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* [PATCH] Bad file descriptor on filtering empty files
@ 2014-12-19 22:41 William Throwe
  2014-12-22 18:26 ` Junio C Hamano
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: William Throwe @ 2014-12-19 22:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: git

In git 2.2.0 (also tested on 2.2.0.65.g9abc44b), if an external
smudge/clean filter is called on an empty file git reports something
like:
error: copy-fd: read returned Bad file descriptor
error: cannot feed the input to external filter cat
error: external filter cat failed

Test case:

mkdir bug
cd bug
git init
git config filter.cat.clean cat
git config filter.cat.smudge cat
echo '* filter=cat' >.gitattributes
touch a
git add a


This started in 9035d75a2be9d80d82676504d69553245017f6d4, which
introduced the possible call to copy_fd in code called from
apply_filter.  It appears that NULL as the src argument to apply_filter
is being used both as a sentinel value to indicate that the fd should be
used instead and also as a representation of the contents of an empty
file.  I suggest switching to using fd == -1 as the sentinel as shown in
the patch below.

Thanks,
Will


diff --git a/convert.c b/convert.c
index 9a5612e..0509ac1 100644
--- a/convert.c
+++ b/convert.c
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@ static int filter_buffer_or_fd(int in, int out, void *data)
 
 	sigchain_push(SIGPIPE, SIG_IGN);
 
-	if (params->src) {
+	if (params->fd == -1) {
 		write_err = (write_in_full(child_process.in, params->src, params->size) < 0);
 	} else {
 		write_err = copy_fd(params->fd, child_process.in);

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