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Daniel Samson 1379b699f3 init: /protocol replaces the ServiceId registry
A protocol is reached by name now, not by a compile-time integer. Init is
PID 1 and already knows which binary it started, so init serves /protocol
as a vfs backend: bind claims a contract with the provider's endpoint
attached, open answers with that endpoint as the reply's capability, and
readdir lists what is bound with the task and binary behind it. The kernel
reserves the prefix — nothing may mount over it, under it, or unmount it —
and ServiceId, ipc_register and ipc_lookup are gone, their syscall numbers
left vacant.

A bind is authorized by who the caller *is*: the kernel-stamped binary
together with the supervising task's identity, matched against
/system/configuration/protocol.csv. Identity, not spelling — spawn is
ungated, so an attacker can run any bundled binary, and a name-only rule
would have let it launder grants through an init of its own making. A name
a live process holds is refused to everyone else; a dead one's is released.

Three review rounds against a hostile ring-3 process found what 108 green
tests could not, because the suite contains no attacker. Publishing init's
supervision endpoint as the registry put PID 1's mailbox in every process's
hands, where two forged bytes reached the shutdown path: privileged traffic
is now believed only from the task that holds the contract it speaks for.
A capability arriving on a request outlived every path that ignored it,
one handle per call until the table was full — in init, and in the harness
ten services share — so the arriving capability is owned by the turn and
released unless a handler says otherwise. And the kernel let anyone holding
an endpoint handle aim signals, timers, exit notices and interrupts at it:
binding now requires having created it.

Suite 108/108. The new protocol-registry case asserts eleven properties,
each one an attack that must fail.
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//! system/services/fat — the FAT filesystem server. Spawned as a boot service, it
//! opens the block device (a USB stick via usb-storage) under `.block`, mounts the
//! FAT filesystem on it (the pure engine in engine.zig), and mounts itself into
//! the VFS at /volumes/usb. From then on the VFS forwards every open/read/write/
//! status/readdir/close under /volumes/usb to this server, which serves the same
//! vfs-protocol as a backend — turning block reads into file reads.
//!
//! The block data path never crosses IPC: a DMA bounce buffer is handed to the
//! block driver by physical address, and the engine copies sectors in and out of
//! it.
const std = @import("std");
const ipc = @import("ipc");
const process = @import("process");
const service = @import("service");
const time = @import("time");
const block = @import("block");
const file_system = @import("file-system");
const memory = @import("memory");
const logging = @import("logging");
const engine = @import("engine.zig");
const on_disk = @import("on-disk.zig");
const vfs_protocol = @import("vfs-protocol");
const mount_point = "/volumes/usb";
// The engine's BlockDevice, backed by the `.block` driver plus a DMA bounce
// buffer the driver reads/writes by physical address.
const IpcBlock = struct {
device: block.Device,
bounce: memory.DmaRegion, // engine.max_transfer_sectors * 512 bytes
fn readBlocks(context: *anyopaque, lba: u64, count: u32, buffer: []u8) bool {
const self: *IpcBlock = @ptrCast(@alignCast(context));
if (count == 0 or count > engine.max_transfer_sectors) return false;
const len = count * 512;
if (!self.device.read(lba, count, self.bounce.physical)) return false;
const source: [*]const u8 = @ptrFromInt(self.bounce.virtual);
@memcpy(buffer[0..len], source[0..len]);
return true;
}
fn writeBlocks(context: *anyopaque, lba: u64, count: u32, buffer: []const u8) bool {
const self: *IpcBlock = @ptrCast(@alignCast(context));
if (count == 0 or count > engine.max_transfer_sectors) return false;
const len = count * 512;
const destination: [*]u8 = @ptrFromInt(self.bounce.virtual);
@memcpy(destination[0..len], buffer[0..len]);
if (!self.device.write(lba, count, self.bounce.physical)) return false;
device_dirty = true; // a block reached the device; a close will flush it
return true;
}
};
var ipc_block: IpcBlock = undefined;
// Set whenever a block is written, cleared when the device cache is flushed on a
// file close — so writes are committed to stable media before a power-off.
var device_dirty: bool = false;
var filesystem: engine.FileSystem = undefined;
// Open handles the VFS holds against this backend: each maps a node id to a
// resolved engine node.
const OpenNode = struct { used: bool = false, node: engine.Node = undefined, owner: u32 = 0 };
var open_nodes = [_]OpenNode{.{}} ** 32;
fn allocOpen() ?usize {
for (&open_nodes, 0..) |*o, i| {
if (!o.used) return i;
}
return null;
}
fn openAt(id: u64) ?*OpenNode {
if (id >= open_nodes.len) return null;
const o = &open_nodes[@intCast(id)];
return if (o.used) o else null;
}
fn writeReply(out: []u8, reply: vfs_protocol.Reply, payload: []const u8) usize {
@memcpy(out[0..vfs_protocol.reply_size], std.mem.asBytes(&reply));
const n = @min(payload.len, out.len - vfs_protocol.reply_size);
@memcpy(out[vfs_protocol.reply_size..][0..n], payload[0..n]);
return vfs_protocol.reply_size + n;
}
fn fail(out: []u8) usize {
return writeReply(out, .{ .status = -1 }, &.{});
}
/// How often to look for a block device while none is mounted. Storage arriving
/// is EVENT-shaped (the usb chain registering, possibly after a driver restart),
/// but the registry has no subscription — a slow poll from our own harness loop
/// keeps the service responsive (ping, terminate) while it waits, and keeps it
/// alive to catch storage that appears LATE (a restarted usb-storage after a
/// transient failure — the resilience half of docs/logging.md's storage story).
const mount_retry_ms = 500;
var mounted = false;
var service_endpoint: ipc.Handle = 0;
fn initialise(endpoint: ipc.Handle) bool {
service_endpoint = endpoint;
_ = logging.write("/system/services/fat: starting, waiting for a block device\n");
// With the router in the kernel, clients hold OUR node ids directly; sweep
// a dead client's open handles via the published exit events (the pattern
// the old userspace router used for its own table).
_ = process.subscribeExits(endpoint);
tryBringUp();
if (!mounted) _ = time.timerOnce(endpoint, mount_retry_ms);
return true; // serve regardless: requests fail politely until storage mounts
}
/// One storage bring-up attempt: block device -> FAT mount -> VFS mounts. Sets
/// `mounted` on success; a failure leaves everything untouched for the next tick.
fn tryBringUp() void {
if (mounted) return;
const device = block.tryOpen() orelse return;
const geometry = device.geometry() orelse {
_ = logging.write("/system/services/fat: block geometry unavailable\n");
return;
};
// Shareable so the buffer's capability can be attached down the chain (block server
// -> controller), making its physical addresses reachable by the device under an
// enforcing IOMMU. No-op binding otherwise.
const bounce = memory.dmaAlloc(engine.max_transfer_sectors * 512, memory.dma_coherent | memory.dma_shareable) orelse return;
if (bounce.handle) |handle| {
if (!device.attach(handle)) {
_ = logging.write("/system/services/fat: could not attach the DMA bounce buffer\n");
return;
}
_ = ipc.close(handle); // the binding holds its own reference now
}
ipc_block = .{ .device = device, .bounce = bounce };
const block_device = engine.BlockDevice{
.context = &ipc_block,
.block_size = geometry.block_size,
.block_count = geometry.block_count,
.readBlocksFn = IpcBlock.readBlocks,
.writeBlocksFn = IpcBlock.writeBlocks,
};
filesystem = engine.FileSystem.mount(block_device) orelse {
_ = logging.write("/system/services/fat: not a FAT filesystem\n");
return;
};
std.log.info("mounted FAT ({s}, {d} clusters, partition lba {d})", .{ @tagName(filesystem.geometry.fat_type), filesystem.geometry.cluster_count, filesystem.base_lba });
// Mount ourselves into the kernel VFS at /volumes/usb — and serve
// /system/configuration and /system/logs from the volume's identically-named
// subtrees (the boot volume is hierarchy-shaped, so rewrite == prefix), so
// hierarchy paths (the logger's /system/logs) stay decoupled from which
// volume carries them.
if (file_system.mount(mount_point, endpointForMount())) {
std.log.info("mounted {s}", .{mount_point});
} else {
_ = logging.write("/system/services/fat: could not mount /volumes/usb\n");
}
if (file_system.mountRewritten("/system/configuration", endpointForMount(), "/system/configuration")) {
std.log.info("mounted /system/configuration", .{});
} else {
_ = logging.write("/system/services/fat: could not mount /system/configuration\n");
}
if (file_system.mountRewritten("/system/logs", endpointForMount(), "/system/logs")) {
std.log.info("mounted /system/logs", .{});
} else {
_ = logging.write("/system/services/fat: could not mount /system/logs\n");
}
mounted = true;
}
fn endpointForMount() ipc.Handle {
return service_endpoint;
}
/// A subscribed process-exit event: release every open handle the dead client
/// held, so a crashed reader can't pin table slots (or, later, locks).
fn onNotification(badge: u64) void {
const got = ipc.Received{ .len = 0, .badge = badge, .cap = null };
if (got.isTimer()) {
tryBringUp();
if (!mounted) _ = time.timerOnce(service_endpoint, mount_retry_ms);
return;
}
if (!got.isChildExit()) return;
const dead = got.childProcessId();
var released: u32 = 0;
for (&open_nodes) |*o| {
if (o.used and o.owner == dead) {
o.* = .{};
released += 1;
}
}
if (released != 0) std.log.info("released {d} handle(s) for dead client {d}", .{ released, dead });
}
const ParentLeaf = struct { parent: []const u8, leaf: []const u8 };
// Split a path into its parent directory and final component: "/a/b" -> ("/a",
// "b"); "/b" -> ("/", "b"); "b" -> ("/", "b").
fn splitParent(path: []const u8) ParentLeaf {
const slash = std.mem.lastIndexOfScalar(u8, path, '/');
return .{
.parent = if (slash) |s| (if (s == 0) "/" else path[0..s]) else "/",
.leaf = if (slash) |s| path[s + 1 ..] else path,
};
}
fn handleOpen(out: []u8, path: []const u8, flags: u32, sender: u32) usize {
var node = filesystem.resolve(path);
if (node == null and flags & vfs_protocol.create != 0) {
const split = splitParent(path);
const parent = filesystem.resolve(split.parent) orelse return fail(out);
node = filesystem.createFile(parent, split.leaf);
}
var resolved = node orelse return fail(out);
// O_TRUNC: replace an existing file's contents rather than overwriting in place
// (frees the old chain, so a shorter rewrite leaves no stale tail).
if (flags & vfs_protocol.truncate != 0 and !resolved.is_directory) {
filesystem.truncate(&resolved);
}
const index = allocOpen() orelse return fail(out);
open_nodes[index] = .{ .used = true, .node = resolved, .owner = sender };
return writeReply(out, .{ .status = 0, .node = index }, &.{});
}
/// The vfs protocol has no operation that takes a capability, so `arrived` is
/// never claimed here — which, under the harness's ownership rule, means the
/// loop closes whatever a caller attached. That is the point of the rule: this
/// callback used to discard a `?ipc.Handle` and every request carrying one — a
/// legal thing for any client to do — spent a slot of the VFS server's
/// thirty-two until it could accept no capability at all.
fn onMessage(message: []const u8, out: []u8, sender: u32, arrived: *ipc.Arrival) usize {
_ = arrived;
if (!mounted) return fail(out); // storage not up (yet): fail politely, clients retry
if (message.len < vfs_protocol.request_size) return fail(out);
const request = std.mem.bytesToValue(vfs_protocol.Request, message[0..vfs_protocol.request_size]);
const payload = message[vfs_protocol.request_size..];
// Stamp create/write with the current wall-clock time (mtime). Cheap, and it
// keeps the engine pure (it takes the time as data, not a syscall).
filesystem.current_time_epoch = time.wallClock();
switch (request.operation) {
.open => return handleOpen(out, payload[0..@min(payload.len, request.len)], request.flags, sender),
.read => {
const o = openAt(request.node) orelse return fail(out);
var buffer: [vfs_protocol.maximum_payload]u8 = undefined;
const want = @min(@as(usize, request.len), buffer.len);
const n = filesystem.readFile(o.node, @intCast(request.offset), buffer[0..want]);
return writeReply(out, .{ .status = 0, .len = @intCast(n) }, buffer[0..n]);
},
.write => {
const o = openAt(request.node) orelse return fail(out);
const data = payload[0..@min(payload.len, request.len)];
const n = filesystem.writeFile(&o.node, @intCast(request.offset), data);
return writeReply(out, .{ .status = 0, .len = @intCast(n) }, &.{});
},
.status => {
const o = openAt(request.node) orelse return fail(out);
const kind: vfs_protocol.NodeKind = if (o.node.is_directory) .directory else .regular;
const status = vfs_protocol.FileStatus{ .size = o.node.size, .kind = @intFromEnum(kind), .mtime = o.node.mtime };
return writeReply(out, .{ .status = 0, .len = @sizeOf(vfs_protocol.FileStatus) }, std.mem.asBytes(&status));
},
.readdir => {
const o = openAt(request.node) orelse return fail(out);
if (!o.node.is_directory) return writeReply(out, .{ .status = 0, .len = 0 }, &.{});
const listing = filesystem.listEntry(o.node, @intCast(request.offset)) orelse return writeReply(out, .{ .status = 0, .len = 0 }, &.{});
const kind: vfs_protocol.NodeKind = if (listing.is_directory) .directory else .regular;
const header = vfs_protocol.DirectoryEntry{ .kind = @intFromEnum(kind), .name_len = @intCast(listing.name_len), .size = listing.size };
var buffer: [vfs_protocol.maximum_payload]u8 = undefined;
@memcpy(buffer[0..vfs_protocol.directory_entry_size], std.mem.asBytes(&header));
const nlen = @min(listing.name_len, buffer.len - vfs_protocol.directory_entry_size);
@memcpy(buffer[vfs_protocol.directory_entry_size..][0..nlen], listing.name_buffer[0..nlen]);
const total = vfs_protocol.directory_entry_size + nlen;
return writeReply(out, .{ .status = 0, .len = @intCast(total) }, buffer[0..total]);
},
.close => {
if (openAt(request.node)) |o| o.used = false;
// Durable-on-close: if any block reached the device since the last
// flush, commit its cache to stable media now (best-effort). This is
// what makes init's shutdown log flush survive a real power-off, and is
// the right default for removable media the user may unplug.
if (device_dirty) {
_ = ipc_block.device.flush();
device_dirty = false;
}
return writeReply(out, .{ .status = 0 }, &.{});
},
.mkdir => {
const path = payload[0..@min(payload.len, request.len)];
if (filesystem.resolve(path) != null) return fail(out); // already exists — no duplicate entries
const split = splitParent(path);
const parent = filesystem.resolve(split.parent) orelse return fail(out);
if (filesystem.createDirectory(parent, split.leaf) == null) return fail(out);
return writeReply(out, .{ .status = 0 }, &.{});
},
.unlink => {
const split = splitParent(payload[0..@min(payload.len, request.len)]);
const parent = filesystem.resolve(split.parent) orelse return fail(out);
if (!filesystem.removeFile(parent, split.leaf)) return fail(out);
return writeReply(out, .{ .status = 0 }, &.{});
},
.rename => {
const both = payload[0..@min(payload.len, request.len)];
const sep = std.mem.indexOfScalar(u8, both, 0) orelse return fail(out);
const old_split = splitParent(both[0..sep]);
const new_split = splitParent(both[sep + 1 ..]);
// Same-directory rename only.
if (!std.mem.eql(u8, old_split.parent, new_split.parent)) return fail(out);
const parent = filesystem.resolve(old_split.parent) orelse return fail(out);
if (!filesystem.rename(parent, old_split.leaf, new_split.leaf)) return fail(out);
return writeReply(out, .{ .status = 0 }, &.{});
},
// A backend is never itself a mount target.
// Router verbs, and the registry's claim verb: a file backend answers
// none of them (docs/os-development/protocol-namespace.md — only init
// implements `bind`).
.mount, .unmount, .bind => return fail(out),
}
}
pub fn main() void {
service.run(vfs_protocol.message_maximum, .{
.service = "vfs",
.init = initialise,
.on_message = onMessage,
.on_notification = onNotification,
});
}