* Announce the deprecation of ca-derivations and various other features
as planned initially.
* Fixes papercuts in 2.93.0 (SSH connections).
* Fixes the curl download bug for non-Nixpkgs users.
* Fixes CVE-2025-46415, CVE-2025-46416, CVE-2025-52991, CVE-2025-52992,
and CVE-2025-52993.
Change-Id: I8f700396a5ac57d2a1832833f83c22645c73697d
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
When a build fails, its scratch output paths are not cleaned up.
Until recently, this was deemed not a problem but as part of the effort
to harden the Nix builds and protect these paths against being part of a
staged attack (race conditions, etc.), we automatically cleanup after
failed builds.
Fixes CVE-2025-52992.
Change-Id: I58481b1cc83826298b9d80d37fecf81f117ccb09
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
if a build directory is accessible to other users it is possible to
smuggle data in and out of build directories. usually this ins only
a build purity problem, but in combination with other issues it can
be used to break out of a build sandbox. to prevent this we default
to using a subdirectory of nixStateDir (which is more restrictive).
Fixes CVE-2025-52991.
Change-Id: Iacfc9b50534de158618c815f9fb99d7dae1be4d0
This allows using a userspace program, pasta, to handle comms between
the build sandbox, and the outside world; allowing for full isolation
including the network namespace, closing the "fixed-output derivation
talks to the host over an abstract domain socket" hole for good.
Fixes CVE-2025-46416.
Co-Authored-By: Puck Meerburg <puck@puckipedia.com>
Change-Id: Ifd499b7dbb3784600a6e842fede65fc031ff9f15
When calling `_deletePath` with a parent file descriptor, `openat` is
made effective by using relative paths to the directory file descriptor.
To avoid the problem, the signature is changed to resist misuse with an
assert in the prologue of the function.
Fixes CVE-2025-46415.
Change-Id: I6b3fc766bad2afe54dc27d47d1df3873e188de96
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
This ensures that `passAsFile` data is created inside the expected
temporary build directory by `openat()` from the parent directory file
descriptor.
Fixes CVE-2025-52993.
Change-Id: Ie5273446c4a19403088d0389ae8e3f473af8879a
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
`writeFile` lose its `sync` boolean flag to make things simpler.
A new `writeFileAndSync` function is created and all call sites are
converted to it.
Change-Id: Ib871a5283a9c047db1e4fe48a241506e4aab9192
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
We use it immediately for the build temporary directory.
Change-Id: I180193c63a2b98721f5fb8e542c4e39c099bb947
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
We now keep around a proper AutoCloseFD around the temporary directory
which we plan to use for openat operations and avoiding the build
directory being swapped out while we are doing something else.
Change-Id: I18d387b0f123ebf2d20c6405cd47ebadc5505f2a
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
This is useful for certain error recovery paths (no pun intended) that
does not thread through the original path name.
Change-Id: I2d800740cb4f9912e64c923120d3f977c58ccb7e
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
We upgrade to 25.05 release, which contains the curl commit
https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/5fbd78eb2dc4afbd8884e8eed27147fc3d4318f6
done in
https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/396200#issuecomment-2795944006.
This fixes HTTP transfers generating arbitrary errors and possibly
failing unusually.
Users who are already depending on 25.05-small or a recent unstable
already had the fix.
Special mention to the Linux kernel who gave me the opportunity to get
on a 24 hours bisection side quest to fix the local release engineering
test.
Special thanks to everyone who had to endure me ranting.
Change-Id: I866caf65d5ea103f1fa5eccd57df8031c9eacda0
Co-authored-by: eldritch horrors <pennae@lix.systems>
Co-authored-by: helle <helle@h3l.li>
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
(cherry picked from commit 1e34c37477)
Due to https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/832 , Lix 2.93.0
fails to build on Darwin without overrides. Until the root cause has
been determined and fixed, build without LTO.
Change-Id: I4db5eb294d8f19e5a366b1e19efa5a327b3e2e78
(cherry picked from commit da94e860dd)
it's an eval-time only setting, the daemon doesn't use it anywhere. this
is a hack, but until we have a much better settings system we are stuck.
fixes#680
Change-Id: I532088b0279f13da0a0a65c2bd2e5f9d1dfb39da
(cherry picked from commit 5917db84aa)
ca derivations are what we're really after, but dynamic derivations
must also go because they depend on ca derivations. we can't easily
implement dynamic derivations any other way, so we remove them too.
impure derivations build on the content-addressed infrastructure in
ways we cannot easily detangle, so they too must go for time being.
see #815
Change-Id: If61371736dfd89cc71a1b2ae5a005757c3cb9484
(cherry picked from commit d8e2f53d07)
The first auto-GC request would not be registered as a waiter due to a logic
error. As a result, if that request was synchronous (as happens during
evaluation) it would be stuck forever waiting on a promise that will never be
fulfilled.
Register also the first request properly so that it is notified and unblocked
again when the GC has finished. Also add a test verifying that auto-GC
triggering during evaluation will not get stuck.
Fixes: https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/844
Change-Id: I157afdc737415261e48d6d01d46c586a2927a1ad
(cherry picked from commit 4505bfac8e)
The pre-flight `echo started` check over SSH was originally added in
577ebeaefb. As it is usual with these old
commits, understanding why is there a need for something is difficult.
The closest thing would be
> Fix a race starting the SSH master. We now wait synchronously for
> the SSH master to finish starting. This prevents the SSH clients
> from starting their own connections.
But, we removed SSH connection sharing, so this does not apply anymore.
Nonetheless, we believed this check was meant as a way to catch obvious
misconfigurations or SSH failures early, before handing off to
`nix-store`. However, this approach was not fruitful: it assumes the
remote has a `bash`-compatible shell, `echo` behaves in a standard way,
and no `ForceCommand` interferes—all of which are unreliable assumptions
in practice.
While the intent was to provide slightly better diagnostics (e.g. in
case of SSH hanging or returning an interactive shell), in practice it
does not meaningfully catch or improve real failure cases. The
underlying protocol or engine can and should handle those errors more
robustly anyway.
In contrast, this check *does* break several legitimate workflows,
including:
* remote builders using `ForceCommand` wrappers (e.g.
`nix-remote-build`-style setups), see
<https://discourse.nixos.org/t/wrapper-to-restrict-builder-access-through-ssh-worth-upstreaming/25834/15>,
* SSHing into minimal environments lacking `bash` (e.g. initrd,
busybox-based systems),
* configurations that don’t default to POSIX-like shells, e.g., nushell
enthusiasts.
As such, we’re removing this code. Protocol mismatch errors and SSH
failures can be rethought and handled more structurally elsewhere in the
engine.
Change-Id: I187f6881375d42ef83987a13a350c97964bbdb30
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
(cherry picked from commit 0dd8bf6c1c)
This merge commit returns to the previous state prior to the release but leaves the tag in the branch history.
Release created with releng/create_release.xsh
Change-Id: I67db1020490da19f5cf35b04b9ccfe47cfe829d1
From time to time, our KVM's CI machine clock goes in a weird direction
during NixOS tests, this is known on certain hardware, e.g. macOS, where
the check is disabled. Cap'n'Proto removed the check everywhere now.
Fixes fj#754.
We can remove the patch once it hits a stable version of Cap'n'Proto.
Change-Id: I4c9be5061c3b244f601486a8ac4521dff44ceb92
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
this can be extremely distracting when running in a repl that has access
to all of nixpkgs from its static env. not only do we print all bindings
in the stack trace, we also print them *again* every time we enter *any*
but the outermost frames. duplicating this environment information isn't
all that useful and mostly just flushes useful information out of sight.
fixes#816
Change-Id: I027e6a565e82663275e21333bb1d00d498cd4127
This takes the first baby steps towards resolving #765. This first
test/workflow isn't the most useful thing ever, because it doesn't
test the code path for building the manual. Still, it does a decent job
at testing the basic git workflow, and the upload functionality.
Change-Id: I16dd3a39addd6308ad3eb37c2e3dc3466584a4e3
This allows debugging the errors by pinpointing the offenders, instead
of trying to blindly guess what could have possibly gone wrong.
The wording has been improved to better explain the failure.
Closes#530
Co-authored-by: Ben Millwood <thebenmachine+git@gmail.com>
Change-Id: I84ba5d2d81e5d1867f53bd3bc80e615cab9fe274
This makes it easier to read and copy/paste the contents when preparing
a Lix release blog post.
The output can be read in
`build/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next-generated.md`.
Before:
## Breaking changes
- Release note 1
Many thanks to ...
- Release note 2
Many thanks to ...
## Fixes
- Release note 3
Many thanks to ...
After:
## Breaking changes
- Release note 1
Many thanks to ...
- Release note 2
Many thanks to ...
## Fixes
- Release note 3
Many thanks to ...
Change-Id: Ifea5af1bdce7b2315f3b46c17ebb945e99cfb36f
separating the nix fixture from the __init__.py file to increase
readability and overview over the existing fixtures
Change-Id: I7a86cb729942e83a95b9eabbb09563822f3f9e54
When I read the note, I wasn't sure what was meant by connection
sharing. This adds a reference to SSH documentation for clarity.
Change-Id: I1d6e5c53fb6a6fac8380210967f56d86f0333e55
Fixes missing include compilation errors.
Boost is included from lix/libutil/result.hh,
libarchive is included from lix/libutil/tarfile.hh
Change-Id: Id0000000e01fc695545d7ef83589ab7c41a92b61
These are updates to several links in the documentation that are not
currently pointing to existing anchors in the documentation, these were
found using the unfinished version of the mdbook-linkchecker we are
working on.
Fixes include pointing them to the correct anchor, inserting anchors (in
updated html5 style, though debatable) and in the case of the historical
release notes, removing them, fixing #809.
Change-Id: If4ef89dc89506aa131a764312d97a86179ccd6f5
This was an absolute nightmare to diagnose. It turns out there's a
kernel bug: poll with events = POLLHUP will receive an event for NOT
POLLHUP internally in the kernel, delete their event subscription, and
then not receive events for any HUP later. lol! lmao!!
We choose to use plain old EVFILT_READ because the watched fd can be
either a socket or a pipe and it's preferable to eat some spurious
wakeups than have separate paths for those. The alternative is using
EVFILT_SOCK, a private API that's existed for years and which netty
uses for its sockets, but that doesn't work on pipes.
Fixes: https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/729
Change-Id: If72b5d7a39f00320a9acccdbe81121cdb1a04c45
this way we don't have to even check whether we need a debug frame when
the debugger isn't enabled. not doing this gives us an eval performance
improvement of roughly 7% on nixos system eval and 2% for `nix search`.
Change-Id: I1cdad3de61f865ea54d6e09d63a281688e828768
Raito Bezarius