fix(iam): decide unstorable IAM record names before asking the drives

Signed-off-by: Denis Babchuk <babchukdenis@icloud.com>

cmd/iam-long-dn_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+// Copyright (c) 2026 Denis Babchuk
+//
+// This file is part of Silo Object Storage stack
+//
+// This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+// it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+// (at your option) any later version.
+//
+// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+// GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+//
+// You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+// along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+package cmd
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"slices"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/pgsty/silo-pkg/v3/ldap"
+)
+
+// LDAP-mode IAM on one erasure set of the given number of drives.
+func prepareIAMLongNameFixture(t *testing.T, drives int) (context.Context, *IAMSys) {
+	t.Helper()
+	resetTestGlobals()
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	obj, disks, err := prepareErasure(ctx, drives)
+	if err != nil {
+		cancel()
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	initAllSubsystems(ctx)
+	globalIAMSys.SetUsersSysType(LDAPUsersSysType)
+	globalIAMSys.initStore(obj, nil)
+	t.Cleanup(func() {
+		cancel()
+		obj.Shutdown(context.Background())
+		removeRoots(disks)
+		resetTestGlobals()
+	})
+	mustIAM(t, globalIAMSys.Load(ctx, true))
+	return ctx, globalIAMSys
+}
+
+// A normalized LDAP DN hex-escapes every non-ASCII byte, so a typical
+// Cyrillic DN names IAM records with a path element longer than NAME_MAX.
+// No drive can hold such a record. Reads must find nothing and writes must
+// fail as name-too-long, on an erasure set exactly as on a single drive,
+// where the drive's own error says so.
+func TestIAMLongNameRecordsOnErasureSet(t *testing.T) {
+	norm := func(dn string) string {
+		t.Helper()
+		n, err := ldap.NormalizeDN(dn)
+		mustIAM(t, err)
+		return n
+	}
+	longDN := norm("cn=Иванов Иван Иванович,ou=Особый Отдел,ou=Центральный Офис,dc=intra,dc=net")
+	shortDN := norm("cn=Petrov,ou=Users,dc=intra,dc=net")
+	group := norm("cn=Storage Users,ou=Groups,dc=intra,dc=net")
+	longPolicyPath := getMappedPolicyPath(longDN, stsUser, false)
+	longParentPath := getUserIdentityPath(longDN, regUser)
+	if len(longDN) <= 255 || checkPathLength(longPolicyPath) != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("normalized DN must exceed NAME_MAX yet pass checkPathLength: %d characters, %v", len(longDN), checkPathLength(longPolicyPath))
+	}
+
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		name   string
+		drives int
+	}{
+		{"single drive", 1},
+		{"erasure set", 16},
+	} {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			ctx, sys := prepareIAMLongNameFixture(t, tc.drives)
+			store := sys.store.IAMStorageAPI
+			_, err := sys.PolicyDBSet(ctx, group, "readonly", regUser, true)
+			mustIAM(t, err)
+			// Create the parent directories on every drive, so that the
+			// filesystem itself rejects the long element.
+			_, err = sys.PolicyDBSet(ctx, shortDN, "readwrite", stsUser, false)
+			mustIAM(t, err)
+			mustIAM(t, saveIAMRevision(ctx, store, getUserIdentityPath("existing-user", regUser), &iamUserRevocation{}))
+
+			lookup := func(stage string) {
+				t.Helper()
+				// AssumeRoleWithLDAPIdentity: the parent revision and the
+				// policy mapping of the DN.
+				if r, err := loadIAMRevision(ctx, store, longParentPath); err != nil || !r.timestamp().IsZero() {
+					t.Errorf("%s: parent revision: %+v, %v", stage, r, err)
+				}
+				policies, err := sys.PolicyDBGet(longDN, group)
+				if err != nil {
+					t.Errorf("%s: policy lookup: %v", stage, err)
+				} else if !slices.Equal(policies, []string{"readonly"}) {
+					t.Errorf("%s: got policies %v, want the group policy only", stage, policies)
+				}
+			}
+			lookup("before writes")
+
+			_, err = sys.PolicyDBSet(ctx, longDN, "readwrite", stsUser, false)
+			if !iamConfigNameTooLong(longPolicyPath, err) {
+				t.Errorf("attach to the long DN: got %v, want a name-too-long error", err)
+			}
+			if err := saveIAMRevision(ctx, store, longParentPath, &iamUserRevocation{}); !iamConfigNameTooLong(longParentPath, err) {
+				t.Errorf("revocation of the long DN: got %v, want a name-too-long error", err)
+			}
+			// Detaching writes a tombstone, which cannot be stored either.
+			if _, err := sys.PolicyDBSet(ctx, longDN, "", stsUser, false); !iamConfigNameTooLong(longPolicyPath, err) {
+				t.Errorf("detach from the long DN: got %v, want a name-too-long error", err)
+			}
+			lookup("after writes")
+		})
+	}
+}

cmd/iam-object-store.go

@@ -87,6 +87,10 @@ func (iamOS *IAMObjectStore) getUsersSysType() UsersSysType {
 }
 
 func (iamOS *IAMObjectStore) saveIAMConfig(ctx context.Context, item any, objPath string, opts ...options) error {
+	if iamConfigNameUnstorable(objPath) {
+		// What a single drive reports for the same key.
+		return ObjectNameInvalid{Bucket: minioMetaBucket, Object: objPath}
+	}
 	json := jsoniter.ConfigCompatibleWithStandardLibrary
 	data, err := json.Marshal(item)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -141,15 +145,15 @@ func decryptData(ctx context.Context, data []byte, objPath string) ([]byte, erro
 	return nil, err
 }
 
-// iamConfigNameTooLong identifies length errors for valid keys with an ASCII
+// iamConfigNameUnstorable identifies valid keys with an ASCII component that
-// component that cannot be stored. Normalized LDAP DNs escape non-ASCII bytes.
+// cannot be stored. Normalized LDAP DNs escape non-ASCII bytes. Byte length
-// Byte length alone is insufficient for Unicode filenames on macOS/Windows,
+// alone is insufficient for Unicode filenames on macOS/Windows, and a
-// and a total-path limit can make an existing record unreadable after a move.
+// total-path limit can make an existing record unreadable after a move.
-func iamConfigNameTooLong(objPath string, err error) bool {
+//
-	var invalid ObjectNameInvalid
+// The drives must not be asked about such a key: on an erasure set each one
-	if !errors.Is(err, errFileNameTooLong) && !errors.As(err, &invalid) {
+// fails with its own ENAMETOOLONG path error, the errors never agree, and the
-		return false
+// object layer reports a read or write quorum failure instead of the length.
-	}
+func iamConfigNameUnstorable(objPath string) bool {
 	if checkBucketAndObjectNames(context.Background(), minioMetaBucket, objPath) != nil {
 		return false
 	}
@@ -161,14 +165,23 @@ func iamConfigNameTooLong(objPath string, err error) bool {
 	return false
 }
 
+// iamConfigNameTooLong identifies length errors for unstorable keys.
+func iamConfigNameTooLong(objPath string, err error) bool {
+	var invalid ObjectNameInvalid
+	if !errors.Is(err, errFileNameTooLong) && !errors.As(err, &invalid) {
+		return false
+	}
+	return iamConfigNameUnstorable(objPath)
+}
+
 func (iamOS *IAMObjectStore) loadIAMConfigBytesWithMetadata(ctx context.Context, objPath string) ([]byte, ObjectInfo, error) {
-	data, meta, err := readConfigWithMetadata(ctx, iamOS.objAPI, objPath, ObjectOptions{})
+	if iamConfigNameUnstorable(objPath) {
-	if err != nil {
-		if iamConfigNameTooLong(objPath, err) {
 		// A missing record, not a storage failure: lookups of the
 		// identity proceed, while saving its record still fails.
-			err = errConfigNotFound
+		return nil, ObjectInfo{}, errConfigNotFound
 	}
+	data, meta, err := readConfigWithMetadata(ctx, iamOS.objAPI, objPath, ObjectOptions{})
+	if err != nil {
 		return nil, meta, err
 	}
 	data, err = decryptData(ctx, data, objPath)