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Prevent atom exhaustion from untrusted names and simplify runtime code - #108
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe changes add bounded HTTP node-name admission and prevent multiple request, message, and filter paths from creating atoms for unknown names. They also centralize Docker container listing, update backend configuration serialization, and revise CLI and skills behavior. ChangesNode-name Admission and Safe Name Handling
Docker Swarm Container Listing
Backend Configuration and Source Serialization
CLI and Skills Behavior Updates
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SwarmController
participant Loader
participant SwarmConfig
participant RequestNames
SwarmController->>Loader: load_map with request options
Loader->>SwarmConfig: parse_request
SwarmConfig->>RequestNames: admit declared names
RequestNames-->>SwarmConfig: admitted names or policy error
SwarmConfig-->>SwarmController: parsed config or error
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The name-admission changes are ready to merge. One small Docker listing gap remains: pausing a swarm that already has paused containers may try to pause them again and report errors or an inaccurate count. This is a minor follow-up and does not block the merge. Pre-merge checks |
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- Around line 69-71: Update the Docker argument construction in
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| if(state == :all, do: ["-a"], else: []) ++ | ||
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| if(state == :paused, do: ["--filter", "status=paused"], else: []) ++ |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Filter :running by Docker status.
When a swarm contains a paused container, unfiltered docker ps still lists it. swarm_containers/2 then returns that container for :running, so pause callers attempt to pause it again and can report an inaccurate count. Add --filter status=running for this state. (docs.docker.com)
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Update the Docker argument construction in swarm_containers/2 to add a
`status=running` filter when state is `:running`, alongside the existing
paused-status filter. Preserve the current filters for other states.
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Agent output and HTTP requests could convert arbitrary names into permanent VM atoms, eventually exhausting the atom table and crashing Genswarms. This PR keeps messages, lookups and filters from creating atoms, while preserving dynamic HTTP node creation through bounded name admission.
Node-name policy
GENSWARMS_MAX_DYNAMIC_NAMESto configure it.GENSWARMS_RESTRICTED_NAMES=truerequires names already present as atoms in the API server VM, including derived replica names. Creating names in a separate CLI VM does not register them in the API server.target_not_foundpromptly.400 dynamic_name_limit_reachedbefore changing the group. Names are at most 255 ASCII bytes and use the existing identifier syntax.Other changes
Validation
1d54446: 854 tests, 0 failures, 12 skipped.mix formaton changed Elixir files, formatting verification,git diff --checkandmix escript.buildpass.Remaining trust boundaries
Local/programmatic definitions, operator-controlled config files and their symlink targets, trusted scaling, host kernel field names, persisted host-generated enums/typed Elixir terms and operator CLI arguments may still create atoms. HTTP name admission bounds HTTP-created names; it does not sandbox trusted local Elixir code. Unknown nested request config keys remain strings.
Consumer dependency updates follow after this PR merges.
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