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Closes #274

Draft of the remaining test/releasepolicy mutation tests (sole signer, id-token, SHA-pinned actions, NVCRECTL_PLATFORMS vs asset lists). Issue-first: waiting on maintainer ack. Fork PR: asivanadi0#2

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Comment: 1 BLOCKER, 1 MAJOR against 2aefb51. Reviewed against a base of ce70f5f, which predates #292, #293, #297 and #298 on main.

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Reviewed against main at 5ac169f. All five of #274's acceptance criteria are genuinely enforced by this file — I mutation-tested each one rather than reading it, since #274 itself says a test that does not fail on the reintroduced defect is decoration.

Mutation Result
Rogue cosign sign step added to publish.yml caught — job "tag" step "Rogue signer" invokes cosign sign
Rogue actions/attest-build-provenance added to release.yml caught — provenance must be emitted by attest.yml via cosign
workflow_dispatch: added alongside workflow_call: on attest.yml caught
id-token: write granted to a job that does not sign caught
actions/checkout SHA replaced with @v7 caught
Fifth platform added to NVCRECTL_PLATFORMS without updating the asset lists caught

The sole-signer criterion is covered on both of its paths (a cosign invocation in a run: body, and the provenance action in a uses:), which is the one I'd have expected to be weakest.

Also confirmed: no network calls, no cluster, passes cleanly alongside the existing test/releasepolicy suite (42s full package), so #274's last criterion — "Runs in the existing ci.yml" — is satisfied by construction.

The only thing blocking this is lint — 9 findings, all mechanical, no logic changes needed. make lint currently fails, which is presumably why it is still a draft. Specifics inline.

Context worth having: #305/#306/#307 landed the weekly image scan since this was opened, and the C4 pinning check is not hypothetical for it — dependabot moves anchore/scan-action weekly under patterns: ["*"], and #306 had to add a runtime assertion precisely because nothing guaranteed that pin stays a pin. This test would cover that class directly.

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asivanadi0 and others added 3 commits September 4, 2026 14:37
Add mutation-tested coverage in test/releasepolicy for the four NVIDIA#274
invariants that were still unenforced: attest.yml as sole signer and
workflow_call-only, id-token: write only on signing jobs, SHA-pinned
actions, and NVCRECTL_PLATFORMS vs the hardcoded expected-asset lists
(ADR-074). Give the post-publish gate a BINARIES= list so that drift
fails make test.

Closes NVIDIA#274

Signed-off-by: Anpoo Sivanadi <sivanadi08@gmail.com>

Co-authored-by: asivanadi0 <asivanadi0@users.noreply.github.com>
workflow_policy_test.go redefined workflowFiles(), which NVIDIA#293 added to
shell_scope_test.go with an equivalent body, and releaseWorkflow, which
NVIDIA#293 also added to predicate_parse_test.go with the same value. Both
redeclarations broke compilation of package releasepolicy after
rebasing onto main, taking make test down with it.

Delete both duplicates and call the package-level helpers instead.
onReleasePath and releasePathWorkflows (also in shell_scope_test.go)
are not reused here: this file's checks are meant to scan every
workflow, not just the release-path subset, so narrowing them would
weaken the coverage.

(This branch's release.yml hunk, which edited the 'Verify published
release assets' step, was dropped during the rebase onto main: NVIDIA#293
deleted that step in favor of the verify-release job, so the hunk no
longer applies. The requirement it was adding is already met on main's
BINARIES= list.)

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Re-verified at b3178f5 — the lint findings are cleared and the invariants still hold. This is ready to merge from my side.

make lint: 0 issues. make test: green.

The lint fixes touched real iteration (SplitSeq, FieldsSeq, and the prealloc restructure in attestBinariesMatrixSubjects), so I re-ran every mutation afterwards rather than assuming the behaviour survived. All six still fail as they should:

Mutation
Rogue cosign sign in publish.yml caught
Rogue actions/attest-build-provenance in release.yml caught
Second trigger on attest.yml caught
id-token: write on a non-signing job caught
actions/checkout unpinned to @v7 caught
Fifth platform in NVCRECTL_PLATFORMS caught

That is all five of #274's acceptance criteria, plus the sixth (runs in ci.yml, no network, no cluster) satisfied by construction.

I had prepared the same lint fixes locally before seeing yours land — they were effectively identical, so I have discarded mine rather than push over your branch. Nothing needed from me.

Only thing left is taking it out of draft. Worth landing soon: nothing on main enforces any of this today, and the pinning check in particular is live — dependabot moves anchore/scan-action weekly under patterns: ["*"], and #306 had to add a runtime assertion precisely because nothing guaranteed that pin stays a pin.

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Extended release-policy tests to inspect local composite actions for unauthorized signing steps. Updated OIDC validation to apply job-level permission precedence and support read-all and write-all forms. Reused centralized composite-action discovery in SHA-pinning validation.

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This change adds local regression coverage for release workflow signing, OIDC permission, action-pinning, and platform-asset policy invariants without changing production workflow behavior. No current merge-readiness risk is identified.

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In `@test/releasepolicy/workflow_policy_test.go`:
- Line 54: Extend the sole-signer scan in the test loop over workflowFiles to
also discover and inspect .github/actions/*/action.yml files. Parse composite
action files using their top-level runs.steps structure, then apply the same
cosign-signing validation to those steps while preserving the existing workflow
jobs.steps handling.
- Around line 173-175: Update TestIDTokenWriteOnlyOnSigningJobs and its
permission parsing to resolve effective id-token permissions from workflow-level
settings, overridden by job-level settings when present. Support scalar read-all
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Ready for re-review at 9a1360e. The push after your approvals only addressed CodeRabbit’s two Majors (sole-signer now covers composite actions; id-token check resolves workflow-level + scalar permissions), both mutation-verified. Prior lint/acceptance work unchanged. Approvals were dismissed by the new commit under stale-review protection.

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