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sensing: add the management channel and run the producer under its supervisor - #1465
A management channel for the Sensing producer (camera_plugin_sensing), and a producer that no longer exits when a camera cannot start.
Library (src/sensing_control): an authenticated WebSocket server and a one-JSON-object-per-message request handler (status, events pushed to clients); the status a producer reports; a fault table that turns camera and SIPL errors into plain-language causes and what to check; a supervisor that retries a camera that cannot start; and a capture of the camera driver's own log lines. It has no camera-SDK or GPU dependency and builds and tests on a PC with BUILD_SENSING_CONTROL=ON.
Producer wiring:camera_plugin_sensing now runs under the supervisor. A camera that cannot start (no power cable, no GMSL link) is reported in plain words and retried every --retry-seconds; streaming resumes once it is fixed. --control-token-file turns on the channel (--control-port, --control-bind), which reports state, faults and per-stream frame counts. SIPL failures now name their status and the kind of pipeline notification, which the fault table reads. This producer publishes to LiveKit, so set_direct_target is refused with not_supported.
Client:src/sensing_control/tools/orin_control.py, standard library only; the token goes in the Authorization header.
Validation
Library: built from a fresh configure with only BUILD_SENSING_CONTROL=ON; sensing_control_tests passes (90 cases, 1059 assertions). clang-format-14, ruff and pre-commit are clean.
Producer wiring: app/main.cpp and sensing_camera.cpp pass a compile-only syntax check on a PC (-Wall -Wextra). They were not built against SIPL or the LiveKit SDK, and nothing ran on an Orin.
Not run: the channel, the retry loop and the fault messages have never run against a real camera or a real fault.
Adds the optional BUILD_SENSING_CONTROL CMake target. The library provides producer status and supervision, failure diagnosis, driver-log capture, and an authenticated WebSocket management channel. The channel supports status requests, direct-target updates, and event delivery. A Python client provides status, target-setting, and watch commands. Tests cover the protocol, server, handler, status, diagnostics, log capture, and supervisor.
The management channel is opt-in, but a handler exception can crash the camera producer. Unauthenticated peers can also block legitimate operators, and a stalled closing client can burn CPU. Contain handler exceptions and bound unauthenticated and closing clients before merging.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to c7141
The new management endpoint has an unauthenticated connection-exhaustion risk and a backpressure-related cleanup weakness. Token checks protect camera commands, and the demonstrated impact is bounded to a server instance. Production network protections and camera integration are not yet established.
Retained concerns
Medium · security · observed: Anonymous connections consume authenticated-management admission capacity before token validation. A network-reachable attacker can occupy all configured slots with incomplete handshakes and repeatedly compete for recovered slots, denying new legitimate management connections without a token. The five-second timeout limits each incomplete handshake, but does not reserve admission for authenticated clients. Existing authenticated clients are not shown to lose service.
Medium · security · inferred: An authenticated peer that first backpressures replies, then enters protocol closing while leaving excess unread input, can strand its admission slot and cause the management thread to busy-poll. Closing clients still request readability, stop consuming input at the cap, skip further frame processing, and have no close deadline. If output remains blocked below the output cap, neither normal closure nor the output-size cutoff releases the connection. This is a static, conditional failure-containment inference, not a demonstrated unauthenticated producer outage.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The demonstrated anonymous attack scope is new-management admission for each reachable server instance, without requiring the shared secret. Possession of that secret grants access to the handler's known streams and destination-changing actions; there is no separate read-only or per-stream authorization in this handler. Actual camera transport effects, credential reuse across instances and broader deployment exposure are not established.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
observed — The retained denial-of-service finding follows anonymous TCP acceptance into the shared client vector, exhaustion of max_clients, and immediate rejection of subsequent connections before they can authenticate. Incomplete-handshake timeout and disconnect recovery reduce persistence, but repeated connections can sustain admission pressure. This does not establish unauthenticated execution of camera commands or interruption of existing capture.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The trust transition is from anonymous network peer to shared-secret holder, not to an individually identified user. Host validation restricts syntax and stream lookup restricts track identity, but neither constrains destinations to an approved network. Consequently, protection of the bearer credential is also protection of video-routing authority. The deferred plaintext-exposure candidate cannot be resolved without the production network boundary.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
inferred — Input limits, a one-MiB output cutoff, bounded frame processing and a handshake timeout provide useful resource containment. They do not guarantee progress for a closing connection with blocked output below the cutoff and unread input after the input cap is reached. Existing slow-reader tests exercise output-cap removal, while protocol-close tests drain responses; neither defeats the specific blocked-close inference.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Separate pending-handshake admission from authenticated capacity, with bounded anonymous admission pressure. Give closing connections a terminal deadline and avoid polling readability when that state cannot consume input. These controls would address admission availability and blocked-close resource retention independently.
proposed — Before producer rollout, establish an authenticated encrypted transport or protected tunnel, restrict listener reachability, and define credential provisioning and rotation for video-routing authority. Document whether management success means accepted or applied, so an operator does not treat a queued disable or retarget as completed.
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Review comments at @src/sensing_control/control_server.cpp:
- Around line 202-206: Update the max_clients check in the accept path so
unauthenticated connections do not consume authenticated-client capacity: track
pending handshakes under a separate limit, or evict the oldest unauthenticated
client when authenticated capacity is full. Preserve a bound on pending
connections and leave authenticated clients protected from eviction.
- Line 338: Catch exceptions from m_on_message in the message-handling flow in
the server thread, and close the affected connection with an error instead of
allowing the exception to escape. Mark the client as closing and skip encoding a
normal reply; do not send a null-id response, which the client ignores.
- Around line 232-235: Update the `poll()` client input loop to drain
closing-client socket data in bounded batches even when `client.input` is full,
preventing unread data from causing a busy loop. Add a deadline for flushing
pending output and close the client when that deadline expires, even if its
queued output remains below 1 MiB.
Review comments at @src/sensing_control/tools/orin_control.py:
- Line 170: Update token loading through args.token_file so it uses only the
first line, matching the server’s read_secret_file behavior, and trims that line
before sending it in the Authorization header. Preserve safe handling of an
empty file by producing an empty token.
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Clients that have not authenticated count against max_clients.
The slot check counts every accepted socket, including sockets that have not completed the handshake. A peer with no token can open 8 connections and send nothing. The peer can reconnect before the 5-second kHandshakeTimeout ends. The server then closes every new connection, so a legitimate operator cannot reach the channel.
Use a separate limit for pending handshakes. Alternatively, when the server is full, evict the oldest client that has not authenticated, so that the limit applies only to authenticated clients.
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Review comment at @src/sensing_control/control_server.cpp around lines 202 - 206:
Update the max_clients check in the accept path so unauthenticated connections do not consume authenticated-client capacity: track pending handshakes under a separate limit, or evict the oldest unauthenticated client when authenticated capacity is full. Preserve a bound on pending connections and leave authenticated clients protected from eviction.
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cat -n src/sensing_control/websocket.cpp | sed -n '255,365p'
cat -n src/sensing_control/inc/sensing_control/control_server.hpp | sed -n '1,140p'
Repository: NVIDIA/IsaacCapture
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Bound reads and add a deadline for closing clients.
If a closing client stops reading and sends enough data to fill client.input, poll() can spin on unread socket data and consume a CPU core. The client can also retain its slot indefinitely if output stays blocked below 1 MiB.
Drain closing-client input in bounded batches, including when the input buffer is already full. Add a deadline for flushing output.
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Review comment at @src/sensing_control/control_server.cpp around lines 232 - 235:
Update the `poll()` client input loop to drain closing-client socket data in bounded batches even when `client.input` is full, preventing unread data from causing a busy loop. Add a deadline for flushing pending output and close the client when that deadline expires, even if its queued output remains below 1 MiB.
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Sources consulted:
- json/include/nlohmann/detail/output/serializer.hpp at v3.11.3 · nlohmann/json · GitHub — https://github.com/nlohmann/json/blob/v3.11.3/include/nlohmann/detail/output/serializer.hpp
- json/include/nlohmann/detail/exceptions.hpp at v3.11.3 · nlohmann/json · GitHub — https://github.com/nlohmann/json/blob/v3.11.3/include/nlohmann/detail/exceptions.hpp
- dump - JSON for Modern C++ — https://nlohmann.github.io/json/api/basic_json/dump/
- error_handler_t - JSON for Modern C++ — https://nlohmann.github.io/json/api/basic_json/error_handler_t/
- …and 31 more
If m_on_message throws, the exception leaves the server thread and terminates the process. For example, status setters accept strings with invalid UTF-8, which can make status_json throw on a get_status request.
Close the affected connection with an error. A null-id reply would be ignored by the supplied client.
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Review comment at @src/sensing_control/control_server.cpp at line 338:
Catch exceptions from m_on_message in the message-handling flow in the server thread, and close the affected connection with an error instead of allowing the exception to escape. Mark the client as closing and skip encoding a normal reply; do not send a null-id response, which the client ignores.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
The client reads the token file differently from the server.
read_secret_file in control_server.cpp uses only the first line of the file. This client uses the whole file with .strip(). If one token file has more than one line, the client sends a different token and gets a 401. The embedded newline also ends up inside the Authorization header and corrupts the request. Use the first line, as the server does.
Proposed fix
--- "a/src/sensing_control/tools/orin_control.py"+++ "b/src/sensing_control/tools/orin_control.py"@@ -167,7 +167,8 @@
host, _, port = args.target.partition(":")
try:
- token = args.token_file.read_text().strip()+ lines = args.token_file.read_text().splitlines()+ token = lines[0].strip() if lines else ""
if not token:
raise ChannelError(f"{args.token_file} is empty")
conn = Connection(host, int(port) if port else DEFAULT_PORT, token)
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token=args.token_file.read_text().strip()
lines=args.token_file.read_text().splitlines()
token=lines[0].strip() iflineselse""
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Review comment at @src/sensing_control/tools/orin_control.py at line 170:
Update token loading through args.token_file so it uses only the first line, matching the server’s read_secret_file behavior, and trims that line before sending it in the Authorization header. Preserve safe handling of an empty file by producing an empty token.
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An authenticated WebSocket server, a JSON request handler, the status a producer reports, a
supervisor that retries a camera that cannot start, a plain-language fault table and a capture of
the camera driver's own log lines. It has no video, camera-SDK or GPU dependency, so it builds
and its unit tests run on a PC with BUILD_SENSING_CONTROL=ON. A standard-library client,
tools/orin_control.py, drives the channel from the command line.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Gareth Morgan <gmorgan@nvidia.com>
A camera that cannot start no longer ends camera_plugin_sensing: the supervisor
reports the fault in plain words, retries, and resumes streaming once it is
fixed. --control-token-file turns on the WebSocket management channel, which
reports state, faults and per-stream frame counts. SIPL failures name their
status and the kind of pipeline notification, which the fault table reads.
set_direct_target is refused with not_supported, since this producer publishes
to LiveKit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Gareth Morgan <gmorgan@nvidia.com>
gareth-morgan-nv
changed the title
sensing_control: add the camera producer's management channel library
sensing: add the management channel and run the producer under its supervisor
Nov 10, 2026
Closing as superseded: the camera path is now the camera_streamer architecture (SIPL/Argus sender, AVS1 over TCP, PC receiver and LiveKit bridge; see #1473-#1479). Not merged; the branch and commits are kept.
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Summary
A management channel for the Sensing producer (
camera_plugin_sensing), and a producer that no longer exits when a camera cannot start.src/sensing_control): an authenticated WebSocket server and a one-JSON-object-per-message request handler (status, events pushed to clients); the status a producer reports; a fault table that turns camera and SIPL errors into plain-language causes and what to check; a supervisor that retries a camera that cannot start; and a capture of the camera driver's own log lines. It has no camera-SDK or GPU dependency and builds and tests on a PC withBUILD_SENSING_CONTROL=ON.camera_plugin_sensingnow runs under the supervisor. A camera that cannot start (no power cable, no GMSL link) is reported in plain words and retried every--retry-seconds; streaming resumes once it is fixed.--control-token-fileturns on the channel (--control-port,--control-bind), which reports state, faults and per-stream frame counts. SIPL failures now name their status and the kind of pipeline notification, which the fault table reads. This producer publishes to LiveKit, soset_direct_targetis refused withnot_supported.src/sensing_control/tools/orin_control.py, standard library only; the token goes in the Authorization header.Validation
BUILD_SENSING_CONTROL=ON;sensing_control_testspasses (90 cases, 1059 assertions). clang-format-14, ruff and pre-commit are clean.app/main.cppandsensing_camera.cpppass a compile-only syntax check on a PC (-Wall -Wextra). They were not built against SIPL or the LiveKit SDK, and nothing ran on an Orin.Stacked on #1461.
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