Starting with the privsep config, this commit changes the following:
- Removes the root, runas, keymgr_root, keymgr_runas, acme_root and
acme_runas configuration options.
Instead these are now configured via a privsep configuration context:
privsep worker {
root /tmp
runas nobody
}
This is also configurable via Python using the new kore.privsep() method:
kore.privsep("worker", root="/tmp", runas="nobody", skip=["chroot"])
Tied into this we also better handle worker startup:
- Per worker process, wait until it signalled it is ready.
- If a worker fails at startup, display its last log lines more clearly.
- Don't start acme process if no domain requires acme.
- Remove each process its individual startup log message in favour
of a generalized one that displays its PID, root and user.
- At startup, log the kore version and built-ins in a nicer way.
- The worker processes now check things they need to start running
before signaling they are ready (such as access to CA certs for
TLS client authentication).
Before each worker process would either directly print to stdout if
Kore was running in foreground mode, or syslog otherwise.
With this commit the workers will submit their log messages to the
parent process who will either put it onto stdout or syslog.
This change in completely under the hood and users shouldn't care about it.
These changes improve the constraint kore had with client authentication and
multiple domains.
- Add kore_x509_subject_name() which will return a C string containing
the x509 subject name in full (in utf8).
- Log TLS errors if client authentication was turned on, will help debug
issues with client authentication in the future.
- If SNI was present in the TLS handshake, check it against the host specified
in the HTTP request and send a 421 in case they mismatch.
- Throw a 403 if client authentication was enabled but no client certificate
was specified.
A new acme process is created that communicates with the acme servers.
This process does not hold any of your private keys (no account keys,
no domain keys etc).
Whenever the acme process requires a signed payload it will ask the keymgr
process to do the signing with the relevant keys.
This process is also sandboxed with pledge+unveil on OpenBSD and seccomp
syscall filtering on Linux.
The implementation only supports the tls-alpn-01 challenge. This means that
you do not need to open additional ports on your machine.
http-01 and dns-01 are currently not supported (no wildcard support).
A new configuration option "acme_provider" is available and can be set
to the acme server its directory. By default this will point to the
live letsencrypt environment:
https://acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory
The acme process can be controlled via the following config options:
- acme_root (where the acme process will chroot/chdir into).
- acme_runas (the user the acme process will run as).
If none are set, the values from 'root' and 'runas' are taken.
If you want to turn on acme for domains you do it as follows:
domain kore.io {
acme yes
}
You do not need to specify certkey/certfile anymore, if they are present
still
they will be overwritten by the acme system.
The keymgr will store all certificates and keys under its root
(keymgr_root), the account key is stored as "/account-key.pem" and all
obtained certificates go under "certificates/<domain>/fullchain.pem" while
keys go under "certificates/<domain>/key.pem".
Kore will automatically renew certificates if they will expire in 7 days
or less.
Before kore needed to be built with NOTLS=1 to be able to do non TLS
connections. This has been like this for years.
It is time to allow non TLS listeners without having to rebuild Kore.
This commit changes your configuration format and will break existing
applications their config.
Configurations now get listener {} contexts:
listen default {
bind 127.0.0.1 8888
}
The above will create a listener on 127.0.0.1, port 8888 that will serve
TLS (still the default).
If you want to turn off TLS on that listener, specify "tls no" in that
context.
Domains now need to be attached to a listener:
Eg:
domain * {
attach default
}
For the Python API this kills kore.bind(), and kore.bind_unix(). They are
replaced with:
kore.listen("name", ip=None, port=None, path=None, tls=True).
This commit adds the CURL=1 build option. When enabled allows
you to schedule CURL easy handles onto the Kore event loop.
It also adds an easy to use HTTP client API that abstracts away the
settings required from libcurl to make HTTP requests.
Tied together with HTTP request state machines this means you can
write fully asynchronous HTTP client requests in an easy way.
Additionally this exposes that API to the Python code as well
allowing you do to things like:
client = kore.httpclient("https://kore.io")
status, body = await client.get()
Introduces 2 configuration options:
- curl_recv_max
Max incoming bytes for a response.
- curl_timeout
Timeout in seconds before a transfer is cancelled.
This API also allows you to take the CURL easy handle and send emails
with it, run FTP, etc. All asynchronously.
If a worker process dies it automatically gets respawned by the
parent process, but sometimes you want the entire server to go down
if a worker encounters an error. This is what fatalx() does.
Calling fatalx() from a worker process will initiate a full shutdown
of the kore server you are running under.
This commit introduces the ability for the keymgr process
to reload the certificates/keys for domains when receiving
a SIGUSR1 signal.
The keymgr receives 2 new configuration options:
- keymgr_root_path
The root path where the keymgr will live.
If -n is not specified when the application starts the
keymgr process will chroot into here.
- keymgr_runas_user
The user the keymgr will drop privileges towards if
-r was not specified.
All certfile and certkey configuration options are now relative to the
keymgr_root_path configuration setting.
The keymgr process will now also load the certificate for the domain
(rather then the workers) and submit these to the worker processes so
they can be reloaded when required.
Worker processes will refuse connections until the TLS configuration
for a given domain is completed (aka: the workers receive the certificate
for that domain).
Other changes:
- client_certificates renamed to client_verify.
- the chroot configuration option is now called root.
- kore is a little more verbose if privsep options are missing.
- filemaps are now relative to the root configuration option.
The HTTP layer used to make a copy of each incoming header and its
value for a request. Stop doing that and make HTTP headers zero-copy
all across the board.
This change comes with some api function changes, notably the
http_request_header() function which now takes a const char ** rather
than a char ** out pointer.
This commit also constifies several members of http_request, beware.
Additional rework how the worker processes deal with the accept lock.
Before:
if a worker held the accept lock and it accepted a new connection
it would release the lock for others and back off for 500ms before
attempting to grab the lock again.
This approach worked but under high load this starts becoming obvious.
Now:
- workers not holding the accept lock and not having any connections
will wait less long before returning from kore_platform_event_wait().
- workers not holding the accept lock will no longer blindly wait
an arbitrary amount in kore_platform_event_wait() but will look
at how long until the next lock grab is and base their timeout
on that.
- if a worker its next_lock timeout is up and failed to grab the
lock it will try again in half the time again.
- the worker process holding the lock will when releasing the lock
double check if it still has space for newer connections, if it does
it will keep the lock until it is full. This prevents the lock from
bouncing between several non busy worker processes all the time.
Additional fixes:
- Reduce the number of times we check the timeout list, only do it twice
per second rather then every event tick.
- Fix solo worker count for TLS (we actually hold two processes, not one).
- Make sure we don't accidentally miscalculate the idle time causing new
connections under heavy load to instantly drop.
- Swap from gettimeofday() to clock_gettime() now that MacOS caught up.
- Change pools to use mmap() for allocating regions.
- Change kore_malloc() to use pools for commonly sized objects.
(split into multiple of 2 buckets, starting at 8 bytes up to 8192).
- Rename kore_mem_free() to kore_free().
The preallocated pools will hold up to 128K of elements per block size.
In case a larger object is to be allocated kore_malloc() will use
malloc() instead.
Producing single binaries can now be done with building with
"kore build". To get started edit your build.conf and add the
following directives:
single_binary = yes
kore_source = /path/to/kore
optionally you can add kore_flavor to instruct how kore should
be built:
kore_flavor = NOTLS=1
When doing this your build.conf must also include the correct
linking options as the linking is now done fully by kore build.
The binary produced will include your configuration and takes
over a few of kore its command line flags (such as -f, -n or -r).
Make it return the original length of the input string so the caller
can check for truncation. Also guard against len being 0 as this would
not do anything with the destination string (not even NUL terminate it).
Kore will now isolate RSA private keys to a separate process (keymgr).
Worker processes that require RSA signing for TLS connections will
communicate with this keymgr process in order to do so.
This behaviour cannot be disabled and is always turned on.
Joris Vink
Daniel Fahlgren
Matt Thompson