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Fixes #831

Summary

  • Replace pathname-based stale-lock reclamation with stable OS advisory locks (flock on Unix and LockFileEx on Windows).
  • Migrate cron, daemon, hooks, OAuth, and swarm callers without renaming or removing live lock paths.
  • Preserve daemon PID diagnostics while making the kernel lock authoritative.
  • Add crash-recovery, stable-file-identity, contention, and regression coverage.

Root cause

ReclaimStaleLock moved the canonical lock path aside before checking liveness. During that gap, another process could successfully create the canonical path with O_EXCL. Restoring the original file with replacing os.Rename then overwrote the new claimant's lock, allowing two processes to execute the protected critical section. A no-replace restore alone would not solve the race because the new claimant may already have entered.

Verification

  • Base regression: TestLockDoesNotOverrideKernelHolderWithStalePIDProbe fails on ad34dc8d because a second daemon acquires while the first still holds the lock.
  • Fixed regression: repeated 20/20 successfully.
  • make fmt-check
  • go vet ./...
  • go test -race ./internal/lockutil ./internal/cron ./internal/hooks ./internal/oauth ./internal/swarm ./internal/daemon
  • Windows/amd64 cross-compilation for all affected packages.
  • go run ./cmd/zero-release build
  • go run ./cmd/zero-release smoke
  • make lint-static
  • make vulncheck

Full-suite note

go test ./... and make test still report two pre-existing CLI doctor failures:

  • TestRunDoctorFormatsRedactedProviderDiagnostics
  • TestRunDoctorConnectivityProbesProvider

Both failures reproduce unchanged on clean origin/main; all other packages pass.

Local validation evidence

Issue 831 local race-test validation output

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Reliability

    • Improved coordination for scheduled jobs, daemon processes, mailbox operations, hooks, and authentication.
    • Locks now recover automatically when a process exits unexpectedly, reducing stale-lock issues.
    • Lock contention handling is more consistent across supported platforms.
  • Security

    • Added protection against redirected or unsafe lock paths.
    • Improved validation of lock files and metadata.
  • Maintenance

    • Stable lock files are retained after release, while temporary runtime metadata is cleaned up appropriately.

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  • [pass] Diff hygiene: git diff --check
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Head: 95665ca2a85c
Changed files (22): internal/cron/lock.go, internal/cron/mutate_test.go, internal/daemon/lock.go, internal/daemon/lock_test.go, internal/daemon/server_test.go, internal/hooks/lock.go, internal/lockutil/lockutil.go, internal/lockutil/lockutil_other.go, internal/lockutil/lockutil_test.go, internal/lockutil/lockutil_windows.go, internal/lockutil/lockutil_windows_test.go, internal/lockutil/reclaim.go, and 10 more

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Walkthrough

Locking now uses stable files and kernel-managed advisory locks. Stale-lock reclamation, token ownership, and lock-file removal were removed. Cron, daemon, hooks, OAuth, and mailbox locking now share the lockutil.FileLock API with updated platform, path-safety, and process-exit tests.

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Advisory lock migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
FileLock API and platform locking
internal/lockutil/lockutil.go, internal/lockutil/lockutil_other.go, internal/lockutil/lockutil_windows.go
Added stable-path acquisition, confined traversal, metadata updates, idempotent release, and nonblocking advisory locking for Unix and Windows. Removed restoration, removal, and stale-reclamation APIs.
Lock lifecycle and crash tests
internal/lockutil/lockutil_test.go
Added tests for serialization, stable paths, metadata, path safety, idempotent release, concurrent acquisition, and kernel lock release after process exit.
Cron, hooks, and OAuth integration
internal/cron/lock.go, internal/cron/mutate_test.go, internal/hooks/lock.go, internal/oauth/lock.go
Updated lock consumers to retry ErrLockHeld, return other acquisition errors, and release through FileLock.
Daemon and mailbox locking
internal/daemon/lock.go, internal/daemon/lock_test.go, internal/daemon/server_test.go, internal/swarm/mailbox.go, internal/swarm/mailbox_test.go, internal/swarm/lock_redirect_*
Updated daemon and mailbox locking to retain stable files, use kernel contention state, validate PID metadata, and reject redirected lock paths.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 95665

This PR changes lock coordination to use kernel-held advisory locks while preserving existing lock paths and diagnostics. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after normal checks and review.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant LockConsumer
  participant lockutil.TryAcquireFileLock
  participant Kernel
  participant FileLock
  LockConsumer->>lockutil.TryAcquireFileLock: request stable lock path
  lockutil.TryAcquireFileLock->>Kernel: acquire nonblocking exclusive lock
  Kernel-->>lockutil.TryAcquireFileLock: FileLock or ErrLockHeld
  lockutil.TryAcquireFileLock-->>LockConsumer: acquisition result
  LockConsumer->>FileLock: Release()
  FileLock->>Kernel: unlock and close handle
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address issue #831 by using OS-backed locks for the full critical-section lifetime, making kernel ownership authoritative, preventing stale metadata from overriding lock state, and retaini…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The lock migrations, platform-specific implementations, security checks, metadata handling, and related tests support the advisory-lock objectives in issue #831. No unrelated code changes are identifi…
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: replacing pathname-based locking with kernel-held advisory locks in lockutil.
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The changes address issue #831 by using OS-backed locks for the full critical-section lifetime, making kernel ownership authoritative, preventing stale metadata from overriding lock state, and retaining regression coverage for contention, crash recovery, stable paths, and release behavior.

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The lock migrations, platform-specific implementations, security checks, metadata handling, and related tests support the advisory-lock objectives in issue #831. No unrelated code changes are identified.

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internal/cron/lock.go (1)

33-46: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚖️ Poor tradeoff

Consider one shared retry helper in lockutil instead of three copies of the wait loop.

All three consumers repeat the same algorithm: compute a deadline, call lockutil.TryAcquireFileLock, return a release closure, retry only on lockutil.ErrLockHeld, wrap other errors, sleep, then time out. lockutil exports only the non-blocking primitive, so each caller hand-rolls the wait. The copies have already drifted: cron and hooks exit with !time.Now().Before(deadline), while oauth exits with now().After(deadline), which allows one extra attempt at the exact deadline. Each site is correct today, so treat this as cleanup rather than a fix.

A helper such as lockutil.AcquireFileLock(path string, timeout, retryDelay time.Duration, now func() time.Time) (*FileLock, error) would keep the deadline comparison in one place. Each caller then keeps only its own error wrapping and its own constants.

  • internal/cron/lock.go#L33-L46: replace the loop with the shared helper and keep the "cron: acquire job lock" and job-id timeout messages.
  • internal/hooks/lock.go#L32-L45: replace the loop with the shared helper and keep the "hooks: acquire audit lock" messages.
  • internal/oauth/lock.go#L25-L38: replace the loop with the shared helper, pass the injected now, and promote the inline 10 * time.Millisecond delay to a named constant next to fileLockTimeout.
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In `@internal/cron/lock.go` around lines 33 - 46, Introduce a shared blocking
file-lock helper in lockutil that centralizes deadline handling, retries, error
propagation, release behavior, and timeout comparison. In internal/cron/lock.go
lines 33-46 and internal/hooks/lock.go lines 32-45, use the helper while
preserving each caller’s existing error messages; in internal/oauth/lock.go
lines 25-38, pass the injected now function and promote the inline retry delay
to a named constant beside fileLockTimeout.
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Inline comments:
In `@internal/lockutil/lockutil_windows.go`:
- Around line 16-33: Move the Windows lock range in tryLockFile past the
metadata bytes by setting state.overlapped.OffsetHigh to a sufficiently large
value, and keep unlockFile using the identical range. In
internal/lockutil/lockutil_windows.go lines 16-33 update tryLockFile and ensure
unlockFile remains aligned; in internal/lockutil/lockutil_test.go lines 59-78,
TestFileLockMetadata requires no direct change, but rerun it on Windows to
verify os.ReadFile succeeds while the lock is held.

In `@internal/lockutil/lockutil.go`:
- Around line 56-58: Update readPidFile to parse the PID component from both
legacy PID-only metadata and the pid-sequence format written by
TryAcquireFileLock, preserving the existing diagnostic behavior for valid
inputs. Add tests covering both metadata formats.

In `@internal/swarm/mailbox.go`:
- Around line 341-343: Harden lock acquisition in lockutil.TryAcquireFileLock so
opening the lock file is rooted or handle-relative and rejects
symlink/reparse-point redirection before WriteMetadata can modify another
target; preserve the existing mailbox call path. Add Linux, macOS, and Windows
coverage in internal/swarm/mailbox_test.go around the existing lock tests,
redirecting the lock path and verifying acquisition fails without changing the
redirected target; the mailbox.go call site requires no direct change.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@internal/cron/lock.go`:
- Around line 33-46: Introduce a shared blocking file-lock helper in lockutil
that centralizes deadline handling, retries, error propagation, release
behavior, and timeout comparison. In internal/cron/lock.go lines 33-46 and
internal/hooks/lock.go lines 32-45, use the helper while preserving each
caller’s existing error messages; in internal/oauth/lock.go lines 25-38, pass
the injected now function and promote the inline retry delay to a named constant
beside fileLockTimeout.
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Addressed the current review findings in commit 8cb31628:

  • moved the Windows byte-range lock above the metadata region while keeping unlock aligned
  • added handle-relative, no-follow lock opening and passed the swarm base directory as the trusted root; symlink, junction/reparse-point, hard-link, and escape regressions verify redirected targets remain unchanged
  • updated daemon PID diagnostics to accept both legacy PID-only and pid-sequence metadata
  • added concurrent first-acquisition coverage and retained stable-file semantics

Focused race tests passed repeatedly, affected Linux/Windows test binaries cross-compiled, and build, smoke, vet, static analysis, and vulnerability checks pass. Fresh native Windows CI is now the remaining platform verification.

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Inline comments:
In `@internal/lockutil/lockutil_test.go`:
- Around line 81-114: Update TestFileLockConcurrentFirstAcquisition to count
successful acquisitions (nil errors) while collecting results, then assert that
exactly one contender succeeds; continue accepting ErrLockHeld for all other
contenders and retain releasing any acquired lock.
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@gnanam1990 I will review commit 8cb31628 and the updated lock behavior. Native Windows CI remains a verification item.

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Fixed the remaining test-quality finding in 95665ca2: the 200-contender regression now counts successful acquisitions and requires exactly one holder, while releasing all acquired handles before reporting a mismatch. The focused regression passed 100 runs, the full lockutil race suite passed 20 runs, and the Windows test binary cross-compiled.

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@gnanam1990 I will review commit 95665ca2 and the updated concurrent-acquisition regression.

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fix(lockutil): live-lock restoration can admit two concurrent holders

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