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git_policy_cli/
service_provision.rs

1//! What:
2//!  The wrapper makes socket activation for a worktree's commit service exist the first time a commit needs it: it writes
3//!  the two template unit files into the user's runtime unit directory, asks the user manager (through the session bus) to
4//!  reload and to start the worktree's socket instance, and returns. The manager, not the wrapper, starts the service when
5//!  the first connection arrives.
6//! Why:
7//!  There is no install step to remember (`doc/planning/cli-git-resident-service.md`, "Provisioning"): like Bazel's
8//!  client, the wrapper sets up what it needs and tells nobody. One service runs per worktree, so the units are templates
9//!  (`cli-git@.socket`, `cli-git@.service`) and each worktree's instance is named by a hash of its own Git directory
10//!  (`service_instance.rs`). The units live under `$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/systemd/user`, which disappears at logout, so nothing is
11//!  left behind in the home directory and the next first use provisions again. Every step is idempotent (a file is written,
12//!  by temporary file and rename, only when its content differs), so several commits racing to provision agree without any
13//!  lock. Every commit that goes to the service compares the two installed templates with what this wrapper would write
14//!  (two small reads) before it touches the bus, so an upgrade or a downgrade, which moves the service program the template
15//!  names, is repaired by the first commit that follows it: templates rewritten, manager reloaded, failed state cleared,
16//!  the worktree's socket started. The single service of the earlier releases (`cli-git.socket` and `cli-git.service`, one
17//!  socket for every worktree) is asked to retire and stopped, and its units and socket file are removed, by the first
18//!  commit of the new release; its open batches are finished by the instance of the worktree they belong to, and the work
19//!  it had claimed is claimed again by the next drain. Units this wrapper's earliest releases wrote into
20//!  `~/.config/systemd/user` outrank the runtime ones in the unit search path, so they are recognized by their content and
21//!  removed; a unit of the same name that something else wrote is never touched, and the commit stops with a message naming
22//!  the file.
23//!
24//! In TS you'd write (pseudocode):
25//! ```ts
26//! await provision({ runtimeDir, configHome, busPath, serviceBinary, git, instance }) // writes templates, reloads, starts the socket
27//! ```
28
29use super::service_messages::{ClientFailure, Platform};
30use super::service_client::ask_to_retire;
31use super::service_instance::{LEGACY_SOCKET_RELATIVE, service_unit_instance, socket_path, socket_unit_instance};
32use super::systemd_dbus::{Bus, CallError, EXCHANGE_WAIT, NO_SUCH_UNIT};
33use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
34
35/// The socket template's text, with the marker on its first line.
36pub const SOCKET_UNIT: &str = include_str!("service_units/cli-git@.socket");
37
38/// The service template's text, with `@SERVICE_BINARY@` and `@GIT@` still to fill in.
39pub const SERVICE_UNIT: &str = include_str!("service_units/cli-git@.service");
40
41/// File name of the socket template.
42pub const SOCKET_UNIT_NAME: &str = "cli-git@.socket";
43
44/// File name of the service template.
45pub const SERVICE_UNIT_NAME: &str = "cli-git@.service";
46
47/// File name of the socket unit of the single service every worktree shared until one service per worktree.
48pub const LEGACY_SOCKET_UNIT_NAME: &str = "cli-git.socket";
49
50/// File name of the service unit of the single service every worktree shared until one service per worktree.
51pub const LEGACY_SERVICE_UNIT_NAME: &str = "cli-git.service";
52
53/// Name of the service program, next to the wrapper.
54pub const SERVICE_PROGRAM: &str = "cli-git-service";
55
56/// The words that mark a unit file as written by this wrapper: the marker its units carry now, and the descriptions the
57///  units of earlier releases carried.
58pub const OWN_MARKERS: [&str; 3] =
59    ["(cli-git-unit)", "Description=Commit service socket for the git wrapper", "Description=Commit service for the git wrapper"];
60
61const BINARY_PLACEHOLDER: &str = "@SERVICE_BINARY@";
62const GIT_PLACEHOLDER: &str = "@GIT@";
63
64/// What provisioning needs to know about the machine.
65#[derive(Clone, Debug, Eq, PartialEq)]
66pub struct ProvisionHost {
67    /// The user's runtime directory, which holds the units and the service's socket.
68    pub runtime_dir: PathBuf,
69    /// The directory a user's own unit files live in (`~/.config/systemd/user`), where earlier releases wrote theirs.
70    pub user_unit_dir: Option<PathBuf>,
71    /// The session bus socket.
72    pub bus: PathBuf,
73    /// The service program.
74    pub service_binary: PathBuf,
75    /// The real Git the service runs.
76    pub git: PathBuf,
77    /// The instance of the worktree the commit is made in (`service_instance::instance_of`).
78    pub instance: String,
79    /// How long retiring the earlier single service may take before the commit fails instead of starting an instance beside it.
80    pub retirement_wait: std::time::Duration,
81}
82
83/// How long the earlier single service may take to stop; it finishes the batch it holds first. Under the whole exchange's
84///  bound, so a slow stop is reported as that and not as an unreachable manager.
85pub const RETIREMENT_WAIT: std::time::Duration = std::time::Duration::from_secs(10);
86
87/// What the manager is asked to do, so a control can record it instead of reaching a manager.
88pub trait Manager {
89    /// Reloads the unit files.
90    fn reload(&mut self) -> Result<(), CallError>;
91    /// Clears a unit's failed state and start-rate counter.
92    fn reset_failed(&mut self, unit: &str) -> Result<(), CallError>;
93    /// Starts a unit.
94    fn start(&mut self, unit: &str) -> Result<(), CallError>;
95    /// Stops a unit.
96    fn stop(&mut self, unit: &str) -> Result<(), CallError>;
97    /// The unit's state as the manager reports it (`active`, `deactivating`, `inactive`, `failed`), or nothing when the
98    ///  manager holds no such unit.
99    fn active_state(&mut self, unit: &str) -> Result<Option<String>, CallError>;
100}
101
102impl Manager for Bus {
103    fn reload(&mut self) -> Result<(), CallError> {
104        return Bus::reload(self);
105    }
106
107    fn reset_failed(&mut self, unit: &str) -> Result<(), CallError> {
108        return Bus::reset_failed(self, unit);
109    }
110
111    fn start(&mut self, unit: &str) -> Result<(), CallError> {
112        return Bus::start_unit(self, unit);
113    }
114
115    fn stop(&mut self, unit: &str) -> Result<(), CallError> {
116        return Bus::stop_unit(self, unit);
117    }
118
119    fn active_state(&mut self, unit: &str) -> Result<Option<String>, CallError> {
120        return Bus::active_state(self, unit);
121    }
122}
123
124/// The platform whose remedy applies when no user service manager answers.
125pub fn platform_without_manager() -> Platform {
126    if cfg!(windows) {
127        return Platform::Windows;
128    }
129    if cfg!(any(target_os = "freebsd", target_os = "openbsd", target_os = "netbsd", target_os = "dragonfly")) {
130        return Platform::Bsd;
131    }
132    if cfg!(target_os = "linux") {
133        return Platform::LinuxWithoutUserServices;
134    }
135    return Platform::Other;
136}
137
138/// The two unit files for a host, as written.
139pub fn unit_texts(host: &ProvisionHost) -> [(&'static str, String); 2] {
140    let service: String = SERVICE_UNIT
141        .replace(BINARY_PLACEHOLDER, host.service_binary.to_string_lossy().as_ref())
142        .replace(GIT_PLACEHOLDER, host.git.to_string_lossy().as_ref());
143    return [(SOCKET_UNIT_NAME, SOCKET_UNIT.to_string()), (SERVICE_UNIT_NAME, service)];
144}
145
146/// The directory the runtime units are written to.
147pub fn runtime_unit_dir(runtime_dir: &Path) -> PathBuf {
148    return runtime_dir.join("systemd").join("user");
149}
150
151/// What:
152///  Whether the installed templates are the ones this wrapper would write, the worktree's socket is there, and nothing of
153///  the single service of the earlier releases is left.
154/// Why:
155///   The socket belongs to the manager and outlives every upgrade, so its presence says nothing about which program the
156///  service template names; the text does. A few small reads and two `stat` calls decide, and the bus is not touched when
157///  they agree.
158///
159/// In TS you'd write (pseudocode):
160/// ```ts
161/// inPlace(host) // false: write, reload, start
162/// ```
163pub fn in_place(host: &ProvisionHost) -> bool {
164    let directory: PathBuf = runtime_unit_dir(host.runtime_dir.as_path());
165    let current = |(name, text): (&str, String)| -> bool {
166        return std::fs::read_to_string(directory.join(name)).is_ok_and(|installed| { return installed == text; });
167    };
168    let earlier_left: bool = [LEGACY_SOCKET_UNIT_NAME, LEGACY_SERVICE_UNIT_NAME].iter().any(|name| { return directory.join(name).exists(); })
169        || host.runtime_dir.join(LEGACY_SOCKET_RELATIVE).exists();
170    return unit_texts(host).into_iter().all(current)
171        && socket_path(host.runtime_dir.as_path(), host.instance.as_str()).exists()
172        && !earlier_left;
173}
174
175static TEMPORARY_COUNTER: std::sync::atomic::AtomicU64 = std::sync::atomic::AtomicU64::new(0);
176
177/// Writes `text` to `path` through a temporary file and a rename, so a reader sees the old file or the new one whole.
178fn write_atomically(path: &Path, text: &str) -> std::io::Result<()> {
179    let number: u64 = TEMPORARY_COUNTER.fetch_add(1, std::sync::atomic::Ordering::Relaxed);
180    let temporary: PathBuf = path.with_extension(format!("tmp-{}-{number}", std::process::id()));
181    std::fs::write(&temporary, text.as_bytes())?;
182    let renamed: std::io::Result<()> = std::fs::rename(&temporary, path);
183    if renamed.is_err() {
184        let _removed = std::fs::remove_file(&temporary);
185    }
186    return renamed;
187}
188
189/// What the user's own unit directory holds under the names the wrapper uses.
190fn clear_earlier_units(host: &ProvisionHost) -> Result<bool, ClientFailure> {
191    let Some(directory) = host.user_unit_dir.as_deref() else { return Ok(false) };
192    let mut removed: bool = false;
193    for name in [LEGACY_SOCKET_UNIT_NAME, LEGACY_SERVICE_UNIT_NAME] {
194        let path: PathBuf = directory.join(name);
195        let Ok(text) = std::fs::read_to_string(&path) else {
196            if path.exists() {
197                return Err(ClientFailure::UnitInTheWay(path.display().to_string()));
198            }
199            continue;
200        };
201        if !OWN_MARKERS.iter().any(|marker| { return text.contains(marker); }) {
202            return Err(ClientFailure::UnitInTheWay(path.display().to_string()));
203        }
204        std::fs::remove_file(&path).map_err(|error| { return ClientFailure::CouldNotStart(format!("{} cannot be removed: {error}", path.display())); })?;
205        removed = true;
206    }
207    // The enabling link an earlier release made points at the file just removed.
208    let link: PathBuf = directory.join("sockets.target.wants").join(LEGACY_SOCKET_UNIT_NAME);
209    if std::fs::symlink_metadata(&link).is_ok_and(|meta| { return meta.file_type().is_symlink(); }) {
210        let _removed = std::fs::remove_file(&link);
211        removed = true;
212    }
213    return Ok(removed);
214}
215
216/// What:
217///  Retires the single service of the earlier releases: asks it to finish its batch and exit, stops its units, and removes
218///  its unit files and socket file. Whether the manager must reload.
219/// Why:
220///   One service for every worktree is what the owner replaced with one per worktree. Its socket and units belong to the
221///  runtime directory, which the wrapper owns; a unit file that does not carry the wrapper's marker is someone else's and is
222///  left alone. Work it had claimed stays in the work directories and is claimed again by the instance of its worktree; the
223///  batches it left open are in its journal, where the instance of their worktree finishes them.
224///
225/// In TS you'd write (pseudocode):
226/// ```ts
227/// await retireEarlierService(host, manager) // true: reload
228/// ```
229fn retire_earlier_service(host: &ProvisionHost, manager: &mut dyn Manager) -> Result<bool, ClientFailure> {
230    let directory: PathBuf = runtime_unit_dir(host.runtime_dir.as_path());
231    // The releases that wrote into the user's own directory left their service running just the same.
232    let directories: Vec<PathBuf> = std::iter::once(directory.clone()).chain(host.user_unit_dir.clone()).collect();
233    let socket_file: PathBuf = host.runtime_dir.join(LEGACY_SOCKET_RELATIVE);
234    let ours = |name: &str| -> bool {
235        return directories.iter().any(|found| {
236            return std::fs::read_to_string(found.join(name)).is_ok_and(|text| { return OWN_MARKERS.iter().any(|marker| { return text.contains(marker); }); });
237        });
238    };
239    let named_anywhere = |name: &str| -> bool { return directories.iter().any(|found| { return found.join(name).exists(); }); };
240    let both: [&str; 2] = [LEGACY_SOCKET_UNIT_NAME, LEGACY_SERVICE_UNIT_NAME];
241    let mut units: Vec<&str> = both.into_iter().filter(|name| { return ours(name); }).collect();
242    let had_files: bool = !units.is_empty();
243    // A socket file with no unit file of that name anywhere is what a release that removed the files but not the service left
244    //  behind: the service may still run, so both names are stopped. A file of that name that is someone else's blocks this.
245    if units.is_empty() && socket_file.exists() && !both.iter().any(|name| { return named_anywhere(name); }) {
246        units = both.to_vec();
247    }
248    if units.is_empty() {
249        return Ok(false);
250    }
251    ask_to_retire(socket_file.as_path());
252    // The socket first, so that the manager cannot start the service again for a connection that arrives meanwhile.
253    for name in &units {
254        match manager.stop(name) {
255            Ok(()) => {}
256            // A unit the manager never loaded has nothing to stop.
257            Err(CallError::Manager { name: error, .. }) if error == NO_SUCH_UNIT => {}
258            Err(error) => return Err(refusal(error)),
259        }
260    }
261    wait_until_stopped(host, manager, units.as_slice())?;
262    for name in &units {
263        let _removed = std::fs::remove_file(directory.join(name));
264    }
265    let _socket_removed = std::fs::remove_file(&socket_file);
266    return Ok(had_files);
267}
268
269/// What:
270///  Waits until the manager reports each unit inactive, failed or not held, and fails when that takes longer than the host
271///  allows.
272/// Why:
273///   A stop call returns when the job is queued. The service finishes the batch it holds, and its Git children, before it
274///  exits; an instance started meanwhile would recover and claim work the earlier service is still doing, so the commit
275///  fails instead, naming what is still stopping. Its files stay, so the next commit finds the same state and tries again.
276///
277/// In TS you'd write (pseudocode):
278/// ```ts
279/// await waitUntilStopped(host, manager, ['cli-git.socket', 'cli-git.service'])
280/// ```
281fn wait_until_stopped(host: &ProvisionHost, manager: &mut dyn Manager, units: &[&str]) -> Result<(), ClientFailure> {
282    let deadline: std::time::Instant = std::time::Instant::now() + host.retirement_wait;
283    loop {
284        let mut running: Option<&str> = None;
285        for name in units {
286            let state: Option<String> = manager.active_state(name).map_err(refusal)?;
287            if state.is_some_and(|text| { return !matches!(text.as_str(), "inactive" | "failed"); }) {
288                running = Some(name);
289            }
290        }
291        let Some(unit) = running else { return Ok(()) };
292        if std::time::Instant::now() >= deadline {
293            return Err(ClientFailure::CouldNotStart(format!(
294                "the earlier commit service ({unit}) is still stopping after {:.1} seconds; run the commit again in a moment, or stop it with `systemctl --user stop {LEGACY_SERVICE_UNIT_NAME} {LEGACY_SOCKET_UNIT_NAME}`",
295                host.retirement_wait.as_secs_f64()
296            )));
297        }
298        std::thread::sleep(RETIREMENT_POLL);
299    }
300}
301
302/// How often the manager is asked whether the earlier service has stopped.
303const RETIREMENT_POLL: std::time::Duration = std::time::Duration::from_millis(50);
304
305/// What a refused call is to the person: the manager's own words, or a plain statement; its error name is internal vocabulary.
306fn refusal(error: CallError) -> ClientFailure {
307    return match error {
308        CallError::Manager { text, .. } if text.is_empty() => ClientFailure::CouldNotStart(String::from("the service manager refused the request")),
309        CallError::Manager { text, .. } => ClientFailure::CouldNotStart(format!("the service manager refused the request ({text})")),
310        CallError::Connection(_) | CallError::Authentication(_) | CallError::Malformed(_) => ClientFailure::NoActivation(platform_without_manager()),
311    };
312}
313
314/// What:
315///  Makes socket activation exist: the earlier single service retired, current templates written where they differ, the
316///  manager reloaded when a unit it may hold changed or went away, and the worktree's socket instance started.
317/// Why:
318///   Idempotent by construction: a second call with nothing to change only starts the socket, which is a no-op when it is
319///  already listening; two calls at once write identical content through renames and both succeed.
320///
321/// In TS you'd write (pseudocode):
322/// ```ts
323/// await provisionWith(host, manager)
324/// ```
325pub fn provision_with(host: &ProvisionHost, manager: &mut dyn Manager) -> Result<(), ClientFailure> {
326    // A reload makes the manager re-read every unit and interrupts its other clients for a while, so it is asked for only
327    //  when a unit it may already hold changed or went away. A file that is new is found by the manager when the unit is
328    //  first started.
329    let mut reload: bool = retire_earlier_service(host, manager)?;
330    reload |= clear_earlier_units(host)?;
331    let directory: PathBuf = runtime_unit_dir(host.runtime_dir.as_path());
332    std::fs::create_dir_all(&directory).map_err(|error| { return ClientFailure::CouldNotStart(format!("{} cannot be created: {error}", directory.display())); })?;
333    // Whether the manager may hold state for these units: a unit file was already there, so a start may have failed under it.
334    let mut known: bool = false;
335    let mut written: Vec<PathBuf> = Vec::new();
336    for (name, text) in unit_texts(host) {
337        let path: PathBuf = directory.join(name);
338        let existed: bool = path.exists();
339        known |= existed;
340        if std::fs::read_to_string(&path).is_ok_and(|current| { return current == text; }) {
341            continue;
342        }
343        write_atomically(&path, text.as_str())
344            .map_err(|error| { return ClientFailure::CouldNotStart(format!("{} cannot be written: {error}", path.display())); })?;
345        written.push(path);
346        reload |= existed;
347    }
348    let asked: Result<(), CallError> = ask_manager(manager, reload, known, host.instance.as_str());
349    if let Err(error) = asked {
350        // A file the manager never heard about must not look installed to the next commit, which would then skip the
351        //  reload that this one did not complete.
352        for path in &written {
353            let _removed = std::fs::remove_file(path);
354        }
355        return Err(refusal(error));
356    }
357    return Ok(());
358}
359
360/// The calls provisioning makes: a reload when a held unit changed, a reset of failed state when a unit may have failed
361///  under the manager (the reset is best effort: a unit the manager does not hold has nothing to reset), and the start.
362fn ask_manager(manager: &mut dyn Manager, reload: bool, known: bool, instance: &str) -> Result<(), CallError> {
363    if reload {
364        manager.reload()?;
365    }
366    if known {
367        // A start that failed under an old unit leaves the service failed and its start counter full, and the socket
368        //  failed with it; the new unit would be refused as "repeated too quickly" until the interval passed.
369        for unit in [service_unit_instance(instance), socket_unit_instance(instance)] {
370            let _reset = manager.reset_failed(unit.as_str());
371        }
372    }
373    return manager.start(socket_unit_instance(instance).as_str());
374}
375
376/// Provisions through the session bus, unless the units and the socket are already in place.
377pub fn provision(host: &ProvisionHost) -> Result<(), ClientFailure> {
378    if in_place(host) {
379        return Ok(());
380    }
381    let mut bus: Bus = Bus::connect(host.bus.as_path(), EXCHANGE_WAIT).map_err(|_| { return ClientFailure::NoActivation(platform_without_manager()); })?;
382    return provision_with(host, &mut bus);
383}
384
385/// Provisioning controls stay out of the release executable.
386#[cfg(test)]
387#[path = "service_provision_tests.rs"]
388mod tests;