## Why
This is a cleanup PR for the `PermissionProfile` migration stack. #19016
fixed remote exec-server sandbox contexts so Docker-backed filesystem
requests use a request/container `cwd` instead of leaking the local test
runner `cwd`. That exposed the broader API problem:
`FileSystemSandboxContext::new(SandboxPolicy)` could still reconstruct
filesystem permissions by reading the exec-server process cwd with
`AbsolutePathBuf::current_dir()`.
That made `cwd`-dependent legacy entries, such as `:cwd`,
`:project_roots`, and relative deny globs, depend on ambient process
state instead of the request sandbox `cwd`. As later PRs make
`PermissionProfile` the primary permissions abstraction, sandbox
contexts should be explicit about whether they carry a request `cwd` or
are profile-only. Removing the implicit constructor prevents new call
sites from accidentally rebuilding permissions against the wrong `cwd`.
## What changed
- Removed `FileSystemSandboxContext::new(SandboxPolicy)`.
- Kept production callers on explicit constructors:
`from_legacy_sandbox_policy(..., cwd)`, `from_permission_profile(...)`,
and `from_permission_profile_with_cwd(...)`.
- Updated exec-server test helpers to construct `PermissionProfile`
values directly instead of routing through legacy `SandboxPolicy`
projections.
- Updated the environment regression test to use an explicit restricted
profile with no synthetic `cwd`.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-exec-server`
- `just fix -p codex-exec-server`
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* #18288
* #18287
* #18286
* #18285
* #18284
* #18283
* #18282
* #18281
* #18280
* __->__ #19046
## Why
The post-merge `rust-ci-full` run for #18999 still failed the Ubuntu
remote `suite::remote_env` sandboxed filesystem tests. That run checked
out merge commit `ddde50c611e4800cb805f243ed3c50bbafe7d011`, so the arg0
guard lifetime fix was present.
The Docker-backed failure had two remaining pieces:
- The sandboxed filesystem helper needs to execute Codex through the
`codex-linux-sandbox` arg0 alias path. The helper sandbox was only
granting read access to the real Codex executable parent, so the alias
parent also has to be visible inside the helper sandbox.
- The remote-env tests were building sandbox contexts with
`FileSystemSandboxContext::new()`, which captures the local test runner
cwd. In the Docker remote exec-server, that host checkout path does not
exist, so spawning the filesystem helper failed with `No such file or
directory` before the helper could process the request.
## What Changed
- Track all helper runtime read roots instead of a single root.
- Add both the real Codex executable parent and the
`codex-linux-sandbox` alias parent to sandbox readable roots.
- Avoid sending an unused local cwd in remote filesystem sandbox
contexts when the permission profile has no cwd-dependent entries.
- Build the Docker remote-env test sandbox contexts with a cwd path that
exists inside the container.
- Add unit coverage for the alias-parent root and remote sandbox cwd
handling.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-exec-server`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
remote_test_env_sandboxed_read_allows_readable_root`
- `just fix -p codex-exec-server`
- `just fix -p codex-core`
## Why
The exec-server still needs platform sandbox inputs, but the migration
should preserve the `PermissionProfile` that produced them. Keeping only
the derived legacy sandbox map would keep `SandboxPolicy` as the
effective abstraction and would make full-disk vs. restricted profiles
harder to preserve as the permissions stack starts round-tripping
profiles.
`PermissionProfile` entries can also be cwd-sensitive (`:cwd`,
`:project_roots`, relative globs), so the exec-server must carry the
request sandbox cwd instead of resolving those entries against the
long-lived exec-server process cwd.
## What changed
`FileSystemSandboxContext` now carries `permissions: PermissionProfile`
plus an optional `cwd`:
- removed `sandboxPolicy`, `sandboxPolicyCwd`,
`fileSystemSandboxPolicy`, and `additionalPermissions`
- added `permissions` and `cwd`
- kept the platform knobs `windowsSandboxLevel`,
`windowsSandboxPrivateDesktop`, and `useLegacyLandlock`
Core turn and apply-patch paths populate the context from the active
runtime permissions and request cwd. Exec-server derives platform
`SandboxPolicy`/`FileSystemSandboxPolicy` at the filesystem boundary,
adds helper runtime reads there, and rejects cwd-dependent profiles that
arrive without a cwd.
The legacy `FileSystemSandboxContext::new(SandboxPolicy)` constructor
now preserves the old workspace-write conversion semantics for
compatibility tests/callers.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-exec-server`
- `cargo test -p codex-exec-server sandbox_cwd -- --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-exec-server
sandbox_context_new_preserves_legacy_workspace_write_read_only_subpaths
-- --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-core --lib
file_system_sandbox_context_uses_active_attempt -- --nocapture`
## Why
`PermissionProfile` needs stable, canonical file-system semantics before
it can become the primary runtime permissions abstraction. Without a
canonical form, callers have to keep re-deriving legacy sandbox maps and
profile comparisons remain lossy or order-dependent.
## What changed
This adds canonicalization helpers for `FileSystemPermissions` and
`PermissionProfile`, expands special paths into explicit sandbox
entries, and updates permission request/conversion paths to consume
those canonical entries. It also tightens the legacy bridge so root-wide
write profiles with narrower carveouts are not silently projected as
full-disk legacy access.
## Verification
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol
root_write_with_read_only_child_is_not_full_disk_write -- --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-sandboxing permission -- --nocapture`
- `cargo test -p codex-tui permissions -- --nocapture`
## Summary
- pass split filesystem sandbox policy/cwd through apply_patch contexts,
while omitting legacy-equivalent policies to keep payloads small
- keep the fs helper compatible with legacy Landlock by avoiding helper
read-root permission expansion in that mode and disabling helper network
access
## Root Cause
`d626dc38950fb40a1a5ad0a8ffab2485e3348c53` routed exec-server filesystem
operations through a sandboxed helper. That path forwarded legacy
Landlock into a helper policy shape that could require direct
split-policy enforcement. Sandboxed `apply_patch` hit that edge through
the filesystem abstraction.
The same 0.121 edit-regression path is consistent with #18354: normal
writes route through the `apply_patch` filesystem helper, fail under
sandbox, and then surface the generic retry-without-sandbox prompt.
Fixes#18069Fixes#18354
## Validation
- `cd codex-rs && just fmt`
- earlier branch validation before merging current `origin/main` and
dropping the now-separate PATH fix:
- `cd codex-rs && cargo test -p codex-exec-server`
- `cd codex-rs && cargo test -p codex-core file_system_sandbox_context`
- `cd codex-rs && just fix -p codex-exec-server`
- `cd codex-rs && just fix -p codex-core`
- `git diff --check`
- `cd codex-rs && cargo clean`
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Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
## Summary
- preserve a small fs-helper runtime env allowlist (`PATH`, temp vars)
instead of launching the sandboxed helper with an empty env
- add unit coverage for the allowlist and transformed sandbox request
env
- add a Linux smoke test that starts the test exec-server with a fake
`bwrap` on `PATH`, runs a sandboxed fs write through the remote fs
helper path, and asserts that bwrap path was exercised
## Validation
- `cd /tmp/codex-worktrees/fs-helper-env-defaults/codex-rs && export
PATH=$HOME/code/openai/project/dotslash-gen/bin:$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH
&& bazel test --bes_backend= --bes_results_url=
//codex-rs/exec-server:exec-server-file_system-test
--test_filter=sandboxed_file_system_helper_finds_bwrap_on_preserved_path`
- `cd /tmp/codex-worktrees/fs-helper-env-defaults/codex-rs && export
PATH=$HOME/code/openai/project/dotslash-gen/bin:$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH
&& bazel test --bes_backend= --bes_results_url=
//codex-rs/exec-server:exec-server-unit-tests
--test_filter="helper_env|sandbox_exec_request_carries_helper_env"`
- earlier on this branch before the smoke-test harness adjustment: `cd
/tmp/codex-worktrees/fs-helper-env-defaults/codex-rs && export
PATH=$HOME/code/openai/project/dotslash-gen/bin:$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH
&& bazel test --bes_backend= --bes_results_url=
//codex-rs/exec-server:all`
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
## Summary
- Remove the exec-server-side manual filesystem request path preflight
before invoking the sandbox helper.
- Keep sandbox helper policy construction and platform sandbox
enforcement as the access boundary.
- Add a portable local+remote regression for writing through an
explicitly configured alias root.
- Remove the metadata symlink-escape assertion that depended on the
deleted manual preflight; no replacement metadata-specific access probe
is added.
## Tests
- `cargo test -p codex-exec-server --lib`
- `cargo test -p codex-exec-server --test file_system`
- `git diff --check`
## Summary\n- add an exec-server package-local test helper binary that
can run exec-server and fs-helper flows\n- route exec-server filesystem
tests through that helper instead of cross-crate codex helper
binaries\n- stop relying on Bazel-only extra binary wiring for these
tests\n\n## Testing\n- not run (per repo guidance for codex changes)
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Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
Michael Bolin