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fix(provenance): enforce explicit nullable fields and isolate blocking verification - #175

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Follow up #174's SonarCloud findings without weakening the signed-record contract. Required nullable fields now have an explicit wire type, so deleting parent-hash, platform or signature still fails deserialization. Split per-record and witness verification into focused functions, and move filesystem/cryptographic work off the async executor with spawn_blocking.

Also replace the example's wildcard import, use the direct OsStr method reference, correct the registry comment, and reject private-key destinations by inspecting canonical filesystem ancestors rather than relying on a successful Git invocation.

Validation: Linux workspace tests pass (295 backend + seven protocol/property tests, two existing doc examples ignored); Windows protocol tests and Clippy with warnings denied pass. Missing nullable fields are regression-tested. The wire format and TLA+ model are unchanged.

Draft while the hosted quality gate is checked. Continues #173's completion.

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  • New Features

    • Provenance records now distinguish explicit null values from missing fields for parent hashes, platform details and signatures. Envelopes without a signature field are rejected.
    • Verification now checks witness signatures even when the author is unknown and reports incomplete witness evidence as claimed rather than verified.
  • Bug Fixes

    • A child record remains invalid when it descends from an invalid ancestor, preventing a valid-looking child from overriding an invalid chain.

The provenance record API now represents nullable fields with NullableString. Chain verification separates entry and witness checks. The verification command runs synchronous verification in a blocking task. The example updates its key-directory check and signature construction.

Changes: Provenance verification

Layer / File(s) Summary
Nullable record fields and callers
crates/provenance/src/lib.rs, crates/provenance/examples/record.rs, crates/provenance/tests/tamper.rs
Record.parent_hash, Record.platform and Envelope.signature now use NullableString. The example and tests use the updated type. The JSON test checks that an envelope without signature fails to deserialize.
Chain and witness verification
crates/provenance/src/lib.rs
verify_chain uses ChainState and delegates entry and witness checks to separate functions. Witness completeness requires a non-empty declared set with every declared witness supplied and verified. Invalid ancestors keep descendants invalid.
Blocking verification task
src-gossamer/src/provenance/commands.rs
provenance_verify_records runs synchronous verification through tokio::task::spawn_blocking and reports worker join failures. The JSON extension check uses OsStr::to_str directly.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

  • hyperpolymath/panll#174: Introduces the signed-record format, chain verifier and verification command that this change updates.
  • hyperpolymath/panll#172: Defines the signed Exhibit B record and verification proof obligation related to these record and witness checks.

Suggested reviewers: metadatastician

Merge Risk: Low · previous review 51434

The change is mergeable with bounded follow-up: key generation can still write private keys into externally configured Git working trees, creating an accidental-staging risk.

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Review comments at @crates/provenance/examples/record.rs:
- Line 47: Update the destination validation around the `.git` ancestor check to
also reject key paths inside the working tree configured by `GIT_WORK_TREE`,
including when `GIT_DIR` points to external metadata. Resolve and compare the
configured working-tree path using the project’s existing path-handling
conventions, and perform this check before writing the key.

Review comments at @crates/provenance/src/lib.rs:
- Around line 316-318: Add cases to the provenance verification tests for a
malformed witness signature paired with an unknown author key and with an
unsigned author, and assert `Status::Invalid` in both cases. Ensure these cases
exercise `verify_witnesses` even when author verification fails, while
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hyperpolymath added a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 6, 2026
Adding the provenance workspace caused the existing `cargo build
--locked --release --manifest-path tools/pcc/Cargo.toml` gate to reject
PCC as an undeclared member. Explicitly exclude the independently locked
tool. Its existing locked release build now passes (three existing
dead-code warnings).

Also record the exact nested Rust toolchain/cache revisions admitted by
the repository's selected-actions policy. SHA pinning remains required.
This corrects the hosted failure observed after #175; no check is
bypassed.
hyperpolymath added a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 7, 2026
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PanLL's proof guidance still deferred Rust verification to ordinary
tests and did not name the default first-party Rust toolset. Allocate
concrete provenance and IPC/PCC obligations to Creusot with Pearlite and
Verus under standards §1.2, keeping unexecuted implementation proofs
OPEN and dependency behavior ASSUMED.

The ledger separates implementation evidence from cryptographic
hardness, civil identity approval, independent witnesses and checkpoint
operation. No proof is claimed by this documentation change.

Reconciliation evidence: the existing markerless-worktree example test
was explicitly rerun on current main with `cargo test --manifest-path
Cargo.toml -p panll-provenance --example record --locked`: 1 passed, 0
failed. The old #175 thread now links the merged fix and this receipt
and is resolved. Current-main Build Validation 42247456170 and Rust CI
42247457884 pass after #177/#178. Documentation whitespace check passed.
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