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Bans an admin makes or lifts: the admin cause, a reason, lifted bans kept (closes #86)
A bans.json entry without a cause gets the cause admin, written back so.
Bans whose cause is admin are never dropped and do not count toward
SWWAF_MAX_BANS, so setting a ban's cause to admin keeps it. Bans
smallwebwaf makes get a reason: the limit broken or the rule matched. A
lifted ban refuses nothing, is kept, and makes no later ban longer.
smallwebwaf_bans_made_total counts admin bans an edit adds while running;
earlier_bans counts admin in place of without_cause.

Judgement call: lifted lifts at once, whatever time it gives.
Judgement call: a lifted ban still counts in earlier_bans.
Known gap: a ban dropped from behind an admin's ban on its netblock leaves that netblock's later earlier_bans.

Model: opus-5-5
2026-10-06 23:09:52 +02:00

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// Package state keeps smallwebwaf's state in JSON files in
// SWWAF_STATE_DIR, as the "Persistent state" section of SPEC.md describes:
// bans.json holds the bans, clients.json each client's counters and
// history, and lookups.json GeoJS's answers. Load reads them at start,
// Watch takes in an admin's edit of one while smallwebwaf runs, and Run
// and WriteAll write them. The disk is read and written outside the
// parts' locks, which are held only to take a snapshot or to put in what
// a file holds, so that no request waits on the disk.
package state
import (
"bytes"
"context"
"crypto/sha256"
"encoding/json"
"errors"
"fmt"
"io/fs"
"log/slog"
"net/netip"
"os"
"path/filepath"
"sync"
"time"
"github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify"
"sneak.berlin/go/smallwebwaf/internal/bans"
"sneak.berlin/go/smallwebwaf/internal/lookup"
"sneak.berlin/go/smallwebwaf/internal/metrics"
"sneak.berlin/go/smallwebwaf/internal/ratelimit"
)
// version is the version of the files' format, the only one read.
const version = 1
// fileMode lets the smallwebwaf user alone read and write the files, which
// hold visitors' addresses.
const fileMode = 0o600
// The state files' names.
const (
bansJSON = "bans.json"
clientsJSON = "clients.json"
lookupsJSON = "lookups.json"
)
var (
errVersion = errors.New("unknown version")
// errMissing is for an entry without a field it needs.
errMissing = errors.New("has no")
errCause = errors.New("is not limit, attack or admin")
)
// Params are what Load needs.
type Params struct {
// Dir is the directory of the state files (SWWAF_STATE_DIR).
Dir string
// WriteDelay is how long after a ban is made bans.json is written
// (SWWAF_STATE_WRITE_DELAY), and CounterInterval how often every file
// is (SWWAF_STATE_COUNTER_INTERVAL).
WriteDelay time.Duration
CounterInterval time.Duration
// Ledger, Limiter and GeoJS hold the state.
Ledger *bans.Ledger
Limiter *ratelimit.Limiter
GeoJS *lookup.GeoJS
// Now tells the time by which the counters' buckets run out, normally
// time.Now in UTC.
Now func() time.Time
// ProcessLog receives what was read and taken in, the edits set aside,
// and the writes that fail.
ProcessLog *slog.Logger
// Metrics count each file's writes, and the edits taken in and set
// aside.
Metrics *metrics.Metrics
}
// Files are the state files of a running smallwebwaf.
type Files struct {
params Params
// mu is held while a file is read for an edit, and while it is
// written, so that Watch and the writes take turns. No request takes
// it.
mu sync.Mutex
// sums are the SHA-256 sums of what each file held, by name, when
// smallwebwaf last read or wrote it. A file that holds anything else
// has been edited since.
sums map[string][sha256.Size]byte
}
// bansFile is bans.json, indented for an admin to read and edit.
type bansFile struct {
Version int `json:"version"`
Bans []banEntry `json:"bans"`
}
// banEntry is a ban as bans.json holds it: a permanent ban's expires is
// null, a ban an admin added may have no cause, which makes it an
// admin's, and lifted is left out until an admin lifts the ban.
type banEntry struct {
Netblock netip.Prefix `json:"netblock"`
Start time.Time `json:"start"`
Expires *time.Time `json:"expires"`
Cause string `json:"cause"`
Reason string `json:"reason,omitempty"`
Lifted *time.Time `json:"lifted,omitempty"`
Notes bans.Notes `json:"notes"`
}
// clientsFile is clients.json, with each client on a line of its own.
type clientsFile struct {
Version int `json:"version"`
Clients []ratelimit.Client `json:"clients"`
}
// lookupsFile is lookups.json, with each answer on a line of its own.
type lookupsFile struct {
Version int `json:"version"`
Lookups []lookup.Answer `json:"lookups"`
}
// stateFile is the struct of a state file. Once the file is decoded, its
// check refuses the first entry without a field it needs, which would
// otherwise be read as something the entry does not say. data is the
// file, for a field that may be null or "" but not left out, which the
// struct cannot tell apart.
type stateFile interface {
check(data []byte) error
}
// Load checks that files can be written in Dir, and reads the state files
// in it into the ledger, the limiter and GeoJS. A missing file is empty
// state, as on a first start. A file that does not parse, has an unknown
// version, or has an entry without a field it needs, is an error that
// names the file and, where the JSON decoder tells it, the line and
// column, or else the entry.
func Load(params Params) (*Files, error) {
err := checkWritable(params.Dir)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("SWWAF_STATE_DIR cannot be written: %w", err)
}
f := &Files{params: params, sums: map[string][sha256.Size]byte{}}
bansRead, bansErr := f.read(bansJSON)
clientsRead, clientsErr := f.read(clientsJSON)
lookupsRead, lookupsErr := f.read(lookupsJSON)
err = errors.Join(bansErr, clientsErr, lookupsErr)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
params.ProcessLog.Info("read the state files", "directory", params.Dir,
"bans", bansRead, "clients", clientsRead, "lookups", lookupsRead)
return f, nil
}
// Run writes bans.json WriteDelay after a ban is made, with every ban
// made in between, and every file every CounterInterval, until ctx is
// done. A write that fails is logged, and the file is written again at
// its next write. Each write takes in an admin's edit of its file first,
// as writeFile describes.
func (f *Files) Run(ctx context.Context) {
interval := time.NewTicker(f.params.CounterInterval)
defer interval.Stop()
var bansDue <-chan time.Time // nil while no ban waits to be written
for {
select {
case <-ctx.Done():
return
case <-f.params.Ledger.Changed():
if bansDue == nil {
bansDue = time.After(f.params.WriteDelay)
}
case <-bansDue:
bansDue = nil
f.logFailure(f.writeFile(bansJSON))
case <-interval.C:
f.logFailure(f.WriteAll())
}
}
}
// WriteAll writes every state file, as smallwebwaf stops. A file that
// fails does not keep the others from being written.
func (f *Files) WriteAll() error {
return errors.Join(f.writeFile(bansJSON), f.writeFile(clientsJSON),
f.writeFile(lookupsJSON))
}
// Watch watches Dir until ctx is done, and takes in an admin's edit of a
// state file as soon as it is saved: what the file holds replaces what
// smallwebwaf held for it. An edit that does not parse is left for the
// file's next write, which sets it aside, since a file can be read while
// an editor is still writing it. If Dir cannot be watched, that is
// logged, and an edit is taken in only before its file is written.
func (f *Files) Watch(ctx context.Context) {
watcher, err := fsnotify.NewWatcher()
if err == nil {
defer func() {
_ = watcher.Close()
}()
err = watcher.Add(f.params.Dir)
}
if err != nil {
f.params.ProcessLog.Error("cannot watch the state files for edits",
"error", err.Error())
return
}
f.params.ProcessLog.Info("watching the state files for edits",
"directory", f.params.Dir)
for {
select {
case <-ctx.Done():
return
case event := <-watcher.Events:
switch name := filepath.Base(event.Name); name {
case bansJSON, clientsJSON, lookupsJSON:
f.fileChanged(name)
}
case err = <-watcher.Errors:
f.params.ProcessLog.Warn("watching the state files failed",
"error", err.Error())
}
}
}
// logFailure logs a write that failed.
func (f *Files) logFailure(err error) {
if err != nil {
f.params.ProcessLog.Error("writing the state files failed",
"error", err.Error())
}
}
// fileChanged takes in what the state file name holds, as Watch sees it
// change, if that is an edit made since smallwebwaf last read or wrote
// the file. A file that cannot be read or does not parse is left for its
// next write.
func (f *Files) fileChanged(name string) {
f.mu.Lock()
defer f.mu.Unlock()
data, changed, err := f.readChanged(name)
if err != nil || !changed {
return
}
_ = f.takeInEdit(name, data)
}
// takeInEdit takes in data, an edit of the state file name, as takeIn
// does, and counts and logs it. Every edit taken in while smallwebwaf
// runs, by Watch or by a write, is taken in here. An edit that does not
// parse is neither counted nor logged, and takeIn's error returned.
func (f *Files) takeInEdit(name string, data []byte) error {
_, err := f.takeIn(name, data, true)
if err != nil {
return err
}
// Counted before it is logged, so that the count is there once the
// log line is.
f.params.Metrics.StateFileEditTakenIn(name)
f.params.ProcessLog.Info("took in an edit of a state file",
"file", filepath.Join(f.params.Dir, name))
return nil
}
// read takes in the state file name at start, and returns how many
// entries it holds. A missing file holds none.
func (f *Files) read(name string) (int, error) {
data, changed, err := f.readChanged(name)
if err != nil || !changed {
return 0, err
}
return f.takeIn(name, data, false)
}
// readChanged returns what the state file name holds, and whether that
// has changed since smallwebwaf last read or wrote the file, as it has
// for a file smallwebwaf never read or wrote. A missing file has not
// changed: it is written again at its next write.
func (f *Files) readChanged(name string) ([]byte, bool, error) {
path := filepath.Join(f.params.Dir, name)
data, err := os.ReadFile(path) //nolint:gosec // a state file, in SWWAF_STATE_DIR
if errors.Is(err, fs.ErrNotExist) {
return nil, false, nil
}
if err != nil {
return nil, false, err
}
return data, sha256.Sum256(data) != f.sums[name], nil
}
// takeIn parses data, what the state file name holds, puts it into the
// part that keeps that state, in place of what the part held, and returns
// how many entries the file holds. edit is whether data is an admin's
// edit taken in while smallwebwaf runs, rather than the file read at the
// start. An error names the file and, where the JSON decoder tells it,
// the line and column, or else the entry.
func (f *Files) takeIn(name string, data []byte, edit bool) (int, error) {
path := filepath.Join(f.params.Dir, name)
var entries int
switch name {
case bansJSON:
var file bansFile
err := parse(path, data, &file)
if err != nil {
return 0, err
}
held := make([]bans.Ban, 0, len(file.Bans))
for _, entry := range file.Bans {
held = append(held, entry.ban())
}
if edit {
f.params.Ledger.LoadEdit(held)
} else {
f.params.Ledger.Load(held)
}
entries = len(held)
case clientsJSON:
var file clientsFile
err := parse(path, data, &file)
if err != nil {
return 0, err
}
f.params.Limiter.Load(file.Clients, f.params.Now())
entries = len(file.Clients)
case lookupsJSON:
var file lookupsFile
err := parse(path, data, &file)
if err != nil {
return 0, err
}
f.params.GeoJS.Load(file.Lookups)
entries = len(file.Lookups)
}
f.sums[name] = sha256.Sum256(data)
return entries, nil
}
// writeFile writes the state file name from what smallwebwaf holds. An
// edit made since smallwebwaf last read or wrote the file is taken in
// first, so that it is not overwritten, or set aside if it does not
// parse. A file that cannot be read, or an edit that cannot be set
// aside, is left as it is, and the write given up. Every write is counted
// in the metrics, and one that fails or is given up as a failure.
func (f *Files) writeFile(name string) error {
f.mu.Lock()
defer f.mu.Unlock()
data, changed, err := f.readChanged(name)
if err == nil && changed {
err = f.takeInEdit(name, data)
if err != nil {
err = f.setAside(name, err)
}
}
if err == nil {
data, err = f.encode(name)
if err != nil {
err = fmt.Errorf("encode %s: %w", name, err)
}
}
if err == nil {
err = write(f.params.Dir, name, data)
}
if err == nil {
// The file holds data from here on, even if the directory sync
// fails, so that its next read does not take it for an admin's
// edit.
f.sums[name] = sha256.Sum256(data)
err = syncDirectory(f.params.Dir)
}
f.params.Metrics.StateFileWritten(name, len(data), err)
return err
}
// setAside renames the state file name, an edit that does not parse with
// parseErr, to name.bad, for the admin to mend, and logs it with where in
// the file the error is. If the rename fails, the edit is left as it is,
// and the error returned is parseErr joined with the rename's.
func (f *Files) setAside(name string, parseErr error) error {
path := filepath.Join(f.params.Dir, name)
err := os.Rename(path, path+".bad")
if err != nil {
return errors.Join(parseErr, err)
}
f.params.ProcessLog.Error("set aside an edit of a state file that does not parse",
"file", path+".bad", "error", parseErr.Error())
f.params.Metrics.StateFileEditSetAside(name)
return nil
}
// encode returns the state file name as smallwebwaf writes it, from a
// snapshot of the part that keeps that state.
func (f *Files) encode(name string) ([]byte, error) {
switch name {
case bansJSON:
held := f.params.Ledger.Snapshot()
file := bansFile{Version: version, Bans: make([]banEntry, 0, len(held))}
for _, ban := range held {
file.Bans = append(file.Bans, newBanEntry(ban))
}
data, err := json.MarshalIndent(file, "", " ")
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return append(data, '\n'), nil
case clientsJSON:
return encodeOnePerLine("clients", f.params.Limiter.Snapshot())
default: // lookups.json
return encodeOnePerLine("lookups", f.params.GeoJS.Snapshot())
}
}
// newBanEntry returns ban as bans.json holds it.
func newBanEntry(ban bans.Ban) banEntry {
entry := banEntry{
Netblock: ban.Netblock, Start: ban.Start, Cause: ban.Cause, Reason: ban.Reason,
Notes: ban.Notes,
}
if !ban.Permanent() {
entry.Expires = &ban.Expires
}
if !ban.Lifted.IsZero() {
entry.Lifted = &ban.Lifted
}
return entry
}
// ban returns the ban an entry of bans.json holds.
func (e banEntry) ban() bans.Ban {
ban := bans.Ban{
Netblock: e.Netblock, Start: e.Start, Cause: e.Cause, Reason: e.Reason,
Notes: e.Notes,
}
if e.Expires != nil {
ban.Expires = *e.Expires
}
if e.Lifted != nil {
ban.Lifted = *e.Lifted
}
return ban
}
// check refuses a ban without a netblock, which would refuse every IPv6
// client, a start, from which the length of the netblock's next ban is
// worked out, or an expires, which would make it permanent. A permanent
// ban's expires is null, which Bans cannot tell from a missing one, so
// each expires is read again as written. A cause other than limit,
// attack or admin, most likely misspelt, is refused too.
func (f *bansFile) check(data []byte) error {
var written struct {
Bans []struct {
Expires json.RawMessage `json:"expires"`
} `json:"bans"`
}
err := json.Unmarshal(data, &written)
if err != nil {
return err
}
for i, entry := range f.Bans {
switch {
case !entry.Netblock.IsValid():
return missing(i, "netblock")
case entry.Start.IsZero():
return missing(i, "start")
case written.Bans[i].Expires == nil:
return missing(i, "expires")
case entry.Cause != "" && entry.Cause != bans.CauseLimit &&
entry.Cause != bans.CauseAttack && entry.Cause != bans.CauseAdmin:
return fmt.Errorf("entry %d's cause %q %w", i+1, entry.Cause, errCause)
}
}
return nil
}
// check refuses a client without its address, which would count nobody's
// requests, or with requests in a window but no start, which would drop
// them and give the client a fresh allowance.
func (f *clientsFile) check([]byte) error {
for i, client := range f.Clients {
switch {
case !client.Client.IsValid():
return missing(i, "client")
case countsWithoutStart(client.Minute):
return missing(i, "minute.start")
case countsWithoutStart(client.Hour):
return missing(i, "hour.start")
case countsWithoutStart(client.Day):
return missing(i, "day.start")
}
}
return nil
}
// check refuses an answer without a client, which would answer for
// nobody, a country, which would place the client nowhere, or the time
// GeoJS gave it, which would drop it. "" is the country of a client
// GeoJS cannot place, which Lookups cannot tell from a missing one, so
// each country is read again as written.
func (f *lookupsFile) check(data []byte) error {
var written struct {
Lookups []struct {
Country *string `json:"country"`
} `json:"lookups"`
}
err := json.Unmarshal(data, &written)
if err != nil {
return err
}
for i, answer := range f.Lookups {
switch {
case !answer.Client.IsValid():
return missing(i, "client")
case written.Lookups[i].Country == nil:
return missing(i, "country")
case answer.Answered.IsZero():
return missing(i, "answered")
}
}
return nil
}
// countsWithoutStart reports whether b holds requests but no start, which
// places them in time.
func countsWithoutStart(b ratelimit.Buckets) bool {
return b.Start.IsZero() && (b.Current != 0 || b.Previous != 0)
}
// missing returns the error for entry i, counted from 0, of a state file,
// which has no field.
func missing(i int, field string) error {
return fmt.Errorf("entry %d %w %q", i+1, errMissing, field)
}
// encodeOnePerLine encodes a state file whose entries, under key, are one
// to a line, so that grep shows everything about one client.
func encodeOnePerLine[E any](key string, entries []E) ([]byte, error) {
var b bytes.Buffer
fmt.Fprintf(&b, "{\n \"version\": %d,\n %q: [", version, key)
for i, entry := range entries {
line, err := json.Marshal(entry)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
if i > 0 {
b.WriteString(",")
}
b.WriteString("\n ")
b.Write(line)
}
b.WriteString("\n ]\n}\n")
return b.Bytes(), nil
}
// checkWritable makes a file in dir and removes it again.
func checkWritable(dir string) error {
file, err := os.CreateTemp(dir, "write-check-*")
if err != nil {
return err
}
return errors.Join(file.Close(), os.Remove(file.Name()))
}
// parse reads data, what the state file at path holds, into file, a
// pointer to that file's struct, and checks its entries.
func parse(path string, data []byte, file stateFile) error {
// The version is read first, so that a file of another version is
// refused for that, and not for an entry this version cannot read.
var header struct {
Version int `json:"version"`
}
err := json.Unmarshal(data, &header)
if err == nil && header.Version != version {
err = fmt.Errorf("%w %d, where this smallwebwaf reads version %d",
errVersion, header.Version, version)
}
if err == nil {
decoder := json.NewDecoder(bytes.NewReader(data))
// A field this version does not know is most likely misspelt, and
// its value would be lost without a word.
decoder.DisallowUnknownFields()
err = decoder.Decode(file)
}
if err == nil {
err = file.check(data)
}
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("%s%s: %w", path, position(data, err), err)
}
return nil
}
// position returns where in data err was found, as ", line L, column C"
// of the last byte the JSON decoder read, or "" when err does not tell.
func position(data []byte, err error) string {
var (
syntaxErr *json.SyntaxError
typeErr *json.UnmarshalTypeError
read int64
)
switch {
case errors.As(err, &syntaxErr):
read = syntaxErr.Offset
case errors.As(err, &typeErr):
read = typeErr.Offset
default:
return ""
}
before := data[:max(min(read, int64(len(data)))-1, 0)]
line := bytes.Count(before, []byte("\n")) + 1
column := len(before) - bytes.LastIndexByte(before, '\n')
return fmt.Sprintf(", line %d, column %d", line, column)
}
// write writes data to the file name in dir so that a crash at any
// moment leaves either the old file or the new one, whole: data goes to a
// temporary file in the same directory, which is synced and renamed over
// name. syncDirectory must follow, so that the rename lasts.
func write(dir, name string, data []byte) error {
path := filepath.Join(dir, name)
temporary := path + ".tmp"
err := writeSynced(temporary, data)
if err == nil {
err = os.Rename(temporary, path)
}
if err != nil {
_ = os.Remove(temporary)
}
return err
}
// syncDirectory syncs dir to the disk, so that a rename in it lasts.
func syncDirectory(dir string) error {
directory, err := os.Open(dir) //nolint:gosec // SWWAF_STATE_DIR itself
if err != nil {
return err
}
return errors.Join(directory.Sync(), directory.Close())
}
// writeSynced writes data to the file at path, and syncs it to the disk.
func writeSynced(path string, data []byte) error {
//nolint:gosec // a state file's temporary file, in SWWAF_STATE_DIR
file, err := os.OpenFile(path, os.O_WRONLY|os.O_CREATE|os.O_TRUNC, fileMode)
if err != nil {
return err
}
_, err = file.Write(data)
if err == nil {
err = file.Sync()
}
return errors.Join(err, file.Close())
}