git-credential-mosaic: escape the escalation record, and stop naming a record that was never written
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Both defects found in review by rev-code-01 on #1311.

F3 — the JSONL record interpolated every field with a bare %s. An identity comes
from git config or the environment and a cwd is whatever directory git ran in, so
either can contain a quote or a backslash. One such refusal turned the day's spool
into unparseable JSONL, and the operator would only discover it while reading the
record that explains an outage. Fields are now JSON-escaped.

F2 — the diagnostic printed "record: <spool>/<date>.jsonl" unconditionally, but
the record is only written inside the branch where mkdir -p succeeded. When the
spool cannot be created the helper named a file that does not exist, on exactly
the hosts where the escalation was lost. It now reports the real path or says
NOT WRITTEN.

Also: prettier on README.md, which was the format-step failure on pipeline 2508.
It reflowed only the two tables this branch added.

Tests: cases 14 and 15 cover both. Verified discriminating — against the previous
helper with these same tests, case 14 fails with the unparseable record printed
and case 15 fails on both assertions; against this one both pass.

The first draft of case 14 used `ls "$spool"/*.jsonl | head -1`, which under
`set -o pipefail` exits 2 on a missed glob and killed the suite with zero output
— the same silent-nonzero failure rev-code-01 hit from a partial tools/ extraction
and the reason this file exists. Replaced with a glob loop and a comment.
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2026-08-18 17:04:55 -05:00
parent 3d2b712355
commit c703cc50eb
3 changed files with 111 additions and 14 deletions
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ identity**:
The store is chosen by what the identity **is**, not by which file happens to exist first:
| The identity | Its credential is read from |
| --- | --- |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| has a directory at `<brain>/fleet/agents/<id>/` — it is a **seat** | `<brain>/fleet/agents/<id>/secrets/gitea-{usc,mosaicstack}-<id>.token` |
| does not — it is a **service identity** | `~/.config/mosaic/secrets/gitea-tokens/gitea-{usc,mosaicstack}-<id>.token` |
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ revoked token and sends whoever debugs it to the wrong place.
### What happens when nothing resolves
| identity resolves | token in its store | host runs a fleet | result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ----------------- | ------------------ | ----------------- | ------------------------- |
| yes | yes | — | that identity + token |
| yes | no | — | **fail closed** |
| no | — | yes | **fail closed** |
@@ -141,18 +141,42 @@ ts=$(date -u +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ)
# top of it is best-effort. Record and alert are deduplicated separately — a cap
# on the alert alone lets the spool grow without bound exactly while the operator
# is being told nothing, so the louder the failure the quieter it gets.
#
# A record field is arbitrary operator-supplied text: an identity comes from git
# config or the environment, and cwd is whatever directory git ran in. Either can
# contain a quote or a backslash, which would make the line unparseable JSON --
# and a spool that silently stops parsing is worse than no spool, because the
# operator only discovers it while reading the record that explains an outage.
json_escape() {
local s=$1
s=${s//\\/\\\\}
s=${s//\"/\\\"}
s=${s//$'\t'/\\t}
s=${s//$'\r'/\\r}
s=${s//$'\n'/\\n}
printf '%s' "$s"
}
spool="${MOSAIC_CREDENTIAL_SPOOL:-$HOME/.local/state/mosaic-credential-escalations}"
spool_record=""
if mkdir -p "$spool" 2>/dev/null; then
chmod 700 "$spool" 2>/dev/null
spoolfile="$spool/$(date -u +%Y%m%d).jsonl"
dedupe="$spool/.spooled-${seat}-${ident:-none}-${reason}-$(date -u +%Y%m%d%H%M)"
if [ ! -e "$dedupe" ]; then
: > "$dedupe" 2>/dev/null
spoolfile="$spool/$(date -u +%Y%m%d).jsonl"
printf '{"ts":"%s","reason":"%s","identity":"%s","identity_source":"%s","kind":"%s","seat":"%s","host":"%s","cwd":"%s"}\n' \
"$ts" "$reason" "${ident:-<unset>}" "$ident_src" "${ident_kind:-none}" "$seat" "$host" "$PWD" \
"$(json_escape "$ts")" "$(json_escape "$reason")" \
"$(json_escape "${ident:-<unset>}")" "$(json_escape "$ident_src")" \
"$(json_escape "${ident_kind:-none}")" "$(json_escape "$seat")" \
"$(json_escape "$host")" "$(json_escape "$PWD")" \
>> "$spoolfile" 2>/dev/null
chmod 600 "$spoolfile" 2>/dev/null
fi
# Name the record only if one is actually on disk. Printing the path
# unconditionally sends the operator to a file that does not exist on exactly
# the hosts where the spool could not be created.
[ -s "$spoolfile" ] && spool_record="$spoolfile"
find "$spool" -maxdepth 1 -name '.spooled-*' -mmin +120 -delete 2>/dev/null
fi
@@ -186,6 +210,11 @@ seat and is read ONLY from its own secrets/ slot; any other identity is read fro
If this identity legitimately needs git access and has none, ask the orchestrator
to provision one.
record: ${spool}/$(date -u +%Y%m%d).jsonl
EOF
if [ -n "$spool_record" ]; then
echo " record: ${spool_record}" >&2
else
echo " record: NOT WRITTEN — spool unavailable at ${spool}" >&2
fi
exit 1
@@ -290,13 +290,81 @@ assert_eq "unknown host on a fleet host: still passthrough, not a refusal" "" "$
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
store_out=$(cd "$REPO_DIR" && env -i HOME="$FAKE_HOME" PATH="$PATH" bash "$HELPER" store <<EOF
host=git.mosaicstack.dev
username=agentA
username=no-such-agent
password=whatever
EOF
)
assert_eq "store verb: no output" "" "$store_out"
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# 14. The escalation record is machine-readable even when a field carries a
# quote or a backslash. A cwd is arbitrary operator text; an unescaped one
# silently turns the spool into unparseable JSONL, and the operator only
# finds out while reading the record that explains an outage.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
hostile_dir="$WORK_DIR/we\"ird\\dir"
mkdir -p "$hostile_dir"
hostile_spool="$WORK_DIR/spool-hostile"
(
cd "$hostile_dir"
env -i HOME="$FAKE_HOME" PATH="$PATH" MOSAIC_CREDENTIAL_SPOOL="$hostile_spool" \
MOSAIC_GIT_IDENTITY=no-such-agent \
bash "$HELPER" get <<EOF >/dev/null 2>&1
host=git.mosaicstack.dev
username=no-such-agent
EOF
) || true
# Deliberately not `ls ... | head -1`: under `set -o pipefail` a missed glob
# makes ls exit 2, the pipeline inherits it, and `set -e` kills this suite with
# zero output — the same silent-nonzero failure this file exists to catch.
record_file=""
for candidate in "$hostile_spool"/*.jsonl; do
if [[ -e "$candidate" ]]; then
record_file="$candidate"
break
fi
done
if [[ -z "$record_file" ]]; then
echo "FAIL: hostile cwd — no escalation record was written at all" >&2
fail=1
elif ! python3 -c 'import json,sys
for line in open(sys.argv[1]):
line = line.strip()
if line:
json.loads(line)' "$record_file" 2>/dev/null; then
echo "FAIL: hostile cwd — escalation record is not parseable JSONL:" >&2
cat "$record_file" >&2
fail=1
fi
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# 15. When the spool cannot be created, the diagnostic must NOT name a record
# path. Naming a file that was never written sends the operator to an
# empty path on exactly the hosts where the escalation was lost.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
unwritable_spool="/proc/mosaic-credential-spool-cannot-exist"
nospool_err=$(
cd "$REPO_DIR"
env -i HOME="$FAKE_HOME" PATH="$PATH" MOSAIC_CREDENTIAL_SPOOL="$unwritable_spool" \
MOSAIC_GIT_IDENTITY=no-such-agent \
bash "$HELPER" get <<EOF 2>&1 >/dev/null
host=git.mosaicstack.dev
username=no-such-agent
EOF
) || true
if [[ "$nospool_err" == *"record: $unwritable_spool/"* ]]; then
echo "FAIL: unwritable spool — diagnostic names a record file that was never written" >&2
fail=1
fi
if [[ "$nospool_err" != *"NOT WRITTEN"* ]]; then
echo "FAIL: unwritable spool — diagnostic does not say the record was not written" >&2
echo "$nospool_err" >&2
fail=1
fi
if [[ "$fail" -eq 0 ]]; then
echo "git-credential-mosaic identity resolution regression passed"
fi