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From: Jeff Hostetler <git@jeffhostetler.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/11] docs: new capability to advertise trace2 SIDs
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 16:00:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <634cf106-7bc2-e8fa-5745-5e2d26b50e14@jeffhostetler.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq5z6mqg60.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>



On 11/3/20 4:33 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Josh Steadmon <steadmon@google.com> writes:
> 
>> +trace2-sid=<session-id>
>> +-----------------------
>> +
>> +If trace2 tracing is enabled on the server, it may advertise its session ID via
>> +this capability. The client may choose to log the server's session ID in its
>> +trace logs, and advertise its own session ID back to the server for it to log
>> +as well. This allows for easier debugging of remote sessions when both client
>> +and server logs are available.
>> diff --git a/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt b/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt
>> index e597b74da3..a5b9ef04f6 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/technical/protocol-v2.txt
>> @@ -492,3 +492,12 @@ form `object-format=X`) to notify the client that the server is able to deal
>>   with objects using hash algorithm X.  If not specified, the server is assumed to
>>   only handle SHA-1.  If the client would like to use a hash algorithm other than
>>   SHA-1, it should specify its object-format string.
>> +
>> +trace2-sid=<session-id>
>> +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> +
>> +If trace2 tracing is enabled on the server, it may advertise its session ID via
>> +this capability. The client may choose to log the server's session ID in its
>> +trace logs, and advertise its own session ID back to the server for it to log
>> +as well. This allows for easier debugging of remote sessions when both client
>> +and server logs are available.
> 
> Have we documented what a session-id should look like anywhere in
> the documentation?  This document is to help third-party to write
> implementations of the protocol, but the above description leaves
> things "implementation defined" a bit too much, I am afraid.
> 
> For example, as this must fit on a single pkt-line as an advertised
> capability, there would be some length limit.  Are there other
> inherent limitations due to our protocol?  Are there some artificial
> limitations that we may want to impose to make it easier to harden
> implementations against common mistakes?  For example are bytes in
> <session-id> allowed to contain LF, CR, NUL, etc.?
> 

The computed part of trace2 SIDs are relatively safe (both for length
and funky characters).  And funky characters are protected by JSON
encoding rules when writing to the GIT_TRACE2_EVENT target.

And I think the computed part would be safe in this context.
I've not seen commands that spawn more than about 6 levels of
child processes, and those would be fine here.

However, the opportunity to introduce a prefix as I suggested earlier
does offer the opportunity to introduce funky chars that would not
have any protection, so you may want to c-quote the string when
inserting it into the wire protocol.

     $ GIT_TRACE2_EVENT=1 GIT_TRACE2_PARENT_SID=hello git version
     {"event":"version","sid":"hello/20201030T154143.660608Z-H86606a97- 
P00001d30",...}
     ...

(Allowing the user to insert a prefix like that has been useful for
tracking control/experiment testing, so I wouldn't want to disable
it.)

Jeff

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-05 21:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-29 21:32 [PATCH 00/10] Advertise trace2 SID in protocol capabilities Josh Steadmon
2020-10-29 21:32 ` [PATCH 01/10] docs: new capability to advertise trace2 SIDs Josh Steadmon
2020-10-29 21:32 ` [PATCH 02/10] docs: new trace2.advertiseSID option Josh Steadmon
2020-10-29 21:32 ` [PATCH 03/10] upload-pack: advertise trace2 SID in v0 capabilities Josh Steadmon
2020-10-29 21:32 ` [PATCH 04/10] receive-pack: " Josh Steadmon
2020-10-29 21:32 ` [PATCH 05/10] serve: advertise trace2 SID in v2 capabilities Josh Steadmon
2020-10-29 21:32 ` [PATCH 06/10] transport: log received server trace2 SID Josh Steadmon
2020-10-29 21:32 ` [PATCH 07/10] fetch-pack: advertise trace2 SID in capabilities Josh Steadmon
2020-10-29 21:32 ` [PATCH 08/10] upload-pack, serve: log received client trace2 SID Josh Steadmon
2020-10-29 21:32 ` [PATCH 09/10] send-pack: advertise trace2 SID in capabilities Josh Steadmon
2020-10-29 21:32 ` [PATCH 10/10] receive-pack: log received client trace2 SID Josh Steadmon
2020-10-30 15:54 ` [PATCH 00/10] Advertise trace2 SID in protocol capabilities Jeff Hostetler
2020-11-02 22:20   ` Josh Steadmon
2020-11-03 21:22     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-05 21:01       ` Jeff Hostetler
2020-11-10 21:37       ` Josh Steadmon
2020-10-30 22:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-02 22:30 ` [PATCH v2 00/11] " Josh Steadmon
2020-11-02 22:30   ` [PATCH v2 01/11] docs: new capability to advertise trace2 SIDs Josh Steadmon
2020-11-03 21:33     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-05 21:00       ` Jeff Hostetler [this message]
2020-11-12 14:05         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2020-11-12 17:32           ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-12 22:10             ` Jeff Hostetler
2020-11-11 22:40       ` Josh Steadmon
2020-11-02 22:31   ` [PATCH v2 02/11] docs: new trace2.advertiseSID option Josh Steadmon
2020-11-03 21:42     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-05 19:28       ` Josh Steadmon
2020-11-05 21:24         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-06 11:57           ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-11-02 22:31   ` [PATCH v2 03/11] trace2: add a public function for getting the SID Josh Steadmon
2020-11-02 22:31   ` [PATCH v2 04/11] upload-pack: advertise trace2 SID in v0 capabilities Josh Steadmon
2020-11-03 21:48     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-05 18:44       ` Josh Steadmon
2020-11-02 22:31   ` [PATCH v2 05/11] receive-pack: " Josh Steadmon
2020-11-02 22:31   ` [PATCH v2 06/11] serve: advertise trace2 SID in v2 capabilities Josh Steadmon
2020-11-04 21:11     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-02 22:31   ` [PATCH v2 07/11] transport: log received server trace2 SID Josh Steadmon
2020-11-04 21:14     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-11 22:53       ` Josh Steadmon
2020-11-12 21:30         ` Jeff Hostetler
2020-11-02 22:31   ` [PATCH v2 08/11] fetch-pack: advertise trace2 SID in capabilities Josh Steadmon
2020-11-04 21:22     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-05 18:58       ` Josh Steadmon
2020-11-05 19:21         ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-11 23:32           ` Josh Steadmon
2020-11-02 22:31   ` [PATCH v2 09/11] upload-pack, serve: log received client trace2 SID Josh Steadmon
2020-11-04 21:26     ` Junio C Hamano
2020-11-05 19:12       ` Josh Steadmon
2020-11-02 22:31   ` [PATCH v2 10/11] send-pack: advertise trace2 SID in capabilities Josh Steadmon
2020-11-02 22:31   ` [PATCH v2 11/11] receive-pack: log received client trace2 SID Josh Steadmon
2020-11-03  1:02   ` [PATCH v2 00/11] Advertise trace2 SID in protocol capabilities Junio C Hamano
2020-11-11 23:29 ` [PATCH v3 00/11] Advertise session ID " Josh Steadmon
2020-11-11 23:29   ` [PATCH v3 01/11] docs: new capability to advertise session IDs Josh Steadmon
2020-11-11 23:29   ` [PATCH v3 02/11] docs: new transfer.advertiseSID option Josh Steadmon
2020-11-11 23:29   ` [PATCH v3 03/11] trace2: add a public function for getting the SID Josh Steadmon
2020-11-11 23:29   ` [PATCH v3 04/11] upload-pack: advertise session ID in v0 capabilities Josh Steadmon
2020-11-11 23:29   ` [PATCH v3 05/11] receive-pack: " Josh Steadmon
2020-11-11 23:29   ` [PATCH v3 06/11] serve: advertise session ID in v2 capabilities Josh Steadmon
2020-11-11 23:29   ` [PATCH v3 07/11] transport: log received server session ID Josh Steadmon
2020-11-11 23:29   ` [PATCH v3 08/11] fetch-pack: advertise session ID in capabilities Josh Steadmon
2020-11-11 23:29   ` [PATCH v3 09/11] upload-pack, serve: log received client session ID Josh Steadmon
2020-11-11 23:29   ` [PATCH v3 10/11] send-pack: advertise session ID in capabilities Josh Steadmon
2020-11-11 23:29   ` [PATCH v3 11/11] receive-pack: log received client session ID Josh Steadmon
2020-11-25 22:08   ` [PATCH v3 00/11] Advertise session ID in protocol capabilities Junio C Hamano
2020-11-25 22:56     ` Josh Steadmon

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