Re: [PoC] Federated Authn/z with OAUTHBEARER

Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>

From: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se>
To: Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter@eisentraut.org>, Antonin Houska <ah@cybertec.at>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-01-21T09:29:22Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers

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  1. meson: Fix install-quiet after clean

  2. oauth: Run Autoconf tests with correct compiler flags

  3. Link libpq with libdl if the platform needs that.

  4. Doc: correct spelling of meson switch.

  5. oauth: Correct SSL dependency for libpq-oauth.a

  6. oauth: Fix Autoconf build on macOS

  7. oauth: Move the builtin flow into a separate module

  8. Remove a stray "pgrminclude" annotation

  9. oauth: Simplify copy of PGoauthBearerRequest

  10. oauth: Improve validator docs on interruptibility

  11. oauth: Disallow synchronous DNS in libcurl

  12. oauth: Fix postcondition for set_timer on macOS

  13. oauth: Use IPv4-only issuer in oauth_validator tests

  14. Work around OAuth/EVFILT_TIMER quirk on NetBSD.

  15. oauth: Fix incorrect const markers in struct

  16. Add missing entry to oauth_validator test .gitignore

  17. cirrus: Temporarily fix libcurl link error

  18. Add support for OAUTHBEARER SASL mechanism

  19. libpq: Handle asynchronous actions during SASL

  20. require_auth: prepare for multiple SASL mechanisms

  21. Move PG_MAX_AUTH_TOKEN_LENGTH to libpq/auth.h

  22. Make SASL max message length configurable

  23. jsonapi: fully initialize dummy lexer

  24. common/jsonapi: support libpq as a client

  25. Remove fe_memutils from libpgcommon_shlib

  26. Revert ECPG's use of pnstrdup()

  27. Explicitly require password for SCRAM exchange

  28. Refactor SASL exchange to return tri-state status

> On 21 Jan 2025, at 01:40, Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:

>> +   /* Done. Tear down the async implementation. */
>> +   conn->cleanup_async_auth(conn);
>> +   conn->cleanup_async_auth = NULL;
>> +   Assert(conn->altsock == PGINVALID_SOCKET);
>> In pqDropConnection() we set ->altsock to NULL
> 
> (I assume you mean PGINVALID_SOCKET?)

Doh, yes.

>> just to be sure rather than
>> assert that cleanup has done so.  Shouldn't we be consistent in the
>> expectation and set to NULL here as well?
> 
> I'm not opposed; I just figured that the following code might be a bit
> confusing:
> 
>    Assert(conn->altsock == PGINVALID_SOCKET);
>    conn->altsock = PGINVALID_SOCKET;
> 
> But I can add a comment to the assignment to try to explain. I don't
> know what the likelihood of landing code that trips that assertion is,
> but an explicit assignment would at least stop problems from
> cascading.

It is weird, but stopping the escalation of a problem seems important.

> On 21 Jan 2025, at 01:43, Jacob Champion <jacob.champion@enterprisedb.com> wrote:
> 

> On second thought, I can just fail the connection if this happens.

Yeah, I think that's the best option here.

--
Daniel Gustafsson