A node snapshot was merged into the master's client records by email, and
the only ownership check filtered one derived copy of it: the node's
settings were still stored and re-synced later, its stats still merged,
and a record linked to the master as well as the node took every value
the node reported, including credentials rendered into the master's own
Xray config.
Each snapshot now passes one gate before anything is written. A record
also linked to the master or another node keeps the master's values
apart from per-link fields and the lifecycle the merge already settles;
a record linked only elsewhere, a detached record, a padded or
case-variant email and a new client holding another client's subId are
dropped from the stored settings as well. A soft-orphaned record can be
taken back only by the node whose merge orphaned it, which the new
clients.sync_orphaned_by column records. A node tunnel no longer owns
the peer keys of a client a master-local tunnel also serves.
A client that hit its quota or expiry was disabled, then destroyed on both
panels a few seconds later. Five defects fed the same hard delete.
ReconcileNode pushed buildRuntimeInboundForAPI, which strips disabled
clients. Every other call site targets an in-memory Xray config, where
dropping a user is harmless; a node target is a peer panel's DATABASE, so
the node deleted the row, stopped reporting it, and the master mirrored that
deletion back. Split the builder in two: buildInboundForNodePush injects
fallbacks only, buildInboundForLocalRuntime adds the strip on top. The names
now say which targets they are safe for.
setRemoteTrafficLocked trusted a config_dirty the caller sampled before the
snapshot round-trip. A client added inside that window commits on the same
serialized writer and marks the node dirty, but the merge still treated the
older snapshot as authoritative and deleted it. Re-read the flag inside the
writer.
In "selected" sync mode, FilterNodeSnapshot strips a deselected tag, but the
sweep loaded every inbound with node_id set, so deselecting a tag read as
"the node deleted it" and wiped an inbound the node still serves. Skip tags
outside the node's managed set.
A failed SyncInbound was logged and swallowed; on SQLite the transaction
still commits, and the sweep then deleted the innocent clients whose links
that failure had left unbuilt. Skip the sweep for such an inbound, and close
the trigger: SyncInbound now stores the trimmed email it looks up by, and
email validation rejects every unicode space rather than only U+0020.
ClientService.Delete tombstones up front and deliberately keeps the record
when an inbound fails, so the next attempt can retry the leftovers. The
tombstone did not lift with it, so the next merge dropped the client from
the synced settings and finished the deletion this path had refused. Add
withdrawClientTombstones on every failure path, in BulkDelete too.
Finally, make the sweep itself recoverable. "Ended the merge unattached" is
true for a real remote deletion and equally true for a bad merge, so it now
stamps sync_orphaned_at instead of deleting; any later merge that sees the
client attached clears the mark, and a reaper removes only what stayed
orphaned past the grace period. The traffic row survives that window too, or
a reclaimed client would come back with its usage, quota and expiry reset.
The mark is written by this sweep alone, so orphans from any other cause
keep their existing manual-cleanup semantics.
MHSanaei