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fix(ldap): guard shared connection with a mutex during rebind - #1192
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The LDAP service shares a single connection between authentication, directory searches and the connection heartbeat. The heartbeat's rebind path closed the old connection unconditionally, so an authentication that was mid-bind could have the socket dropped underneath it, failing with `LDAP Result Code 200 "Network Error": ldap: response channel closed`. Add a sync.RWMutex around all use of the shared connection: - Authenticate() performs the user bind and the service-account rebind atomically while holding the lock, so the connection is never left bound as an unprivileged user and cannot be swapped mid-authentication. - reconnect() dials the replacement before touching shared state, then swaps and closes the old connection under the lock; it therefore waits for any in-flight authentication to finish instead of interrupting it. - connect()/heartbeat() take the same lock (heartbeat releases it before returning so a following reconnect can acquire it). Closes tinyauthapp#1191
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Check name Status Explanation Description Check Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled. Title check The title clearly identifies the LDAP fix and the mutex protection added for the shared connection during rebind. It matches the main change in the pull request. Linked Issues check Issue #1191requires a mutex during authentication and requires heartbeat or reconnect replacement to wait before closing the old connection.Authenticateholds the mutex across the user bind and se…Out of Scope Changes check The production changes stay within issue #1191. TheAuthenticaterefactor is required for atomic user bind and service-account rebind. The fake LDAP server and regression tests verify connection loc…
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- Around line 90-123: Update the blockSearch hook in the race test to signal
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…iew) The blockSearch hook closed searchStarted and returned immediately, so the fake server could answer the in-flight search before the test goroutine ran conn.Close(). When that happened conn.Search succeeded and require.Error failed at random, breaking go test ./... and make test-race intermittently. Hold the hook open on a release channel that is closed only after conn.Close(); a t.Cleanup guard closes it if the test fails early.
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132-145: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winExercise the failed-bind branch in
TestAuthenticateRestoresServiceBindOnFailure.The fake server returns LDAP success for every bind, so
Authenticatereturns nil and the test does not cover a failed user bind. A regression that skips the service rebind only after a user-bind error would pass this test. Make the fixture fail the user bind, require the authentication error, and still assert the third bind.Suggested fix
diff --git a/internal/service/ldap_service_test.go b/internal/service/ldap_service_test.go @@ binds int searches int openConns int + failNextBind bool @@ func (s *fakeLDAPServer) setBlockBind(f func()) { s.mu.Lock() s.blockBind = f s.mu.Unlock() } +func (s *fakeLDAPServer) setFailNextBind() { + s.mu.Lock() + s.failNextBind = true + s.mu.Unlock() +} + @@ s.mu.Lock() hook := s.blockBind s.binds++ + fail := s.failNextBind + s.failNextBind = false s.mu.Unlock() if hook != nil { hook() } - if _, err := c.Write(bindResponse(frame)); err != nil { + response := bindResponse(frame) + if fail { + response = bindFailureResponse(frame) + } + if _, err := c.Write(response); err != nil { return } @@ func bindResponse(req []byte) []byte { id, _, _ := readMessage(req) op := []byte{ @@ return ldapMessage(id, op) } +func bindFailureResponse(req []byte) []byte { + id, _, _ := readMessage(req) + op := []byte{ + 0x61, 0x07, + 0x0a, 0x01, 0x31, // resultCode: invalidCredentials + 0x04, 0x00, + 0x04, 0x00, + } + return ldapMessage(id, op) +} diff --git a/internal/service/ldap_service_race_test.go b/internal/service/ldap_service_race_test.go @@ s := newFakeLDAPServer(t) svc := newTestLdapService(t, s.addr()) + s.setFailNextBind() - // The fake server accepts binds; authenticate a "user" and confirm the - // service rebind ran (two bind round-trips: user + service). - require.NoError(t, svc.Authenticate("uid=alice,dc=example,dc=com", "secret")) + require.Error(t, svc.Authenticate("uid=alice,dc=example,dc=com", "secret")) binds, _, _ := s.counts() require.Equal(t, 3, binds, "expected initial service bind + user bind + service rebind")🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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201-210: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winExercise the heartbeat connection and lock contract.
TestHeartbeatUsesSharedConnectiononly checks the server-wide search count. A heartbeat that searches on a separate connection still passes. The test also has no concurrent reconnect, so a heartbeat search performed outsideldap.mutexremains undetected. Add assertions that the blocked search uses the existing connection and preventsreconnect()from completing.Suggested fix
func TestHeartbeatUsesSharedConnection(t *testing.T) { s := newFakeLDAPServer(t) svc := newTestLdapService(t, s.addr()) - require.NoError(t, svc.heartbeat()) - _, searches, _ := s.counts() - require.GreaterOrEqual(t, searches, 1) + searchStarted := make(chan struct{}) + release := make(chan struct{}) + t.Cleanup(func() { + select { + case <-release: + default: + close(release) + } + }) + var once sync.Once + s.setBlockSearch(func() { + once.Do(func() { close(searchStarted) }) + <-release + }) + + heartbeatDone := make(chan error, 1) + go func() { + heartbeatDone <- svc.heartbeat() + }() + + select { + case <-searchStarted: + case <-time.After(5 * time.Second): + t.Fatal("heartbeat search never reached the server") + } + + _, searches, open := s.counts() + require.Equal(t, 1, searches) + require.Equal(t, 1, open, "heartbeat must use the existing shared connection") + + reconnectDone := make(chan error, 1) + go func() { + reconnectDone <- svc.reconnect(10 * time.Millisecond) + }() + + select { + case err := <-reconnectDone: + t.Fatalf("reconnect returned while heartbeat was in flight (err=%v)", err) + case <-time.After(200 * time.Millisecond): + } + + close(release) + require.NoError(t, <-heartbeatDone) + require.NoError(t, <-reconnectDone) }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Review comments at @internal/service/ldap_service_race_test.go:
- Around line 132-145: Update TestAuthenticateRestoresServiceBindOnFailure to
make the fake LDAP server reject the user bind, require Authenticate to return
an error, and retain the assertion that three binds occurred. Add or reuse a
narrowly scoped fake-server mechanism to fail the user bind while allowing the
initial service bind and subsequent service rebind to succeed.
- Around line 201-210: Strengthen TestHeartbeatUsesSharedConnection by blocking
the heartbeat search and asserting it runs on the existing shared connection,
then start reconnect() while the search is blocked and verify reconnect cannot
complete until the search is released. Ensure the test releases the blocked
search and checks both operations complete successfully.
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Problem
The LDAP service shares a single
*ldapgo.Connbetween authentication, directory searches and the periodic connection heartbeat. On a heartbeat failure the rebind path inreconnect()closed the current connection unconditionally, then dialed a replacement:If a user authentication (or a search) was in flight at that moment, the socket was closed underneath it and the request failed. The failure seen in practice is:
A second, related defect:
BindService/Bindleft the shared connection bound as the user between calls, relying on a deferred rebind inauth_service.gothat ran outside any lock — so a heartbeat could observe (and drop) a connection that was bound as an unprivileged user.Root cause
There was no synchronization around access to
ldap.conn. Locking existed only inBindService(rebind=true)andBind, and the heartbeat'sreconnect()closed the old connection without taking it, so a rebind could race an in-progress authentication and invalidate its connection mid-request.Fix
Add a
sync.RWMutexguarding all use of the shared connection:Authenticate(userDN, password)— performs the user bind and the service-account rebind atomically while holding the lock. The connection is never left bound as an unprivileged user, and it cannot be swapped mid-authentication.auth_service.gonow calls this instead of the old two-stepBind+ deferredBindService.reconnect()— dials the replacement before touching shared state, then takes the lock, binds it, swaps it in and closes the old connection. It therefore waits for any in-flight authentication to finish before dropping the old connection, which is exactly the behaviour the issue asks for.connect()/heartbeat()/GetUserInfo/GetUserCount/GetUserGroups— take the same lock.heartbeat()releases it before returning so a followingreconnect()can acquire it.Closes #1191.
Testing
New tests exercise the real
go-ldapclient against an in-process fake LDAP server (real*ldapgo.Connvalues and realClose()semantics) — no external directory required.internal/service/ldap_service_race_test.go:TestReconnectWaitsForInFlightAuthentication— holds a user bind open mid-authentication, firesreconnect()concurrently, and asserts the reconnect blocks until the bind completes and the in-flight authentication is not broken.TestUnsynchronizedReconnectReproducesRace— reproduces the pre-fix failure mode directly (closing the connection mid-request yieldsresponse channel closed), so the regression test above cannot pass for the wrong reason.TestAuthenticateRestoresServiceBindOnFailure— asserts the service-account bind is restored as part of authentication.TestConcurrentAuthAndReconnectNoClosedConn— 8 auth workers × 25 iterations racing 25 reconnects; asserts no request observes a closed connection.TestHeartbeatUsesSharedConnection.Pre-fix / post-fix evidence:
Authenticate,TestReconnectWaitsForInFlightAuthenticationfails with exactly the reported error:failed to rebind to ldap service account: LDAP Result Code 200 "Network Error": ldap: response channel closedgo test -race.Repo checks:
go build ./...— cleango vet ./...(make vet) — cleango test ./...— all packages passmake test-race— passesgofmt -l internal/service/— cleanNo pre-existing test failures were observed on the affected packages; the full suite was green before attributing results to this change.
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