Teach gitlab-workhorse to serve requests to get raw blobs

Currently GitLab serves requests to get raw blobs via Ruby-on-Rails code and
Unicorn. Because RoR/Unicorn is relatively heavyweight, in environment where
there are a lot of simultaneous requests to get raw blobs, this works very slow
and server is constantly overloaded.

On the other hand, to get raw blob content, we do not need anything from RoR
framework - we only need to have access to project git repository on filesystem,
and knowing whether access for getting data from there should be granted or
not. That means it is possible to handle '.../raw/....' request directly
in more lightweight and performant gitlab-workhorse.

As gitlab-workhorse is written in Go, and Go has good concurrency/parallelism
support and is generally much faster than Ruby, moving raw blob serving task to
it makes sense and should be a net win.

In this patch: we add infrastructure to process GET request for '/raw/...':

- extract project / ref and path from URL
- query auth backend for whether download access should be granted or not
- emit blob content via spawning external `git cat-file`

I've tried to mimic the output to be as close as the one emitted by RoR code,
with the idea that for users the change should be transparent.

As in this patch we do auth backend query for every request to get a blob, RoR
code is still loaded very much, so essentially there is no speedup yet:

  (on a 8-CPU i7-3770S with 16GB of RAM, 2001:67c:1254:e:89::fa34 is on localhost)

  # without patch: request eventually goes to unicorn  (9 unicorn workers)
  $ ./wrk -c40 -d10 -t1 --latency http://[2001:67c:1254:e:89::fa34]:7777/root/slapos/raw/master/software/wendelin/software.cfg
  Running 10s test @ http://[2001:67c:1254:e:89::fa34]:7777/root/slapos/raw/master/software/wendelin/software.cfg
    1 threads and 40 connections
    Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
      Latency   609.34ms  156.92ms   1.18s    79.60%
      Req/Sec    64.22     19.90   120.00     67.00%
    Latency Distribution
       50%  596.50ms
       75%  678.23ms
       90%  805.72ms
       99%    1.04s
    642 requests in 10.01s, 1.24MB read
  Requests/sec:     64.16
  Transfer/sec:    127.00KB

  # with this patch: request handled by gitlab-workhorse
  $ ./wrk -c40 -d10 -t1 --latency http://[2001:67c:1254:e:89::fa34]:7777/root/slapos/raw/master/software/wendelin/software.cfg
  Running 10s test @ http://[2001:67c:1254:e:89::fa34]:7777/root/slapos/raw/master/software/wendelin/software.cfg
    1 threads and 40 connections
    Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
      Latency   622.99ms  200.08ms   1.40s    77.03%
      Req/Sec    62.65     22.37   120.00     55.00%
    Latency Distribution
       50%  589.51ms
       75%  726.88ms
       90%  896.09ms
       99%    1.18s
    626 requests in 10.01s, 1.11MB read
  Requests/sec:     62.55
  Transfer/sec:    113.73KB

In the next patch we'll cache requests to auth backend and that will improve
performance dramatically.

internal/api/auth.go

+// API calls related to authentication
+package api
+
+import (
+	"../helper"
+	"fmt"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+)
+
+// Reply from auth backend, e.g. for "download from repo" authorization request
+type AuthReply struct {
+	// raw reply from auth backend & PreAuthorizeHandler().
+	// recorded so we can replay it to client in full
+	// if e.g. access is rejected.
+	RawReply *httptest.ResponseRecorder
+
+	// decoded auth reply
+	Response
+}
+
+// Ask auth backend about whether download is ok for a project.
+// Authorization is approved if AuthReply.RepoPath != "" on return
+// Raw auth backend response is emitted to AuthReply.RawReply
+func (a *API) VerifyDownloadAccess(project, query string, header http.Header) AuthReply {
+	authReply := AuthReply{
+		RawReply: httptest.NewRecorder(),
+	}
+
+	// Request to auth backend to verify whether download is possible.
+	// - first option is via asking as `git fetch` would do, but on Rails
+	//   side this supports only basic auth, not private token.
+	// - that's why we auth backend to authenticate as if it was request to
+	//   get repo archive and propagate request query and header.
+	// url := project + ".git/info/refs?service=git-upload-pack"
+	url := project + "/repository/archive.zip"
+	if query != "" {
+		url += "?" + query
+	}
+	reqDownloadAccess, err := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		helper.Fail500(authReply.RawReply, fmt.Errorf("GET git-upload-pack: %v", err))
+		return authReply
+	}
+	for k, v := range header {
+		reqDownloadAccess.Header[k] = v
+	}
+
+	a.PreAuthorizeHandler(
+		func(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request, resp *Response) {
+			// if we ever get to this point - auth handler approved
+			// access and thus it is ok to download
+			authReply.Response = *resp
+		}, "").ServeHTTP(authReply.RawReply, reqDownloadAccess)
+
+	return authReply
+}

internal/git/blob.go

+// Handler for raw blob downloads
+//
+// Blobs are read via `git cat-file ...` with first querying authentication
+// backend about download-access permission for containing repository.
+
+package git
+
+import (
+	"../api"
+	"../helper"
+	"bufio"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"log"
+	"net/http"
+	"regexp"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// HTTP handler for `.../raw/<ref>/path`
+func GetBlobRaw(a *api.API) http.Handler {
+	return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		handleGetBlobRaw(a, w, r)
+	})
+}
+
+var rawRe = regexp.MustCompile(`/raw/`)
+
+func handleGetBlobRaw(a *api.API, w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+	// Extract project & refpath
+	// <project>/raw/branch/file -> <project>, branch/file
+	u := r.URL
+	rawLoc := rawRe.FindStringIndex(u.Path)
+	if rawLoc == nil {
+		helper.Fail500(w, errors.New("extract project name"))
+		return
+	}
+	project := u.Path[:rawLoc[0]]
+	refpath := u.Path[rawLoc[1]:]
+
+	// Query download access auth for this project
+	authReply := a.VerifyDownloadAccess(project, u.RawQuery, r.Header)
+	if authReply.RepoPath == "" {
+		// access denied - copy auth reply to client in full -
+		// there are HTTP code and other headers / body relevant for
+		// about why access was denied.
+		for k, v := range authReply.RawReply.HeaderMap {
+			w.Header()[k] = v
+		}
+		w.WriteHeader(authReply.RawReply.Code)
+		_, err := io.Copy(w, authReply.RawReply.Body)
+		if err != nil {
+			helper.LogError(fmt.Errorf("writing authReply.RawReply.Body: %v", err))
+		}
+		return
+	}
+
+	// Access granted - we can emit the blob
+	emitBlob(w, authReply.RepoPath, refpath)
+}
+
+// Emit content of blob located at <ref>/path (jointly denoted as 'refpath') to output
+func emitBlob(w http.ResponseWriter, repopath string, refpath string) {
+	// Communicate with `git cat-file --batch` trying refs from longest
+	// to shortest prefix in refpath. This way we find longest-match for
+	// ref and get blob sha1 and content in the end.
+	queryCmd := gitCommand("", "git", "--git-dir="+repopath, "cat-file", "--batch")
+	queryStdin, err := queryCmd.StdinPipe()
+	if err != nil {
+		helper.Fail500(w, fmt.Errorf("git cat-file --batch; stdin: %v", err))
+		return
+	}
+	defer queryStdin.Close()
+	queryStdout, err := queryCmd.StdoutPipe()
+	if err != nil {
+		helper.Fail500(w, fmt.Errorf("git cat-file --batch; stdout: %v", err))
+		return
+	}
+	defer queryStdout.Close()
+	queryReader := bufio.NewReader(queryStdout)
+
+	err = queryCmd.Start()
+	if err != nil {
+		helper.Fail500(w, fmt.Errorf("git cat-file --batch; start: %v", err))
+		return
+	}
+	defer cleanUpProcessGroup(queryCmd)
+
+	// refpath components as vector
+	refpathv := strings.Split(refpath, "/")
+
+	// scan from right to left and try to change '/' -> ':' and see if it
+	// creates a correct git object name. If it does - we read object
+	// content which follows.
+	var sha1, type_ string
+	var size int64
+	for i := len(refpathv); i > 0; i-- {
+		ref := strings.Join(refpathv[:i], "/")
+		path := strings.Join(refpathv[i:], "/")
+		_, err := fmt.Fprintf(queryStdin, "%s:%s\n", ref, path)
+		if err != nil {
+			helper.Fail500(w, fmt.Errorf("git cat-file --batch; write: %v", err))
+			return
+		}
+
+		reply, err := queryReader.ReadString('\n')
+		if err != nil {
+			helper.Fail500(w, fmt.Errorf("git cat-file --batch; read: %v", err))
+			return
+		}
+
+		// <object> SP missing LF
+		if strings.HasSuffix(reply, " missing\n") {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		// <sha1> SP <type> SP <size> LF
+		_, err = fmt.Sscanf(reply, "%s %s %d\n", &sha1, &type_, &size)
+		if err != nil {
+			helper.Fail500(w, fmt.Errorf("git cat-file --batch; reply parse: %v", err))
+			return
+		}
+
+		if type_ != "blob" {
+			log.Printf("git cat-file --batch-check; %v is not blob (is %v)", sha1, type_)
+			sha1 = "" // so it will return 404
+		}
+
+		// git object found
+		break
+	}
+
+	// Blob not found -> 404
+	if sha1 == "" {
+		http.Error(w, fmt.Sprintf("Blob for %v not found", refpath), http.StatusNotFound)
+		return
+	}
+
+	// Blob found - start writing response
+	w.Header().Set("Content-Disposition", "inline")
+	w.Header().Set("Content-Transfer-Encoding", "binary")
+	w.Header().Set("Content-Length", fmt.Sprintf("%d", size))
+	w.Header().Set("X-Content-Type-Options", "nosniff")
+	// net/http sniffs stream and automatically detects and sets
+	// Content-Type header. We do not have to do it ourselves.
+
+	w.Header().Set("Cache-Control", "private") // Rails sets this for IE compatibility
+	w.Header().Set("ETag", fmt.Sprintf(`"%s"`, sha1))
+
+	w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK) // Don't bother with HTTP 500 from this point on, just return
+	// XXX better use queryStdout instead of queryReader, but we could be
+	// holding some tail bytes in queryReader after chat phase
+	_, err = io.CopyN(w, queryReader, size)
+	if err != nil {
+		helper.LogError(fmt.Errorf("io.CopyN: %v", err))
+		return
+	}
+
+	// close git stdin explicitly, so it can exit cleanly
+	err = queryStdin.Close()
+	if err != nil {
+		helper.LogError(fmt.Errorf("queryStdin.Close: %v", err))
+		return
+	}
+
+	err = queryCmd.Wait()
+	if err != nil {
+		helper.LogError(fmt.Errorf("wait: %v", err))
+		return
+	}
+}

internal/upstream/routes.go

@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ func (u *Upstream) configureRoutes() {
 		route{"GET", regexp.MustCompile(projectsAPIPattern + `repository/archive.tar.gz\z`), git.GetArchive(api)},
 		route{"GET", regexp.MustCompile(projectsAPIPattern + `repository/archive.tar.bz2\z`), git.GetArchive(api)},
 
+		// Raw blobs
+		route{"GET", regexp.MustCompile(projectPattern + `raw/`), git.GetBlobRaw(api)},
+
 		// CI Artifacts API
 		route{"POST", regexp.MustCompile(ciAPIPattern + `v1/builds/[0-9]+/artifacts\z`), contentEncodingHandler(upload.Artifacts(api, proxy))},
 

main_test.go

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"./internal/testhelper"
 	"./internal/upstream"
 	"bytes"
+	"crypto/sha1"
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
@@ -599,3 +600,139 @@ func repoPath(t *testing.T) string {
 	}
 	return path.Join(cwd, testRepoRoot, testRepo)
 }
+
+// sha1(data) as human-readable string
+func sha1s(data []byte) string {
+	return fmt.Sprintf("%x", sha1.Sum(data))
+}
+
+// download an URL
+func download(t *testing.T, url string, h http.Header) (*http.Response, []byte) {
+	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	// copy header to request
+	for k, v := range h {
+		req.Header[k] = v
+	}
+	client := &http.Client{}
+	resp, err := client.Do(req)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer resp.Body.Close()
+	body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return resp, body
+}
+
+// Context for downloading & verifying paths under URL prefix
+type DownloadContext struct {
+	t         *testing.T
+	urlPrefix string
+	Header    http.Header
+}
+
+func NewDownloadContext(t *testing.T, urlPrefix string) *DownloadContext {
+	h := make(http.Header)
+	return &DownloadContext{t, urlPrefix, h}
+}
+
+func (dl DownloadContext) download(path string) (*http.Response, []byte) {
+	return download(dl.t, dl.urlPrefix+path, dl.Header)
+}
+
+// download `path` and expect content sha1 to be `expectSha1`
+func (dl DownloadContext) ExpectSha1(path, expectSha1 string) {
+	resp, out := dl.download(path)
+	if resp.StatusCode != 200 {
+		dl.t.Fatalf("Unexpected status code (expected 200, got %v)", resp.StatusCode)
+	}
+	outSha1 := sha1s(out)
+	if outSha1 != expectSha1 {
+		dl.t.Fatal("Unexpected content in blob download")
+	}
+}
+
+// download `path` and expect content data to be `expect`
+func (dl DownloadContext) Expect(path, expect string) {
+	dl.ExpectSha1(path, sha1s([]byte(expect)))
+}
+
+// download `path` and expect HTTP status code to be `code`
+func (dl DownloadContext) ExpectCode(path string, code int) {
+	resp, _ := dl.download(path)
+	if resp.StatusCode != code {
+		dl.t.Fatalf("Unexpected status code (expected %v, got %v)", code, resp.StatusCode)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestBlobDownload(t *testing.T) {
+	// Prepare test server and "all-ok" auth backend
+	ts := testAuthServer(nil, 200, gitOkBody(t))
+	defer ts.Close()
+	ws := startWorkhorseServer(ts.URL)
+	defer ws.Close()
+	dl := NewDownloadContext(t, fmt.Sprintf("%s/%s/raw", ws.URL, testProject))
+
+	dl.Expect("/5f923865/README.md", "testme\n======\n\nSample repo for testing gitlab features\n")
+	dl.ExpectSha1("/5f923865/README.md", "5f7af35c185a9e5face2f4afb6d7c4f00328d04c")
+	dl.ExpectSha1("/5f923865/files/ruby/popen.rb", "68990cc20fa74383358797a27967fa2b45d7d8f6")
+	dl.ExpectSha1("/874797c3/files/ruby/popen.rb", "4c266708f2bfd7ca3fed3f7ec74253f92ff3fe73")
+	dl.ExpectCode("/master/non-existing-file", 404)
+}
+
+func TestDeniedBlobDownload(t *testing.T) {
+	// Prepare test server and "all-deny" auth backend
+	ts := testAuthServer(nil, 403, "Access denied")
+	defer ts.Close()
+	ws := startWorkhorseServer(ts.URL)
+	defer ws.Close()
+	dl := NewDownloadContext(t, fmt.Sprintf("%s/%s/raw", ws.URL, testProject))
+
+	dl.ExpectCode("/5f923865/README.md", 403)
+	dl.ExpectCode("/5f923865/files/ruby/popen.rb", 403)
+	dl.ExpectCode("/874797c3/files/ruby/popen.rb", 403)
+	dl.ExpectCode("/master/non-existing-file", 403)
+}
+
+func TestPrivateBlobDownload(t *testing.T) {
+	// Prepare test server and auth backend:
+	// access is ok if token is provided either via query or via header
+	ts := testhelper.TestServerWithHandler(nil, func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		log.Println("UPSTREAM", r.Method, r.URL)
+		token_ok1 := r.URL.Query().Get("aaa_token") == "TOKEN-4AAA"
+		token_ok2 := r.Header.Get("BBB-TOKEN") == "TOKEN-4BBB"
+		if !(token_ok1 || token_ok2) {
+			w.WriteHeader(403)
+			fmt.Fprintf(w, "Access denied")
+			return
+		}
+
+		data, err := json.Marshal(gitOkBody(t))
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+
+		w.WriteHeader(200)
+		w.Write(data)
+	})
+	defer ts.Close()
+	ws := startWorkhorseServer(ts.URL)
+	defer ws.Close()
+	dl := NewDownloadContext(t, fmt.Sprintf("%s/%s/raw", ws.URL, testProject))
+
+	dl.ExpectCode("/5f923865/README.md", 403)
+	dl.ExpectCode("/5f923865/README.md?bbb_token=TOKEN-4BBB", 403)
+	dl.ExpectCode("/5f923865/README.md?aaa_token=TOKEN-4AAA", 200)
+	dl.ExpectSha1("/5f923865/README.md?aaa_token=TOKEN-4AAA", "5f7af35c185a9e5face2f4afb6d7c4f00328d04c")
+
+	dl.Header.Add("AAA-TOKEN", "TOKEN-4AAA")
+	dl.ExpectCode("/5f923865/README.md", 403)
+	dl.Header.Add("BBB-TOKEN", "TOKEN-4BBB")
+	dl.ExpectCode("/5f923865/README.md", 200)
+	dl.ExpectSha1("/5f923865/README.md", "5f7af35c185a9e5face2f4afb6d7c4f00328d04c")
+}