rpc: Write authcookie atomically

Use POSIX rename atomicity at the `bitcoind` side to create a working
cookie atomically:

- Write `.cookie.tmp`, close file
- Rename `.cookie.tmp` to `.cookie`

This avoids clients reading invalid/partial cookies as in #11129.

(cherry picked from commit bitcoin/bitcoin@82dd7195e1)

src/rpc/protocol.cpp

@@ -69,9 +69,14 @@ static const std::string COOKIEAUTH_USER = "__cookie__";
 /** Default name for auth cookie file */
 static const std::string COOKIEAUTH_FILE = ".cookie";
 
-fs::path GetAuthCookieFile()
+/** Get name of RPC authentication cookie file */
+static fs::path GetAuthCookieFile(bool temp=false)
 {
-    fs::path path(GetArg("-rpccookiefile", COOKIEAUTH_FILE));
+    std::string arg = GetArg("-rpccookiefile", COOKIEAUTH_FILE);
+    if (temp) {
+        arg += ".tmp";
+    }
+    fs::path path(arg);
     if (!path.is_complete()) path = GetDataDir() / path;
     return path;
 }
@@ -86,14 +91,20 @@ bool GenerateAuthCookie(std::string *cookie_out)
      * these are set to 077 in init.cpp unless overridden with -sysperms.
      */
     std::ofstream file;
-    fs::path filepath = GetAuthCookieFile();
-    file.open(filepath.string().c_str());
+    fs::path filepath_tmp = GetAuthCookieFile(true);
+    file.open(filepath_tmp.string().c_str());
     if (!file.is_open()) {
-        LogPrintf("Unable to open cookie authentication file %s for writing\n", filepath.string());
+        LogPrintf("Unable to open cookie authentication file %s for writing\n", filepath_tmp.string());
         return false;
     }
     file << cookie;
     file.close();
+
+    fs::path filepath = GetAuthCookieFile(false);
+    if (!RenameOver(filepath_tmp, filepath)) {
+        LogPrintf("Unable to rename cookie authentication file %s to %s\n", filepath_tmp.string(), filepath.string());
+        return false;
+    }
     LogPrintf("Generated RPC authentication cookie %s\n", filepath.string());
 
     if (cookie_out)

src/rpc/protocol.h

@@ -84,8 +84,6 @@ UniValue JSONRPCReplyObj(const UniValue& result, const UniValue& error, const Un
 std::string JSONRPCReply(const UniValue& result, const UniValue& error, const UniValue& id);
 UniValue JSONRPCError(int code, const std::string& message);
 
-/** Get name of RPC authentication cookie file */
-fs::path GetAuthCookieFile();
 /** Generate a new RPC authentication cookie and write it to disk */
 bool GenerateAuthCookie(std::string *cookie_out);
 /** Read the RPC authentication cookie from disk */