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Concurrency tests in #3255 showed that a request authorized against a deleted
atespace can apply to a new atespace with the same name. A previous owner can
regain owner on it or delete it.

We decided not to fix this in code. Atespace names must not be reused, and
nothing enforces it. This documents the limitation in the authorization guide
and qualifies the claim that a recreated atespace starts with no policy.

I used an AI assistant to analyze the issue and draft the doc text, and
reviewed the result.

@SHRUTI6991 Shruti Nair (SHRUTI6991) changed the title Document that atespace names must not be reused docs: Document that atespace names must not be reused Oct 29, 2026
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Nothing enforces unique names. Pick names with enough randomness that
separate admins and automation don't collide.

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🤖 should-fix 🟡 – Randomness guards against accidental collisions, but the race needs the same name recreated on purpose, which is the normal case for deterministic or GitOps-managed names (your own note on #3255 says the 26-character rule doesn't cover this). Say what actually avoids it: once an atespace is deleted, don't create another one under that name; use a fresh name instead.

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Done. Replaced the randomness advice with: don't recreate a deleted atespace's name; use a fresh one.

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and recreated under the same name, a request a previous owner sent before
the delete can grant itself access to the new atespace, or delete it.

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🤖 nit 🟢 – "sent before the delete" is looser than the bullet above, which correctly says the request must still be in flight across the delete and recreate. Align the two. Also, per #3255 every atespace-scoped write is affected, not only policy grants and delete; "can land on the new atespace, including granting access to it or deleting it" would cover that.

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Done. Both bullets now say the request must still be in flight across the delete and recreate, and the limitation covers any write landing on the new atespace.

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Concurrency tests in agent-substrate#3255 showed that a request authorized against a
deleted
atespace can apply to a new atespace with the same name. A previous
owner can
regain `owner` on it or delete it.

We decided not to fix this in code. Atespace names must not be reused,
and
nothing enforces it. This documents the limitation in the authorization
guide
and qualifies the claim that a recreated atespace starts with no policy.

I used an AI assistant to analyze the issue and draft the doc text, and
reviewed the result.

---------

Signed-off-by: Shruti Nair <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 9d16b69)
Signed-off-by: Eitan Yarmush <[email protected]>
Dmitry Berkovich (dberkov) pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 3, 2026
Bring `release-1.0` up to `main` at
5a5b192 with the 19 changes merged
since the previous batch in #3536. The final tree matches that commit
exactly.

**Please use Rebase and merge to preserve the individual commits and
author attribution.** All 19 applied cleanly in upstream order. Original
authors, author dates, co-author and sign-off trailers, and `-x` source
references are retained.

Upgrade notes:

- #3533: old gVisor MEMORY snapshots, including goldens, no longer
restore. Recreate them after upgrading. MicroVM MEMORY snapshots still
resume with their old mounts until recreated. `/tmp` is now always
tmpfs; ROOTFS snapshots no longer preserve its contents, and
image-provided files there are hidden. MicroVM `/tmp` counts against
actor memory and is capped at half the guest's memory. gVisor `/dev/shm`
is now a 64 MiB tmpfs. Mount a `durableDir` at either path when
persistence or more space is needed. `/run` now comes from the image
rootfs.
- #3447: remove `--actor-jwt-jwks-file` from custom credential-exchange
sidecar configs. Set `--actor-jwt-issuer-ca-file` only when the issuer
uses a private CA other than the service DNS CA.

- #3450: do not reuse a deleted atespace name. See the updated atespace
name-reuse guidance.

Includes #3505, which overlaps the open backport in #3547. GKE
provisioning and teardown now live in
[substrate-gke](https://github.com/ai-on-gke/substrate-gke) rather than
this repository.

<details>
<summary>Included PRs, in cherry-pick order</summary>

1. #3500: demos/{sandbox,jupyter,multi-template}: fix tutorial
prerequisites, walkthroughs, and counter volume
2. #3498: demos/counter: inline gVisor walkthrough and fix setup
commands
3. #3511: e2e tests: Extend the existing tests to cover tag actor.
4. #2775: Generate API reference documentation and publish it on
Substrate website
5. #3119: Document how people, pods and CI jobs should authenticate to
ate-api
6. #3505: tools: remove setup-gcp and hack/teardown.sh
7. #3147: e2e: resume fidelity after SandboxConfig version edits
8. #3370: ate-setup: reconcile ate-api-server ConfigMaps and roll out on
config changes
9. #1607: hack: reject breaking proto changes across each proto package
10. #3415: docs: update and add security diagrams
11. #3485: Resuming a microVM actor on the same node no longer reads its
rootfs upper back from disk
12. #3447: Verify actor JWTs in the credential exchange through OIDC
discovery
13. #3533: ocispec: mount tmpfs at /dev/shm, and /tmp on both runtimes
14. #3450: docs: Document that atespace names must not be reused
15. #3410: Document using more than one egress credential provider
16. #3486: atelet: register the device plugin on a new socket each time
17. #3553: ate-setup: wait for the demo namespace in delete demo
18. #3560: Fix multiple issues in claude-code-multiplex demo
19. #3517: docs: remove inaccurate early-stage architecture
documentation

</details>

Validation: every intermediate tree matches its upstream source commit,
all 19 authorship records and original attribution trailers are
preserved, and `git diff --check` passes. The original 18 backport
commits are unchanged.

AI use: AI-assisted cherry-picking, attribution checks, and review.

- [ ] Tests pass
- [x] Docs updated

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Signed-off-by: Mofi Rahman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Eitan Yarmush <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Nayana Bidari <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Julian Gutierrez Oschmann <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Max Thompson <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Shriver <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Grant McCloskey <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Shrutiya <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Haiyan Meng <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Castle <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Elder <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Anish Ramasekar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Shruti Nair <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Haven Xia <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Mofi Rahman <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: nybidari <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Julian Gutierrez Oschmann <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Max Thompson <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Grant McCloskey <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Steven Shriver <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: shrutiyam-glitch <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: haiyanmeng <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Greg Castle <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Benjamin Elder <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Anish Ramasekar <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Shruti Nair <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Haven Xia <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Adam Wathieu <[email protected]>
Dmitry Berkovich (dberkov) pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Nov 3, 2026
Concurrency tests in #3255 showed that a request authorized against a
deleted
atespace can apply to a new atespace with the same name. A previous
owner can
regain `owner` on it or delete it.

We decided not to fix this in code. Atespace names must not be reused,
and
nothing enforces it. This documents the limitation in the authorization
guide
and qualifies the claim that a recreated atespace starts with no policy.

I used an AI assistant to analyze the issue and draft the doc text, and
reviewed the result.

---------

Signed-off-by: Shruti Nair <[email protected]>
(cherry picked from commit 9d16b69)
Signed-off-by: Eitan Yarmush <[email protected]>
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