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Review mirror of GeiserX/CashPilot (same commits). Findings are carried to the upstream PR and fixed there.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Held, stopped services now show the reason they are being held. Owners can access logs and redeploy when those actions are available.
    • Deployments can better accommodate slow container starts after an unclear response.
  • Changes

    • UDP port ranges are now limited to 300 ports. Wider ranges must be narrowed before redeployment; already-running services with wider ranges can continue running.
    • Error messages provide guidance on choosing a range and forwarding the same range on the router.

A Mysterium node publishing 1,000 UDP ports takes about 51 s to start. The
socket proxy (sockguard 2.4.6) gives up on a call whose answer has not begun
after 30 s (its default response_header_timeout; our policy only turns off
request_timeout) and answers 502, so the worker treated a slow start as a
refused one and removed the new container while Docker was still bringing it
up. The node went down.

- After a create or start that got no answer (a 502/504 from the proxy, or
  docker-py's own read timeout), the worker now reads the container until it
  runs, Docker reports the start failed, or 120 s from the create have
  passed. Only then is the deploy rolled back. The UI's wait for the
  worker's deploy answer grows by the same 120 s.
- The UDP range cap drops from 1,000 to 300 ports (catalog ceiling and the
  Mysterium entry): 300 start in about 12 s, well inside the proxy's 30 s.
  A node already running a wider range keeps running; a redeploy of it is
  refused before the worker is asked, with the range to use instead.
- The guard's reason for holding a node whose last deploy failed now says
  it also holds one put back or started by hand, and that only a deploy
  from CashPilot lifts it. The worker reports the reason per container, so
  the dashboard shows a "Held stopped" card with a Redeploy button and the
  container-down alert carries it, not only the Fleet page.
…row it, not reserve it

Reserving an oversized range on the host no longer makes the redeploy possible:
the 300-port cap refuses it. The move advice now says to narrow the range first,
and keeps the reservation option for ranges within the cap.
… timed-out start as final

A Stop of a fence-gated node waits on the lock a redeploy holds while it
waits out a slow start, so main now gives that Stop the deploy's own bound
on top of the stop timeout; cut off sooner, the stop went unrecorded and
the container-down alert fired for a node stopped on purpose.

A start still not running at the bound is rolled back before the worker
answers, so it answers 500, not 504: main reads 504 as still deploying and
kept the proxied-copy record of a copy no box runs.
…t the old one

A fence-gated Stop looked its container up before taking the deploy lock.
While a redeploy waits out a slow start, that lookup could return the old
node renamed aside, which the redeploy then removes, and the new node kept
running. The lookup now happens under the lock.
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Walkthrough

The PR limits configured Mysterium UDP ranges to 300 ports and adds bounded polling for ambiguous container-start outcomes. It also extends deploy and stop timeouts, preserves failed-deploy hold reasons in status and alerts, and updates related documentation and tests.

Changes: Deployment handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
UDP range limit and guidance
app/catalog.py, app/drift.py, app/main.py, app/worker_api.py, services/bandwidth/mysterium.yml, docs/isolation.md, tests/test_mysterium_fenced.py, tests/test_slow_start_deploy.py
The configured UDP range limit changes to 300 ports. Validation and move advice use the limit. The documentation, service configuration, and tests describe the new cap and its handling for already-running nodes.
Ambiguous start handling and deploy timeouts
app/constants.py, app/orchestrator.py, app/main.py, tests/test_main_deploy_routes.py, tests/test_slow_start_deploy.py
For selected ambiguous Docker outcomes, the orchestrator polls for a container result until it reaches a terminal condition or the settle deadline. Deploy and gated-stop timeouts include the settle period.
Failed-deploy hold status and alerts
app/lan_fence.py, app/orchestrator.py, app/main.py, app/static/js/app.js, tests/test_slow_start_deploy.py, tests/test_mysterium_fenced.py
Hold reasons flow into container status and application records. The dashboard displays a held-stopped alert and, for eligible owners, Logs and Redeploy actions. The failed-deploy message describes the hold behavior.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to c52a2

The change caps Mysterium UDP ranges, waits out slow Docker starts, and surfaces failed-deploy hold reasons. No merge-blocking risk is evident; the remaining comment is a minor test-robustness suggestion.

Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to c52a2

Startup handling preserves isolation checks, but overlapping deployments can be reported as successful for the wrong configuration and lose their previous rollback fallback. This is a bounded deployment-ownership concern; the review did not establish a new unauthenticated attack path.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: After a non-gated run call fails with an ambiguous outcome before returning a container, the new recovery loop accepts any running container under the requested name. Direct worker deployments are not serialized for these services. A concurrent deployment can therefore be attributed to the wrong request, after which the success path can remove the previous rollback container and the controller can record settings that do not describe the adopted container. At the base revision, this error entered rollback, which recognized another running deployment and retained the previous container. This is an inferred concurrency regression affecting deployment ownership and rollback containment, not an established privilege escalation.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The identified recovery race is scoped to overlapping operations on the same container name on one worker. Controller deployment requires owner access, and direct worker deployment verifies its active bearer key. An independently attacker-controlled replacement would require existing deployment or Docker authority; the inspected path does not establish cross-worker or unauthenticated exploitation.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — An ambiguous non-gated start followed by a concurrent same-name deployment can make name lookup act as deployment identity. Accepting that container can retire the rollback fallback and associate the first request's settings with another request's container. This supports the deployment-ownership concern, but does not verify an authentication bypass or additional privileges.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Worker hold text is diagnostic output, not a new authorization input. The new dashboard branch HTML-escapes the reason and offers redeployment only in its owner-visible action branch. Server-side deployment authorization remains separately enforced.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Fence-gated deployment retains the shared lifecycle lock, and gated stop now resolves the target container inside that lock. Rollback checks known container identity before removal, while the guard refuses failed-deploy leftovers and starts eligible containers only after its fence and shape checks. These are material countercontrols to the non-gated ownership concern.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Serialize same-name deployments through completion and recovery, or attach a deployment-specific correlation identity that must match before adopting a container. Retain the previous fallback until ownership of the successful replacement is established.
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Nitpick comments: 1

tests/test_slow_start_deploy.py: 1

178-178: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value

Test lower bound hardcodes a stop timeout of 30.

_deploy_timeout uses _catalog_stop_timeout(slug). The assertion uses a fixed 30. If the Mysterium catalog gains a larger stop_timeout, the test still passes but no longer checks the real value. Compare against main._deploy_timeout("mysterium") instead.

Proposed fix

-        assert proxy.call_args.kwargs["timeout"] >= 60 + 30 + constants.START_SETTLE_SECONDS
+        assert proxy.call_args.kwargs["timeout"] == main._deploy_timeout("mysterium")
+        assert proxy.call_args.kwargs["timeout"] >= 60 + constants.START_SETTLE_SECONDS
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Review comment at @tests/test_slow_start_deploy.py at line 178:
Update the timeout assertion in the slow-start deployment test to compare the
recorded proxy timeout with main._deploy_timeout("mysterium") instead of using a
fixed stop-timeout value; retain the lower-bound check for the 60-second start
timeout plus START_SETTLE_SECONDS.

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Review comments at @tests/test_slow_start_deploy.py:
- Line 178: Update the timeout assertion in the slow-start deployment test to
compare the recorded proxy timeout with main._deploy_timeout("mysterium")
instead of using a fixed stop-timeout value; retain the lower-bound check for
the 60-second start timeout plus START_SETTLE_SECONDS.

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  • app/catalog.py
  • app/constants.py
  • app/drift.py
  • app/lan_fence.py
  • app/main.py
  • app/orchestrator.py
  • app/static/js/app.js
  • app/worker_api.py
  • docs/isolation.md
  • services/bandwidth/mysterium.yml
  • tests/test_main_deploy_routes.py
  • tests/test_mysterium_fenced.py
  • tests/test_slow_start_deploy.py

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