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Wave 2 "Sandbox posture" row (native-readiness.md) has been "Not yet attempted" since ADR-0020 explicitly deferred it (main.cpp: no_sandbox=true unconditionally). Before attempting anything, gather real evidence on whether it's even feasible here. Confirmed against CEF's own docs/sandbox_setup.md and Chromium's docs/linux_sandboxing.md before writing this: unlike Windows (cef_sandbox_win.h) and macOS (cef_sandbox_mac.h), CEF has no Linux-specific sandbox API at all — the sandbox is entirely a Chromium-internal mechanism (CefSettings.no_sandbox is the only lever), using either the legacy setuid chrome-sandbox helper or (preferred automatically since Chromium M-43) unprivileged user namespaces if the kernel/policy allows it. New scripts/cef/check-linux-sandbox-inventory.mjs runs a functional test (unshare --user --pid --fork), not just a sysctl read — AppArmor profiles or container-level restrictions can block unprivileged namespace creation even when kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone claims it's enabled. Zero behavior change: this only reports what the runner supports, same non-invasive pattern as the existing clean-machine dependency inventory.
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Reviewer's GuideAdds a diagnostic-only Linux sandbox feasibility inventory step to the CEF learning harness CI and a supporting Node script that probes kernel/user-namespace/AppArmor state without changing application behavior. Sequence diagram for the Linux sandbox feasibility inventory CI stepsequenceDiagram
participant GitHubActions as GitHubActions_runner
participant Script as check_linux_sandbox_inventory_mjs
participant Kernel as Linux_kernel
participant ProcFS as procfs_sysfs
participant Unshare as unshare_binary
GitHubActions->>Script: node scripts/cef/check-linux-sandbox-inventory.mjs
Script->>Kernel: execFileSync uname -r
Kernel-->>Script: kernelRelease
Script->>ProcFS: fs.readFileSync /proc/sys/kernel/unprivileged_userns_clone
ProcFS-->>Script: sysctlValue or error
Script->>Unshare: execFileSync unshare --user --pid --fork true
Unshare-->>Script: success or failure
Script->>ProcFS: fs.existsSync /sys/module/apparmor/parameters/enabled
ProcFS-->>Script: pathExists or not
Script->>ProcFS: fs.readFileSync /sys/module/apparmor/parameters/enabled
ProcFS-->>Script: aaEnabled or error
Script-->>GitHubActions: log kernelRelease, sysctlValue, unshareWorks, aaEnabled, verdict (no behavior change)
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This PR adds a diagnostic-only Linux sandbox feasibility check as part of CEF Wave 2 preparation. The implementation correctly gathers information about kernel sandbox capabilities without modifying any runtime behavior.
Key strengths:
- Well-documented purpose and constraints
- Proper error handling with graceful fallbacks
- Non-invasive diagnostic approach (read-only checks)
- Correctly positioned in CI workflow before apt-get installations
Assessment: No blocking defects found. The code correctly implements its stated diagnostic purpose with appropriate error handling and documentation.
The changes are ready to merge - they gather evidence for future sandbox enablement work without affecting current functionality.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe pull request adds a failure-tolerant Linux sandbox feasibility inventory and integrates its output into the CEF learning harness summary. It also updates Wave 2 readiness evidence, risk statuses, competency tracking, ownership metadata, and the CEF binding-upgrade procedure. ChangesCEF Wave 2 readiness
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk:🟡 Moderate · up to This PR adds diagnostic-only CI and documentation without changing CEF runtime behavior, but the current upgrade guidance has incomplete rollback instructions, overstates accessibility and checksum guarantees, and the inventory step can hide command failures; merge should wait for these bounded documentation and CI corrections. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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cef_learning_harness->>check_linux_sandbox_inventory: Run diagnostic script
check_linux_sandbox_inventory->>LinuxRunner: Inspect kernel, sysctl, unshare, and AppArmor
LinuxRunner-->>check_linux_sandbox_inventory: Return diagnostic results
check_linux_sandbox_inventory-->>cef_learning_harness: Capture inventory output
cef_learning_harness->>GitHubJobSummary: Add fenced output or fallback
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In @.github/workflows/cef-learning-harness.yml:
- Line 236: Update the Linux sandbox feasibility inventory flow to capture the
single diagnostic invocation’s output with tee, then append that captured output
to GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY in the Summary step instead of only writing a pointer; do
not rerun the diagnostic.
In `@scripts/cef/check-linux-sandbox-inventory.mjs`:
- Around line 65-67: Guard the AppArmor status read in the aaEnabled
initialization so readFileSync failures do not terminate the diagnostic script.
Preserve the existing enabled-value behavior, and use an explicit unavailable
status such as null when the file cannot be read, allowing the CEF setup flow to
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Both real, both fixed:
- Guarded the AppArmor status read: existsSync() doesn't guarantee the
following readFileSync() succeeds (TOCTOU, permissions) — an unguarded
throw here would abort this whole diagnostic script before it even
reaches CEF SDK setup, which is worse than the one field it's checking
being unavailable.
- The job summary previously only wrote a pointer ("see the step
above") instead of the actual inventory data. Now tees the single
diagnostic invocation's output to $RUNNER_TEMP and cats it into
GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY — no second invocation, per the finding's own
note not to rerun the diagnostic.…nventory gate item Incorporates external review feedback on this session's own competency tracking, both real and substantive: 1. Documents an explicit acceptance bar for the *future* sandbox-enable PR (this PR stays diagnostic-only): must show browser/renderer/GPU processes actually running under the sandbox (real per-process status, not just "launched without complaining"), zero regression to existing proofs, a reproducible sandbox-status proof in CI. Explicitly disallowed: silently trading no_sandbox=true for a narrower blanket disable (e.g. --disable-setuid-sandbox) while still claiming the row proven. CI-sandbox-proof and production-packaging- sandbox-proof are two separate gates -- the latter is real, later packaging-wave scope, not to be pulled into Wave 2. 2. The existing "Linux dependency inventory" gate item (competency matrix, both checklists) and native-readiness.md's matching row conflated two different goals: Wave 2's own package-presence + ldd- linkage verification (PR #395, genuinely complete) and a later packaged-installer multi-distro compatibility declaration (not Wave 2 scope). Split into two items -- the Wave-2-scoped half now checked/ PASS (matching this project's own established convention for the Wayland row: proven on what Wave 2 actually needs, not blocked pending a broader matrix), the packaged-installer half stays unchecked/open, correctly scoped later. Gate count: 10 of 13 (was 8 of 12 -- 13 not 12 because of the split, not scope creep). sandbox_smoke stays false; "sandbox development plan validated" is a different, now-satisfied item per its own literal wording.
…rcular dependency The competency gate requires "upgrade playbook exists" before Wave 4's privileged IPC proceeds, but the playbook's own prose said "Not started... will get real content the first time [the CEF version pin] actually moves." That's circular: the gate can't be satisfied until an upgrade happens, but nothing forces an upgrade to happen -- external review feedback on this session's own work caught it. Fix: write a real, executable 15-step procedure now, synthesized from scripts/CI that already exist from Wave 2's own proof work (pin change -> SHA/size verify -> fetch -> build -> lifecycle harness -> sandbox -> crash -> symbolization -> accessibility -> X11 -> Wayland -> dependency/linkage diff -> API diff -> docs -> rollback pin), plus an emergency security-patch lane (roadmap Sec34.1.2) and binding-crate-specific notes. Explicitly not claimed as battle-tested -- the doc's own Status line and closing section both say it must be enriched with what actually broke after the first real upgrade, not treated as finished now that it has content. Flips both "Upgrade playbook written" (Appendix A.1) and "upgrade playbook exists" (CEF competency gate) to checked -- gate count 11/13 (was 10/13 after the earlier sandbox+dependency-inventory split in this same PR).
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…feedback)
Real drift caught by external review of this session's own work: the
register's own rule is "assign an owner before the corresponding wave
begins, not before" -- correct and deliberate at Wave 0 when nothing
existed. Mid-Wave-2, with real implementation/CI/harness evidence now
landed for specific risks, several rows had fallen behind that rule
without anyone noticing.
R-06 (CEF/Rust/C++ lifetime defects): the row's own exit condition
("Learning harness green in CI across repeated start/stop cycles") is
genuinely met (scripts/cef/run-launch-cycle-proof.mjs, 3/3 cycles, PR
#388+) plus a real callback-lifetime bug found and fixed (PR #390).
Assigned cef-runtime/rust-core, moved OPEN -> MITIGATING -- not CLOSED,
since IO-thread/render-process-side/async-cancellation lifetime rules
remain untouched (competency matrix's own "Partial" status for that
domain).
R-13 (accessibility regression): the row's own mitigation cites "Early
integration spike (Sec23.1)", which is now real (SetAccessibilityState,
PR #397, zero regression). Assigned cef-runtime/desktop-architecture,
moved OPEN -> MITIGATING -- Wave 16 certification exit criteria remain
explicitly unmet; only the spike half is evidenced.
All other rows correctly stay *unassigned*/OPEN -- their corresponding
waves (4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16-full) haven't begun, per this
register's own rule. This is not a one-time fix -- the "Review cadence"
section now documents this checkpoint so future Wave exits re-check the
same way.…own documented intent Graphite finding on PR #402, verified real: the step's own QNBS-v3 comment says "Non-fatal by design," but continue-on-error: true was never actually set. The script defensively catches its own runtime errors, but a Node.js syntax error or missing module would still fail the step (and this non-blocking job) despite the documented intent — now matches what the comment already claimed.
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This PR successfully adds a diagnostic-only Linux sandbox feasibility inventory that gathers real evidence without changing any runtime behavior. The implementation is defensive and well-documented, meeting all stated objectives:
Key observations:
- The diagnostic script properly handles all error conditions (TOCTOU awareness for AppArmor file access, guarded reads, try-catch throughout)
- CI integration is correctly non-fatal by design (
continue-on-error: true) - Documentation thoroughly explains the "two separate gates" distinction (CI sandbox proof vs production packaging)
- All changes align with the stated scope: diagnostic evidence gathering only, no behavior changes
The code functions correctly as designed and does not contain defects that would block merge.
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111-117: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winPreserve the inventory command status.
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In `@docs/cef/CEF-RUST-COMPETENCY-MATRIX.md`:
- Around line 47-50: Update the upgrade-playbook status consistently: in
docs/cef/CEF-RUST-COMPETENCY-MATRIX.md lines 29 and 81, state that the playbook
exists proactively but has not yet been exercised against a real upgrade; in
docs/cef/OWNERSHIP.yaml line 60, remove the stale statement that the playbook is
skeletal or missing.
In `@docs/cef/knowledge/binding-upgrade-playbook.md`:
- Line 12: Clarify the “only file” statement in Step 1 to mean cef-version.json
is the only version-pin file changed during a routine bump, while allowing the
complete upgrade procedure to update documentation as required by Step 14.
- Line 26: Update the “Rollback pin” guidance in the upgrade playbook to cover
CEF, Rust binding, and Corrosion changes, not only scripts/cef/cef-version.json.
Specify either reverting one atomic upgrade commit or documenting the separate
rollback files, including Cargo.toml and CMakeLists.txt, so all related version
changes are restored together.
- Line 30: Update the emergency-path wording in the playbook to say
“accessibility-state enablement” rather than “basic accessibility/focus,”
matching Step 9’s actual assertion of accessibility_state_requested=true; do not
claim focus coverage unless Step 9 is also extended with an explicit focus
assertion.
- Line 30: Update the verification requirement describing verifyArchive() and
step 2 to call the SHA-1 comparison “checksum/integrity verification,” not
signature verification. Do not imply source or pin authentication unless an
independently trusted signature or provenance check is added.
- Line 13: Align the playbook with verifyArchive(): either remove the “size”
claim from the verification step, or update verifyArchive() to perform an
executable pin.sizeBytes validation alongside pin.sha1.
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- Around line 111-117: Update the “Linux sandbox feasibility inventory
(diagnostic only)” step to enable shell pipefail before the node-to-tee
pipeline, preserving the node command’s failure status while retaining
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Six real findings, all fixed: - CEF-RUST-COMPETENCY-MATRIX.md still described the upgrade playbook as a skeleton in two places (the Rust-binding domain row, and the "does NOT claim" section) even though it was written this same PR -- these edits had landed on a held-back branch instead of this one by mistake; fixed here directly. - binding-upgrade-playbook.md Step 1's "only file a routine bump touches" contradicted Step 14 (docs updated in the same PR) -- clarified to mean the only *version-pin* file, not the only file in the whole procedure. - Step 2 claimed "verify SHA/size" but verifyArchive() only checks sha1, never sizeBytes -- corrected the claim to match the real code. - Step 9 / the emergency lane claimed "basic accessibility/focus" but the actual assertion (accessibility_state_requested = true) proves state enablement only, not focus -- corrected, matching the same state-vs-tree-observability honesty already applied everywhere else in this doc set. - "Signature verification" mislabeled a bare SHA-1 checksum comparison against a value this repo itself maintains -- real gap, not just wording: the roadmap's own SS34.1.2 requires genuine signature verification, which does not exist yet. Corrected to "checksum/ integrity verification" and the gap is now stated honestly as open, not silently assumed closed. - Rollback (Step 15) only covered reverting cef-version.json, which would not undo a Cargo.toml/CMakeLists.txt change from a Rust- binding/Corrosion upgrade -- split into CEF-only (one-file revert, as before) vs. binding/Corrosion (one atomic commit, git revert that commit) cases, and cross-referenced from the binding-crate section so the "make it atomic" guidance and the rollback instructions agree with each other. - cef-learning-harness.yml: added set -o pipefail to the sandbox- inventory step (outside-diff-range finding) -- without it, a failed node process could be masked by tee's own success, silently corrupting the step's reported status despite continue-on-error already being set.
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This PR successfully adds diagnostic-only sandbox feasibility checks without any defects blocking merge. The implementation correctly validates that unprivileged user-namespace sandboxing is feasible on the CI runner through functional tests (unshare --user --pid --fork), while appropriately documenting that actual sandbox enablement remains a separate follow-up effort. The new check-linux-sandbox-inventory.mjs script includes proper error handling, and the CI integration is correctly marked as non-blocking. Documentation updates accurately reflect the current state — feasibility validated, enablement not yet attempted — maintaining the honest scope discipline demonstrated throughout this codebase.
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…403) * fix(ci): apt-archive cache restore was silently failing on every run Real CI evidence from main's post-#402-merge Build job: the cache restore genuinely found the key ("Cache hit for: apt-playwright-chromium-deps-v1") but tar extraction then failed with "Permission denied" on every single .deb file, immediately followed by "Cache not found for input keys" -- actions/cache's restore step runs as the unprivileged runner user, but /var/cache/apt/archives is root-owned by default. This means every apt-cache added in PR #398 across all 7 sites (6 in ci.yml, 1 in cef-learning-harness.yml) has been silently degrading to a full cache miss on every single run since it was introduced, undermining the whole point of that fix and very plausibly contributing to several of today's apt-mirror-timeout failures that were attributed purely to external throughput. Fix: chmod the archive directory world-writable (sudo, matching how the actual apt-get install steps already need sudo) immediately before each cache-restore step, so tar's unprivileged extraction can actually write into it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix(ci): tighten apt-cache dir fix from chmod 777 to chown+755 (least privilege) Real, valid finding from both Amazon Q and Graphite, independently, on all 7 sites: chmod 777 (world-writable) is unnecessarily permissive — it lets any process/user on the runner tamper with cached .deb packages, not just the runner user that actually needs write access. chown runner:runner + chmod 755 grants the same functional access (restore's tar extraction and the save post-hook both run as the runner user; the actual apt-get install steps run as root via sudo, unaffected by ownership since root bypasses permission checks) with tighter scope, matching least-privilege practice even on an ephemeral CI runner. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ardening Real CI evidence from this PR's first run: Chromium's sandbox/linux/suid/client/setuid_sandbox_host.cc FATALs when chrome-sandbox is present but not owned by root with mode 4755 — it does NOT silently fall back to unprivileged user namespaces in that case (only when the helper is absent entirely). This refutes the PR #402 assumption that userns alone would be sufficient; CEF's own COPY_FILES step never chown/chmods the helper, so this adds the standard CEF/Chromium packaging step (matching what a real .deb/AppImage installer would need to do anyway) right after the build, before any sandboxed launch is attempted. Also hardens the new proof harness per real review findings on this PR: - scripts/cef/run-sandbox-status-proof.mjs now wraps its process lifetime in try/finally so an assertion failure can never leak a sandboxed CEF process tree past this (continue-on-error) step into the Wayland smoke proof that runs after it. - Seccomp evidence now requires exactly '2' (real seccomp-BPF filter mode), not just non-zero — Seccomp=1 is Linux's unrelated strict mode and would have overclaimed layer-2 evidence. - All three python http.server invocations in this workflow file now use `trap ... EXIT` instead of a plain trailing `kill`, which GitHub Actions' default `bash -e` semantics could previously skip entirely on an early script failure, leaking the server process for the rest of the job. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Summary
Wave 2 "Sandbox posture" row (
docs/architecture/native-readiness.md) has been "Not yet attempted" since ADR-0020 explicitly deferred it (main.cpp:no_sandbox=trueunconditionally). Before attempting anything, this PR gathers real evidence on whether it's even feasible on a GitHub Actions runner — zero behavior change, pure diagnostic.Confirmed against CEF's own
docs/sandbox_setup.mdand Chromium'sdocs/linux_sandboxing.mdbefore writing any code: unlike Windows (cef_sandbox_win.h) and macOS (cef_sandbox_mac.h), CEF has no Linux-specific sandbox API at all — the sandbox is entirely a Chromium-internal mechanism, toggled only viaCefSettings.no_sandbox. Layer-1 process isolation uses either the legacy setuidchrome-sandboxhelper (needs root ownership + setuid bit) or — preferred automatically since Chromium M-43 — unprivileged user namespaces, if the kernel/policy allows it.What this adds
New
scripts/cef/check-linux-sandbox-inventory.mjs, wired as an early, non-invasive step incef-learning-harness.yml(same pattern as the existing "Clean-machine Linux dependency inventory"):uname -r)kernel.unprivileged_userns_clonesysctl (Debian/Ubuntu-specific; absence is itself informative)unshare --user --pid --fork true— AppArmor profiles or container-level restrictions can block unprivileged namespace creation even when the sysctl claims it's enabledReal result on the CI runner: kernel
6.17.0-1022-azure,kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1, AppArmor enabled,unsharesucceeded — unprivileged user-namespace sandboxing appears reachable here.Acceptance bar for the follow-up enable attempt (documented in this PR, not implemented yet)
Per external review feedback on this PR, now written into
docs/architecture/native-readiness.md's Sandbox posture row anddocs/cef/knowledge/cef-architecture-primer.md's "Sandbox configuration" section:no_sandbox=true" — must show browser/renderer/utility-GPU processes actually running under the sandbox (Chromium's own recommendation: check real per-process sandbox status, e.g.chrome://sandboxor an equivalent CI-observable signal — Linux combines namespace isolation and seccomp-BPF, both matter independently)no_sandbox=truefor a narrower blanket disable (e.g.--disable-setuid-sandbox) to get past a launch failure while still claiming the row proven.deb/AppImage/installer distribution correctly installs the helper/permissions/runtime layout on every target distro." The latter is real, separate, later packaging-wave scope.Also split the previously-conflated "Linux dependency inventory" gate item (competency matrix + native-readiness.md) into a Wave-2-scoped half (package presence +
lddlinkage verification, PR #395 — genuinely complete, now checked/PASS) and a separate packaged-installer-declaration half (correctly stays open, later scope) — same "two separate gates" distinction applied consistently.Test plan
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Establish diagnostic evidence and documented readiness criteria for future Linux CEF sandbox enablement without changing runtime behavior.
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