unix-socket: handle long socket pathnames

On many systems, the sockaddr_un.sun_path field is quite
small. Even on Linux, it is only 108 characters. A user of
the credential-cache daemon can easily surpass this,
especially if their home directory is in a deep directory
tree (since the default location expands ~/.git-credentials).

We can hack around this in the unix-socket.[ch] code by
doing a chdir() to the enclosing directory, feeding the
relative basename to the socket functions, and then
restoring the working directory.

This introduces several new possible error cases for
creating a socket, including an irrecoverable one in the
case that we can't restore the working directory. In the
case of the credential-cache code, we could perhaps get away
with simply chdir()-ing to the socket directory and never
coming back. However, I'd rather do it at the lower level
for a few reasons:

  1. It keeps the hackery behind an opaque interface instead
     of polluting the main program logic.

  2. A hack in credential-cache won't help any unix-socket
     users who come along later.

  3. The chdir trickery isn't that likely to fail (basically
     it's only a problem if your cwd is missing or goes away
     while you're running).  And because we only enable the
     hack when we get a too-long name, it can only fail in
     cases that would have failed under the previous code
     anyway.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 66 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/unix-socket.c b/unix-socket.c
index 84b1509..7d8bec6 100644
--- a/unix-socket.c
+++ b/unix-socket.c
@@ -9,27 +9,83 @@ static int unix_stream_socket(void)
 	return fd;
 }
 
-static void unix_sockaddr_init(struct sockaddr_un *sa, const char *path)
+static int chdir_len(const char *orig, int len)
+{
+	char *path = xmemdupz(orig, len);
+	int r = chdir(path);
+	free(path);
+	return r;
+}
+
+struct unix_sockaddr_context {
+	char orig_dir[PATH_MAX];
+};
+
+static void unix_sockaddr_cleanup(struct unix_sockaddr_context *ctx)
+{
+	if (!ctx->orig_dir[0])
+		return;
+	/*
+	 * If we fail, we can't just return an error, since we have
+	 * moved the cwd of the whole process, which could confuse calling
+	 * code.  We are better off to just die.
+	 */
+	if (chdir(ctx->orig_dir) < 0)
+		die("unable to restore original working directory");
+}
+
+static int unix_sockaddr_init(struct sockaddr_un *sa, const char *path,
+			      struct unix_sockaddr_context *ctx)
 {
 	int size = strlen(path) + 1;
-	if (size > sizeof(sa->sun_path))
-		die("socket path is too long to fit in sockaddr");
+
+	ctx->orig_dir[0] = '\0';
+	if (size > sizeof(sa->sun_path)) {
+		const char *slash = find_last_dir_sep(path);
+		const char *dir;
+
+		if (!slash) {
+			errno = ENAMETOOLONG;
+			return -1;
+		}
+
+		dir = path;
+		path = slash + 1;
+		size = strlen(path) + 1;
+		if (size > sizeof(sa->sun_path)) {
+			errno = ENAMETOOLONG;
+			return -1;
+		}
+
+		if (!getcwd(ctx->orig_dir, sizeof(ctx->orig_dir))) {
+			errno = ENAMETOOLONG;
+			return -1;
+		}
+		if (chdir_len(dir, slash - dir) < 0)
+			return -1;
+	}
+
 	memset(sa, 0, sizeof(*sa));
 	sa->sun_family = AF_UNIX;
 	memcpy(sa->sun_path, path, size);
+	return 0;
 }
 
 int unix_stream_connect(const char *path)
 {
 	int fd;
 	struct sockaddr_un sa;
+	struct unix_sockaddr_context ctx;
 
-	unix_sockaddr_init(&sa, path);
+	if (unix_sockaddr_init(&sa, path, &ctx) < 0)
+		return -1;
 	fd = unix_stream_socket();
 	if (connect(fd, (struct sockaddr *)&sa, sizeof(sa)) < 0) {
+		unix_sockaddr_cleanup(&ctx);
 		close(fd);
 		return -1;
 	}
+	unix_sockaddr_cleanup(&ctx);
 	return fd;
 }
 
@@ -37,20 +93,25 @@ int unix_stream_listen(const char *path)
 {
 	int fd;
 	struct sockaddr_un sa;
+	struct unix_sockaddr_context ctx;
 
-	unix_sockaddr_init(&sa, path);
+	if (unix_sockaddr_init(&sa, path, &ctx) < 0)
+		return -1;
 	fd = unix_stream_socket();
 
 	unlink(path);
 	if (bind(fd, (struct sockaddr *)&sa, sizeof(sa)) < 0) {
+		unix_sockaddr_cleanup(&ctx);
 		close(fd);
 		return -1;
 	}
 
 	if (listen(fd, 5) < 0) {
+		unix_sockaddr_cleanup(&ctx);
 		close(fd);
 		return -1;
 	}
 
+	unix_sockaddr_cleanup(&ctx);
 	return fd;
 }