fix(fees): flatten allocation inputs and correct executor funding 🐛

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Auto-opened executor mirror of genlayerlabs/genvm-manager#45.

Carries the executor-side work for that manager PR. The manager branch update fast-forwards v0.3-dev to its pinned commit after landing.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved message fee and allocation-limit calculations, including uncapped budgets and child-message costs.
  • Corrected matching for recipient-specific messages and preserved allocation data when processing messages and deployments.
  • Internal messages can bypass the locked receipt gas-price check; external messages require a positive locked price.
  • Rejected zero price caps, malformed leader timeout results, and invalid setup or leader output results.
• Fee Updates
  • Message fee estimates now include a reserve for successful appeal rounds.

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Walkthrough

The changes update appeal-profit reserves and receipt-price checks, allocation matching and fee accounting, internal subtree emission, leader-result validation, and code-blob allocation.

Changes

Allocation matching and emission

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Allocation matching and selection executor/src/wasi/genlayer_sdk/message.rs, executor/src/wasi/genlayer_sdk/tests.rs	Internal matching retains zero-budget nodes and applies recipient and on matching rules. Tests cover allocation precedence and exhaustion behavior.
Allocation budgets and fee checks executor/src/wasi/genlayer_sdk/message.rs, executor/src/wasi/genlayer_sdk/tests.rs	Absent budgets are treated as uncapped, internal fee declarations use children_budget, and zero internal price caps are rejected. Tests cover budget exhaustion, overflow, and atomic failure.
Stored subtree emission executor/src/wasi/genlayer_sdk/message.rs, executor/src/wasi/genlayer_sdk/tests.rs	Internal calls and deploys emit the matched node’s stored subtree. Tests check subtree preservation and receipt-fee charging.

Appeal-profit fee reserve

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Appeal reserve and receipt price checks executor/install/config/genvm.yaml	The minimum fee calculation adds a reserve for each appeal round, based on its priced bond and half of that amount. The reserve is added after the overlay. External receipt charging requires a positive locked receipt gas price.

Leader-result validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Timeout validation and proposal tests executor/src/wasi/genlayer_sdk/run.rs, executor/src/wasi/genlayer_sdk/tests.rs	Leader validation rejects timeout VM errors as malformed output. Tests cover fatal timeout handling and proposable error-code expectations.
Leader output-count validation executor/src/lib.rs, executor/src/exe/run.rs	A public helper validates published output counts against executed calls. Setup-time results are checked with a produced-output count of zero before emission.

Code-blob storage

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Zero-filled code-blob allocation executor/src/rt/vm/storage.rs	read_code_blob uses a zero-filled vector converted to a boxed slice instead of uninitialized allocation.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 16b81

Some validator runs can report an insufficient-startup-fee result as a fatal error instead. Skip output-count validation for setup results before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 16b81

The updated fee checks strengthen several rejection paths, but the new allocation format relies on child-budget figures remaining consistent with the subtree forwarded to downstream consumers. That consistency has not been established here.

Retained concerns

• Medium · security · inferred: Funding now depends on a separately supplied child budget while the executor forwards an opaque subtree. The inspected emission path does not establish that the two describe the same descendants. A mismatch could undermine the intended nested-message reservation; whether an input can reach this state or a downstream consumer rejects it remains unverified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The plausible exposure is message funding and nested-allocation payloads handled by the executor, not a demonstrated new storage entrypoint or service boundary. The independently reachable scope of malformed flattened allocations is unknown.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — If an allocation producer can provide inconsistent children_budget and subtree values that downstream validation accepts, the executor’s local fee check would fund the supplied amount while forwarding the supplied bytes. Producer authority and downstream acceptance have not been verified, so this is a conditional path, not a verified exploit.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Message-emission entrypoints retain deterministic-context and send-message permission checks. Allocation funding checks remaining node budget and consumes the shared fee buckets before recording an emission.
• observed — The changed Storage method retains its signature and existing read call; its changed allocation is zero-filled. The inspected change does not show a new caller or access-control transition.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Tests cover exhausted and uncapped allocation selection, failed child-budget admission without allocation consumption, zero-price rejection, and charging by opaque subtree length. These exercise local failure paths but do not establish producer-to-consumer subtree and budget coherence.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Establish and exercise an end-to-end invariant linking a flattened allocation’s child budget to its serialized subtree, including malformed inputs and mixed-version producer, executor, and consumer behavior.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main changes: fee corrections, flattened allocation inputs, and executor funding updates. It is concise and related to the changeset.
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🟡 Minor · Skip leader-output validation for setup results. · run.rs:307-315

executor/src/exe/run.rs:307-315
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Skip leader-output validation for setup results.

leader_nondet_results contains leader-authored input. It does not contain outputs produced by the setup path. When startup fees are insufficient, setup creates a normal setup_run_ok. In validator mode, this call passes executed = 0 and the supplied leader-output count as published, so it can replace that valid setup result with a fatal extra-output error. The setup path emits an empty leader-output list and executes no nondeterministic calls.

Suggested fix

-        let setup_run_ok = match genvm::validate_leader_output_count(
-            shared_data.run_mode,
-            0,
-            leader_nondet_results.as_ref().map_or(0, Vec::len),
-            &setup_run_ok,
-        ) {
-            Some(error) => genvm::rt::vm::RunOk::FatalVMError(error, None),
-            None => setup_run_ok,
-        };
         let host_for = |method: genvm::host::host_fns::Methods| -> usize {

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Review comment at @executor/src/exe/run.rs around lines 307 - 315:
Remove the `validate_leader_output_count` call wrapping `setup_run_ok`; setup
results do not consume leader-authored nondeterministic outputs, so validation
can incorrectly turn a valid setup result into a fatal error. Leave
leader-output validation on execution paths that actually produce or consume
those outputs.

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Review comments at @executor/src/exe/run.rs:
- Around line 307-315: Remove the `validate_leader_output_count` call wrapping
`setup_run_ok`; setup results do not consume leader-authored nondeterministic
outputs, so validation can incorrectly turn a valid setup result into a fatal
error. Leave leader-output validation on execution paths that actually produce
or consume those outputs.

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