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Two gaps in the git cache, found in a bug sweep of main.
Upload-pack requests skipped the upstream check. Only GET info/refs checked the upstream (Refresh: req.infoRefs), and Open skipped ensureFresh for any cached repository. A client that POSTs command=ls-refs and command=fetch directly, which protocol v2 allows, got the cached copy unchecked: after the repository was deleted or made private upstream, and even with stale_max_age: 0. A refresh that finds a repository missing, refused or redirected is now remembered on the repository, and upload-pack requests are refused until a check succeeds. A copy last checked more than a minute past stale_max_age is refreshed before an upload-pack request is served; the minute keeps a clone's POSTs from checking again right after its info/refs, so a normal clone still checks the upstream once. Mirror refreshes on its own and opens with a new OpenOptions.NoCheck.
Cancelled fetches leaked reservations and helpers. When a fetch was cancelled (client disconnect during fetch by ID, Close, fetchTimeout), git was killed but its git-remote-http helper kept its relay connection and downloaded for up to lowSpeedTime. Each relayed read called cover on a reservation that had already been given back and reserved the whole relayed total again, so the reserved total grew for good and could evict repositories for bytes nobody keeps. Relay requests now run on a context that ends with their fetch, which cuts the helper's transfer, and a reservation that was released or settled reserves nothing more. I didn't add process-group killing, since ending the relay transfer is portable and stops the helper's download.
docs/configuration.md ("Git repositories") describes the upload-pack check.
Tests: TestUploadPackChecksCopyPastStaleMaxAge, TestUploadPackRefusedAfterUpstreamRefusal, TestCoverAfterReleaseReservesNothing and TestCancelledFetchStopsRelaying fail on main and pass here; TestCloneChecksUpstreamOnce guards that a clone still makes one upstream check.
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Bug Fixes
Cached repositories are no longer served when the upstream reports them missing, refuses access, or redirects requests. They become available again after a successful upstream check.
Interrupted fetches now stop relaying data and release reserved capacity.
New Features
Direct Git upload-pack requests now check repository freshness when the cached copy is sufficiently old, with a one-minute grace period after the configured stale age.
Documentation
Updated Git repository guidance to describe cache availability, redirect handling, and freshness-check behavior.
Only GET info/refs checked the upstream. A POST git-upload-pack was served
from the cached copy unchecked, so a client posting ls-refs and fetch
directly (protocol v2 allows it) kept getting a repository that was
deleted or made private upstream, past stale_max_age, indefinitely.
Remember when a refresh finds a repository missing or refused upstream,
and refuse upload-pack requests for it until a refresh succeeds. Refresh
first when the copy was last checked more than a minute past
stale_max_age ago; the minute keeps a normal clone (info/refs, then
upload-pack) at one upstream check even with stale_max_age 0. Mirror
refreshes on its own and skips the check.
exec.CommandContext kills only the git parent. Its git-remote-http helper
kept its relay connection and went on downloading for up to
http.lowSpeedTime after a client disconnect, Close or fetchTimeout. Each
read it relayed called cover, which reserved the relayed total again on a
reservation already settled or released, so c.reserved grew for good and
could evict repositories, and the helpers outlived the fetch cap.
Tie each relay route to the fetch's context and cancel it when the fetch
returns, so the upstream request ends and the helper's connection is cut.
Make cover refuse a reservation that has been given back.
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Walkthrough
The Git cache now checks existing cached repositories for upstream refusals and stale status before serving them. Fetch relay work follows fetch cancellation, and released reservations reject further coverage. Tests and documentation describe these behaviors.
Cache.Open checks refusal state and freshness for cached repositories. Refresh records refusals and clears them after a successful ref listing. Mirror skips the open-time check. Tests and documentation cover upload-pack checks, refusal handling, and check timing.
Fetch contexts reach relay routes and cancel upstream requests and response copying when the fetch ends. Released reservations reject further coverage. Tests cover fetch cancellation, relay shutdown, and reservation accounting.
sequenceDiagram
participant GitClient
participant CacheOpen
participant checkServable
participant Refresh
participant Upstream
GitClient->>CacheOpen: Request cached repository
CacheOpen->>checkServable: Check refusal and freshness
checkServable->>Refresh: Refresh when refusal or age requires a check
Refresh->>Upstream: List refs or check upstream
Upstream-->>Refresh: Return status
Refresh-->>checkServable: Update refusal state
checkServable-->>CacheOpen: Return refusal or allow serving
CacheOpen-->>GitClient: Return error or serve repository
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Possibly related issues
git-pkgs/proxy#403 — The issue describes stale-copy checks and serving cached repositories during upstream outages. This PR adds related cache checks and refusal handling, but does not cover all objectives described in the issue.
Possibly related PRs
git-pkgs/proxy#667 — This PR adds Cache.Mirror; this PR updates Cache.Open checks and configures Cache.Mirror to skip them.
git-pkgs/proxy#674 — Both PRs change Cache.Mirror and the handling of refresh failures on that path.
Suggested reviewers:montehurd, andrew
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 06aef
No concrete remaining merge-blocking issue is established by the supplied evidence; the change is mergeable after normal checks.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 06aef
The changes tighten access to cached repositories and stop canceled downloads from consuming resources indefinitely. No introduced security weakness was established in the reviewed paths, but incomplete coverage leaves some uncertainty.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
observed — Serving refusal is scoped to the keyed repository. Reservation accounting is shared across the cache, so its lifecycle affects capacity and eviction of other cached repositories. Public request paths remain constrained to configured upstreams and their repository allowlists before cache access.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
observed — The base allowed a client to reach cached data by sending upload-pack requests without the ref-listing step that requested refresh. The head routes these requests through the new eligibility check and rejects an outstanding refusal. Inspection established a reduction of this pre-existing attack path, not a new bypass.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Client-selected repository paths resolve beneath a configured upstream rather than becoming arbitrary relay destinations. The relay forwards only selected Git headers through the shared upstream client. The existing rule disabling fetch-by-ID when upstream credentials are configured remains in the HTTP handler, limiting cross-fork object reachability.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Each fetch registers a route with its context and defers unregistering it. Unregister removes the route and cancels its context; active handlers combine that context with their incoming request context. This closes the relay-transfer lifetime gap even when a handler retained a route pointer before removal. It does not establish termination of arbitrary subprocess descendants unrelated to that transfer.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — If upstream revocation must survive restarts, persist refusal or require startup revalidation before serving a restored repository. This would strengthen a pre-existing exposure rather than remedy a demonstrated regression introduced by this PR.
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- Around line 63-65: In the refresh path in the surrounding serve function,
check the retained rp.refused value after c.ensureFresh and before returning a
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A check that ran past refresh_wait or failed served the cached copy, also
right after the upstream had refused the repository. With protocol v0 the
refs are in the info/refs response itself, so they were advertised. The
stored refusal now refuses those too, until a check succeeds.
From CodeRabbit's review, in 8f281f1: a check that runs past refresh_wait (or fails) after a refusal no longer serves the cached copy. With protocol v0 that advertised the refs in the info/refs response itself; v2 clients were already stopped at ls-refs. TestInfoRefsRefusedWhileRefusalStands covers it.
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Major · Record redirects during fetch as refusals · refresh.go:160-165
internal/gitcache/refresh.go:160-165 Major · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift
Record redirects during fetch as refusals
If a ref check succeeds but the fetch redirects, the relay turns the redirect into a Git error. The refresh treats that error as stale-servable and does not record a refusal. A recently checked cached repository can then serve info/refs or upload-pack despite the redirect exclusion. Propagate the fetch redirect as ErrRefused.
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Review comment at @internal/gitcache/refresh.go around lines 160 - 165:
Update the refresh error handling around call.err to identify fetch redirects
before the servesStale check and record them as ErrRefused in rp.refused.
Preserve the existing handling for successful calls and other errors.
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Review comments at @internal/gitcache/serve.go:
- Around line 87-93: Update Cache.checkServable to check whether the repository
is stale before returning its stored refusal. For stale repositories, call
ensureFresh and propagate any refresh error, then evaluate c.refusal so a
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- Around line 160-165: Update the refresh error handling around call.err to
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An upload-pack request returned a stored refusal without checking the
upstream, so a client that never asks for info/refs, such as a protocol
v2 client sending ls-refs and fetch directly, stayed refused after a
passing 403 or 404. Refresh first while a refusal stands, as for a copy
past stale_max_age, and refuse only if the refusal remains.
A refusal was cleared only by a refresh that succeeded as a whole. When
the upstream listed the refs again but the fetch that followed failed,
say because the cache was full or the fetch timed out, the old refusal
stayed and the repository was still refused, though the upstream had
just confirmed access. Clear it as soon as the ref check succeeds.
stale_max_age plus the upload-pack grace overflowed for a stale_max_age
near the largest duration, which made every upload-pack request check
the upstream. Cap the sum instead.
The relay turned a redirect into a failed fetch, which counted as the
upstream failing rather than refusing, so the cached copy was still
served and no refusal was recorded. Report it as a refusal, as for a
redirected ref listing.
An upload-pack request checks the upstream again while a refusal is stored, and is refused only if it still stands, so a client that only POSTs can recover once the repository is back.
A refusal is cleared as soon as the upstream lists the refs, also when the fetch after that fails.
stale_max_age plus the one-minute grace no longer overflows for huge values, which made every POST refresh.
A fetch the upstream redirects is recorded as a refusal, like a redirected ref check.
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Two small wording things to pick up later:
docs/configuration.md: the last sentence of the new paragraph says the check rule twice ("unless ..." and then "otherwise the repository is checked first"). Something like: "A git-upload-pack request checks the upstream only when the last check refused the repository or the copy was last checked more than a minute past stale_max_age ago, so a clone checks once, at its ref listing."
internal/gitcache/relay.go: the comment on relayRoute.ctx repeats the register doc; // ctx ends when the fetch does. is enough.
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Two gaps in the git cache, found in a bug sweep of main.
info/refschecked the upstream (Refresh: req.infoRefs), andOpenskippedensureFreshfor any cached repository. A client that POSTscommand=ls-refsandcommand=fetchdirectly, which protocol v2 allows, got the cached copy unchecked: after the repository was deleted or made private upstream, and even withstale_max_age: 0. A refresh that finds a repository missing, refused or redirected is now remembered on the repository, and upload-pack requests are refused until a check succeeds. A copy last checked more than a minute paststale_max_ageis refreshed before an upload-pack request is served; the minute keeps a clone's POSTs from checking again right after itsinfo/refs, so a normal clone still checks the upstream once.Mirrorrefreshes on its own and opens with a newOpenOptions.NoCheck.Close,fetchTimeout), git was killed but itsgit-remote-httphelper kept its relay connection and downloaded for up tolowSpeedTime. Each relayed read calledcoveron a reservation that had already been given back and reserved the whole relayed total again, so the reserved total grew for good and could evict repositories for bytes nobody keeps. Relay requests now run on a context that ends with their fetch, which cuts the helper's transfer, and a reservation that was released or settled reserves nothing more. I didn't add process-group killing, since ending the relay transfer is portable and stops the helper's download.docs/configuration.md ("Git repositories") describes the upload-pack check.
Tests:
TestUploadPackChecksCopyPastStaleMaxAge,TestUploadPackRefusedAfterUpstreamRefusal,TestCoverAfterReleaseReservesNothingandTestCancelledFetchStopsRelayingfail on main and pass here;TestCloneChecksUpstreamOnceguards that a clone still makes one upstream check.Summary by CodeRabbit