SSE-C ciphertext passthrough replicates via X-Rustfs-Replication-* transport
headers. A MinIO/generic-S3 target silently discards them, storing bare
ciphertext with no decryption material — yet the PUT succeeded, so the object
reported COMPLETED with a silently unreadable replica (backlog#1675 N2).
Fail-closed design:
- SsecPassthroughCapability {Unknown, Supported, Unsupported} cached in
BucketTargetSys per target ARN with a recording timestamp. Entries reset
whenever the target is rebuilt, edited, or removed (arn_remotes_map
lifecycle) and expire after SSEC_PASSTHROUGH_CAPABILITY_TTL (10 minutes):
an expired verdict in either direction is re-earned through the audit, so
an Unsupported target recovers automatically after an upgrade (at most one
wasted PUT+HEAD audit per bad target per TTL window) and a Supported
verdict cannot outlive a backend swapped behind the same endpoint.
- Replication worker (replicate_object and replicate_all): fresh Unsupported
targets never receive the PUT — the attempt fails immediately into the
normal MRF retry channel with a "run ?replication-check to re-probe" hint.
Unknown or expired verdicts are audited: after the PUT the worker HEADs
the replica back through the replication-check channel (source version id
mapped through resolve_read_api_version_id, so null-version objects audit
correctly) and requires SSE-C evidence (the echoed customer-algorithm
header); missing evidence records Unsupported and fails the attempt.
Convergence HEADs are audited the same way, so a broken ciphertext replica
from an earlier attempt can never launder itself into COMPLETED via an
ETag match. The gate/evidence policy is pure (replication_target_boundary,
staleness folded in as an input) for the M2 worker migration.
- replication-check grows an SsecPassthrough probe phase: a probe PUT
carrying the live transport-header shape, HEAD-back for evidence, and a
machine-readable Code BucketRemoteSsecPassthroughUnsupported on failure.
The probe verdict is synced into the runtime capability cache. Unlike
VersionFidelity, a failed SsecPassthrough phase does NOT fail the target
overall — it is a capability limit, not a broken replication contract,
and a plaintext-only deployment against such a target must not turn red.
- fake_s3_target: default mode now models a RustFS target (stores the
transport headers, echoes SSE-C evidence); the new
drop_unlisted_replication_headers mode models MinIO. The journal records
whether a request carried transport headers.
Receiver-echo verification: the replication-check HEAD exemption only skips
SSE-C key validation; the response has always built sse-customer-algorithm
from stored metadata (rustfs/src/app/object_usecase.rs), so no receiver
change was needed — pinned end to end by the replication-check e2e against
a real RustFS target.
Rolling-upgrade constraint: RustFS targets older than the replication-check
HEAD exemption (#5898) answer the audit HEAD without SSE-C evidence (or fail
it outright), so SSE-C replication to such targets reports FAILED. This is
deliberate — FAILED-and-retryable beats a silently undecryptable replica —
and self-heals: once the target is upgraded, the next TTL expiry (or a
manual ?replication-check re-probe) re-audits and records Supported.
Plaintext and managed-SSE replication are unaffected. The capability cache
is per-node; each node audits independently.
Known limitations:
- The audit judges evidence from the echoed customer-algorithm header only.
A hypothetical target that preserves that one header while dropping other
transport headers (partial-drop) would pass the audit; no known target
behaves this way — observed targets drop the whole unknown-header family.
- A mixed-version target cluster can flap the verdict between audits routed
to different target nodes until the rollout completes; the TTL bounds how
long each stale verdict persists.
New e2e (backlog#1675 C1 + N2, red-first): fail-closed against a
header-dropping fake (FAILED + no second PUT via the capability cache,
journal-asserted; red run showed the old COMPLETED), replication-check
reports the SsecPassthrough phase Code while the target stays OK overall,
SSE-C heal convergence after a real target outage, and SSE-C
existing-object resync landing a REPLICA readable with the customer key.
TTL expiry in both directions is pinned at the cache and gate seams.
Programmable fake S3 target
This module is the shared failure-injection boundary for replication end-to-end tests. It runs an in-process, path-style S3 endpoint backed by s3s; no production crate depends on it.
FakeS3Target::start() creates the listener. Add target buckets with create_bucket, point a RustFS remote target at address(), use FAKE_ACCESS_KEY / FAKE_SECRET_KEY, then enqueue per-operation faults with inject. Faults for one operation are consumed in FIFO order and do not consume faults queued for another operation. A fault is consumed only after s3s verifies the full request signature, so anonymous, other-access-key, and bad-signature traffic cannot disturb a script.
Supported data operations are HeadBucket, GetBucketVersioning, PUT/GET/HEAD/DELETE Object, Get/Put/Delete ObjectTagging (tags live per version; Put replaces the whole set, Delete clears it), and create/upload/complete/abort multipart upload. create_bucket models general-purpose buckets in S3's shared global namespace; account-regional namespace buckets and their -an names are intentionally out of scope. Buckets are versioned: PUT creates a version, DELETE without versionId creates a delete marker, and DELETE with versionId removes exactly that version. Internal source version IDs must be UUIDs and are stored canonically. Source mtime is honored only for source-replication PUT/DELETE requests; absent or invalid values use receipt time, matching RustFS, while multipart completion always uses receipt time. Replicated versions are ordered newest-first by source mtime so late older versions and delete markers do not become current. Equal mtimes prefer objects over delete markers, then canonical UUID order; RustFS's internal FileMeta signature tie-break is intentionally out of scope because it is not part of the target S3 protocol. Multipart part numbers follow S3's 1..=10000 range, and every completed part except the final part must be at least 5 MiB.
Fault actions cover HTTP 401/403/503 responses, pre-dispatch delay, connection abort when a logical request-body threshold is reached, streaming slow drain, and a deliberately wrong response ETag (including multipart-complete XML). requests() returns the ordered, credential-free request journal for assertions. Each record also journals a ProxyHeaderSnapshot — the read-proxy anti-loop marker (x-{rustfs,minio}-source-proxy-request), the replication-check exemption header, and the client SSE-C header family (algorithm and key-MD5 values; for the key itself only its presence) — so proxy tests can pin the exact wire contract.
The listener is loopback-only. It admits at most 64 active connections and two concurrently buffered request bodies; authenticated multipart-complete XML collection and assembly take both body permits. Keep-alive is disabled, request-header reads are bounded to 30 seconds, a parsed request is bounded to 65 seconds, and the complete connection lifetime is bounded to 100 seconds. It retains at most 256 buckets, 4,096 journal entries, 4,096 scripted faults, 4,096 object versions, 256 multipart uploads, and 10,000 multipart parts. Retained identifiers are capped at 1 KiB, user metadata at 2 KiB, and content type at 1 KiB. A PUT or uploaded part is capped at 64 MiB; a completed multipart object and all stored object/part data are capped at 128 MiB. Body drain, body-permit waits, delay, and slow-drain execution are bounded to 30 seconds; each slow-drain slice delay must be below that bound.