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CatDesk cannot be used at all on RHEL 8 / Rocky 8 / CentOS 8, and its Control Computer
mode is unusable on any kernel older than 5.13. This is three independent blockers; each
commit addresses one and can be reviewed on its own.

Verified throughout on Rocky Linux 8.10 — glibc 2.28, OpenSSL 1.1.1, kernel 4.18 — a
system where the released binary cannot start.


1. The binary cannot start (libssl.so.3, glibc 2.34)

catdesk: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.3: cannot open shared object file

Installing OpenSSL 3 does not help; the binary also needs glibc 2.34, and glibc cannot be
upgraded on those distributions. Both come from building on ubuntu-22.04.

reqwest moves from its default native-tls to rustls-tls, which drops openssl,
openssl-sys, native-tls and hyper-tls entirely. rustls was already in the tree via
other dependencies. http2 and charset are listed explicitly, since
default-features = false would otherwise disable HTTP/2 silently.

That change alone makes rustls panic on first use: it will not choose a provider when more
than one is enabled, and both are — ngrok requires aws-lc-rs, rustls-tls pulls in
ring. aws-lc-rs is now installed explicitly in main.

Linux release artifacts move to x86_64-unknown-linux-musl and
aarch64-unknown-linux-musl: statically linked, no glibc requirement, so one artifact runs
everywhere instead of only on glibc >= 2.34. macOS and Windows are unchanged.

2. Control Computer aborts on kernels without Landlock

Landlock arrived in Linux 5.13. On RHEL 8 / Rocky 8 (4.18), Ubuntu 20.04 (5.4) and
Debian 11 (5.10) it does not exist, and the ruleset is built with
CompatLevel::HardRequirement — so every sandboxed command fails and run_command cannot
be used. The error, Landlock sandbox was not fully enforced, does not say why.

Rather than weakening the sandbox, this falls back to bubblewrap, which confines through
mount namespaces and works far below 5.13:

kernel backend
Landlock available unchanged, existing helper path
otherwise, bwrap on PATH equivalent confinement via mount namespaces
neither explicit error naming both requirements

The bubblewrap invocation reuses runtime_read_paths and runtime_write_paths instead of
restating the allowlist, so the two backends cannot drift apart. --dev supplies exactly
the device nodes in runtime_write_paths, and --tmpfs /tmp keeps the host's /tmp out
of reach, matching Landlock granting neither read nor write there.

The confinement is if anything stricter — Landlock denies access to paths that stay
visible, while an unbound path is simply absent from the namespace, and --unshare-pid
hides host processes, which Landlock cannot do. Measured inside the sandbox on 4.18: the
workspace and scratch are writable, git/python3/gcc work, the global git config is
readable, and HOME, /tmp, the SSH private key and every credential file outside the
allowlist are absent. 5 processes visible against the host's 278.

3. A panic leaves the terminal unusable

Terminal teardown only runs on the ordinary exit path and no panic hook is installed, so a
panic leaves raw mode and mouse capture on. The terminal then emits SGR mouse reports such
as 35;81;24M that nothing consumes, and the shell stays broken until reset. A panic
hook now performs the same teardown before delegating to the previous hook, so the panic
message is still printed.

This surfaced through the Landlock failure above but applies to any panic.


Cargo.lock is included because the release workflow builds with --locked.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Linux sandboxing now uses Bubblewrap for process isolation.
    • Improved Linux release builds for x86_64 and ARM64 environments.
    • Added secure networking support with HTTP/2 and Rustls TLS.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Terminal settings are restored after unexpected application crashes, including raw mode, alternate screen, mouse capture, and bracketed paste.
    • Temporary sandbox resources are cleaned up when setup fails.

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The release workflow adds architecture-specific Linux musl builds. Cargo configures explicit reqwest and Rustls features. Linux sandboxing now uses bubblewrap. Startup restores terminal state after a panic.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Linux musl release builds
.github/workflows/release.yml, Cargo.toml
The release matrix uses architecture-specific musl targets and paths. The workflow installs musl tooling and configured Rust targets. reqwest and Rustls features are configured explicitly, and the Landlock dependency is removed.
Bubblewrap sandbox confinement
src/linux_sandbox.rs
Landlock setup and helper invocation are removed. helper_command requires bwrap, creates isolated namespaces and filesystem bindings, and removes scratch state when preparation fails. Related tests skip when bubblewrap is unavailable.
Terminal startup recovery
src/main.rs
Linux startup no longer invokes the Landlock helper. The panic hook restores terminal modes and the alternate screen for panics on the TUI-owning thread.

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Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 8eb32

Sandboxed commands can access credentials inherited from CatDesk’s environment, so the isolation boundary should be corrected before merge.

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@BrianHuang813 BrianHuang813 changed the title Remove OpenSSL dependency and ship static musl Linux builds Support Linux distributions older than Ubuntu 22.04 Aug 31, 2026

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17-17: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Declare std for the direct rustls dependency.

src/main.rs calls rustls::crypto::aws_lc_rs::default_provider().install_default(), but line 17 enables only aws-lc-rs. The current build receives std through reqwest feature unification. Add "std" directly; tls12 and logging are not used by this crate.

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In `@Cargo.toml` at line 17, Update the direct rustls dependency declaration to
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In `@src/linux_sandbox.rs`:
- Around line 326-334: Update the helper test around helper_command so it
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- Around line 1159-1164: Update the process-wide panic hook around
start_services and run_tui so background Tokio task panics do not execute
terminal teardown while the TUI continues; move cleanup into coordinated
shutdown or have task panic handling signal that shutdown before teardown.
Preserve terminal cleanup for actual application shutdown and add a regression
test covering a spawned-task panic during TUI operation.

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Thanks for the review — all three findings were valid and are addressed. Two of them were real
bugs, one of which I would not have caught myself.

rustup target add used the active toolchain. Fixed with
rustup target add --toolchain stable "${{ matrix.target }}", matching the cargo +stable build.

The panic hook tore the terminal down for background-task panics. This was the important one.
start_services launches axum before the TUI, and tokio keeps the runtime alive after a spawned
task panics, so the process-global hook would have disabled raw mode and left the alternate screen
while the display was still running — worse than the problem it was meant to fix. The hook now
captures the thread id at install time and restores only when the panicking thread is the one that
set the terminal up.

The helper test panicked when no backend was available. It now returns early when
landlock_supported() is false and bubblewrap_executable() is None, since helper_command
correctly reports that case rather than returning a command.

Docstring coverage: added one to helper_command, which is now the backend-selection point and
was the function missing it.


Separately, testing on a real 4.18 kernel surfaced a bug of my own that the review could not have
seen. runtime_read_paths canonicalises, so on merged-/usr distributions it yields only
/usr/bin, /usr/lib and so on. Landlock does not care — the process still sees the host
filesystem with /bin and friends intact — but bubblewrap builds a fresh namespace, so /bin did
not exist and every sandboxed command failed with execvp /bin/bash: No such file or directory.
Those symlinks are now replicated with --symlink. This affects essentially every current
distribution, so the fallback did not work at all before this.

Re-verified end to end on Rocky Linux 8.10: Control Computer now runs commands through the
bubblewrap backend, the workspace is writable, git/python3/gcc work, and HOME, /kway, the
SSH private key and every credential file outside the allowlist are absent from the namespace.

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The prebuilt linux-x64 binary cannot run on RHEL 8 / Rocky 8 / CentOS 8:

    catdesk: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.3: cannot open
    shared object file: No such file or directory

Installing OpenSSL 3 does not help. The binary also requires glibc 2.34, while
those distributions ship 2.28 and glibc cannot be upgraded there. Both
requirements come from building on ubuntu-22.04 (glibc 2.35, OpenSSL 3).

Switch reqwest from its default native-tls to rustls-tls, which drops openssl,
openssl-sys, native-tls and hyper-tls from the tree entirely. rustls was
already present through other dependencies, so this pulls in nothing new.
http2 and charset are listed explicitly because default-features = false would
otherwise drop them, silently disabling HTTP/2.

rustls 0.23 refuses to pick a process-level CryptoProvider when more than one
provider feature is enabled, and panics on first use. Both end up enabled here
through feature unification: ngrok requires aws-lc-rs, while reqwest's
rustls-tls pulls in ring. Install aws-lc-rs explicitly in main rather than
relying on automatic selection; it is chosen because ngrok already requires it.

Build the Linux release artifacts for x86_64-unknown-linux-musl and
aarch64-unknown-linux-musl. These are statically linked and carry no glibc
requirement, so a single artifact runs on every distribution rather than only
on those with glibc >= 2.34. macOS and Windows builds are unchanged. The target
is installed into the stable toolchain explicitly, matching the cargo +stable
invocation used to build.

Verified on Rocky Linux 8.10 (glibc 2.28, OpenSSL 1.1.1), a system where the
released binary cannot start at all. The resulting binary runs, has no
libssl/libcrypto dependency, and its highest glibc requirement is 2.28.

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43-43: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial

Plan the ARM runner migration before image retirement.

Move ubuntu-22.04-arm to ubuntu-24.04-arm before April 17, 2027. Verify the musl toolchain on the replacement image.

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In @.github/workflows/release.yml at line 43, Update the release workflow’s ARM
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- Line 68: Set AWS_LC_SYS_TARGET_CC to musl-gcc before both musl build jobs in
the release workflow, ensuring aws-lc-sys target compilation uses the musl
compiler rather than the host compiler while leaving other targets unchanged.

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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For the aws-lc-sys crate, version 0.39.1, building for musl targets—such as x86_64-unknown-linux-musl—typically relies on the cc crate to manage compilation [1][2]. While common issues with musl builds have historically been related to missing kernel headers (like linux/random.h) [3][4] or environment variable overriding [5], the crate officially supports musl targets and includes pre-generated bindings for major musl architectures [1][6]. If you encounter build failures when using musl-gcc, consider the following points based on the crate's build architecture: 1. Compiler Overriding: In older versions, aws-lc-sys was known to ignore standard CC/TARGET_CC environment variables by overriding them in build.rs [5]. While newer versions have improved this, you can explicitly set the compiler using the crate-specific variables: - Use AWS_LC_SYS_CC to specify your C compiler (e.g., musl-gcc) [2]. - Use AWS_LC_SYS_TARGET_CC if you are cross-compiling, as this helps ensure the build script respects your chosen toolchain [2]. 2. Build Dependencies: Although AWS-LC does not strictly require CMake, it relies on C compiler toolchains [1][6][2]. When targeting musl, ensure that your musl-gcc environment is correctly configured in your shell or your Cross.toml [7]. 3. Kernel Header Errors: If you receive fatal errors regarding missing kernel headers (e.g., linux/random.h), these are often triggered by internal compiler feature tests [3][4]. Verify if these are critical build failures or merely failed feature checks; sometimes upgrading to the latest version of the crate resolves these environment-specific issues [3]. 4. Configuration: You can force the build behavior or troubleshoot by using the environment variables listed in the AWS-LC for Rust documentation, such as AWS_LC_SYS_CFLAGS to pass necessary include paths if your musl environment requires non-standard kernel header locations [2]. If you continue to face specific issues, ensure your environment variables are correctly exported and that you are not experiencing conflicts between the standard CC/CXX and the AWS_LC_SYS-prefixed variables [2].

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Configure the AWS-LC target compiler for both musl jobs.

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Nice findings! This is useful for running CatDesk on older Linux distributions.

Since I'm relatively new to sandboxing, I chose Landlock and only implemented it on Linux for now, since it's relatively simple.
For the long term, I think switching to Bubblewrap would be a better decision (Codex switched to Bubblewrap too). Since this PR already adds Bubblewrap, I think removing Landlock entirely would make the change clearer.

My thought is that we have two choices here:
a. Remove Landlock completely and switch to Bubblewrap in this PR. I'd be happy to review it after the change.
b. Don't change the sandbox in this PR. Open another PR for that, keep the other two commits here, and remove eb45f61. My concern is that changing the sandbox can introduce many issues and make the scope much wider. It's a relatively big change, so separating it would make the PR easier to review.

Both a and b are okay with me. I'd like to know which approach you prefer.
Sorry for the late response, and thanks for your contribution!

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Went with a — Landlock is gone, bubblewrap is the only backend now. Force-pushed.

eb45f61 is rewritten as "Replace the Landlock sandbox with bubblewrap":

  • apply_workspace_landlock, landlock_supported, LANDLOCK_ABI and the landlock crate are removed.
  • The re-exec helper (HELPER_ARG / is_helper_invocation / exec_helper, and the dispatch in main) is gone too — it only existed because Landlock can restrict a process solely from within itself. helper_command now returns a bwrap invocation directly; when bwrap is missing it's a plain error naming the one requirement.
  • runtime_read_paths and the merged-/usr symlink handling are unchanged, so the allowlist is identical to what the Landlock path enforced.

The other two commits are untouched. #19 is rebased on top.

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Comment thread src/linux_sandbox.rs Outdated
BrianHuang813 and others added 2 commits September 3, 2026 09:25
Landlock landed in Linux 5.13, so on RHEL 8 / Rocky 8 (4.18), Ubuntu 20.04
(5.4) and Debian 11 (5.10) the kernel does not offer it at all. The ruleset is
built with CompatLevel::HardRequirement, so preparing any sandboxed command
fails there and run_command -- and therefore Control Computer with multi-tools
-- cannot be used. The surfaced error, "Landlock sandbox was not fully
enforced", does not explain why.

Rather than carry two backends, standardise on bubblewrap, which confines
through mount namespaces and works far below 5.13 (Codex made the same move).
It is if anything stricter: Landlock denies access to paths that remain
visible, while an unbound path is simply absent from the fresh namespace, and
--unshare-pid hides host processes, which Landlock cannot do. --dev supplies a
minimal set of device nodes and --tmpfs /tmp keeps the host's /tmp out of
reach, matching Landlock granting neither read nor write there.

runtime_read_paths canonicalises, so on merged-/usr distributions it yields
only /usr/bin, /usr/lib and so on. Landlock did not care, because the process
still saw the host filesystem with /bin and friends intact, but bubblewrap
builds a fresh namespace: without replicating those symlinks /bin/bash does
not exist and every sandboxed command fails with "execvp /bin/bash: No such
file or directory".

--new-session is deliberately omitted. It detaches the controlling terminal,
which would make /dev/tty unusable.

The re-exec helper (HELPER_ARG, is_helper_invocation, exec_helper) existed only
because Landlock can restrict a process solely from within itself; bubblewrap
needs no re-exec, so helper_command now returns a bwrap invocation directly and
the landlock crate is dropped.

Verified on Rocky Linux 8.10 (kernel 4.18): inside the sandbox the workspace
and scratch are writable, git/python3/gcc work and the global git config is
readable, while HOME, /tmp, the SSH private key and every credential file
outside the allowlist are absent. 5 processes are visible instead of the
host's 278.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PDizKfhZgeqeraUQgvQb6o
The teardown that disables raw mode, mouse capture and the alternate screen
only runs on the ordinary exit path, and no panic hook is installed. A panic
therefore leaves the terminal in raw mode with mouse capture enabled: it keeps
emitting SGR mouse reports such as `35;81;24M` that nothing consumes, and the
shell stays unusable until the user runs `reset`.

Install a panic hook that performs the same teardown before delegating to the
previous hook, so the panic message itself is still printed.

The hook is process-global, but tokio catches panics in spawned tasks and keeps
the rest of the runtime alive, and start_services launches axum before the TUI.
Tearing the terminal down for any panic would therefore corrupt a display that
is still running, so restore only when the panicking thread is the one that set
the terminal up.
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BrianHuang813 force-pushed the fix/remove-openssl-and-musl-builds branch from 8eb32db to c9c1bb8 Compare September 3, 2026 01:27
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