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Linux gateway recovery, cleanup, drift detection, and Podman readiness share one bounded process-identity reader. A zombie leader can recover identity from a live sibling in its own thread group, and healthy gateways retain readiness and ownership when they inherit an environment larger than 64 KiB. Incomplete identity still fails closed.

Reason

The full E2E run for #12376 failed to compile its protected trusted-main checkout because the projected candidate runtime imports this reader, which main lacks. The reader and its production consumers must reach main before that protected GPU/rollback/cleanup path can qualify the upgrade. This PR keeps the protected projection allowlist unchanged.

Changes

  • Centralize gateway cmdline, environment, and executable reads while preserving executable, user, namespace, target, supervisor/cgroup, and repeated identity checks.
  • Stream at most 64 sibling entries. Keep command/status reads capped at 64 KiB; allow environment reads up to 6 MiB to cover Linux's documented exec ceiling. Allocate 4 KiB initially and grow only as data arrives; oversized identity is rejected without trusting a partial value.
  • Exercise readiness and scoped ownership with 128 KiB and 3 MiB inherited environments on both live leaders and live siblings. Cover over-limit refusal and oversized-command ps fallback for matching and unrelated executables.
  • Align both command-reference scan descriptions with the uninstall guide. Generated OpenClaw, Hermes, and Deep Agents Code references retain the bounded-scan recovery wording.

Verification

  • Focused Linux tests: 221 passed across six affected files in a credential-free container. After splitting conditional test setup into explicit cases, all 58 tests in the two affected files passed again; the other four files are unchanged. Zombie-leader executable recovery coverage is retained.
  • Regression reproduction against the published 4f3b672b9 reader: four large-environment readiness cases failed, then passed with this repair.
  • npm run docs: passed; generated reference variants inspected.
  • npm run lint: passed, including formatting and all 18 repository checks.
  • Normal signed commit hooks and isolated normal pre-push publication validation: passed, including CLI typecheck.
  • Prior 4f3b672b9 core CI, managed Docker and Podman activation, selected self-hosted qualification, rootless Linux E2E, and Podman CPU proof passed. These results precede the latest repair and do not qualify it.
  • The diff contains no secrets, API keys, or credentials.

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Latest repair: e597da662323692be50e2fc66035327ec4d8c93f. It addresses Deepak's requested changes, including incremental allocation and the suggested fallback regression, plus Advisor's remaining command-reference P1. All nine prior Advisor reports were collected before this update; eight were clear and documentation was blocked. That finding awaits a fresh exact-head review; it is not waived.

Sensitive paths in NVIDIA/NemoClaw include the changed src/lib/onboard/** process identity consumers. Local diff review and the tests above cover the repair; CI, Advisor, and independent maintainer review of the latest commit remain pending. CodeRabbit's green paused status is not a completed review. No approval or merge is claimed.

The separate full #12376 E2E objective remains open. No additional manual E2E selectors were recommended by the nine specialists; the existing lifecycle and managed-runtime validation floor remains distinct from the passing narrower workflows. Launchable remains opted out by the user. This change does not clear unrelated same-base E2E failures.


Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas prekshiv@nvidia.com

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved gateway detection and readiness checks when a process leader has exited but another thread is still active.
    • Gateway shutdown and scoped cleanup more reliably verify process ownership before signaling, including when the leader has exited.
    • When ownership cannot be confirmed, shutdown avoids signaling the process and preserves its PID and runtime markers.
    • Improved handling of missing, incomplete, or mismatched process identity information, including during Podman readiness checks.

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A shared proc-entry reader can recover process metadata from sibling threads when a Linux process leader is a zombie. Gateway readers use this helper. Linux status checks now inspect thread-level states. Tests cover readiness, runtime identity, listener attachment, and scoped shutdown.

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Gateway process inspection

Layer / File(s) Summary
Shared proc-entry reading
src/lib/onboard/gateway/process-proc-entry.ts, src/lib/onboard/gateway/process-environment.ts, src/lib/onboard/docker-driver-gateway-process-identity.ts, src/lib/onboard/docker-driver-gateway-runtime.ts, src/lib/onboard/gateway-host-runtime.ts, src/lib/onboard/host-gateway-process.ts, src/lib/onboard/runtime-provider/podman-gateway-readiness.ts, test/helpers/mock-gateway-proc-task-dir.ts
A shared reader reads cmdline, environ, and exe. If a Linux zombie leader has missing or empty data, it checks sibling threads, up to 64 entries. Gateway metadata readers use this helper.
Per-thread status and readiness
src/lib/onboard/host-gateway-process.ts, src/lib/onboard/runtime-provider/podman-gateway-readiness.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/destroy-gateway-runtime-evidence.test.ts, src/lib/actions/uninstall/run-plan-foreign-user-gateway.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/host-gateway-process-target.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/host-gateway-process.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/runtime-provider/podman-gateway-readiness.test.ts
Linux status queries request thread states. Host process status and Podman readiness evaluate the returned states. Test fixtures use the updated command form.
Runtime identity and attachment validation
src/lib/onboard/docker-driver-gateway-runtime.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/gateway-host-runtime.test.ts
Tests cover zombie-leader identity and listener attachment when executable data matches, differs, or is unavailable. Executable-path mocks use fs.realpathSync.native.
Historical installer runtime fixtures
test/helpers/prepared-gateway-runtime.ts, test/helpers/openshell-installer-template.ts, test/install/installer-supervisor-manifest-trust.test.ts
Installer test helpers prepare historical runtime source with the prior executable reader. The parser test also checks rejection when the executable reader is removed.
Scoped shutdown ownership checks
src/lib/onboard/host-gateway-process-zombie.test.ts, src/lib/onboard/host-gateway-process.test.ts, src/lib/actions/uninstall/run-plan.ts, src/lib/actions/uninstall/run-plan-gateway-service.test.ts
Tests cover zombie-leader ownership checks, sibling metadata reads, and the 64-entry probe limit. Unresolved ownership does not signal the PID or remove state files. Linux uninstall uses the host executable reader.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: ericksoa

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sequenceDiagram
  participant GatewayMetadataReaders
  participant readGatewayProcEntry
  participant Procfs
  participant TaskDirectory
  GatewayMetadataReaders->>readGatewayProcEntry: Request process metadata
  readGatewayProcEntry->>Procfs: Read process entry
  alt Direct entry is usable
    Procfs-->>readGatewayProcEntry: Return entry value
  else Zombie leader has missing or empty entry
    readGatewayProcEntry->>Procfs: Check leader state
    readGatewayProcEntry->>TaskDirectory: Inspect sibling thread entries
    TaskDirectory-->>readGatewayProcEntry: Return sibling entry values
  end
  readGatewayProcEntry-->>GatewayMetadataReaders: Return entry value or null
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const result = runParser({
transformSupervisor: selectThreadGroupExecutableRuntime,
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The acceptance test can pass without exercising its transform.

allowUnchangedSupervisor: true disables the "supervisor mutation must change its input" assertion. selectThreadGroupExecutableRuntime now returns the source unchanged when it already uses readGatewayProcEntry. This is the normal case for the current runtime source. The test then validates the unmodified candidate. It no longer proves that the parser accepts the thread-group reader form.

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src/lib/actions/uninstall/run-plan-gateway-service.test.ts (1)

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Remove the redundant vi.restoreAllMocks() call.

The cli Vitest project already enables restoreMocks, so Vitest restores these spies after each test. Teardown only needs to remove the temporary roots.

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Reviewed commit 0969156 against base e63abc0.

No code blocker found. The shared proc reader limits sibling probing to 64 streamed task entries, closes the directory on every path, and fails closed when ownership evidence is absent or ambiguous. Its consumers retain executable, namespace, owner, target, supervisor, cgroup, and repeated start-time checks before signaling or cleanup. Host and Podman thread-state handling also fails closed on empty or unknown evidence. The tests cover zombie leaders, live siblings, wrong ownership, unreadable and empty proc data, the probe bound, uninstall, Docker, and Podman behavior. All nine security categories pass. DCO is present, all eight commits are Verified, exact-head CI and managed Docker/rootless Podman activation passed, CodeRabbit has no unresolved actionable finding, and the exact-head Advisor no-blockers gate is green with no additional E2E selector.

I am leaving Comment rather than Approve because main advanced from e63abc0 to 7409ce2 after this evidence was collected, and the intervening changes materially overlap gateway runtime, process lifecycle, uninstall cleanup, and Docker runtime tests, especially #12800 custom recovery bindings. Please update the branch to current main and rerun exact-head CI and Advisor. If those remain green and the merged diff preserves these ownership checks, this is ready for approval.

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Code looks good. Approval waits on rootless Podman activation.

Recovered identity still passes the existing ownership checks before cleanup. The scan-bound finding is fixed, and the installer regression now rejects a missing reader; no inline comments follow.

suggestion (non-blocking): src/lib/adapters/openshell/gateway-drift.ts:329 still selects the configured binary when the recorded gateway has a zombie leader. This also fails on the base. In a follow-up, use the shared cmdline reader and test that the recorded binary remains selected.

note: The trusted checker is waiting on PR exact all-agent managed runtime activation on rootless Podman.

Advisor feedback: One of three items addressed; the unchanged wording and inherited drift-reader gap are outside this repair.
Recommended E2E: onboard-repair, onboard-resume, managed-image-protected-runtime, managed-image-multiarch-startup and staging-brev-launchable have not run on this head.
Tested: Focused macOS tests, base/head readiness reproduction, CLI build, typecheck, lint, formatting and repository checks passed. Linux-only proc tests skipped on macOS.

Limit synchronous proc entry reads to 64 KiB.

Preserve fail-closed ownership checks for oversized sibling identity.

Update synthetic proc fixtures and describe the bounded uninstall scan.

Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>
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Thanks for consolidating the /proc identity reads. Moving everything through readGatewayProcEntry is a clear improvement. Recovery stays within the gateway's own thread group, the 64-entry probe limit bounds directory enumeration, and every caller that signals, cleans up, or accepts a gateway still runs its existing ownership checks. The drift probe change in 5e818fa6a also addresses the earlier zombie-leader suggestion and adds a test.

I'm not able to approve 4f3b672 yet. There is one Advisor blocker, plus one behavior regression in the new byte cap. Details are below and in the inline comments.

Verified on 4f3b672b9:

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  • Required status checks (checks, commit-lint, dco-check, check-hash, changes): passed or skipped as designed.
  • Managed images: passed.
    • Pi candidate images build and validate on amd64 and arm64.
    • Direct managed startup works for OpenClaw, Hermes, and Deep Agents Code.
    • PR-exact all-agent runtime activation passed on Docker and on rootless Podman.
    • The Deep Agents Code staging QA permission regression and the PR npm audit passed.
  • Self-hosted PR qualification: passed. Sandbox images on amd64 and arm64, managed-image OpenClaw security, port-override image contract, and non-root sandbox smoke. The llama.cpp generic GPU and Hermes root-entrypoint lanes were not selected for this diff.
  • Rootless Linux E2E: passed. The portable launch lane was skipped.
  • Podman CPU proof: passed. Rootless Podman lifecycle with Docker disabled, and portable CPU delegation admission on Ubuntu 22.04.
  • Docs: validation and preview and CLI/installer reference parity passed.
  • Security: code scanning passed, including CodeQL for JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, and Go, plus ShellCheck.
  • Governance: growth limits, DCO, PR title lint, maintainer edits, and installer hash passed.
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docs/reference/commands.mdx, line 3883 (outside this diff, so not an inline comment):

This still says a complete process scan proves that no live process claims the state. With this change the scan stops at 64 probes, and reaching the limit preserves the directory. uninstall-nemoclaw.mdx was updated, but this canonical reference now contradicts it. This is the P1 that keeps "Require no Advisor blockers" red.

Please align it with the uninstall guide by replacing the end of that paragraph with:

A port-bound marked gateway with valid generated configuration can be retired after the port is free and a bounded process scan proves that no live process claims its state. A listener, unreadable process identity, or a scan that reaches its probe limit preserves the directory. Inspect and stop the listener or matching gateway process, then rerun uninstall after the port is free.

Once these items are addressed and Advisor is green on the new head, please re-request review.

type GatewayProcEntry = "cmdline" | "environ" | "exe";
// Recovery must fail closed instead of making unbounded synchronous proc reads.
const MAX_ZOMBIE_SIBLING_PROBES = 64;
const MAX_PROC_ENTRY_BYTES = 64 * 1024;

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This cap applies to a healthy, non-zombie leader as well as to recovery probes, and I think that causes a regression.

The host gateway is launched with { ...process.env, ...gatewayEnv } (see buildGatewayProcessEnv), so /proc/<pid>/environ contains the caller's entire environment. Above 64 KiB, readEntry returns null. Because the leader isn't a zombie, readGatewayProcEntry also returns null. Two healthy-path checks then fail:

  • readiness/gateway-production.ts: hasDockerDriverGatewayEnvironment(readDockerDriverGatewayProcessEnvironment(pid)), which is required on Linux.
  • gateway/state-ownership.ts: the state ownership check.

On hosts with large environments, such as CI runners or HPC module setups, a working gateway would be reported as not ready or not owned. Before this commit the read was unbounded and both checks passed. It fails safe, since nothing is signaled or deleted, but it changes behavior.

The kernel already limits these entries to the exec argument and environment area (ARG_MAX, about 2 MiB by default). Two options that keep the bounded-read goal:

  • Use an environ limit near ARG_MAX, and keep 64 KiB for cmdline and status.
  • Apply the 64 KiB limit only to sibling-thread probes, and read the leader's own entry up to ARG_MAX.

Could you also add a test showing that a non-zombie gateway with an environment over 64 KiB still passes the Docker-driver environment check?

function readBoundedText(file: string): string | null {
const fd = fs.openSync(file, "r");
try {
const buffer = Buffer.allocUnsafe(MAX_PROC_ENTRY_BYTES + 1);

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Nit: Buffer.allocUnsafe(MAX_PROC_ENTRY_BYTES + 1) allocates the full buffer for every read, including status and short cmdline entries. That's fine at this size. If the environ limit goes up as suggested above, consider growing the buffer as data arrives instead of allocating the maximum up front.

try {
cmdline = fs.readFileSync(`/proc/${pid}/cmdline`, "utf-8").replace(/\0/g, " ").trim();
} catch {
const procCmdline = readGatewayProcEntry(pid as number, "cmdline");

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Optional: an oversized command line now falls back to ps -o args=. That only chooses the binary for the drift comparison, so the risk is low. A small test that an oversized cmdline doesn't select the wrong binary would lock this in.

Signed-off-by: Prekshi Vyas <prekshiv@nvidia.com>
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Thanks for the quick turnaround. LGTM.

e597da6 addresses everything from the previous round:

environ now uses its own 6 MiB limit, the Linux exec ceiling for argv plus environment. cmdline and status stay at 64 KiB. The new tests prove readiness and scoped ownership for a live leader and for a live sibling with 128 KiB and 3 MiB inherited environments. They also show that an environment above the limit still fails closed without signaling.
The read buffer now grows from 4 KiB instead of allocating the maximum up front.
The drift probe has coverage for the oversized cmdline fallback in both directions.
docs/reference/commands.mdx now matches the uninstall guide, including the second process-absence mention.
Verified on e597da6:

PR Review Advisor: green. All nine specialists are clear, with no unresolved E2E recommendations.
Required checks (checks, commit-lint, dco-check, check-hash, changes): passed.
Core CI, managed images (amd64 and arm64, direct startup for all three agents, all-agent activation on Docker and rootless Podman), self-hosted PR qualification, rootless Linux E2E, Podman CPU proof, docs, code scanning, and governance: passed. In total, 64 succeeded, 24 were skipped, and one superseded commit-lint run was cancelled.
FYI: CodeRabbit is still paused at 83b8c9c, so it hasn't reviewed the last three commits. Running @coderabbitai review before merge would close that gap.

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prekshivyas merged commit 4e3bf44 into main Oct 11, 2026
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prekshivyas deleted the fix/pr-12376-protected-proc-reader branch October 11, 2026 03:54
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