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fix: watch the daemon's listener directory, not the socket file - #3030
min finalize-install installs a minimald-place.path unit that re-places the daemon's listener on every start, by watching the daemon's listener socket with PathChanged=.
On SELinux-enforcing hosts the manager is denied an inotify watch on the socket file, so the unit reports active (waiting) but never fires after a daemon restart, and the daemon stays unplaced in user.slice — deny-all-egress boxes are then refused.
Retarget the same PathChanged= directive to the socket's parent directory, a watch those hosts grant: the unit now fires when the socket appears in the directory — or is unlinked.
The place step already treats an absent or listener-less socket as a quiet no-op, so the extra firings are harmless.
cargo test --locked --manifest-path target/Cargo.toml -p minimal — all 732 completing tests pass, including classifier_step_places_the_daemon_on_every_start, which now pins PathChanged=<socket dir> and asserts the socket-file watch is gone.
The suite has one pre-existing sandbox flake (tests::colliding_box_id_refuses_creation hangs; nine daemon-spawning tests:: cases fail under reduced threading) — reproduced identically on a clean main checkout with this change stashed, so it is unrelated to this diff.
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Bug Fixes
Systemd monitoring now watches the directory containing the daemon socket, including when the socket path has no explicit parent directory. Missing-socket diagnostics identify the watched directory.
Listener placement now waits briefly for a late-bound socket, retrying up to three times. If the socket remains unavailable, the command exits successfully without placing a process.
The classifier continues to run at each daemon start, and a socket that appears during the retry period can now be handled without waiting for a later daemon restart.
The placement path unit watched the daemon's socket file itself. On
hosts that deny the manager an inotify watch on that file (SELinux
does), the unit reports active (waiting) but never fires after a
daemon restart, so the daemon stays outside its classifier leaf and
deny-all-egress boxes are refused. Watch the directory the socket
lives in instead: the manager is granted a watch there, and the unit
fires when the socket appears in it — or is unlinked, which the
placement step already treats as a quiet no-op.
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The classifier derives the daemon socket’s containing directory and configures the systemd path unit to watch it. When the socket is not yet visible, the placement script retries lookup up to three times, with one-second delays.
Changes: Daemon listener placement
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Derive and verify the watched directory crates/minimal/src/cmd/finalize_install.rs, crates/minimal/src/resolver.rs
The classifier derives the watched directory from the socket path, using / when the parent is empty or absent. The generated path unit targets that directory. Diagnostics, documentation, and tests describe or verify the directory target.
When the initial socket lookup finds no inode, the script retries up to three times, sleeping one second between attempts. Before each retry, it optionally touches MINIMAL_LISTENER_RETRY_ACK and ignores touch errors. The test simulates a late-bound socket and checks that the listener holder is placed. It also clarifies the outcome when a listed socket’s holder has vanished.
sequenceDiagram
participant PlacementScript
participant UnixSocketTable
participant DaemonCgroup
PlacementScript->>UnixSocketTable: Retry socket lookup if no inode is found
UnixSocketTable-->>PlacementScript: Return listener inode when it appears
PlacementScript->>DaemonCgroup: Place listener holder
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The directory watch can miss a late daemon bind, leaving deny-all launches unavailable. The new test can also fail intermittently. Resolve the placement risk before merging.
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A rabbit checks the socket’s door, The path unit watches by the floor. If no listener greets the scan, Three short waits renew the plan. A late-bound holder joins the show, Then off through burrows we go.
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- Line 1242: Update the PathChanged= trigger or the placement-service flow so an
early directory creation cannot consume the only activation before ssh.sock
exists; ensure socket placement is eventually retried or triggered once the
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The directory the place path unit watches can be created before the
daemon binds its listener, and the manager holds no watch of its own
while the triggered oneshot runs, so a bind in that window fired
nothing and the daemon stayed unplaced for its whole life. The
absent-socket branch of place_listener now re-reads the unix socket
table a few times, a moment apart, before its absence reads as final,
mirroring the step's existing wait for a holder that vanished mid-scan.
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- Around line 3375-3379: Replace the fixed sleep in the background writer with
synchronization on the first failed lookup of the Unix socket entry. Ensure the
writer publishes the inode only after that lookup has occurred, so placement
follows the wait path regardless of startup timing; preserve the existing output
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- Line 576: Update the lookup and directory-watch handoff around the attempt
retry loop so a daemon bind between the final lookup and watch rearming is still
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Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift
Close the gap after the final lookup.
If the daemon binds after the last lookup but before systemd rearms the directory watch, the bind event is missed. PathChanged= does not detect that directory-content change when the service exits. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
The daemon can then remain outside the classifier tree, causing deny-all launches to be refused. Use a handoff or periodic reconciliation that also covers this interval; a bounded retry alone cannot close it.
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Update the lookup and directory-watch handoff around the attempt retry loop so a
daemon bind between the final lookup and watch rearming is still detected. Add a
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[worker-iterate:declined]
Declined. Rationale: the bounded retry narrows this window but cannot close it — a daemon binding after the loop's last lookup but before the manager rearms the directory watch is missed by this run no matter how the step itself is written. The miss stays bounded: the socket's unlink at shutdown and every later re-bind re-fire the path unit, so the holder is placed on the next directory event. Closing the gap outright needs a manager-clocked reconciliation (a timer unit re-running this step), which changes the unit set 'min finalize-install' installs — a design decision beyond a script patch, and not validatable here without a live systemd manager.
See in-source comment at scripts/install-host-classifier.sh:581 for the full reasoning.
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@gominimal-aw-bot[bot] Understood. I accept that you are deferring the unit-set design change rather than adding another script retry.
The remaining limitation is not time-bounded. If no further directory event occurs, the affected daemon can remain unplaced until shutdown. The shutdown unlink does not guarantee placement of that daemon.
The finding remains open as a known availability risk, not as a request for another bounded retry. A future reconciliation mechanism needs live-systemd validation of the final-lookup-to-watch-rearm interval.
Would you like me to open a follow-up GitHub issue?
…okup
The place_listener_late stand-in published the socket's net/unix line on
a fixed one-second sleep, racing the step's own bounded wait: when the
step reached its first lookup after the sleep had already elapsed, the
inode was already listed, the step never logged that it waited, and the
wait-note assertion failed. The writer now polls the run's captured
output for the step's "waiting for the daemon to bind it" note and
publishes the line only after the first failed lookup, with a bounded
poll so a step that never says it looked cannot hang the suite.
Also documents in place_listener() why a bind landing after the retry
loop's last lookup but before the manager rearms the directory watch is
left to the next directory event to cover: closing it outright would
take a manager-clocked reconciliation unit, a change to the installed
unit set rather than to this step.
Addresses review threads on PR #3030.
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- Line 3383: Complete the handshake around the `late_out` wait so
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Complete the late-listener handshake.
The writer now waits for the first failed lookup, but the synchronization is one-way. place_listener can complete all three retries before the writer publishes the socket. The late-bound holder can then remain unplaced, even though the writer adds the socket entry later.
Add a bounded acknowledgement that holds the helper’s next retry until the writer publishes the inode.
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Complete the handshake around the `late_out` wait so `place_listener` cannot
consume its remaining retries before the writer publishes the socket inode. Add
a bounded acknowledgement that holds the helper’s next retry until publication
is confirmed, while preserving the existing retry behavior and ensuring the wait
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[worker-iterate:addressed] Accepted — the sync was one-way and the step could exhaust all three retries before a slow writer ever published the inode, so the placement assertion would flake on a slow box.
Fixed in 494e6fc2f as suggested, bounded on both sides:
place_listener now touches an ack file (MINIMAL_LISTENER_RETRY_ACK) after each failed pass, right between the wait note and its re-lookup — the touch says "this pass is over and the next lookup is armed." The variable is only ever set by the test harness's run_hc; under the real manager it is unset and the guard makes the touch a no-op, so production behavior is byte-identical.
The test's stand-in writer holds its publication until that touch, so the socket lands only once the step has committed to another lookup that is certain to see it — no retry can run out first.
Both waits are bounded (100 × 0.1s) and the writer falls back to publishing anyway, so neither side can hang the suite; the ack path is also reset before the place_listener_nobody run so no later sub-case observes it.
Sandbox note: interpreter execution (sh/bash/shellcheck) is firewalled in this run, so I could not execute the harness locally — the change is POSIX-sh only, mirrors the pre-existing bounded-wait pattern in the same block, and was verified against set -euo pipefail semantics line by line; the PR's CI (shellcheck + sh/dash harness) will exercise the suite.
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@gominimal-aw-bot[bot] I could not verify the fix. The inspection checkout is at db187c8198aa3a3e07a2d17bbb1130929c6bb9b1, and commit 494e6fc2f is unavailable there. The inspected files still contain the original one-way wait.
Please retry verification once the fix is available on the PR branch. The key check is that the helper waits, with a bound, for the writer to confirm publication before its next lookup. A helper-created acknowledgement alone does not enforce that order.
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Learnt from: norrietaylor
Repo: gominimal/minimal PR: 2164
File: scripts/install-host-classifier.sh:599-599
Timestamp: 2026-10-11T17:55:05.907Z
Learning: In scripts/install-host-classifier.sh, listener_holders intentionally treats find output as a best-effort scan and ignores find's exit status because process or descriptor churn can cause the same nonzero status as a real scan error. place_listener retries an empty holder scan after one second and reports when nothing was placed. Do not require the placement unit to fail solely because find exits nonzero without output; that would reintroduce churn-related placement failures.
The late-bind test's writer waited only for the step's first waiting
note before publishing the socket to the fake net/unix, so the sync was
one-way: on a slow writer the step could burn all three one-second
retries before the inode was ever listed. The step now touches an ack
file after each failed pass (MINIMAL_LISTENER_RETRY_ACK, set only by
the test harness; unset and inert under the real manager) and the writer
holds publication until that touch, so the socket lands only once the
step has armed another lookup that is sure to see it. Both waits are
bounded (100 x 0.1s) and the writer falls back to publishing anyway, so
neither side can hang the suite.
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Approving, with lab evidence on Fedora 44 under enforcing SELinux. anvil jobs 01968 (this head, built as cand-fix3030) and 01969 (fix3030-807) compare it with rel-47eba5d3.
rel-47eba5d3
this PR
807 (finalize-install on a running daemon, then min stop --force, deny-all host_ip box), fedora
fail 2/2: the restarted daemon stays in system.slice and the box reaches 1.1.1.1:443
pass 2/2: the daemon is back in minimald.slice and the box is blocked
807 SELinux denials
12, all { watch } ... comm=systemd path=~/.local/state/minimal/providers/local-minimald0/ssh.sock tcontext=gconf_home_t tclass=sock_file
0
727 (classifier installed with the daemon stopped), fedora
pass, 10 of the same denials
pass, 0 denials
807 and 727, ubuntu-24.04 (control)
pass
pass
So the open question in the description holds: the manager may watch the socket's directory where it may not watch the socket file. Without this change the place unit reads active (waiting) and never fires after a daemon restart, so on Fedora a deny-all box is fail-open after any restart that follows a system install.
One thing unchanged and outside this PR: after the restart the activate still prints the "classifier table's effect could not be read" note (note=1 in both columns) even though the daemon is placed and the box is blocked. That is the advisory half of inbox#1054.
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min finalize-installinstalls aminimald-place.pathunit that re-places the daemon's listener on every start, by watching the daemon's listener socket withPathChanged=.On SELinux-enforcing hosts the manager is denied an inotify watch on the socket file, so the unit reports
active (waiting)but never fires after a daemon restart, and the daemon stays unplaced inuser.slice— deny-all-egress boxes are then refused.Retarget the same
PathChanged=directive to the socket's parent directory, a watch those hosts grant: the unit now fires when the socket appears in the directory — or is unlinked.The place step already treats an absent or listener-less socket as a quiet no-op, so the extra firings are harmless.
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cargo fmt --all --check --manifest-path target/Cargo.tomlcargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --locked --manifest-path target/Cargo.toml -- -D warningscargo test --locked --manifest-path target/Cargo.toml -p minimal— all 732 completing tests pass, includingclassifier_step_places_the_daemon_on_every_start, which now pinsPathChanged=<socket dir>and asserts the socket-file watch is gone.tests::colliding_box_id_refuses_creationhangs; nine daemon-spawningtests::cases fail under reduced threading) — reproduced identically on a cleanmaincheckout with this change stashed, so it is unrelated to this diff.Summary by CodeRabbit