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Daniel Samson 5dc966838a volume-manager: rebuild a volume when its storage driver dies (S5)
The V4 review's open edge: a storage driver that crashes while its device
stays in the tree left fat wedged on a dead channel — device-presence
polling (a device-manager enumerate) still reported the device present,
so nothing reaped it. pollTick now also probes channelAlive(dev), a
geometry() on the block channel that fails fast on the dead endpoint; a
present device with a dead channel is reaped like a pull, and the adopt
loop re-adopts it on the restarted driver's fresh channel — the rebuild.
The manager's own liveness probe makes fat self-detection unnecessary:
it rebuilds regardless of the wedged filesystem's state.

The drill: the device manager gains a test-storage-restart mode that
kills usb-storage once, ~2s after its hello (post-mount); a new
volume-driver-restart kernel case boots a manual tree with it, and the
QEMU case asserts a SECOND mount of the same id-path after the reap —
the rebuild. A pre-S5 manager, checking only device presence, never
reaps, so the second mount never appears. The manually-spawned volume
manager needed kernel-supervisor protocol grants (bind its name, open
the device manager), as the other manual-tree services already have.

Full suite 133/133.
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1# /system/configuration/protocol.csv — who may claim, and who may reach, a name
2# under /protocol (docs/os-development/protocol-namespace.md).
3#
4# init is the registrar: it serves /protocol, and every bind AND every open is
5# checked against this file. It is AUTHORITATIVE — a name no row grants cannot be
6# bound or reached, and a missing file means nothing may be bound or reached at
7# all.
8#
9# A refused open is answered exactly as a name nobody bound is: -ENOENT, and no
10# capability. That is not politeness, it is the model — the namespace IS the
11# restriction, so what a process may not open simply does not exist for it, and
12# Which is why a missing row here shows up as a client retrying forever rather
13# than as an error: check this file first, and `readdir /protocol` second.
14#
15# '#' starts a comment (whole-line or trailing); blank lines are ignored.
16# Whitespace around a field is trimmed, so columns may be padded. Four
17# comma-separated fields per row:
18#
19# binary the claimant's binary path, exactly as the kernel stamped it at
20# spawn (argv[0]) — unforgeable, read from the process records
21# supervisor the authorized supervising TASK, written as the binary it runs —
22# the path init was started as for its own services, the device
23# manager's path for the drivers it starts. The one word that is not
24# a path is 'kernel', because a kernel task has no binary; that is
25# what the test harness's direct spawns look like.
26# Matched by IDENTITY, not by spelling. Name alone is not identity —
27# spawn is ungated, so a hostile process can start a granted binary
28# itself and inherit its grants; and it can equally start its own
29# instance of the *supervisor's* binary and have that spawn the
30# granted one, at which point both names read correctly (the
31# laundering deputy). So init also asks which task the supervisor
32# is: 'kernel' means supervisor id 0, which only the kernel can
33# confer; init's own path means this init; any other path means a
34# task init spawned itself or one the kernel spawned. Task ids are
35# monotonic and never reused, so an id cannot be borrowed.
36# permission bind (provide this contract) | open (speak to it) |
37# supervise (stand in someone else's chain — see below)
38# name the contract, relative to /protocol
39#
40# A trailing '*' on any field matches any tail — how a subtree is granted whole.
41#
42# 'supervise' exists because attestation is one hop deep and the driver tree is
43# three: the device manager starts the PS/2 bus, and the bus starts the keyboard
44# and mouse drivers. Init never met the bus, so it cannot vouch for it by
45# acquaintance — and it must not vouch for it by name, or the laundering deputy
46# walks straight in. A 'supervise' row is the manifest saying it: a task running
47# this binary, under this supervisor, may be the supervising task an 'open' row
48# names, for this contract and no other. It grants the delegate nothing itself,
49# and it is deliberately open-only — a delegate may vouch for what its children
50# REACH, never for what they CLAIM, so every bind refusal is untouched by it.
51#
52# binary supervisor permission name
53# --- the services init spawns from init.csv ---------------------------------
54/system/services/input, /system/services/init, bind, input
55/system/services/device-manager, /system/services/init, bind, device-manager
56/system/services/volume-manager, /system/services/init, bind, volume-manager
57# fat is spawned and supervised by the volume manager now, not init — the volume
58# manager confines it to its partition and hands it the block channel.
59/system/services/fat, /system/services/volume-manager, bind, vfs
60/system/services/display, /system/services/init, bind, display
61# The discovery service ships under one neutral name per firmware (docs/discovery.md);
62# on x86 it is the acpi service, and what it provides is the power contract.
63/system/services/discovery, /system/services/device-manager, bind, power
64# --- the drivers, which the device manager spawns ---------------------------
65# usb-transfer and block have NO bind rows: several processes provide each (one
66# per controller, one per volume), so neither is ever a registry name —
67# consumers get their provider's channel from the device manager's hello,
68/system/drivers/ps2-bus, /system/services/device-manager, bind, ps2-bus
69/system/drivers/virtio-gpu, /system/services/device-manager, bind, scanout
70# --- the same providers when the kernel test harness starts them directly ---
71# A scenario boot spawns its own providers instead of letting init do it
72# (docs/security-track-plan.md, decision 9), so the same binaries appear with
73# 'kernel' as the supervisor. Nothing else changes: the binary must still match.
74/system/services/input, kernel, bind, input
75/system/services/device-manager, kernel, bind, device-manager
76/system/services/volume-manager, kernel, bind, volume-manager
77/system/services/fat, kernel, bind, vfs
78/system/services/display, kernel, bind, display
79/system/services/discovery, kernel, bind, power
80# --- test fixtures ----------------------------------------------------------
81# The subtree rule, dogfooded: anything installed under /test may claim anything
82# under /protocol/test, and nothing above it — whether the harness spawned it or
83# another fixture did.
84/test/*, kernel, bind, test/*
85/test/*, /test/*, bind, test/*
86# ============================================================================
87# open — who may REACH each contract. One row per client per contract; a client
88# with no row here simply finds the name absent, forever.
89# ============================================================================
90# --- init's own services ----------------------------------------------------
91# fat reaches the volume manager to be handed its volume's block channel
92# (range-confined); the compositor reaches the scanout its driver announced, its
93# own endpoint (the mouse-listener thread opens /protocol/display like any other
94# client — threads share no handles), and the input stream that moves the cursor.
95/system/services/fat, /system/services/volume-manager, open, volume-manager
96# exfat reaches the volume manager the same way — the second engine, same lineage.
97/system/services/exfat, /system/services/volume-manager, open, volume-manager
98# The volume manager reaches the device manager to be routed to each storage
99# provider's block channel, then confines a filesystem to each volume.
100/system/services/volume-manager, /system/services/init, open, device-manager
101# ...and again under the kernel supervisor for the manual-tree drills (S5's
102# volume-driver-restart spawns the volume manager directly, not via init).
103/system/services/volume-manager, kernel, open, device-manager
104/system/services/display, /system/services/init, open, scanout
105/system/services/display, /system/services/init, open, display
106/system/services/display, /system/services/init, open, input
107/system/services/display-demo, /system/services/init, open, display
108# --- the same two when the kernel test harness starts them directly ---------
109/system/services/display, kernel, open, scanout
110/system/services/display, kernel, open, display
111/system/services/display, kernel, open, input
112/system/services/display-demo, kernel, open, display
113# --- the drivers, and the discovery service ---------------------------------
114# Every driver says hello to the manager that started it — one row for the whole
115# subtree, because that handshake is what being a driver means. The rest are per
116# driver: the storage and HID class drivers talk to their controller, the HID
117# drivers publish into the input stream, and the GPU driver announces its scanout
118# to the compositor.
119/system/drivers/*, /system/services/device-manager, open, device-manager
120/system/services/discovery, /system/services/device-manager, open, device-manager
121/system/drivers/usb-hid-keyboard, /system/services/device-manager, open, input
122/system/drivers/usb-hid-mouse, /system/services/device-manager, open, input
123/system/drivers/virtio-gpu, /system/services/device-manager, open, display
124# --- the PS/2 child drivers, one hop further down ---------------------------
125# The keyboard and mouse drivers are started by the BUS driver, not by the
126# device manager — the one three-deep chain in the tree. Init cannot vouch for
127# the bus by acquaintance (it never started it), so the manifest authorizes it
128# explicitly, and only for the two contracts its children need.
129/system/drivers/ps2-bus, /system/services/device-manager, supervise, ps2-bus
130/system/drivers/ps2-bus, /system/services/device-manager, supervise, input
131/system/drivers/ps2-keyboard, /system/drivers/ps2-bus, open, ps2-bus
132/system/drivers/ps2-keyboard, /system/drivers/ps2-bus, open, input
133/system/drivers/ps2-mouse, /system/drivers/ps2-bus, open, ps2-bus
134/system/drivers/ps2-mouse, /system/drivers/ps2-bus, open, input
135# --- test fixtures ----------------------------------------------------------
136# The /protocol/test subtree is theirs whole, the way the bind rows give it to
137# them. Everything ABOVE that subtree is named one fixture at a time, so a
138# fixture reaches a system contract only where a scenario needs it — which is
139# what leaves the rest genuinely absent for the rest of them (the protocol-denied
140# case asks for one it was not given, and is told there is no such thing).
141/test/*, kernel, open, test/*
142/test/*, /test/*, open, test/*
143/test/*, kernel, open, device-manager
144/test/*, /system/services/device-manager, open, device-manager
145/test/system/services/input-source, kernel, open, input
146/test/system/services/input-test, kernel, open, input
147# The guessable-id probe (test/system/services/badge-scope-test) runs as two
148# processes of one binary: the owner, which the scenario spawns, and the intruder,
149# which the owner spawns with the ids it holds. Both reach the compositor — the
150# owner to create the layer, the intruder to be refused it — so the binary is
151# named twice, once per supervisor. The second row needs no 'supervise'
152# delegation: the owner was spawned by the KERNEL, which is a chain init can
153# vouch for on its own.
154/test/system/services/badge-scope-test, kernel, open, display
155/test/system/services/badge-scope-test, /test/*, open, display
156# The conformance probe (test/system/services/protocol-conformance-test) asks
157# every provider its boot bound for the envelope's reserved verbs. It reaches
158# ONLY the two contracts its own scenario boots a provider for, named one at a
159# time exactly like the two rows above — no subtree, no wildcard. Everything else
160# under /protocol stays absent for it, which is the point: the fixture walks the
161# namespace listing and reports what it could not open rather than being handed
162# the tree to make the test look broad.
163/test/system/services/protocol-conformance-test, kernel, open, input
164/test/system/services/protocol-conformance-test, kernel, open, display
165# The laundering-deputy probe (test/system/services/protocol-registry-test) runs
166# a grandchild whose supervisor is a fixture nobody authorized — that is the
167# point of it, and its bind must stay refused. It still has to report the verdict
168# it got, so its reporting channel, and nothing else, is delegated.
169/test/*, /test/*, supervise, test/verdict