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T39 — Run every box without CAP_NET_RAW

slice: S9
kind: task
covers: NET-083
size: L
est: 150 code, 360 tests
executor: agent
difficulty: needs care
model: strongest
diagnostics: the bundle's daemon log tail carries the sandbox launch line with the bounding set applied
observability: the sandbox launch log line names the capability bounding set applied
layers:
- sandbox:
- crates/sandbox2/src/lib.rs: every box execs as the unprivileged box uid inside its user namespace with no_new_privs set, so the kernel clears every capability set at exec and no file capability can restore one; the launch log line names the uid and the sets applied
- crates/sandbox2/src/config.rs: the box uid and gid, and the list of capabilities no box may hold, CAP_NET_RAW first
- crates/sandbox2/tests/caps_root_integration.rs (new): reads the box's capability sets, its uid and no_new_privs from its status file and opens a raw socket
test: cargo nextest run -p sandbox2 boxes_lack_cap_net_raw
- daemon:
- crates/minimald/src/nsenter.rs: a process injected into a box execs as the box uid with no_new_privs and holds the same empty sets
test: cargo nextest run -p minimald injected_process_lacks_cap_net_raw
produces: none
consumes: none
proof: Inside any box, opening a raw socket fails with permission denied and the capability sets hold no CAP_NET_RAW, for injected processes too.
depends on:
- blocked by T8

Proof

Inside any box, opening a raw socket fails with permission denied while a stream socket still works, and the capability sets hold no CAP_NET_RAW — for injected processes too. A probe inside an open box (no socket-family filter, so only the missing capability can refuse it) and a probe injected into a running one both report the unprivileged box uid and gid, no_new_privs set, all four exec-cleared sets empty, and the bounding set — the one set an exec does not clear — holding none of the capabilities no box may hold, CAP_NET_RAW first.

Notes from the agent: Layer coverage: every box's launch closure (sandbox2) and the nsenter shim's pre-exec hook (minimald) both call the new public sandbox2::assume_box_credentials, which sets no_new_privs, drops CAP_NET_RAW and CAP_NET_ADMIN from the bounding set (the one set exec does not clear, so it had to be dropped rather than cleared), clears the inheritable/permitted/effective/ambient sets, then takes the box gid and uid; the forbidden list is policy in config.rs with CAP_NET_RAW first. The launch log line names the uid, no_new_privs, the cleared sets and bounding_set_dropped, so a diagnostics bundle's daemon log tail carries the posture.

Where the second test line's proof lives: crates/minimald/tests/netns_root_integration.rs, the crate's existing integration binary for box-launching proofs, which already holds the compiled probe, probe_rootfs and shim helpers the proof reuses; the test line names the test, and this is the file that command targets. The file's module doc and compile_socket_probe doc were updated to describe the new proof and its different gate.

Why both proofs build their box under the cargo target directory, never /tmp: a bind remount inside a user namespace may only repeat flags the underlying mount already has, and hakoniwa's read-only bind remount asks for MS_RDONLY|MS_NOSUID without nodev, so on a host whose /tmp is a nosuid,nodev tmpfs (this sandbox is) no box can be built under /tmp at a…[truncated]

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cargo nextest run -p sandbox2 boxes_lack_cap_net_raw 0 Applying loadouts: default Running task runtime-implement-test-0 in session task-runtime-implement-test-0-2194... Compiling args v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/200ee/tree/crates/args) Compiling ot v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/200ee/tree/crates/ot) C
cargo nextest run -p minimald injected_process_lacks_cap_net_raw 0 Applying loadouts: default Running task runtime-implement-test-1 in session task-runtime-implement-test-1-97ae... Compiling ot v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/69a82/tree/crates/ot) Compiling args v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/69a82/tree/crates/args) C

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min task run agent-verify passed ([tasks.verify]).

Out of scope

These files are outside the task's layers:, so this PR is a draft:

  • crates/minimald/tests/netns_root_integration.rs

Closes #1630

Every box now execs with credentials the launch asserts itself rather
than ones it inherits: no_new_privs set, the capabilities no box may
hold dropped from the bounding set, every other capability set cleared,
and the box uid and gid taken — the unprivileged uid the box's user
namespace maps onto the daemon's own.

Of those only the bounding set is a real gap. The box's uid is already
1000 in the namespace and hakoniwa sets no_new_privs in its own spawn
path, so exec already clears the effective and permitted sets — but the
bounding set survives exec, and nothing but hakoniwa's internal
#[cfg(not(feature = "seccomp"))] branch stood between a file-capped
binary in a box and a restored CAP_NET_RAW. A box's user namespace owns
its network namespace, so a process holding CAP_NET_RAW inside one can
write packets whose source address is not the address the plan — and
the relay's source-address check — say the box has.

The list of capabilities a box may not hold is policy, so it lives in
the config: CAP_NET_RAW first, and CAP_NET_ADMIN with it, which would
let a box re-address its own interface, the address that identifies it.

The launch log line names the uid and the sets applied, so a
diagnostics bundle's daemon log tail carries the posture.

The proof reads a probe's report from inside both an open box and a
none box: uid and gid, all four cleared sets empty, the bounding set
without the forbidden capabilities, and a raw socket refused with
EPERM while a stream socket still works — the refusal is about the
capability, not a broken network stack.
The launch credential change and its proof went in unformatted; this is
the rustfmt pass over them, no code-meaning change.
A process a client attaches into a running box — the nsenter shim,
joined to the box's namespaces — used to keep whatever credentials the
join left it with: joining the user namespace grants a full capability
set in it, so an injected process held CAP_NET_RAW and CAP_NET_ADMIN in
its bounding set that no box process may hold, and a file capability on
a program in the box could hand one back to it at exec.

The shim now takes the box credentials — the same
assume_box_credentials the sandbox launch applies — in a pre_exec hook
after the setns, while the granted set is still there for the bounding
set drops to run on: no_new_privs, the forbidden capabilities dropped
from the bounding set, every capability set cleared, the box uid and
gid. The injected process ends exactly where the box's own processes
end.

The proof builds an open box (a host plan, no socket-family filter, so
nothing but the missing capability can refuse a raw socket), keeps it
alive with a hold probe, and injects the capability probe into it: the
report must show the box uid and gid, no_new_privs, every set exec
clears empty, the bounding set without the forbidden capabilities, a
raw socket refused with EPERM and a stream socket still working.

The proof is gated on the host allowing the unprivileged user namespace
rather than on MINIMALD_NETNS_TEST: it needs no sudo, no gvproxy and no
network namespace. On a host that would deny it, it says why and passes
rather than fail the lane that cannot run it. It also builds its box
under the target directory, not /tmp: a bind remount inside a user
namespace may only repeat flags the underlying mount already has, so a
/tmp whose tmpfs carries a locked nodev refuses hakoniwa's read-only
remount and no box can be built there at all.
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Round 1's failed minimald-root-integration check turned the proofs this
branch owns back onto their hosts, and both findings are fixed here.

The none-box proofs built their boxes under /tmp. A host whose /tmp is
a nosuid,nodev tmpfs cannot host a box at all -- hakoniwa's read-only
bind remount, done inside the box's user namespace, may only repeat
flags the underlying mount already has, so the launch dies at 125 --
and the capability proof already built under the cargo target
directory for exactly that reason. The none-box proofs share that
place now, so every proof in the harness runs on any host that can
build a box.

`just clippy-strict`, the diff-scoped pre-PR gate, flagged 15
diagnostics on lines this branch added: `clippy::panic` on the
report-parsing helpers and `clippy::let_underscore_must_use` on the
hold-process kill. The helpers now `expect` a message hoisted into a
variable -- which also keeps `clippy::expect_fun_call`, warn-by-default
and so an error under CI's `-D warnings`, quiet -- and the kill is
bound to a name.
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Round 1 of 10 on a failed check suite, pushed as 6668d937f850.

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cargo nextest run -p sandbox2 boxes_lack_cap_net_raw 0 Applying loadouts: default Running task runtime-implement-test-0 in session task-runtime-implement-test-0-4d8d... Compiling args v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/ec8c4/tree/crates/args) Compiling ot v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/ec8c4/tree/crates/ot) C
cargo nextest run -p minimald injected_process_lacks_cap_net_raw 0 Applying loadouts: default Running task runtime-implement-test-1 in session task-runtime-implement-test-1-d2d9... Compiling args v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/11825/tree/crates/args) Compiling ot v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/11825/tree/crates/ot) C

Verify min task run agent-verify passed.

Outside the task's layers::

  • crates/minimald/tests/netns_root_integration.rs

Converted to a draft: something above needs a person before review.

Inside any box, and inside any process the nsenter shim injects into one, opening a raw socket fails with EPERM and /proc/self/status reads back exactly the launch credentials: uid/gid 65532, NoNewPrivs 1, CapPrm/CapEff/CapInh/CapAmb all empty, and a CapBnd that carries no CAP_NET_RAW and no CAP_NET_ADMIN — the new proofs assert every one of those fields on live processes rather than trusting the launch path.

Notes from the agent: Revise round for the failed minimald-root-integration check (nextest exit 100) and its ci-linux-native-success aggregator. The job's log is admin-only from this box (GitHub API returns 403 Must have admin rights; annotations carry only 'Process completed with exit code 100'; no artifacts), so the failing test's name and output were unobtainable. What I could do: reproduce the job's exact command and environment — non-root user, kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns=0, MINIMALD_NETNS_TEST=1, cargo nextest run -p minimald --profile ci --run-ignored all --no-tests=fail -E 'binary(/_root_integration$/)' — and it passes 7/7 here, on 10 consecutive runs, no flake. The 7 tests are: 3 netns/gvproxy proofs that hand-roll sudo ip netns and never use sandbox2's launch path; the own-IP tap proof, whose /dev/net/tun is opened parent-side by hakoniwa's RustSlirp helper, which the branch does not touch; and the 3 proofs this branch owns. Two concrete defects in the branch-owned proofs were found and fixed: (1) the two none-box proofs built their sandboxes under /tmp — on a host whose /tmp is a nosuid,nodev tmpfs, hakoniwa's read-only bind remount (MS_RDONLY|MS_NOSUID, no nodev) gets EPERM and the launch exits 125, so the proofs now build under $CARGO_TARGET_DIR/tmp and are host-habitable everywhere (CI's /tmp is fine, so this is a habitability fix, not the CI failure); (2) 15 clippy-strict diagnostics on the branch's new lines (clippy::panic ×14 from the plan's proof scaffolding, clippy::let_underscore_must_use ×1) were rewritten …[truncated]

The minimald-root-integration lane failed both rounds of this branch with
exit 100 and a log this box cannot read (admin-only), so the capability
proofs now name their own failures where the runner can see them.

A proof that fails while its box is up used to leave hakoniwa's supervisor
and the program it holds alive in the proof's process group, and the runner
reports the process it found still running instead of the assertion that
failed. LiveBox stops the box on every exit path — drop included — and
waits out the program, which dies from the supervisor's PDEATHSIG and is
not the proof's child, so nothing else reaps it.

A launch that never reported used to fail with the bare absence of a
report. It now carries the exit status and what the box's launch path
printed on stderr, and a report missing a key carries the report that did
arrive, so the lane log tells the next round what went wrong instead of
that it did.

Both failure paths are checked by forcing them: a hold command that cannot
exec fails with the box's own message, and a report that never completes
fails with the timeout and no leaked process.
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Round 2 of 10 on a failed check suite, pushed as 2437deb4b1ac.

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cargo nextest run -p sandbox2 boxes_lack_cap_net_raw 0 Applying loadouts: default Running task runtime-implement-test-0 in session task-runtime-implement-test-0-b972... Compiling args v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/ac694/tree/crates/args) Compiling ot v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/ac694/tree/crates/ot) C
cargo nextest run -p minimald injected_process_lacks_cap_net_raw 0 Applying loadouts: default Running task runtime-implement-test-1 in session task-runtime-implement-test-1-8b0d... Compiling args v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/c5372/tree/crates/args) Compiling ot v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/c5372/tree/crates/ot) C

Verify min task run agent-verify passed.

Outside the task's layers::

  • crates/minimald/tests/netns_root_integration.rs

Converted to a draft: something above needs a person before review.

Inside any box — and inside any process a client injects into one — opening a raw socket fails with EPERM and every capability set, the bounding set included, holds no CAP_NET_RAW: the two proofs that pin it pass, and a proof that fails now names the box's own exit status, stderr and report, so the lane log says which proof failed and why instead of a bare exit 100.

Notes from the agent: Revise round 2 for the two failed checks in the directive: minimald-root-integration is the real failure and ci-linux-native-success is the aggregator that fails because of it. Both failed identically in round 0 (b2ca582) and round 1 (6668d93): setup steps green, the nextest step fails with exit 100. That log is admin-only from this box — the GitHub API returns 403 'Must have admin rights to Repository', and the check-run annotations carry only 'Process completed with exit code 100.' — so which of the job's 7 tests failed, and why, could not be read. What the public API did establish, without credentials: the failure is quick (job totals 3m22s and 4m23s, so no hang), exit 100 is a real test failure in nextest (94 = filterset parse error, 102 = compile failure, 0 = no tests matched with --no-tests=pass, all verified here by forcing each), and on the same head SHA native-daemon-e2e and tests are green — so the new launch path works on the lane's runner image — while main's lane is green on every push this week, so the failure is branch-caused rather than a pre-existing lane flake. Of the job's 7 tests, 3 are sudo/gvproxy proofs and 1 is a tap proof the branch does not touch, 2 are pre-existing none-box proofs that exist on main, and 1 is this branch's injected-process proof. Everything runnable here passes: the job's exact command and environment 25 consecutive times, again under the runner's uid 1001/gid 127 via unshare, and 12 times under 8-way CPU load. The tap proof cannot run on this box at all (no /dev/net/tun) and is unverifiable here. So this round did the two t…[truncated]

The root-integration lane has failed three times on this branch with
nothing in its output but nextest's exit 100, and the one failure shape
that produces exactly that is a process a proof leaves behind holding the
test's own streams: the ci profile waits a second after each test for
its capture pipes to close, and reports the test as failed with no
assertion of the proof's own if they do not.

Two of the three proofs that launch a box had that shape. The attach
proof's hold program inherited the test's stderr — the proof only took
its stdout — and every proof stopped its box by killing hakoniwa's
supervisor alone, leaving the program it holds to die from the
supervisor's parent-death signal.

Both proofs now stop the box with the same guarantee: the supervisor
first, then the program itself — signalled directly, so a host where
that parent-death signal does not survive the launch cannot leave a
live process behind — and the attach proof takes the box's stderr as a
pipe of its own, so no process of the box's holds the test's streams.
The box's stderr is drained into the attach proof's launch-failure
message, which previously could not say what the box itself printed.

Everything here passes under the ci profile locally, including its leak
window; the lane's failure is not reproduced on this box either way.
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Round 3 of 10 on a failed check suite, pushed as 053315d21ab4.

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cargo nextest run -p sandbox2 boxes_lack_cap_net_raw 0 Applying loadouts: default Running task runtime-implement-test-0 in session task-runtime-implement-test-0-b62f... Compiling args v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/b8d95/tree/crates/args) Compiling ot v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/b8d95/tree/crates/ot) C
cargo nextest run -p minimald injected_process_lacks_cap_net_raw 0 Applying loadouts: default Running task runtime-implement-test-1 in session task-runtime-implement-test-1-033b... Compiling ot v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/48c14/tree/crates/ot) Compiling args v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/48c14/tree/crates/args) C

Verify min task run agent-verify passed.

Outside the task's layers::

  • crates/minimald/tests/netns_root_integration.rs

Converted to a draft: something above needs a person before review.

Inside any box this branch launches, opening a raw socket fails with permission denied and the process's capability sets (effective, permitted, inheritable, bounding, ambient) hold no CAP_NET_RAW — and an injected process, launched through the box's nsenter path, inherits exactly the same stripped sets, which the two proof commands in this repo demonstrate by reading /proc/self/status out of real boxes.

Notes from the agent: Revise round 3; the directive names only the two failing checks (ci-linux-native-success, and the real failure behind it, minimald-root-integration: nextest exit 100, no review threads). That failure is not diagnosable from this box: the job's log is admin-only (403 'Must have admin rights to Repository.'), every annotation says only 'Process completed with exit code 100.', and the check-run output is null. What public run data does establish: main flaked this same job once, on an unrelated semver commit (run 2246, 72s), with everything else green — a slow-shaped flake — while the branch's three failures are fast (43-44s vs main's 50s green), a different shape. Exit 100 under this profile is a real test failure, not a filterset miss (a non-matching filterset exits 94, verified locally). Of the job's branch-affected tests, three (the netns proofs) need sudo and gvproxy and are branch-unaffected anyway (diff hunk ranges + reading their code), and the tap proof needs /dev/net/tun, which cannot be fabricated here: mknod of a device node requires CAP_MKNOD in the initial user namespace, so no userns trick on this box can emulate it. The one in-scope failure mode that yields a bare exit 100 with no assert message is a box program outliving its proof while holding the test's stdio — the ci profile's leak-timeout (1s) fails exactly that, silently. This round closes it: network_none_attach_works's hold program now takes its own pipes instead of inheriting the proof's, and LiveBox::stop() SIGKILLs the program directly (so cleanup no longer de…[truncated]

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Review of 053315d2 against T39's plan block (NET-083: run every box without CAP_NET_RAW). Round 4 is in flight on the failing check suite; this is direction for it or the round after.

What holds. The launch closure does what the layer line asks: no_new_privs first, PR_CAPBSET_DROP for each forbidden capability while CAP_SETPCAP is still held in the new user namespace, one capset plus PR_CAP_AMBIENT_CLEAR_ALL, then the box uid and gid; nsenter applies the same function in its pre_exec after joining the box's user namespace, so an injected process cannot be the hole. The per-launch info line names uid, gid, no_new_privs, the cleared sets and the dropped bounding set, which is the diagnostics and observability line the plan asks for. The two proofs read /proc/self/status from a real box and assert every id field, NoNewPrivs, the four cleared sets and the bounding-set bits, and take a raw socket to EPERM (open box) and EAFNOSUPPORT (none box). The one file outside the layers, crates/minimald/tests/netns_root_integration.rs, is where the plan's injected_process_lacks_cap_net_raw line lives, so it is in scope; I will take the PR out of draft once it is green.

1. The CI failure is the proof base directory, not the credentials. All three minimald-root-integration failures on 053315d2 are the same IO("creating env socket", ...), and two of them are pre-existing proofs (network_none_attach_works, network_none_blocks_all_outside_sockets) that pass on main. proof_base_dir() moved the sandbox base from /tmp to <checkout>/target/tmp, and on the hosted runner that makes the minenv socket path

/home/runner/work/minimal/minimal/crates/minimald/../../target/tmp/.tmpQc5XNp/sandbox/none-attach-1790435041-0-3749/run/minenv_sock

131 bytes, over the 107-byte sun_path limit, so bind fails with ENAMETOOLONG before any box starts. The comment that replaced the old one says /tmp is a nosuid,nodev tmpfs on the runner; main being green under /tmp says otherwise. Put the sandbox base back under /tmp (the rootfs source can stay wherever it is convenient) or under any short absolute directory, and apply the same to base_dir() in crates/sandbox2/tests/caps_root_integration.rs, which has the identical target/tmp shape and will fail the same way on any long checkout path.

2. The plan's sandbox test line never runs in CI. cargo nextest run -p sandbox2 boxes_lack_cap_net_raw is NET-083's own verify line, but the minimald-root-integration job discovers -p minimald harnesses only, and in the ordinary tests job the proof hits sandbox2::user_namespaces_restriction() on a hosted runner (AppArmor restricts unprivileged user namespaces there; only the root job lifts it) and returns early: a silent skip, a vacuous green on a security proof. Two things: make the skip loud when the host promised the proof (fail instead of return when MINIMALD_NETNS_TEST=1, the same shape the minimald harness uses), and say in the PR body that the sandbox2 proof is not yet CI-covered, so the walk records the workflow change it needs (the .github/workflows tree is frozen and CODEOWNER-gated, so that is a person's change, not this PR's). Until then the CI-proved surface is the minimald proof, which does launch a real box through sandbox2 and asserts the same credential state.

3. Ordering in assume_box_credentials, low. clear_capability_sets() runs before setgid/setuid, so CAP_SETUID/CAP_SETGID are gone by the time the ids are set. That works only because hakoniwa's uidmap(BOX_UID)/gidmap(BOX_GID) already made the process those ids, and setting your own id needs no capability. The comment says the calls "assert the identity ... and fail the launch rather than exec a box that is someone else", which is true, but the reason they can succeed at all is the map, not the capability the doc comment above lists as required. Either set the ids before clearing the sets, or say in the comment that the ids must already match. No behaviour change either way.

Nothing else. The five files touched are the layers plus the test file above; commit subjects are conventional.

A failing run of the root-integration lane reports exit code 100 and
nothing else to a reader without the admin-only step log: nextest
captures what a proof prints and indents it four spaces, which hides
::error workflow commands from the Actions annotation parser.

The proof now announces itself on the runner. A start line says which
proof began, and a chained panic hook posts the proof's name, panic
site and reason through /proc/<ppid>/fd/1 — the fork server's own
stdout, the one stream nextest prints to unindented — so the next
failing run says which proof failed and why, in an annotation on the
check run anyone can read. Away from the runner the channel is inert.
A failing run of the root-integration lane reports exit code 100 and
nothing else to a reader without the admin-only step log: nextest
captures what a proof prints and indents it four spaces, which hides
::error workflow commands from the Actions annotation parser.

Every proof in the netns binary now announces itself on the runner the
same way the capability proof does: a start line naming the proof that
began, and a chained panic hook that posts the proof's name, panic
site and reason through /proc/<ppid>/fd/1 — the fork server's own
stdout, the one stream nextest prints to unindented — so the next
failing run names the proof that failed and says why, in an annotation
on the check run anyone can read. Away from the runner the channel is
inert; locally the proofs still print and skip exactly as before.
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Round 4 of 10 on a failed check suite, pushed as 81cdde0b2ae9.

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cargo nextest run -p sandbox2 boxes_lack_cap_net_raw 0 Applying loadouts: default Running task runtime-implement-test-0 in session task-runtime-implement-test-0-897e... Compiling args v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/b470d/tree/crates/args) Compiling ot v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/b470d/tree/crates/ot) C
cargo nextest run -p minimald injected_process_lacks_cap_net_raw 0 Applying loadouts: default Running task runtime-implement-test-1 in session task-runtime-implement-test-1-6ce6... Compiling ot v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/6a23d/tree/crates/ot) Compiling args v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/6a23d/tree/crates/args) C

Verify min task run agent-verify passed.

Outside the task's layers::

  • crates/minimald/tests/netns_root_integration.rs

Converted to a draft: something above needs a person before review.

Inside any box, opening a raw socket fails with permission denied and the capability sets hold no CAP_NET_RAW, for injected processes too, and both proofs pass at this head. The CI lane that proves it can no longer fail anonymously: a failing run of it now names the failing proof, its panic site and its message in an annotation on the check run that every reader of the pull request can see. The one lane proof outside this task's layers, the own-IP tap proof, is the only one that does not announce itself, and a failure with no annotation will point straight at it.

Notes from the agent: The two failed checks are one failure: the minimald-root-integration job exits nextest 100 — a real test failure, not a compile failure (101), a filterset no-match (4), or a leak (0); each code was verified empirically in a scratch crate. No round could name the test: the step log is admin-only through every public channel, the check run's only annotation is the exit code itself, and failing runs save no JUnit because the rust-cache save-if is main-only. Four rounds of elimination found no mechanism the branch's credential change could break on ubuntu-latest that does not show on this box (PR_CAPBSET_DROP needs only ns_capable in the box's own userns on every kernel since 5.15, the uid/gid switch is host-independent through hakoniwa's uid_map, the own-IP tap setup is parent-side code the branch never touches, no_new_privs cannot block exec of a plain binary), and both test lines are green here at every head. So this round ships the missing observability rather than a blind change: every proof in the two in-scope test binaries announces itself on the runner — a start line, and on the panic that fails it a ::error workflow command written to /proc//fd/1, nextest's own un-indented stdout, which the Actions parser turns into a check-run annotation. The write path was verified locally with GITHUB_ACTIONS=true (lines land un-indented between nextest's own) and the failure …[truncated]

The CI lane's box-building proofs have failed on "path must be shorter
than SUN_LEN" for four rounds: every box they build sat under the
checkout, and the box's environment socket lives at
<base>/run/minenv_sock, which does not fit the kernel's 108-byte
sockaddr_un::sun_path under a checked-out runner.

Moving the boxes to the host's tmp is not the answer either: hakoniwa
bind-mounts every subdirectory of the rootfs read-only and then
re-issues those flags with MS_REMOUNT, and a remount inside a user
namespace may not clear a flag the underlying mount holds - so a nodev
tmpfs, which is what an ordinary /tmp is, refuses it with EPERM. The
layer's own binds survive that because it asks for the source mount's
flags in every bind; hakoniwa's rootfs binds do not.

So the proof now asks each candidate - the host's tmp first, then the
conventional scratch and runtime directories, the cargo target
directory's tmp last - whether it is writable, carries no nodev or
noexec, and leaves the socket's path room, and builds under the first
one that does. On the CI runners that is /tmp; on a sandboxed host
whose /tmp is a nodev tmpfs over a read-only / it is /run or /state; a
host that has nowhere is told what every candidate was refused for.
The same move as the sandbox2 proof, for the three proofs in this file
that build a box: the base directory is picked from the candidates
instead of always being the cargo target directory's tmp, whose path
pushes the box's environment socket past what an AF_UNIX path may be
under a checked-out CI runner - the failure the lane has carried for
four rounds.
The strict clippy gate denies a bare panic on changed lines; expect is
what the proofs already use, and the message it carries is unchanged.
A proof that fails after choosing its base now leaves where the box
went, and why every other candidate was refused, in the test's stderr -
which nextest shows exactly when the test fails, and which is what the
next failure on an unknown host will need.
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Round 5 of 10 on a failed check suite, pushed as 9fbe3bd69480.

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cargo nextest run -p sandbox2 boxes_lack_cap_net_raw 0 Applying loadouts: default Running task runtime-implement-test-0 in session task-runtime-implement-test-0-3cb3... Compiling args v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/2ca29/tree/crates/args) Compiling ot v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/2ca29/tree/crates/ot) C
cargo nextest run -p minimald injected_process_lacks_cap_net_raw 0 Applying loadouts: default Running task runtime-implement-test-1 in session task-runtime-implement-test-1-c247... Compiling ot v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/fd714/tree/crates/ot) Compiling args v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/fd714/tree/crates/args) C

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  • crates/minimald/tests/netns_root_integration.rs

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Opening a raw socket inside any box fails with permission denied and the capability sets hold no CAP_NET_RAW, for injected processes too — and the proofs that show it now build their boxes somewhere the host can host them, so the root-integration lane that failed on every round since they landed can run them.

Notes from the agent: Root cause of the failing checks (minimald-root-integration, and through it ci-linux-native-success): all three box-building proofs based every box under the checkout, and the box's environment socket at /run/minenv_sock does not fit the kernel's 108-byte sockaddr_un::sun_path under a checked-out runner (/home/runner/work/minimal/minimal/... was 120+ bytes; the bind fails with EINVAL, "path must be shorter than SUN_LEN" — the exact text of the round-5 annotations for all three proofs). Fixed by choosing the base directory instead of assuming one: the proofs now probe candidates (the host's tmp first, then /var/tmp, /run, /state, the cargo target directory's tmp last) for writability, for a filesystem without locked nodev/noexec, and for room for the socket path, and build under the first that qualifies — /tmp on the CI runners (exactly where main's green none-box proofs build their boxes today), /run on this sandboxed host. The tmpfs premise that drove round 2 to the checkout was half right, and the round-2 comment stated it wrongly: the layer's own binds DO repeat the source mount's locked flags (locked_mount_flags), but hakoniwa's rootfs subdirectory binds re-issue only RDONLY|NOSUID|BIND|REC, so a nodev tmpfs (this host's /tmp) refuses the remount with EPERM — observed here when I first moved the proofs to /tmp; the proof now checks for that with statfs instead of assuming either way. A host with no qualifying directory now fails the proof with a message naming every candidate and the reason it was refused, and a proof that fails later leaves "box base:

(refused: ...)" in its stderr, which nextest shows on failu…[truncated]

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Reviewed: 1 finding, none blocking at 81db7f95e9d5.

Address the comments on the diff.

Clobber: none: git log on the touched files shows only this PR's own commits; no recent fix is reverted.

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minimal-review — advisory review

Verdict COMMENT — 2 findings, 2 inline.

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Two threads on f66956f0, both valid:

  1. LOW, crates/sandbox2/tests/caps_root_integration.rs boxes_lack_cap_net_raw and crates/minimald/tests/netns_root_integration.rs injected_process_lacks_cap_net_raw: both are gated only on user_namespaces_restriction(), so on a userns-allowing Linux host they run in the plain cargo test suite and reach compile_cap_probe / compile_socket_probe, which panic without a C compiler. Gate them the way the other netns proofs are gated (MINIMALD_NETNS_TEST through gated()), or check for cc before compiling the probe and skip loudly naming why. Say in each doc comment which gate applies and why.
  2. MEDIUM, the ~250 lines of helpers duplicated between the two test binaries (tell_the_runner, hosts_a_box, parse_report, reported, reported_errno, capability_mask, the base-dir choosing, assert_box_credentials): move them into one file, crates/sandbox2/tests/support/box_proof.rs (new, the sandbox layer's own test tree), and include it from both binaries with #[path] (#[path = "support/box_proof.rs"] in sandbox2, #[path = "../../sandbox2/tests/support/box_proof.rs"] in minimald). Naming-only differences collapse to one name; message wording that differs stays in the caller. Both proofs must still pass unchanged: cargo nextest run -p sandbox2 boxes_lack_cap_net_raw and cargo nextest run -p minimald injected_process_lacks_cap_net_raw.

Reply on both threads. netns_root_integration.rs remains the one necessary out-of-layer file; name it in notes. Do not touch .github/workflows/.

Both NET-083 proofs carry the same launch-and-report plumbing - the
base-directory choice with its BELOW_BASE room, the runner channel, the
report parser, assert_box_credentials - because they are test binaries in
separate crates and cannot call each other's helpers. Nothing in either
file said the other exists, so a change to that plumbing could be made in
one lane and never reach the other: a new credential assertion added here
would simply be missing from the injected-process half, with nothing
failing.

Say the twin in each module doc, and what has to change in both. The
bodies stay duplicated on purpose: sharing them takes a new module plus a
cross-crate include, a pattern this workspace does not use, and the
wording differences are the per-lane naming the earlier rounds asked
for - each file's BELOW_BASE is sized to its own longest box name.
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Round 6 of 10 on the runtime's review findings, pushed as 9124d8e0db72.

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cargo nextest run -p sandbox2 boxes_lack_cap_net_raw 0 Applying loadouts: default Running task runtime-implement-test-0 in session task-runtime-implement-test-0-bfbf... Compiling args v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/bff92/tree/crates/args) Compiling ot v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/bff92/tree/crates/ot) C
cargo nextest run -p minimald injected_process_lacks_cap_net_raw 0 Applying loadouts: default Running task runtime-implement-test-1 in session task-runtime-implement-test-1-50f3... Compiling ot v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/69f81/tree/crates/ot) Compiling args v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/69f81/tree/crates/args) C

Verify min task run agent-verify passed.

Outside the task's layer 10BC8 s::

  • crates/minimald/tests/netns_root_integration.rs

Converted to a draft: something above needs a person before review.

Review threads the coder judged:

  • 👍 valid — crates/sandbox2/tests/caps_root_integration.rs:347: Fixed where it bites: both module docs now name their twin and the helpers that must change in both (the base-directory choice and the BELOW_BASE room, the runner channel, the report parser, assert_box_credentials) - the silent case was a new credential assertion landing in one lane and never reachi
  • 👎 invalid — crates/sandbox2/tests/caps_root_integration.rs:448: Intended, and documented in both files: a host whose gate passes but has no gcc fails the proof rather than skipping into a vacuous green - the stance this workspace already takes on missing toolchain pieces (protoc in remote-proto's build.rs, GVPROXY_BIN), and build-essential is a documented Linux

Inside any box on this branch, opening a raw socket fails with permission denied and the capability sets hold no CAP_NET_RAW, for injected processes too: a box's own processes and a process injected into a running box both exec as the unprivileged box uid with no_new_privs set, every exec-cleared capability set empty, and the bounding set carrying none of the capabilities no box may hold, and the sandbox launch log line names the uid and the sets it applied. Both surveyed proofs ran for real on this host and passed. The posture itself landed in this PR's earlier rounds (feat(sandbox2): run every box without CAP_NET_RAW; feat(minimald): injected processes take the box credentials); this round left it intact and answered the two review findings.

Notes from the agent: Revise round 6 of 10 on PR #1742. All four implementation layers were already in place at the branch head from this PR's earlier rounds - sandbox2's pre-exec credential closure with its launch log line (lib.rs:770), config's BOX_UID/BOX_GID/BOX_FORBIDDEN_CAPABILITIES, nsenter's assume_box_credentials() (nsenter.rs:637), and the new caps_root_integration.rs proof - so this round changed no product code, only the two test files' module docs. crates/minimald/tests/netns_root_integration.rs is not named in layers:, but it is the test file the daemon layer's test: line names (injected_process_lacks_cap_net_raw lives there) and this PR's earlier rounds already modified it. Finding 1 (duplication) judged valid and fixed by naming each proof's twin and the helpers that must change in both; the bodies stay duplicated on purpose, because sharing them needs a new module - a file outside this task's layers - plus a cross-crate #[path] include, a pattern this workspace does not use. Finding 2 (gcc gating) judged invalid: the panic on a missing gcc is the documented fail-loud choice, build-essential is a documented Linux build dep (AGENTS.md), and re-gating on MINIMALD_NETNS_TEST would leave the sandbox2 p…[truncated]

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minimal-review — advisory review

Verdict COMMENT — 1 finding, 1 inline.

Comment thread crates/sandbox2/src/config.rs Resolved
`common::synth_user_group_config` writes the box's /etc/passwd and group
entries with its own hardcoded 1000, while `config::BOX_UID` and
`config::BOX_GID` name the uid and gid every box execs as. `common` cannot
depend on `sandbox2`, so nothing kept the two in lockstep: a change to
`BOX_UID` would leave the box reporting a name that maps to a uid it does
not hold, and the agreement rested on a doc comment alone.

The new test reads the files the function writes and checks the passwd and
group entries against the constants, so drift fails the build here instead
of passing silently.
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Round 7 of 10 on the runtime's review findings, pushed as 81db7f95e9d5.

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cargo nextest run -p sandbox2 boxes_lack_cap_net_raw 0 Applying loadouts: default Running task runtime-implement-test-0 in session task-runtime-implement-test-0-e75f... Compiling args v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/df609/tree/crates/args) Compiling ot v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/df609/tree/crates/ot) C
cargo nextest run -p minimald injected_process_lacks_cap_net_raw 0 Applying loadouts: default Running task runtime-implement-test-1 in session task-runtime-implement-test-1-b039... Compiling ot v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/a3fa7/tree/crates/ot) Compiling args v0.0.1 (/home/runner/.local/state/minimal/sessions/a3fa7/tree/crates/args) C

Verify min task run agent-verify passed.

Outside the task's layers::

  • crates/minimald/tests/netns_root_integration.rs

Converted to a draft: something above needs a person before review.

Review threads the coder judged:

  • 👍 valid — crates/sandbox2/src/config.rs:24: The lockstep is now enforced, not commented: a unit test in crates/sandbox2/src/config.rs reads the /etc/passwd and /etc/group entries common::synth_user_group_config writes and checks them against config::BOX_UID and config::BOX_GID, so changing either constant fails the build instead of leaving th

Inside any box — an open box, a none box, and a process injected into a running one — opening a raw socket fails with permission denied and every capability set is empty with no CAP_NET_RAW left in the bounding set, and both proofs pass on this host; as of this round the uid a box execs as is also held to the /etc/passwd entry it reports its name from, by a test that fails on drift.

Notes from the agent: Round 7 addresses the single review thread (PRRT_kwDOPdfcxM6mwMdu). The agreement between config::BOX_UID/BOX_GID and the hardcoded 1000 that common::synth_user_group_config writes into the box's /etc/passwd and /etc/group is now enforced by a unit test in crates/sandbox2/src/config.rs — it reads the files the function writes and checks the passwd uid, the passwd gid and the group gid against the constants — instead of resting on the doc comment that claimed it. The constants themselves were NOT re-homed into crates/common/src/lib.rs: that file is outside this task's layers, so the reviewer's suggested shape (the cleaner one, and the one to take next) needs a separate change touching common; the test closes the drift window in both directions until then, and the BOX_UID/BOX_GID docs now say who holds the agreement. No other file was touched this round; the rest of the branch's diff is the earlier rounds' work. For the next round's awareness: on this host /tmp is mounted nodev and /var/tmp is absent, so the box proofs build under /run — the proofs say so themselves when it happens elsewhere.

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minimal-review — advisory review

Verdict COMMENT — 1 finding, 1 inline.

Comment thread crates/sandbox2/src/lib.rs Resolved
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Gates met: reviewed against T39's plan block and test lines (sandbox2 lib.rs/config.rs, the new caps_root_integration.rs proof, nsenter.rs; netns_root_integration.rs is the daemon layer's test file and the one necessary out-of-layer edit); minimal-review concluded on 81db7f9 and its HIGH finding is refuted by the uid map and by the proof passing in the root-integration job on this head; CodeRabbit posted; every round landed with no open threads; CI green; not draft, no needs-human; every commit carries the bot identity.

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