In 2013, I wrote "Cryptohash benchmarks 90 to 101% faster than external
hashers". Re-benchmarking today, I found cryptonite's sha256 consistently
outperformed coreutils by 10% for large files. Tested 10 mb, 100 mb, 1 gb
files with both sha256 and sha512. And for smaller files, the external
process startup time swamps the hash time.
Perhaps cryptonite has improved. Or it could just do better on my
current CPU Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU 4410Y @ 1.50GHz). Anyway, even if cryptonite
is slower in some situations, seems likely it would only be marginally slower;
it's got the same class of highly optimised C code under the hood as coreutils.
The main difference between the two sha256 implementations seems to be
how much of the inner loop they unroll..
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Probably not noticed until now because the queue is large enough that two
threads each filling theirs at the same time and flushing is unlikely to
happen.
Also made explicit that each worker thread gets its own queue.
I think that was the case before, but if something was put in the queue
before worker threads were forked off, they could have each inherited the
same queue.
Could have gone with a single shared queue, but per-worker queues is more
efficient, because a worker can add lots of stuff to its own queue without
any locking.
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v6: When annex.largefiles is not configured for a file, running git add or
git commit, or otherwise using git to stage a file will add it to the annex
if the file was in the annex before, and to git otherwise. This is to avoid
accidental conversion.
Note that git-annex add's behavior has not changed, for reasons explained
in the added comment.
Performance: No added overhead when annex.largefiles is configured.
When not configured, there is an added call to catObjectMetaData,
which involves a round trip through git cat-file --batch.
However, the earlier catKeyFile primes the cache for it.
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Update pointer file next time reconcileStaged is run to recover from the
race.
Note that restagePointerFile causes git to run the clean filter,
and that will run reconcileStaged. So, normally by the time the git
annex get/drop command finishes, the race has already been dealt with.
It may be that, in some case, that won't happen and the race will be
dealt with at a later point. git-annex could run reconcileStaged at
shutdown if that becomes a problem.
This does not handle the situation where the git mv is committed before
git-annex gets a chance to run again. git commit does run the clean
filter, and that happens to re-inject the content if it was supposed to
be dropped but is still populated. But, the case where the file was
supposed to be gotten but is not populated is not handled yet.
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It can be set to an empty string to use the system locales too. Of course
whether that will work depends on the amount of divergence.
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After updating the worktree for an add/drop, update git's index, so git
status will not show the files as modified.
What actually happens is that the index update removes the inode
information from the index. The next git status (or similar) run
then has to do some work. It runs the clean filter.
So, this depends on the clean filter being reasonably fast and on git
not leaking memory when running it. Both problems were fixed in
a96972015d, but only for git 2.5. Anyone
using an older git will see very expensive git status after an add/drop.
This uses the same git update-index queue as other parts of git-annex, so
the actual index update is fairly efficient. Of course, updating the index
does still have some overhead. The annex.queuesize config will control how
often the index gets updated when working on a lot of files.
This is an imperfect workaround... Added several todos about new
problems this workaround causes. Still, this seems a lot better than the
old behavior.
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v6 add: Take advantage of improved SIGPIPE handler in git 2.5 to speed up
the clean filter by not reading the file content from the pipe. This also
avoids git buffering the whole file content in memory.
When built with an older git, still consumes stdin. If built with a newer
git and used with an older one, it breaks, but that's acceptable --
checking the git version every time would make repeated smudge runs slow.
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When --batch is used with matching options like --in, --metadata, etc, only
operate on the provided files when they match those options. Otherwise, a
blank line is output in the batch protocol.
Affected commands: find, add, whereis, drop, copy, move, get
In the case of find, the documentation for --batch already said it honored
the matching options. The docs for the rest didn't, but it makes sense to
have them honor them. While this is a behavior change, why specify the
matching options with --batch if you didn't want them to apply?
Note that the batch output for all of the affected commands could
already output a blank line in other cases, so batch users should
already be prepared to deal with it.
git-annex metadata didn't seem worth making support the matching options,
since all it does is output metadata or set metadata, the use cases for
using it in combination with the martching options seem small. Made it
refuse to run when they're combined, leaving open the possibility for later
support if a use case develops.
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Added getStaged, to get the versions of git-annex branch files staged in its
index, and use during transitions so the result of merging sibling branches
is used.
The catFileStop in performTransitionsLocked is absolutely necessary,
without that the bug still occurred, because git cat-file was already
running and was looking at the old index file.
Note that getLocal still has cat-file look at the git-annex branch, not the
index. It might be faster if it looked at the index, but probably only
marginally so, and I've not benchmarked it to see if it's faster at all. I
didn't want to change unrelated behavior as part of this bug fix. And as
the need for catFileStop shows, using the index file has added
complications.
Anyway, it still seems fine for getLocal to look at the git-annex branch,
because normally the index file is updated just before the git-annex branch
is committed, and so they'll contain the same information. It's only during
a transition that the two diverge.
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It was sorting by uuid, rather than cost!
Avoid future bugs of this kind by changing the Ord to primarily compare
by cost, with uuid only used when the cost is the same.
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Added annex.commitmessage config that can specify a commit message for the
git-annex branch instead of the usual "update".
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Useful for dropping old objects from cache repositories.
But also, quite a genrally useful thing to have..
Rather than imitiating find's -atime and other options, all of which are
pretty horrible to use, I made this match files accessed within a time
period, using the same duration format used by git-annex schedule and
--limit-time
In passing, changed the --limit-time option parser to parse the
duration, instead of having it later throw an error.
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Added remote.name.annex-speculate-present config that can be used to
make cache remotes.
Implemented it in Remote.keyPossibilities, which is used by the
get/move/copy/mirror commands, and nothing else. This way, things like
whereis will not show content that's speculatively present.
The assistant and sync --content were not using Remote.keyPossibilities,
and were changed to use it.
The efficiency hit should be small; Remote.keyPossibilities is only
used before transferring a file, which is the expensive operation.
And, it's only doing one lookup of the remoteList and a very cheap
filter over it.
Note that, git-annex still updates the location log when copying content
to a remote with annex-speculate-present set. In this case, the location
tracking will indicate that content is present in the remote. This may
not be wanted for caches, or may not be a real problem for them. TBD.
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Switch to using http-client for large file downloads caused the reversion;
the code for displaying a 404 response was instead displaying the raw html
document, which is not useful.
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Support working trees set up by git-worktree, by setting up some symlinks
such that git-annex links work right.
Also improved support for repositories created with --separate-git-dir.
At least recent git makes a .git file for those (older may have used a
symlink?), so that also needs to be converted to a symlink.
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Work around git bug that runs smudge/clean filters at the top of the
repository while passing them a relative GIT_WORK_TREE that may point
outside of the repository, by using GIT_PREFIX to get back to the
subdirectory where a relative GIT_WORK_TREE is valid.
git devs have been informed of the bug and may fix it, which could conveivably
break this fix, but as it is, this works back to git 1.7.6.
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Send User-Agent and any configured annex.http-headers when downloading with
http, fixes reversion introduced when switching to http-client.
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linux standalone: Generate locale files in ~/.cache/git-annex/locales/ so
they're available even when the standalone tarball is installed in a
directory owned by root.
This avoids a full-on reference counting cleanup hell, by letting old
locale caches linger as long as the standalone bundle directory associated
with them is still around. Old ones get cleaned up.
In the case where the directory has a new bundle unpacked over top of it,
the old locale cache is invalidated and rebuilt. Of course, running
programs using that may get confused, but this was already the case, and
unpacking over top of a bundle is probably not a good idea anyhow.
To support that, added a buildid file, which only needs to be unique across
builds of git-annex with different libc versions. sha1sum of git-annex
seems good enough for that.
Removed debian/patches/standalone-no-LOCPATH as it's no longer
necessary.
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p2p --pair: Fix interception of the magic-wormhole pairing code, which
since 0.8.2 it has sent to stderr rather than stdout.
This is highly annoying because I had asked the magic wormhole developers
for a machine-readable way to get the data, and instead they changed how
the data was output, and didn't even mention this in my issue, or in the
changelog.
Seems this needs to be tested periodically to make sure it's still working.
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Fix reversion introduced in version 6.20180316 that caused git-annex to
stop processing files when unable to contact a ssh remote.
The bug was not in any of the changed lines, but this one in inAnnex:
P2PHelper.checkpresent (Ssh.runProto rmt connpool (cantCheck rmt) fallback) key
cantCheck throws an exception, but that parameter to runProto expects a
value, which it returns. So, inAnnex is returning a Bool containing an
exception. This defeats the usual checks for checkPresent throwing an
exception, crashing git-annex.
Fixed by making runProto take an `Annex a` instead of an `a`, so
passing cantCheck to it doesn't nest exceptions.
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addurl: When security configuration prevents downloads with youtube-dl,
still check if the url is one that it supports, and fail downloading it,
instead of downloading the raw web page.
Leveraged the existing verification code by making it also check the
retrievalSecurityPolicy.
Also, prevented getViaTmp from running the download action at all when the
retrievalSecurityPolicy is going to prevent verifying and so storing it.
Added annex.security.allow-unverified-downloads. A per-remote version
would be nice to have too, but would need more plumbing, so KISS.
(Bill the Cat reference not too over the top I hope. The point is to
make this something the user reads the documentation for before using.)
A few calls to verifyKeyContent and getViaTmp, that don't
involve downloads from remotes, have RetrievalAllKeysSecure hard-coded.
It was also hard-coded for P2P.Annex and Command.RecvKey,
to match the values of the corresponding remotes.
A few things use retrieveKeyFile/retrieveKeyFileCheap without going
through getViaTmp.
* Command.Fsck when downloading content from a remote to verify it.
That content does not get into the annex, so this is ok.
* Command.AddUrl when using a remote to download an url; this is new
content being added, so this is ok.
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They're no worse than http certianly. And, the backport of these
security fixes has to deal with wget, which supports http https and ftp
and has no way to turn off individual schemes, so this will make that
easier.
A local http proxy would bypass the security configuration. So,
the security configuration has to be applied when choosing whether to
use the proxy.
While http rebinding attacks against the dns lookup of the proxy IP
address seem very unlikely, this implementation does prevent them, since
it resolves the IP address once, checks it, and then reconfigures
http-client's proxy using the resolved address.
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Security fix!
* git-annex will refuse to download content from http servers on
localhost, or any private IP addresses, to prevent accidental
exposure of internal data. This can be overridden with the
annex.security.allowed-http-addresses setting.
* Since curl's interface does not have a way to prevent it from accessing
localhost or private IP addresses, curl defaults to not being used
for url downloads, even if annex.web-options enabled it before.
Only when annex.security.allowed-http-addresses=all will curl be used.
Since S3 and WebDav use the Manager, the same policies apply to them too.
youtube-dl is not handled yet, and a http proxy configuration can bypass
these checks too. Those cases are still TBD.
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Security fix! Allowing any schemes, particularly file: and
possibly others like scp: allowed file exfiltration by anyone who had
write access to the git repository, since they could add an annexed file
using such an url, or using an url that redirected to such an url,
and wait for the victim to get it into their repository and send them a copy.
* Added annex.security.allowed-url-schemes setting, which defaults
to only allowing http and https URLs. Note especially that file:/
is no longer enabled by default.
* Removed annex.web-download-command, since its interface does not allow
supporting annex.security.allowed-url-schemes across redirects.
If you used this setting, you may want to instead use annex.web-options
to pass options to curl.
With annex.web-download-command removed, nearly all url accesses in
git-annex are made via Utility.Url via http-client or curl. http-client
only supports http and https, so no problem there.
(Disabling one and not the other is not implemented.)
Used curl --proto to limit the allowed url schemes.
Note that this will cause git annex fsck --from web to mark files using
a disallowed url scheme as not being present in the web. That seems
acceptable; fsck --from web also does that when a web server is not available.
youtube-dl already disabled file: itself (probably for similar
reasons). The scheme check was also added to youtube-dl urls for
completeness, although that check won't catch any redirects it might
follow. But youtube-dl goes off and does its own thing with other
protocols anyway, so that's fine.
Special remotes that support other domain-specific url schemes are not
affected by this change. In the bittorrent remote, aria2c can still
download magnet: links. The download of the .torrent file is
otherwise now limited by annex.security.allowed-url-schemes.
This does not address any external special remotes that might download
an url themselves. Current thinking is all external special remotes will
need to be audited for this problem, although many of them will use
http libraries that only support http and not curl's menagarie.
The related problem of accessing private localhost and LAN urls is not
addressed by this commit.
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