Hi Vadim,
On Thu, 19 Mar 2020, Vadim Zeitlin wrote:
> The function fopen_for_writing(), which was added in 79d7582e32 (commit:
> allow editing the commit message even in shared repos, 2016-01-06) and
> used for overwriting FETCH_HEAD since ea56518dfe (Handle more file
> writes correctly in shared repos, 2016-01-11), didn't do it correctly in
> shared repositories under Linux.
>
> This happened because in this situation the file FETCH_HEAD has mode 644
I wonder why that is. In a shared repository, it should have mode 664, I
thought.
> and attempting to overwrite it when running git-fetch under an account
> different from the one that was had originally created it, failed with
> EACCES, and not EPERM. However fopen_for_writing() only checked for the
> latter, and not the former, so it didn't even try removing the existing
> file and recreating it, as it was supposed to do.
>
> Fix this by checking for either EACCES or EPERM. The latter doesn't seem
> to be ever returned in a typical situation by open(2) under Linux, but
> keep checking for it as it is presumably returned under some other
> platform, although it's not really clear where does this happen.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vadim Zeitlin <vz-git@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> I couldn't find any system that would return EPERM for a "normal"
> permissions denied error, so maybe it's not worth checking for it, but I
> wanted to minimize the number of changes to the existing behaviour. At the
> very least, testing for EACCES is definitely necessary under Linux, where
> openat(2) returns it, and not EPERM, in the situation described above, i.e.
> non-writable file (even if it's in a writable directory, allowing to unlink
> it without problems).
That rationale makes sense to me, as does the patch.
Thanks,
Johannes
> ---
> wrapper.c | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/wrapper.c b/wrapper.c
> index e1eaef2e16..f5607241da 100644
> --- a/wrapper.c
> +++ b/wrapper.c
> @@ -373,11 +373,12 @@ FILE *fopen_for_writing(const char *path)
> {
> FILE *ret = fopen(path, "w");
>
> - if (!ret && errno == EPERM) {
> + if (!ret && (errno == EACCES || errno == EPERM)) {
> + int open_error = errno;
> if (!unlink(path))
> ret = fopen(path, "w");
> else
> - errno = EPERM;
> + errno = open_error;
> }
> return ret;
> }
> --
> 2.26.0.rc2
>
