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danos/system/services/init/init.zig
Daniel Samson 2719b93530 library: the last three protocols speak the envelope
These were the awkward ones. Each began with an operation packed into a
single byte — two of them with a version wedged in beside it — so there was
no wrapping them: the layouts had to be rebuilt. The device manager's own
enumerate and subscribe become the reserved verbs that mean the same thing
everywhere, its replies lose three status structs the envelope already
carries, and a device id becomes the packet's target. Power drops the
version it repeated on every request, because describe is the handshake,
and stops claiming a 64-byte ceiling it never needed for calls. USB moves a
control transfer's data to the packet tail in both directions, which makes
the status length the transferred length and retires a field that had been
saying the same thing twice.

The danger in this one was not the protocols but their readers. Init
recognised a power button by two bytes at the head of a message, the ACPI
service dispatched on the first byte, the xHCI driver read its operation
with a raw integer load, and the HID drivers reinterpreted a report
wholesale — none of which would have failed to compile once the layouts
moved. They would simply have stopped: no shutdown on the power button, no
reports from the keyboard. Every one of them now reads through the
generated types, and the shutdown gate that answers only a subscriber is
the same code it was.

Two sizes were decided by measuring rather than assuming. The child-added
message is both a request and the event broadcast to subscribers, and
alignment rounds it to 48 bytes, which puts its packet exactly on the
64-byte push floor — a test pins that, because a field added carelessly
would now overflow it. The interrupt report gives up eight bytes of inline
room to make space for the header; the two drivers that produce reports
send eight and four.

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//! /system/services/init — the first user-space program, PID 1. Built as its own
//! freestanding binary (see build.zig), shipped on the boot volume at /system/services/init,
//! loaded by the bootloader, and started in ring 3 as a scheduled process by the
//! kernel (system/kernel/process.zig). It links against the shared user runtime
//! library `runtime` and talks to the kernel only through `runtime`'s system_call wrappers.
//!
//! It proves the C-convention heap works, then — as PID 1 — acts as the system's
//! **service supervisor**: it spawns the user-space services danos brings up at boot
//! (the VFS server, the device manager), and settles into an event loop as the root
//! of user space. Drivers are *not* its job: the device manager discovers the
//! hardware and spawns those. This is the service half of the service/driver spawn
//! split (docs/driver-model.md).
//!
//! M21: init also owns **orderly shutdown**. It supervises its children (keeping
//! their ids and an exit endpoint), subscribes to the power service, and on a
//! power-button event runs the stop sequence over its children in reverse order
//! before asking the power service to enter S5 — lifecycle (M17) and events (M21)
//! composing into a clean poweroff.
//!
//! P2: init is also the **registrar** — it serves `/protocol`, the namespace where
//! a program finds everything it talks to
//! (docs/os-development/protocol-namespace.md). It is the natural home: it already
//! spawns the services and already holds the supervision link to each, so it is the
//! process that *knows* which binary is which. Registry traffic rides the same
//! endpoint as supervision, because one thread can only wait in one place — the
//! loop below answers vfs `open`/`readdir`/`bind` alongside signals, timers, power
//! events, and children's deaths.
//!
//! Which sets the security posture of this file. `fs_resolve` installs a mounted
//! backend's endpoint capability in *any* caller's handle table, so sharing the
//! mailbox means **every ring-3 process can send into PID 1**. Two rules follow,
//! and both are structural here rather than remembered per branch:
//!
//! - **Privileged action requires an attested sender.** What arrives is a
//! stranger's bytes; the only identity on it is the task id the kernel stamps.
//! Content never authorizes (`onPowerEvent`), and neither does a name — the
//! registrar attests a caller's supervision by task id (`supervisorSatisfies`).
//! - **Absence is the enforcement.** P3: `open` consults the manifest with the
//! same attested identity a `bind` does, and a caller with no grant is told
//! exactly what a caller asking for a name nobody bound is told — `-ENOENT`,
//! and no capability (`onOpen`). Restriction stage one of
//! docs/os-development/protocol-namespace.md: what a process cannot open does
//! not exist for it, so there is no "permission denied" to distinguish.
//! - **A capability that arrives is closed unless it is claimed** (`Arrival`),
//! because PID 1's thirty-two handle slots are a resource an unauthenticated
//! caller would otherwise be able to spend.
const std = @import("std");
const ipc = @import("ipc");
const process = @import("process");
const time = @import("time");
const memory = @import("memory");
const logging = @import("logging");
const power_protocol = @import("power-protocol");
const vfs_protocol = @import("vfs-protocol");
const envelope = @import("envelope");
const build_options = @import("build_options");
const fs = @import("file-system");
const csv = @import("csv");
/// The system services init brings up at boot are init's policy, not the kernel's —
/// and that policy is now data: `/system/configuration/init.csv` (see `loadServices`), read at
/// startup instead of a hardcoded list. Drivers are absent on purpose: the device
/// manager owns those.
///
/// The most services `/system/configuration/init.csv` can list, and the most argv entries (beyond the
/// path) each may carry. Fixed caps because init parses the list into static storage —
/// the freestanding, no-allocator counterpart to the device manager's registry table.
const max_services = 16;
const max_service_args = 4;
/// One service init starts, parsed from a row of `/system/configuration/init.csv`: its binary path
/// and argv, both slices into `init_csv` (held for the life of the process).
const Service = struct {
path: []const u8 = "",
arg_buffer: [max_service_args][]const u8 = undefined,
arg_count: usize = 0,
fn arguments(self: *const Service) []const []const u8 {
return self.arg_buffer[0..self.arg_count];
}
};
/// The `/system/configuration/init.csv` bytes, held because the parsed services slice into them.
var init_csv: [4096]u8 = undefined;
var services: [max_services]Service = .{Service{}} ** max_services;
var service_count: usize = 0;
/// The live process id of each service (0 = not running) and its restart count,
/// indexed by position in `services`. init supervises these: it spawns them against
/// `supervision_endpoint` and, on a child's death, restarts it (up to
/// `maximum_restarts`) — the reincarnation half of resilience (docs/resilience.md),
/// the service-level counterpart to the device manager's driver restarts.
var child_ids: [max_services]u32 = .{0} ** max_services;
var restart_counts: [max_services]u32 = .{0} ** max_services;
var shutting_down = false;
var supervision_endpoint: ipc.Handle = 0;
/// Parse `/system/configuration/init.csv` into `services`, in file order (startup order; shutdown is
/// the reverse). Each row is a binary path followed by its argv, comma-separated;
/// `#` comments and blank lines are ignored. The file lives in the initial ramdisk,
/// which the kernel serves directly, so init — PID 1, running before any filesystem
/// service — reads it with a plain fs.open, the same mechanism the device manager
/// uses for /system/configuration/devices.csv. A missing file means no services (the no-ramdisk
/// isolation test): loud, but not fatal.
fn loadServices() void {
const used = readConfiguration("/system/configuration/init.csv", &init_csv) orelse {
_ = logging.write("/system/services/init: /system/configuration/init.csv missing — no services started\n");
return;
};
var lines = std.mem.splitScalar(u8, init_csv[0..used], '\n');
while (lines.next()) |line| {
const body = csv.stripComment(line);
if (body.len == 0) continue;
if (service_count >= services.len) {
_ = logging.write("/system/services/init: /system/configuration/init.csv has more services than the table holds\n");
break;
}
var it = csv.fields(body);
const path = it.next() orelse continue;
if (path.len == 0) continue;
var service: Service = .{ .path = path };
while (it.next()) |argument| {
if (argument.len == 0) continue; // padding, or a trailing comma
if (service.arg_count >= max_service_args) break;
service.arg_buffer[service.arg_count] = argument;
service.arg_count += 1;
}
services[service_count] = service;
service_count += 1;
}
}
/// Read a whole configuration file into `into`, returning the byte count. Both of
/// init's manifests live in the initial ramdisk the kernel serves directly, so this
/// works before any filesystem service exists. A file that fills the buffer exactly
/// is reported: a manifest silently losing its last rows is a policy change nobody
/// asked for, and the symptom (one service refused a name) points nowhere near it.
fn readConfiguration(path: []const u8, into: []u8) ?usize {
var file = fs.open(path, .{}) orelse return null;
defer file.close();
var used: usize = 0;
while (used < into.len) {
const n = file.read(into[used..]) orelse break;
if (n == 0) break;
used += n;
}
if (used == into.len) std.log.info("{s} filled the read buffer — rows past {d} bytes are lost", .{ path, used });
return used;
}
/// Give up restarting a service after this many crashes — a crash-loop cap, so a service
/// that faults immediately on every spawn doesn't respawn forever.
const maximum_restarts = 3;
// --- the registry: /protocol ------------------------------------------------
/// Longest contract name the namespace admits (`display`, `test/shared-memory`)
/// and the most that may be bound at once. Both static, like everything else
/// init holds.
const maximum_name = 64;
const maximum_bindings = 16;
const maximum_grants = 64;
/// One bound contract: the name, the provider's endpoint (a capability init
/// holds and hands to whoever opens the name), and the provenance a diagnostic
/// listing answers "who serves this?" with.
const Binding = struct {
used: bool = false,
name: [maximum_name]u8 = undefined,
name_len: usize = 0,
endpoint: ipc.Handle = 0,
task: u32 = 0,
binary: [64]u8 = undefined,
binary_len: usize = 0,
fn nameSlice(self: *const Binding) []const u8 {
return self.name[0..self.name_len];
}
fn binarySlice(self: *const Binding) []const u8 {
return self.binary[0..self.binary_len];
}
};
var bindings: [maximum_bindings]Binding = .{Binding{}} ** maximum_bindings;
/// What a grant row permits.
///
/// - `bind` — claim the name, i.e. provide the contract.
/// - `open` — reach the name, i.e. speak the contract to whoever provides it.
/// - `supervise` — stand in a third task's supervision chain: a task running this
/// binary, under this supervisor, may be the supervising task named by an
/// `open` row for this contract. It grants the *delegate* nothing itself.
///
/// `supervise` exists because attestation is deliberately one hop deep
/// (`supervisorSatisfies`): init vouches only for tasks it or the kernel started.
/// The driver tree is deeper than that — the device manager starts the PS/2 bus,
/// and the bus starts the keyboard and mouse drivers — so without a way to say
/// "this task is an authorized supervisor", a legitimate grandchild would be
/// indistinguishable from a laundering deputy. Naming the delegate in the
/// manifest is what tells them apart, and it is the same shape as every other
/// row: a binary, the supervisor it must have, and the contract it concerns.
/// Deliberately `open`-only — a delegate may vouch for what its children may
/// *reach*, never for what they may *claim* — so the bind path's attestation is
/// exactly what P2 shipped and every refusal it makes still holds.
const Permission = enum { bind, open, supervise };
/// One row of `/system/configuration/protocol.csv`. Every field may end in `*`,
/// which matches any tail — the subtree scoping the design doc describes, and
/// what lets one row grant the whole `/test/` family its `test/...` names.
const Grant = struct {
binary: []const u8 = "",
supervisor: []const u8 = "",
permission: Permission = .bind,
name: []const u8 = "",
};
/// Roomier than init.csv's: this manifest carries a row per provider per spawn
/// path, a row per client per contract it reaches, and its own format
/// documentation — which is most of the bytes, and is the point of the file.
var protocol_csv: [16384]u8 = undefined;
var grants: [maximum_grants]Grant = .{Grant{}} ** maximum_grants;
var grant_count: usize = 0;
/// Parse `/system/configuration/protocol.csv` — the grant manifest. Separate from
/// init.csv because every field there after the path is argv, and overloading that
/// would be ambiguous; separate *files* also means a grant exists for binaries init
/// never spawns (the drivers, which the device manager owns).
fn loadGrants() void {
const used = readConfiguration("/system/configuration/protocol.csv", &protocol_csv) orelse {
_ = logging.write("/system/services/init: /system/configuration/protocol.csv missing — no protocol may be bound\n");
return;
};
var lines = std.mem.splitScalar(u8, protocol_csv[0..used], '\n');
while (lines.next()) |line| {
const body = csv.stripComment(line);
if (body.len == 0) continue;
if (grant_count >= grants.len) {
_ = logging.write("/system/services/init: /system/configuration/protocol.csv has more rows than the table holds\n");
break;
}
var it = csv.fields(body);
const binary = it.next() orelse continue;
const supervisor = it.next() orelse continue;
const permission = it.next() orelse continue;
const name = it.next() orelse continue;
if (binary.len == 0 or supervisor.len == 0 or name.len == 0) continue;
const kind: Permission = if (std.mem.eql(u8, permission, "bind"))
.bind
else if (std.mem.eql(u8, permission, "open"))
.open
else if (std.mem.eql(u8, permission, "supervise"))
.supervise
else
continue; // an unreadable row grants nothing rather than something wrong
grants[grant_count] = .{ .binary = binary, .supervisor = supervisor, .permission = kind, .name = name };
grant_count += 1;
}
}
/// Match a manifest field against a value: exact, or a trailing `*` matching any
/// tail. The wildcard is how a subtree is granted whole (`/test/*` for every test
/// fixture, `test/*` for every name they may claim).
fn matches(pattern: []const u8, value: []const u8) bool {
if (pattern.len != 0 and pattern[pattern.len - 1] == '*') {
const prefix = pattern[0 .. pattern.len - 1];
return value.len >= prefix.len and std.mem.eql(u8, value[0..prefix.len], prefix);
}
return std.mem.eql(u8, pattern, value);
}
/// A snapshot of the kernel's process records — the only identity in the system
/// that cannot be forged, because the kernel stamps it at spawn. Refreshed per
/// authorization; binds are rare, so the copy costs nothing that matters.
var process_table: [64]process.ProcessDescriptor = undefined;
var process_count: usize = 0;
var process_truncated = false;
fn refreshProcessTable() void {
const total = process.processes(&process_table);
process_count = @min(total, process_table.len);
process_truncated = total > process_table.len;
}
/// Whether task `id` is still alive, as the last snapshot saw it. A snapshot that
/// did not fit answers "alive" for anything it did not list: refusing a bind is
/// recoverable, stealing a live provider's name is not.
fn taskAlive(id: u32) bool {
return descriptorOf(id) != null or process_truncated;
}
fn descriptorOf(id: u32) ?*const process.ProcessDescriptor {
for (process_table[0..process_count]) |*descriptor| {
if (descriptor.id == id) return descriptor;
}
return null;
}
fn nameOf(descriptor: *const process.ProcessDescriptor) []const u8 {
const length = @min(@as(usize, descriptor.name_length), descriptor.name.len);
return descriptor.name[0..length];
}
/// The name a kernel task answers to in a grant row. Kernel tasks carry no
/// binary, so the manifest spells the harness's parentage `kernel`.
const kernel_supervisor = "kernel";
/// init's own task id, read once at startup. Ids are monotonic and never reused
/// (system/kernel/process.zig), so an id comparison is an *identity* test where a
/// name comparison is only a resemblance test — the whole basis of the
/// attestation below.
var own_task: u32 = 0;
/// Whether `id` is a process THIS init spawned: a lookup in its own child table,
/// which is the one record of "I started that one" nobody else can write.
fn spawnedByUs(id: u32) bool {
if (id == 0) return false;
for (child_ids[0..service_count]) |child| {
if (child == id) return true;
}
return false;
}
/// Who is asking, attested by the kernel: the caller's binary, and the **task**
/// that spawned it — an id, not a name.
///
/// A name alone is not identity: `spawn` is ungated, so a hostile process can
/// start a granted binary itself and would inherit its grants. Neither is the
/// supervisor's *name* enough, and this is the trap the first cut fell into —
/// init and the device manager are ordinary bundled binaries, so an attacker
/// spawns its own `/system/services/init` and lets that instance spawn
/// `/system/services/input`. Both kernel-stamped names then match the grant row
/// exactly, and walking to the root of the chain does not help either: the
/// laundered chain still roots at the real PID 1. What refuses it is asking
/// *which task* the supervisor is, and only accepting one init can vouch for.
const Identity = struct {
/// The caller's binary path, exactly as the kernel stamped it at spawn.
binary: []const u8,
/// The supervising task's id. 0 means the kernel spawned the caller, which
/// no ring-3 process can arrange: every `system_spawn` stamps the caller as
/// the child's supervisor (system/kernel/process.zig `systemSpawn`).
supervisor_task: u32,
/// The supervising task's kernel-stamped binary — the grant row's supervisor
/// column is matched against this, and the refusal log prints it. `kernel`
/// when there is no supervising task.
supervisor_binary: []const u8,
/// Whether init can vouch for how the supervising task came to exist: it is
/// this init, a process this init spawned, or a process the KERNEL spawned.
/// A supervisor init cannot vouch for satisfies no row, however well its
/// name reads — that is the laundering deputy's refusal.
supervisor_vouched: bool,
};
/// The process a task belongs to. A thread resolves to its leader: threads share
/// a binary (a thread's own record is named `thread`), and the supervision link
/// that matters is the process's.
fn leaderOf(descriptor: *const process.ProcessDescriptor) *const process.ProcessDescriptor {
if (descriptor.leader == descriptor.id) return descriptor;
return descriptorOf(descriptor.leader) orelse descriptor;
}
/// Resolve the badge on a request into an identity, one hop up the supervision
/// chain in the kernel's records — one hop is enough because the hop is attested
/// by id (see `supervisorSatisfies`), and every id in the chain init accepts is
/// one init or the kernel created.
fn identify(task: u32) ?Identity {
const caller = descriptorOf(task) orelse return null;
const leader = leaderOf(caller);
if (leader.supervisor == 0) return .{
.binary = nameOf(leader),
.supervisor_task = 0,
.supervisor_binary = kernel_supervisor,
.supervisor_vouched = true, // the kernel is the root of trust, not a claimant
};
// The supervising *task* may be a worker thread of the supervising process;
// its process is what the manifest names and what init recorded at spawn.
const supervisor = leaderOf(descriptorOf(leader.supervisor) orelse return null); // unattestable: refuse
return .{
.binary = nameOf(leader),
.supervisor_task = supervisor.id,
.supervisor_binary = nameOf(supervisor),
.supervisor_vouched = supervisor.id == own_task or
spawnedByUs(supervisor.id) or
supervisor.supervisor == 0,
};
}
/// Whether the caller's supervising task satisfies a grant row's supervisor
/// column. The column names *the authorized supervising task*, matched by
/// identity — the binary it must be, plus proof that this instance of that
/// binary is the authorized one:
///
/// - `kernel` is satisfied only by a genuinely kernel-spawned caller
/// (supervisor id 0). A ring-3 process cannot manufacture that: user
/// `system_spawn` always stamps the caller (system/kernel/process.zig).
/// - init's own binary is satisfied only when the supervising task IS this
/// init (`own_task`).
/// - any other binary — the device manager, a test fixture spawning another —
/// is satisfied only when the supervising task is one init spawned itself
/// (its own child table) or one the kernel spawned. Everything init and the
/// kernel start is therefore reachable; a chain that passes through a
/// process *neither* of them started is not.
fn supervisorSatisfies(column: []const u8, identity: Identity) bool {
if (std.mem.eql(u8, column, kernel_supervisor)) return identity.supervisor_task == 0;
if (identity.supervisor_task == 0) return false; // a kernel task answers to no binary column
if (!matches(column, identity.supervisor_binary)) return false;
return identity.supervisor_vouched;
}
/// Whether `identity` is granted `permission` on `name`.
fn granted(identity: Identity, permission: Permission, name: []const u8) bool {
for (grants[0..grant_count]) |grant| {
if (grant.permission != permission) continue;
if (!matches(grant.binary, identity.binary)) continue;
if (!supervisorSatisfies(grant.supervisor, identity)) continue;
if (!matches(grant.name, name)) continue;
return true;
}
return false;
}
/// Whether `identity` may reach `name` — `granted(.open, …)`, plus the one hop
/// `open` takes that `bind` does not (`Permission.supervise`).
///
/// The hop is needed because the driver tree is three deep and attestation is
/// one: the PS/2 keyboard driver's supervising task is the PS/2 bus driver,
/// which the device manager started, which init started. Init cannot vouch for
/// the bus by acquaintance — it never met it — so the manifest says so instead,
/// and says it per contract: `ps2-bus` may be the supervisor named in an `open`
/// grant for `ps2-bus` and for `input`, and for nothing else.
fn mayOpen(identity: Identity, name: []const u8) bool {
if (granted(identity, .open, name)) return true;
return delegatedOpen(identity, name);
}
/// The delegated `open`: the row's supervisor column names the caller's actual
/// supervising task by binary, that task is one init cannot vouch for directly,
/// and a `supervise` row authorizes it for exactly this contract.
///
/// The delegate itself is attested the ordinary way (`granted` → strict
/// `supervisorSatisfies`), so the chain is still anchored one hop above it in
/// init or the kernel and the recursion stops there. Two hops of manifest, never
/// an unbounded walk — a laundering deputy is refused at the first hop nobody
/// wrote a row for.
fn delegatedOpen(identity: Identity, name: []const u8) bool {
if (identity.supervisor_task == 0) return false; // a kernel-spawned caller needs no delegate
if (identity.supervisor_vouched) return false; // already answered by `granted` above
const delegate = identify(identity.supervisor_task) orelse return false;
if (!granted(delegate, .supervise, name)) return false;
for (grants[0..grant_count]) |grant| {
if (grant.permission != .open) continue;
if (!matches(grant.binary, identity.binary)) continue;
if (!matches(grant.supervisor, identity.supervisor_binary)) continue;
if (!matches(grant.name, name)) continue;
return true;
}
return false;
}
fn findBinding(name: []const u8) ?*Binding {
for (&bindings) |*binding| {
if (binding.used and std.mem.eql(u8, binding.nameSlice(), name)) return binding;
}
return null;
}
/// Release a binding: the provider's endpoint capability goes back to the handle
/// table, and the name is free for the next claimant. init's own cached power
/// channel goes with it — a closed handle number is reused by the next capability
/// that arrives, and a stale copy would quietly aim the shutdown call at a
/// stranger. So does the authorized power *task*: nothing may speak for a
/// contract nobody holds.
fn releaseBinding(binding: *Binding) void {
if (std.mem.eql(u8, binding.nameSlice(), power_contract)) {
power_endpoint = null;
power_task = null;
power_pending = false;
}
_ = ipc.close(binding.endpoint);
binding.* = .{};
}
/// Drop every name a dead process held. Called when a supervised child dies (so
/// the restarted instance can bind again) and whenever a bind finds the current
/// owner gone — providers init does not supervise need the second path.
fn unbindTask(task: u32) void {
for (&bindings) |*binding| {
if (binding.used and binding.task == task) {
std.log.info("/protocol/{s} released ({s} is gone)", .{ binding.nameSlice(), binding.binarySlice() });
releaseBinding(binding);
}
}
}
/// A contract name as the namespace spells it: the mount-relative path a resolve
/// hands us ("/display") and the name a bind sends ("display") are the same thing
/// with and without a leading slash, so one normaliser serves both. Empty or
/// longer than the namespace admits is not a name.
fn contractName(raw: []const u8) ?[]const u8 {
const name = if (raw.len != 0 and raw[0] == '/') raw[1..] else raw;
if (name.len == 0 or name.len > maximum_name) return null;
return name;
}
/// The provider's endpoint that will ride the *next* reply, when the request was
/// an `open` that found its contract.
var pending_capability: ?ipc.Handle = null;
/// The ownership rule for a capability that arrives with a turn of the loop —
/// **the turn owns it until a handler takes it, and closes whatever is left** —
/// lives in `ipc.Arrival`, next to `replyWait`, because it is not PID 1's rule:
/// the service harness every other service runs (library/kernel/service.zig) had
/// the identical hole and now states the identical contract.
const Arrival = ipc.Arrival;
/// The one contract init is itself a client of. It never resolves the name — it
/// *is* the registry, so it reads its own table; the binding is what hands it the
/// channel.
const power_contract = "power";
/// Set when `power` is bound: init subscribes to it on the next turn of the loop,
/// never inside the bind — the provider is blocked on our reply until then, so
/// calling it here would deadlock the pair.
var power_pending = false;
var power_endpoint: ?ipc.Handle = null;
/// The one task authorized to deliver power events: whoever holds the `power`
/// binding. Recorded at the bind and cleared with the binding, so a provider that
/// dies and rebinds re-derives it with no further ceremony.
///
/// This is the *authentication* for the shutdown path. init's registry endpoint
/// is its supervision endpoint, and `fs_resolve("/protocol")` installs a sendable
/// handle to it in any caller's table — so after P2 every ring-3 process can post
/// into PID 1's mailbox. A power event may therefore never be believed on the
/// strength of its payload; it is believed because the kernel stamped the
/// sender's task id on it and that id is the provider's.
var power_task: ?u32 = null;
/// Whether the heartbeat's re-arming timer is running. A timer landing carries no
/// identity, so the loop cannot tell one timer from another — which means exactly
/// one may ever be in flight, or every landing re-arms and the beat doubles. (It
/// did: two beats a second is enough extra chatter to cut a driver's echoed line
/// in half on the shared serial stream.) So the deferred power subscribe borrows
/// the heartbeat's tick when there is one, and arms its own only when there is not.
var heartbeat_running = false;
/// Answer one registry request. Writes a vfs-protocol reply into `reply` and
/// returns its length; a capability the reply must carry lands in
/// `pending_capability`. `arrived` is the capability the *request* carried, owned
/// by the turn — nothing here has to close it, only `bind` has to claim it.
fn serveRegistry(request_bytes: []const u8, reply: []u8, sender: u32, arrived: *Arrival) usize {
if (request_bytes.len < envelope.prefix_size)
return answer(reply, -envelope.EPROTO, 0);
// The header is read field by field rather than reinterpreted whole, and the
// verb is compared as a number rather than decoded into the generated
// `Operation`: the bytes come from anyone at all, so a value outside the enum
// must be a refusal, never an `@enumFromInt`. This is deliberately NOT
// `Protocol.Provider.dispatch` for the same reason — PID 1 reads a stranger's
// packet, and it reads it by hand.
const operation = std.mem.readInt(u32, request_bytes[0..4], .little);
const body = request_bytes[envelope.prefix_size..];
if (operation == @intFromEnum(vfs_protocol.Operation.bind))
return answer(reply, onBind(sender, body, arrived), 0);
// Only `bind` claims a capability; one attached to anything else is closed by
// the turn's `defer` in the loop, along with the ones sent to a request that
// was too short to name a verb at all.
if (operation == @intFromEnum(vfs_protocol.Operation.open)) {
// `open`'s fixed part is the flags word, which means nothing to a
// namespace; the name follows it as the packet's tail.
if (body.len < @sizeOf(vfs_protocol.Open)) return answer(reply, -envelope.EPROTO, 0);
return onOpen(reply, sender, body[@sizeOf(vfs_protocol.Open)..]);
}
if (operation == @intFromEnum(vfs_protocol.Operation.readdir)) {
if (body.len < @sizeOf(vfs_protocol.Readdir)) return answer(reply, -envelope.EPROTO, 0);
return onReaddir(reply, std.mem.readInt(u64, body[0..8], .little));
}
// Everything else a filesystem answers is meaningless here: `/protocol` holds
// contracts, not bytes.
return answer(reply, -envelope.ENOSYS, 0);
}
/// Lay down the envelope's reply prefix (and say how many payload bytes the
/// caller has already written after it).
fn answer(reply: []u8, status: i32, payload_len: usize) usize {
const header = envelope.Status{ .status = status, .len = @intCast(payload_len) };
@memcpy(reply[0..envelope.prefix_size], std.mem.asBytes(&header));
return envelope.prefix_size + payload_len;
}
/// `bind(name, capability = the provider's endpoint)`. The capability is the
/// point of the call, so a bind without one is malformed. Every refusal below
/// simply returns: the endpoint stays the turn's, and the turn closes it — which
/// is why there is not one `ipc.close` on the way out of any of the six of them.
/// The success path is the only one that says anything about ownership, because
/// it is the only one that keeps the capability.
fn onBind(sender: u32, raw_name: []const u8, arrived: *Arrival) i32 {
if (arrived.peek() == null) return -envelope.EPROTO;
const name = contractName(raw_name) orelse return -envelope.ENOENT;
refreshProcessTable();
const identity = identify(sender) orelse return -envelope.EPERM;
if (!granted(identity, .bind, name)) {
std.log.info("refused bind of /protocol/{s} by {s} (pid {d}, supervisor {s} pid {d})", .{
name,
identity.binary,
sender,
identity.supervisor_binary,
identity.supervisor_task,
});
return -envelope.EPERM;
}
if (findBinding(name)) |existing| {
// Collision is an error — never last-writer-wins — unless the incumbent
// is dead, which is how a restarted provider retakes its own name.
if (taskAlive(existing.task)) {
std.log.info("refused bind of /protocol/{s}: held by {s} (pid {d})", .{ name, existing.binarySlice(), existing.task });
return -envelope.EBUSY;
}
releaseBinding(existing);
}
const slot = for (&bindings) |*binding| {
if (!binding.used) break binding;
} else return -envelope.ENOSPC;
// Claimed: the binding owns the endpoint from here, and `releaseBinding` is
// what closes it.
const endpoint = arrived.take().?;
slot.* = .{ .used = true, .endpoint = endpoint, .task = sender };
@memcpy(slot.name[0..name.len], name);
slot.name_len = name.len;
const binary_len = @min(identity.binary.len, slot.binary.len);
@memcpy(slot.binary[0..binary_len], identity.binary[0..binary_len]);
slot.binary_len = binary_len;
// Provenance, at the moment it becomes true: name -> pid -> binary path.
std.log.info("/protocol/{s} -> pid {d} {s}", .{ name, sender, slot.binarySlice() });
if (std.mem.eql(u8, name, power_contract)) {
power_endpoint = endpoint;
// The bind is also the authentication: whoever holds `power` is the one
// task whose power events init will act on (see `onPowerEvent`).
power_task = sender;
power_pending = true;
// Wake ourselves once the reply has gone out; the subscribe call cannot
// happen while the power service is still blocked on it. The heartbeat's
// tick is that wake when it is running — see `heartbeat_running`.
if (!heartbeat_running) _ = time.timerOnce(supervision_endpoint, 1);
}
return 0;
}
/// `open(name)` -> the provider's endpoint, delivered as the reply's capability.
///
/// **A refusal and an absence are the same answer, and that is the whole point.**
/// The namespace is the restriction (docs/os-development/protocol-namespace.md):
/// what a process may open is what exists for it, so "you may not have this" and
/// "there is no such thing" collapse into one reply — `-ENOENT`, no payload, no
/// capability. A caller therefore has no oracle: it cannot use `open` to learn
/// that a contract it lacks is bound, and — the reason this matters beyond
/// tidiness — stage two's supervisor can refuse, stall for a human, or substitute
/// a fake without the child being able to tell which happened.
///
/// Indistinguishable is a claim about *work done*, not only about the bytes, so
/// both questions are asked on every open whatever the first one answers: the
/// process table is refreshed, the caller identified, the grants scanned and the
/// bindings scanned, and only then is the single verdict formed. Nothing here
/// logs, either — `klog_read` is ungated (system/kernel/process.zig), so a line
/// written on one branch is a line the refused caller can read, and a serial line
/// costs milliseconds it could time. The operator's diagnosis is the pair the
/// namespace already publishes on purpose: `readdir` over `/protocol` says what is
/// bound, `/system/configuration/protocol.csv` says who may reach it, and the
/// client's own retry loop says which one it wanted.
///
/// (Not constant-time in the cryptographic sense, and not claimed to be: the two
/// scans stop at the row they match, and the optimiser is free to sink a pure
/// table walk past a branch that discards it. What is removed is the difference a
/// caller could actually measure or read — a syscall on one branch and not the
/// other, a line in a world-readable log ring, or a serial write costing
/// milliseconds.)
fn onOpen(reply: []u8, sender: u32, raw_name: []const u8) usize {
const name = contractName(raw_name) orelse return answer(reply, -envelope.ENOENT, 0);
refreshProcessTable();
const identity = identify(sender);
const permitted = if (identity) |who| mayOpen(who, name) else false;
const binding = findBinding(name);
if (!permitted) return answer(reply, -envelope.ENOENT, 0);
const found = binding orelse return answer(reply, -envelope.ENOENT, 0);
pending_capability = found.endpoint;
// A contract node has no node id — the capability is the whole answer — but
// the protocol says an `open` reply carries one, so it carries a zero.
const opened = vfs_protocol.Opened{ .node = 0 };
@memcpy(reply[envelope.prefix_size..][0..@sizeOf(vfs_protocol.Opened)], std.mem.asBytes(&opened));
return answer(reply, 0, @sizeOf(vfs_protocol.Opened));
}
/// `readdir(cursor)` — the namespace, browsable. One entry per turn, as the vfs
/// protocol lists any directory: kind `protocol`, the contract's name, and the
/// provider's task id in `size`, so a plain listing answers "who serves this?".
fn onReaddir(reply: []u8, cursor: u64) usize {
var index: u64 = 0;
for (&bindings) |*binding| {
if (!binding.used) continue;
if (index != cursor) {
index += 1;
continue;
}
const name = binding.nameSlice();
return writeEntry(reply, .{
.kind = @intFromEnum(vfs_protocol.NodeKind.protocol),
.name_len = @intCast(name.len),
.size = binding.task,
}, name);
}
// End of directory, which the envelope spells as an entry with no name: the
// reply's own length cannot say it any more, because the fixed reply part
// always travels.
return writeEntry(reply, .{}, &.{});
}
/// One `readdir` reply: the entry, then its name inline.
fn writeEntry(reply: []u8, entry: vfs_protocol.DirectoryEntry, name: []const u8) usize {
const total = vfs_protocol.directory_entry_size + name.len;
if (envelope.prefix_size + total > reply.len) return answer(reply, -envelope.EPROTO, 0);
@memcpy(reply[envelope.prefix_size..][0..vfs_protocol.directory_entry_size], std.mem.asBytes(&entry));
@memcpy(reply[envelope.prefix_size + vfs_protocol.directory_entry_size ..][0..name.len], name);
return answer(reply, 0, total);
}
pub fn main(startup: process.Init) void {
// `registry` is the scenario mode: serve /protocol and nothing else. The
// kernel test harness spawns its own providers directly, so it wants the
// naming layer up without init's whole service list underneath it
// (docs/security-track-plan.md, decision 9).
const registry_only = if (startup.arguments.get(1)) |role| std.mem.eql(u8, role, "registry") else false;
// Prove the heap end to end: allocate through the runtime allocator (which
// mmaps pages from the kernel and carves them with the free list), write into
// that heap buffer (exercising the widened debug_write bounds check), and
// free it. A fault here would kill init before it heartbeats — so the init
// test doubles as the heap regression test. (C code links the same heap via
// the extern malloc/free symbols; Zig code uses this allocator.)
const gpa = memory.allocator();
if (gpa.alloc(u8, 64)) |buffer| {
const message = "/system/services/init: heap ok\n";
@memcpy(buffer[0..message.len], message);
_ = logging.write(buffer[0..message.len]);
gpa.free(buffer);
} else |_| {}
// One endpoint carries everything init waits on: children's exit
// notifications (they are spawned supervised against it), init's own
// signals, power events it subscribes to, and — since PID 1 is the registrar
// — every /protocol request. One thread can wait in one place, so they share
// a mailbox and the loop below tells them apart.
supervision_endpoint = ipc.createIpcEndpoint() orelse {
_ = logging.write("/system/services/init: no endpoint\n");
return;
};
_ = process.bindSignals(supervision_endpoint);
// Our own id, before anything can ask us a question. It is half of the
// registrar's authority: a grant row naming init as the supervisor is
// satisfied by *this* task and no other instance of this binary
// (`supervisorSatisfies`).
own_task = process.taskId();
// The namespace goes up BEFORE anything is spawned, so a service's first
// bind lands rather than retrying. The kernel reserves the prefix: this
// mount is the only one it will ever hold.
loadGrants();
if (!fs.mount("/protocol", supervision_endpoint)) {
_ = logging.write("/system/services/init: /protocol already mounted — not the registrar\n");
}
// Load the service list, then bring each up supervised so init can stop them
// cleanly. Best-effort and silent: each service announces its own readiness,
// and with no /system/configuration/init.csv (an isolation test) the loop starts nothing.
if (!registry_only) {
loadServices();
for (services[0..service_count], 0..) |*service, i| {
if (process.spawnSupervised(service.path, service.arguments(), supervision_endpoint)) |id| child_ids[i] = id;
}
}
// A re-arming timer drives the liveness heartbeat — proof PID 1 is alive (the
// init test's marker) and a -Dserial diagnostic. It is a serial/test-build-only
// concern: a flashable (serial-off) image runs a purely event-driven PID 1 that
// wakes only for real work (signals, power events, children's exits), never for a
// periodic beat. `build_options.serial` is comptime, so the heartbeat — its timer
// and the handler below — folds away entirely when serial is off.
heartbeat_running = build_options.serial and !registry_only;
if (heartbeat_running) _ = time.timerOnce(supervision_endpoint, 1000);
var receive: [vfs_protocol.message_maximum]u8 = undefined;
var reply_buffer: [vfs_protocol.message_maximum]u8 = undefined;
var reply_len: usize = 0;
var reply_capability: ?ipc.Handle = null;
while (true) {
const got = ipc.replyWait(supervision_endpoint, reply_buffer[0..reply_len], &receive, reply_capability);
reply_len = 0; // nothing owed until this turn's request says otherwise
reply_capability = null;
// Whatever capability came with this turn is the turn's, and the turn
// closes it unless a handler claims it. Structural on purpose — see
// `Arrival`; it is what keeps a zero-length call from spending a handle
// slot of PID 1's per call.
var arrived: Arrival = .{ .handle = got.cap };
defer arrived.release();
if (got.isNotification()) {
// Every badge on this branch is stamped by the KERNEL, and a stranger
// cannot stamp one: `ipc_send` — the only way a ring-3 process puts
// something in this mailbox with no reply owed — sets exactly
// `notify_badge_bit | notify_message_bit` and fills the low bits with
// the sender's own task id (system/kernel/ipc-synchronous.zig,
// `sendLocked`).
//
// That is a statement about `ipc_send`, and on its own it proved far
// too little: an attacker does not use `ipc_send` to forge a signal,
// it asks the kernel to deliver a real one *here*. `fs_resolve`
// hands any process a sendable handle to this endpoint, and
// `signal_bind`/`timer_bind`/`process_subscribe`/spawn's exit
// endpoint all used to accept any handle the caller held — so a
// stranger could point its own signal delivery at PID 1 and signal
// itself, and the terminate badge landing here was genuine in every
// bit. What makes these branches trustworthy is therefore in the
// KERNEL, not in this comment: binding a kernel notification to an
// endpoint now requires *owning* that endpoint (`ipc.ownedBy`), so a
// signal here comes only from our supervisor or our own group, a
// timer landing only from a timer we armed, and a child-exit notice
// only from a child we spawned. The buffered-message branch below is
// the one still carrying a stranger's bytes, and it is the one that
// authenticates its sender.
if (process.signalsFrom(got.badge)) |signals| {
if (signals.has(.terminate)) shutDown();
continue;
}
if (got.isTimer()) {
// The pending power subscription rides any timer landing: by the
// time one arrives, the bind's reply has left and the power
// service is serving again.
if (power_pending) {
power_pending = false;
subscribePower();
}
if (heartbeat_running) {
_ = logging.write("/system/services/init: heartbeat\n");
_ = time.timerOnce(supervision_endpoint, 1000);
}
continue;
}
if (got.isMessage()) {
// A buffered message: the only thing here an anonymous stranger
// can put in front of PID 1. Authenticated by sender, never by
// payload — see `onPowerEvent`.
onPowerEvent(got.senderTaskId(), receive[0..got.len]);
continue;
}
if (got.isChildExit()) {
restartChild(got.childProcessId());
continue;
}
continue; // anything else: keep waiting
}
// The universal ping, answered by the empty reply. A ping may still carry
// a capability — the kernel installs one regardless of length — and this
// `continue` disposes of it through the turn's `defer`, which is exactly
// what it failed to do when the close lived in the branches.
if (got.len == 0) continue;
reply_len = serveRegistry(receive[0..got.len], &reply_buffer, got.senderTaskId(), &arrived);
reply_capability = pending_capability;
pending_capability = null;
}
}
/// A buffered message claiming to be a power event.
///
/// **Privileged control traffic is authenticated by sender, never by content.**
/// init's registry endpoint is its supervision endpoint, and `fs_resolve` installs
/// a sendable handle to any mount's backend in *any* caller's table
/// (system/kernel/process.zig), so after P2 every ring-3 process holds a handle it
/// can `ipc_send` into. Two payload bytes were once enough to reach `shutDown()`
/// from here — which stops every service and parks PID 1 in its final sleep,
/// destroying the registry for the rest of the boot, and does it for any process
/// that cares to ask.
///
/// The sender's task id is the fix, because it is not the sender's to choose: the
/// kernel stamps it into the badge's low bits as it copies the message into the
/// ring. Init is the registry, so it knows exactly which task holds `power`, and
/// that task alone is believed. A provider that dies and rebinds moves the
/// authorization with the binding; a name nothing holds authorizes nobody. Task
/// ids are never reused, so even a dead provider's id cannot be inherited.
///
/// (One task, not one process: the ACPI service is single-threaded and publishes
/// from the same task that bound the name. A threaded provider would want its
/// leader compared instead — which is a change to make when one appears, not a
/// looser rule to leave lying around for it.)
fn onPowerEvent(sender: u32, payload: []const u8) void {
const authorized = power_task orelse {
std.log.info("ignored a power event from pid {d}: nothing holds /protocol/power", .{sender});
return;
};
if (sender != authorized) {
std.log.info("ignored a power event from pid {d}: /protocol/power is pid {d}", .{ sender, authorized });
return;
}
// Read as an envelope packet, never by byte offset: the kind IS the packet's
// verb, so a power event is decoded exactly the way every other event in the
// system is. A packet whose operation is not one of this protocol's events —
// anything else that lands in this mailbox — decodes to null and is dropped.
const kind = power_protocol.Protocol.eventOf(payload) orelse return;
if (kind == .power_button) shutDown();
}
/// A supervised boot service died. Find which one and restart it — unless it exited
/// cleanly (it chose to stop, e.g. a driver with no hardware) or has hit the crash-loop
/// cap. Reclaiming the dead process is already the kernel's job (docs/process-lifecycle.md
/// iron rule 1); init only decides whether to bring it back.
fn restartChild(id: u32) void {
// Whatever it served, it serves no longer: the name goes back before the
// replacement asks for it, so the restarted instance binds rather than
// colliding with its own corpse.
unbindTask(id);
if (shutting_down) return; // deaths during the stop sequence are expected, not crashes
for (services[0..service_count], 0..) |*service, i| {
if (child_ids[i] != id) continue;
child_ids[i] = 0;
// An unknown reason (the record aged out) is treated as a crash worth restarting.
const reason = process.exitReason(id) orelse .fault;
if (reason == .exited) {
std.log.info("{s} exited cleanly; not restarting", .{service.path});
return;
}
restart_counts[i] += 1;
if (restart_counts[i] > maximum_restarts) {
std.log.info("{s} keeps crashing; giving up after {d} restarts", .{ service.path, maximum_restarts });
return;
}
std.log.info("{s} died ({s}); restarting ({d}/{d})", .{ service.path, @tagName(reason), restart_counts[i], maximum_restarts });
if (process.spawnSupervised(service.path, service.arguments(), supervision_endpoint)) |new_id| child_ids[i] = new_id;
return;
}
// An untracked child (e.g. the log-flush one-shot): nothing to restart.
}
/// Subscribe our endpoint (handed over as the call's capability) to the power
/// service, so events arrive as buffered messages here. init is the registry, so
/// it never resolves `/protocol/power` — it reads its own table, which is also
/// what makes this reachable at all: the subscription is armed by the bind that
/// put the endpoint there.
///
/// **This is the only place PID 1 blocks on another process, and it is the one
/// hazard the registrar has.** One thread serves both the namespace and this
/// call, so while it is outstanding init answers nobody: if the callee were
/// itself blocked asking init to resolve a name, the pair would never move. Two
/// things keep that from happening — the call is deferred to the next turn of
/// the loop (so the provider has its bind reply and is on its way to
/// `replyWait`), and the power provider resolves every name it needs *before* it
/// binds (system/services/acpi/acpi.zig, `manager_channel`). Any future service
/// init calls owes the same discipline.
fn subscribePower() void {
const handle = power_endpoint orelse return;
// The reserved `subscribe` verb: nothing but the header, with our own
// endpoint riding as the call's capability.
const header = envelope.Header{ .operation = envelope.operation_subscribe };
var reply: [power_protocol.message_maximum]u8 = undefined;
_ = ipc.callCap(handle, std.mem.asBytes(&header), &reply, supervision_endpoint) catch {};
}
/// The stop sequence: persist the log while storage is still up, then terminate
/// each child in reverse spawn order (vfs last — other services may flush through
/// it), waiting up to a deadline for each to exit before killing it, then ask the
/// power service to enter S5.
fn shutDown() void {
shutting_down = true; // the stop loop below kills children — those deaths aren't crashes
_ = logging.write("/system/services/init: shutting down\n");
// Log persistence is the logger service's job: it is the LAST boot service,
// so the reverse-order stop below terminates it first and its final drain
// runs while the whole storage chain is still alive.
var i = service_count;
while (i > 0) {
i -= 1;
if (child_ids[i] != 0) process.stop(child_ids[i], 2000, supervision_endpoint);
}
if (power_endpoint) |h| {
var packet: [power_protocol.message_maximum]u8 = undefined;
if (power_protocol.Protocol.encodeRequest(.shutdown, 0, {}, &.{}, &packet)) |framed| {
var reply: [power_protocol.message_maximum]u8 = undefined;
_ = ipc.call(h, framed, &reply) catch {};
}
}
// If S5 did not take, init has nothing left to do but idle.
while (true) time.sleepMillis(1000);
}