`StateMgr` got a new `unlock()` method that does what it says on the
tin. We now call it from `bootstrap()` using the new
`util::StateMgrUnlockGuard`, which works in a manner similar to the
`BoolResetter` from `tor_dirmgr`.
(A decent small little task in future might be to unify these types in
some sort of general arti utility crate?)
closes arti#335
This lint is IMO inherently ill-conceived.
I have looked for the reasons why this might be thought to be a good
idea and there were basically two (and they are sort of contradictory):
I. "Calling ‘.clone()` on an Rc, Arc, or Weak can obscure the fact
that only the pointer is being cloned, not the underlying data."
This is the wording from
https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/v0.0.212/#clone_on_ref_ptr
It is a bit terse; we are left to infer why it is a bad idea to
obscure this fact. It seems to me that if it is bad to obscure some
fact, that must be because the fact is a hazard. But why would it be
a hazard to not copy the underlying data ?
In other languages, faliing to copy the underlying data is a serious
correctness hazard. There is a whose class of bugs where things were
not copied, and then mutated and/or reused in multiple places in ways
that were not what the programmer intended. In my experience, this is
a very common bug when writing Python and Javascript. I'm told it's
common in golang too.
But in Rust this bug is much much harder to write. The data inside an
Arc is immutable. To have this bug you'd have use interior mutability
- ie mess around with Mutex or RefCell. That provides a good barrier
to these kind of accidents.
II. "The reason for writing Rc::clone and Arc::clone [is] to make it
clear that only the pointer is being cloned, as opposed to the
underlying data. The former is always fast, while the latter can
be very expensive depending on what is being cloned."
This is the reasoning found here
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/issues/2048
This is saying that *not* using Arc::clone is hazardous.
Specifically, that a deep clone is a performance hazard.
But for this argument, the lint is precisely backwards. It's linting
the "good" case and asking for it to be written in a more explicit
way; while the supposedly bad case can be written conveniently.
Also, many objects (in our codebase, and in all the libraries we use)
that are Clone are in fact simply handles. They contain Arc(s) (or
similar) and are cheap to clone. Indeed, that is the usual case.
It does not make sense to distinguish in the syntax we use to clone
such a handle, whether the handle is a transparent Arc, or an opaque
struct containing one or more other handles.
Forcing Arc::clone to be written as such makes for code churn when a
type is changed from Arc<Something> to Something: Clone, or vice
versa.
This patch removes the EventStream associated type and the Runtime
parameter. The Runtime parameter wasn't actually used for anything,
and the EventStream was easy enough to replace with a BoxStream in
this case.
Also replaced DirBootstrapEvents with a BoxStream to avoid tying
anything to our backend.
Try to make the `hook-tcp` example a bit easier to read by
adding/changing comments, and renaming the lifetimes for
`async_trait`-generated trait methods.
This is the first one where anyhow::Error impl AsRef<dyn StdError>
We want this because we want to add error reporting functionality
which works with all kinds of errors, which means we need an
anyhow::Error which can be vieweed as a StdError.
(The alternative would be to deref at the call sites of
report_and_exit, making it less ergonomic.)
anyhow 1.0.23 is from November 2019.
The new `BootstrapBehavior` enum controls whether an unbootstrapped
`TorClient` will bootstrap itself automatically (`Ondemand`) when an
attempt is made to use it, or whether the user must perform
bootstrapping themselves (`Manual`).
The `lazy-init` example shows how you could write a simple
`get_tor_client()` function that used a global `OnceCell` to share
a Tor client across an entire application with this API.
closes arti#278
Since the only purpose of this function is to make sure that no
bootstrapping task is running, a simple futures:🔒:Mutex
should do the job just fine.
Closes#337.
This commit changes how the `TorClient` type works, enabling it to be
constructed synchronously without initiating the bootstrapping process.
Daemon tasks are still started on construction (although some of them
won't do anything if the client isn't bootstrapped).
The old bootstrap() methods are now reimplemented in terms of the new
create_unbootstrapped() and bootstrap_existing() methods.
This required refactoring how the `DirMgr` works to enable the same sort
of thing there.
closes#293
Instead of declaring a macro that takes vis as an argument, we now
conditionally declare a macro that applies an appropriate visibility.
There's a long comment explaining the rationale here, along with a
couple of other solutions that don't work.
This is closer to what we described in Errors.md.
Also, remove the (sometimes private) Result alias: it was only used in
one or two places, and never exposed in public.
This change lets us make TorError's members unconditionally hidden,
and makes our API a little more consistent (since basically nothing
else is a public field).
At least by default, we should have Error be private, and not expose
it as part of our APIs.
To keep functionality in `arti`, I had to add an `ExitTimeout` error
kind.
For interface consistency, I also re-exported ErrorKind and HasError
from `arti_client`.
The motivation for doing this now is to remove the `#[from]` so we
would spot where operationsl circuit setup failures were handled.
(But it turns out that they are turned into internal errors!)
Perhaps this will want to become a different error type from circmgr
in due course, but for now we simply use a bespoke variant of
TorError.
It will want its own Kind. The TODO in the HasKind impl marks
this (amongst much else here).
This involves making a temporary ErrorKind::TODO. That will continue
to exist until all errors (at least, the ones that make it out to
here) can be properly categorised.
Introducing this will let us work from the top and bottom towards the
middle.
Provide an enum variant to contain the SpawnError and a From impl.
We use `#[from]` here because it doesn't really make sense to attach
any context, as it's not likely to be very relevant.
This commit puts the native-tls crate behind a feature. The feature
is off-by-default in the tor-rtcompat crate, but can be enabled
either from arti or arti-client.
There is an included script that I used to test that tor-rtcompat
could build and run its tests with all subsets of its features.
Closes#300
Having separate types here doesn't justify the (very limited)
benefit of distinguishing between the case where we have created an
executor that we own and the case where we have a handle to an
already-running tokio executor.
Part of #301.
The docs even say this is about stream.
As @nickm writes in
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/arti/-/merge_requests/252#note_2771289
we generally call end-to-end connections that are tunneled over Tor
"Streams" to distinguish them from everything else in the Tor
protocols that could possibly be called a "Connection".
That seems to apply here too.
In the usual case, set_isolation_group is awkward.
This is perhaps slightly duplicative with TorClient::isolated_client().
If so then perhaps the *latter* should be abolished.
This commit combines status update information from tor-dirmgr and
tor-chanmgr in the arti-client crate, so that the user can get to
it; it represents a high-level view of the client's ability to reach
the network and route traffic.
I have omitted the tor-circmgr support for now; it's mostly not
needed.
At present it's not so useful, since there's no way for a client to
get a TorClient that _isn't_ completely bootstrapped, and therefore
there's no way to actually watch these events until they're no
longer interesting. That should change with arti#293.
This is part of #96.
The purpose of a this API is to tell the user how far along Arti is
in getting bootstrapped, and if it's stuck, what it's stuck on.
This API doesn't yet expose any useful information: by the time it's
observable to a client, it's always "100% bootstrapped." But I'm
putting it in a MR now so that we can review the basic idea, and to
avoid conflicts with later work on tickets like #293 and #278.
This is part of #96.
This commit addresses multiple problems highlighted by arti#182:
- `arti-client` had some types in its public API that weren't accessible
without importing another crate (`CfgPath`, `DataReader`,
`DataWriter`). This has been fixed.
- In addition, the doc comments for `DataReader` and `DataWriter` were
cleaned up to be of better quality, now that they're public.
- It was impossible to use `arti-client` without also importing
`tor-rtcompat`. This is now fixed by the addition of two convenience
methods: `TorClient::bootstrap_with_tokio` and
`TorClient::bootstrap_with_async_std`.
- Potentially controversially: `tor-rtcompat` now returns *concrete*
types from methods like `current_runtime`, instead of `impl Runtime`.
- This was needed in order to actually be able to name the `TorClient`
type that results from using these methods.
- This does mean we lose API flexibility, but on balance I think this
is a good thing, because the API we *do* have is actually usable...
Previously we kept this in an ambiguously named type,
`ClientTimeoutConfig`. But everything we do right now is client
related! So `StreamTimeoutConfig` is a better name.
Also, we'd previously neglected to expose the builder for this type
from `TorClientConfigBuilder`. Now we do.
Closes#281.
I found these versions empirically, by using the following process:
First, I used `cargo tree --depth 1 --kind all` to get a list of
every immediate dependency we had.
Then, I used `cargo upgrade --workspace package@version` to change
each dependency to the earliest version with which (in theory) the
current version is semver-compatible. IOW, if the current version
was 3.2.3, I picked "3". If the current version was 0.12.8, I
picked "0.12".
Then, I used `cargo +nightly upgrade -Z minimal-versions` to
downgrade Cargo.lock to the minimal listed version for each
dependency. (I had to override a few packages; see .gitlab-ci.yml
for details).
Finally, I repeatedly increased the version of each of our
dependencies until our code compiled and the tests passed. Here's
what I found that we need:
anyhow >= 1.0.5: Earlier versions break our hyper example.
async-broadcast >= 0.3.2: Earlier versions fail our tests.
async-compression 0.3.5: Earlier versions handled futures and tokio
differently.
async-trait >= 0.1.2: Earlier versions are too buggy to compile our
code.
clap 2.33.0: For Arg::default_value_os().
coarsetime >= 0.1.20: exposed as_ticks() function.
curve25519-dalek >= 3.2: For is_identity().
generic-array 0.14.3: Earlier versions don't implement
From<&[T; 32]>
httparse >= 1.2: Earlier versions didn't implement Error.
itertools at 0.10.1: For at_most_once.
rusqlite >= 0.26.3: for backward compatibility with older rustc.
serde 1.0.103: Older versions break our code.
serde_json >= 1.0.50: Since we need its Value type to implement Eq.
shellexpand >= 2.1: To avoid a broken dirs crate version.
tokio >= 1.4: For Handle::block_on().
tracing >= 0.1.18: Previously, tracing_core and tracing had separate
LevelFilter types.
typenum >= 1.12: Compatibility with rust-crypto crates
x25519-dalek >= 1.2.0: For was_contributory().
Closes#275.
We _do_ reject bad hostnames: just not where I once thought we might.
We need to decide if the current behavior is what we want (and I think
it is, probably?).
We don't want MutCfg to be automatially coneable, or we'll wind up with
surprises like the one that this patch fixes in TorClient.
(The "surprise" is that reconfigure() would only apply its
client-specific options to one client instance.)
If we allow overlapping reconfiguration requests, we introduce all
kinds of "fun" bugs. For example, we could wind up with a configuration
made up of parts of one reconfiguration attempt, and parts of another.
And now the complexity begins: when the user changes the path_rules,
they not only want new circuits to obey those rules: they want
_all new requests_ to be put onto circuits that obey those rules.
That means that when the path rules become more restrictive, we need
to retire all the circuits, and make sure that currently pending
circuits aren't used for any requests.
If it's any comfort, doing this was even more complicated in C tor. ;)
This patch doesn't actually make anything reconfigurable, but it
does create an API that will tell you "you can't change the value of
that!" If the API looks reasonable, I can start making it possible
to change the values of individual items.
We want to only use TODO in the codebase for non-blockers, and open
tickets for anything that is a bigger blocker than a TODO. These
XXXXs seem like definite non-blockers to me.
Part of arti#231.
The sane_defaults() call is now the same as you get from a default
builder: by convention, we just call that method Default::default().
The with_directories() constructor makes more sense as a constructor
for the TorClientConfigBuilder than for TorClientConfig.
The new CircMgr::build_circuits_preemptively function actually causes
preemptive circuits to be built; it gets called from arti-client, like
the other daemon tasks the CircMgr has.
I'm still not 100% sure this is the right move: should we encourage
app developers to always pick their own directories? Or should we
make it easy for them to use, well, `sane_defaults`?
This patch takes the second approach.
This patch makes sure that for every* config type we have, the defaults
you get from a Builder match those you get from Serde, and that both
match the value that you get from arti_defaults.toml. Later down the
line I'll be adding some tests to keep these in sync.
* StorageConfig still has no defaults of its own, since we aren't so
sure we want other applications to use Arti's directories by default.
Since these shell-variables are hardwired to use org.torproject.Arti as
the program name, it isn't appropriate to call them "app-specific".
If we someday reinstate APP_FOO, it should be based on a user-provided
application name.
In order to handle explicitly specified path buffers directly, we now
let CfgPath be either a string (that gets expanded) or a PathBuf
(that doesn't).
This simplifies TorClientConfig::with_directories()
Now every section that the two configuration objects share has the
same type and name. This should help us in documenting our configuration
in a way that doesn't confuse people.
There is still lots of API work to go.
To do this at all neatly, I had to split out `tor-config` from
`arti-config` again, and putting the lower level stuff (paths,
builder errors) into tor-config. I also changed our use of
derive_builder to always use a common error type, to avoid
error type proliferation.
Most of the structs in `arti-client` have example code now, to give a
clearer idea of how they're used.
Annoyingly, a lot of the types exposed in `arti-client` are actually
re-exports, which makes documentation a bit harder: example code that
references other parts of `arti-client` can't actually be run as a
doctest, since the crate it's in is a dependency of `arti-client`.
We might be able to fix this in future by doing the documentation in
`arti-client` itself, but rustdoc seems to have some weird behaviours
there that need to be investigated first (for example, it seems to merge
the re-export and original documentation, and also put the re-export
documentation on the `impl` block for some reason).
For now, though, this commit just writes the docs from the point of view
of an `arti-client` consumer, removing notes specific to the crate in
which they're defined. It's not ideal, but at least the end user
experience is decent.
This overhauls the top-level `arti-client` documentation significantly:
- the "Using arti-client" section walks the user through all of the
necessary steps to initiate a Torified TCP connection, and then
provides a code example
- this example is also available as `examples/readme.rs`; it's not run
as a doctest, since it involves connecting to Tor
- a "More advanced usage" subheading provides information about stream
isolation (and can potentially be used for other interesting
features once we get them).
- a new "Multiple runtime support" section was added to explain the
purpose and usage of the `tor-rtcompat` crate
- the section on design and privacy considerations was removed; this is
probably okay to keep in a README, but users of the crate aren't going
to be interested in this (at least I don't think)
(also, the doc comment for `arti_client::Error` was fixed to make actual
sense)
Now that we have two kinds of isolation tokens (those set on a
stream, and those set by the stream's associated TorClient), we
need a more sophisticated kind of isolation.
This fixes the bug introduced with the previous commit, where
per-stream tokens would override per-TorClient tokens.
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