Re: [PATCH v3 04/35] upload-pack: convert to a builtin

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Hi,

Jeff King wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:07:15AM -0800, Brandon Williams wrote:
>> On 02/22, Jeff King wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 01:44:22PM -0800, Jonathan Tan wrote:
>>>> On Tue,  6 Feb 2018 17:12:41 -0800
>>>> Brandon Williams <bmwill@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>>>> In order to allow for code sharing with the server-side of fetch in
>>>>> protocol-v2 convert upload-pack to be a builtin.
[...]
>>>> As Stefan mentioned in [1], also mention in the commit message that this
>>>> means that the "git-upload-pack" invocation gains additional
>>>> capabilities (for example, invoking a pager for --help).
>>>
>>> And possibly respecting pager.upload-pack, which would violate our rule
>>> that it is safe to run upload-pack in untrusted repositories.
>>
>> And this isn't an issue with receive-pack because this same guarantee
>> doesn't exist?
>
> Yes, exactly (which is confusing and weird, yes, but that's how it is).

To be clear, which of the following are you (most) worried about?

 1. being invoked with --help and spawning a pager
 2. receiving and acting on options between 'git' and 'upload-pack'
 3. repository discovery
 4. pager config
 5. alias discovery
 6. increased code surface / unknown threats

For (1), "--help" has to be the first argument.  "git daemon" passes
--strict so it doesn't happen there.  "git http-backend" passes
--stateless-rpc so it doesn't happen there.  "git shell" sanitizes
input to avoid it happening there.

A custom setup could provide their own entry point that doesn't do
such sanitization.  I think that in some sense it's out of our hands,
but it would be nice to harden as described upthread.

For (2), I am having trouble imagining a setup where it would happen.

upload-pack doesn't have the RUN_SETUP or RUN_SETUP_GENTLY flag set,
so (3) doesn't apply.

Although in most setups the user does not control the config files on
a server, item (4) looks like a real issue worth solving.  I think we
should introduce a flag to skip looking for pager config.  We could
use it for receive-pack, too.

Builtins are handled before aliases, so (5) doesn't apply.

(6) is a real issue: it is why "git shell" is not a builtin, for
example.  But I would rather that we use appropriate sanitization
before upload-pack is invoked than live in fear.  git upload-pack is
sufficiently complicated that I don't think the git.c wrapper
increases the complexity by a significant amount.

That leaves me with a personal answer of only being worried about (4)
and not the rest.  What do you think?  Is one of the other items I
listed above worrisome, or is there another item I missed?

Thanks,
Jonathan



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