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[cr-test] sandbox-store: refuse post-action stamps over another intent's lifecycle - #1444
A lifecycle action's post-action stamp no longer overwrites the lifecycle a concurrent delete or suspend wrote while the action's substrate call was in flight. stamp_action_lifecycle, stamp_started_after_start and the pooled update_and_fetch_post_wake_sandbox refused only terminal lifecycles. So a start that finished while a delete held the row deleting stamped it started/on_node.
Each stamp is now a typed ActionStamp (crates/l30_storage/sandbox/store/src/action_stamp.rs) that writes only while the row is in a named in-flight set: every lifecycle an action may begin from that no other intent owns, plus the results a concurrent completion of the same action leaves. deleting, stopping, suspending, suspended, terminal and unknown values are refused (module docs name each row owner). Two stamps still write over suspended:
a suspend's own;
every Direct start (StartSubstrate::LeavesSuspended). A Direct node cold-boots a suspended sandbox inside the start, and a Direct suspend writes no suspending, so the stamp cannot tell whose suspended it sees. A wrong started needs a suspend to finish between the start's node call and its stamp, and the node's suspended report does not correct it; a wrong suspended would need one to finish between the entry read and the node call, a longer window, and would stay until the next wake. A Kubernetes start of a suspended row claims restoring first, so a suspended its stamp finds is a newer suspend's, and the stamp refuses it.
A start makes at most one post-result write; the dispatcher's shared stamp no longer repeats it, so it cannot undo a write that lands in between. A refusal matches zero rows, returns false and is logged at info; the action still succeeds. The pooled post-wake update keeps its existing CAS-miss error, so that create fails.
Changed test expectations
post_action_stamps_write_only_over_an_in_flight_lifecycle (renamed): the 15 known-defect cells (suspending, suspended, stopping, deleting, _Suspended_, all three columns) flip ! to .; KNOWN_DEFECTS 15 to 0; bogus flips A to ..
Direct completed_actions_keep_a_terminal_lifecycle_that_landed_mid_flight also lands deleting, stopping, suspending, suspended: all kept except (Start, suspended), which ends started/on_node. A new test, a_start_keeps_a_rewrite_that_landed_after_its_stamp, lands a synthetic stopped/unplaced rewrite right after a Direct start's stamp and expects it kept.
Its Kubernetes twin: the start_after_wake_ack case also lands those four; each is kept and the start succeeds.
a_successful_start_drops_a_disk_pin_and_keeps_a_suspend_pin: inputs pass the start substrate; expectations unchanged.
New action_stamp::tests, per stamp.
Validation
At this head, rebased onto main after #1426 turned the changed Direct and Kubernetes tests into rstest cases: SPACE_CI_REQUIRE_TEST_DEPS=1 cargo nextest run --all-features -p pplx-space-api -p pplx-space-sandbox-store passes 2553 (1 ignored benchmark). Each of this PR's tests takes under 0.4 s (ci/scripts/check-test-durations.py passes). With main's non-test code, the matrix test, the six Direct cases, the Kubernetes start_after_wake_ack case and the rewrite test fail. fmt, workspace clippy -D warnings and ci/scripts/run-archcheck.sh are clean.
On an earlier revision of this change, before #1426 reshaped its tests, with the same non-test code:
Before the fix: on origin/main code the matrix fails on the 15 cross-intent cells and the three bogus cells, and the Direct test with Start with Some("deleting"). With a start stamp that refused suspended and a second, lifecycle-only start write, (Start, suspended) ended suspended/unplaced and the rewrite case started/unplaced. All pass here. A mutation putting every start on the Direct stamp fails the Kubernetes test at suspended.
SPACE_CI_REQUIRE_TEST_DEPS=1 cargo nextest run --all-features -p pplx-space-sandbox-store -p pplx-space-api: 2260 passed, Postgres and Redis running.
fmt, scripts/check-rust-error-policy.sh, workspace clippy -D warnings and cargo arch: clean.
Kind, fresh cluster (up.sh, otel, 494 s): a native :pause whose stamp waited on an uncommitted deleting write succeeded, logged sandbox lifecycle stamp refused, and the row stayed deleting.
scripts/tests/smoke-kind-typed.sh all, CI's admin-token and cold-receipts setup: ECW 91 and native 42 passed, 0 failed, 3998 s. Six console scenarios skipped (no Chromium).
Not run end to end: the Direct start race (Kind runs Kubernetes); the Direct sim test covers it.
Severity and risk
Severity: medium. It needs a delete or suspend to begin mid-action, and corrupts the row that teardown or restore then trusts.
Risk: a refused stamp leaves the row to its owner, and the row keeps the owner's state if it never finishes. If that owner is a delete or a drain evacuation that then fails, its compensation puts back the lifecycle it read before the action finished, so the row can describe the sandbox as it was before the action. A fence for those compensations is a follow-up. Values outside the stored vocabulary are now refused; no writer stores one. Rollback: revert.
Rollout
No schema change. Old replicas keep the old guard, so the race stays possible until every API and cluster-controller replica runs this version.
Overlaps
Open #559 restructures update_and_fetch_post_wake_sandbox in responses.rs; whichever lands second carries the = ANY($3::TEXT[]) guard and POOLED_POST_WAKE_FROM across.
AI assistance: Claude Code wrote the code, the tests and this description.
The post-action stamps (`action_stamp::stamp_action_lifecycle` and
`stamp_started_after_start`) and the pooled post-wake update refused only
`failed`, `quarantined`, `deleted` and `cleanup_required`. A start, resume,
pause, stop or suspend whose stamp landed after a concurrent delete or
suspend had begun overwrote `deleting`, `stopping`, `suspending` or
`suspended` with its own result: a start that completed while a delete held
the row `deleting` left it `started`/`on_node` under the delete's teardown.
Each stamp is now a typed `ActionStamp` that writes only while the row is in
a named in-flight set: every lifecycle an action may begin from that no
other intent owns, plus the results a concurrent completion of the same
action leaves. The api's dispatcher checks no lifecycle at entry for these
actions, and none of them writes a lifecycle of its own before its substrate
call except Kubernetes paths that join or drive a restore first, which leave
the row in the set. A Kubernetes suspend claims `suspending` first but writes
no post-action stamp.
`suspended` stays admitted for a suspend's own stamp and for every start on
Direct. A Direct node cold-boots a suspended sandbox inside the start, and a
Direct suspend writes no `suspending` claim, so the stamp cannot tell a
concurrent suspend's `suspended` from the one the start began on. Writing
over `suspended` is wrong only if a suspend finishes between the start's
node call and its stamp, and the node's `suspended` report does not project
that back, because the stamp moves `lifecycle_changed_at` past the suspend's
snapshot. Refusing would be wrong whenever a suspend finishes between the
start's entry read and its node call, a longer window, and the row would
read `suspended` over a running sandbox until the next wake. A Kubernetes
start of a `suspended` row claims `restoring` first, so a `suspended` its
stamp finds is a newer suspend's, and the stamp refuses it.
A start makes at most one post-result write, its `started`/`on_node` stamp;
the dispatcher's shared lifecycle stamp no longer repeats it. A refusal
matches zero rows, is reported as `false`, and is logged at info; the action
still succeeds. The pooled post-wake update takes the same set in place and
keeps its existing CAS-miss error.
A failed delete or drain evacuation that a refused stamp left the row to
still puts back the lifecycle it read before the action finished. The module
docs say so; fencing those compensations is left for a follow-up.
Why: Lifecycle updates now refuse states they previously could overwrite. Confirm the affected action paths and tests before merging because an incorrect guard could leave a sandbox in the wrong lifecycle state.
Commit: 541d40b27765.
Walkthrough
Lifecycle stamps now use action-specific allowed source states, with start behavior selected by substrate capability. API action updates and pooled post-wake updates refuse rows outside their allowed lifecycle sets. Tests cover accepted and refused states, including cross-intent and unknown lifecycle values, and verify start placement updates.
Possibly related PRs
perplexityai/SPACE#1398: Both changes define when start-related lifecycle or artifact updates apply; a refused stamp in this PR preserves the disk marker used by the snapshot guard.
perplexityai/SPACE#1399: Both changes coordinate lifecycle writes on suspended rows, including the conditions under which an action stamp may write over suspended.
Merge Risk: High · up to 541d4
Lifecycle updates now refuse states they previously could overwrite. Confirm the affected action paths and tests before merging because an incorrect guard could leave a sandbox in the wrong lifecycle state.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 541d4
The new guards prevent late completions from overwriting a competing operation's state. However, when operations overlap, a failed delete can restore an obsolete lifecycle after a successful action was refused its completion write. Later requests may trust that obsolete state instead of contacting the runtime. This recovery interaction warrants attention despite the stronger normal-path protections.
Retained concerns
Medium · reliability · inferred: Refusing a successful action's completion does not preserve its outcome through competing-operation rollback. If a start completes while deleting owns the row, its stamp now refuses the write. If deletion then fails before runtime teardown, compensation can restore the pre-start stopped lifecycle although execution is running. Subsequent native Stop or Kill requests can report already completed without contacting the runtime. This changes the completed recovery outcome relative to the base's permissive stamp. The concern requires overlapping execution; keyed scheduling mitigates ordinary native-operation overlap but is not a universal fence.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
observed — The inspected public executor validates payload target identity, operation kind, and sandbox organization before invoking the controller. Completion SQL targets the supplied sandbox ID. The identified recovery concern affects execution containment for that sandbox, rather than establishing expanded tenant or credential authority.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — The conditional containment path is an overlapping successful start, refused completion while deleting, failed runtime deletion, and rollback to stopped. A subsequent native Stop or Kill can then succeed through its state-only shortcut. Persistence and practical reachability depend on concurrency mode and subsequent reconciliation; this is not a verified privilege-escalation finding.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Caller-provided lifecycle strings are replaced by typed action outcomes and fixed source-state lists. The database checks current eligibility within the same statement as the write, preventing a separate read-check-write window for this control.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
inferred — Per-sandbox keyed scheduling is strong counterevidence against ordinary concurrent native lifecycle operations. The dispatcher also documents unkeyed execution without that blocking and stale executions surviving claim rotation, so scheduling alone does not prove the recovery interleaving impossible.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Preserve an action's completion outcome across competing-intent rollback, or reconcile runtime state before restoring an earlier lifecycle. An intent or execution-generation fence could distinguish ownership loss from completed work; restored lifecycle text alone should not establish that execution has stopped.
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Remove the "[cr-test]" tag so the title starts with the area and a colon, for example: "sandbox-store: refuse post-action stamps over another intent's lifecycle". Alternatively, use the bracket form with the area only, for example: "[sandbox-store] refuse post-action stamps over another intent's lifecycle". Keep the summary lowercase and drop any trailing period if one is added.
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Add the omitted refusal cases to the action-stamp matrix.
expected_cases does not test failed, quarantined, deleted, cleanup_required, or an unknown lifecycle for Start(StartSubstrate::LeavesSuspended) and Suspend. The other stamp tests cover those values only for Pause and Start(StartSubstrate::ClaimsRestoring). If a value is added to SUSPENDED_ACTION_IN_FLIGHT, the suspended writers can overwrite that state without failing these tests.
Extend the shared builder with these refusal cases, and keep the refusal set aligned with the complete stored vocabulary.
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+/// Lifecycles no stamp writes over: the sweeper's, the tombstones, and a+/// value outside the stored vocabulary.+const NEVER_STAMPED: [&str; 5] = [+ "failed",+ "quarantined",+ "deleted",+ "cleanup_required",+ "bogus",+];+
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let refused = CROSS_INTENT
.into_iter()
+ .chain(NEVER_STAMPED)
.filter(|lifecycle| !own.contains(lifecycle));
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Extend the shared expected_cases builder to include failed, quarantined,
deleted, cleanup_required, and an unknown lifecycle among refused values for
Start(StartSubstrate::LeavesSuspended) and Suspend. Keep the refusal set aligned
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quarantined, deleted, cleanup_required, and an unknown lifecycle among refused
values for Start(StartSubstrate::LeavesSuspended) and Suspend. Keep the refusal
set aligned with the complete stored lifecycle vocabulary, and preserve any
cases where a lifecycle is explicitly allowed by the action.
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Summary
A lifecycle action's post-action stamp no longer overwrites the lifecycle a concurrent delete or suspend wrote while the action's substrate call was in flight.
stamp_action_lifecycle,stamp_started_after_startand the pooledupdate_and_fetch_post_wake_sandboxrefused only terminal lifecycles. So a start that finished while a delete held the rowdeletingstamped itstarted/on_node.Each stamp is now a typed
ActionStamp(crates/l30_storage/sandbox/store/src/action_stamp.rs) that writes only while the row is in a named in-flight set: every lifecycle an action may begin from that no other intent owns, plus the results a concurrent completion of the same action leaves.deleting,stopping,suspending,suspended, terminal and unknown values are refused (module docs name each row owner). Two stamps still write oversuspended:StartSubstrate::LeavesSuspended). A Direct node cold-boots a suspended sandbox inside the start, and a Direct suspend writes nosuspending, so the stamp cannot tell whosesuspendedit sees. A wrongstartedneeds a suspend to finish between the start's node call and its stamp, and the node'ssuspendedreport does not correct it; a wrongsuspendedwould need one to finish between the entry read and the node call, a longer window, and would stay until the next wake. A Kubernetes start of asuspendedrow claimsrestoringfirst, so asuspendedits stamp finds is a newer suspend's, and the stamp refuses it.A start makes at most one post-result write; the dispatcher's shared stamp no longer repeats it, so it cannot undo a write that lands in between. A refusal matches zero rows, returns
falseand is logged at info; the action still succeeds. The pooled post-wake update keeps its existing CAS-miss error, so that create fails.Changed test expectations
post_action_stamps_write_only_over_an_in_flight_lifecycle(renamed): the 15 known-defect cells (suspending,suspended,stopping,deleting,_Suspended_, all three columns) flip!to.;KNOWN_DEFECTS15 to 0;bogusflipsAto..completed_actions_keep_a_terminal_lifecycle_that_landed_mid_flightalso landsdeleting,stopping,suspending,suspended: all kept except(Start, suspended), which endsstarted/on_node. A new test,a_start_keeps_a_rewrite_that_landed_after_its_stamp, lands a syntheticstopped/unplacedrewrite right after a Direct start's stamp and expects it kept.start_after_wake_ackcase also lands those four; each is kept and the start succeeds.a_successful_start_drops_a_disk_pin_and_keeps_a_suspend_pin: inputs pass the start substrate; expectations unchanged.action_stamp::tests, per stamp.Validation
At this head, rebased onto
mainafter #1426 turned the changed Direct and Kubernetes tests into rstest cases:SPACE_CI_REQUIRE_TEST_DEPS=1 cargo nextest run --all-features -p pplx-space-api -p pplx-space-sandbox-storepasses 2553 (1 ignored benchmark). Each of this PR's tests takes under 0.4 s (ci/scripts/check-test-durations.pypasses). Withmain's non-test code, the matrix test, the six Direct cases, the Kubernetesstart_after_wake_ackcase and the rewrite test fail. fmt, workspace clippy-D warningsandci/scripts/run-archcheck.share clean.On an earlier revision of this change, before #1426 reshaped its tests, with the same non-test code:
origin/maincode the matrix fails on the 15 cross-intent cells and the threeboguscells, and the Direct test withStart with Some("deleting"). With a start stamp that refusedsuspendedand a second, lifecycle-only start write,(Start, suspended)endedsuspended/unplacedand the rewrite casestarted/unplaced. All pass here. A mutation putting every start on the Direct stamp fails the Kubernetes test atsuspended.SPACE_CI_REQUIRE_TEST_DEPS=1 cargo nextest run --all-features -p pplx-space-sandbox-store -p pplx-space-api: 2260 passed, Postgres and Redis running.scripts/check-rust-error-policy.sh, workspace clippy-D warningsandcargo arch: clean.up.sh, otel, 494 s): a native:pausewhose stamp waited on an uncommitteddeletingwrite succeeded, loggedsandbox lifecycle stamp refused, and the row stayeddeleting.scripts/tests/smoke-kind-typed.sh all, CI's admin-token and cold-receipts setup: ECW 91 and native 42 passed, 0 failed, 3998 s. Six console scenarios skipped (no Chromium).Severity and risk
Severity: medium. It needs a delete or suspend to begin mid-action, and corrupts the row that teardown or restore then trusts.
Risk: a refused stamp leaves the row to its owner, and the row keeps the owner's state if it never finishes. If that owner is a delete or a drain evacuation that then fails, its compensation puts back the lifecycle it read before the action finished, so the row can describe the sandbox as it was before the action. A fence for those compensations is a follow-up. Values outside the stored vocabulary are now refused; no writer stores one. Rollback: revert.
Rollout
No schema change. Old replicas keep the old guard, so the race stays possible until every API and cluster-controller replica runs this version.
Overlaps
Open #559 restructures
update_and_fetch_post_wake_sandboxinresponses.rs; whichever lands second carries the= ANY($3::TEXT[])guard andPOOLED_POST_WAKE_FROMacross.AI assistance: Claude Code wrote the code, the tests and this description.