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resolve_binary_in_container reported an absent non-glob policy binary candidate (ENOENT) with the same WARN as a genuine failure to access /proc/<pid>/root, wrongly telling operators to add CAP_SYS_PTRACE or canonicalize paths. Built-in profiles like pypi list multiple candidate layouts, so images using one layout emitted a burst of misleading warnings on every policy rebuild. This change classifies resolution outcomes into a typed result and logs absent candidates quietly while keeping genuine access failures actionable.

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ClosesNVIDIA#2883

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  • Replace resolve_binary_in_container's Option<String> return with a typed BinaryResolution enum (Resolved, Literal, Absent, Inaccessible, ChainBroken); the resolver no longer logs.
  • Move all logging to the caller (proto_to_opa_data_json): Resolved → info, Absent → debug, Inaccessible/ChainBroken → warn. Fixes a pre-existing double-log and a mislabeled broken-chain path.
  • Probe /proc/<pid>/root reachability up front: an unreachable process root (pid gone → ENOENT, or denied → EACCES) is classified Inaccessible, while a leaf ENOENT under a reachable root is Absent — resolving the errno ambiguity.
  • Always retain the original literal binary path; existing symlinks still contribute their canonical targets.
  • Add tests: errno classification (NotFound/PermissionDenied), absent candidate → Absent, unreachable root → Inaccessible, and a caller-level test asserting absent candidates emit zero WARN events. Update existing resolver tests to the enum.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved executable path and symlink resolution.
    • More accurately distinguishes missing candidates, inaccessible locations, and broken symlink chains.
    • Preserves original policy paths while including successfully resolved targets.
    • Improves reliability when filesystem access changes during resolution.
    • Detects symlink cycles to prevent incomplete resolution.
    • Reduces unnecessary logging for expected missing-path cases, resulting in clearer diagnostics.
    • Improved handling of non-symlink executables and platform-specific process paths.

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Binary symlink resolution now returns classified outcomes instead of an optional path. OPA policy conversion handles each outcome with distinct alias, retention, and logging behavior. Tests cover missing candidates, inaccessible roots, broken chains, literal files, and resolved symlinks.

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Binary resolution classification

Layer / File(s)Summary
Resolution outcome classification
crates/openshell-supervisor-network/src/opa.rs
Binary resolution distinguishes resolved paths, literal paths, absent candidates, inaccessible process roots, inaccessible candidates, and broken symlink chains.
Policy conversion handling
crates/openshell-supervisor-network/src/opa.rs
Proto policy conversion adds resolved targets, retains original paths, and applies outcome-specific logging.
Resolution behavior validation
crates/openshell-supervisor-network/src/opa.rs
Tests cover classified results, missing paths, inaccessible roots, symlink cycles, regular files, and multi-level symlinks.

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The PR improves policy-binary warning accuracy, but edge-case symlink traversal can still misclassify valid or cyclic paths, and one test may be environment-sensitive; the impact is bounded to policy resolution, so the change is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up.

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sequenceDiagram
participant PolicyConversion
participant BinaryResolution
participant Procfs
PolicyConversion->>BinaryResolution: resolve policy binary path
BinaryResolution->>Procfs: check process root accessibility
Procfs-->>BinaryResolution: return accessibility result
BinaryResolution-->>PolicyConversion: return BinaryResolution outcome
PolicyConversion->>PolicyConversion: add target, retain path, or log outcome
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- Around line 1695-1696: Update the candidate-probe handling near
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/proc/{entrypoint_pid}/root before returning Absent. If the root is no longer
accessible, return BinaryResolution::Inaccessible with the metadata error;
preserve Absent only when the root recheck succeeds.
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In `@crates/openshell-supervisor-network/src/opa.rs`:
- Around line 7510-7514: Update the test around resolve_binary_in_container to
use a temporary directory with an uncreated child path as the candidate,
ensuring the path is guaranteed absent while retaining the current process ID
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The primary absent-path case is improved, but candidate-specific failures remain conflated with process-root access failures. The added regression test is also environment-dependent.

  • [P2] Separate root-access and candidate-probe failurescrates/openshell-supervisor-network/src/opa.rs:1736

    When /proc/<pid>/root is readable but probing the candidate fails, such as EACCES from a protected parent or ELOOP, this returns the same Inaccessible variant as a root-access failure. The caller consequently emits the process-root/CAP_SYS_PTRACE warning instead of identifying a target-path failure, preserving the misleading diagnosis for these inputs. Please use distinct result variants and messages.

  • [P2] Use guaranteed-absent paths in the warning testcrates/openshell-supervisor-network/src/opa.rs:7578

    These paths are not guaranteed to be absent on Linux runners. If one exists, the test stops exercising the intended Absent branch; if it is an inaccessible or broken symlink, the correct warning makes the test fail. Please construct uncreated children inside a temporary directory, as the preceding test does.

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The ENOENT case is handled correctly, but other candidate-path failures remain conflated with inaccessible process roots and produce misleading remediation advice.

  • [P2] Distinguish target probe failures from root failurescrates/openshell-supervisor-network/src/opa.rs:1736

    When /proc/<pid>/root is accessible but the candidate lookup fails with PermissionDenied or NotADirectory, this maps the target-path error to the same Inaccessible variant used for process-root failures. The caller consequently emits the misleading CAP_SYS_PTRACE warning even though procfs access succeeded. Please return a distinct target-resolution variant and log it separately.

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The patch handles missing candidates but still misclassifies other target-probe failures as process-root failures. Its new Linux tests also assume procfs accessibility despite existing support for restricted environments.

  • [P2] Separate candidate-probe failures from root-access failurescrates/openshell-supervisor-network/src/opa.rs:1734-1736

    When the process root is readable but the candidate lookup fails with PermissionDenied, NotADirectory, or another non-NotFound error, this returns the same Inaccessible variant used for root failures. The caller consequently emits the process-root/CAP_SYS_PTRACE warning even though the root check succeeded, continuing to conflate target-path and root-access failures contrary to issue bug: avoid misleading symlink-resolution warnings for absent policy binaries NVIDIA/OpenShell#2883 acceptance criteria.

  • [P2] Guard procfs-dependent tests in restricted Linux runnerscrates/openshell-supervisor-network/src/opa.rs:7516-7519

    On Linux runners without a traversable /proc/<pid>/root, such as chroots or sandboxes without procfs, this assertion receives Inaccessible instead of Absent and fails despite correct fallback behavior. Existing symlink tests use procfs_root_accessible() to support this environment; this test and the warning-count test should use the same guard.

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In `@crates/openshell-supervisor-network/src/opa.rs`:
- Around line 1776-1783: Update the symlink-resolution loop in the binary
resolution logic to track whether it terminated on a non-symlink target. If all
40 iterations resolve symlinks without reaching such a target, return
BinaryResolution::ChainBroken with the resolved path instead of classifying it
as Literal or Resolved; preserve the existing classifications when the chain
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In `@crates/openshell-supervisor-network/src/opa.rs`:
- Around line 1782-1790: Update the symlink-resolution logic around
BinaryResolution::ChainBroken to perform one final symlink_metadata probe after
following the fortieth symlink, accepting a regular-file target without
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Comment on lines +1782 to +1790
if !reached_target {
// The cap was exhausted while every component was still a symlink: a
// cycle such as a -> b -> a. read_link resolves one hop at a time, so
// the kernel never surfaces ELOOP; without this the current mid-cycle
// path would be accepted as Resolved/Literal with no warning. Treat it
// as a broken chain so the caller logs it and matches literally only.
return BinaryResolution::ChainBroken(
std::io::Error::from_raw_os_error(libc::ELOOP).kind(),
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Permit the terminal probe after the fortieth symlink.

A chain with 40 symlinks followed by a regular file leaves reached_target false after the loop. This branch then returns ChainBroken without probing the valid terminal file. Allow one final symlink_metadata probe after the fortieth link, but do not follow a forty-first symlink. Add a regression test with 40 links and one regular-file target.

Proposed fix
- for _ in 0..40 {+ for hop in 0..=40 {
let container_path = format!("/proc/{entrypoint_pid}/root{}", resolved.display());
// ...
if !meta.file_type().is_symlink() {
reached_target = true;
break;
}
+ if hop == 40 {+ break;+ }
let target = match std::fs::read_link(&container_path) {
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In `@crates/openshell-supervisor-network/src/opa.rs` around lines 1782 - 1790,
Update the symlink-resolution logic around BinaryResolution::ChainBroken to
perform one final symlink_metadata probe after following the fortieth symlink,
accepting a regular-file target without following a forty-first symlink; retain
ChainBroken for another symlink or an unresolved chain, and add a regression
test covering 40 links ending at a regular file.

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