varlink: add ability to invoke and talk to remote service binary via SSH

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Lennart Poettering 2024-04-25 10:54:24 +02:00
parent ab89c6d162
commit e44e109baa
2 changed files with 147 additions and 13 deletions

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@ -71,16 +71,23 @@
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>A Varlink service reference starting with the <literal>unix:</literal> string, followed
by an absolute <constant>AF_UNIX</constant> socket path, or by <literal>@</literal> and an arbitrary string
(the latter for referencing sockets in the abstract namespace).</para></listitem>
by an absolute <constant>AF_UNIX</constant> socket path, or by <literal>@</literal> and an arbitrary
string (the latter for referencing sockets in the abstract namespace). In this case a stream socket
connection is made to the specified socket.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>A Varlink service reference starting with the <literal>exec:</literal> string, followed
by an absolute path of a binary to execute.</para></listitem>
by an absolute path of a binary to execute. In this case the specified process is forked off locally,
with a connected stream socket passed in.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>A Varlink service reference starting with the <literal>ssh:</literal> string, followed
<listitem><para>A Varlink service reference starting with the <literal>ssh-unix:</literal> string, followed
by an SSH host specification, followed by <literal>:</literal>, followed by an absolute
<constant>AF_UNIX</constant> socket path. (This requires OpenSSH 9.4 or newer on the server side,
abstract namespace sockets are not supported.)</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>A Varlink service reference starting with the <literal>ssh-exec:</literal> string,
followed by an SSH host specification, followed by <literal>:</literal>, followed by a command line. In
this case the command is invoked and the Varlink protocol is spoken on the standard input and output of
the invoked command.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>For convenience these two simpler (redundant) service address syntaxes are also supported:</para>
@ -353,6 +360,22 @@ method Extend(
{}</programlisting>
</example>
<example>
<title>Invoking a method remotely via SSH</title>
<para>The following command acquires a report about the identity of a remote host
<literal>somehost</literal> from
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-hostnamed.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
by connecting via SSH to the <constant>AF_UNIX</constant> socket the service listens on:</para>
<programlisting># varlinkctl call ssh-unix:somehost:/run/systemd/io.systemd.Hostname io.systemd.Hostname.Describe '{}'</programlisting>
<para>To invoke a Varlink service binary directly on the remote host, rather than talking to a service
via <constant>AF_UNIX</constant> can be done like this:</para>
<programlisting># varlinkctl call ssh-exec:somehost:/usr/bin/systemd-creds org.varlink.service.GetInfo '{}'</programlisting>
</example>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>

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@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
#include "alloc-util.h"
#include "errno-util.h"
#include "escape.h"
#include "fd-util.h"
#include "glyph-util.h"
#include "hashmap.h"
@ -520,7 +521,18 @@ int varlink_connect_exec(Varlink **ret, const char *_command, char **_argv) {
return 0;
}
static int varlink_connect_ssh(Varlink **ret, const char *where) {
static int ssh_path(const char **ret) {
assert(ret);
const char *ssh = secure_getenv("SYSTEMD_SSH") ?: "ssh";
if (!path_is_valid(ssh))
return log_debug_errno(SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "SSH path is not valid, refusing: %s", ssh);
*ret = ssh;
return 0;
}
static int varlink_connect_ssh_unix(Varlink **ret, const char *where) {
_cleanup_close_pair_ int pair[2] = EBADF_PAIR;
_cleanup_(sigkill_waitp) pid_t pid = 0;
int r;
@ -531,9 +543,10 @@ static int varlink_connect_ssh(Varlink **ret, const char *where) {
/* Connects to an SSH server via OpenSSH 9.4's -W switch to connect to a remote AF_UNIX socket. For
* now we do not expose this function directly, but only via varlink_connect_url(). */
const char *ssh = secure_getenv("SYSTEMD_SSH") ?: "ssh";
if (!path_is_valid(ssh))
return log_debug_errno(SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "SSH path is not valid, refusing: %s", ssh);
const char *ssh;
r = ssh_path(&ssh);
if (r < 0)
return r;
const char *e = strchr(where, ':');
if (!e)
@ -596,13 +609,107 @@ static int varlink_connect_ssh(Varlink **ret, const char *where) {
return 0;
}
static int varlink_connect_ssh_exec(Varlink **ret, const char *where) {
_cleanup_close_pair_ int input_pipe[2] = EBADF_PAIR, output_pipe[2] = EBADF_PAIR;
_cleanup_(sigkill_waitp) pid_t pid = 0;
int r;
assert_return(ret, -EINVAL);
assert_return(where, -EINVAL);
/* Connects to an SSH server to connect to a remote process' stdin/stdout. For now we do not expose
* this function directly, but only via varlink_connect_url(). */
const char *ssh;
r = ssh_path(&ssh);
if (r < 0)
return r;
const char *e = strchr(where, ':');
if (!e)
return log_debug_errno(SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "SSH specification lacks a : separator between host and path, refusing: %s", where);
_cleanup_free_ char *h = strndup(where, e - where);
if (!h)
return log_oom_debug();
_cleanup_strv_free_ char **cmdline = NULL;
r = strv_split_full(&cmdline, e + 1, /* separators= */ NULL, EXTRACT_CUNESCAPE|EXTRACT_UNQUOTE);
if (r < 0)
return log_debug_errno(r, "Failed to split command line: %m");
if (strv_isempty(cmdline))
return log_debug_errno(SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EINVAL), "Remote command line is empty, refusing.");
_cleanup_strv_free_ char **full_cmdline = NULL;
full_cmdline = strv_new("ssh", "-e", "none", "-T", h, "env", "SYSTEMD_VARLINK_LISTEN=-");
if (!full_cmdline)
return log_oom_debug();
r = strv_extend_strv(&full_cmdline, cmdline, /* filter_duplicates= */ false);
if (r < 0)
return log_oom_debug();
_cleanup_free_ char *j = NULL;
j = quote_command_line(full_cmdline, SHELL_ESCAPE_EMPTY);
if (!j)
return log_oom_debug();
log_debug("Forking off SSH child process: %s", j);
if (pipe2(input_pipe, O_CLOEXEC) < 0)
return log_debug_errno(errno, "Failed to allocate input pipe: %m");
if (pipe2(output_pipe, O_CLOEXEC) < 0)
return log_debug_errno(errno, "Failed to allocate output pipe: %m");
r = safe_fork_full(
"(sd-vlssh)",
/* stdio_fds= */ (int[]) { input_pipe[0], output_pipe[1], STDERR_FILENO },
/* except_fds= */ NULL,
/* n_except_fds= */ 0,
FORK_RESET_SIGNALS|FORK_CLOSE_ALL_FDS|FORK_DEATHSIG_SIGTERM|FORK_REOPEN_LOG|FORK_LOG|FORK_RLIMIT_NOFILE_SAFE|FORK_REARRANGE_STDIO,
&pid);
if (r < 0)
return log_debug_errno(r, "Failed to spawn process: %m");
if (r == 0) {
/* Child */
execvp(ssh, full_cmdline);
log_debug_errno(errno, "Failed to invoke %s: %m", j);
_exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
input_pipe[0] = safe_close(input_pipe[0]);
output_pipe[1] = safe_close(output_pipe[1]);
r = fd_nonblock(input_pipe[1], true);
if (r < 0)
return log_debug_errno(r, "Failed to make input pipe non-blocking: %m");
r = fd_nonblock(output_pipe[0], true);
if (r < 0)
return log_debug_errno(r, "Failed to make output pipe non-blocking: %m");
Varlink *v;
r = varlink_new(&v);
if (r < 0)
return log_debug_errno(r, "Failed to create varlink object: %m");
v->input_fd = TAKE_FD(output_pipe[0]);
v->output_fd = TAKE_FD(input_pipe[1]);
v->af = AF_UNSPEC;
v->exec_pid = TAKE_PID(pid);
varlink_set_state(v, VARLINK_IDLE_CLIENT);
*ret = v;
return 0;
}
int varlink_connect_url(Varlink **ret, const char *url) {
_cleanup_free_ char *c = NULL;
const char *p;
enum {
SCHEME_UNIX,
SCHEME_EXEC,
SCHEME_SSH,
SCHEME_SSH_UNIX,
SCHEME_SSH_EXEC,
} scheme;
int r;
@ -620,8 +727,10 @@ int varlink_connect_url(Varlink **ret, const char *url) {
scheme = SCHEME_UNIX;
else if ((p = startswith(url, "exec:")))
scheme = SCHEME_EXEC;
else if ((p = startswith(url, "ssh:")))
scheme = SCHEME_SSH;
else if ((p = STARTSWITH_SET(url, "ssh:", "ssh-unix:")))
scheme = SCHEME_SSH_UNIX;
else if ((p = startswith(url, "ssh-exec:")))
scheme = SCHEME_SSH_EXEC;
else
return log_debug_errno(SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EPROTONOSUPPORT), "URL scheme not supported.");
@ -630,8 +739,10 @@ int varlink_connect_url(Varlink **ret, const char *url) {
if (p[strcspn(p, ";?#")] != '\0')
return log_debug_errno(SYNTHETIC_ERRNO(EPROTONOSUPPORT), "URL parameterization with ';', '?', '#' not supported.");
if (scheme == SCHEME_SSH)
return varlink_connect_ssh(ret, p);
if (scheme == SCHEME_SSH_UNIX)
return varlink_connect_ssh_unix(ret, p);
if (scheme == SCHEME_SSH_EXEC)
return varlink_connect_ssh_exec(ret, p);
if (scheme == SCHEME_EXEC || p[0] != '@') { /* no path validity checks for abstract namespace sockets */