fix(sandbox): wait for guest agent, verify exec user provisioning, pin rebuilt image - #343
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A freshly created microVM does not accept msb exec until its guest agent is up, so provisioning raced the boot and died on three 15s timeouts, which then failed the whole enforcement-enable path. Gate provisioning on msb ping bounded by SANDBOX_START_TIMEOUT_MS, give the exec a 30s budget, and downgrade a provisioning failure to a warning so a missing sudo entry never blocks sandboxed commands.
… guest image - pass --shell /bin/sh explicitly at create and derive the canonical spec from the create args so msb 0.6.15 recordings match attestation - bump the SANDBOX_IMAGE pin to the rebuilt guest image digest - verify the provisioned exec user inside the guest and give the provisioning exec the full start timeout, bounded by a deadline
…build The build verification ran as uid 1000, which is the base image's node user, so it exercised the known-user path and would have passed even if the numeric exec uid the runtime actually uses were broken. Verify the toolchain as uid 4242 instead and keep the sudo check on the known user, since sudo refuses unknown uids by design. Also only write the shadow entry when the passwd entry is created, so a uid that already exists leaves no orphan record.
msb exec reads its stdin during session setup and waits for EOF, so every child spawned through executeCommand with an open stdin pipe hung until its timeout while identical CLI execs finished instantly. Spawn children with stdin ignored. Also verify the provisioned exec user from a fresh guest exec after each provisioning attempt and move failed provisioning to a logged background retry bounded by five attempts so a slow guest no longer blocks enforcement or leaves sudo silently missing.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughSandbox startup now uses an explicit ChangesSandbox provisioning and runtime validation
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR improves sandbox startup and provisioning reliability, but a cancellation race can still retry provisioning after a sandbox has been stopped, causing commands to run against an inactive guest. This is a bounded runtime risk that should remain with explicit owner awareness and follow-up. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SandboxRuntime
participant msb
participant GuestAgent
participant ProvisioningRetry
SandboxRuntime->>msb: ping sandbox
msb->>GuestAgent: check agent readiness
GuestAgent-->>msb: readiness response
SandboxRuntime->>msb: execute provisioning command
msb-->>SandboxRuntime: provisioning result
SandboxRuntime->>ProvisioningRetry: schedule retry after failure
ProvisioningRetry->>msb: retry provisioning
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backend/test/services/sandbox/command.test.ts (1)
274-275: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winRemove the duplicate assertion.
Both lines assert the same string against
script. Keep one assertion.As per coding guidelines, “Avoid duplicated logic and follow DRY principles.”
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In `@backend/src/services/sandbox/runtime.ts`:
- Around line 638-652: Update stopWorkspaceSandboxForToggle() to increment
provisionRetryGeneration at the beginning of every managed-sandbox stop, before
stopping begins, so scheduled retries are cancelled by the existing generation
check and cannot run against a stopped sandbox.
- Around line 574-617: Update provisionSandboxExecUserPasswd and
waitForSandboxAgent to share a single deadline created before agent polling;
pass the remaining time to each ping and provisioning executeCommand call,
preventing any operation from receiving a fresh full SANDBOX.START_TIMEOUT_MS
after the readiness phase.
- Around line 764-771: Update createWorkspaceSandbox and
scheduleBackgroundProvisionRetry to share a single in-flight provisioning
promise for provisionSandboxExecUserPasswd attempts. Reuse the existing promise
when foreground provisioning and the two-second background retry overlap, and
clear it after completion so later retries can run normally while preserving the
current logging and retry behavior.
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In `@backend/test/services/sandbox/command.test.ts`:
- Around line 274-275: Remove the duplicate expect assertion in the test,
keeping a single assertion that verifies the getent passwd check within script.
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| async function waitForSandboxAgent(): Promise<boolean> { | ||
| const deadline = Date.now() + ENV.SANDBOX.START_TIMEOUT_MS | ||
| for (;;) { | ||
| if (await pingSandboxAgent()) return true | ||
| if (Date.now() >= deadline) return false | ||
| await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, SANDBOX_AGENT_POLL_DELAY_MS)) | ||
| } | ||
| } | ||
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| async function provisionSandboxExecUser(): Promise<void> { | ||
| try { | ||
| await provisionSandboxExecUserPasswd() | ||
| return | ||
| } catch (error) { | ||
| logger.warn( | ||
| `Sandbox exec user provisioning failed, so sudo will not work inside the guest yet; retrying in the background: ${error instanceof Error ? error.message : String(error)}`, | ||
| ) | ||
| } | ||
| scheduleBackgroundProvisionRetry() | ||
| } | ||
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| async function provisionSandboxExecUserPasswd(): Promise<void> { | ||
| const provisionArgs = buildSandboxProvisionArgs() | ||
| if (provisionArgs.length === 0) { | ||
| return | ||
| } | ||
| if (!(await waitForSandboxAgent())) { | ||
| throw new Error('the sandbox agent did not become reachable before the exec user could be provisioned') | ||
| } | ||
| let lastError: unknown = null | ||
| const deadline = Date.now() + ENV.SANDBOX.START_TIMEOUT_MS | ||
| for (let attempt = 0; attempt < SANDBOX_PROVISION_ATTEMPTS; attempt++) { | ||
| if (attempt > 0) { | ||
| if (Date.now() >= deadline) break | ||
| await new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, SANDBOX_PROVISION_RETRY_DELAY_MS)) | ||
| } | ||
| try { | ||
| await executeCommand([sandboxExecutablePath(), ...provisionArgs], { | ||
| timeout: SANDBOX_LS_TIMEOUT_MS, | ||
| timeout: ENV.SANDBOX.START_TIMEOUT_MS, | ||
| }) | ||
| const verifyArgs = buildSandboxVerifyProvisionArgs() | ||
| if (verifyArgs.length > 0) { | ||
| await executeCommand([sandboxExecutablePath(), ...verifyArgs], { | ||
| timeout: SANDBOX_LS_TIMEOUT_MS, |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Use one deadline for agent readiness and provisioning.
waitForSandboxAgent() can consume SANDBOX_START_TIMEOUT_MS before this function creates its provisioning deadline. A provisioning command can then receive another full start timeout. Sandbox startup can exceed the configured start timeout by nearly two timeout windows.
Create the deadline before agent polling. Pass only the remaining time to each ping and provisioning command.
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In `@backend/src/services/sandbox/runtime.ts` around lines 574 - 617, Update
provisionSandboxExecUserPasswd and waitForSandboxAgent to share a single
deadline created before agent polling; pass the remaining time to each ping and
provisioning executeCommand call, preventing any operation from receiving a
fresh full SANDBOX.START_TIMEOUT_MS after the readiness phase.
Advance the provisioning retry generation and drop the pending retry at the start of every managed-sandbox stop, so a retry scheduled before a toggle-off no longer pings and provisions a stopped sandbox. Clearing the promise as well keeps later retries schedulable, since the generation guard would otherwise strand it and short-circuit scheduling. Route every provisioning caller through a single in-flight promise so the boot-path attempt and the background retry cannot run the check-then-append passwd and shadow script concurrently and append duplicate account entries.
CodeRabbit Review Follow-upReviewed 3 CodeRabbit feedback items. Two are fixed in Fixed
Declined: "Use one deadline for agent readiness and provisioning" The arithmetic is correct, but the separate per-phase budgets are deliberate. Sharing one deadline makes agent readiness and provisioning compete, so a slow cold boot would leave provisioning a fraction of its budget — the shortened-timeout failure mode this branch was created to fix. The doubled window only materialises on the create/restart fallback path, where completing successfully matters more than latency. If we want to bound it later, the non-regressive route is a dedicated provisioning timeout setting rather than splitting the readiness budget. Validation: backend suite 1583 tests passing (2 new regression tests), lint clean, typecheck clean. Files modified:
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781-787: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winDo not schedule a retry after a toggle stop invalidates an active provisioning attempt.
Line 781 does not retain
provisionRetryGeneration. If a toggle stop starts while this attempt is pending, Line 849 increments the generation and stops the guest. When the pending attempt then fails, this catch schedules a new retry with the new generation. The retry survives its cancellation checks and runsmsb pingand provisioning commands against the stopped guest.Capture the generation before
ensureSandboxExecUserProvisioned(). Schedule the retry only if that generation is still current. Add a regression test where provisioning fails afterstopWorkspaceSandboxForToggle()begins.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@backend/src/services/sandbox/runtime.ts`:
- Around line 781-787: In the workspace sandbox startup flow around
ensureSandboxExecUserProvisioned, capture provisionRetryGeneration before
provisioning begins and only call scheduleBackgroundProvisionRetry when the
captured generation still matches the current generation in the catch path. Add
a regression test covering provisioning failure after
stopWorkspaceSandboxForToggle starts, ensuring no retry runs against the stopped
guest.
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Sandbox exec-user provisioning is now gated on guest-agent readiness: the runtime pings
msb ping -quntil the agent responds (up to the configured start timeout) before writing the passwd entry, and each provisioning attempt is verified with a rootgetent passwdcheck so a silently skipped write fails loudly. The provision script groups the passwd/shadow writes and exits non-zero when the entry is still missing. If provisioning still cannot complete, it is retried in the background (5 attempts, generation-cancelled on runtime reset and shutdown) instead of blocking boot.The canonical sandbox spec now reports the guest shell:
msb createis invoked with--shell /bin/shand the spec no longer recordsnull. Spawned commands run with stdin ignored somsb execcompletes instead of waiting on an open pipe.The guest image was rebuilt and re-pinned (
74a9f12e...to10e2ca3c...) across defaults, docker-compose, and docs. Its build-time toolchain verification now runs as truly unknown uid 4242 — uid 1000 is the base image'snodeuser, which would exercise the known-user path and pass even if the real one were broken — with sudo verified separately as uid 1000 since sudo refuses unknown uids by design and the Manager provisions their passwd entry at runtime.Summary
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