wire/reception.rs
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4// Copyright (c) 2026 2youg1 and the sprawling contributors
5
6//! Every judgement the process boundary makes, as pure functions with
7//! exhaustive verdicts.
8//!
9//! Five questions, asked in five different places and answered here:
10//! may this address be bound at all and which face does it then present,
11//! may this peer put a credential in the vault, may this peer's opening
12//! frame be accepted, what does a frame mean in the state the session is
13//! in, and which records must a session tell the peer it lost. None of
14//! them touches a socket, a clock or a file, so all five are tested by
15//! calling them.
16//!
17//! **This is the thick half of the Humble Object** the listener is
18//! built as (ARCHITECTURE section 9). `wire::server` is declared an
19//! adapter — "thin, no policy" — and policy is what these functions
20//! are; a shell that also holds the rules it applies has no way to show
21//! that it applies all of them. Every branch left in the shell is a
22//! send, a receive, or the end of a session.
23//!
24//! Binding is loopback by default, and the face that comes back from
25//! [`decide_bind`] carries the credential it demands: a listener
26//! reachable beyond this machine refuses to start without one, and no
27//! shell can be built with an exposed face that demands nothing.
28
29mod admission;
30pub(crate) mod inbound;
31
32pub use admission::{Admission, Door, decide_admission, offered_pairing};
33
34use std::net::SocketAddr;
35
36use kernel::{Address, AxCode, AxError, B3Hash, Seq};
37
38use crate::auth;
39use crate::command::WireCommand;
40use crate::frames::{
41 Ask, ClientFrame, Hello, Lagged, Monitoring, WIRE_V, Watched, Welcome, schema_hash,
42};
43
44/// Which face the listener presents, and the credential it demands.
45///
46/// **The digest travels inside the exposed face rather than beside it.**
47/// A listener reachable beyond this machine with no credential is not a
48/// state this type can hold, and [`decide_bind`] is the only producer of
49/// one: it refuses that configuration before the socket exists. A
50/// `token_configured: bool` argument said the same thing and left every
51/// shell free to disagree with the verdict it was handed.
52#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
53pub enum BindFace {
54 /// Reachable from this machine only. A token may still be configured - a
55 /// person set one on a city they serve to nobody - and the doors then
56 /// demand it exactly as the exposed face does.
57 Loopback { token: Option<B3Hash> },
58 /// Reachable from elsewhere, and never served without a credential.
59 Exposed { token: B3Hash },
60}
61
62impl BindFace {
63 /// The digest this face demands of every caller. `None` only on the
64 /// loopback face of a city nobody configured a token for.
65 #[must_use]
66 pub fn token_digest(&self) -> Option<&B3Hash> {
67 match self {
68 BindFace::Loopback { token } => token.as_ref(),
69 BindFace::Exposed { token } => Some(token),
70 }
71 }
72}
73
74/// The whole of the binding policy.
75#[derive(Debug)]
76pub enum BindVerdict {
77 Serve(BindFace),
78 Refuse(AxError),
79}
80
81/// Decides whether the listener may bind `addr`, and which face it then
82/// presents.
83///
84/// Pure. Four cells, one of which refuses: an address reachable from outside
85/// this machine with no pairing token configured. The refusal happens before
86/// the socket exists, so there is no window in which the port is open and
87/// unauthenticated - and the credential the exposed face demands comes back
88/// inside the verdict, so there is no second way to learn it.
89#[must_use]
90pub fn decide_bind(addr: &SocketAddr, token: Option<B3Hash>) -> BindVerdict {
91 if addr.ip().is_loopback() {
92 return BindVerdict::Serve(BindFace::Loopback { token });
93 }
94 match token {
95 Some(token) => BindVerdict::Serve(BindFace::Exposed { token }),
96 None => BindVerdict::Refuse(
97 AxError::failure(
98 AxCode::ConfigInvalid,
99 "bind the control surface",
100 format!(
101 "{addr} is reachable beyond this machine and no pairing token is configured"
102 ),
103 )
104 .with_recovery(
105 "configure a pairing token before exposing the port, or bind a loopback address",
106 ),
107 ),
108 }
109}
110/// Whether one peer may enrol a credential.
111#[derive(Debug)]
112pub enum EnrollVerdict {
113 Accept,
114 Refuse(AxError),
115}
116
117/// Decides whether `peer` may put plaintext into this machine's vault.
118///
119/// Pure, and the whole of the policy: only a caller on this machine may.
120/// A pairing token is not enough, because a token authenticates a person
121/// and this rule is about where the bytes travel. The design's guarantee
122/// is that a credential cannot be enrolled remotely at all - the socket
123/// half is type-level (`PutSecret` has no wire form), and this is the
124/// HTTP half, which needs a runtime check because bytes can always be
125/// posted at a route.
126#[must_use]
127pub fn decide_enroll(peer: &SocketAddr) -> EnrollVerdict {
128 // A `[::]` listener on Linux and macOS reports a local IPv4 caller as
129 // `::ffff:127.0.0.1`, which is the same machine.
130 if peer.ip().to_canonical().is_loopback() {
131 return EnrollVerdict::Accept;
132 }
133 EnrollVerdict::Refuse(
134 AxError::failure(
135 AxCode::GateDenied,
136 "enrol a credential",
137 format!("{peer} is not on this machine"),
138 )
139 .with_recovery(
140 "enrol the credential from the machine running sprawling; a tunnelled session can \
141 use it afterwards but cannot deliver it",
142 ),
143 )
144}
145
146/// The verdict on one peer's opening frame.
147#[derive(Debug)]
148pub enum HandshakeVerdict {
149 Accept,
150 Reject(AxError),
151}
152
153/// Decides whether to accept a peer.
154///
155/// Order is deliberate: protocol agreement is settled before credentials.
156/// A browser holding a cached older client is the common case and deserves
157/// "refresh", not "wrong password". Pure - `expected` and `face` are
158/// parameters, never read from ambient state.
159///
160/// The credential a caller must present is the face's, which means an
161/// exposed face cannot be served without one: [`BindFace::Exposed`] holds
162/// the digest, and there is no other way to reach this function.
163///
164/// The digest is a digest, not the token. This crate never holds the
165/// plaintext of a pairing token: the side that owns the token digests it
166/// once, and the boundary compares digests. That keeps credential exposure
167/// at the redemption points where it is audited, and it costs nothing here
168/// because the comparison hashes both sides anyway.
169#[must_use]
170pub fn decide_handshake(hello: &Hello, expected: &Welcome, face: &BindFace) -> HandshakeVerdict {
171 if hello.wire_v != expected.wire_v || hello.schema != expected.schema {
172 return HandshakeVerdict::Reject(
173 AxError::failure(
174 AxCode::WireMismatch,
175 "accept a client connection",
176 format!(
177 "client speaks wire v{} and this server speaks v{}",
178 hello.wire_v, expected.wire_v
179 ),
180 )
181 .with_recovery("reload the page to fetch the client this server was built with"),
182 );
183 }
184 let Some(expected_digest) = face.token_digest() else {
185 return HandshakeVerdict::Accept;
186 };
187 if auth::verify(hello.token.as_deref(), expected_digest) {
188 return HandshakeVerdict::Accept;
189 }
190 HandshakeVerdict::Reject(
191 AxError::failure(
192 AxCode::ConfigInvalid,
193 "accept a client connection",
194 "the pairing token does not match",
195 )
196 .with_recovery("re-enter the pairing code shown on the host machine"),
197 )
198}
199/// How far a socket session has got. Two states, because there are two:
200/// a peer that has not identified itself, and one that has.
201#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
202pub enum SessionState {
203 AwaitingHello,
204 Live,
205}
206
207/// What the shell does with one client frame. Exhaustive: a new frame
208/// kind has to be answered here rather than falling through to silence.
209#[derive(Debug)]
210pub enum SessionStep {
211 /// Answer with this welcome and move to [`SessionState::Live`].
212 Welcome(Box<Welcome>),
213 /// Hand this command to the sink.
214 Deliver(Box<WireCommand>),
215 /// Evaluate this question and answer it under its own number.
216 Answer(Box<Ask>),
217 /// Count this session as watching the monitor and send it readings.
218 Watch(Watched),
219 /// Stop counting this session and stop sending it readings.
220 Release,
221 /// Sample the monitor at this beat, for every session of this city.
222 Beat(crate::BeatMs),
223 /// Send this refusal; `close` ends the session afterwards.
224 Refuse { error: Box<AxError>, close: bool },
225}
226
227/// What a welcome tells a peer about the city it reached: which city it
228/// is, the seq of the last record the city has broadcast, and which
229/// ledger it is. One value
230/// because the two travel together into every welcome.
231#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, Default, PartialEq, Eq)]
232pub struct WelcomeFacts<'a> {
233 pub city: Option<&'a Address>,
234 pub head: Option<Seq>,
235 pub epoch: Option<B3Hash>,
236}
237
238/// The whole session policy, as a pure function: which frames are legal
239/// when, and what a mismatch does. Tested without a socket, for the same
240/// reason [`decide_bind`] is.
241///
242/// A command that arrives before the hello is refused rather than queued:
243/// the peer has not yet shown that it speaks this wire, and running work
244/// for it would be trusting a stranger's first sentence.
245#[must_use]
246pub fn decide_frame(
247 state: SessionState,
248 frame: ClientFrame,
249 face: &BindFace,
250 standing: WelcomeFacts<'_>,
251) -> SessionStep {
252 let expected = Welcome {
253 wire_v: WIRE_V,
254 schema: schema_hash(),
255 resume_from: standing.head,
256 city: standing.city.cloned(),
257 epoch: standing.epoch,
258 };
259 match (state, frame) {
260 (SessionState::AwaitingHello, ClientFrame::Hello(hello)) => {
261 match decide_handshake(&hello, &expected, face) {
262 HandshakeVerdict::Accept => SessionStep::Welcome(Box::new(expected)),
263 HandshakeVerdict::Reject(error) => SessionStep::Refuse {
264 error: Box::new(error),
265 close: true,
266 },
267 }
268 }
269 (SessionState::AwaitingHello, _) => SessionStep::Refuse {
270 error: Box::new(
271 AxError::failure(
272 AxCode::WireMismatch,
273 "accept a client frame",
274 "the session has not been opened with a hello",
275 )
276 .with_recovery("send hello first; reload the page if the client did not"),
277 ),
278 close: true,
279 },
280 (SessionState::Live, ClientFrame::Command(command)) => SessionStep::Deliver(command),
281 (SessionState::Live, ClientFrame::Ask(ask)) => SessionStep::Answer(Box::new(ask)),
282 (SessionState::Live, ClientFrame::Monitor(Monitoring::Watch)) => {
283 SessionStep::Watch(Watched::Everything)
284 }
285 (SessionState::Live, ClientFrame::Monitor(Monitoring::WatchSummary)) => {
286 SessionStep::Watch(Watched::Summary)
287 }
288 (SessionState::Live, ClientFrame::Monitor(Monitoring::Release)) => SessionStep::Release,
289 (SessionState::Live, ClientFrame::Monitor(Monitoring::Beat(beat))) => {
290 SessionStep::Beat(beat)
291 }
292 (SessionState::Live, ClientFrame::Hello(_)) => SessionStep::Refuse {
293 error: Box::new(
294 AxError::failure(
295 AxCode::WireMismatch,
296 "accept a client frame",
297 "this session is already open",
298 )
299 .with_recovery("open a second connection instead of re-greeting on this one"),
300 ),
301 close: false,
302 },
303 }
304}
305
306/// The range of ledger records a session must name when its event stream
307/// skipped some.
308///
309/// `delivered` is the last record this session sent the peer, or `None`
310/// when it has sent none; `next` is the first record to arrive after the
311/// gap. Pure, and the whole of the rule. The count a lagged subscription
312/// reports says how many messages were skipped and neither endpoint, which
313/// is why both ends are derived from records this session can name - and
314/// why the far end is only knowable here, at the record that ends the gap.
315///
316/// `None` when there is no gap to state: nothing was skipped before
317/// `next`, which happens when `next` is the record `delivered` already
318/// named or when it is the first record there is. A sequence number that
319/// cannot be stepped returns `None` for the same reason and is a case a
320/// ledger which produced `next` cannot reach.
321#[must_use]
322pub(crate) fn decide_lag(delivered: Option<Seq>, next: Seq) -> Option<Lagged> {
323 let from = match delivered {
324 Some(last) => last.value().checked_add(1).map(Seq::new),
325 // A session that has delivered nothing has shown the peer no
326 // stream, so the gap relative to it starts at the first record
327 // the city ever wrote.
328 None => Some(Seq::FIRST),
329 };
330 let to = next.value().checked_sub(1).map(Seq::new);
331 match (from, to) {
332 (Some(from), Some(to)) if to >= from => Some(Lagged { from, to }),
333 _ => None,
334 }
335}
336
337/// What a session owes the peer about the event stream.
338///
339/// Two facts that belong together: the last record this session delivered,
340/// and whether the stream skipped past it since. They travel as one value
341/// because every other combination is meaningless - a session that owes a
342/// range has a delivery to name the near end of it, and one that owes none
343/// has said everything it holds. The rule lives here rather than in the
344/// shell for the reason every other judgement does: it is testable without
345/// a socket.
346#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
347pub(crate) enum Stream {
348 /// The peer holds every record this session sent it.
349 Even(Option<Seq>),
350 /// The stream skipped records, and the next one to arrive names the far
351 /// end of what was skipped. The payload is the last delivery.
352 Owed(Option<Seq>),
353}
354
355impl Stream {
356 /// A session that has delivered nothing and owes nothing, which is how
357 /// every session starts.
358 pub(crate) const fn opening() -> Stream {
359 Stream::Even(None)
360 }
361
362 /// The record this session last delivered, from either state.
363 #[must_use]
364 pub(crate) fn delivered(self) -> Option<Seq> {
365 match self {
366 Stream::Even(delivered) | Stream::Owed(delivered) => delivered,
367 }
368 }
369
370 /// The state a skip leaves behind. A session that has not been
371 /// welcomed has shown the peer no stream to measure a gap against - its
372 /// view begins at the welcome, and what a page needs of what came
373 /// before is a question rather than a frame - so it owes nothing.
374 #[must_use]
375 pub(crate) fn skipped(self, live: bool) -> Stream {
376 if live {
377 Stream::Owed(self.delivered())
378 } else {
379 self
380 }
381 }
382
383 /// What to say before sending `next`, and the state that sending it
384 /// leaves behind. The far end of a skipped range is only knowable at
385 /// the record that ends it.
386 #[must_use]
387 pub(crate) fn before(self, next: Seq) -> (Option<Lagged>, Stream) {
388 let lag = match self {
389 // A record that never reached the broadcast leaves only a gap
390 // in `seq`; before anything was delivered there is no gap.
391 Stream::Even(None) => None,
392 Stream::Even(delivered @ Some(_)) | Stream::Owed(delivered) => {
393 decide_lag(delivered, next)
394 }
395 };
396 (lag, Stream::Even(Some(next)))
397 }
398}
399#[cfg(test)]
400#[allow(
401 clippy::unwrap_used,
402 clippy::expect_used,
403 clippy::panic,
404 clippy::indexing_slicing,
405 reason = "test code"
406)]
407mod tests;