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Finishes the upstream-workarounds quest: a new root UPSTREAM.md lists the 27 places rind works around a bug or gap in a tool or dependency it doesn't own. Each entry gives what breaks, a reproducer where one is cheap, the workaround and its files, whether it is reported (linked where it is), and what lets it go. Nothing is posted upstream; the reporting quest does that, and it is now unblocked.

Changes

• UPSTREAM.md: entries grouped by compilers and linkers, constant-time analysis (valgrind, BINSEC, gdb), proofs (Aeneas), mutation testing (cargo-mutants), emulators, dependencies (libcrux, aws-lc, aws-lc-sys, nixpkgs), and CI runner images.
• CONTRIBUTING.md (Upstream section): links it and says a PR that adds a workaround adds its entry and names it in the workaround's comment; one that drops a workaround deletes its entry.
• Each workaround's comment now ends See UPSTREAM.md, "<heading>". (19 files, comments only).
• Deletes the quest and its link from quest/m2/upstream-reports.md's Required.

Landed PRs this inventory covers

• moq-dev/rind#607 (landed): "Valgrind on ARM does not fault guard pages" describes its __ctgrind exclusion, and its low::guard_pages comment carries the See UPSTREAM.md line. Its armv7 Value4 PEM suppressions are rind's own secret-indexed PEM decoding, not an upstream defect, so they stay out.
• moq-dev/rind#604 (landed): "BINSEC cannot decode glibc's string functions" describes its byte-loop LIBC replacements, needed for xtest in glibc's TSX _rtm variants and aarch64's SVE memcpy; the reference moved to its LIBC comment and the GLIBC_TUNABLES text is gone.
• moq-dev/rind#600: left out, see below.

Choices made without asking

• Left out as not someone else's defect (the quest excludes deliberate choices and pins): fix: the build nightly passes on main #600's qemu-user-static to qemu-user-binfmt (Ubuntu dropped a package, nothing is broken) and its black_box (dropping an unused allocation is a legal optimization); fix(ctgrind): pass the nightly on main #607's armv7 Value4 suppressions (public branches, as their Value8 twins); rind-rcgen's base64ct suppressions; Ubuntu's armhf valgrind in place of nixpkgs' (an uncached build, not a defect); nixpkgs' python-ecdsa insecure override and the tlslite-ng beta (policy and a pin); AWS_LC_SYS_NO_ASM's opt-level limit (deliberate in aws-lc-sys); rustc refusing rbx/x19 as asm operands (LLVM's reserved registers, by design); -Zexternal-clangrt (standard ASan setup); admin/parse-asm's numeric-label rule (GNU as syntax).
• Checked and dropped: rind/src/high/curve.rs:61's #[allow(dead_code)] // ??? false positive is not a false positive: public_key_encode_uncompressed is called only from tests, so rustc rightly warns without it. That is rind's own, so it is not listed.
• "Reported: no" means no issue is linked yet, not that none exists upstream; the reporting quest already says to search before drafting. Only ADX (KDE bug 494162) and libcrux-platform (celabshq/libcrux#1646) have links today.
• Entries reference each other by heading text rather than anchors, so a comment reads without opening the file and survives heading-slug rules.
• The Aeneas entry points at its quest, which already lists each limitation with its issue, instead of copying the list.

Merge with main

• Main removed libcrux-aes and its libcrux-aes-gcm-decrypt-outcome suppression, so "libcrux branches on an undeclassified tag check" is gone.
• "cargo-mutants cannot see into cfg_if!" now notes it also ignores path inside cfg_attr, as main's mid/mod.rs rewrite found.
• New entries from main: "Lean cannot compile P-384's comb as one literal" (admin/p384-precomp) and "s2n-bignum's x86_64 model lacks instructions aws-lc's routines use" (proofs/hol-light/s2n-bignum/x86.patch).
• Left out: main's rustls-pki-types PEM suppressions, as with rind-rcgen's base64ct ones.
• CodeRabbit: four findings fixed, the relative-link one declined.

Public API and wire impact

None: docs and comments only.

Checks

• nix develop --command just check passed on the committed head.
• quest check: 133 documents ok.

Follow-ups

None.

Models

Size: M
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, medium effort
Implementer: Claude Code, claude-opus-5-5, low effort (iterate, S)

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Review

Rewritten by quest review after each round.

• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort
• Session: 01a1ce11-34aa-7e01-a9e2-4acde5e1b94a, round 1
• Head: 7b4a16e
• Base: origin/main at d6a9c71
• Score: 10/10, The documentation-only change introduces no apparent blocking issues or actionable regressions by code inspection; builds and tests were not run as instructed.
• Findings: none

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Walkthrough

The PR adds UPSTREAM.md to catalogue workarounds for external tools and dependencies, including their removal conditions. It adds references to the catalogue in existing comments and updates contributor guidance for adding or removing workaround entries. It also removes the related planning documents. The supplied summaries report no executable behavior changes.

Merge Risk: Low · up to 956ca

This is a docs-only change. A few catalogue statements are slightly inaccurate or incomplete and are worth tightening, but they pose no production risk and do not block merging.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the main change: documenting upstream workarounds in UPSTREAM.md.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description check		The description matches the changeset. It explains the new root UPSTREAM.md catalogue of 27 tool and dependency workarounds, the CONTRIBUTING.md update, the See UPSTREAM.md comment references across 1…

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Explanation

The description matches the changeset. It explains the new root UPSTREAM.md catalogue of 27 tool and dependency workarounds, the CONTRIBUTING.md update, the See UPSTREAM.md comment references across 19 files, and the removal of the upstream-workarounds quest and its link. It also lists the excluded items and the checks that were run. The description is specific and on topic.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @CONTRIBUTING.md:
- Line 149: Update the CONTRIBUTING.md guidance for the “cargo-mutants cannot
see into cfg_if!” entry to account for entries documenting multiple workarounds:
contributors should keep and update the shared entry while any listed workaround
remains, and delete it only after the last one is removed.

Review comments at @UPSTREAM.md:
- Line 58: Update the removal criterion in UPSTREAM.md: do not treat Valgrind
decoding as sufficient to remove SDE checks. Require confirmed feature exposure
by Valgrind, feature availability on the test host, and verified ctgrind
coverage of the affected paths before removing those checks.
- Line 124: Update the UPSTREAM.md workaround sentence to say that the quest
lists Aeneas issues where available, rather than implying every model has a
corresponding issue. Keep the existing links and other claims unchanged.
- Line 56: Update the Workaround description to state that Intel SDE does not
check the AVX-512 ML-KEM path because it samples only the public matrix.
Preserve the existing description of SDE trace comparisons and its address-only
limitation, while avoiding a claim that SDE covers every affected path.
- Line 93: Remove the leading slash from the BINSEC quest link in the workaround
paragraph and from the quest links on Lines 124 and 175, using relative paths so
they resolve in local Markdown viewers and on GitHub.

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Files selected for processing: 23

• .cargo/mutants.toml
• .github/workflows/bench.yml
• .github/workflows/build.yml
• .github/workflows/coverage.yml
• .github/workflows/fuzz.yml
• .github/workflows/mutants.yml
• .github/workflows/x86-cpu.yml
• CONTRIBUTING.md
• Cross.toml
• UPSTREAM.md
• admin/ct-binsec
• admin/ctgrind
• admin/ctgrind.supp
• admin/prove
• flake.nix
• quest/m2/upstream-reports.md
• quest/m2/upstream-workarounds.md
• rind-dart/integration/android-arm.sh
• rind/build.rs
• rind/src/low/mod.rs
• rind/src/low/x86_64/cpu.rs
• rind/src/mid/mod.rs
• rind/src/test/binsec.rs

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• quest/m2/upstream-reports.md

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