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Adapt the Unix socket handling already used by existing input plugins for the shared HTTP server, reusing the existing Unix stream transport. Allow HTTP-based inputs, including OTLP, to listen on filesystem Unix sockets through http_server.unix_path. Support optional permissions through http_server.unix_perm and remove socket files on shutdown. Signed-off-by: Tim Foerster <tim.foerster@hetzner.com>
Verify HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, TLS and OTLP/gRPC over Unix sockets, including socket permissions, stale socket recovery and cleanup on shutdown. Use static configurations with socket paths supplied through environment variables, following the existing Forward and Syslog tests. Signed-off-by: Tim Foerster <tim.foerster@hetzner.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe HTTP server and input plugins now support Unix-domain sockets. The changes add configuration and permission handling, shared stale-socket cleanup, identity-safe teardown, platform validation, and integration tests for HTTP, OTLP, and multiple input plugins. ChangesUnix socket support
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant UnixSocket
participant HTTPInput
participant HTTPOutput
Client->>UnixSocket: Send HTTP request
UnixSocket->>HTTPInput: Deliver request
HTTPInput->>HTTPOutput: Forward payload
HTTPOutput-->>HTTPInput: Return output response
HTTPInput-->>Client: Return HTTP response
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participant InputPlugin
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InputPlugin->>flb_downstream_setup: Create Unix listener
flb_downstream_setup->>UnixSocket: Probe existing path
UnixSocket-->>flb_downstream_setup: Report stale or active socket
flb_downstream_setup->>UnixSocket: Bind listener when path is available
InputPlugin->>flb_downstream_destroy: Stop listener
flb_downstream_destroy->>UnixSocket: Unlink tracked socket
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Unix-socket startup can modify a substituted local filesystem target in writable socket directories, and a failed listener startup can leave a stale socket path that prevents a clean restart. These issues should be corrected before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@src/http_server/flb_http_server.c`:
- Around line 1067-1076: Update flb_http_server_start and
flb_http_server_destroy to use a shared ownership-aware Unix-socket lifecycle
helper: reject an existing active listener, unlink only stale sockets, record
the identity of the socket created for server->downstream, and during cleanup
unlink only when the current pathname still matches that recorded identity,
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- Line 1102: Update the Unix-socket permission handling around the chmod call in
the HTTP server to require and verify that the socket’s parent directory is not
writable by untrusted users before applying permissions. Keep chmod on the
filesystem socket path, and reject or fail safely when the directory trust check
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s.bind(p)
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According to the official POSIX documentation, the behavior of fchmod when the file descriptor (fildes) refers to a socket is explicitly specified as "unspecified" [1][2][3]. Because POSIX does not mandate a specific behavior, implementation and portability vary significantly across Unix-like systems. In practice, the ability to use fchmod on a Unix domain socket depends on the specific operating system and the state of the socket: 1. Implementation Variance: On Linux, fchmod may be used on a socket file descriptor to influence the permissions of the resulting file system object when the socket is subsequently bound [4]. In contrast, many BSD-based systems (such as FreeBSD and OpenBSD) explicitly define fchmod as failing with an [EINVAL] error when a socket file descriptor is provided [5][6]. 2. Pre-bind vs. Post-bind: Even on systems where it is permitted, such as Linux, fchmod is typically intended to be used on the socket file descriptor before the socket is bound to a file path [7][4][8]. This approach is often used to avoid a TOCTTOU (time-of-check to time-of-use) race condition that would occur if one were to create the socket and then immediately call chmod on the pathname [7][4][8]. Once a socket is already bound to a pathname, changing the permissions of the underlying file system object via the socket's file descriptor is generally not supported or effective [7][4][8]. Due to this "unspecified" status in the POSIX standard, relying on fchmod to manage socket permissions is not portable. Developers requiring portable control over Unix domain socket permissions often use chmod on the socket's pathname after binding (acknowledging the race condition) or adjust the process umask prior to the bind call [4][9].
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- 1: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799.2024edition/functions/fchmod.html
- 2: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/functions/fchmod.html
- 3: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fchmod.html
- 4: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11781134/change-linux-socket-file-permissions
- 5: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?format=html&query=fchmod&sektion=2
- 6: https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-7.6/fchmod.2
- 7: https://manned.org/man/unix.4
- 8: https://manned.org/man/freebsd-15.0/unix.4
- 9: https://manpages.debian.org/bookworm/manpages/unix.7.en.html
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CWE: CWE-367 — Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
Require a trusted directory before applying Unix-socket permissions. If an untrusted user can modify the parent directory, that user can replace session->unix_path with a symlink before chmod. chmod follows the symlink and changes the target's permissions.
Do not replace this call with fchmod(session->downstream->server_fd, mode) after bind. POSIX leaves fchmod on sockets unspecified, and supported Unix systems can reject it or avoid changing the filesystem socket node. Require and verify that the socket directory is not writable by untrusted users, or implement platform-specific pre-bind permission handling.
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In `@src/http_server/flb_http_server.c` at line 1102, Update the Unix-socket
permission handling around the chmod call in the HTTP server to require and
verify that the socket’s parent directory is not writable by untrusted users
before applying permissions. Keep chmod on the filesystem socket path, and
reject or fail safely when the directory trust check cannot be established; do
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I'm still unsure about this. Definitely a good catch, but I don't see a clean way to address it. AFAIK, there is no portable way to atomically bind a Unix domain socket with the desired permissions, so there will always be a timing window here. Maybe the best we can do is require the socket directory to be trusted and not writable by untrusted users
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@tonobo, I agree. chmod() after bind() has an unavoidable pathname race on portable Unix platforms.
A trusted socket directory is the most practical mitigation. The server should document this requirement and, where feasible, validate it before it creates the listener:
- Require the parent directory to be owned by the effective user or by a trusted administrative user.
- Reject a parent directory that has group-write or other-write permission.
- Require every ancestor directory in the socket path to meet the same trust requirement, or require an administrator-controlled base directory.
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chmod()on the socket pathname. Do not usefchmod()on the socket descriptor because its socket behavior is not portable.
A pre-bind directory check reduces risk, but it does not provide a complete guarantee if an untrusted actor can rename or replace a path component. Therefore, the configuration contract must state that the complete socket directory path is trusted and not writable by untrusted users.
The current chmod() still warrants a fix or an explicit documented security constraint. The directory validation is a reasonable best-effort implementation for this PR.
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Return -1 after closing a Unix listener whose bind or listen failed, so callers do not receive a closed descriptor as a successful result. Signed-off-by: Tim Foerster <tim.foerster@hetzner.com>
Address CodeRabbit's "Track Unix socket ownership before unlinking" finding on PR fluent#12436: fluent#12436 (comment) The HTTP listener adapted the existing Forward and Syslog Unix socket handling, including unconditional removal of existing socket paths. Centralize stale socket detection and cleanup in downstream so all Unix inputs can use the same lifecycle handling. Probe existing stream and datagram sockets without blocking and only remove them after a refused connection. Record the bound socket's device and inode, and preserve paths replaced before cleanup. Migrate the input callers in the following component commits. The identity check and unlink are not atomic. Keeping a file descriptor open cannot close this gap: unlink removes a directory entry by name, and unlinkat does not support AT_EMPTY_PATH for deletion through that FD. The pathname can still be replaced between lstat and unlink, so this requires a directory protected from untrusted modification. The separate pathname permission race also remains unresolved. Signed-off-by: Tim Foerster <tim.foerster@hetzner.com>
Delegate stale socket checks and ownership-aware cleanup to downstream. Signed-off-by: Tim Foerster <tim.foerster@hetzner.com>
Remove duplicated socket removal and rely on downstream for startup checks and cleanup. Free the optional TCP port string unconditionally. Signed-off-by: Tim Foerster <tim.foerster@hetzner.com>
Delegate Unix stream and datagram socket removal to downstream. Free the optional port string unconditionally. Signed-off-by: Tim Foerster <tim.foerster@hetzner.com>
Delegate stale socket checks and cleanup to the shared downstream layer. Signed-off-by: Tim Foerster <tim.foerster@hetzner.com>
Cover stale socket recovery, active listeners, full stream backlogs and replacement paths across HTTP, Forward, Syslog and Unix Socket inputs. Signed-off-by: Tim Foerster <tim.foerster@hetzner.com>
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- Line 1855: Update flb_net_bind to track whether bind succeeded and, if a
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Remove the socket path when listen fails after a successful bind.
flb_net_bind combines both operations. If bind succeeds but listen fails, closing fd leaves the newly created socket path behind. flb_downstream_setup cannot remove it because it caches unix_socket only after this function returns successfully.
Track whether bind succeeded. On a later listen failure, remove only the socket created by this call. Do not unlink after a bind failure because the path can belong to an active listener.
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In `@src/flb_network.c` at line 1855, Update flb_net_bind to track whether bind
succeeded and, if a subsequent listen fails, unlink only the socket path created
by this call before returning. Preserve the existing behavior on bind failure by
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@cosmo0920 @edsiper Hey, originally I looked into this and thought adding Unix listen support to the HTTP server would be quite easy. But it seems to turn into a general cleanup. All CI suggestions are valid to me, but they also affect previous problems and involve more design decisions. I already invested some hours yesterday to align Unix listen across all plugins, but I fear going further will make this too large to realistically review. What are your opinions? |
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HTTP-based inputs currently require a TCP listener, even when producers run locally. This adds filesystem Unix domain socket listeners to the shared HTTP server through
http_server.unix_path, with optional octal permissions throughhttp_server.unix_perm.The implementation adapts the Unix socket handling already used by existing input plugins and reuses the existing
FLB_TRANSPORT_UNIX_STREAMdownstream transport. The integration tests follow the existing Forward and Syslog pattern of static configurations with socket paths supplied through environment variables.Socket files are removed on shutdown, stale socket files are replaced on startup, and existing regular files or symlinks are preserved. Permissions are limited to
0000–0777. Unix listeners require a single worker without port sharing. Existing TCP behavior is unchanged when the new options are omitted; unsupported platforms reject the Unix options explicitly.Example OTLP configuration:
Testing
Focused integration coverage includes HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 with and without TLS, OTLP/gRPC logs, metrics and traces, socket permissions, stale socket recovery, shutdown cleanup, preservation of existing files, and TCP regression cases.
tests/integration/.venv/bin/python -m pytest \ tests/integration/scenarios/{in_http,in_opentelemetry}/tests/test_*_001.py \ -k 'unix_socket or (protocol_matrix and http1_cleartext)' -q # 13 passed, 135 deselected, 2 warnings in 48.95s VALGRIND=1 VALGRIND_STRICT=1 tests/integration/.venv/bin/python -m pytest \ tests/integration/scenarios/{in_http,in_opentelemetry}/tests/test_*_001.py \ -k 'unix_socket or (protocol_matrix and http1_cleartext)' -q # 13 passed, 135 deselected, 2 warnings in 62.07sThe two warnings are protobuf/Python deprecation warnings. The full PR commit range also passes the commit-prefix checker.
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