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| -rw-r--r-- | refs.c | 28 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 4 deletions
@@ -1252,6 +1252,16 @@ const char *resolve_ref_unsafe(const char *refname, unsigned char *sha1, int rea git_snpath(path, sizeof(path), "%s", refname); + /* + * We might have to loop back here to avoid a race + * condition: first we lstat() the file, then we try + * to read it as a link or as a file. But if somebody + * changes the type of the file (file <-> directory + * <-> symlink) between the lstat() and reading, then + * we don't want to report that as an error but rather + * try again starting with the lstat(). + */ + stat_ref: if (lstat(path, &st) < 0) { if (errno == ENOENT) return handle_missing_loose_ref(refname, sha1, @@ -1263,8 +1273,13 @@ const char *resolve_ref_unsafe(const char *refname, unsigned char *sha1, int rea /* Follow "normalized" - ie "refs/.." symlinks by hand */ if (S_ISLNK(st.st_mode)) { len = readlink(path, buffer, sizeof(buffer)-1); - if (len < 0) - return NULL; + if (len < 0) { + if (errno == ENOENT || errno == EINVAL) + /* inconsistent with lstat; retry */ + goto stat_ref; + else + return NULL; + } buffer[len] = 0; if (!prefixcmp(buffer, "refs/") && !check_refname_format(buffer, 0)) { @@ -1287,8 +1302,13 @@ const char *resolve_ref_unsafe(const char *refname, unsigned char *sha1, int rea * a ref */ fd = open(path, O_RDONLY); - if (fd < 0) - return NULL; + if (fd < 0) { + if (errno == ENOENT) + /* inconsistent with lstat; retry */ + goto stat_ref; + else + return NULL; + } len = read_in_full(fd, buffer, sizeof(buffer)-1); close(fd); if (len < 0) |