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[cr-test] sandbox-store: refuse post-action stamps over another intent's lifecycle - #1493
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.
Why: The new lifecycle guards affect persisted sandbox state. Complete the suspended-state guard coverage before merging.
Commit: 229d2c8a4cc6.
Walkthrough
Lifecycle stamps now use typed actions and substrate-specific allowlists. Guarded updates return whether they changed a row, and API callers use that result to distinguish a refused update from a database error. Pooled post-wake updates use a normalized allowlist check. PostgreSQL and characterization tests cover cross-intent lifecycle states, start completion, and lifecycle races.
Possibly related issues
perplexityai/SPACE issue 875: This change guards post-action writes against overwriting suspend and delete lifecycle ownership. It does not cover the issue’s broader cancellation and wake/delete arbitration behavior.
Possibly related PRs
perplexityai/SPACE#1412: It implements the same typed action stamps, substrate-specific guards, and refusal behavior.
Merge Risk: High · up to 229d2
The new lifecycle guards affect persisted sandbox state. Complete the suspended-state guard coverage before merging.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 229d2
The change prevents several cross-operation state overwrites. However, a failed overlapping operation can restore an obsolete state after another action succeeds, weakening recovery correctness for the affected sandbox. Broader access or privilege expansion was not established.
Retained concerns
Medium · reliability · inferred: A successful action whose stamp is refused can lose its result when the competing delete or drain subsequently fails. Those compensations restore the pre-intent lifecycle rather than reconcile the completed action. Their implementation predates this PR, but preserving deleting or suspending now permits compensation after a completion that previously displaced those states. The resulting lifecycle can describe an older workload state, weakening rollback correctness. This requires overlapping execution and a failing owner; its duration and broader security consequences were not established.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
observed — The inspected persistence effects are keyed to one SandboxId per invocation: lifecycle, start placement and artifact-pin cleanup, or pooled wake node assignment. The changed predicates do not themselves grant broader database or infrastructure authority.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Inspected public callers resolve sandbox access from authenticated scope or validate the operation's organization before dispatch. Substrate capability selection remains server-controlled, and the changed helpers do not accept a public raw lifecycle string.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Keyed native-operation dispatch serializes normal same-sandbox operations, but E2B and internal ingress can call the controller directly, while drain claims write independently. Database transition guards therefore remain necessary across these writers.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Extend failed-owner recovery to account for successful overlapping substrate actions, using versioned completion evidence or reconciliation before restoring a captured lifecycle. Preserve the new refusal guards rather than reopening cross-intent overwrites.
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The suspended-set guard has no sweep over the full stored vocabulary.
SUSPENDED_ACTION_IN_FLIGHT is used by Suspend and Start(StartSubstrate::LeavesSuspended) in stamps_from. Two tests exercise it, but neither covers the full set:
each_stamp_writes_its_own_states_and_refuses_another_intents uses the hand-picked OWN_STATES and CROSS_INTENT lists. It refuses only deleting, stopping, and suspending for these stamps.
post_action_stamps_write_only_over_an_in_flight_lifecycle sweeps every stored value in its table. It exercises only ActionStamp::Pause, Start(ClaimsRestoring), and the post-wake update, and all three use ACTION_IN_FLIGHT.
If failed or quarantined is added to SUSPENDED_ACTION_IN_FLIGHT, every test still passes. A Direct suspend or Direct start can then overwrite a row the sweeper has failed or quarantined. Adding deleting fails the storage test, because deleting is in CROSS_INTENT.
Fix: in the storage test, declare the full allowed set for each stamp, and do not derive it from stamps_from(). Iterate over every stored lifecycle. Include a padded, mixed-case suspended value, because the guard applies LOWER(TRIM(...)). Assert written == allowed.contains(lifecycle) for each case.
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Update the storage tests for each stamp using SUSPENDED_ACTION_IN_FLIGHT to
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independently of stamps_from(); sweep every stored lifecycle, including padded
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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.