// Package localapi serves the nebula command registry over a local IPC endpoint so the // user who ran nebula can inspect and control it from a CLI on the same machine. // // Access is the socket's own: without a group it is 0600 to the user who ran nebula, // and the server checks the peer's credentials on every connection besides; with a // group configured it is 0660 to that group, and the kernel's check on connect is the // whole of it, so a member has the same control of the daemon as its user. Every // command in the registry is served; nothing is filtered on either side. // // # Protocol // // One JSON object in, one JSON object out, both newline terminated. It is an API, not a // command line: a request names a command and passes its options as named parameters, // rather than shipping an argv the daemon has to parse. A client that is itself a CLI // asks for the schema first (Request.Describe) and turns the user's flags into those // parameters; a client that is not need never think in flags at all. package localapi import ( "bufio" "bytes" "encoding/json" "errors" "fmt" "io" ) // ProtocolVersion is the version of the request and response envelopes. A client sending // a version this server does not know gets a sentence back rather than a parse error, // which matters because the daemon and the CLI are upgraded independently. const ProtocolVersion = 1 // MaxRequestBytes bounds the request. A request names a command and its parameters, so it // has no business being large, and an unbounded read is a way for a local process to // consume memory the packet path needs. const MaxRequestBytes = 64 * 1024 // Request is the single JSON object a client sends. type Request struct { Version int `json:"version"` // Describe asks for the schema of every command this surface serves, in place of // running one. Command, Params and Args are ignored. Describe bool `json:"describe,omitempty"` // Command names the command to run. Command string `json:"command,omitempty"` // Params carries the command's options by name, with JSON's own types, true rather // than "true", 3 rather than "3", or as the strings a command line parsed them from, // which is what nebula ctl sends. Unknown names are an error, so a typo is reported // instead of ignored. The schema lists json and pretty on every command because the // command lines take them; here they are refused, since Format is how a request // chooses its rendering. Params map[string]any `json:"params,omitempty"` // Args carries the command's operands, the values that are not options: the vpn // address `print-tunnel` prints, for instance. They stay positional because the // commands do not name them. Args []string `json:"args,omitempty"` // Format asks for a rendering other than the default. "" and "json" return the // command's result as a JSON value, which is what a program wants. "text" asks the // daemon to run the command's own human rendering and return it as a string, which is // how `nebula ctl` shows an operator the same output the ssh server would. Format string `json:"format,omitempty"` } // Response is the single JSON object a server sends back. type Response struct { Version int `json:"version"` // Result is what a request for JSON produced: the command's value, or the schema // when the request was a Describe, as a JSON value, so a caller reads it directly // instead of parsing a string that happens to contain JSON. // // Whitespace inside a JSON result is not preserved: an envelope normalises it, and // in an API it carries no meaning anyway. Formatting a result for a human to read is // the client's job. Result json.RawMessage `json:"result,omitempty"` // Text is what a request for text produced: the command's own human rendering, the // bytes it wrote and nothing else. They travel as bytes, base64 in the envelope, // rather than as a JSON string, because a string is UTF-8 and the rendering need // not be: a name from a certificate is whatever the certificate holds, and the ssh // server passes it through, so this does too. Text []byte `json:"text,omitempty"` // Error explains a failure in a sentence, and is absent on success. It is the only // signal a caller needs: there is no separate status field, because a command that // failed always says why and one that succeeded never does. A command line client // turns its presence into a non-zero exit. // // A command that ran and refused sets Error too, alongside its Result when the // caller asked for JSON. That is how a refusal and a request that never ran are // told apart: the first has both, the second has Error alone. Error string `json:"error,omitempty"` } // frameError is a frame that arrived and was not one: oversized, or not the JSON object // the protocol defines. It is told from a failed read so the client can say the daemon // answered with something it could not read, rather than that it could not be reached. type frameError struct{ err error } func (e *frameError) Error() string { return e.err.Error() } func (e *frameError) Unwrap() error { return e.err } // readFrame reads one frame, a newline terminated JSON object, from r into v. With // writeFrame it is where the framing rule lives, for both directions: a frame is a // single line, a line over max bytes is refused rather than buffered, and a final line // with no newline before EOF still counts. what names the frame in errors ("request", "response"); a // read failure is returned wrapped, so a caller can still see io.EOF or a timeout in it. // strict refuses a field v does not declare, which is the daemon's reading of a request: // a client that misspells one deserves to hear about it, as it does for a parameter. // The client reads a response leniently, so a field a newer daemon adds is passed over // rather than fatal. func readFrame(r io.Reader, max int, what string, v any, strict bool) error { br := bufio.NewReader(io.LimitReader(r, int64(max)+1)) line, err := br.ReadBytes('\n') if err != nil && (len(line) == 0 || !errors.Is(err, io.EOF)) { // EOF after a partial line is the unterminated final line the rule allows, and // an oversized line looks the same once the LimitReader cuts it off, so both go // on to be judged by their length. Anything else is a failed read, whatever was // buffered first: a deadline that lands mid frame is a timeout, not a parse // error in half a document. return fmt.Errorf("could not read %s: %w", what, err) } // The limit is on the body, not the frame, so the terminator does not count // against it. A body that exceeds max is cut off by the LimitReader before its // newline, so a missing terminator is also what an oversized line looks like. body := bytes.TrimSuffix(line, []byte{'\n'}) if len(body) > max { return &frameError{fmt.Errorf("%s exceeded %d bytes", what, max)} } dec := json.NewDecoder(bytes.NewReader(body)) if strict { dec.DisallowUnknownFields() } if err := dec.Decode(v); err != nil { return &frameError{fmt.Errorf("could not parse %s: %w", what, err)} } // Strict is one object and nothing after it: a second object, or stray bytes, on // the line would be read as part of a request that happened to decode, and is // refused the way an unknown field is. if strict { if _, err := dec.Token(); err != io.EOF { return fmt.Errorf("could not parse %s: unexpected data after the object", what) } } return nil } // writeFrame writes v to w as one frame: the JSON object and the newline that ends it. func writeFrame(w io.Writer, v any) error { body, err := json.Marshal(v) if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("could not encode frame: %w", err) } _, err = w.Write(append(body, '\n')) return err }