feat(audit): restore ACL LOG across restarts and cover NOPERM denials - #39
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The binary protocol recorded a rejected AUTH in two places: authFailed wrote the audit trail, while each of its three callers separately wrote the ACL LOG buffer via policy.LogAuthFailure. A new failure path reaching only one of the two would let ACL LOG and the audit trail drift apart. Move the ACL LOG write into authFailed, next to the audit record, so both sinks are fed by a single call. This matches the RESP listener, where authFailed already owned both writes. Signed-off-by: Mohamad Radi <mraouf.radi@gmail.com>
ACL LOG only ever showed rejected AUTH attempts. Commands rejected by the policy (NOPERM) reached the audit trail but never the ACL LOG buffer, which bumped a counter and dropped the event, so operators could not see who was denied what without enabling audit logging. Record denials in the same buffer via LogDenied, called at both protocol deny sites next to the existing audit record. The command and key are folded into Reason as a NOPERM string rather than carried as new fields: both ACL LOG wire encodings are fixed at four length-prefixed fields per entry with no version tag, so widening the entry would desynchronize existing clients mid-reply. Both event kinds now share the buffer's 100-entry capacity, matching Redis, where one bounded log holds auth failures and denials together. Signed-off-by: Mohamad Radi <mraouf.radi@gmail.com>
The ACL LOG buffer lives in memory, so a restart lost every recorded auth failure and denial — even when audit logging had been persisting those same events to disk all along. Add ReplayAuthLog, which walks the audit files a previous run left behind and recovers the most recent auth_failure and acl_deny records, and seed the buffer with them during startup before any listener accepts connections. Files are visited newest first and the walk stops once the buffer's capacity is met, so older files are never opened. Recovery is best-effort and never blocks startup: a malformed record is skipped, an undecryptable one is skipped (its length prefix still locates the next record), and broken framing — a process killed mid-write — stops that file while keeping everything decoded before it. Replay applies only when audit records go to a directory, since stdout cannot be read back. Closes Saxy#32 Signed-off-by: Mohamad Radi <mraouf.radi@gmail.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds ACL denial entries to the shared RBAC log, replays persisted authentication and denial events from plaintext or encrypted audit files, and restores them during server startup. It adds protocol, integration, corruption, ordering, and concurrency tests. ChangesACL audit history
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to Audit replay can silently omit files when an audit directory contains entries written with different encryption settings, potentially restoring incomplete ACL history. Merge should wait for format handling or an explicit homogeneous-format contract and regression coverage; the remaining test lint issue is a bounded follow-up. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ServerStartup
participant ReplayAuthLog
participant AuditFiles
participant RBACStore
ServerStartup->>ReplayAuthLog: replay configured audit directory
ReplayAuthLog->>AuditFiles: read and decode persisted records
ReplayAuthLog-->>ServerStartup: return replay entries
ServerStartup->>RBACStore: seed authentication and denial history
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server/audit_replay_test.go (1)
104-106: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueMake the assertion state the behavior under test.
The test never assigns
s.policy, sos.policy != nilcannot be true. The real guarantee is thatseedAuditReplayreturns without a panic when RBAC is off. Rename the check or assert that reaching this line is the pass condition, so a future change tonewReplayServercannot make the test vacuous.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@server/audit_replay_test.go` around lines 104 - 106, Update the RBAC-disabled test around seedAuditReplay so it explicitly verifies that seedAuditReplay returns normally without panicking, rather than checking the never-assigned s.policy field. Remove the vacuous policy assertion and make reaching the test’s post-call path represent success, while preserving the existing newReplayServer setup.internal/audit/replay.go (2)
198-201: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winUse one shared ACL-denial reason formatter.
rbac.Store.LogDeniedandaudit.decodeRecorduse separate literals forNOPERM command=<cmd> key=<key>. If one changes, replayed ACL LOG entries can diverge from live entries. Put the formatter in a dependency-neutral package.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@internal/audit/replay.go` around lines 198 - 201, The ACL-denial reason is formatted separately in rbac.Store.LogDenied and audit.decodeRecord, risking divergence. Add a shared dependency-neutral formatter for the “NOPERM command=<cmd> key=<key>” reason, then update both symbols to use it while preserving the existing output.
31-33: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winCentralize the audit filename suffix
fileNameandauditFileGlobboth use_tsd.log, so the glob matches the writer. The current Unix-nanosecond prefix is fixed-width, so lexical sorting is valid. A same-nanosecond rotation in one writer reopens the same path. Define one package-level suffix constant and derive both uses from it to prevent future drift.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@internal/audit/replay.go` around lines 31 - 33, The audit filename suffix is duplicated between fileName and auditFileGlob, allowing the writer and discovery pattern to drift. Define a single package-level suffix constant and update both fileName and auditFileGlob to derive their names from it, preserving the existing fixed-width timestamp and glob behavior.
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In `@internal/audit/replay_test.go`:
- Around line 186-191: Fix the slice aliasing in the test setup around
bytes.SplitN by copying the valid record slices before appending the malformed
line. Ensure the construction of corrupted preserves both original records and
inserts "{not json at all" between them, so the replay test exercises two
recoverable records with one corrupt line.
In `@internal/audit/replay.go`:
- Around line 155-167: Validate the decoded frame length in the replay loop
before slicing data: reject any value that becomes negative, along with the
existing zero or oversized checks. Update the guard around blobLen in the replay
parser so malformed prefixes return the accumulated output through the existing
truncated-record path, preventing data[:blobLen] from receiving a negative bound
on 32-bit builds.
In `@internal/network/server.go`:
- Around line 564-573: Update handleAuthMessage to route the policy-not-loaded
AUTH rejection through authFailed instead of returning ResponseAuthErr directly.
Preserve the existing rejection response while ensuring this path increments
st.authFails and records the failure through the policy logging and audit flow.
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In `@internal/audit/replay.go`:
- Around line 198-201: The ACL-denial reason is formatted separately in
rbac.Store.LogDenied and audit.decodeRecord, risking divergence. Add a shared
dependency-neutral formatter for the “NOPERM command=<cmd> key=<key>” reason,
then update both symbols to use it while preserving the existing output.
- Around line 31-33: The audit filename suffix is duplicated between fileName
and auditFileGlob, allowing the writer and discovery pattern to drift. Define a
single package-level suffix constant and update both fileName and auditFileGlob
to derive their names from it, preserving the existing fixed-width timestamp and
glob behavior.
In `@server/audit_replay_test.go`:
- Around line 104-106: Update the RBAC-disabled test around seedAuditReplay so
it explicitly verifies that seedAuditReplay returns normally without panicking,
rather than checking the never-assigned s.policy field. Remove the vacuous
policy assertion and make reaching the test’s post-call path represent success,
while preserving the existing newReplayServer setup.
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Resolves the server/server.go conflict against Saxy#38, which moved initAudit ahead of initShards and gave it a key argument and an error return, and adapts the replay tests to NewLogEngine's new signature. Mechanical only. The audit log now seals records with a DEK of its own rather than the shared engine, so seedAuditReplay is still handing replay the wrong key in envelope mode; that is fixed in the commit that follows. Signed-off-by: Mohamad Radi <mraouf.radi@gmail.com>
Envelope mode seals the audit log with a DEK of its own, so passing replay the shared crypto engine decrypted nothing. Replay skips records it cannot decrypt so one corrupt entry cannot cost the rest, which meant the wrong key produced an empty ACL LOG and a clean startup log instead of an error. Make ReplayAuthLog a method on LogEngine. The destination, the key that seals it, and the logger all come from the engine's file writer, so no caller can pair a directory with the wrong key, and the destinations with no recoverable history — disabled, or stdout — are the ones with no file writer. That drops seedAuditReplay's duplicated preconditions and resolveCryptoEngine with them. Replay now runs after initAudit, since the engine has to resolve the key first. The glob therefore sees this run's own file, which is still empty at that point and costs one read. Signed-off-by: Mohamad Radi <mraouf.radi@gmail.com>
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In `@internal/network/acl_test.go`:
- Line 544: Update the test listener setup around net.Listen to instantiate or
reuse a test context and call net.ListenConfig.Listen with the TCP network and
address, preserving the existing listener and error handling behavior.
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| // store holds no policy snapshot. It is still a failed AUTH, so it has to reach | ||
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The encrypted record decoder converted the four-byte length prefix to an int before checking it. Where int is 32 bits, a prefix of 0x80000000 or more converts to a negative value, which is neither zero nor greater than the bytes remaining, so it passed both bounds checks and panicked on the slice. The length comes off disk, where a crash mid-write or a tampered file can put any value, and replay runs during startup before the listeners bind — a panic there means the server does not come up at all, which is the opposite of the decoder's intent that damaged history never blocks a boot. Keep the length in the width it is written in and compare it as uint64, so the check means the same thing on every platform and the warning reports the value the file actually held rather than a truncated one. Signed-off-by: Mohamad Radi <mraouf.radi@gmail.com>
handleAuthMessage returned the auth error directly when the policy store held no snapshot, so that rejection reached neither ACL LOG nor the audit trail and never incremented the per-connection failure count, leaving the close limit unreachable on that path. Route it through authFailed like every other binary AUTH failure, under the same reason the RESP listener already reports. Signed-off-by: Mohamad Radi <mraouf.radi@gmail.com>
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Audit files carry no index, so the name suffix is the entire contract between the writer and replay's directory glob — and each spelled it out separately. Renaming one would leave the other matching nothing, which reads exactly like a directory holding no history: ACL LOG would start empty with no error anywhere. Name the suffix once in file.go, beside the fileName that applies it, and build the glob from it. Test helpers that merely locate files now glob the same way, so a rename moves them with the code. The name itself stays spelled out in the test that asserts it, since an expectation built from the constant under test would hold whatever that constant said. Signed-off-by: Mohamad Radi <mraouf.radi@gmail.com>
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127-150: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winHandle mixed audit-file formats.
If an audit directory can contain files from different encryption settings,
replayAuthLoguses the current writer’s single decoder for every file. Replay then omits files in the other format and restores incomplete ACL history.Detect each file’s format or enforce and document a homogeneous-format invariant. Add a mixed-format regression test.
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decoded according to its own encryption format instead of applying the current
writer setting to every file; alternatively enforce and document a
homogeneous-format invariant at the audit-directory boundary. Add a regression
test covering files created under mixed encryption settings and verify replay
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go test ./...andgo test -race ./...)go vetwarningsSummary by CodeRabbit
New Features
ACL LOGnow includes rejected authentication attempts and commands denied by access policies.Bug Fixes
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ACL LOGdocumentation to describe authentication failures and policy-denied commands.