linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] apply: refuse touching a file beyond symlink

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Date:	Fri, 30 Jan 2015 13:50:50 -0800
From:	Junio C Hamano <gitster@...ox.com>
To:	Jeff King <peff@...f.net>
Cc:	Git Mailing List <git@...r.kernel.org>,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...oraproject.org>,
	"Linux-Kernel\@Vger. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	twaugh@...hat.com, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] apply: refuse touching a file beyond symlink

Jeff King <peff@...f.net> writes:

> But could we instead pull this check to just before the write-out time?
> That is, to let any horrible thing happen in-core, as long as what we
> write out to the index and the filesystem is sane?

The check in-core is somewhat tricky, because we would need to (1)
catch a patch that creates a symlink and also a file as if that new
symlink is a directory and (2) allow a patch that removes a symlink
and also a file in a new directory at the location removed symlink
used to occupy.

For (1) we need to see if there is a patch in the entire input that
creates a symbolic link and reject the input.  For (2) we need to
see if there is a patch that removes the symbolic link.  (1) cannot
be caught with the approach based on fn_table[], which is inherently
meant to help incremental application, that is oblivious to a path
that will materialize after applying a later patch in the input.

Let me think about it a bit more.  The fix probably needs to abandon
depending on fn_table[] stuff, if we want to do in the "sanity check
the input and compute the final state all in-core" route.

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