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Refuse when the stored policy cannot be verified, rather than dropping it - #1065
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WalkthroughMobile policy handling now distinguishes absent, active, and faulted records. Faulted policies deny decisions, and transient faults can be retried. Policy installation, status reporting, trusted-warden changes, and deletion now use policy state and stored-record outcomes. ChangesMobile Policy Fault Handling
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant KeepMobile
participant Storage
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KeepMobile->>Storage: Read stored policy during transient-fault retry
Storage-->>KeepMobile: Return policy record or read error
KeepMobile->>PolicyEvaluator: Set loaded policy state
KeepMobile->>PolicyEvaluator: Return policy status
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🟡 Minor · Write the policy to storage before updating memory in import_policy. · lib.rs:1867-1869
keep-mobile/src/lib.rs:1867-1869
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winWrite the policy to storage before updating memory in
import_policy.
policy.set_policy(bundle.clone())runs beforepersistence::persist_policy(...)?. If the write fails, the caller gets an error, but this process already enforces the new bundle. Storage still holds the old record, and that record may be faulted. The next launch reverts to it.The PR description says policy mutations now persist before memory changes.
delete_policyand the warden mutations already do this. Swap the two calls here.Proposed fix
let info = bundle.to_policy_info(); - policy.set_policy(bundle.clone()); persistence::persist_policy(&self.storage, &bundle)?; + policy.set_policy(bundle); Ok(info)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Review comments at @keep-mobile/src/lib.rs:
- Around line 1971-1983: Track whether the trusted-warden set is known, setting
it unknown when `load_policy_into` encounters a read error and known when the
record loads or is absent. In `add_trusted_warden` and `remove_trusted_warden`,
retry loading before mutation when the set is unknown, and return a storage
error if it remains unknown rather than treating the in-memory set as
authoritative.
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Review comments at @keep-mobile/src/lib.rs:
- Around line 1867-1869: In import_policy, persist the bundle with
persistence::persist_policy before updating the in-memory policy with
policy.set_policy, so a failed write leaves memory unchanged. Then pass the
bundle to set_policy after persistence succeeds.
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| pub fn remove_trusted_warden(&self, pubkey_hex: String) -> Result<(), KeepMobileError> { | ||
| let pubkey = network::parse_warden_pubkey(&pubkey_hex)?; | ||
| let mut policy = self.policy_write_lock()?; | ||
| policy.remove_trusted_warden(&pubkey); | ||
| persistence::persist_trusted_wardens(&self.storage, policy.trusted_wardens()) | ||
| if !policy.trusted_wardens().contains(&pubkey) { | ||
| return Ok(()); | ||
| } | ||
| let mut wardens = policy.trusted_wardens().clone(); | ||
| wardens.remove(&pubkey); | ||
| persistence::persist_trusted_wardens(&self.storage, &wardens)?; | ||
| policy.set_trusted_wardens(wardens); | ||
| Self::load_policy_into(&self.storage, &mut policy); | ||
| Ok(()) | ||
| } |
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Do not treat the in-memory warden set as authoritative when the wardens record could not be read. Otherwise warden revocation can silently do nothing.
On a read error, load_policy_into (lines 4039-4042) keeps the in-memory set. On a fresh evaluator that set is empty. The code does not record that the set is unknown. Both warden mutations then treat the empty set as the truth.
remove_trusted_warden:!policy.trusted_wardens().contains(&pubkey)is true, so the call returnsOk(())and does not touch storage. The caller thinks the warden was revoked. On the next launch the stored record is readable again, and the revoked warden is trusted again. This matters because revocation is normally done after a key compromise. A bundle signed by that key can then be imported again.add_trusted_warden(lines 1957-1964) has the same root cause. It persists{pubkey}over the intact but unreadable record. That deletes every other trusted warden. Their stored policies then fault asUnverifieduntil the user re-adds them.
Track whether the warden set is known. Set it to "unknown" in the error arm of load_policy_into. In add_trusted_warden and remove_trusted_warden, retry the load first. If the set is still unknown, return the storage error instead of mutating it.
adding_a_warden_survives_a_wardens_record_that_cannot_be_read_back still passes under this rule. In that test the wardens record was absent at load (StorageNotFound), so the set was known to be empty.
Proposed fix sketch
pub fn remove_trusted_warden(&self, pubkey_hex: String) -> Result<(), KeepMobileError> {
let pubkey = network::parse_warden_pubkey(&pubkey_hex)?;
let mut policy = self.policy_write_lock()?;
+ if !policy.wardens_known() {
+ Self::load_policy_into(&self.storage, &mut policy);
+ if !policy.wardens_known() {
+ return Err(KeepMobileError::StorageError {
+ msg: "Trusted wardens unreadable; cannot change them safely".into(),
+ });
+ }
+ }
if !policy.trusted_wardens().contains(&pubkey) {
return Ok(());
}Apply the same guard in add_trusted_warden. Set wardens_known = false in the Err(e) arm of load_policy_into, and set it to true in the Ok and StorageNotFound arms.
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Review comment at @keep-mobile/src/lib.rs around lines 1971 - 1983:
Track whether the trusted-warden set is known, setting it unknown when
`load_policy_into` encounters a read error and known when the record loads or is
absent. In `add_trusted_warden` and `remove_trusted_warden`, retry loading
before mutation when the set is unknown, and return a storage error if it
remains unknown rather than treating the in-memory set as authoritative.
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Loading the stored spending policy treated every failure as "no policy configured". A bundle that parsed but failed signature verification, one whose warden could not be attributed, and one the platform keystore refused to decrypt all left the evaluator with an empty policy, which permits everything. One flipped byte in storage disarmed the whole policy silently. Moving the device clock past a bundle's expiry did the same, with no root and no prompt.
Policy state is now three-valued rather than present or absent:
NotConfigured: nothing was ever stored. Permits, as before.Active: a bundle was read, attributed to a trusted warden, and is within its validity window.Faulted { fault, bundle }: a bundle exists but cannot currently be trusted. Every evaluation returnsDeny.The fault carries why, which decides whether recovery is possible without a trusted warden present:
Unreadable: storage returned an error other than "not found". Transient, so it is retried before each decision and on every policy mutation.Unverified: the record parsed but its signature or hash did not attribute to a trusted warden. Not retried, since re-reading cannot change the answer; adding the warden that signed it re-runs the load and clears the fault.NotYetValid: the bundle's start timestamp is in the future. Retried, because a device that booted before reaching an NTP server reports a time that will correct itself.Expired: past the bundle's end timestamp. Not retried, but the bundle is still readable, so it remains usable as a rollback baseline and a newer bundle from the same warden imports over it.Ordering between storage and memory
Every path writes the record before committing to memory, and surfaces the write error.
import_policypreviously did the reverse, which made it the one place that could lift a refusal on a write that never landed: a failed persist returned an error while the process went on enforcing the bundle, so aFaulteddeny-all was cleared until the next launch, and the retry path could not undo it because the fault was already gone from memory. The warden mutations anddelete_policyfollow the same order, and the two warden mutations are now one function, since the ordering is the thing being protected and it was written out twice.What counts as a rollback baseline
Expiredis the only fault that supplies one. An expired bundle is attributed, so itscreated_atis evidence of age even though its rules must not be enforced. A future-dated bundle is attributed too and is not evidence of age: treating it as a baseline measures every honestly dated replacement against a time that has not happened, so all of them are refused as downgrades and the only exit is discarding the policy outright. With no baseline, the import falls to the refusal that says what to do about the stored record.import_policystill compares against the faulted bundle's version rather than against nothing, so a fault cannot be used to bypass the check. The one case where a fault blocks an import is a bundle too damaged to yield a version at all, where there is no baseline to compare against. Worth being exact about what this buys: the baseline is read out of the same record it protects, so rolling the stored bytes back to an older warden-signed bundle gets no comparison at all. Closing that needs a high-water mark kept outside the record, which is follow-up work; the comment at the call site says so rather than pointing at authenticating deletion, which would not close it.Also in this change
NotYetValid, which is retried, instead of wrapping throughas u64into a value that clears the future bound and trips the age bound, which put a good bundle on the one fault that is never re-read.signed_data, so a mismatch is not forgeable; without the check a warden-signed record of another version would be enforced under these rule semantics instead of faulting.Displaydrops the error's ownmsg, so all three previously printed the same line and a hash mismatch, a forged signature and an untrusted signer were indistinguishable.policy_status()accessor over FFI so a caller can distinguish "no policy" from "policy faulted" and tell the user which it is.load_share_by_key:StorageNotFoundmeans no record exists, and a record that exists but cannot be produced must be a different error. The one real implementation honors it; if that routing changes, a fault silently becomes "not configured" and this inverts.Summary by CodeRabbit