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Closes #361.

CadesInspector held the trusted lists it was handed at boot and had no way to be given a newer set. The refresh task (#353) writes only to the database, so a completed pass reached a running node's verdicts not at all — only the next restart, for whatever unrelated reason it happened.

#356's CHANGELOG states that limit honestly. What neither PR reckoned with is that it is not an edge case: #353's first pass runs 60 seconds after boot, so on a fresh deployment the set read at startup is always the empty one. Turn TRUSTED_LIST_REFRESH=on, wait a day, and every seal still answers consulted: 0 — with the lists sitting in Postgres the whole time. Somebody switching this on is specifically trying to get a qualification verdict, and would have concluded the feature was broken.

What changed

The held set is swappable, and a Clone shares it. main keeps one handle for the read path and gives another to the refresh task, which publishes into it after each completed pass.

Three choices worth arguing with:

std::sync::RwLock, not arc-swap. No new dependency, so nothing to weigh against the untrusted-input question. The read path clones the inner Arc and drops the guard before the ASN.1 and signature work — so no lock is held across a verdict, and a publish landing mid-verdict cannot change the set underneath one. Arc<RwLock<Arc<..>>>: the inner Arc is the snapshot, the outer one is what makes a clone see the publish.

Both halves in one struct. lists and unchecked are now fields of TrustedListSet and can only be replaced together. That invariant was previously prose repeated in three doc comments — a node holding 26 of 27 lists that reported only the 26 would answer "this issuer is on no list" for a perfectly qualified provider in the twenty-seventh. It is now the type.

Published only after a pass that completed, and re-read from the cache. refresh_once returns None when it abandoned a pass, so a set that cannot describe its own width never reaches a verdict — the same rule 0038 took for the seal audit, which publishes a report only on reaching the end of the estate. And the task re-reads the cache rather than assembling a set from stats, so what lands in the inspector is exactly what a restart would have loaded. If that read-back fails, the previous set stays: stale and wide beats fresh and vacuous.

A poisoned lock recovers via PoisonError::into_inner rather than panicking. The only writer is publish and the only reader clones and leaves, so no half-written set is observable — and a panic in an unrelated task should not silently freeze every seal verdict on the node.

The test

a_published_set_reaches_a_verdict_through_a_clone_of_the_inspector builds a real local CMS seal, takes a verdict through one handle, publishes through a clone, and takes another. No network, no fixtures assembled here.

It observes the swap through unchecked rather than consulted, and that is not arbitrary: the local backend is self-signed, so standing returns SelfIssued and never consults a list — while qualify copies the unchecked territories onto every verdict whatever the standing. That is the one channel through which a real seal shows the set changing.

Confirmed to bite. Making publish a no-op fails it; restoring it passes. Both directions run.

Not in this branch

#362 — a failed cache write is still counted as a refresh, and still leaves the stale Verified row the fail-closed rule exists to drop. Separate defect, separate change; this one is about the set reaching the reader at all.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Trusted-list updates are now applied to the running inspection service without requiring a restart.
    • The service starts with cached trusted-list data and automatically uses refreshed verified and unchecked lists.
  • Bug Fixes

    • In-progress inspections continue using a consistent snapshot while trusted lists are refreshed.
    • If refreshed data cannot be loaded, the currently active trusted lists remain available.
    • Incomplete refreshes are not published.

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Worth a real read on two things in particular:

  1. The concurrency. CadesInspector now holds Arc<RwLock<Arc<TrustedListSet>>>. The read path clones the inner Arc and drops the guard before any ASN.1 or signature work, so no lock is held across a verdict — but SealInspector is called from async read handlers, and I would like that argument checked rather than taken on trust.
  2. The publish point. The refresh task publishes only when refresh_once returned Some (a completed pass), and re-reads the cache rather than assembling a set from stats. If the read-back fails the previous set stays rather than being replaced by an empty one.

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The node now shares a CadesInspector with the trusted-list refresh task. Completed refreshes reload cached lists and publish them atomically. Qualification reads a stable snapshot, and reload failures preserve the previous inspector state.

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Trusted-list propagation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Inspector snapshot and publication
crates/dpp-seal/src/inspect.rs
CadesInspector now stores trusted lists and unchecked territories in one replaceable snapshot. publish updates both components, and qualification captures a snapshot before processing.
Shared inspector wiring
crates/dpp-node/src/main.rs
The node retains a shared inspector initialized from cached lists and passes it to the refresh task.
Completed refresh publication
crates/dpp-node/src/boot/tasks.rs
After a completed refresh, the task reloads the cache and publishes the lists. A reload failure keeps the existing state and logs a warning. The integration test verifies updates through a cloned inspector.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant TrustedListRefreshTask
  participant TrustedListStore
  participant CadesInspector
  participant SealQualification
  TrustedListRefreshTask->>TrustedListStore: Complete trusted-list refresh
  TrustedListRefreshTask->>TrustedListStore: Reload cached lists
  TrustedListRefreshTask->>CadesInspector: Publish verified lists and unchecked territories
  SealQualification->>CadesInspector: Capture trusted-list snapshot
  CadesInspector-->>SealQualification: Return stable snapshot
  SealQualification-->>SealQualification: Process qualification using snapshot
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to daa86

Cache-read failures can leave operational gauges inconsistent with the trusted-list snapshot actually used for verdicts, and verified-list propagation lacks regression coverage. These are bounded risks but should be addressed promptly.

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In `@crates/dpp-node/src/boot/tasks.rs`:
- Around line 1051-1055: Update the trusted-list refresh metrics flow around
RefreshStats, inspector.publish(...), and the store.load() error path so
active-snapshot gauges are changed only after inspector.publish(...) succeeds;
retain the previous gauge values when read-back fails, and use separate
refresh-result metrics if pass counts must still be exposed.

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- Line 105: Remove the private rule identifier “0038” from the comments at
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resulting CMS verdict to publish a non-empty verified-list fixture alongside the
unchecked territory, then assert that qualification or standing consults and
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Comment on lines +1051 to +1055
Err(e) => tracing::warn!(
error = %e,
"a trusted-list pass completed and the cache could not be read back; \
seal verdicts keep the set they had"
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Do not update active-snapshot gauges after read-back failure.

RefreshStats counts territories processed during the refresh pass. When store.load() fails, inspector.publish(...) is skipped, so the inspector keeps its previous snapshot. The code still publishes those pass counts to gauges whose comments define them as the current cache and verdict state.

Update these gauges only after inspector.publish(...) succeeds. Use separate refresh-result metrics if both states must remain observable.

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trusted-list refresh metrics flow around RefreshStats, inspector.publish(...),
and the store.load() error path so active-snapshot gauges are changed only after
inspector.publish(...) succeeds; retain the previous gauge values when read-back
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/// Takes `&self` so the background refresh can call it through the same
/// handle the read path holds. Publish only what a **completed** pass
/// produced: a set from half the Union reads exactly like a set from all of
/// it, which is the rule `0038` already took for the seal audit.

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Reachability: External
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CWE: CWE-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Remove the private record identifier from public comments.

Both comments expose rule 0038. State the completeness requirement without the internal pointer.

  • crates/dpp-seal/src/inspect.rs#L105-L105: Remove 0038 and retain the technical explanation.
  • crates/dpp-node/src/boot/tasks.rs#L1028-L1028: Remove 0038 and retain the complete-pass requirement.

As per path instructions: “write the substance, drop the pointer.”

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refresher.publish(
Vec::new(),
vec![dpp_types::qualification::UncheckedTerritory {
territory: "DE".to_owned(),
reason: "over the parser ceiling".to_owned(),
}],
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Test verified-list propagation through qualification.

This test publishes an empty lists vector and uses a self-issued CMS seal. standing returns SelfIssued before it examines lists, while qualify copies unchecked directly. Therefore, the test still passes if publish drops the verified lists or qualification does not receive held.lists.

Publish a verified-list fixture through the refresher and assert that the resulting CMS verdict matches or consults that list. This test must cover both halves of the published snapshot.

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@LKSNDRTMLKV I completed the focused review.

The concurrency design is correct for the inspected request path. SealInspector is synchronous and has Send + Sync bounds. The async seal handler completes its awaited database operations before it calls the inspector. CadesInspector::snapshot clones the inner Arc, so the RwLockReadGuard is dropped before ASN.1 parsing and signature verification begin.

I found one issue in the publish condition:

  • refresh_once returns Some(stats) after it has attempted each territory, even when TrustedListStore::put fails.
  • A failed initial claim and a failed subsequent record write can leave a named territory absent from the cache.
  • from_cache cannot detect absent named territories. The refresh task can then publish that incomplete cache with neither a verified list nor an unchecked entry for the missing territory.
  • A fresh node with persistent cache-write failures can therefore publish consulted: 0, unchecked: 0 after a nominally completed pass.

The task should publish only if the cache read-back represents every territory from the verified LOTL. Otherwise, it must retain the previous inspector snapshot. The refresh result can carry a completion or persistence-failure status, or the task can validate cache coverage before inspector.publish.

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Two of three taken, one declined on the facts. Pushed 23b5938.

1. Gauges before the publish — taken, and it is the better catch of the two

Both gauges now sit inside the Ok branch, after inspector.publish(...), and are deliberately not set on the read-back failure path.

The reason is in what trusted_list_unavailable is documented to mean: "the width of every notListed verdict the node will give until the next pass". That is a claim about the set the inspector is answering from, not about the pass. When the cache is written and cannot be read back, the inspector keeps its previous set — so setting the gauges from stats there would describe a set no verdict is using. On that path they now retain their previous values, which is what the retained set means.

It is the same shape as #362, where RefreshStats counts a cache write before knowing whether it landed. The comment says so, so the next person meets the pattern rather than the instance.

2. The test only proved half the swap — taken, and it was the finding worth having

Correct, and worse than stated: publishing an empty lists beside a populated unchecked meant a publish that swapped only unchecked and silently dropped lists would have passed. That is precisely the failure TrustedListSet exists to make unrepresentable, so the test was not testing the thing the type was introduced for.

Now publishes both halves populated — a real VerifiedTrustedList via from_store, alongside the unchecked territory — and asserts both landed.

Confirmed to bite, which is the part worth recording: dropping the unchecked half inside publish fails it with

assertion `left == right` failed: both halves of the published set must reach the read path's handle
  left: (1, 0)
 right: (1, 1)

One note on how it asserts, because the suggestion was to observe it through qualification / standing. That cannot work here. The only real CMS this crate can produce is from the local backend, which is self-signed — so standing returns IssuerStanding::SelfIssued and returns before consulting any list at all. The lists half is structurally invisible through a verdict without a provider-issued certificate, which needs a QTSP credential no node here holds. So the test asserts the snapshot directly through a #[cfg(test)] accessor and keeps the verdict-level assertion on unchecked. Two channels, each honest about what it can see, rather than one dressed up as proof of both.

3. 0038 as a private ADR reference — declined

0038 is ops/pg/0038_seal_audit_state.sql, a migration file in this repository. It is public, it ships in the repo, and ls ops/pg/ | grep 0038 finds it. The publication-boundary rule is about ADR numbers, titles and section references, and about repositories that are not public — a four-digit migration number is neither.

Declining the premise, but the finding did point at something real: the bare `0038` is opaque to a reader who does not already know the migration set. Both references now name the file and what it does — "the rule the seal audit already took in migration ops/pg/0038_seal_audit_state.sql, which keeps its report NULL until a walk reaches the end of the estate" — so it cannot be misread as a pointer at something private, and it is more useful besides.


just check green — and genuinely so this time. The first run of it was piped through tail, which took the exit code from tail rather than from just, and hid an fmt-check failure caused by my own hand-formatting. That commit was pushed and has been amended away; the branch has never been green-by-accident since.

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LKSNDRTMLKV merged commit 839fc9d into main Sep 17, 2026
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LKSNDRTMLKV deleted the fix/trusted-lists-reach-a-running-node branch September 17, 2026 11:40
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The seal inspector holds the trusted lists it booted with, so a refresh never reaches a running node

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