OCPEDGE-2984: fix: adjust fencing validator to match MAC-address based credential secrets

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OpenShift now supports MAC addresses as an alternative to hostnames for fencing credentials.
When a MAC is used, the secret is named fencing-credentials-<sha256(normalized_mac)> instead of
fencing-credentials-<hostname>. The validator's secret lookup only matched by hostname, causing false
failures on MAC-based TNF deployments.

Add a fallback that gathers the node's MACs via ip link, hashes each one using the same scheme as the
upstream feature (lowercase, strip colons, SHA-256), and checks for a matching secret.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved fencing-secret validation to reliably identify matching node secrets.
  • Added fallback validation using normalized node network identifiers when hostname matching is unavailable.
  • Enhanced missing-secret error messages to indicate which matching methods were checked.

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OpenShift now supports MAC addresses as an alternative to hostnames for fencing credentials.
When a MAC is used, the secret is named fencing-credentials-<sha256(normalized_mac)> instead of
fencing-credentials-<hostname>. The validator's secret lookup only matched by hostname, causing false
failures on MAC-based TNF deployments.

Add a fallback that gathers the node's MACs via ip link, hashes each one using the same scheme as the
upstream feature (lowercase, strip colons, SHA-256), and checks for a matching secret.

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Walkthrough

Fencing-secret validation now retrieves secrets once, matches short hostnames, and falls back to SHA-256 hashes of eligible node MAC addresses. The missing-secret error describes both matching methods.

Changes

Fencing secret validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Hostname and MAC-hash matching templates/master/00-master/two-node-with-fencing/files/fencing-validator.yaml	The validator discovers node MAC addresses through the selected transport, hashes normalized nonzero and nonbroadcast addresses with SHA-256, and checks both hostname prefixes and MAC hashes. The missing-secret error describes both methods.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~15–30 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 5b836

The validator can accept a fencing secret whose name only begins with the node's short hostname, potentially reporting a false credential match and skipping MAC-based validation. The change is otherwise localized, but the hostname boundary should be tightened with explicit owner awareness.

Suggested reviewers: neilhamza

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the fencing validator fix and the addition of MAC-address-based credential secret matching. It accurately summarizes the main change.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Stable And Deterministic Test Names	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only fencing-validator.yaml. The diff adds shell functions and error text, but no Ginkgo test declarations such as It(), Describe(), Context(), or When(). Ther…
Test Structure And Quality	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only fencing-validator.yaml (+42/-8). The changed file contains shell/YAML logic, not Ginkgo test code. It has no It, BeforeEach, AfterEach, Eventually, `Consi…
Microshift Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	PASS — The pull request changes only templates/master/00-master/two-node-with-fencing/files/fencing-validator.yaml. The diff adds shell functions for MAC-based fencing-secret lookup and changes erro…
Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	The check is not applicable. The pull request changes only the shell-script content embedded in templates/master/00-master/two-node-with-fencing/files/fencing-validator.yaml. The commit adds no Gink…
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility	✅ Passed	PASS — The pull request changes only templates/master/00-master/two-node-with-fencing/files/fencing-validator.yaml. The file installs a host-side Bash validator at /usr/local/bin/fencing_validator…
Ote Binary Stdout Contract	✅ Passed	PASS. The pull request changes only the shell script template fencing-validator.yaml. It does not change an OpenShift Tests Extension binary or any OTE entry point. The added printf and command ou…
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only templates/master/00-master/two-node-with-fencing/files/fencing-validator.yaml. The diff adds Bash functions and changes secret matching. It adds no Ginkgo e2e tes…
No-Weak-Crypto	✅ Passed	The pull request adds only SHA-256 via the system sha256sum utility. SHA-256 is not listed as weak crypto. The change does not add MD5, SHA-1, DES, 3DES, RC4, Blowfish, or ECB mode, and it does not …
Container-Privileges	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request changes only templates/master/00-master/two-node-with-fencing/files/fencing-validator.yaml. The added code retrieves MAC addresses with ip link and hashes them; it adds no `…
No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs	✅ Passed	PASS: The pull request adds no new log, echo, or printf call that emits sensitive values. Secret JSON is stored in secrets_json and parsed with output redirected to /dev/null; MAC addresses and ha…

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PASS: The pull request changes only fencing-validator.yaml. The diff adds shell functions and error text, but no Ginkgo test declarations such as It(), Describe(), Context(), or When(). Therefore, it introduces no test title with dynamic information or an overly specific test title.

Full details: Test Structure And Quality

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PASS: The pull request changes only fencing-validator.yaml (+42/-8). The changed file contains shell/YAML logic, not Ginkgo test code. It has no It, BeforeEach, AfterEach, Eventually, Consistently, or Expect constructs. Therefore, the five Ginkgo test-quality requirements do not apply.

Full details: Microshift Test Compatibility

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PASS — The pull request changes only templates/master/00-master/two-node-with-fencing/files/fencing-validator.yaml. The diff adds shell functions for MAC-based fencing-secret lookup and changes error text. It adds no Ginkgo e2e tests (It, Describe, Context, or When), so the MicroShift test-compatibility check is not applicable.

Full details: Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility

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The check is not applicable. The pull request changes only the shell-script content embedded in templates/master/00-master/two-node-with-fencing/files/fencing-validator.yaml. The commit adds no Ginkgo tests, modifies no test files, and the patch contains no It(), Describe(), Context(), or When() declarations. Therefore, it introduces no SNO-incompatible test assumption.

Full details: Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility

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PASS — The pull request changes only templates/master/00-master/two-node-with-fencing/files/fencing-validator.yaml. The file installs a host-side Bash validator at /usr/local/bin/fencing_validator; it does not define or modify a Deployment, StatefulSet, DaemonSet, pod template, replica count, affinity, topology spread constraint, PDB, node selector, or toleration. The added code only reads control-plane nodes, retrieves secrets, reads host MAC addresses, and computes hashes. Therefore, it introduces no scheduling constraint covered by this check.

Full details: Ote Binary Stdout Contract

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PASS. The pull request changes only the shell script template fencing-validator.yaml. It does not change an OpenShift Tests Extension binary or any OTE entry point. The added printf and command output are captured by command substitution or mapfile, and the new error uses log_err, which writes to stderr. Therefore, the OTE JSON stdout contract does not apply and no changed code introduces a stated violation.

Full details: Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility

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PASS: The pull request changes only templates/master/00-master/two-node-with-fencing/files/fencing-validator.yaml. The diff adds Bash functions and changes secret matching. It adds no Ginkgo e2e tests, IPv4-only test logic, or external connectivity requirements. The check is therefore not applicable.

Full details: No-Weak-Crypto

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The pull request adds only SHA-256 via the system sha256sum utility. SHA-256 is not listed as weak crypto. The change does not add MD5, SHA-1, DES, 3DES, RC4, Blowfish, or ECB mode, and it does not add custom cryptography. The jq comparisons check fencing secret names and derived MAC hashes, not secret or token values, so the constant-time comparison rule does not apply.

Full details: Container-Privileges

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PASS: The pull request changes only templates/master/00-master/two-node-with-fencing/files/fencing-validator.yaml. The added code retrieves MAC addresses with ip link and hashes them; it adds no privileged, hostPID, hostNetwork, hostIPC, SYS_ADMIN, or allowPrivilegeEscalation declaration. The file generates a host executable, not a container or Kubernetes workload manifest. Existing sudo usage is outside the changed lines and is pre-existing.

Full details: No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs

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PASS: The pull request adds no new log, echo, or printf call that emits sensitive values. Secret JSON is stored in secrets_json and parsed with output redirected to /dev/null; MAC addresses and hashes remain in pipelines and are not logged. The modified missing-secret error still includes '$n', which can be an internal node hostname, but the base revision already logged the same node value in that error and other node-status logs. The pull request does not introduce or broaden that exposure.

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- Around line 452-454: Update the jq hostname-based match in the fencing
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