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Fix a logic error in refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() introduced in a recent series of mine to abstract the refs API away from errno. See96f6623ada(Merge branch 'ab/refs-errno-cleanup', 2021-11-29)for that series. In that series introduction of "failure_errno" to refs_resolve_ref_unsafe came inef18119dec(refs API: add a version of refs_resolve_ref_unsafe() with "errno", 2021-10-16). There we'd set "errno = 0" immediately before refs_read_raw_ref(), and then set "failure_errno" to "errno" if errno was non-zero afterwards. Then in the next commit8b72fea7e9(refs API: make refs_read_raw_ref() not set errno, 2021-10-16) we started expecting "refs_read_raw_ref()" to set "failure_errno". It would do that if refs_read_raw_ref() failed, but it wouldn't be the same errno. So we might set the "errno" here to any arbitrary bad value, and end up e.g. returning NULL when we meant to return the refname from refs_resolve_ref_unsafe(), or the other way around. Instrumenting this code will reveal cases where refs_read_raw_ref() will fail, and "errno" and "failure_errno" will be set to different values. In practice I haven't found a case where this scary bug changed anything in practice. The reason for that is that we'll not care about the actual value of "errno" here per-se, but only whether: 1. We have an errno 2. If it's one of ENOENT, EISDIR or ENOTDIR. See the adjacent code added ina1c1d8170d(refs_resolve_ref_unsafe: handle d/f conflicts for writes, 2017-10-06) I.e. if we clobber "failure_errno" with "errno", but it happened to be one of those three, and we'll clobber it with another one of the three we were OK. Perhaps there are cases where the difference ended up mattering, but I haven't found them. Instrumenting the test suite to fail if "errno" and "failure_errno" are different shows a lot of failures, checking if they're different *and* one is but not the other is outside that list of three "errno" values yields no failures. But let's fix the obvious bug. We should just stop paying attention to "errno" in refs_resolve_ref_unsafe(). In addition let's change the partial resetting of "errno" in files_read_raw_ref() to happen just before the "return", to ensure that any such bug will be more easily spotted in the future. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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