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moq_native/
watch.rs

1//! Watch on-disk TLS certificates, keys, and root CAs for rotation.
2
3use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
4
5use notify::Watcher;
6use tokio::sync::mpsc;
7
8/// Watches a set of files and resolves whenever something changes in their
9/// directories.
10///
11/// Reacting to the filesystem (rather than a SIGHUP/SIGUSR1) is what lets
12/// cert-manager, Kubernetes secret mounts, and `mv`-into-place rotate files with
13/// no extra signalling: they rewrite the file and the watcher fires.
14///
15/// Watches each file's *parent directory*, not the file itself. Editors,
16/// cert-manager, and K8s secret mounts replace files by atomic rename or symlink
17/// swap, which changes the inode (and, for the K8s `..data` symlink, fires on the
18/// directory without ever naming the file), so a watch set directly on the path
19/// would be missed.
20pub struct FileWatcher {
21	// Holds the OS watcher alive; dropping it stops events.
22	_watcher: notify::RecommendedWatcher,
23	events: mpsc::Receiver<()>,
24}
25
26impl FileWatcher {
27	/// Start watching the parent directories of `paths`. Errors if the OS watcher
28	/// can't be created or a directory can't be watched (e.g. the inotify
29	/// instance/watch limit is hit). `notify` already falls back to a built-in
30	/// poll watcher on platforms without a native backend, so there's no manual
31	/// polling here.
32	pub fn new(paths: &[PathBuf]) -> notify::Result<Self> {
33		// A capacity-1 channel of unit wakeups coalesces the burst of raw events
34		// notify emits per change (and any unrelated churn in the directory): a
35		// full buffer already has a pending wakeup, so extra sends are dropped.
36		let (tx, rx) = mpsc::channel(1);
37		let watcher = callback(paths, move || {
38			let _ = tx.try_send(());
39		})?;
40
41		Ok(Self {
42			_watcher: watcher,
43			events: rx,
44		})
45	}
46
47	/// Resolve once the OS reports activity in a watched directory. The caller
48	/// reloads on return; reloads are idempotent, so the coarse "something
49	/// changed" granularity at worst costs an occasional redundant reload.
50	pub async fn changed(&mut self) {
51		// The sender lives inside `_watcher`, which we hold for `&mut self`, so the
52		// channel can't be closed here.
53		self.events
54			.recv()
55			.await
56			.expect("file watcher channel closed unexpectedly");
57	}
58}
59
60/// Watch `paths` and invoke `changed` after a write or atomic replacement.
61///
62/// The callback runs on notify's worker thread, so it must finish promptly.
63pub(crate) fn callback(
64	paths: &[PathBuf],
65	mut changed: impl FnMut() + Send + 'static,
66) -> notify::Result<notify::RecommendedWatcher> {
67	let mut watcher = notify::recommended_watcher(move |res: notify::Result<notify::Event>| {
68		let reload = match res {
69			Ok(event) => is_reload_trigger(&event.kind),
70			// A watcher error (e.g. inotify queue overflow) may mean we missed a
71			// real change, so reload to be safe.
72			Err(_) => true,
73		};
74		if reload {
75			changed();
76		}
77	})?;
78
79	// Watch each distinct parent directory once. A bare filename like
80	// `cert.pem` has an empty-string parent (`Some("")`, not `None`), which the
81	// OS watcher rejects with "No path was found", so map that to the current
82	// directory.
83	let mut dirs: Vec<&Path> = paths
84		.iter()
85		.filter_map(|p| p.parent())
86		.map(|p| if p.as_os_str().is_empty() { Path::new(".") } else { p })
87		.collect();
88	dirs.sort_unstable();
89	dirs.dedup();
90	for dir in dirs {
91		watcher.watch(dir, notify::RecursiveMode::NonRecursive)?;
92	}
93
94	Ok(watcher)
95}
96
97/// Whether a raw notify event reflects a real change that should trigger a reload.
98///
99/// The reload path opens and reads the watched files, and notify's inotify backend
100/// reports IN_OPEN/IN_ACCESS for those reads. Treating them as changes makes a reload
101/// re-trigger itself in a tight loop (a ~400/sec storm that starved TLS handshakes in
102/// production), so we react only to events that can mean new cert bytes: a create, a
103/// modify/rename, or a finished write (IN_CLOSE_WRITE).
104fn is_reload_trigger(kind: &notify::EventKind) -> bool {
105	use notify::EventKind;
106	use notify::event::{AccessKind, AccessMode};
107	match kind {
108		// A finished write is the only access event that signals new content. The
109		// reload opens and reads these files itself (and other processes may read them
110		// too), so open/read/close-without-write must be ignored or it loops forever.
111		EventKind::Access(AccessKind::Close(AccessMode::Write)) => true,
112		EventKind::Access(_) => false,
113		// Rotations arrive as a create or a modify/rename: cert-manager and
114		// mv-into-place rename over the file, the K8s `..data` symlink swap fires a
115		// directory rename, and in-place rewrites modify the data.
116		EventKind::Create(_) | EventKind::Modify(_) => true,
117		// A bare removal leaves nothing to load (wait for the replacement's create),
118		// and Any/Other are unclassified noise we don't act on.
119		_ => false,
120	}
121}
122
123#[cfg(test)]
124mod tests {
125	use super::*;
126
127	// A bare filename has a `Some("")` parent; watching "" is rejected by the OS
128	// watcher, so `new` must fall back to the current directory rather than error.
129	#[test]
130	fn bare_filename_watches_current_dir() {
131		FileWatcher::new(&[PathBuf::from("cert.pem"), PathBuf::from("key.pem")])
132			.expect("bare filenames should watch the current directory");
133	}
134
135	// The reload reads its own files; reads and bare removals must not re-trigger it.
136	#[test]
137	fn ignored_events_do_not_trigger_reload() {
138		use notify::EventKind;
139		use notify::event::{AccessKind, AccessMode, RemoveKind};
140		assert!(!is_reload_trigger(&EventKind::Access(AccessKind::Read)));
141		assert!(!is_reload_trigger(&EventKind::Access(AccessKind::Open(
142			AccessMode::Read
143		))));
144		assert!(!is_reload_trigger(&EventKind::Access(AccessKind::Open(
145			AccessMode::Any
146		))));
147		assert!(!is_reload_trigger(&EventKind::Access(AccessKind::Close(
148			AccessMode::Read
149		))));
150		assert!(!is_reload_trigger(&EventKind::Remove(RemoveKind::Any)));
151	}
152
153	// A finished write, a create, and a modify/rename are real rotations.
154	#[test]
155	fn writes_and_rotations_trigger_reload() {
156		use notify::EventKind;
157		use notify::event::{AccessKind, AccessMode, CreateKind, ModifyKind};
158		assert!(is_reload_trigger(&EventKind::Access(AccessKind::Close(
159			AccessMode::Write
160		))));
161		assert!(is_reload_trigger(&EventKind::Create(CreateKind::Any)));
162		assert!(is_reload_trigger(&EventKind::Modify(ModifyKind::Any)));
163	}
164}