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viyatb-oai 3cf737e4e3 fix: cancel Windows sandbox on network denial (#19880)
## Why

When Guardian or the sandbox network proxy detects and denies a network
attempt, core cancels the associated execution through `ExecExpiration`.
The Windows sandbox capture path was only forwarding the timeout
component of that expiration state. As a result, a sandboxed Windows
command whose network attempt had already been denied could keep running
until its timeout elapsed rather than terminating promptly in response
to the denial.

This change closes that cancellation-propagation gap for Windows sandbox
execution.

## What changed

- Added `WindowsSandboxCancellationToken` as the cancellation hook
exposed to Windows capture backends.
- Extracted the cancellation token from `ExecExpiration` in core and
passed it to both the direct and elevated Windows sandbox capture paths
alongside the existing timeout.
- Updated direct capture to poll for either process exit, timeout, or
cancellation and to terminate cancelled processes without reporting them
as timed out.
- Updated elevated capture to watch for cancellation and send the
existing `Terminate` IPC frame to the elevated runner. The watcher parks
for 50 ms between checks to bound response latency without a tight busy
wait.
- Added Windows regression coverage for a long-running PowerShell
command: cancellation ends capture before its timeout and does not set
`timed_out`.
- Added a visible skip diagnostic when that PowerShell-dependent
regression test cannot execute, and consolidated the duplicated
expiration-policy branch identified in review.

## Security

This improves enforcement after a denied network attempt has been
attributed to a Windows sandboxed execution: the command no longer
remains alive simply because Windows capture lost the cancellation
signal.

This PR does not claim to make Windows offline mode an airtight
no-network or no-exfiltration boundary. It does not introduce
AppContainer or change how network denial is detected; it makes an
already-detected denial promptly stop the affected sandboxed command.

## Validation

### Commands run

- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-windows-sandbox`
- `cargo test -p codex-core network_denial`
- `cargo clippy -p codex-core -p codex-windows-sandbox --tests --no-deps
-- -D warnings`
- `just argument-comment-lint -p codex-windows-sandbox -p codex-core`

The new capture regression is `cfg(target_os = "windows")`, so Windows
CI is the execution coverage for that test path. The local macOS test
runs validate the host-runnable crate and core network-denial behavior.

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Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
2026-05-28 21:28:06 +00:00
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codex-core

This crate implements the business logic for Codex. It is designed to be used by the various Codex UIs written in Rust.

Dependencies

Note that codex-core makes some assumptions about certain helper utilities being available in the environment. Currently, this support matrix is:

macOS

Expects /usr/bin/sandbox-exec to be present.

When using the workspace-write sandbox policy, the Seatbelt profile allows writes under the configured writable roots while keeping .git (directory or pointer file), the resolved gitdir: target, and .codex read-only.

Network access and filesystem read/write roots are controlled by SandboxPolicy. Seatbelt consumes the resolved policy and enforces it.

Seatbelt also keeps the legacy default preferences read access (user-preference-read) needed for cfprefs-backed macOS behavior.

Linux

Expects the binary containing codex-core to run the equivalent of codex sandbox when arg0 is codex-linux-sandbox. See the codex-arg0 crate for details.

Legacy SandboxPolicy / sandbox_mode configs are still supported on Linux. They can continue to use the legacy Landlock path when the split filesystem policy is sandbox-equivalent to the legacy model after cwd resolution. Split filesystem policies that need direct FileSystemSandboxPolicy enforcement, such as read-only or denied carveouts under a broader writable root, automatically route through bubblewrap. The legacy Landlock path is used only when the split filesystem policy round-trips through the legacy SandboxPolicy model without changing semantics. That includes overlapping cases like /repo = write, /repo/a = none, /repo/a/b = write, where the more specific writable child must reopen under a denied parent.

The Linux sandbox helper prefers the first bwrap found on PATH outside the current working directory whenever it is available. If bwrap is present but too old to support --argv0, the helper keeps using system bubblewrap and switches to a no---argv0 compatibility path for the inner re-exec. If bwrap is missing, it falls back to the bundled codex-resources/bwrap binary shipped with Codex and Codex surfaces a startup warning through its normal notification path instead of printing directly from the sandbox helper. Codex also surfaces a startup warning when bubblewrap cannot create user namespaces. WSL2 uses the normal Linux bubblewrap path. WSL1 is not supported for bubblewrap sandboxing because it cannot create the required user namespaces, so Codex rejects sandboxed shell commands that would enter the bubblewrap path before invoking bwrap.

Windows

Legacy SandboxPolicy / sandbox_mode configs are still supported on Windows. Legacy read-only and workspace-write policies imply full filesystem read access; exact readable roots are represented by split filesystem policies instead.

The elevated Windows sandbox also supports:

  • legacy ReadOnly and WorkspaceWrite behavior
  • split filesystem policies that need exact readable roots, exact writable roots, or extra read-only carveouts under writable roots
  • backend-managed system read roots required for basic execution, such as C:\Windows, C:\Program Files, C:\Program Files (x86), and C:\ProgramData, when a split filesystem policy requests platform defaults

The unelevated restricted-token backend still supports the legacy full-read Windows model for legacy ReadOnly and WorkspaceWrite behavior. It also supports a narrow split-filesystem subset: full-read split policies whose writable roots still match the legacy WorkspaceWrite root set, but add extra read-only carveouts under those writable roots.

New [permissions] / split filesystem policies remain supported on Windows only when they can be enforced directly by the selected Windows backend or round-trip through the legacy SandboxPolicy model without changing semantics. Policies that would require direct explicit unreadable carveouts (none) or reopened writable descendants under read-only carveouts still fail closed instead of running with weaker enforcement.

All Platforms

Expects the binary containing codex-core to simulate the virtual apply_patch CLI when arg1 is --codex-run-as-apply-patch. See the codex-arg0 crate for details.