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Thomas Vincent 9be5f8ad2e fix(results): [develop] normalize output and unify SNMP batch persistence (#641)
Classify numeric, undefined, multipart and Cacti octet results through
one parser, normalize undefined agent values before persistence and
flush every SNMP batch consistently. Validate whole non-negative
uptimes, retain unknown reindex baselines and free script results
through their owning pointer. The mocked poll_host suite checks
session-profile boundaries, spike handling, output_regex input and
completion writes.

Originally step 4/14 of the C17/native-correctness series; its preceding
steps have merged. The current base is develop.

Earlier validation, before this review follow-up, in isolated copied
snapshots on Linux arm64:

- Clean GCC build and make check: 15 passed, 1 existing prerequisite
skips, 0 failures.
- ASan/UBSan: 14 passed, 2 existing privilege/allocator-interposition
prerequisite skips, 0 failures; no sanitizer findings.
- Production source/profile integrity verification against disposable
MariaDB and loopback SNMP fixtures passed.
- Release archive extracted into a separate source tree and built/tested
out of tree; fuzz checks passed.

Earlier local profiles retain source hashes for the copied validation
tree; GitHub checks validate the published commit. No production
database/device, host installation or live privilege change is part of
validation. Existing prerequisite skips were retained; no test or
finding was suppressed to obtain a pass.



Review follow-up (2026-10-09): Restacked on the corrected preceding
branches. The SNMP status fix is introduced in #638, the
reindex/completion fixes in #640, and focused regression coverage in
#650.

Restacked tip validation: isolated Linux arm64 build and make check
passed (18 passed, 1 setuid prerequisite skip, no failures).
GitHub checks validate the updated published commits; earlier
profile/archive/sanitizer evidence above belongs to the previous
revisions.

## Current merge dependencies

Current base: `develop`. Immediate dependency: `develop` (earlier steps
already merged). Next open PR:
[#644](https://github.com/Cacti/spine/pull/644).

Merge order: #641 → #644 → #654 → #646 → #648 → #649 → #650 → #651 →
#655 → #658 → #659.

This repository uses squash-only merges and deletes merged branches.
Record the old parent SHA, squash one PR at a time, then restack and
retarget dependents before merging the next PR. Re-run merge validation
and checks on the resulting heads; an ordinary clean merge does not
replace squash/restack validation.

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Signed-off-by: Thomas Vincent <thomasvincent@gmail.com>
2026-10-12 18:39:39 -04:00
Thomas Vincent 3065c6fc23 refactor(core): add bounded native interfaces and polling contracts (#638)
Introduce bounded native interfaces and grouped runtime state, then link
regression and fault contracts against the real poller implementations.
The contracts capture CLI/configuration input, availability
combinations, SNMP request/response ownership, script framing,
reindexing, output persistence, worker completion and shutdown. This
foundational change is larger because the shared interfaces and their
existing production contracts must move together; later changes have
separate review boundaries.

Step 1/14 of the complete C17/native-correctness series. Base: develop.

Earlier validation, before this review follow-up, in isolated copied
snapshots on Linux arm64:

- Clean GCC build and make check: 13 passed, 0 existing prerequisite
skips, 0 failures.
- ASan/UBSan: 12 passed, 1 existing privilege/allocator-interposition
prerequisite skips, 0 failures; no sanitizer findings.
- Production source/profile integrity verification against disposable
MariaDB and loopback SNMP fixtures passed.
- Release archive extracted into a separate source tree and built/tested
out of tree; fuzz checks passed.

Earlier local profiles retain source hashes for the copied validation
tree; GitHub checks validate the published commit. No production
database/device, host installation or live privilege change is part of
validation. Existing prerequisite skips were retained; no test or
finding was suppressed to obtain a pass.


The worker contracts publish owned heap state and release it only after
joining workers and restoring the runtime table. Coverage counters use
atomic updates; cppcheck receives an explicit model of the fatal exit
contract. Fixture images use public mirrors to avoid shared Docker Hub
pull limits.


Series navigation: review and merge in order. Every PR targets the
preceding branch so its diff contains one step.

1. [refactor(core): add bounded native interfaces and polling
contracts](https://github.com/Cacti/spine/pull/638)
2. [fix(privileges): drop root before input and retain owned ICMP
sockets](https://github.com/Cacti/spine/pull/639)
3. [fix(poller): isolate worker failures and bound database
reconnects](https://github.com/Cacti/spine/pull/640)
4. [fix(results): normalize output and unify SNMP batch
persistence](https://github.com/Cacti/spine/pull/641)
5. [fix(runtime): bound probe retries and validate CLI and
configuration](https://github.com/Cacti/spine/pull/642)
6. [build: select GNU C17 explicitly and probe hardening
support](https://github.com/Cacti/spine/pull/643)
7. [fix(threads): size worker stacks and guard size
arithmetic](https://github.com/Cacti/spine/pull/644)
8. [refactor(c17): simplify ownership guards and share test
support](https://github.com/Cacti/spine/pull/645)
9. [refactor(core): extract configuration polling and runtime
modules](https://github.com/Cacti/spine/pull/646)
10. [fix(boundaries): validate script slots and make cleanup
portable](https://github.com/Cacti/spine/pull/647)
11. [refactor(layout): organize responsibilities and separate main from
runtime](https://github.com/Cacti/spine/pull/648)
12. [docs(license): adopt SPDX notices and retain contributor
credits](https://github.com/Cacti/spine/pull/649)
13. [test(runtime): measure all suites and cover protocol
boundaries](https://github.com/Cacti/spine/pull/650)
14. [build(ci): validate connectors time width and native C17
modules](https://github.com/Cacti/spine/pull/651)

Review follow-up (2026-10-09): Publish the decoded GET/GETNEXT status
back to the host so availability checks observe exception and
missing-response failures, while preserving the legacy transport-success
behavior for agent PDU errors.

Updated step 1 snapshot: isolated Linux arm64 build and make check
passed (13 passed, no skips or failures).
The restacked tip passes all five clang-tidy gate regression tests and
real clang-tidy analysis (26 reviewed baseline findings, no new
findings). Actionlint and matching DCO trailers pass. The setuid test
also passes when run in the separate disposable root container.
GitHub checks validate the updated published commits; earlier
profile/archive/sanitizer evidence above belongs to the previous
revisions.

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Signed-off-by: Thomas Vincent <thomasvincent@gmail.com>
2026-10-10 20:03:21 -04:00
TheWitness ca662c1be7 fix: cap Solaris reap budget, bound EINTR retries, kill before parking on waitpid error (#635)
## What
Follow-up to #633 (already merged), from the code review findings on the
equivalent 1.2.x change (#634):

- **SOLAR_THREAD sleep budget**: `spine_reap_child_bounded()` has no
`usleep()`-paced spin phase on `SOLAR_THREAD` builds - it sleeps a flat
1s per attempt. #633 raised the shared attempt budget
(`NFT_PCLOSE_SPIN_ATTEMPTS`) to 100 for `nft_pclose()`'s brief
allowance, which made it sleep up to **~100 seconds** on that platform
instead of the intended ~20ms, reintroducing the exact poller stall #633
was fixing. `NFT_PCLOSE_SPIN_ATTEMPTS` is now platform-specific (100
elsewhere, 2 under `SOLAR_THREAD`).
- **Unbounded EINTR retries**: bounded the `EINTR` retry loop in
`spine_reap_child_bounded()` and in `nft_sweep_abandoned()` (which runs
with `ListMutex` held), so a stream of caught signals can no longer spin
either indefinitely.
- **Kill before park on waitpid() error**: `nft_pclose()` now SIGKILLs
the child before parking it when `waitpid()` itself errors (previously
only done when the child was confirmed still running), so a
still-running child isn't left outside the abandoned-pid sweep's reach.
Preserves `waitpid()`'s errno across the call.
- **Docs**: `nft_popen.h`'s `nft_pclose()` comment still described the
old blocking-wait behavior and didn't mention `ETIMEDOUT` - #633 updated
`nft_popen.c`'s comment but missed the header. Both now document the
bounded-check/parked-child contract.

## Why
These were flagged by review of #634 (the same fix ported to 1.2.x,
where the affected code showed up as new rather than a diff against
pre-existing lines). Fixing here too since develop has the identical
code.

## What was tested
- `./bootstrap && ./configure --enable-warnings && make` - clean build,
no new warnings.
- `make check` - all 11 suites pass.
- `cppcheck --enable=all --std=c11` on `nft_popen.c` - no new errors.

Closes #632.

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Signed-off-by: TheWitness <thewitness@cacti.net>
2026-09-28 15:21:22 -04:00
TheWitness 08e2ae0b42 fix: reap script/PHP children without blocking the poller, drop USING_TPOPEN (#633)
## What
- `nft_pclose()` (`nft_popen.c`) and `php_terminate_and_reap()`
(`php.c`) no longer escalate through a spin/sleep/SIGTERM/SIGKILL
sequence. Each now does one bounded, non-blocking check (~20ms allowance
for normal fork/exec/exit scheduling latency), kills anything still
running, and hands it to the existing abandoned-pid sweep instead of
waiting on it in the calling (polling) thread.
- Removed the `USING_TPOPEN`/`--enable-popen` native-`popen()` fallback
in `exec_poll()` (`poller.c`, `configure.ac`). It could not track or
kill a timed-out child (no pid available from a real `popen()`), so a
timeout there could only ever abandon the descriptor without terminating
the process.
- Extended `tests/regression/test_child_process_safety.sh` with
structural guards against reintroducing the blocking spin/sleep
escalation in either function.
- Updated `tests/unit/test_linked.c`'s `nft_pclose()` coverage for the
new, faster contract (the old test asserted a graceful-SIGTERM-then-wait
exit code that the new design intentionally no longer provides).

## Why
Investigating a reported poller slowdown surfaced that `nft_pclose()`
(added by #614) could block a poller thread for up to ~5 seconds per
script whose process hadn't exited by the time its pipe was closed, and
`php_terminate_and_reap()` had the same shape (up to ~2s), reachable
mid-poll-cycle via `php_fail_read()`, not just at shutdown. Separately,
the `USING_TPOPEN` fallback's inability to kill a timed-out child was
flagged as out of scope in #574. Tracked in #632; design principles
written up in #630.

## What was tested
- `./bootstrap && ./configure --enable-warnings && make -j` — clean
build, no new warnings.
- `make check` — all 11 suites pass (unit, regression, integration),
including the extended `test_child_process_safety.sh` guard and the
updated `test_linked` case.
- `cppcheck --enable=all --std=c11` on the three changed `.c` files — no
new errors (pre-existing style-only notes unrelated to this change).

Signed-off-by: TheWitness <thewitness@cacti.net>
2026-09-24 09:39:22 -05:00
86a062dd09 ci: enforce cross-platform quality gates and connector coverage (#618)
## Summary

Consolidates the connector/build work from #613 and the broader
test-infrastructure work extracted from #597 into one review:

- discover MariaDB Connector/C first while retaining MySQL and
Percona-compatible support
- test MariaDB and MySQL Connector/C with strict GCC and Clang builds on
Ubuntu 24.04
- add a real macOS 15 build and unit-test lane with portable Autotools
platform detection
- run unit tests under ASan/UBSan and ThreadSanitizer
- enforce the measured 7% global coverage baseline and 70% changed-line
coverage
- add libFuzzer coverage for output parsing alongside the existing
hostname parser
- exercise the SNMPv3 integration suite against MariaDB and MySQL 8.4
- add cppcheck, shellcheck, DCO verification, CODEOWNERS, distcheck, and
Linux-capability checks while retaining the repository-managed default
CodeQL setup
- expose a stable `CI / required` aggregate check for branch protection
- pin runners and third-party actions and keep workflow permissions
read-only by default

## Correctness fixes found by the new gates

- reject truncated capability strings and poller-output SQL tuples
instead of publishing partial data
- make `bootstrap` fail closed and select `libtoolize`/`glibtoolize`
portably
- use Autoconf's canonical host for Darwin detection instead of an empty
native-build alias
- remove stale initialization/name-shadow findings and make read-only
interfaces const-correct
- make the ICMP parser test portable across Linux and BSD header names

## Verification

- strict GCC and Clang builds: 4/4 unit targets passed
- ASan/UBSan: 4/4 passed
- ThreadSanitizer: 4/4 passed
- macOS Clang/Homebrew build: 4/4 passed
- MariaDB integration: passed
- MySQL 8.4 integration: passed
- both libFuzzer targets: passed sustained local runs
- coverage: 7.2% global and 84% on changed lines
- cppcheck, shellcheck, actionlint, DCO verification, and `git diff
--check`: passed locally

## Post-merge repository settings

After these workflows exist on `develop`, an administrator should
require `CI / required`, Fuzz, Integration, Rocky Linux, and the
repository-managed CodeQL/code-scanning result in the active ruleset;
enable code-owner approval; and require the branch to be current (or use
a merge queue). Enabling those settings before this PR merges would
create required checks that the base branch cannot yet emit.

Consolidates and supersedes #613. Closes #612.

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Signed-off-by: Thomas Vincent <thomasvincent@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: TheWitness <thewitness@cacti.net>
Signed-off-by: TheWitness <copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: TheWitness <thewitness@cacti.net>
Co-authored-by: TheWitness <copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-24 05:52:56 -04:00
dbbccc5263 fix: extract core safety fixes from #597 (#621)
Extracted from #597 into a focused core correctness and memory-safety
change.

This checks startup allocations, bounds full log lines and query
construction, frees settings result sets on NULL-row paths, caches the
configured timestamp format, replaces advancing snprintf cursors with a
bounded append contract, fixes remote batch boundary loss, and converts
delimited hexadecimal OctetStrings without overflow. poller_output and
remote status pushes use the cross-vendor VALUES() form until #590
supplies an independently detected main-server capability.

Behavior worth calling out:
- colon/dash-delimited hexadecimal values that were previously stored as
zero now convert correctly
- values wider than 64 bits become U and count as collection errors
instead of producing undefined numeric conversion
- remote batches flush before the boundary-triggering row and refuse
truncated statements

Verification on macOS arm64:
- warning-enabled C99 configure/build
- forced make -B check on the final tree: 6 pass, 1 expected skip
- the skipped allocation-failure integration uses Linux LD_PRELOAD and
runs in Linux CI
- full VPATH make distcheck passed earlier in this branch
- mandatory independent pre-push review: PASS

Closes #564
Closes #565
Closes #566
Closes #567
Closes #588
Refs #590
Refs #597

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Signed-off-by: Thomas Vincent <thomasvincent@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: TheWitness <copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: TheWitness <copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: TheWitness <thewitness@cacti.net>
2026-09-23 10:19:42 -04:00
478d330985 fix(ping): make IPv4 and IPv6 ICMP polling safe (#619)
## Summary

Consolidates the overlapping ICMP work from #555 and #619 into one
review of the complete socket and resolver state machine.

- add ICMPv6 echo polling and dispatch IPv6 devices to it
- prefer unprivileged datagram ICMP sockets when the kernel permits them
- retain bounded raw-socket fallback for IPv4 and IPv6
- give packet and socket resources one cleanup owner
- leave caller-owned resolver state untouched on lookup failure
- keep every retry inside one cached capability and privilege-transition
decision
- prevent LOCK_SETEUID retry deadlocks
- validate raw and datagram reply layouts, source, sequence,
identifiers, and payload
- retain fuzz and unprivileged-socket integration coverage

The consolidation also fixed an integration defect found locally: the
controlled successful-reply test constructed only a raw IPv4 packet even
when the production path selected SOCK_DGRAM. It now models the selected
socket format, and IPv6 raw retries use the same privilege-safety
invariant as IPv4.

## Verification

- warning-enabled local build completed with MariaDB Connector/C,
Net-SNMP, OpenSSL 3, and cmocka
- make check: 5/5 test binaries passed
- focused ping_icmp suite: 9/9 cases passed
- actionlint and git diff --check passed
- all commits are signed
- GitHub CI is authoritative for Linux capability, sanitizer, fuzz, and
unprivileged-network coverage

Closes #127.
Closes #250.
Closes #593.
Closes #611.
Supersedes #555.
Refs #597 and #618.

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Signed-off-by: Thomas Vincent <thomasvincent@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: TheWitness <copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: TheWitness <thewitness@cacti.net>
Co-authored-by: TheWitness <copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-09-23 09:34:15 -04:00
Thomas VincentandTheWitness 90da94b94f fix(process): unify subprocess ownership and child lifecycle safety (#614)
## Summary

- make subprocess-registry detach atomic so exactly one closer owns each
entry
- make cancellation cleanup release only the detached node it owns
- replace `vfork`/`execve` child setup with `posix_spawn` and explicit
file actions
- mark every pipe and stdio-collision duplicate close-on-exec
- restore the child's default SIGPIPE disposition while preserving the
parent's handling
- bound TERM/KILL reaping and park unreaped children in a fixed-capacity
sweep list
- harden PHP script-server slot ownership, startup, restart, signal,
descriptor, and cleanup paths
- retire and restart failed or oversized reads so stale response tails
cannot poison later data sources
- revalidate every command retry and cap recovery handshakes at two
seconds

This folds the child-process lifecycle portion of #597 into the narrower
ownership PR. It does not absorb unrelated poll-host, SQL, SNMP, ICMP,
or build-infrastructure work.

## Review-driven corrections

- close-on-exec is explicitly restored after `dup()` in both read and
write stdio-collision branches
- the source invariant check now uses portable POSIX character classes
- direct tests cover duplicate flags, both collision branches, failure
after pipe creation, abandoned-child sweeping, and capacity overflow
- collision cleanup preserves current-child redirects even when an older
registry entry occupies fd 0 or 1
- script children receive SIGTERM before SIGKILL and unreaped PHP
children transfer to the bounded sweep registry
- the Docker integration suite now starts a real PHP script server,
verifies its startup protocol and database result, and checks that
shutdown leaves no zombie PHP process

## Validation

- Ubuntu 24.04 container with GCC and GNU ld: `make check`, 6/6 targets
passed with no skips, including `test_php_runtime`
- real PHP script-server Docker integration: 6/6 checks passed; exact
value `42` reached `poller_output` and no zombie remained
- macOS Homebrew dependency build passed
- macOS `make check`: 5/5 available binaries passed; GNU `--wrap`
runtime suite is Linux-only
- PHP fixture syntax checked through mise PHP 8.3
- actionlint, shellcheck, and `git diff --check` passed

Closes #610.

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Signed-off-by: Thomas Vincent <thomasvincent@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: TheWitness <thewitness@cacti.net>
2026-09-22 17:24:04 -04:00
Thomas Vincent 8208fcb593 test: link the shipped objects instead of copies of the logic (#577)
The three unit binaries in `tests/unit/` do not test the code that
ships. `test_safety_fixes.c` says so in its own header:

> the functions under test are inlined (or their exact predicate
replicated) so this translation unit compiles standalone without linking
util.o/ping.o/php.o and dragging in MySQL/SNMP

That keeps them cheap, but a fix can land in `util.c` while the test
carries on passing against its private copy. The 39 assertions currently
guarantee less than they appear to.

This adds a fourth binary that links the real translation units.
`tests/fuzz/stubs.c` already solves the hard part for the fuzz targets
by supplying the globals `spine.c` would define, so the same file is
reused here. Everything except `spine.c` is linked as built.

**Demonstration.** Reverting `strncopy()` to the issue#447 off-by-one
and running the suite:

```
PASS: tests/unit/test_util_strings
PASS: tests/unit/test_build_fixes
PASS: tests/unit/test_safety_fixes
FAIL: tests/unit/test_linked
# TOTAL: 4   # PASS: 3   # FAIL: 1
```

The three existing suites do not notice. Only the linked one does.

Seven cases to start, covering `strncopy()` bounds and termination and
`regex_replace()` match/no-match/bad-pattern. The point of the PR is the
harness rather than the case count: with this in place, future tests can
assert against real behaviour, and the existing binaries can migrate
over one at a time.

Verified in a clean `ubuntu:24.04` container: builds at 4 warnings
matching develop, `make check` passes 4/4, `make distcheck` passes.

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Signed-off-by: Thomas Vincent <thomasvincent@gmail.com>
2026-08-31 17:50:51 -07:00