libink/dbus: identify the caller behind a broker

On the local bus SO_PEERCRED says who is calling and the kernel is the
one saying it.  Behind a broker one connection carries every caller,
so that credential describes dbus-daemon and nothing else, and every
privileged method was refused there, root included.

Ask the bus driver instead.  libink parks the call and hands us the
sender; we ask GetConnectionUnixUser and answer when the reply lands,
through the same event loop as everything else.  Nothing blocks:
blocking in PID 1 is why libuEv exists.  That needs calls libink can
make on a connection it already has, so it gained those too.

Answers are cached, since a bus never reuses a unique name while it
runs.  Not across a restart though: a new dbus-daemon numbers from
scratch and :1.7 becomes somebody else, so the cache goes when the
broker does.  A sender name too long to key on is refused rather than
truncated, two callers sharing a truncated key would share an
identity.

Privilege is no longer uid 0 alone.  The socket is already owned by
the --with-group group, so refusing its members every method that
changes anything left a wheel user able to open the bus and unable to
reboot.  Both gates now say the same thing.

Group membership needs NSS, which the C library loads with dlopen(),
so the lookup is compiled out where Finit is built to link statically.
That leaves such a build root-only, which is worth saying out loud
rather than leaving to be discovered.

Signed-off-by: Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>
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Joachim Wiberg committed 2026-08-13 10:15:06 +02:00
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@@ -171,15 +171,8 @@ static int read_one(link_client_t *c, struct link_msg *msg)
static void publish_reply(link_client_t *c, const struct link_msg *m)
{
c->reply.type = m->type;
c->reply.signature = m->signature;
c->reply.error_name = m->error_name;
c->reply.path = m->path;
c->reply.interface = m->interface;
c->reply.member = m->member;
c->reply.body = m->body_avail ? m->body : NULL;
c->reply.body_len = m->body_avail;
c->have_reply = 1;
__msg_to_reply(&c->reply, m);
c->have_reply = 1;
}
/* The reply view in c->reply points into c->rxbuf and is invalidated
@@ -261,12 +254,7 @@ int link_client_call(link_client_t *c,
const char *signature,
const uint8_t *body, size_t body_len)
{
/* Generous: Manager1 headers fit in ~150 B, but the buffer is
* shared with whatever future callers throw at us, and an
* overflow only manifests as a silent LINK_CALL_FAIL via
* __msg_build_method_call returning -1. 1 KiB on stack
* is cheap insurance. */
uint8_t hdr[1024];
uint8_t hdr[LINK_CALL_HDR_MAX];
ssize_t hlen;
uint32_t serial;
@@ -328,54 +316,20 @@ int link_reply_get_u32(const link_reply_t *r, uint32_t *out)
return link_r_u32(&reader, out);
}
/* Marshal varargs into `body` (capacity `cap`) according to `sig`.
* Returns the marshalled length on success, -1 on overflow or
* unsupported type code. */
static ssize_t marshal_va(uint8_t *body, size_t cap,
const char *sig, va_list ap)
{
link_writer_t w;
const char *s;
link_writer_init(&w, body, cap);
for (s = sig; *s; s++) {
switch (*s) {
case 'y':
link_w_byte(&w, (uint8_t)va_arg(ap, int));
break;
case 'b':
link_w_bool(&w, va_arg(ap, int));
break;
case 'u':
link_w_u32(&w, va_arg(ap, uint32_t));
break;
case 's':
link_w_string(&w, va_arg(ap, const char *));
break;
case 'o':
link_w_path(&w, va_arg(ap, const char *));
break;
default:
return -1;
}
}
return link_writer_finish(&w);
}
int link_client_call_v(link_client_t *c,
const char *obj_path,
const char *interface,
const char *member,
const char *signature, ...)
{
uint8_t body[1024];
uint8_t body[LINK_CALL_BODY_MAX];
ssize_t body_len = 0;
if (signature && *signature) {
va_list ap;
va_start(ap, signature);
body_len = marshal_va(body, sizeof(body), signature, ap);
body_len = __marshal_va(body, sizeof(body), signature, ap);
va_end(ap);
if (body_len < 0)
return LINK_CALL_FAIL;