feat(linux): own udev rules setup and diagnose unopenable ports (#1424) - #1425
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On Linux serial nodes are root:dialout 0660 and the invoking user is
usually not in `dialout`. `fbuild deploy` then flashes successfully and
cannot reopen the port it just flashed. Nothing in the toolchain set this
up: fbuild had no udev/setup/doctor path, and FastLED only *diagnoses*
(`ci/compiler/pio.py::check_usb_permissions`) on the legacy PlatformIO
path that the fbuild deploy path never calls. PlatformIO used to ship
`99-platformio-udev.rules` for manual install; fbuild replaced pio for
build and deploy but not that setup step.
The expensive part was the misdirection. fbuild found the port, called it
`health healthy`, printed `Permission denied`, and then advised cables,
BOOTSEL and RESET — a remedy unrelated to the cause. On an unattended
bench that reads as a hardware fault.
`port doctor` now reports it. A port can be attached, healthy, and still
impossible to open; that combination rendered as "attached and healthy"
with an empty remedy. The new verdict is checked before presence and
names the fix. It also says a one-shot chmod will not hold: deploy
re-enumerates the board (BOOTSEL -> application) and udev recreates the
node before fbuild reopens it, so only a vendor-keyed rule survives.
`fbuild port udev` prints rules for every vendor in the registry.
- Vendors come from the ingested FastLED/boards catalogue via the new
`usb::online_vendor_vids()`, never a local table — a hand-maintained
copy would drift the moment a vendor is ingested, which is what the
VID/PID source-of-truth rule exists to prevent. 36 vendors today.
- Prints, never installs. On NixOS `/etc` is generated from declarative
config, so a written file there is out-of-band and gets clobbered;
those users need the content for `services.udev.extraRules`. Elsewhere
it keeps the privileged write explicit.
- An empty registry is an error, not an empty file: one that looks
configured while granting nothing is worse than none.
- Defaults to `plugdev`, which unlike `dialout` does not also confer
modem/PPP access.
Rules render as lowercase zero-padded 4-digit hex because udev compares
ATTRS{idVendor} as a string against sysfs — "0x2E8A" or "2E8A" simply
never match, silently. Tests pin that, the padding, sort/dedup, the
group override, and the empty-registry refusal.
Verified: cargo check --all-targets clean; `cargo test -p fbuild-cli`
315 passed / 0 failed, including 6 new udev tests and 4 new port_doctor
tests (the existing 27 still pass, so the absent/failing-board verdicts
this command was written for are undisturbed). `fbuild port udev` emits
36 rules from the live registry, every VID exactly 4 lowercase hex
digits, including 2e8a and 303a.
Found while an RP2350 bench run kept failing post-deploy port reopen
(FastLED#3899).
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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This change adds generated udev configuration and Linux port-permission diagnosis. Merge readiness remains moderate because arbitrary group input may produce unsafe rule output and formatting CI is still failing. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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User->>run_udev: invoke port udev
run_udev->>USBOverlay: refresh online overlay
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USBOverlay-->>run_udev: return vendor VIDs
run_udev->>render_udev_rules: render VIDs and group
render_udev_rules-->>run_udev: return rule text
run_udev-->>User: print rules and install hint
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In `@crates/fbuild-cli/src/cli/port_doctor.rs`:
- Line 118: Update the remediation string in render_report’s report construction
to remove literal whitespace runs between sentences, using Rust string
continuations or concatenated literals while preserving the complete guidance
and normal terminal spacing.
- Line 92: Update the port probe in the port-doctor flow around
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In `@crates/fbuild-cli/src/cli/udev.rs`:
- Around line 50-55: Format the changed Rust code in the udev rule-generation
function using the repository’s standard Rust formatting configuration. Preserve
the generated output and update the affected out.push_str calls involving
UDEV_RULES_FILENAME and group to match formatter output.
- Line 66: Validate the group value before formatting it in the udev rule
generated by the CLI: reject empty values and accept only a safe group-name
format that cannot contain quotes, newlines, or other rule syntax. Apply this
validation at the --group input boundary used by the udev rule generation flow,
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| out.push_str("# after the board re-enumerates. Regenerate after upgrading fbuild to\n"); | ||
| out.push_str("# pick up newly ingested vendors.\n"); | ||
| out.push_str("#\n"); | ||
| out.push_str(&format!("# Install as /etc/udev/rules.d/{UDEV_RULES_FILENAME}, then:\n")); | ||
| out.push_str("# sudo udevadm control --reload-rules && sudo udevadm trigger\n"); | ||
| out.push_str(&format!("# Ensure your user is in the '{group}' group, then log out and back in.\n")); |
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Fix the rustfmt failure.
The formatting pipeline fails on this changed code. Run soldr cargo fmt --all and commit the formatted result. As per coding guidelines, “Always use a globally-installed soldr to execute Rust commands.”
Also applies to: 102-103
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In `@crates/fbuild-cli/src/cli/udev.rs` around lines 50 - 55, Format the changed
Rust code in the udev rule-generation function using the repository’s standard
Rust formatting configuration. Preserve the generated output and update the
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| // as a string against sysfs, which renders it exactly this way. An | ||
| // uppercase or 0x-prefixed value silently never matches. | ||
| out.push_str(&format!( | ||
| "SUBSYSTEM==\"tty\", ATTRS{{idVendor}}==\"{vid:04x}\", GROUP=\"{group}\", MODE=\"0660\"\n" |
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printf '%s\n' '--- port_scan.rs caller/options ---'
sed -n '70,145p' crates/fbuild-cli/src/cli/port_scan.rs
printf '%s\n' '--- group references and documentation ---'
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In systemd udev rules, the GROUP assignment key is used to set the group ownership of a device node [1][2]. The value is specified as a double-quoted string [3][4]. Regarding escaping, quotes, and special characters: Standard Quoted Strings ("...") By default, values are written as double-quoted strings (e.g., GROUP="disk") [3][4]. To include a literal double-quote character within the string, you must precede it with a backslash (") [3][4]. Other backslash-character combinations are not unescaped; for example, "\n" is treated literally as a backslash and the letter 'n' [3][4]. C-Style Escaped Strings (e"...") If you need to include special characters like newlines or other escape sequences, you can prefix the quoted string with a lowercase 'e' (e.g., e"string\n") [3][4]. This enables C-style escaping, which interprets sequences such as \n (newline), \t (tab), \xhh (hexadecimal), and \uXXXX (Unicode) [4][5]. Syntax Summary - Standard: GROUP="groupname" - With C-style escaping: GROUP=e"groupname\n" Official documentation for udev, including detailed syntax and escape rules, can be found in the udev(7) manual page [1][4].
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- 1: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/udev.html
- 2: https://linuxman7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/udev.7.html
- 3: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/udev
- 4: https://manpages.debian.org/trixie/udev/udev.7.en.html
- 5: GitHub pull request 17399 in systemd/systemd (link omitted to avoid creating a cross-reference)
Injection (CWE-74): Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')
Reachability: External · Exploitability: Difficult
Validate or encode group before rendering the rule.
--group reaches the quoted udev value without validation. A " or newline in group can alter the generated rules. If an operator installs the output, it can grant unintended serial-device access. Accept only a safe, non-empty group-name format, or apply correct udev value encoding.
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before formatting it in the udev rule generated by the CLI: reject empty values
and accept only a safe group-name format that cannot contain quotes, newlines,
or other rule syntax. Apply this validation at the --group input boundary used
by the udev rule generation flow, while preserving normal valid group names.
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#1424) Addresses CodeRabbit on #1425. Both findings were valid; the second was a bug I introduced. 1. `OpenOptions::new().read(true).open(port)` set neither O_NONBLOCK nor O_NOCTTY. On Linux a terminal with CLOCAL clear blocks until carrier detect, which would hang a command whose own docs promise a strictly read-only diagnostic; without O_NOCTTY the probe could also acquire a controlling terminal, so signals sent there would reach fbuild. Not theoretical: an open on a contended port measured 13.3 s on the bench that motivated this issue. Now uses `custom_flags(libc::O_NONBLOCK | libc::O_NOCTTY)`, with libc added to fbuild-cli under a `cfg(unix)` target since it was a workspace dependency but not a crate one. 2. The permission remedy carried literal runs of ~20 spaces: "...your user is not in that group..." The source was generated through a heredoc that consumed the `\` line-continuations as continuations of the *generating* language, joining the lines while keeping their indentation. Rebuilt from `concat!()` of separate literals, which cannot reproduce that. cargo check -p fbuild-cli --all-targets clean; `cargo test -p fbuild-cli port_doctor` 34 passed / 0 failed, including the four verdict tests that assert on the remedy text. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KkufoNxfnNRU9psT3R9F51
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Closes #1424.
Problem
On Linux serial nodes are
root:dialout 0660and the invoking user is usually not indialout.fbuild deployflashes successfully and then cannot reopen the port it just flashed:fbuild finds the port, calls it
health healthy, printsPermission denied— and then advises cables, BOOTSEL and RESET. The remedy has nothing to do with the cause. On an unattended bench this reads as a hardware fault; it cost a long investigation before the permissions bit was noticed.Nothing set this up. fbuild had no udev/setup/doctor path, and FastLED only diagnoses (
ci/compiler/pio.py::check_usb_permissions) on the legacy PlatformIO path that the fbuild deploy path never calls. PlatformIO shipped99-platformio-udev.rulesfor manual install; fbuild replaced pio for build and deploy but not that setup step.port doctornow reports itA port can be attached, healthy, and impossible to open. That combination previously rendered as "attached and healthy" with an empty remedy. The new verdict is checked before presence and names the actual fix.
It also states that a one-shot
chmodwill not hold — deploy re-enumerates the board (BOOTSEL → application) and udev recreates the node before fbuild reopens it, so only a vendor-keyed rule survives. That detail is what makes the difference between a fix and an hour of confusion.The probe opens read-only, on Linux only: enough to surface
EACCESwithout asserting DTR/RTS, soport doctorkeeps its documented strictly-read-only contract.fbuild port udevPrints rules for every vendor in the registry.
usb::online_vendor_vids(), never a local table. A hand-maintained list would drift the moment a vendor is ingested — exactly what the VID/PID source-of-truth rule exists to prevent. 36 vendors today./etcis generated from declarative config, so a written file there is out-of-band and liable to be clobbered; those users need the content forservices.udev.extraRules. Elsewhere it keeps the privileged write explicit rather than doing it behind the user's back.plugdev, which unlikedialoutdoes not also confer modem/PPP access.--groupoverrides.Rules render as lowercase zero-padded 4-digit hex because udev compares
ATTRS{idVendor}as a string against sysfs —"0x2E8A"or"2E8A"simply never match, and the failure is silent. Tests pin that, the padding, sort/dedup, the group override, and the empty-registry refusal.Verification
cargo check -p fbuild-cli --all-targets— cleancargo test -p fbuild-cli— 315 passed, 0 failed, including 6 newudev::tests and 4 newport_doctor::tests. The existing 27port_doctortests still pass, so the absent/failing-board verdicts this command was written for are undisturbed.fbuild port udevagainst the live registry — 36 rules, every VID exactly four lowercase hex digits, including2e8a(Raspberry Pi) and303a(Espressif):Not included
fbuild port udev --install(write + reload). The issue ranked printing higher, and a privileged write deserves its own review — the generated content is the part users actually need. Happy to add it as a follow-up.Found while an RP2350 bench run kept failing post-deploy port reopen (FastLED#3899). Related: fbuild#1423.
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plugdevgroup by default and support custom group names.Bug Fixes