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[cr-test] sandbox-store: refuse post-action stamps over another intent's lifecycle - #1568
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.
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Walkthrough
Lifecycle updates now use action-specific in-flight lifecycle allowlists and return whether a write occurred. API callers select typed stamps and start origins, including a suspended-in-place start case. Pooled post-wake updates also check an allowlist. Tests cover permitted and refused lifecycle writes, placement changes, and start-origin behavior.
Possibly related PRs
perplexityai/SPACE#1412: Implements guarded post-action lifecycle stamping that this PR continues with updated lifecycle sets, typed origins, and API call sites.
perplexityai/SPACE#1399: Changes activation-completion writes on suspended rows, a lifecycle case also handled by this PR’s start-origin guard.
Merge Risk: High · up to 6d94d
The new lifecycle guard controls whether action completion updates a sandbox. Expand per-stamp coverage of allowed and refused states before merging.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 6d94d
The guards improve protection against competing actions. However, failed deletion can restore an outdated lifecycle after a concurrent start has already succeeded, leaving the recorded state inconsistent with the running sandbox. No expanded access or privilege boundary was identified.
Retained concerns
Medium · reliability · inferred: Delete rollback can restore stale state after a newly refused action completion. For example, a Direct start begins from stopped, deletion records stopped and commits deleting, and the start succeeds while deleting. The new guard refuses its lifecycle, placement and disk-pin update, but the action still succeeds without recording a replay obligation. If deletion then fails before teardown, compensation restores stopped even though the guest is running. At the base, this ordering allowed the start to stamp started, causing the deleting-only compensation to miss instead. The inspected reconciliation paths do not establish repair of this Direct state discrepancy, so successful delete ownership is protected without a corresponding rollback reconciliation contract.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
observed — The changed writes are keyed to one SandboxId and affect its lifecycle, placement and artifact metadata. Public native operations retain target and organization validation; E2B callers retain scoped sandbox lookup before controller dispatch.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The changed helpers translate existing action, lifecycle and substrate capabilities into restricted store operations. They do not introduce a new identity transition or expose substrate authority to an additional caller. Excluding deleting and suspending strengthens protection for teardown and suspend owners.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
inferred — Recovery coverage is incomplete for discarded Direct start completions. The inspected ordinary publication repair requires restoring, while activation-receipt completion requires a matching Kubernetes execution attempt. Neither establishes repair after failed deletion restores a Direct row to stopped. Start-specific cancellation recovery also remains unproven and was not treated as a newly introduced finding.
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Review comments at @crates/libs/sandbox/store/src/action_stamp/tests.rs:
- Around line 9-28: Expand OWN_STATES in the per-stamp tests to cover each
stamp’s full in-flight lifecycle set, including suspended for Suspend and
StartOrigin::SuspendedInPlace, and assert every lifecycle outside each set is
refused, including unknown values. Extend the characterization tests to sweep
the stored lifecycle vocabulary for Resume, Stop, Suspend, and
StartOrigin::SuspendedInPlace as well as the existing cases, keeping expected
test data independent of the production allowlists. Where SandboxLifecycle
exposes its variants, cover them so additions require an explicit test decision.
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sed -n '1,215p' crates/libs/sandbox/store/src/action_stamp/tests.rs
sed -n '45,210p' crates/libs/sandbox/store/src/action_stamp.rs
sed -n '645,755p' crates/libs/api/src/controllers/sandbox/lifecycle/characterization_tests.rs
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Sweep every lifecycle in the per-stamp tests, not a subset.
The matrix in action_stamp/tests.rs lists only some lifecycles for each stamp. CROSS_INTENT has four values. Each OWN_STATES entry lists only part of its allowlist. No case covers failed, quarantined, deleted, cleanup_required, or an unknown value.
The characterization table in characterization_tests.rs sweeps the stored vocabulary for Pause, StartOrigin::Other, and the post-wake update. It does not sweep Resume, Stop, Suspend, or StartOrigin::SuspendedInPlace.
SUSPENDED_ACTION_IN_FLIGHT in action_stamp.rs drives stamps_from() for Suspend and Start(SuspendedInPlace). If SandboxLifecycle::Failed is added to that list, the tests in these files still pass. A Direct suspend could then overwrite a failed row with suspended, which the module contract refuses. Removing creating, starting, or checkpointing from that list also passes these tests.
Extend each OWN_STATES entry to the full in-flight set for its stamp. Add suspended for Suspend and Start(SuspendedInPlace). Then sweep every value outside that set as refused:
- let refused = CROSS_INTENT+ let refused = NEVER_STAMPED_OVER
.into_iter()
.filter(|lifecycle| !own.contains(lifecycle));
The test keeps its own literals. It does not import ACTION_IN_FLIGHT or SUSPENDED_ACTION_IN_FLIGHT, so the expected sets stay independent of the allowlists they check. Where SandboxLifecycle exposes its variants, iterate them so that a new variant requires a test decision.
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Expand OWN_STATES in the per-stamp tests to cover each stamp’s full in-flight
lifecycle set, including suspended for Suspend and
StartOrigin::SuspendedInPlace, and assert every lifecycle outside each set is
refused, including unknown values. Extend the characterization tests to sweep
the stored lifecycle vocabulary for Resume, Stop, Suspend, and
StartOrigin::SuspendedInPlace as well as the existing cases, keeping expected
test data independent of the production allowlists. Where SandboxLifecycle
exposes its variants, cover them so additions require an explicit test decision.
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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.