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4 daysfw: build clean, and check that it stays that wayCalvin Morrison
Two warnings have stood in fw.c since the program was written: warning: fw.c:732 auto declared and not used: buf warning: fw.c:1286 set and not used: m Neither matters on its own -- an unused array in fsread, and an m = nil that the next line overwrites -- but a build that always prints two warnings is a build whose output nobody reads, which is how the next one that does matter goes unnoticed. Both are the sort of thing kencc tells you for free. So the suite now builds the source from clean and asks the compiler whether it had anything to say. Reintroducing the unused array makes it fail with the warning printed under the check, which is what a finding nobody had to look for should look like. It also checks that mk succeeded, since a build that does not run produces no warnings either. Skipped if the source is not on the machine being tested. 48 pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
4 daysfw: delete the card-restore code that never ranCalvin Morrison
The last round removed the two call sites and said the code was gone. It was not: putback, notehandler and the five back* globals were still there with no callers, and the comment that was meant to be moved back to reclaim() was copied instead, so the file carried the same twelve lines twice in a row above a function they do not describe. kencc does not warn about an unused static function, so nothing objected. Dead code that reads like a safety net is worse than none. Anyone finding putback() would reasonably conclude the card is restored on the way out; it is not, and the reason is in the comment that now stands where the duplicate was, so the next person to look does not have to re-derive atexit's pid matching to find out why. Also moves netfs.c's "connect takes addr!port" comment down to checkctl, which it describes, from above the okverbs table, which it does not. No test: the deletion is invisible at runtime, which is the whole complaint about it. The suite still passes 46, and card mode -- the only thing putback ever touched -- is deliberately outside it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
4 daysfw: fix a bypass, a broken round-trip, and eleven others from reviewCalvin Morrison
The serious one is that the ctl filter was a blacklist. checkctl looked at connect and announce and passed everything else, but udpctl takes "headers", and udpcreate gives a conversation a live write queue at clone time: c->wq = qbypass(udpkick, c); So three writes -- clone, "headers", a header-prefixed datagram to data -- sent a packet anywhere, with no connect for a rule to match. rudp and icmpv6 have the same verb, gre has raw and forward. none.ndb did not mean "no network at all", though the manual said it did. It is now a whitelist of control messages that cannot reach the network by themselves, which is the argument this code already made about ndb attributes it does not recognise, applied where it was not. Also blocking: %M was never installed, so fmtrules emitted ipmask=%M% and every ctl edit on a rule set containing ip= failed, while save wrote a file reload would reject. Tests had exercised the ctl path and the ip= path but never together. parserules built the new list in the globals with no lock, so for the length of a reload the relay procs walked a list that was empty and then half built -- exactly what installrules' comment promised could not happen. etherwriteip put a 64KB frame on a 32KB proc stack, the same bug design.md records learning and fixing in relay(). putback and notehandler were dead code: atexit matches on the registering pid and _exits never runs the handlers, which is why the cleanup "did not fire" rather than being flaky. Nothing puts the card back, and the docs that said otherwise are corrected. The rest: expired flows kept matching and refreshing themselves; the pkt interface claimed a 4096 MTU from a 1514-byte card; ports were read out of non-first fragments; /net/ndb and /net/log were writable and ipifc/*/data readable through the filter; control files were world-writable, and owning them as a user called "fw" locked out the administrator instead; delete 0 appended a rule reading <nil>; a dead relay left one direction unfiltered with nothing to notice; and IPv6 unicast under -e was dropped in silence when it is simply not implemented. All three modes regression tested after: a namespace refusing headers and port 22 while allowing 443, a card passing https and then blocking it live, and the machine's network restored afterwards. doc/todo.md says which of these were reproduced and which were read. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
4 daysfw: a firewall, at a card, between two networks, or in front of a namespaceCalvin Morrison
One program with three modes, sharing one rule engine and one ndb rule language. Which mode it is depends on what you point it at, and it says so at startup rather than choosing silently. fw -e /net/ether0 rules.ndb a card: every packet in or out fw rules.ndb <side> <side> two networks: everything crossing fw rules.ndb one namespace: what programs ask for The first two filter packets on a wire, using the pkt medium: the stack gives up its card and gets a synthetic one with fw on the other end, so nothing reaches it that fw did not pass. Since the stack no longer has ethernet, fw answers ARP for the address it stands in for. The third serves a filtered /net and matches connect and announce before they reach the kernel, so a refusal comes back out of dial(2) with a reason. That is only a boundary if the program also loses #I, which /dev/drivers does and cannot be undone; fw.rc does it in the right order. Rules are ndb, matched top to bottom, first match wins, no match denies. Connections are tracked, so permitting traffic one way permits the replies. A rule change drops connections the new rules forbid rather than letting them finish: a block blocks. Logging is per rule, to /sys/log/fw. Tested on the init-test VM in all three modes: a page fetched through a real card, a TCP handshake across two networks, request filtering with the escape routes closed, live rule changes killing established connections, and one rule file working unchanged at both altitudes. doc/todo.md has what is not done. Item 1 is the one that matters: a fw that dies takes the card's address with it, so the machine loses its network and fw cannot restart unaided. That also blocks svc supervision. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>