Entrypoint acts as root on nothing outside /data (closes #80)
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`bin/entrypoint.sh` now runs `netwatch-server prepare-data-dir`, which
refuses a `DATA_DIR` that is not `/data` or a path below it written in
full, then creates `DATA_DIR`, gives `/data` and everything in it to
`netwatch`, and sets mode 750 on `/data` and `DATA_DIR`. Every step goes
through a Go `os.Root` opened on `/data`, and the modes are set on the
opened directories rather than by name, so neither a symbolic link
already there nor one a host process swaps in while the container
starts can make root create or change anything outside `/data`. The
README says which `DATA_DIR` values are accepted.

Model: opus-5-5
This commit was merged in pull request #81.
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2026-10-03 18:24:38 +02:00
parent e4df415676
commit 39ee6ca839
7 changed files with 501 additions and 23 deletions
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@@ -107,8 +107,9 @@ this server. The image's entrypoint, `bin/entrypoint.sh`, starts the server as
user `netwatch` (uid 1000) with `BIND_ADDRESS=127.0.0.1` and `PORT=8081`, so
only nginx reaches it, and with `TRUSTED_PROXIES=127.0.0.1/32`, so it takes the
client address nginx passes on and no other. `DATA_DIR` is `/data/reports`, on
the `/data` volume; the entrypoint creates it and gives it and `/data` to
`netwatch` before starting the server. nginx replaces the security headers
the `/data` volume; before starting the server, the entrypoint creates it and
gives it and `/data` to `netwatch` with `netwatch-server prepare-data-dir`,
which acts on nothing outside `/data`. nginx replaces the security headers
this server sets with those in the root `security-headers.conf`, so those are
what clients of the image see.
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@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ package main
import (
"fmt"
"os"
"os/user"
"sneak.berlin/go/netwatch/internal/config"
"sneak.berlin/go/netwatch/internal/globals"
@@ -37,6 +38,26 @@ func main() {
return
}
// "netwatch-server prepare-data-dir DATA_DIR" gets DATA_DIR ready
// for the netwatch user, or exits 1 with the error; see
// reportbuf.PrepareDataDir. bin/entrypoint.sh runs it as root
// before it starts this server as that user.
if len(os.Args) == 3 && os.Args[1] == "prepare-data-dir" {
netwatch, err := user.Lookup("netwatch")
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprintln(os.Stderr, err)
os.Exit(1)
}
err = reportbuf.PrepareDataDir("/data", os.Args[2], netwatch)
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "DATA_DIR '%s': %v\n", os.Args[2], err)
os.Exit(1)
}
return
}
globals.Appname = Appname
globals.Version = Version
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@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
package reportbuf
import (
"errors"
"io/fs"
"os"
"os/user"
"path/filepath"
"strconv"
"syscall"
)
// ErrDataDirOutsideVolume is returned by PrepareDataDir for a DATA_DIR
// that is not the volume or a path below it, written in full.
var ErrDataDirOutsideVolume = errors.New(
"must be /data or a path below it, with no '.', '..' or extra '/'")
// PrepareDataDir gets dir, the server's DATA_DIR, ready for owner, the
// user the server runs as, so that a host directory mounted at volume,
// /data in the image, needs no preparing: it creates dir, gives volume
// and everything in it to owner, and gives volume and dir the mode the
// server gives a directory it creates. dir must be volume or a path
// below it, with no '.', '..', empty part or '/' at the end.
//
// bin/entrypoint.sh runs this as root, which would follow a symbolic
// link anywhere, so every step goes through an os.Root opened on
// volume: it follows a link only when it is written as a relative
// path that stays inside volume, and refuses any other. A process on
// the host can swap a link onto a path in volume at any moment while
// this runs. Even then, the os.Root checks each link as it reaches
// it. MkdirAll creates each directory inside a parent it already has
// open, never following a link at the name it creates, and follows a
// link on the path only as the os.Root allows, so a relative link
// inside volume can lead it to create directories elsewhere inside
// volume. Lchown never changes what a link points to, and the modes
// are set on directories already opened (see chmodDir), so the most
// that process can do is make a step fail or wait, or act on
// something else inside volume.
func PrepareDataDir(volume, dir string, owner *user.User) error {
// rel is dir as a path from volume; IsLocal is false for one that
// leads out of it.
rel, err := filepath.Rel(volume, dir)
if err != nil || dir != filepath.Clean(dir) || !filepath.IsLocal(rel) {
return ErrDataDirOutsideVolume
}
uid, err := strconv.Atoi(owner.Uid)
if err != nil {
return err
}
gid, err := strconv.Atoi(owner.Gid)
if err != nil {
return err
}
root, err := os.OpenRoot(volume)
if err != nil {
return err
}
defer func() { _ = root.Close() }()
err = root.MkdirAll(rel, dirPerms)
if err != nil {
return err
}
err = lchownAll(root, ".", uid, gid)
if err != nil {
return err
}
err = chmodDir(root, ".")
if err != nil {
return err
}
return chmodDir(root, rel)
}
// lchownAll gives name, a directory inside root, and everything in it
// to uid and gid. It reads each directory opened through root, not
// through root.FS(), which refuses a name that is not valid UTF-8, and
// calls Lchown on every entry, which gives a symbolic link itself to
// them, not what it points to. It goes into an entry only when the
// read found a directory there, so it follows no link it finds; one
// swapped in for that directory afterwards is followed only as the
// os.Root allows.
func lchownAll(root *os.Root, name string, uid, gid int) error {
err := root.Lchown(name, uid, gid)
if err != nil {
return err
}
dir, err := root.Open(name)
if err != nil {
return err
}
entries, err := dir.ReadDir(-1)
_ = dir.Close()
if err != nil {
return err
}
for _, entry := range entries {
entryName := filepath.Join(name, entry.Name())
if entry.IsDir() {
err = lchownAll(root, entryName, uid, gid)
} else {
err = root.Lchown(entryName, uid, gid)
}
if err != nil {
return err
}
}
return nil
}
// chmodDir gives name, a directory inside root, the mode the server
// gives a directory it creates. Root.Chmod would not hold: on Linux it
// checks that name is not a symbolic link, then sets the mode by name,
// following a link swapped in between. So chmodDir opens name through
// root and sets the mode on the open directory. It refuses anything
// but a directory: a directory has no second name (hard link), so the
// one opened is inside root, where any other file could be a hard link
// to one outside.
func chmodDir(root *os.Root, name string) error {
dir, err := root.Open(name)
if err != nil {
return err
}
defer func() { _ = dir.Close() }()
info, err := dir.Stat()
if err != nil {
return err
}
if !info.IsDir() {
return &fs.PathError{Op: "chmod", Path: name, Err: syscall.ENOTDIR}
}
return dir.Chmod(dirPerms)
}
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package reportbuf_test
import (
"errors"
"io/fs"
"os"
"os/user"
"path/filepath"
"strconv"
"syscall"
"testing"
"sneak.berlin/go/netwatch/internal/reportbuf"
)
// reports is the last part of DATA_DIR in these tests, as in the
// image's /data/reports.
const reports = "reports"
// currentUser is the user the test runs as, the only owner a test not
// run as root can give files to.
func currentUser() *user.User {
return &user.User{
Uid: strconv.Itoa(os.Getuid()),
Gid: strconv.Itoa(os.Getgid()),
}
}
// tempDirMode700 is a new directory in a t.TempDir with mode 0700, so
// a test can tell that PrepareDataDir left its mode alone.
func tempDirMode700(t *testing.T) string {
t.Helper()
dir := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "d")
err := os.Mkdir(dir, 0o700)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
return dir
}
func requireMode(t *testing.T, path string, want fs.FileMode) {
t.Helper()
info, err := os.Stat(path)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if info.Mode() != want {
t.Errorf("%s: mode %v, want %v", path, info.Mode(), want)
}
}
func requireMissing(t *testing.T, path string) {
t.Helper()
_, err := os.Lstat(path)
if !errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist) {
t.Errorf("%s: created, or Lstat failed: %v", path, err)
}
}
func requireOwner(t *testing.T, path string, uid, gid uint32) {
t.Helper()
info, err := os.Lstat(path)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
stat, _ := info.Sys().(*syscall.Stat_t)
if stat.Uid != uid || stat.Gid != gid {
t.Errorf("%s: owner %d:%d, want %d:%d", path, stat.Uid, stat.Gid,
uid, gid)
}
}
func TestPrepareDataDirCreatesDataDir(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
volume := t.TempDir()
dir := filepath.Join(volume, "a", reports)
err := reportbuf.PrepareDataDir(volume, dir, currentUser())
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
requireMode(t, volume, fs.ModeDir|0o750)
requireMode(t, dir, fs.ModeDir|0o750)
}
// TestPrepareDataDirSetsModeOfExistingDataDir: a DATA_DIR already on
// the host with another mode gets the mode too, not only a new one.
func TestPrepareDataDirSetsModeOfExistingDataDir(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
volume := t.TempDir()
dir := filepath.Join(volume, reports)
err := os.Mkdir(dir, 0o700)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
err = reportbuf.PrepareDataDir(volume, dir, currentUser())
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
requireMode(t, dir, fs.ModeDir|0o750)
}
func TestPrepareDataDirTakesTheVolumeItself(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
volume := t.TempDir()
err := reportbuf.PrepareDataDir(volume, volume, currentUser())
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
requireMode(t, volume, fs.ModeDir|0o750)
}
// TestPrepareDataDirRefusesDataDirOutsideVolume covers a DATA_DIR that
// is relative, outside the volume, or not written in full.
func TestPrepareDataDirRefusesDataDirOutsideVolume(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
volume := tempDirMode700(t)
for _, dir := range []string{
reports, volume + "/../new", volume + "/", volume + "//" + reports,
volume + "/./" + reports, volume + "/" + reports + "/..", volume + "x",
"/etc",
} {
err := reportbuf.PrepareDataDir(volume, dir, currentUser())
if !errors.Is(err, reportbuf.ErrDataDirOutsideVolume) {
t.Errorf("%q: error = %v, want ErrDataDirOutsideVolume", dir, err)
}
}
requireMissing(t, filepath.Join(filepath.Dir(volume), "new"))
requireMode(t, volume, fs.ModeDir|0o700)
}
// TestPrepareDataDirRefusesLinkOutOfVolume puts a symbolic link to a
// directory outside the volume on the path to DATA_DIR, written as a
// full path and as one that climbs out with '..', and as DATA_DIR
// itself, where the mode would be set through it.
func TestPrepareDataDirRefusesLinkOutOfVolume(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
for _, tc := range []struct {
name string
climbsOut bool
link, dir string
}{
{"full path", false, "x", "x/reports"},
{"climbs out", true, "x", "x/reports"},
{"DATA_DIR itself", false, reports, reports},
} {
t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
outside := tempDirMode700(t)
volume := t.TempDir()
climbOut, err := filepath.Rel(volume, outside)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
target := outside
if tc.climbsOut {
target = climbOut
}
err = os.Symlink(target, filepath.Join(volume, tc.link))
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
err = reportbuf.PrepareDataDir(volume,
filepath.Join(volume, tc.dir), currentUser())
if err == nil {
t.Error("no error")
}
requireMissing(t, filepath.Join(outside, reports))
requireMode(t, outside, fs.ModeDir|0o700)
})
}
}
// TestPrepareDataDirRefusesDanglingLink: DATA_DIR is a symbolic link
// to a name in the volume that does not exist, which is not created.
func TestPrepareDataDirRefusesDanglingLink(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
volume := t.TempDir()
err := os.Symlink("missing", filepath.Join(volume, reports))
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
err = reportbuf.PrepareDataDir(volume, filepath.Join(volume, reports),
currentUser())
if err == nil {
t.Error("no error")
}
requireMissing(t, filepath.Join(volume, "missing"))
}
// TestPrepareDataDirTakesDirectoryNamedInLatin1: a host directory can
// hold names that are not valid UTF-8, here "café" written in Latin-1.
// A test not run as root can only check that PrepareDataDir goes into
// such a directory and gives it, and what it holds, to the current
// user.
func TestPrepareDataDirTakesDirectoryNamedInLatin1(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
volume := t.TempDir()
latin1 := filepath.Join(volume, "caf\xe9")
err := os.Mkdir(latin1, 0o700)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
err = os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(latin1, "f"), nil, 0o600)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
owner := currentUser()
err = reportbuf.PrepareDataDir(volume, filepath.Join(volume, reports),
owner)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
uid, _ := strconv.ParseUint(owner.Uid, 10, 32)
gid, _ := strconv.ParseUint(owner.Gid, 10, 32)
requireOwner(t, latin1, uint32(uid), uint32(gid))
requireOwner(t, filepath.Join(latin1, "f"), uint32(uid), uint32(gid))
}
// TestPrepareDataDirGivesVolumeToOwner gives everything in the volume
// to a uid and gid that own nothing, which only root can do. A
// symbolic link in the volume to a directory outside it is given to
// them itself; what it points to is left as it was.
func TestPrepareDataDirGivesVolumeToOwner(t *testing.T) {
t.Parallel()
if os.Geteuid() != 0 {
t.Skip("only root can give files to another uid")
}
outside := t.TempDir()
volume := t.TempDir()
old := filepath.Join(volume, "old")
err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(outside, "f"), nil, 0o600)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
err = os.Mkdir(old, 0o700)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
err = os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(old, "f"), nil, 0o600)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
err = os.Symlink(outside, filepath.Join(old, "link"))
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
err = reportbuf.PrepareDataDir(volume, filepath.Join(volume, reports),
&user.User{Uid: "4242", Gid: "4343"})
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
for _, path := range []string{
volume, filepath.Join(volume, reports), old,
filepath.Join(old, "f"), filepath.Join(old, "link"),
} {
requireOwner(t, path, 4242, 4343)
}
requireOwner(t, outside, 0, 0)
requireOwner(t, filepath.Join(outside, "f"), 0, 0)
}