Move the check for check_refname_format from lock_any_ref_for_update to lock_ref_sha1_basic. At some later stage we will get rid of lock_any_ref_for_update completely. If lock_ref_sha1_basic fails the check_refname_format test, set errno to EINVAL before returning NULL. This to guarantee that we will not return an error without updating errno. This leaves lock_any_ref_for_updates as a no-op wrapper which could be removed. But this wrapper is also called from an external caller and we will soon make changes to the signature to lock_ref_sha1_basic that we do not want to expose to that caller. This changes semantics for lock_ref_sha1_basic slightly. With this change it is no longer possible to open a ref that has a badly name which breaks any codepaths that tries to open and repair badly named refs. The normal refs API should not allow neither creating nor accessing refs with invalid names. If we need such recovery code we could add it as an option to git fsck and have git fsck be the only sanctioned way of bypassing the normal API and checks. Signed-off-by: Ronnie Sahlberg <sahlberg@xxxxxxxxxx> --- refs.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/refs.c b/refs.c index 389a55f..bccf8c3 100644 --- a/refs.c +++ b/refs.c @@ -2088,6 +2088,11 @@ static struct ref_lock *lock_ref_sha1_basic(const char *refname, int missing = 0; int attempts_remaining = 3; + if (check_refname_format(refname, REFNAME_ALLOW_ONELEVEL)) { + errno = EINVAL; + return NULL; + } + lock = xcalloc(1, sizeof(struct ref_lock)); lock->lock_fd = -1; @@ -2179,8 +2184,6 @@ struct ref_lock *lock_any_ref_for_update(const char *refname, const unsigned char *old_sha1, int flags, int *type_p) { - if (check_refname_format(refname, REFNAME_ALLOW_ONELEVEL)) - return NULL; return lock_ref_sha1_basic(refname, old_sha1, flags, type_p); } -- 2.0.0.420.g181e020.dirty -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html