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Security follow-up for #11106.

  • Reject control and line-separator characters and cap labels at 1024 UTF-8 bytes in the shared registry validator.
  • Apply the validator to workspace, mux, resource, patch, startup, and persisted-state paths.
  • Red test is the first commit; implementation follows.

Trade-off: invalid persisted labels fail closed instead of being silently repaired. This protects every socket and CLI entrypoint, but corrupted legacy data can require manual recovery.


Summary by cubic

Validates display labels at the registry boundary to reject control characters, line separators, and labels over 1024 UTF-8 bytes, and repairs invalid legacy labels instead of failing closed.

  • Applies the shared validator across workspace, mux, resource patch, startup, and persisted-state paths, including terminal_name fields.
  • Sanitizes labels on every load and replay path, including historical journal rows read from old cursors.
  • The one-time startup migration is paged, bounded, and recoverable, so it cannot block or stall registry startup.

Written for commit 54f75be. Summary will update on new commits.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Workspace, screen, pane, and tab names now reject control characters, line separators, invalid display characters, and names exceeding the 1,024-byte limit.
    • Rename operations consistently prevent invalid names while preserving the existing valid name.
    • Previously stored invalid names are automatically repaired and safely displayed with escaped characters.
    • Resource updates and historical views now apply the same display-name validation and sanitization rules.

Terminal rows get Rename… next to Kill Terminal. The name is written with
tab rename --name onto every daemon tab view of the terminal, so cmux-tui
persists it in its registry (survives daemon restart) and broadcasts it to
every attached client; the snapshot parser now prefers a view's user-set
tab name over the PTY-derived title when labeling a terminal.

Shared entrypoints for both renames: vm.workspace_rename and
vm.terminal_rename socket verbs plus cmux vm workspace|terminal rename
CLI verbs run the same provider path as the tree menu. The v2 capability
list now also advertises the previously missing vm.terminal_close,
vm.workspace_open, and vm.workspace_close.
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The PR centralizes display-name validation, sanitizes labels on read, migrates invalid legacy names during initialization, and applies validation to workspace, resource-patch, effect, and rename paths.

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Display-name boundary

Layer / File(s) Summary
Display-name contract and registry migration
cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui-core/src/workspace_registry.rs, cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui-core/src/workspace_registry/resource_store.rs, cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui-core/src/workspace_registry/tests.rs
Adds the 1,024-byte display-name limit, character validation, sanitization, legacy-name migration, initialization marker, and workspace snapshot sanitization.
Resource label read and write paths
cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui-core/src/workspace_registry/resource_store.rs
Sanitizes screen, pane, tab, and historical event labels. Resource patches and screen projections now validate display names.
Mux integration and regression coverage
cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui-core/src/mux.rs, cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui-core/src/mux/resource_topology.rs, cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui-core/src/workspace_registry/tests.rs
Rename, effect, and nullable-name validation use the shared validator. Tests cover control characters, line separators, oversized names, rejected patches, and legacy repair.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant WorkspaceRegistry
  participant ResourceStore
  participant SQLite
  WorkspaceRegistry->>ResourceStore: Initialize registry
  ResourceStore->>SQLite: Read legacy workspace, screen, pane, and tab names
  ResourceStore->>SQLite: Store sanitized display names
  WorkspaceRegistry->>SQLite: Store display_name_boundary_v1
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 54f75

Large existing registries may experience prolonged startup and delayed writes during migration, so this should be addressed before merge.

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Cmux Browser Automation Off-Main ✅ Passed PASS: The reviewed range changes only five Rust TUI registry/mux files. It adds display-label validation, sanitization, migration, and related tests. It does not change Sources/TerminalController.swif…
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Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed PASS. The changed production code is Rust, and it introduces no algorithmic-complexity failure under the stated policy. The legacy-label migration scans each of four fixed tables once using keyset pag…
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Cmux User-Facing Error Privacy ✅ Passed The changed production error text is limited to generic label and field validation, such as workspace name exceeds 1024 bytes, contains a control or line-separator character, and `field "name" mus…
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In `@cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui-core/src/workspace_registry.rs`:
- Around line 2667-2669: Refactor initialize so migrate_legacy_display_names is
not executed inside the startup transaction or before initialization returns;
run the legacy display-name migration in independently committed batches outside
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let tx = connection.unchecked_transaction()?;
migrate_legacy_display_names(&tx)?;
tx.execute("INSERT INTO meta(key, value) VALUES('display_name_boundary_v1', '1')", [])?;

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Move the legacy display-name migration out of the startup transaction.

initialize scans all pages synchronously before it commits display_name_boundary_v1 and returns. The 256-row limit bounds query memory, but not startup duration or transaction lifetime. If a legacy value is updated, a concurrent SQLite writer on the same database may wait for the remaining scan.

Run the migration as independently committed batches outside the startup critical path. Persist a cursor only if interrupted runs must resume from the last committed batch. Insert display_name_boundary_v1 only after the final batch commits. Committing pages while keeping the migration synchronous would reduce lock duration, but would not bound startup time.

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In `@cmux-tui/crates/cmux-tui-core/src/workspace_registry.rs` around lines 2667 -
2669, Refactor initialize so migrate_legacy_display_names is not executed inside
the startup transaction or before initialization returns; run the legacy
display-name migration in independently committed batches outside the startup
critical path, using a persisted cursor if interruption-resume is required.
Insert display_name_boundary_v1 only after the final migration batch commits,
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