Merge commit from fork

Signed-off-by: Radoslav Dimitrov <[email protected]>

metadata/metadata.go

@@ -562,28 +562,30 @@ func isTargetInPathPattern(targetpath string, pathpattern string) bool {
 
 // GetRolesForTarget return the names and terminating status of all
 // delegated roles who are responsible for targetFilepath
-func (role *Delegations) GetRolesForTarget(targetFilepath string) map[string]bool {
-	res := map[string]bool{}
-	// standard delegations
+// Note the result should be an ordered list, ref. https://github.com/theupdateframework/go-tuf/security/advisories/GHSA-4f8r-qqr9-fq8j
+func (role *Delegations) GetRolesForTarget(targetFilepath string) []RoleResult {
+	var res []RoleResult
+	// Standard delegations
 	if role.Roles != nil {
 		for _, r := range role.Roles {
 			ok, err := r.IsDelegatedPath(targetFilepath)
 			if err == nil && ok {
-				res[r.Name] = r.Terminating
+				res = append(res, RoleResult{Name: r.Name, Terminating: r.Terminating})
 			}
 		}
 	} else if role.SuccinctRoles != nil {
 		// SuccinctRoles delegations
 		res = role.SuccinctRoles.GetRolesForTarget(targetFilepath)
 	}
+	// We preserve the same order as the actual roles list
 	return res
 }
 
 // GetRolesForTarget calculate the name of the delegated role responsible for "targetFilepath".
 // The target at path "targetFilepath" is assigned to a bin by casting
 // the left-most "BitLength" of bits of the file path hash digest to
-// int, using it as bin index between 0 and “2**BitLength - 1“.
-func (role *SuccinctRoles) GetRolesForTarget(targetFilepath string) map[string]bool {
+// int, using it as bin index between 0 and “2**BitLength-1”.
+func (role *SuccinctRoles) GetRolesForTarget(targetFilepath string) []RoleResult {
 	// calculate the suffixLen value based on the total number of bins in
 	// hex. If bit_length = 10 then numberOfBins = 1024 or bin names will
 	// have a suffix between "000" and "3ff" in hex and suffixLen will be 3
@@ -604,8 +606,8 @@ func (role *SuccinctRoles) GetRolesForTarget(targetFilepath string) map[string]b
 	// add zero padding if necessary and cast to hex the suffix
 	suffix := fmt.Sprintf("%0*x", suffixLen, binNumber)
 	// we consider all succinct_roles as terminating.
-	// for more information read TAP 15.
-	return map[string]bool{fmt.Sprintf("%s-%s", role.NamePrefix, suffix): true}
+	// for more information, read TAP 15.
+	return []RoleResult{{Name: fmt.Sprintf("%s-%s", role.NamePrefix, suffix), Terminating: true}}
 }
 
 // GetRoles returns the names of all different delegated roles

metadata/types.go

@@ -171,3 +171,9 @@ type SuccinctRoles struct {
 	NamePrefix         string         `json:"name_prefix"`
 	UnrecognizedFields map[string]any `json:"-"`
 }
+
+// RoleResult represents the name and terminating status of a delegated role that is responsible for targetFilepath
+type RoleResult struct {
+	Name        string
+	Terminating bool
+}

metadata/updater/updater.go

@@ -550,14 +550,14 @@ func (update *Updater) preOrderDepthFirstWalk(targetFilePath string) (*metadata.
 		// after pre-order check, add current role to set of visited roles
 		visitedRoleNames[delegation.Role] = true
 		if targets.Signed.Delegations != nil {
-			childRolesToVisit := []roleParentTuple{}
+			var childRolesToVisit []roleParentTuple
 			// note that this may be a slow operation if there are many
 			// delegated roles
 			roles := targets.Signed.Delegations.GetRolesForTarget(targetFilePath)
-			for child, terminating := range roles {
-				log.Info("Adding child role", "role", child)
-				childRolesToVisit = append(childRolesToVisit, roleParentTuple{Role: child, Parent: delegation.Role})
-				if terminating {
+			for _, rolesForTarget := range roles {
+				log.Info("Adding child role", "role", rolesForTarget.Name)
+				childRolesToVisit = append(childRolesToVisit, roleParentTuple{Role: rolesForTarget.Name, Parent: delegation.Role})
+				if rolesForTarget.Terminating {
 					log.Info("Not backtracking to other roles")
 					delegationsToVisit = []roleParentTuple{}
 					break