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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Jeff Hostetler" <jeffhost@microsoft.com>,
	"Jeff Hostetler" <git@jeffhostetler.com>,
	"Jonathan Tan" <jonathantanmy@google.com>,
	"Matthew DeVore" <matvore@google.com>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Christian Couder" <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] list-objects-filter: disable 'sparse:path' filters
Date: Tue, 28 May 2019 02:30:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190528063006.GF7946@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190525142834.6168-1-chriscool@tuxfamily.org>

On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 04:28:34PM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:

> If someone wants to use as a filter a sparse file that is in the
> repository, something like "--filter=sparse:oid=<ref>:<path>"
> already works.
> 
> So 'sparse:path' is only interesting if the sparse file is not in
> the repository. In this case though the current implementation has
> a big security issue, as it makes it possible to ask the server to
> read any file, like for example /etc/password, and to explore the
> filesystem, as well as individual lines of files.
> 
> If someone is interested in using a sparse file that is not in the
> repository as a filter, then at the minimum a config option, such
> as "uploadpack.sparsePathFilter", should be implemented first to
> restrict the directory from which the files specified by
> 'sparse:path' can be read.
> 
> For now though, let's just disable 'sparse:path' filters.

Thanks for picking this up. The patch looks fine to me (versus just
disabling it for remote invocations) assuming we are OK with the
possible regression. I suppose cooking this in 'next' for a while is one
way we might find out if anybody yells loudly.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-28  6:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-25 14:28 [PATCH v2] list-objects-filter: disable 'sparse:path' filters Christian Couder
2019-05-28  6:30 ` Jeff King [this message]
2019-05-28 19:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-05-29  7:29   ` Christian Couder

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