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molluskandClaude Opus 5 b8b8b78b09 host/taint: pin what "resolved" must mean before F11-1 is implemented
Round 12 re-examined the deferral and agreed it holds while evaluate()
is audit-only, and that the recorded rule closes the path without
unbounding Pulse-emulated apps — but only under one reading of
"a node whose Client cannot be resolved at all".

The trap is worth writing down before anyone implements it: reading
"resolved" as "a unique Client object exists" passes for a unique Client
with sec_pid = None, which supplies no protected identity and leaves
exactly the self-claimed-PID hole the rule exists to close. It has to
mean an unambiguous Client yielding Some(pipewire.sec.pid), taken before
pipewire-pulse suppression.

That also means the §5.1 matrix needs five Client cases rather than two:
absent, ambiguous, unique-but-pid-less, resolved-native, and
resolved-to-pipewire-pulse. The pid-less row is the one that
distinguishes the two readings and the one a two-case matrix skips
without saying so.

Docs only. Still deferred, still to be decided with matrix data in hand.
220 tests green, clippy clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-26 02:01:07 -04:00

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//! The owner bridge — grouping nodes that belong to the same *owner* even
//! though the graph shows no Link between them.
//!
//! This is the subtlest part of the design (v3.4 §6.1.2). Measured fact it
//! exists to handle: a `module-loopback` forwarder's input leg and output
//! leg have **no Link between them**, so walking Links alone from the
//! leaking output leg finds no inbound links at all — a dead end that reads
//! as "clean". The legs are related only by shared properties.
//!
//! ## The rule
//!
//! A union of keys, strongest first:
//!
//! | # | key | scope |
//! | --- | --- | --- |
//! | 1 | `node.link-group` | per module/filter instance |
//! | 2 | `pulse.module.id` | per pactl module |
//! | 3 | `client.id` | per **connection** |
//! | 4 | `application.process.id` | per process |
//!
//! ⚠️ **"Resolves" means the two legs carry the key AND the values are
//! EQUAL — not "the first key present".** A first-present implementation
//! reproduces the exact measured leak: for `gst-launch pulsesrc ! pulsesink`
//! both legs carry `client.id` (209 and 210) but the values *differ*, so
//! first-present stops at key 3, sees a mismatch, and concludes "different
//! owners". The legs are in fact one process (`application.process.id`
//! 20172 on both). So: try each key in order, and a key resolves only if
//! both legs carry it and the values are equal; otherwise fall through.
//!
//! ## Two exceptions, both guarding against mass over-exclusion
//!
//! 1. **Never bridge on key 4 when the value is pipewire-pulse's own PID**
//! (v3.4 §6.1.2). Module-created streams all carry the daemon's PID, so
//! bridging on it fuses every Pulse module into one owner and a single
//! tainted module input would exclude every module-created stream on the
//! box. Keys 1 and 2 already cover those cases precisely.
//!
//! 2. **Coarse keys (3 and 4) may not bridge nodes exported from a real
//! `Device`** — i.e. nodes carrying `device.id`. ⚠️ This rule is *not*
//! in design v3.4; it was found while implementing, and it is the exact
//! analogue of exception 1 for the session manager.
//! ✅ **MEASURED on the live graph 2026-07-21:**
//!
//! | node | `client.id` | `device.id` | `factory.name` |
//! | --- | --- | --- | --- |
//! | 5 × `alsa_{output,input}.*` | **42** (`WirePlumber [export]`) | 43/45/46 | `api.alsa.pcm.{sink,source}` |
//! | 3 × `sink-sunshine-*` | 83 / 86 / 92 (each its own) | **absent** | `support.null-audio-sink` |
//!
//! So one shared coarse key genuinely does relate every hardware device
//! on the box, and `device.id` cleanly separates that set from virtual
//! sinks. Without the rule, the hardware sink carrying peerspeak's
//! playback (tainted by design, every single recompute) would bridge to
//! *every other device node including the microphone source*, whose
//! readers would then taint their owners' playback legs — reproducing
//! precisely the §6.1.1 catastrophe ("excludes any app using a
//! microphone") through a different door.
//!
//! ⚠️ **Keyed on `device.id`, NOT on `media.class` being `Audio/Sink`.**
//! The first cut suppressed coarse keys for every device-*role* node,
//! and Codex refuted it: a **native virtual sink** — an app that creates
//! an `Audio/Sink` plus a re-emitting stream on one client, with no
//! `link-group` and no `pulse.module.id` — would then have had its only
//! correlation stripped, and it would have leaked the whole call. Such a
//! sink has no `device.id`, so it now bridges on `client.id` as it
//! should.
//!
//! Grouping is **transitive** (union-find). That is the fail-closed
//! direction: bigger owner components mean more taint, never less.
use std::collections::{BTreeMap, BTreeSet};
use super::snapshot::{GlobalId, GraphSnapshot, NodeSnapshot, Serial};
/// Everything owner-key derivation needs from outside a single node.
///
/// Introduced by round 10 (R10-3). Before it, `keys_of` read only node
/// properties, and key 4 was therefore available **only** to nodes carrying
/// `application.process.id` — which native PipeWire clients do not. mpv on its
/// default ao, and peerspeak's own playback stream, expose nothing but
/// `client.id`, so both were *unbounded*, and the moment any tainted reader
/// existed anywhere, `propagate_unresolved_owner` excluded every one of them.
/// Measured: an untagged mpv went from eligible (alone) to `unresolved-owner`
/// the instant peerspeak played audio. That is "native-PipeWire apps are never
/// shareable", which is not a feature.
///
/// The missing pid is not missing at all — it is one hop away, on the node's
/// **Client**, as `pipewire.sec.pid`, and already in the snapshot.
pub struct OwnerCtx {
pub pipewire_pulse_pid: Option<u32>,
/// `client.id` → that Client's `pipewire.sec.pid`.
///
/// Clients whose global id is **ambiguous** (two live objects claiming it,
/// i.e. the observer missed a removal) are deliberately absent: resolving
/// an ambiguous id to a pid would attribute a node to whichever Client won
/// a coin toss, and inventing an owner key is the one direction that can
/// *reduce* taint. Absent ⇒ unbounded ⇒ fails closed, as before.
client_pids: BTreeMap<GlobalId, u32>,
}
impl OwnerCtx {
pub fn new(snapshot: &GraphSnapshot, pipewire_pulse_pid: Option<u32>) -> Self {
let mut client_pids: BTreeMap<GlobalId, u32> = BTreeMap::new();
// ⚠️ Tracked separately from `client_pids`, and that is the point: a
// Client with no `sec_pid` still *claims* its id. Detecting duplicates
// by looking in the pid map would let a pid-less first claimant leave
// no trace, so the next Client claiming the same id would look unique
// and its pid would be used — resolving an ambiguous id, which is the
// one guess this guard exists to refuse. Pid-less Clients are ordinary
// (the session manager's is one).
let mut seen: BTreeSet<GlobalId> = BTreeSet::new();
for client in snapshot.clients() {
if !seen.insert(client.id) {
// Two Clients claiming one id: drop it entirely rather than
// pick. See the field docs.
client_pids.remove(&client.id);
continue;
}
if let Some(pid) = client.sec_pid {
client_pids.insert(client.id, pid);
}
}
Self {
pipewire_pulse_pid,
client_pids,
}
}
/// The `pipewire.sec.pid` of this node's Client, if it has one and that
/// Client's id is unambiguous.
fn client_pid(&self, node: &NodeSnapshot) -> Option<u32> {
self.client_pids.get(&node.props.client_id?).copied()
}
}
/// Which key bridged two legs. Ordered strongest first; the `Ord` derive is
/// load-bearing for "report the strongest shared key".
#[derive(Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord, Debug, Hash)]
pub enum OwnerKey {
LinkGroup,
PulseModuleId,
ClientId,
ProcessId,
}
impl OwnerKey {
/// Stable, machine-readable — this ends up in the phase 5 audit output
/// and the phase 6 status event.
///
/// ⚠️ **Known imprecision, deliberately not fixed here.** `ProcessId` now
/// covers two sources — the node's `application.process.id` and its
/// Client's `pipewire.sec.pid` (see [`keys_of`]) — so a bridge reported as
/// `application.process.id` may in fact have resolved on the Client's
/// protected pid. Pre-existing since R10-3 made the Client a fallback, and
/// widened by the review's finding 1 making it a union. Splitting it would
/// add a code to a set that is explicitly a stable contract for the audit
/// output and the "why isn't this app being shared?" answer, so it wants
/// its own decision rather than a drive-by.
pub fn code(self) -> &'static str {
match self {
Self::LinkGroup => "node.link-group",
Self::PulseModuleId => "pulse.module.id",
Self::ClientId => "client.id",
Self::ProcessId => "application.process.id",
}
}
}
/// The value a node presents for a given key, if it presents one at all.
#[derive(Clone, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord, Debug)]
enum KeyValue {
Text(String),
Num(u64),
}
/// Owner keys usable on this node, strongest first.
///
/// A key that is present but unusable (the pipewire-pulse PID; a coarse key
/// on a device node) is **absent** here — that is the whole mechanism of the
/// two exceptions.
fn keys_of(node: &NodeSnapshot, ctx: &OwnerCtx) -> Vec<(OwnerKey, KeyValue)> {
let mut out = Vec::new();
if let Some(group) = &node.props.link_group {
out.push((OwnerKey::LinkGroup, KeyValue::Text(group.clone())));
}
if let Some(module) = node.props.pulse_module_id {
out.push((OwnerKey::PulseModuleId, KeyValue::Num(module)));
}
// Exception 2: coarse keys never bridge passive session-manager device
// nodes — they all share the session manager's client.
if node.props.session_device {
return out;
}
if let Some(client) = node.props.client_id {
out.push((OwnerKey::ClientId, KeyValue::Num(u64::from(client.0))));
}
// Key 4, from the node **and** from its Client (round 10, R10-3; made a
// union rather than a fallback by the round-10 review, finding 1).
//
// ⚠️ **A union, not `node.or_else(client)`, and the difference is a leak.**
// The node's `application.process.id` is client-controlled and optional;
// the Client's `pipewire.sec.pid` is `pipewire.*`, protected, and the only
// one that can carry a soundness argument (the same reason
// `propagate_unresolved_owner` sweeps everything for an unbounded reader).
// Letting the node's value *replace* the Client's meant one process using
// two Clients could escape the bridge entirely: its tainted reader reports
// a bogus node pid, its output leg omits the node pid and falls back to
// the Client's real one, the two legs are bounded by different values, so
// they neither bridge nor trip the unbounded sweep — and the output stays
// eligible while re-emitting the call. Carrying both values costs nothing
// and closes it: a leg that presents *either* value bridges.
//
// ⚠️ **Exception 1 applies to each value independently, and that is the
// whole risk here.** Measured on this host: 15 unrelated Clients share
// `sec_pid` 2528, which is pipewire-pulse's own — every Pulse-emulated app
// has one. Suppressing it per value is what keeps the union from fusing
// all fifteen into a single owner while still keeping each app's real
// per-app pid. For the common Pulse shape (node pid = the app's, Client
// `sec_pid` = the daemon's) the union therefore reduces to exactly the
// node's pid, as before.
//
// Note the fail-closed asymmetry when the daemon PID is unknown (`None`):
// the exception does *not* fire, key 4 applies to everything, and Pulse
// modules fuse into one owner. That is broad over-exclusion — annoying and
// safe — which is the direction v3.4 §6.1.2's failure-mode paragraph asks
// for.
for pid in [node.props.process_id, ctx.client_pid(node)]
.into_iter()
.flatten()
{
if Some(pid) == ctx.pipewire_pulse_pid {
continue;
}
let key = (OwnerKey::ProcessId, KeyValue::Num(u64::from(pid)));
// The two agree far more often than not; a duplicate entry would be
// harmless but would make the audit's key list read oddly.
if !out.contains(&key) {
out.push(key);
}
}
out
}
/// Can this node's owner be positively bounded — i.e. can we enumerate its
/// sibling legs and be right?
///
/// ⚠️ Not the same as "has any usable key", and the difference is a leak.
/// `client.id` alone does **not** bound an owner: that is the measured
/// GStreamer refutation, where one process presented two different
/// `client.id`s for its two legs. So an owner is bounded only by a strong
/// key (link-group / pulse.module.id) or by a *usable* process id — usable
/// meaning key 4 was not suppressed as pipewire-pulse's own PID.
///
/// The case this exists for is v3.4 §12's "module forwarder with neither
/// `link-group` nor `pulse.module.id`": its process id is the daemon's and
/// therefore suppressed, its two legs may carry different `client.id`s, and
/// nothing else relates them. Its sibling output leg cannot be found, so
/// the engine must fail closed rather than declare it clean
/// (v3.4 §6.1.1, final paragraph).
///
/// # 🔴 OPEN, phase-6 blocking — the key union can *reduce* taint here
///
/// **Round 11 review, finding 1. Verified correct; deliberately not fixed in
/// that round.** Round 10 made key 4 a union of the node's
/// `application.process.id` and its Client's `pipewire.sec.pid`, and the claim
/// that this was "strictly additive" was too strong: the same key list also
/// feeds *this* predicate, so adding a value can move a node from unbounded to
/// bounded, and `propagate_unresolved_owner`'s global sweep is triggered by an
/// **un**bounded tainted reader. Concretely:
///
/// 1. A tainted reader's node claims the pipewire-pulse PID while its Client
/// holds a real protected PID `A`. Under `or_else` the node's value won and
/// exception 1 suppressed it, leaving the reader unbounded; under the union
/// it is bounded by `A`.
/// 2. Its process's output leg uses a second Client whose id is **ambiguous**
/// (the observer missed a removal), so no protected PID is available — but
/// the leg claims a bogus `application.process.id` `B`, which bounds it.
/// 3. Neither the bridge nor the sweep fires, and the output stays eligible
/// while re-emitting the call.
///
/// It cannot leak today: `evaluate()` is reached only by the dry-run audit,
/// which creates no links. It becomes live when phase 6 consumes eligibility.
///
/// **Why it is not fixed yet.** The principled repair is provenance: a
/// self-claimed `application.process.id` is not a *sound* bound, only the
/// protected keys are. But applying that bluntly makes every Pulse-emulated
/// app unbounded — their Client's `sec_pid` is the daemon's and suppressed, so
/// the node's own claim is their only per-app identity — which re-triggers the
/// §6.1.1 mass over-exclusion the whole design is built to avoid, and would
/// make the eligible half of the §5.1 matrix empty.
///
/// The targeted rule that closes the path above without that cost: **a node
/// whose Client cannot be resolved at all must not be bounded by its own
/// self-claimed PID.** An ambiguous Client already means "we do not know who
/// owns this", and a self-claim must not paper over it; a Pulse app's Client
/// *is* resolved (to the daemon's PID, then suppressed), so it keeps its
/// bound. Implementing it needs `OwnerCtx` to distinguish "resolved" from
/// "absent", and `OwnerKeyIndex` to carry boundedness separately from the key
/// set, since bridging must keep using the full union.
///
/// ⚠️ Do this **with the §5.1 matrix data in hand**, not before: the whole
/// question is how much over-exclusion the rule actually causes on a real
/// graph, and that is measurable rather than arguable.
///
/// ## Round 12 — the deferral holds, and "resolved" has a trap in it
///
/// Codex re-examined this and agreed the deferral is defensible while
/// `evaluate()` is audit-only, and that the rule above closes the recorded path
/// without unbounding normal Pulse-emulated apps — **but only under one
/// reading of "resolves"**, and the wrong reading reintroduces the hole:
///
/// - ✅ "Resolved" must mean **an unambiguous Client that yields
/// `Some(pipewire.sec.pid)`**, taken *before* the pipewire-pulse suppression
/// step. A Pulse app then still has the daemon's protected PID as
/// provenance, even though that value is omitted from the bridge keys, so it
/// stays bounded and the eligible half survives.
/// - ❌ **Do not** implement it as "a unique Client object exists". A unique
/// Client with `sec_pid = None` would satisfy that test while providing no
/// protected identity at all, leaving exactly the self-claimed-PID hole this
/// rule is meant to close.
///
/// So the matrix needs five Client cases, not two: **absent**, **ambiguous**,
/// **unique but pid-less**, **resolved-native**, and
/// **resolved-to-pipewire-pulse**. The third is the one that distinguishes the
/// two readings, and it is the row a two-case matrix would silently skip.
pub fn owner_is_bounded(node: &NodeSnapshot, ctx: &OwnerCtx) -> bool {
keys_of(node, ctx)
.iter()
.any(|(key, _)| *key != OwnerKey::ClientId)
}
/// Owner keys computed once per snapshot.
///
/// `keys_of` allocates a `Vec` and clones the `link-group` string, and the
/// bridge asks for keys once per (tainted member × component member) pair —
/// so recomputing was the hot spot in an otherwise linear pass.
#[derive(Debug, Default)]
pub struct OwnerKeyIndex {
keys: BTreeMap<Serial, Vec<(OwnerKey, KeyValue)>>,
}
impl OwnerKeyIndex {
pub fn build(snapshot: &GraphSnapshot, ctx: &OwnerCtx) -> Self {
Self {
keys: snapshot
.nodes()
.map(|node| (node.serial, keys_of(node, ctx)))
.collect(),
}
}
/// The strongest key these two nodes share directly, if any.
pub fn strongest_shared(&self, a: Serial, b: Serial) -> Option<OwnerKey> {
let (Some(a_keys), Some(b_keys)) = (self.keys.get(&a), self.keys.get(&b)) else {
return None;
};
// Stored strongest-first, so the first match is the strongest.
a_keys.iter().find_map(|(key, value)| {
b_keys
.iter()
.any(|(other_key, other_value)| other_key == key && other_value == value)
.then_some(*key)
})
}
/// Is `client.id` a usable owner key for this node?
///
/// ⚠️ Load-bearing for sticky state. A device node's `client.id` is
/// suppressed by exception 2, so recording the session manager's Client
/// as a *member* of a tainted device's sticky owner would smuggle the
/// suppressed key back in: the next recompute would expand that Client
/// to every hardware node on the box — the microphone included — and
/// the §6.1.1 catastrophe would arrive one epoch late instead of never.
/// (Codex round 2, finding 1.)
pub fn uses_client_key(&self, serial: Serial) -> bool {
self.keys
.get(&serial)
.is_some_and(|keys| keys.iter().any(|(key, _)| *key == OwnerKey::ClientId))
}
/// The owner keys that are safe to remember *across* connections, for
/// sticky taint: the strong keys plus a usable process id.
///
/// `client.id` is deliberately excluded — it identifies a *connection*,
/// and the whole point of a fingerprint is to survive one process
/// closing a connection and opening another. A live Client member is
/// what covers the same-connection case, precisely.
///
/// These are recyclable strings and numbers, so they are only ever
/// applied while some **serial** member of the owner is still live
/// (v3.4 §6.1.3): while the process is alive, its PID cannot have been
/// handed to anyone else.
pub fn fingerprints(&self, serial: Serial) -> Vec<Fingerprint> {
self.keys
.get(&serial)
.map(|keys| {
keys.iter()
.filter(|(key, _)| *key != OwnerKey::ClientId)
.map(|(key, value)| Fingerprint(*key, value.clone()))
.collect()
})
.unwrap_or_default()
}
/// Does this node currently present `fingerprint`?
pub fn has_fingerprint(&self, serial: Serial, fingerprint: &Fingerprint) -> bool {
self.keys.get(&serial).is_some_and(|keys| {
keys.iter()
.any(|(key, value)| *key == fingerprint.0 && *value == fingerprint.1)
})
}
/// See [`owner_is_bounded`].
pub fn is_bounded(&self, serial: Serial) -> bool {
self.keys
.get(&serial)
.is_some_and(|keys| keys.iter().any(|(key, _)| *key != OwnerKey::ClientId))
}
}
/// The strongest key two nodes share, or `None` if they share none. Used to
/// *name* the key in a bridge decision; membership itself is transitive and
/// comes from [`OwnerComponents`].
pub fn strongest_shared_key(
a: &NodeSnapshot,
b: &NodeSnapshot,
ctx: &OwnerCtx,
) -> Option<OwnerKey> {
let a_keys = keys_of(a, ctx);
let b_keys = keys_of(b, ctx);
// `keys_of` yields strongest-first, so the first match is the strongest.
a_keys.iter().find_map(|(key, value)| {
b_keys
.iter()
.any(|(other_key, other_value)| other_key == key && other_value == value)
.then_some(*key)
})
}
/// A remembered owner key — see [`OwnerKeyIndex::fingerprints`].
#[derive(Clone, PartialEq, Eq, PartialOrd, Ord, Debug)]
pub struct Fingerprint(OwnerKey, KeyValue);
/// Nodes partitioned into owner components.
#[derive(Clone, Debug, Default)]
pub struct OwnerComponents {
/// node serial → component index.
of_node: BTreeMap<Serial, usize>,
/// component index → member node serials, ascending.
members: Vec<Vec<Serial>>,
}
impl OwnerComponents {
pub fn build(snapshot: &GraphSnapshot, ctx: &OwnerCtx) -> Self {
let serials: Vec<Serial> = snapshot.nodes().map(|n| n.serial).collect();
let index: BTreeMap<Serial, usize> =
serials.iter().enumerate().map(|(i, s)| (*s, i)).collect();
let mut uf = UnionFind::new(serials.len());
// Group by (key, value) and union within each group. Equivalent to
// the pairwise "some key resolves" rule, and O(n log n).
let mut buckets: BTreeMap<(OwnerKey, KeyValue), Vec<usize>> = BTreeMap::new();
for node in snapshot.nodes() {
let slot = index[&node.serial];
for (key, value) in keys_of(node, ctx) {
buckets.entry((key, value)).or_default().push(slot);
}
}
for group in buckets.values() {
for pair in group.windows(2) {
uf.union(pair[0], pair[1]);
}
}
// Compact roots into dense component indices, deterministically.
let mut root_to_component: BTreeMap<usize, usize> = BTreeMap::new();
let mut members: Vec<Vec<Serial>> = Vec::new();
let mut of_node = BTreeMap::new();
for (slot, serial) in serials.iter().enumerate() {
let root = uf.find(slot);
let component = *root_to_component.entry(root).or_insert_with(|| {
members.push(Vec::new());
members.len() - 1
});
members[component].push(*serial);
of_node.insert(*serial, component);
}
Self { of_node, members }
}
pub fn component_of(&self, serial: Serial) -> Option<usize> {
self.of_node.get(&serial).copied()
}
/// Member serials of the component containing `serial`, including it.
/// Empty if the node is not in this snapshot.
pub fn members_with(&self, serial: Serial) -> &[Serial] {
match self.component_of(serial) {
Some(component) => &self.members[component],
None => &[],
}
}
pub fn components(&self) -> impl Iterator<Item = &[Serial]> {
self.members.iter().map(Vec::as_slice)
}
}
struct UnionFind {
parent: Vec<usize>,
}
impl UnionFind {
fn new(len: usize) -> Self {
Self {
parent: (0..len).collect(),
}
}
fn find(&mut self, mut node: usize) -> usize {
while self.parent[node] != node {
self.parent[node] = self.parent[self.parent[node]];
node = self.parent[node];
}
node
}
fn union(&mut self, a: usize, b: usize) {
let (a, b) = (self.find(a), self.find(b));
if a != b {
// Lowest root wins, so components are deterministic.
let (low, high) = if a < b { (a, b) } else { (b, a) };
self.parent[high] = low;
}
}
}
/// Client objects belonging to an owner component, so sticky taint can be
/// keyed on every object that constitutes the owner (v3.4 §6.1.3: clear the
/// entry only once **all** member objects are gone).
pub fn client_serials_of(
snapshot: &GraphSnapshot,
keys: &OwnerKeyIndex,
nodes: &[Serial],
) -> Vec<Serial> {
let mut out: Vec<Serial> = nodes
.iter()
// Only nodes for which `client.id` is a *usable* owner key. See
// `uses_client_key`: recording a device node's shared session-manager
// Client here would defeat exception 2 on the next recompute.
.filter(|serial| keys.uses_client_key(**serial))
.filter_map(|serial| snapshot.node(*serial))
.filter_map(|node| node.props.client_id)
// An ambiguous client id means two Clients claim it and we cannot
// say which one is ours, so remember both: an entry that recorded
// neither could be retired while its owner was still live.
.flat_map(|id: GlobalId| snapshot.clients_with_id(id).map(|client| client.serial))
.collect();
out.sort_unstable();
out.dedup();
out
}