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[FEATURE] Audit authority, code quality and documentation in lib-device #1

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opened 2026-09-12 07:57:45 +02:00 by erikinkinen · 0 comments
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Problem and motivation

This issue tracks continuous Phase 6 audit closure for lib-device. Define device-service formats and validation helpers shared by device owners and consumers.

An initial inventory is not a security or documentation closure claim. Evidence must follow each changed boundary through final heads, with priority security, reliability, then performance.

Proposed behavior and scope

Current inventory: 1 Cargo target (1 lib); manifests: Cargo.toml. Include explicit and automatically discovered targets, supported features and target-specific configurations.

Trace authority-bearing values across callers and public APIs; prove that the library does not acquire hidden service, hardware or host authority. Treat startup/teardown and rootd parity dimensions as caller/consumer contracts where this crate owns no process, with a separate evidence-backed applicability decision per row.

Authority, security and reliability

Maintain a finding register with public finding references, exact revisions, invariants, reproduction, owners, regression tests and closure evidence. Publish only non-sensitive status here; suspected vulnerabilities follow SECURITY.md. Each dimension below needs its own result and rationale; an absent daemon or current Rust target is not a blanket exemption.

Acceptance criteria

  • Record origin, recipient, object, operations, delegation ceiling, lifetime and aliases for each relevant capability or caller-supplied authority-bearing value.
  • Audit ambient discovery/selectors, cwd/PATH/environment, numeric identities, inherited routes and host fallbacks; require explicit authorized intake.
  • Account for residual authority after success, error, cancellation, timeout, restart, failed transfer and teardown, including fork/exec where implemented.
  • Remove unnecessary endpoints, broad rights, duplicate aliases, provider/admin grants and debug routes.
  • Exercise stale generations, replay, pending replies, forged descriptive identity and object/path resolution races at the owned boundary.
  • Prove independent cleanup attempts and caller-specific error precedence; quarantine or terminate when retained authority cannot be accounted for.
  • Review unsafe/FFI/parser/arithmetic/lifetime/lock/publication invariants and add adversarial coverage where practical.
  • Inventory obsolete APIs, wrappers, fallback/dead paths and duplicate validators with their maintained callers.
  • Migrate callers and delete deprecated contracts/shims in a coherent signed revision graph; reject retired input versions where relevant.
  • Classify each size/count/depth/time bound as ABI, hardware, explicit resource policy or accidental limitation.
  • Test beyond removed boundaries and at allocation/ABI limits while preserving exhaustion errors, denial-of-service controls and bounded waits.
  • Keep every tracked authored code/test/script/workflow file below 1000 physical lines through thematic refactoring.
  • Run the deterministic tracked-source size gate, covering executable fixtures/generators and excluding only genuine non-code data or external payloads.
  • Audit production/test feature and symbol separation, including this repository's effect on rootd test orchestration.
  • Supply changes affecting rootd semantic surface to the maintained same-toolchain baseline; record a justified component-specific applicability result.
  • Check bootstrap ownership and development/release authority parity at this repository's producer/consumer boundary.
  • Use maintained integration#3 profiler evidence before optimizing; preserve live access checks, ownership and success criteria.
  • Audit build/CI inputs, secret handling, private outputs, symlink containment, deletion, subprocess bounds, warnings and host dependencies.
  • meaningful public/private inline documentation, crate/target missing_docs enforcement without blanket allowances or hidden-API escapes, warning-denied private-item rustdoc and an undocumented-public-API negative gate.
  • Validation: Run cargo fmt --all -- --check, strict Clippy, unit/doctests and warning-denied builds/rustdoc for every owned crate/target under default and all valid feature, freestanding/host, SMP and profile combinations; test mutually exclusive combinations separately. Add focused VM regressions for runtime behavior and observe the older catalog and unit tests at the exact published heads.
  • Documentation: update applicable README/ARCHITECTURE/ROADMAP in meta's canonical format and affected technical-manual TeX/API references; keep README evergreen and shared governance byte-identical to meta.
  • Evidence: record exact source/dependency revisions, commands, configurations, real exit status, CI run URLs and results; repeat the audit on final heads and obtain independent review of security closures. No skipped/pending/predecessor result counts as a pass.

Alternatives and tradeoffs

Use cohesive local refactoring or a justified shared extraction only after identifying real common semantics and authority boundaries. Remove superseded paths after preserving maintained coverage. Profile before optimization; document unavoidable ABI/hardware limits and explicit quotas rather than weakening security for speed.

Tracking and rollout

  • Parent work: erix/integration#2 and erix/docs#1.
  • Branch: feature/posix-compat; update linked WIP PRs after coherent signed checkpoints using canonical CONTRIBUTING.md messages.
  • Baseline revision: 4fcef6d5af5661ab9f2f7ae541dc48c6bb5e445e; refresh component/dependency heads and their own CI evidence as implementation advances.
  • Cross-repository dependencies remain full lowercase commit hashes; update the selected graph deliberately. This issue does not authorize merges, release tags or replacement of published images.
## Problem and motivation This issue tracks continuous Phase 6 audit closure for `lib-device`. Define device-service formats and validation helpers shared by device owners and consumers. An initial inventory is not a security or documentation closure claim. Evidence must follow each changed boundary through final heads, with priority security, reliability, then performance. ## Proposed behavior and scope Current inventory: 1 Cargo target (1 lib); manifests: `Cargo.toml`. Include explicit and automatically discovered targets, supported features and target-specific configurations. Trace authority-bearing values across callers and public APIs; prove that the library does not acquire hidden service, hardware or host authority. Treat startup/teardown and rootd parity dimensions as caller/consumer contracts where this crate owns no process, with a separate evidence-backed applicability decision per row. ## Authority, security and reliability Maintain a finding register with public finding references, exact revisions, invariants, reproduction, owners, regression tests and closure evidence. Publish only non-sensitive status here; suspected vulnerabilities follow SECURITY.md. Each dimension below needs its own result and rationale; an absent daemon or current Rust target is not a blanket exemption. ## Acceptance criteria - [ ] Record origin, recipient, object, operations, delegation ceiling, lifetime and aliases for each relevant capability or caller-supplied authority-bearing value. - [ ] Audit ambient discovery/selectors, cwd/PATH/environment, numeric identities, inherited routes and host fallbacks; require explicit authorized intake. - [ ] Account for residual authority after success, error, cancellation, timeout, restart, failed transfer and teardown, including fork/exec where implemented. - [ ] Remove unnecessary endpoints, broad rights, duplicate aliases, provider/admin grants and debug routes. - [ ] Exercise stale generations, replay, pending replies, forged descriptive identity and object/path resolution races at the owned boundary. - [ ] Prove independent cleanup attempts and caller-specific error precedence; quarantine or terminate when retained authority cannot be accounted for. - [ ] Review unsafe/FFI/parser/arithmetic/lifetime/lock/publication invariants and add adversarial coverage where practical. - [ ] Inventory obsolete APIs, wrappers, fallback/dead paths and duplicate validators with their maintained callers. - [ ] Migrate callers and delete deprecated contracts/shims in a coherent signed revision graph; reject retired input versions where relevant. - [ ] Classify each size/count/depth/time bound as ABI, hardware, explicit resource policy or accidental limitation. - [ ] Test beyond removed boundaries and at allocation/ABI limits while preserving exhaustion errors, denial-of-service controls and bounded waits. - [ ] Keep every tracked authored code/test/script/workflow file below 1000 physical lines through thematic refactoring. - [ ] Run the deterministic tracked-source size gate, covering executable fixtures/generators and excluding only genuine non-code data or external payloads. - [ ] Audit production/test feature and symbol separation, including this repository's effect on rootd test orchestration. - [ ] Supply changes affecting rootd semantic surface to the maintained same-toolchain baseline; record a justified component-specific applicability result. - [ ] Check bootstrap ownership and development/release authority parity at this repository's producer/consumer boundary. - [ ] Use maintained [integration#3](https://git.erikinkinen.fi/erix/integration/issues/3) profiler evidence before optimizing; preserve live access checks, ownership and success criteria. - [ ] Audit build/CI inputs, secret handling, private outputs, symlink containment, deletion, subprocess bounds, warnings and host dependencies. - [ ] meaningful public/private inline documentation, crate/target `missing_docs` enforcement without blanket allowances or hidden-API escapes, warning-denied private-item rustdoc and an undocumented-public-API negative gate. - [ ] Validation: Run `cargo fmt --all -- --check`, strict Clippy, unit/doctests and warning-denied builds/rustdoc for every owned crate/target under default and all valid feature, freestanding/host, SMP and profile combinations; test mutually exclusive combinations separately. Add focused VM regressions for runtime behavior and observe the older catalog and unit tests at the exact published heads. - [ ] Documentation: update applicable README/ARCHITECTURE/ROADMAP in meta's canonical format and affected technical-manual TeX/API references; keep README evergreen and shared governance byte-identical to meta. - [ ] Evidence: record exact source/dependency revisions, commands, configurations, real exit status, CI run URLs and results; repeat the audit on final heads and obtain independent review of security closures. No skipped/pending/predecessor result counts as a pass. ## Alternatives and tradeoffs Use cohesive local refactoring or a justified shared extraction only after identifying real common semantics and authority boundaries. Remove superseded paths after preserving maintained coverage. Profile before optimization; document unavoidable ABI/hardware limits and explicit quotas rather than weakening security for speed. ## Tracking and rollout - Parent work: https://git.erikinkinen.fi/erix/integration/issues/2 and https://git.erikinkinen.fi/erix/docs/issues/1. - Branch: `feature/posix-compat`; update linked WIP PRs after coherent signed checkpoints using canonical CONTRIBUTING.md messages. - Baseline revision: `4fcef6d5af5661ab9f2f7ae541dc48c6bb5e445e`; refresh component/dependency heads and their own CI evidence as implementation advances. - Cross-repository dependencies remain full lowercase commit hashes; update the selected graph deliberately. This issue does not authorize merges, release tags or replacement of published images.
erikinkinen changed title from [FEATURE] [P02.R38] Audit authority, code quality and documentation in lib-device to [FEATURE] Audit authority, code quality and documentation in lib-device 2026-09-12 08:02:25 +02:00
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