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fix(test): a guard file may name the module it forbids - #444

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main is red right now. This fixes it. Reproduced on origin/main directly, not just on a branch:

--- FAIL: TestNoDirectPackageURLUse
    these files reference a package-url library directly ...
    [../../internal/output/registry_lookup_guard_test.go names github.com/package-url/packageurl-go]

Cause

#436 and #437 each added a guard and merged independently, and neither could have seen it alone:

Two rules doing their jobs, one flagging the other. A guard file naming a module in a rule that bans it is the opposite of reaching for it.

Fix

The exemption is a set of canonical paths.

Not a name — exempting anything called guards_test.go was the earlier bug in this very line, and it hid a forbidden import in a second guard file. Not a single hard-coded path either, which is what made the two guards collide as soon as a second one existed.

Adding a guard now costs one line in that set, on purpose: a new exemption should be an edit someone reviews, not a pattern that widens by itself.

The test exists because a mutation passed

My first mutation — reverting the predicate to a basename match — passed, which meant nothing pinned "exempt by path, not by name". The predicate is extracted now and TestGuardExemptionIsByPathNotByName covers both failure directions:

  • a file exempt for being named like a guard → fails
  • an entry naming a file that no longer exists → fails, because a dead exemption is a rule nobody is applying

Re-run after extracting: "../../internal/sbom/guards_test.go" is exempt for being named guards_test.go rather than for being a guard. Dropping the output guard from the set reproduces main's current failure.

make verify green.

Merge this before #440 — that PR is otherwise green and only red because it merged a broken main.

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  • Tests
    • Expanded guard validation coverage to verify module-specific exemptions.
    • Added checks ensuring exemptions are tied to canonical file paths and do not apply to unrelated files or modules.
    • Centralized forbidden-module test values for more consistent validation.

main is red. #436 and #437 each added a guard and merged independently:
the presentation-layer guard has to spell packageurl-go in order to ban
it, and the module-boundary guard reports any file under internal/ that
names it. Two rules doing their job, one flagging the other.

The exemption is a set of canonical paths now. Not a name -- exempting
anything called guards_test.go was the earlier bug in this same line, and
it hid a forbidden import in a second guard file. Not one hard-coded path
either, which is what made the guards collide the moment a second one
existed.

Adding a guard costs one line in that set, deliberately: a new exemption
should be an edit somebody reviews, not a pattern that widens on its own.

The predicate is extracted so the property can be pinned rather than
described. TestGuardExemptionIsByPathNotByName fails if a file becomes
exempt for being *named* like a guard, and if an entry names a file that
no longer exists -- a dead exemption is a rule nobody is applying. The
first mutation I ran against the old shape passed, which is how the
missing test surfaced.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The guard tests now centralize module names and define guard-file exemptions by canonical path and entitled module. New tests verify valid and invalid exemptions, guard-file existence, and module-specific naming.

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Guard exemption validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Per-path module entitlements
internal/detectors/guards_test.go
Shared module constants, the guardFiles map, and the guardMayName helper define module-specific guard exemptions. filesNamingModule uses these exemptions for Go files.
Exemption behavior tests
internal/detectors/guards_test.go
TestGuardExemptionIsByPathAndPerModule checks guard-file existence, entitled module names, unrelated module rejection, and non-guard filename handling.

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Guard coverage can silently weaken or scan the wrong package-url module after future edits. The fixes are localized and should be made before relying on these tests.

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Comment thread internal/detectors/guards_test.go Outdated
bomly-guy added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 9, 2026
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Test on this PR fails on a collision inherited from main, not on anything
this branch changed: #436's module-boundary guard reports #437's
presentation guard, which has to spell packageurl-go in order to forbid
it. #444 fixes it. Merging that branch in so this PR's CI reflects its own
changes; the merge collapses when #444 lands on main.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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main is red: #436 tightened TestNoDirectPackageURLUse while #437 added
internal/output/registry_lookup_guard_test.go, whose own forbidden-string
literal names the module the other guard forbids, so the two guards report
each other. The failure is inherited by every branch cut from main,
including this one, and is unrelated to the digest vocabulary change here.

#444 fixes it and is green. Merging that branch rather
than writing a second fix: it is the same commit, so when #444 lands on
main this history dedupes with no conflict, and #443 never carries a
competing version of the same fix. It touches only
internal/detectors/guards_test.go, which this PR does not.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Codex found the hole and it reproduced: the path-keyed exemption excused a
guard file from *every* module rule, not from the one it states. The
presentation-layer guard must spell packageurl-go, and was thereby also
free to name go-spdx and the deprecated anchore fork with nothing
reporting it. Appending both to that file left all guards green.

The table maps a guard to the modules it is entitled to name, and
guardMayName takes the module under test. internal/output's guard forbids
one module, so it may name one. This file states every rule, so it names
every module. The three module paths are constants now, shared by the
forbidding rule and the exemption -- spelled twice, a typo would have
opened a hole in the passing direction.

TestGuardExemptionIsByPathAndPerModule replaces the by-path-not-by-name
test and keeps that half. It also fails if a guard is entitled to a module
it never names: an unused entitlement is a dead rule, the same way a path
that no longer exists is.

Mutations: the original probe now fails both module rules; a predicate
ignoring the module fails; a predicate matching the base name fails.

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- Around line 360-363: The entitlement validation in
TestGuardExemptionIsByPathAndPerModule must verify that each module is
referenced by an active enforcement rule, not merely anywhere in the guard test
file. Link each entitlement to the corresponding TestNoDirectSPDXExpressionUse
or TestNoDirectPackageURLUse rule, or exclude module constants and guardFiles
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bomly-guy and others added 2 commits September 11, 2026 21:59
Codex again, and it reproduced again. Adding a real import of
packageurl-go to the entitled guard file left every guard green: this
rule skipped the file for that module, and internal/output's own guard
skips _test.go, so nothing was looking at the one file allowed to say the
name.

Naming and importing are different acts. A guard spells the module in a
string so it can forbid it; an import is the hazard the rule exists to
prevent. The entitlement now covers only the first.

go/parser answers what a file imports. A textual scan cannot tell the two
apart -- it reads this file's own const block as an import, which is the
distinction the whole fix rests on. The prefix match carries its
separator because a module path is not always the import path: go-spdx is
reached as go-spdx/v2/spdxexp.

TestNamingAModuleIsNotImportingIt pins the predicate on fixtures rather
than on the repository, in four directions: a const and a comment are not
an import, a blank import is, a subpackage import reaches the module, and
a neighbour sharing the path prefix does not. The live guard files are
asserted not to import what they are entitled to name.

Mutations: the original probe now fails both the walker and the
assertion; an entitlement ignoring imports fails; a prefix match without
its separator fails.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
CodeRabbit caught both halves of a drift I introduced. The last change
hoisted the module paths into constants and said the rule and the
exemption now shared them -- and then left TestNoDirectPackageURLUse
scanning its own duplicated literals. The table used the constants, the
rule used the strings, and nothing compared them.

The other half made it invisible. The entitlement check asked whether the
guard file's text contained the module, and this file declares all three
constants, so the check passed no matter which modules any rule actually
scanned. A guard that guards nothing, for the fifth time in this file.

forbiddenModules maps each module to the rule that forbids it. Both rules
take their lists from it, guardFiles grants exemptions against its keys,
and the entitlement test validates against them: an entitlement for a
module no rule forbids is a licence to import something nothing bans.

What it still does not prove is that each named rule exists and runs. Go
cannot ask that without depending on test ordering, which breaks under
-run, so the comment says so rather than implying more.

Mutations: dropping the fork's entry leaves its constant declared -- a
text scan passes -- while the rule stops catching a probe that names it,
and the entitlement check reports the orphan. A bogus entitlement for an
unforbidden module fails.

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Comment thread internal/detectors/guards_test.go Outdated
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Codex found the fifth hole in this file, and it is the same shape as the
other four: a field that can be wrong in the direction that passes. A
module carrying an owner string of "TestNoDirectPurlUse" belonged to no
rule, was scanned by nothing, and still satisfied an entitlement, because
the check asked whether the module was a map key rather than whether any
live rule forbade it.

Validating the owner against a list of known rules would have closed it.
Inverting the registry removes the field instead: forbiddenModules is
keyed by rule now, so there is no owner to mistype -- only a key, and a
key that is not a rule is caught from both sides.
TestRuleRegistryCoversEveryRule fails when a key names no rule that runs
and when a rule that runs has no key.

modulesForRule takes t and fails on an empty or missing list rather than
returning nothing. A rule scanning no modules reports no offenders
however many exist, which is indistinguishable from a rule that passed --
the failure mode this whole file exists to prevent, one level up.

Mutations: Codex's mistyped key fails twice over, once in the registry
test and once in the rule that would have scanned nothing. An emptied
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