Re: [RFC/PATCH 3/3] mailinfo: handle in-body header continuations

[Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com>]

On 09/16/2016 01:17 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> In other words, wouldn't something like the illustration at the end
> of this message sufficient?  If the body consists solely of in-body
> header without any patch or patchbreak, we may reach EOF with
> something in mi->in_line_header buffer and nothing in
> mi->log_message and without this function getting any chance to
> return 1, so a careful caller may want to flush in_line_header, but
> the overall result of the mailinfo subsystem in such a case would be
> an error ("you didn't have any patch or a message?"), so it may not
> matter too much.

Noted. (This was one of my concerns - that the caller should, but did 
not, flush.)

> What am I missing?
>
> handle_commit_msg(...)
> {
> 	if (mi->in_line_header->len) {
> 		/* we have read the beginning of one in-line header */
> 		if (line->len && isspace(*line->buf))

This would mean that a message like the following:

   From: Me <me@example.com>
     -- 8< -- this scissors line will be treated as part of "From"

would have its scissors line treated as a header.

The main reason why I reordered the checks (in RFC/PATCH 1/3) is to 
avoid this (treating a scissors line with an initial space immediately 
following an in-body header as part of a header).

(If this is not a concern then yes, I agree that the way you described 
is simpler and better.)

> 			append to mi->in_line_header strbuf;
>                         return 0;
> 		/* otherwise we know mi->in_line_header is now complete */
> 		check_header(mi, mi->in_line_header, ...);
> 		strbuf_reset(&mi->in_line_header);
> 	}
>
> 	if (mi->header_stage && (it is a blank line))
> 		return 0;
>
> 	if (mi->use_inbody_headers && mi->header_stage &&
> 	    (the line looks like beginning of 2822 header)) {
> 		strbuf_addbuf(&mi->in_line_header, line);
> 		return 0;
> 	}
>         /* otherwise we are no longer looking at headers */
>         mi->header_stage = 0;
>
> 	/* normalize the log message to UTF-8. */
> 	if (convert_to_utf8(mi, line, mi->charset.buf))
> 		return 0; /* mi->input_error already set */
>
> 	if (mi->use_scissors && is_scissors_line(line)) {
> 		int i;
>
> 		strbuf_setlen(&mi->log_message, 0);
> 		mi->header_stage = 1;
>
> 		/*
> 		 * We may have already read "secondary headers"; purge
> 		 * them to give ourselves a clean restart.
> 		 */
> 		for (i = 0; header[i]; i++) {
> 			if (mi->s_hdr_data[i])
> 				strbuf_release(mi->s_hdr_data[i]);
> 			mi->s_hdr_data[i] = NULL;
> 		}
> 		return 0;
> 	}
>
> 	if (patchbreak(line)) {
> 		if (mi->message_id)
> 			strbuf_addf(&mi->log_message,
> 				    "Message-Id: %s\n", mi->message_id);
> 		return 1;
> 	}
>
> 	strbuf_addbuf(&mi->log_message, line);
> 	return 0;
> }
>
>