Re: [PATCHv2] gitweb: Git config keys are case insensitive, make config search too

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> "git config -z -l" that gitweb uses in git_parse_project_config() to
> populate %config hash returns section and key names of config
> variables in lowercase (they are case insensitive).  When checking
> %config in git_get_project_config() we have to take it into account.
>
> Gitweb does not (yet?) use git config variables with subsection, so we
> can simply lowercase $key in git_get_project_config (only subsection
> names are case sensitive).

Why stop there, I have to wonder, instead of futureproofing with minimum
cost, even with something naïve like:

	if (my ($hi, $mi, $lo) = ($key =~ /^([^.]*)\.(.*)\.(.*)$)) {
		$key = join(".", lc($hi), $mi, lc($lo);
	} else {
        	$key = lc($key);
	}

> Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> I think it is a resend, but I haven't found first version.
>
> The patch is unchanged, but commit message got improved.
> It is not as much bugfix as hardening (against user e.g. adding
> new overridable feature via gitweb config file).
>
>  gitweb/gitweb.perl |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> index 1070805..90b5a73 100755
> --- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> +++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
> @@ -2526,6 +2526,7 @@ sub git_get_project_config {
>  
>  	# key sanity check
>  	return unless ($key);
> +	$key = lc($key); # assuming there is no subsection
>  	$key =~ s/^gitweb\.//;
>  	return if ($key =~ m/\W/);
>  
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