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[cr-test] sandbox-store: refuse post-action stamps over another intent's lifecycle - #1536
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.
Lifecycle stamps now use typed actions and substrate-specific allowlists. API paths pass start-substrate information and derive post-action stamps from the action and substrate. Pooled post-wake updates now accept only in-flight lifecycles. Tests cover cross-intent lifecycle preservation, start outcomes, and a post-stamp compensation.
Possibly related issues
Issue 875 concerns arbitration when suspend-related work overlaps another lifecycle operation. This change also refuses lifecycle stamps when another intent owns the row, including suspend states.
Possibly related PRs
perplexityai/SPACE#1412: The PR describes the same typed stamp contract and refusal of writes over another intent’s lifecycle.
Merge Risk: High · up to 01d39
This changes which sandbox lifecycle updates can succeed. Complete the missing per-stamp lifecycle tests before merging so the suspended-inclusive guard is checked against every state.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 01d39
The change better protects concurrent delete and suspend operations. However, failed-delete recovery can restore outdated status after a successful start, potentially leaving a running sandbox reported as stopped. Recovery and cleanup coverage remains incomplete.
Retained concerns
Medium · reliability · inferred: Refused action completion has no demonstrated handoff to failed-delete compensation. For concurrent controller executions, a start can succeed while delete owns deleting; its new stamp refuses and is forgotten. If teardown then fails, compensation can restore the previous stopped lifecycle while the sandbox runs. The base permitted the started stamp for this ordering, preventing that compensation. This weakens execution-state accounting and cleanup recovery. Public-operation scheduling may limit reachability, and broader exposure is not established.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The demonstrated failure mode is scoped to the affected sandbox and overlapping lifecycle operations. Broader tenant or service compromise is not established. The inspected durable executor validates target identity, action kind, and organization before dispatch.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The suspended-start exception is selected from server-side substrate capabilities, not a caller-supplied lifecycle. Existing admission and drain checks precede execution; no changed authorization bypass was identified in the inspected controller dispatch.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
inferred — Preserving delete ownership improves normal teardown containment, but ownership preservation alone does not reconcile a successful competing action after that owner fails. Direct has no demonstrated automatic repair for the resulting stopped-but-running lifecycle, so recovery may require another operation.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Give refused successful actions a durable reconciliation handoff, or reconcile authoritative execution state before failed-intent compensation restores the previous lifecycle. Preserve execution identity and newer intent ownership rather than retrying an unconditional stamp.
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The title uses the required lowercase area prefix with a colon ("sandbox-store:") and a summary starting with a lowercase word. It names the main change: post-action stamps are refused over another in…
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The PR fixes an application defect under crates/. Its Validation section states that the pre-fix lifecycle matrix fails in 15 cross-intent cells and the extended Direct-start test fails, while both …
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The PR fixes an application defect under crates/. Its Validation section states that the pre-fix lifecycle matrix fails in 15 cross-intent cells and the extended Direct-start test fails, while both pass with the fix. The diff adds those regression cases and changes KNOWN_DEFECTS from 15 to 0.
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No weakened safeguard is introduced. The diff changes lifecycle tests from 15 known defects to zero, adds assertions for cross-intent refusals and compensation races, and adds store-level coverage for each action stamp. No test, assertion, lint, CI check, allowlist, skip, or repository guard is removed or loosened. The changed expectations have specific rationale in the PR description and adjacent comments.
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Review comments at @crates/libs/sandbox/store/src/action_stamp/tests.rs:
- Around line 70-95: Extend
each_stamp_writes_its_own_states_and_refuses_another_intents to cover every
SandboxLifecycle value and an unknown value for Suspend and
Start(LeavesSuspended). Specify expected write outcomes independently of
OWN_STATES or stamps_from(), so the tests detect unintended writes such as
overwriting a failed lifecycle.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Supported by static analysis
Script executed:
sed -n '1,135p' crates/libs/sandbox/store/src/action_stamp/tests.rs
sed -n '68,168p' crates/libs/sandbox/store/src/action_stamp.rs
sed -n '746,842p' crates/libs/api/src/controllers/sandbox/lifecycle/characterization_tests.rs
rg -n 'Variant sweeps|hand-picked subset|SandboxLifecycle::Failed|SUSPENDED_ACTION_IN_FLIGHT' .agents/plugins/pplx-space/skills/space-code-quality crates/libs/sandbox/store/src/action_stamp crates/libs/api/src/controllers/sandbox/lifecycle
Repository: perplexityai/SPACE
Length of output: 13955
Cover every lifecycle value for Suspend and Start(LeavesSuspended).
each_stamp_writes_its_own_states_and_refuses_another_intents checks only each stamp's OWN_STATES values and the four CROSS_INTENT values. It never uses failed, quarantined, deleted, cleanup_required, or an unknown value.
post_action_stamps_write_only_over_an_in_flight_lifecycle lists those values, but it drives only Pause and Start(ClaimsRestoring). Both use ACTION_IN_FLIGHT. No inspected test drives Suspend or Start(LeavesSuspended), which use SUSPENDED_ACTION_IN_FLIGHT, through the full lifecycle list.
If SandboxLifecycle::Failed is added to SUSPENDED_ACTION_IN_FLIGHT, no inspected test fails. Suspend would then overwrite a failed row with suspended. Start(LeavesSuspended) would set it to started.
Extend the per-stamp table so Suspend and Start(LeavesSuspended) each cover every SandboxLifecycle value and one out-of-vocabulary value. Write each expected outcome by hand. Do not derive expected outcomes from OWN_STATES or stamps_from(). OWN_STATES is not the full write set: Pause also writes over created, which OWN_STATES omits. Deriving expectations from the implementation would let the test pass when the implementation changes. Keep the cases in the existing table or loop instead of adding new test functions. The test policy requires variant sweeps to enumerate the whole enum.
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Review comment at @crates/libs/sandbox/store/src/action_stamp/tests.rs around
lines 70 - 95:
Extend each_stamp_writes_its_own_states_and_refuses_another_intents to cover
every SandboxLifecycle value and an unknown value for Suspend and
Start(LeavesSuspended). Specify expected write outcomes independently of
OWN_STATES or stamps_from(), so the tests detect unintended writes such as
overwriting a failed lifecycle.
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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.