mingw: refuse paths containing reserved names

There are a couple of reserved names that cannot be file names on
Windows, such as `AUX`, `NUL`, etc. For an almost complete list, see
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/naming-a-file

If one would try to create a directory named `NUL`, it would actually
"succeed", i.e. the call would return success, but nothing would be
created.

Worse, even adding a file extension to the reserved name does not make
it a valid file name. To understand the rationale behind that behavior,
see https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031022-00/?p=42073

Let's just disallow them all.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

compat/mingw.c

@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ int mingw_mkdir(const char *path, int mode)
 	int ret;
 	wchar_t wpath[MAX_PATH];
 
-	if (!is_valid_win32_path(path)) {
+	if (!is_valid_win32_path(path, 0)) {
 		errno = EINVAL;
 		return -1;
 	}
@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ int mingw_open (const char *filename, int oflags, ...)
 	mode = va_arg(args, int);
 	va_end(args);
 
-	if (!is_valid_win32_path(filename)) {
+	if (!is_valid_win32_path(filename, !create)) {
 		errno = create ? EINVAL : ENOENT;
 		return -1;
 	}
@@ -550,14 +550,13 @@ FILE *mingw_fopen (const char *filename, const char *otype)
 	int hide = needs_hiding(filename);
 	FILE *file;
 	wchar_t wfilename[MAX_PATH], wotype[4];
-	if (!is_valid_win32_path(filename)) {
+	if (filename && !strcmp(filename, "/dev/null"))
+		wcscpy(wfilename, L"nul");
+	else if (!is_valid_win32_path(filename, 1)) {
 		int create = otype && strchr(otype, 'w');
 		errno = create ? EINVAL : ENOENT;
 		return NULL;
-	}
-	if (filename && !strcmp(filename, "/dev/null"))
-		wcscpy(wfilename, L"nul");
-	else if (xutftowcs_path(wfilename, filename) < 0)
+	} else if (xutftowcs_path(wfilename, filename) < 0)
 		return NULL;
 
 	if (xutftowcs(wotype, otype, ARRAY_SIZE(wotype)) < 0)
@@ -580,14 +579,13 @@ FILE *mingw_freopen (const char *filename, const char *otype, FILE *stream)
 	int hide = needs_hiding(filename);
 	FILE *file;
 	wchar_t wfilename[MAX_PATH], wotype[4];
-	if (!is_valid_win32_path(filename)) {
+	if (filename && !strcmp(filename, "/dev/null"))
+		wcscpy(wfilename, L"nul");
+	else if (!is_valid_win32_path(filename, 1)) {
 		int create = otype && strchr(otype, 'w');
 		errno = create ? EINVAL : ENOENT;
 		return NULL;
-	}
-	if (filename && !strcmp(filename, "/dev/null"))
-		wcscpy(wfilename, L"nul");
-	else if (xutftowcs_path(wfilename, filename) < 0)
+	} else if (xutftowcs_path(wfilename, filename) < 0)
 		return NULL;
 
 	if (xutftowcs(wotype, otype, ARRAY_SIZE(wotype)) < 0)
@@ -2412,14 +2410,16 @@ static void setup_windows_environment(void)
 	}
 }
 
-int is_valid_win32_path(const char *path)
+int is_valid_win32_path(const char *path, int allow_literal_nul)
 {
+	const char *p = path;
 	int preceding_space_or_period = 0, i = 0, periods = 0;
 
 	if (!protect_ntfs)
 		return 1;
 
 	skip_dos_drive_prefix((char **)&path);
+	goto segment_start;
 
 	for (;;) {
 		char c = *(path++);
@@ -2434,7 +2434,83 @@ int is_valid_win32_path(const char *path)
 				return 1;
 
 			i = periods = preceding_space_or_period = 0;
+
+segment_start:
+			switch (*path) {
+			case 'a': case 'A': /* AUX */
+				if (((c = path[++i]) != 'u' && c != 'U') ||
+				    ((c = path[++i]) != 'x' && c != 'X')) {
+not_a_reserved_name:
+					path += i;
 					continue;
+				}
+				break;
+			case 'c': case 'C': /* COM<N>, CON, CONIN$, CONOUT$ */
+				if ((c = path[++i]) != 'o' && c != 'O')
+					goto not_a_reserved_name;
+				c = path[++i];
+				if (c == 'm' || c == 'M') { /* COM<N> */
+					if (!isdigit(path[++i]))
+						goto not_a_reserved_name;
+				} else if (c == 'n' || c == 'N') { /* CON */
+					c = path[i + 1];
+					if ((c == 'i' || c == 'I') &&
+					    ((c = path[i + 2]) == 'n' ||
+					     c == 'N') &&
+					    path[i + 3] == '$')
+						i += 3; /* CONIN$ */
+					else if ((c == 'o' || c == 'O') &&
+						 ((c = path[i + 2]) == 'u' ||
+						  c == 'U') &&
+						 ((c = path[i + 3]) == 't' ||
+						  c == 'T') &&
+						 path[i + 4] == '$')
+						i += 4; /* CONOUT$ */
+				} else
+					goto not_a_reserved_name;
+				break;
+			case 'l': case 'L': /* LPT<N> */
+				if (((c = path[++i]) != 'p' && c != 'P') ||
+				    ((c = path[++i]) != 't' && c != 'T') ||
+				    !isdigit(path[++i]))
+					goto not_a_reserved_name;
+				break;
+			case 'n': case 'N': /* NUL */
+				if (((c = path[++i]) != 'u' && c != 'U') ||
+				    ((c = path[++i]) != 'l' && c != 'L') ||
+				    (allow_literal_nul &&
+				     !path[i + 1] && p == path))
+					goto not_a_reserved_name;
+				break;
+			case 'p': case 'P': /* PRN */
+				if (((c = path[++i]) != 'r' && c != 'R') ||
+				    ((c = path[++i]) != 'n' && c != 'N'))
+					goto not_a_reserved_name;
+				break;
+			default:
+				continue;
+			}
+
+			/*
+			 * So far, this looks like a reserved name. Let's see
+			 * whether it actually is one: trailing spaces, a file
+			 * extension, or an NTFS Alternate Data Stream do not
+			 * matter, the name is still reserved if any of those
+			 * follow immediately after the actual name.
+			 */
+			i++;
+			if (path[i] == ' ') {
+				preceding_space_or_period = 1;
+				while (path[++i] == ' ')
+					; /* skip all spaces */
+			}
+
+			c = path[i];
+			if (c && c != '.' && c != ':' && c != '/' && c != '\\')
+				goto not_a_reserved_name;
+
+			/* contains reserved name */
+			return 0;
 		case '.':
 			periods++;
 			/* fallthru */

compat/mingw.h

@@ -461,10 +461,17 @@ char *mingw_query_user_email(void);
  *
  * - contain any of the reserved characters, e.g. `:`, `;`, `*`, etc
  *
+ * - correspond to reserved names (such as `AUX`, `PRN`, etc)
+ *
+ * The `allow_literal_nul` parameter controls whether the path `NUL` should
+ * be considered valid (this makes sense e.g. before opening files, as it is
+ * perfectly legitimate to open `NUL` on Windows, just as it is to open
+ * `/dev/null` on Unix/Linux).
+ *
  * Returns 1 upon success, otherwise 0.
  */
-int is_valid_win32_path(const char *path);
-#define is_valid_path(path) is_valid_win32_path(path)
+int is_valid_win32_path(const char *path, int allow_literal_nul);
+#define is_valid_path(path) is_valid_win32_path(path, 0)
 
 /**
  * Converts UTF-8 encoded string to UTF-16LE.

t/t0060-path-utils.sh

@@ -470,6 +470,9 @@ test_expect_success MINGW 'is_valid_path() on Windows' '
 		"win32 x" \
 		../hello.txt \
 		C:\\git \
+		comm \
+		conout.c \
+		lptN \
 		\
 		--not \
 		"win32 "  \
@@ -477,7 +480,13 @@ test_expect_success MINGW 'is_valid_path() on Windows' '
 		"win32."  \
 		"win32 . ." \
 		.../hello.txt \
-		colon:test
+		colon:test \
+		"AUX.c" \
+		"abc/conOut\$  .xyz/test" \
+		lpt8 \
+		"lpt*" \
+		Nul \
+		"PRN./abc"
 '
 
 test_done