repo: improve support for gitdir indirection

- add a limited reader to avoid abuse
- support recusive indirection (up to depth 10)
- check that the pointed to repo does exist

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/repository/gogit.go b/repository/gogit.go
index 01eace6d..96d62665 100644
--- a/repository/gogit.go
+++ b/repository/gogit.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"bytes"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"io"
 	"io/ioutil"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
@@ -56,7 +57,7 @@ type GoGitRepo struct {
 // of "~/myrepo" and a namespace of "git-bug", local storage for the
 // GoGitRepo will be configured at "~/myrepo/.git/git-bug".
 func OpenGoGitRepo(path, namespace string, clockLoaders []ClockLoader) (*GoGitRepo, error) {
-	path, err := detectGitPath(path)
+	path, err := detectGitPath(path, 0)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
@@ -160,7 +161,11 @@ func InitBareGoGitRepo(path, namespace string) (*GoGitRepo, error) {
 	}, nil
 }
 
-func detectGitPath(path string) (string, error) {
+func detectGitPath(path string, depth int) (string, error) {
+	if depth >= 10 {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("gitdir loop detected")
+	}
+
 	// normalize the path
 	path, err := filepath.Abs(path)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -179,18 +184,22 @@ func detectGitPath(path string) (string, error) {
 				}
 				// We aren't going to defer the dotfile.Close, because we might keep looping, so we have to be sure to
 				// clean up before returning an error
-				reader := bufio.NewReader(dotfile)
+				reader := bufio.NewReader(io.LimitReader(dotfile, 2048))
 				line, _, err := reader.ReadLine()
 				_ = dotfile.Close()
 				if err != nil {
-					return "", fmt.Errorf(".git exists but is not a direcctory and cannot be read: %w", err)
+					return "", fmt.Errorf(".git exists but is not a directory and cannot be read: %w", err)
 				}
 				dotContent := string(line)
 				if strings.HasPrefix(dotContent, "gitdir:") {
 					// This is a submodule parent path link. Strip the prefix, clean the string of whitespace just to
 					// be safe, and return
 					dotContent = strings.TrimSpace(strings.TrimPrefix(dotContent, "gitdir: "))
-					return dotContent, nil
+					p, err := detectGitPath(dotContent, depth+1)
+					if err != nil {
+						return "", fmt.Errorf(".git gitdir error: %w", err)
+					}
+					return p, nil
 				}
 				return "", fmt.Errorf(".git exist but is not a directory or module/workspace file")
 			}