From: Ali Alnubani <alialnu@mellanox.com>
To: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
Cc: "meta@public-inbox.org" <meta@public-inbox.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] searchview: avoid displaying full paths on errors
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 07:33:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DB6PR0501MB2167E55E268AA2BCA3D7EA2DD7E30@DB6PR0501MB2167.eurprd05.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190625063705.tugph4uyh3vetlkj@dcvr>
Thanks for the patch Eric.
I apologize for taking so long to update mine.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 9:37 AM
> To: Ali Alnubani <alialnu@mellanox.com>
> Cc: meta@public-inbox.org
> Subject: [PATCH] searchview: avoid displaying full paths on errors
>
> Displaying full path names of installed modules could expose unnecessary
> information about user home directory names or other potentially sensitive
> information. However, displaying a module name could still be useful for
> diagnosing problems, so map full paths to the relevant part of the path name
> which is relevant to the package name.
>
> Reported-by: Ali Alnubani <alialnu@mellanox.com>
>
<removed>
> ---
> lib/PublicInbox/SearchView.pm | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/SearchView.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/SearchView.pm
> index 6f07279b..a8b66dda 100644
> --- a/lib/PublicInbox/SearchView.pm
> +++ b/lib/PublicInbox/SearchView.pm
> @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ use PublicInbox::MIME; require PublicInbox::Git;
> require PublicInbox::SearchThread; our $LIM = 200;
> +my %rmap_inc;
>
> sub noop {}
>
> @@ -138,10 +139,27 @@ sub mset_summary {
> *noop;
> }
>
> +# shorten "/full/path/to/Foo/Bar.pm" to "Foo/Bar.pm" so error #
> +messages don't reveal FS layout info in case people use non-standard #
> +installation paths sub path2inc ($) {
> + my $full = $_[0];
> + if (my $short = $rmap_inc{$full}) {
> + return $short;
> + } elsif (!scalar(keys %rmap_inc) && -e $full) {
> + %rmap_inc = map {; "$INC{$_}" => $_ } keys %INC;
> + # fall back to basename as last resort
> + $rmap_inc{$full} // (split('/', $full))[-1];
> + } else {
> + $full;
> + }
> +}
> +
> sub err_txt {
> my ($ctx, $err) = @_;
> my $u = $ctx->{-inbox}->base_url($ctx->{env}) . '_/text/help/';
> $err =~ s/^\s*Exception:\s*//; # bad word to show users :P
> + $err =~ s!(\S+)!path2inc($1)!sge;
> $err = ascii_html($err);
> "\nBad query: <b>$err</b>\n" .
> qq{See <a\nhref="$u">$u</a> for help on using search};
> --
> EW
Thanks,
Ali
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-25 7:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-11 19:38 [RFC] searchview: don't be too verbose about bad queries Eric Wong
2019-06-12 8:36 ` Ali Alnubani
2019-06-12 17:18 ` Eric Wong
2019-06-25 6:37 ` [PATCH] searchview: avoid displaying full paths on errors Eric Wong
2019-06-25 7:33 ` Ali Alnubani [this message]
2019-06-26 6:35 ` Eric Wong
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