fix(search): walk and read the brain through an os.Root (#157, slice 1) (#161)
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Co-authored-by: Mathias <mthbqv@gmail.com>
This commit was merged in pull request #161.
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// Package brainfs reads the brain directory through an os.Root (hyperguild#157).
// The brain dir is a Syncthing sendreceive folder and Syncthing syncs
// symlinks; a reader that walks and reads by path follows a planted symlink
// out of the brain, and blocks forever on a planted FIFO. Readers that go
// through a Brain only ever read regular files inside the brain: os.Root
// refuses to leave the root even if an entry is swapped mid-read, and every
// open is non-blocking with the type checked on the opened handle.
package brainfs
import (
"errors"
"fmt"
"io"
"io/fs"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"syscall"
)
// ErrNotRegular is returned for an entry that is not a regular file.
var ErrNotRegular = errors.New("not a regular file")
// Brain is an open brain directory.
type Brain struct {
root *os.Root
dir string
}
// Open opens brainDir (which may itself be a mount symlink) as a root.
func Open(brainDir string) (*Brain, error) {
r, err := os.OpenRoot(brainDir)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("open brain root: %w", err)
}
return &Brain{root: r, dir: brainDir}, nil
}
// Close releases the root.
func (b *Brain) Close() error { return b.root.Close() }
// Rel converts a path under the brain dir to a root-relative path.
func (b *Brain) Rel(path string) (string, error) {
rel, err := filepath.Rel(b.dir, path)
if err != nil {
return "", err
}
if rel == ".." || len(rel) > 2 && rel[:3] == ".."+string(filepath.Separator) {
return "", fmt.Errorf("%s is outside the brain dir", path)
}
return filepath.ToSlash(rel), nil
}
// ReadRegular reads a brain-relative path, refusing anything that is not a
// regular file, both before the open and on the opened handle.
func (b *Brain) ReadRegular(rel string) ([]byte, error) {
fi, err := b.root.Lstat(rel)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
if !fi.Mode().IsRegular() {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", rel, ErrNotRegular)
}
return b.readOpened(rel)
}
// readOpened opens rel non-blocking and reads it only if the OPENED handle is
// a regular file. This is the check that matters under a race: an entry
// swapped for a FIFO after the Lstat, with a writer holding it open, would
// otherwise park io.ReadAll forever (PR #161 review: removing it hung search
// after 16 iterations).
//
// Accepted residual, as in api/rawroot.go: a HARD link to an outside file is
// a regular file and is read. Syncthing syncs contents, not links, so a peer
// cannot create one; fs.protected_hardlinks=1 and the pod's secrets are on a
// different filesystem from the brain volume, so a local caller cannot link
// them in. Refusing Nlink > 1 is the next step if either changes.
func (b *Brain) readOpened(rel string) ([]byte, error) {
f, err := b.root.OpenFile(rel, os.O_RDONLY|syscall.O_NONBLOCK, 0)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
defer func() { _ = f.Close() }()
hfi, err := f.Stat()
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
if !hfi.Mode().IsRegular() {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("%s: %w", rel, ErrNotRegular)
}
return io.ReadAll(f)
}
// WalkRegular walks a brain-relative directory through the root and calls fn
// for each regular file (directories are descended; symlinks, FIFOs and
// devices are skipped, never followed). An entry error is passed to onErr and
// the walk continues; a nil onErr ignores it.
func (b *Brain) WalkRegular(relDir string, fn func(rel string) error, onErr func(rel string, err error)) error {
return fs.WalkDir(b.root.FS(), filepath.ToSlash(relDir), func(p string, d fs.DirEntry, err error) error {
if err != nil {
if onErr != nil {
onErr(p, err)
}
if d != nil && d.IsDir() {
return fs.SkipDir
}
return nil
}
if d.IsDir() || !d.Type().IsRegular() {
return nil
}
return fn(p)
})
}
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package brainfs
import (
"errors"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"syscall"
"testing"
"time"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
)
// The handle check is what stops a FIFO swapped in after the Lstat. A FIFO
// with no writer reads EOF at once, so a race test could not see the check
// missing; here a writer holds the FIFO open, as any local process can, and
// readOpened must refuse it promptly (PR #161 review).
func TestReadOpenedRefusesAFIFOHeldOpenByAWriter(t *testing.T) {
dir := t.TempDir()
fifo := filepath.Join(dir, "p.md")
require.NoError(t, syscall.Mkfifo(fifo, 0o644))
w, err := os.OpenFile(fifo, os.O_RDWR, 0)
require.NoError(t, err)
defer func() { _ = w.Close() }()
b, err := Open(dir)
require.NoError(t, err)
defer func() { _ = b.Close() }()
done := make(chan error, 1)
go func() { _, err := b.readOpened("p.md"); done <- err }()
select {
case err := <-done:
assert.True(t, errors.Is(err, ErrNotRegular), "got %v", err)
case <-time.After(2 * time.Second):
t.Fatal("readOpened blocked on a FIFO with a writer")
}
}
func TestReadRegularRefusesSymlinksAndReadsRegularFiles(t *testing.T) {
dir := t.TempDir()
require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "ok.md"), []byte("ok"), 0o644))
outside := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "s.md")
require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(outside, []byte("secret"), 0o644))
require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(outside, filepath.Join(dir, "link.md")))
b, err := Open(dir)
require.NoError(t, err)
defer func() { _ = b.Close() }()
got, err := b.ReadRegular("ok.md")
require.NoError(t, err)
assert.Equal(t, "ok", string(got))
_, err = b.ReadRegular("link.md")
assert.True(t, errors.Is(err, ErrNotRegular), "got %v", err)
_, err = b.ReadRegular("../" + filepath.Base(outside))
assert.Error(t, err)
}
func TestRelAcceptsPathsInsideAndRefusesEscapes(t *testing.T) {
dir := t.TempDir()
b, err := Open(dir)
require.NoError(t, err)
defer func() { _ = b.Close() }()
for in, want := range map[string]string{
filepath.Join(dir, "wiki", "x.md"): "wiki/x.md",
filepath.Join(dir, "..foo", "x"): "..foo/x",
dir: ".",
} {
got, err := b.Rel(in)
require.NoError(t, err, in)
assert.Equal(t, want, got, in)
}
for _, bad := range []string{filepath.Join(dir, "..", "x"), dir + "-evil/x", "/etc/passwd", filepath.Join(dir, "wiki", "..", "..", "x")} {
_, err := b.Rel(bad)
assert.Error(t, err, bad)
}
}
func TestWalkRegularYieldsOnlyRegularFiles(t *testing.T) {
dir := t.TempDir()
require.NoError(t, os.MkdirAll(filepath.Join(dir, "a"), 0o755))
require.NoError(t, os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dir, "a", "n.md"), []byte("n"), 0o644))
require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(t.TempDir(), filepath.Join(dir, "a", "dirlink")))
require.NoError(t, os.Symlink(filepath.Join(dir, "a", "n.md"), filepath.Join(dir, "a", "filelink.md")))
require.NoError(t, syscall.Mkfifo(filepath.Join(dir, "a", "p.md"), 0o644))
b, err := Open(dir)
require.NoError(t, err)
defer func() { _ = b.Close() }()
var got []string
require.NoError(t, b.WalkRegular(".", func(rel string) error { got = append(got, rel); return nil }, nil))
assert.Equal(t, []string{"a/n.md"}, got)
}