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Follow-up to #712. _wifi_notice_pending returned bool(status) and time.time() < status['expires_at'], which doesn't narrow Optional[dict] for mypy (Value of type "dict[str, Any] | None" is not indexable). It now returns early on a missing status and compares against float(...). Behaviour is unchanged.

• mypy 1.20.2 on src/display_controller.py: 39 → 38 errors, and the WiFi error is gone. The file isn't on the type ratchet, so CI never flagged it.
• test_wifi_notice_preemption.py, test_run_loop_wifi_and_live.py and the golden traces pass (29).

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• Bug Fixes
  • Improved handling of Wi-Fi notice expiration times so notices are evaluated more reliably.

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The Wi-Fi notice pending check now converts expires_at to a float before comparing it with the current time. It still returns False when no status is available.

Changes

Wi-Fi notice expiry

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Convert notice expiry before comparison src/display_controller.py	_wifi_notice_pending converts expires_at to a float before checking whether the notice has expired. The no-status case still returns False.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~5 minutes

Change: Refactor

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2d9ba

Normal Wi-Fi notices remain unaffected, but malformed status data can stop the display controller. The risk is narrow and recoverable; direct numeric comparison provides a straightforward fix.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 2d9ba

An unusually large integer timestamp in the Wi-Fi status file can now stop the display controller instead of remaining a pending notice. Normal Wi-Fi messages use ordinary floating-point timestamps and are unaffected. Exploitation would require control over the status-file contents; unprivileged or remote access to those contents has not been established.

Retained concerns

• Low · reliability · inferred: An oversized integer timestamp accepted by the status reader can now raise during expiry normalization and terminate the controller run loop, closing its command socket and stopping display processing. Shutdown does not remove the triggering status file, so a restart can encounter it again.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The demonstrated failure path affects the controller consuming the status file and its display and command-processing resources. Available evidence does not establish compromise of another service, tenant, credential, or data store.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A writer able to place arbitrary JSON in the consumed status file could supply a positive integer timestamp beyond floating-point range, with an ordinary integer duration, to trigger the new failure. The code supports this conditional availability path, but attacker write authority is unresolved.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — The normal producer derives timestamp from time.time() rather than accepting an expires_at field, and publishes through write-then-rename. These controls avoid the oversized-integer condition in ordinary production messages; they do not bound values accepted from another file writer.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — The oversized future expiry is not removed by expiry cleanup or controller shutdown. If the file remains unchanged and the controller restarts, it can be accepted again and repeat the failure. Automatic restart and deployed recovery behavior were not established.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly describes the main change: narrowing the WiFi status before accessing expires_at in display handling.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 1 files.
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Review comments at @src/display_controller.py:
- Line 2527: Update _check_wifi_status_message to validate expires_at as a
numeric value and compare it directly with the current time, without converting
it to float. Return false for non-numeric values so malformed status data does
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