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feat(pkg): enforce the #162 envelope capabilities at run, cap pre-auth allocation - #244
The #162 v2 envelope signs the package capabilities, but eos_pkg_run() never looked at them: it checked state and binary existence, then fork+execv'd the binary with the caller's full privileges. A "network" package got the whole network. A signed capability the loader never enforces is a shipping lie.
This loader has no confinement mechanism — no seccomp, landlock, namespace, uid separation, or chroot in this translation unit — so it can enforce no capability today. eos_pkg_run() now refuses, fail-closed, any package whose capabilities are outside the enforceable set (currently empty), including unknown capability bits. A package that declares no capabilities still runs: it asks for nothing the loader would have to enforce. The refusal leaves the package installed, not in error — the package is fine, this loader cannot run it yet.
eos_pkg_enforceable_capabilities() is the extension point: a platform that gains a real confinement mechanism adds its bits there and the matching child-side enforcement in eos_pkg_run() next to the fork/spawn, in the same change, so the mask and the mechanism can never drift apart.
Also in the same loader surface (S-04): verify() and install() did malloc(hdr.binary_size) before the envelope signature was checked, so a header declaring a multi-GB binary could force that allocation on an unauthenticated claim. Both now refuse a declared binary + resources payload over EOS_PKG_MAX_PAYLOAD_BYTES (64 MiB combined, overridable with -D) before allocating anything; the check is 64-bit so two near-4 GiB declarations cannot wrap past the bound. update() is covered through verify() + install().
No design note: the enforcement shape is specified here and in the code comments — fail-closed gate plus the extension point above.
Seam
Seam 5, integrating/shipping (JUDGMENT): a signed capability the loader never enforces is a shipping lie.
Contract change
Contract-change: yes — package-run contract: packages declaring any capability are now refused at run until the loader can enforce that capability. Zero-capability packages are unaffected.
Architecture-impact: yes — envelope enforcement is the API-layer trust story: the envelope's promises are now enforced at the point of execution, not just signed.
Tests
New tests/test_pkg_envelope_caps.c (8 tests, all passing locally; full host suite 59/60, the one failure is pre-existing test_net DNS behaviour, verified failing on pristine master too):
run() refuses a genuinely signed package declaring network; refuses unknown capability bits (1u<<31); refuses each of the eight defined capability bits; still launches a package declaring no capabilities — the payload is a shell script that touches a marker file, so the test proves the child really executed, not just that run() returned 0.
verify() and install() refuse a binary and a resources blob declared over the 64 MiB cap, before any allocation.
The payload-size bound itself is unit-tested at its edges, including the UINT32_MAX overflow pair.
Local verification: full host build (-DEOS_BUILD_TESTS=ON -DEOS_PRODUCT=vbox_test) clean; warning count identical to master (9 pre-existing -Wformat-truncation/-Wstringop-truncation, same texts, only line numbers shifted); all 6 pkg tests pass via ctest.
Notes for the reviewer (second look)
The enforceable set is deliberately 0 today. The honest alternative — claiming enforcement the loader cannot do — is the defect this PR closes. Any future sandbox work lands as: mechanism + mask bits + child-side enforcement + tests, in one PR.
The 64 MiB cap is a policy default for MCU-class packages; a platform shipping larger packages raises it with -DEOS_PKG_MAX_PAYLOAD_BYTES=.... It bounds the combined pre-auth footprint (both blobs are live at once during the signature check).
eos_pkg_run() is fire-and-forget (no PID recorded, no wait) — that is pre-existing and owned by PR-EOS-5, untouched here.
Refs: foundation plan briefs/2026-11-01-foundation-eos.md §PR-EOS-3
Enforce signed package capabilities at launch and bound pre-authentication payload allocations.
Bug Fixes:
Prevent package execution when signed or unknown capabilities cannot be enforced by the loader.
Reject oversized declared binary and resources payloads before unauthenticated allocations occur.
Enhancements:
Add a fail-closed capability enforcement extension point and configurable combined pre-authentication payload limit.
Tests:
Add coverage for capability refusals, zero-capability execution, payload-size boundaries, overflow handling, and pre-allocation rejection during verification and installation.
Summary by CodeRabbit
Bug Fixes
Package verification and installation now reject packages whose combined binary and resource payload exceeds the 64 MiB limit.
Packages that declare capabilities the loader cannot enforce are refused at launch and remain installed. Packages with no declared capabilities can still run.
Oversized package declarations are rejected before payload buffers are allocated or signatures are checked.
…uth allocation
The v2 envelope signs the capabilities, but eos_pkg_run() never looked
at them: it checked state and binary existence, then fork+execv'd the
binary with the caller's full privileges. A "network" package got the
whole network. This loader has no confinement mechanism (no seccomp,
landlock, namespace, uid separation, or chroot in this TU), so it can
enforce no capability today: eos_pkg_run() now refuses -- fail-closed --
any package whose capabilities are outside the enforceable set
(currently empty), including unknown capability bits. A package that
declares no capabilities runs: it asks for nothing to enforce. The
refusal leaves the package installed, not in error.
eos_pkg_enforceable_capabilities() is the extension point: a platform
that gains a confinement mechanism adds its bits there AND the matching
child-side enforcement next to the fork/spawn, in the same change.
Also caps the pre-authentication allocation (S-04): verify() and
install() did malloc(hdr.binary_size) before the envelope signature was
checked, so a header declaring a multi-GB binary could force that
allocation on an unauthenticated claim. Both now refuse a declared
binary + resources payload over EOS_PKG_MAX_PAYLOAD_BYTES (64 MiB
combined, overridable with -D) before allocating anything; the check is
64-bit so two near-4 GiB declarations cannot wrap past the bound.
update() is covered through verify() + install().
Contract-change: yes (package-run contract)
Architecture-impact: yes (envelope enforcement is the API-layer trust story)
Refs: foundation plan briefs/2026-11-01-foundation-eos.md §PR-EOS-3
test_pkg_envelope_caps: 8 tests over genuinely signed v2 packages.
run() refuses a package declaring network, refuses unknown capability
bits (1u<<31), refuses each of the eight defined capability bits, and
still launches a package that declares no capabilities (the payload is
a shell script that touches a marker file, so the test proves the child
really executed). verify() and install() refuse a binary and a
resources blob declared over the 64 MiB cap, before any allocation.
The payload-size bound itself is unit-tested at its edges, including
the UINT32_MAX overflow pair.
Refuse to launch packages with unknown or unenforceable capabilities, while leaving packages with no declared capabilities eligible to run.
services/pkg/eos_pkg.c L1115-1135, L1156-1182
Tests
Register and add signed-envelope tests for capability refusal, zero-capability launch, and pre-authentication payload-size limits.
tests/CMakeLists.txt L390-396
tests/test_pkg_envelope_caps.c L1-421
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Package verification and installation now reject combined binary and resource payloads above a configurable limit before allocation and signature verification. Package execution rejects unknown capabilities and capabilities the loader cannot enforce. Tests cover both checks.
The header defines a configurable 64 MiB combined payload limit and declares the size-check function. Verification and installation reject payloads above the limit before allocation and signature verification.
Capability gate and package tests services/pkg/eos_pkg.h, services/pkg/eos_pkg.c, tests/CMakeLists.txt, tests/test_pkg_envelope_caps.c
eos_pkg_run rejects unknown and unenforceable capabilities. The registered tests cover payload-size boundaries, oversized package refusals, capability refusals, and zero-capability execution.
The change adds a payload-size cap and a capability gate to package handling, and the code behaves as intended. The integration tests for the size cap would not catch removal of the check in verify and install, and the linked-issue policy check currently fails. Both are bounded follow-ups rather than runtime defects.
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Prompt for AI Agents
Please address the comments from this code review:
## Individual Comments### Comment 1
<locationpath="services/pkg/eos_pkg.c"line_range="1173" />
<code_context>
+ package_id, unknown);+ return -1;+ }+ if (unenforceable != 0) {+ fprintf(stderr, "eos-pkg: refusing to run '%s': capabilities "+ "0x%08X cannot be enforced by this loader -- it "
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Undeclared access remains available**
When a signed package declares no capabilities but attempts network or filesystem access, `eos_pkg_enforceable_capabilities()` returns 0, so `eos_pkg_run()` lets a zero-capability package reach `fork()`/`execv()` or `_spawnvp()` without restricting the child; it can access resources outside its signed declaration.
Enforce the declared capability set in the child before launch, including an empty set, or refuse to launch packages when that enforcement is unavailable.
Also at `services/pkg/eos_pkg.c:1133-1134`.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 2
<locationpath="services/pkg/eos_pkg.c"line_range="1165" />
<code_context>
+* loader, not the package, so its state is left alone. */+ {
+ uint32_t unknown = pkg->capabilities & ~EAPP_CAP_KNOWN_MASK;+ uint32_t unenforceable = pkg->capabilities & ~eos_pkg_enforceable_capabilities();+ if (unknown != 0) {+ fprintf(stderr, "eos-pkg: refusing to run '%s': unknown capability "
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Capability checks trust stale records**
When the persisted capability field is altered, comes from a pre-v2 record, or becomes out of sync with the installed package during an update, `eos_pkg_run()` trusts `pkg->capabilities` from the database without binding it to the signed declaration of the binary it executes, so a cleared or stale zero mask passes the gate and a capability-bearing binary launches unenforced.
Derive and verify capabilities from the exact signed binary being launched, rather than trusting the persisted record.
Also at `services/pkg/eos_pkg.c:1156-1163`.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 3
<locationpath="tests/test_pkg_envelope_caps.c"line_range="80-82" />
<code_context>
+
+/* The derived public key was cross-validated against OpenSSL there; sign_v2()
+* asserts the derivation reproduces TEST_PUB, so a drift fails loudly. */
+static const uint8_t TEST_SEED[32] = {
+ 0x00,0x01,0x02,0x03,0x04,0x05,0x06,0x07,0x08,0x09,0x00,0x01,0x02,0x03,0x04,0x05,
+ 0x06,0x07,0x08,0x09,0x00,0x01,0x02,0x03,0x04,0x05,0x06,0x07,0x08,0x09,0x00,0x01};
+static const uint8_t TEST_PUB[32] = {
+ 0xc9,0x9a,0xff,0x66,0x7c,0x75,0x78,0x05,0x6b,0xd7,0xd4,0x59,0x0d,0xf9,0x2b,0xf2,
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Private signing key is committed**
When the new test source is committed, the test embeds `TEST_SEED` and uses it to derive a private key that signs package fixtures. Anyone with the committed seed can reproduce those signatures, so the fixture contains signing key material.
Generate signing material at test runtime rather than embedding a signing seed in the test fixture.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 4
<locationpath="services/pkg/eos_pkg.c"line_range="765" />
<code_context>
+ /* Before the allocation below, and before the signature: the sizes are
+* still unauthenticated claims at this point. */+ if (eos_pkg_check_payload_sizes(hdr.binary_size, hdr.resources_size) != 0) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "eos-pkg: package payload (%u binary + %u resources bytes) "+ "exceeds the pre-authentication limit (%u bytes)\n",
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Failed update removes installed version**
When another writer replaces or changes the update file to declare an over-limit payload after verification but before installation reopens it, `eos_pkg_update()` has already removed the old package when `eos_pkg_install()` reopens the input and rejects its newly oversized declaration, leaving neither the old nor the new version installed.
Stage and validate one immutable input before removing the old version, then swap versions transactionally or restore the old package if installation fails.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 5
<locationpath="services/pkg/eos_pkg.c"line_range="573" />
<code_context>
+int eos_pkg_check_payload_sizes(uint32_t binary_size, uint32_t resources_size)
+{
+ uint64_t total = (uint64_t)binary_size + (uint64_t)resources_size;
+ return total <= (uint64_t)EOS_PKG_MAX_PAYLOAD_BYTES ? 0 : -1;
+}
+
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Reported package sizes wrap**
When a platform raises the payload limit above `UINT32_MAX` and installs a package whose combined binary and resource sizes exceed `UINT32_MAX`, `eos_pkg_install()` stores the combined payload size in the 32-bit `installed_size` field, where the sum wraps, so `list` and `info` report an incorrect size.
Reject combined payload sizes above `UINT32_MAX` before storing them, or widen `installed_size` and its uses.
Also at `services/pkg/eos_pkg.h:54`.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 6
<locationpath="tests/test_pkg_envelope_caps.c"line_range="281-284" />
<code_context>
+ eapp_db_t db;
+ fresh_db(&db);
+ write_eapp_caps(GOOD_NAME, GOOD_ID, 0, T2_MSG, (uint32_t)sizeof(T2_MSG),
+ NULL, 0, EOS_PKG_MAX_PAYLOAD_BYTES + 1, 0);++ ASSERT(eos_pkg_verify(EAPP_PATH) != 0);
+ ASSERT(eos_pkg_install(&db, EAPP_PATH) != 0);
+ ASSERT(db.count == 0);
+ ASSERT(!path_exists(APPS_DIR "/" GOOD_ID "/" GOOD_NAME));
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Allocation cap tests accept missing guard**
When the payload-size guard is removed or no longer rejects oversized declarations, `test_verify_and_install_refuse_a_binary_over_the_cap` (lines 280–286) and `test_verify_and_install_refuse_resources_over_the_cap` (lines 295–301) assert only that the calls fail. A missing size guard still passes: the binary fixture is truncated, and the resources fixture has a zero offset, so read or signature failure supplies the same result without exercising the cap.
Use fixtures that reach the cap check without independently failing as truncated or invalid packages, and assert the specific cap-rejection outcome.
Also at `tests/test_pkg_envelope_caps.c:296-299`.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 7
<locationpath="tests/test_pkg_envelope_caps.c"line_range="393-397" />
<code_context>
++ /* The child runs concurrently; give it up to 2 s to touch the marker. */
+ waited = 0;
+ while (!path_exists(RAN_MARKER) && waited < 40) {
+ usleep(50000);+ waited++;+ }
+ ASSERT(path_exists(RAN_MARKER));
+ remove(RAN_MARKER);
+}
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Slow launches fail the test**
When the child takes more than two seconds to start or create the marker, the polling loop stops after two seconds, so the marker assertion fails even when `eos_pkg_run()` launched the child successfully.
Synchronize the test with child completion or use a wait strategy that does not fail solely because startup exceeds the fixed polling window.
</issue_to_address>
### Comment 8
<locationpath="services/pkg/eos_pkg.h"line_range="251" />
<code_context>
+*+*@return 0 when the combined size is within the bound, -1 otherwise.
+*/
+int eos_pkg_check_payload_sizes(uint32_t binary_size, uint32_t resources_size);
+
+/**
</code_context>
<issue_to_address>
**Public API docs omit caller guidance**
The new public declarations document descriptions and return values but omit parameter documentation and an example that was actually run, leaving the documented caller contract incomplete.
Document each function’s parameters and add an example that has been run.
Also at `services/pkg/eos_pkg.h:274`.
</issue_to_address>
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Blocking findings: services/pkg/eos_pkg.c:1173, services/pkg/eos_pkg.c:1165, services/pkg/eos_pkg.c:765, services/pkg/eos_pkg.c:573, tests/test_pkg_envelope_caps.c:284, and 1 more
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🟠 High · Undeclared access remains available
When a signed package declares no capabilities but attempts network or filesystem access, eos_pkg_enforceable_capabilities() returns 0, so eos_pkg_run() lets a zero-capability package reach fork()/execv() or _spawnvp() without restricting the child; it can access resources outside its signed declaration.
Enforce the declared capability set in the child before launch, including an empty set, or refuse to launch packages when that enforcement is unavailable.
Also at services/pkg/eos_pkg.c:1133-1134.
Prompt for AI agents
In `services/pkg/eos_pkg.c` at line 1173:
**Undeclared access remains available**
When a signed package declares no capabilities but attempts network or filesystem access, `eos_pkg_enforceable_capabilities()` returns 0, so `eos_pkg_run()` lets a zero-capability package reach `fork()`/`execv()` or `_spawnvp()` without restricting the child; it can access resources outside its signed declaration.
Enforce the declared capability set in the child before launch, including an empty set, or refuse to launch packages when that enforcement is unavailable.
Also at `services/pkg/eos_pkg.c:1133-1134`.
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🟠 High · Capability checks trust stale records
When the persisted capability field is altered, comes from a pre-v2 record, or becomes out of sync with the installed package during an update, eos_pkg_run() trusts pkg->capabilities from the database without binding it to the signed declaration of the binary it executes, so a cleared or stale zero mask passes the gate and a capability-bearing binary launches unenforced.
Derive and verify capabilities from the exact signed binary being launched, rather than trusting the persisted record.
Also at services/pkg/eos_pkg.c:1156-1163.
Prompt for AI agents
In `services/pkg/eos_pkg.c` at line 1165:
**Capability checks trust stale records**
When the persisted capability field is altered, comes from a pre-v2 record, or becomes out of sync with the installed package during an update, `eos_pkg_run()` trusts `pkg->capabilities` from the database without binding it to the signed declaration of the binary it executes, so a cleared or stale zero mask passes the gate and a capability-bearing binary launches unenforced.
Derive and verify capabilities from the exact signed binary being launched, rather than trusting the persisted record.
Also at `services/pkg/eos_pkg.c:1156-1163`.
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⚪ Low · Private signing key is committed
When the new test source is committed, the test embeds TEST_SEED and uses it to derive a private key that signs package fixtures. Anyone with the committed seed can reproduce those signatures, so the fixture contains signing key material.
Generate signing material at test runtime rather than embedding a signing seed in the test fixture.
Prompt for AI agents
In `tests/test_pkg_envelope_caps.c` at lines 80-82:
**Private signing key is committed**
When the new test source is committed, the test embeds `TEST_SEED` and uses it to derive a private key that signs package fixtures. Anyone with the committed seed can reproduce those signatures, so the fixture contains signing key material.
Generate signing material at test runtime rather than embedding a signing seed in the test fixture.
- Never commit a credential, token, key or connection string.
- Never log one, and never return one in an error message or stack trace.
- Never place one in a test fixture, a comment, or an example.
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🟡 Medium · Failed update removes installed version
When another writer replaces or changes the update file to declare an over-limit payload after verification but before installation reopens it, eos_pkg_update() has already removed the old package when eos_pkg_install() reopens the input and rejects its newly oversized declaration, leaving neither the old nor the new version installed.
Stage and validate one immutable input before removing the old version, then swap versions transactionally or restore the old package if installation fails.
Prompt for AI agents
In `services/pkg/eos_pkg.c` at line 765:
**Failed update removes installed version**
When another writer replaces or changes the update file to declare an over-limit payload after verification but before installation reopens it, `eos_pkg_update()` has already removed the old package when `eos_pkg_install()` reopens the input and rejects its newly oversized declaration, leaving neither the old nor the new version installed.
Stage and validate one immutable input before removing the old version, then swap versions transactionally or restore the old package if installation fails.
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🟡 Medium · Reported package sizes wrap
When a platform raises the payload limit above UINT32_MAX and installs a package whose combined binary and resource sizes exceed UINT32_MAX, eos_pkg_install() stores the combined payload size in the 32-bit installed_size field, where the sum wraps, so list and info report an incorrect size.
Reject combined payload sizes above UINT32_MAX before storing them, or widen installed_size and its uses.
Also at services/pkg/eos_pkg.h:54.
Prompt for AI agents
In `services/pkg/eos_pkg.c` at line 573:
**Reported package sizes wrap**
When a platform raises the payload limit above `UINT32_MAX` and installs a package whose combined binary and resource sizes exceed `UINT32_MAX`, `eos_pkg_install()` stores the combined payload size in the 32-bit `installed_size` field, where the sum wraps, so `list` and `info` report an incorrect size.
Reject combined payload sizes above `UINT32_MAX` before storing them, or widen `installed_size` and its uses.
Also at `services/pkg/eos_pkg.h:54`.
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🟡 Medium · Allocation cap tests accept missing guard
When the payload-size guard is removed or no longer rejects oversized declarations, test_verify_and_install_refuse_a_binary_over_the_cap (lines 280–286) and test_verify_and_install_refuse_resources_over_the_cap (lines 295–301) assert only that the calls fail. A missing size guard still passes: the binary fixture is truncated, and the resources fixture has a zero offset, so read or signature failure supplies the same result without exercising the cap.
Use fixtures that reach the cap check without independently failing as truncated or invalid packages, and assert the specific cap-rejection outcome.
Also at tests/test_pkg_envelope_caps.c:296-299.
Prompt for AI agents
In `tests/test_pkg_envelope_caps.c` at lines 281-284:
**Allocation cap tests accept missing guard**
When the payload-size guard is removed or no longer rejects oversized declarations, `test_verify_and_install_refuse_a_binary_over_the_cap` (lines 280–286) and `test_verify_and_install_refuse_resources_over_the_cap` (lines 295–301) assert only that the calls fail. A missing size guard still passes: the binary fixture is truncated, and the resources fixture has a zero offset, so read or signature failure supplies the same result without exercising the cap.
Use fixtures that reach the cap check without independently failing as truncated or invalid packages, and assert the specific cap-rejection outcome.
Also at `tests/test_pkg_envelope_caps.c:296-299`.
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🟡 Medium · Slow launches fail the test
When the child takes more than two seconds to start or create the marker, the polling loop stops after two seconds, so the marker assertion fails even when eos_pkg_run() launched the child successfully.
Synchronize the test with child completion or use a wait strategy that does not fail solely because startup exceeds the fixed polling window.
Prompt for AI agents
In `tests/test_pkg_envelope_caps.c` at lines 393-397:
**Slow launches fail the test**
When the child takes more than two seconds to start or create the marker, the polling loop stops after two seconds, so the marker assertion fails even when `eos_pkg_run()` launched the child successfully.
Synchronize the test with child completion or use a wait strategy that does not fail solely because startup exceeds the fixed polling window.
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⚪ Low · Public API docs omit caller guidance
The new public declarations document descriptions and return values but omit parameter documentation and an example that was actually run, leaving the documented caller contract incomplete.
Document each function’s parameters and add an example that has been run.
Also at services/pkg/eos_pkg.h:274.
Prompt for AI agents
In `services/pkg/eos_pkg.h` at line 251:
**Public API docs omit caller guidance**
The new public declarations document descriptions and return values but omit parameter documentation and an example that was actually run, leaving the documented caller contract incomplete.
Document each function’s parameters and add an example that has been run.
Also at `services/pkg/eos_pkg.h:274`.
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tests/test_pkg_envelope_caps.c: 1
283-284: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Heavy lift
Make the integration tests detect removal of the pre-allocation check.
Without the check, the oversized-binary fixture still fails on a short read. The oversized-resources fixture still fails because its signed header was changed. Both tests can therefore pass after the guard is removed.
Use a small test-specific limit and complete signed over-limit fixtures. Apply the limit to both the test and the package library. Instrument allocation to test that rejection occurs before malloc.
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Review comment at @tests/test_pkg_envelope_caps.c around lines 283 - 284:
Update the oversized-fixture integration tests around eos_pkg_verify and eos_pkg_install to use a small test-specific limit configured consistently in the tests and package library. Make both over-limit fixtures complete and validly signed, then instrument allocation and assert each operation rejects the package before calling malloc.
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Review comments at @tests/test_pkg_envelope_caps.c:
- Around line 283-284: Update the oversized-fixture integration tests around
eos_pkg_verify and eos_pkg_install to use a small test-specific limit configured
consistently in the tests and package library. Make both over-limit fixtures
complete and validly signed, then instrument allocation and assert each
operation rejects the package before calling malloc.
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Review pass look 1 (loop run 2026-11-11) — PASS with one blocking finding.
Verified vs live master @ 0e0feec: premise holds (eos_pkg_run :1081-1160 checks state + binary only, then fork+execv with full privileges; caps only stored/printed; malloc(hdr.binary_size) precedes the signature check). Diff is +567/-0 across 4 files as described (implementation + 421-line test file + CMakeLists). CI green @ ba7b39e (34 latest checks, incl. Host Tests, cross-compiles, QEMU, CodeQL; latest policy run SUCCESS, stale failures pre-Closes-#245/#246). Issues #245/#246 open and correctly referenced.
BLOCKING: Architecture-impact: yes but the PR carries no docs/architecture.md delta. Per the plan, an Architecture-impact: yes PR in eos carries its delta in the same PR. Please add the envelope-enforcement delta (present state: loader refuses any capability it cannot enforce, enforceable set 0; planned state: confinement mechanism + extension point) to docs/architecture.md on this branch before merge.
Design note for the second look: the fail-closed refusal of ALL capability-bearing packages (enforceable set 0) is a deliberate, honestly documented behavior change — second look should weigh whether refusing is right vs. warning, given no eos package today can run with capabilities until a confinement mechanism lands.
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What / why
The #162 v2 envelope signs the package capabilities, but
eos_pkg_run()never looked at them: it checked state and binary existence, thenfork+execv'd the binary with the caller's full privileges. A "network" package got the whole network. A signed capability the loader never enforces is a shipping lie.This loader has no confinement mechanism — no seccomp, landlock, namespace, uid separation, or chroot in this translation unit — so it can enforce no capability today.
eos_pkg_run()now refuses, fail-closed, any package whose capabilities are outside the enforceable set (currently empty), including unknown capability bits. A package that declares no capabilities still runs: it asks for nothing the loader would have to enforce. The refusal leaves the package installed, not in error — the package is fine, this loader cannot run it yet.eos_pkg_enforceable_capabilities()is the extension point: a platform that gains a real confinement mechanism adds its bits there and the matching child-side enforcement ineos_pkg_run()next to the fork/spawn, in the same change, so the mask and the mechanism can never drift apart.Also in the same loader surface (S-04):
verify()andinstall()didmalloc(hdr.binary_size)before the envelope signature was checked, so a header declaring a multi-GB binary could force that allocation on an unauthenticated claim. Both now refuse a declared binary + resources payload overEOS_PKG_MAX_PAYLOAD_BYTES(64 MiB combined, overridable with-D) before allocating anything; the check is 64-bit so two near-4 GiB declarations cannot wrap past the bound.update()is covered throughverify()+install().No design note: the enforcement shape is specified here and in the code comments — fail-closed gate plus the extension point above.
Seam
Seam 5, integrating/shipping (JUDGMENT): a signed capability the loader never enforces is a shipping lie.
Contract change
Contract-change: yes— package-run contract: packages declaring any capability are now refused at run until the loader can enforce that capability. Zero-capability packages are unaffected.Architecture-impact: yes— envelope enforcement is the API-layer trust story: the envelope's promises are now enforced at the point of execution, not just signed.Tests
New
tests/test_pkg_envelope_caps.c(8 tests, all passing locally; full host suite 59/60, the one failure is pre-existingtest_netDNS behaviour, verified failing on pristine master too):run()refuses a genuinely signed package declaring network; refuses unknown capability bits (1u<<31); refuses each of the eight defined capability bits; still launches a package declaring no capabilities — the payload is a shell script that touches a marker file, so the test proves the child really executed, not just thatrun()returned 0.verify()andinstall()refuse a binary and a resources blob declared over the 64 MiB cap, before any allocation.UINT32_MAXoverflow pair.Local verification: full host build (
-DEOS_BUILD_TESTS=ON -DEOS_PRODUCT=vbox_test) clean; warning count identical to master (9 pre-existing-Wformat-truncation/-Wstringop-truncation, same texts, only line numbers shifted); all 6 pkg tests pass via ctest.Notes for the reviewer (second look)
-DEOS_PKG_MAX_PAYLOAD_BYTES=.... It bounds the combined pre-auth footprint (both blobs are live at once during the signature check).eos_pkg_run()is fire-and-forget (no PID recorded, no wait) — that is pre-existing and owned by PR-EOS-5, untouched here.Refs: foundation plan briefs/2026-11-01-foundation-eos.md §PR-EOS-3
Closes #245
Closes #246
Summary by Sourcery
Enforce signed package capabilities at launch and bound pre-authentication payload allocations.
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