rproxy and servewaf replace the one-process smallwebwaf (closes #172, closes #165)
check / check (push) Failing after 14m44s

`smallwebwaf` with no command now prints the commands and exits with status 2.
The image runs rproxy, or servewaf with SMALLWEBWAF_COMMAND=servewaf. The
passing-on code, its settings and its log fields and metric go. internal/proxy
keeps the checks, answers, reports and own endpoints; its tests run through the
real rproxy. The documents describe the pair.

Judgement call: clients.json keeps token_refused, since state files refuse unknown fields.
Deviation: script/gitea-requests sets SWWAF_LOG_REQUEST_HEADERS, to label requests.
Partially verified: make example-app and make gitea-requests never built the image, as Ubuntu's snapshot service answered 5xx.

Model: opus-5-5
This commit was merged in pull request #184.
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@@ -1,16 +1,15 @@
// Package proxy runs the checks on each request and writes its request log
// line. New passes each request it lets through to the app and the app's
// answer back, unchanged, within the size and time limits. NewServeWAF instead
// answers rproxy's question about each request, and takes rproxy's report once
// the visitor's answer has ended, which writes the request a second log line.
// Package proxy is servewaf's server. It runs the checks on the request each of
// rproxy's questions carries, and answers rproxy what to do with that request. It
// takes rproxy's report once the visitor's answer has ended, which counts the
// request's bytes and writes its last log line. It answers servewaf's own
// endpoints: the health check, the metrics, the bans and the clients. It passes
// nothing to an app: internal/rproxy does that.
package proxy
import (
"io"
"log"
"log/slog"
"net/http"
"strings"
"time"
lru "github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru/v2"
@@ -27,18 +26,12 @@ import (
"sneak.berlin/go/smallwebwaf/internal/waf"
)
// How smallwebwaf keeps connections to the app open between requests.
const (
appIdleConns = 100
appIdleConnTimeout = 90 * time.Second
)
// adminPrefix starts the path of every request for smallwebwaf itself,
// which never reaches the app.
// adminPrefix starts the path of each of servewaf's own endpoints. The app never
// sees a path under it.
const adminPrefix = "/_smallwebwaf/"
// HealthPath is smallwebwaf's health endpoint, which the container's
// health check asks.
// HealthPath is the health endpoint of servewaf and of rproxy, which the
// container's health check asks.
const HealthPath = "/_smallwebwaf/healthz"
// MetricsPath is where the metrics are, for a request that carries
@@ -49,15 +42,15 @@ const MetricsPath = "/_smallwebwaf/metrics"
// a client's address, lifts them, with SWWAF_ADMIN_TOKEN.
const BansPath = "/_smallwebwaf/bans"
// ClientsPath is where an admin asks what smallwebwaf knows of a client,
// by the client's address after it, with SWWAF_ADMIN_TOKEN.
// ClientsPath is where an admin asks what servewaf knows of a client, by the
// client's address after it, with SWWAF_ADMIN_TOKEN.
const ClientsPath = "/_smallwebwaf/clients/"
// Params are what New needs.
// Params are what NewServeWAF needs.
type Params struct {
Config *config.Config
// RequestLog receives one JSON line per request, and from servewaf a second
// when the request's report comes.
// RequestLog receives two JSON lines per question, one at its decision and
// one when its report comes, and one per request to servewaf's own endpoints.
RequestLog io.Writer
// ProcessLog receives the process's own messages.
ProcessLog *slog.Logger
@@ -77,7 +70,7 @@ type Params struct {
// Rules are the rule files' rules, which each request is checked
// against.
Rules *rules.Files
// Alerts receive the alert for each ban the proxy makes or makes
// Alerts receive the alert for each ban servewaf makes or makes
// permanent, for each count over an anomaly threshold, for each request
// whose client a blocklist, the CrowdSec decision list, a DNSBL zone or
// AbuseIPDB lists, for each request the Core Rule Set scores at or over
@@ -87,11 +80,10 @@ type Params struct {
Alerts *alerts.Queue
}
// Server is the server smallwebwaf runs, with the parts of the proxy
// whose state the state files keep, the lookup database, nil unless
// SWWAF_LOOKUP_SOURCE is file, the lists fetched from URLs, which its Run
// fetches, the DNSBL zones' verdicts, AbuseIPDB's scores and checks
// spent, and the metrics.
// Server is the server servewaf runs, with the parts whose state the state
// files keep, the lookup database, nil unless SWWAF_LOOKUP_SOURCE is file, the
// lists fetched from URLs, which its Run fetches, the DNSBL zones' verdicts,
// AbuseIPDB's scores and checks spent, and the metrics.
type Server struct {
*http.Server
@@ -106,41 +98,24 @@ type Server struct {
Metrics *metrics.Metrics
}
// New returns the server smallwebwaf runs: each request it reads passes
// through the proxy. Go's server itself refuses a request line and
// headers over SWWAF_CLIENT_REQUEST_HEADER_MAX_BYTES, with 431, closes a
// connection idle for SWWAF_CLIENT_IDLE_TIMEOUT, and applies
// SWWAF_CLIENT_REQUEST_TIMEOUT while the headers arrive; the proxy
// applies the timeouts and size limits from then on.
func New(params Params) *Server {
h := newHandler(params)
return h.server(&http.Server{
Handler: h,
ReadHeaderTimeout: params.Config.ClientRequestTimeout,
// Off is an IdleTimeout of 0, which Go's server replaces with
// ReadTimeout: no limit, as long as ReadTimeout stays unset.
IdleTimeout: params.Config.ClientIdleTimeout,
// Go's server reads 4 KiB past MaxHeaderBytes before it
// refuses, so the limit a client meets is the setting.
MaxHeaderBytes: int(params.Config.ClientRequestHeaderMaxBytes - 4<<10),
})
}
// newHandler returns the handler with what every request shares, as the
// settings in params make it.
func newHandler(params Params) *handler {
errorLog := slog.NewLogLogger(params.ProcessLog.Handler(), slog.LevelWarn)
m := metrics.New(params.Config.MetricsTopN, params.Config.InstanceName)
lists, dnsbl, abuseIPDB := newReputation(params, m)
awaitingReport, err := lru.New[string, *decision](maxAwaitingReport)
if err != nil {
panic(err) // New fails only for a size below one
}
h := &handler{
config: params.Config,
requestLog: params.RequestLog,
processLog: params.ProcessLog,
errorLog: errorLog,
transport: newTransport(),
now: params.Now,
metrics: m,
config: params.Config,
requestLog: params.RequestLog,
processLog: params.ProcessLog,
now: params.Now,
metrics: m,
awaitingReport: awaitingReport,
limiter: ratelimit.New(ratelimit.Limits{
PerMinute: params.Config.RateLimitPerMinute,
PerHour: params.Config.RateLimitPerHour,
@@ -232,7 +207,10 @@ func newReputation(
// newCoreRuleSet returns the Core Rule Set at SWWAF_WAF_PARANOIA_LEVEL,
// without the rules SWWAF_WAF_DISABLED_RULES switches off, reading bodies
// up to SWWAF_WAF_BODY_LIMIT, or nil while SWWAF_WAF_MODE is off.
// up to SWWAF_WAF_BODY_LIMIT, or nil while SWWAF_WAF_MODE is off. It reads at
// most QuestionBodyMaxBytes less one byte: a question's body of
// QuestionBodyMaxBytes may be cut short, and the Core Rule Set does not read a
// JSON or XML body over its limit.
func newCoreRuleSet(cfg *config.Config) *waf.CoreRuleSet {
if cfg.WAFMode == config.WAFModeOff {
return nil
@@ -240,26 +218,24 @@ func newCoreRuleSet(cfg *config.Config) *waf.CoreRuleSet {
coreRuleSet, err := waf.New(waf.Params{
ParanoiaLevel: cfg.WAFParanoiaLevel, DisabledRules: cfg.WAFDisabledRules,
BodyLimit: cfg.WAFBodyLimit,
BodyLimit: min(cfg.WAFBodyLimit, QuestionBodyMaxBytes-1),
})
if err != nil {
// The Core Rule Set is built in, and the settings cannot break it:
// the paranoia level is from 1 to 4, the body limit at most 1G, and
// the id of no rule switches nothing off.
// the paranoia level is from 1 to 4, and the id of no rule switches
// nothing off.
panic(err)
}
return coreRuleSet
}
// handler is the proxy. It holds what every request shares; what belongs
// to one request is in a request.
// handler is servewaf's handler. It holds what every request shares; what
// belongs to one request is in a request.
type handler struct {
config *config.Config
requestLog io.Writer
processLog *slog.Logger
errorLog *log.Logger
transport http.RoundTripper
now func() time.Time
metrics *metrics.Metrics
limiter *ratelimit.Limiter
@@ -273,88 +249,7 @@ type handler struct {
rules *rules.Files
coreRuleSet *waf.CoreRuleSet
alerts *alerts.Queue
// awaitingReport holds, in servewaf, the decision on each answered
// question by its id until its report comes, and nil for a question still
// being handled.
// awaitingReport holds the decision on each answered question by its id
// until its report comes, and nil for a question still being handled.
awaitingReport *lru.Cache[string, *decision]
}
// newTransport returns what carries requests to the app. It never goes
// through a proxy named in the environment, and leaves the app's answers
// compressed or not as the app sent them.
func newTransport() *http.Transport {
return &http.Transport{
MaxIdleConns: appIdleConns,
MaxIdleConnsPerHost: appIdleConns,
IdleConnTimeout: appIdleConnTimeout,
DisableCompression: true,
}
}
// ServeHTTP handles one request: it works out the client, runs the
// checks, passes the request to the app and the answer back within the
// limits, or answers it itself if it is for smallwebwaf, and writes the
// request's log line.
func (h *handler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
rq := h.newRequest(w, r)
defer rq.finish()
// The health endpoint is answered at once, before any check, so that
// a health checker is never refused. It does not ask the app.
if r.Method == http.MethodGet && r.URL.Path == HealthPath {
rq.answerHealth()
return
}
// Once the request has ended, before its log line is written. The
// last deferred runs first: countRefusal before addToHistory, so that
// a broken error burst is in the client's history.
defer rq.addToHistory()
defer rq.countAnomalies()
defer rq.countRefusal()
refused := rq.check(r.Context())
rq.checked = time.Now()
if refused != nil {
rq.answer(*refused)
return
}
// A request for smallwebwaf itself is answered where another would be
// passed to the app, so that it goes through every check first.
if strings.HasPrefix(r.URL.Path, adminPrefix) {
rq.answerAdmin()
return
}
// Once the response has ended, before the request is added to its
// client's history. Deferred, since ReverseProxy panics to end a
// response it cannot finish.
defer rq.countBytes()
rq.forward(r.Context())
}
// server returns the Server of h, which listens at SWWAF_LISTEN_ADDR and
// logs through h, with what httpServer sets.
func (h *handler) server(httpServer *http.Server) *Server {
httpServer.Addr = h.config.ListenAddr
httpServer.ErrorLog = h.errorLog
return &Server{
Server: httpServer,
Ledger: h.ledger,
Limiter: h.limiter,
GeoJS: h.geojs,
Anomalies: h.anomalies,
LookupFile: h.lookupFile,
Lists: h.lists,
DNSBL: h.dnsbl,
AbuseIPDB: h.abuseIPDB,
Metrics: h.metrics,
}
}