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.
Under macOS, the first level of directory has actually mode 0755 instead
of 0700 as macOS often do not possess the right primitives to chroot
inside of these directories, leading to
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/11031.
Thanks to Emily for the heads-up on this type of matter.
Fixes#876.
Change-Id: Ie521202923f763225e1901ab1b9b6c6132aaf548
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
This is necessary to unblock releng.
This is suboptimal releng because we usually merge the branches back and
the releng script did not.
Change-Id: I12c9f6713adf344c1597e2d4adafaf2d3c62f537
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>
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>
Original-Author: picnoir <picnoir@alternativebit.fr>
Inspired from
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/11922/commits/ced8d311a593fcf9c3823e4e118474ac132d8e60
and adapted for Lix needs.
TL;DR: The topological sort should ensure that it is possible to delete
the path iterated upon. Nonetheless, in some cases,
`invalidatePathChecked` can still throw `PathInUse`, the exception
bubbles up and cancel the garbage collection procedure, leaving the rest
of the paths untouched. This change ensure that the error is logged for
further investigation but doesn't prevent the GC to continue when it
can.
After code review, we decided to make it a `printInfo` to inform the
user about sudden "in use" dependencies during garbage collection and
let them re-run garbage collection if they care about this.
References: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/11923
References: https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/621
Change-Id: I5606c9afd16b5faa747b713fde2dc24016990ba3
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
(cherry picked from commit 6a41dae49a)
This reverts commit 02c35ea9df.
Reason for revert: this code path is also used for `Input::getRev()`, i.e. flakes VCS revision validation, which, in the case of Git, are using SHA1.
As a result, this cause too much noise due to SHA1 revisions in Flakes.
Change-Id: I8064c1ebc26e4e83b627f0803a7a9ba56cfe1f37
Revert submission 1946
Reason for revert: regression in building (found via bisection)
Reported by users:
> error: path '/nix/store/04ca5xwvasz6s3jg0k7njz6rzi0d225w-jq-1.7.1-dev' does not exist in the store
Reverted changes: /q/submissionid:1946
Change-Id: I6f1a4b2f7d7ef5ca430e477fc32bca62fd97036b
Fate has something different in store for the release process,
backporting process and the general maintainer documentation.
See https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/issues/260.
Change-Id: I626686ff4059aee22a3ab1664b52581b2dbf6ed7
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
Now, we can credit folks for their work.
The credit generator is very basic, we probably want a database of
profiles and link to their preferred page or something.
Change-Id: Ida81905750371e5e125d0ce7e554d0526265cf8e
Co-Authored-By: Jade Lovelace <lix@jade.fyi>
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
In case of failure to connect as can be seen in
https://buildbot.lix.systems/#/builders/39/builds/1386/steps/1/logs/stdio
It is difficult to understand what happened, if we enabled the talkative
verbose level, we could learn about the first line SSH sent us.
In practice, this is not workable, we can just make it warn all the
time.
Change-Id: Iaaf56894060a58f2dfc78254bb60b1c43482f9bb
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
As per our bootstrap governance discussions, here's a very simple
proposal which links as much as possible to our wiki.
Change-Id: I88b1c43f933ff7e529151b1e933fad40283383c4
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
Once this commit lands, we are even more visible in analytics FWIW.
Change-Id: Id7e0c162315d0f191edbea9cb5fb82ce363704b9
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
If the state SQLite database is configured to use a write-ahead-log, it
creates WAL files in the state directory.
When the state SQLite database is closed by the `nix-daemon` after
builds, those files are removed.
When an unprivileged user would like to open _in read only_ that
database, they cannot do so because they would need to create those WAL
files and they do not have the permission to do so.
For this, SQLite offers a "persistent WAL" feature [1] to leave the WAL
files around, even after closing the database.
This CL enable the persistent WAL mode.
Fixes: https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/10300
[1]: https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html
Change-Id: Id8ae534d7d2290457af28782e5215222ae051fe5
Signed-off-by: Raito Bezarius <raito@lix.systems>
Raito Bezarius