[bug#54723] [PATCH] Check URI when verifying narinfo validity.

["Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>]

Hi,

Guillaume Le Vaillant <glv@posteo.net> skribis:

> However, looking at the full TCP stream in wireshark I saw that the
> "guix publish" server sends some bad narinfo responses.
> Sometimes some parts of the response are missing (here, Signature
> incomplete, URL and Compression fields missing):
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Content-Length: 959
> Content-Type: application/x-nix-narinfo;charset=UTF-8
>
> StorePath: /gnu/store/dxpaqmix7zixm8pwcvvmq8q969q50jpp-pngload-2.0.0-2.91f1d70-checkout
> NarHash: sha256:0s94fdbrbqj12qvgyn2g4lfwvz7qhhzbclrpz5ni7adwxgrmvxl1
> NarSize: 245224
> References: 
> Deriver: ybdimrfjs090kzmimf5j1x5hs8y4d24p-pngload-2.0.0-2.91f1d70-checkout.drv
> Signature: 1;kitej;KHNpZ25hdHVyZSAKIChkYXRhIAogIChmbGFncyByZmM2OTc5KQogIChoYXNoIHNoYTI1NiAjNDY3NDk2RTJEOTZBMzc0QzFGN0M1MzJCNjc3MTM1NzVFOTkyRjQ0Qzc3MzQwRDUwQTcyRTkyMDJGRURDQkQxMyMpCiAgKQogKHNpZy12YWwgCiAgKGVjZHNhIAogICAociAjMDZEQTAwMkQyNjE3MEQ3ODVDNkM3NkMyMUEwM0UzNDlCMkUwMDc4MTUyQzFBQURFNjhFMEZGOUJDRkUyMUFDNSMpCiAgIChzICMwNjNDM0UyNjg2MEU2OTIzNDdEMjNGNTQ4RUM3RDJGRUZGQjc0Q0I4NjNEMjlDMUE3QjA4REFCQjEzQjZDRjAxIykKICAgKQogICkKIChwdWJsaWMta2V5IAogIC
>
>
> Sometimes the response looks like almost complete garbage:
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Content-Length: 970
> Content-Type: application/x-nix-narinfo;charsetcharsetHTTP/=UTF-8
>
> 1
> 1
>
> 1
> .S
>
> When the client receives these bad narinfos, it often makes it crash
> with errors like:
>  - Wrong type (expecting exact integer): #f
>  - unmatched line "1\r"
>  - Wrong type argument in position 1 (expecting pair): ()

Woow.  How do you build and run ‘guix publish’?  Is it a distro package
or is it coming straight from Guix?  What command-line options are you
passing?

I’ve never seen this, although we have it running on several servers,
notably ci.guix.  I wonder what could cause this.

Thanks,
Ludo’.