1 Commits
Author SHA1 Message Date
James Tucker 6072693e91 ssh/tailssh: relay Unix forward payloads as the bound user
Keep the dialed service socket in the credentialed forwarding child and return a private socketpair endpoint instead. Passing the service socket to tailscaled preserves connect-time peer credentials but causes payload SCM_CREDENTIALS to identify the root daemon.

Keep dial children alive for bidirectional forwarding. Return a lifetime
pipe alongside the data socket so full closure or a discarded dial reply
ends the relay independently of data EOF. Preserve half-closes and the
monitor's descriptor acknowledgment/teardown ownership for both fds.
Listener children retain their existing descriptor handoff behavior.

Handle local Unix forwarding channel closure independently of the SSH
connection: the channel request stream closes on CHANNEL_CLOSE, not
CHANNEL_EOF. Stop waiting for service output while giving queued client
payload a bounded drain in each forwarding stage, so a silent or
non-reading service cannot retain the relay indefinitely.

Test relay exit/reaping with silent services, discarded replies, queued
payload and backpressure, including end-to-end SSH channel closure while
the transport stays connected. Fix a canary test's unsynchronized marker
assertion to wait for the reporting goroutine.

Add a root-run cross-UID SO_PASSCRED regression test and lifecycle coverage for both half-close directions and monitor shutdown with an idle relay.

Updates tailscale/corp#50380

Signed-off-by: James Tucker <james@tailscale.com>
Change-Id: I54b8ddf02b9d82434e474fea2ec283c0e39fab3e
2026-10-26 11:34:49 -07:00