harden: stop the background reading the shared state singleton, and enforce it at build time (closes #324)
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Five defects, one of which destroyed every wallet, came from src/background reading and writing the module-level state singleton the MV3 worker never populates, which silently served DEFAULT_STATE. Each point fix created the next defect. The background now has its own per-call getState() and a queued read-modify-write updateState(); the singleton is unreachable from it, and an unpopulated read throws instead of serving defaults.

The prohibition is enforced by the build, not by review: build.js asserts over esbuild's own metafile that no forbidden module is an input of a background bundle, so every specifier syntax esbuild resolves is covered, and both halves of the table are checked for rot -- a stale key, a stale module, an empty list, or an unlisted entry point under src/background/ all fail the build. The ESLint rule remains as fast local feedback and reads the same shared table. Known bounds are documented where the table lives.

Also closes #320: getProvider() now requires a validated network id, so a cold worker no longer prepares a non-mainnet dApp transaction for mainnet and gets refused by the wallet's own verifier. backgroundRefresh() no longer mutates address objects across a network round trip, the broadcast path takes its endpoint and chain id from one snapshot, and eight test storage stubs now structured-clone on get as the real chrome.storage.local does.

closes #320
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// The background's access to the persisted profile.
//
// There is no in-memory copy here, and that is the whole design. The MV3
// service worker is terminated when idle and revived by the next message, so
// anything held at module scope is either absent or arbitrarily stale, and
// src/shared/state.js's module-level `state` singleton — which nothing in the
// worker ever populates — silently served DEFAULT_STATE to whoever read it.
// Five defects came out of that (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/AutistMask/issues/324),
// and every point fix for one of them added a loadState() that created the
// next: loading detaches the objects an in-flight handler is holding.
//
// So the background reads per call and writes read-modify-write:
//
// getState() one storage read, normalized, detached. Nothing else
// holds the object it returns, so a handler may keep it
// across any number of awaits and no concurrent work can
// move it.
// updateState(fn) read fresh, apply fn to that fresh record, write it
// back — all inside a queue, so two background writes
// never interleave, and the read is one storage round trip
// ahead of the write rather than a page lifetime ahead of
// it (which is what made the popup's saveState() need a
// per-field merge against a baseline at all).
//
// A handler that must both read and write therefore does its network work
// against a snapshot it owns, and applies the RESULT inside updateState().
// It never publishes an object other in-flight work is holding.
const { storageGet, storageSet } = require("../shared/browserApi");
const { normalizePersisted } = require("../shared/persistedState");
// A fresh, fully-normalized, detached copy of the persisted profile.
//
// Normalized rather than raw: a legacy or malformed record is self-healed the
// same way loadState() heals it for the popup, so the background is never the
// one context reasoning about a shape the rest of the extension repairs.
async function getState() {
const result = await storageGet("autistmask");
return normalizePersisted(result.autistmask);
}
// Serializes the read-modify-write turns below. Two of them interleaved would
// each read before the other wrote, and the second write would carry the first
// one's fields back to their pre-turn values.
let updateQueue = Promise.resolve();
async function updateStateOnce(mutate) {
const s = await getState();
await mutate(s);
s.hasWallet = Boolean(s.wallets && s.wallets.length > 0);
await storageSet({ autistmask: s });
return s;
}
// Apply `mutate` to a record read fresh from storage and write the result
// back. `mutate` receives a detached, normalized profile and mutates it in
// place; it may be async, but it must not do anything slow — the window
// between the read and the write is the window in which another context's
// write is lost, and keeping it to one storage round trip is what makes a
// whole-record write safe here. Concretely: the write is the WHOLE record, so
// a popup write that lands inside that window is reverted, in every field, by
// the record this turn read before it. That is accepted because the window is
// one round trip long and the popup is not writing while the worker is;
// widening it is what would make it a real hazard.
//
// `mutate` must also not call updateState() itself, directly or through
// anything it awaits: the queue is strictly serial, so the inner turn waits on
// the outer one, which is waiting on the inner one. That deadlocks the whole
// background, not just the caller. Mutate the record you were handed.
//
// Resolves with the record that was written.
function updateState(mutate) {
const turn = updateQueue.then(() => updateStateOnce(mutate));
// The queue must advance even when a turn rejects, or every update after
// it queues behind a promise that never settles.
updateQueue = turn.catch(() => {});
return turn;
}
module.exports = { getState, updateState };