Previous changes introduced a regression which will prevent root for accessing repositories owned by thyself if using sudo because SUDO_UID takes precedence. Loosen that restriction by allowing root to access repositories owned by both uid by default and without having to add a safe.directory exception. A previous workaround that was documented in the tests is no longer needed so it has been removed together with its specially crafted prerequisite. Helped-by: Johanness Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@xxxxxxxxx> --- It is a little more involved than the proposed change just to make sure that it doesn't introduce any change on behavior (the code is still strictly only invoked after we confirm process is running as root) and keeps the documentation and test changes that were in the original proposal. A CI run (which is the only way to reliably test this, since the prerequisite only works in macOS agents like the ones provided by GitHub) with this patch merged into master is available[1] [1] https://github.com/carenas/git/actions/runs/2516394052 Changes since v5: * simplify logic change to avoid additional refactoring Documentation/config/safe.txt | 5 +++-- git-compat-util.h | 7 ++++++- t/t0034-root-safe-directory.sh | 15 +-------------- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/config/safe.txt b/Documentation/config/safe.txt index c6ebd1674d..3128b13271 100644 --- a/Documentation/config/safe.txt +++ b/Documentation/config/safe.txt @@ -31,11 +31,12 @@ As explained, Git only allows you to access repositories owned by yourself, i.e. the user who is running Git, by default. When Git is running as 'root' in a non Windows platform that provides sudo, however, git checks the SUDO_UID environment variable that sudo creates -and will allow access to the uid recorded as its value instead. +and will allow access to the uid recorded as its value in addition to +the id from 'root'. This is to make it easy to perform a common sequence during installation "make && sudo make install". A git process running under 'sudo' runs as 'root' but the 'sudo' command exports the environment variable to record which id the original user has. If that is not what you would prefer and want git to only trust -repositories that are owned by root instead, then you must remove +repositories that are owned by root instead, then you can remove the `SUDO_UID` variable from root's environment before invoking git. diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h index e7cbfa65c9..f505f817d5 100644 --- a/git-compat-util.h +++ b/git-compat-util.h @@ -447,7 +447,12 @@ static inline int is_path_owned_by_current_uid(const char *path) euid = geteuid(); if (euid == ROOT_UID) - extract_id_from_env("SUDO_UID", &euid); + { + if (st.st_uid == ROOT_UID) + return 1; + else + extract_id_from_env("SUDO_UID", &euid); + } return st.st_uid == euid; } diff --git a/t/t0034-root-safe-directory.sh b/t/t0034-root-safe-directory.sh index a621f1ea5e..ff31176128 100755 --- a/t/t0034-root-safe-directory.sh +++ b/t/t0034-root-safe-directory.sh @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ test_expect_success 'can access if addressed explicitly' ' ) ' -test_expect_failure SUDO 'can access with sudo if root' ' +test_expect_success SUDO 'can access with sudo if root' ' ( cd root/p && sudo git status @@ -85,19 +85,6 @@ test_expect_success SUDO 'can access with sudo if root by removing SUDO_UID' ' ) ' -test_lazy_prereq SUDO_SUDO ' - sudo sudo id -u >u && - id -u root >r && - test_cmp u r -' - -test_expect_success SUDO_SUDO 'can access with sudo abusing SUDO_UID' ' - ( - cd root/p && - sudo sudo git status - ) -' - # this MUST be always the last test test_expect_success SUDO 'cleanup' ' sudo rm -rf root base-commit: b9063afda17a2aa6310423c9f7b776c41f753091 -- 2.30.2
