Fix OpenShellSpawner: send baseline Landlock filesystem policy for non-advisory spawns - #191
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…n-advisory spawns Every non-advisory (spawn: ephemeral) run previously sent an empty filesystem policy to the OpenShell gateway, causing it to fall back to its own hardcoded default allowlist -- which never includes /opt/app-root or /opt/lightspeed, where this sandbox image's Python packages and app code live. Landlock then denied the sandbox's own process access to its own dependencies (e.g. uvicorn), failing every non-advisory ephemeral run on real OpenShift clusters. `oc exec` bypasses the gateway's Landlock enforcement entirely, so this was invisible to that debugging path (issue #189). - Add `_build_baseline_filesystem_policy()`: sends OpenShell's full default read_only allowlist UNION a configurable `extra_readable_paths` constructor arg (default /opt/app-root, /opt/lightspeed), plus default read_write and include_workdir. OpenShell replaces rather than merges a supplied policy, so the full default list must always be sent alongside the extras. - Wire it into `_do_spawn`'s existing `if read_only` branch as the `else` case, so baseline and the existing advisory `_build_filesystem_policy()` (unchanged) are mutually exclusive. - Validate `extra_readable_paths`: reject empty strings, relative paths, and `..` segments. - Add `extra_readable_paths` to factory.py's `_OPENSHELL_EXTRA_PARAMS` allowlist so `build_spawner()` doesn't silently drop it. - Set Landlock `compatibility: best_effort` explicitly on the baseline policy. Unit tests assert policy shape but can't catch the real bug (empty policy field handling is gateway-side). Added a real e2e test suite (`tests/e2e/test_guardrails.py::TestOpenShellGuardrails`) against a live Kind + OpenShell gateway with the real reference sandbox image. Discovered the current image build installs packages under /usr/local (already allowlisted), so also added a mechanism-level test using `/home` (confirmed genuinely Landlock-denied) to prove `extra_readable_paths` composition reaches the real gateway -- manually verified RED before the fix and GREEN after, against the live gateway. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughOpenShell now supports validated extra readable filesystem paths. Non-advisory sandboxes use an explicit baseline Landlock-compatible policy. Factory wiring, unit tests, end-to-end tests, and implementation-plan documentation were updated. ChangesOpenShell filesystem policy
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to A configurable readable-path value can currently be written in a form that resolves to the entire filesystem, weakening the sandbox’s intended access restrictions. Merge should be blocked until dot-only root paths are rejected and covered by tests. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Factory
participant OpenShellSpawner
participant SandboxClient
participant OpenShellSandbox
Factory->>OpenShellSpawner: pass extra_readable_paths
OpenShellSpawner->>OpenShellSpawner: validate paths
OpenShellSpawner->>OpenShellSpawner: build baseline filesystem policy
OpenShellSpawner->>SandboxClient: create non-advisory sandbox
SandboxClient->>OpenShellSandbox: apply filesystem policy
OpenShellSandbox-->>SandboxClient: return sandbox status
SandboxClient-->>OpenShellSpawner: return sandbox
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This is the right fix for #189. Non-advisory spawns were sending an empty filesystem policy; OpenShell replaces rather than merges, so the gateway fell back to restrictive_default_policy() and Landlock denied /opt/app-root / /opt/lightspeed. Sending the full default RO/RW list union extras, and keeping advisory _build_filesystem_policy() (read_only: ["/"]) mutually exclusive, matches the live-verified YAML.
Factory allowlist + None-drop for extra_readable_paths is required so build_spawner() does not silently drop the new kwarg. Unit tests cover shape, constructor validation, and which builder _do_spawn picks. The e2e /home pair is the real gate: they correctly documented that /health on the current image (packages under /usr/local) does not reproduce the /opt/app-root failure.
LGTM. Non-blocking follow-ups below.
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| MED | _validate_extra_readable_paths rejects empty / relative / .., but accepts "/". That path is now factory-exposed and widens Landlock. extra_readable_paths=["/"] on a non-advisory spawn is full-FS read without advisory's write lockdown. Reject path == "/" (or os.path.normpath(path) == "/"). |
| LOW | E2E deny side asserts exit_code != 0 only. ENOENT or a broken exec would also be nonzero. Asserting "Permission denied" (or similar) in stderr would prove Landlock, not a missing path. |
| LOW | _DEFAULT_BASELINE_READ_ONLY is a hand-mirrored copy of OpenShell Rust. A comment with the OpenShell rev/path you copied from would make drift obvious. |
| for path in paths: | ||
| if not path: | ||
| raise ValueError("extra_readable_paths entries must not be empty") | ||
| if not path.startswith("/"): |
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MED: Also reject "/".
extra_readable_paths is a widening control and is now in _OPENSHELL_EXTRA_PARAMS, so stack/config can pass it through. "/" starts with / and has no .. segment, so this accepts a policy that makes the entire filesystem readable on a non-advisory spawn (writes still /tmp + /dev/null + workdir) — a much larger hole than /opt/app-root.
normalized = path if path == "/" else path.rstrip("/")
if normalized == "/":
raise ValueError("extra_readable_paths must not grant the entire filesystem; use advisory/read_only=True for that")| finally: | ||
| await denied_spawner.destroy(denied_name) | ||
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| allowed_name = "landlock-extra-allowed-test" |
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LOW: Nonzero exit is necessary but not specific. If ls /home fails because the path is missing, this still passes and the allow half fails later — or worse, a future image without /home could be misread as “Landlock is working.”
Prefer asserting the denial is Landlock, e.g. Permission denied in stderr (and keep exit_code != 0).
Per PR #191 review (beesarmy, approved with non-blocking follow-ups): - [MED] _validate_extra_readable_paths accepted "/" -- on the baseline (non-advisory) policy this would grant full-filesystem read without advisory mode's compensating write lockdown, effectively disabling the read restriction this fix exists to preserve. Now rejected. Verified during implementation that a naive os.path.normpath(path) == "/" check misses "//" (Python's posixpath.normpath preserves exactly two leading slashes per POSIX rather than collapsing them) -- used path.strip("/") == "" instead, which catches both "/" and "//"/"///". - [LOW] The e2e deny-side assertion only checked exit_code != 0, which ENOENT or a broken exec would also satisfy without proving Landlock denial specifically. Now also asserts "permission denied" in stderr (confirmed present in the real gateway's actual error output while verifying this PR). - [LOW] The _DEFAULT_BASELINE_READ_ONLY comment cited the wrong Rust crate (openshell-sandbox instead of openshell-policy, where restrictive_default_policy() actually lives) -- found while trying to add the commit reference the reviewer asked for. Fixed and pinned to openshell@679fe4c, confirmed by reading that source directly. Re-verified against the real Kind + OpenShell gateway: both e2e tests in TestOpenShellGuardrails still pass with these changes. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@src/cloud_agents/spawner/openshell_spawner.py`:
- Around line 136-144: Update _validate_extra_readable_paths to reject entries
whose non-empty path components are all "."—including "/./" and "/././"—before
they reach read_only. Add focused tests covering both inputs while preserving
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Follow-up d4407e0 closes two of the three nits from the prior approve, and almost the third.
Closed:
- LOW e2e: deny side now asserts
"permission denied"in stderr, not just a nonzero exit. - LOW pin:
_DEFAULT_BASELINE_READ_ONLYnow citescrates/openshell-policy/src/lib.rsatopenshell@679fe4c. - MED
/:path.strip("/") == ""correctly rejects/,//, and///. The POSIXnormpath("//") == "//"caveat in the comment is real — good that this was not a naivenormpath == "/"check.
Still open:
- MED The new root check is still bypassable.
"/.".strip("/") is".", so"/."and"/././"pass validation, start with/, and have no..segment. Landlock/kernel path resolution treats those as/, which is the same full-FS read the check exists to block. Combine the slash-only check with a collapsed form, e.g.posixpath.normpath(path) in ("/", "//")orpath.strip("/") == "", and add tests for"/."/"/././".
Nit: test_rejects_filesystem_root_via_trailing_slash still says "caught by normpath" but the implementation uses strip("/").
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path.strip("/") == "" catches / and //, but not /./ or /././ ("/.".strip("/") == "."). Those still pass the absolute/.. checks and resolve to the filesystem root under Landlock.
Reject if path.strip("/") == "" or posixpath.normpath(path) in ("/", "//"), and add unit tests for /./ and /././.
Per PR #191 re-review (beesarmy): path.strip("/") == "" alone missed "/." and "/././" -- strip() only trims leading/trailing "/" characters, it doesn't resolve "." segments, so "/.".strip("/") == "." (truthy, passes validation) even though Landlock/kernel path resolution treats "/." identically to "/". Confirmed the bypass and the fix locally before applying: "/.".strip("/") == "." # doesn't catch it posixpath.normpath("/.") == "/" # catches it posixpath.normpath("//") == "//" # but normpath alone misses "//" Neither check alone is sufficient; now uses both (path.strip("/") == "" or normpath(path) in ("/", "//")). Added tests for "/.", "/././", and "///" alongside the existing "/" and "//" cases. Also fixed a stale test docstring/name from the prior round that said "caught by normpath" when the implementation actually used strip(). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Follow-up e30aa8a closes the remaining MED from the last request-changes.
path.strip("/") == "" or os.path.normpath(path) in ("/", "//") is the right combination: strip catches ////////; normpath catches /. and /././ (and also //., /.//). Neither check alone is sufficient, and the comment now says so. Tests cover /, //, ///, /., and /././. The stale "caught by normpath" docstring is gone.
All prior findings on this PR are closed. LGTM.
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Fixes #189. On real OpenShift clusters, every non-advisory (
spawn: ephemeral) run failed:OpenShellSpawneronly sent a Landlock filesystem policy to the OpenShell gateway whenread_only=True(advisory mode). Every normal run sent an empty filesystem policy, so the gateway fell back to its own hardcoded default allowlist, which never includes/opt/app-rootor/opt/lightspeed— where this sandbox image's Python packages and app code live. Landlock then denied the sandbox's own process access to its own dependencies (e.g.uvicorn).oc exec/kubectl execbypass the gateway's Landlock enforcement entirely, which is why this was invisible to that debugging path._build_baseline_filesystem_policy(), which runs for every non-advisory spawn. Sends OpenShell's full defaultread_onlyallowlist (/usr,/lib,/proc,/dev/urandom,/app,/etc,/var/log) union a configurableextra_readable_pathsconstructor arg (default["/opt/app-root", "/opt/lightspeed"]), plus defaultread_write(/tmp,/dev/null) andinclude_workdir: True. OpenShell replaces rather than merges a supplied policy, so the full default list must always be sent alongside the extras — sending only the extras would drop/usr,/lib,/proc,/etc,/tmpand break things worse than the original bug._do_spawn's existingif read_only:branch as theelse:case, so the new baseline builder and the existing advisory_build_filesystem_policy()(left completely unchanged:read_only: ["/"]+ narrow write allowlist) are mutually exclusive per spawn.extra_readable_paths: reject empty strings, relative paths, and..segments.extra_readable_pathstofactory.py's_OPENSHELL_EXTRA_PARAMSallowlist sobuild_spawner()doesn't silently drop it.compatibility: best_effortexplicitly on the baseline policy (matches the issue's live-verified fix YAML, even though it's already the proto default).Out of scope (per two rounds of review on the issue): OCI image-label auto-discovery of extra paths, threading
extra_readable_pathsthrough lightspeed-stack'sSpawnerConfiguration(separate repo), the unrelated--gateway-insecureTLS re-exec bug, and OpenShell's ownPROXY_BASELINE_READ_ONLY(upstream).Test plan
TestExtraReadablePathsConstructor,TestBaselineFilesystemPolicy,TestFilesystemPolicySelectionintests/unit/spawner/test_openshell_spawner.py;extra_readable_pathspassthrough intests/unit/spawner/test_factory.py) — the issue is explicit that shape tests alone cannot catch this bug, since it's about what a real gateway does with an empty policy field.tests/e2e/test_guardrails.py::TestOpenShellGuardrails) run against a live Kind cluster + real OpenShell gateway with the actual reference sandbox image (quay.io/jameswong/lightspeed-agentic-sandbox:latest)./usr/local(already in OpenShell's own default allowlist), not/opt/app-rootas described in the issue — so a plain "does/healthreturn 200" check doesn't exercise the bug on this specific image build (confirmed empirically: it passes even with the fix reverted)./home— confirmed via manual exploration to be genuinely Landlock-denied by the real gateway and outside OpenShell's default allowlist — to prove theextra_readable_pathscomposition actually reaches the real gateway's enforcement:extra_readable_paths=[]must denyls /home;extra_readable_paths=["/home"]must allow it.git stash, and GREEN (passes) with the fix applied — run twice.uv run pytest tests/unit/ -q: 1750 passed, 5 skipped (baseline before this change: 1733 passed, 5 skipped — no regressions).uv run ruff checkclean on all changed files.Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 noreply@anthropic.com
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