Prohibit creation of new globals in scripts (#227)

controller/scripts.go

@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ import (
 	"sync"
 	"time"
 
-	"github.com/tidwall/tile38/controller/server"
 	"github.com/tidwall/resp"
+	"github.com/tidwall/tile38/controller/server"
 	"github.com/yuin/gopher-lua"
 )
 
@@ -149,6 +149,16 @@ func (pl *lStatePool) New() *lua.LState {
 		"sha1hex":      sha1hex,
 	}
 	L.SetGlobal("tile38", L.SetFuncs(L.NewTable(), exports))
+
+	// Prohibit creating new globals in this state
+	lockNewGlobals := func(ls *lua.LState) int {
+		ls.RaiseError("attempt to create global variable '%s'", ls.ToString(2))
+		return 0
+	}
+	mt := L.CreateTable(0, 1)
+	mt.RawSetString("__newindex", L.NewFunction(lockNewGlobals))
+	L.SetMetatable(L.Get(lua.GlobalsIndex), mt)
+
 	return L
 }
 
@@ -322,10 +332,11 @@ func ConvertToJSON(val lua.LValue) string {
 	return "Unsupported lua type: " + val.Type().String()
 }
 
-func luaStateCleanup(ls *lua.LState) {
-	ls.SetGlobal("KEYS", lua.LNil)
-	ls.SetGlobal("ARGV", lua.LNil)
-	ls.SetGlobal("EVAL_CMD", lua.LNil)
+func luaSetRawGlobals(ls *lua.LState, tbl map[string]lua.LValue) {
+	gt := ls.Get(lua.GlobalsIndex).(*lua.LTable)
+	for key, val := range tbl {
+		gt.RawSetString(key, val)
+	}
 }
 
 // Sha1Sum returns a string with hex representation of sha1 sum of a given string
@@ -392,9 +403,12 @@ func (c *Controller) cmdEvalUnified(scriptIsSha bool, msg *server.Message) (res
 		shaSum = Sha1Sum(script)
 	}
 
-	luaState.SetGlobal("KEYS", keysTbl)
-	luaState.SetGlobal("ARGV", argsTbl)
-	luaState.SetGlobal("EVAL_CMD", lua.LString(msg.Command))
+	luaSetRawGlobals(
+		luaState, map[string]lua.LValue{
+			"KEYS":     keysTbl,
+			"ARGV":     argsTbl,
+			"EVAL_CMD": lua.LString(msg.Command),
+		})
 
 	compiled, ok := c.luascripts.Get(shaSum)
 	var fn *lua.LFunction
@@ -418,7 +432,12 @@ func (c *Controller) cmdEvalUnified(scriptIsSha bool, msg *server.Message) (res
 		c.luascripts.Put(shaSum, fn.Proto)
 	}
 	luaState.Push(fn)
-	defer luaStateCleanup(luaState)
+	defer luaSetRawGlobals(
+		luaState, map[string]lua.LValue{
+			"KEYS":     lua.LNil,
+			"ARGV":     lua.LNil,
+			"EVAL_CMD": lua.LNil,
+		})
 
 	if err := luaState.PCall(0, 1, nil); err != nil {
 		return server.NOMessage, makeSafeErr(err)