There are several ways that expanded principals can be used as triggering
principals for requests. While that works fine for security checks, it also
sometimes causes them to be inherited, and used as result principals in
contexts where expanded principals aren't allowed.
This patch changes our inheritance behavior so that expanded principals are
downgraded to the most appropriate constituent principal when they would
otherwise be inherited.
The logic for choosing the most appropriate principal is a bit suspect, and
may eventually need to be changed to always select the last whitelist
principal, but I chose it to preserve the current principal downgrade behavior
used by XMLHttpRequest for the time being.
MozReview-Commit-ID: 9fvAKr2e2fa
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The current API makes the life time and ownership of the result array unclear
without careful reading. The result array is always owned by the principal,
and its lifetime tied to the lifetime of the principal itself. Returning a
const array reference makes this clear, and should prevent callers from
accidentally modifying the returned array.
MozReview-Commit-ID: 3f8mhynkKAj
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The current API makes the life time and ownership of the result array unclear
without careful reading. The result array is always owned by the principal,
and its lifetime tied to the lifetime of the principal itself. Returning a
const array reference makes this clear, and should prevent callers from
accidentally modifying the returned array.
MozReview-Commit-ID: 3f8mhynkKAj
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Going through the extension policy service rather than using
WebExtensionPolicy objects directly adds a lot of unnecessary overhead to
common operations on extension principals, and also makes the code more
complicated than it needs to be.
We also use weak references to policy objects here, since principals should
ideally lose as much of their elevated privileges as possible once the
extension instance that created them has been destroyed (which is something we
couldn't handle easily when we simply tracked ID strings).
MozReview-Commit-ID: KDNvVdvLkIt
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This patch removes support for mozapp iframes, leaving support for
mozbrowser iframes intact. Some of the code has been rewritten in order
to phrase things in terms of mozbrowser only, as opposed to mozbrowser
or app. In some places, code that was only useful with apps has been
completely removed, so that the APIs consumed can also be removed. In
some places where the notion of appId was bleeding out of this API, now
we use NO_APP_ID. Other notions of appId which were restricted to this
API have been removed.
This patch removes support for mozapp iframes, leaving support for
mozbrowser iframes intact. Some of the code has been rewritten in order
to phrase things in terms of mozbrowser only, as opposed to mozbrowser
or app. In some places, code that was only useful with apps has been
completely removed, so that the APIs consumed can also be removed. In
some places where the notion of appId was bleeding out of this API, now
we use NO_APP_ID. Other notions of appId which were restricted to this
API have been removed.
This change renames OriginAttributes.mInBrowser to mInIsolatedMozBrowser and
nsIPrincipal::GetIsInBrowserElement to GetIsInIsolatedMozBrowserElement. Other
methods that pass these values around also have name changes.
Tokens such as "inBrowser" have previously been serialized into cache keys, used
as DB column names, stored in app registries, etc. No changes are made to any
serialization formats. Only runtime method and variable names are updated.
No behavior changes are made in this patch, so some renamed methods may have
nonsensical implementations. These are corrected in subsequent patches
focused on behavior.
MozReview-Commit-ID: 66HfMlsXFLs
We also provide an opt-out for the original behavior, and use it in various
consumers that look like they need fixing up. Most of the usage here is in
code with persistence considerations, where we may need some sort of migration
path.
Olli Pettay
Adrian Wielgosik
Kris Maglione
Sebastian Hengst
Andrea Marchesini
Frederik Braun
Daniel Holbert
Tim Huang
Yoshi Huang
Ehsan Akhgari
Carsten "Tomcat" Book
Dave Huseby
James Andreou
J. Ryan Stinnett
Christoph Kerschbaumer
Nigel Babu
Jonathan Watt
Bobby Holley
Steven Englehardt
Wes Kocher
Bob Owen
Birunthan Mohanathas