[management] Scope the change to the private-capability check

The PR grew past its purpose. What it needs to do is refuse to bootstrap an
agent network endpoint onto a cluster that cannot serve it, which is the
private capability check on the picked cluster. Everything that accreted
around it — canonicalising proxy addresses at connect, refusing another
account's cluster or a host another account pinned, withdrawing a claim
lost to a concurrent one, folding casing on migrated settings rows — is
security work in its own right and moves to follow-up PRs, where each can
be reviewed against its own threat rather than as a rider on this one.

This restores main's version of every file outside that purpose and reduces
the validation to: a cluster the account can see must have a live embedded
proxy, and a cluster management holds no row for stays pinnable
(address-first). The e2e test and the fixture seeds are unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Sa3DsBDP3VciAi4PPG17L6
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mlsmaycon
2026-09-12 16:08:07 +00:00
co-authored by Claude Fable 5.1
parent 4ed71f8987
commit 5502ea08ac
17 changed files with 41 additions and 1323 deletions
@@ -1030,24 +1030,13 @@ func (m *managerImpl) CreateSettings(ctx context.Context, userID string, setting
// bootstrapSelfAddressed claims the given hostname as the account's endpoint,
// served only by a proxy declaring exactly that address (Domain ==
// ProxyAddress). The domain unique index arbitrates between pins; ownership
// against another account's proxy is asked the same way as for a labeled pin,
// because the hostname lands in proxy_address, which is what a proxy
// registration is refused on when another account holds it there.
// ProxyAddress). The domain unique index is the arbiter of availability.
func (m *managerImpl) bootstrapSelfAddressed(ctx context.Context, settings *types.Settings, endpoint string) error {
hostname, err := types.NormalizeHostname(endpoint)
if err != nil {
return status.Errorf(status.InvalidArgument, "invalid endpoint: %s", err)
}
foreign, err := m.store.HasForeignAccountProxyAtHost(ctx, hostname, settings.AccountID)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("check proxy cluster ownership: %w", err)
}
if foreign {
return errForeignCluster(hostname)
}
settings.Domain = hostname
settings.ProxyAddress = hostname
if err := m.store.CreateAgentNetworkSettings(ctx, settings); err != nil {
@@ -1062,7 +1051,7 @@ func (m *managerImpl) bootstrapSelfAddressed(ctx context.Context, settings *type
}
return fmt.Errorf("create agent network settings: %w", err)
}
return m.confirmGatewayClusterOwnership(ctx, settings)
return nil
}
// validateGatewayCluster rejects a labeled bootstrap pinned to a cluster that
@@ -1078,10 +1067,10 @@ func (m *managerImpl) bootstrapSelfAddressed(ctx context.Context, settings *type
// the `private` capability, the same flag the dashboard renders as
// supports_private when it gates NetBird-only services.
//
// Without this check the bootstrap happily pins to any hostname the caller
// names, including a cluster the account cannot use or one with no embedded
// proxy — and the endpoint it allocates is immutable, so the account is left
// with a dead gateway that only a DeleteSettings/re-bootstrap can undo.
// Without this check the bootstrap happily pins to any cluster the caller
// names, including one with no embedded proxy — and the endpoint it allocates
// is immutable, so the account is left with a dead gateway that only a
// DeleteSettings/re-bootstrap can undo.
//
// Whether management knows the cluster is decided on the proxy rows
// themselves, never on how fresh their heartbeats are: a cluster's rows
@@ -1094,23 +1083,6 @@ func (m *managerImpl) bootstrapSelfAddressed(ctx context.Context, settings *type
// all: pinning ahead of a proxy's first connection is a legitimate order — the
// dedicated path claims an address the same way, before any proxy declares it.
func (m *managerImpl) validateGatewayCluster(ctx context.Context, accountID, clusterAddr string) error {
// Ownership is decided first, before anything the account's own view can
// answer. A host another account's proxy declares is refused even when
// this account has a row for it too: two accounts claiming one hostname is
// the ambiguity the connect-time conflict check exists to prevent, and the
// endpoint pinned here cannot be moved afterwards, so the ambiguous case
// has to fail closed. Asking the account's view first would skip this
// whenever the account had any row of its own, which is exactly when a
// collision is worth catching. Shared proxies are not foreign — they are
// what most accounts pin to.
foreign, err := m.store.HasForeignAccountProxyAtHost(ctx, clusterAddr, accountID)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("check proxy cluster ownership: %w", err)
}
if foreign {
return errForeignCluster(clusterAddr)
}
declared, err := m.accountClusterSpellings(ctx, accountID, clusterAddr)
if err != nil {
return err
@@ -1146,16 +1118,13 @@ func (m *managerImpl) validateGatewayCluster(ctx context.Context, accountID, clu
// host as clusterAddr. Empty means management holds no proxy row for that host
// in this account's view.
//
// Addresses are canonicalised where they are written (canonicalProxyAddress on
// the proxy-connect path), so a stored spelling normally is the normalised
// form. Identity is still compared on the normalised form rather than
// byte-equal, which costs nothing here — this is an in-memory pass over the
// account's clusters, not a query — and covers a row written before that
// landed. What comes back is the stored spelling either way, because the
// capability lookup matches cluster_address exactly and would silently find
// nothing under a spelling the store never held. The cluster listing is not
// gated on heartbeats, so this answer does not change while a cluster's
// proxies are merely offline.
// A proxy declares its cluster address as the operator spelled it, so identity
// is compared on the normalised form rather than byte-equal — an in-memory pass
// over the account's clusters, not a query. What comes back is the stored
// spelling, because the capability lookup matches cluster_address exactly and
// would silently find nothing under a spelling the store never held. The
// cluster listing is not gated on heartbeats, so this answer does not change
// while a cluster's proxies are merely offline.
func (m *managerImpl) accountClusterSpellings(ctx context.Context, accountID, clusterAddr string) ([]string, error) {
clusters, err := m.store.GetProxyClusters(ctx, accountID)
if err != nil {
@@ -1237,40 +1206,10 @@ func (m *managerImpl) bootstrapLabeled(ctx context.Context, settings *types.Sett
}
return fmt.Errorf("create agent network settings: %w", err)
}
return m.confirmGatewayClusterOwnership(ctx, settings)
}
return fmt.Errorf("allocate agent network endpoint for account %s: %d attempts exhausted", settings.AccountID, maxDomainAllocationAttempts)
}
// confirmGatewayClusterOwnership re-reads ownership once the settings row is
// committed and withdraws the row if another account's proxy now declares the
// host; see proxy.ErrClusterAddressUnavailable for why the re-read is what
// closes the race with a concurrent proxy registration. Only ownership is
// re-read: the capability check is about what the cluster can do, not who
// holds it, and does not race a claim.
func (m *managerImpl) confirmGatewayClusterOwnership(ctx context.Context, settings *types.Settings) error {
foreign, err := m.store.HasForeignAccountProxyAtHost(ctx, settings.ProxyAddress, settings.AccountID)
if err == nil && !foreign {
return nil
}
if delErr := m.store.DeleteAgentNetworkSettings(ctx, settings.AccountID); delErr != nil {
log.WithContext(ctx).Errorf("failed to withdraw agent network settings for account %s after losing the claim on %s: %v",
settings.AccountID, settings.ProxyAddress, delErr)
}
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("confirm proxy cluster ownership: %w", err)
}
log.WithContext(ctx).Warnf("proxy cluster %s was claimed by another account while account %s bootstrapped onto it, withdrawing the pin",
settings.ProxyAddress, settings.AccountID)
return errForeignCluster(settings.ProxyAddress)
}
// errForeignCluster is the refusal for a cluster another account's proxy
// declares, worded the same whether it is caught before or after the insert.
func errForeignCluster(clusterAddr string) error {
return status.Errorf(status.InvalidArgument, "proxy cluster %s is not available to this account", clusterAddr)
return fmt.Errorf("allocate agent network endpoint for account %s: %d attempts exhausted", settings.AccountID, maxDomainAllocationAttempts)
}
// isUniqueConstraintError reports whether err is a database unique-constraint