From: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
If there is a broken symlink where a loose reference file is expected,
then the attempt to open() it fails with ENOENT. This error is
misinterpreted to mean that the loose reference file itself has
disappeared due to a race, causing the lookup to be retried. But in
this scenario, the retries all suffer from the same problem, causing
an infinite loop.
So put a limit (of 5) on the number of times that the stat_ref step
can be retried.
Based-on-patch-by: Petr Stodulka <pstodulk@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
refs/files-backend.c | 6 ++++--
refs/refs-internal.h | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/refs/files-backend.c b/refs/files-backend.c
index d16feb1..245a0b5 100644
--- a/refs/files-backend.c
+++ b/refs/files-backend.c
@@ -1353,6 +1353,7 @@ static int files_read_raw_ref(struct ref_store *ref_store,
int fd;
int ret = -1;
int save_errno;
+ int retries = 0;
*type = 0;
strbuf_reset(&sb_path);
@@ -1390,7 +1391,8 @@ static int files_read_raw_ref(struct ref_store *ref_store,
if (S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) {
strbuf_reset(&sb_contents);
if (strbuf_readlink(&sb_contents, path, 0) < 0) {
- if (errno == ENOENT || errno == EINVAL)
+ if ((errno == ENOENT || errno == EINVAL) &&
+ retries++ < MAXRETRIES)
/* inconsistent with lstat; retry */
goto stat_ref;
else
@@ -1426,7 +1428,7 @@ static int files_read_raw_ref(struct ref_store *ref_store,
*/
fd = open(path, O_RDONLY);
if (fd < 0) {
- if (errno == ENOENT)
+ if (errno == ENOENT && retries++ < MAXRETRIES)
/* inconsistent with lstat; retry */
goto stat_ref;
else
diff --git a/refs/refs-internal.h b/refs/refs-internal.h
index 708b260..37e6b99 100644
--- a/refs/refs-internal.h
+++ b/refs/refs-internal.h
@@ -255,6 +255,12 @@ int rename_ref_available(const char *old_refname, const char *new_refname);
/* We allow "recursive" symbolic refs. Only within reason, though */
#define SYMREF_MAXDEPTH 5
+/*
+ * We allow only MAXRETRIES tries to jump on stat_ref, because of possible
+ * infinite loop
+ */
+#define MAXRETRIES 5
+
/* Include broken references in a do_for_each_ref*() iteration: */
#define DO_FOR_EACH_INCLUDE_BROKEN 0x01
--
2.5.5