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[PATCH] Re: server-side enforcement of svn:date format?

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.co.il>
Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 16:05:06 +0300 (Jerusalem Daylight Time)

Ben Collins-Sussman wrote on Mon, 5 May 2008 at 15:00 -0500:
> Last week, a googlecode user manually modified some svn:date revprops
> on his repository. He got the format incorrect, but wasn't aware.
> However, things started breaking as a result. Our viewvc-like source
> browsing choked on the invalid svn:date format (which we're fixing),
> but even plain old 'svn log' produced 'invalid date' errors, rendering
> the command useless.
>
> I'm wondering if it doesn't make sense to have libsvn_repos (or fs?)
> do some simple server-side validity checks on incoming svn:date
> values, and reject the revpropset if they fail. We already do
> validity checks on filenames and log messages ("no control chars
> allowed"), and validity checks on things like 'svn:eol-style' . After
> all, subversion controls the values of svn:* props, we have the right
> to refuse bad values.
>

Attached patch to implement libsvn_repos validation at propset time. (It
does not address "svn log"'s errors when the latter fails to parse
malformed svn:date properties.)

[[[
Validate svn:date property values in libsvn_repos.

Suggested by: sussman

* subversion/libsvn_repos/fs-wrap.c
  (svn_time.h): Include.
  (validate_prop): Add optional 'value' and 'pool' parameters. Extend to
     validate the value for svn:* properties.
  (svn_repos_fs_change_node_prop, svn_repos_fs_change_txn_props,
   svn_repos_fs_change_rev_prop3):
     Pass pool and property value to validate_prop().

* subversion/tests/cmdline/prop_tests.py
  (invalid_propvalues): New test.
  (test_list): Run new test.
]]]

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