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fix(golang): wipe guest buffers on failed placement and close stashgen's engine - #1550
Fixes CIP-5160 (G1, G2). A failed hand-off to the guest no longer leaves a token or ZeroKMS response in guest memory, and stashgen releases its engine.
Changes
place (encrypt) and placeAuth (auth) were duplicates. They are replaced by one guest.Place in internal/guest.
On any failure after se_alloc, Place zeroes the bytes it wrote and clears the pointer slot, so a half-written out-slot pair cannot leave a dangling pointer.
It does not call se_dealloc. The guest ABI docs allow a host import to re-enter only through se_alloc, so the issue's suggested fix would violate them. The zeroed buffer is freed by the guest registry at shutdown.
stashgen's run now closes the engine it was given when it implements io.Closer, on every return path.
Verification
go build, go vet and go test pass for internal/guest, auth, encrypt, cmd/stashgen, and stashgen.
New tests fail without the fix and pass with it: buffer wiped and pointer slot cleared when either out-slot write fails, empty value placed, engine closed on success and on refusal.
Related
Linear CIP-5160.
No changeset: the Go module is released by hand, not through Changesets. No skill is affected.
Review notes
/code-review medium raised the se_dealloc re-entry, a stale pointer slot, and wrapper/test placement. These were fixed. It also suggested the caller should own the engine's lifetime; I kept run closing it and documented that on run.
…n's engine
place and placeAuth left the data in a registered guest buffer when an
out-slot write failed after se_alloc. They now share guest.Place, which
zeroes the bytes and clears the pointer slot on any failure. stashgen's run
now closes the engine it was given.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012Jmn7qSiWtt22aUYDwvgVL
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Walkthrough
The change adds shared guest-memory placement for auth and encrypt transports. It also makes stashgen.run close engines that implement io.Closer, with tests for the cleanup paths.
Changes: Guest-memory placement
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Add and test guest placement languages/golang/internal/guest/call.go, languages/golang/internal/guest/place_test.go
alloc centralizes allocation checks, and guest.Place writes data and output slots. Tests cover successful placement, invalid output slots, and empty input.
Use guest placement in transports languages/golang/auth/transport.go, languages/golang/encrypt/transport.go
Auth and encrypt transports use guest.Place for response data and tokens. Their existing failure results remain unchanged.
Stashgen engine cleanup
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Close the engine on return languages/golang/cmd/stashgen/main.go, languages/golang/cmd/stashgen/main_test.go
run defers Close when the engine implements io.Closer and ignores close errors. Tests check closure after successful generation, a missing type, and declaration refusal.
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The title clearly identifies both main changes: clearing guest buffers after failed placement and closing the stashgen engine.
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Reviewed c832493 · posted from Claude Code · claude-opus-5-5 · effort medium
Sources: code-review · claude-opus-5-5
Skills: code-review, review-cross-check, review-post
Findings (3): 3 minor — 3 inline, 0 below.
Eight findings were raised and each was checked at c832493; five were refuted (unreachable from any in-repo guest, or not failing as claimed) and are not posted.
Place and AllocWrite now build on one alloc helper, so Place's len(res)
guard also covers AllocWrite. The stashgen close test asserts exit codes and
covers an engine refusal; a test comment no longer claims Place releases the
buffer.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012Jmn7qSiWtt22aUYDwvgVL
Addressed all three minor review comments in b17e03f:
call.go: Place and AllocWrite now share one alloc helper, so the len(res) guard covers both.
main_test.go: the close test now has success, missing and refused cases (the last via an engine that refuses the declaration) and asserts each exit code (0, 1, 1) beside the close count.
place_test.go: the comment now says the buffer is zeroed in place and the pointer slot cleared.
Go tests pass for internal/guest, auth, encrypt and cmd/stashgen.
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Additional comments: 1
languages/golang/internal/guest/place_test.go: 1
49-64: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
Unverified finding
Verification ran but could not confirm this finding. It is shown for review, not as a verified issue.
Close the runtime with defer so a t.Fatal does not leak it.
The loop calls rt.Close at the end of each iteration. If InstantiateWithConfig fails at Line 52, t.Fatal exits and skips the close. Run each case in t.Run and defer the close, as the other two tests do.
♻️ Proposed refactor
- for name, slots := range map[string][2]uint32{- "ptr slot": {outOfRange, 68},- "len slot": {64, outOfRange},- } {- rt := wazero.NewRuntime(ctx)- m, err := rt.InstantiateWithConfig(ctx, stubGuest(0, nil, withLastError), wazero.NewModuleConfig())- if err != nil {- t.Fatal(err)- }- ...- _ = rt.Close(ctx)- }+ for name, slots := range map[string][2]uint32{+ "ptr slot": {outOfRange, 68},+ "len slot": {64, outOfRange},+ } {+ t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {+ rt := wazero.NewRuntime(ctx)+ defer func() { _ = rt.Close(ctx) }()+ m, err := rt.InstantiateWithConfig(ctx, stubGuest(0, nil, withLastError), wazero.NewModuleConfig())+ if err != nil {+ t.Fatal(err)+ }+ // ... same assertions, using t.Errorf without the name prefix+ })+ }
Based on learnings: in Go, prefer defer for cleanup so it runs even if the function exits early via t.Fatal.
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Go lint failed on b17e03f with two gosec G115 int-to-uint64 conversions in the new alloc helper, which my refactor introduced. The helper now takes the size as uint64, converted from len(...) at the call sites, as the original code did. Fixed in 7abbd4d. I could not run golangci-lint locally, because the installed build is older than the module's Go version, so I'm watching the re-run.
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Nitpick comments: 2
languages/golang/encrypt/transport.go: 1
94-96: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
Correct the comment about unplaced slots.
The comment says the guest refuses an unplaced slot as an unregistered buffer. buffers::take returns Some(empty) for a null pointer with zero length. A slot that Place failed to fill reads as (0, 0), so the guest accepts it as empty. The host returns transportFailed, so the status carries the failure. The comment does not match the guest code.
- // The guest reclaims whatever was placed and refuses an unplaced- // slot as an unregistered buffer; nothing more this side can do.+ // The guest reclaims whatever was placed. An unplaced slot reads+ // as (null, 0), an empty buffer, so the status carries the+ // failure; nothing more this side can do.
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Review comment at @languages/golang/encrypt/transport.go around lines 94 - 96:
Update the comment near the `transportFailed` return to describe the guest accepting an unplaced slot as an empty buffer when it reads `(null, 0)`. Clarify that the returned status carries the failure; do not change the transport behavior.
languages/golang/internal/guest/call.go: 1
123-125: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
Wipe the buffer when the data write fails part way.
If mem.Write(ptr, data) returns false, Place returns without cleanup. The write is all-or-nothing in wazero, so no bytes land when it fails and no secret is exposed. The doc comment says a failed placement wipes the bytes it wrote. The data-write failure path is the one case it does not describe, so the contract is slightly unclear.
State this in the comment so the invariant is explicit.
if len(data) > 0 && !mem.Write(ptr, data) {
+ // Write is all-or-nothing: nothing landed, so nothing to wipe.
return false
}
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Review comment at @languages/golang/internal/guest/call.go around lines 123 - 125:
Update the data-write failure path in Place to document that mem.Write is all-or-nothing, so a failed write leaves no bytes to wipe; keep the existing return behavior unchanged.
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Review comments at @languages/golang/encrypt/transport.go:
- Around line 94-96: Update the comment near the `transportFailed` return to
describe the guest accepting an unplaced slot as an empty buffer when it reads
`(null, 0)`. Clarify that the returned status carries the failure; do not change
the transport behavior.
Review comments at @languages/golang/internal/guest/call.go:
- Around line 123-125: Update the data-write failure path in Place to document
that mem.Write is all-or-nothing, so a failed write leaves no bytes to wipe;
keep the existing return behavior unchanged.
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An out-of-range slot used to be found after se_alloc, leaving a guest
buffer the guest could not learn of and costing a second allocation to
wipe it. Both slots are now checked against guest memory first, so a refused
placement allocates nothing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012Jmn7qSiWtt22aUYDwvgVL
…oc calls in the test
Memory.Size reports zero for a full 4 GiB memory, which would have refused
every placement; each slot is now probed with ReadUint32Le instead. The
out-of-range test counts se_alloc calls on the host side and requires zero,
so a refusal that allocated first no longer passes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012Jmn7qSiWtt22aUYDwvgVL
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Summary
Fixes CIP-5160 (G1, G2). A failed hand-off to the guest no longer leaves a token or ZeroKMS response in guest memory, and
stashgenreleases its engine.Changes
place(encrypt) andplaceAuth(auth) were duplicates. They are replaced by oneguest.Placeininternal/guest.se_alloc,Placezeroes the bytes it wrote and clears the pointer slot, so a half-written out-slot pair cannot leave a dangling pointer.se_dealloc. The guest ABI docs allow a host import to re-enter only throughse_alloc, so the issue's suggested fix would violate them. The zeroed buffer is freed by the guest registry at shutdown.stashgen'srunnow closes the engine it was given when it implementsio.Closer, on every return path.Verification
go build,go vetandgo testpass forinternal/guest,auth,encrypt,cmd/stashgen, andstashgen.Related
Review notes
/code-review mediumraised these_deallocre-entry, a stale pointer slot, and wrapper/test placement. These were fixed. It also suggested the caller should own the engine's lifetime; I keptrunclosing it and documented that onrun.Generated by Claude Code
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