fix(rewards): fold observed_at to oldest report; log IoFailed

[MichaelTaylor3d]

Summary

• #3323: dig.listRewardDistributors folds funded.observed_at to the OLDEST per-item chain-report stamp instead of the RPC handler's pre-loop clock. At tip, the handler's now is captured before every port.distributor_report read, and each read's own observed_at (stamped by dig-node-service's chain_port.rs after its chain call, uncached) always postdates it — so the wire understated staleness rather than overstating it, as the ticket title originally claimed (corrected on the ticket). NotConsulted arms and the empty FundsNothing case keep the handler's clock: no read happened there, so it remains the honest stamp.
• #3324: verifies the salvaged report_io_failed/refuse_io_failed helpers in crates/dig-node-core/src/rewards/funded.rs — IoFailed now logs path + error the same way report_corrupt/PersistedStateCorrupt already does (shipped v0.257.0), closing the asymmetry where an I/O fault (permissions, missing mount) was silently swallowed. The wire mapping (dispatch.rs's NotConfigured|PersistedStateCorrupt|IoFailed → one NotConsulted) is unchanged — confirmed correct by ticket research: Half::NotConsulted carries no reason field at either 0.12.0 or 0.14.0, and the ticket forbids adding one.

Checkpoint context

A prior lane was killed by an account-wide 429 mid-build; its uncommitted work was salvaged and pushed as an explicitly unverified checkpoint (ec07271f, "UNVERIFIED"). This PR is that checkpoint made green:

• a576ae4b applies the #3323 fold (the only piece the checkpoint was missing — dispatch.rs had netted to zero against base).
• a3422a91 runs cargo fmt on the salvaged #3323 test and records that both regression tests now compile and pass.

Blast radius

Read via ripgrep + direct read in this worktree (gitnexus not invoked — ticket research already established the mechanism at file:line and the touched surface is two functions in one crate). Touched: crates/dig-node-core/src/seams/dig_rpc/dispatch.rs (ListRewardDistributors arm only), crates/dig-node-core/src/rewards/funded.rs (report_io_failed/refuse_io_failed, already in the checkpoint), crates/dig-node-core/src/lib.rs (fmt only). No sibling arm (getRewardProverStatus, getPayeeRewardClaimStatus) touched. chain_port.rs (owned by the #3421 sibling lane) untouched.

Tests

• list_reward_distributors_funded_observed_at_is_the_oldest_report_stamp (lib.rs) — RED against the checkpoint (no fold applied, observed_at = wall clock), GREEN after a576ae4b. Mutation proof: reverting the fold (restoring observed_at: now and dropping the loop's fold) reproduces RED (cargo test -p dig-node-core --lib <name> → test result: FAILED, exit 101); restoring the fold returns GREEN (exit 0).
• an_io_failed_read_is_logged_with_its_path_and_error (funded.rs, from the checkpoint) — mutation proof: reverting report_io_failed's call site to the bare IoFailed { path, error } construction reproduces RED (exit 101); restoring the helper call returns GREEN (exit 0).

Both mutations and restores were re-verified with grep -c/md5sum on the file content directly (not just tool-rendered logs) to rule out a paraphrasing artifact.

Not verified

• No workspace-wide build/test — only cargo test -p dig-node-core --lib <testname> per ticket, per the hard constraint against a cold cargo build/test at workspace scope (measured 46m21s cold).
• Sibling arms noted in ticket research (dispatch.rs:996/:1218's handler-clock stamps on getRewardProverStatus et al.) are out of scope and untouched, per the ticket.

Refs #3323
Refs #3324

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[MichaelTaylor3d]

Verdict: PASS

Reviewed net diff c72a0ebb..a3422a91 (base develop). Read-only worktree at C:/worktrees/dig-node-gate628, removed after this review.

Point-by-point

1. Is min the right fold, and is unwrap_or(now) right in the all-failed case?
min is right — a collection is only as fresh as its stalest member. The "loop ran but every read failed" case cannot reach the unwrap_or(now) fallback at all: dispatch.rs:1191-1194's Err(e) => return reward_chain_port_error_response(&id, &e) short-circuits the entire handler on the first per-identity error, before any Consulted response is built. So unwrap_or(now) only fires when identities is empty (FundsNothing, loop body never runs) — in that case no chain read happened, and now is the honest stamp. Confirmed by reading the full loop at dispatch.rs:1176-1201.

2. Are both NotConsulted arms genuinely untouched, and is FundsNothing distinguishable from consulted-but-empty?
Yes on both. claimable: Half::NotConsulted { observed_at: now } at dispatch.rs:1207 is unchanged. The NotConfigured | PersistedStateCorrupt | IoFailed arm (dispatch.rs:1150-1163, pre-existing, untouched) returns early with both halves NotConsulted { observed_at: now }. FundsNothing falls through to identities = Vec::new(), the loop body never executes, oldest_observed_at stays None, and the result is Consulted { observed_at: now, items: [] } — same clock value as NotConsulted would use, but a structurally different (and correct, per the doc comment above the match) outcome tag. Genuinely distinguishable, verified via funded.determined() semantics.

3. Does report_io_failed log on every IoFailed construction site, including the writer twins?
Yes — verified by grep, all three sites in funded.rs: line 216 (read()), line 234 (refuse_io_failed in the reader-fails-before-merge path), line 246 (refuse_io_failed on a save failure). No bare IoFailed { path, error } construction remains anywhere in dig-node-core (grepped the whole crate). dispatch.rs:1157 is a pattern match on the variant, not a construction site.

4. Does the logging leak anything it shouldn't?
No. FundedDistributorsRead/RecordOutcome derive only Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq — no Serialize — so path/error never reach a wire response. dispatch.rs:1157's match arm collapses IoFailed into Half::NotConsulted { observed_at: now }, dropping both fields entirely. path/error reach only tracing::error! at funded.rs:336-352.

5. Salvage risk — did anything from the unverified ec07271f checkpoint survive unreviewed?
One discrepancy worth naming, not blocking: ec07271f's own commit message claims "the fold it asserts is NOT applied — dispatch.rs nets to zero against HEAD, so the handler still stamps its own clock." A direct file-content diff (git show ec07271f:.../dispatch.rs vs. the pre-branch base, md5sum-verified, not read through paraphrased tool output) shows the fold was already present in ec07271f at observed_at: oldest_observed_at.unwrap_or(now). The commit message under-describes its own diff. This doesn't affect correctness of the shipped code — a576ae4b only reworded the comment and a3422a91 only reformatted the test — but the checkpoint's own "state as salvaged" note is inaccurate and shouldn't be trusted at face value in future archaeology on this branch.

The lib.rs test (list_reward_distributors_funded_observed_at_is_the_oldest_report_stamp) and funded.rs test (an_io_failed_read_is_logged_with_its_path_and_error) both carry blind-written bodies from the checkpoint, but both were reformatted only (not logic-changed) by the later commits, and both assertions are non-vacuous: the lib.rs test's expected value (1_700_200_000 + 0x55) cannot be produced by SystemClock::now() (a 2026 wall-clock value, confirmed by the reported red failure 1790508579 vs 1700200085), and it additionally asserts assert_ne! against report_b.observed_at to rule out a "keep max" mutant. The funded.rs test's log-capture assertions go empty (not falsely-positive) under a reverted bare construction, per the reported red run.

Not re-litigated (per brief)

No comment on: chain_port.rs, the NotConsulted collapse itself, the handler-clock stamps at dispatch.rs:996/:1218, the dig-rpc-protocol 0.14.0 bump, or #3274.

Not run

No cargo build/cargo test at any scope — reviewed from the diff and file contents only, per the hard constraint on cold-build cost in this repo.

No blocking findings. No inline threads opened.

[MichaelTaylor3d]

Security audit — PASS

Head audited: a3422a91221f2080610d422bb88bebe014c90265 (draft, base develop; net diff measured against c72a0ebb50714b8a4d6efdb79987355bb3ebaa7f as instructed). Read-only worktree at C:/worktrees/dig-node-sec628, removed after audit.

1 — log reachability (funded.rs:330-355, report_io_failed/refuse_io_failed). The only production caller of report_io_failed is funded_distributors_read() (lib.rs:675-679), which is reached exclusively from dispatch.rs:1148 inside the ListRewardDistributors arm. That arm is Tier::Control and explicitly excluded from is_peer_reachable_method (asserted by the new test list_reward_distributors_is_control_tier_and_not_peer_reachable, lib.rs:10104-10119, plus the pre-existing enforcement point peer.rs:1523). .record() (the refuse_io_failed caller) has no non-test production caller at all in this crate. So the path+error land in a tracing::error! call reachable only through a local/first-party control-tier dispatch, not from a peer or an anonymous RPC caller — same trust boundary report_corrupt (existing, since v0.257.0) already crosses. The error field is a String already produced upstream by LoadFailure::Io's conversion (unchanged by this diff) — this diff only adds the tracing::error! call sites, it does not change what that string contains. No exploit: reaching this log requires the same privilege as reaching dig.listRewardDistributors itself, which is operator-only.

2 — unbounded/attacker-driven writes. Same reachability analysis applies: since the read path is Control-tier and not peer-reachable, an attacker cannot drive IoFailed reads without already holding local/control access, at which point they don't need a disk-exhaustion primitive — they have local access. Not a live vulnerability; no new remote-attacker-controlled loop was added. (path length is unbounded before formatting, but this is defense-in-depth, not exploitable without existing local privilege — ticket-worthy at most.)

3 — observed_at fold timing leak (dispatch.rs:1170-1206). The stamp folded in is the per-identity chain report's own observed_at (already returned to this same caller per-item — RewardDistributorRef does not carry it directly today but the report's provenance is already caller-visible via the successful path), so the fold discloses nothing beyond what the caller already learns from a successful multi-item call. The distinguishing behavior flagged in the prompt — "every read fails" vs "no reads attempted" — is NOT collapsed: an all-fail case takes the Err(e) => return reward_chain_port_error_response(&id, &e) early-return at dispatch.rs:1189, never reaching the fold, and FundsNothing/empty-identities is the only case keeping now under the new code specifically because no read happened — comment at dispatch.rs:1200-1203 states this and the test list_reward_distributors_funded_observed_at_is_the_oldest_report_stamp proves it. NotConsulted is reached only via the pre-loop NotConfigured/PersistedStateCorrupt/IoFailed match (dispatch.rs:1148-1156, unchanged), so the two states are already structurally distinguished by different code paths, not by observed_at value comparison. This surface is also Control-tier only (per #1/#4). No exploit found; not a live issue.

4 — #3261 tier/reachability regression check. Both axes independently confirmed unchanged: Method::ListRewardDistributors.tier() == Tier::Control and !peer::is_peer_reachable_method("dig.listRewardDistributors"), both asserted in the new test at lib.rs:10104-10119, and enforced at the peer boundary in peer.rs:1523 (pre-existing, untouched by this diff). This diff touches only the arm's body (the fold), not its registration or gating. No regression of the #3351 conflation.

5 — salvage checkpoint (ec07271f). Diffed ec07271f in full: no hardcoded path or credential-shaped literal, no new dev-dependency, no test writing outside a tempfile::tempdir()/TempDir, no #[cfg(test)]-gated accessor left ungated. The checkpoint's funded.rs/test content is materially identical to what shipped in the final SHA; the only substantive difference is dispatch.rs's fold, which the checkpoint had NOT yet applied (per its own commit message) and which the second commit a576ae4b added, matching the diff already reviewed under prompt 3. Nothing security-relevant entered unreviewed.

Out of scope, not re-derived: chain_port.rs, dependency bumps, sibling handler-clock stamps at dispatch.rs:996/:1218, total_paid_out_base_units, the NotConsulted collapse design (already settled correct in #626).

No live vulnerability found. PASS.

[MichaelTaylor3d]

Re-confirmation at rewritten SHA fdea3c34

PASS — metadata-only re-gate. Prior full correctness review at a3422a91 stands unchanged; no code was re-derived.

Head SHA: fdea3c342cbd23f031082a767a37808732a8641f

1. Tree diff a3422a91..fdea3c34 is empty (git diff → 0 lines, exit 0). Byte-identical tree confirmed directly, not paraphrased.
2. Commit chain matches, same base c72a0ebb5071, same 3 commits, only messages changed:
   • fdea3c34 test(rewards): fmt the #3323 regression test; verify the #3324 checkpoint compiles (82 chars)
   • 307675fa fix(rewards): fold observed_at to the oldest report stamp, not the handler clock (80 chars)
   • 11db1759 chore(rewards): UNVERIFIED checkpoint of the #3323/#3324 honesty work (69 chars, was wip(...))
     All three types (test, fix, chore) are in the allowed enum; all subjects well under the header length limit.
3. Corrected checkpoint message matches its own diff. git show --stat 11db1759 shows lib.rs (+53, the RED test), funded.rs (+94, the helpers), and dispatch.rs (+14, the fold) all touched in this single commit — consistent with the corrected claim that both the #3323 RED test and the dispatch.rs fold are present, superseding the retracted "NOT applied" statement from the first draft.

No new findings. No cargo run. No waiting on in-flight CI (commitlint already green per report; that check is out of scope for this re-gate).

[MichaelTaylor3d]

Security re-confirmation at rewritten SHA fdea3c34

PASS (re-confirming prior PASS at a3422a91).

Metadata-only rewrite, verified directly, not paraphrased:

1. Tree diff empty: git diff a3422a91221f2080610d422bb88bebe014c90265 fdea3c342cbd23f031082a767a37808732a8641f → 0 lines. The tree is byte-identical to the one audited at a3422a91. All prior findings stand unchanged (Tier::Control exclusion of ListRewardDistributors at lib.rs:10104-10119, enforced peer.rs:1523; observed_at fold amplification analysis; #3261 both axes; salvage-checkpoint diff).

2. Metadata clean:

   • Author/committer identity unchanged across all 3 commits: Michael Taylor <michael@michaeltaylor.dev> for both author and committer fields on every commit — matches the machine's inherited identity, nothing fabricated or altered.
   • Commit count and order preserved: 3 commits on both the old and new chain from the same base c72a0ebb, same order (11db1759 → 307675fa → fdea3c34), nothing added or dropped.
   • Reworded messages scanned for secret/credential-shaped strings (token, secret, password, api key, private-key markers, internal hostnames, RFC1918 IPs) — no matches. Message content is prose (rationale, Refs #NNNN, Co-Authored-By trailer) with no material introduced through the metadata channel.
   • Only the first commit's subject changed (wip(rewards): ... → chore(rewards): UNVERIFIED checkpoint of the #3323/#3324 honesty work), resolving the commitlint failure; bodies are otherwise consistent with what was audited before.

Nothing further to re-audit — the tree has not moved by a single byte.