fix(cache): web UI can read what the display service caches again (#593)

* fix(cache): web UI can read what the display service caches again

ledmatrix-web.service carried CacheDirectory=ledmatrix. With User= set to
the installing user, systemd re-owns /var/cache/ledmatrix and everything
in it to that user and its primary group whenever the directory's owner
differs -- for a directory root created, on the first start. That erased
the root:ledmatrix setgid layout the installers set up, so every file the
display service (root) wrote afterwards was root:root 0660 and unreadable
by the web interface:

  WARNING - Permission denied loading cache for display_current_state ...

Since #547 install_service.sh renders the web unit from the template, so
every fresh install hit this. Measured on one rig: 392 unreadable files,
and the web UI's display status, on-demand state and plugin health empty.

Existing installs only receive `git pull`, never a reinstalled unit, so
the fix for them is in the code the root display service runs:

- DiskCache.set gives each file the directory's group (when the directory
  is group-writable) and 0660 on the open descriptor before the rename,
  independent of setgid. This also closes a window where a fresh file was
  visible as mkstemp's 0600.
- DiskCache.share_existing_files repairs files an older version left
  behind, once per process from the cleanup thread. It works through
  O_NOFOLLOW descriptors and skips hard links and other users' files: the
  directory is writable by the web user, and root must not be steered
  into changing a file outside it.

For new installs, the web unit drops CacheDirectory=/CacheDirectoryMode=,
and install_web_service.sh stops replacing an existing directory's
ledmatrix group with the user's group.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(web): on-demand and current-display status read the display's latest state

Found testing the cache-permission fix on a rig: once the web interface
could read display_on_demand_state at all, /display/on-demand/status kept
answering "active" for over 100 seconds while the file on disk said
"idle". Both status routes read the display service's keys through the
web process's memory tier, which serves the first copy it read for the
full max_age (120s). Read them with memory_ttl=0, as every other
cross-process reader (plugin health/metrics, the on-demand mailbox)
already does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

* fix(install): re-group the cache dir whenever the web user is outside its group

install_web_service.sh replaced an existing cache directory's group only
when it was root's. A directory in any other group the web user is not a
member of -- root:ledmatrix, for a user who is not in ledmatrix -- was left
alone, and every file root wrote there stayed unreadable to the web
interface. Replace the group whenever the installing user is not in it.

A directory whose group the user is already in (ledmatrix, or the user's
own group where CacheDirectory= left it) is still left as it is: re-grouping
a working directory strands the files already in it on the old group.

When the group does change and root-owned JSON files carrying the old group
are present, try-restart ledmatrix.service so DiskCache.share_existing_files
re-groups them through its symlink- and hard-link-safe path, rather than a
recursive chgrp.

Verified under WSL's systemd for seven directory states (user group,
ledmatrix member, ledmatrix non-member with and without root files,
root:root, missing, unnamed gid); the previous version left the non-member
case unchanged.

Addresses CodeRabbit review on #593.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

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Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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"""Tests that the web interface can read what the display service caches.
The display service runs as root and the web interface as the installing user;
cache files are 0660, so the web interface reads them only through their group.
The installers made that the directory's group via setgid, but the web unit's
CacheDirectory= let systemd re-own /var/cache/ledmatrix to the web user and its
primary group on first start, erasing it. Every file root wrote afterwards was
root:root 0660:
WARNING - Permission denied loading cache for display_current_state from
/var/cache/ledmatrix/display_current_state.json: [Errno 13] Permission denied
Measured on one rig: 365 unreadable files, and the web UI's display status,
on-demand state and plugin health all silently empty.
Most of these need POSIX ownership calls, so they skip on Windows. The ones
that only make sense as root (another user reading, another user's files) skip
without it; run them with `sudo python3 -m pytest test/test_cache_shared_group.py`.
"""
import os
import shutil
import stat
import tempfile
import time
from pathlib import Path
import pytest
from src.cache import disk_cache as disk_cache_module
from src.cache.disk_cache import DiskCache
posix_only = pytest.mark.skipif(
not hasattr(os, 'fchown') or not hasattr(os, 'geteuid'),
reason="needs POSIX file ownership")
IS_ROOT = hasattr(os, 'geteuid') and os.geteuid() == 0
root_only = pytest.mark.skipif(not IS_ROOT, reason="needs root")
# Ids nothing on a test host is likely to use, for root-only scenarios.
OTHER_GID = 48213
OTHER_UID = 48214
def _another_group():
"""A group this process may chown its files to, other than its own."""
if IS_ROOT:
return OTHER_GID
for gid in os.getgroups():
if gid != os.getegid():
return gid
pytest.skip("process belongs to no supplementary group")
def _shared_dir(path, gid, mode=0o775):
"""The rig's broken layout: group-writable, no setgid, a foreign group."""
os.chown(path, -1, gid)
os.chmod(path, mode)
assert not os.stat(path).st_mode & stat.S_ISGID
return path
@posix_only
class TestNewFilesTakeTheDirectoryGroup:
def test_without_setgid(self, tmp_path):
gid = _another_group()
cache = DiskCache(str(_shared_dir(tmp_path, gid)))
cache.set('display_current_state', {'mode': 'clock'})
st = os.stat(tmp_path / 'display_current_state.json')
assert st.st_gid == gid
assert stat.S_IMODE(st.st_mode) == 0o660
def test_the_file_is_never_visible_with_a_narrower_mode(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
"""mkstemp creates 0600; the rename used to publish it before the chmod."""
gid = _another_group()
cache = DiskCache(str(_shared_dir(tmp_path, gid)))
seen = []
real_replace = os.replace
def spy(src, dst):
st = os.stat(src)
seen.append((stat.S_IMODE(st.st_mode), st.st_gid))
return real_replace(src, dst)
monkeypatch.setattr(disk_cache_module.os, 'replace', spy)
cache.set('k', {'v': 1})
assert seen == [(0o660, gid)]
def test_a_rewrite_fixes_a_file_left_with_the_wrong_group(self, tmp_path):
gid = _another_group()
cache = DiskCache(str(_shared_dir(tmp_path, gid)))
path = tmp_path / 'k.json'
path.write_text('{}')
os.chown(path, -1, os.getegid())
cache.set('k', {'v': 2})
assert os.stat(path).st_gid == gid
def test_the_direct_write_fallback_shares_too(self, tmp_path, monkeypatch):
gid = _another_group()
cache = DiskCache(str(_shared_dir(tmp_path, gid)))
def no_temp(*args, **kwargs):
raise OSError("no temp files")
monkeypatch.setattr(disk_cache_module.tempfile, 'mkstemp', no_temp)
cache.set('k', {'v': 3})
st = os.stat(tmp_path / 'k.json')
assert (stat.S_IMODE(st.st_mode), st.st_gid) == (0o660, gid)
def test_a_directory_not_shared_with_its_group_is_left_alone(self, tmp_path):
gid = _another_group()
cache = DiskCache(str(_shared_dir(tmp_path, gid, mode=0o755)))
cache.set('k', {'v': 4})
assert os.stat(tmp_path / 'k.json').st_gid == os.getegid()
@posix_only
class TestExistingFilesAreRepaired:
def test_a_root_style_file_becomes_readable(self, tmp_path):
gid = _another_group()
cache = DiskCache(str(_shared_dir(tmp_path, gid)))
path = tmp_path / 'display_on_demand_state.json'
path.write_text('{}')
os.chown(path, -1, os.getegid())
os.chmod(path, 0o600)
assert cache.share_existing_files() == 1
st = os.stat(path)
assert (stat.S_IMODE(st.st_mode), st.st_gid) == (0o660, gid)
def test_files_already_shared_are_not_counted(self, tmp_path):
gid = _another_group()
cache = DiskCache(str(_shared_dir(tmp_path, gid)))
cache.set('k', {'v': 1})
assert cache.share_existing_files() == 0
def test_only_json_files(self, tmp_path):
gid = _another_group()
cache = DiskCache(str(_shared_dir(tmp_path, gid)))
other = tmp_path / 'tile.png'
other.write_bytes(b'x')
os.chown(other, -1, os.getegid())
cache.share_existing_files()
assert os.stat(other).st_gid == os.getegid()
def test_a_symlink_is_not_followed(self, tmp_path):
"""The directory is writable by the web user; root must not be aimed elsewhere."""
gid = _another_group()
cache_dir = tmp_path / 'cache'
cache_dir.mkdir()
_shared_dir(cache_dir, gid)
outside = tmp_path / 'outside'
outside.write_text('secret')
os.chown(outside, -1, os.getegid())
os.chmod(outside, 0o600)
(cache_dir / 'evil.json').symlink_to(outside)
assert DiskCache(str(cache_dir)).share_existing_files() == 0
st = os.stat(outside)
assert (stat.S_IMODE(st.st_mode), st.st_gid) == (0o600, os.getegid())
def test_a_hard_linked_file_is_skipped(self, tmp_path):
gid = _another_group()
cache_dir = tmp_path / 'cache'
cache_dir.mkdir()
_shared_dir(cache_dir, gid)
outside = tmp_path / 'outside'
outside.write_text('secret')
os.chown(outside, -1, os.getegid())
os.chmod(outside, 0o600)
os.link(outside, cache_dir / 'linked.json')
assert DiskCache(str(cache_dir)).share_existing_files() == 0
assert stat.S_IMODE(os.stat(outside).st_mode) == 0o600
@root_only
def test_another_users_file_is_skipped(self, tmp_path):
cache = DiskCache(str(_shared_dir(tmp_path, OTHER_GID)))
path = tmp_path / 'theirs.json'
path.write_text('{}')
os.chown(path, OTHER_UID, 0)
os.chmod(path, 0o600)
assert cache.share_existing_files() == 0
assert os.stat(path).st_gid == 0
@posix_only
@root_only
def test_a_non_root_member_of_the_group_can_read_what_root_wrote():
"""The rig, end to end: root writes, the web user reads."""
# Not tmp_path: pytest's root-owned base directory is 0700, which the
# reader could not traverse no matter what the cache file's group was.
base = tempfile.mkdtemp()
try:
_root_writes_web_user_reads(Path(base))
finally:
shutil.rmtree(base, ignore_errors=True)
def _root_writes_web_user_reads(base):
os.chmod(base, 0o755)
cache_dir = base / 'cache'
cache_dir.mkdir()
# What systemd's CacheDirectory= left behind: the web user's own group.
os.chown(cache_dir, OTHER_UID, OTHER_GID)
os.chmod(cache_dir, 0o775)
DiskCache(str(cache_dir)).set('display_current_state', {'mode': 'clock'})
pid = os.fork()
if pid == 0: # pragma: no cover - child
code = 1
try:
os.setgroups([])
os.setgid(OTHER_GID)
os.setuid(OTHER_UID)
with open(cache_dir / 'display_current_state.json', 'rb') as f:
code = 0 if b'clock' in f.read() else 2
except PermissionError:
code = 13
finally:
os._exit(code)
_, status = os.waitpid(pid, 0)
assert os.WEXITSTATUS(status) == 0, "web user could not read the display's cache file"
def test_the_web_unit_does_not_let_systemd_re_own_the_cache():
template = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent / 'systemd' / 'ledmatrix-web.service'
directives = [line.strip() for line in template.read_text(encoding='utf-8').splitlines()
if line.strip() and not line.strip().startswith('#')]
offending = [d for d in directives if d.startswith(('CacheDirectory', 'StateDirectory'))]
assert not offending, (
f"{offending}: systemd re-owns that directory to the web user, and the "
"display service (root) shares it")
def test_the_cleanup_thread_repairs_existing_files(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
from src.cache_manager import CacheManager
calls = []
monkeypatch.setattr(CacheManager, '_get_writable_cache_dir', lambda self: str(tmp_path))
monkeypatch.setattr(DiskCache, 'share_existing_files',
lambda self: calls.append(self.cache_dir) or 0)
CacheManager._cleanup_owners.clear()
manager = CacheManager()
try:
deadline = time.monotonic() + 5
while not calls and time.monotonic() < deadline:
time.sleep(0.01)
finally:
manager.stop_cleanup_thread()
CacheManager._cleanup_owners.clear()
assert calls == [str(tmp_path)]
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"""Tests that the web UI reports the display's state as it is now.
The display service writes display_on_demand_state and display_current_state;
the web interface is a different process and can only see them on disk. Its
reads went through the cache's memory tier, which keeps the first copy read
for the full max_age (120s). Measured on a rig once the web interface could
read these files at all: /display/on-demand/status said "active" for over 100
seconds while the file on disk had said "idle" the whole time.
"""
import json
import pytest
from flask import Flask
import web_interface.blueprints.api_v3 as api_pkg
from src.cache_manager import CacheManager
@pytest.fixture
def two_processes(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
"""A display-side and a web-side cache over one directory, as on a rig."""
monkeypatch.setattr(CacheManager, '_get_writable_cache_dir', lambda self: str(tmp_path))
monkeypatch.setattr(CacheManager, 'start_cleanup_thread', lambda self: None)
display, web = CacheManager(), CacheManager()
monkeypatch.setattr(api_pkg, 'cache_manager', web)
monkeypatch.setattr(api_pkg, '_get_display_service_status', lambda: {'active': True})
return display
@pytest.fixture
def client():
app = Flask(__name__)
app.config['TESTING'] = True
if 'api_v3' not in app.blueprints:
app.register_blueprint(api_pkg.api_v3, url_prefix='/api/v3')
with app.test_client() as c:
yield c
def _get(client, url):
response = client.get(url)
assert response.status_code == 200
return json.loads(response.data)['data']
def test_on_demand_status_sees_the_stop_immediately(client, two_processes):
two_processes.set('display_on_demand_state', {'active': True, 'status': 'active'})
assert _get(client, '/api/v3/display/on-demand/status')['state']['status'] == 'active'
two_processes.set('display_on_demand_state', {'active': False, 'status': 'idle'})
assert _get(client, '/api/v3/display/on-demand/status')['state']['status'] == 'idle'
def test_current_status_sees_the_mode_change_immediately(client, two_processes):
two_processes.set('display_current_state', {'mode': 'odds_ticker'})
assert _get(client, '/api/v3/display/current-status')['mode'] == 'odds_ticker'
two_processes.set('display_current_state', {'mode': 'stocks'})
assert _get(client, '/api/v3/display/current-status')['mode'] == 'stocks'