fix(NodeDB): re-derive my_node_num when ensurePkiKeys() mints the identity keypair

[h3lix1]

CryptoEngine::ensurePkiKeys() installs a keypair but never re-derives my_node_num, so the invariant my_node_num == crc32Buffer(config.security.public_key) is left broken.

Boot-time keygen is suppressed until a LoRa region is set (NodeDB.cpp, regionBlocksKeygen), so on a fresh device my_node_num is still the MAC-derived value from pickNewNodeNum(). Setting the region — the stock onboarding flow — mints a key without moving the node number.

The device then signs its broadcasts, and every receiver runs verifyFirstContactNodeInfo(), fails crc32Buffer(user.public_key) != p->from, and drops the NodeInfo. Nothing repairs it: AdminModule.cpp sets requiresReboot = false for LoRa changes ("All LoRa radio changes apply live via configChanged observer"), and the MenuHandler region picker ends at reloadConfig() with no rebootAtMsec.

The reference implementation is already in-tree: the licensed branch of the same if-block calls nodeDB->generateCryptoKeyPair() and adds SEGMENT_DEVICESTATE | SEGMENT_NODEDATABASE. The unlicensed branch 13 lines above does neither.

Approach

Adds one chokepoint, NodeDB::ensurePkiIdentity(), rather than patching four call sites independently. It returns whether my_node_num actually moved, which is the signal callers need to widen their save mask — and keeps a repeat region change from forcing a needless flash write.

Re-derivation was deliberately not put inside CryptoEngine: it takes its operands by reference while createNewIdentity() mutates globals, and CryptoEngine is unit-tested standalone (test_crypto constructs one with no NodeDB), so adding the first nodeDB-> there would be a null-deref in the native suites.

Segment mask

Without this half the fix would work until reboot and then revert:

Written on keygen	Lives in	Segment
config.security.{public,private}_key	config	SEGMENT_CONFIG (already set)
owner.public_key	devicestate	SEGMENT_DEVICESTATE
myNodeInfo.my_node_num	devicestate	SEGMENT_DEVICESTATE
self row moved by removeNodeByNum()	node DB	SEGMENT_NODEDATABASE

Adds test_handleSetConfig_persistsUnlicensedFirstRegionIdentity, the twin of the existing licensed-path test.

Reviewer notes

• The WASM call site (portduino_glue_wasm.cpp) could not be compile-checked locally.

Hardware validation

Tested on a Seeed XIAO ESP32-S3 (device under test) with a Heltec V4 as an unmodified stock observer. Both flashed from erased flash. Path exercised: AdminModule set_config lora.region — i.e. the phone-app path — driven over serial.

Negative control (stock ea1e6b8)

Fresh device, region UNSET, node number MAC-derived (0x1dd29d30, the last four bytes of MAC 10:b4:1d:d2:9d:30). Set region, no reboot:

crc32(public_key) : 0x80c42217   <- where the node should be
my_node_num       : 0x1dd29d30   <- where it actually was
INVARIANT: VIOLATED

A keypair was minted and the node number did not move. Confirms the defect on real hardware.

The device later rebooted on its own, and boot-time generateCryptoKeyPair() → createNewIdentity() moved it to 0x80c42217. So the broken window is bounded by the next reboot — but that reboot silently renumbers the node, which is its own problem (see below).

With this PR (688c4e1)

Erased and reflashed; fresh state again region UNSET, node number 0x1dd29d30, no key. Set region:

crc32(public_key) : 0x3537f13b
my_node_num       : 0x3537f13b
INVARIANT: HOLDS
rebootCount       : 1 -> 1  (no reboot occurred)

Then power-cycled to check the save mask: rebootCount 1 → 2, my_node_num still 0x3537f13b. Without SEGMENT_DEVICESTATE this step would have reverted.

Finally, the stock observer lists the patched node with the correct key:

!3537f13b  SEEED_XIAO_S3  b7Bk+FV2h/Yn0IG7b0uELCm+IDYtwre2OxrmHYcCZjU=

Observation worth a separate issue

After the DUT renumbered, the observer held two entries for the same physical device — the live one plus a stale ghost at the previous identity (!80c42217), each with its own public key. createNewIdentity() removes the node's own old row locally, but peers are never told, so every peer that learned the old number keeps a dead entry. Not addressed by this PR.

Not covered

• MenuHandler.cpp (on-device region picker) — verified by inspection only; driving it needs physical button presses.
• portduino_glue_wasm.cpp — not compiled; WASM is not in the local build path.

Validation

• Compile-checked on heltec-v4 and seeed-xiao-s3 against clean baseline builds of the same environments.
• All 11 fixes from this review merge without conflict and the combined tree compiles on both targets.
• Native unit tests were not run locally — the harness is Linux-only and bin/test-native-docker.sh needs Docker, unavailable on the dev host. The new test_handleSetConfig_persistsUnlicensedFirstRegionIdentity will get its first real run in CI.

Found during an adversarial review of deriving NodeNum from the node public key.

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Re-confirmed in integration: with all 11 fixes merged, both boards independently moved from their MAC-derived number to crc32(public_key) on region set with no reboot (rebootCount stayed 1), persisted across power-cycle, and discovered each other over the air.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • First-time LoRa region configuration now automatically creates and synchronizes the device’s PKI identity.
  • Identity changes, including node-number updates, are persisted across configuration reloads and reboots.
  • Node activity tracking is more reliable before and after the device clock becomes trusted.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved handling of contact keys, packet hop metadata, and node activity timestamps.
  • Private keys are no longer displayed when restored.
  • Updated display defaults and notification timeout behavior for supported devices.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for first-region setup, key generation, persistence, and identity assignment.

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Walkthrough

The change centralizes PKI identity creation in NodeDB::ensurePkiIdentity(). First-region configuration paths now persist device state and NodeDB segments when identity creation changes state. NodeDB also adds clock-aware contact recency tracking and related runtime handling. Tests verify identity persistence and CRC32-based node-number derivation.

Changes

NodeDB state and identity handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
NodeDB identity API src/mesh/NodeDB.h, src/mesh/NodeDB.cpp	Adds ensurePkiIdentity(). The method ensures PKI keys, synchronizes identity state, reseats the node number, and reports persistence changes.
Clock-aware contact recency src/mesh/NodeDB.h, src/mesh/NodeDB.cpp	Tracks uptime arrival times before clock trust, backfills epoch timestamps after clock trust, and uses clock-aware recency for contact updates and eviction.
Runtime validation and defaults src/mesh/NodeDB.h, src/mesh/NodeDB.cpp	Adds post-decode hop validation and updates firmware initialization, TFT defaults, and private-key restoration logging.

First-region initialization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
First-region identity persistence src/modules/AdminModule.cpp, src/graphics/draw/MenuHandler.cpp, src/graphics/niche/InkHUD/Applets/System/Menu/MenuApplet.cpp, src/platform/portduino/wasm/portduino_glue_wasm.cpp	First-region configuration paths use NodeDB::ensurePkiIdentity() and persist device-state and NodeDB segments when identity creation changes state. WASM reloads the accumulated segment mask.
Identity persistence test test/test_admin_radio/test_main.cpp	Adds coverage for unlicensed first-region configuration, including persisted segments, 32-byte keys, and CRC32-derived node numbers.

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

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to df576

The PR correctly re-derives and saves the node number when the first region is selected, but the first-region save path may retain the previous owner identity in the persisted self record, creating inconsistent identity state after reboot. This bounded correctness issue should be addressed before merging.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RegionConfiguration
  participant NodeDB
  participant CryptoEngine
  participant ConfigService
  RegionConfiguration->>NodeDB: ensurePkiIdentity()
  NodeDB->>CryptoEngine: ensurePkiKeys()
  CryptoEngine-->>NodeDB: PKI key material
  NodeDB-->>RegionConfiguration: identity result and segment changes
  RegionConfiguration->>ConfigService: reloadConfig(changes)

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Pull request overview

This PR fixes a NodeDB identity invariant breakage that occurs when PKI keys are minted outside the boot path: after ensurePkiKeys() creates a keypair, the device must also re-derive my_node_num from crc32(public_key) and persist the additional segments required to survive reboot.

Changes:

• Introduces NodeDB::ensurePkiIdentity() as a single chokepoint to mint/re-derive the PKI identity and re-seat my_node_num via createNewIdentity().
• Updates region-setting call sites (AdminModule, device menu flows, and WASM glue) to call ensurePkiIdentity() and widen persistence masks to include SEGMENT_DEVICESTATE | SEGMENT_NODEDATABASE when the node number changes.
• Adds a native unit test covering the unlicensed “first region set” identity persistence path.

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
test/test_admin_radio/test_main.cpp	Adds unlicensed-path regression test verifying my_node_num == crc32(public_key) and correct segment persistence on first region set.
src/platform/portduino/wasm/portduino_glue_wasm.cpp	Switches WASM region setter to use nodeDB->ensurePkiIdentity() and persist the additional segments when identity changes.
src/modules/AdminModule.cpp	Ensures unlicensed first-region keygen also re-derives node number and persists devicestate + nodedatabase.
src/mesh/NodeDB.h	Declares NodeDB::ensurePkiIdentity() and documents required persistence behavior.
src/mesh/NodeDB.cpp	Implements ensurePkiIdentity() as ensurePkiKeys() + createNewIdentity() to re-seat the identity.
src/graphics/niche/InkHUD/Applets/System/Menu/MenuApplet.cpp	Updates InkHUD region apply path to use ensurePkiIdentity() and persist additional segments when identity changes.
src/graphics/draw/MenuHandler.cpp	Updates classic UI region apply path to use ensurePkiIdentity() and persist additional segments when identity changes.

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Reviewed as part of a sweep of the PRs you opened over the last 48 hours. Requesting changes — this is scoped as a bug fix but lands as a design change.

The bug is real. ensurePkiKeys() minting a key without moving my_node_num breaks my_node_num == crc32(public_key), and the hardware trace in the description is convincing.

What I'm refusing is the shape of the fix.

1. New public API plus four rewired call sites. NodeDB::ensurePkiIdentity() is a new method on NodeDB, and this touches AdminModule, MenuHandler, InkHUD's MenuApplet and the WASM glue. Seven files for a one-line invariant violation.

2. It makes live renumbering a supported path. createNewIdentity() was a boot-time operation. Calling it from a region-set handler means the node changes its mesh address while running, with peers mid-conversation.

3. You document a new failure mode and decline to fix it. From your own description: after renumbering, every peer that learned the old number keeps a dead ghost entry with its own public key, indefinitely — filed as "worth a separate issue". So this knowingly ships a change whose direct consequence is stale ghosts across the mesh. That is not a fix landing; that is trading one broken state for another.

The design question skipped here: should the region-set path mint a key at all? Boot-time keygen already re-derives correctly. Deferring keygen to the next boot, or forcing a reboot on first region set the way AdminModule does for other config, is a smaller change with no renumbering and no ghosts. That is a conversation for the Discord dev channel before a seven-file PR, not after.

Coding guidelines — AGENTS.md:83 and .github/copilot-instructions.md:340: "Keep code comments minimal - one or two lines, max." Violations here:

• NodeDB.h — 8-line doc block on ensurePkiIdentity()
• NodeDB.cpp — two 3–4 line blocks inside ensurePkiIdentity()
• MenuHandler.cpp, MenuApplet.cpp, AdminModule.cpp, portduino_glue_wasm.cpp — 3 lines each
• the new test — 4-line header

Unverified path: you state the WASM call site was not compiled, and it changes reloadConfig(SEGMENT_CONFIG) to reloadConfig(changes). Please don't ship an uncompiled path.

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[h3lix1]

Comments have been trimmed as discussed..

A few other points:

"createNewIdentity() was a boot-time operation." It's already live on develop. The licensed branch of this exact if-block calls nodeDB->generateCryptoKeyPair() at AdminModule.cpp:1057, which ends in createNewIdentity() (NodeDB.cpp:4297), widens the mask with the same two segments at :1058, and reboots nothing. handleSetConfig for security does the same at AdminModule.cpp:1206-1208. This PR makes the unlicensed branch match behavior the tree already accepts.

Peers mid-conversation. The renumber only fires when ensurePkiKeys() actually mints a key, which requires no existing key, which means the region was still UNSET, which means tx was disabled (AdminModule.cpp:1044, :1048). The node has never transmitted under the old number, so no peer over RF holds it. The only party that knows it is the locally connected phone, which gets the refreshed info in the same config cycle.

Ghosts. The ghost I reported is not created by this PR. The negative control in the description shows stock ea1e6b8 renumbering anyway at its next boot (0x1dd29d30 to 0x80c42217), with the same peer-side ghost, and the licensed path renumbers live today. The PR changes when the one renumber happens, not whether. The peer-side cleanup does deserve its own issue and I'll file it this week and link it here.

Scope. Partly conceded. But four of the seven files are the four call sites that each call crypto->ensurePkiKeys() today, and each needs the widened mask whatever shape the fix takes; the alternative is the mask logic pasted four times. The helper itself is 18 lines. If growing NodeDB's public surface is the objection I can restructure, though I'd argue the chokepoint is the smaller review surface.

Defer keygen or force a reboot. That's your call and I'll take it if that's the direction; happy to bring it to the Discord dev channel. The costs as I see them: nothing on the admin path schedules a reboot for LoRa changes, so a phone-configured node that never power-cycles would run without PKI indefinitely; forcing a reboot reverses the deliberate "All LoRa radio changes apply live" decision at AdminModule.cpp:1116-1118; and it would leave the unlicensed branch behaving differently from the licensed branch in the same block, which doesn't reboot either. If the answer is still "reboot", the fix collapses to a couple of lines and I'll rewrite it that way.

In the meantime, I'll do some native tests.. I'll update the initial comment after this is done.

[h3lix1]

Pushed as f9e16440f, covering the two mechanical points. The design question is still open and I have not pre-empted it.

Copilot's null guard. Added. wasm_set_region() was the only ensurePkiIdentity() call site that dereferenced nodeDB without checking it first; the other four already did.

Comment length. Trimmed to two lines or fewer at all five sites: AdminModule.cpp, MenuHandler.cpp, the InkHUD MenuApplet.cpp, NodeDB.cpp, and the NodeDB.h doc block, which was the worst of them at six. The reasoning those carried is in the commit messages and the PR body, per AGENTS.md:83.

Testing. test_admin_radio is green under the coverage environment in Docker: 92 tests, 0 failures, including test_handleSetConfig_persistsUnlicensedFirstRegionIdentity, and no AddressSanitizer reports.

Worth flagging because it cost me a while to pin down, and it is not this PR: that suite has four failures when run under native-macos on an Apple Silicon host, on a completely untouched checkout of this branch.

test_handleSetConfig_persistsUnlicensedFirstRegionIdentity  Expected 23 Was 3
test_setFavoriteNode_skipsRadioReload_butPersists           Expected TRUE Was FALSE
test_setIgnoredNode_skipsRadioReload_butPersists            Expected TRUE Was FALSE
test_toggleMutedNode_skipsRadioReload_butPersists           Expected TRUE Was FALSE

All four pass on Linux. The identity one is the interesting case: a printf immediately after handleSetConfig() reports savedSegments() == 23, the expected mask, and the assertion three lines later reports 3. AdminModuleTestShim::savedSegments() is a plain const getter over lastSaveWhatForTest, so it is not consuming, and the test fails identically when moved to run first, so it is not cross-test leakage either. Something host-specific is disturbing that field between the two reads.

I am not proposing a change for it here since it is orthogonal to this PR and affects three tests that have nothing to do with identity. Raising it so nobody else burns an afternoon concluding the branch is broken when it is the macOS native harness. Happy to open a separate issue with the reproduction if useful.

On the larger question of renumbering live versus deferring to a reboot, that is your call rather than mine and I have deliberately left the current shape alone until you land on one.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/mesh/NodeDB.cpp`:
- Around line 4352-4365: Update NodeDB::ensurePkiIdentity so reseating the
identity does not report failure after myNodeInfo.my_node_num has changed: make
createNewIdentity transactional with rollback on self-record creation failure,
or return success when the node number changed while handling the missing self
record separately. Preserve the existing failure result when key generation
fails or no identity change occurs.

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[h3lix1]

Thanks CodeRabbit. Taking these separately: the first is right and is fixed, the second rests on a guideline that says something else.

Self-record creation failure — agreed, fixed in 9d7ec3963.

Confirmed by reading the order in createNewIdentity(): removeNodeByNum(oldNodeNum), then myNodeInfo.my_node_num = newNodeNum, then getOrCreateMeshNode(), then the return false. So on that branch the old row is already gone and the number has already moved in RAM, while the caller is told the identity did not change and leaves SEGMENT_DEVICESTATE | SEGMENT_NODEDATABASE out of the mask.

The part that makes it worth fixing rather than documenting: the freshly minted key still reaches flash under SEGMENT_CONFIG. The next boot then loads the old number next to the new key, which is the crc32(public_key) != my_node_num break this PR exists to prevent, arrived at through the error path.

Rolling the number back is not available as a remedy, since ensurePkiKeys() has already replaced the key by the time createNewIdentity() runs. Restoring the old number would just produce the same mismatch pointing the other way. So the move is now reported as the fact it is, and the missing self record is logged instead of swallowing the result. getOrCreateMeshNode() recreates that row on the next contact.

Literal key lengths — declining, and I think the guideline is being misread.

The rule quoted is .github/copilot-instructions.md:667, and in full it is about the test suite count: "the canonical suite count is detected on the fly: the test_* directories under test/ are the register ... Never state the count as a literal anywhere - it is whatever test/test_* contains right now." It is about how many suites exist, not about literals inside assertions.

The 32 here is the Curve25519 key length, which is fixed by the algorithm rather than by anything in the repo. sizeof(config.security.private_key.bytes) is the buffer capacity, so the proposed assertion says "the key fills its buffer" where the test means "the key is 32 bytes". Those coincide today only because the buffer is exactly key-sized, and the substitution would stop the test noticing if that ever stopped being true.

Happy to hoist it into a named constant if the literal is the objection, but I would rather not assert the buffer size in place of the key size.

Suite is green under the coverage environment after the fix: 92 tests, 0 failures, no sanitizer reports.

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4355-4367: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve the existing public key when PKI regeneration fails.

When CryptoEngine::regeneratePublicKey() detects a weak point, it clears pubKey before returning false. ensurePkiIdentity() then returns false, but the callers still persist SEGMENT_CONFIG. Preserve the original public-key bytes until regeneration succeeds. The successful path returns true only when the node number changes, and its callers persist both required segments.

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weak-point detection causes regeneration to fail; only replace or clear pubKey
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Update owner.id before copying owner into the new self record. createNewIdentity() changes myNodeInfo.my_node_num, but the first-region path persists the new self record without reseating owner.id.

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