[PATCH] tests: Make sure that git does not access $HOME

John Keeping john at keeping.me.uk
Mon Apr 8 22:32:53 CEST 2013


On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 10:20:12PM +0200, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> From: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason at zx2c4.com>
> 
> With the latest changes to prevent git from accessing configuration
> files that it should not, it's important to be sure that we won't
> have further breakage in the future.
> 
> Use strace to implement a test to make sure cgit does not access()
> anything built from $HOME.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason at zx2c4.com>
> ---
>  tests/t0109-gitconfig.sh | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100755 tests/t0109-gitconfig.sh
> 
> diff --git a/tests/t0109-gitconfig.sh b/tests/t0109-gitconfig.sh
> new file mode 100755
> index 0000000..b68866f
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/tests/t0109-gitconfig.sh
> @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
> +#!/bin/sh
> +
> +test_description='Ensure that git does not access $HOME'
> +. ./setup.sh
> +
> +test -n "$(which strace 2>/dev/null)" || {
> +	skip_all='Skipping access validation tests: strace not found'
> +	test_done
> +	exit
> +}
> +
> +test_expect_success 'no access to $HOME' '
> +	non_existant_path="/path/to/some/place/that/does/not/possibly/exist/$(date +%N)"
> +	strace -E HOME="$non_existant_path" -E CGIT_CONFIG="$PWD/cgitrc" \
> +	-E QUERY_STRING="url=foo/commit" -e access -f cgit 2>&1 >/dev/null | \

Can we avoid a pipe here and use a temporary file instead?  In fact,
using "-o filename" to strace seems like the best way to make sure we
get exactly the right output.

It would also be a bit more readable like this:

	strace -E HOME="$non_existant_path" \
		-E CGIT_CONFIG="$PWD/cgitrc" \
		-E QUERY_STRING="url=foo/commit" \
		-e access \
		-o strace.out \
		-f cgit &&

> +	test_must_fail grep "$non_existant_path"
> +'
> +
> +test_done
> -- 
> 1.8.1.5




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