ci: refresh the compliance baseline in auto-upgrade pipeline

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The auto dep-upgrade pipeline bumped runtime_image_tag but left baseline_sbom pointing at the previous image. The licenses stage subtracts that baseline from NOTICES keyed on (name, version), so every package whose version moved in the new tag stopped subtracting, read as net-new, resolved to UNKNOWN, and failed the license gate — turning the required backend-status-check red.

Every bot bump so far has needed a human rescue commit on the bot's own branch: d00c39a (rc25), a82f282 (rc24 — "72 packages whose versions moved in rc24 no longer subtract … libssl3t64 resolves to UNKNOWN and fails the license gate"), ea5a3cf, 8a8499a.

This makes the bot's commit complete, so its PR is green on arrival. If the baseline capture can't complete, no branch is pushed at all and the cron retries the next day.

What changed

• Trigger workflow split into detect → capture → commit. The heavy syft work is isolated, and the version bump, the new stem, and the refreshed corpus land in one commit. Default needs: semantics give the fail-closed behaviour for free: a failed capture means commit never runs.
• capture runs on the Fastchecker group. Both architectures are captured from that one runner — syft selects the platform via SYFT_PLATFORM and scans the registry, so arm64 needs neither an arm64 runner nor emulation. Measured at 23.5 min for both against a 90-minute timeout.
• capture_baseline_sbom.py: self-baseline short-circuit. TRT-LLM is a self-baseline, so on a new tag it syft-scanned the same ~16 GiB image twice. When both refs resolve to one digest the delta is empty by construction, so the baseline scan is reused.
• capture_baseline_sbom.py: --prune-superseded. upsert_entry keys on from_tag, so a tag bump appended and left the old rows plus orphaned .cdx.json. That isn't cosmetic — check_drift.py re-resolves every row against the registry and fails once the vendor GCs the old tag. Deletion is refcounted; the cuda@ and ubuntu@ baselines each back several rows.
• bump_dependency.py: --baseline-stem, via a FRAMEWORK_BASELINES table parallel to FRAMEWORK_TARGETS, anchored inside the trtllm: block so it can't reach the vllm/sglang pins.
• New baseline_stem.py reads the stem back out of the manifest rather than scraping logs, and fails if the per-arch stems disagree — context.yaml holds one stem and the Dockerfile appends -${TARGETARCH}, so a disagreement is unrepresentable downstream.
• Checkout follows the triggering ref, so a change to this pipeline is testable before merge. Cron is unaffected — it only ever fires on the default branch. detect and capture hold no write-capable credential; OPS_BOT_PAT is confined to commit.
• Concurrency group (queue, don't cancel): a cancelled capture throws away a syft scan already paid for.
• Slack notification on capture failure — that path creates no PR, so without it a disallowed license in a new tag would stall upgrades silently.

Validation

Exercised end to end on a temporary branch pinned back to rc24, then reverted (run 33641172720).

Summary by CodeRabbit

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Automated dependency upgrades now capture and apply refreshed baseline SBOMs for amd64 and arm64 images.
  • Added dry-run support, artifact uploads, serialized workflow runs, and improved failure reporting.
  • Dependency detection now reports runtime image metadata.
  • Baseline SBOM capture supports digest-pinned images, reuse of identical scans, and optional pruning of obsolete entries.
  • Added validation for consistent architecture-specific baseline SBOM references.

• Documentation

  • Documented baseline SBOM lifecycle, pruning behavior, multi-architecture recapture, and TRT-LLM upgrade handling.

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The change adds baseline SBOM pruning and reuse, architecture-specific stem resolution, TRT-LLM baseline pin updates, runtime image detection, and a multi-stage dependency upgrade workflow with dry-run and failure handling.

Changes

Baseline SBOM upgrade flow

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Baseline capture and pruning container/compliance/base_sboms/capture_baseline_sbom.py, container/compliance/README.md	Baseline capture reuses scans for identical digests, preserves digest-pinned references, and optionally removes superseded manifest rows and unreferenced SBOM files. Documentation describes the lifecycle and TRT-LLM recapture behavior.
Baseline stem resolution and pin updates .github/scripts/dep_upgrade/baseline_stem.py, .github/scripts/dep_upgrade/detect_latest_versions.py, .github/scripts/dep_upgrade/bump_dependency.py, .github/scripts/dep_upgrade/check_bump_dependency.py	The scripts extract the TRT-LLM runtime image, validate architecture-specific manifest entries, update the framework baseline_sbom pin, and verify duplicate handling and idempotency.
Automated capture and commit workflow .github/workflows/auto-dep-upgrade-trigger.yml	The workflow detects upgrades, captures amd64 and arm64 baselines, supports dry runs, uploads the refreshed corpus, reports capture failures, applies the captured stem, and commits the upgrade changes.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 70488

The workflow now couples runtime-image updates with compliance-baseline refreshes, but a blank baseline-stem value can still produce a successful partial update that leaves the image pin and compliance baseline out of sync and may cause license checks to fail. Additional bounded security and image-integrity assumptions remain, so the PR should not merge until the blank input is rejected and the remaining risks are explicitly hardened or accepted.

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.github/scripts/dep_upgrade/detect_latest_versions.py (1)

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Add a docstring to runtime_image.

runtime_image is a public function. Document its returned repository reference and its failure mode.

As per coding guidelines: “use docstrings for public functions and classes.” As per path instructions: “type hints and docstrings for public APIs.”

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In @.github/scripts/dep_upgrade/detect_latest_versions.py around lines 98 - 99,
Add a concise docstring to the public runtime_image function describing that it
returns the runtime image repository reference and documenting the failure mode
inherited from _context_field when the requested framework or configuration
field is unavailable.

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In @.github/scripts/dep_upgrade/baseline_stem.py:
- Line 45: Validate the parsed architecture list before the stems lookup in the
argument-processing flow, rejecting an empty `stems` result from blank or
comma-only `--arches` input with a clear argument error. Only call
`next(iter(stems.values()))` after confirming at least one architecture was
supplied.

In @.github/scripts/dep_upgrade/check_bump_dependency.py:
- Around line 136-137: Update the exception handling around set_baseline_stem so
unexpected Exception instances propagate with their traceback instead of being
converted by fail; retain the existing SystemExit assertion and only handle that
expected exception path.

In @.github/workflows/auto-dep-upgrade-trigger.yml:
- Around line 28-30: Harden the workflow permissions around the detect job: do
not run detect on an arbitrary user-selected ref with write credentials.
Restrict dispatch to protected, reviewed refs, or remove write permissions and
write-capable secrets from detect while retaining only the read access it
requires; update the workflow’s permissions and secret usage accordingly.

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In @.github/scripts/dep_upgrade/detect_latest_versions.py:
- Around line 98-99: Add a concise docstring to the public runtime_image
function describing that it returns the runtime image repository reference and
documenting the failure mode inherited from _context_field when the requested
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.github/scripts/dep_upgrade/bump_dependency.py (1)

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Reject a blank --baseline-stem value before applying the bump.

If the caller passes --baseline-stem "", this branch is skipped. However, apply() has already changed the version files. The command then succeeds while container/context.yaml still points to the old baseline.

Distinguish an omitted option from a blank value. Reject blank input before apply(). Add a regression test for the empty CLI value.

Proposed fix

     args = p.parse_args()
+    if args.baseline_stem is not None and not args.baseline_stem.strip():
+        p.error("--baseline-stem must not be empty")
     n = apply(args.framework, args.version, args.repo_root)
     print(f"changed {n} files")
-    if args.baseline_stem:
+    if args.baseline_stem is not None:
         changed = set_baseline_stem(args.framework, args.baseline_stem, args.repo_root)

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- Line 132: Update the baseline-stem handling around set_baseline_stem and
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Reviewed at 86c35bf. Intent as I read it from the diff and container/compliance/README.md: make the bot's own commit complete — bump the framework pin and re-capture the compliance baseline in the same commit, so the licenses stage's (name, version) subtraction stops reading every moved package as net-new.

Verified by execution on the head tree (macOS ARM64, Python 3.12, driving the repo's own modules):

• python3 .github/scripts/dep_upgrade/check_bump_dependency.py → PASS, including the new set_baseline_stem assertions.
• python3 scripts/check_action_pins.py → exit 0; all four actions are SHA-pinned with a version comment.
• Every steps.*, needs.*, inputs.* and secrets.* reference in the workflow resolves to a declared id/output. There is no actionlint in this repo's pre-commit hooks or CI, so an unresolved steps.<id> would render as empty string and never error — I checked all of them by hand. Only detect.outputs.current is declared and never consumed.
• The CodeQL ReDoS fix is real, not cosmetic. On the exact shape CodeQL named (trtllm:\n followed by n × \t\t\n), the old (?:[ \t]+[^\n]*\n)*? goes 3.7 ms → 3078 ms between n=14 and n=24; the new (?:[ \t][^\n]*\n)*? stays between 0.010 ms and 0.040 ms across the same range. Both still extract the same value from the real container/context.yaml, so the rewrite is behaviour-preserving.
• prune_superseded against a copy of the real manifest.json, running the two platform passes exactly as the capture step does: both superseded rows dropped, both stale .cdx.json deleted, the fresh rows placed in the old rows' slots, no other framework's SBOM touched, and baseline_stem.stem_for then returns the new stem. Control with a second row aliasing the same SBOM file — the file is correctly kept, so the refcount holds. Control without --prune-superseded — the old rows survive, so the probe discriminates. This is the only new code path that deletes files and nothing in the repo tests it, which is why I ran it.
• baseline_stem.py --arches "" and --arches ",," both exit 1 with the argument error, so the StopIteration thread is genuinely fixed by the guard at the top of stem_for rather than just closed. On a tag with no rows it exits 1 ("found 0"), so a capture that wrote nothing is fail-closed.

All checks at this SHA are green (81 success / 42 skipped / 0 failures), so nothing in CI contradicts or confirms any finding below.

On the question this design invites — can a newly disallowed licence reach the baseline without a gate firing? Yes, and that is finding 1. The framework this pipeline drives is a self-baseline, and the capture step passes the same ref to --from and --baseline, so the delta is empty by construction and the policy validator is handed an empty list. I measured it with controls; details in the inline comment. The important half of that measurement is that the base tree behaves identically, so this PR does not weaken the gate — it adds operator-facing text asserting a gate that cannot fire.

Three findings: one P2 and two P3, none blocking.

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Approving. Zero blocking findings; the three I left are one P2 and two P3, all non-blocking and none of them a correctness defect in the pipeline.

What I verified by running it, not by reading it:

• check_bump_dependency.py passes at this SHA including the new set_baseline_stem assertions, and check_action_pins.py exits 0 on the workflow.
• prune_superseded — the only new code path that deletes files, and untested anywhere in the repo — behaves correctly against a copy of the real manifest.json driven through the two platform passes the capture step runs: superseded rows dropped, stale SBOMs deleted, fresh rows repositioned into the old slots, and the refcount holds when a second row aliases the same file. A no-prune control confirms the probe discriminates.
• The CodeQL regex rewrite is a genuine fix, not a shape change: 3.7 ms → 3078 ms for the old pattern between n=14 and n=24 of the input CodeQL named, versus a flat 0.01–0.04 ms for the new one, with identical extraction from the real container/context.yaml.
• baseline_stem.py is fail-closed on the paths that matter — empty or comma-only --arches, and a tag with no rows — so the reviewer bot's StopIteration thread is genuinely fixed rather than merely closed.
• Every workflow expression reference resolves to a declared id or output, checked by hand because this repo runs no actionlint.

Remaining, by name:

• P2 — the capture-failure Slack message lists a licence denial as a common cause, and for this framework's self-baseline the delta is empty by construction so the validator can never emit one. Measured with controls. The base tree behaves identically, so this is misleading operator text rather than a weakened gate. The same comment notes the 5 MiB slim-SBOM cap, which is reachable (the two committed baselines sit at 66.3% and 64.9%) and isn't mentioned, and that detect and commit failures notify nobody.
• P3 — commit dropped ref: main along with the other jobs but kept the bot PAT with persist-credentials at its default, which is the thing detect's new comment says must not happen. Marginal risk is small, since workflow_dispatch already runs the caller's workflow file; the cost is that the comment stops being true. ref: main on that one checkout restores it, and permissions: {} on that job is strictly tighter.
• P3 — --baseline "$REF" hard-codes the self-baseline assumption, which holds for this framework and not for the two most likely to be added next; every other per-framework table fails loudly on an unknown framework and this line would silently succeed with a wider baseline.

Deliberately deferred, so it's a decision and not an oversight: I did not run syft or pull the runtime images, so the claim that one amd64 runner can capture both architectures from the registry is taken from your end-to-end run rather than re-measured — I confirmed that run completed successfully. I also did not test whether a job-level timeout-minutes expiry still lets if: failure() fire on the notification step; if it doesn't, the longest capture is also the quietest failure.

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Thanks @dmitry-tokarev-nv! I have more changes coming for auto upgrade pipeline, will address your comments in upcoming follow ups