Provide a basic authentication token when running Spark Connect server locally

Author: HyukjinKwon

common/utils/src/main/resources/error/error-conditions.json

@@ -9304,6 +9304,11 @@
       "No enough memory for aggregation"
     ]
   },
+  "_LEGACY_ERROR_TEMP_3303" : {
+    "message" : [
+      "Invalid token."
+    ]
+  },
   "_LEGACY_ERROR_USER_RAISED_EXCEPTION" : {
     "message" : [
       "<errorMessage>"

python/pyspark/sql/connect/client/core.py

@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ class ChannelBuilder:
     PARAM_USER_ID = "user_id"
     PARAM_USER_AGENT = "user_agent"
     PARAM_SESSION_ID = "session_id"
+    CONNECT_LOCAL_AUTH_TOKEN_PARAM_NAME = "local_token"
 
     GRPC_MAX_MESSAGE_LENGTH_DEFAULT = 128 * 1024 * 1024
 
@@ -591,6 +592,8 @@ class SparkConnectClient(object):
     Conceptually the remote spark session that communicates with the server
     """
 
+    _local_auth_token = os.environ.get("SPARK_CONNECT_LOCAL_AUTH_TOKEN")
+
     def __init__(
         self,
         connection: Union[str, ChannelBuilder],
@@ -637,6 +640,10 @@ def __init__(
             if isinstance(connection, ChannelBuilder)
             else DefaultChannelBuilder(connection, channel_options)
         )
+        if SparkConnectClient._local_auth_token is not None:
+            self._builder.set(
+                ChannelBuilder.CONNECT_LOCAL_AUTH_TOKEN_PARAM_NAME,
+                SparkConnectClient._local_auth_token)
         self._user_id = None
         self._retry_policies: List[RetryPolicy] = []
 

python/pyspark/sql/connect/session.py

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
     TYPE_CHECKING,
     ClassVar,
 )
+import uuid
 
 import numpy as np
 import pandas as pd
@@ -893,13 +894,20 @@ def stop(self) -> None:
             if self is getattr(SparkSession._active_session, "session", None):
                 SparkSession._active_session.session = None
 
+            # It should be `None` always on stop.
+            SparkConnectClient._local_auth_token = None
+
             if "SPARK_LOCAL_REMOTE" in os.environ:
                 # When local mode is in use, follow the regular Spark session's
                 # behavior by terminating the Spark Connect server,
                 # meaning that you can stop local mode, and restart the Spark Connect
                 # client with a different remote address.
                 if PySparkSession._activeSession is not None:
                     try:
+                        getattr(
+                            PySparkSession._activeSession._jvm,
+                            "org.apache.spark.sql.connect.common.config.ConnectCommon",
+                        ).setLocalAuthToken(None)
                         PySparkSession._activeSession.stop()
                     except Exception as e:
                         logger.warn(
@@ -1060,6 +1068,9 @@ def _start_connect_server(master: str, opts: Dict[str, Any]) -> None:
                 overwrite_conf["spark.connect.grpc.binding.port"] = "0"
 
             origin_remote = os.environ.get("SPARK_REMOTE", None)
+            local_auth_token = str(uuid.uuid4())
+            SparkConnectClient._local_auth_token = local_auth_token
+            os.environ["SPARK_CONNECT_LOCAL_AUTH_TOKEN"] = local_auth_token
             try:
                 if origin_remote is not None:
                     # So SparkSubmit thinks no remote is set in order to
@@ -1072,6 +1083,13 @@ def _start_connect_server(master: str, opts: Dict[str, Any]) -> None:
                 conf.setAll(list(overwrite_conf.items())).setAll(list(default_conf.items()))
                 PySparkSession(SparkContext.getOrCreate(conf))
 
+                # In Python local mode, session.stop does not terminate JVM itself
+                # so we can't control it via environment variable.
+                getattr(
+                    SparkContext._jvm,
+                    "org.apache.spark.sql.connect.common.config.ConnectCommon",
+                ).setLocalAuthToken(local_auth_token)
+
                 # Lastly only keep runtime configurations because other configurations are
                 # disallowed to set in the regular Spark Connect session.
                 utl = SparkContext._jvm.PythonSQLUtils  # type: ignore[union-attr]
@@ -1084,6 +1102,7 @@ def _start_connect_server(master: str, opts: Dict[str, Any]) -> None:
                 if origin_remote is not None:
                     os.environ["SPARK_REMOTE"] = origin_remote
                 del os.environ["SPARK_LOCAL_CONNECT"]
+                del os.environ["SPARK_CONNECT_LOCAL_AUTH_TOKEN"]
         else:
             raise PySparkRuntimeError(
                 errorClass="SESSION_OR_CONTEXT_EXISTS",

sql/connect/common/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/connect/SparkSession.scala

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ import org.apache.spark.sql.connect.ColumnNodeToProtoConverter.toLiteral
 import org.apache.spark.sql.connect.client.{ClassFinder, CloseableIterator, SparkConnectClient, SparkResult}
 import org.apache.spark.sql.connect.client.SparkConnectClient.Configuration
 import org.apache.spark.sql.connect.client.arrow.ArrowSerializer
+import org.apache.spark.sql.connect.common.config.ConnectCommon
 import org.apache.spark.sql.internal.{SessionState, SharedState, SqlApiConf}
 import org.apache.spark.sql.sources.BaseRelation
 import org.apache.spark.sql.types.StructType
@@ -627,6 +628,19 @@ class SparkSession private[sql] (
     }
     allocator.close()
     SparkSession.onSessionClose(this)
+    SparkSession.server.synchronized {
+      // It should be `None` always on stop.
+      ConnectCommon.setLocalAuthToken(null)
+      if (SparkSession.server.isDefined) {
+        // When local mode is in use, follow the regular Spark session's
+        // behavior by terminating the Spark Connect server,
+        // meaning that you can stop local mode, and restart the Spark Connect
+        // client with a different remote address.
+        new ProcessBuilder(SparkSession.maybeConnectStopScript.get.toString)
+          .start()
+        SparkSession.server = None
+      }
+    }
   }
 
   /** @inheritdoc */
@@ -679,6 +693,10 @@ object SparkSession extends SparkSessionCompanion with Logging {
   private val MAX_CACHED_SESSIONS = 100
   private val planIdGenerator = new AtomicLong
   private var server: Option[Process] = None
+  private val maybeConnectStartScript =
+    Option(System.getenv("SPARK_HOME")).map(Paths.get(_, "sbin", "start-connect-server.sh"))
+  private val maybeConnectStopScript =
+    Option(System.getenv("SPARK_HOME")).map(Paths.get(_, "sbin", "stop-connect-server.sh"))
   private[sql] val sparkOptions = sys.props.filter { p =>
     p._1.startsWith("spark.") && p._2.nonEmpty
   }.toMap
@@ -712,37 +730,43 @@ object SparkSession extends SparkSessionCompanion with Logging {
           }
         }
 
-      val maybeConnectScript =
-        Option(System.getenv("SPARK_HOME")).map(Paths.get(_, "sbin", "start-connect-server.sh"))
-
-      if (server.isEmpty &&
-        (remoteString.exists(_.startsWith("local")) ||
-          (remoteString.isDefined && isAPIModeConnect)) &&
-        maybeConnectScript.exists(Files.exists(_))) {
-        server = Some {
-          val args =
-            Seq(maybeConnectScript.get.toString, "--master", remoteString.get) ++ sparkOptions
-              .filter(p => !p._1.startsWith("spark.remote"))
-              .flatMap { case (k, v) => Seq("--conf", s"$k=$v") }
-          val pb = new ProcessBuilder(args: _*)
-          // So don't exclude spark-sql jar in classpath
-          pb.environment().remove(SparkConnectClient.SPARK_REMOTE)
-          pb.start()
-        }
-
-        // Let the server start. We will directly request to set the configurations
-        // and this sleep makes less noisy with retries.
-        Thread.sleep(2000L)
-        System.setProperty("spark.remote", "sc://localhost")
-
-        // scalastyle:off runtimeaddshutdownhook
-        Runtime.getRuntime.addShutdownHook(new Thread() {
-          override def run(): Unit = if (server.isDefined) {
-            new ProcessBuilder(maybeConnectScript.get.toString)
-              .start()
+      server.synchronized {
+        if (server.isEmpty &&
+          (remoteString.exists(_.startsWith("local")) ||
+            (remoteString.isDefined && isAPIModeConnect)) &&
+          maybeConnectStartScript.exists(Files.exists(_))) {
+          val localAuthToken = java.util.UUID.randomUUID().toString()
+          server = Some {
+            ConnectCommon.setLocalAuthToken(localAuthToken)
+            val args =
+              Seq(
+                maybeConnectStartScript.get.toString,
+                "--master",
+                remoteString.get) ++ sparkOptions
+                .filter(p => !p._1.startsWith("spark.remote"))
+                .flatMap { case (k, v) => Seq("--conf", s"$k=$v") }
+            val pb = new ProcessBuilder(args: _*)
+            // So don't exclude spark-sql jar in classpath
+            pb.environment().remove(SparkConnectClient.SPARK_REMOTE)
+            pb.environment()
+              .put(ConnectCommon.CONNECT_LOCAL_AUTH_TOKEN_ENV_NAME, localAuthToken)
+            pb.start()
           }
-        })
-        // scalastyle:on runtimeaddshutdownhook
+
+          // Let the server start. We will directly request to set the configurations
+          // and this sleep makes less noisy with retries.
+          Thread.sleep(2000L)
+          System.setProperty("spark.remote", "sc://localhost")
+
+          // scalastyle:off runtimeaddshutdownhook
+          Runtime.getRuntime.addShutdownHook(new Thread() {
+            override def run(): Unit = if (server.isDefined) {
+              new ProcessBuilder(maybeConnectStopScript.get.toString)
+                .start()
+            }
+          })
+          // scalastyle:on runtimeaddshutdownhook
+        }
       }
     }
     f

sql/connect/common/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/connect/client/SparkConnectClient.scala

@@ -620,6 +620,8 @@ object SparkConnectClient {
      * Configure the builder using the env SPARK_REMOTE environment variable.
      */
     def loadFromEnvironment(): Builder = {
+      ConnectCommon.getLocalAuthToken.foreach(t =>
+        option(ConnectCommon.CONNECT_LOCAL_AUTH_TOKEN_PARAM_NAME, t))
       lazy val isAPIModeConnect =
         Option(System.getProperty(org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSessionBuilder.API_MODE_KEY))
           .getOrElse("classic")

sql/connect/common/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/connect/common/config/ConnectCommon.scala

@@ -21,4 +21,11 @@ private[sql] object ConnectCommon {
   val CONNECT_GRPC_PORT_MAX_RETRIES: Int = 0
   val CONNECT_GRPC_MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE: Int = 128 * 1024 * 1024
   val CONNECT_GRPC_MARSHALLER_RECURSION_LIMIT: Int = 1024
+
+  val CONNECT_LOCAL_AUTH_TOKEN_PARAM_NAME = "local_token"
+  val CONNECT_LOCAL_AUTH_TOKEN_ENV_NAME = "SPARK_CONNECT_LOCAL_AUTH_TOKEN"
+  private var CONNECT_LOCAL_AUTH_TOKEN: Option[String] = Option(
+    System.getenv(CONNECT_LOCAL_AUTH_TOKEN_ENV_NAME))
+  def setLocalAuthToken(token: String): Unit = CONNECT_LOCAL_AUTH_TOKEN = Option(token)
+  def getLocalAuthToken: Option[String] = CONNECT_LOCAL_AUTH_TOKEN
 }

sql/connect/server/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/connect/service/LocalAuthInterceptor.scala

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.spark.sql.connect.service
+
+import io.grpc.{Metadata, ServerCall, ServerCallHandler, ServerInterceptor}
+
+import org.apache.spark.SparkSecurityException
+import org.apache.spark.sql.connect.common.config.ConnectCommon
+
+/**
+ * A gRPC interceptor to check if the header contains token for local authentication.
+ */
+class LocalAuthInterceptor(localToken: String) extends ServerInterceptor {
+  override def interceptCall[ReqT, RespT](
+      call: ServerCall[ReqT, RespT],
+      headers: Metadata,
+      next: ServerCallHandler[ReqT, RespT]): ServerCall.Listener[ReqT] = {
+    val t = Option(
+      headers.get(Metadata.Key
+        .of(ConnectCommon.CONNECT_LOCAL_AUTH_TOKEN_PARAM_NAME, Metadata.ASCII_STRING_MARSHALLER)))
+      .map(_.substring("Bearer ".length))
+    if (t.isEmpty || t.get != localToken) {
+      throw new SparkSecurityException(
+        errorClass = "_LEGACY_ERROR_TEMP_3303",
+        messageParameters = Map.empty)
+    }
+    next.startCall(call, headers)
+  }
+}

sql/connect/server/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/connect/service/SparkConnectService.scala

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ import org.apache.spark.internal.{Logging, MDC}
 import org.apache.spark.internal.LogKeys.HOST
 import org.apache.spark.internal.config.UI.UI_ENABLED
 import org.apache.spark.scheduler.{LiveListenerBus, SparkListenerEvent}
+import org.apache.spark.sql.connect.common.config.ConnectCommon
 import org.apache.spark.sql.connect.config.Connect.{CONNECT_GRPC_BINDING_ADDRESS, CONNECT_GRPC_BINDING_PORT, CONNECT_GRPC_MARSHALLER_RECURSION_LIMIT, CONNECT_GRPC_MAX_INBOUND_MESSAGE_SIZE, CONNECT_GRPC_PORT_MAX_RETRIES}
 import org.apache.spark.sql.connect.execution.ConnectProgressExecutionListener
 import org.apache.spark.sql.connect.ui.{SparkConnectServerAppStatusStore, SparkConnectServerListener, SparkConnectServerTab}
@@ -366,10 +367,14 @@ object SparkConnectService extends Logging {
     val debugMode = SparkEnv.get.conf.getBoolean("spark.connect.grpc.debug.enabled", true)
     val bindAddress = SparkEnv.get.conf.get(CONNECT_GRPC_BINDING_ADDRESS)
     val startPort = SparkEnv.get.conf.get(CONNECT_GRPC_BINDING_PORT)
+    val localAuthToken = Option(System.getenv(ConnectCommon.CONNECT_LOCAL_AUTH_TOKEN_ENV_NAME))
+    localAuthToken.foreach(ConnectCommon.setLocalAuthToken)
     val sparkConnectService = new SparkConnectService(debugMode)
     val protoReflectionService =
       if (debugMode) Some(ProtoReflectionService.newInstance()) else None
-    val configuredInterceptors = SparkConnectInterceptorRegistry.createConfiguredInterceptors()
+    val configuredInterceptors =
+      SparkConnectInterceptorRegistry.createConfiguredInterceptors() ++
+        localAuthToken.map(new LocalAuthInterceptor(_))
 
     val startServiceFn = (port: Int) => {
       val sb = bindAddress match {