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# OpenBMC Webserver Development
1. ### Performance targets
As OpenBMC is intended to be deployed on an embedded system, care should be
taken to avoid expensive constructs, and memory usage. In general, our
performance and metric targets are:
- Binaries and static files should take up < 1MB of filesystem size
- Memory usage should remain below 10MB at all times
- Application startup time should be less than 1 second on target hardware
(AST2500)
2. ### Asynchronous programming
Care should be taken to ensure that all code is written to be asynchronous in
nature, to avoid blocking methods from stopping the processing of other
tasks. At this time the webserver uses boost::asio for it async framework.
Threads should be avoided if possible, and instead use async tasks within
boost::asio.
3. ### Secure coding guidelines
Secure coding practices should be followed in all places in the webserver
In general, this means:
- All buffer boundaries must be checked before indexing or using values
- All pointers and iterators must be checked for null before dereferencing
- All input from outside the application is considered untrusted, and should
be escaped, authorized and filtered accordingly. This includes files in
the filesystem.
- All error statuses are checked and accounted for in control flow.
- Where applicable, noexcept methods should be preferred to methods that use
exceptions
- Explicitly bounded types should be preferred over implicitly bounded types
(like std::array<int, size> as opposed to int[size])
- no use of [Banned
functions](https://github.com/intel/safestringlib/wiki/SDL-List-of-Banned-Functions
"Banned function list")
4. ### Error handling
Error handling should be constructed in such a way that all possible errors
return valid HTTP responses. The following HTTP codes will be used commonly
- 200 OK - Request was properly handled
- 201 Created - Resource was created
- 401 Unauthorized - Request didn't posses the necessary authentication
- 403 Forbidden - Request was authenticated, but did not have the necessary
permissions to accomplish the requested task
- 404 Not found - The url was not found
- 500 Internal error - Something has broken within the OpenBMC web server,
and should be filed as a bug
Where possible, 307 and 308 redirects should be avoided, as they introduce
the possibility for subtle security bugs.
5. ### Startup times
Given that the most common target of OpenBMC is an ARM11 processor, care
needs to be taken to ensure startup times are low. In general this means:
- Minimizing the number of files read from disk at startup. Unless a
feature is explicitly intended to be runtime configurable, its logic
should be "baked in" to the application at compile time. For cases where
the implementation is configurable at runtime, the default values should
be included in application code to minimize the use of nonvolatile
storage.
- Avoid excessive memory usage and mallocs at startup.
6. ### Compiler features
- At this point in time, the webserver sets a number of security flags in
compile time options to prevent misuse. The specific flags and what
optimization levels they are enabled at are documented in the
CMakeLists.txt file.
- Exceptions are currently enabled for webserver builds, but their use is
discouraged. Long term, the intent is to disable exceptions, so any use
of them for explicit control flow will likely be rejected in code review.
Any use of exceptions should be cases where the program can be reasonably
expected to crash if the exception occurs, as this will be the future
behavior once exceptions are disabled.
- Run time type information is disabled
- Link time optimization is enabled
7. ### Authentication
The webserver shall provide the following authentication mechanisms.
- Basic authentication
- Cookie authentication
- Token authentication
There shall be connection between the authentication mechanism used and
resources that are available over it. The webserver shall employ an
authentication scheme that is in line with the rest of OpenBMC, and allows
users and privileges to be provisioned from other interfaces.
8. ### Web security
The OpenBMC webserver shall follow the latest OWASP recommendations for
authentication, session management, and security.
9. ### Performance
The performance priorities for the OpenBMC webserver are (in order):
1. Code is readable and clear
2. Code follows secure guidelines
3. Code is performant, and does not unnecessarily abstract concepts at the
expense of performance
4. Code does not employ constructs which require continuous system
resources, unless required to meet performance targets. (example:
caching sensor values which are expected to change regularly)
10. ### Abstraction/interfacing
In general, the OpenBMC webserver is built using the data driven design.
Abstraction and Interface guarantees should be used when multiple
implementations exist, but for implementations where only a single
implementation exists, prefer to make the code correct and clean rather than
implement a concrete interface.
11. ### phosphor webui
The webserver should be capable of hosting phosphor-webui, and implementing
the required flows to host the application. In general, all access methods
should be available to the webui.
12. ### Redfish
bmcweb's Redfish implementation, including Redfish OEM Resources, shall
conform to the Redfish specification. Please keep bmcweb's [Redfish support
document](https://github.com/openbmc/bmcweb/blob/master/Redfish.md) updated.
OEM schemas should conform and be developed in line with the rules in
[OEM SCHEMAS](https://github.com/openbmc/bmcweb/blob/master/OEM_SCHEMAS.md).
13. ### Common errors
A number of examples of common errors are captured in the common errors doc.
It is recommended that developers read and understand all of them before
starting any openbmc development.
[Common Errors](https://github.com/openbmc/bmcweb/blob/master/COMMON_ERRORS.md).
14. ### Commit messages
Project commit message formatting should be obeyed
[link](https://github.com/openbmc/docs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#formatting-commit-messages)
Commit messages should answer the following questions:
- Why are the changes useful? Given that bmcweb is a user-facing daemon,
commits adding new functionality should include statements about how the
commit in question is useful to the user.
- What changes would a user expect to see? This includes new parameters, new
resources, and new or changed properties. Any route changes should be
explicitly called out.
- Are there compatibility concerns? Is this change backward compatible for
clients? If not, what commit would be broken, and how old is it? Have
clients been warned? (ideally on the mailing list) link the discussion.
Commit messages should be line wrapped 50/72.
15. ### Compatibility
"Don't make your users mad" Greg K-H
[source](https://git.sr.ht/~gregkh/presentation-application_summit/tree/main/keep_users_happy.pdf)
The kernel has very similar rules around compatibility that we should aspire
to follow in the footsteps of.
To that end, bmcweb will do its' best to insulate clients from breaking api
changes. Being explicit about this ensures that clients can upgrade their
OpenBMC version without issue, and resolves a significant bottleneck in
getting security patches deployed to users. Any change that's visible to a
user is potentially a breaking change, but requiring _all_ visible changes to
be configurable would increase the software complexity, therefore bmcweb
makes exceptions for things which a client is reasonably expected to code
against:
- New items added to a collection
- Changes in UID for hypermedia resources (In line with Redfish spec)
- New properties added to a resource
- New versions of a given schema
Special note: Code exists in bmcweb that is missing upstream backends to
make it function. Given that compatibility requires the ability to use and
test the feature in question, changes to these methods, including outright
removal, does not constitute a breaking change.
Security: There may be cases where maintainers make explicit breaking changes
in the best interest of security; In these rare cases, the maintainers and
contributors will endeavor to avoid breaking clients as much as is
technically possible, but as with all security, impact will need to be
weighed against the security impact of not making changes, and judgement
calls will be made, with options to allow providing the old behavior.
## clang-tidy
clang-tidy is a tool that can be used to identify coding style violations, bad
design patterns, and bug prone constructs. The checks are implemented in the
.clang-tidy file in the root of bmcweb, and are expected to be passing. [openbmc-build-scripts](https://github.com/openbmc/openbmc-build-scripts/blob/master/run-unit-test-docker.sh)
implements clang-tidy checks and is the recommended way to run these checks
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