In the event that a HTTP server closes the connection after giving a
200 but before giving any packets, we don't want to hang forever
waiting for a response that will never come. Instead, we should die
immediately.
One case where this happens is when attempting to fetch a dangling
object by SHA.
Still to do: it would be good to give a better error message
than "fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly".
Signed-off-by: David Turner <dtur...@twosigma.com>
---
Note: if you run t5551 before applying the code patch, the second new
test will hang forever.
FWIW, I also saw this kind of hang at Twitter from time to time, but I
was never able to reliably reproduce it there, and thus never able to
fix it. I suspect that a bad load balancer might have been killing
connections just after the headers, but this is pure speculation.
I am sorry that this patch does not provide a more useful error
message. For us, it is important to fix the hangs (so that we can
retry on another server, for instance), but less important to be
user-friendly (since we were only seeing these with automated
processes). I hope that someone who actually understands the http
code, and has some time, could help improve this aspect of the code.
If not, then at least we won't have inexplicable hangs.
remote-curl.c | 8 ++++++++
t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 38 insertions(+)
diff --git a/remote-curl.c b/remote-curl.c
index f14c41f..ee44236 100644
--- a/remote-curl.c
+++ b/remote-curl.c
@@ -400,6 +400,7 @@ struct rpc_state {
size_t pos;
int in;
int out;
+ int any_written;
struct strbuf result;
unsigned gzip_request : 1;
unsigned initial_buffer : 1;
@@ -456,6 +457,8 @@ static size_t rpc_in(char *ptr, size_t eltsize,
{
size_t size = eltsize * nmemb;
struct rpc_state *rpc = buffer_;
+ if (size)
+ rpc->any_written = 1;
write_or_die(rpc->in, ptr, size);
return size;
}
@@ -659,6 +662,8 @@ static int post_rpc(struct rpc_state *rpc)
curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, rpc_in);
curl_easy_setopt(slot->curl, CURLOPT_FILE, rpc);
+
+ rpc->any_written = 0;
err = run_slot(slot, NULL);
if (err == HTTP_REAUTH && !large_request) {
credential_fill(&http_auth);
@@ -667,6 +672,9 @@ static int post_rpc(struct rpc_state *rpc)
if (err != HTTP_OK)
err = -1;
+ if (!rpc->any_written)
+ err = -1;
+
curl_slist_free_all(headers);
free(gzip_body);
return err;
diff --git a/t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh b/t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh
index 1ec5b27..43665ab 100755
--- a/t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh
+++ b/t/t5551-http-fetch-smart.sh
@@ -276,6 +276,36 @@ test_expect_success 'large fetch-pack requests can be
split across POSTs' '
test_line_count = 2 posts
'
+test_expect_success 'test allowreachablesha1inwant' '
+ test_when_finished "rm -rf test_reachable.git" &&
+ server="$HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH/repo.git" &&
+ master_sha=$(git -C "$server" rev-parse refs/heads/master) &&
+ git -C "$server" config uploadpack.allowreachablesha1inwant 1 &&
+
+ git init --bare test_reachable.git &&
+ git -C test_reachable.git remote add origin "$HTTPD_URL/smart/repo.git"
&&
+ git -C test_reachable.git fetch origin "$master_sha"
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'test allowreachablesha1inwant with unreachable' '
+ test_when_finished "rm -rf test_reachable.git; git reset --hard $(git
rev-parse HEAD)" &&
+
+ #create unreachable sha
+ echo content >file2 &&
+ git add file2 &&
+ git commit -m two &&
+ git push public HEAD:refs/heads/doomed &&
+ git push public :refs/heads/doomed &&
+
+ server="$HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH/repo.git" &&
+ master_sha=$(git -C "$server" rev-parse refs/heads/master) &&
+ git -C "$server" config uploadpack.allowreachablesha1inwant 1 &&
+
+ git init --bare test_reachable.git &&
+ git -C test_reachable.git remote add origin "$HTTPD_URL/smart/repo.git"
&&
+ test_must_fail git -C test_reachable.git fetch origin "$(git rev-parse
HEAD)"
+'
+
test_expect_success EXPENSIVE 'http can handle enormous ref negotiation' '
(
cd "$HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH/repo.git" &&
--
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