run-command: mark path lookup errors with ENOENT

Since commit e3a434468f (run-command: use the
async-signal-safe execv instead of execvp, 2017-04-19),
prepare_cmd() does its own PATH lookup for any commands we
run (on non-Windows platforms).

However, its logic does not match the old execvp call when
we fail to find a matching entry in the PATH. Instead of
feeding the name directly to execv, execvp would consider
that an ENOENT error. By continuing and passing the name
directly to execv, we effectively behave as if "." was
included at the end of the PATH. This can have confusing and
even dangerous results.

The fix itself is pretty straight-forward. There's a new
test in t0061 to cover this explicitly, and I've also added
a duplicate of the ENOENT test to ensure that we return the
correct errno for this case.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/run-command.c b/run-command.c
index 014b2165b5..8d42a4f534 100644
--- a/run-command.c
+++ b/run-command.c
@@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ static void child_err_spew(struct child_process *cmd, struct child_err *cerr)
 	set_error_routine(old_errfn);
 }
 
-static void prepare_cmd(struct argv_array *out, const struct child_process *cmd)
+static int prepare_cmd(struct argv_array *out, const struct child_process *cmd)
 {
 	if (!cmd->argv[0])
 		die("BUG: command is empty");
@@ -401,16 +401,22 @@ static void prepare_cmd(struct argv_array *out, const struct child_process *cmd)
 	/*
 	 * If there are no '/' characters in the command then perform a path
 	 * lookup and use the resolved path as the command to exec.  If there
-	 * are no '/' characters or if the command wasn't found in the path,
-	 * have exec attempt to invoke the command directly.
+	 * are '/' characters, we have exec attempt to invoke the command
+	 * directly.
 	 */
 	if (!strchr(out->argv[1], '/')) {
 		char *program = locate_in_PATH(out->argv[1]);
 		if (program) {
 			free((char *)out->argv[1]);
 			out->argv[1] = program;
+		} else {
+			argv_array_clear(out);
+			errno = ENOENT;
+			return -1;
 		}
 	}
+
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static char **prep_childenv(const char *const *deltaenv)
@@ -635,6 +641,12 @@ fail_pipe:
 	struct child_err cerr;
 	struct atfork_state as;
 
+	if (prepare_cmd(&argv, cmd) < 0) {
+		failed_errno = errno;
+		cmd->pid = -1;
+		goto end_of_spawn;
+	}
+
 	if (pipe(notify_pipe))
 		notify_pipe[0] = notify_pipe[1] = -1;
 
@@ -645,7 +657,6 @@ fail_pipe:
 		set_cloexec(null_fd);
 	}
 
-	prepare_cmd(&argv, cmd);
 	childenv = prep_childenv(cmd->env);
 	atfork_prepare(&as);
 
@@ -773,6 +784,8 @@ fail_pipe:
 	argv_array_clear(&argv);
 	free(childenv);
 }
+end_of_spawn:
+
 #else
 {
 	int fhin = 0, fhout = 1, fherr = 2;