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lock.rs

1// owner: d1-platform-core
2
3//! The host locks: one keeps a second agent from reconciling the same policies,
4//! one serialises runtime creation, and one serialises rotating credentials
5//! across a background service and foreground tools.
6//!
7//! `03-control-flows.md`, flow 3.1: *"A single-instance lock prevents two
8//! agents on one host from reconciling the same policy."* Flow 2.4: the agent
9//! *"takes the host-wide allocation lock before creating each local runtime"*.
10//! `07-security.md`'s threat table names the single-instance lock as one of the
11//! four controls on *"API replay or a duplicate agent creates too many
12//! runners"*.
13//!
14//! # Why an operating-system file lock, and not a PID file
15//!
16//! The requirement that decides the mechanism is *"released on crash rather
17//! than leaking"*. A PID file cannot do that: a process that is `SIGKILL`ed, or
18//! whose machine loses power, leaves the file behind, and every recovery
19//! strategy built on top — is that PID still alive? was it reused? — is
20//! guesswork that fails exactly when it matters. An operating-system file lock
21//! is released by the kernel when the holding process ends, for *any* reason,
22//! with no cooperation from the process and nothing left to clean up.
23//!
24//! Two mechanisms, one behaviour:
25//!
26//! - **Windows** opens the file for read and write while sharing only read
27//!   access. A second acquirer asks for write access as well, which the
28//!   holder's share mode denies, and gets `ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION`. A
29//!   *reader* asks only for read access, which the share mode permits — which
30//!   is what lets the loser find out who beat it.
31//! - **Unix** takes `flock(LOCK_EX | LOCK_NB)`. `flock` is advisory and does
32//!   not stand in the way of an ordinary `open` for reading, so the loser can
33//!   read the holder record there too. Locks are held per open file
34//!   description, so a second acquisition from the *same* process is refused as
35//!   firmly as one from another process.
36//!
37//! # The lock file is never deleted
38//!
39//! Not on release, not on a clean shutdown, not by `Drop`. On Unix a lock is a
40//! property of the inode, so a holder that unlinks the file lets the next
41//! acquirer create and lock a *different* inode — after which two processes
42//! each hold "the lock" and neither can see the other. Leaving a zero-cost
43//! empty file behind is the whole price of not having that bug.
44//!
45//! # What "host-wide" means, precisely
46//!
47//! The lock is a file under [`crate::paths::AppPaths::state_dir`], as
48//! `05-infrastructure.md` specifies (*"state/ agent lock"*). Two agents
49//! contend if and only if they resolve the same state directory — which is what
50//! makes the lock host-wide for every configuration this product supports, and
51//! is worth stating rather than assuming: the platform-standard state directory
52//! is per-account on all three operating systems, so a daemon running as a
53//! service account and an interactive `daemon run` by a logged-in operator
54//! resolve *different* paths and would not contend. That is why
55//! `05-infrastructure.md` requires `service install` to record its resolved
56//! configuration and why `service status` reports it. A future host-wide
57//! machine lock (`%ProgramData%`, `/var/lock`) would need the installer to
58//! create it with the right ownership, which is `d3`'s territory, not this
59//! module's.
60
61use std::fmt;
62use std::fs::{File, OpenOptions};
63use std::io::{Read, Seek, SeekFrom, Write};
64use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
65use std::time::{Duration, Instant};
66
67use chrono::{DateTime, Utc};
68use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
69
70use crate::paths::AppPaths;
71use crate::process::{Adoption, ProcessIdentity};
72
73/// Which host-wide operation is being excluded.
74#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
75#[serde(rename_all = "snake_case")]
76pub enum LockKind {
77    /// Held for the whole life of the agent process. One holder per host means
78    /// one reconciler per host.
79    SingleInstance,
80    /// Held only while one runtime is being created, so that two concurrent
81    /// allocations cannot both read the same headroom and both use it.
82    Allocation,
83    /// Held while one process rotates the credential shared by a service and
84    /// foreground tools.
85    CredentialRenewal,
86}
87
88impl LockKind {
89    /// The file this lock lives in, inside `state/`.
90    #[must_use]
91    pub const fn file_name(self) -> &'static str {
92        match self {
93            Self::SingleInstance => "agent.lock",
94            Self::Allocation => "allocation.lock",
95            Self::CredentialRenewal => "credential-renewal.lock",
96        }
97    }
98
99    /// How to name this lock to an operator.
100    #[must_use]
101    pub const fn description(self) -> &'static str {
102        match self {
103            Self::SingleInstance => "the single-instance agent lock",
104            Self::Allocation => "the runtime allocation lock",
105            Self::CredentialRenewal => "the credential-renewal lock",
106        }
107    }
108
109    /// What an operator who lost the race should do about it. Present because
110    /// "the lock is held" is a statement and not yet an instruction.
111    #[must_use]
112    pub const fn advice(self) -> &'static str {
113        match self {
114            Self::SingleInstance => {
115                "Only one agent may reconcile policies on a host. Stop the other agent, or wait \
116                 for it to exit; the operating system releases this lock when that process ends, \
117                 including after a crash, so there is never anything to clean up by hand."
118            }
119            Self::Allocation => {
120                "This lock is held only for as long as it takes to create one runtime. Retry \
121                 shortly."
122            }
123            Self::CredentialRenewal => {
124                "This lock is held only while one process rotates the shared credential. Retry \
125                 shortly."
126            }
127        }
128    }
129}
130
131impl fmt::Display for LockKind {
132    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
133        f.write_str(self.description())
134    }
135}
136
137/// Who holds a lock, as recorded by the holder itself.
138///
139/// Written into the lock file after the lock is taken, so that the process
140/// that loses the race can say something useful instead of "somebody else".
141#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
142pub struct LockHolder {
143    /// The holder's process identity — a PID alone would not survive being
144    /// read back by a process that started after a reboot.
145    pub identity: ProcessIdentity,
146    /// The holder's executable, when it could be resolved. `05-infrastructure.md`
147    /// requires `service status` to report a stale or moved binary path, and
148    /// an operator looking at a contended lock has the same question.
149    pub executable: Option<PathBuf>,
150    /// When the lock was taken.
151    pub acquired_at: DateTime<Utc>,
152    /// Which lock the record belongs to. Recorded so that a file opened by
153    /// mistake is recognised rather than misreported.
154    pub lock: LockKind,
155}
156
157impl fmt::Display for LockHolder {
158    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
159        write!(f, "process {}", self.identity.pid())?;
160        if let Some(executable) = &self.executable {
161            write!(f, " ({})", executable.display())?;
162        }
163        write!(f, ", holding since {}", self.acquired_at.to_rfc3339())
164    }
165}
166
167/// Something went wrong taking or inspecting a lock.
168#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
169pub enum LockError {
170    /// Somebody else has it.
171    #[error(
172        "{kind} ({}) is already held on this host by {}. {} [refused with {}]",
173        path.display(),
174        describe(holder.as_deref()),
175        kind.advice(),
176        describe_refusal(*refused_with)
177    )]
178    Held {
179        /// Which lock.
180        kind: LockKind,
181        /// Where the lock file is, so the message is actionable on a host with
182        /// a non-default layout.
183        path: PathBuf,
184        /// Who holds it, when the record could be read. `None` is not the same
185        /// as "nobody": it means the holder had not finished identifying
186        /// itself, which is a race of microseconds and not a reason to proceed.
187        ///
188        /// Boxed because this variant travels inside a `Result` that `e1`
189        /// carries across a `spawn_blocking` boundary, and an inline
190        /// `LockHolder` makes that `Err` large enough for clippy's
191        /// `result_large_err` to refuse the build. The indirection costs one
192        /// allocation on a path that has already lost a lock race.
193        holder: Option<Box<LockHolder>>,
194        /// The operating system code the refusal actually carried.
195        ///
196        /// # Why an errno is in a user-facing message
197        ///
198        /// This variant has two causes that look identical once it is
199        /// constructed: the lock is genuinely somebody else's, or the operating
200        /// system said "would block" for a reason this code does not model. The
201        /// second is not hypothetical — a refusal that no reading of this
202        /// module explains has been seen in CI on both Unix platforms, for a
203        /// lock the same process had just released, and there was nothing in
204        /// the message to tell the two apart.
205        ///
206        /// Carrying the raw code costs a few characters and turns the next
207        /// occurrence from a mystery into a report. `None` where the platform
208        /// excluded at the open rather than at the lock call.
209        refused_with: Option<i32>,
210    },
211
212    /// The lock file could not be opened, read, or written.
213    #[error("cannot use the lock file {}: {source}", path.display())]
214    Io {
215        /// The lock file.
216        path: PathBuf,
217        /// The underlying error.
218        #[source]
219        source: std::io::Error,
220    },
221
222    /// The holder's own identity could not be read, so it could not record who
223    /// it is.
224    #[error("cannot record this process as the holder of {kind}: {source}")]
225    Identity {
226        /// Which lock.
227        kind: LockKind,
228        /// The underlying error.
229        #[source]
230        source: crate::process::ProcessError,
231    },
232}
233
234/// Renders the holder half of a [`LockError::Held`] message.
235fn describe(holder: Option<&LockHolder>) -> String {
236    match holder {
237        Some(holder) => holder.to_string(),
238        None => "a process that has not finished identifying itself".to_string(),
239    }
240}
241
242/// A held lock. Releasing it is dropping it.
243///
244/// There is no `release()` returning a `Result`, deliberately: releasing is
245/// closing a file descriptor, the kernel does it whether this program asks or
246/// not, and an API that suggested release could fail would invite a caller to
247/// handle a failure that does not exist.
248#[derive(Debug)]
249pub struct HostLock {
250    /// Held open for the lock's whole life. Closing it *is* the release, which
251    /// is why this field exists even though nothing reads it after
252    /// acquisition.
253    file: File,
254    path: PathBuf,
255    kind: LockKind,
256}
257
258impl HostLock {
259    /// Takes the lock, or reports who has it, without waiting.
260    ///
261    /// # Errors
262    ///
263    /// [`LockError::Held`] when another process has it, [`LockError::Io`] when
264    /// the lock file cannot be opened, and [`LockError::Identity`] when this
265    /// process cannot describe itself.
266    pub fn try_acquire(paths: &AppPaths, kind: LockKind) -> Result<Self, LockError> {
267        Self::try_acquire_at(&paths.state_dir().join(kind.file_name()), kind)
268    }
269
270    /// Takes the lock, retrying until `wait` elapses.
271    ///
272    /// `e1` takes the allocation lock before each runtime it creates, and brief
273    /// contention there is expected rather than exceptional, so waiting a
274    /// little is the right default for that caller. The single-instance lock
275    /// should normally use [`HostLock::try_acquire`]: a second agent is a
276    /// configuration problem, and waiting for it makes the problem quieter
277    /// rather than fixing it.
278    ///
279    /// # This blocks the calling thread
280    ///
281    /// The retry loop is `std::thread::sleep`, not a timer an executor can
282    /// park. `e1` takes the allocation lock from inside async reconciliation,
283    /// and calling this directly from a `tokio` task blocks a worker thread for
284    /// up to `wait` — starving every other task scheduled on it, and with a
285    /// current-thread runtime deadlocking against the very task that would
286    /// release the lock. **Async callers must wrap it in
287    /// [`tokio::task::spawn_blocking`]**, which is also where the returned
288    /// [`HostLock`] should then live, since dropping it is the release.
289    ///
290    /// [`HostLock::try_acquire`] does not block and is safe to call inline.
291    ///
292    /// # Errors
293    ///
294    /// As [`HostLock::try_acquire`], reporting the last holder seen.
295    pub fn acquire(paths: &AppPaths, kind: LockKind, wait: Duration) -> Result<Self, LockError> {
296        Self::acquire_at(&paths.state_dir().join(kind.file_name()), kind, wait)
297    }
298
299    /// [`HostLock::try_acquire`] against an explicit path.
300    ///
301    /// # Errors
302    ///
303    /// As [`HostLock::try_acquire`].
304    pub fn try_acquire_at(path: &Path, kind: LockKind) -> Result<Self, LockError> {
305        if let Some(parent) = path.parent() {
306            std::fs::create_dir_all(parent).map_err(|source| LockError::Io {
307                path: path.to_path_buf(),
308                source,
309            })?;
310        }
311
312        // Best effort in both contention branches below: an unreadable or
313        // half-written record makes the message vaguer, and is never a reason
314        // to behave as if the lock were free.
315        let held = |path: &Path, refused_with: Option<i32>| LockError::Held {
316            kind,
317            path: path.to_path_buf(),
318            holder: read_holder(path).ok().flatten().map(Box::new),
319            refused_with,
320        };
321
322        let file = match open_for_locking(path) {
323            Ok(file) => file,
324            // Windows excludes at the open itself, through the share mode, so
325            // this is where contention surfaces there. On Unix nothing fails
326            // the open for contention and this arm never fires.
327            Err(source) if sys::is_contention(&source) => {
328                return Err(held(path, source.raw_os_error()));
329            }
330            Err(source) => return Err(io_error(path, source)),
331        };
332
333        match sys::try_lock(&file).map_err(|source| io_error(path, source))? {
334            Acquired::Yes => {}
335            Acquired::No { refused_with } => return Err(held(path, refused_with)),
336        }
337
338        let lock = Self {
339            file,
340            path: path.to_path_buf(),
341            kind,
342        };
343        lock.record_holder()?;
344        Ok(lock)
345    }
346
347    /// [`HostLock::acquire`] against an explicit path.
348    ///
349    /// # Errors
350    ///
351    /// As [`HostLock::try_acquire`].
352    pub fn acquire_at(path: &Path, kind: LockKind, wait: Duration) -> Result<Self, LockError> {
353        let deadline = Instant::now() + wait;
354        loop {
355            match Self::try_acquire_at(path, kind) {
356                Ok(lock) => return Ok(lock),
357                Err(error @ LockError::Held { .. }) => {
358                    if Instant::now() >= deadline {
359                        return Err(error);
360                    }
361                    std::thread::sleep(RETRY_INTERVAL);
362                }
363                Err(other) => return Err(other),
364            }
365        }
366    }
367
368    /// Reads the holder record of a lock without trying to take it.
369    ///
370    /// Answers `Ok(None)` when the file does not exist or carries no readable
371    /// record. It deliberately says nothing about whether the lock is *held*:
372    /// the record outlives its writer by design, and the only authority on
373    /// whether a lock is free is trying to take it.
374    ///
375    /// # Errors
376    ///
377    /// [`LockError::Io`] when the file exists but cannot be read.
378    pub fn holder_of(path: &Path) -> Result<Option<LockHolder>, LockError> {
379        read_holder(path)
380    }
381
382    /// Where the lock file is.
383    #[must_use]
384    pub fn path(&self) -> &Path {
385        &self.path
386    }
387
388    /// Which lock this is.
389    #[must_use]
390    pub const fn kind(&self) -> LockKind {
391        self.kind
392    }
393
394    /// Whether the recorded holder of `path` is still running.
395    ///
396    /// For diagnostics — `host show` reporting a lock whose record names a
397    /// process that no longer exists tells an operator something a bare
398    /// "locked/unlocked" does not.
399    ///
400    /// # Errors
401    ///
402    /// [`LockError::Io`] when the record cannot be read.
403    pub fn recorded_holder_is_live(path: &Path) -> Result<bool, LockError> {
404        let Some(holder) = read_holder(path)? else {
405            return Ok(false);
406        };
407        Ok(matches!(holder.identity.recheck(), Ok(Adoption::Live)))
408    }
409
410    /// Writes this process's identity into the lock file.
411    ///
412    /// Runs *after* the lock is taken, which leaves a window of a few
413    /// microseconds in which a loser sees the previous holder's record or none
414    /// at all. That is why [`LockError::Held`] carries an `Option` and why the
415    /// message for `None` says the holder has not identified itself yet, rather
416    /// than implying the lock might be free.
417    fn record_holder(&self) -> Result<(), LockError> {
418        let holder = LockHolder {
419            identity: ProcessIdentity::of_current_process().map_err(|source| {
420                LockError::Identity {
421                    kind: self.kind,
422                    source,
423                }
424            })?,
425            executable: std::env::current_exe().ok(),
426            acquired_at: Utc::now(),
427            lock: self.kind,
428        };
429
430        let encoded = serde_json::to_vec_pretty(&holder).map_err(|source| {
431            io_error(
432                &self.path,
433                std::io::Error::new(std::io::ErrorKind::InvalidData, source),
434            )
435        })?;
436
437        let mut file = &self.file;
438        file.seek(SeekFrom::Start(0))
439            .map_err(|source| io_error(&self.path, source))?;
440        // The previous holder's record is longer or shorter than this one; a
441        // write without a truncate would leave its tail behind and produce
442        // unparseable JSON for the next reader.
443        file.set_len(0)
444            .map_err(|source| io_error(&self.path, source))?;
445        file.write_all(&encoded)
446            .map_err(|source| io_error(&self.path, source))?;
447        file.flush()
448            .map_err(|source| io_error(&self.path, source))?;
449        // Durable before the caller does anything with the lock: a record that
450        // is only in the page cache is not there for the operator diagnosing
451        // the machine that just stopped responding.
452        file.sync_all()
453            .map_err(|source| io_error(&self.path, source))
454    }
455}
456
457fn io_error(path: &Path, source: std::io::Error) -> LockError {
458    LockError::Io {
459        path: path.to_path_buf(),
460        source,
461    }
462}
463
464/// How often [`HostLock::acquire_at`] retries. Short enough that an allocation
465/// waiting on the lock is not noticeably delayed.
466const RETRY_INTERVAL: Duration = Duration::from_millis(25);
467
468/// What a non-blocking lock attempt answered, and — when it refused — why.
469///
470/// A bare `bool` threw away the one fact that would explain a refusal nobody
471/// can account for. See [`LockError::Held::refused_with`].
472#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
473// Windows excludes at the open, so its `try_lock` can only ever answer `Yes`
474// and the refusal arm is genuinely unreachable there. It is not dead code — it
475// is the whole answer on the two platforms that lock after opening.
476#[cfg_attr(windows, allow(dead_code))]
477pub(crate) enum Acquired {
478    Yes,
479    No { refused_with: Option<i32> },
480}
481
482/// Renders the refusal code for an operator, without pretending to interpret it.
483fn describe_refusal(code: Option<i32>) -> String {
484    match code {
485        Some(code) => format!("os error {code}"),
486        None => "the open itself, which is how this platform excludes".to_string(),
487    }
488}
489
490fn open_for_locking(path: &Path) -> std::io::Result<File> {
491    let mut options = OpenOptions::new();
492    // `truncate(false)` is explicit rather than implied: the previous holder's
493    // record must survive the open, because it is what a *loser* reads, and the
494    // loser's open is this same call.
495    options.read(true).write(true).create(true).truncate(false);
496    sys::prepare_for_locking(&mut options);
497    options.open(path)
498}
499
500fn read_holder(path: &Path) -> Result<Option<LockHolder>, LockError> {
501    let mut options = OpenOptions::new();
502    options.read(true);
503    sys::prepare_for_reading(&mut options);
504
505    let mut file = match options.open(path) {
506        Ok(file) => file,
507        Err(source) if source.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound => return Ok(None),
508        Err(source) => return Err(io_error(path, source)),
509    };
510
511    let mut contents = String::new();
512    file.read_to_string(&mut contents)
513        .map_err(|source| io_error(path, source))?;
514
515    // An empty or half-written file is the acquisition race described on
516    // `HostLock::record_holder`, not a corrupt installation. Say "no record"
517    // and let the caller's message be vaguer.
518    Ok(serde_json::from_str(&contents).ok())
519}
520
521// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
522// Platform implementations
523// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
524
525#[cfg(windows)]
526mod sys {
527    use std::fs::{File, OpenOptions};
528    use std::io;
529    use std::os::windows::fs::OpenOptionsExt;
530
531    use windows::Win32::Storage::FileSystem::{
532        FILE_SHARE_DELETE, FILE_SHARE_READ, FILE_SHARE_WRITE,
533    };
534
535    /// The acquisition open. Sharing *read* only: a second acquirer also asks
536    /// for write access, which this share mode denies, so `CreateFile` fails
537    /// with `ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION` before any lock call is needed. The
538    /// exclusion is the open itself, which is why `try_lock` below has nothing
539    /// left to do.
540    pub(super) fn prepare_for_locking(options: &mut OpenOptions) {
541        options.share_mode(FILE_SHARE_READ.0);
542    }
543
544    /// The diagnostic open. Read access only, and permissive sharing, so that
545    /// it is compatible with the holder's open in both directions: the holder
546    /// permits readers, and this permits the holder's read/write access.
547    pub(super) fn prepare_for_reading(options: &mut OpenOptions) {
548        options.share_mode(FILE_SHARE_READ.0 | FILE_SHARE_WRITE.0 | FILE_SHARE_DELETE.0);
549    }
550
551    /// Always `true` on Windows: if the open in `open_for_locking` succeeded,
552    /// this process is the exclusive writer, and when the process ends — for
553    /// any reason, including a crash — the kernel closes the handle and the
554    /// next acquirer's open succeeds.
555    pub(super) fn try_lock(_file: &File) -> io::Result<super::Acquired> {
556        Ok(super::Acquired::Yes)
557    }
558
559    /// Windows reports a share-mode conflict as `ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION`, and
560    /// `std` maps it to a generic error, so the raw code is what identifies it.
561    pub(super) const SHARING_VIOLATION: i32 =
562        windows::Win32::Foundation::ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION.0 as i32;
563
564    /// Whether an open failure means "somebody else holds it" rather than
565    /// something an operator should investigate.
566    pub(super) fn is_contention(error: &io::Error) -> bool {
567        error.raw_os_error() == Some(SHARING_VIOLATION)
568    }
569}
570
571#[cfg(unix)]
572mod sys {
573    use std::fs::{File, OpenOptions};
574    use std::io;
575    use std::os::unix::io::AsRawFd;
576
577    /// Nothing to prepare: on Unix the open is ordinary and the exclusion comes
578    /// from `flock` below.
579    pub(super) fn prepare_for_locking(_options: &mut OpenOptions) {}
580
581    pub(super) fn prepare_for_reading(_options: &mut OpenOptions) {}
582
583    /// `flock(LOCK_EX | LOCK_NB)`.
584    ///
585    /// Chosen over `fcntl` record locks for one reason that matters here:
586    /// `fcntl` locks are dropped when *any* file descriptor for the file is
587    /// closed by the process, so an unrelated `read_holder` in the same process
588    /// would silently release the agent's lock. `flock` locks belong to the
589    /// open file description and are immune to that.
590    pub(super) fn try_lock(file: &File) -> io::Result<super::Acquired> {
591        // SAFETY: `flock` takes a file descriptor and a flag word and touches
592        // no memory this program owns. The descriptor is valid for the life of
593        // `file`, which outlives the call.
594        let result = unsafe { libc::flock(file.as_raw_fd(), libc::LOCK_EX | libc::LOCK_NB) };
595        if result == 0 {
596            return Ok(super::Acquired::Yes);
597        }
598        let error = io::Error::last_os_error();
599        if is_contention(&error) {
600            return Ok(super::Acquired::No {
601                refused_with: error.raw_os_error(),
602            });
603        }
604        Err(error)
605    }
606
607    /// `EWOULDBLOCK` — and `EAGAIN`, which is the same number on Linux and
608    /// macOS but is written both ways in the documentation.
609    pub(super) fn is_contention(error: &io::Error) -> bool {
610        matches!(
611            error.raw_os_error(),
612            Some(code) if code == libc::EWOULDBLOCK || code == libc::EAGAIN
613        )
614    }
615}
616
617#[cfg(test)]
618mod tests {
619    use super::*;
620
621    use crate::process::{OutputMode, SpawnSpec};
622
623    /// The environment variable that turns `lock_holder_helper` below from a
624    /// no-op into a process that takes a lock and holds it until it is killed.
625    const HELPER_PATH: &str = "RUNNER_MANAGER_LOCK_HELPER_PATH";
626    /// What the helper prints once it holds the lock.
627    ///
628    /// Searched for *within* a line rather than at the start of one, because
629    /// libtest writes `test <name> ... ` with no trailing newline before the
630    /// test body runs — so the helper's first line of output is that prefix
631    /// followed by this marker, not the marker alone.
632    const HELPER_READY: &str = "@@LOCK-HELD@@";
633
634    fn lock_path(directory: &tempfile::TempDir, kind: LockKind) -> PathBuf {
635        directory.path().join(kind.file_name())
636    }
637
638    /// Takes the lock twice with `acquire` and reports whether exactly one
639    /// acquisition won.
640    ///
641    /// A helper returning `Result` rather than inline assertions, so that
642    /// `the_contention_check_catches_a_lock_that_never_excludes` can point it
643    /// at a lock that excludes nothing. A mutual-exclusion test that has only
644    /// ever been run against a working lock cannot distinguish "the lock works"
645    /// from "the test asserts nothing".
646    fn check_mutual_exclusion<G>(acquire: impl Fn() -> Result<G, LockError>) -> Result<(), String> {
647        let first = acquire().map_err(|error| format!("the first acquisition failed: {error}"))?;
648
649        let outcome = match acquire() {
650            Ok(_) => Err("both acquisitions succeeded; nothing is being excluded".to_string()),
651            Err(LockError::Held { .. }) => Ok(()),
652            Err(other) => Err(format!(
653                "the second acquisition failed, but not because the lock was held: {other}"
654            )),
655        };
656
657        drop(first);
658        outcome
659    }
660
661    #[test]
662    fn two_contenders_produce_exactly_one_holder() {
663        let directory = tempfile::tempdir().expect("a temporary directory");
664        let path = lock_path(&directory, LockKind::SingleInstance);
665
666        check_mutual_exclusion(|| HostLock::try_acquire_at(&path, LockKind::SingleInstance))
667            .expect("the single-instance lock must admit exactly one holder");
668    }
669
670    #[test]
671    fn the_contention_check_catches_a_lock_that_never_excludes() {
672        let complaint = check_mutual_exclusion(|| Ok::<(), LockError>(()))
673            .expect_err("a lock that excludes nothing must be caught");
674        assert!(
675            complaint.contains("nothing is being excluded"),
676            "the complaint must name the failure mode, got: {complaint}"
677        );
678    }
679
680    #[test]
681    fn releasing_the_lock_lets_the_next_contender_take_it() {
682        let directory = tempfile::tempdir().expect("a temporary directory");
683        let path = lock_path(&directory, LockKind::SingleInstance);
684
685        let first = HostLock::try_acquire_at(&path, LockKind::SingleInstance).expect("acquired");
686        assert!(HostLock::try_acquire_at(&path, LockKind::SingleInstance).is_err());
687        drop(first);
688
689        let second = HostLock::try_acquire_at(&path, LockKind::SingleInstance)
690            .expect("the lock must be free once the holder drops it");
691        assert_eq!(second.path(), path);
692        assert_eq!(second.kind(), LockKind::SingleInstance);
693    }
694
695    #[test]
696    fn independent_host_locks_do_not_contend_with_each_other() {
697        // `e1` takes the allocation lock while the agent already holds the
698        // single-instance lock. If those two shared a file, the agent would
699        // deadlock against itself on the first runtime it tried to create.
700        let directory = tempfile::tempdir().expect("a temporary directory");
701
702        let instance = HostLock::try_acquire_at(
703            &lock_path(&directory, LockKind::SingleInstance),
704            LockKind::SingleInstance,
705        )
706        .expect("the instance lock is free");
707
708        let allocation = HostLock::try_acquire_at(
709            &lock_path(&directory, LockKind::Allocation),
710            LockKind::Allocation,
711        )
712        .expect("the allocation lock is a different lock and must be free");
713
714        let renewal = HostLock::try_acquire_at(
715            &lock_path(&directory, LockKind::CredentialRenewal),
716            LockKind::CredentialRenewal,
717        )
718        .expect("the credential-renewal lock is a different lock and must be free");
719
720        assert_ne!(instance.path(), allocation.path());
721        assert_ne!(instance.path(), renewal.path());
722        assert_ne!(allocation.path(), renewal.path());
723        assert_ne!(
724            LockKind::SingleInstance.file_name(),
725            LockKind::Allocation.file_name()
726        );
727        assert_ne!(
728            LockKind::Allocation.file_name(),
729            LockKind::CredentialRenewal.file_name()
730        );
731    }
732
733    #[test]
734    fn the_loser_gets_a_message_naming_the_holder_and_saying_what_to_do() {
735        let directory = tempfile::tempdir().expect("a temporary directory");
736        let path = lock_path(&directory, LockKind::SingleInstance);
737
738        let _held = HostLock::try_acquire_at(&path, LockKind::SingleInstance).expect("acquired");
739        let error = HostLock::try_acquire_at(&path, LockKind::SingleInstance)
740            .expect_err("the second acquisition must fail");
741
742        let LockError::Held { holder, kind, .. } = &error else {
743            panic!("expected a contention error, got {error}");
744        };
745        assert_eq!(*kind, LockKind::SingleInstance);
746
747        let holder = holder.as_ref().expect("the holder recorded itself");
748        assert_eq!(holder.identity.pid(), std::process::id());
749        assert_eq!(holder.lock, LockKind::SingleInstance);
750        assert_eq!(
751            holder.executable.as_deref(),
752            std::env::current_exe().ok().as_deref()
753        );
754
755        let message = error.to_string();
756        assert!(
757            message.contains(&std::process::id().to_string()),
758            "the message must name the holding process: {message}"
759        );
760        assert!(
761            message.contains("Stop the other agent"),
762            "the message must say what to do, not only what happened: {message}"
763        );
764    }
765
766    #[test]
767    fn the_recorded_holder_survives_a_read_by_a_second_process_shape() {
768        // Reading the record must work while the lock is held — on Windows that
769        // is a share-mode question and it is easy to get wrong in a way that
770        // only shows up when it matters, because the only caller is the loser.
771        let directory = tempfile::tempdir().expect("a temporary directory");
772        let path = lock_path(&directory, LockKind::SingleInstance);
773
774        let _held = HostLock::try_acquire_at(&path, LockKind::SingleInstance).expect("acquired");
775
776        let holder = HostLock::holder_of(&path)
777            .expect("the record must be readable while the lock is held")
778            .expect("a record must be there");
779        assert_eq!(holder.identity.pid(), std::process::id());
780        assert!(HostLock::recorded_holder_is_live(&path).expect("readable"));
781    }
782
783    #[test]
784    fn a_stale_record_is_reported_as_not_live() {
785        let directory = tempfile::tempdir().expect("a temporary directory");
786        let path = lock_path(&directory, LockKind::SingleInstance);
787
788        // A record naming a process that has come and gone: exactly what a
789        // crashed holder leaves behind.
790        //
791        // THE CHILD HAS TO OUTLIVE ITS OWN IDENTITY LOOKUP.
792        //
793        // `SpawnSpec::spawn` reads `ProcessIdentity::of_child` immediately after
794        // starting the process, because the start token is what stops a reused
795        // pid from being mistaken for the original. A child that exits INSTANTLY
796        // -- `true` did -- can be gone before that read, and the spawn then
797        // fails with `NoSuchProcess` rather than yielding the identity this test
798        // needs. It blocked release 0.1.5 on the macOS leg, where a loaded
799        // runner made the race easy to lose.
800        //
801        // So the child sleeps briefly: long enough to be observed, short enough
802        // that waiting for it costs nothing. What is being tested is unchanged
803        // -- the record is stale by the time it is read, because `wait` below
804        // returns only after the process is gone.
805        let mut child = SpawnSpec::new(if cfg!(windows) { "cmd" } else { "sh" })
806            .args(if cfg!(windows) {
807                vec!["/C", "exit", "0"]
808            } else {
809                vec!["-c", "sleep 0.3"]
810            })
811            .spawn()
812            .expect("the child starts");
813        let identity = child.identity().clone();
814        child.wait().expect("the child exits");
815
816        let stale = LockHolder {
817            identity,
818            executable: None,
819            acquired_at: Utc::now(),
820            lock: LockKind::SingleInstance,
821        };
822        std::fs::write(&path, serde_json::to_vec(&stale).expect("serialisable")).expect("writable");
823
824        assert!(
825            !HostLock::recorded_holder_is_live(&path).expect("readable"),
826            "a record naming a dead process must not be reported as live"
827        );
828        // And the lock itself is free, because nothing holds the file.
829        HostLock::try_acquire_at(&path, LockKind::SingleInstance)
830            .expect("a stale record must not keep the lock held");
831    }
832
833    #[test]
834    fn an_unidentified_holder_still_reads_as_a_holder() {
835        // The microsecond between taking the lock and writing the record. The
836        // message gets vaguer; the exclusion does not, and the wording must not
837        // leave a reader thinking the lock might be free.
838        let no_record = describe(None);
839        assert!(
840            no_record.contains("not finished identifying itself"),
841            "an unidentified holder must still read as a holder: {no_record}"
842        );
843
844        let error = LockError::Held {
845            kind: LockKind::SingleInstance,
846            path: PathBuf::from("/var/lib/runner-manager/state/agent.lock"),
847            holder: None,
848            refused_with: Some(35),
849        };
850        let message = error.to_string();
851        assert!(message.contains("already held"), "{message}");
852        assert!(message.contains("agent.lock"), "{message}");
853        assert!(message.contains("Stop the other agent"), "{message}");
854        // The refusal code is in the message because this variant has two
855        // causes that are otherwise indistinguishable once constructed: a lock
856        // that really is somebody else's, and a refusal this module does not
857        // model. Without it, the second reads exactly like the first.
858        assert!(message.contains("os error 35"), "{message}");
859
860        let at_open = LockError::Held {
861            kind: LockKind::SingleInstance,
862            path: PathBuf::from("/var/lib/runner-manager/state/agent.lock"),
863            holder: None,
864            refused_with: None,
865        };
866        assert!(
867            at_open.to_string().contains("the open itself"),
868            "a platform that excludes at the open says so rather than showing a bare `None`: {at_open}"
869        );
870    }
871
872    #[test]
873    fn acquire_waits_and_then_reports_the_holder() {
874        let directory = tempfile::tempdir().expect("a temporary directory");
875        let path = lock_path(&directory, LockKind::Allocation);
876
877        let _held = HostLock::try_acquire_at(&path, LockKind::Allocation).expect("acquired");
878
879        let wait = Duration::from_millis(200);
880        let started = Instant::now();
881        let error = HostLock::acquire_at(&path, LockKind::Allocation, wait)
882            .expect_err("the lock is held for the whole window");
883        let elapsed = started.elapsed();
884
885        assert!(matches!(error, LockError::Held { .. }), "{error}");
886        assert!(
887            elapsed >= wait,
888            "acquire must actually wait; it returned after {elapsed:?} of a {wait:?} window"
889        );
890    }
891
892    #[test]
893    fn acquire_returns_immediately_when_the_lock_is_free() {
894        let directory = tempfile::tempdir().expect("a temporary directory");
895        let path = lock_path(&directory, LockKind::Allocation);
896
897        let started = Instant::now();
898        let lock = HostLock::acquire_at(&path, LockKind::Allocation, Duration::from_secs(30))
899            .expect("the lock is free");
900        assert!(
901            started.elapsed() < Duration::from_secs(5),
902            "a free lock must not be waited for"
903        );
904        drop(lock);
905    }
906
907    #[test]
908    fn try_acquire_uses_the_state_directory() {
909        let root = tempfile::tempdir().expect("a temporary directory");
910        let paths = AppPaths::rooted_at(root.path());
911
912        let lock = HostLock::try_acquire(&paths, LockKind::SingleInstance).expect("acquired");
913        assert_eq!(lock.path(), paths.state_dir().join("agent.lock"));
914        assert!(
915            lock.path().exists(),
916            "the lock file must have been created under state/, as 05-infrastructure.md says"
917        );
918    }
919
920    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
921    // The cross-process half of the Definition of Done
922    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
923
924    /// Runs as an ordinary no-op test, unless `RUNNER_MANAGER_LOCK_HELPER_PATH`
925    /// is set — in which case this process *is* the second contender: it takes
926    /// the lock named by that variable, announces that it has it, and then
927    /// waits to be killed.
928    ///
929    /// Re-executing the test binary is what makes a genuinely separate process
930    /// available without shipping a second binary. The two tests below drive
931    /// it.
932    #[test]
933    fn lock_holder_helper() {
934        let Some(path) = std::env::var_os(HELPER_PATH) else {
935            return;
936        };
937
938        let _lock = HostLock::try_acquire_at(Path::new(&path), LockKind::SingleInstance)
939            .expect("the helper must be able to take the lock");
940
941        println!("{HELPER_READY} {}", std::process::id());
942        let _ = std::io::stdout().flush();
943
944        // Long enough that the parent always kills it first, short enough that
945        // a parent which somehow died leaves nothing behind for long.
946        std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_secs(120));
947    }
948
949    /// Starts the helper and waits until it reports that it holds the lock.
950    fn start_helper(path: &Path) -> (crate::process::ChildProcess, u32) {
951        let executable = std::env::current_exe().expect("the test binary's own path");
952
953        let mut child = SpawnSpec::new(executable)
954            .args([
955                "--exact",
956                "lock::tests::lock_holder_helper",
957                // Without this, libtest swallows the helper's announcement and
958                // the parent waits forever for a line that was captured.
959                "--nocapture",
960                "--test-threads=1",
961            ])
962            .env(HELPER_PATH, path)
963            .output(OutputMode::Capture)
964            .spawn()
965            .expect("the helper process starts");
966
967        let stdout = child.take_stdout().expect("captured");
968        let (sender, receiver) = std::sync::mpsc::channel();
969        std::thread::spawn(move || {
970            use std::io::BufRead as _;
971            for line in std::io::BufReader::new(stdout).lines() {
972                let Ok(line) = line else { break };
973                if let Some((_, rest)) = line.split_once(HELPER_READY) {
974                    let _ = sender.send(rest.trim().to_string());
975                    return;
976                }
977            }
978            let _ = sender.send(String::new());
979        });
980
981        let announced = receiver
982            .recv_timeout(Duration::from_secs(60))
983            .expect("the helper must announce that it holds the lock");
984        let pid: u32 = announced
985            .parse()
986            .unwrap_or_else(|_| panic!("the helper announced {announced:?} instead of a PID"));
987
988        (child, pid)
989    }
990
991    #[test]
992    fn two_processes_contending_produce_exactly_one_holder() {
993        let directory = tempfile::tempdir().expect("a temporary directory");
994        let path = lock_path(&directory, LockKind::SingleInstance);
995
996        let (mut helper, helper_pid) = start_helper(&path);
997        assert_ne!(helper_pid, std::process::id());
998
999        let error = HostLock::try_acquire_at(&path, LockKind::SingleInstance)
1000            .expect_err("a second agent must not get the lock");
1001
1002        let LockError::Held { holder, .. } = &error else {
1003            panic!("expected a contention error, got {error}");
1004        };
1005        let holder = holder.as_ref().expect("the helper recorded itself");
1006        assert_eq!(
1007            holder.identity.pid(),
1008            helper_pid,
1009            "the record must name the process that actually holds it"
1010        );
1011        assert!(
1012            error.to_string().contains(&helper_pid.to_string()),
1013            "the loser's message must name the holder: {error}"
1014        );
1015
1016        helper.stop(Duration::ZERO).expect("cleanup");
1017    }
1018
1019    #[test]
1020    fn killing_the_holder_releases_the_lock_with_no_manual_cleanup() {
1021        let directory = tempfile::tempdir().expect("a temporary directory");
1022        let path = lock_path(&directory, LockKind::SingleInstance);
1023
1024        let (mut helper, helper_pid) = start_helper(&path);
1025        assert!(
1026            HostLock::try_acquire_at(&path, LockKind::SingleInstance).is_err(),
1027            "the helper holds it"
1028        );
1029
1030        // `Duration::ZERO` leaves the helper no grace period. On Windows that
1031        // is literally straight to `TerminateProcess`, because there is no
1032        // signal to send; on Unix a SIGTERM is still sent first, but the grace
1033        // period it is given is zero, so SIGKILL follows before the helper can
1034        // act on it. Either way no destructor and no cleanup code runs, which
1035        // is the point: this is a crash, not a shutdown.
1036        helper.stop(Duration::ZERO).expect("the helper is killed");
1037        assert!(!helper.is_running().expect("observable"));
1038
1039        // Nothing is deleted, nothing is reset, no PID file is reaped: the next
1040        // acquisition simply succeeds.
1041        let recovered = HostLock::try_acquire_at(&path, LockKind::SingleInstance)
1042            .unwrap_or_else(|error| panic!("the lock leaked after its holder was killed: {error}"));
1043
1044        assert!(
1045            path.exists(),
1046            "the lock file itself must survive; deleting it is how two processes end up \
1047             locking different inodes"
1048        );
1049
1050        let holder = HostLock::holder_of(&path)
1051            .expect("readable")
1052            .expect("the new holder recorded itself");
1053        assert_eq!(holder.identity.pid(), std::process::id());
1054        assert_ne!(
1055            holder.identity.pid(),
1056            helper_pid,
1057            "the record must have been replaced, not inherited"
1058        );
1059        drop(recovered);
1060    }
1061}