runner_manager_platform/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 /// Held while a launch leases a dependency-cache namespace, or while a
87 /// prune moves an idle one aside, so a prune never takes a namespace a
88 /// runner is about to use. It lives in the cache root, not in `state/`.
89 DependencyCache,
90}
91
92impl LockKind {
93 /// The file this lock lives in, inside `state/`.
94 #[must_use]
95 pub const fn file_name(self) -> &'static str {
96 match self {
97 Self::SingleInstance => "agent.lock",
98 Self::Allocation => "allocation.lock",
99 Self::CredentialRenewal => "credential-renewal.lock",
100 Self::DependencyCache => ".lock",
101 }
102 }
103
104 /// How to name this lock to an operator.
105 #[must_use]
106 pub const fn description(self) -> &'static str {
107 match self {
108 Self::SingleInstance => "the single-instance agent lock",
109 Self::Allocation => "the runtime allocation lock",
110 Self::CredentialRenewal => "the credential-renewal lock",
111 Self::DependencyCache => "the dependency-cache lock",
112 }
113 }
114
115 /// What an operator who lost the race should do about it. Present because
116 /// "the lock is held" is a statement and not yet an instruction.
117 #[must_use]
118 pub const fn advice(self) -> &'static str {
119 match self {
120 Self::SingleInstance => {
121 "Only one agent may reconcile policies on a host. Stop the other agent, or wait \
122 for it to exit; the operating system releases this lock when that process ends, \
123 including after a crash, so there is never anything to clean up by hand."
124 }
125 Self::Allocation => {
126 "This lock is held only for as long as it takes to create one runtime. Retry \
127 shortly."
128 }
129 Self::CredentialRenewal => {
130 "This lock is held only while one process rotates the shared credential. Retry \
131 shortly."
132 }
133 Self::DependencyCache => {
134 "This lock is held only while a runner leases its cache or a prune moves an idle \
135 cache aside. Retry shortly."
136 }
137 }
138 }
139}
140
141impl fmt::Display for LockKind {
142 fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
143 f.write_str(self.description())
144 }
145}
146
147/// Who holds a lock, as recorded by the holder itself.
148///
149/// Written into the lock file after the lock is taken, so that the process
150/// that loses the race can say something useful instead of "somebody else".
151#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
152pub struct LockHolder {
153 /// The holder's process identity — a PID alone would not survive being
154 /// read back by a process that started after a reboot.
155 pub identity: ProcessIdentity,
156 /// The holder's executable, when it could be resolved. `05-infrastructure.md`
157 /// requires `service status` to report a stale or moved binary path, and
158 /// an operator looking at a contended lock has the same question.
159 pub executable: Option<PathBuf>,
160 /// When the lock was taken.
161 pub acquired_at: DateTime<Utc>,
162 /// Which lock the record belongs to. Recorded so that a file opened by
163 /// mistake is recognised rather than misreported.
164 pub lock: LockKind,
165}
166
167impl fmt::Display for LockHolder {
168 fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter<'_>) -> fmt::Result {
169 write!(f, "process {}", self.identity.pid())?;
170 if let Some(executable) = &self.executable {
171 write!(f, " ({})", executable.display())?;
172 }
173 write!(f, ", holding since {}", self.acquired_at.to_rfc3339())
174 }
175}
176
177/// Something went wrong taking or inspecting a lock.
178#[derive(Debug, thiserror::Error)]
179pub enum LockError {
180 /// Somebody else has it.
181 #[error(
182 "{kind} ({}) is already held on this host by {}. {} [refused with {}]",
183 path.display(),
184 describe(holder.as_deref()),
185 kind.advice(),
186 describe_refusal(*refused_with)
187 )]
188 Held {
189 /// Which lock.
190 kind: LockKind,
191 /// Where the lock file is, so the message is actionable on a host with
192 /// a non-default layout.
193 path: PathBuf,
194 /// Who holds it, when the record could be read. `None` is not the same
195 /// as "nobody": it means the holder had not finished identifying
196 /// itself, which is a race of microseconds and not a reason to proceed.
197 ///
198 /// Boxed because this variant travels inside a `Result` that `e1`
199 /// carries across a `spawn_blocking` boundary, and an inline
200 /// `LockHolder` makes that `Err` large enough for clippy's
201 /// `result_large_err` to refuse the build. The indirection costs one
202 /// allocation on a path that has already lost a lock race.
203 holder: Option<Box<LockHolder>>,
204 /// The operating system code the refusal actually carried.
205 ///
206 /// # Why an errno is in a user-facing message
207 ///
208 /// This variant has two causes that look identical once it is
209 /// constructed: the lock is genuinely somebody else's, or the operating
210 /// system said "would block" for a reason this code does not model. The
211 /// second is not hypothetical — a refusal that no reading of this
212 /// module explains has been seen in CI on both Unix platforms, for a
213 /// lock the same process had just released, and there was nothing in
214 /// the message to tell the two apart.
215 ///
216 /// Carrying the raw code costs a few characters and turns the next
217 /// occurrence from a mystery into a report. `None` where the platform
218 /// excluded at the open rather than at the lock call.
219 refused_with: Option<i32>,
220 },
221
222 /// The lock file could not be opened, read, or written.
223 #[error("cannot use the lock file {}: {source}", path.display())]
224 Io {
225 /// The lock file.
226 path: PathBuf,
227 /// The underlying error.
228 #[source]
229 source: std::io::Error,
230 },
231
232 /// The holder's own identity could not be read, so it could not record who
233 /// it is.
234 #[error("cannot record this process as the holder of {kind}: {source}")]
235 Identity {
236 /// Which lock.
237 kind: LockKind,
238 /// The underlying error.
239 #[source]
240 source: crate::process::ProcessError,
241 },
242}
243
244/// Renders the holder half of a [`LockError::Held`] message.
245fn describe(holder: Option<&LockHolder>) -> String {
246 match holder {
247 Some(holder) => holder.to_string(),
248 None => "a process that has not finished identifying itself".to_string(),
249 }
250}
251
252/// A held lock. Releasing it is dropping it.
253///
254/// There is no `release()` returning a `Result`, deliberately: releasing is
255/// closing a file descriptor, the kernel does it whether this program asks or
256/// not, and an API that suggested release could fail would invite a caller to
257/// handle a failure that does not exist.
258#[derive(Debug)]
259pub struct HostLock {
260 /// Held open for the lock's whole life. Closing it *is* the release, which
261 /// is why this field exists even though nothing reads it after
262 /// acquisition.
263 file: File,
264 path: PathBuf,
265 kind: LockKind,
266}
267
268impl HostLock {
269 /// Takes the lock, or reports who has it, without waiting.
270 ///
271 /// # Errors
272 ///
273 /// [`LockError::Held`] when another process has it, [`LockError::Io`] when
274 /// the lock file cannot be opened, and [`LockError::Identity`] when this
275 /// process cannot describe itself.
276 pub fn try_acquire(paths: &AppPaths, kind: LockKind) -> Result<Self, LockError> {
277 Self::try_acquire_at(&paths.state_dir().join(kind.file_name()), kind)
278 }
279
280 /// Takes the lock, retrying until `wait` elapses.
281 ///
282 /// `e1` takes the allocation lock before each runtime it creates, and brief
283 /// contention there is expected rather than exceptional, so waiting a
284 /// little is the right default for that caller. The single-instance lock
285 /// should normally use [`HostLock::try_acquire`]: a second agent is a
286 /// configuration problem, and waiting for it makes the problem quieter
287 /// rather than fixing it.
288 ///
289 /// # This blocks the calling thread
290 ///
291 /// The retry loop is `std::thread::sleep`, not a timer an executor can
292 /// park. `e1` takes the allocation lock from inside async reconciliation,
293 /// and calling this directly from a `tokio` task blocks a worker thread for
294 /// up to `wait` — starving every other task scheduled on it, and with a
295 /// current-thread runtime deadlocking against the very task that would
296 /// release the lock. **Async callers must wrap it in
297 /// [`tokio::task::spawn_blocking`]**, which is also where the returned
298 /// [`HostLock`] should then live, since dropping it is the release.
299 ///
300 /// [`HostLock::try_acquire`] does not block and is safe to call inline.
301 ///
302 /// # Errors
303 ///
304 /// As [`HostLock::try_acquire`], reporting the last holder seen.
305 pub fn acquire(paths: &AppPaths, kind: LockKind, wait: Duration) -> Result<Self, LockError> {
306 Self::acquire_at(&paths.state_dir().join(kind.file_name()), kind, wait)
307 }
308
309 /// [`HostLock::try_acquire`] against an explicit path.
310 ///
311 /// # Errors
312 ///
313 /// As [`HostLock::try_acquire`].
314 pub fn try_acquire_at(path: &Path, kind: LockKind) -> Result<Self, LockError> {
315 if let Some(parent) = path.parent() {
316 std::fs::create_dir_all(parent).map_err(|source| LockError::Io {
317 path: path.to_path_buf(),
318 source,
319 })?;
320 }
321
322 // Best effort in both contention branches below: an unreadable or
323 // half-written record makes the message vaguer, and is never a reason
324 // to behave as if the lock were free.
325 let held = |path: &Path, refused_with: Option<i32>| LockError::Held {
326 kind,
327 path: path.to_path_buf(),
328 holder: read_holder(path).ok().flatten().map(Box::new),
329 refused_with,
330 };
331
332 let file = match open_for_locking(path) {
333 Ok(file) => file,
334 // Windows excludes at the open itself, through the share mode, so
335 // this is where contention surfaces there. On Unix nothing fails
336 // the open for contention and this arm never fires.
337 Err(source) if sys::is_contention(&source) => {
338 return Err(held(path, source.raw_os_error()));
339 }
340 Err(source) => return Err(io_error(path, source)),
341 };
342
343 match sys::try_lock(&file).map_err(|source| io_error(path, source))? {
344 Acquired::Yes => {}
345 Acquired::No { refused_with } => return Err(held(path, refused_with)),
346 }
347
348 let lock = Self {
349 file,
350 path: path.to_path_buf(),
351 kind,
352 };
353 lock.record_holder()?;
354 Ok(lock)
355 }
356
357 /// [`HostLock::acquire`] against an explicit path.
358 ///
359 /// # Errors
360 ///
361 /// As [`HostLock::try_acquire`].
362 pub fn acquire_at(path: &Path, kind: LockKind, wait: Duration) -> Result<Self, LockError> {
363 let deadline = Instant::now() + wait;
364 loop {
365 match Self::try_acquire_at(path, kind) {
366 Ok(lock) => return Ok(lock),
367 Err(error @ LockError::Held { .. }) => {
368 if Instant::now() >= deadline {
369 return Err(error);
370 }
371 std::thread::sleep(RETRY_INTERVAL);
372 }
373 Err(other) => return Err(other),
374 }
375 }
376 }
377
378 /// Reads the holder record of a lock without trying to take it.
379 ///
380 /// Answers `Ok(None)` when the file does not exist or carries no readable
381 /// record. It deliberately says nothing about whether the lock is *held*:
382 /// the record outlives its writer by design, and the only authority on
383 /// whether a lock is free is trying to take it.
384 ///
385 /// # Errors
386 ///
387 /// [`LockError::Io`] when the file exists but cannot be read.
388 pub fn holder_of(path: &Path) -> Result<Option<LockHolder>, LockError> {
389 read_holder(path)
390 }
391
392 /// Where the lock file is.
393 #[must_use]
394 pub fn path(&self) -> &Path {
395 &self.path
396 }
397
398 /// Which lock this is.
399 #[must_use]
400 pub const fn kind(&self) -> LockKind {
401 self.kind
402 }
403
404 /// Whether the recorded holder of `path` is still running.
405 ///
406 /// For diagnostics — `host show` reporting a lock whose record names a
407 /// process that no longer exists tells an operator something a bare
408 /// "locked/unlocked" does not.
409 ///
410 /// # Errors
411 ///
412 /// [`LockError::Io`] when the record cannot be read.
413 pub fn recorded_holder_is_live(path: &Path) -> Result<bool, LockError> {
414 let Some(holder) = read_holder(path)? else {
415 return Ok(false);
416 };
417 Ok(matches!(holder.identity.recheck(), Ok(Adoption::Live)))
418 }
419
420 /// Writes this process's identity into the lock file.
421 ///
422 /// Runs *after* the lock is taken, which leaves a window of a few
423 /// microseconds in which a loser sees the previous holder's record or none
424 /// at all. That is why [`LockError::Held`] carries an `Option` and why the
425 /// message for `None` says the holder has not identified itself yet, rather
426 /// than implying the lock might be free.
427 fn record_holder(&self) -> Result<(), LockError> {
428 let holder = LockHolder {
429 identity: ProcessIdentity::of_current_process().map_err(|source| {
430 LockError::Identity {
431 kind: self.kind,
432 source,
433 }
434 })?,
435 executable: std::env::current_exe().ok(),
436 acquired_at: Utc::now(),
437 lock: self.kind,
438 };
439
440 let encoded = serde_json::to_vec_pretty(&holder).map_err(|source| {
441 io_error(
442 &self.path,
443 std::io::Error::new(std::io::ErrorKind::InvalidData, source),
444 )
445 })?;
446
447 let mut file = &self.file;
448 file.seek(SeekFrom::Start(0))
449 .map_err(|source| io_error(&self.path, source))?;
450 // The previous holder's record is longer or shorter than this one; a
451 // write without a truncate would leave its tail behind and produce
452 // unparseable JSON for the next reader.
453 file.set_len(0)
454 .map_err(|source| io_error(&self.path, source))?;
455 file.write_all(&encoded)
456 .map_err(|source| io_error(&self.path, source))?;
457 file.flush()
458 .map_err(|source| io_error(&self.path, source))?;
459 // Durable before the caller does anything with the lock: a record that
460 // is only in the page cache is not there for the operator diagnosing
461 // the machine that just stopped responding.
462 file.sync_all()
463 .map_err(|source| io_error(&self.path, source))
464 }
465}
466
467fn io_error(path: &Path, source: std::io::Error) -> LockError {
468 LockError::Io {
469 path: path.to_path_buf(),
470 source,
471 }
472}
473
474/// How often [`HostLock::acquire_at`] retries. Short enough that an allocation
475/// waiting on the lock is not noticeably delayed.
476const RETRY_INTERVAL: Duration = Duration::from_millis(25);
477
478/// What a non-blocking lock attempt answered, and — when it refused — why.
479///
480/// A bare `bool` threw away the one fact that would explain a refusal nobody
481/// can account for. See [`LockError::Held::refused_with`].
482#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
483// Windows excludes at the open, so its `try_lock` can only ever answer `Yes`
484// and the refusal arm is genuinely unreachable there. It is not dead code — it
485// is the whole answer on the two platforms that lock after opening.
486#[cfg_attr(windows, allow(dead_code))]
487pub(crate) enum Acquired {
488 Yes,
489 No { refused_with: Option<i32> },
490}
491
492/// Renders the refusal code for an operator, without pretending to interpret it.
493fn describe_refusal(code: Option<i32>) -> String {
494 match code {
495 Some(code) => format!("os error {code}"),
496 None => "the open itself, which is how this platform excludes".to_string(),
497 }
498}
499
500fn open_for_locking(path: &Path) -> std::io::Result<File> {
501 let mut options = OpenOptions::new();
502 // `truncate(false)` is explicit rather than implied: the previous holder's
503 // record must survive the open, because it is what a *loser* reads, and the
504 // loser's open is this same call.
505 options.read(true).write(true).create(true).truncate(false);
506 sys::prepare_for_locking(&mut options);
507 options.open(path)
508}
509
510fn read_holder(path: &Path) -> Result<Option<LockHolder>, LockError> {
511 let mut options = OpenOptions::new();
512 options.read(true);
513 sys::prepare_for_reading(&mut options);
514
515 let mut file = match options.open(path) {
516 Ok(file) => file,
517 Err(source) if source.kind() == std::io::ErrorKind::NotFound => return Ok(None),
518 Err(source) => return Err(io_error(path, source)),
519 };
520
521 let mut contents = String::new();
522 file.read_to_string(&mut contents)
523 .map_err(|source| io_error(path, source))?;
524
525 // An empty or half-written file is the acquisition race described on
526 // `HostLock::record_holder`, not a corrupt installation. Say "no record"
527 // and let the caller's message be vaguer.
528 Ok(serde_json::from_str(&contents).ok())
529}
530
531// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
532// Platform implementations
533// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
534
535#[cfg(windows)]
536mod sys {
537 use std::fs::{File, OpenOptions};
538 use std::io;
539 use std::os::windows::fs::OpenOptionsExt;
540
541 use windows::Win32::Storage::FileSystem::{
542 FILE_SHARE_DELETE, FILE_SHARE_READ, FILE_SHARE_WRITE,
543 };
544
545 /// The acquisition open. Sharing *read* only: a second acquirer also asks
546 /// for write access, which this share mode denies, so `CreateFile` fails
547 /// with `ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION` before any lock call is needed. The
548 /// exclusion is the open itself, which is why `try_lock` below has nothing
549 /// left to do.
550 pub(super) fn prepare_for_locking(options: &mut OpenOptions) {
551 options.share_mode(FILE_SHARE_READ.0);
552 }
553
554 /// The diagnostic open. Read access only, and permissive sharing, so that
555 /// it is compatible with the holder's open in both directions: the holder
556 /// permits readers, and this permits the holder's read/write access.
557 pub(super) fn prepare_for_reading(options: &mut OpenOptions) {
558 options.share_mode(FILE_SHARE_READ.0 | FILE_SHARE_WRITE.0 | FILE_SHARE_DELETE.0);
559 }
560
561 /// Always `true` on Windows: if the open in `open_for_locking` succeeded,
562 /// this process is the exclusive writer, and when the process ends — for
563 /// any reason, including a crash — the kernel closes the handle and the
564 /// next acquirer's open succeeds.
565 pub(super) fn try_lock(_file: &File) -> io::Result<super::Acquired> {
566 Ok(super::Acquired::Yes)
567 }
568
569 /// Windows reports a share-mode conflict as `ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION`, and
570 /// `std` maps it to a generic error, so the raw code is what identifies it.
571 pub(super) const SHARING_VIOLATION: i32 =
572 windows::Win32::Foundation::ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION.0 as i32;
573
574 /// Whether an open failure means "somebody else holds it" rather than
575 /// something an operator should investigate.
576 pub(super) fn is_contention(error: &io::Error) -> bool {
577 error.raw_os_error() == Some(SHARING_VIOLATION)
578 }
579}
580
581#[cfg(unix)]
582mod sys {
583 use std::fs::{File, OpenOptions};
584 use std::io;
585 use std::os::unix::io::AsRawFd;
586
587 /// Nothing to prepare: on Unix the open is ordinary and the exclusion comes
588 /// from `flock` below.
589 pub(super) fn prepare_for_locking(_options: &mut OpenOptions) {}
590
591 pub(super) fn prepare_for_reading(_options: &mut OpenOptions) {}
592
593 /// `flock(LOCK_EX | LOCK_NB)`.
594 ///
595 /// Chosen over `fcntl` record locks for one reason that matters here:
596 /// `fcntl` locks are dropped when *any* file descriptor for the file is
597 /// closed by the process, so an unrelated `read_holder` in the same process
598 /// would silently release the agent's lock. `flock` locks belong to the
599 /// open file description and are immune to that.
600 pub(super) fn try_lock(file: &File) -> io::Result<super::Acquired> {
601 // SAFETY: `flock` takes a file descriptor and a flag word and touches
602 // no memory this program owns. The descriptor is valid for the life of
603 // `file`, which outlives the call.
604 let result = unsafe { libc::flock(file.as_raw_fd(), libc::LOCK_EX | libc::LOCK_NB) };
605 if result == 0 {
606 return Ok(super::Acquired::Yes);
607 }
608 let error = io::Error::last_os_error();
609 if is_contention(&error) {
610 return Ok(super::Acquired::No {
611 refused_with: error.raw_os_error(),
612 });
613 }
614 Err(error)
615 }
616
617 /// `EWOULDBLOCK` — and `EAGAIN`, which is the same number on Linux and
618 /// macOS but is written both ways in the documentation.
619 pub(super) fn is_contention(error: &io::Error) -> bool {
620 matches!(
621 error.raw_os_error(),
622 Some(code) if code == libc::EWOULDBLOCK || code == libc::EAGAIN
623 )
624 }
625}
626
627#[cfg(test)]
628mod tests {
629 use super::*;
630
631 use crate::process::{OutputMode, SpawnSpec};
632
633 /// The environment variable that turns `lock_holder_helper` below from a
634 /// no-op into a process that takes a lock and holds it until it is killed.
635 const HELPER_PATH: &str = "RUNNER_MANAGER_LOCK_HELPER_PATH";
636 /// What the helper prints once it holds the lock.
637 ///
638 /// Searched for *within* a line rather than at the start of one, because
639 /// libtest writes `test <name> ... ` with no trailing newline before the
640 /// test body runs — so the helper's first line of output is that prefix
641 /// followed by this marker, not the marker alone.
642 const HELPER_READY: &str = "@@LOCK-HELD@@";
643
644 fn lock_path(directory: &tempfile::TempDir, kind: LockKind) -> PathBuf {
645 directory.path().join(kind.file_name())
646 }
647
648 /// Takes the lock twice with `acquire` and reports whether exactly one
649 /// acquisition won.
650 ///
651 /// A helper returning `Result` rather than inline assertions, so that
652 /// `the_contention_check_catches_a_lock_that_never_excludes` can point it
653 /// at a lock that excludes nothing. A mutual-exclusion test that has only
654 /// ever been run against a working lock cannot distinguish "the lock works"
655 /// from "the test asserts nothing".
656 fn check_mutual_exclusion<G>(acquire: impl Fn() -> Result<G, LockError>) -> Result<(), String> {
657 let first = acquire().map_err(|error| format!("the first acquisition failed: {error}"))?;
658
659 let outcome = match acquire() {
660 Ok(_) => Err("both acquisitions succeeded; nothing is being excluded".to_string()),
661 Err(LockError::Held { .. }) => Ok(()),
662 Err(other) => Err(format!(
663 "the second acquisition failed, but not because the lock was held: {other}"
664 )),
665 };
666
667 drop(first);
668 outcome
669 }
670
671 #[test]
672 fn two_contenders_produce_exactly_one_holder() {
673 let directory = tempfile::tempdir().expect("a temporary directory");
674 let path = lock_path(&directory, LockKind::SingleInstance);
675
676 check_mutual_exclusion(|| HostLock::try_acquire_at(&path, LockKind::SingleInstance))
677 .expect("the single-instance lock must admit exactly one holder");
678 }
679
680 #[test]
681 fn the_contention_check_catches_a_lock_that_never_excludes() {
682 let complaint = check_mutual_exclusion(|| Ok::<(), LockError>(()))
683 .expect_err("a lock that excludes nothing must be caught");
684 assert!(
685 complaint.contains("nothing is being excluded"),
686 "the complaint must name the failure mode, got: {complaint}"
687 );
688 }
689
690 #[test]
691 fn releasing_the_lock_lets_the_next_contender_take_it() {
692 let directory = tempfile::tempdir().expect("a temporary directory");
693 let path = lock_path(&directory, LockKind::SingleInstance);
694
695 let first = HostLock::try_acquire_at(&path, LockKind::SingleInstance).expect("acquired");
696 assert!(HostLock::try_acquire_at(&path, LockKind::SingleInstance).is_err());
697 drop(first);
698
699 let second = HostLock::try_acquire_at(&path, LockKind::SingleInstance)
700 .expect("the lock must be free once the holder drops it");
701 assert_eq!(second.path(), path);
702 assert_eq!(second.kind(), LockKind::SingleInstance);
703 }
704
705 #[test]
706 fn independent_host_locks_do_not_contend_with_each_other() {
707 // `e1` takes the allocation lock while the agent already holds the
708 // single-instance lock. If those two shared a file, the agent would
709 // deadlock against itself on the first runtime it tried to create.
710 let directory = tempfile::tempdir().expect("a temporary directory");
711
712 let instance = HostLock::try_acquire_at(
713 &lock_path(&directory, LockKind::SingleInstance),
714 LockKind::SingleInstance,
715 )
716 .expect("the instance lock is free");
717
718 let allocation = HostLock::try_acquire_at(
719 &lock_path(&directory, LockKind::Allocation),
720 LockKind::Allocation,
721 )
722 .expect("the allocation lock is a different lock and must be free");
723
724 let renewal = HostLock::try_acquire_at(
725 &lock_path(&directory, LockKind::CredentialRenewal),
726 LockKind::CredentialRenewal,
727 )
728 .expect("the credential-renewal lock is a different lock and must be free");
729
730 assert_ne!(instance.path(), allocation.path());
731 assert_ne!(instance.path(), renewal.path());
732 assert_ne!(allocation.path(), renewal.path());
733 assert_ne!(
734 LockKind::SingleInstance.file_name(),
735 LockKind::Allocation.file_name()
736 );
737 assert_ne!(
738 LockKind::Allocation.file_name(),
739 LockKind::CredentialRenewal.file_name()
740 );
741 }
742
743 #[test]
744 fn the_loser_gets_a_message_naming_the_holder_and_saying_what_to_do() {
745 let directory = tempfile::tempdir().expect("a temporary directory");
746 let path = lock_path(&directory, LockKind::SingleInstance);
747
748 let _held = HostLock::try_acquire_at(&path, LockKind::SingleInstance).expect("acquired");
749 let error = HostLock::try_acquire_at(&path, LockKind::SingleInstance)
750 .expect_err("the second acquisition must fail");
751
752 let LockError::Held { holder, kind, .. } = &error else {
753 panic!("expected a contention error, got {error}");
754 };
755 assert_eq!(*kind, LockKind::SingleInstance);
756
757 let holder = holder.as_ref().expect("the holder recorded itself");
758 assert_eq!(holder.identity.pid(), std::process::id());
759 assert_eq!(holder.lock, LockKind::SingleInstance);
760 assert_eq!(
761 holder.executable.as_deref(),
762 std::env::current_exe().ok().as_deref()
763 );
764
765 let message = error.to_string();
766 assert!(
767 message.contains(&std::process::id().to_string()),
768 "the message must name the holding process: {message}"
769 );
770 assert!(
771 message.contains("Stop the other agent"),
772 "the message must say what to do, not only what happened: {message}"
773 );
774 }
775
776 #[test]
777 fn the_recorded_holder_survives_a_read_by_a_second_process_shape() {
778 // Reading the record must work while the lock is held — on Windows that
779 // is a share-mode question and it is easy to get wrong in a way that
780 // only shows up when it matters, because the only caller is the loser.
781 let directory = tempfile::tempdir().expect("a temporary directory");
782 let path = lock_path(&directory, LockKind::SingleInstance);
783
784 let _held = HostLock::try_acquire_at(&path, LockKind::SingleInstance).expect("acquired");
785
786 let holder = HostLock::holder_of(&path)
787 .expect("the record must be readable while the lock is held")
788 .expect("a record must be there");
789 assert_eq!(holder.identity.pid(), std::process::id());
790 assert!(HostLock::recorded_holder_is_live(&path).expect("readable"));
791 }
792
793 #[test]
794 fn a_stale_record_is_reported_as_not_live() {
795 let directory = tempfile::tempdir().expect("a temporary directory");
796 let path = lock_path(&directory, LockKind::SingleInstance);
797
798 // A record naming a process that has come and gone: exactly what a
799 // crashed holder leaves behind.
800 //
801 // THE CHILD HAS TO OUTLIVE ITS OWN IDENTITY LOOKUP.
802 //
803 // `SpawnSpec::spawn` reads `ProcessIdentity::of_child` immediately after
804 // starting the process, because the start token is what stops a reused
805 // pid from being mistaken for the original. A child that exits INSTANTLY
806 // -- `true` did -- can be gone before that read, and the spawn then
807 // fails with `NoSuchProcess` rather than yielding the identity this test
808 // needs. It blocked release 0.1.5 on the macOS leg, where a loaded
809 // runner made the race easy to lose.
810 //
811 // So the child sleeps briefly: long enough to be observed, short enough
812 // that waiting for it costs nothing. What is being tested is unchanged
813 // -- the record is stale by the time it is read, because `wait` below
814 // returns only after the process is gone.
815 let mut child = SpawnSpec::new(if cfg!(windows) { "cmd" } else { "sh" })
816 .args(if cfg!(windows) {
817 vec!["/C", "exit", "0"]
818 } else {
819 vec!["-c", "sleep 0.3"]
820 })
821 .spawn()
822 .expect("the child starts");
823 let identity = child.identity().clone();
824 child.wait().expect("the child exits");
825
826 let stale = LockHolder {
827 identity,
828 executable: None,
829 acquired_at: Utc::now(),
830 lock: LockKind::SingleInstance,
831 };
832 std::fs::write(&path, serde_json::to_vec(&stale).expect("serialisable")).expect("writable");
833
834 assert!(
835 !HostLock::recorded_holder_is_live(&path).expect("readable"),
836 "a record naming a dead process must not be reported as live"
837 );
838 // And the lock itself is free, because nothing holds the file.
839 HostLock::try_acquire_at(&path, LockKind::SingleInstance)
840 .expect("a stale record must not keep the lock held");
841 }
842
843 #[test]
844 fn an_unidentified_holder_still_reads_as_a_holder() {
845 // The microsecond between taking the lock and writing the record. The
846 // message gets vaguer; the exclusion does not, and the wording must not
847 // leave a reader thinking the lock might be free.
848 let no_record = describe(None);
849 assert!(
850 no_record.contains("not finished identifying itself"),
851 "an unidentified holder must still read as a holder: {no_record}"
852 );
853
854 let error = LockError::Held {
855 kind: LockKind::SingleInstance,
856 path: PathBuf::from("/var/lib/runner-manager/state/agent.lock"),
857 holder: None,
858 refused_with: Some(35),
859 };
860 let message = error.to_string();
861 assert!(message.contains("already held"), "{message}");
862 assert!(message.contains("agent.lock"), "{message}");
863 assert!(message.contains("Stop the other agent"), "{message}");
864 // The refusal code is in the message because this variant has two
865 // causes that are otherwise indistinguishable once constructed: a lock
866 // that really is somebody else's, and a refusal this module does not
867 // model. Without it, the second reads exactly like the first.
868 assert!(message.contains("os error 35"), "{message}");
869
870 let at_open = LockError::Held {
871 kind: LockKind::SingleInstance,
872 path: PathBuf::from("/var/lib/runner-manager/state/agent.lock"),
873 holder: None,
874 refused_with: None,
875 };
876 assert!(
877 at_open.to_string().contains("the open itself"),
878 "a platform that excludes at the open says so rather than showing a bare `None`: {at_open}"
879 );
880 }
881
882 #[test]
883 fn acquire_waits_and_then_reports_the_holder() {
884 let directory = tempfile::tempdir().expect("a temporary directory");
885 let path = lock_path(&directory, LockKind::Allocation);
886
887 let _held = HostLock::try_acquire_at(&path, LockKind::Allocation).expect("acquired");
888
889 let wait = Duration::from_millis(200);
890 let started = Instant::now();
891 let error = HostLock::acquire_at(&path, LockKind::Allocation, wait)
892 .expect_err("the lock is held for the whole window");
893 let elapsed = started.elapsed();
894
895 assert!(matches!(error, LockError::Held { .. }), "{error}");
896 assert!(
897 elapsed >= wait,
898 "acquire must actually wait; it returned after {elapsed:?} of a {wait:?} window"
899 );
900 }
901
902 #[test]
903 fn acquire_returns_immediately_when_the_lock_is_free() {
904 let directory = tempfile::tempdir().expect("a temporary directory");
905 let path = lock_path(&directory, LockKind::Allocation);
906
907 let started = Instant::now();
908 let lock = HostLock::acquire_at(&path, LockKind::Allocation, Duration::from_secs(30))
909 .expect("the lock is free");
910 assert!(
911 started.elapsed() < Duration::from_secs(5),
912 "a free lock must not be waited for"
913 );
914 drop(lock);
915 }
916
917 #[test]
918 fn try_acquire_uses_the_state_directory() {
919 let root = tempfile::tempdir().expect("a temporary directory");
920 let paths = AppPaths::rooted_at(root.path());
921
922 let lock = HostLock::try_acquire(&paths, LockKind::SingleInstance).expect("acquired");
923 assert_eq!(lock.path(), paths.state_dir().join("agent.lock"));
924 assert!(
925 lock.path().exists(),
926 "the lock file must have been created under state/, as 05-infrastructure.md says"
927 );
928 }
929
930 // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
931 // The cross-process half of the Definition of Done
932 // -----------------------------------------------------------------------
933
934 /// Runs as an ordinary no-op test, unless `RUNNER_MANAGER_LOCK_HELPER_PATH`
935 /// is set — in which case this process *is* the second contender: it takes
936 /// the lock named by that variable, announces that it has it, and then
937 /// waits to be killed.
938 ///
939 /// Re-executing the test binary is what makes a genuinely separate process
940 /// available without shipping a second binary. The two tests below drive
941 /// it.
942 #[test]
943 fn lock_holder_helper() {
944 let Some(path) = std::env::var_os(HELPER_PATH) else {
945 return;
946 };
947
948 let _lock = HostLock::try_acquire_at(Path::new(&path), LockKind::SingleInstance)
949 .expect("the helper must be able to take the lock");
950
951 println!("{HELPER_READY} {}", std::process::id());
952 let _ = std::io::stdout().flush();
953
954 // Long enough that the parent always kills it first, short enough that
955 // a parent which somehow died leaves nothing behind for long.
956 std::thread::sleep(Duration::from_secs(120));
957 }
958
959 /// Starts the helper and waits until it reports that it holds the lock.
960 fn start_helper(path: &Path) -> (crate::process::ChildProcess, u32) {
961 let executable = std::env::current_exe().expect("the test binary's own path");
962
963 let mut child = SpawnSpec::new(executable)
964 .args([
965 "--exact",
966 "lock::tests::lock_holder_helper",
967 // Without this, libtest swallows the helper's announcement and
968 // the parent waits forever for a line that was captured.
969 "--nocapture",
970 "--test-threads=1",
971 ])
972 .env(HELPER_PATH, path)
973 .output(OutputMode::Capture)
974 .spawn()
975 .expect("the helper process starts");
976
977 let stdout = child.take_stdout().expect("captured");
978 let (sender, receiver) = std::sync::mpsc::channel();
979 std::thread::spawn(move || {
980 use std::io::BufRead as _;
981 for line in std::io::BufReader::new(stdout).lines() {
982 let Ok(line) = line else { break };
983 if let Some((_, rest)) = line.split_once(HELPER_READY) {
984 let _ = sender.send(rest.trim().to_string());
985 return;
986 }
987 }
988 let _ = sender.send(String::new());
989 });
990
991 let announced = receiver
992 .recv_timeout(Duration::from_secs(60))
993 .expect("the helper must announce that it holds the lock");
994 let pid: u32 = announced
995 .parse()
996 .unwrap_or_else(|_| panic!("the helper announced {announced:?} instead of a PID"));
997
998 (child, pid)
999 }
1000
1001 #[test]
1002 fn two_processes_contending_produce_exactly_one_holder() {
1003 let directory = tempfile::tempdir().expect("a temporary directory");
1004 let path = lock_path(&directory, LockKind::SingleInstance);
1005
1006 let (mut helper, helper_pid) = start_helper(&path);
1007 assert_ne!(helper_pid, std::process::id());
1008
1009 let error = HostLock::try_acquire_at(&path, LockKind::SingleInstance)
1010 .expect_err("a second agent must not get the lock");
1011
1012 let LockError::Held { holder, .. } = &error else {
1013 panic!("expected a contention error, got {error}");
1014 };
1015 let holder = holder.as_ref().expect("the helper recorded itself");
1016 assert_eq!(
1017 holder.identity.pid(),
1018 helper_pid,
1019 "the record must name the process that actually holds it"
1020 );
1021 assert!(
1022 error.to_string().contains(&helper_pid.to_string()),
1023 "the loser's message must name the holder: {error}"
1024 );
1025
1026 helper.stop(Duration::ZERO).expect("cleanup");
1027 }
1028
1029 #[test]
1030 fn killing_the_holder_releases_the_lock_with_no_manual_cleanup() {
1031 let directory = tempfile::tempdir().expect("a temporary directory");
1032 let path = lock_path(&directory, LockKind::SingleInstance);
1033
1034 let (mut helper, helper_pid) = start_helper(&path);
1035 assert!(
1036 HostLock::try_acquire_at(&path, LockKind::SingleInstance).is_err(),
1037 "the helper holds it"
1038 );
1039
1040 // `Duration::ZERO` leaves the helper no grace period. On Windows that
1041 // is literally straight to `TerminateProcess`, because there is no
1042 // signal to send; on Unix a SIGTERM is still sent first, but the grace
1043 // period it is given is zero, so SIGKILL follows before the helper can
1044 // act on it. Either way no destructor and no cleanup code runs, which
1045 // is the point: this is a crash, not a shutdown.
1046 helper.stop(Duration::ZERO).expect("the helper is killed");
1047 assert!(!helper.is_running().expect("observable"));
1048
1049 // Nothing is deleted, nothing is reset, no PID file is reaped: the next
1050 // acquisition simply succeeds.
1051 let recovered = HostLock::try_acquire_at(&path, LockKind::SingleInstance)
1052 .unwrap_or_else(|error| panic!("the lock leaked after its holder was killed: {error}"));
1053
1054 assert!(
1055 path.exists(),
1056 "the lock file itself must survive; deleting it is how two processes end up \
1057 locking different inodes"
1058 );
1059
1060 let holder = HostLock::holder_of(&path)
1061 .expect("readable")
1062 .expect("the new holder recorded itself");
1063 assert_eq!(holder.identity.pid(), std::process::id());
1064 assert_ne!(
1065 holder.identity.pid(),
1066 helper_pid,
1067 "the record must have been replaced, not inherited"
1068 );
1069 drop(recovered);
1070 }
1071}