Lock the state directory and write vault files atomically (closes #34)
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Each command that changes the state directory holds one lock: flock(2)
on `lock` in the state directory, dropped by the kernel if the process
dies, or a process-wide mutex on the in-memory test filesystem. It
covers the state directory, not each vault, because `currentvault`,
`vault create` and cross-vault moves span vaults, and a lock file in a
vault would be deleted by `vault remove` under a waiting command.

Files go through `secret.WriteFileAtomic`; versions, new secrets and
cross-vault copies are built in a temporary directory and renamed into
place; removals rename out of the way first. Left for later: replacing
an unlocker (#71) and deleting
what an interrupted command leaves under a `.tmp-` name
(#75).

Model: opus-5-5
Co-authored-by: clawbot <sneak+clawbot@sneak.cloud>
This commit was merged in pull request #69.
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2026-10-04 04:57:58 +02:00
committed by clawbot
parent bdb1c7ec18
commit 32a61ff963
24 changed files with 1906 additions and 204 deletions
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@@ -70,9 +70,44 @@ func newDecryptCmd() *cobra.Command {
)
}
// storeNewEncryptionKey generates an age secret key and stores it as the
// named secret, holding the state directory lock while it does. It fails
// with vault.ErrSecretExists if another command stored the secret first.
// The caller must destroy the returned buffer.
func (cli *Instance) storeNewEncryptionKey(
vlt *vault.Vault, secretName string,
) (*memguard.LockedBuffer, error) {
release, err := vault.LockStateDir(cli.fs, cli.stateDir)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
defer release()
identity, err := age.GenerateX25519Identity()
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to generate age key: %w", err)
}
// Store the generated key directly in a secure buffer
secureBuffer := memguard.NewBufferFromBytes([]byte(identity.String()))
err = vlt.AddSecret(secretName, secureBuffer, false)
if err != nil {
secureBuffer.Destroy()
return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to store age key: %w", err)
}
return secureBuffer, nil
}
// resolveEncryptionKey returns a secure buffer holding the age secret key
// for the named secret, generating and storing a new key if the secret
// does not exist. The caller must destroy the returned buffer.
// does not exist. The caller must destroy the returned buffer. Only storing
// a new key takes the state directory lock, so that reading an existing key
// works on a read-only state directory and keeps no other command waiting
// at the passphrase prompt, and Encrypt streams its input and output
// unlocked.
func (cli *Instance) resolveEncryptionKey(
vlt *vault.Vault, secretName string,
) (*memguard.LockedBuffer, error) {
@@ -85,23 +120,11 @@ func (cli *Instance) resolveEncryptionKey(
}
if !exists {
// Secret doesn't exist, generate new age key and store it
identity, err := age.GenerateX25519Identity()
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to generate age key: %w", err)
key, err := cli.storeNewEncryptionKey(vlt, secretName)
if !errors.Is(err, vault.ErrSecretExists) {
return key, err
}
// Store the generated key directly in a secure buffer
secureBuffer := memguard.NewBufferFromBytes([]byte(identity.String()))
err = vlt.AddSecret(secretName, secureBuffer, false)
if err != nil {
secureBuffer.Destroy()
return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to store age key: %w", err)
}
return secureBuffer, nil
// Another command stored the key since the check above: read it
}
// Secret exists, get the age secret key from it