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This PR makes the advisory file lock work the way callers already assume it does: the lock key is canonicalised through the symlink referent, so a symlink alias and the file it points to share one lock.
Today two writers that reach the same file through different paths - one through a symlink, one through the real path - take different locks and can overwrite each other. Every writer in the file-write-safety chain picks its lock through this key, so this fix has to land before the guarded writes do.
It is the second of nine PRs for epic #1375 (chain tracked on #1991).
The lock key for a write target is resolved through the symlink referent before locking, so an alias and its referent serialize on one lock.
Unrelated paths keep independent locks - the change does not coarsen locking.
Why the diff looks bigger than the change: the chain is non-cumulative - this branch is based on main and carries its own copy of the earlier unit's content, which the GitHub diff shows as context.
Review focus: the lock-key resolution and its spec (the files exercised by step 1 of the Test Procedure).
Test Procedure
From the repository root, with dependencies installed:
pnpm --dir src test -- core/task-persistence/__tests__/TaskHistoryStore.lockKey.spec.ts utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.lockKey.spec.ts
Expected: 27 passed, 1 skipped (the skipped case is the win32 symlink variant, verified manually). Then pnpm --dir src exec eslint --max-warnings=0 on the touched files - clean.
Environment: Windows 11, Node 20, unit layer only.
Pre-Submission Checklist
Scope is one gate scope and matches the unit.
No .changeset or CHANGELOG changes (AGENTS.md).
src/eslint-suppressions.json unchanged - no suppression count increased.
New code lints clean (--max-warnings=0) rather than relying on suppressions.
Tests added at the lowest layer that would have caught each finding.
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Documentation Updates
No user-facing documentation change: the lock key is internal behaviour. No .changeset and no CHANGELOG edit (AGENTS.md).
Port of the U3 durability fix to this unit's copies (identical catch shape): safeWriteJson marks the staged path consumed on PostCommitDurabilityError, and safeWriteText's failure cleanup removes the staged temp only when the commit never landed (using the committed flag it already tracks). Regression test + two negative controls (each guard off reddens exactly the new test). 80/81 (1 pre-existing skip).
Refreshed onto main 4f1dee18e (merge 596f2d398, no conflicts; lint-gate commit drops imports main's side orphaned; format-gate commit reformats two specs for the prettier version main now pins - main also added the .prettierignore that previously shielded them). Review follow-ups ported from U3 at 6d0bc8742: real directory descriptor + cause assertion in the durability test, exact staging-release path assertions. All six required checks green at 6d0bc8742.
After the durability-probe portability work (d5a68d13f: the failure is injected by watching the commit rename - the parent-directory fsync is the only fsync after it - so no descriptor is fabricated and the Windows lane passes), CodeRabbit's two new threads are fixed at 5f938837b: resolveLockKey now falls back to the link walk only on ENOENT (a transient EACCES/EIO can no longer key a writer to the alias while another keys the referent; regression test with negative control), and the cleanup-safety test restores its spies in a finally block. All six required checks green.
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Review comments at @src/utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.test.ts:
- Line 319: Restore the `fs.unlink` implementation overridden by the test using
`vi.mocked(fs.unlink)` in a `finally` block, so it is reset even when an
assertion fails. Keep the cleanup scoped to this test and ensure the later
failed-commit test does not inherit the rejecting implementation.
Review comments at @src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts:
- Line 132: Update the safeWriteJson-to-safeWriteText commit flow so
safeWriteText verifies that the target still matches the path resolved under the
lock before renaming, and rejects a changed target; alternatively, pass and use
the locked resolved path without resolving it again.
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Summary
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New Features
Added safer text and byte-file publishing with atomic updates and optional backups.
File updates follow symlinks to their targets and preserve existing permissions. Durability issues after publishing are reported.
Bug Fixes
JSON updates now lock, merge, and publish against the resolved target, keeping paths to the same file consistent.
Cleanup of already-removed temporary files no longer produces a duplicate error.
Failure to remove a backup after publishing no longer causes a successful write to be reported as failed.
The pull request adds safeWriteText for staged text and byte publication with optional backups. It updates safeWriteJson to resolve symlink targets, lock by canonicalized paths, and delegate publication to safeWriteText.
Changes: Atomic file publishing
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Resolve targets and stage text src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts, src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.spec.ts
Adds target and lock-key resolution, staging options, and error types. Writes strings or bytes to staging files, preserves target modes, and validates caller-supplied staging files. Tests cover staging, modes, content, and resolution.
Publish, preserve, and clean up src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts, src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.spec.ts
Publishes staged files with copy-based backups, Windows DACL handling, and parent-directory fsync checks. Cleanup failures are reported through warnings. Tests cover commit outcomes, backup cleanup, and platform-specific behavior.
Integrate JSON writes and symlink-aware locks src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts, src/utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.test.ts, src/utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.lockKey.spec.ts, src/eslint-suppressions.json
Updates JSON writes to lock and operate on resolved targets, then delegates publication to safeWriteText. Tests cover lock release, merge behavior, symlinks, and publication outcomes. Adds a no-explicit-any suppression count of 1 for safeWriteJson.test.ts.
Resolve the target-consistency races before merging: concurrent symlink changes can redirect a write or lose merged updates. Also restore the test mock reliably and remove the prohibited suppression increase. Ordinary writes are not shown to fail.
Security Architecture Review
Security architecture risk:🟡 Moderate · up to 2945a
Canonical locking improves ordinary alias handling, and publication failures preserve useful recovery information. However, long symlink chains can still produce different locks during publication, and project configuration updates now follow links to files outside the project without explicit target authorization. The latter risk depends on link control, filesystem permissions, and a configuration-update action.
Retained concerns
Medium · security · inferred: Project MCP updates now publish through an existing .roo/mcp.json symlink rather than replacing the link. A party controlling that link can redirect an otherwise project-scoped update to an accessible external configuration, potentially including global tool-approval settings. No referent authorization is enforced along the inspected write path. Exploitation requires a suitable readable JSON referent, permission to replace it, and an update action; intentional external-link support and the wider trust policy remain unresolved.
Medium · reliability · inferred: When a referent is temporarily absent during backup publication, a symlink chain longer than eight links can yield an intermediate lock key. If the referent returns before post-lock resolution, the caller can read, merge, and publish under a different lock from referent writers. This permits lost updates or conflicting backup and rollback ownership over the same file. Strict resolution rejects a still-dangling link, but does not validate that a recovered target matches the acquired lock.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The demonstrated exposure is filesystem configuration reachable by the extension host, rather than a new remote endpoint. A project-controlled link can select an external referent, but successful replacement requires accessible JSON and sufficient directory permissions. Linking project MCP configuration to global MCP settings could make a project-labelled update persist beyond that project.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — The conditional attack path is control of a project configuration symlink, followed by a project configuration-update action, then canonical resolution and publication to an external referent. Base behavior already read through symlinks, but replaced the link on write; the changed write destination is the introduced condition. This is an ownership-boundary concern, not a verified arbitrary-content write or command-execution finding.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — MCP webview operations supply server, source, and tool identifiers rather than arbitrary publication paths. The service selects project or global configuration internally and parses its content. MCP connection setup also honors global and server disable flags. These controls constrain invocation and execution, but are distinct from authorization to mutate an external symlink referent.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
inferred — Commit-aware recovery improves failure containment, but depends on exclusive ownership of the publication target. Divergent fallback lock keys weaken that prerequisite: a rollback can compete with another writer's publication even though both use the advertised advisory-lock workflow.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Define caller-specific referent ownership policy: project configuration writers could reject out-of-scope referents unless the user explicitly authorizes them, while the general publication API remains usable for intentionally external paths.
proposed — Make lock fallback distinguish a terminal referent from a truncated or cyclic walk, and reject or safely retry unresolved identity rather than proceeding under an intermediate key. Validate convergence through publication absence, restoration, and concurrent merges.
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Out of Scope Changes check
The pull request includes changes unrelated to issue #2017. safeWriteText.ts adds a broad publishing API with backup, Windows DACL, staging validation, cleanup, and post-commit durability behavior, …
Move the publishing, backup, DACL, staging, cleanup, rollback, and durability changes and their tests to separate scoped work. Keep this pull request limited to canonical lock-key resolution, lock integration, and focused lock-key tests.
Security Boundaries
The prior security finding remains unresolved in the changed src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts path. SafeWriteTextOptions.tempPath accepts a caller-controlled pathname. The implementation …
Remove public pathname-based staging, or replace it with a trusted file-handle or internal staging API. If pathname support remains, create the staging file through an ownership-safe exclusive protocol and bind the opened handle to that cre…
Regression Evidence
The changed lock-key behavior lacks focused coverage for unrelated paths. canonicalDirKey preserves the canonical directory and basename (safeWriteText.ts:284-287), and safeWriteJson passes the …
Add a lowest-layer test for two unrelated paths. Assert that resolveLockKey(pathA) and resolveLockKey(pathB) differ, or invoke safeWriteJson for both and assert that acquireFileLock receives distinct arguments. Retain the alias/refe…
Lifecycle Resource Cleanup
safeWriteText can leave new temporary resources unowned. On Windows, a successful DACL save creates daclDumpPath; _discardDaclDump retries unlink twice, then only calls warn and returns at `…
Give every leftover path a durable cleanup owner. Register failed DACL-dump, backup, staging-temp, and staging-directory cleanup with a retry mechanism that runs after handle release and during startup, and remove the registry entry only af…
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Title check
The title clearly identifies the main change: canonical advisory lock-key resolution. It is concise and directly matches the symlink-aware locking work.
Description check
The description is complete and covers the linked issues, implementation, review focus, test procedure, environment, checklist, documentation impact, and additional notes. It provides sufficient detai…
Linked Issues check
Issue #2017 requires one lock key for a symlink alias and its referent, while unrelated paths keep separate locks. safeWriteJson calls resolveLockKey before acquireFileLock. The lock-key tests v…
Persistence Integrity
No changed persistence path meets the failure condition. safeWriteText stages content, loops on short writes, fsyncs the staged file, and atomically renames it; POSIX commits also fsync the parent d…
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The description is complete and covers the linked issues, implementation, review focus, test procedure, environment, checklist, documentation impact, and additional notes. It provides sufficient detail for review.
Full details: Linked Issues check
Explanation
Issue #2017 requires one lock key for a symlink alias and its referent, while unrelated paths keep separate locks. safeWriteJson calls resolveLockKey before acquireFileLock. The lock-key tests verify referent locking, parent-directory canonicalization, independent resolution failures, and lock release after resolution failure.
Full details: Persistence Integrity
Explanation
No changed persistence path meets the failure condition. safeWriteText stages content, loops on short writes, fsyncs the staged file, and atomically renames it; POSIX commits also fsync the parent directory (safeWriteText.ts:475-487, 643-665). Backup mode copies and fsyncs the old content before commit, and cleanup failures carry warnings or OrphanedBackupError (safeWriteText.ts:573-640, 688-715). Post-commit durability failure is explicit and preserves the published target; safeWriteJson does not unlink the consumed staging path (safeWriteText.ts:737-820; safeWriteJson.ts:143-180).
Full details: Out of Scope Changes check
Explanation
The pull request includes changes unrelated to issue #2017. safeWriteText.ts adds a broad publishing API with backup, Windows DACL, staging validation, cleanup, and post-commit durability behavior, plus an extensive test suite. safeWriteJson also changes backup, cleanup, and durability handling beyond lock-key resolution.
Resolution
Move the publishing, backup, DACL, staging, cleanup, rollback, and durability changes and their tests to separate scoped work. Keep this pull request limited to canonical lock-key resolution, lock integration, and focused lock-key tests.
Full details: Security Boundaries
Explanation
The prior security finding remains unresolved in the changed src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts path. SafeWriteTextOptions.tempPath accepts a caller-controlled pathname. The implementation only checks the directory, regular-file type, target identity, the easily forged .new_*.tmp name, and nlink === 1 (lines 350-412 and 505-525). It then opens the existing file, does not write the supplied content, and renames that file over the target (lines 505-525 and 643-645). A caller or local directory writer can create .new_attack.tmp containing unauthorized or sensitive bytes; the checks accept it and the write publishes those bytes instead of the requested content. This trusts unvalidated input and can replace a protected target with attacker-controlled data.
Resolution
Remove public pathname-based staging, or replace it with a trusted file-handle or internal staging API. If pathname support remains, create the staging file through an ownership-safe exclusive protocol and bind the opened handle to that creation. The filename convention, regular-file check, and link-count check are insufficient.
Full details: Regression Evidence
Explanation
The changed lock-key behavior lacks focused coverage for unrelated paths. canonicalDirKey preserves the canonical directory and basename (safeWriteText.ts:284-287), and safeWriteJson passes the result to acquireFileLock (safeWriteJson.ts:76-81). Existing tests cover alias/referent canonicalization, dangling links, cycles, and non-ENOENT errors (safeWriteText.spec.ts:1569-1613; safeWriteJson.lockKey.spec.ts:154-185), but no test asserts that two unrelated paths produce different keys or different lock arguments.
Resolution
Add a lowest-layer test for two unrelated paths. Assert that resolveLockKey(pathA) and resolveLockKey(pathB) differ, or invoke safeWriteJson for both and assert that acquireFileLock receives distinct arguments. Retain the alias/referent equality coverage.
Full details: Lifecycle Resource Cleanup
Explanation
safeWriteText can leave new temporary resources unowned. On Windows, a successful DACL save creates daclDumpPath; _discardDaclDump retries unlink twice, then only calls warn and returns at safeWriteText.ts:176-193. The write still resolves, with the ACL dump left on disk. The same behavior exists for the backup copy and staging directory (safeWriteText.ts:688-715, 136-165). The added tests explicitly simulate persistent EPERM and confirm these leftovers. This is a changed lifecycle path that leaks filesystem artifacts when antivirus, permissions, or a still-open handle blocks cleanup.
Resolution
Give every leftover path a durable cleanup owner. Register failed DACL-dump, backup, staging-temp, and staging-directory cleanup with a retry mechanism that runs after handle release and during startup, and remove the registry entry only after deletion. Do not treat a warning as completed cleanup without such a later retry path.
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…ve (U1, issue 1375)
Split unit U1 of PR 1833. Three changes, each with a test that fails without it:
- a caller-supplied staging path is checked for location and file type before anything is written, so an arbitrary path or a symlink cannot be published onto the target;
- a failed parent-directory fsync on POSIX is reported as PostCommitDurabilityError instead of being swallowed, so a successful return never claims durability the filesystem did not grant;
- the staged file and this write's own staging directory are released before RollbackFailureError is thrown.
Focused coverage for resolveLockKey added: canonical parent directory, a dangling-link chain, and termination at the bounded depth on a two-link cycle.
…ishTarget (U1, issue 1375)
The resolver may fall back to the given path only when lstat also reports the path as absent. An EACCES or EIO failure says nothing about whether the path is a link, so falling back would publish through a link we were not allowed to inspect. Focused tests added for both branches.
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compile failed at the unit head on three points:
- RollbackFailureError needs a string backupPath, but the throw now happens after cleanup, so the
`string | null` narrowing was lost. The failure is now held as { error, backupPath }.
- The async lstat stand-in is built on the Stats prototype so it satisfies fsSync.Stats.
- The realpath/readlink mocks are typed to the real signatures; the readlink mock answers once
because only the link path is read.
tsc clean, 50 tests pass, ESLint --max-warnings=0 clean, no suppression change.
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- Line 428: Track whether the commit rename in the safe-write flow has
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🟠 Major · Do not publish a caller-controlled staging path without binding it to… · safeWriteText.ts:350-529
src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts:350-529 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Do not publish a caller-controlled staging path without binding it to the opened file.
lstat rejects a symlink only before openSync(tempPath, "r+"). A concurrent process with write access to the target directory can replace the staging path with a symlink to another regular file. openSync follows that symlink, and fstatSync can still report a regular file with nlink === 1. The subsequent rename(tempPath, targetPath) moves the symlink itself, so the target can become an attacker-selected symlink. The mode operation also applies to the unintended referent.
Use a platform-appropriate no-follow open and compare the opened descriptor identity with the earlier lstat result. If the platform cannot guarantee this through the rename, copy the caller-supplied file into a private staging directory and rename only that private file.
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In the caller-supplied staging branch of safeWriteText, bind the opened file to
the earlier lstat result so a path swap cannot make the write follow or publish
a symlink. Use a platform-appropriate no-follow open and compare descriptor
identity with stagingStat before applying permissions or syncing; if that cannot
secure the eventual rename on a platform, copy into private staging and rename
only the private file.
🟡 Minor · Propagate non-ENOENT parent-resolution errors before acquiring the… · safeWriteText.ts:284-287
src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts:284-287 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Propagate non-ENOENT parent-resolution errors before acquiring the lock.
safeWriteJson checks the input directory before locking. If the final target is absent through a symlinked parent, resolvePublishTarget can retain the alias path. A recoverable non-ENOENT error from fs.realpath(dirPath) is then converted to the alias directory, so this writer acquires an alias lock while a direct writer acquires the canonical lock. Both writes can reach the same referent without serialization. Merge callers can lose updates.
Retain the ENOENT fallback, but propagate every other error:
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Review comment at @src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts around lines 284 -
287:
Update canonicalDirKey to fall back to dirPath only when fs.realpath fails with
ENOENT, using errorCode to identify the error; propagate all other errors so the
writer does not acquire a lock for an unresolved alias path.
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Review comments at @src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts:
- Around line 284-287: Update canonicalDirKey to fall back to dirPath only when
fs.realpath fails with ENOENT, using errorCode to identify the error; propagate
all other errors so the writer does not acquire a lock for an unresolved alias
path.
- Around line 350-529: In the caller-supplied staging branch of safeWriteText,
bind the opened file to the earlier lstat result so a path swap cannot make the
write follow or publish a symlink. Use a platform-appropriate no-follow open and
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Security Boundaries — registered family. The remaining trust in caller-staged content is the pathname-based publish design owned by feat(file-safety): atomic text publish primitive + safeWriteJson refactor (A4, #1375) #1395: the resolution the row asks for (trusted file-handle/internal staging API, exclusive no-follow creation in a private per-write directory, ownership-bound handle verification) is the same handle-relative publish-primitive redesign registered at feat(file-safety): atomic text publish primitive + safeWriteJson refactor (A4, #1375) #1395 (precedent: comment feat(file-safety): atomic text publish primitive + safeWriteJson refactor (A4, #1375) #1395 (comment)). What is new at this head: ed9b234 narrowed the accepted staging set from "any same-directory regular file" to the .new_*.tmp naming convention plus post-open isFile/nlink === 1 verification (2 regression tests, NC-verified), which is the check-based defense this layer can express; the handle-bound creation protocol that would fully close the convention-and-regular-file gap is the primitive redesign and lands once at the owner unit rather than five times across the chain.
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Keep the U2 safeWriteText delegation while adopting main data:unknown; keep the branch backup-name expectations; prune suppressions to the merged tree.
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Minor · Recheck the lock key after resolving the publish target. · safeWriteJson.ts:91
src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts:91 Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Poor tradeoff
Recheck the lock key after resolving the publish target.
The lock key is computed before the lock is taken, but the publish target is resolved under the lock. If the symlink is retargeted between those steps, writers to the new referent take a different lock, so merged JSON updates can overwrite each other. After acquisition, compare the resolved canonical key with lockKey and re-lock when they differ.
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Review comment at @src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts at line 91:
After resolving the publish target in the safe-write flow, compare its canonical
lock key with lockKey; if they differ, release the current lock and acquire the
lock for the resolved target before proceeding with the merged JSON update.
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628-635: Trivial · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Add a concurrent alias-and-referent writer test for the shared lock.
The test at src/utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.test.ts:628-641 runs one writer through callerPath. A regression that releases the referent lock before the merge read still passes these assertions. The comment at lines 565-568 requires an alias and its referent to share one lock. No test runs overlapping writers through both paths, and the file lock is not exercised by the delegation spec.
Keep the mergeFn synchronous. safeWriteJson calls it without await and assigns its result to data, so a Promise returned by the callback would be written as the data. Pause the first writer at an awaited step inside the locked block instead, such as the file read before the merge at src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts:96-107. Then:
Start a second writer through referentPath or callerPath.
Assert that the second merge has not run while the first writer is paused.
Release the first writer, await both writes, and assert that the final file contains both updates.
The existing lock wrapper in this test releases and then throws. Do not reuse it unchanged for this case.
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Review comment at @src/utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.test.ts around lines 628 -
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Update the test around mockedSafeWriteJson to run overlapping writers through
callerPath and referentPath, pausing the first at an awaited step inside the
lock before its synchronous mergeFn runs. Assert the second merge has not run
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- Around line 1623-1624: Remove the new no-explicit-any suppression for
safeWriteJson.test.ts from the suppression configuration, and type the filePath
parameter in the fs.unlink mock implementation as PathLike, importing PathLike
from fs if needed. Keep suppression counts unchanged.
Review comments at @src/utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.test.ts:
- Line 319: Restore the `fs.unlink` implementation overridden by the test using
`vi.mocked(fs.unlink)` in a `finally` block, so it is reset even when an
assertion fails. Keep the cleanup scoped to this test and ensure the later
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Review comments at @src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts:
- Line 132: Update the safeWriteJson-to-safeWriteText commit flow so
safeWriteText verifies that the target still matches the path resolved under the
lock before renaming, and rejects a changed target; alternatively, pass and use
the locked resolved path without resolving it again.
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Minor comments:
Review comments at @src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts:
- Line 91: After resolving the publish target in the safe-write flow, compare
its canonical lock key with lockKey; if they differ, release the current lock
and acquire the lock for the resolved target before proceeding with the merged
JSON update.
---
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Review comments at @src/utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.test.ts:
- Around line 628-635: Update the test around mockedSafeWriteJson to run
overlapping writers through callerPath and referentPath, pausing the first at an
awaited step inside the lock before its synchronous mergeFn runs. Assert the
second merge has not run while the first is paused, then release and await both
writers and verify the final file contains both updates; use a lock wrapper that
does not release and throw.
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Minor · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win
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Remove the new no-explicit-any suppression and type the mock parameter.
The new entry for utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.test.ts raises the suppression count from zero to one. Counts must not increase. Type filePath as PathLike. The callback calls toString() and passes the value to fsPromisesActuals.unlink, and PathLike supports both. Import PathLike from fs if the file does not already import it.
Based on learnings, test mocks should use typed doubles instead of any.
As per coding guidelines, src/eslint-suppressions.json must never increase suppression counts.
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Remove the new no-explicit-any suppression for safeWriteJson.test.ts from the
suppression configuration, and type the filePath parameter in the fs.unlink mock
implementation as PathLike, importing PathLike from fs if needed. Keep
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Restore the fs.unlink override in a finally block.
If an assertion in this test fails, the rejecting fs.unlink implementation stays set. The afterEachvi.restoreAllMocks() does not reset vi.fn implementations in Vitest 4. The later failed-commit test then keeps its orphaned backup and fails at its backup-absence assertion, which hides the original regression.
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Review comment at @src/utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.test.ts at line 319:
Restore the `fs.unlink` implementation overridden by the test using
`vi.mocked(fs.unlink)` in a `finally` block, so it is reset even when an
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Verify the commit target before the rename in safeWriteText.
safeWriteJson resolves the target under the lock, then streams the data. safeWriteText resolves the path again at entry. If the path becomes a symlink to a sibling JSON file during streaming, the commit overwrites that file. Use the locked resolution in safeWriteText, or reject a changed target before the rename.
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Review comment at @src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts at line 132:
Update the safeWriteJson-to-safeWriteText commit flow so safeWriteText verifies
that the target still matches the path resolved under the lock before renaming,
and rejects a changed target; alternatively, pass and use the locked resolved
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This PR makes the advisory file lock work the way callers already assume it does: the lock key is canonicalised through the symlink referent, so a symlink alias and the file it points to share one lock.
Today two writers that reach the same file through different paths - one through a symlink, one through the real path - take different locks and can overwrite each other. Every writer in the file-write-safety chain picks its lock through this key, so this fix has to land before the guarded writes do.
It is the second of nine PRs for epic #1375 (chain tracked on #1991).
Related GitHub Issue
Closes: #2017 (this unit's tracking issue).
Refs: #1991 (chain tracking), #1375 (epic).
Description
What this PR changes:
Why the diff looks bigger than the change: the chain is non-cumulative - this branch is based on
mainand carries its own copy of the earlier unit's content, which the GitHub diff shows as context.Review focus: the lock-key resolution and its spec (the files exercised by step 1 of the Test Procedure).
Test Procedure
From the repository root, with dependencies installed:
pnpm --dir src test -- core/task-persistence/__tests__/TaskHistoryStore.lockKey.spec.ts utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.lockKey.spec.tsExpected: 27 passed, 1 skipped (the skipped case is the win32 symlink variant, verified manually). Then
pnpm --dir src exec eslint --max-warnings=0on the touched files - clean.Environment: Windows 11, Node 20, unit layer only.
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No user-facing documentation change: the lock key is internal behaviour. No
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--max-warnings=0clean on every file in the unit; Prettier clean; suppressions unchanged.Updated this round
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Post-commit durability port (8c8db37)
Port of the U3 durability fix to this unit's copies (identical catch shape):
safeWriteJsonmarks the staged path consumed onPostCommitDurabilityError, andsafeWriteText's failure cleanup removes the staged temp only when the commit never landed (using the committed flag it already tracks). Regression test + two negative controls (each guard off reddens exactly the new test). 80/81 (1 pre-existing skip).CI/review round final head (6d0bc87)
Refreshed onto main
4f1dee18e(merge596f2d398, no conflicts; lint-gate commit drops imports main's side orphaned; format-gate commit reformats two specs for the prettier version main now pins - main also added the.prettierignorethat previously shielded them). Review follow-ups ported from U3 at6d0bc8742: real directory descriptor +causeassertion in the durability test, exact staging-release path assertions. All six required checks green at6d0bc8742.Review round final head (5f93883)
After the durability-probe portability work (
d5a68d13f: the failure is injected by watching the commit rename - the parent-directory fsync is the only fsync after it - so no descriptor is fabricated and the Windows lane passes), CodeRabbit's two new threads are fixed at5f938837b: resolveLockKey now falls back to the link walk only on ENOENT (a transient EACCES/EIO can no longer key a writer to the alias while another keys the referent; regression test with negative control), and the cleanup-safety test restores its spies in a finally block. All six required checks green.