We already set names on most sources, this
one was just forgotten. This lets us set
a static name, and prevents g_task_attach_source
from setting a non-static one.
The dominant implementations of the well-known session and system
message buses are the reference implementation from the dbus project
(dbus-daemon) and the sd-bus-based reimplementation dbus-broker, both
of which have correct implementations for EXTERNAL authentication with
an unspecified authorization identity.
This makes it reasonably safe to assume that the well-known message
buses can cope with the unspecified authorization identity, even if we
cannot make the same assumption for custom servers such as the ones
used in ibus and gvfs (which might have been started with an older
GLib version before upgrading GLib in-place).
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
When using a GDBus client in a non-trivial user namespace, the result of
geteuid() can differ from the uid in the namespace where the server is
running. This would result in connection attempts being rejected, because
the identity that the client claims to have does not match the identity
that the server derives from its credentials.
RFC 4422 allows us to send an empty authorization identity, which means we
want to authenticate as whatever identity the server can derive from our
out-of-band credentials. In particular, this resolves the authentication
failure when crossing between different Linux user namespaces.
Because D-Bus does not have a way to represent an empty initial response
as distinct from the absence of an initial response, we cannot use the
initial-response optimization (RFC 4422 §4.3.a) in this case, and must
fall back to waiting for the server to send a challenge.
Unfortunately, GDBus versions older than glib!2826 did not implement
the server side of this protocol correctly, and would respond to the
missing initial response in a way that breaks the SASL state machine
(expecting a response without sending a challenge), causing client and
server to deadlock with each waiting for the other to respond. Until
fixed versions of GDBus are widespread, we can't rely on having a server
that can cope with this, so gate it behind a flag, which can be set for
connections that are known to cross non-trivial namespace boundaries.
Originally inspired by
<1ed4723d38>,
and based on earlier work by Giuseppe Scrivano (in which the
cross-namespace behaviour was unconditional, rather than gated by a
flag).
Co-authored-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <giuseppe@scrivano.org>
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
Add SPDX license (but not copyright) headers to all files which follow a
certain pattern in their existing non-machine-readable header comment.
This commit was entirely generated using the command:
```
git ls-files gio/*.[ch] | xargs perl -0777 -pi -e 's/\n \*\n \* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and\/or\n \* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public/\n \*\n \* SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later\n \*\n \* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and\/or\n \* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public/igs'
```
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Helps: #1415
The public `g_strv_contains()` API didn’t exist at the time this code
was originally written. Now, happily, it does.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Fix another variant of the previous commit, this time specific to the
idle callback of a method call on a subtree object, racing with
unregistration of that subtree.
In this case, the `process_subtree_vtable_message_in_idle_cb()` idle
callback already has a pointer to the right `ExportedSubtree` struct,
but again doesn’t have a strong reference to it.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Helps: #2400
If `g_dbus_connection_unregister_object()` (or `unregister_subtree()`)
was called from one thread, while an idle callback for a method call (or
a property get or set) was being invoked in another, it was possible for
the two to race after the idle callback had checked that the
object/subtree was registered, but before it had finished dereferencing
all the data related to that object/subtree.
Unregistering the object/subtree would immediately free the data,
leading the idle callback to cause a use-after-free error.
Fix that by giving the idle callback a strong reference to the data from
inside the locked section where it checks whether the object/subtree is
still registered.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Fixes: #2400
This is needed for an upcoming change which decouples their lifecycle
from their presence in the `map_id_to_ei` and `map_id_to_es` hash
tables.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Helps: #2400
Move it further up the file, but make no changes to it. This will help
with a subsequent commit.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Helps: #2400
Clarify that the terms ‘GUID’ and ‘UUID’ are used interchangeably in the
context of D-Bus, and that neither of them are an RFC 4122 UUID.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Update several links to allow the remote to use its configured default
branch name, rather than specifying `master` as the default branch name.
This will help avoid breakage if any of these projects rename their
default branch in the future.
Fix a few of the links where they were hitting redirects or had moved.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Helps: #2348
Since commit ab285899a6 ('gdbusconnection: Document main context
iteration for unsubscript'), we document when the user is guaranteed
that all resources are gone after g_dbus_connection_signal_unsubscribe().
This is not merely an implementation detail, it's something that the
user needs to be able to rely on. It is good that this is documented.
However, libnm does something different ([1]). It registers to several D-Bus
signals without providing a GDestroyNotify. After unsubscription, it schedules
another idle action with lower priority and uses that to know when
cleanup is complete. I think this is a useful alternative and should
also be guaranteed and documented to work.
Also note that this isn't just some implementation detail that currently
happens to work. GDBusConnection tightly integrates with GMainContext and it
works by scheduling idle sources with G_PRIORITY_DEFAULT priority. It needs to
schedule all events with this same priority, otherwise the ordering is not
preserved. At this point, with GDBusConnection working this way, this is no longer
something that can reasonably be any different. It's how GDBusConnection fundamentally
works, and a user must be able to rely on that. As such, this new promise isn't
something that we would want to break in the future.
Thus document it.
[1] a55c10c6cb/src/libnm-client-impl/nm-client.c (L7918)
This eliminates a common use case for the
`GDBusAuthObserver::authorize-authenticated-peer` signal, which is often
implemented incorrectly by people.
Suggested by Simon McVittie.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Fixes: #1804
The GDBusConnectionFlags and GDBusServerFlags can affect how we carry
out authentication and authorization, either making it more or less
restrictive, so it's desirable to "fail closed" if a program is compiled
against a new version of GLib but run against an old version.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
Convert all the call sites which use `g_memdup()`’s length argument
trivially (for example, by passing a `sizeof()`), so that they use
`g_memdup2()` instead.
In almost all of these cases the use of `g_memdup()` would not have
caused problems, but it will soon be deprecated, so best port away from
it.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Helps: #2319
gio/gdbusconnection.c: In function ‘g_dbus_connection_register_object_with_closures’:
gio/gdbusconnection.c:5527:5: error: missing initializer for field ‘padding’ of ‘GDBusInterfaceVTable’ {aka ‘struct _GDBusInterfaceVTable’}
5527 | };
| ^
This commit only looks at the `Returns:` lines in the documentation, and
has examined all of them in the file. Function arguments have not been
checked.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Helps: #2227
This should introduce no API changes; there are public functions
exported by `GDBusConnection` which still have some (incorrectly)
`volatile` arguments, but dropping those qualifiers would be an API
break.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <pwithnall@endlessos.org>
Helps: #600
In the D-Bus wire protocol, the handle type (G_VARIANT_TYPE_HANDLE, h)
is intended to be an index/pointer into the implementation's closest
equivalent of GUnixFDList: its numeric value has no semantic meaning
(in the same way that the numeric values of pointers have no semantic
meaning), but a handle with value n acts as a reference to the nth fd
in the fd list.
GDBus provides a fairly direct mapping from the wire protocol to the
C API, which makes it technically possible to attach and use fds
without ever referring to them in the message body, and some
GLib-centric D-Bus APIs rely on this.
However, the other major implementations of D-Bus (libdbus and sd-bus)
transparently replace file descriptors with handles when building
messages, and transparently replace handles with file descriptors when
parsing messages. This means they cannot implement D-Bus APIs that do
not follow the conventional meaning of handles as indexes/pointers into
an equivalent of GUnixFDList.
For interoperability, we should encourage D-Bus API designers to follow
the convention, even though code written against GDBus doesn't strictly
need to do so.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
Add a note to the documentation of
`g_dbus_connection_signal_unsubscribe()`, `g_bus_unwatch_name()` and
`g_bus_unown_name()` warning about the need to continue iterating the
caller’s thread-default `GMainContext` until the
unsubscribe/unwatch/unown operation is complete.
See the previous few commits and #1515 for an idea of the insidious bugs
that can be caused by not iterating the `GMainContext` until
everything’s synchronised.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
`CallDestroyNotifyData` never uses that `GMainContext`, and holding a
ref to it could cause reference count cycles if the `GMainContext` is no
longer being iterated.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Helps: #1515
This just removes a now-redundant intermediate array. This means that
the `SignalSubscriber` instances are now potentially freed a little
sooner, inside the locked segment, but they are already careful to only
call their `user_data_free_func` in the right thread. So that should not
deadlock.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Helps: #978
Instead of storing a copy of the `callback` and `user_data` from a
`SignalSubscriber` in a `SignalInstance` struct (which is the closure
for signal callback data as it’s sent from the D-Bus worker thread to
the thread which originally subscribed to a signal), store a strong
reference to the `SignalSubscriber` struct itself.
This keeps the `SignalSubscriber` alive until the emission is
complete, which ensures that the `user_data` is not freed prematurely.
It also slightly reduces the allocation size of `SignalInstance` (not
that it matters).
This is threadsafe because the fields in `SignalSubscriber` are all
immutable after construction.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Helps: #978
Tie the destruction of the `user_data` to the destruction of the
`SignalSubscriber` struct. This is tidier, and ensures that the fields
in `SignalSubscriber` are all immutable after being set, so the
structure can safely be used across threads without locking.
It doesn’t matter which thread we call `call_destroy_notify()` in, since
it always defers calling `user_data_free_func` to the user-provided
`GMainContext`.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Helps: #978
The `SignalSubscriber` structs contain the callback and `user_data` of each
subscriber to a signal, along with the `guint id` token held by that
subscriber to identify their subscription. There are one or more
`SignalSubscriber` structs for a given signal match rule, which is
represented as a `SignalData` struct.
Previously, the `SignalSubscriber` structs were stored in a `GArray` in
the `SignalData` struct, to reduce the number of allocations needed
when subscribing to a signal.
However, this means that a `SignalSubscriber` struct cannot have a
lifetime which exceeds the `SignalData` which contains it. In order to
fix the race in #978, one thread needs to be able to unsubscribe from a
signal (destroying the `SignalData` struct) while zero or more other
threads are in the process of calling the callbacks from a previous
emission of that signal (using the callback and `user_data` from zero or
more `SignalSubscriber` structs). Multiple threads could be calling
callbacks because callbacks are invoked in the `GMainContext` which
originally made a subscription, and GDBus supports subscribing to a
signal from multiple threads. In that case, the callbacks are dispatched
to multiple threads.
In order to allow the `SignalSubscriber` structs to outlive the
`SignalData` which contained their old match rule, store them in a
`GPtrArray` in the `SignalData` struct, and refcount them individually.
This commit in itself should make no functional changes to how GDBus
works, but will allow following commits to do so.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Helps: #978
With debug enabled, g_dbus_connection_call_done() will throw a
g_warning() if the call failed (on purpose or not) while trying to the
serial of a non-existant reply.
(/builds/GNOME/glib/_build/gio/tests/gdbus-connection:26921): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: 10:10:16.311: g_dbus_message_get_reply_serial: assertion 'G_IS_DBUS_MESSAGE (message)' failed
When compiling GLib with `-Wsign-conversion`, we get various warnings
about the atomic calls. A lot of these were fixed by
3ad375a629, but some remain. Fix them by
adding appropriate casts at the call sites.
Note that `g_atomic_int_{and,or,xor}()` actually all operate on `guint`s
rather than `gint`s (which is what the rest of the `g_atomic_int_*()`
functions operate on). I can’t find any written reasoning for this, but
assume that it’s because signedness is irrelevant when you’re using an
integer as a bit field. It’s unfortunate that they’re named a
`g_atomic_int_*()` rather than `g_atomic_uint_*()` functions.
Tested by compiling GLib as:
```
CFLAGS=-Wsign-conversion jhbuild make -ac |& grep atomic
```
I’m not going to add `-Wsign-conversion` to the set of default warnings
for building GLib, because it mostly produces false positives throughout
the rest of GLib.
Signed-off-by: Philip Withnall <withnall@endlessm.com>
Fixes: #1565
This commit changes a comment in _g_dbus_worker_do_read_cb() to be
slightly more useful. At least in my experience debugging an
intermittent unit test failure in another project, this failure
condition occurred because although g_test_dbus_down() ensures that the
session GDBusConnection has exit-on-close set to FALSE before killing
its dbus-daemon, there was still a GDBusConnection on the system bus
which hit this failed read code path, because we had
DBUS_SYSTEM_BUS_ADDRESS set to the address of the #GTestDBus daemon, to
appease libudisks.
Also, make a few other minor improvements to the docs.
Using the generic marshaller has drawbacks beyond performance. One such
drawback is that it breaks the stack unwinding from the Linux kernel due
to having unsufficient data to walk past ffi_call_unixt64. That means that
performance profiling by application developers looks grouped among
seemingly unrelated code paths.
While we can't fix the kernel unwinding here, we can provide proper
c_marshallers and va_marshallers for objects within Gio so that
performance profiling of applications is more reliable.
Related to GNOME/Initiatives#10
