nebula/localapi/platform_unix.go

//go:build !windows

package localapi

import (
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	"log/slog"
	"net"
	"os"
	"os/user"
	"path/filepath"
	"strconv"
	"sync"
	"syscall"
	"time"
)

const network = "unix"

// withPeerFD runs f on the descriptor behind conn, which must be a unix socket, and
// returns whichever error came first: not a unix socket, no raw access to it, or f's
// own. It is the scaffolding every platform's peerUID shares; only the getsockopt inside
// differs.
func withPeerFD(conn net.Conn, f func(fd int) error) error {
	uc, ok := conn.(*net.UnixConn)
	if !ok {
		return fmt.Errorf("not a unix connection")
	}

	raw, err := uc.SyscallConn()
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	var inner error
	if err := raw.Control(func(fd uintptr) { inner = f(int(fd)) }); err != nil {
		return err
	}
	return inner
}

// currentUID is the user the owner checks are made for. A variable so a test can stand
// in for root, or for a stranger, without owning a second account on the host.
var currentUID = func() uint32 { return uint32(os.Geteuid()) }

// listen binds the socket at path with the given access.
//
// Access control is the socket's own mode and group, which the node is created no
// looser than and which are set after bind: connect(2) needs write permission on the
// socket file on every unix we build for. The control socket is 0600 and adds the peer
// check the server applies on accept, unless a group shares it, in which case it is
// 0660 with that group and the kernel's check is the whole of it; the info socket is
// whatever the operator configured, since opening it to others is its purpose. The directory is not part of that, and is never
// chmoded: a directory a service manager made for us is served from at whatever mode it
// came with (systemd's RuntimeDirectoryMode= is 0755 by default), and one an operator
// pointed us into keeps whatever else it holds readable. The one we make ourselves is
// 0755, searchable by everyone, so that a nebula ctl run as another user reaches the
// socket and gets the kernel's answer, which for a member of the configured group is
// a connection and for anyone else is permission denied.
func listen(path string, acc Access) (net.Listener, error) {
	// The kernel silently truncates an over long sun_path and bind then fails with
	// "invalid argument", which tells an operator nothing. Say what is actually wrong.
	if pathTooLong(path) {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("socket path is %d bytes, over the %d byte limit for a unix socket: %s", len(path), maxSocketPath, path)
	}

	dir := filepath.Dir(path)

	// One level only. Every directory defaultPathFor offers sits directly under one that
	// exists, and an operator who names a deeper path creates it; a missing parent is a
	// mistake to report, not a tree to build. A directory made here is remembered, so
	// that removeSocket can take it away again once nothing is left in it.
	//
	// 0755 gives nothing away: the socket's own mode is the access control. What it
	// gives is a directory others can look into, which is what a client that is not the
	// daemon's user needs to reach the socket. Mkdir applies the umask, so the mode is
	// pinned afterwards, as the socket's is; only on a directory this call created.
	switch err := os.Mkdir(dir, 0755); {
	case err == nil:
		if err := os.Chmod(dir, 0755); err != nil {
			return nil, fmt.Errorf("could not set the mode of %s: %w", dir, err)
		}
		madeDirs.add(dir)
	case !errors.Is(err, os.ErrExist):
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("could not create %s: %w", dir, err)
	}

	// Whether it was made here or came with the environment, the directory has to be
	// one nobody else could change; see checkSocketDir.
	if err := checkSocketDir(dir); err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	if err := clearStale(path); err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	// bind creates the socket node at the process umask, and a connect(2) between that
	// and a later chmod would be queued for accept. Tighten the umask around the bind so
	// the node is never looser than 0600, however briefly, whatever mode it ends up at.
	// umask is process wide, so another goroutine creating a file during this one syscall
	// gets 0600 too: stricter than it asked for, never looser, and nothing here creates
	// files on a hot path.
	old := syscall.Umask(0077)
	ln, err := net.Listen(network, path)
	syscall.Umask(old)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}

	// The node at path is given up by release, which unlinks it before the listener
	// closes; see there for why the order matters. Go's listener would unlink on Close
	// as well, and an unlink after the close could only be of whatever bound the path
	// next, so that is turned off and release is the one place the node is removed.
	if ul, ok := ln.(*net.UnixListener); ok {
		ul.SetUnlinkOnClose(false)
	}

	// The umask only promises no looser than 0600; this pins the mode and the group
	// exactly, and is the one place a failure to secure the socket is reported.
	if err := applyAccess(path, acc); err != nil {
		// The node is ours, bound a moment ago, so it goes without being identified.
		release(ln, path, socketID{})
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("could not secure %s: %w", path, err)
	}

	return ln, nil
}

// checkOwnSocket refuses what fi found at path unless it is a socket owned by the user
// this process runs as. fi comes from a look that does not follow links, so a symlink is
// seen as one, and the mode is only ever applied to a socket of ours. checkSocketDir
// vouched for the directory at bind, but that was then: a directory loosened since, or a
// reload that moves the socket, is a chance for whoever can write it to replace the node
// with a link, or a hard link to a file of their choosing, and have a root daemon set the
// configured mode, 0660 or 0666 for an info socket, on that file. A link, another type
// of file, or somebody else's socket is reported and left as it is. applyAccess, per
// platform, is what makes the look and the change land on the same node.
func checkOwnSocket(path string, fi os.FileInfo) error {
	if !isSocket(fi) {
		return fmt.Errorf("%s is not a socket but %s, refusing to change its mode", path, describeNode(fi))
	}

	if uid, ok := owner(fi); ok && uid != currentUID() {
		return fmt.Errorf("%s is owned by %s, not by us, refusing to change its mode", path, describeUID(uid))
	}

	return nil
}

// describeNode names what kind of file fi describes, for a message about something found
// where a socket was expected.
func describeNode(fi os.FileInfo) string {
	switch m := fi.Mode(); {
	case m&os.ModeSymlink != 0:
		return "a symlink"
	case m.IsDir():
		return "a directory"
	case m.IsRegular():
		return "a regular file"
	default:
		return "a " + m.Type().String() + " file"
	}
}

// checkSocketDir refuses to serve from a directory that somebody other than the user
// nebula runs as, or root, could change. The socket's mode and group say who may connect
// to it; what makes the path they connect to the daemon's is the directory, since
// whoever can write it can put a socket of their own at the path and answer the clients
// in the daemon's place. So the directory must be owned by the daemon's user or by root
// and writable by its owner alone; a sticky bit is not an exception. A runtime directory
// a service manager made for another user, or /var/run/nebula created ahead of a root
// daemon by a member of group daemon, where darwin lets that group write /var/run, are
// both refused with the owner named.
//
// A link where the directory should be is judged twice: whoever owns the link decides
// where the path leads, so the link must be ours or root's too, and the directory it
// resolves to is then held to the rule above. /var/run is such a link on linux, root's,
// to /run, and a socket named directly under it is served; a link somebody else planted
// is refused as theirs.
//
// Only this directory is checked, not the ones above it. /var/run itself is group
// writable on darwin by design, and the parents are the operator's to trust, as they are
// for every file nebula reads. The check is made at bind, so a directory loosened while
// the daemon runs is noticed at the next reload.
func checkSocketDir(dir string) error {
	fi, err := os.Lstat(dir)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}
	if fi.Mode()&os.ModeSymlink != 0 {
		if uid, ok := owner(fi); ok && uid != currentUID() && uid != 0 {
			return fmt.Errorf("%s is a symlink owned by %s, not by the user nebula runs as or by root, and its owner decides where the path leads; name a socket path that does not go through it", dir, describeUID(uid))
		}
		if fi, err = os.Stat(dir); err != nil {
			return err
		}
	}
	if !fi.IsDir() {
		return fmt.Errorf("%s is not a directory", dir)
	}

	if uid, ok := owner(fi); ok && uid != currentUID() && uid != 0 {
		return fmt.Errorf("%s is owned by %s, not by the user nebula runs as or by root, and its owner could replace the socket; make it ours or root's, or name a socket path in a directory that is", dir, describeUID(uid))
	}

	if perm := fi.Mode().Perm(); perm&0022 != 0 {
		who := "its group"
		if perm&0002 != 0 {
			who = "everyone"
		}
		return fmt.Errorf("%s is writable by %s (mode %04o), who could replace the socket; make it writable by its owner alone, or name a socket path in a directory that is", dir, who, perm)
	}

	return nil
}

// owner returns the uid that owns the file fi describes.
func owner(fi os.FileInfo) (uint32, bool) {
	st, ok := fi.Sys().(*syscall.Stat_t)
	if !ok {
		return 0, false
	}
	return uint32(st.Uid), true
}

// describeUID renders a uid with its account name when the host can say what it is, so
// a message about somebody else's socket tells the operator who that is.
func describeUID(uid uint32) string {
	id := strconv.FormatUint(uint64(uid), 10)
	if u, err := user.LookupId(id); err == nil && u.Username != "" {
		return "uid " + id + " (" + u.Username + ")"
	}

	return "uid " + id
}

// clearStale removes a leftover socket file, but only after proving nothing is
// listening on it. An unclean restart leaves one behind every time, so this is a
// routine path; blindly unlinking would let a second daemon steal a live endpoint.
//
// Liveness is a plain connect. Only a refused connect proves there is nothing behind
// the file. Anything else, a timeout or a permission error, is a socket we cannot vouch
// for, and it is left alone with the reason in the error.
//
// The look is an Lstat: a symlink at path is refused as not a socket, whether or not it
// resolves. Stat would report a dangling one as nothing there, and bind(2) on darwin
// and the BSDs follows a dangling link and creates the socket node at its target.
func clearStale(path string) error {
	fi, err := os.Lstat(path)
	if err != nil {
		if os.IsNotExist(err) {
			return nil
		}
		return err
	}

	if !isSocket(fi) {
		return fmt.Errorf("%s exists and is not a socket", path)
	}

	conn, err := dial(path, 250*time.Millisecond)
	if err == nil {
		_ = conn.Close()
		return fmt.Errorf("%s is already in use by another nebula instance", path)
	}

	if errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
		// Gone between the stat and the connect; nothing to clear.
		return nil
	}

	if !errors.Is(err, syscall.ECONNREFUSED) {
		return fmt.Errorf("%s exists and could not be shown to be stale, refusing to remove it: %w", path, err)
	}

	return os.Remove(path)
}

// removeSocket unlinks the socket node and, when listen made the directory it is in,
// removes that too, so a socket that moves off an override or a daemon that stops
// leaves nothing behind. A directory that came with the environment, a service
// manager's runtime directory or one the operator pointed us into, is not ours to
// remove and is left as it was.
//
// Only the node id names is removed. One that replaced it is another daemon's, bound
// after ours was taken from under us, and is left where it is. A zero id, a node that
// could not be identified when it was bound, is removed as it always was.
func removeSocket(path string, id socketID) {
	if cur, ok := identifySocket(path); ok && id != (socketID{}) && cur != id {
		return
	}
	_ = os.Remove(path)
	madeDirs.remove(filepath.Dir(path))
}

// identifySocket returns the identity of the node at path, looked at without following
// links, and false when there is nothing there or it cannot be read.
func identifySocket(path string) (socketID, bool) {
	fi, err := os.Lstat(path)
	if err != nil {
		return socketID{}, false
	}
	st, ok := fi.Sys().(*syscall.Stat_t)
	if !ok {
		return socketID{}, false
	}
	return socketID{dev: uint64(st.Dev), ino: uint64(st.Ino)}, true
}

// madeDirs is the set of directories listen created and has not yet removed. It is
// package state because the socket's path is all release and listen share.
var madeDirs = dirSet{made: map[string]bool{}}

type dirSet struct {
	mu   sync.Mutex
	made map[string]bool
}

func (d *dirSet) add(dir string) {
	d.mu.Lock()
	defer d.mu.Unlock()
	d.made[dir] = true
}

// remove takes dir away if listen made it and it is empty. One that still holds
// something, another socket of ours or whatever else arrived, is kept and stays
// remembered, so the release of the last socket in it is the one that removes it. The
// same goes for any other failure: a directory that is still there is still ours to
// remove, and the next release tries again. Only one that is gone is forgotten.
func (d *dirSet) remove(dir string) {
	d.mu.Lock()
	defer d.mu.Unlock()
	if !d.made[dir] {
		return
	}
	if err := os.Remove(dir); err != nil && !errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) {
		return
	}
	delete(d.made, dir)
}

func dial(path string, timeout time.Duration) (net.Conn, error) {
	return net.DialTimeout(network, path, timeout)
}

// sunPathMax is the smallest sun_path any platform we build for offers (104 on darwin,
// 108 on linux). Overrunning it truncates the path rather than failing cleanly, so we
// check against the tighter bound everywhere.
const sunPathMax = 104

// maxSocketPath is the longest path that actually binds. sun_path holds the trailing
// NUL as well, and Go's syscall package refuses a path that fills the whole buffer
// with a bare EINVAL, so the usable limit is one byte short of the buffer.
const maxSocketPath = sunPathMax - 1

func pathTooLong(path string) bool { return len(path) > maxSocketPath }

// defaultSocketPath is the control socket when the config names none. It is root's to
// create, as the tun device is root's to open; a daemon run as anyone else names a path
// of its own with CtlSocketKey.
const defaultSocketPath = "/var/run/" + DirName + "/ctl.sock"

// checkSocketPath refuses a configured socket path that is relative, or too long to
// bind. A relative path would mean a different socket to the daemon and to nebula ctl,
// each resolving it against the directory it happened to be started from.
func checkSocketPath(key, value string) error {
	if !filepath.IsAbs(value) {
		return fmt.Errorf("%s must be an absolute path, got %q", key, value)
	}
	if pathTooLong(value) {
		return fmt.Errorf("%s is %d bytes, too long for this platform: %s", key, len(value), value)
	}
	return nil
}

// logListening is the line written when the socket is up. It says what the access
// control is: the socket's mode plus the peer check on each connection, or, when a group
// shares the socket, the mode and group alone.
func logListening(l *slog.Logger, path string, acc Access) {
	if acc.Group != nil {
		l.Info("Local control socket listening, access decided by the socket's group", "path", path, "access", acc.String())
		return
	}
	l.Info("Local control socket listening", "path", path, "access", acc.String())
}

func isSocket(fi os.FileInfo) bool { return fi.Mode()&os.ModeSocket != 0 }