dispatch: protect against malicious 'hg serve --stdio' invocations (sec)
Some shared-ssh installations assume that 'hg serve --stdio' is a safe
command to run for minimally trusted users. Unfortunately, the messy
implementation of argument parsing here meant that trying to access a
repo named '--debugger' would give the user a pdb prompt, thereby
sidestepping any hoped-for sandboxing. Serving repositories over HTTP(S)
is unaffected.
We're not currently hardening any subcommands other than 'serve'. If
your service exposes other commands to users with arbitrary repository
names, it is imperative that you defend against repository names of
'--debugger' and anything starting with '--config'.
The read-only mode of hg-ssh stopped working because it provided its hook
configuration to "hg serve --stdio" via --config parameter. This is banned for
security reasons now. This patch switches it to directly call ui.setconfig().
If your custom hosting infrastructure relies on passing --config to
"hg serve --stdio", you'll need to find a different way to get that configuration
into Mercurial, either by using ui.setconfig() as hg-ssh does in this patch,
or by placing an hgrc file someplace where Mercurial will read it.
mitrandir@fb.com provided some extra fixes for the dispatch code and
for hg-ssh in places that I overlooked.
A new repository uses zlib storage, which doesn't need a requirement
$ hg init default
$ cd default
$ cat .hg/requires
dotencode
fncache
generaldelta
revlogv1
store
$ touch foo
$ hg -q commit -A -m 'initial commit with a lot of repeated repeated repeated text to trigger compression'
$ hg debugrevlog -c | grep 0x78
0x78 (x) : 1 (100.00%)
0x78 (x) : 110 (100.00%)
$ cd ..
Unknown compression engine to format.compression aborts
$ hg --config experimental.format.compression=unknown init unknown
abort: compression engine unknown defined by experimental.format.compression not available
(run "hg debuginstall" to list available compression engines)
[255]
A requirement specifying an unknown compression engine results in bail
$ hg init unknownrequirement
$ cd unknownrequirement
$ echo exp-compression-unknown >> .hg/requires
$ hg log
abort: repository requires features unknown to this Mercurial: exp-compression-unknown!
(see https://mercurial-scm.org/wiki/MissingRequirement for more information)
[255]
$ cd ..
#if zstd
$ hg --config experimental.format.compression=zstd init zstd
$ cd zstd
$ cat .hg/requires
dotencode
exp-compression-zstd
fncache
generaldelta
revlogv1
store
$ touch foo
$ hg -q commit -A -m 'initial commit with a lot of repeated repeated repeated text'
$ hg debugrevlog -c | grep 0x28
0x28 : 1 (100.00%)
0x28 : 98 (100.00%)
$ cd ..
Specifying a new format.compression on an existing repo won't introduce data
with that engine or a requirement
$ cd default
$ touch bar
$ hg --config experimental.format.compression=zstd -q commit -A -m 'add bar with a lot of repeated repeated repeated text'
$ cat .hg/requires
dotencode
fncache
generaldelta
revlogv1
store
$ hg debugrevlog -c | grep 0x78
0x78 (x) : 2 (100.00%)
0x78 (x) : 199 (100.00%)
#endif