[pacman-dev] [PATCHv2] libalpm: prevent 301 redirect loop from hanging the process

[Mark Ulrich]

If a mirror responds with a 301 redirect to itself, it will create an
infinite redirect loop. This will cause pacman to hang, unresponsive to
even a SIGINT. The result is pacman being unable to sync or
download any package from a particular repo if its current mirror
is stuck in a redirect loop. Setting libcurl's MAXREDIRS option
effectively prevents a redirect loop from hanging the process.

Signed-off-by: Mark Ulrich <mark.ulrich.86 at gmail.com>
---
 lib/libalpm/dload.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/lib/libalpm/dload.c b/lib/libalpm/dload.c
index 36ae4ee1..7b114230 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/dload.c
+++ b/lib/libalpm/dload.c
@@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ static void curl_set_handle_opts(struct dload_payload *payload,
 	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, payload->fileurl);
 	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER, error_buffer);
 	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 10L);
+	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS, 10L);
 	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FILETIME, 1L);
 	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, 0L);
 	curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1L);
-- 
2.20.1