[PATCH] Use sq_quote() to properly quote the parameter to call shell.

This tries to be more lenient to the users and stricter to the
attackers by quoting the input properly for shell safety,
instead of forbidding certain characters from the input.

Things to note:

 - We do not quote "prog" parameter (which comes from --exec).
   The user should know what he is doing.  --exec='echo foo'
   will supply the first two parameters to the resulting
   command, while --exec="'echo foo'" will give the first
   parameter, a single string with a space inside.

 - We do not care too much about leaking the sq_quote() output
   just before running exec().

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 30 deletions

diff --git a/connect.c b/connect.c
index 3d4b31d340..b508be3ed8 100644
--- a/connect.c
+++ b/connect.c
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 #include "cache.h"
 #include "pkt-line.h"
+#include "quote.h"
 #include <sys/wait.h>
 
 int get_ack(int fd, unsigned char *result_sha1)
@@ -42,34 +43,6 @@ int path_match(const char *path, int nr, char **match)
 }
 
 /*
- * First, make it shell-safe.  We do this by just disallowing any
- * special characters. Somebody who cares can do escaping and let
- * through the rest. But since we're doing to feed this to ssh as
- * a command line, we're going to be pretty damn anal for now.
- */
-static char *shell_safe(char *url)
-{
-	char *n = url;
-	unsigned char c;
-	static const char flags[256] = {
-		['0'...'9'] = 1,
-		['a'...'z'] = 1,
-		['A'...'Z'] = 1,
-		['.'] = 1, ['/'] = 1,
-		['-'] = 1, ['+'] = 1,
-		[':'] = 1, ['_'] = 1,
-		['@'] = 1, [','] = 1,
-		['~'] = 1, ['^'] = 1,
-	};
-
-	while ((c = *n++) != 0) {
-		if (flags[c] != 1)
-			die("I don't like '%c'. Sue me.", c);
-	}
-	return url;
-}
-
-/*
  * Yeah, yeah, fixme. Need to pass in the heads etc.
  */
 int git_connect(int fd[2], char *url, const char *prog)
@@ -80,7 +53,6 @@ int git_connect(int fd[2], char *url, const char *prog)
 	int pipefd[2][2];
 	pid_t pid;
 
-	url = shell_safe(url);
 	host = NULL;
 	path = url;
 	colon = strchr(url, ':');
@@ -89,11 +61,12 @@ int git_connect(int fd[2], char *url, const char *prog)
 		host = url;
 		path = colon+1;
 	}
-	snprintf(command, sizeof(command), "%s %s", prog, path);
 	if (pipe(pipefd[0]) < 0 || pipe(pipefd[1]) < 0)
 		die("unable to create pipe pair for communication");
 	pid = fork();
 	if (!pid) {
+		snprintf(command, sizeof(command), "%s %s", prog,
+			 sq_quote(path));
 		dup2(pipefd[1][0], 0);
 		dup2(pipefd[0][1], 1);
 		close(pipefd[0][0]);