FLAKY: calternal-auth key_rotation_revokes_sessions_and_rejects_competing_recovery (left 0)

kayg commented

2026-09-27 21:40:54 +00:00

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Seen in the #257 job's cargo test (2026-09-27 23:3x CEST, shared host under load): store::tests::key_rotation_revokes_sessions_and_rejects_competing_recovery panicked at crates/calternal-auth/src/store.rs:2676 (assertion left == right, left: 0). The same test passed in the orchestrator's full workspace run on dev an hour earlier (1,320 passed). Auth + concurrency: treat as a possible real race, not just flakiness. Reproduce with the test in a loop (e.g. 200×, and under CPU stress), find the race between key rotation, session revocation and the competing recovery, fix the code or the test's synchronisation, and prove 500 consecutive passes.

Seen in the #257 job's cargo test (2026-09-27 23:3x CEST, shared host under load): `store::tests::key_rotation_revokes_sessions_and_rejects_competing_recovery` panicked at crates/calternal-auth/src/store.rs:2676 (assertion left == right, left: 0). The same test passed in the orchestrator's full workspace run on dev an hour earlier (1,320 passed). Auth + concurrency: treat as a possible real race, not just flakiness. Reproduce with the test in a loop (e.g. 200×, and under CPU stress), find the race between key rotation, session revocation and the competing recovery, fix the code or the test's synchronisation, and prove 500 consecutive passes.

kayg commented

2026-09-27 21:41:59 +00:00

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Starting investigation on job/auth-flaky at base SHA c05c48f4bd010db92861c5322c9c6a44b1e52757 (same as dev). I will reproduce the key-rotation/session-revocation/competing-recovery failure before changing code.

Starting investigation on `job/auth-flaky` at base SHA `c05c48f4bd010db92861c5322c9c6a44b1e52757` (same as `dev`). I will reproduce the key-rotation/session-revocation/competing-recovery failure before changing code.

kayg commented

2026-09-27 21:57:24 +00:00

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Finding: the exact test passed 200/200 consecutive invocations with one CPU-load worker active (98 seconds; host load average afterward was 22.81/25.62/27.41). The test's helper opens sqlite::memory:, and SqliteAuthStore::connect limits in-memory databases to one connection. Therefore tokio::join! does not exercise overlapping SQLite transactions. I am strengthening this test's synchronization and database setup to probe the production concurrency path.

Finding: the exact test passed 200/200 consecutive invocations with one CPU-load worker active (98 seconds; host load average afterward was 22.81/25.62/27.41). The test's helper opens `sqlite::memory:`, and `SqliteAuthStore::connect` limits in-memory databases to one connection. Therefore `tokio::join!` does not exercise overlapping SQLite transactions. I am strengthening this test's synchronization and database setup to probe the production concurrency path.

kayg commented

2026-09-27 22:02:00 +00:00

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The file-backed, two-connection regression test failed during the full calternal-auth suite with [Ok(rotated_key), Err(Unavailable)]. One caller committed the rotation; its competitor surfaced a transient database failure instead of re-reading the rotated hash and returning InvalidToken. The old test only counted successful calls, so it could pass with this loser result. I am retrying the complete transaction on SQLite BUSY/LOCKED so the retry validates the current key before it can commit.

The file-backed, two-connection regression test failed during the full `calternal-auth` suite with `[Ok(rotated_key), Err(Unavailable)]`. One caller committed the rotation; its competitor surfaced a transient database failure instead of re-reading the rotated hash and returning `InvalidToken`. The old test only counted successful calls, so it could pass with this loser result. I am retrying the complete transaction on SQLite `BUSY`/`LOCKED` so the retry validates the current key before it can commit.

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2026-09-27 22:15:51 +00:00

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The post-fix stress loop reached 382 consecutive passes, then invocation 383 returned one successful rotation and one non-InvalidToken error. The security invariant still held, but the current three-attempt BUSY/LOCKED retry did not consistently turn the loser into a stale-key rejection. I am narrowing the sanitized error category and will extend the fix before claiming the requested 500 passes.

The post-fix stress loop reached 382 consecutive passes, then invocation 383 returned one successful rotation and one non-`InvalidToken` error. The security invariant still held, but the current three-attempt `BUSY`/`LOCKED` retry did not consistently turn the loser into a stale-key rejection. I am narrowing the sanitized error category and will extend the fix before claiming the requested 500 passes.

kayg commented

2026-09-27 22:37:40 +00:00

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The compare-and-swap fix completed 500/500 consecutive exact test invocations under one CPU-load worker in 506 seconds. Host load average at completion was 19.29/20.08/20.48. Each run used a file-backed multi-connection WAL database and verified one successful rotation, InvalidToken for the loser, rejection of the old recovery key, acceptance of the new key, and revocation of the prior session.

The compare-and-swap fix completed 500/500 consecutive exact test invocations under one CPU-load worker in 506 seconds. Host load average at completion was 19.29/20.08/20.48. Each run used a file-backed multi-connection WAL database and verified one successful rotation, `InvalidToken` for the loser, rejection of the old recovery key, acceptance of the new key, and revocation of the prior session.

kayg commented

2026-09-27 22:51:06 +00:00

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Adversarial-round note: the authorization matrix reported PUT /api/v1/admin/config as standard User: expected 403, got 422. The matrix replaces its generated request with the Owner's GET AdminConfigView; that view encodes dedup_scrub_schedule as an object, while the PUT endpoint expects the InstanceConfig cron string, so Axum rejects JSON before the handler checks Role. I sent a valid InstanceConfig as the standard User to the same local server and got HTTP 403. This is a probe fixture-shape false positive; I found no authorization bypass in this request.

Adversarial-round note: the authorization matrix reported `PUT /api/v1/admin/config` as standard User: expected 403, got 422. The matrix replaces its generated request with the Owner's GET `AdminConfigView`; that view encodes `dedup_scrub_schedule` as an object, while the PUT endpoint expects the `InstanceConfig` cron string, so Axum rejects JSON before the handler checks Role. I sent a valid `InstanceConfig` as the standard User to the same local server and got HTTP 403. This is a probe fixture-shape false positive; I found no authorization bypass in this request.

kayg commented

2026-09-27 22:53:04 +00:00

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Adversarial round finding outside the auth change: tests/adversarial/editor.mjs pasted one image, ran 500 Undo and 500 Redo key presses, and observed .cal-image-block count rise from 1 to 3. The probe reported undo/redo duplicated the pasted image (seed 25608414). This is a non-SLOW editor behavior finding; it does not touch key rotation. The task-create baseline and DAV responses also emitted SLOW notices (5.6s/9.637s/8.2s/11.2s) during shared-host load; those are load-only.

Adversarial round finding outside the auth change: `tests/adversarial/editor.mjs` pasted one image, ran 500 Undo and 500 Redo key presses, and observed `.cal-image-block` count rise from 1 to 3. The probe reported `undo/redo duplicated the pasted image` (seed `25608414`). This is a non-SLOW editor behavior finding; it does not touch key rotation. The task-create baseline and DAV responses also emitted SLOW notices (5.6s/9.637s/8.2s/11.2s) during shared-host load; those are load-only.

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2026-09-27 22:53:49 +00:00

FOLLOW-UP from #235 adversarial round: DAV/Journal/bookmark timeouts, pasted-image undo duplication, 10k-block collab timeout #265

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2026-09-27 23:40:36 +00:00

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Completed #275 on job/auth-flaky.

Root cause: This was a real SQLite WAL concurrency race, not only a test synchronization bug. Two recovery attempts could read and verify the same old recovery-key hash. The former write path then tried to upgrade those read snapshots to writes; a losing contender could receive a transient SQLite busy error, which surfaced as Unavailable instead of the required stale-key rejection. The strengthened test reproduced [success, unavailable] before the production fix.

enroll_recovery_key now verifies Argon2 before opening the write transaction, then compare-and-swaps the stored hash (WHERE user_id=? AND key_hash=?). It requires exactly one changed row. SQLite busy/locked errors retry the whole operation, so retries read and validate the current key. Passkey insertion, session revocation, and the security audit remain atomic with the successful rotation. A competing caller now gets InvalidToken after the winner rotates the key.

The regression test now uses a file-backed WAL database with an eight-connection pool, a two-worker Tokio runtime, and a barrier for two spawned callers. It asserts exactly one success and one InvalidToken, then checks that the new key works, the old key fails, and the existing session is revoked. The original failure was reproduced before the fix.

Stress: 500 consecutive release-mode passes under one CPU stress worker, 506 seconds total. Every pass exercises two competing rotations and the stale-key, replacement-key, and session-revocation checks.

Commit and branch: fix commit 8cfb1c77d8ff3ed8e8d11c8d7eeff16a0db327ea (fix(auth): make competing recovery rotation race-safe). Merged local dev once and pushed job/auth-flaky. Final head: edc9cd9839f918263eb0b637c2e20f4057beaf0d.

Post-merge gates:

cargo fmt --check — exit 0; stdout/stderr was empty.
cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings — exit 0. Output:
Finished dev profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 6m 26s
cargo test — exit 0 for the full workspace. Auth crate output:
test result: ok. 50 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 32.28s

Adversarial round: Ran tests/adversarial/run.sh once after the merge; it exited 1 on probe findings. The authz matrix sent the GET AdminConfigView representation as a PUT body, so Axum rejected it with 422 before the role check. Replaying the PUT with a valid InstanceConfig as a standard member returned 403, confirming this was a probe fixture error. The browser undo/redo probe also found a pasted image count grow from 1 to 3 after 500 redo operations; this is already tracked in #265 and was reported there. The long round outlived attack2's bearer fixture TTL, so later restart/dedup/scrub checks cascaded from 401s and are inconclusive. The remaining findings were latency-only SLOW observations. No auth regression was found in this round.

Decisions where the design docs were silent: Keep key rotation, passkey insertion, session revocation, and audit in one transaction; retry the full read/verify/compare-and-swap unit for SQLite busy/locked errors; use a file-backed WAL regression fixture. The regression test uses a 30-second pool checkout bound under host CPU stress; the production checkout bound is unchanged.

Known gaps: The restart/dedup/scrub adversarial results need a fresh run with non-expired fixture sessions to be conclusive. The editor undo/redo duplication is outside this auth change and remains tracked by #265. No gate failures remain.

Completed #275 on `job/auth-flaky`. **Root cause:** This was a real SQLite WAL concurrency race, not only a test synchronization bug. Two recovery attempts could read and verify the same old recovery-key hash. The former write path then tried to upgrade those read snapshots to writes; a losing contender could receive a transient SQLite busy error, which surfaced as `Unavailable` instead of the required stale-key rejection. The strengthened test reproduced `[success, unavailable]` before the production fix. `enroll_recovery_key` now verifies Argon2 before opening the write transaction, then compare-and-swaps the stored hash (`WHERE user_id=? AND key_hash=?`). It requires exactly one changed row. SQLite busy/locked errors retry the whole operation, so retries read and validate the current key. Passkey insertion, session revocation, and the security audit remain atomic with the successful rotation. A competing caller now gets `InvalidToken` after the winner rotates the key. The regression test now uses a file-backed WAL database with an eight-connection pool, a two-worker Tokio runtime, and a barrier for two spawned callers. It asserts exactly one success and one `InvalidToken`, then checks that the new key works, the old key fails, and the existing session is revoked. The original failure was reproduced before the fix. **Stress:** 500 consecutive release-mode passes under one CPU stress worker, 506 seconds total. Every pass exercises two competing rotations and the stale-key, replacement-key, and session-revocation checks. **Commit and branch:** fix commit `8cfb1c77d8ff3ed8e8d11c8d7eeff16a0db327ea` (`fix(auth): make competing recovery rotation race-safe`). Merged local `dev` once and pushed `job/auth-flaky`. Final head: `edc9cd9839f918263eb0b637c2e20f4057beaf0d`. **Post-merge gates:** - `cargo fmt --check` — exit 0; stdout/stderr was empty. - `cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings` — exit 0. Output: `Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 6m 26s` - `cargo test` — exit 0 for the full workspace. Auth crate output: `test result: ok. 50 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 0 filtered out; finished in 32.28s` **Adversarial round:** Ran `tests/adversarial/run.sh` once after the merge; it exited 1 on probe findings. The authz matrix sent the GET `AdminConfigView` representation as a PUT body, so Axum rejected it with 422 before the role check. Replaying the PUT with a valid `InstanceConfig` as a standard member returned 403, confirming this was a probe fixture error. The browser undo/redo probe also found a pasted image count grow from 1 to 3 after 500 redo operations; this is already tracked in #265 and was reported there. The long round outlived attack2's bearer fixture TTL, so later restart/dedup/scrub checks cascaded from 401s and are inconclusive. The remaining findings were latency-only `SLOW` observations. No auth regression was found in this round. **Decisions where the design docs were silent:** Keep key rotation, passkey insertion, session revocation, and audit in one transaction; retry the full read/verify/compare-and-swap unit for SQLite busy/locked errors; use a file-backed WAL regression fixture. The regression test uses a 30-second pool checkout bound under host CPU stress; the production checkout bound is unchanged. **Known gaps:** The restart/dedup/scrub adversarial results need a fresh run with non-expired fixture sessions to be conclusive. The editor undo/redo duplication is outside this auth change and remains tracked by #265. No gate failures remain.

kayg commented

2026-09-28 00:24:58 +00:00

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Merged in 976b804f; orchestrator ran full clippy (clean) and full workspace tests (1,329 passed, 0 failed) on the merge.

Merged in 976b804f; orchestrator ran full clippy (clean) and full workspace tests (1,329 passed, 0 failed) on the merge.

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2026-09-28 00:24:59 +00:00

Merge job/auth-flaky (#275)

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