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Dario Gabriel LipicarandClaude Opus 5 42460e5b2a fix(tokens): separate INBOUND from OUTBOUND, without moving a single byte
A grant one way was a grant both ways. TokenManager was ONE flat map with no
direction tag, written from both sides of every relationship: LogosAPIClient
stored the token it will PRESENT to a callee under the CALLEE's name, and a
token RECEIVED from a caller was stored under the CALLER's name. Same key
namespace, last write wins.

Measured on the shipped fleet with two ordinary modules doing nothing unusual:
one grant A -> B leaves the SAME token value under both opposite-meaning keys,
and the never-granted B -> A call then succeeds. Silently.

  A.callOther(B, ping)   CALL_OK
  T1 A holds token for B?   val=7685c776-...
  T1 B holds token for A?   val=7685c776-...      <-- one value, two meanings
  B.callOther(A, ping)   CALL_OK                  <-- never granted

WHY THE LAYOUT COULD NOT CHANGE. TokenManager's layout is a cross-package ABI:
the host ALLOCATES the object and module/UI-plugin images MUTATE it through
their own statically-linked accessors — and host and modules ship as separate
.lgx that mix versions at runtime by design. The header's ABI-safety note is
about ALLOCATION ("no consumer allocates one, none needs sizeof"); the hazard
is MUTATION.

Splitting into three members took sizeof 32 -> 64 and moved m_mutex 24 -> 56.
QMutex::fastTryLock() compare-exchanges at this+24, which in that layout is
m_inbound's QHash d-pointer. Empty, the old code silently borrows the hash's
pointer slot as a mutex and puts it back, so it LOOKS fine; non-empty, the
exchange fails and lockInternal() interprets the QHash Data* as a
QMutexPrivate* and futex-waits on it — hung forever, inside a token-store
write, on the module host's Qt main thread. No crash, no log line, no timeout
that recovers. Reproduced by calling the shipped 0.6 plugin's own saveToken on
a 0.7 object: exit=124.

So direction lives in the KEY NAMESPACE instead. Outbound is the bare peer name
(byte-identical to master); inbound is "\x01in\x01" + caller. m_tokens@16,
m_mutex@24, sizeof 32 — measured identical to master in every shipped image,
pinned by a static_assert against a reference struct that fires if a member is
added.

Two things a key namespace forces that separate members did not: every door
REFUSES a key carrying the namespace character, or a wire-supplied caller name
could forge across the direction boundary; and credential() is DERIVED from
bootstrapKeys() rather than cached, because a cached field reads empty on a
store another image wrote and then refuses every push.

AN ANCHOR KEY IS NO LONGER SPELLED AS A MODULE NAME. scanIssuedTokens' m_tokens
loop offered every matched key unconditionally while the m_store loop
deliberately never offers, so "an anchor must never name a caller" was enforced
on one side only. A module announcing itself as "core" — which logos-rust-sdk
did unprompted — therefore authorized as kind:module name:core. The rule
generalises: a store may only name a caller with a key it alone can write.
Implemented as a masked operand, so the comparison count is unchanged;
RefusingToNameAnAnchorKeyCostsNoComparison pins that via
logos::tokenComparisonCount().

lp_token_save / lp_token_save_for now return LP_ERR_INVALID_ARG on a reserved
key instead of LP_OK. Only the return code was wrong; saveToken already refused.

PROTOCOL 0.8: logos_module_accept_inbound_token joins the module-impl C ABI
(12 exports). onInit keeps logos_module_accept_token for the module's own
anchor — that one IS outbound, and merging the two paths is what reintroduces
the bug.

Supersedes the field-split approach; the semantics are unchanged from it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-24 11:16:33 -03:00
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