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//! Explicit filesystem leaf-link reads, separate from strict reference publication.
#![warn(
clippy::unwrap_used,
clippy::expect_used,
clippy::panic,
clippy::unreachable,
clippy::indexing_slicing,
reason = "parses untrusted repository or network input (#103)"
)]
use std::fs::{self, File};
use std::io::{self, Read};
use std::path::Path;
use super::store::{check_path, io_error, parse_loose};
use super::{Backend, RefName, ReferenceError, ReferenceObservation, References, Target, packed};
impl References<'_> {
/// Reads one reference while explicitly permitting final-file filesystem symlinks.
///
/// Relative link destinations are relative to their containing directory. Link text such as
/// `refs/heads/main` is a filesystem path, not Git's legacy Git-directory-relative symbolic
/// reference syntax. Only `ref: ...` file contents produce a symbolic [`Target`]. Symlink
/// ancestors of the original name or any followed destination remain unsupported; destinations
/// outside the repository are otherwise permitted. This method never changes write/CAS policy.
///
/// A successful loose read retains the requested name and clears the packed peeled hint.
/// Missing paths and followed links ending at a directory permit normal packed fallback.
/// Malformed contents and other I/O errors do not. An original directory remains a conflict.
/// Per-worktree names never fall back to packed storage. Observations are owned but live reads
/// are not atomic across link hops; this is not a sandbox against adversarial path replacement.
///
/// `max_symlink_hops` bounds followed links, including cycles. `max_bytes` bounds aggregate
/// link destination bytes and file bytes, including packed fallback. Files are read with at
/// most one excess byte to detect exhaustion. Reftable uses [`Self::read_observation`] and
/// its configured stack limits instead; these filesystem limits do not apply there.
///
/// # Errors
///
/// Reports unsupported ancestors/nonregular files, I/O and malformed data, namespace conflicts,
/// and [`ReferenceError::Limit`] on exhausted byte or link budgets. No storage is modified.
///
/// ```
/// use girt::refs::RefName;
/// use girt::{InitKind, ObjectFormat, Repository};
///
/// let directory = tempfile::tempdir()?;
/// let repo = Repository::init(
/// ObjectFormat::Sha1,
/// directory.path().join("repo"),
/// InitKind::Bare,
/// )?;
///
/// let observation = repo
/// .references()?
/// .read_observation_following_leaf_symlinks(&RefName::HEAD, 32, 64 * 1024)?;
/// assert!(observation.is_some());
/// # Ok::<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>>(())
/// ```
pub fn read_observation_following_leaf_symlinks(
&self,
name: &RefName,
max_symlink_hops: usize,
max_bytes: usize,
) -> Result<Option<ReferenceObservation>, ReferenceError> {
if self.reference_backend == Backend::Reftable {
return self.read_observation(name);
}
let mut path = self.path(name)?;
let mut remaining = max_bytes;
let mut hops = 0;
loop {
check_ancestors(&path)?;
let metadata = match fs::symlink_metadata(&path) {
Ok(metadata) => metadata,
Err(error) if error.kind() == io::ErrorKind::NotFound => break,
Err(source) => return Err(io_error(&path, source)),
};
if metadata.file_type().is_symlink() {
if hops == max_symlink_hops {
return Err(ReferenceError::Limit("reference filesystem symlink hops"));
}
let destination = fs::read_link(&path).map_err(|source| io_error(&path, source))?;
remaining = remaining
.checked_sub(destination.as_os_str().as_encoded_bytes().len())
.ok_or(ReferenceError::Limit("reference bytes"))?;
#[expect(clippy::expect_used, reason = "reference paths lie below a root")]
let parent = path.parent().expect("reference path has a parent");
path = parent.join(destination);
hops += 1;
continue;
}
if metadata.is_dir() {
if hops != 0 {
break;
}
return Err(ReferenceError::Conflict(path));
}
if !metadata.is_file() {
return Err(ReferenceError::Unsupported("non-regular reference file"));
}
let Some(bytes) = read_bounded(&path, &mut remaining)? else {
break;
};
return Ok(Some(ReferenceObservation {
name: name.clone(),
target: parse_loose(self.object_format, &bytes, &path)?,
peeled_hint: None,
}));
}
if name.per_worktree() {
return Ok(None);
}
let packed_path = self.common_dir.join("packed-refs");
check_path(&packed_path)?;
let bytes = read_bounded(&packed_path, &mut remaining)?.unwrap_or_default();
let records = packed::parse(self.object_format, &bytes, &packed_path)?;
Ok(records.get(name).map(|record| ReferenceObservation {
name: name.clone(),
target: Target::Direct(record.target),
peeled_hint: record.peeled_hint,
}))
}
}
fn check_ancestors(path: &Path) -> Result<(), ReferenceError> {
for ancestor in path.ancestors().skip(1) {
match fs::symlink_metadata(ancestor) {
Ok(metadata) if metadata.file_type().is_symlink() => {
return Err(ReferenceError::Unsupported(
"filesystem symlink in reference ancestor",
));
}
Ok(metadata) if !metadata.is_dir() => {
return Err(ReferenceError::Conflict(ancestor.into()));
}
Ok(_) => (),
Err(error) if error.kind() == io::ErrorKind::NotFound => (),
Err(source) => return Err(io_error(ancestor, source)),
}
}
Ok(())
}
fn read_bounded(path: &Path, remaining: &mut usize) -> Result<Option<Vec<u8>>, ReferenceError> {
let file = match File::open(path) {
Ok(file) => file,
Err(error) if error.kind() == io::ErrorKind::NotFound => return Ok(None),
Err(source) => return Err(io_error(path, source)),
};
let mut bytes = Vec::new();
file.take(remaining.saturating_add(1) as u64)
.read_to_end(&mut bytes)
.map_err(|source| io_error(path, source))?;
*remaining = remaining
.checked_sub(bytes.len())
.ok_or(ReferenceError::Limit("reference bytes"))?;
Ok(Some(bytes))
}
#[cfg(all(test, unix))]
#[allow(clippy::unwrap_used, reason = "test fixtures")]
mod tests;