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capsule_runtime/
limits.rs

1//! Per-guest execution limits: epoch-based deadlines and store resource caps.
2//!
3//! Every guest this runtime executes — capsule `run`, tool/driver `run`, and each hook
4//! lifecycle call — runs against a `Store` wired with two independent bounds:
5//!
6//! * an **epoch deadline**, set before each invocation and enforced by [`EpochTicker`],
7//!   which advances the engine's epoch on a fixed interval so a guest that never returns
8//!   traps instead of hanging the session; and
9//! * a **resource limiter** ([`ExecutionLimiter`]) capping linear-memory growth, table
10//!   growth, and instance count.
11//!
12//! Both are sourced from the manifest's `capabilities.limits` block, falling back to the
13//! `DEFAULT_*` constants below for any field it omits. A silent manifest means defaults,
14//! never "unlimited".
15//!
16//! ## What an epoch deadline does and does not bound
17//!
18//! Epoch checks are compiled into wasm loop back-edges and function entries, so the
19//! deadline can only fire while guest code is executing. Time spent blocked inside a host
20//! call (notably `wasi:io/poll`) elapses against the same wall-clock budget but cannot be
21//! interrupted until control returns to wasm. This bounds runaway *guest compute*, which is
22//! what makes a spin loop killable; it is not a general-purpose I/O timeout.
23
24use std::{
25    sync::{
26        atomic::{AtomicBool, Ordering},
27        Arc,
28    },
29    thread,
30    time::Duration,
31};
32
33use wasmtime::{Engine, ResourceLimiter, StoreLimits, StoreLimitsBuilder};
34
35/// How often [`EpochTicker`] advances the engine epoch. Also the granularity of every
36/// deadline: a budget is rounded down to a whole number of ticks (minimum one).
37pub(crate) const EPOCH_TICK_INTERVAL: Duration = Duration::from_millis(100);
38
39/// Default cap on guest linear-memory growth — 512 MiB. Chosen to sit far above what any
40/// real capsule, tool, or hook needs while still bounding a runaway allocation loop.
41pub const DEFAULT_MEMORY_BYTES: usize = 512 * 1024 * 1024;
42
43/// Default cap on guest table growth, in elements.
44pub const DEFAULT_TABLE_ELEMENTS: usize = 100_000;
45
46/// Default cap on instances a single store may create. A component instantiates one core
47/// instance per core module, so single digits is typical; this only stops a pathological
48/// instantiation loop.
49pub const DEFAULT_INSTANCES: usize = 1_000;
50
51/// Default wall-clock budget for a single guest invocation — 10 minutes.
52///
53/// Deliberately generous: the budget covers host-call time as well as guest compute (see
54/// the module docs), so a capsule whose `run` drives a long agent loop through host
55/// `invoke` calls must not trip it. Anything wanting a tight bound sets
56/// `capabilities.limits.deadline_seconds` explicitly.
57pub const DEFAULT_DEADLINE_SECONDS: u64 = 600;
58
59/// Default wall-clock budget for a single *hook lifecycle call* — 30 seconds.
60///
61/// An order of magnitude below [`DEFAULT_DEADLINE_SECONDS`], and deliberately so: a hook call
62/// is one bounded piece of work (an HTTP POST to a collector, a scorer invocation), not a
63/// whole agent loop, so the capsule-wide default would let a wedged hook stall the session for
64/// most of ten minutes *per event*. Applies to blocking and async hooks alike, and only when
65/// the operator left `capabilities.limits.deadline_seconds` unset — an explicit value is
66/// honored verbatim for every guest, hooks included. See [`ExecutionLimits::for_hook_calls`].
67pub const HOOK_DEFAULT_DEADLINE_SECONDS: u64 = 30;
68
69const _: () = assert!(
70    HOOK_DEFAULT_DEADLINE_SECONDS < DEFAULT_DEADLINE_SECONDS,
71    "a hook call must not be able to stall a session for the capsule-wide budget"
72);
73
74/// Fully-resolved execution limits for one session's guests: the manifest's
75/// `capabilities.limits` block with every omitted field replaced by its `DEFAULT_*`.
76#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
77pub struct ExecutionLimits {
78    /// Cap on linear-memory growth, in bytes.
79    pub memory_bytes: usize,
80    /// Cap on table growth, in elements.
81    pub table_elements: usize,
82    /// Cap on instances a single store may create.
83    pub instances: usize,
84    /// Wall-clock budget for a single guest invocation, in seconds.
85    pub deadline_seconds: u64,
86}
87
88impl Default for ExecutionLimits {
89    fn default() -> Self {
90        Self {
91            memory_bytes: DEFAULT_MEMORY_BYTES,
92            table_elements: DEFAULT_TABLE_ELEMENTS,
93            instances: DEFAULT_INSTANCES,
94            deadline_seconds: DEFAULT_DEADLINE_SECONDS,
95        }
96    }
97}
98
99impl ExecutionLimits {
100    /// Resolve a manifest `capabilities.limits` block, substituting the default for each
101    /// field the manifest left out (and for the whole block when it is absent).
102    #[must_use]
103    pub fn resolve(declared: Option<&murmur_artifact::ResourceLimits>) -> Self {
104        let defaults = Self::default();
105        let Some(declared) = declared else {
106            return defaults;
107        };
108        Self {
109            memory_bytes: declared.memory_bytes.unwrap_or(defaults.memory_bytes),
110            table_elements: declared.table_elements.unwrap_or(defaults.table_elements),
111            instances: declared.instances.unwrap_or(defaults.instances),
112            deadline_seconds: declared
113                .deadline_seconds
114                .unwrap_or(defaults.deadline_seconds),
115        }
116    }
117
118    /// This limit block re-flavored for hook lifecycle calls: every resource cap unchanged,
119    /// but the wall-clock budget falls back to [`HOOK_DEFAULT_DEADLINE_SECONDS`] instead of
120    /// [`DEFAULT_DEADLINE_SECONDS`] when the operator declared none.
121    ///
122    /// Takes the *undefaulted* `capabilities.limits.deadline_seconds` rather than reading it
123    /// back off `self`, because that is the only way to tell "the operator set nothing" from
124    /// "the operator explicitly set 600" — the second must be honored verbatim, hooks
125    /// included. Callers get it from [`crate::CapabilityPolicy::hook_limits`].
126    #[must_use]
127    pub fn for_hook_calls(self, declared_deadline_seconds: Option<u64>) -> Self {
128        Self {
129            deadline_seconds: declared_deadline_seconds.unwrap_or(HOOK_DEFAULT_DEADLINE_SECONDS),
130            ..self
131        }
132    }
133
134    /// This budget expressed in epoch ticks, for `Store::set_epoch_deadline`.
135    ///
136    /// Rounds down to whole ticks but never to zero — a deadline of zero ticks would trap
137    /// the guest before it executed a single instruction.
138    pub(crate) fn deadline_ticks(&self) -> u64 {
139        let tick_ms = EPOCH_TICK_INTERVAL.as_millis() as u64;
140        (self.deadline_seconds.saturating_mul(1_000) / tick_ms).max(1)
141    }
142
143    /// Build the store limiter enforcing these limits.
144    pub(crate) fn limiter(&self) -> ExecutionLimiter {
145        ExecutionLimiter::new(*self)
146    }
147}
148
149/// `ResourceLimiter` enforcing an [`ExecutionLimits`] on one store.
150///
151/// Wraps `wasmtime::StoreLimits` purely to reuse its comparison logic, built with
152/// `trap_on_grow_failure(false)` so a denial reaches us as `Ok(false)` instead of
153/// wasmtime's own untyped `bail!`. We then convert the denial into an error carrying a
154/// message that names the manifest field responsible, and record it.
155///
156/// The recorded flag — not the error type — is what [`classify_guest_failure`] keys on.
157/// wasmtime raises `Trap::AllocationTooLarge` only from its GC and libcall paths, never
158/// from a limiter denial, so downcasting the resulting error to `Trap` cannot identify
159/// this case and matching on message text would be brittle.
160pub(crate) struct ExecutionLimiter {
161    inner: StoreLimits,
162    limits: ExecutionLimits,
163    /// Set the first time this limiter denies a growth request.
164    denial: Option<String>,
165}
166
167impl ExecutionLimiter {
168    fn new(limits: ExecutionLimits) -> Self {
169        let inner = StoreLimitsBuilder::new()
170            .memory_size(limits.memory_bytes)
171            .table_elements(limits.table_elements)
172            .instances(limits.instances)
173            .trap_on_grow_failure(false)
174            .build();
175        Self {
176            inner,
177            limits,
178            denial: None,
179        }
180    }
181
182    /// The limits this limiter enforces.
183    pub(crate) fn limits(&self) -> ExecutionLimits {
184        self.limits
185    }
186
187    /// The message from the first growth request this limiter denied, if any.
188    pub(crate) fn denial(&self) -> Option<&str> {
189        self.denial.as_deref()
190    }
191}
192
193impl ResourceLimiter for ExecutionLimiter {
194    fn memory_growing(
195        &mut self,
196        current: usize,
197        desired: usize,
198        maximum: Option<usize>,
199    ) -> wasmtime::Result<bool> {
200        if self.inner.memory_growing(current, desired, maximum)? {
201            return Ok(true);
202        }
203        let message = format!(
204            "linear memory growth to {desired} bytes exceeds \
205             capabilities.limits.memory_bytes ({})",
206            self.limits.memory_bytes
207        );
208        self.denial = Some(message.clone());
209        Err(wasmtime::Error::msg(message))
210    }
211
212    fn table_growing(
213        &mut self,
214        current: usize,
215        desired: usize,
216        maximum: Option<usize>,
217    ) -> wasmtime::Result<bool> {
218        if self.inner.table_growing(current, desired, maximum)? {
219            return Ok(true);
220        }
221        let message = format!(
222            "table growth to {desired} elements exceeds \
223             capabilities.limits.table_elements ({})",
224            self.limits.table_elements
225        );
226        self.denial = Some(message.clone());
227        Err(wasmtime::Error::msg(message))
228    }
229
230    fn instances(&self) -> usize {
231        self.inner.instances()
232    }
233
234    fn tables(&self) -> usize {
235        self.inner.tables()
236    }
237
238    fn memories(&self) -> usize {
239        self.inner.memories()
240    }
241}
242
243/// Advances `Engine::increment_epoch` every [`EPOCH_TICK_INTERVAL`] for the lifetime of a
244/// session's engine. Without a running ticker an epoch deadline can never fire, so exactly
245/// one of these is spawned per `Engine` in `stage_session` and its guard is held on
246/// `StagedSession` — a `wasmtime::Engine` is an `Arc` handle, so that single ticker reaches
247/// every capsule, tool, and hook store cloned from it.
248pub(crate) struct EpochTicker {
249    stop: Arc<AtomicBool>,
250}
251
252impl EpochTicker {
253    /// Spawn the ticker thread for `engine`.
254    ///
255    /// A plain OS thread rather than a tokio task: staging dispatches `on-stage` hooks on
256    /// its own current-thread runtime while the rest of the session uses a multi-thread
257    /// one, and the ticker must keep running across both regardless of which (if any)
258    /// runtime is entered.
259    ///
260    /// The thread holds only an `EngineWeak`, so it can never keep the engine alive and
261    /// exits on its own once the last `Engine` handle drops. The stop flag covers the
262    /// reverse case — the guard dropping while cloned `Engine` handles still live in store
263    /// states — so the two together bound the thread's life from both ends.
264    pub(crate) fn spawn(engine: &Engine) -> Self {
265        let weak = engine.weak();
266        let stop = Arc::new(AtomicBool::new(false));
267        let thread_stop = Arc::clone(&stop);
268
269        thread::spawn(move || {
270            while !thread_stop.load(Ordering::Relaxed) {
271                thread::sleep(EPOCH_TICK_INTERVAL);
272                match weak.upgrade() {
273                    Some(engine) => engine.increment_epoch(),
274                    None => break,
275                }
276            }
277        });
278
279        Self { stop }
280    }
281}
282
283impl Drop for EpochTicker {
284    /// Signals the ticker thread to exit. Deliberately does not join: the thread notices
285    /// the flag within one tick and exits on its own, and blocking session teardown for up
286    /// to `EPOCH_TICK_INTERVAL` to watch it happen buys nothing.
287    fn drop(&mut self) {
288        self.stop.store(true, Ordering::Relaxed);
289    }
290}
291
292/// Why a guest invocation failed, separating the two limits this module enforces from an
293/// ordinary trap.
294#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
295pub(crate) enum GuestFailure {
296    /// The epoch deadline fired — the guest ran longer than `deadline_seconds`.
297    DeadlineExceeded { seconds: u64 },
298    /// The store's resource limiter denied a growth request.
299    ResourceLimit { message: String },
300    /// Anything else: guest panic, `unreachable`, host error.
301    Other,
302}
303
304/// The single classification point for every failed guest invocation — capsule `run`,
305/// tool/driver `run`, and hook lifecycle calls all route their `Err` through here so the
306/// three outcomes stay distinguishable without each call site re-deriving the logic.
307///
308/// A limiter denial is checked first and wins over any trap code, because the denial is
309/// recorded at the moment of refusal and is therefore authoritative about the cause; the
310/// error wasmtime surfaces afterwards may have been reshaped on its way out of the guest.
311pub(crate) fn classify_guest_failure(
312    error: &wasmtime::Error,
313    limiter: &ExecutionLimiter,
314) -> GuestFailure {
315    if let Some(message) = limiter.denial() {
316        return GuestFailure::ResourceLimit {
317            message: message.to_string(),
318        };
319    }
320    if matches!(
321        error.downcast_ref::<wasmtime::Trap>(),
322        Some(wasmtime::Trap::Interrupt)
323    ) {
324        return GuestFailure::DeadlineExceeded {
325            seconds: limiter.limits().deadline_seconds,
326        };
327    }
328    GuestFailure::Other
329}
330
331impl GuestFailure {
332    /// Render this failure for the `String`-returning tool/driver and hook paths, which
333    /// report failures as plain text rather than a [`crate::errors::RuntimeError`].
334    ///
335    /// `subject` names the guest, e.g. `tool 'echo'` or `hook 'audit'`. The [`Self::Other`]
336    /// wording is the pre-existing generic phrasing, kept verbatim so only the two limit
337    /// cases read differently.
338    pub(crate) fn message(&self, subject: &str, error: &wasmtime::Error) -> String {
339        match self {
340            Self::DeadlineExceeded { seconds } => format!(
341                "{subject} exceeded its {seconds}s execution deadline \
342                 (capabilities.limits.deadline_seconds) and was interrupted"
343            ),
344            Self::ResourceLimit { message } => {
345                format!("{subject} exceeded its configured resource limits: {message}")
346            }
347            Self::Other => format!("{subject} trapped: {error}"),
348        }
349    }
350}
351
352#[cfg(test)]
353mod tests {
354    use super::*;
355
356    #[test]
357    fn resolve_uses_defaults_when_manifest_is_silent() {
358        assert_eq!(ExecutionLimits::resolve(None), ExecutionLimits::default());
359    }
360
361    #[test]
362    fn resolve_fills_each_omitted_field_independently() {
363        let declared = murmur_artifact::ResourceLimits {
364            memory_bytes: Some(1024),
365            table_elements: None,
366            instances: None,
367            deadline_seconds: Some(5),
368        };
369        let limits = ExecutionLimits::resolve(Some(&declared));
370
371        assert_eq!(limits.memory_bytes, 1024);
372        assert_eq!(limits.deadline_seconds, 5);
373        assert_eq!(limits.table_elements, DEFAULT_TABLE_ELEMENTS);
374        assert_eq!(limits.instances, DEFAULT_INSTANCES);
375    }
376
377    /// A hook call gets the lower default when the manifest declared no deadline, while every
378    /// resource cap stays exactly what the capsule-wide resolution produced.
379    #[test]
380    fn hook_calls_get_the_lower_deadline_default_when_none_is_declared() {
381        let capsule = ExecutionLimits::resolve(None);
382        let hook = capsule.for_hook_calls(None);
383
384        assert_eq!(capsule.deadline_seconds, DEFAULT_DEADLINE_SECONDS);
385        assert_eq!(hook.deadline_seconds, HOOK_DEFAULT_DEADLINE_SECONDS);
386        assert_eq!(hook.memory_bytes, capsule.memory_bytes);
387        assert_eq!(hook.table_elements, capsule.table_elements);
388        assert_eq!(hook.instances, capsule.instances);
389    }
390
391    /// An explicitly declared deadline wins for hooks too — including one that happens to
392    /// equal the capsule-wide default, which is why resolution keys on the undefaulted
393    /// `Option` rather than on the resolved value.
394    #[test]
395    fn an_explicit_deadline_is_honored_for_hook_calls() {
396        let declared = murmur_artifact::ResourceLimits {
397            memory_bytes: None,
398            table_elements: None,
399            instances: None,
400            deadline_seconds: Some(DEFAULT_DEADLINE_SECONDS),
401        };
402        let capsule = ExecutionLimits::resolve(Some(&declared));
403
404        assert_eq!(
405            capsule
406                .for_hook_calls(declared.deadline_seconds)
407                .deadline_seconds,
408            DEFAULT_DEADLINE_SECONDS
409        );
410        assert_eq!(capsule.for_hook_calls(Some(5)).deadline_seconds, 5);
411    }
412
413    #[test]
414    fn deadline_ticks_converts_seconds_and_never_yields_zero() {
415        let limits = ExecutionLimits {
416            deadline_seconds: 1,
417            ..ExecutionLimits::default()
418        };
419        // 1s / 100ms per tick.
420        assert_eq!(limits.deadline_ticks(), 10);
421        assert_eq!(ExecutionLimits::default().deadline_ticks(), 6_000);
422    }
423
424    /// A limiter that has denied a growth request classifies as `ResourceLimit` even though
425    /// the resulting error is a plain message with no `Trap` to downcast to — the case the
426    /// recorded-denial design exists to cover.
427    #[test]
428    fn classify_reports_resource_limit_after_a_denial() {
429        let limits = ExecutionLimits {
430            memory_bytes: 1024,
431            ..ExecutionLimits::default()
432        };
433        let mut limiter = limits.limiter();
434        let error = limiter
435            .memory_growing(0, 4096, None)
436            .expect_err("growth past memory_bytes must be denied");
437
438        match classify_guest_failure(&error, &limiter) {
439            GuestFailure::ResourceLimit { message } => {
440                assert!(message.contains("capabilities.limits.memory_bytes"));
441            }
442            other => panic!("expected ResourceLimit, got {other:?}"),
443        }
444    }
445
446    #[test]
447    fn classify_reports_deadline_for_an_interrupt_trap() {
448        let limits = ExecutionLimits {
449            deadline_seconds: 7,
450            ..ExecutionLimits::default()
451        };
452        let limiter = limits.limiter();
453        let error = wasmtime::Error::from(wasmtime::Trap::Interrupt);
454
455        assert_eq!(
456            classify_guest_failure(&error, &limiter),
457            GuestFailure::DeadlineExceeded { seconds: 7 }
458        );
459    }
460
461    /// An ordinary guest panic must stay in the generic bucket, and must keep the exact
462    /// pre-slice wording on the string-returning paths.
463    #[test]
464    fn classify_reports_other_for_an_unrelated_trap() {
465        let limiter = ExecutionLimits::default().limiter();
466        let error = wasmtime::Error::from(wasmtime::Trap::UnreachableCodeReached);
467
468        let failure = classify_guest_failure(&error, &limiter);
469        assert_eq!(failure, GuestFailure::Other);
470        assert!(failure
471            .message("tool 'echo'", &error)
472            .starts_with("tool 'echo' trapped: "));
473    }
474
475    #[test]
476    fn limiter_allows_growth_within_the_cap() {
477        let limits = ExecutionLimits {
478            memory_bytes: 4096,
479            ..ExecutionLimits::default()
480        };
481        let mut limiter = limits.limiter();
482
483        assert!(limiter.memory_growing(0, 4096, None).unwrap());
484        assert!(limiter.denial().is_none());
485    }
486}