151018 - Cannot add myself to the CC list of a bug if it depends on a bug that I am not authorized to access

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task)

Description

[Alex Bishop]

(This may actually belong in mozilla.org/Bugzilla: Other moz.org Issues.)

If I try and add myself to the CC list of a bug which depends on a bug that I am
not authorized to access (e.g. bug 148522 which depends on bug 148520), I get an
error saying "You are not authorized to access bug #148520." (or whatever the
number of the restricted bug is).

Steps to reproduce:
1. Got to bug 148522.
2. Try to add yourself to the CC list.

Expected results:
Get added to the CC list.

Actual results:
The following error appears: "You are not authorized to access bug #148520."
(unless you are actually authorised to access bug 148520 in which case it
presumably works).

I tried adding myself to the CC list of two bugs to test this: bug 148522 (which
depends on bug 148520) and bug 143047 (which depends on bug 125583) - I'm
already on the CC list of the latter bug but I tried adding myself again and got
the error. I assume that this issue would also prevent me from making other
changes to a bug which depends on a restricted bug (though for obvious reasons
I'm reluctant to experiment with this).

I presume this bug was introduced in the upgrade to 2.17.

Comment 1

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

This would probably be because we try to resolve dependency aliases with the
validation functions....

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

bbaetz, justdave, myk: can you remember who made this change? I would try and
track it down, but it strikes me that whoever did it would find it really easy
to fix.

Gerv

Comment 3

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

I'm guessing that myk did it as part of the alias patch - I don't think that
this is in CVS (although I have't tested)

Comment 4

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

This is fixed in the latest version of the patch on bug 99203.

Comment 5

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

The portion of the patch fixing this problem has been applied to b.m.o. 
Resolving fixed.

Comment 6

[Alex Bishop]

I can now add myself to the CC list of bug 148522. Marking VERIFIED FIXED.
Thanks everyone!