Closes#932
`connect-timeout` gets replaced by an exponential backoff for the
download timeout where the initial value is controlled by the setting
`initial-connect-timeout`.
Per iteration, the upper limit of the timeout is increased set to
timeout := min(max_connect_timeout, initial_connect_timeout * 2^i)
I decided to move the entire timeout / tracking of attempts into its own
class to not make the filetransfer implementation more complex. Also,
that allows us to write unit-tests for it.
Setting `--download-attempts` to `0` is forbidden now and an exception
will be thrown. For `--offline` we set it to `1`, the behavior is
equivalent to what it was before: whether the max tries were exceeded is
only checked after the first download exception got thrown, i.e. there's
still one attempt being made.
The end-result - with timeouts being caused by a wrongly set proxy -
looks like this:
$ env HTTPS_PROXY=1.1.1.1 nix store ping --store https://example.com
warning: error: unable to download 'https://example.com/nix-cache-info': Connection timed out after 5006 milliseconds (curl error code=28); retrying in 422ms ms (attempt 1/5)
warning: error: unable to download 'https://example.com/nix-cache-info': Connection timed out after 10010 milliseconds (curl error code=28); retrying in 1003ms ms (attempt 2/5)
warning: error: unable to download 'https://example.com/nix-cache-info': Connection timed out after 20020 milliseconds (curl error code=28); retrying in 2018ms ms (attempt 3/5)
warning: error: unable to download 'https://example.com/nix-cache-info': Connection timed out after 40007 milliseconds (curl error code=28); retrying in 4087ms ms (attempt 4/5)
error: unable to download 'https://example.com/nix-cache-info': Connection timed out after 80074 milliseconds (curl error code=28)
Change-Id: I9e8d08d78275bcf60080d663febc9e075243d36b
Concept: what if you could, in your fancy terminal, in the year of our
lord 2025, just click on the attrs you're looking at to go to where
they're defined. Currently we only expose this info as
builtins.unsafeGetAttrPos, which is inconvenient as it's not
discoverable to users.
By putting it in this more visible yet invisible spot, it's more likely
to be more useful to more people.
In the current state, this is not the most useful ever due to stuff like
https://github.com/neovim/neovim/discussions/35097. However, it can be
expanded by perhaps adding something like the url format setting ripgrep
has.
Change-Id: I3947f97d5c2056d59099af468d7b855486438227
See [my comment] on the Nix PR to restore the previous behaviour
for why I believe we should remove this for the next release. The PR
should still be backported to stable releases to avoid making breaking
changes to their semantics.
[my comment]: <https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/13741#issuecomment-3180851635>
Fixing this across supported Lix versions is required for Nixpkgs to
update toml11, which is a blocker for the CMake 4 update.
Change-Id: I6a6a69642e6b6cb13a9fccc0778e9158b53102d5
This version changes the handling of TOML timestamps, and throws an
error on out‐of‐range integer literals rather than the previous
saturating behaviour, as required by [the TOML v1.0.0 specification]:
> Arbitrary 64-bit signed integers (from −2^63 to 2^63−1) should be
> accepted and handled losslessly. If an integer cannot be represented
> losslessly, an error must be thrown.
[the TOML v1.0.0 specification]: <https://toml.io/en/v1.0.0#integer>
The only known use of this is a questionable Nixpkgs test that I have
proposed [a fix] for.
[a fix]: <https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/433710>
Bumping this ahead of Nixpkgs ensures we can test these cases on
HEAD in advance. I presume that the next Lix major version will be
released after 25.05 goes out of support, so it should be fine to
drop support for the old version of toml11.
The co‐authors of this commit are the contributors to the vendored
package definition from Nixpkgs.
Co-authored-by: Anderson Torres <torres.anderson.85@protonmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Artturin <Artturin@artturin.com>
Co-authored-by: Silvan Mosberger <silvan.mosberger@moduscreate.com>
Change-Id: I6a6a69644a188b6e09eee5c9cf91ddd3c81d24ee
JSON has only one numeric type, with vague semantics. [RFC 8259] says:
> This specification allows implementations to set limits on the range
> and precision of numbers accepted. Since software that implements
> IEEE 754 binary64 (double precision) numbers [IEEE754] is generally
> available and widely used, good interoperability can be achieved by
> implementations that expect no more precision or range than these
> provide, in the sense that implementations will approximate JSON
> numbers within the expected precision. A JSON number such as 1E400
> or 3.141592653589793238462643383279 may indicate potential
> interoperability problems, since it suggests that the software that
> created it expects receiving software to have greater capabilities
> for numeric magnitude and precision than is widely available.
>
> Note that when such software is used, numbers that are integers and
> are in the range [-(2**53)+1, (2**53)-1] are interoperable in the
> sense that implementations will agree exactly on their numeric
> values.
[RFC 8259]: <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8259.html#section-6>
Floating‐point numbers are annoying to deal with in Nix, so it
optimistically parses integer‐looking literals as Nix‐language
integers where possible. Nixpkgs relies on this behaviour, as it backs
its `lib.toInt` family of functions with `builtins.fromJSON` in lieu
of a real integer‐parsing built‐in, and treats floating‐point
outputs as an error. Therefore, dealing with integer‐looking
JSON number literals that are outside the interoperable range is
unavoidable.
However, this raises the question of how literals that look
like integers, but exceed the range of a Nix‐language integer,
should be handled. The JSON library we use attempts to represent
integer‐looking literals as a unsigned or signed C++ integer type
before falling back to floating‐point numbers.
This means that we were parsing literals below −2⁶³ as
floating‐point numbers, while rejecting ones above (2⁶³ + 1)
with an error. This was done to avoid the C++ undefined behaviour in
the previous code path, but is hard to justify. This change causes
them to both be parsed as floating‐point numbers.
The alternative would be to reject the signed case too. However,
I believe that is less consistent with how JSON handles its single
numeric type, less interoperable with JSON documents found in the wild,
and that it is preferable to avoid the function being needlessly
partial in this case. It does mean that round‐tripping is less
lossless than before, but extreme floating‐point values already
caused these kinds of issues, and from JSON’s point of view that’s
exactly what these literals represent. Only numeric values outside the
RFC’s suggested interoperable range will have any round‐tripping
issues, and we continue to guarantee the behaviour on all values that
can be represented as Nix‐language integers.
Change-Id: I6a6a696412383e8a2cc160397716cb7f7bc7a2d4
Snix's nar-bridge[1] stores NARs under a different URL, i.e.
`nar/snix-castore/<hash>.nar` rather than `nar/<filehash>.nar`. Right
now, when copying into such a store via the http binary-cache, we'd end
up with wrong cache entries that point to the wrong NAR URL.
On Hydra, this is a fatal error, i.e. builds that depend on previously
built paths (that were written to the cache before by the queue runner)
would be aborted because of that.
This patch removes the caching since we'd have to re-fetch the narinfo
to do taht and this can also happen the next time, the narinfo is
queried. Also, removes the negative cache entry indicating that the
store-path doesn't exist in the store.
We don't have any coverage for http-stores so far, so I wrote a small
testcase for the "default" case and the nar-bridge case in functional2
since it has a very nice fixture for an HTTP server ready. I'm aware
that there's a CL for a nicer cache server[2], but given I'm down a
pretty deep rabbit hole by playing around with Snix, I decided to not
finish the CL and write something small for the tests in here. This can
be replaced by the fixtures from that CL later on as well.
[1] https://snix.dev/docs/components/overview/#nar-bridge
[2] https://gerrit.lix.systems/c/lix/+/2431/1
Change-Id: I4fcdf47a6bf9c3c8fbeb235eeca7a48914a4d693
Notably, this adds the Requires.private required for proper static linkage of
Lix libraries. Some minor missing or duplicated dependencies are also fixed
along the way (although some optional dependencies are omitted due to their
size).
Fixes: https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/789
Change-Id: I6a6a696413d538124d9ac75c68f100cc3089284f
This is a collection of Lix plugins that showcase how to write one for
various usecases.
The first is a mTLS store plugin that enable mTLS cache URIs
(`https+mtls://`).
We enable meson build system support for this plugin but we are not
going to distribute it in the official packaging of Lix, we will
repackage each relevant plugin downstream in Nixpkgs.
These plugins have *NO* guarantee support, they are provided as useful
references and are possibly production-ready if your usecase is simple
enough.
Reference: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/13030 (this change has
resemblances but our APIs are different, the tests harness is mostly
from CppNix).
Change-Id: Ib354271981b35dff6c134b12c4748c3eaf743fcb
Co-authored-by: Jörg Thalheim <joerg@thalheim.io>
Co-authored-by: László Vaskó <1771332+vlaci@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
Historically, Nix would support copying certificate authorities inside
the sandbox so you could use them.
In addition to that, the primitives consisting of leaking environment
variables via `impureEnvVars` and `extra-sandbox-paths` to render paths
external to the sandbox visible to the builder would also constitute a
mechanism to expose special inodes which should have no influence on the
output result, e.g. interception CAs.
Unfortunately, in nixpkgs, `lib.fetchers.proxyImpureEnvVars` set
`NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE` as an impure environment variable.
A confused user may set `ssl-cert-file` via `NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE` outside the
builder believing that this will set magically the right
`NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE` inside the sandbox, but this is not true.
The combination of impure environment variables and setting `caFile`
creates a weird interaction where `NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE` points to an
"outside the builder's world" inode *AND* `ssl-cert-file` creates
this very same certificate file in /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
without rewriting the environment variable.
This footgun is closed by making these two features mutually
incompatible with a warning and forcibly rewriting the SSL family of
environment variables even if it was set via impure environment
variables.
Users who truly meant to use `impureEnvVars` can obtain the right
behavior by setting `ssl-cert-file` to an empty string and will have to use
`extra-sandbox-paths`.
Users who meant to use `ssl-cert-file` will have everything work
automatically with a warning hinting at nixpkgs *fixing its own bug*,
i.e. passing `NIX_SSL_CERT_FILE` as an impure environment variable and
expecting the Nix interpreter to magically reconcile the diverging
values or expecting the user to actually do the work to render the path
visible available via `extra-sandbox-paths`.
Fixes#885.
Change-Id: I32f8b5ce20fe9b6a911768114c92f95fc886cc07
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
jade: I rewrote this PR to be consistent between nix-instantiate and nix
eval. It turns out that nix eval *doesn't* copy to store with `--json`,
whereas nix-instantiate does. Wat.
Closes: https://github.com/lix-project/lix/pull/17
Co-authored-by: tyberiusprime <tyberiusprime@noreply.git.lix.systems>
Change-Id: Id22deec1cee0fed3bd5689567869b70bab26bae5
although we only chown if the build was requested by a local daemon
user. daemonless invocations will not chown as they do not have to.
remote builds *can* chown to the remote builder user, but that does
not seem to happen (for some reason keep-failed is not propagated).
Change-Id: Ic0ead406b38b4ca0556fec42d84888efa25123bf
Goals:
- Distribute reviews to people who can do the reviews
- Not prevent anything from getting done
- Allow giving away more commit access
Anti-goals:
- Silo people into particular areas
- Discourage contributing to any area
This was drafted by glancing at git logs. It is not likely to be very
accurate; the goal here is that we figure out a way to distribute
reviews to the right people.
Change-Id: I8be44bf7fdeca23da8099124eec7bc3a30e34627
Commits 205c59367c and
325e7e1824 introduced real glibc store paths from
current nixpkgs unstable into the source. Since nixpkgs `fetchFromGitea` (and
similar fixed-output derivations) depends on a C library, on x86_64-linux they
will fail with the forbidden reference error:
error: the fixed-output derivation '/nix/store/wnmnj3jzc82y89sfmyicr04kilg8zs2k-source.drv' must not reference store paths but 1 such references were found:
/nix/store/q4wq65gl3r8fy746v9bbwgx4gzn0r2kl-glibc-2.40-66
Falsify the store path to prevent this failure.
Change-Id: I949033567bcad070f9a0a19cefdb33a79222e421
Closes#334Closes#626
This is loosely based on upstream PR#10877[1], but heavily changed to
use the graph logic from `nix why-depends`.
`precise` is `false` here since the out-path of the drv being built
isn't registered yet, so the path accessor cannot scan through files
yet.
Example output (from an openssh build with `pcsclite.lib` & `glibc` in
`disallowedRequisites`):
error: output '/nix/store/hr8lmmjmd1jk6s3p5ymggyk4am7n2lmb-openssh-10.0p2' is not allowed to refer to the following paths:
/nix/store/p6r5awz3ywrz66symnrn0xb85xzmcysf-pcsclite-2.3.0-lib
/nix/store/q4wq65gl3r8fy746v9bbwgx4gzn0r2kl-glibc-2.40-66
Shown below are chains that lead to the forbidden path(s).
/nix/store/hr8lmmjmd1jk6s3p5ymggyk4am7n2lmb-openssh-10.0p2
└───/nix/store/ys91ywnwikm14xznwk3cdbprapv2m37z-libfido2-1.16.0
└───/nix/store/p6r5awz3ywrz66symnrn0xb85xzmcysf-pcsclite-2.3.0-lib
/nix/store/hr8lmmjmd1jk6s3p5ymggyk4am7n2lmb-openssh-10.0p2
├───/nix/store/q4wq65gl3r8fy746v9bbwgx4gzn0r2kl-glibc-2.40-66
├───/nix/store/6r4zqb04fq5l5l4zghq76wvcpz7dwd35-linux-pam-1.6.1
│ ├───/nix/store/q4wq65gl3r8fy746v9bbwgx4gzn0r2kl-glibc-2.40-66
[...]
[1] https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/10877
Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <robert@roberthensing.nl>
Change-Id: Ib30024c0d9e45c1160bf0134f7d3ba17dbdeff47
While working on the LocalDerivationGoal code, I realized that this
attribute is only set to `false`/`true` depending on whether
`__structuredAttrs` is `true`/`false`.
Change-Id: I53868cd32cedd7e25cb6233bd93bc01111b56a07
We missed xokdvium being author on cl/3300. This is something we
absolutely want to avoid.
We credit xokdvium in the RL and add a note on this problem.
Thanks to xokdvium for reaching out in private to us so we can repair
this mistake.
Change-Id: I094d0f95b6647104621d6b228e69a4529a300304
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
we must be crash-safe *anyway*, and being unable to interrupt lix if it
gets stuck somewhere that never calls checkInterrupt is really annoying
Change-Id: I7c40271c3da7e69d8735e22b7b7c4751b5306ab6
This results in anything that uses nixpkgs getting stopped in the
debugger inside of nixpkgs internals, which are usually irrelevant.
Let's default to the more useful option.
Fixes: https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/666
Change-Id: If4b94a3d488bfb2f634ee5a2bc195e7a4b5434a5
If `settings.buildDir` cannot be written to, because we are in a chroot
store, unprivileged or anything.
We can and should always gracefully fallback to a *secure* location
inside of /tmp, i.e. `/tmp/<a directory under 0700>/<our temporary
directory for build under 0700>/...`.
This does not reintroduce CVE-2025-52991 because we are creating a
directory in-between compared to creating only ONE level of directory.
Fixes#876.
Change-Id: Ie521202923f763225e1901ab1b9b6c6132aaf548
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
The reason this gets hit is because of the debugger in flakes. Otherwise
you never have a repl in pure mode anyway.
We evaluate the repl-overlay file in impure mode but this doesn't do
what one would initially expect.
Fixes: https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/777
Change-Id: I19b8ed2f5e9ce500b633b13301b42df69ab7deb3
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
Step two for #496.
The idea is to allow `nix-build --arg config.allowUnfree true` do the
right thing in the future. However, that's a breaking change since
people might be relying on the ability to set `"config.allowUnfree"` as
attribute-name when auto-calling a Nix-expression.
As a first step, a warning got introduced in 2.92, the next step is now
to reject this usage in 2.94 and await feedback if any so that we can do
the change in a future Lix release.
Change-Id: I6e38fafe26e234204f5bba2a3a4c1da10f80e5f2
we no longer use thread pools for querying missing derivations. this
binds queryMissing to a single thread for now, but query performance
is still greatly improved. we may want to optimize the store code in
the near future too though since queryMissing is now fully cpu bound
Change-Id: I08a9c8cc199963ef5981572ca4a32d90dbdec028
> The resource control configuration options are configured in the
> [Slice], [Scope], [Service], [Socket], [Mount], or [Swap] sections,
> depending on the unit type.
Reported by Worm on matrix.
Change-Id: I5f942b864e40bc461e8751cdf8337b1f8c2bbce4
Lowdown doesn't quite conform to CommonMark in parsing shortcut links
that are followed by a parenthesized expression, which looks like
`[link text] (unrelated text)`. CommonMark says the space there is
significant and ensures the `[link text]` is parsed as a shortcut link,
but Lowdown parses this like `[link text](unrelated text)`.
This fixes the output of `nix help`. The other case of a near-link was
in the `nix-env --install` docs, which don't get parsed by Lowdown, but
it turns out the link reference definition was missing. The generated
manpage stripped the brackets but the HTML manual page rendered the
broken link with brackets.
Change-Id: I6a6a69641fd2dbf9930bcd875ed21ea80fba909a
We offer full cgroup delegation to our sandbox now, required for running
containers inside the sandbox.
To run systemd-nspawn or containers managers inside the sandbox, there
is a need for one extra ingredient now: control over your own cgroup
subtree inside the sandbox.
If, in addition, you need multiple UIDs, for e.g. rootless usecases, you
need to run with the `uid-range` system feature.
Therefore, when the daemon or Nix runs under the right condition, e.g.
systemd-style delegation of the cgroup subtree while placing the
nix-daemon in a supervisor sub-cgroup, we create a new sub-cgroup for
each build based on the build UID and delegate that sub-cgroup to the
builder's process.
Additionally, `uid-range` always request the `cgroups` feature now, as
`uid-range` builds would probably always benefit from having cgroups
delegated, but the converse is not true.
Inspired from https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/11412 with a different
design that does not use function-local statics to derive the root
cgroup.
Co-authored-by: Linus Heckemann <git@sphalerite.org>
Co-authored-by: Parker Hoyes <contact@parkerhoyes.com>
Change-Id: Ic8947c5adaf4b5bbd153386e05fad65a935274fa
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
the old protocols are largely untested, mostly unused, and have design
problems that make the RPC transition a lot harder, if not impossible.
in theory we could ship a transparent protocol-converting proxy that'd
isolate the daemon itself from old protocol versions, but that's a lot
of code to maintain for presumably little gain or even no gain at all.
Change-Id: I4c3f3bb34d39044f6aeb07c10caaf13b8340a220
Previously, paths not being deleted by gcDeleteSpecific would result in
(a) hardlinks not being cleaned up, and
(b) statistics not being reported correctly.
By throwing the error later, we fix both of these problems.
Change-Id: I8019f3e10d9f22e81ea87bb26b77f04ebc888a19
Remote binary caches support `write-nar-listing` options where they create a `HASH.ls` file for quick indexing without having to download the nar.
This commit makes experimental `nix store ls` attempt to read these files instead of downloading the full nar.
The difference is very obvious with large packages like stellarium:
nix store ls --store "https://cache.nixos.org" /nix/store/ijpvwgs9zamqaax5dy2cd0kxgz7lr7an-stellarium-25.1 -R
Change-Id: I6a37e0788b3a91c319331a8de69c51daf3efa955
The experimental `nix eval` command already supports a `--raw` flag.
This commit implements the same flag for the stable nix-instantiate command.
Until now instructions and scripts that didn't want to rely on experimental
features had to use workarounds such as:
nix-instantiate --eval <something> | tr -d \"
(which also undesirably also removes double quotation marks within the string), or
nix-instantiate --eval <something> | jq -j
(which undesirably depends on another package).
Co-authored-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
Co-authored-by: Silvan Mosberger <silvan.mosberger@tweag.io>
Change-Id: Iced9a80ee7edd60af2385c5193485f1774175339
This introduces a new (demanded?) feature for coercing integers in
interpolation arguments under the experimental feature
`coerce-integers`.
This feature is being introduced behind an *experimental feature flag*
due to the cautious approach we're taking. The codebase has a track
record of revealing unexpected behaviors, often in subtle ways, so we
want to give this sufficient time and exposure before making it stable.
To remove the experimental flag, we want to see **at least two releases
or six months of real-world usage -- whichever is longer** -- that
demonstrate strong confidence the feature doesn't introduce regressions
or unintended side effects. If that level of confidence is reached,
we'll proceed to stabilize it.
Change-Id: I825904719eeba8f0e2a93cd6b93cfe6cebd7d827
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
also remove all the documentation referencing it, or rewrite the docs
to make sense in the non-floating-content-addressed world we live in.
Change-Id: I724e67839f44cc9f1cfc7d6f1c05252b62752b42
Maximilian Bosch