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2020-10-29sideband: diagnose more sideband anomaliesJeff King
In demultiplex_sideband(), there are two oddities when we check an incoming packet: - if it has zero length, then we assume it's a flush packet. This means we fail to notice the difference between a real flush and a true zero-length packet that's missing its sideband designator. It's not a huge problem in practice because we'd never send a zero-length data packet (even our keepalives are otherwise-empty sideband-1 packets). But it would be nice to detect and report the error, since it's likely to cause other confusion (we think the other side flushed, but they do not). - we try to detect packets missing their designator by checking for "if (len < 1)". But this will never trigger for "len == 0"; we've already detected that and left the function before then. It _could_ detect a negative "len" parameter. But in that case, the error message is wrong. The issue is not "no sideband" but rather "eof while reading the packet". However, this can't actually be triggered in practice, because neither of the two callers uses pkt_read's GENTLE_ON_EOF flag. Which means they'd die with "the remote end hung up unexpectedly" before we even get here. So this truly is dead code. We can improve these cases by passing in a pkt-line status to the demultiplexer, and by having recv_sideband() use GENTLE_ON_EOF. This gives us two improvements: - we can now reliably detect flush packets, and will report a normal packet missing its sideband designator as an error - we'll report an eof with a more detailed "protocol error: eof while reading sideband packet", rather than the generic "the remote end hung up unexpectedly" - when we see an eof, we'll flush the sideband scratch buffer, which may provide some hints from the remote about why they hung up (though note we already flush on newlines, so it's likely that most such messages already made it through) In some sense this patch goes against fbd76cd450 (sideband: reverse its dependency on pkt-line, 2019-01-16), which caused the sideband code not to depend on the pkt-line code. But that commit was really just trying to deal with the circular header dependency. The two modules are conceptually interlinked, and it was just trying to keep things compiling. And indeed, there's a sticking point in this patch: because pkt-line.h includes sideband.h, we can't add the reverse include we need for the sideband code to have an "enum packet_read_status" parameter. Nor can we forward declare it, because you can't forward declare an enum in C. However, C does guarantee that enums fit in an int, so we can just use that type. One alternative would be for the callers to check themselves that they got something sane from the pkt-line code. But besides duplicating logic, this gets quite tricky. Any error condition requires flushing the sideband #2 scratch buffer, which only demultiplex_sideband() knows how to do. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-17{fetch,upload}-pack: sideband v2 fetch responseJonathan Tan
Currently, a response to a fetch request has sideband support only while the packfile is being sent, meaning that the server cannot send notices until the start of the packfile. Extend sideband support in protocol v2 fetch responses to the whole response. upload-pack will advertise it if the uploadpack.allowsidebandall configuration variable is set, and fetch-pack will automatically request it if advertised. If the sideband is to be used throughout the whole response, upload-pack will use it to send errors instead of prefixing a PKT-LINE payload with "ERR ". This will be tested in a subsequent patch. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-01-17sideband: reverse its dependency on pkt-lineJonathan Tan
A subsequent patch will teach struct packet_reader a new field that, if set, instructs it to interpret read data as multiplexed. This will create a dependency from pkt-line to sideband. To avoid a circular dependency, split recv_sideband() into 2 parts: the reading loop (left in recv_sideband()) and the processing of the contents (in demultiplex_sideband()), and move the former into pkt-line. This reverses the direction of dependency: sideband no longer depends on pkt-line, and pkt-line now depends on sideband. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Tan <jonathantanmy@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-16sideband.c: make send_sideband() return voidLukas Fleischer
The send_sideband() function uses write_or_die() for writing data which immediately terminates the process on errors. If no such error occurred, send_sideband() always returned the value that was passed as fourth parameter prior to this commit. This value is already known to the caller in any case, so let's turn send_sideband() into a void function instead. Signed-off-by: Lukas Fleischer <lfleischer@lfos.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-20pkt-line: move LARGE_PACKET_MAX definition from sidebandJeff King
Having the packet sizes defined near the packet read/write functions makes more sense. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-11recv_sideband: Bands #2 and #3 always go to stderrJohannes Sixt
This removes the last parameter of recv_sideband, by which the callers told which channel bands #2 and #3 should be written to. Sayeth Shawn Pearce: The definition of the streams in the current sideband protocol are rather well defined for the one protocol that uses it, fetch-pack/receive-pack: stream #1: pack data stream #2: stderr messages, progress, meant for tty stream #3: abort message, remote is dead, goodbye! Since both callers of the function passed 2 for the parameter, we hereby remove it and send bands #2 and #3 to stderr explicitly using fprintf. This has the nice side-effect that these two streams pass through our ANSI emulation layer on Windows. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2006-10-11atomic write for sideband remote messagesNicolas Pitre
It has been a few times that I ended up with such a confusing display: |remote: Generating pack... |remote: Done counting 17 objects. |remote: Result has 9 objects. |remote: Deltifying 9 objects. |remote: 100% (9/9) done |remote: Unpacking 9 objects |Total 9, written 9 (delta 8), reused 0 (delta 0) | 100% (9/9) done The confusion can be avoided in most cases by writing the remote message in one go to prevent interleacing with local messages. The buffer declaration has been moved inside recv_sideband() to avoid extra string copies. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-09-10Prepare larger packet buffer for upload-pack protocol.Junio C Hamano
The original side-band support added to the upload-pack protocol used the default 1000-byte packet length. The pkt-line format allows up to 64k, so prepare the receiver for the maximum size, and have the uploader and downloader negotiate if larger packet length is allowed. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-09-10Move sideband server side support into reusable form.Junio C Hamano
The server side support; this is just the very low level, and the caller needs to know which band it wants to send things out. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> (cherry picked from b786552b67878c7780c50def4c069d46dc54efbe commit)
2006-09-10Move sideband client side support into reusable form.Junio C Hamano
This moves the receiver side of the sideband support from fetch-clone.c to sideband.c and its header file, so that archiver protocol can use it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>