repack: check error writing to pack-objects subprocess
When "git repack" repacks promisor objects, it starts a pack-objects subprocess and uses xwrite() to send object names over the pipe to it, but without any error checking. An I/O error or short write (even though a short write is unlikely for such a small amount of data) can result in a packfile that lacks certain objects we wanted to put in there, leading to a silent repository corruption. Use write_in_full(), instead of xwrite(), to mitigate short write risks, check errors from it, and abort if we see a failure. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Junio C Hamano committed
Mar 2, 2024 at 11:03 UTC
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builtin/repack.c
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index ede36328a3..15e4cccc45 100644
--- a/builtin/repack.c
+++ b/builtin/repack.c
@@ -314,8 +314,9 @@ static int write_oid(const struct object_id *oid,
die(_("could not start pack-objects to repack promisor objects"));
}
- xwrite(cmd->in, oid_to_hex(oid), the_hash_algo->hexsz);
- xwrite(cmd->in, "\n", 1);
+ if (write_in_full(cmd->in, oid_to_hex(oid), the_hash_algo->hexsz) < 0 ||
+ write_in_full(cmd->in, "\n", 1) < 0)
+ die(_("failed to feed promisor objects to pack-objects"));
return 0;
}