[PATCH GSoC v4 5/9] fetch-object-info: die() on the remaining error path

Pablo Sabater <[email protected]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:42:59 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.git
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Every failure in fetch_object_info() dies except one: a short read while
parsing the attribute lines returns -1. That -1 is then passed through
fetch_object_info_via_pack() and get_remote_info() up to cat-file, only
to die() with a generic message.

Die in fetch_object_info() instead, consistently with the rest of its
error paths, and make fetch_object_info() void.

Mentored-by: Karthik Nayak <[email protected]>
Mentored-by: Chandra Pratap <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Sabater <[email protected]>
---
 fetch-object-info.c | 19 +++++++++----------
 fetch-object-info.h | 14 +++++++-------
 transport.c         | 12 ++++++------
 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fetch-object-info.c b/fetch-object-info.c
index 46a1289ff3..6069d6a58b 100644
--- a/fetch-object-info.c
+++ b/fetch-object-info.c
@@ -47,13 +47,13 @@ static int parse_object_size(const char *s, size_t *res)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-int fetch_object_info(const enum protocol_version version,
-		      const struct string_list *server_options,
-		      struct oid_array *oids,
-		      struct packet_reader *reader,
-		      struct fetch_object_info_results *results,
-		      const int stateless_rpc,
-		      const int fd_out)
+void fetch_object_info(enum protocol_version version,
+		       const struct string_list *server_options,
+		       struct oid_array *oids,
+		       struct packet_reader *reader,
+		       struct fetch_object_info_results *results,
+		       int stateless_rpc,
+		       int fd_out)
 {
 	unsigned ask_size = 0;
 	int size_index = -1;
@@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ int fetch_object_info(const enum protocol_version version,
 		if (packet_reader_read(reader) != PACKET_READ_NORMAL) {
 			check_stateless_delimiter(stateless_rpc, reader,
 						  "stateless delimiter expected");
-			return -1;
+			die(_("object-info: expected %" PRIuMAX " attributes, got %" PRIuMAX),
+			    (uintmax_t)wanted, (uintmax_t)i);
 		}
 
 		if (!strcmp(reader->line, "size")) {
@@ -156,8 +157,6 @@ int fetch_object_info(const enum protocol_version version,
 		    (uintmax_t)oids->nr);
 
 	check_stateless_delimiter(stateless_rpc, reader, "stateless delimiter expected");
-
-	return 0;
 }
 
 void free_fetch_object_info_results(struct fetch_object_info_results *results)
diff --git a/fetch-object-info.h b/fetch-object-info.h
index 9f72e91155..97ee5314c9 100644
--- a/fetch-object-info.h
+++ b/fetch-object-info.h
@@ -24,13 +24,13 @@ struct oid_array;
  * attribute is not available.
  * Release them with free_fetch_object_info_results().
  */
-int fetch_object_info(enum protocol_version version,
-		      const struct string_list *server_options,
-		      struct oid_array *oids,
-		      struct packet_reader *reader,
-		      struct fetch_object_info_results *results,
-		      int stateless_rpc,
-		      int fd_out);
+void fetch_object_info(enum protocol_version version,
+		       const struct string_list *server_options,
+		       struct oid_array *oids,
+		       struct packet_reader *reader,
+		       struct fetch_object_info_results *results,
+		       int stateless_rpc,
+		       int fd_out);
 
 void free_fetch_object_info_results(struct fetch_object_info_results *results);
 
diff --git a/transport.c b/transport.c
index b0e29124d1..35acdf71a2 100644
--- a/transport.c
+++ b/transport.c
@@ -448,12 +448,12 @@ static int fetch_object_info_via_pack(struct transport *transport)
 	data->version = discover_version(&reader);
 	transport->hash_algo = reader.hash_algo;
 
-	ret = fetch_object_info(data->version,
-				transport->server_options,
-				transport->smart_options->object_info_oids,
-				&reader,
-				data->options.object_info_results,
-				transport->stateless_rpc, data->fd[1]);
+	fetch_object_info(data->version,
+			  transport->server_options,
+			  transport->smart_options->object_info_oids,
+			  &reader,
+			  data->options.object_info_results,
+			  transport->stateless_rpc, data->fd[1]);
 
 	close(data->fd[0]);
 	if (data->fd[1] >= 0)

-- 
2.54.0