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[cr-test] sandbox-store: refuse post-action stamps over another intent's lifecycle - #1535
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. Before this change, stamp_action_lifecycle, stamp_started_after_start and the pooled update_and_fetch_post_wake_sandbox refused only the terminal lifecycles. So if a start finished while a delete held the row deleting, the row was stamped started/on_node, and the delete's teardown then raced a sandbox the row called running.
Each stamp is now a typed ActionStamp (crates/libs/sandbox/store/src/action_stamp.rs) that writes only while the row is in a named in-flight set. The API checks no lifecycle at entry for start, resume, pause, stop, kill or suspend, and none of them writes one of its own before the substrate call. So the set is every lifecycle an action can begin from, plus the results a concurrent completion of the same action leaves. deleting, stopping, suspending, suspended, the terminal values and unknown values are refused. The module docs name who owns the row after each refusal: the delete, the suspend's finalize, node publication or the transient-lifecycle sweeper. Two stamps keep suspended, because there it is their own state:
a suspend's own stamp;
a Direct start that began on a suspended row. Its node restores the sandbox inside the start and leaves the row suspended until the stamp, so refusing it would strand a running sandbox. This is the same Direct exception complete_wake makes.
A refusal matches zero rows, returns false, and is logged at info. The action still succeeds. The pooled post-wake update stays in responses.rs with the same set, bound in place, and keeps its existing CAS-miss error.
Changed test expectations
post_action_stamps_write_every_stored_lifecycle_but_the_terminal_ones is renamed post_action_stamps_write_only_over_an_in_flight_lifecycle. Its 15 known-defect cells flip from ! to . (refused) in the stamp, state_stamp and post_wake columns of the suspending, suspended, stopping, deleting and _Suspended_ rows, and KNOWN_DEFECTS goes from 15 to 0. The bogus row also flips from A to . in all three columns, because an allow-list refuses values outside the stored vocabulary. Every other row is unchanged.
Direct completed_actions_keep_a_terminal_lifecycle_that_landed_mid_flight also lands deleting, stopping, suspending and suspended. Its comment had excluded them as the open bug.
The inputs of a_successful_start_drops_a_disk_pin_and_keeps_a_suspend_pin now pass the start's origin; its suspended case is a start that restored in place. The expectations are unchanged.
New action_stamp::tests, a table per verb: each stamp writes its own states and refuses the four cross-intent ones unless one is its own.
Validation
Before the fix (origin/main code): the flipped matrix fails with exactly the 15 cross-intent cells written, and the extended Direct test fails with Start with Some("deleting"), the row started/on_node. Both pass here.
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), plus the one ignored benchmark, which passes with --run-ignored only.
cargo fmt --check, scripts/check-rust-error-policy.sh, workspace clippy --all-targets --all-features -D warnings: clean. cargo arch: 0 required, 108 advisory, as on main; the lifecycle.rs cap drops by one.
Kind, on a fresh cluster from this head (up.sh, otel telemetry, 634 s): a native :pause whose stamp waited on an uncommitted deleting write succeeded, the controller logged sandbox lifecycle stamp refused, and the row stayed deleting.
Kind scripts/tests/smoke-kind-typed.sh all with CI's admin-token and cold-receipts setup: ECW 91 and native 42 passed, 0 failed, 4010 s. The six local.console_* scenarios, which CI withholds for a change outside ci/kind-console-paths.txt, skipped without Chromium. Run by hand afterwards, three passed, and three failed again on rerun, on a console search placeholder and an operations list this change does not touch.
No typed scenario races a delete or a suspend against a wake; native_concurrency.lifecycle_contention (pause against wake) ran in all.
Severity and risk
Severity: medium. The race needs a delete or suspend to begin during a lifecycle action, and it corrupts the row the teardown or restore then trusts.
Risk: a stamp that used to write now leaves the row to its owner; if that owner never finishes, the row keeps the owner's state. Rollback is a revert; there is no migration or flag.
Rollout
No schema change. In a mixed-version rollout, old replicas keep the old guard, so the race stays possible until every API and cluster-controller replica runs this version.
AI assistance: Claude Code wrote the code, the tests and this description.
Why: The new guards determine whether completed actions update sandbox lifecycle state. Validate the suspended-action cases before merging because those guard outcomes are not fully covered by the tests.
Commit: 5c320b010017.
Walkthrough
Action and start-completion lifecycle writes now use typed stamps with source-lifecycle guards. The API derives start origins and post-action stamps from sandbox state, actions, and substrate capabilities. Pooled post-wake updates use an allowlist, and tests cover lifecycle states where writes apply or are refused.
Possibly related PRs
perplexityai/SPACE#1412: Changes the same lifecycle stamp functions and pooled post-wake guard to address the same defect.
Merge Risk: High · up to 5c320
The new guards determine whether completed actions update sandbox lifecycle state. Validate the suspended-action cases before merging because those guard outcomes are not fully covered by the tests.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 5c320
The change strengthens protection against late action completions overwriting a concurrent delete or suspend. No introduced authorization bypass or material security regression was identified in the inspected paths. Residual uncertainty remains around deployment ordering and recovery behavior outside those paths.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
observed — The changed writes target an individual SandboxId. Inspected external callers retain owner or organization scoping before lifecycle dispatch, including organization and target checks in asynchronous operation execution. The reviewed change does not introduce a tenant-wide write or an arbitrary lifecycle-string input.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Stamp selection is constrained by fixed action variants, stored sandbox state, and controller-owned capabilities. Store-side predicates enforce eligibility at write time, strengthening the lifecycle ownership boundary without replacing the existing caller authorization boundary.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
inferred — Refusing late stamps preserves the lifecycle markers used by delete, suspend, node publication, and transient recovery. This improves failure containment relative to the base, but a refusal alone does not prove that teardown or recovery has completed.
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Add an exhaustive lifecycle sweep for the suspended-action stamps.
Suspend and Start(StartOrigin::SuspendedInPlace) use SUSPENDED_ACTION_IN_FLIGHT, but the store test checks only selected states. No existing action-stamp test checks that these stamps accept pausing, resuming, and checkpointing or refuse failed. An incorrect SUSPENDED_ACTION_IN_FLIGHT guard can therefore pass.
The API characterization test already covers the shared ACTION_IN_FLIGHT guard through Pause and Start(StartOrigin::Other), so duplicate full sweeps for Resume and Stop are not needed for that regression. Build the suspended-action cases from an independent lifecycle matrix, not from stamps_from().
This is a test-coverage improvement, not a current production failure.
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Review comment at @crates/libs/sandbox/store/src/action_stamp/tests.rs around
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Extend the action-stamp tests with an independent lifecycle matrix for
`ActionStamp::Suspend` and `ActionStamp::Start(StartOrigin::SuspendedInPlace)`,
without deriving cases from `stamps_from()`. Verify both stamps accept
`pausing`, `resuming`, and `checkpointing`, and refuse `failed`; rely on
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`ActionStamp::Start(StartOrigin::SuspendedInPlace)`, without deriving cases from
`stamps_from()`. Verify both stamps accept `pausing`, `resuming`, and
`checkpointing`, and refuse `failed`; rely on existing coverage for the shared
`ACTION_IN_FLIGHT` guard rather than adding full sweeps for `Resume` or `Stop`.
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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. Before this change,
stamp_action_lifecycle,stamp_started_after_startand the pooledupdate_and_fetch_post_wake_sandboxrefused only the terminal lifecycles. So if a start finished while a delete held the rowdeleting, the row was stampedstarted/on_node, and the delete's teardown then raced a sandbox the row called running.Each stamp is now a typed
ActionStamp(crates/libs/sandbox/store/src/action_stamp.rs) that writes only while the row is in a named in-flight set. The API checks no lifecycle at entry for start, resume, pause, stop, kill or suspend, and none of them writes one of its own before the substrate call. So the set is every lifecycle an action can begin from, plus the results a concurrent completion of the same action leaves.deleting,stopping,suspending,suspended, the terminal values and unknown values are refused. The module docs name who owns the row after each refusal: the delete, the suspend's finalize, node publication or the transient-lifecycle sweeper. Two stamps keepsuspended, because there it is their own state:suspendedrow. Its node restores the sandbox inside the start and leaves the rowsuspendeduntil the stamp, so refusing it would strand a running sandbox. This is the same Direct exceptioncomplete_wakemakes.A refusal matches zero rows, returns
false, and is logged at info. The action still succeeds. The pooled post-wake update stays inresponses.rswith the same set, bound in place, and keeps its existing CAS-miss error.Changed test expectations
post_action_stamps_write_every_stored_lifecycle_but_the_terminal_onesis renamedpost_action_stamps_write_only_over_an_in_flight_lifecycle. Its 15 known-defect cells flip from!to.(refused) in thestamp,state_stampandpost_wakecolumns of thesuspending,suspended,stopping,deletingand_Suspended_rows, andKNOWN_DEFECTSgoes from 15 to 0. Thebogusrow also flips fromAto.in all three columns, because an allow-list refuses values outside the stored vocabulary. Every other row is unchanged.completed_actions_keep_a_terminal_lifecycle_that_landed_mid_flightalso landsdeleting,stopping,suspendingandsuspended. Its comment had excluded them as the open bug.a_successful_start_drops_a_disk_pin_and_keeps_a_suspend_pinnow pass the start's origin; itssuspendedcase is a start that restored in place. The expectations are unchanged.action_stamp::tests, a table per verb: each stamp writes its own states and refuses the four cross-intent ones unless one is its own.Validation
origin/maincode): the flipped matrix fails with exactly the 15 cross-intent cells written, and the extended Direct test fails withStart with Some("deleting"), the rowstarted/on_node. Both pass here.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), plus the one ignored benchmark, which passes with--run-ignored only.cargo fmt --check,scripts/check-rust-error-policy.sh, workspaceclippy --all-targets --all-features -D warnings: clean.cargo arch: 0 required, 108 advisory, as on main; thelifecycle.rscap drops by one.up.sh, otel telemetry, 634 s): a native:pausewhose stamp waited on an uncommitteddeletingwrite succeeded, the controller loggedsandbox lifecycle stamp refused, and the row stayeddeleting.scripts/tests/smoke-kind-typed.sh allwith CI's admin-token and cold-receipts setup: ECW 91 and native 42 passed, 0 failed, 4010 s. The sixlocal.console_*scenarios, which CI withholds for a change outsideci/kind-console-paths.txt, skipped without Chromium. Run by hand afterwards, three passed, and three failed again on rerun, on a console search placeholder and an operations list this change does not touch.native_concurrency.lifecycle_contention(pause against wake) ran inall.Severity and risk
Severity: medium. The race needs a delete or suspend to begin during a lifecycle action, and it corrupts the row the teardown or restore then trusts.
Risk: a stamp that used to write now leaves the row to its owner; if that owner never finishes, the row keeps the owner's state. Rollback is a revert; there is no migration or flag.
Rollout
No schema change. In a mixed-version rollout, old replicas keep the old guard, so the race stays possible until every API and cluster-controller replica runs this version.
AI assistance: Claude Code wrote the code, the tests and this description.