Merge branch 'ca-no-need-trust' of https://github.com/obsidiansystems/nix

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Eelco Dolstra 2020-08-17 10:57:02 +02:00
commit 847a5392f4
2 changed files with 41 additions and 3 deletions

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@ -454,8 +454,46 @@ static void performOp(TunnelLogger * logger, ref<Store> store,
readDerivation(from, *store, drv, Derivation::nameFromPath(drvPath)); readDerivation(from, *store, drv, Derivation::nameFromPath(drvPath));
BuildMode buildMode = (BuildMode) readInt(from); BuildMode buildMode = (BuildMode) readInt(from);
logger->startWork(); logger->startWork();
if (!trusted)
throw Error("you are not privileged to build derivations"); /* Content-addressed derivations are trustless because their output paths
are verified by their content alone, so any derivation is free to
try to produce such a path.
Input-addressed derivation output paths, however, are calculated
from the derivation closure that produced them---even knowing the
root derivation is not enough. That the output data actually came
from those derivations is fundamentally unverifiable, but the daemon
trusts itself on that matter. The question instead is whether the
submitted plan has rights to the output paths it wants to fill, and
at least the derivation closure proves that.
It would have been nice if input-address algorithm merely depended
on the build time closure, rather than depending on the derivation
closure. That would mean input-addressed paths used at build time
would just be trusted and not need their own evidence. This is in
fact fine as the same guarantees would hold *inductively*: either
the remote builder has those paths and already trusts them, or it
needs to build them too and thus their evidence must be provided in
turn. The advantage of this variant algorithm is that the evidence
for input-addressed paths which the remote builder already has
doesn't need to be sent again.
That said, now that we have floating CA derivations, it is better
that people just migrate to those which also solve this problem, and
others. It's the same migration difficulty with strictly more
benefit.
Lastly, do note that when we parse fixed-output content-addressed
derivations, we throw out the precomputed output paths and just
store the hashes, so there aren't two competing sources of truth an
attacker could exploit. */
if (drv.type() == DerivationType::InputAddressed && !trusted)
throw Error("you are not privileged to build input-addressed derivations");
/* Make sure that the non-input-addressed derivations that got this far
are in fact content-addressed if we don't trust them. */
assert(derivationIsCA(drv.type()) || trusted);
auto res = store->buildDerivation(drvPath, drv, buildMode); auto res = store->buildDerivation(drvPath, drv, buildMode);
logger->stopWork(); logger->stopWork();
to << res.status << res.errorMsg; to << res.status << res.errorMsg;

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@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ namespace nix {
#define WORKER_MAGIC_1 0x6e697863 #define WORKER_MAGIC_1 0x6e697863
#define WORKER_MAGIC_2 0x6478696f #define WORKER_MAGIC_2 0x6478696f
#define PROTOCOL_VERSION 0x117 #define PROTOCOL_VERSION 0x118
#define GET_PROTOCOL_MAJOR(x) ((x) & 0xff00) #define GET_PROTOCOL_MAJOR(x) ((x) & 0xff00)
#define GET_PROTOCOL_MINOR(x) ((x) & 0x00ff) #define GET_PROTOCOL_MINOR(x) ((x) & 0x00ff)