Stop a failed up from tearing down a working tunnel

The previous commit moved `down` to the top of `up` to fix a resolv.conf
idempotency bug, and in doing so put it *before* every network fetch that can
fail. Re-review caught it and I reproduced it: with a tunnel up, an `up` that
fails on bad credentials left `pia0` gone and traffic silently back on the real
address, while the error talked only about credentials. A privacy regression
introduced by a correctness fix.

`down` now runs after the token, server list and key registration have all
succeeded — nothing above that line touches the network stack — and still
clears the stale backup it was added for.

Everything after it is covered by a rollback. Note this is an EXIT trap with a
flag, not `trap ... ERR`: my first attempt used ERR and did not fire at all,
because ERR is not inherited by shell functions without `set -E`, so a failure
inside add_route missed it, and `die` exits explicitly, which is not an error.
Verified by forcing a route collision — the tunnel is torn down and DNS is
intact, where before the fix it was left half-configured with DNS dead.

Also from the review:

- **The private key lived on disk for the whole life of the tunnel.**
  `commit_container_snapshot` blanks env vars, never files, and nothing tears
  the tunnel down before a recreate or migrate — so the `down`-time cleanup
  never covered the path that put a key in a snapshot in the first place. It is
  now deleted the moment `wg set` has read it; the kernel keeps its own copy,
  verified by checking the interface still works afterwards.
- **`up` claimed success without a handshake.** An unreachable peer still
  routes — into a black hole — so `up --full` could exit 0 having pointed all
  traffic and resolv.conf at a peer that never answered, with `status` printing
  "mode: full tunnel". Now polls for a handshake and rolls back if none arrives.
- **`status` needed root and did not check.** `wg show` fails unprivileged and
  was swallowed, so an unprivileged run printed "no tunnel up" and then "mode:
  full tunnel" in the same breath. An agent reading the first line would re-run
  `up` — which, before the fix above, destroyed the tunnel it failed to see.
- **The killswitch bullet was false.** It said `iptables` is not in the image;
  it is, so a killswitch is buildable. It stays unbuilt because it would cut
  Claude Code's own API traffic — an honest reason, unlike the previous one.
- `install_feature_skill` rejects path-traversal names, not just blank ones —
  verified `../skills` would have deleted the whole skills directory including
  Mission Control's — and reports `mkdir`/`cp` failures instead of printing a
  success line regardless.
- The usage text ended by printing `set -euo pipefail`, off by one line.
- HOW-TO-USE claimed "the container says so on start". entrypoint prints to
  PID 1's stdout, which no terminal or UI surfaces — `docker logs` appears
  nowhere in the repo. Now points at the migration pre-flight, which does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
2026-08-17 16:29:30 -07:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent f6e5cf3f05
commit 32149603b2
3 changed files with 86 additions and 24 deletions
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@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@
set -euo pipefail
# Not ~/pia-creds: under sudo, HOME is /root.
# Read by up()'s EXIT trap, which runs after the function's locals are gone.
SETUP_OK=0
CREDS=${PIA_CREDS:-/home/claude/pia-creds}
REGION=${PIA_REGION:-us_chicago}
IFACE=pia0
@@ -88,7 +91,7 @@ preflight() {
# tunnel captures everything while the exclusions that keep DNS and the Docker
# host reachable are quietly missing -- and `status` still says "full tunnel".
add_route() {
ip route add "$@" || die "could not add route '$*'. Run 'down' to undo the partial setup."
ip route add "$@" || die "could not add route '$*'"
printf '%s\n' "$*" >> "$STATE/routes"
}
@@ -100,11 +103,6 @@ up() {
esac
preflight
# Always start from a known state. Without this a second `up` overwrites the
# saved resolv.conf with PIA's own resolvers, so the later `down` "restores"
# those and leaves the container with no working DNS and no way back.
down >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
mkdir -p "$STATE"; cd "$STATE"
# `curl -o` creates the file before it knows the request failed, so a plain
@@ -135,6 +133,27 @@ up() {
sip=$(echo "$srv" | jq -r .ip); scn=$(echo "$srv" | jq -r .cn)
[ -n "$sip" ] && [ "$sip" != null ] || die "no WireGuard server for region '$REGION'"
# Only now tear down any previous tunnel. Doing it up front (as an earlier
# version did) meant a failed token fetch or an unreachable server list took
# a *working* tunnel down with it and silently reverted the container to its
# real address, while the error talked about credentials. Everything above
# this line can fail; nothing above it has touched the network stack.
#
# It also still does the job it was added for: clearing a stale resolv.conf
# backup so a second `up` cannot save PIA's own resolvers over the real ones.
down >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
# From here on the network stack is being modified, so any failure has to put
# it back rather than exit half-configured. `down` is idempotent and restores
# routes and resolv.conf exactly.
#
# EXIT rather than ERR, and a flag rather than the trap's own exit status: an
# ERR trap is not inherited by shell functions without `set -E`, so a failure
# inside add_route would not fire it, and `die` exits explicitly, which is not
# an error and would not fire it either. EXIT catches both.
SETUP_OK=0
trap '[ "$SETUP_OK" = 1 ] || { echo "pia-wg: setup failed - rolling back" >&2; down >/dev/null 2>&1; }' EXIT
# umask, not a later chmod: the file is created under the inherited 0022
# otherwise, so the key is world-readable for the moment in between.
( umask 077; priv=$(wg genkey); printf '%s' "$priv" > wg.priv )
@@ -159,6 +178,12 @@ up() {
peer "$(echo "$resp" | jq -r .server_key)" \
endpoint "$(echo "$resp" | jq -r .server_ip):$(echo "$resp" | jq -r .server_port)" \
allowed-ips 0.0.0.0/0 persistent-keepalive 25
# The kernel holds the key from here, so the file has no reason to outlive
# this line -- and every reason not to: /run is in the writable layer, and a
# recreate or migrate runs `docker commit` over it without tearing the tunnel
# down first, baking the key into the project's snapshot image. `down` also
# removes it, for the case where `up` never got this far.
rm -f wg.priv
ip addr add "$(echo "$resp" | jq -r .peer_ip)/32" dev "$IFACE"
ip link set "$IFACE" up
@@ -201,7 +226,18 @@ up() {
echo "test route only: 1.1.1.1 goes via PIA, everything else unchanged"
fi
sleep 2
# A tunnel with no handshake still routes -- into a black hole. Without this
# `up --full` would exit 0 having pointed all traffic *and* resolv.conf at a
# peer that never answered, and `status` would print "mode: full tunnel".
local waited=0
until [ "$(wg show "$IFACE" latest-handshakes | awk '{print $2; exit}')" != 0 ]; do
waited=$((waited + 1))
[ "$waited" -lt 20 ] || die "no handshake from $REGION after 10s - rolled back"
sleep 0.5
done
SETUP_OK=1
trap - EXIT
status
}
@@ -242,6 +278,10 @@ TRACE_DIRECT=https://1.0.0.1/cdn-cgi/trace
exit_ip() { curl -s -m 20 "$1" | sed -n 's/^ip=//p'; }
status() {
# `wg show` needs root; `ip route`/`ip link` do not. Without this guard an
# unprivileged run prints "no tunnel up" and then "mode: full tunnel" in the
# same breath, and an agent reading the first line re-runs `up`.
[ "$(id -u)" = 0 ] || die "run with sudo"
wg show "$IFACE" 2>/dev/null | grep -E "latest handshake|transfer" || echo "no tunnel up"
# Resolve a name, not an IP literal. A curl to 1.1.1.1 succeeds while DNS is
@@ -274,5 +314,5 @@ case "${1:-}" in
up) shift; up "${1:-}" ;;
down) down ;;
status) status ;;
*) sed -n '2,27p' "$0" | sed 's/^# \{0,1\}//'; exit 1 ;;
*) sed -n '2,26p' "$0" | sed 's/^# \{0,1\}//'; exit 1 ;;
esac