git-submodule: forward exit code of git-submodule--helper more faithfully

git-submodule--helper is invoked as the upstream of a pipe in several
places. Usually, the failure of a program in this position is not
detected by the shell. For this reason, the code inserts a token in the
output stream when git-submodule--helper fails that is detected
downstream, where the shell script is quit with exit code 1.

There happens to be a bug in git-submodule--helper that leads to a
segmentation fault. The test suite triggers the crash in several places,
all of which are protected by 'test_must_fail'. But due to the inspecific
exit code 1, the crash remains undiagnosed.

Extend the failure protocol such that git-submodule--helper's exit code
is passed downstream (only in the case of failure). This enables the
downstream to use it as its own exit code, and 'test_must_fail' to
identify the segmentation fault as an unexpected failure.

The bug itself is fixed in the next commit.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Acked-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

3 files changed, 15 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index 7c62b53cc0..d8765361c5 100755
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ die_if_unmatched ()
 {
 	if test "$1" = "#unmatched"
 	then
-		exit 1
+		exit ${2:-1}
 	fi
 }
 
@@ -312,11 +312,11 @@ cmd_foreach()
 
 	{
 		git submodule--helper list --prefix "$wt_prefix" ||
-		echo "#unmatched"
+		echo "#unmatched" $?
 	} |
 	while read mode sha1 stage sm_path
 	do
-		die_if_unmatched "$mode"
+		die_if_unmatched "$mode" "$sha1"
 		if test -e "$sm_path"/.git
 		then
 			displaypath=$(git submodule--helper relative-path "$prefix$sm_path" "$wt_prefix")
@@ -423,11 +423,11 @@ cmd_deinit()
 
 	{
 		git submodule--helper list --prefix "$wt_prefix" "$@" ||
-		echo "#unmatched"
+		echo "#unmatched" $?
 	} |
 	while read mode sha1 stage sm_path
 	do
-		die_if_unmatched "$mode"
+		die_if_unmatched "$mode" "$sha1"
 		name=$(git submodule--helper name "$sm_path") || exit
 
 		displaypath=$(git submodule--helper relative-path "$sm_path" "$wt_prefix")
@@ -580,12 +580,12 @@ cmd_update()
 		${depth:+--depth "$depth"} \
 		${recommend_shallow:+"$recommend_shallow"} \
 		${jobs:+$jobs} \
-		"$@" || echo "#unmatched"
+		"$@" || echo "#unmatched" $?
 	} | {
 	err=
 	while read mode sha1 stage just_cloned sm_path
 	do
-		die_if_unmatched "$mode"
+		die_if_unmatched "$mode" "$sha1"
 
 		name=$(git submodule--helper name "$sm_path") || exit
 		url=$(git config submodule."$name".url)
@@ -993,11 +993,11 @@ cmd_status()
 
 	{
 		git submodule--helper list --prefix "$wt_prefix" "$@" ||
-		echo "#unmatched"
+		echo "#unmatched" $?
 	} |
 	while read mode sha1 stage sm_path
 	do
-		die_if_unmatched "$mode"
+		die_if_unmatched "$mode" "$sha1"
 		name=$(git submodule--helper name "$sm_path") || exit
 		url=$(git config submodule."$name".url)
 		displaypath=$(git submodule--helper relative-path "$prefix$sm_path" "$wt_prefix")
@@ -1074,11 +1074,11 @@ cmd_sync()
 	cd_to_toplevel
 	{
 		git submodule--helper list --prefix "$wt_prefix" "$@" ||
-		echo "#unmatched"
+		echo "#unmatched" $?
 	} |
 	while read mode sha1 stage sm_path
 	do
-		die_if_unmatched "$mode"
+		die_if_unmatched "$mode" "$sha1"
 		name=$(git submodule--helper name "$sm_path")
 		url=$(git config -f .gitmodules --get submodule."$name".url)
 
diff --git a/t/t5815-submodule-protos.sh b/t/t5815-submodule-protos.sh
index 06f55a1b8a..112cf40233 100755
--- a/t/t5815-submodule-protos.sh
+++ b/t/t5815-submodule-protos.sh
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ test_expect_success 'setup repository with submodules' '
 	git commit -m "add submodules"
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'clone with recurse-submodules fails' '
+test_expect_failure 'clone with recurse-submodules fails' '
 	test_must_fail git clone --recurse-submodules . dst
 '
 
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ test_expect_success 'update of ssh allowed' '
 	git -C dst submodule update ssh-module
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'update of ext not allowed' '
+test_expect_failure 'update of ext not allowed' '
 	test_must_fail git -C dst submodule update ext-module
 '
 
diff --git a/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh b/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
index 3570f7bb8c..fba2659a22 100755
--- a/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
+++ b/t/t7400-submodule-basic.sh
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ test_expect_success 'sync should fail with unknown submodule' '
 	test_failure_with_unknown_submodule sync
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'update should fail when path is used by a file' '
+test_expect_failure 'update should fail when path is used by a file' '
 	echo hello >expect &&
 
 	echo "hello" >init &&
@@ -361,7 +361,7 @@ test_expect_success 'update should fail when path is used by a file' '
 	test_cmp expect init
 '
 
-test_expect_success 'update should fail when path is used by a nonempty directory' '
+test_expect_failure 'update should fail when path is used by a nonempty directory' '
 	echo hello >expect &&
 
 	rm -fr init &&