tailscale/tka/builder.go
Will Norris 3ec5be3f51 all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it
This file was never truly necessary and has never actually been used in
the history of Tailscale's open source releases.

A Brief History of AUTHORS files
---

The AUTHORS file was a pattern developed at Google, originally for
Chromium, then adopted by Go and a bunch of other projects. The problem
was that Chromium originally had a copyright line only recognizing
Google as the copyright holder. Because Google (and most open source
projects) do not require copyright assignemnt for contributions, each
contributor maintains their copyright. Some large corporate contributors
then tried to add their own name to the copyright line in the LICENSE
file or in file headers. This quickly becomes unwieldy, and puts a
tremendous burden on anyone building on top of Chromium, since the
license requires that they keep all copyright lines intact.

The compromise was to create an AUTHORS file that would list all of the
copyright holders. The LICENSE file and source file headers would then
include that list by reference, listing the copyright holder as "The
Chromium Authors".

This also become cumbersome to simply keep the file up to date with a
high rate of new contributors. Plus it's not always obvious who the
copyright holder is. Sometimes it is the individual making the
contribution, but many times it may be their employer. There is no way
for the proejct maintainer to know.

Eventually, Google changed their policy to no longer recommend trying to
keep the AUTHORS file up to date proactively, and instead to only add to
it when requested: https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/authors.
They are also clear that:

> Adding contributors to the AUTHORS file is entirely within the
> project's discretion and has no implications for copyright ownership.

It was primarily added to appease a small number of large contributors
that insisted that they be recognized as copyright holders (which was
entirely their right to do). But it's not truly necessary, and not even
the most accurate way of identifying contributors and/or copyright
holders.

In practice, we've never added anyone to our AUTHORS file. It only lists
Tailscale, so it's not really serving any purpose. It also causes
confusion because Tailscalars put the "Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS" header
in other open source repos which don't actually have an AUTHORS file, so
it's ambiguous what that means.

Instead, we just acknowledge that the contributors to Tailscale (whoever
they are) are copyright holders for their individual contributions. We
also have the benefit of using the DCO (developercertificate.org) which
provides some additional certification of their right to make the
contribution.

The source file changes were purely mechanical with:

    git ls-files | xargs sed -i -e 's/\(Tailscale Inc &\) AUTHORS/\1 contributors/g'

Updates #cleanup

Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00

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// Copyright (c) Tailscale Inc & contributors
// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
//go:build !ts_omit_tailnetlock
package tka
import (
"fmt"
"os"
"tailscale.com/types/tkatype"
)
// Types implementing Signer can sign update messages.
type Signer interface {
// SignAUM returns signatures for the AUM encoded by the given AUMSigHash.
SignAUM(tkatype.AUMSigHash) ([]tkatype.Signature, error)
}
// UpdateBuilder implements a builder for changes to the tailnet
// key authority.
//
// Finalize must be called to compute the update messages, which
// must then be applied to all Authority objects using Inform().
type UpdateBuilder struct {
a *Authority
signer Signer
state State
parent AUMHash
out []AUM
}
func (b *UpdateBuilder) mkUpdate(update AUM) error {
prevHash := make([]byte, len(b.parent))
copy(prevHash, b.parent[:])
update.PrevAUMHash = prevHash
if b.signer != nil {
sigs, err := b.signer.SignAUM(update.SigHash())
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("signing failed: %v", err)
}
update.Signatures = append(update.Signatures, sigs...)
}
if err := update.StaticValidate(); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("generated update was invalid: %v", err)
}
state, err := b.state.applyVerifiedAUM(update)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("update cannot be applied: %v", err)
}
b.state = state
b.parent = update.Hash()
b.out = append(b.out, update)
return nil
}
// AddKey adds a new key to the authority.
func (b *UpdateBuilder) AddKey(key Key) error {
keyID, err := key.ID()
if err != nil {
return err
}
if _, err := b.state.GetKey(keyID); err == nil {
return fmt.Errorf("cannot add key %v: already exists", key)
}
if len(b.state.Keys) >= maxKeys {
return fmt.Errorf("cannot add key %v: maximum number of keys reached", key)
}
return b.mkUpdate(AUM{MessageKind: AUMAddKey, Key: &key})
}
// RemoveKey removes a key from the authority.
func (b *UpdateBuilder) RemoveKey(keyID tkatype.KeyID) error {
if _, err := b.state.GetKey(keyID); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("failed reading key %x: %v", keyID, err)
}
return b.mkUpdate(AUM{MessageKind: AUMRemoveKey, KeyID: keyID})
}
// SetKeyVote updates the number of votes of an existing key.
func (b *UpdateBuilder) SetKeyVote(keyID tkatype.KeyID, votes uint) error {
if _, err := b.state.GetKey(keyID); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("failed reading key %x: %v", keyID, err)
}
return b.mkUpdate(AUM{MessageKind: AUMUpdateKey, Votes: &votes, KeyID: keyID})
}
// SetKeyMeta updates key-value metadata stored against an existing key.
//
// TODO(tom): Provide an API to update specific values rather than the whole
// map.
func (b *UpdateBuilder) SetKeyMeta(keyID tkatype.KeyID, meta map[string]string) error {
if _, err := b.state.GetKey(keyID); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("failed reading key %x: %v", keyID, err)
}
return b.mkUpdate(AUM{MessageKind: AUMUpdateKey, Meta: meta, KeyID: keyID})
}
func (b *UpdateBuilder) generateCheckpoint() error {
// Compute the checkpoint state.
state := b.a.state
for i, update := range b.out {
var err error
if state, err = state.applyVerifiedAUM(update); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("applying update %d: %v", i, err)
}
}
// Checkpoints can't specify a parent AUM.
state.LastAUMHash = nil
return b.mkUpdate(AUM{MessageKind: AUMCheckpoint, State: &state})
}
// checkpointEvery sets how often a checkpoint AUM should be generated.
const checkpointEvery = 50
// Finalize returns the set of update message to actuate the update.
func (b *UpdateBuilder) Finalize(storage Chonk) ([]AUM, error) {
var (
needCheckpoint bool = true
cursor AUMHash = b.a.Head()
)
for i := len(b.out); i < checkpointEvery; i++ {
aum, err := storage.AUM(cursor)
if err != nil {
if err == os.ErrNotExist {
// The available chain is shorter than the interval to checkpoint at.
needCheckpoint = false
break
}
return nil, fmt.Errorf("reading AUM (%v): %v", cursor, err)
}
if aum.MessageKind == AUMCheckpoint {
needCheckpoint = false
break
}
parent, hasParent := aum.Parent()
if !hasParent {
// We've hit the genesis update, so the chain is shorter than the interval to checkpoint at.
needCheckpoint = false
break
}
cursor = parent
}
if needCheckpoint {
if err := b.generateCheckpoint(); err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("generating checkpoint: %v", err)
}
}
// Check no AUMs were applied in the meantime
if len(b.out) > 0 {
if parent, _ := b.out[0].Parent(); parent != b.a.Head() {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("updates no longer apply to head: based on %x but head is %x", parent, b.a.Head())
}
}
return b.out, nil
}
// NewUpdater returns a builder you can use to make changes to
// the tailnet key authority.
//
// The provided signer function, if non-nil, is called with each update
// to compute and apply signatures.
//
// Updates are specified by calling methods on the returned UpdatedBuilder.
// Call Finalize() when you are done to obtain the specific update messages
// which actuate the changes.
func (a *Authority) NewUpdater(signer Signer) *UpdateBuilder {
return &UpdateBuilder{
a: a,
signer: signer,
parent: a.Head(),
state: a.state,
}
}