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spaced: report guest used memory on diagnostic-draining Pings - #1668
Add optional memory_used_bytes to the guest bridge Ping response so the host can observe guest-used memory without another RPC. Linux guests calculate MemTotal - MemAvailable from one /proc/meminfo read, in bytes, only when drain_diagnostics is requested. This PR supplies the reading; it does not emit a metric.
Run the reader on Tokio's blocking pool with a 100 ms wait budget, below the watchdog's 500 ms guest-probe timeout. A single permit stays with the worker until it finishes, including after timeout or RPC cancellation; subsequent Pings skip memory rather than accumulate readers. Missing or malformed data, reader failure, timeout, or a busy reader omits the value without failing Ping. Zero remains valid, non-draining Pings do not read memory, and Windows guests omit the field.
Keep the implementation in the platform-specific guest-server layout. Parser tests cover byte conversion and invalid input, controlled-clock Ping tests cover request gating and bounded admission, and integration tests sharing snapshot-restore diagnostics are serialized.
Validation
Local validation on combined stack head ded1ef354: all 48 guest unit tests and 55 watchdog tests passed. Formatting and strict all-target/all-feature Clippy passed for guest-server, sandbox-manager, and host-server.
The full Python CI runner passed its generated-index gate and all 1,931 tests without skips on that combined stack.
The guest feature diff is unchanged from the previously reviewed implementation. Earlier mutation checks established that removing the non-draining gate or timeout bound makes the corresponding regression fail.
Severity and risk
Severity does not apply: this adds optional telemetry rather than fixing an incident or changing health classification. Diagnostic-draining Pings can spend up to the 100 ms memory wait budget, but unavailable readings do not fail Ping.
Timeout cannot cancel an active blocking OS read. A permanently stuck read suppresses later memory samples rather than accumulating workers. The protobuf field is additive: older guests omit it and older consumers ignore it. Reverting removes the reading without changing existing Ping fields.
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Walkthrough
The Ping response adds an optional memory_used_bytes field. On Unix, diagnostic-draining Pings attempt to read used memory from MemTotal - MemAvailable through a bounded, nonblocking-admission helper. Unavailable readings do not fail the Ping. Other Pings and Windows responses set the field to absent. Tests cover parsing, read outcomes, response fixtures, and serialization of resume tests that inspect shared diagnostics.
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 13919
This adds an optional guest memory reading to diagnostic Pings. It is guarded by a timeout, never fails the Ping, and has targeted tests. The change touches the guest bridge Ping contract, so confirm that CI passes at this head, including Windows, before merging.
Security architecture risk: Minimal · up to 13919
The new field is optional, and unavailable memory samples do not fail Ping. Sampling remains bounded after timeout or cancellation, and existing access restrictions are unchanged. No introduced security or material failure-containment issue was identified.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The new sampling work is bounded to one outstanding reader per guest service, shared across its bridge connections. A stalled reader can suppress that service's future memory samples until completion, but repeated requests cannot accumulate additional memory readers through this path.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — No introduced privilege-escalation, arbitrary-read, or cross-guest disclosure path was identified in the inspected change. A caller can request sampling with the existing diagnostic flag, but cannot select its file path or reader callback through Ping; the callback is selected by service configuration.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The additional value crosses the existing guest-to-host telemetry boundary through Ping. Existing bridge transport restrictions remain in place, and guest total-memory telemetry was already exposed through WaitReady. The diagnostic flag is a behavior selector, not a new identity or authorization mechanism.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — The controlled-clock regression explicitly checks timeout and cancellation while a worker is stalled, rejection of another sample while admission is occupied, and successful sampling after worker completion. Separate Ping cases cover absent readings, zero, and a panicking reader without failing Ping. These tests were inspected but not executed.
Pre-merge checks: 6
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The title uses the lowercase area prefix 'spaced:' followed by a colon, then a summary starting with the lowercase word 'report'. It has no trailing period and no ticket ID. It matches the required fo…
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The check is about description structure, so the PR description text was assessed directly. No code inspection was needed. 1. "## Summary": Present, with real content. It says merging adds optiona…
Bug Fixes Name A Regression Test
The check applies only when the PR fixes a defect in application behavior under crates/, shim/, or ui/. This PR does not fix a defect. It adds a new optional field, memory_used_bytes, to the guest `…
Weakened Safeguards Are Justified
The diff touches 9 files (git diff --name-status against the review base). I checked the patch for each category in the check: - Removed tests or assertions: None. The removed lines are a refact…
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The Public-safe content check passes. I checked the title, the PR description, and every added line in the diff against the failure categories. - Diff: The added lines in the nine changed files co…
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The title uses the lowercase area prefix 'spaced:' followed by a colon, then a summary starting with the lowercase word 'report'. It has no trailing period and no ticket ID. It matches the required format and describes the main change: the optional memory_used_bytes field on diagnostic-draining Pings.
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The check is about description structure, so the PR description text was assessed directly. No code inspection was needed. 1. "## Summary": Present, with real content. It says merging adds optional memory_used_bytes to the guest bridge Ping response, calculated as MemTotal - MemAvailable only when drain_diagnostics is requested. 2. "## Validation": Present, with real content. It names the runs: 48 guest unit tests and 55 watchdog tests passed, formatting and strict Clippy passed, and the full Python CI runner passed 1,931 tests. 3. "## Severity and risk": Present, with real content. It states "Severity does not apply" and gives the risks: the 100 ms wait budget, a stuck read suppressing later samples, and additive protobuf compatibility. 4. "AI assistance:": Present as a line that starts with the required prefix. It names the tool and parts drafted: "Perplexity assisted with code, tests, review, and this description." All four required items are present and non-empty. The check does not judge quality or length, so the description passes.
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The check applies only when the PR fixes a defect in application behavior under crates/, shim/, or ui/. This PR does not fix a defect. It adds a new optional field, memory_used_bytes, to the guest PingResponse in proto/spaced/bridge/guest/v1/guest.proto. The title, description, and summary all describe a new capability: a Linux guest reads MemTotal - MemAvailable on draining Pings, and Windows guests omit the field. The PR description says "Add optional memory_used_bytes" and "This PR supplies the reading; it does not emit a metric." No pre-existing behavior is described as broken. The CodeRabbit thread about an unbounded memory read was a review comment on code the PR itself introduced. Its fix (commit fb4fd81) hardens new code. It does not repair a shipped defect. Because the PR is not a bug fix, the check passes without requiring a regression test. The PR does name parser, gating, and admission tests, but the check does not require them here.
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The diff touches 9 files (git diff --name-status against the review base). I checked the patch for each category in the check: - Removed tests or assertions: None. The removed lines are a refactor only. parse_mem_total_bytes now delegates to a new parse_meminfo_bytes(meminfo, label) helper in platform/unix/meta.rs, and the test import is widened to {parse_mem_total_bytes, parse_memory_used_bytes}. No assert* line is removed or loosened. - Test-only additions:memory_used_bytes: None fixtures in guest_tests.rs and the host ReadyWaitGuest::ping mock, plus Meta::ping in the Windows file. These are additive field initializers. The new RESUME_DIAGNOSTICS_LOCK mutex in guest/server/tests/it/meta.rs serializes tests and does not skip or disable any of them. - Attributes and lints: No #[allow], #[expect], #[ignore], skip, or xfail was added. The only #[cfg(target_os = "linux")] added gates a new Linux-only test. - CI, allowlists, and guard files: No change to .config/nextest.toml, deny.toml, clippy.toml, .gitleaks.toml, ARCHITECTURE.toml, baseline or known-failure files, CI workflows, [lints] tables, SPACE_TEST_DEPS_OPTIONAL, AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, .agents/, CONTRIBUTING.md, or docs/rust/. - Review-steering text: None of the changed files gains text about review, merge-risk, or approval handling. The new production guard (read_guest_memory, with a 100 ms timeout and a one-permit semaphore) adds a safeguard. It does not weaken one. No failure condition in the check applies.
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The Public-safe content check passes. I checked the title, the PR description, and every added line in the diff against the failure categories. - Diff: The added lines in the nine changed files contain no credentials, tokens, or private keys. They have no personal workstation paths such as /Users/ or /home/, no internal hostnames or URLs, no cloud account IDs or ARNs, and no cluster or environment names. The only pattern hit was CancellationToken::new(), which matched "token" case-insensitively. The one absolute path, /proc/meminfo, is a standard Linux system path. The test socket name unused.sock is a placeholder. - Description: The links point to public PRs #1669 and #1670 in the same public repository, not to private trackers, chats, or documents. The validation figures (48 and 55 unit tests, 1,931 CI tests) are test counts, not production measurements. The commit hash ded1ef354 is a public reference. The description contains no incident details, production logs, or unfixed vulnerability descriptions. - Title: "spaced: report guest used memory on diagnostic-draining Pings" contains no sensitive content. No file or line needs a finding.
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Report guest used memory on diagnostic-draining Pings
spaced: report guest used memory on diagnostic-draining Pings
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/spaced/guest/server/src/meta.rs:
- Around line 246-250: Bound the wait around the `spawn_blocking` memory read in
the Ping diagnostic path so it returns `None` before the watchdog’s
connection-and-response budget is exhausted; choose a timeout shorter than the
watchdog budget rather than 500 ms. Preserve the existing `None` behavior for
read failures, and account for the fact that timing out does not cancel a
blocking read already in progress.
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The problem. SPACE records how much memory a sandbox is given: the requested size at the API, and the guest's MemTotal once at activation. Nothing reports how much of that memory the guest actually uses, so nobody can tell whether a template is oversized. This PR is the guest half of the fix. The Linux guest agent adds MemTotal - MemAvailable to the reply to the health Ping that sandbox-manager's watchdog already sends every 25-40 s with drain_diagnostics set.
Example.
watchdog -> guest: Ping{drain_diagnostics: true}
guest: /proc/meminfo on the blocking pool, waits at most 100 ms
MemTotal 2,000,000 kB, MemAvailable 1,700,000 kB
guest -> watchdog: PingResponse{diagnostics: [...], memory_used_bytes: 307200000}
Slow read, a read still outstanding, or a Windows or older guest: field absent; the Ping still succeeds.
Verdict: comment, not approving yet. The design holds up:
the read is bounded, and its one permit stays held by the worker after a timeout, so blocked readers cannot pile up;
the proto field is additive;
only sandbox-manager's probe sets drain_diagnostics.
This head conflicts with main, though. #1736 moved the guest server's Linux code under src/platform/unix/ and the Windows guest into guest/server/src/platform/windows/. GitHub runs no Pull CI while a PR conflicts, so this head's checks are from before that move.
Rebase onto main and re-apply the four lib.rs hunks (config field, default, inner fields, constructor) in platform/unix/mod.rs. meta.rs and its tests follow the rename. Check that platform/windows/meta.rs still sets memory_used_bytes: None. Then restack #1669 and #1670 and let Pull CI run on each head. While refreshing Validation, describe the regression as "removing the bound makes it fail", not as a result "against the unbounded implementation", a revision that never reached main.
Open #1624 changes the same probe scheduling, and #1703 touches meta.rs; whichever lands second rebases.
Before merge (inline threads)
The "non-draining Ping must not read memory" row cannot fail
Nits
bridge_ping_reports_used_memory_without_depending_on_it (meta/tests.rs:53) runs on the real clock.
Its success rows need a blocking-pool thread to finish within 100 ms, which a loaded runner may miss.
#[tokio::test(start_paused = true)], which the next test already uses, removes that: Tokio does not auto-advance a paused clock while a spawn_blocking task is outstanding.
The comment's reason ("called directly because a drain takes the process-wide warning record") doesn't hold, since a direct call drains too. Reword or drop it.
PingRequest.drain_diagnostics (proto/spaced/bridge/guest/v1/guest.proto:74-77) still describes only the diagnostics hand-over. Add: "A draining Ping also reports the guest's used memory (PingResponse.memory_used_bytes)."
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Fixed in 139198012. Changed the non-draining row to || Some(1) while retaining the expected None, and moved the test onto paused Tokio time. Removing the early-return guard now fails with Some(1) versus None; restoring it passes.
I also removed the misleading direct-call comment: the handler drains diagnostics regardless of whether it is called directly. All 48 guest unit tests pass on the refreshed stack.
Addressing the main-integration and documentation feedback: pushed 139198012, merging main at 046c5ef4cdae and carrying the config field, default, inner fields, and constructor wiring into platform/unix/mod.rs. The memory handler and tests follow the Unix layout, and platform/windows/meta.rs still returns memory_used_bytes: None. The dependent PR branches have also been refreshed.
Updated PingRequest.drain_diagnostics documentation to mention optional memory reporting. For the timeout regression, the precise verified claim is: removing the timeout bound makes the existing test fail; restoring it passes. This is mutation-test evidence, not a claim about an unbounded implementation having reached main.
Local validation: 48 guest unit tests, 53 guest integration tests in an isolated privileged container, formatting, and strict all-target/all-feature Clippy for guest-server, sandbox-manager, and host-server passed. Fresh Pull CI and native Windows validation at the pushed heads are separate from those local results. Main has advanced since the validated merge point; this push preserves the reviewed and tested local heads rather than silently incorporating additional commits.
Report optional MemTotal minus MemAvailable in bytes without another RPC. Bound the blocking read to a 100 ms wait and one outstanding worker; unavailable readings do not fail Ping. Keep non-draining Pings and Windows responses absent, and cover parsing, request gating, timeout and cancellation.
Co-authored-by: Perplexity <noreply@perplexity.ai>
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Summary
Add optional
memory_used_bytesto the guest bridge Ping response so the host can observe guest-used memory without another RPC. Linux guests calculateMemTotal - MemAvailablefrom one/proc/meminforead, in bytes, only whendrain_diagnosticsis requested. This PR supplies the reading; it does not emit a metric.Run the reader on Tokio's blocking pool with a 100 ms wait budget, below the watchdog's 500 ms guest-probe timeout. A single permit stays with the worker until it finishes, including after timeout or RPC cancellation; subsequent Pings skip memory rather than accumulate readers. Missing or malformed data, reader failure, timeout, or a busy reader omits the value without failing Ping. Zero remains valid, non-draining Pings do not read memory, and Windows guests omit the field.
Keep the implementation in the platform-specific guest-server layout. Parser tests cover byte conversion and invalid input, controlled-clock Ping tests cover request gating and bounded admission, and integration tests sharing snapshot-restore diagnostics are serialized.
Validation
ded1ef354: all 48 guest unit tests and 55 watchdog tests passed. Formatting and strict all-target/all-feature Clippy passed for guest-server, sandbox-manager, and host-server.Severity and risk
Severity does not apply: this adds optional telemetry rather than fixing an incident or changing health classification. Diagnostic-draining Pings can spend up to the 100 ms memory wait budget, but unavailable readings do not fail Ping.
Timeout cannot cancel an active blocking OS read. A permanently stuck read suppresses later memory samples rather than accumulating workers. The protobuf field is additive: older guests omit it and older consumers ignore it. Reverting removes the reading without changing existing Ping fields.
Stack
Part 1 of 3, targeting
main: guest reporting, template-tagged emission (#1669), then telemetry delivery smoke (#1670). Each PR now contains one focused commit; merge in that order.AI assistance: Perplexity assisted with code, tests, review, and this description.