Re: [PATCH 3/6] ssh signing: verify-commit/check_signature with commit date

["Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 22 2021, Fabian Stelzer wrote:

[Just nits]

> +	if (payload_timestamp) {
> +		strbuf_addf(&verify_time, "-Overify-time=%s",
> +			    show_date(payload_timestamp, 0, &verify_date_mode));
> +	}

No braces needed.

> @@ -482,6 +495,7 @@ static int verify_ssh_signed_buffer(struct signature_check *sigc,
>  		error(_("ssh-keygen -Y find-principals/verify is needed for ssh signature verification (available in openssh version 8.2p1+)"));
>  		goto out;
>  	}
> +
>  	if (ret || !ssh_principals_out.len) {
>  		/*
>  		 * We did not find a matching principal in the allowedSigners

Stray whitespace change.

> +int parse_signed_buffer_metadata(const char *payload, const char *signer_header,
> +				 timestamp_t *payload_timestamp,
> +				 struct strbuf *payload_signer)
> +{
> +	const char *ident_line = NULL;
> +	size_t ident_len;
> +	struct ident_split ident;
> +
> +	ident_line = find_commit_header(payload, signer_header, &ident_len);
> +	if (ident_line && ident_len) {
> +		if (!split_ident_line(&ident, ident_line, ident_len)) {
> +			if (payload_timestamp && ident.date_begin &&
> +			    ident.date_end)
> +				*payload_timestamp = parse_timestamp(
> +					ident.date_begin, NULL, 10);
> +			if (payload_signer)
> +				strbuf_add(payload_signer, ident.mail_begin,
> +					(ident.mail_end - ident.mail_begin));
> +
> +			return 0;
> +		}
> +	}
> +
> +	return 1;
> +}

This would be more readable with less nesting, i.e. instead of:

    if (x) {
        if (y) {
            [...]

Doing:

    if (!x)
        return 1;
    if (!y)
        return 1;

I.e. only if you get zero from split_ident_line() do you return 0.