From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] forbidding symlinked .gitattributes and .gitignore
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2020 00:32:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201005073202.GC1166820@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201005071751.GA2290770@coredump.intra.peff.net>
Jeff King wrote:
> About 2 years ago as part of a security release we made it illegal to
> have a symlinked .gitmodules file (refusing it both in the index and via
> fsck). At the time we discussed (on the security list) outlawing
> symlinks for other .git files in the same way, but we decided not to do
> so as part of the security release, as it wasn't strictly necessary.
>
> We publicly revisited the topic in:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/20190114230902.GG162110@google.com/
>
> but there were a few fixes needed, and it got forgotten. So here it is
> again, with those fixes:
Oh! I'm excited --- at $DAYJOB we've been carrying that patch since
then; I'll be happy to drop it. :)
Jonathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-05 7:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-05 7:17 [PATCH 0/7] forbidding symlinked .gitattributes and .gitignore Jeff King
2020-10-05 7:19 ` [PATCH 1/7] fsck_tree(): fix shadowed variable Jeff King
2020-10-05 7:44 ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-05 8:20 ` Jeff King
2020-10-05 8:29 ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-05 7:19 ` [PATCH 2/7] fsck_tree(): wrap some long lines Jeff King
2020-10-05 7:46 ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-05 7:19 ` [PATCH 3/7] t7415: rename to expand scope Jeff King
2020-10-05 7:50 ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-05 8:24 ` Jeff King
2020-10-05 8:34 ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-05 8:49 ` Jeff King
2020-10-05 7:20 ` [PATCH 4/7] t7450: test verify_path() handling of gitmodules Jeff King
2020-10-05 7:53 ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-05 8:30 ` Jeff King
2020-10-05 8:38 ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-05 7:21 ` [PATCH 5/7] t0060: test obscured .gitattributes and .gitignore matching Jeff King
2020-10-05 8:03 ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-05 8:40 ` Jeff King
2020-10-05 21:20 ` Johannes Schindelin
2020-10-06 14:01 ` Jeff King
2020-10-05 7:24 ` [PATCH 6/7] verify_path(): disallow symlinks in .gitattributes and .gitignore Jeff King
2020-10-05 8:09 ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-05 12:07 ` Jeff King
2020-10-05 7:25 ` [PATCH 7/7] fsck: complain when .gitattributes or .gitignore is a symlink Jeff King
2020-10-05 8:12 ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-05 8:53 ` Jeff King
2020-10-05 7:32 ` Jonathan Nieder [this message]
2020-10-05 8:58 ` [PATCH 0/7] forbidding symlinked .gitattributes and .gitignore Jeff King
2020-10-05 12:16 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] " Jeff King
2020-10-05 12:16 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] fsck_tree(): fix shadowed variable Jeff King
2020-10-05 12:16 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] fsck_tree(): wrap some long lines Jeff King
2020-10-05 12:16 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] t7415: rename to expand scope Jeff King
2020-10-05 12:16 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] t7450: test verify_path() handling of gitmodules Jeff King
2020-10-05 12:16 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] t7450: test .gitmodules symlink matching against obscured names Jeff King
2020-10-05 12:16 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] t0060: test obscured .gitattributes and .gitignore matching Jeff King
2020-10-05 12:16 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] verify_path(): disallow symlinks in .gitattributes and .gitignore Jeff King
2020-10-27 3:35 ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-27 7:58 ` Jeff King
2020-10-27 22:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-28 9:41 ` Jeff King
2020-10-27 23:43 ` Jonathan Nieder
2020-10-28 19:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-05 12:16 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] fsck: complain when .gitattributes or .gitignore is a symlink Jeff King
2020-10-06 20:41 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] forbidding symlinked .gitattributes and .gitignore Junio C Hamano
2020-10-20 23:19 ` Philip Oakley
2020-10-23 8:17 ` [PATCH] documentation symlink restrictions for .git* files Jeff King
2020-10-23 8:27 ` Jeff King
2020-10-26 22:18 ` Philip Oakley
2020-10-26 22:53 ` Jeff King
2020-10-26 23:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-27 7:26 ` Jeff King
2020-10-27 18:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2020-10-27 21:00 ` Philip Oakley
2020-10-28 19:14 ` Junio C Hamano
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