_ref([...]); if (!ref && errno == EISDIR) { [...] And in resolve_ref() we had this code: fd = open(path, O_RDONLY); if (fd < 0) return NULL; I.e. we would attempt to read "foo" with open(), which would fail with EISDIR and we'd return NULL. We'd then take this branch, call remove_empty_directories() and continue. Since a1c1d8170d (refs_resolve_ref_unsafe: handle d/f conflicts for writes, 2017-10-06) we don't. E.g. in the case of files_copy_or_rename_ref() our callstack will look something like: [...] -> files_copy_or_rename_ref() -> lock_ref_oid_basic() -> refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() At that point the first (now only) refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() call in lock_ref_oid_basic() would do the equivalent of this in the resulting call to refs_read_raw_ref() in refs_resolve_ref_unsafe(): /* Via refs_read_raw_ref() */ fd = open(path, O_RDONLY); if (fd < 0) /* get errno == EISDIR */ /* later, in refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() */ if ([...] && errno != EISDIR) return NULL; [...] /* returns the refs/heads/foo to the caller, even though it's a directory */ return refname; I.e. even though we got an "errno == EISDIR" we won't take this branch, since in cases of EISDIR "resolved" is always non-NULL. I.e. we pretend at this point as though everything's OK and there is no "foo" directory. We then proceed with the entire ref update and don't call remove_empty_directories() until we call commit_ref_update(). See 5387c0d883 (commit_ref(): if there is an empty dir in the way, delete it, 2016-05-05) for the addition of that code, and a1c1d8170db (refs_resolve_ref_unsafe: handle d/f conflicts for writes, 2017-10-06) for the commit that changed the original codepath added in bc7127ef0f to use this "EISDIR" handling. Further historical commentary: Before the two preceding commits the caller in files_reflog_expire() was the only one out of our 4 callers that would pass non-NULL as an oid. We would then set a (now gone) "resolve_flags" to "RESOLVE_REF_READING" and just before that "errno != EISDIR" check do: if (resolve_flags & RESOLVE_REF_READING) return NULL; There may have been some case where this ended up mattering and we couldn't safely make this change before we removed the "oid" parameter, but I don't think there was, see [1] for some discussion on that. In any case, now that we've removed the "oid" parameter in a preceding commit we can be sure that this code is redundant, so let's remove it. 1. http://lore.kernel.org/git/871r801yp6.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25refs/files: remove unused "oid" in lock_ref_oid_basic()Libravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-56/+14
In the preceding commit the last caller that passed a non-NULL OID was changed to pass NULL to lock_ref_oid_basic(). As noted in preceding commits use of this API has been going away (we should use ref transactions, or lock_raw_ref()), so we're unlikely to gain new callers that want to pass the "oid". So let's remove it, doing so means we can remove the "mustexist" condition, and therefore anything except the "flags = RESOLVE_REF_NO_RECURSE" case. Furthermore, since the verify_lock() function we called did most of its work when the "oid" was passed (as "old_oid") we can inline the trivial part of it that remains in its only remaining caller. Without a NULL "oid" passed it was equivalent to calling refs_read_ref_full() followed by oidclr(). Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25refs API: remove OID argument to reflog_expire()Libravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason4-6/+5
Since the the preceding commit the "oid" parameter to reflog_expire() is always NULL, but it was not cleaned up to reduce the size of the diff. Let's do that subsequent API and documentation cleanup now. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25reflog expire: don't lock reflogs using previously seen OIDLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-2/+5
During reflog expiry, the cmd_reflog_expire() function first iterates over all reflogs in logs/*, and then one-by-one acquires the lock for each one and expires it. This behavior has been with us since this command was implemented in 4264dc15e1 ("git reflog expire", 2006-12-19). Change this to stop calling lock_ref_oid_basic() with the OID we saw when we looped over the logs, instead have it pass the OID it managed to lock. This mostly mitigates a race condition where e.g. "git gc" will fail in a concurrently updated repository because the branch moved since "git reflog expire --all" was started. I.e. with: error: cannot lock ref '<refname>': ref '<refname>' is at <OID-A> but expected <OID-B> This behavior of passing in an "oid" was needed for an edge-case that I've untangled in this and preceding commits though, namely that we needed this OID because we'd: 1. Lookup the reflog name/OID via dwim_log() 2. With that OID, lock the reflog 3. Later in builtin/reflog.c we use the OID we looked as input to lookup_commit_reference_gently(), assured that it's equal to the OID we got from dwim_log(). We can be sure that this change is safe to make because between dwim_log (step #1) and lock_ref_oid_basic (step #2) there was no other logic relevant to the OID or expiry run in the cmd_reflog_expire() caller. We can thus treat that code as a black box, before and after this change it would get an OID that's been locked, the only difference is that now we mostly won't be failing to get the lock due to the TOCTOU race[0]. That failure was purely an implementation detail in how the "current OID" was looked up, it was divorced from the locking mechanism. What do we mean with "mostly"? It mostly mitigates it because we'll still run into cases where the ref is locked and being updated as we want to expire it, and other git processes wanting to update the refs will in turn race with us as we expire the reflog. That remaining race can in turn be mitigated with the core.filesRefLockTimeout setting, see 4ff0f01cb7 ("refs: retry acquiring reference locks for 100ms", 2017-08-21). In practice if that value is high enough we'll probably never have ref updates or reflog expiry failing, since the clients involved will retry for far longer than the time any of those operations could take. See [1] for an initial report of how this impacted "git gc" and a large discussion about this change in early 2019. In particular patch looked good to Michael Haggerty, see his[2]. That message seems to not have made it to the ML archive, its content is quoted in full in my [3]. I'm leaving behind now-unused code the refs API etc. that takes the now-NULL "unused_oid" argument, and other code that can be simplified now that we never have on OID in that context, that'll be cleaned up in subsequent commits, but for now let's narrowly focus on fixing the "git gc" issue. As the modified assert() shows we always pass a NULL oid to reflog_expire() now. Unfortunately this sort of probabilistic contention is hard to turn into a test. I've tested this by running the following three subshells in concurrent terminals: ( rm -rf /tmp/git && git init /tmp/git && while true do head -c 10 /dev/urandom | hexdump >/tmp/git/out && git -C /tmp/git add out && git -C /tmp/git commit -m"out" done ) ( rm -rf /tmp/git-clone && git clone file:///tmp/git /tmp/git-clone && while git -C /tmp/git-clone pull do date done ) ( while git -C /tmp/git-clone reflog expire --all do date done ) Before this change the "reflog expire" would fail really quickly with the "but expected" error noted above. After this change both the "pull" and "reflog expire" will run for a while, but eventually fail because I get unlucky with core.filesRefLockTimeout (the "reflog expire" is in a really tight loop). As noted above that can in turn be mitigated with higher values of core.filesRefLockTimeout than the 100ms default. As noted in the commentary added in the preceding commit there's also the case of branches being racily deleted, that can be tested by adding this to the above: ( while git -C /tmp/git-clone branch topic master && git -C /tmp/git-clone branch -D topic do date done ) With core.filesRefLockTimeout set to 10 seconds (it can probably be a lot lower) I managed to run all four of these concurrently for about an hour, and accumulated ~125k commits, auto-gc's and all, and didn't have a single failure. The loops visibly stall while waiting for the lock, but that's expected and desired behavior. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-of-check_to_time-of-use 1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/87tvg7brlm.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/ 2. http://lore.kernel.org/git/b870a17d-2103-41b8-3cbc-7389d5fff33a@alum.mit.edu 3. https://lore.kernel.org/git/87pnqkco8v.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25refs/files: add a comment about refs_reflog_exists() callLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-0/+13
Add a comment about why it is that we need to check for the the existence of a reflog we're deleting after we've successfully acquired the lock in files_reflog_expire(). As noted in [1] the lock protocol for reflogs is somewhat intuitive. This early exit code the comment applies to dates all the way back to 4264dc15e19 (git reflog expire, 2006-12-19). 1. https://lore.kernel.org/git/54DCDA42.2060800@alum.mit.edu/ Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25refs/debug: re-indent argument list for "prepare"Libravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-2/+2
Re-indent this argument list that's been mis-indented since it was added in 34c319970d1 (refs/debug: trace into reflog expiry too, 2021-04-23). This makes a subsequent change smaller. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25refs/files: remove unused "skip" in lock_raw_ref() tooLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-5/+4
Remove the unused "skip" parameter to lock_raw_ref(), it was never used. We do use it when passing "skip" to the refs_rename_ref_available() function in files_copy_or_rename_ref(), but not here. This is part of a larger series that modifies lock_ref_oid_basic() extensively, there will be no more modifications of this function in this series, but since the preceding commit removed this unused parameter from lock_ref_oid_basic(), let's do it here too for consistency. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25refs/files: remove unused "extras/skip" in lock_ref_oid_basic()Libravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-15/+7
The lock_ref_oid_basic() function has gradually been replaced by use of the file transaction API, there are only 4 remaining callers of it. None of those callers pass non-NULL "extras" and "skip" parameters, the last such caller went away in 92b1551b1d4 (refs: resolve symbolic refs first, 2016-04-25), so let's remove the parameters. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-25refs: drop unused "flags" parameter to lock_ref_oid_basic()Libravatar Jeff King1-7/+6
In the last commit we removed the REF_DELETING flag from lock_ref_oid_basic(). Since then all of the remaining callers do pass REF_NO_DEREF, but that has been ignored completely since 7a418f3a17 (lock_ref_sha1_basic(): only handle REF_NODEREF mode, 2016-04-22). So we can simply get rid of the parameter entirely. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-19refs/files: remove unused REF_DELETING in lock_ref_oid_basic()Libravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-2/+0
The lock_ref_oid_basic() function has gradually been replaced by most callers no longer performing a low-level "acquire lock, update and release", and instead using the ref transaction API. So there are only 4 remaining callers of lock_ref_oid_basic(). None of those callers pass REF_DELETING anymore, the last caller went away in 92b1551b1d (refs: resolve symbolic refs first, 2016-04-25). Before that we'd refactored and moved this code in: - 8df4e511387 (struct ref_update: move "have_old" into "flags", 2015-02-17) - 7bd9bcf372d (refs: split filesystem-based refs code into a new file, 2015-11-09) - 165056b2fc (lock_ref_for_update(): new function, 2016-04-24) We then finally stopped using it in 92b1551b1d (noted above). So let's remove the handling of this parameter. By itself this change doesn't benefit us much, but it's the start of even more removal of unused code in and around this function in subsequent commits. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-08-19refs/packet: add missing BUG() invocations to reflog callbacksLibravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-0/+5
In e0cc8ac8202 (packed_ref_store: make class into a subclass of `ref_store`, 2017-06-23) a die() was added to packed_create_reflog(), but not to any of the other reflog callbacks, let's do that. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-07-28Merge branch 'hn/refs-debug-empty-prefix'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+2
Debugging aid. * hn/refs-debug-empty-prefix: refs/debug: quote prefix
2021-07-19refs/debug: quote prefixLibravatar Han-Wen Nienhuys1-1/+2
This makes the empty prefix ("") stand out better. Signed-off-by: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>