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One trust model: attribution at the boundary, and a log of what it decided
f50f6fabc7de2f2d33d22a4f2a8e5518ddb5becb · Keenan Nemetz · 16d ago · parent 671f2aa7
One trust model: attribution at the boundary, and a log of what it decided The system had two answers to "who did this". Runner results were attributed by a commit signature; issues, comments, approvals and every push were attributed by the account the SSH handshake resolved. One was cryptographic and lived in the object, three were boundary-based and lived in the instance's word. Keeping both meant keeping allowed_signers generation, ssh-keygen -Y find-principals semantics, a --key contract in the runner, a pre-flight key check before every build, a key column in the queue, and the standing obligation to keep all of it agreeing with the mechanism used everywhere else. The signature lost on three counts: it restated the handshake (a runner signs with the key it already pushes with, so the only thing it added was portability nobody consumes), it proved attribution rather than truth (a runner can sign a lie), and an assurance mechanism nobody verifies is a liability, because it looks like security. So the signature is gone, and what replaced it is the thing a trust-the-box model actually requires: a record. post-receive now writes one line per accepted ref update — ref, old, new, account, repo — into the same append-only log as the privileged acts. In post-receive rather than pre-receive because pre-receive returning 0 is a permission and this is the event, and it can never fail a push: the update has already landed, and reporting it as rejected would make a client re-send something that worked. Attribution is unchanged in substance — a record must still name the account that pushed it, which is the rule an issue's author and an approval's owner already follow — and the gate's three checks simplify to two, since "the commit must be signed by that account's key" and "the signature's principal must be that account" both went with the signature. What was a signed record is now a plain commit on the metadata branch; the run page says "reported by" and links the commit that carries it. Deletions, net 467 lines: CommitFilesSigned and CommitTreeAsSigned collapse into the unsigned forms, VerifyCommitSignature and signedByRE go, allowedSigners/rosterKeys go with them, the runner loses loadSigningKey, loadPrivateKey, publicKeyFile, keyFromSSHCommand and checkSigningKey along with the --key flag and the ping round-trip that validated a key before work, and Record.Key, Attestation.Fingerprint and their usage go from the record format and the queue. The docs now state the model once, in one place — README "The trust model" and roadmap "The trust model" — including the cost, which is real: a clone can no longer show who pushed what, and that is the wrong trade for an instance mirrored outside its operator's control. If that arrives, the answer is per-repository mandatory signing implemented once, not a second mechanism kept warm in the meantime. Slices 4 and 6 of Phase 4 are marked removed with their reasoning kept, because the proposal will come back. Measured: TestPostReceiveRecordsThePush (both ref updates logged with actor and account, a deletion logged as "-> none", the CI spool still written) and TestPostReceiveSurvivesAnUnwritableLog (a full disk cannot fail a push); TestARecordCannotBeAttributedToAnotherAccount and TestARecordNeedsNoSignature replace the three signature tests; TestARecordMustDescribeTheLeasedJob stays, because "the record must describe the job you were given" is a boundary check and not a crypto one.
internal/sshserver/runner.go +8−14
| @@ -114,13 +114,11 @@ type runnerReply struct { | |||
| 114 | 114 | Run *runnerJob `json:"run,omitempty"` | |
| 115 | 115 | OK bool `json:"ok"` | |
| 116 | 116 | Lease int `json:"lease,omitempty"` | |
| 117 | // Who am I: the account this channel authenticated as, and the fingerprints of | ||
| 118 | // its keys. A runner answers "ping" with these so it can check, before it runs | ||
| 119 | // anything, that the key it is going to sign with is one the server will accept. | ||
| 120 | // Learning that after a ten-minute build is too late to be useful. | ||
| 121 | Account string `json:"account,omitempty"` | ||
| 122 | Name string `json:"name,omitempty"` | ||
| 123 | Keys []string `json:"keys,omitempty"` | ||
| 117 | // Who am I: the account this channel authenticated as. A runner answers "ping" with | ||
| 118 | // this so it can say whose results it will be reporting, and so a --repos filter can | ||
| 119 | // be checked against what the account may run. | ||
| 120 | Account string `json:"account,omitempty"` | ||
| 121 | Name string `json:"name,omitempty"` | ||
| 124 | 122 | // Repos are the repositories this account may run jobs for, sent with "ping" so | |
| 125 | 123 | // a runner started with --repos can find out at startup that its filter matches | |
| 126 | 124 | // nothing — a typo it would otherwise discover as a permanently idle runner — | |
| @@ -342,9 +340,8 @@ func (s *Server) serveRunner(ch ssh.Channel, user, accountID string) { | |||
| 342 | 340 | continue | |
| 343 | 341 | } | |
| 344 | 342 | attested, err := cfg.Runs.RecordAttestation(run.ID, owner, runs.Attestation{ | |
| 345 | Signer: rec.Signer, | ||
| 346 | Fingerprint: rec.Key, | ||
| 347 | CommitID: rec.Commit, | ||
| 343 | Signer: rec.Signer, | ||
| 344 | CommitID: rec.Commit, | ||
| 348 | 345 | }, now) | |
| 349 | 346 | if err != nil { | |
| 350 | 347 | _ = enc.Encode(runnerReply{Op: "finish", Error: err.Error()}) | |
| @@ -360,16 +357,13 @@ func (s *Server) serveRunner(ch ssh.Channel, user, accountID string) { | |||
| 360 | 357 | continue | |
| 361 | 358 | } | |
| 362 | 359 | cfg.Log.Info("run finished", "user", user, "run", run.ID, "exit", rec.Exit, | |
| 363 | "signer", rec.Signer, "key", rec.Key, "commit", rec.Commit, "recorded", ok) | ||
| 360 | "signer", rec.Signer, "commit", rec.Commit, "recorded", ok) | ||
| 364 | 361 | _ = enc.Encode(runnerReply{Op: "finish", OK: ok}) | |
| 365 | 362 | ||
| 366 | 363 | case "ping": | |
| 367 | 364 | reply := runnerReply{Op: "ping", OK: true, Account: accountID} | |
| 368 | 365 | if acct, aerr := cfg.Identity.Find(accountID); aerr == nil && acct != nil { | |
| 369 | 366 | reply.Name = acct.Name | |
| 370 | for _, k := range acct.Keys { | ||
| 371 | reply.Keys = append(reply.Keys, k.Fingerprint) | ||
| 372 | } | ||
| 373 | 367 | } | |
| 374 | 368 | // What this account may run, so a runner started with --repos can say at | |
| 375 | 369 | // startup that its filter matches nothing rather than idling in silence. | |