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Reject non-regular files when loading the API key file. - #70

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A leading ~ was expanded with getenv("HOME"), which whatever starts the server decides, so a value pointing elsewhere read a key file the server was never meant to open and sent it to the provider. getpwuid(geteuid()) answers from the passwd database instead.

read() returning EINTR was retried without CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS(), so a cancellation was deferred for as long as the reads kept being interrupted. The descriptor comes from OpenTransientFile() now, so that it is released on abort.

Both the file type check and the getpwuid() change were claimed in the changelog under 1.1-beta1 without having shipped.

New TAP tests: 008 for the file types (FIFO, directory, character device, empty, whitespace only, oversized, embedded null), 009 for ~ expansion with HOME planted elsewhere.

Fixes #66
Fixes #67

A FIFO passed the stat() that preceded the fopen(), which then waited for
a writer inside libc where the backend could not be cancelled.  Take the
checks from the open descriptor, opened O_NONBLOCK so that it returns.
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API-key loading now uses a nonblocking, close-on-exec file descriptor. It validates regular-file status, enforces size limits, handles interrupted reads, rejects embedded null bytes, trims whitespace, and clears temporary data. Regression tests cover invalid file types, empty and whitespace-only files, oversized files, null bytes, timeouts, and regular-file validation.

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In `@src/provider_common.c`:
- Around line 203-206: Update the EINTR handling in the read loop to call
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Ibrar Ahmed added 2 commits August 24, 2026 18:16
Whatever starts the server sets HOME, so a value pointing elsewhere read
a key file the server was never meant to open and sent it to the
provider.  getpwuid(geteuid()) answers from the passwd database instead.
read() returning EINTR was retried without CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS(), so a
cancellation was deferred for as long as the reads kept being
interrupted.  OpenTransientFile() releases the descriptor on abort.

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Reviewed: correctness, security, error-handling, and test coverage all check out. CodeRabbit's one finding (missing CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS() before EINTR retry) was fixed in-PR.

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008 and 009 were taken by the API key file tests merged in PR #70, which
branched from the same commit as this one.
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api_key_file with ~ still trusts the HOME environment variable api_key_file pointed at a FIFO hangs the backend forever (missing file-type check)

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