fix: insecure fallback directory and secure file creation (#111)

* 🔒 Fix insecure fallback directory and secure file creation

The daemon's fallback runtime directory `get_runtime_dir()` was hardcoded to `/run/pwsp`, creating a risk of shared, insecure access in multi-user systems.
This commit secures the fallback logic by:
1. Creating a user-specific temporary directory (`/tmp/pwsp-$UID`).
2. Ensuring directory creation happens atomically with `0o700` permissions using `std::fs::DirBuilder`.
3. Validating the fallback directory strictly (checking UID, 0o700 permissions, and symlink status) if it already exists to mitigate symlink attacks.
4. Using `libc::geteuid()` for robust cross-platform UID extraction.
5. Fixing `is_daemon_running` and locking logic to use `fs::OpenOptions` instead of `fs::File::create` to prevent accidental file truncation on active lock files.

Co-authored-by: arabianq <55220741+arabianq@users.noreply.github.com>

* 🔒 Fix insecure fallback directory and secure file creation

The daemon's fallback runtime directory `get_runtime_dir()` was hardcoded to `/run/pwsp`, creating a risk of shared, insecure access in multi-user systems.
This commit secures the fallback logic by:
1. Creating a user-specific temporary directory (`/tmp/pwsp-$UID`).
2. Ensuring directory creation happens atomically with `0o700` permissions using `std::fs::DirBuilder`.
3. Validating the fallback directory strictly (checking UID, 0o700 permissions, and symlink status) if it already exists to mitigate symlink attacks.
4. Using safe `rustix::process::geteuid()` for robust cross-platform UID extraction, avoiding `unsafe` blocks.
5. Fixing `is_daemon_running` and locking logic to use `fs::OpenOptions` instead of `fs::File::create` to prevent accidental file truncation on active lock files.

Co-authored-by: arabianq <55220741+arabianq@users.noreply.github.com>

* small refactor

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Co-authored-by: google-labs-jules[bot] <161369871+google-labs-jules[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
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Tarasov Aleksandr
2026-05-17 17:43:51 +03:00
committed by GitHub
parent 78960cdc10
commit fe655be59a
4 changed files with 44 additions and 8 deletions
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@@ -39,7 +39,11 @@ async fn main() -> Result<()> {
let runtime_dir = get_runtime_dir();
let lock_file = fs::File::create(runtime_dir.join("daemon.lock"))?;
let lock_file = fs::OpenOptions::new()
.create(true)
.write(true)
.truncate(false)
.open(runtime_dir.join("daemon.lock"))?;
lock_file.lock()?;
let socket_path = runtime_dir.join("daemon.sock");