New style hook support not robust on removal

Bug #1776218 reported by Michael Vogt
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
apt (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Julian Andres Klode
Bionic
Fix Released
Undecided
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Bug Description

[Impact]
The new style (json-rpc) hooks are great. However when using them in snapd we noticed the following problem. When shipping a hook in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20snapd.conf like:
```
AptCli::Hooks::Install { "[ ! -f /usr/bin/snap ] || /usr/bin/snap advise-snap --from-apt || true"; };
```
this works fine.

However when the snapd package is removed apt fails with:
```
...
Purging configuration files for snapd (1337.2.32.8) ...
Final directory cleanup
Discarding preserved snap namespaces
Removing extra snap-confine apparmor rules
Removing snapd cache
Removing snapd state

E: Could not read response to hello message from hook [ ! -f /usr/bin/snap ] || /usr/bin/snap advise-snap --from-apt || true: Connection reset by peer
E: Could not read message separator line after handshake from [ ! -f /usr/bin/snap ] || /usr/bin/snap advise-snap --from-apt || true: Connection reset by peer
quiet: end of output.
```

I.e. if the hook is not there apt still expectes a handshake.

[Test case]
cat > rootdir/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99-json-hooks << EOF
       AptCli::Hooks::Install:: "true";
       AptCli::Hooks::Search:: "true";
EOF
and run an install.

This test and some more error handling tests are part of the test suite, too, so autopkgtest covers that for us.

[Regression potential]
Hooks that do not respond to the initial handshake and just exit with 0 are silently ignored.

[Other info]
There are some more changes in the patch that fix other cases of error handling: As can be seen above, there are 2 error messages for one error, because the code did not abort early, but tried to carry on, reading more data. It now goes directly to the end.

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Any chance this can be fixed for 18.04.1 ?

Changed in apt (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → Julian Andres Klode (juliank)
tags: added: id-5b333ce4c9e5f90176d2242c
description: updated
Changed in apt (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Julian Andres Klode (juliank) wrote :

1.6.3 is in unapproved queue for bionic

Changed in apt (Ubuntu Bionic):
status: New → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package apt - 1.7.0~alpha2

---------------
apt (1.7.0~alpha2) experimental; urgency=medium

  * Handle JSON hooks that just close the file/exit and fix some other errors
    (LP: #1776218)
  * Use cheaper entropy source for randomizing items to fetch

 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden> Mon, 09 Jul 2018 16:02:45 +0200

Changed in apt (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Michael, or anyone else affected,

Accepted apt into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/1.6.3 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

Changed in apt (Ubuntu Bionic):
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic
Revision history for this message
Julian Andres Klode (juliank) wrote :

autopkgtest has run the tests for us, and passed for 1.6.3, so it's verified.

tags: added: verification-done verification-done-bionic
removed: verification-needed verification-needed-bionic
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package apt - 1.6.3

---------------
apt (1.6.3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Handle JSON hooks that just close the file/exit and fix some other errors
    (LP: #1776218)

 -- Julian Andres Klode <email address hidden> Mon, 09 Jul 2018 16:41:27 +0200

Changed in apt (Ubuntu Bionic):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100) wrote : Update Released

The verification of the Stable Release Update for apt has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

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