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fix(mip): gate named-task patches on the user's [patches] policy, nested runs too - #3158
Behavior change: an entry no rule allows now refuses the run. Before this PR, mip run <task> mounted every patch.dir / patch.file entry silently. Now a patch entry that matches no [patches] rule (no allow, deny
or ignore) refuses the run and prints the [patches] allow snippet to add to user_policy.toml. Any existing mip run of a task with patches, such as the docs' ~/.claude example, stops working until its user writes that
rule. min does the same when it cannot prompt, and mip has no prompt. The alternative was to refuse only what
a deny names and keep mounting undecided entries. Please choose this one on purpose.
mip run <task> mounted every patch entry the project's minimal.toml declared, with no policy check. A project
could bind any host path the user can read into the task's sandbox, including a path user_policy.toml denies.
Scenario 812 reproduced it on every cell. The task read a file under a [patches] deny directory, and mip printed no
refusal.
The same hole had a second way in. Every mip sandbox gets /run/minenv_sock, and the in-sandbox min run <task>
helper sends run%<task> over it. The host-side EnvChannel::run_task then loaded that project task and called make_env with its patches, with no check. So a task with no patches could min run one that had them.
What changes
There is one gate, mctx::gate_task_patches (crates/mctx/src/patch_gate.rs). Both ways to run a task by name call
it, after the task is looked up and before make_env:
mip run <task> (crates/mip/src/cmd_run.rs)
a nested run%<task> over the sandbox channel (EnvChannel::run_task, crates/mctx/src/env.rs)
Whether the gate judges anything depends on the context's new TaskPatchPolicy (mctx::Config):
UserPolicy: the user_policy.toml that min reads, at <config>/minimal/user_policy.toml. mip has no --config-dir. mip builds every context with this policy (base_config in crates/mip/src/main.rs), so the --task-spec lane's nested runs are covered too.
Ungated: the default, and what minimald keeps. A session's task patches are gominimal/inbox#602, and the guest
has no copy of the user's policy file to check against. This PR doesn't touch minimald or min.
The sandbox binds an entry whole, so the gate decides an entry as one path:
It checks the declared path, with ~/ expanded against PatchHome::Ambient (the home both callers pass to make_env), and the path it resolves to through a symlink. The stricter decision wins. A dangling symlink, or a
path with a . or .. segment, is refused.
For a directory, it looks for a contained path that a deny rule names, because the mount would expose it. The
probe runs only when a deny pattern can reach inside the directory. It stops at 10,000 entries and refuses a tree it
can't read whole. A symlink inside the directory is judged as the link itself. The bind mount carries the link, and
the link resolves in the sandbox's own mount namespace, where a host target is visible only if some entry mounts
it, and that entry is gated on its own.
The outcomes follow min's precedence (deny, then ignore, then allow):
Denied: the run is refused with policy denied `<path>` (from project `<root>`), naming the entry and the
policy file. Over the channel, the nested run gets that text as its error.
Ignored: the entry is left out of the sandbox, and a warning names it (a msg: line over the channel).
Undecided: the run is refused with the [patches] allow snippet (see the note at the top).
$NAME references in policy patterns expand against the environment mip runs in, since mip has no session vars.
What this does not change
What the policy allows. The gate calls ExpandedPatchesPolicy::check from boxes with project provenance.
mip run --task-spec's own spec. The user types that spec on the command line. Only the project file is
untrusted.
Review items I did not take as asked
Package-declared mappings are not gated (env_dir_mappings / env_file_mappings, through SetupForPackages).
I agree this is a real gap and should be filed. I left it out of this PR for three reasons:
Those mappings join the task's patches inside Env::build, from the transitive package set, which exists only
there. Gating them means a second check inside make_env, which minimald also calls, so the PR would no longer
be a mip-only behavior change.
Their provenance is the package (Source::Package), which gets deny-only semantics, not the project's allow
step. That needs its own tests.
The nested path doesn't widen this gap. It runs project tasks whose packages the project already picks for a
direct mip run, and the channel's add-* commands already refuse packages that need host mappings.
user-policy.md now says that package mappings are not checked by this gate.
Check-then-use between the gate and the bind mount. The gate resolves and walks each entry when the task is
run, and the sandbox binds the declared path a moment later. I did not close this window. The policy defends
against an untrusted project file. Swapping a path in between needs a concurrent writer in the user's own
filesystem, running as the user, and that process could already read the denied file directly. Mounting the
resolved path instead would also change where the entry appears in the sandbox, which WdSetup::BoundDir mirrors
one-for-one.
Choices to review
The default-deny for undecided entries (the note at the top).
Directory probe limit. A deny with no fixed root, such as **/*.pem (the docs' own example), can match inside
any directory. While such a rule exists, a patched directory holding more than 10,000 entries is refused. The
alternative was to mount a tree the gate had not fully checked.
Where the switch lives.TaskPatchPolicy is on mctx::Config, so cloned_reinit (which the channel uses)
keeps it. The default is Ungated so that minimald's contexts stay as they are without a change to them. mip
turns it on in one place, and a test covers that.
Tests
crates/mctx/src/env.rs
env_channel_nested_run_refuses_a_denied_patch: a nested run%peek-denied over the channel, for a task whose patch.dir the policy denies, comes back as policy denied before any environment is built.
the_task_patch_gate_follows_the_context_policy: Ungated returns the patches as declared, a user policy refuses
them, and a task without patches passes either way.
crates/mip/src/cmd_run.rs: mip_run_refuses_a_task_whose_patch_the_policy_denies. This test goes through cmd_run itself, so it fails if the gate call there is removed.
crates/mip/src/main.rs: mip_contexts_gate_task_patches_on_the_user_policy, which checks that mip's base
config turns the gate on.
crates/mctx/src/patch_gate.rs covers the rules:
a denied entry (scenario 812's shape)
an allowed entry, kept with its mode
an undecided entry, refused with a snippet that parses back and approves it
an ignored entry, dropped and reported
a directory holding a denied file
a contained symlink, judged as the link
a ~/ entry against a ~/ deny
a symlink to a denied directory
a dangling symlink
a .. segment
$NAME expansion
the deny-reach prefilter
The fixture is crates/mctx/testdata/patchrepo.
A lab scenario for the nested path (812b, mip run nest where nest runs min run peek) is drafted for min-regress
and is not in this PR's matrix.
Lab evidence
Prepush (CI's exact commands on anvil): green (job 05222 at 6e563f3; the new tests run there)
Scenarios 812 (x2) and 809 (x1) on ubuntu-24.04 and fedora, job 05224: 812 FAIL -> PASS on both, 809 unchanged (min task run is not touched here; inbox#602).
Lab evidence (min-regress batch fix1128c on anvil, fedora, ubuntu-24.04)
Head: 6e563f39bed67f01c4faffe0e499686458e153da at 6e563f3 (lab name cand-1128-mip-run-patch-gate-c-485109a9). Base: rel-6a01d5ae (rel-6a01d5ae).
scenario
distro
base
head
809-task-patch-bypasses-policy: gominimal/inbox#602 (S0): a task's patch declarations bypass the [patches] user policy; the same host path declared as a [session] patch in a minimal.toml is refused
809-task-patch-bypasses-policy: gominimal/inbox#602 (S0): a task's patch declarations bypass the [patches] user policy; the same host path declared as a [session] patch in a minimal.toml is refused
812-mip-run-patch-no-policy: gominimal/inbox#1128 (S1): mip run mounts a task's declared patches with no [patches] policy gate (a denied host path reaches the sandbox)
812-mip-run-patch-no-policy: gominimal/inbox#1128 (S1): mip run mounts a task's declared patches with no [patches] policy gate (a denied host path reaches the sandbox)
Fixed since base: 2. Still reproducing on both: 2. Regressed: 0. Passing on both: 0. A scenario that fails on both sides is the environment or main, not this candidate: read its evidence lines before reading it as the candidate's. A verdict links to the run's trace in Cloud Trace (project access needed); the scenario link is its source with the # issue: it reproduces.
Why each failed run failed: what the scenario measured, then what its trace recorded (error spans and warnings, most frequent first):
812-mip-run-patch-no-policy on ubuntu-24.04 (base, trace a3c5e6f3): scenario: ctl_ran=1 ctl_read_secret=0 mip_rc=0 task_ran=1 task_read_secret=1 task_mount=root=/home/tester/s812sec-29825,at=/home/tester/s812sec-29825,opts=ro,nosuid,relatime refusal_lines=0 apparmor_lifted=no; trace: no error span and no warning in the trace
812-mip-run-patch-no-policy on ubuntu-24.04 (base, trace 2fa32f2f): scenario: ctl_ran=1 ctl_read_secret=0 mip_rc=0 task_ran=1 task_read_secret=1 task_mount=root=/home/tester/s812sec-14280,at=/home/tester/s812sec-14280,opts=ro,nosuid,relatime refusal_lines=0 apparmor_lifted=no; trace: no error span and no warning in the trace
812-mip-run-patch-no-policy on fedora (base, trace 9b88ce3c): scenario: ctl_ran=1 ctl_read_secret=0 mip_rc=0 task_ran=1 task_read_secret=1 task_mount=root=/home/tester/s812sec-12880,at=/home/tester/s812sec-12880,opts=ro,nosuid,relatime refusal_lines=0 apparmor_lifted=no; trace: no error span and no warning in the trace
809-task-patch-bypasses-policy on ubuntu-24.04 (base, trace e6cf7dce): scenario: session_gate=refused ctl_ran=1 ctl_read_secret=0 task_rc=0 task_ran=1 task_read_secret=1 task_mount=root=/home/tester/s809sec-35504,at=/home/tester/s809sec-35504,opts=ro,nosuid,relatime refusal_lines=0; trace: 3x minimal-cli span error cmd; 1x minimal-cli span error client.rpc; 1x minimal-cli span error activation_step; 1x minimald WARN Copying instead of hardlinking: cache and destination are on different filesystems; further cross-device copies this run are silent (first:
809-task-patch-bypasses-policy on ubuntu-24.04 (head, trace d95c6225): scenario: session_gate=refused ctl_ran=1 ctl_read_secret=0 task_rc=0 task_ran=1 task_read_secret=1 task_mount=root=/home/tester/s809sec-37704,at=/home/tester/s809sec-37704,opts=ro,nosuid,relatime refusal_lines=0; trace: 3x minimal-cli span error cmd; 1x minimal-cli span error client.rpc; 1x minimal-cli span error activation_step; 1x minimald WARN Copying instead of hardlinking: cache and destination are on different filesystems; further cross-device copies this run are silent (first:
812-mip-run-patch-no-policy on fedora (base, trace 3b0611ac): scenario: ctl_ran=1 ctl_read_secret=0 mip_rc=0 task_ran=1 task_read_secret=1 task_mount=root=/home/tester/s812sec-18588,at=/home/tester/s812sec-18588,opts=ro,nosuid,relatime refusal_lines=0 apparmor_lifted=no; trace: no error span and no warning in the trace
809-task-patch-bypasses-policy on fedora (base, trace 668a00eb): scenario: session_gate=refused ctl_ran=1 ctl_read_secret=0 task_rc=0 task_ran=1 task_read_secret=1 task_mount=root=/home/tester/s809sec-37891,at=/home/tester/s809sec-37891,opts=ro,nosuid,relatime refusal_lines=0; trace: 3x minimal-cli span error cmd; 1x minimal-cli span error client.rpc; 1x minimal-cli span error activation_step; 1x minimald WARN Copying instead of hardlinking: cache and destination are on different filesystems; further cross-device copies this run are silent (first:
809-task-patch-bypasses-policy on fedora (head, trace a8cf59e8): scenario: session_gate=refused ctl_ran=1 ctl_read_secret=0 task_rc=0 task_ran=1 task_read_secret=1 task_mount=root=/home/tester/s809sec-37076,at=/home/tester/s809sec-37076,opts=ro,nosuid,relatime refusal_lines=0; trace: 3x minimal-cli span error cmd; 1x minimal-cli span error client.rpc; 1x minimal-cli span error activation_step; 1x minimald WARN Copying instead of hardlinking: cache and destination are on different filesystems; further cross-device copies this run are silent (first:
…ted runs too
`mip run <task>` mounted every `patch.dir` / `patch.file` entry the
project's minimal.toml declared, with no policy check, so a project could
bind any host path the user can read into the sandbox, including one
user_policy.toml denies (gominimal/inbox#1128, min-regress scenario 812).
A nested `min run <task>` sent over a mip sandbox's /run/minenv_sock did
the same from inside: EnvChannel::run_task called make_env with the task's
patches, so a task with no patches could run one that had them.
There is now one gate, mctx::gate_task_patches, and both paths call it
after the task is looked up and before make_env: mip's cmd_run and
EnvChannel::run_task. Whether it judges anything is the context's
TaskPatchPolicy. mip builds every context with UserPolicy, the
<config>/minimal/user_policy.toml that min reads. The default, Ungated,
is what the daemon keeps: a session's task patches are inbox#602.
The sandbox binds an entry whole, so an entry is decided as one path: the
declared path with `~/` expanded against the home the sandbox mounts from,
and the path it resolves to through a symlink, stricter wins. A directory
is also probed for a contained path a deny rule names, bounded at 10,000
entries; a tree the probe cannot read whole is refused. A contained
symlink is judged as the link, since the sandbox resolves it in its own
namespace. A denial refuses the run with "policy denied `<path>` (from
project `<root>`)". An ignored entry is left out, with a warning. An
entry no rule decides refuses the run with the `[patches] allow` snippet,
as min does when it cannot prompt.
Tests: the gate's rules in mctx/src/patch_gate.rs; the nested `run%<task>`
over the channel refused (env.rs); cmd_run refusing a denied patch, which
fails if its gate call is dropped; mip's base config naming the policy.
Package-declared mappings are not judged here. Docs: tasks.md and
user-policy.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Task patch entries are checked against a configured policy before named-task execution in mctx and mip. The gate retains allowed entries, omits ignored entries, and refuses denied or undecided entries. mip configures the user policy by default. Documentation describes the checks and outcomes.
Changes: Task Patch Policy Gate
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Policy configuration and gate entry point crates/mctx/Cargo.toml, crates/mctx/src/config.rs, crates/mctx/src/lib.rs, crates/mctx/src/patch_gate.rs
Adds TaskPatchPolicy, its configuration methods, and the public gate API. The gate skips policy loading when gating is disabled or the task has no patches.
Policy evaluation and path checks crates/mctx/src/patch_gate.rs
Evaluates declared and resolved paths, applies verdict precedence, and probes eligible directories for denied paths. It refuses unreadable trees or trees exceeding 10,000 entries. Tests cover policy outcomes, path handling, symlinks, and directory limits.
Routes named tasks through the gate in mctx and mip. mip uses the user policy by default. Adds integration tests, task fixtures, and documentation for policy outcomes.
sequenceDiagram
participant NamedTaskRunner
participant gate_task_patches
participant UserPolicy
participant Sandbox
NamedTaskRunner->>gate_task_patches: Submit task and patch entries
gate_task_patches->>UserPolicy: Load policy and evaluate entries
UserPolicy-->>gate_task_patches: Return policy verdicts
gate_task_patches-->>NamedTaskRunner: Return filtered task or error
NamedTaskRunner->>Sandbox: Run gated task
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gominimal/minimal#2355 — It changes the shared patch-policy source handling used by this gate, which affects policy verdicts.
Suggested reviewers:norrietaylor, evanspearman
Merge Risk: Moderate · previous review 56776
The new patch gate can pass a directory without completing its deny check when part of the tree cannot be read. Its suggested allow rules can also be broader than the path the user approved. Fix both, and settle how symlinked patch sources are bound, before relying on this policy boundary.
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A rabbit checks each patch path twice, And keeps the ones the rules deem nice. Ignored paths quietly depart, Denied ones stop before the start. The task runs on when checks are through, With policy rules in view.
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Review on Karl's behalf, at 6e563f39b. This is a comment, not an approval. Nothing was built for it: every point comes from reading the code, and each finding says how it was checked.
CI at head 6e563f39b: green, kani included.
Reviews: minimal-review approved with no findings (3/3 personas), and CodeRabbit approved at head. No human review yet.
Bypass search.
The task-by-name paths that reach make_env, from a grep of make_env callers and ctx.task( in crates/:
mip run <task> (crates/mip/src/cmd_run.rs:165)
the nested run%<task> (crates/mctx/src/env.rs:354)
minimald (exec/process.rs, env.rs): ungated by design, tracked as inbox#602
cmd_rexec and remote-client: these pass no task patches
tests
The gate runs after Context::task, so hydrate_task_defaults and graph.hydrate_task (stack and profile tasks) have already merged their patches.
The echo shortcut builds no sandbox.
Tasks have no aliases. alias = "patches" is only a serde key alias on the same field, so it reaches the same EnvPatches.
--task-spec is skipped on purpose. A nested run from it builds on base_config, so it is gated.
make_env has no other source of patches besides package mappings.
Should-fix
A project can declare its own package mappings and skip the gate completely. Out-of-scope is not the right label for this.
Where: crates/mctx/src/patch_gate.rs:37-39 and docs/reference/user-policy.md:161 ("Mappings that packages declare are not checked here").
Context::graph_from_all_packages (crates/mctx/src/lib.rs:811-827) loads the project's own directory as the leaf layer (LinkConfig::Dir { dir: repo_dir }), and Graph::ingest loads that layer's build declarations. So the untrusted minimal.toml project can declare a package of its own with env_dir_mappings = [{ path = "~/.ssh", class = 'State, read_only = true }] and list it in the task's packages.
SetupForPackages drops only 'Credential, so mip run <task> mounts ~/.ssh even under a [patches] deny rule. That is the bypass inbox#1128 describes, by a different key.
The PR body says the gap "should be filed" but links no issue. The doc sentence reads as if package mappings came only from the trusted package set.
Fix: file the issue and link it from the PR body and from the patch_gate.rs comment. Reword the doc sentence to say that a package the project itself declares can map host paths, and that this gate does not check them.
Verified by: reading the graph leaf layer and the env_mapping.rs class filter. I did not build or run an end-to-end repro.
Nit
None.
Verdict: ready to approve once the package-mapping gap is filed and the doc sentence is accurate. The behaviour change (undecided entries refuse the run) needs an explicit decision from an owner, as the PR asks.
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Scope matches the title and the body. Every hunk traces to the gate, its switch on mctx::Config, the two call sites, tests, fixture and docs. Clobber none. git log on env.rs, cmd_run.rs, main.rs and config.rs shows only this PR's three commits above unrelated older work. Correctness The gate sits after the task lookup and before make_env on both named-task paths: cmd_run ByName and EnvChannel::run_task. The other ctx.task callers (cmd_status, scaffolding_walk, minimald) build no sandbox from mip, or run under Ungated by design. cloned_reinit keeps the policy through Arc<DaemonContext>. cmd_run_by_spec receives the base_config() result, so the gate covers nested runs from a --task-spec sandbox. The Verdict order matches PathDecision::combine in boxes/src/core/policy.rs. read_user_policy_or_default turns a missing file into an empty policy, so with no file every entry is undecided and the run is refused. The PR states this behaviour change. The prefilter in deny_reaches_inside can only add walks. It never skips a deny. The $NAME expansion differs from min, which expands against the gated session vars (compose.rs:1675). A project file cannot set mip's process environment, so this is not a bypass. Regression tests exist for both paths, and one drives cmd_run itself. Not checked I did not compile or run the tests. The PR reports prepush green at this head. I did not confirm locally that globset dir/** does not match dir itself. The tests write both forms, which suggests the author knows this.
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medium · The refusals from decide_entry say what was refused and why, but they give no next step. A user with the documented **/*.pem deny and a large patch.dir (for example ~/.cache) gets this text and cannot tell what to change. The same wrapper covers the unreadable-tree, dangling-symlink and .. refusals. Each also joins two facts with a semicolon. Give the next step in its own sentence, for example: narrow the entry in the project's minimal.toml, or narrow the deny pattern in the named user_policy.toml. The pattern is local to this one map_err and the two probe errors.
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Taken, in 568ff97. Each refusal from decide_entry is two plain sentences now, the fact and the next step: the dotted path says to write the entry without the segment; the dangling link says to fix it or point the entry at a path that exists; the unresolvable path says to point the entry at one the daemon can read; the unreadable walk says to narrow the entry to the part the daemon can read; the too-many-entries walk says to narrow the entry in minimal.toml or the deny pattern so it does not reach inside. The wrapper says the entry was not mounted and names the policy file the rules are in. The dangling-symlink test keeps its pin.
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nit · deny_reaches_inside reimplements the literal-prefix scan that FileSet::walk_root already does (crates/boxes/src/core/primitives.rs:869). walk_root also treats the single-byte [X] escape from escape_glob_metas as a literal, and this version cuts the prefix at it. The local version is conservative, so it only adds walks. Two copies of the glob-prefix rules can drift, so build on fs.walk_root() here.
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Taken, in 568ff97: deny_reaches_inside reads FileSet::walk_root now. No root means the pattern can reach anywhere; a root that is the whole pattern names one path, so it must lie under the directory; any other root agrees with the directory as far as the shorter reaches, compared as directories (with the trailing slash) so a prefix of a name is not a prefix of the path, which the test now pins. The second scan is gone.
…h off its walk root
The refusals from decide_entry said what was refused and why and stopped
there, joined with semicolons: a person with the documented **/*.pem
deny and a large patch.dir could not tell what to change. Each is two
plain sentences now, the fact and the next step (write the entry without
the segment, fix the link or point the entry at a path that exists,
narrow the entry or the deny pattern), the wrapper says the entry was
not mounted and where the rules are, and the dangling-symlink test
keeps its pin.
deny_reaches_inside scanned the pattern for its literal prefix a second
time, beside the scan FileSet::walk_root already does, and the two could
drift (walk_root reads a [X] escape as a literal, this one cut at it).
It now reads the walk root: no root reaches anywhere, a root that is
the whole pattern names one path under the directory, and any other
agrees with the directory as far as the shorter reaches, compared as
directories so a prefix of a name is not a prefix of the path.
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Review: the notice that an `ignore` rule dropped a patch entry went
through a log record, which a `RUST_LOG=error` filter hides, so the task
ran without a mount it asked for and nothing said so. It is printed on
stderr now, as the nested run's `msg:` line already is.
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Scope matches the title. The diff adds one gate (mctx::gate_task_patches), a context switch (TaskPatchPolicy) that only mip turns on, two call sites, tests, a fixture and two doc paragraphs. Clobber none. git log on the touched files shows only this branch's own commits on top of #3026. Correctness Each by-name task path in mip that reaches make_env with task.patch now goes through the gate. The other make_env callers in mctx (lib.rs:1841, lib.rs:2264) are #[ignore] tests. minimald stays Ungated, as the PR states. The nested run% path gates on the cloned_reinit context, and that context keeps the policy. deny_reaches_inside now reads FileSet::walk_root, and the conservative branches hold for [X] escapes and for patterns with no root. One defect remains: the directory probe also runs for an entry that an ignore rule already drops, so that entry can refuse the whole run. Two printed-text problems: the refusals tell a mip user to fix something "the daemon can read", and the wrapper says the entry "was not mounted" when in fact the run stops. The open thread about warn! for the ignored notice is still unanswered at this head, so this review does not raise it again. Not checked: compile, the tests, and the boxes dependency graph for mip's targets, because these need a build.
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medium · The directory probe also runs when the verdict is Ignored. An ignored entry is dropped from the sandbox and exposes nothing. But a deny hit inside it turns the verdict into Denied and refuses the whole run. A probe error (more than 10,000 entries, or an unreadable part) also refuses the run. Take a user with the documented **/*.pem deny and ignore = ["~/.cache"]. A task that declares patch.dir."~/.cache" gets refused. That user asked for the entry to be skipped. Skip the probe unless the verdict is Allowed or NeedsApproval, for example if matches!(verdict, Verdict::Allowed | Verdict::NeedsApproval) && !is_file .... This is the one probe call site. The fix is local.
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Taken, in 0e97c35: the probe runs only for a verdict of Allowed or NeedsApproval, so an ignored entry is dropped without a walk. Your case, **/*.pem in deny with ignore = ["~/.cache"] and a task's patch.dir."~/.cache", now runs without the entry; the new test pins it beside the same directory as an allowed entry, which is still probed and refused.
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low · A person who runs mip run <task> reads "Point the entry at a path the daemon can read." mip has no daemon here. The check runs in the mip process as the invoking user. The next step names something that this person does not run, and they cannot tell which permissions matter. The probe refusal at line 485 has the same words ("to the part the daemon can read"). rg finds the phrase only in these two lines. Say "a path you can read" in both.
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low · The wrapper says the entry "was not mounted". But this Err returns from judge_task_patches, and the whole run stops. The task does not run. A person can read the message as "the task ran without this mount". That is the meaning of the ignored notice. The wrapper also adds "The [patches] rules are in " to the ./.., dangling-link and unresolvable-path errors, which no policy rule causes. That sends the person to the wrong file. State that the run was refused because of the entry. Name the policy file only for the probe errors.
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Taken, in 0e97c35: the wrapper says the run was refused because of the entry, and the policy file is named only for the two probe refusals, which are a typed ProbeRefusal the wrapper recognises; the ./.., dangling-link and unresolvable-path errors name no file. A test pins the shape on a dangling link: the entry first, then why, no file.
…ause of the entry
An ignored entry is dropped from the sandbox and exposes nothing, so what
it holds is no longer probed: a `deny` that reaches inside it, or a part of
it the probe cannot read, refuses nothing, and the run goes on without the
entry. The probe runs only for a verdict of Allowed or NeedsApproval.
A refusal for an entry that cannot be judged now says the run was refused
because of the entry. The policy file is named only for a probe a `deny`
pattern set off (a typed ProbeRefusal the wrapper recognises); a `.` or
`..` segment, a dangling link or a path that cannot be resolved names no
file, since no rule caused it. The check runs as the person at `mip run`,
so the next step says "a path you can read", not the daemon.
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Major · Bind the target that passed the policy check. · patch_gate.rs:290
crates/mctx/src/patch_gate.rs:290 Major · Security & Privacy · Heavy lift
Bind the target that passed the policy check.
If another process changes an allowed symlink after decide_entry resolves it, the retained patch still names the original symlink. to_fs_mappings preserves that name, and the sandbox passes it to the later bind mount. A link changed to a denied target can therefore mount that target without another policy check. Bind a source that cannot be redirected after approval, or reject mutable symlink sources. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update the approval and retained-patch flow around decide_entry and table.insert so the later bind mount uses a source that cannot be redirected from the target checked by policy. Ensure to_fs_mappings preserves that approved source, or reject mutable symlink sources if they cannot be safely bound.
Major · Escape concrete paths before generating allow rules. · patch_gate.rs:332-334
crates/mctx/src/patch_gate.rs:332-334 Major · Security & Privacy · Quick win
Escape concrete paths before generating allow rules.
If an undecided path contains a literal *, allow_snippet writes it as a glob. For example, approving /home/u/cache* also authorizes sibling paths that match that pattern. A path containing glob brackets can instead produce a rule that does not approve the requested path. Escape literal glob metacharacters and policy-variable syntax before serializing the suggested rule. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update allow_snippet to escape literal glob metacharacters and policy-variable syntax in each concrete path before passing it to PatchesPolicy::with_allow, using the policy’s supported escaping rules. Ensure the serialized rule approves the requested path literally without matching siblings or changing its interpretation.
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- Around line 373-376: Update the directory-probe handling around the verdict,
is_file, and expanded.deny() condition so a one-time probe cannot authorize a
live directory bind when a deny rule can match contents added later. Refuse that
directory unless the mount design enforces the deny rule throughout the task;
preserve the existing behavior when no deny rule can reach inside the directory.
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- Line 290: Update the approval and retained-patch flow around decide_entry and
table.insert so the later bind mount uses a source that cannot be redirected
from the target checked by policy. Ensure to_fs_mappings preserves that approved
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ject mutable symlink sources if they cannot be safely bound.
- Around line 332-334: Update allow_snippet to escape literal glob
metacharacters and policy-variable syntax in each concrete path before passing
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Scope matches the title. The diff adds one gate, mctx::gate_task_patches, with its two call sites: mip run <task> and the nested run%<task> in EnvChannel::run_task. It also adds the TaskPatchPolicy switch on mctx::Config, tests and two docs paragraphs. Clobber none. The hunks only add code, and git log on each changed file shows no recent fix that the diff reverts. Correctness I traced both call sites. Each one gates before make_env, and both pass PatchHome::Ambient to make_env, as the gate assumes. rg finds no other mip path that runs a project task through make_env. The nested-run echo shortcut builds no sandbox. write_error frames the multi-line snippet as msg: lines. The ProbeRefusal downcast works through ?. The open threads from earlier rounds are answered, and I did not raise them again. I found three defects. The deny probe walks the whole directory even when the deny has a fixed root deeper inside it. user_policy_path repeats the checks of a non-panicking helper that already exists, and it still panics on a path that is not UTF-8. The policy denied refusal gives no next step. Not checked I did not run the build or the tests.
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medium · The probe walks the whole patched directory even when every deny that reaches inside it has a fixed root deeper down. Take a user with deny = ["~/.ssh/**"] and a task with patch.dir."~", or deny = ["~/.config/gcloud/**"] with patch.dir."~/.config". deny_reaches_inside returns true, and WalkDir::new(on_disk) then counts every entry in the tree. A home directory or a large ~/.config passes 10,000 entries, so the run is refused for 'too many entries'. This happens even when the deny root holds nothing, or does not exist. A deny with a walk root can match only paths under that root. Walk from each reaching deny's walk_root(), mapped into on_disk. Walk all of on_disk only for a deny with no root, such as **/*.pem. The PR body accepts the limit for rootless denies only, not for this case. The shape is local to this function.
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Right: the reach test said a deny could match inside, and the walk then ignored where. In 56776b1 the probe starts at each reaching deny's walk_root(), mapped into the directory on disk (~/.ssh/** against patch.dir."~" counts ~/.ssh, and a root that is absent counts nothing); a deny with no literal prefix, or whose prefix is the directory or above it, walks the whole directory as before, and one such deny makes that the only walk. the_probe_walks_from_each_denys_root_not_the_whole_directory puts a home past the limit beside .ssh, checks it mounts, that a key under .ssh is still found, and that **/*.pem still refuses it for its size.
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low · user_policy_path repeats part of the paths resolution and then calls the panicking paths::minimal_config_dir_with_override(None). The precheck uses std::env::home_dir(), but default_dir uses dirs::home_dir(). It also misses the case where the path is not UTF-8, where default_dir calls expect("default directory path is not valid UTF-8"). A user with such an XDG_CONFIG_HOME or home directory then gets a mip panic, not this error. paths::try_minimal_config_dir_with_override(None) (crates/paths/src/lib.rs:511) covers every case and returns None. Use it, and map None to this error.
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Taken in 56776b1: user_policy_path is paths::try_minimal_config_dir_with_override(None) mapped to this error (which now also names the non-UTF-8 case), so the precheck and its two home lookups are gone. The branch carries a merge of main for it.
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low · The policy denied refusal says what was denied and where the rule is, but it gives no next step. A person who runs mip run <task> reads that the task declares a denied path. The text does not say to remove the entry from the task in the project's minimal.toml, or to change the deny rule. The other refusals in this file now end with a next step after the earlier round. Add one sentence here too, for example "Remove the entry from the task in minimal.toml, or remove the rule that denies it." The nested run prints the same text as its msg: lines.
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low · The doc says a directory is refused if it holds more than 10,000 entries. probe_dir_for_deny walks, and so counts, only when some deny pattern can reach inside the directory. A reader with only ~/.ssh/** in deny will expect a refusal for a large /opt/sdk patch that the code mounts. A reader with **/*.pem will not see why the limit applies to every directory. Say that the probe and its limit apply only when a deny pattern can match inside the directory, as the module doc says.
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Reworded in 56776b1: the reference now says the check and its limit apply to the part of a directory a deny pattern can reach (with **/*.pem and ~/.ssh/** as the two shapes), and that a directory no deny can reach inside is mounted without it.
A deny with a fixed root inside the directory (`~/.ssh/**` against
`patch.dir."~"`) walked the whole directory, so a home or a `~/.config`
past the probe limit was refused for its size though the deny could
match only under its root. The walk now starts at each reaching deny's
root, mapped into the directory on disk; a deny with no fixed root, or
one above the directory, still walks it whole. The policy-file lookup
goes through the non-panicking resolution, so a home or XDG path that
is not UTF-8 is this error and not a panic. The denied refusal ends
with its next step, and the reference says when the probe applies.
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One docs follow-up, on Karl's behalf. It does not block the merge.
docs/reference/user-policy.md:156-157 says a directory "is refused if it holds one". A user can read that as protection for the whole run. The check runs once, when the run starts (you confirmed this is by design in the TOCTOU thread), so a file that a deny rule names and that appears in the directory later is visible inside the sandbox. Only the code comments say so today.
Suggested sentence after line 157: "The check runs once, when the run starts. A file added to the directory after that is visible inside the sandbox."
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Minor · Update the statement that mip does not consume the policy. · user-policy.md:285-286
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Update the statement that mip does not consume the policy.
This note contradicts the new mip run policy gate. A reader could conclude that changes to [patches] cannot affect mip runs. Update the note to describe the named-task exception. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Update the user-policy note to clarify that `mip` does consume the policy for named tasks run through `mip run`, while preserving the stated behavior for other `mip` invocations and for `minimald` and `minvmd`.
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- Around line 511-512: Update the probe-root check around
symlink_metadata(start.as_std_path()) to continue only when the error is
NotFound; convert any other metadata error into a ProbeRefusal and propagate it
so an incomplete subtree check cannot permit the directory.
- Line 577: Before narrowing the probe root with on_disk.join(rel), check its
relative ancestors and do not select a root reached through a contained symlink;
preserve the contract that probe walks never inspect the symlink’s host target.
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The layer table puts mctx in the facade layer, which may depend only on
leaf, shared and build crates. The gate imported the `[patches]` policy
types from boxes, a session crate, so mctx gained a forbidden edge. The
gate moves to mip, a product crate that may reach session crates.
mctx keeps the hook. TaskPatchPolicy is now Ungated or Gated, holding an
Arc<dyn TaskPatchGate>. gate_task_patches skips a task without patches and
otherwise calls the context's gate, so mip run and the nested run over the
sandbox channel still pass the one gate. mip's UserPolicyGate reads the
user's user_policy.toml, or a given file in tests. mctx drops boxes,
camino and walkdir; mip gains them and toml. mctx tests use a stand-in
gate; the policy-file tests run in mip.
Two probe fixes:
- A deny root under the directory is skipped only when it is not there.
Any other lookup failure, such as permission denied, refuses the entry,
so a probe that could not look never permits a directory.
- A probe narrowed to a deny's root no longer reaches it through a
symlink the directory holds. The lookup would follow the link to its
host target, which the probe never inspects. The root stops at the
link's parent, where the walk meets the link as an entry.
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Scope matches the title. The diff adds one gate (mctx::gate_task_patches), a config switch, the two call sites, tests, a fixture and docs. Each hunk traces to inbox#1128. Clobber none found. mip run and the nested run%<task> are the only non-test callers of Context::task plus make_env in mip/mctx. scaffolding_walk reads only task.packages. Correctness The gate is on both paths. cloned_reinit keeps the policy, and minimald keeps Ungated by default. Earlier threads raised the ignored-entry probe, the walk roots, the refusal wording and user_policy_path, and those are fixed. CodeRabbit already raised the intermediate-link false refusal in the per-root walk, so this review does not repeat it. One new finding: since 56776b1, a symlink inside the directory gets two treatments that disagree. A per-root walk follows the link. A whole walk does not. With a rootless deny, a denied name that a link reaches inside the same mount is not checked. The undecided-entry snippet has the same shape as min's (crates/minimal/src/task.rs:809). Not checked No build or test run. The walkdir behaviour is from the docs of 2.5.0 (follow_root_links defaults to true), not from a run.
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high · Since 56776b1, the probe handles a symlink inside the directory in two ways. A deny with a root inside the directory (~/.ssh/**) starts the walk at that root, and walkdir follows a root link (follow_root_links is true in 2.5.0). A deny with no root, or a root above the directory (**/.ssh/**, /home/**/keys/**), walks the whole directory with follow_links(false), so the link is never entered. Take patch.dir."~" and ~/.ssh -> ~/dotfiles/ssh, a stow layout. With deny = ["**/.ssh/**"] the gate sees only ~/.ssh (the link) and ~/dotfiles/ssh/id_ed25519, and neither matches. The bind mount mirrors ~ one-for-one, so the link resolves inside the same mount. The sandbox can then read ~/.ssh/id_ed25519, a path the rule names. With deny = ["~/.ssh/**"], the same tree is refused. The doc comment says a link target "is reachable only if some entry mounts it, and that entry is gated on its own". When the target is in the same entry, the gate checks it only under its real name. Fix: when a contained link resolves inside on_disk, also judge the paths under it by the link's name. Or follow such links in the whole walk too. This is local to probe_dir_for_deny. No other caller walks for denies.
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LOW · correctness · confidence 0.50 · in UserPolicyGate::gate
The gate judges the entries by their on-disk state, then make_env mounts them later. A symlink or directory content that changes in between is not rechecked. The window is small and the actor needs write access to the user's own paths. Document it, or mount from the path the gate resolved.
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gate() resolves and probes in judge_task_patches, then returns the declared entries unchanged to make_env.
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The gate judges the entries by their on-disk state, then `make_env` mounts them later. A symlink or directory content that changes in between is not rechecked. The window is small and the actor needs write access to the user's own paths. Document it, or mount from the path the gate resolved.
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Fixes gominimal/inbox#1128.
mip run <task>mounted every patch entry the project'sminimal.tomldeclared, with no policy check. A projectcould bind any host path the user can read into the task's sandbox, including a path
user_policy.tomldenies.Scenario 812 reproduced it on every cell. The task read a file under a
[patches] denydirectory, andmipprinted norefusal.
The same hole had a second way in. Every
mipsandbox gets/run/minenv_sock, and the in-sandboxmin run <task>helper sends
run%<task>over it. The host-sideEnvChannel::run_taskthen loaded that project task and calledmake_envwith its patches, with no check. So a task with no patches couldmin runone that had them.What changes
There is one gate,
mctx::gate_task_patches(crates/mctx/src/patch_gate.rs). Both ways to run a task by name callit, after the task is looked up and before
make_env:mip run <task>(crates/mip/src/cmd_run.rs)run%<task>over the sandbox channel (EnvChannel::run_task,crates/mctx/src/env.rs)Whether the gate judges anything depends on the context's new
TaskPatchPolicy(mctx::Config):UserPolicy: theuser_policy.tomlthatminreads, at<config>/minimal/user_policy.toml.miphas no--config-dir.mipbuilds every context with this policy (base_configincrates/mip/src/main.rs), so the--task-speclane's nested runs are covered too.Ungated: the default, and whatminimaldkeeps. A session's task patches are gominimal/inbox#602, and the guesthas no copy of the user's policy file to check against. This PR doesn't touch
minimaldormin.The sandbox binds an entry whole, so the gate decides an entry as one path:
~/expanded againstPatchHome::Ambient(the home both callers pass tomake_env), and the path it resolves to through a symlink. The stricter decision wins. A dangling symlink, or apath with a
.or..segment, is refused.denyrule names, because the mount would expose it. Theprobe runs only when a deny pattern can reach inside the directory. It stops at 10,000 entries and refuses a tree it
can't read whole. A symlink inside the directory is judged as the link itself. The bind mount carries the link, and
the link resolves in the sandbox's own mount namespace, where a host target is visible only if some entry mounts
it, and that entry is gated on its own.
The outcomes follow
min's precedence (deny, then ignore, then allow):policy denied `<path>` (from project `<root>`), naming the entry and thepolicy file. Over the channel, the nested run gets that text as its
error.msg:line over the channel).[patches] allowsnippet (see the note at the top).$NAMEreferences in policy patterns expand against the environmentmipruns in, sincemiphas no session vars.What this does not change
ExpandedPatchesPolicy::checkfromboxeswith project provenance.min task runandminimald. Task patches there are still ungated: gominimal/inbox#602 and the closedfix(task): gate task patch declarations against [patches] policy #2299. Scenario 809 is in the proof matrix to show nothing changed there. If feat(sessions): tighten daemon composer pending/ready routing #602 adopts this gate,
it is one
TaskPatchPolicyaway, but it needs the user's policy to reach the guest first.mip run --task-spec's own spec. The user types that spec on the command line. Only the project file isuntrusted.
Review items I did not take as asked
env_dir_mappings/env_file_mappings, throughSetupForPackages).I agree this is a real gap and should be filed. I left it out of this PR for three reasons:
Env::build, from the transitive package set, which exists onlythere. Gating them means a second check inside
make_env, whichminimaldalso calls, so the PR would no longerbe a mip-only behavior change.
Source::Package), which gets deny-only semantics, not the project's allowstep. That needs its own tests.
direct
mip run, and the channel'sadd-*commands already refuse packages that need host mappings.user-policy.md now says that package mappings are not checked by this gate.
run, and the sandbox binds the declared path a moment later. I did not close this window. The policy defends
against an untrusted project file. Swapping a path in between needs a concurrent writer in the user's own
filesystem, running as the user, and that process could already read the denied file directly. Mounting the
resolved path instead would also change where the entry appears in the sandbox, which
WdSetup::BoundDirmirrorsone-for-one.
Choices to review
**/*.pem(the docs' own example), can match insideany directory. While such a rule exists, a patched directory holding more than 10,000 entries is refused. The
alternative was to mount a tree the gate had not fully checked.
TaskPatchPolicyis onmctx::Config, socloned_reinit(which the channel uses)keeps it. The default is
Ungatedso thatminimald's contexts stay as they are without a change to them.mipturns it on in one place, and a test covers that.
Tests
crates/mctx/src/env.rsenv_channel_nested_run_refuses_a_denied_patch: a nestedrun%peek-deniedover the channel, for a task whosepatch.dirthe policy denies, comes back aspolicy deniedbefore any environment is built.the_task_patch_gate_follows_the_context_policy:Ungatedreturns the patches as declared, a user policy refusesthem, and a task without patches passes either way.
crates/mip/src/cmd_run.rs:mip_run_refuses_a_task_whose_patch_the_policy_denies. This test goes throughcmd_runitself, so it fails if the gate call there is removed.crates/mip/src/main.rs:mip_contexts_gate_task_patches_on_the_user_policy, which checks thatmip's baseconfig turns the gate on.
crates/mctx/src/patch_gate.rscovers the rules:~/entry against a~/deny..segment$NAMEexpansioncrates/mctx/testdata/patchrepo.A lab scenario for the nested path (812b,
mip run nestwherenestrunsmin run peek) is drafted for min-regressand is not in this PR's matrix.
Lab evidence
Prepush (CI's exact commands on anvil): green (job 05222 at 6e563f3; the new tests run there)
Scenarios 812 (x2) and 809 (x1) on ubuntu-24.04 and fedora, job 05224: 812 FAIL -> PASS on both, 809 unchanged (min task run is not touched here; inbox#602).
Lab evidence (min-regress batch
fix1128con anvil, fedora, ubuntu-24.04)Head:
6e563f39bed67f01c4faffe0e499686458e153daat 6e563f3 (lab namecand-1128-mip-run-patch-gate-c-485109a9). Base:rel-6a01d5ae(rel-6a01d5ae).mip runmounts a task's declared patches with no [patches] policy gate (a denied host path reaches the sandbox)mip runmounts a task's declared patches with no [patches] policy gate (a denied host path reaches the sandbox)Fixed since base: 2. Still reproducing on both: 2. Regressed: 0. Passing on both: 0. A scenario that fails on both sides is the environment or main, not this candidate: read its evidence lines before reading it as the candidate's. A verdict links to the run's trace in Cloud Trace (project access needed); the scenario link is its source with the
# issue:it reproduces.Why each failed run failed: what the scenario measured, then what its trace recorded (error spans and warnings, most frequent first):
ctl_ran=1 ctl_read_secret=0 mip_rc=0 task_ran=1 task_read_secret=1 task_mount=root=/home/tester/s812sec-29825,at=/home/tester/s812sec-29825,opts=ro,nosuid,relatime refusal_lines=0 apparmor_lifted=no; trace: no error span and no warning in the tracectl_ran=1 ctl_read_secret=0 mip_rc=0 task_ran=1 task_read_secret=1 task_mount=root=/home/tester/s812sec-14280,at=/home/tester/s812sec-14280,opts=ro,nosuid,relatime refusal_lines=0 apparmor_lifted=no; trace: no error span and no warning in the tracectl_ran=1 ctl_read_secret=0 mip_rc=0 task_ran=1 task_read_secret=1 task_mount=root=/home/tester/s812sec-12880,at=/home/tester/s812sec-12880,opts=ro,nosuid,relatime refusal_lines=0 apparmor_lifted=no; trace: no error span and no warning in the tracesession_gate=refused ctl_ran=1 ctl_read_secret=0 task_rc=0 task_ran=1 task_read_secret=1 task_mount=root=/home/tester/s809sec-35504,at=/home/tester/s809sec-35504,opts=ro,nosuid,relatime refusal_lines=0; trace:3x minimal-cli span error cmd;1x minimal-cli span error client.rpc;1x minimal-cli span error activation_step;1x minimald WARN Copying instead of hardlinking: cache and destination are on different filesystems; further cross-device copies this run are silent (first:session_gate=refused ctl_ran=1 ctl_read_secret=0 task_rc=0 task_ran=1 task_read_secret=1 task_mount=root=/home/tester/s809sec-37704,at=/home/tester/s809sec-37704,opts=ro,nosuid,relatime refusal_lines=0; trace:3x minimal-cli span error cmd;1x minimal-cli span error client.rpc;1x minimal-cli span error activation_step;1x minimald WARN Copying instead of hardlinking: cache and destination are on different filesystems; further cross-device copies this run are silent (first:ctl_ran=1 ctl_read_secret=0 mip_rc=0 task_ran=1 task_read_secret=1 task_mount=root=/home/tester/s812sec-18588,at=/home/tester/s812sec-18588,opts=ro,nosuid,relatime refusal_lines=0 apparmor_lifted=no; trace: no error span and no warning in the tracesession_gate=refused ctl_ran=1 ctl_read_secret=0 task_rc=0 task_ran=1 task_read_secret=1 task_mount=root=/home/tester/s809sec-37891,at=/home/tester/s809sec-37891,opts=ro,nosuid,relatime refusal_lines=0; trace:3x minimal-cli span error cmd;1x minimal-cli span error client.rpc;1x minimal-cli span error activation_step;1x minimald WARN Copying instead of hardlinking: cache and destination are on different filesystems; further cross-device copies this run are silent (first:session_gate=refused ctl_ran=1 ctl_read_secret=0 task_rc=0 task_ran=1 task_read_secret=1 task_mount=root=/home/tester/s809sec-37076,at=/home/tester/s809sec-37076,opts=ro,nosuid,relatime refusal_lines=0; trace:3x minimal-cli span error cmd;1x minimal-cli span error client.rpc;1x minimal-cli span error activation_step;1x minimald WARN Copying instead of hardlinking: cache and destination are on different filesystems; further cross-device copies this run are silent (first:🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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miporminnow check patch mappings against the configured policy before starting.mipuses the user policy by default.[patches] 8000 allowrule.