This was intended to make it feasible to debug connection failures where
a modern GDBus client connects to a GDBusServer that is missing
glib!2826, but those GDBusServers should be increasingly rare: we have
had the fixed version of GDBusServer for 5 GNOME stable releases
(2 years), long enough to get into stable releases of Debian and Ubuntu
and a service-pack release of SUSE.
This debug message can be very noisy, especially when unit-testing
GLib code (which is frequently done with G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all) or when
a third-party GLogFunc ignores the log_level parameter and logs all
messages as though they indicated a serious problem. I think it has
served its purpose now.
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
Ideally, we would eventually move to always using the
cross-namespace-friendly authentication handshake and never sending an
initial response with the Unix uid or Windows SID, but that's blocked
on waiting for various LTS OS distributions to become unsupported or
otherwise irrelevant. Make a note of some major LTS distributions that
still have an old version that is missing glib!2826.
In the RHEL/CentOS family, CentOS Stream 10 has a fixed version, so
presumably RHEL 10 will have a fixed version when it is released.
In the Debian family, Debian 12 and Ubuntu 24.04 are stable releases
that contain a fixed version.
In the SUSE family, openSUSE 15.6 contains a fixed version, so
presumably so does SLES 15.6.
Faster-moving distributions like Fedora are not a concern here and
can be ignored: it's always the slow-moving and/or LTS distributions
that are going to be holding back interoperability breaks.
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>
RFC 4422 appendix A defines the empty authorization identity to mean
the identity that the server associated with its authentication
credentials. In this case, this means whatever uid is in the
GCredentials object.
In particular, this means that clients in a different Linux user
namespace can authenticate against our server and will be authorized
as the version of their uid that is visible in the server's namespace,
even if the corresponding numeric uid returned by geteuid() in the
client's namespace was different. systemd's sd-bus has relied on this
since commit
1ed4723d38.
[Originally part of a larger commit; commit message added by smcv]
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>
Sending an "initial response" along with the AUTH command is meant
to be an optional optimization, and clients are allowed to omit it.
We must reply with our initial challenge, which in the case of EXTERNAL
is an empty string: the client responds to that with the authorization
identity.
If we do not reply to the AUTH command, then the client will wait
forever for our reply, while we wait forever for the reply that we
expect the client to send, resulting in deadlock.
D-Bus does not have a way to distinguish between an empty initial
response and the absence of an initial response, so clients that want
to use an empty authorization identity, such as systed's sd-bus,
cannot use the initial-response optimization and will fail to connect
to a GDBusServer that does not have this change.
[Originally part of a larger commit; commit message added by smcv.]
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
D-Bus reference implementation doesn't require more than the claimed
process SID as part of the AUTH initial data for EXTERNAL.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Fix various warnings regarding unused variables, duplicated
branches etc by adjusting the ifdeffery and some missing casts.
gnulib triggers -Wduplicated-branches in one of the copied files,
disable as that just makes updating the code harder.
The warning indicating missing features are made none fatal through
pragmas. They still show but don't abort the build.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=793729
gdbusauthmechanismexternal.c: In function 'mechanism_client_initiate':
gdbusauthmechanismexternal.c:355:3: warning: 'initial_response' may be
used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
return initial_response;
^
gdbusauthmechanismexternal.c:332:10: note: 'initial_response' was
declared here
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711547
In Windows development environments that have it, <unistd.h> is mostly
just a wrapper around several other native headers (in particular,
<io.h>, which contains read(), close(), etc, and <process.h>, which
contains getpid()). But given that some Windows dev environments don't
have <unistd.h>, everything that uses those functions on Windows
already needed to include the correct Windows header as well, and so
there is never any point to including <unistd.h> on Windows.
Also, remove some <unistd.h> includes (and a few others) that were
unnecessary even on unix.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710519
As it turns out, we have examples of internal functions called
type_name_get_private() in the wild (especially among older libraries),
so we need to use a name for the per-instance private data getter
function that hopefully won't conflict with anything.
- Fix various #include issues
- Change #error to #warning for the EXTERNAL authentication mechanism.
It is not clear if this should work on Win32 at all.
- Call close() before unlink() for the SHA1 keyring
- Change #error to #warning so we don't forget to do
permission checking of the .dbus-keyrings directory
- Use Win32 SID for the SHA1 auth mech
- Apparently we can't use word 'interface' as an identifier
- Implement a _g_dbus_win32_get_user_sid() function. For now it's
private. Don't know if it should be public somewhere. Maybe in
a future GCredentials support for Win32? I don't know.
- GFileDescriptorBased is not available on Win32. So avoid using
it in GLocalFile stuff. Now, Win32 still uses GLocalFile + friends
(which works with file descriptors) so expose a private function
to get the fd for an OutputStream so things still work.
- Fixup gio.symbols
- Fixup tests/gdbus-peer.c so it builds
With this, at least things compile and the gdbus-peer.exe test case
passes. Which is a great start. I've tested this by cross-compiling on
a x86_64 Fedora 13 host using mingw32 and running the code on a 32-bit
Windows 7 box.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619142
Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
Lots of people been suggesting this. We still use MethodInvocation /
method_invocation for handling incoming method calls so use call()
instead of invoke_method() helps to separate the client and server
facilities. Which is a good thing(tm).
Things compile and the test-suite passes. Still need to hook up
gio.symbols and docs. There are still a bunch of TODOs left in the
sources that needs to be addressed.
Signed-off-by: David Zeuthen <davidz@redhat.com>
