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fix(module): admit /Applications installs, private release cache, fall back on placement-only bundle refusals - #36
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Introduces a host module that spawns child processes and tracks their lifecycle, giving callers a way to start and supervise external programs. Tests cover the spawn and shutdown paths. Auto-committed-on: macbook Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
Reworked the cache module's internal structure without changing its observable behaviour, making the code easier to follow and maintain. Auto-committed-on: macbook Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
The host now admits the first module before completing startup, so the initial module is registered and ready as soon as the host comes up instead of being deferred to a later admission pass. Auto-committed-on: macbook Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
Add tests covering the first-admitted module's admission ordering and rejection behaviour so the selection logic is exercised directly. Auto-committed-on: macbook Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughModule admission now applies updated Unix directory permission rules. Cache staging creates private Unix directories, and eligible cache directories are secured before loading. The loader can use a release-cache candidate when bundled candidates fail only for placement reasons. ChangesModule admission and cache
Priority: ⬆️ High Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant load_first_admitted
participant is_placement_refusal
participant secure_release_cache
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load_first_admitted->>is_placement_refusal: classify bundled admission failure
is_placement_refusal-->>load_first_admitted: placement-only result
load_first_admitted->>secure_release_cache: secure cache candidate directory
secure_release_cache-->>load_first_admitted: permission tightening attempt
load_first_admitted->>release_cache_candidate: attempt artifact load
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Host modules now gate incoming calls through an admission check before dispatching them, letting a host reject or defer work when it is overloaded. Tests cover the new admission paths alongside the existing host behaviour. Auto-committed-on: macbook Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
The lazy library test helper now takes the library stem as an argument so callers can write distinct artifacts into the bundle and cache directories, avoiding collisions when both are populated in the same test. A nested path construction was also reformatted for readability. Auto-committed-on: macbook Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
Add tests covering host admission behaviour in the tinybus module, exercising the admission path to lock in the expected outcomes. Auto-committed-on: macbook Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
The Unix and Windows CI jobs now run the admission tests against the runner's real filesystem and ACLs, so the fallback to the verified release cache is exercised outside the mocked paths. The permissive umask test runs alone because umask is process-wide, and the private directory test resolves the tempdir through its real path so the admission check sees the actual location. Auto-committed-on: macbook Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
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| secure_release_cache(plan.install_root, &cache_dir); |
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When a legacy cache was created as 0775 and another group member modified its extracted library before the next launch, this call merely removes the write bits and then treats the cache as trusted. find_verified hashes the untouched archive but does not derive the extraction from it; an attacker can replace the library and remove or rewrite modules.toml, after which the tightened directory passes admission and the malicious library is loaded with the archive's compiled-in digest as its attestation. Purge and re-extract such caches from the verified archive rather than rehabilitating their permissions in place.
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Avoid following a swapped symlink during permission repair
symlink_metadata verifies that directory is an owned directory, but set_permissions(directory, ...) resolves the path again. Another process can replace that directory with a symlink between these calls, causing the chmod to apply to the symlink target rather than the checked cache directory. This contradicts the stated guarantee that the function never touches anything outside the cache or a directory owned by another account. Use a descriptor/fchmod-style operation or otherwise perform the check and permission update without reopening the path.
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Normalize paths before checking the cache boundary
starts_with compares path components lexically and does not resolve ... For example, with install_root = /tmp/cache and dir = /tmp/cache/../shared, the first ancestor passes starts_with(install_root) even though it resolves to /tmp/shared; the next ancestor /tmp/cache/.. also passes and resolves to /tmp. tighten_owned_directory then changes permissions outside the cache without any race being required. Validate the path using normalized components (while preserving the separate symlink-race fix) before deciding which ancestors are in scope.
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- Around line 211-213: Canonicalize the temporary directory roots in both
admission tests, including the test that calls load_first_admitted and
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| let bundled = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap(); | ||
| let user_cache = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap(); | ||
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Canonicalize temporary roots in both admission tests.
On macOS, tempfile::tempdir() can produce a path under the /var symlink. check_directory rejects that ancestor as a non-directory component. This reason is not in PLACEMENT_REFUSALS, so the first test reports a terminal installer-bundle failure instead of exercising cache fallback. The content test can pass for the same wrong reason.
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let host = ModuleHost::new(Broker::new());
let bundled = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
let user_cache = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();
- let dir = marked_bundle(bundled.path());
+ let bundled_root = std::fs::canonicalize(bundled.path()).unwrap();
+ let cache_root = std::fs::canonicalize(user_cache.path()).unwrap();
+ let dir = marked_bundle(&bundled_root);
std::fs::set_permissions(&dir, std::fs::Permissions::from_mode(0o777)).unwrap();
let assets = [ASSET];
let error = load_first_admitted(
&host,
- &plan(&assets, user_cache.path(), Some(bundled.path())),
+ &plan(&assets, &cache_root, Some(&bundled_root)),
&serde_json::json!({}),
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Review comment at @crates/tinybus/src/module/first_admitted_tests.rs around
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Canonicalize the temporary directory roots in both admission tests, including
the test that calls load_first_admitted and
a_bundle_refused_for_its_content_is_still_authoritative. Use the canonical
bundled root for marked_bundle and the canonical bundled and cache roots in the
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Summary
In production, installed apps can't load modules because the directory-permission check refuses installs that are actually safe. On OpenHuman 0.64.x, Langfuse shows 18 of the last 100
web_search_toolcalls failing with:The same failure shows up for
windows-2022-x86_64andubuntu-22.04-x86_64. The same refusal blockstinymemory(Sentry CORE-RUST-35W, CORE-RUST-365). A refused installer bundle is terminal, so the feature stays unavailable even after a restart.Root causes
/Applicationsisroot:admin 0775.check_directorywalks every parent directory and refused any group-writable one. So every module bundled in an app installed the normal way was refused.002,create_dir_allmakes~/.cache/<host>/modules/...0775, and the gate then refuses the cache it just filled.Changes
unix_directory_refusalno longer refuses group write on a root-owned directory whose group is root-equivalent: gid 0, or macOSadmin(gid 80). Members of those groups can already act as root. World write without the sticky bit, other groups, and other owners are still refused.0700(create_private_dir_all). Before each load,secure_release_cacheremoves group/other write from cache directories this user owns: frominstall_rootdown, plusinstall_root's parents strictly inside$HOME. It never touches$HOMEitself, anything outside it, or another account's directories.load_first_admittedfalls through to the release cache only when every bundled candidate was refused for placement (is_placement_refusal: writable or owned by another user). The cache copy is held to the same compiled digest. A digest mismatch, a bad marker or an unloadable library in the bundle is still reported as before, with no fallback.Not in this PR
The Windows ACL check (
windows_path_grants_untrusted_write) also produces this refusal; it accounts for 13 of the failures. It probably needs to skip inherit-only ACEs and trust TrustedInstaller, but that needs a Windows repro first. Until then, the placement fallback above gets Windows users working: their bundle refusal now falls through to a verified download into%LOCALAPPDATA%.Tests
On real Linux, macOS and Windows runners (CI
modulesjob)host_admission_tests.rsruns the gate against each runner's real filesystem, not against made-up mode bits:a_bundle_others_can_write_falls_back_to_the_verified_release_cachereproduces the production failure end to end. The bundle directory is opened to other accounts (Unix0777; Windowsicacls /grant Everyone:M), the gate refuses it for placement, and the same pinned release loads from the verified cache. Runs on ubuntu, macOS and Windows.a_private_directory_this_user_created_is_admitted: the premise the cache relies on, on all three OSes.the_real_macos_applications_directory_is_admittedrunscheck_directory("/Applications")on the macOS runner.release_cache_directories_are_private_under_a_permissive_umasksets umask002, stages a cache, and asserts the directories are owner-only and admitted. It runs in its own single-threaded step on Linux and macOS, because umask is process-wide.New CI steps: "Directory admission (Unix)", "Release cache under a permissive umask (Unix)", and an
admission_testsrun appended to the Windows real-loader step, which already provides a private-ACLTEMP.Unit
a_bundle_refused_only_for_its_location_falls_back_to_the_release_cache: fails ond3a9f31, passes here.the_release_cache_is_repaired_to_owner_only_write_before_it_is_used: fails ond3a9f31, passes here.a_bundle_refused_for_its_content_is_still_authoritative: guards the existing tamper rule.the_macos_applications_directory_is_accepted,a_root_owned_directory_writable_by_a_root_group_is_accepted,group_write_by_an_ordinary_group_is_still_refused,world_write_without_sticky_is_refused_even_for_root_groups.cargo fmt --check,cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -D warnings,cargo test --all-features(409 passed),cargo check --no-default-features: all green on macOS. I couldn't cross-check Windows locally (ringwon't cross-build), so thecfg(not(unix))paths rely on CI.Commits are auto-commit checkpoints; this description is the real change log.
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