stateless-connect: send response end packet

Currently, remote-curl acts as a proxy and blindly forwards packets
between an HTTP server and fetch-pack. In the case of a stateless RPC
connection where the connection is terminated before the transaction is
complete, remote-curl will blindly forward the packets before waiting on
more input from fetch-pack. Meanwhile, fetch-pack will read the
transaction and continue reading, expecting more input to continue the
transaction. This results in a deadlock between the two processes.

This can be seen in the following command which does not terminate:

	$ git -c protocol.version=2 clone https://github.com/git/git.git --shallow-since=20151012
	Cloning into 'git'...

whereas the v1 version does terminate as expected:

	$ git -c protocol.version=1 clone https://github.com/git/git.git --shallow-since=20151012
	Cloning into 'git'...
	fatal: the remote end hung up unexpectedly

Instead of blindly forwarding packets, make remote-curl insert a
response end packet after proxying the responses from the remote server
when using stateless_connect(). On the RPC client side, ensure that each
response ends as described.

A separate control packet is chosen because we need to be able to
differentiate between what the remote server sends and remote-curl's
control packets. By ensuring in the remote-curl code that a server
cannot send response end packets, we prevent a malicious server from
being able to perform a denial of service attack in which they spoof a
response end packet and cause the described deadlock to happen.

Reported-by: Force Charlie <charlieio@outlook.com>
Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Denton Liu <liu.denton@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/t/t5702-protocol-v2.sh b/t/t5702-protocol-v2.sh
index 4eb81ba2d4..8da65e60de 100755
--- a/t/t5702-protocol-v2.sh
+++ b/t/t5702-protocol-v2.sh
@@ -620,6 +620,19 @@ test_expect_success 'clone repository with http:// using protocol v2 with incomp
 	test_i18ngrep "bytes of body are still expected" err
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'clone with http:// using protocol v2 and invalid parameters' '
+	test_when_finished "rm -f log" &&
+
+	test_must_fail env GIT_TRACE_PACKET="$(pwd)/log" GIT_TRACE_CURL="$(pwd)/log" \
+		git -c protocol.version=2 \
+		clone --shallow-since=20151012 "$HTTPD_URL/smart/http_parent" http_child_invalid &&
+
+	# Client requested to use protocol v2
+	grep "Git-Protocol: version=2" log &&
+	# Server responded using protocol v2
+	grep "git< version 2" log
+'
+
 test_expect_success 'clone big repository with http:// using protocol v2' '
 	test_when_finished "rm -f log" &&