Re: [PATCH v6] receive-pack.c: consolidate find header logic

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Hi Junio,


On 6 Jan 2022, at 15:07, John Cai via GitGitGadget wrote:

> From: John Cai <johncai86@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> There are two functions that have very similar logic of finding a header
> value. find_commit_header, and find_header. We can conslidate the logic
> by introducing a new function find_header_mem, which is equivalent to
> find_commit_header except it takes a len parameter that determines how
> many bytes will be read. find_commit_header and find_header can then both
> call find_header_mem.
>
> This reduces duplicate logic, as the logic for finding header values
> can now all live in one place.
>
> Signed-off-by: John Cai <johncai86@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>     Consolidate find_header logic into one function
>
>     This addresses the NEEDSWORK comment in builtin/receive-pack.c:
>
>      /**
>        * NEEDSWORK: reuse find_commit_header() from jk/commit-author-parsing
>        * after dropping "_commit" from its name and possibly moving it out
>        * of commit.c
>        **/
>
>
>     There are two functions that have very similar logic of finding a header
>     value. find_commit_header, and find_header. We can conslidate the logic
>     by introducing a new function find_header_mem, which is equivalent to
>     find_commit_header except it takes a len parameter that determines how
>     many bytes will be read. find_commit_header and find_header can then
>     both call find_header_mem.
>
>     This reduces duplicate logic, as the logic for finding header values can
>     now all live in one place.
>
>     Changes since v4:
>
>      * adjust verbiage of NEEDSWORK comment block
>
>     Changes since v3:
>
>      * added NEEDSWORK block detailing what needs to be done to clean up
>        find_header_mem
>      * fixed verbiage in commit message
>      * adjusted style of an if block (based on Junio's feedback)
>
> Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-git-1125%2Fjohn-cai%2Fjc%2Freplace-find-header-v6
> Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-git-1125/john-cai/jc/replace-find-header-v6
> Pull-Request: https://github.com/git/git/pull/1125
>
> Range-diff vs v5:
>
>  1:  02da3136c43 ! 1:  2b01d92b951 receive-pack.c: consolidate find header logic
>      @@ commit.c: struct commit_list **commit_list_append(struct commit *commit,
>       +	 * NEEDSWORK: It's possible for strchrnul() to scan beyond the range
>       +	 * given by len. However, current callers are safe because they compute
>       +	 * len by scanning a NUL-terminated block of memory starting at msg.
>      -+	 * Make this function safer by checking if the input is NUL-terminated
>      -+	 * or has a NL between line[0] and msg[len].
>      ++	 * Nonetheless, it would be better to ensure the function does not look
>      ++	 * at msg beyond the len provided by the caller.
>       +	 */
>       +	while (line && line < msg + len) {
>        		const char *eol = strchrnul(line, '\n');
>
>
>  builtin/receive-pack.c | 33 ++++++++++-----------------------
>  commit.c               | 16 ++++++++++++++--
>  commit.h               |  5 +++++
>  3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/builtin/receive-pack.c b/builtin/receive-pack.c
> index 9f4a0b816cf..5c2732a0d07 100644
> --- a/builtin/receive-pack.c
> +++ b/builtin/receive-pack.c
> @@ -581,32 +581,19 @@ static char *prepare_push_cert_nonce(const char *path, timestamp_t stamp)
>  	return strbuf_detach(&buf, NULL);
>  }
>
> -/*
> - * NEEDSWORK: reuse find_commit_header() from jk/commit-author-parsing
> - * after dropping "_commit" from its name and possibly moving it out
> - * of commit.c
> - */
>  static char *find_header(const char *msg, size_t len, const char *key,
>  			 const char **next_line)
>  {
> -	int key_len = strlen(key);
> -	const char *line = msg;
> -
> -	while (line && line < msg + len) {
> -		const char *eol = strchrnul(line, '\n');
> -
> -		if ((msg + len <= eol) || line == eol)
> -			return NULL;
> -		if (line + key_len < eol &&
> -		    !memcmp(line, key, key_len) && line[key_len] == ' ') {
> -			int offset = key_len + 1;
> -			if (next_line)
> -				*next_line = *eol ? eol + 1 : eol;
> -			return xmemdupz(line + offset, (eol - line) - offset);
> -		}
> -		line = *eol ? eol + 1 : NULL;
> -	}
> -	return NULL;
> +	size_t out_len;
> +	const char *val = find_header_mem(msg, len, key, &out_len);
> +
> +	if (!val)
> +		return NULL;
> +
> +	if (next_line)
> +		*next_line = val + out_len + 1;
> +
> +	return xmemdupz(val, out_len);
>  }
>
>  /*
> diff --git a/commit.c b/commit.c
> index a348f085b2b..28391c3468d 100644
> --- a/commit.c
> +++ b/commit.c
> @@ -1631,12 +1631,20 @@ struct commit_list **commit_list_append(struct commit *commit,
>  	return &new_commit->next;
>  }
>
> -const char *find_commit_header(const char *msg, const char *key, size_t *out_len)
> +const char *find_header_mem(const char *msg, size_t len,
> +			const char *key, size_t *out_len)
>  {
>  	int key_len = strlen(key);
>  	const char *line = msg;
>
> -	while (line) {
> +	/*
> +	 * NEEDSWORK: It's possible for strchrnul() to scan beyond the range
> +	 * given by len. However, current callers are safe because they compute
> +	 * len by scanning a NUL-terminated block of memory starting at msg.
> +	 * Nonetheless, it would be better to ensure the function does not look
> +	 * at msg beyond the len provided by the caller.
> +	 */

Let me know if this verbiage makes sense.

> +	while (line && line < msg + len) {
>  		const char *eol = strchrnul(line, '\n');
>
>  		if (line == eol)
> @@ -1653,6 +1661,10 @@ const char *find_commit_header(const char *msg, const char *key, size_t *out_len
>  	return NULL;
>  }
>
> +const char *find_commit_header(const char *msg, const char *key, size_t *out_len)
> +{
> +	return find_header_mem(msg, strlen(msg), key, out_len);
> +}
>  /*
>   * Inspect the given string and determine the true "end" of the log message, in
>   * order to find where to put a new Signed-off-by trailer.  Ignored are
> diff --git a/commit.h b/commit.h
> index 3ea32766bcb..38cc5426615 100644
> --- a/commit.h
> +++ b/commit.h
> @@ -290,12 +290,17 @@ void free_commit_extra_headers(struct commit_extra_header *extra);
>
>  /*
>   * Search the commit object contents given by "msg" for the header "key".
> + * Reads up to "len" bytes of "msg".
>   * Returns a pointer to the start of the header contents, or NULL. The length
>   * of the header, up to the first newline, is returned via out_len.
>   *
>   * Note that some headers (like mergetag) may be multi-line. It is the caller's
>   * responsibility to parse further in this case!
>   */
> +const char *find_header_mem(const char *msg, size_t len,
> +			const char *key,
> +			size_t *out_len);
> +
>  const char *find_commit_header(const char *msg, const char *key,
>  			       size_t *out_len);
>
>
> base-commit: c8b2ade48c204690119936ada89cd938c476c5c2
> -- 
> gitgitgadget




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