From: "韩欣(炽天)" <hanxin.hx@alibaba-inc.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] send-pack: check atomic push before running GPG
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 01:35:05 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c1af693a-b861-6b37-96a6-9d121a3a3f99@alibaba-inc.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqeen2xrok.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
在 2020/9/16 下午12:37, Junio C Hamano 写道:
> Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>>> -
>>>> - if (!args->dry_run && push_cert_nonce)
>>>> - cmds_sent = generate_push_cert(&req_buf, remote_refs, args,
>>>> - cap_buf.buf, push_cert_nonce);
>>>> -
>>>> /*
>>>> * Clear the status for each ref and see if we need to send
>>>> * the pack data.
>>> This "Clear the status for each ref" worries me.
>>>
>>> The generate_push_cert() function RELIES on ref->status and filters
>>> out the ref that failed to pass the local check from the generated
>>> push certificate. If you let the loop (post context of this hunk)
>>> run, ref->status will be updated by it, so the net effect of this
>>> patch is that it breaks "non-atomic" case that pushes multiple refs
>>> and one of ref fails to pass the local check.
>>>
>>> IOW, generate_push_cert() MUST be called before this loop "clears
>>> the status for each ref" by assigning to ref->status.
>> The next block ("Finally, tell the other end!") is what we send
>> commands to "receive-pack", right after some of the status are reset
>> to REF_STATUS_OK or REF_STATUS_EXPECTING_REPORT by this chunk of code.
>> So moving the generate_push_cert() part right before the "Finally,
>> tell the other end!" part LGTM.
> Sorry, I do not follow. The loop in question is the one before
> "Finally tell the other end". The loop ends like so:
>
> for (ref = remote_refs; ref; ref = ref->next) {
> ...
> if (args->dry_run || !status_report)
> ref->status = REF_STATUS_OK;
> else
> ref->status = REF_STATUS_EXPECTING_REPORT;
> }
>
> and the patch moves a call to generate_push_cert() that looks at
> remote_refs _after_ this loop, but generate_push_cert() function
> uses a loop over remote_refs that uses check_to_send_update(), which
> looks at ref->status's value to decide what to do. Its correct
> operation relies on ref->status NOT updated by the above loop.
>
> The loop prepares the status field so that we can then read and
> record the response against each ref updates from the other side.
>
> The ref->status field is set to EXPECTING_REPORT, later to be
> updated to REF_STATUS_OK or REF_STATUS_REMOTE_REJECT. We can
> clobber the original value of ref->status at this point only because
> the loop depends on the fact that no check_to_send_update() call
> will happen after the loop (because the ref->status field the
> helper's operation depends on is already reset for the next phase of
> operation). The patch that moves generate_push_cert() call below
> the loop, whether it is before or after the "Finally tell the other
> end" loop, is therefore fundamentally broken, isn't it?
>
> I do not think it would introduce such breakage if we teach
> generate_push_cert() to pay attention to the atomicity, and that can
> be done without reordering the calls in send_pack() to break the
> control flow.
Thank you for your reply. These loops here really confuse me at first.
But I found that the main effect of "Clear the status for each ref and
see if we need to send the pack data" is to help us do a pre-check on
the client side whether the push should be rejected. When the reference
should be pushed, whether the status was changed to REF_STATUS_OK or
REF_STATUS_EXPECTING_REPORT, it does not seem to affect the result of
function generate_push_cert(). check_to_send_update() in
generate_push_cert() only filters out references that needn't to be pushed.
Just like brian m. carlson said, "that would be a nice change; after
all, the user's key may involve a smartcard or a passphrase and avoiding
needless hassle for the user would be desirable". It increase the
perforcemance a little bit for failed atomic push and make it clear that
client side requirements and the other side requirements.
If there is something wrong with my understanding, I am very grateful
\that you can help me point out the problems.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-16 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-15 9:58 [PATCH 1/2] t5534: new test case for atomic signed push Han Xin
2020-09-15 9:58 ` [PATCH 2/2] send-pack: check atomic push before running GPG Han Xin
2020-09-15 21:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-15 21:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-16 1:53 ` Jiang Xin
2020-09-16 4:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-16 11:49 ` Jiang Xin
2020-09-16 23:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-18 4:50 ` [PATCH v2] send-pack: run GPG after atomic push checking Han Xin
2020-09-19 0:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-19 14:47 ` [PATCH v3] " Han Xin
2020-09-19 23:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-09-20 6:20 ` [PATCH v4] " Han Xin
2020-09-16 17:35 ` 韩欣(炽天) [this message]
2020-09-15 20:31 ` [PATCH 1/2] t5534: new test case for atomic signed push Junio C Hamano
2020-09-16 0:34 ` brian m. carlson
2020-09-15 20:34 ` Junio C Hamano
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