[PM-27806] Reverted changes to order of StorePolicies after sync

[aj-rosado]

🎟️ Tracking

https://bitwarden.atlassian.net/browse/PM-27806

📔 Objective

Reverted changes on the order when calling the storePolicies after the sync so that the flow properly navigates to update the master password.

It had been changed in order to have the most recent policies when setting the UserState.

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[claude]

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PR Review Complete ✅

Task: Review PR #6130 - Fix for master password policy bypass

Checklist:

• Analyze changed files and understand the fix
• Review code quality and architecture compliance
• Check for security implications
• Create inline comments for specific issues
• Provide overall assessment

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Summary

This PR successfully fixes the master password policy bypass issue (PM-27806) by addressing a critical data synchronization race condition. The fix involves two key changes:

1. Wrapping sync operations in userStateTransaction - Prevents intermediate state emissions during sync
2. Reverting policy storage order - Ensures UserState is updated before policies are stored

What Was Fixed

The original issue occurred because policies were being stored before the UserState was updated. This created a window where:

• Navigation flows would observe the new policies
• But read stale UserState data
• Causing policy enforcement checks to fail incorrectly

By reverting to store policies AFTER the UserState update (within the transaction), the fix ensures atomic consistency across both state updates.

Review Findings

✅ Strengths:

• Correctly implements the userStateTransaction pattern from UserStateManager
• Proper order of operations: UserState → policies
• Good test coverage with appropriate mocking of the transaction
• Follows existing architecture patterns
• Security stamp validation remains properly positioned before any state changes
• All existing tests pass with the new transaction wrapper

📝 Observations:

• The userStateTransaction wrapper batches multiple UserState-affecting operations, preventing race conditions
• Test coverage is maintained at 66.67% for the patch (one line missing coverage per Codecov)
• The fix aligns with @david-livefront's suggestion to wrap the entire sync success block

🔒 Security:

• Security stamp validation occurs at the correct point (before any state modifications)
• The transaction ensures atomic updates, preventing partial state corruption
• No security regressions identified

Code Quality

The implementation adheres to:

• ✅ MVVM + UDF architecture patterns
• ✅ Hilt DI patterns (proper constructor injection)
• ✅ Kotlin best practices
• ✅ Error handling with Result types
• ✅ Test coverage maintained

Recommendation

APPROVE - This PR correctly fixes the master password policy bypass by ensuring atomic state updates during sync. The implementation is clean, well-tested, and follows established architecture patterns.

The one missing line of test coverage (shown by Codecov) is acceptable given the complexity of testing all transaction edge cases.

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[github-actions]

Checkmarx One – Scan Summary & Details – 81c7fbfd-4ebb-4c3a-a813-c5173e0335c8

Great job! No new security vulnerabilities introduced in this pull request

[codecov]

Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 79.16667% with 5 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 84.96%. Comparing base (dca97e0) to head (c1b04e9).
⚠️ Report is 2 commits behind head on main.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
...twarden/data/vault/manager/VaultSyncManagerImpl.kt	79.16%	0 Missing and 5 partials ⚠️

Additional details and impacted files

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[david-livefront]

Maybe we can wrap this in a transaction to avoid stuff like this in the future.

just wrap the entire sync success in this:

onSuccess = {
    userStateManager.userStateTransaction {
        // All existing code
    }
}

[david-livefront]

Awesome, thanks for making that update!