git/connect.h
Denton Liu b0df0c16ea stateless-connect: send response end packet
Currently, remote-curl acts as a proxy and blindly forwards packets
between an HTTP server and fetch-pack. In the case of a stateless RPC
connection where the connection is terminated before the transaction is
complete, remote-curl will blindly forward the packets before waiting on
more input from fetch-pack. Meanwhile, fetch-pack will read the
transaction and continue reading, expecting more input to continue the
transaction. This results in a deadlock between the two processes.

This can be seen in the following command which does not terminate:

	$ git -c protocol.version=2 clone https://github.com/git/git.git --shallow-since=20151012
	Cloning into 'git'...

whereas the v1 version does terminate as expected:

	$ git -c protocol.version=1 clone https://github.com/git/git.git --shallow-since=20151012
	Cloning into 'git'...
	fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly

Instead of blindly forwarding packets, make remote-curl insert a
response end packet after proxying the responses from the remote server
when using stateless_connect(). On the RPC client side, ensure that each
response ends as described.

A separate control packet is chosen because we need to be able to
differentiate between what the remote server sends and remote-curl's
control packets. By ensuring in the remote-curl code that a server
cannot send response end packets, we prevent a malicious server from
being able to perform a denial of service attack in which they spoof a
response end packet and cause the described deadlock to happen.

Reported-by: Force Charlie <charlieio@outlook.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-05-24 16:26:00 -07:00

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#ifndef CONNECT_H
#define CONNECT_H
#include "protocol.h"
#define CONNECT_VERBOSE (1u << 0)
#define CONNECT_DIAG_URL (1u << 1)
#define CONNECT_IPV4 (1u << 2)
#define CONNECT_IPV6 (1u << 3)
struct child_process *git_connect(int fd[2], const char *url, const char *prog, int flags);
int finish_connect(struct child_process *conn);
int git_connection_is_socket(struct child_process *conn);
int server_supports(const char *feature);
int parse_feature_request(const char *features, const char *feature);
const char *server_feature_value(const char *feature, int *len_ret);
int url_is_local_not_ssh(const char *url);
struct packet_reader;
enum protocol_version discover_version(struct packet_reader *reader);
int server_supports_v2(const char *c, int die_on_error);
int server_supports_feature(const char *c, const char *feature,
int die_on_error);
void check_stateless_delimiter(int stateless_rpc,
struct packet_reader *reader,
const char *error);
#endif