actions/checkout writes its token into .git/config as an http extraheader,
where it stays for the rest of the job. That matters more here than usual:
pull_request jobs run on self-hosted runners and execute the PR's own build.rs,
proc-macros and tests, any of which can read that file. Test and Lint holds
actions: write on top of that, so its token can cancel runs and delete the
Actions caches the whole pipeline now depends on — it was given
persist-credentials: false when that permission was added, and this extends the
same treatment to the other 45 checkouts.
Two are exempt because the token IS the credential the job needs.
helm-package's publish job pushes to rustfs/helm with it; clearing it would
break chart publishing. nix-flake-update is exempt pending verification: it
passes FLAKE_UPDATE_TOKEN to create-pull-request directly rather than reusing
.git/config, so it very likely does not need persistence, but that is unproven
and a broken weekly bot is not worth the guess. Both carry a
persist-credentials-exempt comment saying which.
scripts/security/check_persist_credentials.sh requires every checkout to either
clear its credentials or carry that comment, so the decision stays visible in
review rather than being an omission nobody notices.
Refs: rustfs/backlog#1598, rustfs/backlog#1602
nix-flake-update opens a PR every Sunday that changes flake.lock and nothing
else. flake.lock is consumed only by Nix packaging — cargo never reads it — yet
it was in no paths filter, so each of those PRs ran the full Continuous
Integration pipeline and the merge then ran Build and Release too. Added to all
four lists that have to agree: ci.yml's push and pull_request paths-ignore,
build.yml's push paths-ignore, and ci-docs-only.yml's paths.
The cron stays. flake.lock still has consumers — anyone running `nix build` or
`nix develop` — so stopping the updates would remove the workflow's output, not
just its CI cost.
Those four lists drifting is a silent failure, so scripts/check_ci_paths_sync.sh
now asserts the pair that matters: ci.yml's pull_request paths-ignore must equal
ci-docs-only.yml's paths. An entry present only in the first means a PR touching
those files triggers neither workflow, nobody reports "Test and Lint" or "Quick
Checks", and the PR waits on a required check forever. It also asserts both
companion job names still exist, since renaming one produces the same hang. The
push list is not compared: no required check is reported for push events.
Also in this cleanup:
- nix-flake-update's GITHUB_TOKEN drops to contents: read. The branch push and
the pull request are both made by update-flake-lock with the
FLAKE_UPDATE_TOKEN PAT, so the write scopes were an unused repo-write
credential on an unattended weekly job.
- build.yml's build_docker dispatch input is documented as advisory. docker.yml
triggers on workflow_run and requires the triggering event to be a tag push,
so a manual dispatch never reaches it whatever this input says.
- The nine disabled workflow files get a banner saying so. Their
disabled_manually state lives in GitHub's UI and is invisible when reading the
file, which has already misled one audit into treating dead workflows as live.
Refs: rustfs/backlog#1598, rustfs/backlog#1603
Scheduled workflow failures previously went unnoticed (15 consecutive red
weekly s3-tests sweeps, silent perf nightly failures). Add a reusable
composite action that opens a tracking issue titled
"[scheduled-failure] <workflow name>" — or appends a comment to the
existing open one (dedupe key = workflow name) — with the run URL, run
attempt, and failed job names, labeled "infrastructure".
Wire it into the scheduled paths of e2e-s3tests, mint, fuzz (nightly) and
performance-ab via a final alert-on-failure job gated by
"always() && github.event_name == 'schedule' &&
contains(needs.*.result, 'failure')", with issues:write scoped to that
job only. e2e-s3tests and mint previously had no permissions key; they now
get workflow-level contents:read, reducing every other job's token.
Add a dispatch-only drill workflow that forces a job failure and runs the
action through the exact consumer wiring, for end-to-end verification.
The ci-7 e2e nightly does not exist yet; it is recorded as a pending
consumer in the action README.
Refs: rustfs/backlog#1149 (ci-8), rustfs/backlog#1155
Zhengchao An