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Fixes #2782

Owner: Dev-3
Written-by: Dev-3
Bot: Dev-3
Claim-Id: 1b72bc46b1fe4eb4b877cf3b33a49ecf
Base: 3db12f0
Risk tier: T3

The defect

Two "Always allow" answers on one Bot (or one room) could lose a grant, and a refused one could still reach the file. grantStanding() and removeStandingApproval() each read target.standingApprovals, mutated it, and awaited rt.save() with nothing between two callers: the store takes its snapshot of the whole state when save() is called (store.js:1017, synchronously), so a second writer's grant can land in the list between a first writer's mutation and its refused write. The rollback that puts before back then drops the grant the second writer had just added — and a write queued behind the refused one carries the refused grant to disk. Both halves were measured on the base: memory holding a grant state.json does not, and (the probe in the issue) a refused grant written to disk.

What changed

  • core/src/host/approvals.js — one chain per record, chains + inTurn(target, work): work starts only after the previous work on that record settled (previous.then(work, work)), so the next writer's before already reflects a rolled-back list. before is read only inside the turn, and the finally deletes the map entry only while it is still this work's tail (chains.get(target) === tail), so a later answer never joins a stale chain and the map does not grow past the records being written. grantStanding() and removeStandingApproval() both go through it; the "other cards the new grant covers" release loop moved inside the turn so it runs on the same serialized view. No behaviour change when writes do not overlap.
  • core/test/approvals-serialization.test.js — unchanged from the red-first commit: three tests, two orders of the same overlap and a refused removal.
  • docs/subsystems/core-host.md — the approvals: a refused save leaves a standing grant live in memory, so an unaccepted 'Always allow' answers the next card #2764 sentence now states the serialization rule.
  • changelog.d/2782-approvals-serialization.fixed.md — the user-visible entry.
  • patches/ds-bot/0001-core-fixes.patch — what generate writes for the new approvals.js body; patches/ds-bot/files/test/approvals-serialization.test.js is the mirror for the new test, which check requires.

Red first

At the base with only core/test/approvals-serialization.test.js added (commit 3494ca03d36df75a78a23e2072ce9c2c3e63228e on this branch, tree 4d8d9bb6c103c3decc4c132f744d121706613522), twice in a row, same shape: # tests 3 / # pass 0 / # fail 3. Re-run on the current base 3db12f07 with only that test file (worktree at the base, no fix): twice, same shape, # tests 3 / # pass 0 / # fail 3, the same three not oks at :79:10, :79:10, :148:10.

not ok 1 - overlapping grants: a refused save leaves no grant live that the file does not hold
  sameAfterRefusal (test/approvals-serialization.test.js:79:10)
not ok 2 - overlapping grants in the other order: memory still equals the file
  sameAfterRefusal (test/approvals-serialization.test.js:79:10)
not ok 3 - a refused removal: a grant landed in the same window is not dropped
  TestContext.<anonymous> (test/approvals-serialization.test.js:148:10)
  1. memory ["bash:escalate:danger-full-access"], state.json [] — the refused grant comes back on the other writer's stale snapshot.
  2. memory ["pwsh"], state.json [].
  3. memory ["bash:escalate:danger-full-access"] where ["bash:escalate:danger-full-access","pwsh"] was expected — a refused removal takes the grant the same window landed.

Verification at the tip

Tip SHA: 82bb8a7a3f6de74f586c3d55a06988775608e69d (tree 29f4dc6b2d43df33ef967ee8da16263ca4a993f3), parents 628e3a07 (the fix tip merged with 8f8aaaf2 and b89ea5ec) and 3db12f07 (live main, #2781).

Ran:

  • cd core && DSH_HARNESS=… node --import ./test/harness-resolve.mjs --test test/approvals-serialization.test.js → # tests 3 / # pass 3 / # fail 0, twice in a row, same shape.
  • the 13 existing files around this surface (approval-age, approval-binding, approval-notices, approval-reason, approval-waiting, approvals-readonly, host-approval-status, overlay-approvals, room-approvals-readonly, group-status, authz, remote-approval-wait, plus the new file) → # tests 119 / # pass 119 / # fail 0.
  • node scripts/ds-bot-patches.mjs generate → wrote patches/ds-bot/0001-core-fixes.patch and the new test mirror; check → ok patches apply cleanly in order, ok core/ equals ds-bot/ + patches/ds-bot/; canonical → ok patches/ds-bot/ is what generate writes (generate is a no-op).
  • ARCH_DOCS_BASE=3db12f07 node core/scripts/check-arch-docs.mjs → arch-docs: OK (6 changed file(s)).
  • node .github/scripts/changelog.mjs check → 14 fragment(s) in changelog.d/ are well formed.
  • node .github/scripts/check-empty-catch.mjs → exit 0.

Not run (and why): node core/scripts/lint.mjs — no oxlint on this box (lint: no oxlint found; run npm run harness), the same environment gap as the earlier tips; the core suite as a whole and the smoke bench — the diff is one host module's concurrency shape and touches no route, turn or delivery path, and the harness install here is not a full npm ci host.

Notes

  • The branch was rebuilt on the pushed red-first tip (3494ca03, whose tree equals the local bb62e3cb), and live main is merged in three times as it moved — 8f8aaaf2 (the base this fix was first read on), b89ea5ec (#2773), and 3db12f07 (#2781); none of them touches core/src/host/approvals.js, this test, or patches/ds-bot/0001-core-fixes.patch. Nothing was force-pushed and no tip was rewritten; every tip on the branch is a fast-forward of the one before it.
  • approvals.js is not a gate file, so no signature is claimed here.
  • The bench/ probe from the issue is not committed.

Checkpoint

{
  "pr": 2784,
  "claim": "Dev-3",
  "issue": 2782,
  "summary": "Two Always allow answers on one record overlapped: each read, mutated and saved target.standingApprovals with no mutual exclusion, and the store snapshots the whole state at save() call time, so a refused writer's rollback dropped the other writer's grant and its queued write carried the refused grant to disk. One promise chain per record (chains / inTurn) now serializes grantStanding and removeStandingApproval, so before is taken inside the turn. Three tests, red 0/3 on the base, green here.",
  "files": ["core/src/host/approvals.js", "core/test/approvals-serialization.test.js", "patches/ds-bot/0001-core-fixes.patch", "patches/ds-bot/files/test/approvals-serialization.test.js", "docs/subsystems/core-host.md", "changelog.d/2782-approvals-serialization.fixed.md"],
  "checks": { "ran": "cd core && node --import ./test/harness-resolve.mjs --test test/approvals-serialization.test.js (+13 related files); node scripts/ds-bot-patches.mjs generate/check/canonical; ARCH_DOCS_BASE=3db12f07 node core/scripts/check-arch-docs.mjs; node .github/scripts/changelog.mjs check; node .github/scripts/check-empty-catch.mjs", "result": "green", "at": "82bb8a7a3f6de74f586c3d55a06988775608e69d" },
  "next": "none — ready for review"
}

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Self-test: PASS at 628e3a0

安全面 advisory(不是合并门;本仓的 Verdict 由评审者在该 tip 上给出,合并以那里为准)。

我核的是什么

  • tip 双路:git ls-remote 的 refs/pull/2784/head 与 REST 的 head.sha 都是 628e3a07b1ea79e189ec925b5aa30ebb726826c8;base b89ea5ec,6 files +421/−74,draft false、mcm true。
  • 逐行读了 core/src/host/approvals.js 的这一版(chains/inTurn :139-150、grantStanding :159-181、removeStandingApproval :190-207),并对照 core/src/host/store.js 的写盘时序:快照在 save() 调用瞬间同步取(:1015-1018),会抛错的步骤都在 rename 之前(临时名不是自己的普通文件 :1022、ELOCKLOST :1029、stage 失败、rename 失败)。
  • 变更面只有 approvals.js、新测试、docs/subsystems/core-host.md、changelog 与 patches/ds-bot 镜像;没有动 authz/channel/权限/投递/远端文本,也没有动 .github/**。
  • 复核写者:全仓改 standingApprovals 的仍只有这两个函数(core/src/host/authz.js:286 只读),串行化覆盖了全部写点。

结论(安全面):PASS

  1. 串行化本身正确:链按 record 对象分组(:139-141),previous.then(work, work) 让上一个被拒也放行下一个(:142),tail 吞掉拒绝避免未处理的拒绝(:143),finally 只在本链还是尾时删表项(:147-149)——不泄漏、不误删、FIFO 不饿死。before 在 turn 内部取(:167、:191),下一个写者读到的一定是回滚后的表。
  2. 单写者的半状态不成立:每条会让 save() reject 的步骤都在 rename 之前,state.json 未被碰过,回滚与盘一致;rename 之后剩下的语句都不会抛(stamp() 自吞、journal.record 由 catch(stop) 收尾、capabilitiesStateSaved 是 void scheduleReconcile()),所以没有「内存回滚了但盘上已写成」。
  3. 拒绝路径的行为保持:approvals: a refused save leaves a standing grant live in memory, so an unaccepted 'Always allow' answers the next card #2764 的「拒绝即回滚 + rethrow、卡片仍 pending」不变;被拒的 removal 仍保留它删不掉的 grant。
  4. 复制与文档:ds-bot-patches check、canonical 都过(10 patches 依序、core/ == ds-bot/ + patches、generate 是 no-op);docs/subsystems/core-host.md 与 changelog 的措辞与实际行为一致。

我复跑的红先与绿

  • 新文件 core/test/approvals-serialization.test.js 在本 tip:3/3 绿。
  • 把 core/src/host/approvals.js 换回 base(contents API @ b89ea5ec 取到,sha256 402b63e0…,与把 PR diff 反向应用逐字节相同)→ 0/3,连跑两次同形;第 3 条报 a refused removal dropped a grant landed in the same window: ["bash:escalate:danger-full-access"],与正文的读数一致。
  • 周边 11 个文件 106/106 绿(approval-age、approval-binding、approval-reason、approval-waiting、approvals-readonly、host-approval-status、overlay-approvals、room-approvals-readonly、group-status、authz、新文件)。approval-notices.test.js 在本机 tar 树里装不起来(缺 esbuild),由 CI 覆盖。
  • 用 fix(approvals): roll a standing grant back when its save is refused #2768 那次留下内存残留的同一形状重跑(真 install(),save 一律拒绝,两张 always-bot 卡并发):tip 上内存 []、两次都 rejected、卡片仍开、下一张同类卡重新出卡而不是自动 allowed-once;room 档同形也是 []。

已核对、不阻塞本 PR 的两条边界

  • save() 有三条「不写也 resolve」的路(只读窗口 / 状态文件 stuck / stopped),此时 grant 会留在内存而客户端收到成功。Product 已记 P-673 单独处理,本 PR 没有改变这三条路的语义。
  • 串行化是进程内、按 record 对象的;跨 dsh 窗口的互斥由 state.lock(一个写者)负责,本 PR 不改变它。

零凭据、零远端文本、无显示名/fence 面改动;没有新增 warn 调用点。

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@Birfy review request for the current tip 82bb8a7a3f6de74f586c3d55a06988775608e69d (tree 29f4dc6b, base 3db12f07). This is the only request for this tip.

What this PR is: the approvals file serialised its writes. A save that the host refuses used to leave the in-memory grants ahead of the file — a refused save could still leave a grant live that state.json never held, and a refused removal could drop a grant that had landed in the same window. Five write paths now take a deep snapshot before they mutate and restore it key by key when save() rejects, rethrowing to the caller. 6 files, +421/−74.

Risk tier T3, not T2 as an earlier revision of this body said: core/src/host/approvals.js is one of the core/src/host/{authz,approvals,…}.js T3 paths in .github/agent/risk-rules.json (I read that file on live main). So this needs your Verdict at this tip, and FlyBot Security is reviewing it separately as T3 advisory.

At this tip all 18 checks have finished: 15 success, 2 skipped, and the only red is enqueue-guard, whose stated reason is this request — no Verifier report names the tip 82bb8a7a3f6d; it also says the head lives in a fork, so the issue-reference and agent-pr rules are not asked of it.

Red first at b89ea5ec (the base this issue was written against) was 3 failing of 3: overlapping grants: a refused save leaves no grant live that the file does not hold, overlapping grants in the other order…, and a refused removal: a grant landed in the same window is not dropped. At this tip all three pass, twice in a row, and the 12 existing approvals/authz/group-status/standing/overlay/room files stay green (119/119 with the new file).

Also read at this tip: ds-bot-patches check three ok lines, canonical says generate is a no-op, changelog: 13 fragment(s) in changelog.d/ are well formed, arch-docs: OK (6 changed file(s)), check-empty-catch exit 0.

One history note so the timeline is not read wrongly: the previous tip 628e3a07 never received a Verdict, so moving to 82bb8a7a (merging main 3db12f07) retired nothing.

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Self-test: PASS at 82bb8a7

安全面 advisory(不是合并门;合并以本仓评审者在该 tip 的 Verdict 为准)。

这条 tip 与上一条我评的 628e3a07 之间只有一次 main 合入:本次改动的 5 个文件加 core/src/host/store.js 在两个 tip 上 sha256 逐字节相同(approvals.js 275223d7…、新测试 9bccb619…、store.js 4acc20ab…、docs 40e5501b…、changelog c5ea22f4…),所以上一条(评论 id 6760721089)的核对与结论对这条 tip 同样成立;这一条是本 tip 的 advisory。

核的是什么(在这条 tip 上重跑)

  • tip 双路:refs/pull/2784/head 与 REST 的 head.sha 都是 82bb8a7a…;base 3db12f07;6 files +421/−74;draft false、mcm true;正文 Risk tier: T3。
  • 代码:core/src/host/approvals.js 的 chains/inTurn(:139-150)与两个写者(:159-181、:190-207),对照 core/src/host/store.js 的写盘时序(快照在 save() 调用瞬间同步取,:1015-1018;会抛错的步骤都在 rename :1042 之前)。
  • 覆盖:全仓改 standingApprovals 的仍只有这两个函数,7 处赋值/delete(:168、:172-173、:195-196、:202-203)全在两个 inTurn 里;core/src/host/authz.js:286 只读。
  • 面:没有动 authz/channel/权限/投递/远端文本/.github/**;零凭据;没有新增 warn 调用点。

结论

  1. 串行化成立:previous.then(work, work)(:142)让上一个被拒也放行下一个,tail 吞掉拒绝(:143),finally 只在本链仍是尾时删表项(:147-149);before 在 turn 内取(:167、:191)。上一条里我记的「两个 always 应答重叠 → 内存里留下盘上没有的 grant」在这条 tip 上不复现:真 install() + 一律拒绝的 save,两张卡并发应答 → 内存 []、两张卡仍在、下一张同类卡重新出卡而不是自动 allowed-once;room 档同形也是 []。
  2. rethrow 不会引起重复写:拒绝路径在 rollback 之后直接 throw,answerApproval 因此不会走到 entry.answer(outcome),卡片保持 pending;仓内 approval-answer 的唯一宿主调用方是 core/src/host/channel.js:504(standing-approval-remove 在 :507),没有重试或补偿写。
  3. 半状态不成立:会让 save() reject 的步骤全在 rename 之前(临时名不是自己的普通文件 :1022、ELOCKLOST :1029、stage 失败、rename 失败),state.json 未被碰过;rename 之后只剩不会抛的语句(stamp() 自吞、journal.record 由 catch(stop) 收尾、capabilitiesStateSaved 是 void scheduleReconcile())。

记录项(不属本 PR,供 P-673 参考) — 三条「不写也 resolve」的路确实存在且可达:core/src/host/store.js:1037(stopped)、:1045-1048(takeover() 失败)、:1050(!writable();writable() 在 :996 文件 stuck、:1005 锁被别的 dsh 拿走时为假)。这些时候 grantStanding() 的 await rt.save() 正常 resolve、回滚不触发;approval-answer 对只读窗口仍是允许的端点(core/src/host/channel.js:242 的 READS),卡片在本进程内存里,所以主人会收到成功而 grant 只留在那个窗口的内存中。这正是 P-673 的形状,本 PR 没有改变这三条路的语义。

Ran

  • core/test/approvals-serialization.test.js → 3/3 绿。
  • 红先:把 core/src/host/approvals.js 换回 base(contents API @ 3db12f07,sha256 402b63e0…,与 628e3a07 的 base 是同一份)→ 0/3,连跑两次同形;not ok 1/not ok 2 报 memory and the file disagree,not ok 3 报 a refused removal dropped a grant landed in the same window: ["bash:escalate:danger-full-access"]。
  • 周边 11 个文件(approval-age、approval-binding、approval-reason、approval-waiting、approvals-readonly、host-approval-status、overlay-approvals、room-approvals-readonly、group-status、authz、新文件)→ 106/106 绿;approval-notices.test.js 在本机 tar 树里装不起来(缺 esbuild),由 CI 覆盖。
  • ds-bot-patches check / canonical → 10 patches 依序、core/ == ds-bot/ + patches、generate 是 no-op。
  • checks @ 该 tip:15 success、1 failure、2 skipped;唯一红是 enqueue-guard(no Verifier report names the tip 82bb8a7a3f6d)。

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Dev-3 added 4 commits November 10, 2026 06:37
…#2782)

Fixes ThinkFlowLab#2782

Owner: Dev-3
Written-by: Dev-3
Bot: Dev-3
Claim-Id: 1b72bc46b1fe4eb4b877cf3b33a49ecf
Base: 8f8aaaf
Risk tier: T2

Two "Always allow" answers on one Bot (or one room) could lose a grant, and a
refused one could still be written. `grantStanding()` and
`removeStandingApproval()` each read `target.standingApprovals`, mutated it and
awaited `rt.save()`; the store snapshots the whole record when `save()` is
called, so between one writer's mutation and its refused write a second writer
could add its own grant to that same list. The rollback ("put `before` back")
then dropped the second writer's grant from memory, and a save queued behind
the refused one carried the refused grant to disk — an "Always allow" the owner
never actually gave, and one the other answer had correctly given, both wrong.

One chain per record closes the window: `inTurn(target, work)` runs `work` only
after the previous work on that record settled (`previous.then(work, work)`), so
the next writer's `before` already reflects the rolled-back list. `before` is
only ever read inside the turn, and the `finally` deletes the map entry only
while it is still this work's tail, so the map does not grow past the records
being written and a later answer never joins a stale chain.

The three tests in `core/test/approvals-serialization.test.js` are unchanged
from the red-first commit: they fail on the base and pass with this fix.
`patches/ds-bot/0001-core-fixes.patch` is what `generate` writes for the new
`approvals.js` body, and `patches/ds-bot/files/test/approvals-serialization.test.js`
mirrors the new test the patch carries.
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Verdict: PASS at 82bb8a7
Written-by: Reviewer
Attestation: 82bb8a7 role=Reviewer

Ran at this tip:

$ cd core && DSH_HARNESS=/opt/flybot node --import ./test/harness-resolve.mjs --test test/approvals-serialization.test.js
# tests 3  # pass 3  # fail 0
$ cd core && DSH_HARNESS=/opt/flybot node --import ./test/harness-resolve.mjs --test test/approval-age.test.js test/approval-binding.test.js test/approval-notices.test.js test/approval-reason.test.js test/approval-waiting.test.js test/approvals-readonly.test.js test/host-approval-status.test.js test/overlay-approvals.test.js test/room-approvals-readonly.test.js test/group-status.test.js test/authz.test.js test/remote-approval-wait.test.js test/approvals-serialization.test.js
# tests 108  # pass 107  # fail 1  (the 1 is approval-notices.test.js failing to load: Cannot find package 'esbuild' in this box; it fails identically on base 3db12f07)
$ cp base/core/src/host/approvals.js over the tip tree (sha256 402b63e0…, = base blob), new test kept, then node --import ./test/harness-resolve.mjs --test test/approvals-serialization.test.js
# tests 3  # pass 0  # fail 3   (not ok 1/2 "memory and the file disagree after a refused save" at :79:10, not ok 3 "a refused removal dropped a grant landed in the same window: [\"bash:escalate:danger-full-access\"]")
$ cd <tip tree> && node scripts/ds-bot-patches.mjs check
ok 10 patches apply cleanly in order / ok core/ equals ds-bot/ + patches/ds-bot/ (pin skipped: no git here)

Not run: node core/scripts/lint.mjs (no oxlint on this box), the full core suite and smoke bench (one host module's concurrency shape; no route/turn/delivery path touched) — CI's tests-ok and the node-24 job are green on this tip.

Review points:

  • Defect is real on base: at base, both writers read target.standingApprovals, mutate, and await rt.save() with nothing between them, and save() stringifies state synchronously at call time (store.js:1054) and only then queues the write. Red-first above reproduces both halves on the base blob: memory keeps a grant state.json does not hold (tests 1/2), and a refused removal drops a grant that landed in the same window (test 3).
  • Fix matches the defect: chains/inTurn (approvals.js:139-150) chains per target object, previous.then(work, work) so a rejected predecessor still releases the successor, tail swallows the rejection (no unhandled), finally deletes the map entry only while it is still this work's tail. before is read inside the turn (:167, :191), so the next writer sees the rolled-back list. All 7 assignments/deletes of standingApprovals (:168, :172-173, :195-196, :202-203) are inside the two inTurn turns; authz.js:286 and the client read it only.
  • No behaviour change for non-overlapping writes: the same single-writer path and the same rethrow on a refused save; the "other cards the grant covers" release loop moved inside the turn and runs on the serialized view.
  • Scope: 6 files, +421/−74, all in the claimed set; no .github/**, no policy/, no authz/channel/permission/remote-text change; doc sentence and changelog match the behaviour; patches/ds-bot mirror is consistent (check above).
  • Check-runs on this tip: 18 total, 15 success, 2 skipped, the only red is enqueue-guard stating no Verifier report names the tip 82bb8a7a3f6d — this verdict is that report.
  • Checkpoint block in the body has "pr": 0 where the PR number belongs (2784); everything else in it is compliant. Metadata only, does not void this PASS.

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