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SFTP (libssh2) postquotes are executed despite operation will be retried #2939

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tomaszewskip opened this issue Sep 4, 2018 · 1 comment
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I did this

  1. Setup cURL easy interface to do some operations on the sftp server (let's call it sftp://server),
  2. call curl_easy_perform to execute operation from previous step,
  3. call curl_easy_reset to clear structures, but leave handle to reuse existing connection,
  4. setup CURLOPT_URL to download file from sftp://server (sftp://server/file1),
  5. setup CURLOPT_POSTQUOTE to remove sftp://server/file1 when download is successful,
  6. call curl_easy_perform

Following code shows this approach

CURL *handle = curl_easy_init();
// setup some operation here, which is done on sftp://server
curl_easy_perform(handle);
curl_easy_reset(handle);
curl_easy_setopt(handle, CUROPT_URL, "sftp://server/file");
curl_easy_setopt(handle, CURLOPT_POSTQUOTE, "*rm sftp://server/file");
// setup write functions
curl_easy_perform(handle)

What may happen:

  • first curl_easy_perform is successful,
  • during second curl_easy_perform, it is decided to retry operation, as existing connection cannot be reused,
  • sftp_done is called to cleanup connection,
  • post quote commands are executed and sftp://server/file is removed,
  • new connection is established and it fails as sftp://server/file does not exist.

I expected the following

Postquote commands are not executed when retry operation is going to be executed, as explained here: https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/CURLOPT_POSTQUOTE.html

[...]  The commands will only be run if no error occurred [...]

Following patch does the thing:

Index: curl-7.61.0/lib/ssh.c
===================================================================
--- curl-7.61.0.orig/lib/ssh.c
+++ curl-7.61.0/lib/ssh.c
@@ -3218,8 +3218,10 @@ static CURLcode sftp_done(struct connect
   if(!status) {
     /* Post quote commands are executed after the SFTP_CLOSE state to avoid
        errors that could happen due to open file handles during POSTQUOTE
-       operation */
-    if(!status && !premature && conn->data->set.postquote) {
+       operation. This step is skipped if this is retry operation, to avoid
+       executing postquotes when operation is not successful.*/
+    if(!status && !premature && conn->data->set.postquote
+               && !conn->bits.retry) {
       sshc->nextstate = SSH_SFTP_POSTQUOTE_INIT;
       state(conn, SSH_SFTP_CLOSE);
     }

curl/libcurl version

7.61.0

operating system

Ubuntu 16.04 (libssh2 1.8.0)

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bagder commented Sep 4, 2018

Thanks! I noticed the libssh backend has the exact same logic so I copied your fix into that function as well and made a PR out of your patch: #2940

@bagder bagder closed this as completed in daa3c45 Sep 4, 2018
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