upload-pack: allow stateless client EOF just prior to haves

During stateless packfile negotiation where a depth is given, stateless
RPC clients (e.g. git-remote-curl) will send multiple upload-pack
requests with the first containing only the
wants/shallows/deepens/filters and the subsequent containing haves/done.

When upload-pack handles such requests, entering get_common_commits
without checking whether the client has hung up can result in unexpected
EOF during the negotiation loop and a die() with message "fatal: the
remote end hung up unexpectedly".

Real world effects include:

 - A client speaking to git-http-backend via a server that doesn't check
   the exit codes of CGIs (e.g. mod_cgi) doesn't know and doesn't care
   about the fatal. It continues to process the response body as normal.

 - A client speaking to a server that does check the exit code and
   returns an errant HTTP status as a result will fail with the message
   "error: RPC failed; HTTP 500 curl 22 The requested URL returned error:
   500."

 - Admins running servers that surface the failure must workaround it by
   patching code that handles execution of git-http-backend to ignore exit
   codes or take other heuristic approaches.

 - Admins may have to deal with "hung up unexpectedly" log spam related
   to the failures even in cases where the exit code isn't surfaced as an
   HTTP server-side error status.

To avoid these EOF related fatals, have upload-pack gently peek for an
EOF between the sending of shallow/unshallow lines (followed by flush)
and the reading of client haves. If the client has hung up at this
point, exit normally.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Duvall <dan@mutual.io>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/upload-pack.c b/upload-pack.c
index 3b858eb457..5dc8e1f844 100644
--- a/upload-pack.c
+++ b/upload-pack.c
@@ -1344,7 +1344,18 @@ void upload_pack(struct upload_pack_options *options)
 				   PACKET_READ_DIE_ON_ERR_PACKET);
 
 		receive_needs(&data, &reader);
-		if (data.want_obj.nr) {
+
+		/*
+		 * An EOF at this exact point in negotiation should be
+		 * acceptable from stateless clients as they will consume the
+		 * shallow list before doing subsequent rpc with haves/etc.
+		 */
+		if (data.stateless_rpc)
+			reader.options |= PACKET_READ_GENTLE_ON_EOF;
+
+		if (data.want_obj.nr &&
+		    packet_reader_peek(&reader) != PACKET_READ_EOF) {
+			reader.options &= ~PACKET_READ_GENTLE_ON_EOF;
 			get_common_commits(&data, &reader);
 			create_pack_file(&data, NULL);
 		}