remote-curl: unbreak http.extraHeader with custom allocators #453
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Using `http.extraHeader` [no longer results in spurious crashes](gitgitgadget/git#453). Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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In 93b980e (http: use xmalloc with cURL, 2019-08-15), we started to ask cURL to use `xmalloc()`, and if compiled with nedmalloc, that means implicitly a different allocator than the system one. Which means that all of cURL's allocations and releases now _need_ to use that allocator. However, the `http_options()` function used `slist_append()` to add any configured extra HTTP header(s) _before_ asking cURL to use `xmalloc()`, and `http_cleanup()` would release them _afterwards_, i.e. in the presence of custom allocators, cURL would attempt to use the wrong allocator to release the memory. A naïve attempt at fixing this would move the call to `curl_global_init()` _before_ the config is parsed (i.e. before that call to `slist_append()`). However, that does work, as we _also_ parse the config setting `http.sslbackend` and if found, call `curl_global_sslset()` which *must* be called before `curl_global_init()`, for details see: https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/curl_global_sslset.html So let's instead make the config parsing entirely independent from cURL's data structures. Incidentally, this deletes two more lines than it introduces, which is nice. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
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And I almost updated, but decided to wait a few more days, appreciate all the bug hunting! |
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This is one of those bugs that can cost entire days of work.
The symptom of this bug is that
git -c http.extraheader push ...will fail frequently in Git for Windows v2.24.0, but not always. When it fails, though, it will cause a segmentation fault ingit remote-httpswhile callinghttp_cleanup()and leave no visual indication of that problem, the only indication of a problem will be the exit code of the caller (in this instance,git pushwill fail with exit code 1).In my tests during the pre-release period, I pushed many a time, it probably failed a lot, in the way indicated above, and due to the absence of any error message, I failed to realize that there was a problem in the first place.
Fun side note: this bug haunted me for the best part of this past Monday, when I tried to get Git for Windows v2.24.0 out the door. Large parts of Git for Windows' release management are scripted, and that script failed, claiming to have been unsuccessful in pushing the tag
v2.24.0.windows.1, just after printing a message to the extent that the tag is already up to date (except in the first attempt, when it reported to have been successful in pushing the tag). My attempts to fix the release script were doomed to fail because the root cause was not a bug in the script, but the bug fixed in this patch.Changes since v1:
curl_global_init()(which would have broken support forhttp.sslbackend), this iteration instead replaces the usage of cURL'sslistin the config handling by using Git's ownstring_list.Cc: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón carenas@gmail.com