upload-pack: allow stateless client EOF just prior to haves
During stateless packfile negotiation where a depth is given, stateless
RPC clients (e.g. git-remote-curl) will send multiple upload-pack
requests with the first containing only the
wants/shallows/deepens/filters and the subsequent containing haves/done.
When upload-pack handles such requests, entering get_common_commits
without checking whether the client has hung up can result in unexpected
EOF during the negotiation loop and a die() with message "fatal: the
remote end hung up unexpectedly".
Real world effects include:
- A client speaking to git-http-backend via a server that doesn't check
the exit codes of CGIs (e.g. mod_cgi) doesn't know and doesn't care
about the fatal. It continues to process the response body as normal.
- A client speaking to a server that does check the exit code and
returns an errant HTTP status as a result will fail with the message
"error: RPC failed; HTTP 500 curl 22 The requested URL returned error:
500."
- Admins running servers that surface the failure must workaround it by
patching code that handles execution of git-http-backend to ignore exit
codes or take other heuristic approaches.
- Admins may have to deal with "hung up unexpectedly" log spam related
to the failures even in cases where the exit code isn't surfaced as an
HTTP server-side error status.
To avoid these EOF related fatals, have upload-pack gently peek for an
EOF between the sending of shallow/unshallow lines (followed by flush)
and the reading of client haves. If the client has hung up at this
point, exit normally.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Duvall <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>