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Summary

When a legacy sandbox pod is torn down partway through a user stop, the shim no longer deletes the sandbox. This covers a stop that's still STOPPING and a stop whose cleanup failed. Either way the stopped rootfs survives for the next start. sandbox-manager's State now reports which completion a row's recorded cleanup applies, so the shim can tell a failed stop from a failed delete.

Terms

• Legacy teardown: the path releaseLegacyTaskTeardown (shim/space.go) takes for pods without the durable teardown contract. That's every generation-1 pod without the space.pplx.net/teardown-protocol: generation-suspend-v1 annotation (requiresGenerationTeardown). On containerd Kill and Delete, it reads the row's lifecycle from sandbox-manager State and either releases the task or calls sandbox-manager Stop or Delete.
• legacyStopIssued: set on the task when this task's own Kill issued the Stop. It marks the stop as part of a pod deletion, so a later Delete still removes the sandbox.
• Cleanup completion: what an admitted node-local cleanup does to the row when it finishes (CleanupCompletion in crates/l30_storage/sbx/mgr/store/src/db.rs). A stop is admitted as MarkStopped, which keeps the filesystem. A row whose cleanup fails moves to CLEANUP_REQUIRED or CLEANUP_FAILED and keeps that completion (owns_intent).

The problem

When a user stops a sandbox, sandbox-manager admits a MarkStopped cleanup, which moves the row to STOPPING. It then terminates Firecracker and marks the row STOPPED. Once Firecracker exits, the pod (restartPolicy: Never) goes Succeeded, and containerd sends the shim Delete. The legacy release skipped the destructive call only for STOPPED, SUSPENDING, SUSPENDED and RESTORING. Every other state fell through to sandbox-manager Delete, which deletes the row with keep_filesystem=false and removes the sandbox's local rootfs. The control plane still records the sandbox as stopped on that node. So every later start fails with stopped rootfs is absent and no exact disk artifact was selected, and the user's data since the last durable artifact is gone.

Two windows reach that fall-through:

1. The stop hasn't finished. If Delete arrives before sandbox-manager marks the row STOPPED, State returns STOPPING. The window is milliseconds wide, but a guest that exits promptly hits it: the Kind smoke native.forced_drain_re_drains_re_placed_stopped_sandbox has failed on main this way. Kill had the same gap. Seeing STOPPING, it called sandbox-manager Stop and, once that returned, set legacyStopIssued. The following Delete then treated the user's stop as its own and removed the sandbox anyway.
2. The stop's cleanup failed. The row then sits in CLEANUP_REQUIRED or CLEANUP_FAILED with the stop's MarkStopped completion still recorded, and the legacy release deleted it. The shim couldn't tell this row from a failed delete, because SandboxInfo didn't carry the completion.

sbx-manager's own recovery of an exited runtime (admit_exited_runtime) admits the same MarkStopped cleanup, so it reaches both windows too.

How this fixes it

• Report the cleanup completion in State. SandboxInfo gains optional SandboxCleanup cleanup = 59, a message whose completion field build_sandbox_info fills from the row's recorded completion whenever one is set. It's a message rather than a bare enum so the cleanup's status, attempts or last error can join it later without another wire change. Absence means no recorded cleanup or an older node; a CLEANUP_REQUIRED or CLEANUP_FAILED row can legitimately have none, and the shim keeps the old behavior there. A row that fails to decode publishes only its raw lifecycle with state_degraded set; the raw read (raw_sandbox_lifecycle) now carries the completion too, so that row still reports it.
• Treat a stop in progress or a failed stop like a finished stop. The legacy release now releases the task, without Stop or Delete, for STOPPED, STOPPING, and CLEANUP_REQUIRED or CLEANUP_FAILED with a MarkStopped completion. The legacyStopIssued check from STOPPED applies to all of them. The shim's Stop doesn't set blocking, so after its own Kill the row can still be STOPPING when Delete arrives, and that pod deletion still proceeds to Delete.
• Treat a failed suspend like a suspend. CLEANUP_REQUIRED or CLEANUP_FAILED with a MarkSuspended completion releases the task, as SUSPENDING already did.
• Read the completion only on a failed cleanup. On other rows a published completion can be an armed activation's rollback target while the start runs (a cold start of a stopped sandbox publishes MarkStopped on its STARTING row), so those rows keep their lifecycle's answer.
• Keep Kill's ownership of its stop when the reply is lost. legacyStopIssued is now recorded on the task just before Kill sends Stop. If the call ends on the shim's side (DeadlineExceeded or Canceled) or the connection fails (Unavailable), sbx-manager may have admitted it, so the marker stays and the retried Kill doesn't read its own stop as a user's. Any other error is sbx-manager refusing the stop, so the marker goes back to its prior value and a user stop that follows is still kept.

A failed delete, any other completion, and a node too old to report the completion all keep the old behavior and retry Delete. Generation-fenced teardown, the stopped-restart path and sandbox-manager's cleanup are unchanged. This PR doesn't repair sandboxes that already lost their rootfs this way, and it doesn't change which pods carry the teardown-protocol annotation.

Validation

• TestLegacyPodTeardownPreservesUserStoppedRootfs gains stopping, stop cleanup required, stop cleanup failed and suspend cleanup failed cases, each for kill and delete. Each expects the task to release with no Stop or Delete call. With the STOPPING case label reverted, both stopping cases fail. With the MarkStopped completion arm removed, all four stop-cleanup cases fail. All pass here.
• TestLegacyTeardownStillTearsDownOtherFailedCleanups expects a CLEANUP_REQUIRED or CLEANUP_FAILED row whose completion is DeleteRow, DeletePoolClone, MarkCreated, Quarantine, unspecified, unknown, or unreported to still get Stop from kill and Delete from delete.
• TestLegacyTeardownKeepsTheLifecycleAnswerForArmedActivations expects STARTING, CREATING, CREATED, RESTORING and STOPPING rows carrying an armed completion to get their lifecycle's answer for kill and delete: Stop and Delete for a start or create in progress, release for a restore, and the legacyStopIssued rule for STOPPING. Reading the completion on STARTING fails its four cold-start cases.
• TestLegacyTeardownIgnoresACompletionOutsideFailedCleanup sweeps every lifecycle other than CLEANUP_* against every completion value, for kill and delete, with and without legacyStopIssued, and expects the same answer as with no cleanup reported. It iterates the generated enum maps, so a value added later is covered. Reading the completion on QUARANTINED fails it.
• TestLegacyKillOwnsOnlyAStopThatMayHaveBeenAdmitted drives Kill, a retried Kill that sees STOPPING, and Delete. With the first Stop timing out or its connection dropping (Unavailable) it expects two Stop calls and one Delete; with sbx-manager refusing it (FailedPrecondition), one Stop and no Delete. Recording the marker only after success fails the first case, treating Unavailable as a refusal fails the second, and keeping the marker after a refusal fails the third.
• TestLegacyKillThenDeleteStillCallsManagerDelete now runs with the row STOPPED, STOPPING, or CLEANUP_FAILED with MarkStopped after the shim's own Kill, and expects one Stop and one Delete in each.
• build_sandbox_info_publishes_the_failed_cleanup_completion checks that a CLEANUP_FAILED row publishes its recorded completion, and none when no completion is recorded.
• state_degrades_bad_metadata_without_rejecting_healthy_siblings now also records mark_stopped on the row that fails to decode, and expects State to report it. It fails with the degraded builder's new field removed, and passes here.
• shim/proto/sandbox/manager/v1/manager.pb.go was regenerated with protoc 35.0 and protoc-gen-go v1.36.11.
• From shim/: gofmt -l . (clean), go vet ./... (clean), go test ./... (pass).
• cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --locked -- -D warnings (clean), and cargo nextest run for pplx-space-sbx-mgr, pplx-space-sbx-mgr-store, pplx-space-sbx-mgr-client, pplx-space-sbx-mgr-protocol and pplx-space-node-api-sim (all passed). The retained_route_identity_provenance_wire_shape snapshot gains the new field as None.

Not validated: a Kind or deployed run of either window.

Not covered

One path can still turn a user stop into Delete, and it predates this PR.

• A user stop that races the shim's own Stop. Kill reads STARTED, a user stop is admitted, and then the shim sends its own Stop. Unless sbx-manager refuses that call, legacyStopIssued stays set, so the following Delete removes the user-stopped sandbox. The window also covers a Stop that ended on the shim's side before it was sent, and one sbx-manager refused with Unavailable (as it does while its cleanup admission is closing): both keep the marker until containerd retries Kill, because the shim can't tell them from a stop admitted before the connection dropped. Closing it needs a fence on the shim's Stop, such as the execution generation it observed.

Dependencies

None. This merges on its own.

Rollout

The shim and sandbox-manager deploy independently. A shim that meets a sandbox-manager without the field sees no completion and falls back to the old behavior for CLEANUP_REQUIRED and CLEANUP_FAILED. The STOPPING fix doesn't depend on the new field. An older shim ignores the field.

Severity and risk

Severity: high. A user stop can permanently destroy the sandbox's only copy, and the sandbox is then stuck: every start fails and only delete gets it out.

Risk: low. The shim change is confined to the legacy path, and the proto change is one optional field. Some legacy pod deletions now leave a stopped sandbox with its rootfs instead of deleting it, which keeps data rather than losing it. That happens when sbx-manager's startup recovery of an interrupted start records MarkStopped before the legacy pod is deleted, and when a user deletes a sandbox right after stopping it and the controller's best-effort sandbox-manager Delete doesn't land: the legacy pod's teardown now sees STOPPING or a failed stop cleanup and leaves the stopped row and rootfs, where before it deleted them. The same already happened on main once the row reached STOPPED. Roll back by reverting this commit.

AI assistance: Claude Code drafted the code change, the tests and this description.

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Walkthrough

The protobuf contract and sandbox responses now include cleanup completion values read from storage. Legacy teardown uses lifecycle and cleanup completion to select release, Stop, or Delete behavior and tracks Stop ownership around the Stop call. State-page results are boxed while stored in the page.

Possibly related issues

• Issue 875 — The changes retain Stop ownership after context-ended errors and release the task after failed suspend cleanup marked MarkSuspended; capture deadlines remain outside this pull request.
• Issue 876 — Cleanup completion handling releases the task without Delete after failed suspend cleanup marked MarkSuspended; synchronous delete and eviction paths remain outside this pull request.

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 1363d

The teardown and cleanup-reporting changes affect whether a stopped sandbox is preserved or deleted. No new defect was established, but these changes and the outstanding dependency-rationale concern warrant resolution or explicit acceptance before merging.

Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 1363d

The change improves preservation of stopped sandboxes, but an uncertain stop request can be mistaken for ownership of a later user stop. Under partial failure, teardown may request deletion instead of preserving the sandbox.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · inferred: A possibly unadmitted Stop now authorizes later destructive teardown. Kill records legacyStopIssued before sending Stop and retains it for canceled, deadline-exceeded and unavailable results. If no admission occurred and an independent user Stop subsequently completes, Delete observes STOPPED but bypasses preservation because that marker is still true. The base left the marker false after the failed Kill and would release that stopped sandbox. Manager shutdown provides a concrete pre-admission Unavailable path; after recovery, the two stop intents are not correlated by an operation identity. Task locking and determinate-refusal rollback do not distinguish this sequence. The introduced outcome is an unintended Delete request; actual erasure remains subject to downstream safety guards and was not demonstrated.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The identified ownership failure is bounded to the sandbox named by an existing legacy task. Its potential consequence is loss of that sandbox's retained filesystem through an unintended deletion request. The inspected changes do not establish a cross-tenant attack path or newly granted caller authority.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The material concern is failure-path ownership attribution, not a verified authentication bypass. A manager shutdown can reject Stop before admission with Unavailable, while the shim retains its ownership marker. A subsequent user stop after recovery can then reach the destructive branch during pod teardown. End-to-end occurrence and final erasure were not demonstrated.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Cleanup completion is read from manager-owned storage rather than supplied by the teardown request. Selected legacy cleanup admission uses an unfenced mode relative to caller-observed lifecycle, although the manager acquires a per-sandbox cleanup lock for admission. This does not bind the shim's preceding State observation or task-local ownership marker to that transaction.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Manager deletion admission retains safeguards for pending suspend publication and a retained filesystem that may be the only copy. These are important countercontrols to destructive cleanup, but the inspected guard block does not establish that it rejects the independently user-stopped sequence identified here.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Correlate legacy Stop admission and later destructive teardown with a manager-recorded operation or cleanup-episode identity, so an uncertain request cannot confer ownership over a later independent stop.

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Bug Fixes Name A Regression Test		The pull request fixes application behavior in shim/ and crates/. Its Validation section names regression tests and states that they fail when the fix is removed and pass with it, including `TestL…
Weakened Safeguards Are Justified		The diff does not weaken a safeguard. It changes no CI, lint, allowlist, baseline, nextest, or workflow file. The only removed test block is TestLegacyKillThenDeleteStillCallsManagerDelete in `shim/…
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The title "[shim] keep a user-stopped sandbox through legacy pod teardown" meets the required format: it uses a bracketed lowercase area, followed by a summary starting with a lowercase word, with no trailing period or ticket ID. It also matches the main change, which makes legacy teardown preserve the rootfs of a user-stopped sandbox while a stop is in progress or its cleanup failed.

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The description includes a populated ## Summary section, a ## Validation section with commands and reported results, a ## Severity and risk section stating high severity and low risk, and an AI assistance: line identifying Claude Code and the drafted parts.

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Approving. The fix is right for its scope, and publishing the cleanup completion is the right way for the shim to tell a failed stop from a failed delete.

Two non-blocking notes:

1. The proto comment overstates. SandboxInfo.cleanup_completion says "a CLEANUP_REQUIRED or CLEANUP_FAILED row carries one". Rows in those states without a recorded completion can exist: sandbox-manager's cleanup recovery handles them and assigns Quarantine (crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/recovery.rs, the (None, None) arms for CleanupRequired and CleanupFailed). For those rows the shim falls through to Delete, as it did before this PR. Worth naming that exception in the comment, so nobody reads an absent completion as proof of an old node.

2. Heads-up on planned follow-up work. We're planning to retire CleanupRequired/CleanupFailed as lifecycle states. Owed teardown would sit in stopping/suspending/deleting, with the target on the cleanup record. That's the same equivalence this PR encodes in the shim. Two consequences for that work, nothing to change here:

   • Once forced teardowns that end in created or quarantined report STOPPING, the STOPPING arm here would release them instead of calling Delete as today. The shim will need to check cleanup_completion for STOPPING rows as well, and that shim change has to ship before the sandbox-manager change.
   • cleanup_completion will probably gain sibling fields (status, attempts, last error). If you're touching the field anyway, a small SandboxCleanup message instead of a bare enum would save a later wire change. Entirely optional.

Leaving the race under "Not covered" for a separate fence on the shim's Stop makes sense to me.

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[zibi-pplx]

Follow-up request before this merges: could the legacy teardown decide from SandboxInfo.cleanup whenever it's present, whatever the lifecycle value?

Why: we're planning to remove CLEANUP_REQUIRED and CLEANUP_FAILED from the sandbox lifecycle. A row whose teardown is still owed will report the transition it's in (STOPPING, DELETING, or SUSPENDING for a pinned suspend), and the destination will come from cleanup.completion, which this PR introduces. A failed or interrupted start or restore will roll back through STOPPING, so STOPPING will no longer always mean "stop to STOPPED".

The case that breaks: at the current head, STOPPING sets stop = true without looking at the completion, so it releases only when legacyStopIssued is false. A restore rolling back to suspended will arrive as STOPPING with MARK_SUSPENDED. With legacyStopIssued set, it falls through to Delete, whereas CLEANUP_* + MARK_SUSPENDED releases unconditionally today. Whether that combination is reachable still needs a concurrency test, but deciding from the completion closes it either way.

Proposed rule, applied before the lifecycle switch:

cleanup.completion	Legacy teardown
MARK_SUSPENDED	release
MARK_STOPPED	release, unless legacyStopIssued
MARK_CREATED, QUARANTINE	Delete, as today for CLEANUP_* (open to releasing instead if you think that's safer)
DELETE_ROW, DELETE_POOL_CLONE	Delete
absent	the current lifecycle switch, unchanged

Today's behaviour stays the same: every CLEANUP_* row already goes through the completion. STOPPING with no completion, or with MARK_STOPPED, behaves as it does now.

Why now: no shim with this PR's logic is running yet. Running shims aren't replaced when the binary is reinstalled; only new sandboxes pick it up. If the rule ships after merge, sandboxes started in between would keep the lifecycle-only STOPPING arm until they're recycled. Folding it in now avoids that.

Tests: extend TestLegacyPodTeardownPreservesUserStoppedRootfs and TestLegacyDeleteStillDeletesAFailedDelete so each completion is checked under CLEANUP_REQUIRED, STOPPING, SUSPENDING and DELETING, for both kill and delete, with and without legacyStopIssued. The property to assert is that the answer doesn't change when only the lifecycle value changes.

My approval stands either way. If you'd rather land this as a follow-up, that's fine, as long as it ships in the same shim release.

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[zibi-pplx]

Apologies: my earlier suggestion was wrong, and 83fca3906ba2 has applied it. Please revert the completion-first switch before merging.

The mistake was mine: I assumed a published cleanup always means teardown is owed. It doesn't. Inserting an armed activation episode immediately writes its rollback destination to the sandbox row (insert_cleanup_episode, cleanup_episodes.rs), and build_sandbox_info publishes it without looking at the episode's phase. A cold start of a stopped sandbox arms MARK_STOPPED (activation admission, state_transitions.rs). So a healthy STARTING row publishes cleanup.completion = MARK_STOPPED.

With the completion deciding first, legacy teardown of that pod now releases the task without Stop or Delete. Before this commit, STARTING took the active path (Kill → Stop). That can leave a runtime with no pod. The same applies to any lifecycle that can carry an armed completion: CREATING, STARTING, RESTORING, and CREATED/SUSPENDED while create's guard is armed.

What I'd ask instead:

• Keep the previous structure: the completion decides only for CLEANUP_REQUIRED and CLEANUP_FAILED, as in the head I approved.
• One narrow, optional addition: in the STOPPING arm, MARK_SUSPENDED releases unconditionally. Today a STOPPING row can't carry MARK_SUSPENDED: a stop during activation deletes the armed episode and clears the completion (state_transitions.rs). So this is a no-op now, and only matters once CLEANUP_* leaves the lifecycle. Feel free to drop it and keep this PR to its original fix; we can handle it in that change.
• Tests: STARTING with an armed MARK_STOPPED, and CREATING/RESTORING with armed completions, still take the active path for both kill and delete. If you keep the addition, also STOPPING + MARK_SUSPENDED with and without legacyStopIssued.

The markStopIssued change in the same commit looks independent of this; I haven't re-reviewed it.

Sorry for the churn. The rule came from me, and a second review caught the problem. Please hold the merge until the completion-first switch is reverted; my approval was for the earlier head.

[the-gigi-pplx]

Thanks for catching it. a47a7c9 reverts the completion-first switch: the completion decides only for CLEANUP_REQUIRED and CLEANUP_FAILED, as in the head you approved, with a comment saying why other rows don't read it. I left out the optional STOPPING + MARK_SUSPENDED arm; it can ride with the change that moves owed teardown out of CLEANUP_*.

TestLegacyTeardownIgnoresACompletionOutsideFailedCleanup covers your cases: STARTING with an armed MARK_STOPPED, MARK_SUSPENDED or MARK_CREATED, CREATING and CREATED with DELETE_ROW, and RESTORING with MARK_SUSPENDED, each for kill and delete. Each gets its lifecycle's answer, so Stop/Delete for the starts and the create, and a release for the restore. Reading the completion on STARTING fails its four cold-start cases.

The other change in that commit is separate: legacyStopIssued is now recorded just before Kill sends Stop. It stays set only when the call ends on the shim's side (DeadlineExceeded, Canceled), since sbx-manager may have admitted that stop; any answer from sbx-manager restores the prior value, so a refused Stop doesn't make a later user stop look like the shim's. TestLegacyKillOwnsOnlyAStopThatMayHaveBeenAdmitted covers both. The branch is also rebased on main, and the deny.toml ignores came out because PR #1503 landed the same two.

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[zibi-pplx]

Thanks for incorporating this so quickly. a47a7c950a41 is the right shape.

• The completion decides only for CLEANUP_REQUIRED/CLEANUP_FAILED, and the comment explains why other rows don't read it. STOPPING is back to deciding from the lifecycle alone.
• TestLegacyTeardownIgnoresACompletionOutsideFailedCleanup covers exactly the armed shapes I was worried about: STARTING, CREATING/CREATED and RESTORING with their rollback targets, for both kill and delete.
• Leaving out the optional STOPPING + MARK_SUSPENDED arm is fine. The follow-up that moves owed teardown out of CLEANUP_* will keep publishing those values until shims read the new cleanup ownership field. That change will flip the "stopping after own stop" row in your table deliberately, so it's good to have it pinned now.

The recordStopIssued change reads consistently with what legacyStopIssued means, and has its own test.

My approval stands. Thanks again, and sorry for the detour.

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[zibi-pplx]

Post-merge review finding, for a follow-up. Treating Unavailable as "maybe admitted" closes the lost-reply leak, but it reopens the user-STOP-to-DELETE case for one deliberate refusal. Details inline.

[zibi-pplx]

[P2] Unavailable is also a deliberate pre-admission refusal of Stop, so this can still turn a user STOP into DELETE.

SandboxManagerService::stop takes cleanup_request_permit() right after authorization (crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/grpc_core.rs:677). While sbx-manager is shutting down, that returns Status::unavailable("cleanup admission closed") (service/cleanup_executor.rs:380-392) before anything is admitted. With this change the shim reads that refusal as "outcome unknown" and keeps legacyStopIssued = true.

Scenario: pod teardown issues Stop during an sbx-manager restart, which is routine during an upgrade, and gets the refusal. Before the shim's retry reaches the restarted manager, a user STOP is admitted and completes. The retry sees STOPPED with legacyStopIssued set, skips the keep branch, and DELETEs the user-stopped sandbox. That is the data-loss direction #1501 set out to fix.

The status code can't settle it either way. A shutdown both refuses with Unavailable and drops connections, so both causes show up in the same event. The previous version (refused) leaked a sandbox that should have been deleted after a lost reply. This version (unknown) can delete one that should have been kept.

Suggested fix: give the deliberate refusal a positive marker that a transport failure can't produce, and keep the Unavailable code so other clients' retry behaviour doesn't change. For example, have the server attach a trailer such as space-stop-admitted: false (or a google.rpc.ErrorInfo reason) to every Stop refusal sent before admission. The shim would then treat Unavailable with the marker as refused, and a bare Unavailable or ended context as unknown. A test pair here would pin it: Unavailable with the marker gives 1 Stop and 0 Deletes; bare Unavailable gives 2 and 1.