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  • Resolve systemd-run only from explicit system-install candidates, not PATH. Require an executable regular root-owned file and root-only-writable ancestors along both its named and canonical paths.
  • Preserve asynchronous shared discovery on the management update route and the existing detached fallback. Probe variants run the selected trusted absolute binary's --version inside a real user scope, with an allowlisted identity/bus environment; no PATH-selected true payload remains.
  • Preserve the writable lexical-ancestor regression and the canonical-path, coalescing and worker/job tests.
  • Integration follow-up 8f220ad4a77b0dc6ed10dabd1c79e9a9d586d256 merges observed dev at 06d7914e6a736b0ab5b112c1198efbfd683b9bc1 into the existing branch. The only conflict was adjacent imports in src/update/job.ts; both WorkerLaunchContext and upstream's withoutSiblingMarker were retained. No runtime feature or branch history was discarded.

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Latest head: 8f220ad4a77b0dc6ed10dabd1c79e9a9d586d256, a non-force fast-forward from 75f8497d83d2ca293ebbafc4ea26eca75b79f60d. Both the previous author head and observed integration base were verified as ancestors. This integrates dev into the PR branch; it does not merge the PR into dev.

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bun test tests/update/update-job.test.ts tests/update/update-mise-launcher-target.test.ts tests/update/update-mise-node-runtime.test.ts tests/update/update-mise.test.ts tests/update/update-worker-launch.test.ts
bun run typecheck
bun run privacy:scan
bun run structure:check
bun test tests/ci-workflows/file-size-ratchet.test.ts tests/test-layout.test.ts tests/test-layout-tooling.test.ts
git diff --exit-code

Dependencies were installed with the frozen lockfile. Existing root-only fixture skips in the unprivileged hosted environment remain explicit. The real privileged/systemd installation scenario, complete repository suite and other platforms were not exercised by this focused run. The helper workflow is outside this PR's tree and ancestry.

These checks do not establish an atomic guarantee against root-capable namespace mutation. Required latest-head PR CI and independent security re-review remain separate. No force push, review dismissal or PR merge was performed.

Historical source validation before integration is recorded at https://github.com/luvs01/opencodex/actions/runs/36296808673/job/108557190616 ; it is not substituted for the new integration-candidate run above.

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  • Concurrent author implementation and upstream sibling-marker handling preserved.
  • Observed dev conflict resolved without discarding either side.
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luvs01 and others added 8 commits September 26, 2026 09:45
/run/current-system/sw/bin is where systemd-run lives on NixOS layouts,
and a failed scope probe now falls through to the next candidate. The
probe primitives are injectable so the trusted-path walk itself is
under test instead of a bypassed resolver.

Co-Authored-By: Epinephrine <luvs01@hanmail.net>
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A group-writable /usr/local/bin lets a lower-trust local actor plant or
replace systemd-run, and the no-op scope probe would exec it under the
service account. Candidates now require a root-owned regular file with
no group/world-write bits inside a directory held to the same rule,
matching isTrustedSystemPath; an untrusted candidate falls through to
the next trusted path or the plain detached spawn.

Co-Authored-By: Epinephrine <luvs01@hanmail.net>
…system

Export the default isExecutableFile hook as isTrustedSystemdRunFile and
exercise it directly: non-root-owned executables, non-executable/missing
paths, and (root-run suites only) a root-owned file inside a
group/world-writable directory are all rejected; a real installed
systemd-run is accepted when present. uid/mode semantics are POSIX-only,
so each case is gated on what the test user can arrange.

Co-Authored-By: Epinephrine <luvs01@hanmail.net>
…ed root fixture

The previous case probed whatever systemd-run the host happened to have
installed, which could legitimately fail the trust predicate on a host
with a nonstandard layout. The positive assertion now uses a fixture we
control: under a root-run suite the temp dir and file are uid-0 with
non-writable modes, so the predicate's acceptance path is deterministic.

Co-Authored-By: Epinephrine <luvs01@hanmail.net>
Co-Authored-By: Epinephrine <luvs01@hanmail.net>
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The update-worker flow now resolves systemd-run from fixed absolute paths and validates candidate files and directories. The management route passes the resolved path to the worker launcher, which uses it for scoped launches under systemd on Linux.

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Systemd-run update-worker launch

Layer / File(s) Summary
Trusted executable resolution
src/update/worker-launch.ts, tests/update/update-worker-launch.test.ts
The resolver checks fixed absolute paths and validates file ownership, permissions, file type, and executability. It probes candidates in order and caches the first successful path or the absence of one. Tests cover candidate selection, failed probes, caching, and filesystem trust checks.
Management route resolution
src/server/management/config-routes.ts, src/update/job.ts
On Linux when INVOCATION_ID is set, the route asynchronously resolves systemd-run before starting the update job. It passes the resolved path to the worker-spawn callback, which forwards the launch context to guiUpdateWorkerCommand on non-Windows platforms.
Scoped worker launch
src/update/worker-launch.ts, structure/ops/service-and-sidecars.md, tests/update/update-worker-launch.test.ts
On Linux under systemd, the launcher uses the resolved executable path for a scoped worker launch. If no path is available or the systemd condition does not apply, it retains the plain detached command. Tests and documentation cover these launch paths.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ManagementRoute
  participant SystemdRunResolver
  participant WorkerLauncher
  participant systemd-run
  participant UpdateWorker
  ManagementRoute->>SystemdRunResolver: Resolve executable path
  SystemdRunResolver->>systemd-run: Probe no-op user scope
  systemd-run-->>SystemdRunResolver: Return probe result
  SystemdRunResolver-->>ManagementRoute: Return path or undefined
  ManagementRoute->>WorkerLauncher: Start worker with launch context
  alt Resolved path available
    WorkerLauncher->>systemd-run: Launch worker in collected user scope
    systemd-run->>UpdateWorker: Start worker
  else No resolved path
    WorkerLauncher->>UpdateWorker: Plain detached spawn
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A temporary systemd probe failure can leave later update workers vulnerable to termination when the service restarts. The remaining risk is bounded but merits a cache fix or explicit acceptance before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 8f220

The fixed, validated launcher paths reduce executable-selection risk. However, a temporary scope-probe failure can now be remembered before an update job is eligible to start. A later update may then use the fallback worker, which can be stopped with its service during the update.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: Pre-job scope discovery can permanently cache a transient failure, causing a later eligible update to use the service-cgroup fallback.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated effect of a cached false probe is limited to update-worker launches from a Linux systemd service in that process; broader caller or environment control was not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed — The inspected management request validates tag and restart, then supplies an internally discovered launcher; no request field is shown selecting the executable. No verified attacker-controlled executable-selection path was established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The probe uses the selected absolute binary both to start a scope and as its version payload, with an allowlisted probe environment. The actual worker spawn inherits the service process environment.
  • inferred — The injectable launch context is trusted by the lower-level command builder without repeating file validation, but the inspected production route passes only the default resolver’s captured result. An untrusted caller supplying that context was not established.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Moving a permanently cached negative probe ahead of job eligibility weakens recovery from a transient user-bus failure: later launches can take the fallback after the bus recovers.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Allow a bounded re-probe after temporary scope failures, or defer a durable absence decision until an eligible worker launch, while preserving rejection of untrusted executable paths.
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이 PR은 대시보드 업데이트를 돌릴 때 systemd-run을 PATH에서 찾지 않게 합니다.

리눅스에서 systemd가 프록시를 띄우면, 업데이트 작업자는 그 서비스와 같은 묶음(cgroup)에 남습니다. 업데이트가 프록시를 멈추면 systemd가 작업자까지 같이 끕니다. 그래서 작업자를 systemd-run --user --scope로 묶음 밖에 내보냅니다.

예전에는 프로그램 이름만 systemd-run이었습니다. 실행할 때 PATH를 앞에서부터 봅니다. PATH 앞에 다른 사람이 쓸 수 있는 폴더가 있으면, 그 폴더의 가짜 systemd-run이 서비스 계정으로 실행될 수 있었습니다.

지금은 정해 둔 네 파일만 봅니다. /usr/bin/systemd-run, /bin/systemd-run, /usr/local/bin/systemd-run, NixOS의 /run/current-system/sw/bin/systemd-run입니다. 그 파일이 일반 파일이고, 루트 소유이며, 그룹이나 다른 사람이 쓸 수 없어야 합니다. 파일이 들어 있는 폴더도 같은 조건입니다. 아니면 다음 후보로 넘어갑니다. 맞는 파일이 없으면 예전처럼 작업자만 따로 띄웁니다. 이 검사는 리눅스이고 환경 변수 INVOCATION_ID가 있을 때만 합니다. 베이스는 dev입니다. 같은 수정을 다룬 다른 열린 PR은 없습니다.

라인 - src/update/worker-launch.ts 64행 isTrustedSystemdRunFile. 폴더 검사는 적힌 경로의 부모만 합니다. 파일이 바로가기(심볼릭 링크)면 가리키는 파일의 주인과 권한은 보지만, 그 파일이 실제로 들어 있는 폴더는 안 봅니다. /usr/local/bin/systemd-run이 사용자가 지울 수 있는 폴더 안의 루트 소유 파일을 가리키면 통과합니다. 그 사용자는 검사가 끝난 뒤 파일을 바꿔 치울 수 있고, 바로 다음 probeScope가 그 파일을 실행합니다. src/codex/desktop-app/linux.ts의 discoverFromCandidate는 realpath로 풀린 폴더를 검사합니다. 이 함수의 주석은 그 규칙을 따른다고 적었지만, 풀린 폴더 검사는 없습니다.

라인 - src/update/worker-launch.ts 75행 probeScope. spawnSync가 최대 5초를 기다립니다. 첫 업데이트 요청 POST /api/update/run(src/server/management/config-routes.ts 777행)이 startUpdateJob을 거쳐 spawnGuiUpdateWorker(src/update/job.ts 578행)에서 이 함수를 바로 호출합니다. 검사에 통과한 파일의 사용자 버스가 안 열리면 다음 파일도 또 5초를 기다립니다. 네 파일이 모두 시간 안에 끝나지 않으면, 서버는 약 20초 동안 다른 요청을 처리하지 못합니다. 결과 캐시는 두 번째 요청부터입니다.

라인 - tests/update/update-worker-launch.test.ts 118행과 129행. 폴더가 그룹이나 모두에게 쓰기 가능하면 거절하는 검사와, 루트만 쓸 수 있으면 통과하는 검사는 테스트가 root일 때만 돕니다. 보통 CI는 root가 아니라 둘 다 건너뜁니다. 바로가기가 사용자 폴더를 가리키는 경우는 테스트가 없습니다.

메인테이너의 판단이 필요한 지점

바로가기 끝의 실제 폴더까지 이번 PR에서 막을지입니다. PATH 바꿔치기는 이미 막혀 있습니다. 남은 경우는 루트가 신뢰 경로를 사용자 폴더로 이어 둔 때입니다.

프로브가 전부 실패하면 그 결과는 프로세스가 켜져 있는 동안 유지됩니다. 사용자 버스가 나중에 살아나도 작업자는 cgroup 밖으로 나가지 않습니다. 실패를 계속 기억할지, 다음 업데이트에서 다시 볼지입니다.

너의 추천

머지 전에 64행을 고치세요. 바로가기를 끝까지 따라간 다음, 그 폴더에도 루트 소유와 쓰기 금지를 적용하면 이 PR이 적은 규칙과 같아집니다. 20초 대기는 성공하면 첫 후보에서 끝나고, 예전 코드도 한 번은 멈췄으니 다음으로 둬도 됩니다. 베이스는 dev로 두세요. 닫을 중복 PR은 없습니다.

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Exact-head review at 4bceb80. P1: the trusted executable check validates the symlink file and its lexical parent, but not the resolved target directory or replaceable namespace ancestors. A trusted-path symlink into a user-replaceable directory can therefore pass and later execute a substituted file as the service account. Resolve the target and validate every directory able to substitute it; add that regression. P2: first-request discovery runs up to four synchronous five-second probes on the management request path, blocking the shared event loop for about 20 seconds. Make probing asynchronous or perform it before serving. Exact-head CI is green but covers neither boundary.

The trust check validated the symlink entry and its lexical parent, but not the resolved target or the ancestors able to substitute it; a trusted-path link into a user-replaceable directory could pass and later exec a substituted file. Resolve the candidate and require root-only writability end to end. The management route now awaits resolveSystemdRunAsync before spawning, so first-request discovery no longer serializes up to twenty seconds of sync probes on the shared event loop.
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Addressed at 331441a — both boundaries are now covered.

P1 — resolved substitution chain. isTrustedSystemdRunFile now canonicalizes the candidate and requires root ownership plus non-group/world-writability on the resolved target file and every ancestor directory able to substitute it, not just the lexical parent. A trusted-path symlink into a user-replaceable directory is now skipped, matching the NixOS /usr/local candidates already in scope. Regressions added: symlink-to-user-dir rejection, deep-ancestor substitution rejection, pinned end-to-end acceptance, and non-root target rejection (all via injected seams, runnable without uid-0 fixtures).

P2 — async probing. resolveSystemdRunAsync runs the scope probes off the request path with the same 5s-per-candidate bound and shares one probe pass across concurrent first callers; the management route awaits it before startUpdateJob and injects the resolved launcher into spawnGuiUpdateWorker. The synchronous resolver remains as the cached fallback for non-route callers. Regression: concurrent first callers share a single pass and the sync resolver serves the cached result.

Local: bun test tests/update/update-worker-launch.test.ts — 10 pass, 4 POSIX-gated skips; tsc --noEmit clean.

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Author follow-up 75f8497d83d2ca293ebbafc4ea26eca75b79f60d preserves the concurrent 331441a8 asynchronous management discovery, adds both lexical and canonical ancestor validation, and removes the PATH-selected no-op payload. Probes run the same trusted absolute binary inside the user scope with an allowlisted environment. Exact-head native worker/update-job/mise tests and type/privacy/structure/size/layout gates passed: https://github.com/luvs01/opencodex/actions/runs/36296808673/job/108557190616 . No privileged service installation or atomic root-namespace-race proof is claimed. Existing history and review requirements are preserved; please re-review the current head.

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@Ingwannu The current-base conflict is resolved in 8f220ad4a77b0dc6ed10dabd1c79e9a9d586d256. The observed dev revision 06d7914e and existing author history are both ancestors. Only the adjacent WorkerLaunchContext / withoutSiblingMarker import conflict needed manual combination; both behaviors were retained. Exact-head native Linux tests for the five worker/update files, typecheck, privacy, structure, file-size/test-layout gates and clean-tree check passed: https://github.com/luvs01/opencodex/actions/runs/36300681709/job/108567755703 . Root-only fixture skips and untested privileged installation remain explicitly documented. Please re-review this integrated head; the PR was not merged and no force push or review dismissal was used.

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probeScopeAsync: path => new Promise<boolean>(resolve => {
const probe = spawn(path, [...SYSTEMD_SCOPE_ARGS, path, "--version"], { stdio: "ignore", env: scopeProbeEnvironment() });
probe.unref();
const timer = setTimeout(() => {
try { probe.kill("SIGKILL"); } catch { /* failed termination is not a successful probe */ }
resolve(false);
}, 5_000);
timer.unref();
probe.once("error", () => { clearTimeout(timer); resolve(false); });
probe.once("close", code => { clearTimeout(timer); resolve(code === 0); });
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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git show 06d7914e6a736b0ab5b112c1198efbfd683b9bc1:src/update/worker-launch.ts | sed -n '1,135p'
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printf '%s\n' '--- bound callers and route references ---'
rg -n -C 5 'resolveSystemdRun|guiUpdateWorkerCommand|hasSystemdRun|update worker|dashboard' src structure tests 2>/dev/null | head -n 500
printf '%s\n' '--- service documentation around cited section ---'
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command -v systemd-run || true
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printf '%s\n' '--- exact old launcher references at base ---'
git grep -n -C 8 'guiUpdateWorkerCommand\|hasSystemdRun\|probeSystemdRun' "$base" -- src tests
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Avoid caching a failed systemd-run resolution permanently.

When /api/update/run runs under systemd, the head calls resolveSystemdRunAsync() before startUpdateJob() validates whether an update is available. A transient probe failure can therefore cache null even when no worker starts. A later update receives undefined, uses the plain detached spawn, and can be killed with the proxy by KillMode=control-group.

The base revision also cached a negative result, but only when the worker-launch path performed the probe. This PR broadens the cache-filling path to requests that can fail before worker creation.

Suggested fix
   const found = await systemdRunProbePending;
+  systemdRunProbePending = undefined;
   // Honor a cache the sync resolver may have filled while the probe ran — the
   // older observation wins so every caller converges on one launcher.
-  if (systemdRunProbe === undefined) systemdRunProbe = found;
+  if (systemdRunProbe === undefined && found !== null) systemdRunProbe = found;
   return systemdRunProbe ?? undefined;

If repeated probe cost is a concern, give negative results a short TTL instead of caching them for the process lifetime.

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In @src/update/worker-launch.ts around lines 112 - 122, Update the systemd-run
resolution flow used by probeScopeAsync so a failed probe result is not cached
permanently: clear the pending probe after it resolves and cache only non-null
results, while preserving any result already populated by the synchronous
resolver. This lets a later request retry after a transient failure.

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Landed on dev in #6062 (merge bf6c57c0d7) as one squashed commit that keeps your authorship. The only change on carry was keeping both imports in src/update/job.ts where it met dev's sibling-marker import. Thank you. Closing because this repository merges into dev, so GitHub does not close carried PRs automatically.

@lidge-jun lidge-jun closed this Sep 27, 2026
Flowershangfromthebranches pushed a commit to Flowershangfromthebranches/opencodex that referenced this pull request Sep 27, 2026
Carried from lidge-jun#6037 into merge train round 3. Resolved the src/update/job.ts import conflict with dev by keeping both imports.

Co-authored-by: Epinephrine <luvs01@hanmail.net>
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