entry.c: check if file exists after checkout

If we are checking out a file and somebody else racily deletes our file,
then we would write garbage to the cache entry. Fix that by checking
the result of the lstat() call on that file. Print an error to the user
if the file does not exist.

Reported-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Lars Schneider <larsxschneider@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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Lars Schneider 2017-10-05 12:44:07 +02:00 committed by Junio C Hamano
parent 03b95333db
commit 11179eb311

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@ -341,7 +341,9 @@ static int write_entry(struct cache_entry *ce,
if (state->refresh_cache) {
assert(state->istate);
if (!fstat_done)
lstat(ce->name, &st);
if (lstat(ce->name, &st) < 0)
return error_errno("unable to stat just-written file %s",
ce->name);
fill_stat_cache_info(ce, &st);
ce->ce_flags |= CE_UPDATE_IN_BASE;
state->istate->cache_changed |= CE_ENTRY_CHANGED;