Re: [PATCH 1/2] t5411: remove file after use to prevent overwriting

[Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>]

Am 18.01.21 um 14:30 schrieb Jiang Xin:
> From: Jiang Xin <zhiyou.jx@alibaba-inc.com>
> 
> SZEDER reported that t5411 failed in Travis CI's s390x environment a
> couple of times, and could be reproduced with '--stress' test on this
> specific environment.  The test failure messages might look like this:
> 
>     + test_cmp expect actual
>     --- expect      2021-01-17 21:55:23.430750004 +0000
>     +++ actual      2021-01-17 21:55:23.430750004 +0000
>     @@ -1 +1 @@
>     -<COMMIT-A> refs/heads/main
>     +<COMMIT-A> refs/heads/maifatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly
>     error: last command exited with $?=1
>     not ok 86 - proc-receive: not support push options (builtin protocol)
> 
> The file 'actual' is filtered from the file 'out' which contains result
> of 'git show-ref' command.  Due to the error messages from other process
> is written into the file 'out' accidentally, t5411 failed.  SZEDER finds
> the root cause of this issue:
> 
>  - 'git push' is executed with its standard output and error redirected
>    to the file 'out'.
> 
>  - 'git push' executes 'git receive-pack' internally, which inherits
>    the open file descriptors, so its output and error goes into that
>    same 'out' file.
> 
>  - 'git push' ends without waiting for the close of 'git-receive-pack'
>    for some cases, and the file 'out' is reused for test of
>    'git show-ref' afterwards.
> 
>  - A mixture of the output of 'git show-ref' abd 'git receive-pack'
>    leads to this issue.
> 
> To resolve this issue, we can remove the file 'out' after use.  The
> long-running 'git receive-pack' will not redirect its output to the new
> created 'out' file which has a different file descriptor.

On Windows, removing an open file is not possible and this...

> diff --git a/t/t5411/test-0000-standard-git-push.sh b/t/t5411/test-0000-standard-git-push.sh
> index 47b058af7e..694d8e8dc2 100644
> --- a/t/t5411/test-0000-standard-git-push.sh
> +++ b/t/t5411/test-0000-standard-git-push.sh
> @@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ test_expect_success "git-push --atomic ($PROTOCOL)" '
>  		-e "/^To / { p; }" \
>  		-e "/^ ! / { p; }" \
>  		<out >actual &&
> +	# Prevent accidential changes by the internal "receive-pack" process.
> +	rm out &&

... would fail.

That said, your next patch removes a lot of uses of the 'out' file
against which this 'rm out' should protect. Doesn't this make this patch
unnecessary?

>  	cat >expect <<-EOF &&
>  	To <URL/of/upstream.git>
>  	 ! [rejected] main -> main (non-fast-forward)

-- Hannes