update hook: anchor refex with ^ when matching refs

Currently, a line like

    RW  foo =   user1

allows user1 to push any ref that contains the string refs/heads/foo.
This includes refs like

    refs/heads/foo
    refs/heads/foobar
    refs/heads/foo/bar

which is fine; that is what is intended.  (You can always use foo$
instead of foo if you want to prevent the latter two).

Similarly,

    RW  refs/foo    =   user1

allows

    refs/foo
    refs/foobar
    refs/foo/bar

Now, I don't see this as a "security risk" but the fact is that this
allows someone to clutter your repo with junk like

    refs/bar/refs/heads/foo
    refs/heads/bar/refs/heads/foo

(or, with the second config line example,

    refs/bar/refs/foo
    refs/heads/bar/refs/foo
)

My personal advice is if you find someone doing that intentionally, you
should probably take him out and shoot him [*], but since now *two*
people have complained about this, here goes...

----

[*]     you don't have to take him out if you don't want to
This commit is contained in:
Sitaram Chamarty 2010-01-13 14:59:45 +05:30
parent 6c38e30e9a
commit a9824464e5

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@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ sub check_ref {
for my $ar (@allowed_refs) {
$refex = (keys %$ar)[0];
# refex? sure -- a regex to match a ref against :)
next unless $ref =~ /$refex/;
next unless $ref =~ /^$refex/;
die "$perm $ref $ENV{GL_USER} DENIED by $refex\n" if $ar->{$refex} eq '-';
# as far as *this* ref is concerned we're ok