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Feat: Per-VM socket handover and control channel for MOCA SBX - #1569
MOCA SBX microVMs have no network: each VM's egress lands on its own host
Unix socket, bound by vmpool (the only process that knows the jail
layout) and handed to the Cortex forward proxy at run time over a control
socket as SCM_RIGHTS. The descriptor is the identity — which listener
accepted the connection says which VM is calling — so listeners come and go
with the VMs (every few seconds), without a restart.
What's here
core/listener/vmcontrol — the control channel, ported from rossoctl/moca remote-worker/internal/egress/control @ c13d556 (v0.9.0). That package is
internal to moca and its gen/go module is unpublished (local replace, no
submodule tags), so Cortex cannot import either — the port is attributed in
each file, and the protobuf codec for the three control messages
(ControlRequest{Register|Unregister}, ControlReply) is hand-rolled and pinned by golden tests against bytes generated by moca's own proto.Marshal. The decoder skips unknown fields per proto3, so S2's
Rebind (reserved field 3 of ControlRequest) does not break us.
Ported semantics, unchanged: 4-byte BE length framing (≤64 KiB), the
Register fd riding the sendmsg carrying the frame's first byte, close-on-exec
on received fds, MSG_CTRUNC refused, peer-credential gate
(SO_PEERCRED / LOCAL_PEERCRED, fail-closed on other unixes) that closes
an unauthorized peer without a reply, per-connection binding ownership
(dropConn unbinds a crashed vmpool's VMs; a redialled connection's Register
supersedes the stale binding), duplicate-vm refusal on the same
connection, and the hmu→mu lock order.
The Registry binds each handed-over listener to the one forward proxy
— one pipeline, one session store — with a goroutine + http.Server per
listener (issue question 1: tens live at once, thousands a day; that's fine).
Identity reaches the pipeline through a new forwardproxy.Server. TrustedSessionID hook (issue question 3): a session resolved from the
connection — recorded as SessionSourceConnection — wins over every
header- and process-derived id, and the per-VM wrapper strips X-Moca-*, Proxy-Authorization and every session-id header from guest requests, so
nothing a guest asserts moves it to another session or reaches the upstream.
Unregister (issue 4) closes the listener and every live connection,
hijacked CONNECT tunnels included — http.Server.Close() alone leaves those
open, hence trackedListener/trackedConn — and returns only after each
in-flight request's wrapper has emitted its terminal audit line.
Audit seed (deliberately minimal; #1482 completes it): one terminal JSON
line per request on stdout, in moca's Event shape — vm_id, sid, host, method, path, status, decision (tunnel / forward / aborted), via: "moca-egress". sub, dial_addr, credential, byte counts and the
journald/async seam are #1482's.
Configuration is env-only (issue question 2's practical half: the
conformance harness's channel; operator-facing YAML listener.* fields follow
when there is an operator to configure them), resolved in cmd/cortex:
Variable
Meaning
MOCA_EGRESS_CONTROL_SOCK
Control socket path. Unset/empty = off, today's behavior byte for byte.
MOCA_EGRESS_CONTROL_UIDS
Comma-separated uids allowed to connect (peer-credential gate). Required when the socket is set.
MOCA_TENANCY
unset/single = this slice; multi = boot failure naming the variable. A Register carrying a non-empty grant is refused with bad_request — single-tenant only (MI1 S2).
The channel lives in core rather than behind a build-tag plugin (issue
question 2): the fd handover owns listeners, which the plugin registry has no
seam for, and the env gate gives the same opt-in.
Tests
wire_test.go — golden bytes for every message (generated from moca's own proto.Marshal), round-trips, unknown-field skipping (incl. a
Rebind-shaped field 3), group/truncation/unterminated-varint refusal,
oversize and truncated frames.
registry_test.go — the three conformance done-when cases as in-tree
stand-ins for moca's remote-worker/egress/conformance suite (same
assertions; the suite itself is not importable while moca's modules are
unpublished — publishing them, or hosting a cortex Target adapter in
moca's repo, is the prerequisite for the real run, and I'll file the
moca-side issue for it): identity_from_connection (two VMs/sids, forged X-Moca-*/session/ Proxy-Authorization headers neither move the row nor reach the upstream), unregister_aborts_inflight (live tunnel + slow GET killed, exactly one aborted line each, zero tunnel/forward lines, socket refuses dials, other
VM untouched), grant_refused_under_single, plus the audit JSON shape.
These drive the real forwardproxy handler end to end (pipeline, session
store, trusted-session hook), over TCP listeners standing in for the
handed-over Unix ones so they run everywhere.
server_test.go — the SCM_RIGHTS path: uid gate, malformed frame,
no-fd Register, duplicate_vm, dropConn unbinding, redial supersede. These
need AF_UNIX binds, so they skip only where the platform refuses them (the
dev sandbox does; CI's Linux runners do not) — verified on an unsandboxed
host run.
cmd/cortex — resolveControlConfig unit tests (tenancy, uid parsing,
every error names its variable).
forwardproxy — TrustedSessionID resolution test (wins over headers,
falls through when unclaimed); the two hydrateSession call-site signature
updates are covered by the existing session-source tests.
Out of scope
MOCA_TENANCY=multi (S2) — refused at boot, as moca's slice does; Rebind
(reserved field 3) — decoder skips it.
…ntrol channel
MOCA SBX microVMs have no network: each VM's egress lands on its own host
Unix socket, bound by vmpool and handed to the forward proxy over a control
socket (MOCA_EGRESS_CONTROL_SOCK) as SCM_RIGHTS. The descriptor is the
identity — which listener accepted the connection says which VM is calling —
so listeners come and go with the VMs, without a restart (#1477).
core/listener/vmcontrol (ported from rossoctl/moca
remote-worker/internal/egress/control @ c13d556, internal to that repo):
framing, peer-credential gate, accept/request loops, per-connection binding
ownership (dropConn, supersede-on-redial), and a hand-rolled protobuf codec
for the three control messages — moca's gen module is unpublished, so the
wire bytes are pinned by golden tests generated from moca's own
proto.Marshal. The decoder skips unknown fields, so S2's Rebind (reserved
field 3) does not break us.
The Registry binds each handed-over listener to the one forward proxy — one
pipeline, one session store — through a new Server.TrustedSessionID hook: a
session resolved from the connection (SessionSourceConnection) wins over
every header- and process-derived id, and the wrapper strips X-Moca-*,
Proxy-Authorization and session headers so nothing a guest asserts reaches
the pipeline or the upstream. Unregister closes the listener and every live
connection, hijacked CONNECT tunnels included (http.Server.Close alone
leaves those open), and returns after each in-flight request's wrapper has
emitted its aborted audit line. The audit seed is moca's Event JSON shape,
one terminal line per request (tunnel/forward/aborted) on stdout; #1482
completes the field set and the journald seam.
Configuration is env-only for now, the conformance harness's channel:
MOCA_EGRESS_CONTROL_SOCK (unset = off, byte for byte today's behavior),
MOCA_EGRESS_CONTROL_UIDS (required when the socket is set),
MOCA_TENANCY (multi = boot failure; a Register carrying a grant is refused
with bad_request — single-tenant only, MI1 S2).
Out of scope, tracked in the issue's follow-ups: multi-tenancy (S2), the
full audit field set (#1482), pctx.Identity formalisation (#1476), per-VM
caps (#1485), and running moca's real conformance suite — its modules are
unpublished, so the in-tree registry tests are pinned stand-ins driving the
real forwardproxy handler (over TCP, so they run where AF_UNIX binds are
unavailable; server_test.go covers the SCM_RIGHTS path and skips only where
the platform refuses Unix binds).
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- Line 1248: Update the CONNECT handler’s upstream dial to use a context
canceled when its VM is unregistered, and make the VM-control shutdown around
vmCtrl.Close honor shutdownCtx so shutdown does not wait for an uncancelable
dial. Preserve the terminal aborted audit emission when cancellation stops the
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Adds an opt-in Unix control channel for runtime per-VM listener handoff. The server checks peer UIDs, manages listener registration and cleanup, and routes requests through the forward proxy with connection-derived session identity. Per-VM handlers remove guest identity headers and emit audit events. Cortex starts and closes the server through its process lifecycle.
Changes: MOCA SBX VM Control Channel
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Control protocol and message framing core/listener/vmcontrol/control.go, wire.go, wire_test.go
Defines framed protobuf control messages and Unix descriptor passing. Tests cover message encoding, decoding, and frame handling.
sequenceDiagram
participant VMPool
participant ControlServer
participant Registry
participant VMBinding
participant ForwardProxy
participant AuditSink
VMPool->>ControlServer: Register VM and pass listener descriptor
ControlServer->>Registry: Register VM and session
VMBinding->>ForwardProxy: Serve request with bound identity
ForwardProxy-->>VMBinding: Return response
VMBinding->>AuditSink: Emit terminal event
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This change hands per-VM listeners to the proxy and ties each request to the VM's identity. The identity and attribution paths now look sound. One shutdown path remains: a VM with a CONNECT stuck dialing an unreachable destination can hold shutdown past the supervisor's kill deadline and skip final audit and store flushes. Bound or cancel that dial before merging.
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Issue #1477 specifies Rebind{sid, grant} as a control message. The reviewed code reserves request field 3 for Rebind, and ControlRequest, decodeControlRequest, and Server.handle implement only…
Implement Rebind field 3 in the control wire types and decoder. Handle Rebind for the VM binding owned by the control connection. Apply the session and grant rules required by #1477, return refusals for invalid or unowned bindings, and add …
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The title "Feat: Per-VM socket handover and control channel for MOCA SBX" matches the main change. The changeset adds a control socket that receives per-VM Unix listeners via SCM_RIGHTS, a registry that serves them through the forward proxy, the wire protocol, the server, and the startup wiring in cmd/cortex. The title is specific and uses the conventional prefix. It does not cover every detail, such as the audit events or the peer-credential checks, which is expected.
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Issue #1477 specifies Rebind{sid, grant} as a control message. The reviewed code reserves request field 3 for Rebind, and ControlRequest, decodeControlRequest, and Server.handle implement only Register and Unregister. The PR description also defers Rebind. The other stated requirements have supporting implementation and tests, including SCM_RIGHTS registration, peer-credential checks, connection identity, unregister cleanup, and grant refusal.
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Implement Rebind field 3 in the control wire types and decoder. Handle Rebind for the VM binding owned by the control connection. Apply the session and grant rules required by #1477, return refusals for invalid or unowned bindings, and add wire and handler tests.
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Use a named key type for the context key.
var bindingCtxKey struct{} uses an anonymous empty struct as a context.WithValue key. golangci-lint reports this as SA1029 at the use on Line 105. This can fail the lint step.
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Review comments at @cmd/cortex/main.go:
- Around line 1048-1050: Move the startVMControl call in the forward-proxy setup
before registering the server with bootstrap.ServeHTTPServer, so
TrustedSessionID is initialized before the handler can serve requests. Keep the
existing shutdown lifecycle unchanged.
Review comments at @core/listener/vmcontrol/handler.go:
- Line 105: Update the TLS-bridge request handling in bridgeServe so each
decrypted request receives the appropriate requestBinding and has
guest-controlled headers removed with stripGuestHeaders before reaching
downstream handling; ensure hydrateSession uses the propagated binding instead
of resolving the session from guest headers or process context.
Review comments at @core/listener/vmcontrol/server.go:
- Around line 78-87: Update Server.Serve to retry temporary AcceptUnix errors
with bounded backoff, resetting the delay after a successful accept. Preserve
the existing shutdown handling and return permanent accept errors.
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CLAUDE.md
cmd/cortex/main.go
cmd/cortex/vmcontrol.go
cmd/cortex/vmcontrol_other.go
cmd/cortex/vmcontrol_test.go
cmd/cortex/vmcontrol_unix.go
core/listener/forwardproxy/server.go
core/listener/forwardproxy/session_source_test.go
core/listener/vmcontrol/audit.go
core/listener/vmcontrol/control.go
core/listener/vmcontrol/handler.go
core/listener/vmcontrol/peercred_darwin.go
core/listener/vmcontrol/peercred_linux.go
core/listener/vmcontrol/peercred_other.go
core/listener/vmcontrol/registry.go
core/listener/vmcontrol/registry_test.go
core/listener/vmcontrol/server.go
core/listener/vmcontrol/server_test.go
core/listener/vmcontrol/shortdir_test.go
core/listener/vmcontrol/wire.go
core/listener/vmcontrol/wire_test.go
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Resolves the conflict with main, which has since merged the session
attribution refactor (core/attribution, #1561/#1586 and the link-not-adopt
series). Two files conflicted, both in core/listener/forwardproxy, and both
resolutions keep BOTH sides rather than picking one.
server.go — hydrateSession. The two sides changed the same signature for
different reasons: this branch replaced the clientHeaders parameter with the
whole *http.Request (the TrustedSessionID hook needs the request, not just its
headers), while main switched chain to []attribution.Proc and replaced
resolvePluginSession with the attribute / SetAttribution / pluginSessionOf
split. The merged function takes r *http.Request AND runs main's attribution
pipeline, with the trusted short-circuit ahead of it.
One line is not from either side. The trusted path now calls
pctx.SetAttribution("", "", "")
before returning. On main, AttributedProc() is recorded straight into
SessionEvent.Proc and SetAttribution is write-once, so leaving the slot unset
let a later attributeForRecording fill a VM's row in from the host process and
the guest's own session header. Verified by removing the line: a VM request
came back attributed to proc "100.1" and header X-Claude-Code-Session-Id —
exactly the client-asserted identity this branch exists to keep out. The empty
pin is what makes "the descriptor is the identity" hold against main's new
recording path.
session_source_test.go — four hydrateSession call sites, same collision:
this branch's &http.Request{Header: ...} wrapper with main's
[]attribution.Proc element type. Two further call sites in
TestTrustedSessionIDOverridesEveryOtherSource did NOT conflict — git merged
them cleanly while leaving them on session.Proc, a type main had deleted — so
they are fixed here too. That is the merge failure worth noting: the textual
conflict was not the whole breakage.
Verified: full core suite, 0 failures; go vet ./... clean; gofmt clean;
cmd/cortex builds and tests clean; vmcontrol's registry tests (which drive the
TrustedSessionID seam end to end against the real forwardproxy handler) pass.
CGO_ENABLED=0 throughout — core/plugins and core/plugins/opa need runtime/cgo,
which this sandbox cannot build, and both pass with it off.
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Review comments at @core/listener/forwardproxy/server.go:
- Line 568: Update the session hydration guard in the request path and the
corresponding CONNECT path so a registered VM’s trusted connection-derived
session ID is available in pctx.Session even when session tracking is disabled
and s.Sessions is nil. Reuse sessionViewFor to construct the ID-only view
without requiring event storage.
- Line 568: Resolve the connection-derived VM session ID before early refusal
recording in the request and CONNECT paths, and reuse it for the allow-list and
oversized-body recording calls so events are attributed to the correct VM. Keep
normal trusted-session hydration through hydrateSession at its current point.
- Around line 1724-1725: Pass the VM binding into bridgedHandler so requests
created by TLS bridging retain the binding used by s.TrustedSessionID. Apply the
VM header rules, including stripping guest-supplied session headers, to each
decrypted request before it reaches the handler.
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…1477)
All three CodeRabbit findings on #1569. The first is a real escape from the
per-VM identity boundary, not a style point.
**A bridged request escaped its VM binding.** tlsbridge.ServeConn parses the
decrypted bytes into fresh *http.Requests inside its own http.Server, so a
decrypted request never passes through vmBinding.ServeHTTP: it carries neither
the context the wrapper stamped on the CONNECT nor the header-stripping the
wrapper applied, because its header set is a different one. SessionIDFromRequest
therefore answered "" and hydrateSession fell through to header resolution.
Reproduced before fixing, with a guest driving a real VM socket through CONNECT
+ TLS to a bridged origin: the pipeline saw session "forged-cc" via header
X-Claude-Code-Session-Id instead of sid-a via connection, the forged session
held 3 rows while sid-a held none, and all four guest identity headers reached
the origin. That is the feature inverted — the descriptor is supposed to BE the
identity — and it was reachable by any guest that sends a session header inside
a bridged tunnel.
Fixed with a Server.AdoptBridgedRequest hook, applied in bridgedHandler before
anything reads identity off the request, and implemented by
vmcontrol.AdoptBridgedRequest: it re-stamps the binding from the CONNECT and
re-strips the guest headers. The hook is generic so forwardproxy keeps knowing
nothing about vmcontrol, and it follows the precedent immediately above it,
where connProcKey is propagated from the CONNECT the same way. The CONNECT
request is kept on tunnelLog for it, beside the conn slot already there.
Pinned by TestBridgedRequestKeepsTheVMBinding, which fails against the unfixed
code with exactly the output above. TestRegistryIdentityFromConnection covers
the same contract on the plaintext path, but its stack configures no TLS
bridge, which is why this survived.
**TrustedSessionID was assigned after the forward proxy began serving.**
bootstrap.ServeHTTPServer hands an already-bound listener to a serving
goroutine immediately, and startVMControl — which sets TrustedSessionID and now
AdoptBridgedRequest, neither locked — ran after it. A request arriving in that
window raced the write, and the losing side resolved a VM's session from the
guest's own headers. The block now runs before the registration; the shutdown
path is unchanged.
**The context key was untyped.** `var bindingCtxKey struct{}` is a zero-size
VALUE of type struct{}, so every package using that idiom shares one key: a
foreign reader sees this VM's binding, and a foreign writer overwrites it with
something this package then type-asserts. Verified both directions in a scratch
program. No in-tree collision exists today, but this was the only context key
in core/ not following the established named-type convention (connProcKey,
origDstKey, pctxKey). Now `type bindingCtxKey struct{}`, which also satisfies
SA1029 — though note golangci-lint does not run in this repo's CI, so the
lint-failure rationale in the review does not apply; the collision is the reason.
Verified: full core suite 0 failures; go test -race on vmcontrol clean;
go vet and gofmt clean on core and cmd/cortex; cmd/cortex builds and tests
clean. CGO_ENABLED=0 throughout (core/plugins and core/plugins/opa need
runtime/cgo, unavailable in this sandbox; both pass with it off).
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All three CodeRabbit findings. The context-key one came in as a non-inline additional comment, so its reply is here rather than on a thread.
Fixed in 875fced, though for a different reason than the one given — and the
real reason is worse, so I want to spell it out.
First, the stated rationale does not apply here: golangci-lint does not run in
this repo's CI (grep -rn golangci .github/workflows/ .pre-commit-config.yaml
is empty), so SA1029 could not have failed the build.
But the code was still wrong. var bindingCtxKey struct{} is a zero-size value whose type is plain struct{}, and context compares keys by value and
type — so every package using that idiom shares one key. Verified both
directions in a scratch program:
read with our own key: VM-BINDING
read with a FOREIGN key: VM-BINDING <-- a foreign reader sees this VM's binding
after foreign write, ours: CLOBBERED <-- and can overwrite it
The second line is the one that matters for this package: a foreign writer could
replace a VM's binding with a value SessionIDFromRequest would then
type-assert. No in-tree collision exists today — I checked — but this was the
only context key under core/ not following the convention the rest of the tree
already uses (connProcKey in forwardproxy, origDstKey in transparentproxy, pctxKey in reverseproxy), all of which are named types precisely because of
this.
Now type bindingCtxKey struct{} with bindingCtxKey{} at the four use sites,
matching those three. That satisfies SA1029 as a side effect, but the collision
is the reason it is in this commit rather than a follow-up.
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Summary
Dobra robota, Mariusz. This is a carefully built port: golden-byte-pinned hand-rolled proto, fd hygiene on every exit path, the hmu→mu ordering, trackedListener for hijacked tunnels, and you already fixed the bridged-identity and startup-race bugs (with repros, no less). I'm still requesting changes, sorry przyjacielu, for one real hole in the headline guarantee. Any VM request refused before hydration (egress allow-list denials on both the plain and CONNECT paths, oversized bodies, misdirected bridged requests) never consults TrustedSessionID, so its row is filed under ActiveSession(), possibly another VM's session, or default. I reproduced this against the real forwardproxy stack. Separately, CodeQL is red because of a data-flow relocation in hydrateSession. Everything else below is non-blocking. Fix the must-fix and kurczę, this one is ready to sail.
Findings
must-fix: pre-hydration refusal rows ignore the connection-derived sid and land in another session or default (server.go:1749; call sites 493, 561, 1219, 2410)
suggestion: CodeQL check failing, 28 alerts in untouched plugins, all traced to the r.Header read moved to server.go:1760
suggestion: trusted sid dropped when session.enabled: false (server.go:584, 2456)
suggestion: a temporary accept error on the control socket is fatal to the whole proxy (vmcontrol/server.go:86)
suggestion: per-VM http.Server has no ReadHeaderTimeout (vmcontrol/handler.go:38)
nit: aborted-window request gets an empty 200 and no audit line (vmcontrol/handler.go:131)
Verification: checked out at 875fced; go vet clean on forwardproxy + vmcontrol; go test ./core/listener/vmcontrol/ passes all 21 tests, including the SCM_RIGHTS server tests on Linux (no -race here: no cgo toolchain in my sandbox). Misfiling confirmed with a throwaway test (not pushed).
Author: mrsabath (MEMBER — maintainer) Areas reviewed: Go (forwardproxy, new vmcontrol package, cmd/cortex wiring), Docs (CLAUDE.md), Security (peer-cred gate, fd handling, header stripping, secrets) Agent/IDE config (.claude/.vscode): none Commits: 3 commits, all signed-off: yes CI status: failing — CodeQL (28 new alerts, see inline); all other checks passing, Spellcheck skipped
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must-fix — Ojej, Mariusz, the VM's ID card only gets checked if the request makes it all the way to hydration. Requests turned away at the door get filed under whoever happens to be standing nearby.
TrustedSessionID is only consulted here, inside hydrateSession. Every refusal recorded before hydration still goes through the header/process/ActiveSession() path:
misdirected bridged request: refuseMisdirected → attributeForRecording (server.go:1219). AdoptBridgedRequest has already stamped the binding by this point, but nothing reads it.
The wrapper strips the guest's session headers, so these rows fall through to ActiveSession() (the most recently active session, which can be another VM's) or to default. attributeForRecording also pins the host process into SetAttribution, which is exactly what the comment just below says this hook is there to prevent. I reproduced it with a throwaway test on top of newVMEgressStack (EgressAllow = allowed.example:80, VM vm-a/sid-a GETs http://denied.example:80/x):
status=403
session "sid-a" rows=0
session "someone-else" rows=2 <- the active session got vm-a's denied row
session "default" rows=0
With no other active session, the row goes to default instead. In both cases a denied egress, the security event you most want attributed correctly, ends up in someone else's timeline. That breaks the PR's own headline rule: "identity from the connection wins over every header- and process-derived id".
Suggested fix: resolve the trusted sid once at the top of serveOutbound / handleConnect (e.g. trusted := s.trustedSessionOf(r), "" when the hook is nil). Pass it as resolved to the pre-hydration recordingSessionID / tunnelSessionID calls, and short-circuit attributeForRecording when it is non-empty (pin empty attribution, return the sid). Add a registry test for an egress-denied VM request asserting the row lands in the VM's sid. CodeRabbit's open thread on this line describes the same problem. Kurczę, so close to airtight!
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Ojej, masz rację — and the repro was the convincing part, so thank you for including it. Fixed in da228cb.
I reproduced it before touching anything, on newVMEgressStack with an allow list armed, and got your numbers exactly:
status=403
session "sid-a" rows=0
session "someone-else" rows=2 <- the active session got vm-a's denied row
session "default" rows=0
And the same on the CONNECT path. So all four call sites you listed are real, and your framing is the right one: the headline rule has to hold for refusals, not only for requests that reach the pipeline. A denied egress is precisely the row you cannot afford to misfile.
Implemented the way you suggested:
trustedSessionOf(r) — the hook's answer, "" when no hook is installed or it does not claim the request — resolved once at the top of serveOutbound and once in handleConnect, rather than per call site.
Threaded into recordingSessionID as resolved on both egress-deny paths.
attributeForRecording now takes it and short-circuits, which also fixes the half of this I would have missed if you had not named it: it pins attribution empty rather than skipping the pin, because SetAttribution is write-once and AttributedProc() goes straight into SessionEvent.Proc. Claiming the slot with nothing is what stops a VM's refusal row being stamped with the host process that owns the control socket — the same reasoning hydrateSession's trusted branch already gave, which is exactly the comment you pointed at.
Both of your registry tests are in: TestRegistry_EgressDeniedRowLandsInTheVMSession and ..._EgressDeniedCONNECTRowLandsInTheVMSession, through the real handler stack. They assert three things rather than one — the VM's bucket holds the row, the unrelated active session gained none, and default is empty — and I verified both fail with only the source fix reverted, reporting the misfiling message rather than a vacuous pass.
The body-too-large and misdirected-bridged paths are covered by the same change, since both go through attributeForRecording.
防微杜渐 — "stop the small leak before the flood": the refusal path was the one place the identity rule was not applied, and it was the one place it mattered most.
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Resolved in da228cb. Pięknie! I checked rather than trusted. On dc2528b2 my original repro now puts the denied row in sid-a, with nothing in someone-else or default. Then I reverted only the trusted argument at :506, and TestRegistry_EgressDeniedRowLandsInTheVMSession fails with both misfiling messages. So the test has teeth, not just a nice name. Pinning attribution empty in attributeForRecording is the right call too: SetAttribution is write-once, so you take the slot before the host process can.
One cousin of this is still loose on the success path (opaque CONNECT tunnel rows when client affinity is off). It's a suggestion, not a blocker; see my new comment at server.go:2517.
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suggestion — This is the line CodeQL is upset about. The failing CodeQL check reports 28 "new" alerts (go/clear-text-logging + go/log-injection) in sessionbudget, contextguru and inferencerouter. This PR doesn't touch any of those files, but every alert gives its source as forwardproxy/server.go#L1760 (clientHeaders = r.Header). Moving the r.Header read inside hydrateSession changed the data-flow shape enough for CodeQL to report the existing flows as new. None of these alerts are open on main.
They look like false positives: header ids go through validHeaderSessionID before anyone logs them, and a session id is not a secret. Still, the PR shouldn't merge with a red check. Two options:
Keep the old signature and pass the trusted answer in, e.g. hydrateSession(pctx, trusted, r.Header, chain). That brings back main's flow shape, which probably clears the alerts, and it reuses the early trusted value from the must-fix above. No to jedziemy, two birds, one stone.
Or triage/dismiss the 28 alerts as false positives, with a short justification, so the check goes green.
so the r.Header read is back at the call site, which is main's flow shape, and the function no longer needs the *http.Request at all. The trusted value is the one the must-fix already resolves at the top of serveOutbound, so this costs nothing extra — exactly the reuse you pointed out.
I agree with your read that the 28 alerts are false positives (a header id passes validHeaderSessionID before anything logs it, and a session id is not a secret), and I did not want to dismiss 28 alerts across three plugins this PR does not touch to clear a check — a dismissal is a permanent annotation on someone else's file, and the next person to look would find the justification attached to code that never changed. Restoring the flow shape puts those files back where main has them instead.
I cannot confirm from the sandbox that the alerts clear, since CodeQL only runs in CI — so that is the thing to watch on this push rather than something I have verified. If any survive, I will triage them with a justification as your option 2 says.
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Correction to my reply above: option 1 did not clear the alerts. CodeQL is still reporting the same 28 on dc2528b, so the signature change did not do what either of us expected.
The reason, reading it back: moving the read to the call site does not break the taint edge, because r.Header still flows intohydrateSession — as a parameter now instead of through the *http.Request:
A parameter is as good an edge as a field access, so the dataflow shape CodeQL objected to is unchanged. "Restores main's flow shape" was wrong: main's shape has no clientHeaders crossing that boundary at all, because main resolved everything inside. I should have tested the hypothesis before asserting it, and I could not — CodeQL only runs in CI, which I noted, but I still wrote it as "probably clears" rather than "unverified".
The change is not useless (it is what lets the pre-hydration paths share one resolved trusted value, which is the must-fix), but it is not a CodeQL fix and I have stopped presenting it as one.
Where that leaves it: the sandbox's token is read-only and gets a 403 on the code-scanning API, so I cannot see the 28 flows to fix them properly or to write an honest justification for a query-filters exclusion. I am not going to guess at a dataflow break for alerts I cannot inspect, and a repo-wide exclusion for go/log-injection + go/clear-text-logging is far too broad for this — the existing codeql-config.yml precedent is one narrowly-scoped query with a paragraph explaining why it cannot apply, which is the right bar and one I cannot currently meet.
So this is going to Mariusz to triage on the host, where the alerts are visible — your option 2. Everything else on the PR is green: Go CI (core) passes now (that red was a pre-existing flake in TestBridgedRequestKeepsTheVMBinding, fixed in dc2528b — it also fails-free 20/20 on 875fced, so it predates this round). The remaining Go CI (core peerproc, macOS) red is TestTrunc_ScalesLinearly/truncLeft in cmd/agentop, a timing-sensitive scaling assertion in a module these commits do not touch; it passes locally.
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Still open, but it's not the code's fault. Thanks for the honest correction, Mariusz. Most people would quietly hope nobody notices the check is still red.
I pulled the SARIF for the latest Go analysis (f1f9920a, the merge ref of dc2528b2). Every one of the 30 results has the same path: r.Headerat the call site, server.go:603 -> attribute -> session.IDHeaderFrom (h.Get) -> at.Session -> sessionViewFor -> pctx.Session.ID -> plugin slog calls in sessionbudget / contextguru / inferencerouter. The two core/session/store.go results start at :506. Main has the same flow: its hydrateSession(pctx, r.Header, chain) at main:559 feeds the same chain. So my "flow shape" theory last round was wrong as well. Both of us got this one wrong.
Why only this PR sees them:
security-scans.yaml runs CodeQL only on: pull_request, so main has no CodeQL baseline at all (the code-scanning API returns no Go analyses for refs/heads/main).
The SARIF shows the codeql-action/pr-diff-range extension, i.e. diff-informed analysis: a result is reported only when some location on its path is inside the PR's diff.
This PR has to edit line 603 (the hydration call) and line 506 (the egress deny call), both sources on this path. Any change to those lines surfaces them. Other open PRs show 0 results because their diffs don't touch the path.
Fixing this in code isn't worth it. The flow is real and harmless (ids go through validHeaderSessionID, and a session id isn't a secret), and any refactor of hydration would trip it again. Your option 2 is right: someone with security-events write dismisses the 28 alerts as false positive with a one-liner like "session id from validated header; diff-informed re-report of a pre-existing flow, see #1569". No query-filters change is needed, and I agree a repo-wide exclusion would be far too broad. Since the CodeQL check isn't required by branch protection, this doesn't block my approval, but please don't merge until it's green. Do roboty, panie Mariuszu.
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suggestion — With session.enabled: false, s.Sessions is nil and this guard skips hydrateSession, so a VM's request reaches the pipeline with pctx.Session == nil. The trusted sid gets thrown away even though sessionViewFor can build an ID-only view without a store. The CONNECT path at 2456 has the same guard. Either hydrate the trusted id independently of the store, or refuse to boot when MOCA_EGRESS_CONTROL_SOCK is set with sessions disabled. resolveControlConfig already does this kind of check for the forward role. A small one, but we don't want a misconfigured MOCA deployment quietly losing its identity.
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Fixed in da228cb — hydrated independently of the store rather than refusing to boot.
You are right that sessionViewFor already handles it: it falls back to &pipeline.SessionView{ID: sid} when there is no store or no entry, so the trusted id costs nothing to hydrate. Both guards now also enter on a non-empty trusted sid:
if!skipped&& (s.Sessions!=nil||trusted!="") {
and the same on the CONNECT path at what is now 2514.
I checked the nil-store safety of the branch this widens into rather than assuming it: the non-trusted path runs attribute → pluginSessionOf, whose only two s.Sessions uses are already nil-guarded, so entering with Sessions == nil and trusted == "" could not panic even if it happened — and it cannot, given the condition.
I preferred this over refusing to boot because the two settings are not actually in conflict: session.enabled: false says "do not record events", and the trusted id is identity, not an event. Refusing the combination would make an operator choose between recording and VM identity when they can have the second without the first. TestRegistry_TrustedSessionSurvivesSessionsDisabled pins it with Sessions: nil and asserts the plugin still sees sid-c; it fails with session "" without the fix.
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Resolved in da228cb. Hydrating independently of the store is better than refusing to boot. You're right that session.enabled: false concerns recording, not identity. I also checked the widened guard: it changes only whether hydration runs. The recording sites after it already ran with a nil store on main and keep their own s.Sessions == nil guards. hydrateSession's trusted branch touches the store only through sessionViewFor, which is nil-safe. TestRegistry_TrustedSessionSurvivesSessionsDisabled pins it.
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suggestion — Any non-close AcceptUnix error comes back from Serve, and startVMControl hands it to fatalf. A temporary error such as EMFILE/ENFILE (likely enough on a proxy holding tens of VM listeners plus their tunnels) or ECONNABORTED would kill the whole proxy, and every VM's egress with it. net/http's accept loop retries temporary errors with backoff (5ms doubling, capped at 1s). Please do the same here and return only errors that are really permanent. Ojej, one fd too many and the whole flotilla goes down. (CodeRabbit's open thread on this file says the same.)
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Fixed in da228cb, with the backoff shape you named — 5ms doubling, capped at 1s, as net/http.Server.Serve does.
Your reasoning about the consequence is what made this worth more than a one-liner: the error does not just end Serve, it reaches fatalf, so the whole proxy and every VM's egress go with it. For a condition that clears as soon as something closes an fd, on a process whose job is holding one listener per VM plus their tunnels, that is the wrong trade.
isTemporaryAccept names the errnos explicitly rather than leaning on net.Error.Temporary():
and consults Temporary() only as a fallback for anything else that self-describes as transient. Temporary() is deprecated and documented as unreliable, so the cases that actually matter here should not depend on it — but dropping it entirely would lose errors that only report themselves that way.
A retry also logs a WARN naming the error and the delay, so an operator sees fd pressure rather than silence, and delay resets on the first successful accept.
TestIsTemporaryAccept tables it: EMFILE, ENFILE, ECONNABORTED, EINTR and a wrapped EMFILE retry; EINVAL and a plain error are permanent. Ojej indeed — one fd should not sink the flotilla.
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Resolved in da228cb. The backoff matches net/http's shape, the delay resets on a successful accept, the WARN says what's happening, and TestIsTemporaryAccept covers the wrapped case. Naming the errnos explicitly and using Temporary() only as a fallback is a sensible choice. Flotylla płynie dalej. One small nit about where that test lives: see my comment at registry_test.go:747.
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suggestion — Every other http.Server in the binary gets ReadHeaderTimeout: 10 * time.Second from bootstrap. This per-VM one has no timeouts, so a guest can open connections and drip headers indefinitely. Each one holds a goroutine and an fd until Unregister. Per-VM caps are rightly #1485's job, but matching bootstrap's ReadHeaderTimeout is a one-liner (it's also gosec G112) and costs the conformance cases nothing. Even a guest in a microVM deserves a little discipline 😉
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Done in da228cb — one line, ReadHeaderTimeout: 10 * time.Second, the same value bootstrap gives every other http.Server in the binary.
Agreed on both halves of your framing: per-VM caps are #1485's, and this is the floor that costs the conformance cases nothing. The fd point is the one I would underline — a goroutine is cheap, but this process holds a listener per VM plus their tunnels, so descriptors are the scarcer resource, and a dripping guest holds one until Unregister.
Also noted it is gosec G112, which means it was a lint finding waiting to happen as well as a real hole.
Nawet gość w microVM potrzebuje trochę dyscypliny 😉
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nit — Between close() setting aborted = true and closeAll() closing the conns, a request that reaches this line returns without writing anything. net/http then sends an empty 200 OK on a connection that is still open, and no audit line is emitted. The guest sees "success", and the "exactly one terminal line per request" promise has a tiny hole. The window is narrow, but writing 503 with Connection: close here (and ideally emitting an aborted line) would make the comment ("no request ran") true from the guest's side too.
emit already picked DecisionAborted off b.aborted, so the line comes out as aborted with no further change — the plumbing was there, only the early return skipped it.
Both halves of your note mattered: the guest reading "success" for a request that never left is the worse one, since nothing downstream would question a 200, and the missing line is the one that breaks the exactly-one-terminal-line-per-request promise on precisely the requests an operator would go looking for. The comment ("no request ran") is now true from the guest's side too.
TestVMBinding_AbortedWindowAnswers503 drives the window directly — b.close() then ServeHTTP — and asserts the 503, the Connection: close, and exactly one audit line with decision: aborted.
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Resolved in da228cb. I checked the ordering: this path runs before b.live.Add(1), so close()'s live.Wait() doesn't wait for it. That's fine, because emit doesn't need the binding to be alive, and Connection: close lets net/http drop the connection after this response. The 503, the single aborted line, and TestVMBinding_AbortedWindowAnswers503 make the comment true from both sides. Dzięki!
Addresses the review of #1569 — the must-fix, all four suggestions and the nit.
must-fix: TrustedSessionID was consulted only inside hydrateSession, so every
row recorded BEFORE hydration resolved by header/process/ActiveSession()
instead: the egress allow-list refusal on the plain path and on CONNECT, a
body too large to buffer, and a misdirected bridged request. The wrapper
strips the guest's session headers, so those rows fell through to the most
recently active session — possibly another VM's — or to `default`, and
attributeForRecording additionally stamped them with the host process that
owns the control socket, which is the exact thing hydrateSession's trusted
branch pins empty to prevent.
Reproduced on the real stack before fixing, matching the review's numbers:
with EgressAllow=allowed.example:80 and vm-a/sid-a denied, sid-a rows=0 and an
unrelated active session rows=2 — on the CONNECT path too. So a VM's denied
egress, the security event you most want attributed correctly, landed in
someone else's timeline, inverting the PR's own headline rule.
The connection's answer is now resolved once per request (trustedSessionOf,
"" when no hook is installed) and threaded into every pre-pipeline recording
site; attributeForRecording takes it and short-circuits, pinning attribution
empty exactly as hydration does.
suggestion (CodeQL): hydrateSession now takes the trusted sid and the client
headers as parameters rather than reading r.Header itself, which restores
main's data-flow shape — the 28 "new" go/clear-text-logging and
go/log-injection alerts in untouched plugins were all sourced to that moved
read. It also reuses the value the must-fix already resolves, which is why
this was the better of the two options offered.
suggestion (sessions disabled): the Sessions-nil guard skipped hydration
entirely, discarding the trusted id even though sessionViewFor builds an
ID-only view without a store. Both guards (request and CONNECT) now also
enter on a non-empty trusted sid, so `session.enabled: false` stops recording
without un-identifying every VM in a MOCA deployment.
suggestion (accept loop): a temporary AcceptUnix error is retried with bounded
backoff (5ms doubling to 1s, net/http's shape) instead of returned. It matters
because startVMControl hands a returned error to fatalf: an EMFILE/ENFILE on a
proxy holding a listener per VM plus their tunnels, or an ECONNABORTED, would
have exited the process and taken every VM's egress with it.
suggestion (timeouts): each per-VM http.Server now carries bootstrap's
ReadHeaderTimeout (10s), so a guest cannot hold a goroutine and an fd by
dripping headers. Per-VM caps stay #1485's.
nit: a request arriving in the aborted window — after close() set the flag,
before closeAll() closed the conns — returned without writing, so net/http
sent an empty 200 OK and emitted no audit line: the guest read success for a
request that never left. It now answers 503 with Connection: close and emits
its own `aborted` line, making the comment true from the guest's side.
Tests, the first three verified to fail with only their source fix reverted:
- TestRegistry_EgressDeniedRowLandsInTheVMSession and
..._EgressDeniedCONNECTRowLandsInTheVMSession — through the real handler
stack; assert the VM's bucket holds the row and the unrelated active
session gained none. Both fail with the misfiling message without the fix.
- TestRegistry_TrustedSessionSurvivesSessionsDisabled — Sessions nil, plugin
must still see sid-c.
- TestVMBinding_AbortedWindowAnswers503 — 503, Connection: close, exactly
one `aborted` audit line.
- TestIsTemporaryAccept — the retry/permanent table, including a wrapped
EMFILE and EINVAL as permanent.
CodeRabbit's two other open threads were already addressed on this branch
(the named context-key type, and the bridged-request binding at 875fced).
core go test 74 ok (core/plugins and core/plugins/opa fail to build for lack
of a cgo toolchain here, as on unmodified main); vmcontrol and forwardproxy
clean under -race; cmd/cortex ok; gofmt, go vet and go mod tidy -diff clean.
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Signed-off-by: Mariusz Sabath <mrsabath@gmail.com>
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- Around line 2515-2518: In handleConnect, pin a non-empty trusted session ID on
pctx before the process-attribution cases, and update appendTunnelOpen to use an
existing OutboundSessionID before falling back to ActiveSession(). Add a test
for a non-bridged VM CONNECT while another session is active, verifying the
tunnel is recorded under the trusted session.
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`Go CI (core)` went red on da228cb with
`bridge_binding_test.go: no audit event for vm-a`, while the same test passed
20/20 locally. It is a pre-existing race in the test, not a regression: the
test also passes 20/20 on 875fced, the head before that commit, so the fix
did not introduce it — CI was simply the first machine slow enough to lose.
`vmBinding.emit` runs in the server's handler goroutine AFTER
`inner.ServeHTTP` returns, and nothing orders that against the client having
its response. So reading the sink immediately after `resp.Body.Close()` is a
race the client wins on an idle laptop and loses on a loaded runner.
Polled with the same 5s deadline loop `TestRegistryTunnelAudit` already uses
a few hundred lines up, for exactly this reason. The `vm-b` absence check
below it is left alone: polling cannot establish a negative, and it is now
read after the positive one has settled, which is the right order for it.
Verified stable 20/20, plus 10/10 under `-cpu=1` (serialised scheduling,
the closest local analogue of a loaded runner) and 5/5 under `-race`.
core go test 74 ok, same two cgo-toolchain build failures as unmodified main.
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Summary
Brawo, Mariusz. Kamień spadł mi z serca: the must-fix is fixed, and fixed properly. On dc2528b2 my original throwaway repro (vm-a denied egress while another session is active) now files the row under sid-a. I also reverted only the trusted argument at server.go:506, and TestRegistry_EgressDeniedRowLandsInTheVMSession fails with exactly the misfiling messages, so the test pins the real thing. All four suggestions and the nit are addressed too, each with a test. Approving.
Diabeł tkwi w szczegółach, so two things are left, and neither blocks:
One cousin of the must-fix on the success path. With session.client_affinity: false, a VM's allowed opaque CONNECT still writes its tunnel rows under ActiveSession(). The default (affinity on) is fine, so it's a suggestion. I tested a two-line fix (inline).
CodeQL is still red. I traced it from the SARIF: it was never the flow shape. It's diff-informed analysis reporting main's existing flow because this PR edits the source line. Someone with security-events access needs to dismiss the 28 alerts as false positives before merge (details in the thread).
Earlier findings
must-fix, pre-hydration refusals misfiled: resolved (da228cb), verified with a revert check
suggestion, CodeQL red: still open. Diagnosis is in the thread; needs maintainer triage
suggestion, trusted sid dropped with session.enabled: false: resolved
suggestion: opaque VM CONNECT tunnel rows land in ActiveSession() when client affinity is off (server.go:2517)
nit: TestIsTemporaryAccept sits in an untagged file, so the non-unix test build breaks (registry_test.go:747)
nit: hydrateSession doc comment still says the signature change restores main's flow shape (server.go:1789)
nit: tests build a throwaway http.Request just to read h back (session_source_test.go:85)
Verification: checked out dc2528b2, go 1.26.10. go vet is clean on forwardproxy + vmcontrol. go test ./core/listener/vmcontrol/ ./core/listener/forwardproxy/ passes (no -race: no cgo toolchain in my sandbox). Tunnel-row repro: affinity off gives sid-b rows=0 while someone-else goes 1 -> 3; with the fix below, sid-b rows=2 and someone-else stays at 1, and both packages stay green (reverted, nothing pushed). cmd/agentopTestTrunc_ScalesLinearly passes 3/3 locally.
Author: mrsabath (MEMBER — maintainer) Areas reviewed: Go (forwardproxy, vmcontrol, cmd/cortex wiring), Docs (CLAUDE.md), Security (identity attribution on refusal paths, accept loop, header timeouts), CI (CodeQL SARIF) Agent/IDE config (.claude/.vscode): none Commits: 5 commits, all signed-off: yes CI status: failing. CodeQL: the same 28 alerts, false positives, needs dismissal. Go CI (core peerproc, macOS): fails in the "Build and test cmd/agentop" step. This PR doesn't touch cmd/agentop, the same job passes on #1589–#1598, and the test passes locally, so it looks like a flake (re-run). I could not download the job log to confirm the test name. Everything else passes.
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suggestion: Mariusz, the refusal path is airtight now, but an opaque CONNECT's success path still leaks a little. Here hydrateSession gives sessionID = trusted. The tunnel's own rows (open/close) don't read sessionID, though. They go through appendTunnelOpen (transparent.go:276), which uses pctx.OutboundSessionID only if s.ClientAffinity || s.processesOn() and otherwise falls back to ActiveSession(). The pin below (around server.go:2544) also sets OutboundSessionID only in those two cases. So with session.client_affinity: false and process attribution off, a VM's allowed, non-bridged tunnel lands in whatever session was last active, which can be another VM's. Bridged tunnels are fine: their open follows the first request, and that request carries the trusted sid.
Throwaway test on newVMEgressStack: vm-b/sid-b CONNECTs to an echo origin while someone-else is active.
Affinity defaults to on, which is why this isn't a blocker. Still, "identity from the connection wins" shouldn't depend on an unrelated knob. Fix I tested (sid-b gets its 2 rows, vmcontrol + forwardproxy still green):
// handleConnect, the pin switch after the pipelineswitch {
casetrusted!="":
pctx.OutboundSessionID=trustedcasechain!=nil&&s.processesOn():
Add a registry test for an opaque VM CONNECT with ClientAffinity: false while another session is active. CodeRabbit's thread here describes the same thing (its variant reads the pin unconditionally; once the pin exists, that works too). Co się odwlecze, to nie uciecze: a follow-up issue is fine if you'd rather land this one first.
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Fixed in 853a35d — your tested variant, both halves: handleConnect now pins the trusted answer ahead of the process/affinity cases, and appendTunnelOpen honors it via pctx.SessionSource == pipeline.SessionSourceConnection. New TestRegistry_OpaqueTunnelRowsLandInTheVMSession (affinity off, someone-else active): revert-checked — with only the appendTunnelOpen half undone it fails with exactly your repro (sid-b rows=0, someone-else +2); with the fix, sid-b rows=2 and someone-else unchanged. Also merged main (15974a7): both halves sit where #1595/#1596's dead-origin rework left them, vmcontrol + forwardproxy green on the merged tree.
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nit: isTemporaryAccept lives in server.go (//go:build unix), but this test is in registry_test.go, which has no build tag. As a result GOOS=windows go vet ./core/listener/vmcontrol/ fails with undefined: isTemporaryAccept. The package still builds; only the test binary breaks. cmd/cortex/vmcontrol_other.go shows non-unix builds are supposed to work, so moving the test into server_test.go (already //go:build unix) fixes it. CodeRabbit flagged the same. Nikt nie testuje na Windowsie, ale porządek musi być.
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nit: Your own correction in the CodeQL thread already disproved this comment (uczciwie postawione, respect). The parameter change did not restore main's flow shape, and the 28 alerts are still there, so the next reader will believe a reason that isn't true. Please reword it to the real one from your reply: the caller resolves trusted once, so the pre-hydration refusal paths share it. The da228cb commit message says the same, but that's history, so leave it.
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Fixed in 853a35d — reworded to the real reason (the caller resolves trusted and the headers once, so the pre-hydration refusal paths share them), and the CodeQL note now states plainly that taking the parameter back out did not clear the 28 alerts — they are diff-informed reports of main's pre-existing flows and need dismissing on the PR.
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nit: s.trustedSessionOf(&http.Request{Header: h}), (&http.Request{Header: h}).Header builds a request only to read h back, so the second argument can just be h. The same pattern is at :156 and :163 (named("claude-1") / named("fresh")). Pure cosmetics, ignore freely.
Review follow-up on the approved #1569 round:
- An opaque CONNECT's own rows (open/close) are filed through
appendTunnelOpen, which read pctx.OutboundSessionID only under client
affinity or process attribution. With both off, a VM's allowed tunnel
fell back to ActiveSession() and its rows landed in whatever session
was last active — possibly another VM's. handleConnect now pins the
trusted connection answer ahead of the process/affinity cases, and
appendTunnelOpen honors it via pctx.SessionSource, so identity from
the connection no longer depends on session.client_affinity. Pinned by
TestRegistry_OpaqueTunnelRowsLandInTheVMSession (revert-checked: fails
with sid-b rows=0 and the active session gaining 2).
- TestIsTemporaryAccept moved into server_test.go (//go:build unix):
isTemporaryAccept exists only there, so its untagged home broke the
non-unix test build with 'undefined: isTemporaryAccept'
(GOOS=windows go vet now clean).
- hydrateSession's doc comment claimed the clientHeaders parameter
restored main's CodeQL flow shape; it did not (the 28 alerts are
diff-informed reports of main's pre-existing flows). Reworded to the
real reason: the caller resolves trusted and the headers once, so the
pre-hydration refusal paths share them.
- session_source_test.go: pass h directly instead of building a
throwaway http.Request to read it back.
Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Sabath <mrsabath@gmail.com>
Main moved under the branch (#1590–#1596, touching the CONNECT path and
the session store). Git reports no textual conflicts; verified the
merged tree builds and both touched packages stay green — the trusted-pin
case in handleConnect and appendTunnelOpen's SessionSource condition sit
where the dead-origin rework (#1595/#1596) left them.
Assisted-By: Claude (Anthropic AI) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Sabath <mrsabath@gmail.com>
Strengthen the forged-session check: it never detects a misfile into sid-b.
The comment says rows are filed "under nothing the guest named". Both VMs send X-Moca-Session: sid-b. The loop exempts sid-b with sid != "sid-b". If vm-a's request were wrongly filed under sid-b, no assertion would fail. sid-b is a real registered session here, so it needs a separate check.
Check sid-b after vm-a's request and before vm-b's request. At that point sid-b must hold no rows. Then drop the exemption from the final loop.
♻️ Proposed fix
Inside the for _, vm := range ... loop, after the audit assertions on line 268, add:
ifvm.sid=="sid-a" {
ifgot:=rowsIn(store, "sid-b"); got!=0 {
t.Errorf("vm-a's request named sid-b and %d row(s) landed there", got)
}
}
Then simplify the final loop:
- for _, forged := range []string{"forged-cc", "forged-x", "sid-b", "default"} {- if sid := forged; sid != "sid-b" && store.View(sid) != nil {- t.Errorf("forged session %q has rows", forged)- }- }+ for _, forged := range []string{"forged-cc", "forged-x", "default"} {+ if store.View(forged) != nil {+ t.Errorf("forged session %q has rows", forged)+ }+ }
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In the test’s VM request loop, check immediately after vm-a’s audit assertions
that rowsIn(store, "sid-b") is zero, before vm-b’s request runs. Then remove
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- Line 1248: Update the CONNECT handler’s upstream dial to use a context
canceled when its VM is unregistered, and make the VM-control shutdown around
vmCtrl.Close honor shutdownCtx so shutdown does not wait for an uncancelable
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Make VM-control shutdown cancel in-flight CONNECT dials.
vmCtrl.Close() can wait for an in-flight CONNECT handler. The handler calls net.DialTimeout with a fixed 10-second timeout, so closing the tracked client connection does not cancel the upstream dial. This exceeds the one-second local shutdown budget and can prevent the final audit and store flushes before the three-second supervisor grace period ends.
Use a context canceled by VM unregistration for the CONNECT dial, and make VM-control shutdown honor shutdownCtx. Preserve the terminal aborted audit emission when cancellation stops the handler.
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Update the CONNECT handler’s upstream dial to use a context canceled when its VM
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in Rossoctl Issue Prioritization
Closes #1477.
MOCA SBX microVMs have no network: each VM's egress lands on its own host
Unix socket, bound by
vmpool(the only process that knows the jaillayout) and handed to the Cortex forward proxy at run time over a control
socket as SCM_RIGHTS. The descriptor is the identity — which listener
accepted the connection says which VM is calling — so listeners come and go
with the VMs (every few seconds), without a restart.
What's here
core/listener/vmcontrol— the control channel, ported fromrossoctl/moca
remote-worker/internal/egress/control@c13d556(v0.9.0). That package isinternal to moca and its
gen/gomodule is unpublished (localreplace, nosubmodule tags), so Cortex cannot import either — the port is attributed in
each file, and the protobuf codec for the three control messages
(
ControlRequest{Register|Unregister},ControlReply) is hand-rolled andpinned by golden tests against bytes generated by moca's own
proto.Marshal. The decoder skips unknown fields per proto3, so S2'sRebind (reserved field 3 of
ControlRequest) does not break us.Ported semantics, unchanged: 4-byte BE length framing (≤64 KiB), the
Register fd riding the sendmsg carrying the frame's first byte, close-on-exec
on received fds,
MSG_CTRUNCrefused, peer-credential gate(
SO_PEERCRED/LOCAL_PEERCRED, fail-closed on other unixes) that closesan unauthorized peer without a reply, per-connection binding ownership
(
dropConnunbinds a crashed vmpool's VMs; a redialled connection's Registersupersedes the stale binding), duplicate-
vmrefusal on the sameconnection, and the hmu→mu lock order.
The Registry binds each handed-over listener to the one forward proxy
— one pipeline, one session store — with a goroutine +
http.Serverperlistener (issue question 1: tens live at once, thousands a day; that's fine).
Identity reaches the pipeline through a new
forwardproxy.Server. TrustedSessionIDhook (issue question 3): a session resolved from theconnection — recorded as
SessionSourceConnection— wins over everyheader- and process-derived id, and the per-VM wrapper strips
X-Moca-*,Proxy-Authorizationand every session-id header from guest requests, sonothing a guest asserts moves it to another session or reaches the upstream.
Unregister (issue 4) closes the listener and every live connection,
hijacked CONNECT tunnels included —
http.Server.Close()alone leaves thoseopen, hence
trackedListener/trackedConn— and returns only after eachin-flight request's wrapper has emitted its terminal audit line.
Audit seed (deliberately minimal; #1482 completes it): one terminal JSON
line per request on stdout, in moca's
Eventshape —vm_id,sid,host,method,path,status,decision(tunnel/forward/aborted),via: "moca-egress".sub,dial_addr,credential, byte counts and thejournald/async seam are #1482's.
Configuration is env-only (issue question 2's practical half: the
conformance harness's channel; operator-facing YAML
listener.*fields followwhen there is an operator to configure them), resolved in
cmd/cortex:MOCA_EGRESS_CONTROL_SOCKMOCA_EGRESS_CONTROL_UIDSMOCA_TENANCYunset/single= this slice;multi= boot failure naming the variable. A Register carrying a non-empty grant is refused withbad_request— single-tenant only (MI1 S2).The channel lives in core rather than behind a build-tag plugin (issue
question 2): the fd handover owns listeners, which the plugin registry has no
seam for, and the env gate gives the same opt-in.
Tests
wire_test.go— golden bytes for every message (generated from moca's ownproto.Marshal), round-trips, unknown-field skipping (incl. aRebind-shaped field 3), group/truncation/unterminated-varint refusal,
oversize and truncated frames.
registry_test.go— the three conformance done-when cases as in-treestand-ins for moca's
remote-worker/egress/conformancesuite (sameassertions; the suite itself is not importable while moca's modules are
unpublished — publishing them, or hosting a cortex Target adapter in
moca's repo, is the prerequisite for the real run, and I'll file the
moca-side issue for it):
identity_from_connection(two VMs/sids, forgedX-Moca-*/session/Proxy-Authorizationheaders neither move the row nor reach the upstream),unregister_aborts_inflight(live tunnel + slow GET killed, exactly oneabortedline each, zero tunnel/forward lines, socket refuses dials, otherVM untouched),
grant_refused_under_single, plus the audit JSON shape.These drive the real forwardproxy handler end to end (pipeline, session
store, trusted-session hook), over TCP listeners standing in for the
handed-over Unix ones so they run everywhere.
server_test.go— the SCM_RIGHTS path: uid gate, malformed frame,no-fd Register, duplicate_vm, dropConn unbinding, redial supersede. These
need AF_UNIX binds, so they skip only where the platform refuses them (the
dev sandbox does; CI's Linux runners do not) — verified on an unsandboxed
host run.
cmd/cortex—resolveControlConfigunit tests (tenancy, uid parsing,every error names its variable).
forwardproxy—TrustedSessionIDresolution test (wins over headers,falls through when unclaimed); the two
hydrateSessioncall-site signatureupdates are covered by the existing session-source tests.
Out of scope
MOCA_TENANCY=multi(S2) — refused at boot, as moca's slice does; Rebind(reserved field 3) — decoder skips it.
pctx.Identity/Subjectformalisation ([MOCA SBX] Caller identity from the connection, carried into every bridged request and every plugin #1476); per-VM connection/requestcaps ([MOCA SBX] Per-VM connection cap and per-session request cap (429) #1485);
MOCA_EGRESS_RESOLVERoverride.above).
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