From 94657c8e466e66cfe1395ac8c1e99d863747c815 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Hostetler Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 11:19:27 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] dir.c: regression fix for add_excludes with fscache Fix regression described in: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1392 which was introduced in: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/commit/b2353379bba414e6c00dde913497cc9c827366f2 Problem Symptoms ================ When the user has a .gitignore file that is a symlink, the fscache optimization introduced above caused the stat-data from the symlink, rather that of the target file, to be returned. Later when the ignore file was read, the buffer length did not match the stat.st_size field and we called die("cannot use as an exclude file") Optimization Rationale ====================== The above optimization calls lstat() before open() primarily to ask fscache if the file exists. It gets the current stat-data as a side effect essentially for free (since we already have it in memory). If the file does not exist, it does not need to call open(). And since very few directories have .gitignore files, we can greatly reduce time spent in the filesystem. Discussion of Fix ================= The above optimization calls lstat() rather than stat() because the fscache only intercepts lstat() calls. Calls to stat() stay directed to the mingw_stat() completly bypassing fscache. Furthermore, calls to mingw_stat() always call {open, fstat, close} so that symlinks are properly dereferenced, which adds *additional* open/close calls on top of what the original code in dir.c is doing. Since the problem only manifests for symlinks, we add code to overwrite the stat-data when the path is a symlink. This preserves the effect of the performance gains provided by the fscache in the normal case. Signed-off-by: Jeff Hostetler --- dir.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c index fc4befe9f2..fe23cc0715 100644 --- a/dir.c +++ b/dir.c @@ -1079,6 +1079,29 @@ static int add_patterns(const char *fname, const char *base, int baselen, size_t size = 0; char *buf; + /* + * A performance optimization for status. + * + * During a status scan, git looks in each directory for a .gitignore + * file before scanning the directory. Since .gitignore files are not + * that common, we can waste a lot of time looking for files that are + * not there. Fortunately, the fscache already knows if the directory + * contains a .gitignore file, since it has already read the directory + * and it already has the stat-data. + * + * If the fscache is enabled, use the fscache-lstat() interlude to see + * if the file exists (in the fscache hash maps) before trying to open() + * it. + * + * This causes problem when the .gitignore file is a symlink, because + * we call lstat() rather than stat() on the symlnk and the resulting + * stat-data is for the symlink itself rather than the target file. + * We CANNOT use stat() here because the fscache DOES NOT install an + * interlude for stat() and mingw_stat() always calls "open-fstat-close" + * on the file and defeats the purpose of the optimization here. Since + * symlinks are even more rare than .gitignore files, we force a fstat() + * after our open() to get stat-data for the target file. + */ if (is_fscache_enabled(fname)) { if (lstat(fname, &st) < 0) { fd = -1; @@ -1086,6 +1109,11 @@ static int add_patterns(const char *fname, const char *base, int baselen, fd = open(fname, O_RDONLY); if (fd < 0) warn_on_fopen_errors(fname); + else if (S_ISLNK(st.st_mode) && fstat(fd, &st) < 0) { + warn_on_fopen_errors(fname); + close(fd); + fd = -1; + } } } else { if (flags & PATTERN_NOFOLLOW)