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From: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] remote-curl: error on incomplete packet
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 05:08:57 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200518090857.GA24557@generichostname> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200515213844.GD115445@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi Peff,

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 05:38:44PM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 02:04:57PM -0400, Denton Liu wrote:
> 
> > Currently, remote-curl acts as a proxy and blindly forwards packets
> > between an HTTP server and fetch-pack. In the case of a stateless RPC
> > connection where the connection is terminated with a partially written
> > packet, remote-curl will blindly send the partially written packet
> > before waiting on more input from fetch-pack. Meanwhile, fetch-pack will
> > read the partial packet and continue reading, expecting more input. This
> > results in a deadlock between the two processes.
> > 
> > Instead of blindly forwarding packets, inspect each packet to ensure
> > that it is a full packet, erroring out if a partial packet is sent.
> 
> Hmm. Right now there's no assumption in rpc_in that we're writing
> pktlines. Will this always be the case?
> 
> I think the answer is probably yes. If there's a case where it isn't, it
> might be something like v0 git-over-http against a server which doesn't
> have the sideband capability.

As far as I can tell from skimming the code, v0 uses always pktlines
although I'm far from being an expert on Git's networking stuff. Perhaps
we could implement this such that the line-length checking only happens
for stateless_connect()?

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-18  9:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-13 18:04 [PATCH 0/6] remote-curl: partial fix for a deadlock with stateless rpc Denton Liu
2020-05-13 18:04 ` [PATCH 1/6] remote-curl: fix typo Denton Liu
2020-05-13 18:04 ` [PATCH 2/6] remote-curl: remove label indentation Denton Liu
2020-05-13 18:04 ` [PATCH 3/6] transport: combine common cases with a fallthrough Denton Liu
2020-05-13 23:14   ` Eric Sunshine
2020-05-18  9:18     ` Denton Liu
2020-05-18 17:43       ` Eric Sunshine
2020-05-13 18:04 ` [PATCH 4/6] pkt-line: extern packet_length() Denton Liu
2020-05-13 23:23   ` Eric Sunshine
2020-05-15 20:56   ` Jeff King
2020-05-15 20:57     ` Jeff King
2020-05-13 18:04 ` [PATCH 5/6] remote-curl: error on incomplete packet Denton Liu
2020-05-15 21:38   ` Jeff King
2020-05-18  9:08     ` Denton Liu [this message]
2020-05-18 15:49       ` Jeff King
2020-05-13 18:04 ` [PATCH 6/6] remote-curl: ensure last packet is a flush Denton Liu
2020-05-15 21:02   ` Denton Liu
2020-05-15 21:41     ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 16:34       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-18 16:52         ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 21:00           ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 15:47 ` [PATCH v2 0/7] remote-curl: fix deadlocks when remote server disconnects Denton Liu
2020-05-18 15:47   ` [PATCH v2 1/7] remote-curl: fix typo Denton Liu
2020-05-18 15:47   ` [PATCH v2 2/7] remote-curl: remove label indentation Denton Liu
2020-05-18 18:37     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-18 15:47   ` [PATCH v2 3/7] transport: extract common fetch_pack() call Denton Liu
2020-05-18 18:40     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-18 15:47   ` [PATCH v2 4/7] pkt-line: extern packet_length() Denton Liu
2020-05-18 16:04     ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 17:50       ` Eric Sunshine
2020-05-18 20:08         ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 18:44       ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-18 15:47   ` [PATCH v2 5/7] remote-curl: error on incomplete packet Denton Liu
2020-05-18 16:22     ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 16:51       ` Denton Liu
2020-05-18 15:47   ` [PATCH v2 6/7] pkt-line: PACKET_READ_RESPONSE_END Denton Liu
2020-05-18 15:47   ` [PATCH v2 7/7] stateless-connect: send response end packet Denton Liu
2020-05-18 16:43     ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 17:12       ` Denton Liu
2020-05-18 17:26         ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 16:50   ` [PATCH v2 0/7] remote-curl: fix deadlocks when remote server disconnects Jeff King
2020-05-18 17:36     ` Denton Liu
2020-05-18 20:58       ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 22:52         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-19  2:38           ` Jeff King
2020-05-18 19:36     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-05-19 10:53   ` [PATCH v3 " Denton Liu
2020-05-19 10:53     ` [PATCH v3 1/7] remote-curl: fix typo Denton Liu
2020-05-19 10:53     ` [PATCH v3 2/7] remote-curl: remove label indentation Denton Liu
2020-05-19 10:53     ` [PATCH v3 3/7] transport: extract common fetch_pack() call Denton Liu
2020-05-19 10:53     ` [PATCH v3 4/7] pkt-line: extern packet_length() Denton Liu
2020-05-19 16:23       ` Eric Sunshine
2020-05-19 10:53     ` [PATCH v3 5/7] remote-curl: error on incomplete packet Denton Liu
2020-05-19 10:53     ` [PATCH v3 6/7] pkt-line: define PACKET_READ_RESPONSE_END Denton Liu
2020-05-19 10:54     ` [PATCH v3 7/7] stateless-connect: send response end packet Denton Liu
2020-05-19 18:40     ` [PATCH v3 0/7] remote-curl: fix deadlocks when remote server disconnects Jeff King
2020-05-19 21:14       ` Denton Liu
2020-05-19 20:51     ` [PATCH v3 8/7] fixup! pkt-line: extern packet_length() Denton Liu
2020-05-22 13:33     ` [PATCH v3 9/9] fixup! remote-curl: error on incomplete packet Denton Liu
2020-05-22 15:54       ` Jeff King
2020-05-22 16:05         ` Denton Liu
2020-05-22 16:31           ` Jeff King

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