v0.11 item 1: a reader that names a bad row and blinds nothing else - #199
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SPEC-v0.11 §5 and rule 3. One tampered row costs one row. Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>
The debt that test asked whoever fixed it to come and say so. Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>
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Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>
Signed-off-by: arpan <contact@arpanghoshal.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe receipt read path now preserves malformed rows as ChangesUnreadable receipt handling
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant StateStore
participant CLI
participant verify_chain
participant stats_document
StateStore-->>CLI: return readable and unreadable rows
CLI->>CLI: render unreadable rows in place
StateStore-->>verify_chain: return ordered mixed rows
verify_chain->>verify_chain: report content_altered
CLI->>stats_document: pass readable rows and unreadable count
stats_document-->>CLI: return stats document
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A corrupted receipt JSON row can still prevent receipt listing, verification, inspection, and statistics from completing, contrary to the new unreadable-row behavior. Handle JSON parsing within the refusal path before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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In `@src/ctrlrun/postgres.py`:
- Line 2196: The PostgresStateStore.receipts() return expression parses JSON
before _read_receipt() can handle errors, allowing one malformed row to abort
the entire read. Move JSON parsing into _read_receipt()’s protected handling, or
otherwise catch JSONDecodeError per row there, while preserving tuple
construction and allowing invalid rows to be handled consistently with
SQLiteStateStore.receipts().
In `@src/ctrlrun/state.py`:
- Around line 1715-1717: Move JSON parsing into the guarded receipt-decoding
path: update _read_receipt to accept raw stored JSON and perform json.loads
inside its existing exception handling, then pass row["json"] from state.py
receipts() and the corresponding postgres.py receipts() flow. Preserve the
existing UnreadableReceipt behavior so malformed JSON in one row is reported
without preventing other receipts from being read.
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| # different byte strings -- and the chain does not care, because `chain_hash` recomputes | ||
| # the canonical form from the parsed document rather than hashing whatever was stored. | ||
| return tuple(_stored_receipt(json.loads(str(row[0])), row[1]) for row in rows) | ||
| return tuple(_read_receipt(json.loads(str(row[1])), row[2], row[0]) for row in rows) |
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Same json.loads() gap as SQLiteStateStore.receipts().
json.loads(str(row[1])) is evaluated as an argument to _read_receipt before that function is entered, so a json.JSONDecodeError from a syntactically invalid stored json column is not caught by _read_receipt's try/except. It propagates uncaught out of receipts() here as well, past every except CTRLRunError caller, reproducing the "one bad row blinds every reader" failure for the Postgres backend.
See the paired comment on src/ctrlrun/state.py at the SQLiteStateStore.receipts() return statement for the detailed mechanism and a proposed fix; both backends share the same root cause and the same fix shape.
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In `@src/ctrlrun/postgres.py` at line 2196, The PostgresStateStore.receipts()
return expression parses JSON before _read_receipt() can handle errors, allowing
one malformed row to abort the entire read. Move JSON parsing into
_read_receipt()’s protected handling, or otherwise catch JSONDecodeError per row
there, while preserving tuple construction and allowing invalid rows to be
handled consistently with SQLiteStateStore.receipts().
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| return tuple( | ||
| _read_receipt(json.loads(row["json"]), row["hash"], row["seq"]) for row in rows | ||
| ) |
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json.loads() failure still blinds every reader — the exact bug this PR fixes.
json.loads(row["json"]) at line 1716 runs as an argument expression before _read_receipt is called. Python evaluates function arguments before entering the function body, so _read_receipt's try/except (CTRLRunError, KeyError, TypeError, ValueError, AttributeError) never sees an exception raised while evaluating its own arguments.
If a row's json column holds text that is not valid JSON at all (as opposed to valid JSON carrying a malformed value, which is what every current test tampers with, for example _tamper_one_value and the controls: [1.5] case), json.loads raises json.JSONDecodeError, a ValueError subclass. That exception is not a CTRLRunError, so it propagates uncaught through receipts(), past every except CTRLRunError in the CLI and the operator server, and crashes the caller instead of reporting an UnreadableReceipt.
This reintroduces the exact "one tampered row blinds every reader" defect SPEC-v0.11 §5 rule 3 exists to close, for the sub-case of syntactically corrupted JSON rather than semantically malformed content. postgres.py's receipts() has the identical gap.
🛡️ Proposed fix: parse JSON inside the guarded path
- return tuple(
- _read_receipt(json.loads(row["json"]), row["hash"], row["seq"]) for row in rows
- )
+ results: list[Receipt | UnreadableReceipt] = []
+ for row in rows:
+ try:
+ document = json.loads(row["json"])
+ except ValueError as refused:
+ results.append(
+ UnreadableReceipt(
+ seq=row["seq"],
+ receipt_id=None,
+ refusal=type(refused).__name__,
+ hash=row["hash"],
+ )
+ )
+ continue
+ results.append(_read_receipt(document, row["hash"], row["seq"]))
+ return tuple(results)A cleaner alternative is to change _read_receipt's contract in receipt.py to accept the raw stored text and parse it internally, so "the one place a store turns a row into something a reader holds" (its own docstring's claim) actually covers JSON syntax errors too, and both backends share one implementation instead of duplicating the UnreadableReceipt construction.
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| return tuple( | |
| _read_receipt(json.loads(row["json"]), row["hash"], row["seq"]) for row in rows | |
| ) | |
| results: list[Receipt | UnreadableReceipt] = [] | |
| for row in rows: | |
| try: | |
| document = json.loads(row["json"]) | |
| except ValueError as refused: | |
| results.append( | |
| UnreadableReceipt( | |
| seq=row["seq"], | |
| receipt_id=None, | |
| refusal=type(refused).__name__, | |
| hash=row["hash"], | |
| ) | |
| ) | |
| continue | |
| results.append(_read_receipt(document, row["hash"], row["seq"])) | |
| return tuple(results) |
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In `@src/ctrlrun/state.py` around lines 1715 - 1717, Move JSON parsing into the
guarded receipt-decoding path: update _read_receipt to accept raw stored JSON
and perform json.loads inside its existing exception handling, then pass
row["json"] from state.py receipts() and the corresponding postgres.py
receipts() flow. Preserve the existing UnreadableReceipt behavior so malformed
JSON in one row is reported without preventing other receipts from being read.
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v0.11 item 1. Implements
SPEC-v0.11.md§5 and rule 3: a malformed row names itself and blinds nothing else. First in the milestone deliberately, because every other item reads the chain and today oneUPDATEblinds every reader of it together.The defect, measured at
mainbefore any codeFour committed actions, then one declared key set to a value of the wrong type at
seq 2, in SQL underneath the store:inspecton an action the tamper never touched is the sharp one: the blast radius is not "this receipt is unreadable" but "this store is unreadable".effectsdoes not blind, which §2.3 states and this reproduces, so it is asserted rather than assumed.The same store after this branch:
--verify-chainstill exits 1: recovering the reader must not turn a chain with a forgery in it into a clean exit.A second defect found underneath it, and fixed here
§5.2 says a receipt's position must come from the
seqcolumn.verify_chain's docstring has claimed that since v0.6 and it was false as shipped: both stores selectedjson, hashand ordered by a column they never read, so everyReceipt.seqcame fromdocument.get("seq"), the one field a tamperer controls. Rewriting one document'sseqfrom 2 to 99, atmain:Four breaks at three positions, two of them rows that do not exist. On this branch:
No hash moves:
chain_hash()hashes the stored document, and the column only supplies the position.What it does not do
CHAIN_BREAKSdoes not change, and this is the decision most worth reviewing.SPEC-v0.7.md§12.5 offered a new break name as one of two candidates; §5.1 declines it becausecontent_alteredalready names a document that cannot be canonicalized, and a second name for one fact would be two names for one break. The frozen closed set onSPEC-v0.6.md§6.5's surface is untouched, andT512asserts that as well as asserting where the break lands.Public API
Both rows are
SPEC-v0.11.md§9's, and both are now asserted by_FROZEN_V0_11intests/test_repository_signals.py:ctrlrun.receipt.UnreadableReceipt— the refusal, carryingseq,receipt_idwhere that field alone is readable, and the type of what refused it, never the message (SPEC-v0.7.md§6.11: the canonicalizer quotes what it refused, and a lone surrogate in a report is a report that cannot be printed).StateStore.receipts()returnstuple[Receipt | UnreadableReceipt, ...], amendingSPEC-v0.6.md§9.2's frozen protocol. Both backends change. The §9.2 bar is cleared: a backend that raised on one bad row could not implement §5 at all.§9 names item 2 as the one that creates the frozen-name list; this creates it instead, because item 1 has two rows of its own and §9's whole point is that nothing turns red at release that could have turned red during the item. Item 2 extends the tuple. The rows carry an explicit
kind(name,parameter,member,returns) exactly as §9 specifies, because the v0.10 three-tuple cannot express what half of v0.11's rows claim.Judgement calls a reviewer should check
ctrlrun.stats/v1gains an optionalunreadable_receiptskey, omitted entirely at zero, onledger_rows' precedent in the same function. A total that silently dropped a row nobody could read would beSPEC-v0.4.md§3.8's false green, and a JSON consumer that could not see the count would be blind where the terminal is not.T511asserts a clean store's document is key-for-key what 0.10.0 produced.--strictmade the list rather than a grep.receiptsand the operator's_receiptsprint the row in place;inspect,statsandreportingskip it because a refused row has noaction_idorfinished_atto answer with;Control._replay_policynames it in theskippedshape it already has;verify_chainreportscontent_alteredat itsseq.verify/scenarios.pyfails the control instead of filtering, because a scenario store is oneverifyjust wrote and filtering there would be a clean grade over a store the grader could not read.--controlfiltering, on the CLI and on the operator server. Itscontrolscould not be read, so it cannot be shown not to cite the id, and dropping it would let oneUPDATEhide a row from exactly the query an operator runs to find a control's evidence.Counts
a01bfb4, no Postgres./scripts/check.shpasses withCTRLRUN_TEST_POSTGRESset.T516genuinely ran against Postgres, checked with-v.Mutations
Against a throwaway
git archive HEADcopy,PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1, caches cleared per run.seqcomes from the document againverify_chainignores a refused rowreceiptsCLI drops the refused rowstatsstops reporting the countreceipts()loses the refused row entirelyThree of these were findings and are reported rather than smoothed over.
T515never passed acontrolargument, so two guards were green and not load-bearing.T518andT515's second half exist because of that, and both mutations are caught now.ifclause of a comprehension, which is aSyntaxError, and its "1 error in 0.24s" was a collection failure being read as a catch. M9's test list namedtests/test_conformance.pywhileT519lives intests/test_unreadable_receipt.py, so it ran a file that could not have failed. A first run reportingno outputfor all ten was a missing pytest plugin, not ten survivors.Acceptance tests
T510the five readers ·T511the negative control ·T512the break name and the unchanged closed set ·T513position from the column ·T514what a refusal carries and what never travels ·T514ba row truncated to{}, which raisesKeyErrorrather thanInvalidArgument·T515the operator MCP server, a network surface ·T516Postgres ·T517policy replay ·T518the scenario grader ·T519the store conformance kit.tests/test_preconditions.py'stest_R2_deferred_a_malformed_value_of_a_declared_key_still_blinds_every_readerpinned the defect in place and said "whoever fixes it has to come here and say so". It is flipped, renamed and kept where the v0.7 finding was recorded.Docs
Paired branch
v0.11/1-unreadable-receiptonctrlrun-docs. Every generator re-run with--write; the kernel tree came back clean afterwards, checked, and no SPDX header was stripped. Readiness blocks pasted fresh intodocs.mdxanddocs/production/index.mdx;repoint-claims.pyre-pointed 58, unresolved 0.docs/production/receipt-integrity.mdxgains the section by hand.ROADMAP.md's known-limitation entry for this defect is closed, with the two corrections implementing it earned: it listedG11among the blinded readers, andctrlrun verifygradesG11against a scratch store noUPDATEreaches; and it omitted the operator MCP server, which is a network surface.Open question
SPEC-v0.11.md§9 assigns the frozen-name list to item 2 and this item creates it. The reasoning is above; if a reviewer disagrees, the fix is a one-line move of the tuple, not a rewrite.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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