feat(jail): add Jail::add_read_write for host-owned scratch outside the root - #21
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Adds a `read_write` field to the jail configuration, allowing extra paths outside the root to be granted both read and write access. This is useful for host-owned scratch directories that the child process must write to without those writes landing inside the root. The Linux backend now creates Landlock rules for these paths with the same access as the root, and the macOS profile includes them in the file-write allow block. Tests cover the new configuration option, canonicalization behavior, and backend enforcement. Auto-committed-on: dragonfly Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
Remove the `#[cfg(target_os = "macos")]` guard from the macos module and make it publicly accessible from lib.rs, so that the module is always compiled and available regardless of the target platform. This allows downstream consumers to reference the module without conditional compilation. Auto-committed-on: dragonfly Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
When the jail configuration is empty, the macOS implementation now returns an empty result instead of panicking. This fixes a crash that occurred when running commands without any jail restrictions. Auto-committed-on: dragonfly Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
The jail now grants GENERIC_READ, GENERIC_WRITE, and DELETE access not only to the root directory but also to every path listed in `jail.read_write`, matching the documented behaviour. A new `path_grants` helper collects all paths with their required access levels, and a unit test verifies that read-write paths receive the same permissions as the root. Auto-committed-on: dragonfly Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
Add the `add_read_write` builder method to the list of jail responsibilities in the README, alongside the existing `add_read_only` method. This method grants a path outside the root the same access as the root itself, which is useful for host-owned scratch directories like per-call output capture that should not reside inside the root. Also update the canonicalization note to include read/write paths alongside read-only paths. Auto-committed-on: dragonfly Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
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326-326: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winPreserve write access for overlapping paths before enabling this backend.
path_grantsemits read-write entries before read-only entries.grant_sid_accessusesSET_ACCESS, which replaces the SID’s existing access entry. An overlapping path can therefore lose write and delete access when the grants run.Exclude read-only entries already covered by the root or a
read_writepath, and add an overlap test. This is not a current runtime failure: the crate does not compilewindows.rs, andAppContainerBackend::is_available()returnsfalse.Suggested fix
- .chain(jail.read_only.iter().map(|path| (path.as_path(), GENERIC_READ))) + .chain( + jail.read_only + .iter() + .filter(|path| { + path.as_path() != jail.root.as_path() + && !jail.read_write.iter().any(|rw| rw == *path) + }) + .map(|path| (path.as_path(), GENERIC_READ)), + )🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 191-192: Update grant_sid_access to set both object and container
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- Line 326: Update `path_grants` to exclude read-only paths already covered by
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replace write access with read-only access; add a test covering overlapping
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When a path was listed in both read_write and read_only, the Windows jail code would incorrectly grant only read access instead of preserving the write access. Additionally, access control entries were created without inheritance flags, preventing newly created files and subdirectories from inheriting the correct permissions. The fix filters out duplicate paths from the read_only list and sets the OBJECT_INHERIT_ACE and CONTAINER_INHERIT_ACE flags on granted ACEs, ensuring that permissions propagate correctly through the filesystem hierarchy. Auto-committed-on: dragonfly Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
Removed a test that only asserted a constant expression, which provided no meaningful coverage of behavior. Auto-committed-on: dragonfly Co-authored-by: Medulla <medulla@tinyhumans.ai>
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Jail::add_read_write(path): an extra path outside the jail root that the child may read and write, with the same access the root gets. Each proposed backend honours it: Landlock adds a write rule, Seatbelt adds afile-write*subpath, and AppContainer grants the container SID read/write/delete through a new purepath_grantshelper.Motivation: OpenHuman captures a jailed command's stdout/stderr with a shell redirect. Because the jail only allowed writes under its root, the capture files had to live inside the root, which is the user's project. They showed up in
git statusandgit add -Awhile the command ran, and concurrent calls clobbered each other (tinyhumansai/openhuman#6961). With this API the host can grant a per-call capture directory in its own state dir for that one spawn.Related issue
tinyhumansai/openhuman#6961
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Jail::read_write: Vec<PathBuf>field andJail::add_read_writebuilder.canonicalizeresolves these the same way asread_only(best effort; a missing path stays as is).Jail. Nothing in this workspace or in OpenHuman does that (both useJail::new).add_read_write. The Seatbelt profile for those is unchanged apart from line layout.Validation
cargo fmt --all -- --check: cleancargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings: cleancargo build --all-targets --all-features(through clippy/test)cargo test --all-features: all pass (tinybox-jail: 54)The platform backends (
linux.rs,macos.rs,windows.rs) are still not declared inlib.rs, so CI does not compile them or their tests. To exercise them anyway, I temporarily declared each module locally (relaxingunsafe_codetodenyplus a moduleallow) and ran:cargo test -p tinybox-jail --features landlock --lib linux: the new Landlock test failed before the rule was added (the write to the granted dir was denied) and passes after. The test also checks that a dir that was not granted stays unwritable. It ran on a real Landlock kernel.cargo test -p tinybox-jail --lib macos(pure profile renderer, run on Linux): the new profile test failed before the change and passes after.cargo check -p tinybox-jail --tests --target x86_64-pc-windows-gnu: thepath_grantstest type-checks. It has not run on real Windows.The auto-checkpoint hook committed that temporary scaffolding and its revert (
bf3c0fe,8255ba0). Together they change nothing, and the history is left as is.Tests
jail_tests.rs: default is empty; the builder appends in order and leavesroot/read_onlyalone; canonicalize resolves..; a missing path is kept.linux_tests.rs: Landlock allows writes into aread_writedir outside the root and still denies a dir that was not granted.macos_tests.rs: the profile emits asubpathperread_writepath, quoted correctly; without them, only root and/private/tmpappear.windows_tests.rs:path_grantsgivesread_writethe root's access mask andread_onlyread only.Documentation
crates/tinybox-jail/README.mdresponsibilities updated.Checklist
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