Re: [PATCH v2] gpg-interface: trim CR from ssh-keygen

[Fabian Stelzer <fs@gigacodes.de>]

On 05.01.2022 02:09, Eric Sunshine wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 2:33 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Fabian Stelzer <fs@gigacodes.de> writes:
>> > I guess we need a bit more context for this patch to make sense:
>> >
>> > for (line = ssh_principals_out.buf; *line;
>> >      line = strchrnul(line + 1, '\n')) {
>> >       while (*line == '\n')
>> >               line++;
>> >       if (!*line)
>> >               break;
>> >
>> >       trust_size = strcspn(line, "\n"); /* truncate at LF */
>> >       if (trust_size && trust_size != strlen(line) &&
>> >           line[trust_size - 1] == '\r')
>> >               trust_size--; /* the LF was part of CRLF at the end */
>> >       principal = xmemdupz(line, trust_size);
>>
>> Ahh, OK.  Sorry for being ultra lazy for not visiting the actual
>> source but just responding after reading only somebody else's
>> comments.
>
>I'm also guilty of being lazy and not consulting the actual source. Sorry.
>
>Fabian, thanks for all the extra context information.
>
>> OK, so I was completely missing the idea.  And I agree that it may
>> be a good idea to check how strcspn() returned to deal with an
>> incomplete line, although as you hint later in the message I am
>> responding to, checking line[trust_size] would be a more obvious
>> implementation.
>>
>> In any case, I think the earlier part of the loop is more confusing,
>> and I think fixing that would naturally fix the trust_size
>> computation.  For example, wouldn't this easier to grok?
>
>Indeed, the existing code is confusing me. I've been staring at it for
>several minutes and I think I'm still failing to understand the
>purpose of the +1 in the strchrnul() call. Perhaps I'm missing
>something obvious(?).

This whole loop was basically copied from parse_gpg_output() above. Without 
the +1 this would always find the same line in the buffer. The +1 skips over 
the previously found LF.

>
>>         const char *next;
>>
>>         for (line = ssh_principals_out.buf;
>>              *line;
>>              line = next) {
>>                 const char *end_of_text;
>>
>>                 /* Find the terminating LF */
>>                 next = end_of_text = strchrnul(line, '\n');
>>
>>                 /* Did we find a LF, and did we have CR before it? */
>>                 if (*end_of_text &&
>>                     line < end_of_text &&
>>                     end_of_text[-1] == '\r')
>>                         end_of_text--;
>
>It took several seconds for me to convince myself that the -1 array
>index was safe. Had the `line < end_of_text` condition been written
>`end_of_text > line`, I think it would have been immediately obvious,
>but it's subjective, of course.
>
>>                 /* Unless we hit NUL, skip over the LF we found */
>>                 if (*next)
>>                         next++;
>>
>>                 /* Not all lines are data.  Skip empty ones */
>>                 if (line == end_of_text)
>>                         /*
>>                          * You may want to allow skipping more than just
>>                          * lines with 0-byte on them (e.g. comments?)
>>                          * depending on the format you are reading.
>>                          */
>>                         continue;
>>
>>                 /* We now know we have an non-empty line. Process it */
>>                 principal = xmemdupz(line, end_of_text - line);
>>                 ...
>>         }
>>
>> The idea is to make sure that the place where the line ending
>> convention is taken care of is very isolated at the beginning of the
>> loop.
>
>Yes, this may be an improvement, though the cognitive load is still
>somewhat high. Using one of the `split` functions from strbuf.h or
>string-list.h might reduce the cognitive load significantly, even if
>this code still needs to handle CR removal manually since none of the
>`split` functions are LF/CRLF agnostic. (Adding such a function might
>be useful but could be outside the scope of this bug fix patch.)

How about something like this:

int string_find_line(char **line, size_t *len) {
	const char *eol = NULL;

	if (*len > 0) {
		*line = *line + *len;
		if (**line && **line == '\r')
			(*line)++;
		if (**line && **line == '\n')
			(*line)++;
	}

	if (!**line)
		return 0;

	eol = strchrnul(*line, '\n');

	/* Trim trailing CR from length */
	if (eol > *line && eol[-1] == '\r')
		eol--;

	*len = eol - *line;
	return 1;
}

Its use would then simply be:

char *line = strbuf.buf;
size_t len = 0;
while(string_find_line(&line,&len)) {
	if (!len)
		continue; /* Skip over empty lines */
	principal = xmemdupz(line, len);
}

Not sure about the name though.
Maybe string_find_line() / _iterate_line / foreach_line ?