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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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- Around line 647-648: Update the safeWriteJson-to-safeWriteText flow so the
pre-commit retarget check validates the caller’s symlink alias, not only the
resolved referent. Ensure a retargeted alias prevents the write from committing
and safeWriteJson from reporting success, while preserving the existing target
validation safeguards.
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New Features
Added safer file publishing with atomic updates, optional backups, and preservation of existing file permissions.
JSON writes now handle symlink aliases consistently and support streaming serialization.
Bug Fixes
Improved cleanup and error handling when publishing fails, including cases where files have already been committed or cleanup cannot complete.
Adds safeWriteText for staged text and byte publication, including backup, cleanup, and platform-specific handling. Updates safeWriteJson to use resolved publish targets, canonical lock keys, and the shared publishing API.
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-path validation, mode handling, and staged content writes. Tests cover resolution, staging, content, and modes.
Publish, preserve, and clean up src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts, src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.spec.ts
Adds copy-based backups, Windows DACL handling, commit and durability checks, and cleanup. Tests cover backup, commit, platform, and cleanup outcomes.
Integrate JSON writes and symlink-aware locks src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts, src/utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.test.ts, src/utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.lockKey.spec.ts
Updates JSON writes to lock and publish through resolved paths and safeWriteText. Tests cover symlink aliases, merge reads and writes, lock release, and publication errors.
A JSON write can report success after its symlink alias changes, while publishing to the former destination. This narrow concurrency gap warrants a localized fix or explicit owner acceptance.
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.
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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
Repository evidence shows that src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts is absent at the merge base 70eba96 and present at head 0580426. This pull request therefore adds the whole file. The author …
Limit this pull request to canonical lock-key resolution. Specifically: 1. In src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts, keep only resolveLockKey and the helpers it requires. Remove the publishing API (safeWriteText, backup, DACL, stagi…
Security Boundaries
The prior security finding remains in the changed src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts path. SafeWriteTextOptions.tempPath accepts a caller-supplied pathname (lines 350-412). The checks only …
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 still lacks focused coverage for unrelated paths. canonicalDirKey preserves the canonical directory and basename (src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts:284-287), …
Add a lowest-layer lock-key test for two unrelated paths. Assert that resolveLockKey(pathA) and resolveLockKey(pathB) differ, or assert that separate safeWriteJson calls pass distinct arguments to acquireFileLock. Retain the alias/r…
Lifecycle Resource Cleanup
safeWriteText still has changed lifecycle paths that leave filesystem artifacts without a cleanup owner. After two failed unlink attempts, post-commit backup cleanup only warns at `safeWriteText.ts:…
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 each registry entry only a…
Passed checks: 4 passed
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Title check
The title clearly identifies the main change: canonical advisory lock keys for file safety. It is concise, specific, and related to the pull request objectives.
Description check
The description is detailed and covers the linked issues, implementation, review focus, test procedure, environment, documentation impact, additional notes, and contact information. It provides suffic…
Linked Issues check
Issue #2017 requires two things. (1) The lock key resolves the write target through its symlink referent before locking. (2) An alias and its referent share one lock, and unrelated paths keep independ…
Persistence Integrity
No concrete persistence-integrity failure is introduced by the changed paths. safeWriteJson awaits directory setup, lock acquisition, JSON streaming completion, safeWriteText, cleanup, and lock re…
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The description is detailed and covers the linked issues, implementation, review focus, test procedure, environment, documentation impact, additional notes, and contact information. It provides sufficient information for review, although its checklist differs from some template checklist items.
Full details: Linked Issues check
Explanation
Issue #2017 requires two things. (1) The lock key resolves the write target through its symlink referent before locking. (2) An alias and its referent share one lock, and unrelated paths keep independent locks.
At head 0580426, safeWriteJson (src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts) calls resolveLockKey(absoluteFilePath) before acquireFileLock(lockKey). resolveLockKey is defined in src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts. The lock-key spec summaries report these checks: referent locking, a retry after ENOENT, parent-directory canonicalization when the target is missing, propagation of non-ENOENT failures, and lock release when resolution rejects. The latest change (fallback to the link walk only on ENOENT) is covered by the regression test named in the spec summary. The author reports 27 passing and 1 skipped test, but these results were not re-run in this assessment.
The previous PASS is still supported. Scope concerns are assessed separately under outOfScopeChangesAssessment.
Full details: Persistence Integrity
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No concrete persistence-integrity failure is introduced by the changed paths. safeWriteJson awaits directory setup, lock acquisition, JSON streaming completion, safeWriteText, cleanup, and lock release. safeWriteText fsyncs staged content before an awaited atomic rename, fsyncs the parent directory on POSIX, preserves the published file after post-commit durability errors, and handles backup and staging cleanup failures without replacing the original error. No changed consumer shows a missing persisted default.
Full details: Out of Scope Changes check
Explanation
Repository evidence shows that src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts is absent at the merge base 70eba96 and present at head 0580426. This pull request therefore adds the whole file. The author describes it as context from U1 (#1910). The diff against the merge base is the change this pull request introduces, so U1 content counts toward this review.
The file adds a publishing API with backup, Windows DACL capture and restore, caller-supplied staging files and validation, cleanup and orphaned-backup handling, warning sinks, and PostCommitDurabilityError. Issue #2017 requires only lock-key resolution. These publishing behaviors do not implement that requirement. Their tests (src/services/file-safety/tests/safeWriteText.spec.ts, +1817 lines) also do not test lock-key behavior.
src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts also changes behavior beyond lock keys. It now stages through tempPath, calls safeWriteText for backup and commit, handles PostCommitDurabilityError, and changes cleanup. These changes support the publishing API, not the lock key. The test changes in src/utils/tests/safeWriteJson.test.ts (backup cleanup, commit failure, post-commit durability, mode 0o600) also cover that behavior.
The author's triage comment says the cumulative diff includes U1 content. The PR description also says the diff is larger than the change. Neither statement changes the diff against the merge base. The description's budget of 167 changed executable lines also does not match the reported +832 and +1817 line counts for these files.
Lock-key resolution (resolveLockKey, and any helper it needs), its call in safeWriteJson, and its focused tests are in scope. The remaining publishing, backup, DACL, staging, cleanup, and durability changes are out of scope for #2017.
Resolution
Limit this pull request to canonical lock-key resolution. Specifically:
In src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts, keep only resolveLockKey and the helpers it requires. Remove the publishing API (safeWriteText, backup, DACL, staging validation, cleanup, warning sink, and the error classes that serve only those paths), unless the lock-key code requires them.
In src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts, keep the resolveLockKey call before acquireFileLock. Restore the pre-existing backup, commit, rollback, and durability behavior, unless a change is required for lock-key canonicalization.
In the tests, keep only the lock-key cases in src/utils/tests/safeWriteJson.lockKey.spec.ts and the lock-key cases in the safeWriteText spec. Remove the publishing, backup, DACL, staging, cleanup, and durability tests from the safeWriteJson and safeWriteText suites.
Alternatively, merge U1 (#1910) first, rebase this branch on the updated main, and confirm that the diff against the new merge base contains only lock-key changes.
Update the PR description so its scope and line counts match the diff against the merge base.
Full details: Security Boundaries
Explanation
The prior security finding remains in the changed src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts path. SafeWriteTextOptions.tempPath accepts a caller-supplied pathname (lines 350-412). The checks only require a same-directory regular file, a different inode, nlink === 1, and the forgeable .new_*.tmp basename (lines 369-410 and 505-521). The temp-path branch never writes content; it fsyncs the opened file and renames it over the target (lines 505-525 and 654). A caller or local directory writer can create .new_attack.tmp with unauthorized or sensitive bytes and pass every check, causing those bytes to replace the target.
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 do not authenticate the staging file.
Full details: Regression Evidence
Explanation
The changed lock-key behavior still lacks focused coverage for unrelated paths. canonicalDirKey preserves the canonical directory and basename (src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts:284-287), and safeWriteJson passes that result to acquireFileLock (src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts:76-81). The added tests cover alias/referent canonicalization, dangling links, cycles, missing targets, and non-ENOENT failures (safeWriteText.spec.ts:1569-1613; safeWriteJson.lockKey.spec.ts:155-186), but no test asserts that unrelated paths produce distinct keys or lock arguments.
Resolution
Add a lowest-layer lock-key test for two unrelated paths. Assert that resolveLockKey(pathA) and resolveLockKey(pathB) differ, or assert that separate safeWriteJson calls pass distinct arguments to acquireFileLock. Retain the alias/referent equality test.
Full details: Lifecycle Resource Cleanup
Explanation
safeWriteText still has changed lifecycle paths that leave filesystem artifacts without a cleanup owner. After two failed unlink attempts, post-commit backup cleanup only warns at safeWriteText.ts:706-724; DACL dump cleanup only warns at :176-194; staging-directory and staging-temp cleanup do the same at :136-165 and :785-823. The added tests explicitly force persistent EPERM/EACCES and accept reported leftovers (safeWriteText.spec.ts:706-731, 733-770, 850-907, 1169-1207). A persistent antivirus lock, permission failure, or unreleased handle can therefore leave backups, ACL dumps, temp files, or staging directories on disk after the operation ends. The repository has no registry, startup pass, or later retry owner for these paths.
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 each registry entry only after deletion. Do not treat a warning as completed cleanup without 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.
… type-sound
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
completed, and only restore backupPath in the catch block when it has not; after
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PostCommitDurabilityError. Add a backup-enabled test covering a directory open
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[warning] 102-102: Filesystem path is not a string literal; a request-/variable-derived path can enable path traversal. Validate and normalize the path before use.
Context: fs.readFile(referent, "utf8")
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').
[warning] 2-2: Importing child_process exposes a command-execution surface; ensure any command/argument built from input is validated, and prefer execFile/spawn with an argument array over exec.
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Note: [CWE-78] Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection').
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Note: [CWE-78] Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection').
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src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts
[warning] 97-97: Filesystem path is not a string literal; a request-/variable-derived path can enable path traversal. Validate and normalize the path before use.
Context: fs.readFile(resolvedTargetPath, "utf8")
Note: [CWE-22] Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal').
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src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts
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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
compare descriptor identity with stagingStat before applying permissions or
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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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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
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Review comments at @src/eslint-suppressions.json:
- 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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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
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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.
Pre-Submission Checklist
.changesetor CHANGELOG changes (AGENTS.md).src/eslint-suppressions.jsonunchanged - no suppression count increased.--max-warnings=0) rather than relying on suppressions.Visual Snapshots
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Documentation Updates
No user-facing documentation change: the lock key is internal behaviour. No
.changesetand no CHANGELOG edit (AGENTS.md).Additional Notes
Verification at this head
--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.