From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Emily Shaffer <emilyshaffer@google.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/9] bugreport: add config values from whitelist
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 18:30:59 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.QRO.7.76.6.1912151826380.46@tvgsbejvaqbjf.bet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191211204811.GC107889@google.com>
Hi Emily,
On Wed, 11 Dec 2019, Emily Shaffer wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 03:14:35PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> >
> > On Thu, 24 Oct 2019, Emily Shaffer wrote:
> >
> > > Teach bugreport to gather the values of config options which are
> > > present in 'git-bugreport-config-whitelist'.
> > >
> > > Many config options are sensitive, and many Git add-ons use config
> > > options which git-core does not know about; it is better only to
> > > gather config options which we know to be safe, rather than
> > > excluding options which we know to be unsafe.
> >
> > Should we still have the `// bugreport-exclude` comments, then?
>
> They were optional (useless) before too. I can remove them if you want;
> I suppose I like the idea of having precedent if someone wants to build
> their own internal version with opt-out configs rather than opt-in. I
> can remove them if we want; it doesn't matter very much to me either
> way.
How are you guaranteeing that this information does not become stale,
like, immediately?
If you _still_ insist on keeping those comments even after answering this
question, at least please turn them into C-style comments: we have no
C++-style comments in Git and want to keep it this way.
> > > diff --git a/bugreport.c b/bugreport.c
> > > [...]
> > > + }
> > > +
> > > + return 0;
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +void get_whitelisted_config(struct strbuf *config_info)
> > > +{
> > > + struct strbuf path = STRBUF_INIT;
> > > +
> > > + strbuf_addstr(&path, git_exec_path());
> > > + strbuf_addstr(&path, "/git-bugreport-config-whitelist");
> >
> > Hmm. I would have expected this patch to come directly after the patch
> > 2/9 that generates that white-list, and I would also have expected that
> > to be pre-sorted, and compiled in.
> >
> > Do you want users to _edit_ the file in the exec path? In general, that
> > path will be write-protected, though. A better alternative would
> > probably be to compile in a hard-coded list, and to allow including more
> > values e.g. by offering command-line options to specify config setting
> > patterns. But if we allow patterns, we might actually want to have those
> > exclusions to prevent sensitive data from being included.
>
> Hm, interesting. Do we have precedent for compiling in a header
> generated during the build process? I think I saw one when I was adding
> this script - I'll take a look.
Yes, we do. The entire `command-list.h` is generated during the build.
Look for `GENERATED_H` in the `Makefile`.
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-12-15 17:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-15 2:34 [PATCH] bugreport: add tool to generate debugging info Emily Shaffer
2019-08-15 14:15 ` Derrick Stolee
2019-08-15 14:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-15 22:52 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-08-15 23:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-16 1:25 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-08-16 16:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-16 19:08 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-08-15 20:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-08-15 22:24 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-08-16 20:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-08-15 20:13 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-08-15 18:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-15 21:52 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-08-15 22:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-08-15 22:54 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-08-17 0:39 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] add git-bugreport tool Emily Shaffer
2019-08-17 0:39 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] bugreport: add tool to generate debugging info Emily Shaffer
2019-08-17 0:39 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] bugreport: generate config whitelist based on docs Emily Shaffer
2019-08-17 20:38 ` Martin Ågren
2019-08-21 17:40 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-10-25 2:51 ` [PATCH v3 0/9] add git-bugreport tool Emily Shaffer
2019-10-25 2:51 ` [PATCH v3 1/9] bugreport: add tool to generate debugging info Emily Shaffer
2019-10-29 20:29 ` Josh Steadmon
2019-11-16 3:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-11-19 20:25 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-11-19 23:24 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-11-20 0:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-11-20 10:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-11-19 23:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-11-20 0:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-11-20 2:09 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-11-20 0:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-10-25 2:51 ` [PATCH v3 2/9] bugreport: generate config whitelist based on docs Emily Shaffer
2019-10-28 13:27 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-25 2:51 ` [PATCH v3 3/9] bugreport: add version and system information Emily Shaffer
2019-10-28 13:49 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-11-08 21:48 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-11-11 13:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-11-14 21:42 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-10-29 20:43 ` Josh Steadmon
2019-10-25 2:51 ` [PATCH v3 4/9] bugreport: add config values from whitelist Emily Shaffer
2019-10-28 14:14 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-12-11 20:48 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-12-15 17:30 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2019-10-29 20:58 ` Josh Steadmon
2019-10-30 1:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-11-14 21:55 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-10-25 2:51 ` [PATCH v3 5/9] bugreport: collect list of populated hooks Emily Shaffer
2019-10-28 14:31 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-12-11 20:51 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-12-15 17:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-25 2:51 ` [PATCH v3 6/9] bugreport: count loose objects Emily Shaffer
2019-10-28 15:07 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-12-10 22:34 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-10-29 21:18 ` Josh Steadmon
2019-10-25 2:51 ` [PATCH v3 7/9] bugreport: add packed object summary Emily Shaffer
2019-10-28 15:43 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-12-11 0:29 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-12-11 13:37 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-12-11 20:52 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-10-25 2:51 ` [PATCH v3 8/9] bugreport: list contents of $OBJDIR/info Emily Shaffer
2019-10-28 15:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-10-25 2:51 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] bugreport: print contents of alternates file Emily Shaffer
2019-10-28 15:57 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-11-19 20:40 ` Emily Shaffer
2019-10-29 1:54 ` [PATCH v3 0/9] add git-bugreport tool Junio C Hamano
2019-10-29 11:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
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