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Daniel Samson 33376f24ab test: the attacker the device suite never had
The audit's sharpest finding was structural, not a bug: a fully green suite
had hidden six real defects because it contains no attacker. Every device
case asserts that a driver handed its own hardware can drive it. None asked
what a process handed NOTHING can do.

device-authority-test is that process. It is spawned with no device and
asserts what it therefore cannot do: it cannot give away a device another
task holds, nor a free one, because the kernel's rule is that you may give
away what you hold and the device's state is irrelevant to a process holding
nothing. Asserted across every device the machine actually has, so it cannot
pass by accident of which one happened to be free at boot — six on QEMU,
none of them its.

A positive control runs first. device_enumerate works from this process, so
the refusals below it are decisions rather than a syscall path that is
simply broken here; without it, "everything failed" would read identically
to "the assertions are meaningless". A nonexistent device is refused as
NoSuchDevice rather than NotHeld, because a refusal that cannot name its own
rule is what cost a debugging session on the Ryzen.

What it deliberately does not assert, and says so in its header:
device_claim is still first-come-first-served at this point in the run. That
is the hole D6 closes, and the claim half of the invariant joins this
fixture then. Asserting it now would be writing a test that documents the
bug.

Verified to discriminate: removing the holder check flips "every transfer by
a non-holder is refused" while the positive control keeps passing.

Suite 117 -> 118.
2026-08-08 17:23:17 +01:00

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.{
.name = .device_authority_test,
.version = "0.0.0",
.fingerprint = 0x4acbba0c105a1462, // Changing this has security and trust implications.
.minimum_zig_version = "0.16.0",
.dependencies = .{
// build-support supplies the shared recipe; kernel is implicit in
// every binary (the root shim + link script live there). The rest
// are exactly the homes of this binary's declared imports.
.@"build-support" = .{ .path = "../../../../build-support" },
.kernel = .{ .path = "../../../../library/kernel" },
.device = .{ .path = "../../../../library/device" },
},
.paths = .{""},
}