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Andrew Clayton
a03274456b PHP: allowed to specify URLs without a trailing '/'.
Both @lucatacconi & @mwoodpatrick reported what appears to be the same
issue on GitHub. Namely that when using the PHP language module and
trying to access a URL that is a directory but without specifying the
trailing '/', they were getting a '503 Service Unavailable' error.

Note: This is when _not_ using the 'script' option.

E.g with the following config

  {
      "listeners": {
          "[::1]:8080": {
              "pass": "applications/php"
          }
      },

      "applications": {
          "php": {
              "type": "php",
              "root": "/var/tmp/unit-php"
          }
      }
  }

and with a directory path of /var/tmp/unit-php/foo containing an
index.php, you would see the following

  $ curl http://localhost/foo
  <title>Error 503</title>
  Error 503

However

  $ curl http://localhost/foo/

would work and serve up the index.php

This commit fixes the above so you get the desired behaviour without
specifying the trailing '/' by doing the following

  1] If the URL doesn't end in .php and doesn't have a trailing '/'
     then check if the requested path is a directory.

  2) If it is a directory then create a 301 re-direct pointing to it.
     This matches the behaviour of the likes of nginx, Apache and
     lighttpd.

     This also matches the behaviour of the "share" action in Unit.

This doesn't effect the behaviour of the 'script' option which bypasses
the nxt_php_dynamic_request() function.

This also adds a couple of tests to test/test_php_application.py to
ensure this continues to work.

Closes: <https://github.com/nginx/unit/issues/717>
Closes: <https://github.com/nginx/unit/issues/753>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>
2022-11-02 14:22:39 +00:00
Andrew Clayton
58248a6220 Fixed some function definitions.
Future releases of GCC will render function definitions like

  func()

invalid by default. See the previous commit 09f88c9 ("Fixed main()
prototypes in auto tests.") for details.

Such functions should be defined like

  func(void)

This is a good thing to do regardless of the upcoming GCC changes.

Reviewed-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@nginx.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>
2022-10-28 03:18:33 +01:00
Andrew Clayton
8f0dd9478e Fixed main() prototypes in auto tests.
Future releases of GCC are planning to remove[0] default support for
some old features that were removed from C99 but GCC still accepts.

We can test for these changes by using the following -Werror=
directives

  -Werror=implicit-int
  -Werror=implicit-function-declaration
  -Werror=int-conversion
  -Werror=strict-prototypes
  -Werror=old-style-definition

Doing so revealed an issue with the auto/ tests in that the test
programs always define main as

  int main()

rather than

  int main(void)

which results in a bunch of errors like

build/autotest.c:3:23: error: function declaration isn't a prototype [-Werror=strict-prototypes]
    3 |                   int main() {
      |                       ^~~~
build/autotest.c: In function 'main':
build/autotest.c:3:23: error: old-style function definition [-Werror=old-style-definition]

The fix was easy, it only required fixing the main prototype with

  find -type f -exec sed -i 's/int main() {/int main(void) {/g' {} \;

Regardless of these upcoming GCC changes, this is probably a good thing
to do anyway for correctness.

[0]: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/PortingToModernC

Link: <https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CJXKTLXJUPZ4F2C2VQOTNMEA5JAUPMBD/>
Link: <https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6SGHPHPAXKCVJ6PUZ57WVDQ5TDBVIRMF/>
Reviewed-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@nginx.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>
2022-10-28 03:17:31 +01:00
Alejandro Colomar
a3cb07df20 Fixed path for sed(1).
Some distros provide it in /bin/sed and others in both /bin/sed
and /usr/bin/sed.  Use the more available one.

Reported-by: Konstantin Pavlov <thresh@nginx.com>
Fixes: ac64ffde57 "Improved readability of <docker-entrypoint.sh>."
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@nginx.com>
2022-10-27 14:30:49 +02:00
javad mnjd
ac64ffde57 Improved readability of <docker-entrypoint.sh>.
Cc: Konstantin Pavlov <thresh@nginx.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@nginx.com>
2022-10-26 16:32:15 +02:00
Andrew Clayton
7a928b33b4 Set git diff driver for C source code files.
Git can be told to apply language-specific rules when generating diffs.
Enable this for C source code files (*.c and *.h) so that function names
are printed right. Specifically, doing so prevents "git diff" from
mistakenly considering unindented goto labels as function names.

This has the same effect as adding

    [diff "default"]
        xfuncname = "^[[:alpha:]$_].*[^:]$"

to your git config file.

e.g get

    @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ int main(void)

instead of

    @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ again:

This makes use of the gitattributes(5) infrastructure.

Link: <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=218dd85887da3d7d08119de18e9d325fcf30d7a4>
Link: <https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/commit/?id=e82675a040d559c56be54255901138a979eeec21>
Reviewed-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@nginx.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>
2022-10-26 01:23:02 +01:00
Remi Collet
e096f19d47 TLS: Using ERR_get_error_all() with OpenSSL 3.
Link: <https://www.openssl.org/docs/man3.0/man7/migration_guide.html>
Cc: Andy Postnikov <apostnikov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>
Signed-off-by: Remi Collet <remi@remirepo.net>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@nginx.com>
2022-10-21 11:48:08 +02:00
Remi Collet
93d24bb114 Preferring system crypto policy.
If we don't call SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list(), then it uses the
system's default.

Link: <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/CryptoPolicy>
Link: <https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/CryptoPolicies/>
Link: <https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/consistent-security-crypto-policies-red-hat-enterprise-linux-8>
Signed-off-by: Remi Collet <remi@remirepo.net>
Acked-by: Andrei Belov <defan@nginx.com>
[ alx: add changelog and tweak commit message ]
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@nginx.com>
2022-10-20 16:25:15 +02:00
Alex Colomar
f93361979a Avoided modifying existing directories at 'make install'.
'install -d' has an issue compared to 'mkdir -p':  it doesn't
respect existing directories.  It will set the ownership, file
mode, and SELinux contexts (and any other property that would be
set by install(1) to a newly-created directory), overwriting any
existing properties of the existing directory.

'mkdir -p' doesn't have this issue:  it is a no-op if the
directory exists.  However, it's not an ideal solution either,
since it can't be used to set the properties (owner, mode, ...) of
a newly-created directory.

Therefore, the best solution is to use install(1), but only after
making sure that the directory doesn't exist with test(1).

Reported-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>
Reported-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@nginx.com>
Closes: <https://github.com/nginx/unit/issues/769>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@nginx.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>
2022-10-20 15:50:05 +02:00
Zhidao HONG
bbf1f4da0f Configuration: added the regex status in configure summary. 2022-10-20 12:02:27 +08:00
Zhidao HONG
c03ebf7ffe Configuration: stopped automatic migration to the "share" behavior.
This commit removed the $uri auto-append for the "share" option
introduced in rev be6409cdb028.

The main reason is that it causes problems when preparing Unit configurations
to be loaded at startup from the state directory. E.g. Docker. A valid conf.json
file with $uri references will end up with $uri$uri due to the auto-append.
2022-10-14 14:00:02 +08:00
Remi Collet
db86dc0586 Added parentheses for consistency.
Reported-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>
Signed-off-by: Remi Collet <remi@remirepo.net>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@nginx.com>
2022-10-19 12:59:57 +02:00
Remi Collet
48b6a7b311 PHP: Fixed php_module_startup() call for PHP 8.2.
PHP 8.2 changed the prototype of the function, removing the last
parameter.

Signed-off-by: Remi Collet <remi@remirepo.net>
Cc: Timo Stark <t.stark@nginx.com>
Cc: George Peter Banyard <girgias@php.net>
Tested-by: Andy Postnikov <apostnikov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Andy Postnikov <apostnikov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@nginx.com>
2022-10-19 12:59:49 +02:00
Alex Colomar
f2213dbd1b Added missing error checking in the C API.
pthread_mutex_init(3) may fail for several reasons, and failing to
check will cause Undefined Behavior when those errors happen.  Add
missing checks, and correctly deinitialize previously created
stuff before exiting from the API.

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@nginx.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhidao HONG <z.hong@f5.com>
2022-10-14 14:43:04 +02:00
Andrew Clayton
f8b892e1fa Fixed the build on MacOS (and others).
@alejandro-colomar reported that the build was broken on MacOS

cc  -o build/unitd -pipe -fPIC -fvisibility=hidden -O -W -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wwrite-strings -fstrict-aliasing -Wstrict-overflow=5 -Wmissing-prototypes -Werror -g   \
		build/src/nxt_main.o  build/libnxt.a \
		    \
                      \
                    -L/usr/local/Cellar/pcre2/10.40/lib -lpcre2-8
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  "_nxt_fs_mkdir_parent", referenced from:
      _nxt_runtime_pid_file_create in libnxt.a(nxt_runtime.o)
      _nxt_runtime_controller_socket in libnxt.a(nxt_controller.o)
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make: *** [build/unitd] Error 1

This was due to commit 57fc920 ("Socket: Created control socket & pid file
directories.").

This happened because this commit introduced the usage of
nxt_fs_mkdir_parent() in core code which uses nxt_fs_mkdir(), both of
these are defined in src/nxt_fs.c. It turns out however that this file
doesn't get built on MacOS (or any system that isn't Linux or that
lacks a FreeBSD compatible nmount(2) system call) due to the following

In auto/sources we have

  if [ $NXT_HAVE_ROOTFS = YES ]; then
      NXT_LIB_SRCS="$NXT_LIB_SRCS src/nxt_fs.c"
  fi

NXT_HAVE_ROOTFS is set in auto/isolation

  If [ $NXT_HAVE_MOUNT = YES -a $NXT_HAVE_UNMOUNT = YES ]; then
      NXT_HAVE_ROOTFS=YES

      cat << END >> $NXT_AUTO_CONFIG_H
  #ifndef NXT_HAVE_ISOLATION_ROOTFS
  #define NXT_HAVE_ISOLATION_ROOTFS  1
  #endif
  END

  fi

While we do have a check for a generic umount(2) which is found on
MacOS, for mount(2) we currently only check for the Linux mount(2) and
FreeBSD nmount(2) system calls. So NXT_HAVE_ROOTFS is set to NO on MacOS
and we don't build src/nxt_fs.c

This fixes the immediate build issue by taking the mount/umount OS
support out of nxt_fs.c into a new nxt_fs_mount.c file which is guarded
by the above while we now build nxt_fs.c unconditionally.

This should fix the build on any _supported_ system.

Reported-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@nginx.com>
Fixes: 57fc920 ("Socket: Created control socket & pid file directories.")
Signed-off-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>
2022-10-14 12:25:47 +01:00
Andrei Zeliankou
af5903ff4e Tests: added tests for the $request_time variable. 2022-10-13 10:13:57 +01:00
Zhidao HONG
7aa6b06298 HTTP: added a $request_time variable. 2022-10-12 08:21:02 +08:00
Andrei Zeliankou
08dab702cb Tests: reworked "test_variables.py".
Access log used for the variables testing instead of limited routing.
Added missed test for $status variable.
Some tests moved from "test_access_log.py" to "test_variables.py".
2022-10-11 13:49:44 +01:00
Andrei Zeliankou
8e1e047191 Tests: don't try to return response when "no_recv" is True. 2022-10-11 13:49:10 +01:00
Artem Konev
8d976cac52 Added missing slashes in config section references in README.md. 2022-10-06 12:47:47 +01:00
Andrew Clayton
d806a90609 Ruby: used nxt_ruby_exception_log() in nxt_ruby_rack_init().
For consistency use nxt_ruby_exception_log() rather than nxt_alert() in
nxt_ruby_rack_init().

Signed-off-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>
2022-10-04 19:33:11 +01:00
Zhidao HONG
dc9f592d6e Ruby: added support for rack V3.
Ruby applications would fail to start if they were using rack v3

  2022/09/28 15:48:46 [alert] 0#80912 [unit] Ruby: Failed to parse rack script
  2022/09/28 15:48:46 [notice] 80911#80911 app process 80912 exited with code 1

This was due to a change in the rack API

Rack V2

  def self.load_file(path, opts = Server::Options.new)
    ...
    cfgfile.sub!(/^__END__\n.*\Z/m, '')
    app = new_from_string cfgfile, path

    return app, options
  end

Rack V3

  def self.load_file(path)
    ...

    return new_from_string(config, path)
  end

This patch handles _both_ the above APIs by correctly handling the cases
where we do and don't get an array returned from
nxt_ruby_rack_parse_script().

Closes: <https://github.com/nginx/unit/issues/755>
Tested-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>
[ Andrew: Patch by Zhidao, commit message by me with input from Zhidao ]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>
2022-10-04 19:33:11 +01:00
Andrew Clayton
b00983369b Renamed a couple of members of nxt_unit_request_t.
This is a preparatory patch that renames the 'local' and 'local_length'
members of the nxt_unit_request_t structure to 'local_addr' and
'local_addr_length' in preparation for the adding of 'local_port' and
'local_port_length' members.

Suggested-by: Zhidao HONG <z.hong@f5.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>
2022-10-03 14:32:28 +01:00
Andrew Clayton
57fc9201cb Socket: Created control socket & pid file directories.
@alejandro-colomar reported an issue on GitHub whereby Unit would fail
to start due to not being able to create the control socket (a Unix
Domain Socket)

  2022/08/05 20:12:22 [alert] 21613#21613 bind(6,
  unix:/opt/local/unit/var/run/unit/control.unit.sock.tmp)
  failed (2: No such file or directory)

This could happen if the control socket was set to a directory that
doesn't exist. A common place to put the control socket would be under
/run/unit, and while /run will exist, /run/unit may well not (/run
is/should be cleared on each boot).

The pid file would also generally go under /run/unit, though this is
created after the control socket, however it could go someplace else so
we should also ensure its directory exists.

This commit will try to create the pid file and control sockets parent
directory. In some cases the user will need to ensure that the rest of
the path already exists.

This adds a new nxt_fs_mkdir_parent() function that given a full path
to a file (or directory), strips the last component off before passing
the remaining directory path to nxt_fs_mkdir().

Cc: Konstantin Pavlov <thresh@nginx.com>
Closes: <https://github.com/nginx/unit/issues/742>
Reported-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@nginx.com>
Reviewed-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@nginx.com>
Tested-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@nginx.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>
2022-10-03 14:26:45 +01:00
Andrew Clayton
2e69b7eb57 Added a .mailmap file.
This file is used by git (maybe also hg) to map different identities.

It can be used to map different names/email addresses to a preferred
name/email. So if you have authored/committed under different
names/email addresses you can map all these to a particular name/email.
Certain git commands (log, shortlog, show, blame etc) will consult this
file and show the Author/Committer accordingly.

Note: This does _not_ change history, this is simply used by various
commands to alter their output and can be disabled for some commands
with the --no-mailmap option.

This can be useful for commands like git shortlog so that all your
commits are shown under a single identity and also so people have an
up to date email address should they wish to contact you. And just for
overall consistency.

Seeing as I've already committed under two different email addresses
(not counting this one), I've put entries in this file to map my email
addresses to my @nginx.com one.

See also, gitmailmap(5).

Acked-by: Alex Colomar <alx@nginx.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@nginx.com>
2022-10-03 14:16:44 +01:00
Andrei Zeliankou
97fa587c9f Tests: added test with proxy for status. 2022-09-27 12:08:36 +01:00
Zhidao HONG
0711101af8 Status: fixed error in connection statistics.
When proxy is used, the number of accepted connections is not counted,
This also results in the wrong number of active connections.
2022-09-22 01:01:18 +08:00
Zhidao HONG
76df62a623 HTTP: fixed cookie parsing.
The fixing supports the cookie value with the '=' character.

This is related to #756 PR on Github.
Thanks to changxiaocui.
2022-09-19 02:45:44 +08:00
Andrei Zeliankou
5354e05b2f Version bump. 2022-09-19 11:59:59 +01:00
Andrei Zeliankou
0cf0e76a74 Unit 1.28.0 release. 2022-09-13 09:30:30 +01:00
Andrei Zeliankou
38bd7e76a1 Generated Dockerfiles for Unit 1.28.0. 2022-09-13 07:26:26 +08:00
Andrei Zeliankou
a03894df61 Added version 1.28.0 CHANGES. 2022-09-13 09:27:13 +01:00
Andrei Zeliankou
ff9054af10 Reordered changes for 1.28.0 by significance (subjective). 2022-09-13 09:16:55 +01:00
Andrei Zeliankou
ac5c0f1f03 Capitalize "HTTP" in "changes.xml" to match common style. 2022-09-13 00:31:32 +01:00
Alex Colomar
558a5d3e89 Fixed a mutex leak in the C API.
In nxt_unit_create() we could leak a mutex created in
nxt_unit_ctx_init().

This could happen if nxt_unit_ctx_init() succeeded but later on we
bailed out of nxt_unit_create(), we would destroy the mutex created in
nxt_unit_create() but not the one created in nxt_unit_ctx_init().

Reorder things so that we do the call to nxt_unit_create() after all the
other checks so if it fails we don't leak the mutex it created.

Co-developed-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@f5.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Clayton <a.clayton@f5.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Colomar <a.colomar@f5.com>
2022-09-10 02:57:42 +02:00
Konstantin Pavlov
4924bd185d Regenerated Dockerfiles. 2022-09-09 17:45:58 +04:00
Konstantin Pavlov
38350c17fc Docker: bumped language versions, moved jsc11 to eclipse-temurin.
openjdk builds are no longer provided in the docker library due to deprecation.
2022-09-09 16:17:42 +04:00
Konstantin Pavlov
97124fc349 Packaging: removed support for SLES and derivatives.
The packages were never built for those OSes.
2022-06-21 15:04:19 +04:00
Andrei Zeliankou
c65e04682e Tests: minor fixes. 2022-09-07 01:11:04 +01:00
Zhidao HONG
9d3b9dba40 Status: fixed incorrect pointer in test operation.
Found by Coverity (CID 380755).
2022-09-06 09:40:54 +08:00
Andrei Zeliankou
b25ffe2bf3 Fixed minor issues in "changes.xml". 2022-09-05 23:55:15 +01:00
Andrei Zeliankou
6915ce1d1c Tests: added tests for basic statistics. 2022-09-05 23:06:16 +01:00
Zhidao HONG
3ea113fcb7 Status: added requests count. 2022-08-29 14:32:20 +08:00
Valentin Bartenev
ce26dd729e Implemented basic statistics API. 2022-08-29 14:27:09 +08:00
Artem Konev
f2bab1b1be Updated the GitHub page banner. 2022-09-05 10:42:18 +01:00
Andrew Clayton
b26624fc10 Ruby: prevented a segfault on receiving SIGINT (^C).
As was reported[0] by @travisbell on GitHub, if running unit from the
terminal in the foreground when hitting ^C to exit it, the ruby
application processes would segfault if they were using threads.

It's not 100% clear where the actual problem lies, but it _looks_ like
it may be in ruby.

The simplest way to deal with this for now is to just ignore SIGINT in
the ruby application processes. Unit will still receive and handle it,
cleanly shutting everything down.

For people who want to handle SIGINT in their ruby application running
under unit they can still trap SIGINT and it will override the ignore.

[0]: https://github.com/nginx/unit/issues/562#issuecomment-1223229585

Closes: https://github.com/nginx/unit/issues/562
2022-08-31 13:17:02 +01:00
Andrei Zeliankou
d1cb8ab2bb Tests: added tests with abstract UNIX sockets. 2022-08-25 15:50:49 +01:00
Alejandro Colomar
7e4a8a5422 Disallowed abstract unix socket syntax in non-Linux systems.
The previous commit added/fixed support for abstract Unix domain sockets
on Linux with a leading '@' or '\0'.  To be consistent in all platforms,
treat those prefixes as markers for abstract sockets in all platforms,
and fail if abstract sockets are not supported by the platform.

That will avoid mistakes when copying a config file from a Linux system
and using it in non-Linux, which would surprisingly create a normal socket.
2022-08-18 18:58:41 +02:00
Alejandro Colomar
e2aec6686a Storing abstract sockets with @ internally.
We accept both "\u0000socket-name" and "@socket-name" as abstract
unix sockets.  The first one is passed to the kernel pristine,
while the second is transformed '@'->'\0'.

The commit that added support for unix sockets accepts both
variants, but we internally stored it in the same way, using
"\u0000..." for both.

We want to support abstract sockets transparently to the user, so
that if the user configures unitd with '@', if we receive a query
about the current configuration, the user should see the same
exact thing that was configured.  So, this commit avoids the
transformation in the internal state file, storing user input
pristine, and we only transform the '@' for a string that will
be used internally (not user-visible).

This commit (indirectly) fixes a small bug, where we created
abstract sockets with a trailing '\0' in their name due to calling
twice nxt_sockaddr_parse() on the same string.  By calling that
function only once with each copy of the string, we have fixed that
bug.
2022-08-18 18:56:24 +02:00
Alejandro Colomar
d8e0768a5b Fixed support for abstract Unix sockets.
Unix domain sockets are normally backed by files in the
filesystem.  This has historically been problematic when closing
and opening again such sockets, since SO_REUSEADDR is ignored for
Unix sockets (POSIX left the behavior of SO_REUSEADDR as
implementation-defined, and most --if not all-- implementations
decided to just ignore this flag).

Many solutions are available for this problem, but all of them
have important caveats:

- unlink(2) the file when it's not needed anymore.

  This is not easy, because the process that controls the fd may
  not be the same process that created the file, and may not have
  file permissions to remove it.

  Further solutions can be applied to that caveat:

  - unlink(2) the file right after creation.

    This will remove the pathname from the filesystem without
    closing the socket (it will continue to live until the last fd
    is closed).  This is not useful for us, since we need the
    pathname of the socket as its interface.

  - chown(2) or chmod(2) the directory that contains the socket.

    For removing a file from the filesystem, a process needs
    write permissions in the containing directory.  We could
    put sockets in dummy directories that can be chown(2)ed to
    nobody.  This could be dangerous, though, as we don't control
    the socket names.  It is our users who configure the socket
    name in their configuration, and so it's easy that they don't
    understand the many implications of not chosing an appropriate
    socket pathname.  A user could unknowingly put the socket in a
    directory that is not supposed to be owned by user nobody, and
    if we blindly chown(2) or chmod(2) the directory, we could be
    creating a big security hole.

  - Ask the main process to remove the socket.

    This would require a very complex communication mechanism with
    the main process, which is not impossible, but let's avoid it
    if there are simpler solutions.

  - Give the child process the CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE capability.

    That is one of the most powerful capabilities.  A process with
    that capability can be considered root for most practical
    aspects.  Even if the capability is disabled for most of the
    lifetime of the process, there's a slight chance that a
    malicious actor could activate it and then easily do serious
    damage to the system.

- unlink(2) the file right before calling bind(2).

  This is dangerous because another process (for example, another
  running instance of unitd(8)), could be using the socket, and
  removing the pathname from the filesystem would be problematic.
  To do this correctly, a lot of checks should be added before the
  actual unlink(2), which is error-prone, and difficult to do
  correctly, and atomically.

- Use abstract-namespace Unix domain sockets.

  This is the simplest solution, as it only requires accepting a
  slightly different syntax (basically a @ prefix) for the socket
  name, to transform it into a string starting with a null byte
  ('\0') that the kernel can understand.  The patch is minimal.

  Since abstract sockets live in an abstract namespace, they don't
  create files in the filesystem, so there's no need to remove
  them later.  The kernel removes the name when the last fd to it
  has been closed.

  One caveat is that only Linux currently supports this kind of
  Unix sockets.  Of course, a solution to that could be to ask
  other kernels to implement such a feature.

  Another caveat is that filesystem permissions can't be used to
  control access to the socket file (since, of course, there's no
  file).  Anyone knowing the socket name can access to it.  The
  only method to control access to it is by using
  network_namespaces(7).  Since in unitd(8) we're using 0666 file
  sockets, abstract sockets should be no more insecure than that
  (anyone can already read/write to the listener sockets).

- Ask the kernel to implement a simpler way to unlink(2) socket
  files when they are not needed anymore.  I've suggested that to
  the <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org> mailing list, in:
<lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/0bc5f919-bcfd-8fd0-a16b-9f060088158a@gmail.com/T>

In this commit, I decided to go for the easiest/simplest solution,
which is abstract sockets.  In fact, we already had partial
support.  This commit only fixes some small bug in the existing
code so that abstract Unix sockets work:

- Don't chmod(2) the socket if it's an abstract one.

This fixes the creation of abstract sockets, but doesn't make them
usable, since we produce them with a trailing '\0' in their name.
That will be fixed in the following commit.

This closes #669 issue on GitHub.
2022-08-18 18:55:14 +02:00