fix(asymkey): do not verify OpenPGP signatures with an SSH instance key, require git 2.18 (#39073)

With SIGNING_FORMAT = ssh the OpenPGP verification path builds its
GPGSettings from the instance signing key but leaves the format empty,
so it runs `gpg -a --export` on an SSH public key path. Depending on the
local gpg setup that either exports nothing, so an OpenPGP signed commit
reports gpg.error.generate_hash instead of a missing key, or it fails
outright and logs an export error for every such commit.

Both guards are needed. The first covers SIGNING_KEY set to a path with
SIGNING_FORMAT=ssh; the second covers the shipped default
SIGNING_KEY=default, where the format comes from git's own gpg.format
and never gets reconciled with the hardcoded "openpgp". Drop either one
and a working config goes back to broken.

Also raise minimum git version to 2.18 which was already required before this change.

Fixes: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/37452
Co-authored-by: wxiaoguang <wxiaoguang@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
This commit is contained in:
Artem Lytkin
2026-08-25 15:02:31 +03:00
committed by GitHub
parent d17ccd4434
commit c8660364d9
9 changed files with 184 additions and 181 deletions
+45 -69
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@@ -9,94 +9,70 @@ import (
"fmt"
"os"
"strings"
"sync"
"sync/atomic"
"gitea.dev/modules/git/gitcmd"
"gitea.dev/modules/process"
"gitea.dev/modules/util"
)
// GPGSettings represents the default GPG settings for this repository
type GPGSettings struct {
Sign bool
KeyID string
Email string
Name string
PublicKeyContent string
Format string
type CommitSignSettings struct {
Sign bool
Email string
Name string
Format string // default to GPG
KeyID string // GPG key id or SSH key file
cachedPublicKeyContent atomic.Pointer[string]
}
// LoadPublicKeyContent will load the key from gpg
func (gpgSettings *GPGSettings) LoadPublicKeyContent() error {
if gpgSettings.PublicKeyContent != "" {
return nil
func (css *CommitSignSettings) PublicKeyContent() (string, error) {
cached := css.cachedPublicKeyContent.Load()
if cached != nil {
return *cached, nil
}
if gpgSettings.Format == SigningKeyFormatSSH {
content, err := os.ReadFile(gpgSettings.KeyID)
if css.Format == SigningKeyFormatSSH {
content, err := os.ReadFile(css.KeyID)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("unable to read SSH public key file: %s, %w", gpgSettings.KeyID, err)
return "", fmt.Errorf("unable to read SSH public key file: %s, %w", css.KeyID, err)
}
gpgSettings.PublicKeyContent = string(content)
return nil
s := string(content)
css.cachedPublicKeyContent.Store(&s)
return s, nil
}
content, stderr, err := process.GetManager().Exec(
"gpg -a --export",
"gpg", "-a", "--export", gpgSettings.KeyID)
content, stderr, err := process.GetManager().Exec("gpg -a --export", "gpg", "-a", "--export", css.KeyID)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("unable to get default signing key: %s, %s, %w", gpgSettings.KeyID, stderr, err)
return "", fmt.Errorf("unable to get default signing key: %s, %s, %w", css.KeyID, stderr, err)
}
gpgSettings.PublicKeyContent = content
return nil
css.cachedPublicKeyContent.Store(&content)
return content, nil
}
var (
loadPublicGPGKeyMutex sync.RWMutex
globalGPGSettings *GPGSettings
)
var GlobalCommitSignSettings = util.OnceValue[*CommitSignSettings]{
Func: func() *CommitSignSettings {
ctx := context.Background()
css := &CommitSignSettings{}
// GetDefaultPublicGPGKey will return and cache the default public GPG settings
func GetDefaultPublicGPGKey(ctx context.Context, forceUpdate bool) (*GPGSettings, error) {
if !forceUpdate {
loadPublicGPGKeyMutex.RLock()
if globalGPGSettings != nil {
defer loadPublicGPGKeyMutex.RUnlock()
return globalGPGSettings, nil
}
loadPublicGPGKeyMutex.RUnlock()
}
// all errors are ignored because the keys might not exist
// "--type=bool" resolves a valueless "commit.gpgsign" to true
value, _, _ := gitcmd.NewCommand("config", "--global", "--default", "false", "--type=bool", "--get", "commit.gpgsign").RunStdString(ctx)
css.Sign = strings.TrimSpace(value) == "true"
loadPublicGPGKeyMutex.Lock()
defer loadPublicGPGKeyMutex.Unlock()
signingKey, _, _ := gitcmd.NewCommand("config", "--global", "--get", "user.signingkey").RunStdString(ctx)
css.KeyID = strings.TrimSpace(signingKey)
css.Sign = css.Sign && css.KeyID != ""
if globalGPGSettings != nil && !forceUpdate {
return globalGPGSettings, nil
}
format, _, _ := gitcmd.NewCommand("config", "--global", "--default", SigningKeyFormatOpenPGP, "--get", "gpg.format").RunStdString(ctx)
css.Format = strings.TrimSpace(format)
globalGPGSettings = &GPGSettings{
Sign: true,
}
defaultEmail, _, _ := gitcmd.NewCommand("config", "--global", "--get", "user.email").RunStdString(ctx)
css.Email = strings.TrimSpace(defaultEmail)
value, _, _ := gitcmd.NewCommand("config", "--global", "--get", "commit.gpgsign").RunStdString(ctx)
sign, valid := ParseBool(strings.TrimSpace(value))
if !sign || !valid {
globalGPGSettings.Sign = false
return globalGPGSettings, nil
}
signingKey, _, _ := gitcmd.NewCommand("config", "--global", "--get", "user.signingkey").RunStdString(ctx)
globalGPGSettings.KeyID = strings.TrimSpace(signingKey)
format, _, _ := gitcmd.NewCommand("config", "--global", "--default", SigningKeyFormatOpenPGP, "--get", "gpg.format").RunStdString(ctx)
globalGPGSettings.Format = strings.TrimSpace(format)
defaultEmail, _, _ := gitcmd.NewCommand("config", "--global", "--get", "user.email").RunStdString(ctx)
globalGPGSettings.Email = strings.TrimSpace(defaultEmail)
defaultName, _, _ := gitcmd.NewCommand("config", "--global", "--get", "user.name").RunStdString(ctx)
globalGPGSettings.Name = strings.TrimSpace(defaultName)
if err := globalGPGSettings.LoadPublicKeyContent(); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return globalGPGSettings, nil
defaultName, _, _ := gitcmd.NewCommand("config", "--global", "--get", "user.name").RunStdString(ctx)
css.Name = strings.TrimSpace(defaultName)
return css
},
}