fix(lockutil): non-destructive live-lock restoration under O_CREATE|O_EXCL - #954
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…_EXCL Fixes Gitlawb#831: Remove destructive os.Rename overwrite during live-lock restoration and use RestoreLockFile under strict mutual exclusion. Check ModTime staleness to prevent concurrent holder races when acquiring locks with empty initial payloads.
WalkthroughThe lock protocol delays reclamation of fresh unreadable locks, restores live locks without replacing competing claims, and adds tests for concurrent dead-lock, live-lock, and new-claimant races. ChangesLock reclamation safety
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The lock recovery path can report a harmless race without confirming that a new owner acquired the lock, allowing a retry while the existing holder is still active; another path can also hide cleanup failures. This can violate lock mutual exclusion, so the PR is not merge-ready until these error paths fail closed and propagate cleanup errors. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant DaemonLock
participant ReclaimStaleLock
participant RestoreLockFile
participant NewClaimant
DaemonLock->>ReclaimStaleLock: reclaim stale lock
ReclaimStaleLock->>RestoreLockFile: restore live lock without replacement
NewClaimant->>RestoreLockFile: create canonical lock
RestoreLockFile-->>ReclaimStaleLock: report lost race
ReclaimStaleLock->>ReclaimStaleLock: remove sidelined file
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Full details: Linked Issues checkExplanation The changes address non-destructive restoration, exclusive-creation races, stale-lock validation, and coordinated concurrency tests for Resolution Add ownership-aware release protection, such as an unguessable lock token or an equivalent atomic ownership check. Add a regression test that confirms the original holder cannot remove a competing claimant's lock before marking
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In `@internal/daemon/lock.go`:
- Around line 70-76: Update the lock acquisition flow around the existing
path/PID write so the complete lock payload is written to a temporary file
first, then installed at path using a non-replacing atomic operation that
preserves exclusive acquisition semantics. Ensure concurrent readers never
observe an empty or partial payload, while retaining the existing
daemonLockStaleAfter and daemonLockRetryDelay handling.
In `@internal/lockutil/reclaim.go`:
- Around line 9-12: Update ReclaimStaleLock and the claimant path to use an
atomic recovery fence that all acquisitions observe, keeping lock acquisition
blocked for the entire live-lock recovery read-modify-write sequence. Fail
closed when ownership or lease validation cannot be confirmed, and ensure
recovery cannot remove or overwrite a concurrently created claimant lock. Revise
TestReclaimStaleLockRaceWithNewClaimant to coordinate the active holder,
reclaimer, and claimant and assert their critical sections never overlap.
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| // If PID could not be parsed (e.g. 0-byte file during active creation), | ||
| // check if the file is fresh (created recently). If so, wait briefly and retry. | ||
| if perr != nil || pid <= 0 { | ||
| if info, statErr := os.Stat(path); statErr == nil && time.Since(info.ModTime()) <= daemonLockStaleAfter { | ||
| time.Sleep(daemonLockRetryDelay) | ||
| continue | ||
| } |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Publish a complete lock payload atomically.
If a process stops after os.OpenFile(...O_EXCL...) succeeds and before it writes the PID, it leaves an empty lock file. Lines 70-76 treat that file as live for 30 seconds, and the two-pass loop returns ErrAlreadyRunning although no process holds the lock.
Write the payload to a temporary file. Then install it with a non-replacing atomic operation that preserves exclusive acquisition semantics.
As per coding guidelines, write a complete temporary file, then atomically replace the destination so concurrent readers never see a partial write.
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In `@internal/daemon/lock.go` around lines 70 - 76, Update the lock acquisition
flow around the existing path/PID write so the complete lock payload is written
to a temporary file first, then installed at path using a non-replacing atomic
operation that preserves exclusive acquisition semantics. Ensure concurrent
readers never observe an empty or partial payload, while retaining the existing
daemonLockStaleAfter and daemonLockRetryDelay handling.
Source: Coding guidelines
| // ReclaimStaleLock, which requires both the primary no-replace restore and its | ||
| // copy fallback to fail; that cannot be provoked portably on a healthy | ||
| // filesystem. | ||
| var restoreLockFile = RestoreLockFile |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔴 Critical | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Do not allow a new claimant while a live lock is sidelined.
ReclaimStaleLock renames lockPath away before it checks liveness. A competing O_EXCL claimant can create lockPath in that window. RestoreLockFile then returns os.ErrExist, the sidelined live lock is removed, and both the original holder and the new claimant can run their critical sections.
Later, fileLock.release in internal/daemon/lock.go removes lockPath and can delete the new claimant's lock file.
Keep acquisition blocked through live-lock recovery with an atomic recovery fence that every claimant observes. Update TestReclaimStaleLockRaceWithNewClaimant to coordinate an active holder, reclaimer, and claimant, then assert that their critical sections cannot overlap.
As per coding guidelines, fail closed on ownership and lease checks and serialize the full read-modify-write sequence for lockfiles.
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In `@internal/lockutil/reclaim.go` around lines 9 - 12, Update ReclaimStaleLock
and the claimant path to use an atomic recovery fence that all acquisitions
observe, keeping lock acquisition blocked for the entire live-lock recovery
read-modify-write sequence. Fail closed when ownership or lease validation
cannot be confirmed, and ensure recovery cannot remove or overwrite a
concurrently created claimant lock. Revise
TestReclaimStaleLockRaceWithNewClaimant to coordinate the active holder,
reclaimer, and claimant and assert their critical sections never overlap.
Source: Coding guidelines
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Your CI had never run. All eleven of your PRs were parked at action_required, GitHub's approval gate for outside contributors, so the only check you ever saw was CodeRabbit. I released them, and this one comes back red on Windows.
I have a Windows box, so I reproduced it rather than reading the log. It is not a flake: TestReclaimStaleLockConcurrent* fails 10 out of 10 runs here.
--- FAIL: TestReclaimStaleLockConcurrentLiveRestoration
unexpected errors during concurrent live restore: 3
The test discards the errors, so I instrumented it. Both are the same shape:
open <lock>.stale.tok-8: The system cannot find the file specified.
open <lock>.stale.tok-23: The system cannot find the file specified.
That open is restoreByCopy at lockutil.go:30, and the chain to it is:
moveFileNoReplace(reclaimed, lockPath)fails with something that is neither nil norErrExist, which under contention on Windows is a sharing violation or a delete-pending source.RestoreLockFilefalls through torestoreByCopy(reclaimed, ...).restoreByCopyopensreclaimed, which by then is gone, and returns that error verbatim.ReclaimStaleLocksees!errors.Is(rerr, os.ErrExist)and returns it as a hard error.
So a caller that merely lost a race is told the reclaim failed. The live lock file itself is fine, I checked the content is intact at the end, so this is a wrong error rather than data loss.
The reason it is Windows only is the asymmetry between the two RestoreLockFile implementations. The Unix one publishes with os.Link, which does not consume the source, so reclaimed is still there for the fallback and for the RemoveLockFile on the error path. The Windows one publishes with a move, so under contention the source can already be gone or unusable by the time the fallback reaches for it. restoreByCopy assumes a source that still exists, and on Windows that assumption does not hold.
The shape of the fix is already in the file. ReclaimStaleLock classifies exactly this on the sideline rename:
if errors.Is(err, os.ErrNotExist) || isReclaimContended(err) {
return false, nil // another racer already moved/removed it, or it vanished
}The restore path has no equivalent, so a lost race there becomes an error instead of false, nil. A vanished or contended reclaimed during restore means the same thing it means during sideline: somebody else got there, wait rather than report failure.
Scope note so I am not overstating: this is the CI diagnosis, not a full review of the PR. I have not reviewed the rest of the change. Fix this and I will read the whole thing properly.
Two of your others also came back red, both Windows only. #941 is a build break where a runtime GOOS skip cannot save a compile-time syscall.Umask, and I have posted the verified one-tag fix there. #952 I am looking at next.
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In `@internal/lockutil/reclaim.go`:
- Line 52: Update the benign-race restoration branch around isReclaimContended
and RemoveLockFile so cleanup is considered successful only when the stale file
is explicitly confirmed already removed; propagate any other RemoveLockFile
error instead of returning (false, nil), while preserving the existing benign
handling for the restoration error.
- Line 52: Update ReclaimStaleLock’s RestoreLockFile error handling so
os.ErrNotExist is treated as a restoration error rather than a lost race; do not
remove the sidelined file or return (false, nil) unless ownership of lockPath is
established. Preserve the existing handling for confirmed contention and other
errors, and add a regression test covering restoreByCopy when the reclaimed file
disappears.
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| if rerr := restoreLockFile(reclaimed, lockPath); rerr != nil { | ||
| _ = RemoveLockFile(reclaimed) | ||
| if !errors.Is(rerr, os.ErrExist) { | ||
| if !errors.Is(rerr, os.ErrExist) && !errors.Is(rerr, os.ErrNotExist) && !isReclaimContended(rerr) { |
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Propagate cleanup failure on the benign-race path.
When restoration returns a newly classified benign error, Line 51 ignores RemoveLockFile failure and this branch still returns (false, nil). That can leave the run-created .stale.* file behind and hide incomplete recovery.
Treat only an explicitly confirmed already-removed result as successful cleanup. Return other cleanup errors.
As per coding guidelines, never report success when cleanup or unlock failed.
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In `@internal/lockutil/reclaim.go` at line 52, Update the benign-race restoration
branch around isReclaimContended and RemoveLockFile so cleanup is considered
successful only when the stale file is explicitly confirmed already removed;
propagate any other RemoveLockFile error instead of returning (false, nil),
while preserving the existing benign handling for the restoration error.
Source: Coding guidelines
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Fail closed when live-lock restoration returns os.ErrNotExist.
RestoreLockFile can fall back to restoreByCopy, whose os.Open(reclaimed) returns os.ErrNotExist when the sidelined file disappears. ReclaimStaleLock treats this error as a lost race, removes the sidelined file, and returns (false, nil) without proving that another claimant owns lockPath. The live holder may then continue while the caller retries. Treat this restore failure as an error, and add a regression test.
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In `@internal/lockutil/reclaim.go` at line 52, Update ReclaimStaleLock’s
RestoreLockFile error handling so os.ErrNotExist is treated as a restoration
error rather than a lost race; do not remove the sidelined file or return
(false, nil) unless ownership of lockPath is established. Preserve the existing
handling for confirmed contention and other errors, and add a regression test
covering restoreByCopy when the reclaimed file disappears.
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Summary
Fixes #831
When recovering or acquiring locks with empty initial payloads,
internal/lockutilpreviously had a window where two concurrent processes could simultaneously acquire or restore a lock.Key Changes
RestoreLockFileunder strict mutual exclusion (O_CREATE|O_EXCL) without destructive overwrites of active lock holders.ModTimestaleness before reclaiming locks.-racevalidating strict mutual exclusion across concurrent contenders.Summary by CodeRabbit
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