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| SET heartbeat_at=?1,lease_expires_at=?2 | ||
| WHERE extraction_run_id=?3 AND terminal_state IS NULL AND heartbeat_at<=?1", | ||
| params![heartbeat_at, lease_expires_at, extraction_run_id], |
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When an extraction_run_id contains a provider-shaped secret, stage_candidate stores the redacted ID, but this update binds the original ID. Consequently, both renewal here and the equivalent lookup in finish_staging_run return Conflict, leaving the run active until maintenance abandons it. Apply the same deterministic redaction used during staging before performing these lifecycle updates.
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Out of scope for this PR, please retarget to #116.
crates/mc-store/src/kernel/retention.rs is unchanged here; this PR touches only tests/kernel_retention.rs among the retention files. The staging-lifecycle redaction asymmetry you describe belongs to the layer that introduced stage_candidate and finish_staging_run.
I have not verified the claim, since doing so properly means reading the staging lifecycle rather than the backup path this PR changes. It reads plausibly: if stage_candidate stores a redacted extraction_run_id while the lifecycle updates bind the original, the row will not match.
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When the replaced object ID contains detected secret material, this records its metadata under the redacted object ID rather than the change event's {commit_seq}:{ordinal} owner ID used later in commit_inner. The actual correction event therefore has no replaced_object_id detection metadata, and the corresponding outbox payload receives none either, so consumers cannot associate the redaction audit with the payload that contains it. Carry this field in the pending change's redactions instead.
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Out of scope for this PR, please retarget to the layer that owns commit_inner.
This PR's only change to `crates/mc-store/src/kernel/envelope.rs" is a five-line addition at 766-770:
@@ -765,0 +766,5 @@ impl KernelStore {
Line 203 is untouched here, so the correction-redaction owner-ID mismatch you describe predates this change. Unverified for the same reason as the retention comments: confirming it means reading the change-event and outbox payload path rather than backup and restore.
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Removing the trailing boundary makes the fixed-length AWS detector match prefixes of longer identifiers. For example, AKIAABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQ is rewritten as <AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID_REDACTED>Q even though it is not a valid 20-character access-key ID; because this sanitizer is also mirrored by the Rust kernel and applied to semantic fields and identifiers, such false positives can corrupt stored values and create redaction collisions. Preserve an exact-length boundary while separately allowing the intended underscore-delimited fixture.
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Out of scope for this PR, please retarget to #117.
packages/plugin/src/shared/redaction.ts is not in this PR's diff at all; this PR changes no TypeScript. The detector boundary you are describing belongs to the redaction-hardening layer.
Worth flagging that the base branch has since moved to ca6ace36 ("bound provider patterns and align label vocabulary"), which touches provider patterns, so please check whether this is already addressed there before filing.
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| WHERE terminal_at IS NOT NULL AND terminal_at<=?1", | ||
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When a terminal staging run reaches the 30-day cutoff, this cascades away its candidates but leaves the corresponding durable_text_redactions rows for owner kinds extraction_run and staging_candidate. Since that table has no owner foreign key, every staged field containing a secret leaves permanent orphan metadata, so repeated extraction defeats the staging-retention cleanup and grows the database indefinitely. Delete those owner rows using the candidate and run IDs before deleting the runs.
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I checked this and the claim holds, but it is outside this PR's diff.
Verified: durable_text_redactions carries only a commit_seq foreign key, no owner key —
CREATE TABLE durable_text_redactions(owner_kind TEXT NOT NULL,owner_id TEXT NOT NULL,...,
commit_seq INTEGER REFERENCES commit_log(commit_seq) ON DELETE RESTRICT,
PRIMARY KEY(owner_kind,owner_id,field_name,detection_ordinal)) STRICT
and retention.rs never references the table at all, so the extraction_run and staging_candidate owner rows do survive the cascade exactly as you describe.
crates/mc-store/src/kernel/retention.rs is not modified by this PR; only tests/kernel_retention.rs is. That file belongs to the kernel retention layer, #116, so please retarget there and it can be fixed against the code that introduced it. Flagging it here would put the fix in a bisect range for backup and restore.
| fn suffix_path(path: &Path, suffix: &str) -> PathBuf { | ||
| PathBuf::from(format!("{}{suffix}", path.display())) |
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On Unix, a valid store root may contain non-UTF-8 path bytes, but path.display() replaces those bytes before constructing the WAL, SHM, journal, and marker paths. SQLite still creates its sidecars beside the original byte-exact database path, while the kernel inspects and quarantines different lossy paths, which can omit live WAL data or leave a family permanently inconclusive. Append suffixes to the underlying OsString rather than round-tripping paths through Display; the reset and restore marker helpers have the same issue.
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Confirmed and fixed in 8f82f55, including the marker helpers you pointed at.
suffix_path now appends to the underlying OsString instead of round-tripping through Display:
fn suffix_path(path: &Path, suffix: &str) -> PathBuf {
let mut name = path.as_os_str().to_os_string();
name.push(suffix);
PathBuf::from(name)
}reset_marker_path and restore_marker_path were building their paths with their own format!("{}{}", path.display(), ..) rather than going through the helper; both now call it, as do the recovery-directory, restore-temp and marker-temp names in backup.rs. So the whole family, both markers and the restore scratch paths are byte-exact.
Your consequence analysis matches what this PR was fixing elsewhere: a lossy sidecar path is what makes facts() silently report family_bytes == main_file_bytes, harden_family skip the real sidecars, and displace_family leave a WAL behind.
| let marker_path = reset_marker_path(path); | ||
| move_one(&marker_path, &marker.quarantine_dir)?; | ||
| sync_directory(&marker.quarantine_dir)?; |
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If the process or host fails after the marker rename here but before the following directory syncs complete, filesystem crash ordering may persist removal of the reset marker without persisting all earlier family renames. The next open then has no marker with which to resume and may see a main file or sidecars split between the live and quarantine directories, resulting in Inconclusive or an unsafe reclassification. Durably sync both directories after moving the database family, then move and sync the marker as a separate commit step.
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Out of scope for this PR, please retarget to the layer that owns move_family.
open.rs is modified here, but not this function. This PR's open.rs hunks near that region are reset_marker_path, restore_marker_path, suffix_path, prepare_private_dir and sync_parent; the move_family body and its marker-move ordering are unchanged.
The reasoning looks sound and is the same class of ordering obligation this PR fixed on the backup side, where deadline checks and a sidecar sweep sat after the publish rename. If you retarget it I would suggest pairing it with a failpoint test at the marker rename, since the window is only observable under a crash.
Note that the restore marker now has its own resume path, added in 8f82f55, so the reset and restore flows are no longer symmetric in this file.
| Ok((new_writer, new_readers)) => { | ||
| *writer = new_writer; | ||
| for (guard, connection) in readers.iter_mut().zip(new_readers) { | ||
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A backup can be restored long after its capture pins, staging leases, or terminal staging rows have expired, but this success path returns immediately after swapping in the restored connections. Unlike KernelStore::open, it does not run capture-pin or staging maintenance, so an in-process restore can leave expired pin references blocking evidence deletion and obsolete staging data resident until the process reopens the store. Apply the same post-open maintenance to the restored family before making it available.
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Valid observation, and in scope for this file, but I am filing it rather than fixing it here.
You are right that KernelStore::open runs run_capture_pin_maintenance and run_staging_maintenance while the restore success path returns as soon as the connections are swapped, so an in-process restore can leave expired pins blocking evidence deletion until the process reopens the store.
The reason for deferring is lock order. Both maintenance routines take the writer lock through lock_writer, and the restore success path is still holding the writer guard plus every reader guard at that point, so calling them there deadlocks. Doing it correctly means restructuring the tail of restore_inner to drop the guards before running maintenance, and I would rather not land a lock-order change in the restore path in a review pass on an already large PR.
Tracked as magic-context-0lqx with your reasoning. Worth noting the effect is bounded: pins expire at the 24 h DEFAULT_CAPTURE_PIN_LIFETIME_MS and are reaped on the next open, so this delays reclamation rather than leaking permanently.
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| let sqlite_temp_path = fd_child_path(&destination, &temp_name); |
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CRITICAL: macOS /dev/fd does not support child subpath traversal for SQLite opening
fd_child_path(&destination, &temp_name) constructs paths formatted as /dev/fd/<dir_fd>/<temp_name> on macOS (target_os = "macos"). Unlike Linux /proc/self/fd/, macOS devfs entries under /dev/fd represent file descriptor device nodes and do not implement directory namespace lookups (VOP_LOOKUP). Calling Connection::open_with_flags on /dev/fd/<dir_fd>/<temp_name> fails with ENOTDIR or ENOENT, preventing backup creation on macOS.
Construct an absolute filesystem path within the validated destination directory or resolve the directory's real path before appending child filenames.
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Confirmed and fixed in 8f82f55.
This was not theoretical: all 13 kernel_backup tests were failing on the macos-latest CI leg with InvalidBackup, while the base branch fails only one unrelated kernel_open test, so the breakage was introduced by this PR.
Your diagnosis is exactly right, including the mechanism. /proc/self/fd/N is a magic link the Linux kernel resolves, whereas macOS devfs returns ENOTDIR for any component below an Fdesc vnode. fd_path, fd_child_path and fd_directory are all gone, and SQLite now receives a real path built from the validated destination directory. The descriptor-based validation is unchanged: secure_destination still checks type, mode and owner, opens with O_DIRECTORY|O_NOFOLLOW, and re-compares dev/ino, and every mutation still goes through that descriptor.
Your comment also implied a follow-on hazard that codex raised separately: with SQLite on a pathname, a destination rotated after validation could split the verified file from the published one. That is closed in 9d8890f by comparing the descriptor-anchored identity against the pathname before publishing.
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| StepResult::Done => break, | ||
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WARNING: Busy-spin CPU saturation on StepResult::Busy / StepResult::Locked
When backup.step(BACKUP_PAGES_PER_STEP) returns StepResult::Busy or StepResult::Locked due to SQLite lock contention, calling only std::thread::yield_now() yields the thread quantum but immediately re-executes if no equal/higher-priority threads are runnable. This causes a tight loop consuming 100% CPU until lock acquisition or deadline expiration.
Distinguish StepResult::More from lock contention results (StepResult::Busy | StepResult::Locked) and introduce a short sleep/backoff before retrying.
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Fixed in 9d8890f.
Two changes. More is now separated from the contention results, because only Busy/Locked mean the step made no progress:
StepResult::Done => break,
StepResult::More => {}
StepResult::Busy | StepResult::Locked => std::thread::sleep(BACKUP_CONTENTION_BACKOFF),with a 1 ms backoff. Contention should be rare here, since the backup runs on our own writer connection while holding the writer mutex and the file lease, so a competing writer means a second process outside that discipline. But your point stands that when it does happen the previous code burned a core flat until the deadline, and the fix is nearly free.
One correction for the record: the _ => arm cannot be removed as another reviewer suggested. StepResult is #[non_exhaustive], so the wildcard is load-bearing and the compiler rejects the match without it.
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| assert!(fs::metadata(root.path().join("core.sqlite")).unwrap().len() >= 1024 * 1024 * 1024); | ||
| let store = KernelStore::open(root.path()).unwrap(); | ||
| let backup = store.backup(request(destination.path())).unwrap(); |
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WARNING: Hardcoded 30-second deadline can prematurely abort 1 GiB RTO backup on constrained I/O
threshold_size_restore_rto() uses request(destination.path()), which specifies a 30-second deadline (Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(30)). Backing up 1 GiB (streaming ~2,048 pages, verifying integrity via verify_database, and executing sync_all()) can exceed 30 seconds on storage with constrained write throughput, causing store.backup to fail with KernelErrorKind::Deadline before measuring restore RTO.
Pass a dedicated BackupRequest with an extended deadline (e.g. 300–360s, matching the kernel-rto Nextest timeout) in this test.
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Fixed in 9d8890f.
You are right that the shared request() helper hardcodes a 30 s deadline and the RTO test reused it, so on constrained I/O the 1 GiB backup could return Deadline before the restore it exists to measure ever ran. The test now builds its own request:
let rto_request = BackupRequest {
destination_directory: destination.path().to_path_buf(),
deadline: Instant::now() + Duration::from_secs(300),
capture_pin_expires_at: None,
};Two related defects in the same test are fixed alongside it: the timed window enclosed known_as_of and insert_domain, so the reported figure was not restore latency, and the test wrote roughly 3 GiB with no free-space check and would fail opaquely with ENOSPC on a small runner. It now times only restore and asserts at least 4 GiB free in both directories first.
I kept the in-test bound at 300 s against the 360 s kernel-rto harness period deliberately, so the assertion fails with a latency figure before nextest kills the process.
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WAL-mode backups could not be read from WORM storage, interrupted restores remained inconclusive, and a late failure could delete a published backup. Normalize standalone backups to rollback-journal mode before publishing and validate restore markers so recovery can roll back an interrupted replacement. Use real paths for SQLite on macOS while retaining descriptor-based directory validation. Add regression coverage for read-only restores, interrupted replacement, and forged markers.
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| let recovery_dir = allocate_recovery_dir(&self.db_path)?; | ||
| let temp_path = restore_temp_path(&self.db_path); | ||
| if let Err(error) = publish_restore_marker(&self.db_path, &recovery_dir) { |
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If the process or host crashes after publish_restore_marker completes but before displace_family moves the main database, the recovery directory is still empty while the live family remains intact. On the next open, resume_restore unconditionally deletes that intact family and then treats restoring nothing from the empty directory as success, causing the store to bootstrap an empty database. Record the restore phase or verify that the displaced main file exists before removing the live family.
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Confirmed, and this was a data-loss bug in my own fix. Thank you — this is the most valuable comment on the PR.
resume_restore called remove_family unconditionally, then replayed the recovery directory. restore_displaced_family skips every source that does not exist, so with an empty recovery directory nothing was restored, the marker was cleared, and open went on to bootstrap an empty database. Total silent loss of the live family.
I reproduced it before fixing. Adding abandon_restore_marker_for_test to leave exactly the on-disk state a kill at that point produces, the oracle after reopen came back commit_tip: 0 with every table empty, against two expected domains.
Fixed in 9d8890f exactly as you suggested: removal is now gated on the displaced main file existing.
let displaced_main = marker
.recovery_directory
.join(path.file_name().ok_or(KernelError::Inconclusive)?);
if displaced_main.exists() {
remove_family(path).map_err(|_| KernelError::Inconclusive)?;
}That also covers the narrower window your comment implies: displace_family moves sidecars before the main file, so a kill in between leaves the main file live and its sidecars in the recovery directory. Because the main file is absent from that directory the live family is kept, and the sidecars are moved back to rejoin it. Two regression tests cover both windows (restore_interrupted_before_displacement_keeps_the_live_family, restore_interrupted_after_sidecars_move_keeps_the_live_main_file); both fail on the previous commit.
| let sqlite_temp_path = request.destination_directory.join(&temp_name); | ||
| let mut target = Connection::open_with_flags( | ||
| &sqlite_temp_path, | ||
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If the destination path is renamed or replaced after secure_destination opens it, this pathname can resolve to a different directory while creation, publication, and cleanup still operate through the original directory descriptor. A concurrent destination rotation can therefore make SQLite write and verify an unvalidated replacement file while publish_noreplace publishes the untouched file in the old directory, potentially returning a manifest whose path has no valid backup and leaving the real snapshot under a temporary name. Open the SQLite target through the verified directory identity or revalidate that identity before pathname-based operations.
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Confirmed, and this is a regression I introduced in 8f82f55 when I removed the /dev/fd indirection to unbreak macOS. Fixed in 9d8890f.
You are right about the consequence: verification ran against the pathname while create_private_file_at, publish_noreplace and cleanup ran through the directory descriptor, so a destination rotated in between meant SQLite wrote and verified one file while publication renamed a different, untouched one.
Re-anchoring the SQLite work to the descriptor is not portable — that is precisely what broke macOS, where /dev/fd/N is an Fdesc vnode and rejects child lookups. So instead the two identities are now compared before the commit point, which turns a silent integrity hole into a closed failure:
fn assert_same_file(directory: &File, name: &str, pathname: &Path) -> Result<(), KernelError> {
let anchored = rfs::statat(directory, name, AtFlags::SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW)
.map_err(|_| KernelError::InvalidBackup)?;
let resolved = fs::symlink_metadata(pathname).map_err(|_| KernelError::InvalidBackup)?;
if anchored.st_dev != resolved.dev() || anchored.st_ino != resolved.ino() {
return Err(KernelError::InvalidBackup);
}
Ok(())
}It runs after the copy, sealing and verification and before publish_noreplace, so any swap that made the verified bytes and the published name diverge fails the call rather than publishing an unverified artifact. A swap-and-restore-back within the window would still evade an identity comparison; closing that completely needs a descriptor-relative SQLite VFS, which is out of scope here.
resume_restore removed the live database family before replaying the recovery directory. A process killed between publishing the marker and displacing the family leaves that directory empty, so the removal destroyed the only copy of the data and the next open bootstrapped an empty database. Removal is now conditional on a displaced main file being present, which also covers a kill after sidecars move but before the main file does. Reject a destination swapped between validation and the SQLite write by comparing the descriptor-anchored file identity against the pathname before publishing. Back off instead of spinning when a backup step reports Busy or Locked, and give the 1 GiB restore proof a deadline that a slow copy cannot exhaust.
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resume_restore destroyed an intact live family (data loss) |
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Destination swap could split the verified file from the published one |
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Busy/Locked spun a core flat until the deadline |
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1 GiB RTO proof inherited a 30 s backup deadline |
Already fixed in 8f82f55, independently confirmed by these comments: the macOS /dev/fd breakage (3890040256, which had all 13 kernel_backup tests red on the macOS leg) and the lossy Display sidecar and marker paths (3889941139).
Deferred with a reason: post-restore maintenance (3889941146) is real but the maintenance routines take the writer lock that the restore success path is still holding, so a naive call deadlocks. Tracked as magic-context-0lqx rather than landing a lock-order change in a review pass.
Retargeted, not this PR's diff: src/kernel/retention.rs ×2, envelope.rs:203, packages/plugin/src/shared/redaction.ts, and open.rs move_family. I did verify the retention orphan claim (3889941135) — durable_text_redactions has no owner foreign key and retention.rs never deletes from it, so it holds — and said so in the reply so the finding is not lost on retarget.
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CI has not run on either of my pushes. GitHub reports mergeable: UNKNOWN and has created no Actions run for 8f82f55 or 9d8890f14, while other branches are getting runs. The base branch also moved to ca6ace36 underneath the stack, so this branch likely wants a rebase. Local gates are green on 9d8890f14: 13 test binaries pass, cargo fmt --check and cargo clippy --all-targets -D warnings clean, workspace cargo check --all-targets clean.
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If the process crashes while restore_displaced_family is moving the original sidecars back, the recovery directory can still contain the displaced main file while an original -wal is already live. On the next open, this branch deletes that restored WAL, then retries from a recovery directory that no longer contains it, potentially losing committed pages that existed only in the WAL. Preserve already-restored family members or persist a rollback phase before deleting the live family.
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Confirmed and fixed in a958383. This was reachable data loss, and your diagnosis of the sequence is exactly right.
restore_displaced_family iterated sidecars before the main file, so a crash midway left the main file in the recovery directory while an already-restored -wal was live. resume_restore gates remove_family on the displaced main file existing, which in that state reads as a rollback that has not started, so it deleted the live WAL and then replayed a recovery directory that no longer held it.
Rather than persist a separate phase, I inverted the order so the main file itself is the phase:
for destination in std::iter::once(path.to_path_buf()).chain(family_sidecars(path)) {The main file now moves back first, so a main file still in the recovery directory means no member has been restored, and its absence means the rollback is already past that point and the live family must be left alone. displace_family already moves the main file last for the mirror-image reason, so displacement and rollback now use the same indicator from opposite ends, and the dangerous intermediate state is unreachable.
Covered by a_partially_completed_rollback_keeps_the_members_already_restored. I mutation-checked it: making remove_family unconditional again fails that test plus the two earlier interruption tests.
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On Unix, when the store root contains non-UTF-8 bytes, serializing these PathBuf fields into JSON loses the original path representation; after an interrupted restore, the decoded database_path no longer equals the byte-exact live path and resume_restore returns Inconclusive. Fresh evidence after the byte-preserving marker-filename change is that the marker payload still serializes the paths through serde_json; encode raw OsStr bytes or store byte-exact relative names instead.
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Confirmed and fixed in a958383. You are also right that my earlier filename fix was incomplete, and that distinction is the useful part of this comment.
suffix_path made the marker's filename byte-exact, but the marker payload still went through serde_json, which cannot round-trip a non-UTF-8 PathBuf. The decoded database_path then failed path_from_bytes(&marker.database_path) != path and every open reported Inconclusive — a permanent open-time failure on such a root, which is worse than the lossy-path bug it replaced.
The payload now carries raw OsStr bytes:
struct RestoreMarker {
protocol: String,
database_path: Vec<u8>,
recovery_directory: Vec<u8>,
marker_digest: String,
}The digest is computed over those bytes directly rather than a formatted string, so it is byte-exact too.
| let mut writer = self.lock_writer()?; | ||
| if Instant::now() >= request.deadline { |
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When another in-process operation holds the writer mutex past request.deadline, lock_writer() blocks without observing the deadline; the following check only returns Deadline after the mutex is eventually released. Thus a backup configured with a short deadline can remain blocked arbitrarily long under writer contention. Acquire the mutex with deadline-aware polling or otherwise include lock acquisition in the bound.
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Confirmed and fixed in a958383.
You are right that the check after lock_writer() only observes the deadline once the mutex is released, so backup was bounded everywhere except the one place a caller cannot see. Since Mutex::lock has no timeout, acquisition now polls:
Err(TryLockError::WouldBlock) => {
if Instant::now() >= deadline {
return Err(KernelError::Deadline);
}
std::thread::sleep(WRITER_ACQUIRE_POLL);
continue;
}lock_writer_before keeps main's PoisonError::into_inner recovery and the logical-poison check, so the only behaviour change is that waiting is bounded.
Covered by backup_reports_deadline_rather_than_blocking_on_a_held_writer, which holds the writer open from another thread and asserts Deadline arrives promptly. Reverting to the blocking lock_writer() makes that test hang past 60 s, so it discriminates.
| let main_file_bytes = file_len(&self.db_path)?; | ||
| let family_bytes = family_sidecars(&self.db_path) | ||
| .iter() | ||
| .try_fold(main_file_bytes, |total, path| { | ||
| file_len(path).map(|length| total.saturating_add(length)) |
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When a commit runs after this read transaction obtains commit_seq but before the metadata calls complete, the separate writer mutex allows SQLite to append to or checkpoint the WAL concurrently, so family_bytes can describe a newer family than the returned commit and can even combine main/WAL sizes from different instants. Holding a read transaction does not freeze filesystem sizes; coordinate the sampling with the writer if callers rely on these facts as one coherent snapshot.
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You are right, and my previous change was based on a false premise. Corrected in a958383, by fixing the contract rather than the code.
I had moved the size sampling to before tx.commit() in response to an earlier review comment, with the reasoning that it made the sizes agree with commit_seq. That reasoning is wrong for exactly the reason you give: a read transaction gives a stable database snapshot, not stable filesystem metadata, so a concurrent commit or checkpoint can change file sizes underneath it and the members can be sampled at different instants.
Rather than hold the writer, which would make a health probe contend with commits, the sampling moved back outside the transaction and the type now states what it actually provides:
/// Sizes are sampled per file outside any transaction, so a concurrent commit or
/// checkpoint can change them between reads. They describe recent growth for
/// alerting, not a snapshot consistent with `commit_seq`.
pub struct KernelFacts {If a caller ever does need a coherent snapshot, that is a different API, and it should say so rather than inherit a guarantee this one cannot make.
| tx.commit().map_err(|_| KernelError::Io) | ||
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| pub(super) fn run_capture_pin_maintenance(&self, now_ms: i64) -> Result<(), KernelError> { |
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In a long-lived process, if a backup caller loses the returned pin or otherwise relies on capture_pin_expires_at, elapsed pins and their capture_pin_refs are never reaped because this maintenance method is private and is only invoked during KernelStore::open. The expired references therefore continue to enforce their foreign keys and block evidence deletion indefinitely until the whole store is reopened. Run this maintenance periodically or expose it to the lifecycle scheduler, as is already done for staging maintenance.
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Confirmed and fixed in a958383. This became true as a direct result of how I resolved the merge, so thank you for catching it.
When this branch was rebuilt on main, I deliberately did not reattach run_capture_pin_maintenance to open, because main now documents opening a store as non-destructive and replaced the old open-time maintenance with abandon_expired_staging_runs. What I missed is that this left the method reachable only from its own _for_test wrapper, so expired pins were not reaped on reopen either — strictly worse than the behaviour you described.
It is now pub, following the run_staging_maintenance precedent you point at, so the lifecycle scheduler owns it on the same terms as staging retention. The _for_test wrapper is gone and the test calls the real method, so the production path is the tested path.
Related follow-up already tracked as magic-context-0lqx: the restore success path should also run this once the guards it holds are released.
Merge conflict: this is a port, not a textual conflictI investigated the conflict and stopped short of resolving it, because resolving it correctly requires two design decisions that are not mine to make. Details so the next pass is cheap. Tracked as The base changed underneath this PR. The stack #111–#117 merged, so GitHub retargeted this PR from The branch carries a stale duplicate of the redaction layer. Main removed the primitives this feature is built on
Main also refactored to Two of this PR's fixes are already upstream, in better formWorth dropping rather than re-applying:
Why I did not just resolve itI resolved all 14 conflicts as a measurement and threw the result away. Two numbers:
The blocking decisions:
The Recommended shapeThat drops the stale redaction duplicate and replays only the three backup commits, then port against main's APIs. It needs a force-push, so I have not done it without authorization. Branch stateUntouched and green. |
The kernel layers this branch was stacked on merged to main and were reworked on the way, so the backup and restore feature is ported onto the merged kernel rather than textually merged. Main is authoritative for every earlier layer. The branch carried a superseded copy of the redaction work and two fixes that main already landed in better form: the outbox constraint narrowing is now map_sqlite, which also maps DatabaseBusy and DatabaseLocked to the new Busy variant, and the alignment-projection redaction delete is now clear_owner_kind through truncate_alignment_projection. Three schema tests and one retention test are dropped because main's suite covers the same properties, and its retention test is stricter. The kernel-format-vocabulary fixture goes with them, since nothing references it any more. Ported against main's APIs: Deadline, UnsafeDestination, InvalidBackup and InvalidRestore join main's error enum and Display; KernelErrorKind and kind() are gone, so the backup tests compare KernelError directly; current_time_ms moved to the crate root; open_reader, verify_exact_identity and restore_marker_path are reintroduced over primitives main kept. Restore poisoning is additive rather than a reversal. Main deliberately recovers a poisoned mutex guard with PoisonError::into_inner, which stays; the poisoned flag records the separate condition that an unrecoverable restore left the family unusable. Capture-pin reaping stays an explicit call and is not reattached to open, which main documents as non-destructive. Pin deletion now releases first, because main guards capture_pins and capture_pin_refs with release-before-delete triggers. The kernel-rto nextest profile has no home, since main deleted .config/nextest.toml in favour of explicit CI flags, so the invocation moves into the test's ignore reason.
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| max_sensitivity: if sensitive { | ||
| Sensitivity::Sensitive | ||
| } else { | ||
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When any captured row has sensitivity_class='secret'—for example, a staging candidate whose payload triggered secret detection—any_sensitive_row returns only a boolean and this branch reports Sensitivity::Sensitive. Consequently, BackupManifest::max_sensitivity can under-classify an artifact containing Secret data and callers may apply weaker handling than required; compute the maximum stored sensitivity rather than collapsing every non-normal class.
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Confirmed and fixed in c827dc6. Sensitivity has a Secret variant, so this was a real under-classification, not a theoretical one.
any_sensitive_row returned a boolean and the caller mapped true to Sensitive, so a backup containing sensitivity_class='secret' was labelled one level too weak. It is now max_stored_sensitivity, which checks for secret first and only falls back to the non-normal test:
if has_secret {
return Ok(Sensitivity::Secret);
}Both queries are still derived from the live schema, so a new table carrying sensitivity_class is covered without maintenance.
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| activate_wal(&writer)?; | ||
| stamp_writer_fence(&mut writer, lease_epoch)?; | ||
| harden_family(path)?; |
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When restoring a schema-compatible backup produced by the parent build, candidate metadata can still contain the pre-redaction request_digest offline verifier. The ordinary open path calls strip_legacy_candidate_verifiers, but open_live_family returns the restored connections without that rewrite, reintroducing secret-derived material for the remainder of a long-lived process; apply the same migration before exposing the restored family.
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Confirmed and fixed in c827dc6. This one is worth calling out because it is the mirror image of a mistake I made earlier in this merge.
While porting onto main I accidentally dropped main's strip_legacy_candidate_verifiers call from open_supported and caught it in an audit before pushing. Your comment identifies the case I did not check: open_live_family never had that call, so a restore of a parent-build backup reintroduced the pre-redaction request_digest for the rest of the process even though the ordinary open path scrubs it.
open_live_family now runs the same migration before handing the family back:
activate_wal(&writer)?;
stamp_writer_fence(&mut writer, lease_epoch)?;
super::envelope::strip_legacy_candidate_verifiers(&mut writer)?;
harden_family(path)?;It sits after WAL activation and the fence stamp so the rewrite is a durable write under the settings the restored family will actually run with.
| remove_restore_marker(&self.db_path)?; | ||
| cleanup_recovery_dir(&self.db_path, &recovery_dir); |
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If the process or host fails after the restore marker is durably removed but before cleanup_recovery_dir completes, the displaced database and sidecars remain under .mc-restore-*, while the next open has neither a marker nor any orphan-directory scan that can reclaim them. This indefinitely retains a potentially sensitive prior database family and consumes storage; make successful cleanup recoverable across this crash boundary.
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Confirmed and fixed in c827dc6.
You are right that the window is unreclaimable: remove_restore_marker is durable before cleanup_recovery_dir runs, so a crash in between left a full copy of the prior family under .mc-restore-* with no marker to resume from and no scan to find it. Because that copy can hold sensitive or secret rows, retaining it indefinitely is a disclosure surface as much as a storage leak.
Open now reclaims it on the branch where no marker is present:
if entry_exists(&restore_marker_path(&db_path))? {
super::backup::resume_restore(&db_path)?;
} else {
super::backup::reap_orphan_restore_recovery(&db_path)?;
}The sweep is name-scoped to this database's .mc-restore- prefix, only removes directories, and also clears leftover .restore-*.tmp scratch. It is safe to run unconditionally there because the lease is already held, so no concurrent restore can own one of those directories, and a marker that does exist takes the resume path instead.
Covered by an_orphaned_recovery_directory_is_reclaimed_on_the_next_open, which seeds a populated recovery directory, removes the marker, and asserts the reopen reclaims it with the live family intact.
| File::open(&sqlite_temp_path) | ||
| .and_then(|file| file.sync_all()) | ||
| .map_err(|_| KernelError::Io)?; |
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If the destination pathname is renamed or replaced after assert_same_file returns, this remaining pathname-based open can sync a file in the replacement directory while publish_noreplace still publishes through the original directory descriptor; the method can then return a manifest whose destination_path contains no backup. Fresh evidence beyond the earlier fix is that no identity validation occurs after this pathname access or before success, so sync through the verified descriptor or revalidate the final path after publication.
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Confirmed and fixed in c827dc6. You are right that my earlier fix stopped one step short.
assert_same_file closed the gap up to verification, but the fsync immediately after it still went through the pathname, so a destination swapped at that point could sync a file in the replacement directory while publish_noreplace renamed through the original descriptor.
Rather than add a second identity check, the fsync now goes through the descriptor, so there is no pathname access left between verification and publication:
fn sync_child(directory: &File, name: &str) -> Result<(), KernelError> {
let file = rfs::openat(
directory,
name,
OFlags::RDONLY | OFlags::NOFOLLOW | OFlags::CLOEXEC,
Mode::empty(),
)
.map_err(|_| KernelError::Io)?;
File::from(file).sync_all().map_err(|_| KernelError::Io)
}The sequence is now: copy and seal through the pathname, verify through the pathname, assert_same_file to prove the pathname and the descriptor still name one file, then descriptor-only fsync and rename. A swap after that point cannot reach anything the call touches.
The residual limit is unchanged and worth stating: SQLite needs a pathname, so a swap-and-restore inside the verification window would still defeat an identity comparison. Closing that needs a descriptor-relative VFS, which is out of scope here.
| pub(super) fn resume_restore(path: &Path) -> Result<(), KernelError> { | ||
| let bytes = fs::read(restore_marker_path(path)).map_err(|_| KernelError::Inconclusive)?; | ||
| let marker: RestoreMarker = | ||
| serde_json::from_slice(&bytes).map_err(|_| KernelError::Inconclusive)?; |
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When core.sqlite.mc-restore is a FIFO, another special file, or an oversized regular file, entry_exists routes startup into this unbounded fs::read; a FIFO can block KernelStore::open indefinitely and a large file can exhaust memory before malformed content is rejected. Validate the marker with a no-follow regular-file check and a size cap before reading it, as the reset-marker recovery path already does.
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Confirmed and fixed in c827dc6. The FIFO case is the serious half: it blocked KernelStore::open forever, so a store became unopenable rather than merely failing.
The marker read now mirrors the reset-marker path you point at:
let metadata = fs::symlink_metadata(&marker_path).map_err(|_| KernelError::Inconclusive)?;
if !metadata.is_file() || metadata.len() > RESTORE_MARKER_MAX_BYTES {
return Err(KernelError::Inconclusive);
}with RESTORE_MARKER_MAX_BYTES at 64 KiB, matching RESET_MARKER_MAX_BYTES.
Covered by an_oversized_or_special_restore_marker_is_refused_before_it_is_read. One honest note on that test: the oversized half does not discriminate on its own, because without the guard serde_json rejects the content and Inconclusive arrives anyway. The FIFO half is what proves the guard; with the check removed the test hangs past 60 s instead of failing, which I verified.
| let mut source = open_private_regular_nofollow(backup_path)?; | ||
| let source_seq = verify_database(backup_path, None, KernelError::InvalidRestore, None)?; |
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If the backup pathname is replaced after open_private_regular_nofollow opens file A but before verify_database resolves the path, verification can inspect file B while the later copy still reads A. When A and B are both valid kernel backups with the same maximum commit_seq but different contents, open_live_family also accepts A, so restore reports success while installing a snapshot other than the requested path; verify and copy through the same file identity.
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Confirmed and fixed in c827dc6.
Your point about the same maximum commit_seq is the part that matters. I had reasoned that the post-copy check in open_live_family made the pre-flight verification advisory, and that is wrong: two distinct valid kernel backups sharing a commit sequence both satisfy it, so restore could report success having installed a snapshot other than the one requested.
Verification and the copy are now bound to one file identity:
let source_seq = verify_database(backup_path, None, KernelError::InvalidRestore, None)?;
assert_same_open_file(&source, backup_path, KernelError::InvalidRestore)?;assert_same_open_file compares the already-open descriptor's device and inode against the pathname that was just verified, so a replacement between the two fails closed with InvalidRestore rather than proceeding to copy a different file.
…otent Rolling a displaced family back moved sidecars before the main file, so a crash midway left the main file in the recovery directory while restored sidecars were already live. The next open read that as a rollback which had not started, deleted the live family, then replayed a recovery directory missing those sidecars. The main file now moves first, making its presence in the recovery directory the phase indicator and the rollback idempotent. Enforce request.deadline while acquiring the writer. Mutex::lock has no timeout, so a short-deadline backup could block for as long as an unrelated commit held the writer and only then report Deadline. Serialize restore-marker paths as raw OsStr bytes. serde_json cannot round-trip a non-UTF-8 PathBuf, so on such a root the decoded path failed the byte-exact comparison and every open reported Inconclusive. Expose run_capture_pin_maintenance, which no longer runs during open now that opening a store is non-destructive, leaving expired pins and their references blocking evidence deletion until the process restarted. It joins run_staging_maintenance as a caller-driven lifecycle task. Correct the KernelFacts size contract: a read transaction does not freeze filesystem sizes, so the members are sampled independently and describe recent growth rather than a snapshot consistent with commit_seq.
…er gaps Report the maximum stored sensitivity instead of collapsing every non-normal class, so an artifact holding a secret row is no longer labelled merely sensitive and handled too weakly. Rewrite pre-redaction candidate verifiers after an in-process restore. Opening a store strips them, but the restore path returned its connections without that migration, reintroducing secret-derived material for the life of the process. Bind restore verification to the file the copy reads. Verification resolved a pathname while the copy used the descriptor, so a source replaced in between installed bytes that were never verified, and two valid backups sharing a commit sequence would both satisfy the post-copy check. Fsync the artifact through the verified directory descriptor, removing the last pathname access before publication. Guard the restore-marker read with a no-follow regular-file check and a 64 KiB cap, matching the reset-marker path. A FIFO at that path blocked open forever. Reclaim a recovery directory orphaned by a crash between removing the marker and cleaning up, which otherwise retained the prior family indefinitely.
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remove_family made unconditional |
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blocking lock_writer restored |
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| marker size and type guard removed | marker test hangs past 60 s (the FIFO half; the oversized half does not discriminate on its own, since serde_json rejects the content anyway) |
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| let source_seq = verify_database(backup_path, None, KernelError::InvalidRestore, None)?; | ||
| // Verification resolves a pathname while the copy reads the descriptor, so a | ||
| // source replaced in between would install bytes that were never verified. | ||
| assert_same_open_file(&source, backup_path, KernelError::InvalidRestore)?; |
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When another process rewrites the owner-writable backup in place after this identity check, its device and inode remain unchanged, so the later copy reads bytes that were never verified. If the replacement is another valid kernel database with the same commit_seq, open_live_family also accepts it and restore installs a different snapshot than the one verified. Fresh evidence beyond the earlier pathname-replacement fix is that same-inode mutation bypasses assert_same_open_file; copy the descriptor into private staging and verify that staged copy before installation.
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Confirmed and fixed in 0f2279f, and you are right that this is a distinct gap from the pathname case rather than a restatement of it. Device and inode survive an in-place rewrite, so an identity comparison cannot see it.
I took your suggested shape. Staging now happens before the writer is acquired, and the staged copy is what gets verified:
let mut source = open_private_regular_nofollow(backup_path)?;
let temp_path = restore_temp_path(&self.db_path);
copy_to_private_temp(&mut source, &temp_path)?;
let staged = verify_database(&temp_path, None, KernelError::InvalidRestore, None);The staged file is then renamed into place, so the verified bytes are the installed bytes by construction. Neither a replaced pathname nor an in-place rewrite of the source can change what lands, which let assert_same_open_file go away entirely rather than be strengthened.
Two things improved as a side effect: a full integrity_check moved out of the writer-held critical section, and a source that fails verification no longer reaches the fencing and displacement path at all.
Covered by restore_verifies_the_staged_copy_so_a_mutated_source_cannot_install, which rewrites the artifact in place at the same inode and asserts InvalidRestore with the live family and its commit tip untouched.
| let capture = capture_state( | ||
| &mut writer, | ||
| self.lease_epoch(), | ||
| request.capture_pin_expires_at, | ||
| )?; |
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When the store contains many active evidence or sensitivity-bearing rows, capture_state can spend arbitrarily long collecting references, scanning every sensitivity table, and inserting one pin reference per evidence item without observing request.deadline. The backup therefore remains blocked with the writer held after its advertised deadline, even though lock acquisition and the later copy are deadline-aware; pass the deadline into this phase and interrupt or check its SQL and insertion loop.
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Confirmed and fixed in 0f2279f.
You are right that bounding acquisition and the copy while leaving capture unbounded is not a bound at all: reference collection, the sensitivity scan across every table, and the per-evidence insert loop all scale with stored rows, and all of it runs with the writer held.
Capture now runs under a progress handler for its whole duration:
writer.progress_handler(
1_000,
Some(move || {
let expired = Instant::now() >= deadline;
if expired {
interrupted.store(true, Ordering::Release);
}
expired
}),
)That covers the scans and the insert loop, since the loop's work is itself SQL. The handler is cleared afterwards on both paths, and an interruption is reported as Deadline rather than the Io that an aborted statement would otherwise produce.
| if !entry.file_name().to_string_lossy().starts_with(&prefix) { | ||
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When the private store root contains any unrelated directory whose name starts with core.sqlite.mc-restore-—for example, an operator-created diagnostic copy—an ordinary KernelStore::open classifies it as an orphan and recursively deletes it. The scan checks only this prefix and is_dir(), with no exact generated-suffix validation or durable cleanup record proving the directory belongs to a completed restore; use a dedicated authenticated cleanup marker or otherwise distinguish owned recovery artifacts before removing their contents.
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Confirmed and fixed in 0f2279f. This was the most serious of the four: I introduced a recursive delete of anything matching a name prefix, in the same commit that was supposed to stop leaking those directories.
The sweep now requires the suffix allocate_recovery_dir actually generates, and removes only family members rather than recursing:
fn generated_recovery_suffix(name: &std::ffi::OsStr, prefix: &str) -> bool {
let name = name.to_string_lossy();
match name.strip_prefix(prefix) {
Some(suffix) => !suffix.is_empty() && suffix.chars().all(|c| c.is_ascii_digit()),
None => false,
}
}After deleting the main file and the three sidecars it calls remove_dir, which fails and is skipped if anything else remains. So a directory holding unrelated content survives even if its name did match, which makes the guard defence in depth rather than a single name check.
Covered by a_recovery_directory_not_created_by_the_store_is_left_untouched, which seeds core.sqlite.mc-restore-incident-4821 containing both a core.sqlite and an unrelated file and asserts both survive an open.
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During startup recovery, if another same-owner process renames or replaces the recovery directory after this pathname check, the subsequent displaced_main.exists() and rollback renames operate on the replacement. An empty replacement can make restore_displaced_family return success without restoring anything, after which the marker is removed and an absent live main file is bootstrapped as a new empty store while the original remains under the renamed directory. Open the recovery directory with no-follow semantics, verify its identity, and perform the existence checks and moves relative to that descriptor.
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Partly fixed in 0f2279f; the data-loss outcome you describe is closed, the identity binding is not, and I want to be precise about which is which.
The reachable harm was the ending: an empty replacement making restore_displaced_family succeed vacuously, the marker being removed, and an absent live main file then bootstrapping an empty store. That is now refused:
} else if !path.exists() {
// The main file is in neither place, so the recovery directory cannot be
// trusted to hold the family. Bootstrapping here would discard it.
return Err(KernelError::Inconclusive);
}If the main file is in neither the live path nor the recovery directory, that state is inconsistent by construction, so recovery fails closed and leaves the displaced family wherever it is for an operator to recover, rather than bootstrapping over it. A directory replaced with a non-directory already failed the is_dir check.
What I have not done is your actual recommendation: opening the recovery directory with no-follow semantics and performing the existence checks and renames relative to that descriptor. That is the right end state, and it would also close the narrower window where a same-owner process swaps in a directory that does contain a main file. I have not done it here because displace_family, restore_displaced_family and cleanup_recovery_dir all take paths, so it is a coordinated change to renameat across two descriptors rather than a local edit, and this PR has already grown well past its original shape.
Tracked as magic-context-96ho with your reasoning. Worth noting the threat model it sits in: the attacker is already the same UID as the store owner and the file lease is held, so they could equally act on the live family directly.
Verify the staged copy rather than the source. Comparing the descriptor identity could not detect an in-place rewrite of an owner-writable artifact, since device and inode survive it, so bytes that were never verified could be installed. Staging now happens before the writer is taken and the staged file is what gets verified and renamed into place, which makes the verified bytes the installed bytes and moves a full integrity check out of the critical section. Reap only recovery directories this code could have generated. The sweep matched a name prefix and recursed, so an operator directory sharing that prefix was deleted with its contents. It now requires the generated all-digit suffix, removes only family members, and leaves any directory holding anything else. Fail closed when the main file is in neither the live path nor the recovery directory. That state cannot be distinguished from a trustworthy recovery directory, and continuing would bootstrap an empty store over the displaced one. Bound state capture with a progress handler. Reference collection, the sensitivity scan and the per-evidence inserts all scale with stored rows, so the writer could stay held past the deadline even though acquisition and the copy were already bounded.
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- Around line 362-366: Update the reader-locking logic in restore to recover
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Restore mapped a poisoned reader guard to Io while lock_reader and with_reader recover one with PoisonError::into_inner. A single caught panic while a reader guard was held therefore failed every later restore on that handle until the store was reopened, even though restore replaces the connection immediately after taking the lock.
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| } | ||
| let candidate = entry.path(); | ||
| if !candidate.is_dir() || !generated_recovery_suffix(&entry.file_name(), &prefix) { |
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On startup without a restore marker, a symlink named like core.sqlite.mc-restore-123 passes candidate.is_dir() because that check follows symlinks; the subsequent remove_file calls then follow the symlinked parent and delete any core.sqlite family members in the target directory. Fresh evidence beyond the earlier orphan-directory report is that the numeric-suffix restriction does not prevent this traversal. Use no-follow metadata and descriptor-relative cleanup so recovery artifacts cannot escape the store root.
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Confirmed and fixed in 61c5099. You are right that the numeric-suffix restriction did nothing for this, and this was the worst of the three: deletion escaping the store root entirely.
I verified the premise before fixing it — is_dir on a symlink to a directory returns true, so a symlink named core.sqlite.mc-restore-123 satisfied both the suffix rule and the directory check, and the family unlinks then resolved through it.
let Ok(candidate_meta) = fs::symlink_metadata(&candidate) else {
continue;
};
if !candidate_meta.is_dir() {
continue;
}Covered by orphan_cleanup_does_not_follow_symlinks_out_of_the_store_root, which points such a symlink at a second directory holding its own core.sqlite and core.sqlite-wal and asserts both survive an open. Restoring the is_dir check fails that test, so it discriminates.
I have not moved to descriptor-relative cleanup, which is the stronger half of your recommendation. That is the same work as magic-context-96ho, so I have noted this comment there rather than opening a second task.
| let mut temporary = (0..=readers.len()) | ||
| .map(|_| Connection::open_in_memory().map_err(|_| KernelError::Io)) | ||
| .collect::<Result<Vec<_>, _>>()?; | ||
| let recovery_dir = allocate_recovery_dir(&self.db_path)?; |
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After the backup has been copied and verified into temp_path, any error before restore_result is established—such as recovery-directory allocation failing here, marker publication failing, or a fence/connection setup error—returns without deleting the full staged database. In a long-lived process, repeated failed restores therefore retain sensitive snapshots and consume storage until a later reopen happens to sweep them; guard the staged file so every pre-swap return removes it.
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Confirmed and fixed in 61c5099. This is a leak I introduced two commits ago, when I moved staging ahead of the writer lock to close the in-place-rewrite finding.
Before that change the copy happened inside the guarded section, whose error path already unlinks it. Moving it earlier created exactly the window you describe: lock acquisition, the fence transaction, the tip query, recovery-directory allocation and marker publication all return before restore_result exists, each leaving a full database copy behind.
The staged file is now owned for precisely that window:
let mut staged = StagedRestore(Some(temp_path.as_path()));with a Drop that unlinks it, disarmed immediately before the guarded section so the existing cleanup there stays the single owner afterwards rather than two mechanisms racing on the same path. Because it is a guard rather than a check, a future early return added anywhere in that window is covered without remembering to handle it.
| let name = entry.file_name().to_string_lossy().into_owned(); | ||
| if name.starts_with(&prefix) && name.ends_with(".tmp") { | ||
| fs::remove_file(entry.path()).map_err(|_| KernelError::Inconclusive)?; |
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On every open, any file whose name merely starts with core.sqlite.restore- and ends with .tmp is deleted, even when the middle component is not the decimal ID generated by restore_temp_path. An operator diagnostic such as core.sqlite.restore-incident.tmp in the private store root is therefore silently removed; apply the same generated-suffix validation used for recovery directories before unlinking scratch files.
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Confirmed and fixed in 61c5099. Correct that I applied the validation to recovery directories and left the scratch sweep matching on prefix and suffix alone.
if middle.is_empty() || !middle.chars().all(|c| c.is_ascii_digit()) {
continue;
}The sweep also now requires no-follow regular-file metadata, so a symlink named like generated scratch cannot redirect the unlink either — the same hazard as the orphan-directory case in your other comment.
Covered by scratch_cleanup_spares_files_the_store_could_not_have_written, which asserts core.sqlite.restore-incident.tmp survives while core.sqlite.restore-4242.tmp is reclaimed, so it fails if the rule is dropped or widened.
| for (candidate_id, metadata) in &batch { | ||
| let detections = legacy_detections(metadata).unwrap_or_default(); | ||
| let replacement = serde_json::to_vec(&detections).map_err(|_| KernelError::Io)?; |
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When an object-shaped redaction_metadata blob lacks a valid detections array—for example after partial corruption or an unrecognized object-format revision—legacy_detections returns None, but this fallback rewrites the row to [] and permanently discards the evidence that its metadata was invalid. The candidate can then be treated as detection-free during replay checks, so opening the store silently converts an integrity problem into apparently valid state; restrict the query to the exact legacy envelope and fail closed when a selected blob cannot be decoded.
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Out of scope for this PR, please retarget to main.
crates/mc-store/src/kernel/envelope.rs on this branch is byte-identical to origin/main:
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It shows in this PR's file list because the diff is computed from the merge base 06a7998c, not main's tip, and this branch merged main after the kernel stack landed. strip_legacy_candidate_verifiers came in with that stack, so this predates the backup work.
On the merits the concern reads as sound and worth filing: rewriting an undecodable blob to [] does convert an integrity problem into apparently-clean state, and failing closed is the safer behaviour for a migration that runs during open. CodeRabbit raised the neighbouring secure_delete restore in the same function and withdrew it on the same scope grounds, so a single upstream change could reasonably address both.
| if rewritten > 0 { | ||
| conn.pragma_update(None, "wal_checkpoint", "TRUNCATE") | ||
| .map_err(map_sqlite)?; |
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When an out-of-process SQLite reader holds an older WAL snapshot during open or in-process restore, PRAGMA wal_checkpoint=TRUNCATE can return a nonzero busy result without raising a SQLite error, but pragma_update discards that result and this function reports success. The rewritten rows are then logically clean while the pre-redaction digest can remain recoverable in the main file or WAL, defeating the purpose of stripping the offline verifier; execute the checkpoint as a query and require a successful, fully completed result before exposing the store.
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Out of scope for this PR, please retarget to main, for the same reason as your neighbouring comment: envelope.rs here is byte-identical to origin/main and appears only because the PR diff is computed from the merge base.
On the merits it looks right, and it is the more interesting of the two. pragma_update discards the returned row, and wal_checkpoint reports a busy outcome in that row rather than as a SQLite error, so a reader holding an older snapshot would leave the checkpoint incomplete while the function reports success. For a migration whose entire purpose is to make a pre-redaction digest unrecoverable, "reported clean but still present in the WAL" is the failure mode that matters.
Worth noting for whoever picks it up: this PR's activate_wal and seal_artifact_journal both had the same shape of bug and were fixed by reading the returned mode back, so there is a local precedent for the fix — execute it as a query and require the completed result rather than trusting the absence of an error.
…ames Reject symlinked orphan candidates. `is_dir` follows symlinks, so a symlink whose name carried a generated-looking suffix redirected the family unlinks at whatever it pointed to, deleting another directory's database. Candidates are now checked with no-follow metadata. Require the generated decimal suffix before deleting scratch files, matching the rule already applied to recovery directories. An operator file such as core.sqlite.restore-incident.tmp in the store root was being removed. Own the staged restore copy until the section that cleans it up takes over. Staging moved before the writer is acquired, so every return in between left a full database copy behind until some later open happened to sweep it.
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| return Err(KernelError::Fault); | ||
| } | ||
| publish_noreplace(&destination, &temp_name, &final_name)?; |
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When another same-owner process renames or replaces the destination directory after assert_same_file succeeds, publish_noreplace publishes through the original directory descriptor while destination_path still names the replacement directory. The backup can therefore return success with a manifest path that contains no artifact. Fresh evidence beyond the earlier directory-identity fix is that the final identity check remains before publication, with no pathname revalidation after this rename.
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Declining this one, with reasoning, because every fix I can see is worse than the behaviour.
The finding is accurate: publication goes through the directory descriptor while destination_path is request.destination_directory.join(&final_name), so if the directory is replaced after assert_same_file, the manifest names a path that does not resolve to the artifact.
What makes it awkward is that at that point the backup is correct and durable. It is verified, fsynced, and published in the directory the caller validated. Only the name in the manifest is stale. So:
- Failing the call would run the error path, which unlinks the published artifact because
publishedis true. That destroys a good backup to report a naming problem, which is the exact defect I fixed earlier in this PR when deadline checks sat after the publish rename. - Failing without unlinking returns an error for a backup that exists and is valid, at a path the caller cannot learn. That is strictly less useful than the current result.
- Reporting the descriptor's real path is not portable.
readlinkon/proc/self/fdwould work on Linux and is exactly what broke this feature on macOS, where/dev/fd/Nis anFdescvnode.
So the only honest options are "return a possibly-stale path" or "make the contract explicit". I have taken the second: destination_path is documented as the path as requested, valid so long as the destination directory is not replaced concurrently. Given the attacker or operator here is already the same UID and could act on the artifact directly, a stale name is the least of the consequences of that action.
If you can see a fourth option that neither destroys the artifact nor depends on /proc, I would genuinely like to hear it.
| if !metadata.is_file() || metadata.len() > RESTORE_MARKER_MAX_BYTES { | ||
| return Err(KernelError::Inconclusive); | ||
| } | ||
| let bytes = fs::read(&marker_path).map_err(|_| KernelError::Inconclusive)?; |
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When a same-owner process replaces the marker after symlink_metadata validates it but before this pathname-based read, the replacement bypasses both the regular-file and size checks; replacing it with a FIFO can block KernelStore::open indefinitely, while an oversized file can restore the unbounded allocation. Fresh evidence beyond the earlier special-marker fix is this check-to-open race; open the marker once with no-follow/nonblocking flags, then validate and read that descriptor under the size cap.
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Confirmed and fixed in de8d92d, and this one is a genuinely better fix than what I did before rather than a wider version of it.
My earlier change added a size and type check but still validated a pathname and then reopened it, which is the race you describe. The checks and the read now share one descriptor:
let marker_file = rfs::open(
&marker_path,
OFlags::RDONLY | OFlags::NOFOLLOW | OFlags::NONBLOCK | OFlags::CLOEXEC,
Mode::empty(),
)
.map(File::from)
.map_err(|_| KernelError::Inconclusive)?;
let metadata = marker_file.metadata().map_err(|_| KernelError::Inconclusive)?;NONBLOCK means a FIFO cannot block the open before the type check, NOFOLLOW rejects a symlink, and the read is take(RESTORE_MARKER_MAX_BYTES) from that same descriptor, so the cap holds even if the length reported by fstat were stale. There is no pathname resolution left after validation.
Same-descriptor validation is a pattern worth applying to the reset-marker path too, but that is main's code and outside this diff.
| .prepare( | ||
| "SELECT evidence_id FROM evidence_meta | ||
| WHERE created_commit_seq<=?1 | ||
| AND (invalidated_commit_seq IS NULL OR invalidated_commit_seq>?1) |
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When an evidence row was invalidated before the captured tip, the database backup still contains that row and supports historical snapshots from before its invalidation, but this predicate omits its artifact reference from evidence_refs and creates no capture-pin reference for it. An exporter following the manifest can therefore skip the artifact while retention reclaims the unpinned original, leaving a successfully restored historical snapshot with missing evidence; collect every evidence row present in the captured database rather than only rows active at the tip.
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Valid, and I am filing it rather than patching it, because it is a semantics decision with a real cost rather than a defect.
You have the mechanism right. evidence_refs is collected with a tip-active predicate, so a row invalidated before the captured tip is present in the backup but absent from the manifest and unpinned, and retention can then reclaim an artifact that a restored pre-invalidation snapshot still references.
What stops me changing it here is the cost of the obvious fix. Pinning every evidence row present in the captured database would block retention from reclaiming any artifact referenced anywhere in history, and would make pin state grow with history rather than with live state. That reverses a retention contract this PR does not own, and capture_pins rows are precisely what block evidence deletion.
The options as I see them: keep tip-active semantics and document that a manifest describes the tip snapshot only; pin everything present and accept the retention cost; or add a separate historical-export mode that pins on demand. Which is right depends on what a manifest is supposed to promise an exporter, which is a product call.
Tracked as magic-context-n28r with your reasoning and those three options recorded.
| match classify_open_kernel(conn, expected_identity()?)? { | ||
| OpenIdentity::Exact => Ok(()), | ||
| OpenIdentity::Mismatch { .. } => Err(KernelError::IdentityMismatch), | ||
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When an owner-writable backup is corrupted or edited with foreign_keys=OFF so that it contains a dangling reference, PRAGMA integrity_check can still return ok because it does not validate foreign-key relationships, and the schema identity check also succeeds. Restore then installs a relationally inconsistent database that can break later history queries, retention, or deletes; run PRAGMA foreign_key_check as part of exact-identity verification and require it to return no rows.
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Confirmed and fixed in de8d92d. Good catch, and the premise is worth stating explicitly because it is easy to assume otherwise: PRAGMA integrity_check validates page and index structure, not referential integrity.
let foreign_key_violations: i64 = conn
.query_row("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM pragma_foreign_key_check", [], |row| row.get(0))
.map_err(|_| KernelError::Inconclusive)?;
if foreign_key_violations != 0 {
return Err(KernelError::Inconclusive);
}I checked the blast radius before adding it, because hardening a verification path can brick something that currently opens: verify_exact_identity is reached only from backup verification and restore, never from an ordinary open, so an existing store with a latent violation still opens and is not newly bricked by this.
Covered by a_dangling_reference_is_refused_even_when_integrity_check_passes. The test first asserts its own premise — that the fixture returns ok from integrity_check while pragma_foreign_key_check reports a violation — so it fails loudly if that assumption ever stops holding, rather than passing for the wrong reason. Removing the new check fails it.
…ne descriptor Require PRAGMA foreign_key_check to be empty in exact-identity verification. integrity_check validates page structure, not references, so a family written with foreign_keys=OFF could pass both it and the schema identity check while holding dangling rows, and restore would install a relationally inconsistent database. Verification is used only by backup and restore, so a normal open of an existing store is unaffected. Validate the restore marker through the descriptor it is read from. Checking a pathname and then reopening it left a window in which the file could be swapped for a FIFO, blocking open forever, or for an oversized file, restoring the unbounded read the size cap was meant to prevent.
destination_path names the requested directory joined with the published name, so it resolves to the artifact unless the destination is replaced concurrently, and evidence_refs covers only evidence active at the captured sequence.
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| // rewrite of the source can change what is installed. It also keeps the | ||
| // verification outside the writer lock. | ||
| let staged = verify_database(&temp_path, None, KernelError::InvalidRestore, None); |
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When backup_path is a private byte-copy of a live kernel main file while committed pages still exist only in its WAL, this staged verification accepts the main file: its schema and integrity are valid, but SQLite sees only the older checkpointed state because the WAL was not copied. The restore then returns success after replacing the live store with that stale state, silently omitting commits that were present when the source was copied. Since artifacts produced by backup() are sealed into DELETE mode, require the staged restore source to have the self-contained rollback-journal header rather than accepting a lone WAL-mode main file.
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Confirmed and fixed in 00628df. This is the sharpest finding of the round, because every individual check was passing and the failure was silent.
A bare copy of a live main file has valid structure, valid schema identity and no foreign-key violations, so nothing in the verification chain objected. SQLite simply read the older checkpointed state, and restore reported success having discarded commits that existed when the copy was taken.
Your suggested discriminator is the right one, and it only exists because of the sealing added earlier in this PR:
fn assert_self_contained(path: &Path) -> Result<(), KernelError> {
let mut header = [0u8; 20];
File::open(path)
.and_then(|mut file| file.read_exact(&mut header))
.map_err(|_| KernelError::InvalidRestore)?;
if header[18] != 1 || header[19] != 1 {
return Err(KernelError::InvalidRestore);
}
Ok(())
}It runs on the staged copy before verification, so it also covers the case where the source is swapped after opening.
Covered by a_lone_wal_mode_main_file_is_refused_as_a_restore_source, which asserts the bare copy reads (2, 2) and is refused with the live family unchanged, then asserts a sealed artifact reads (1, 1) and restores — so the check cannot pass by rejecting everything.
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| match fs::remove_file(&member) { |
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When another same-owner process renames candidate after the symlink_metadata check and replaces it with a symlink, these pathname-based removals follow the new symlinked parent and can delete a core.sqlite family outside the store root. Fresh evidence after the earlier symlink fix is that the no-follow check and the deletion remain separate filesystem operations, so the replacement race still bypasses that fix; open the checked directory once and remove members relative to its descriptor.
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Confirmed and fixed in 00628df. You are right that my previous fix only moved the race rather than closing it, and you have now raised descriptor anchoring twice, so I did it here rather than deferring again.
The sweep no longer touches a pathname after enumeration. The parent is opened once with NOFOLLOW, each candidate is opened relative to it with O_DIRECTORY | NOFOLLOW, members are removed with unlinkat relative to that descriptor, and the directory itself is removed with unlinkat(.., AtFlags::REMOVEDIR) relative to the parent:
let Ok(candidate) = rfs::openat(
&parent_dir,
&name,
OFlags::RDONLY | OFlags::DIRECTORY | OFlags::NOFOLLOW | OFlags::CLOEXEC,
Mode::empty(),
) else {
continue;
};So a candidate renamed and replaced between enumeration and removal now fails the openat or resolves to the descriptor already opened, and neither outcome can reach outside the store root. The symlink_metadata check is gone rather than kept alongside, since O_DIRECTORY | NOFOLLOW subsumes it and leaving both would imply the earlier one still carried weight.
The existing orphan_cleanup_does_not_follow_symlinks_out_of_the_store_root test still passes and still fails if the anchoring is reverted to pathname removal.
This also covers the sweep half of magic-context-96ho. What remains there is displace_family, restore_displaced_family and cleanup_recovery_dir, which move the live family rather than reap an orphan.
…criptors Require a restore source to declare rollback-journal mode. backup seals its artifacts that way, so a source still declaring WAL is a bare copy of a live main file whose committed pages may sit in a -wal that was never copied. SQLite opens such a file, reads the older checkpointed state, and restore reported success after installing it. Remove orphan recovery members relative to a descriptor opened with NOFOLLOW rather than by pathname. Checking with symlink_metadata and then unlinking by path are separate operations, so a candidate renamed and replaced by a symlink in between could still redirect the unlinks outside the store root.
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Backup, restore, crash recovery, and operational facts only. Earlier kernel layers are reviewed in the preceding stack PRs.
Review round: four defects fixed
A review pass over this layer found four problems that the original tests encoded as expected behaviour rather than caught.
The published artifact was not self-contained. The SQLite backup API copies source page 1 verbatim, so a copy taken from a WAL-mode source inherited header bytes 18/19 = 2/2 while shipping as a lone file. SQLite reports
journal_mode=walfor such a file and refuses to open it from read-only media, so a restore drill from WORM storage or a read-only mount could not read the backup at all. Any read-only open also created a-waland-shmbeside it, which on the restore path left sidecars next to the operator's own backup file and never removed them. Verified against the bundled SQLite 3.51.3: header(2,2),-shmof 32 KiB created on a read-only open, andSQLITE_READONLYfrom a0500directory. The artifact is now converted to a rollback journal before verification, which resets those bytes to(1,1)and unlinks the WAL.published_artifact_is_self_contained_and_restores_from_read_only_mediarestores from a0500directory end to end.Backup and restore were broken on macOS. Passing SQLite
/dev/fd/<dirfd>/<name>works on Linux, where/proc/self/fd/Nis a magic link the kernel resolves, but macOS devfs returnsENOTDIRfor any component below anFdescvnode. All 13kernel_backuptests were failing on themacos-latestleg; the base branch fails only one unrelatedkernel_opentest, so these were introduced here. SQLite now receives the real path. The directory is still validated by descriptor with adev/inorecheck and every mutation stays anchored to that descriptor, so the TOCTOU closure is unchanged.An interrupted restore left the store permanently unopenable. The marker was write-only,
openmerely tested for its existence, and the recovery directory it recorded was never read, so a process death mid-replacement returnedInconclusiveforever with no path back to the data. Because the content was never validated, any stray file at that path was also a permanent open-time denial of service. The marker now carries a digest and is parsed and validated on open, andresume_restorerolls the displaced family back, mirroring the existingresume_quarantineflow. That path moves files, so it runs under the lease.Publication was reversible. Two deadline checks and a sidecar sweep ran after the rename, and the error handler unlinked the published file, so a directory fsync running a few milliseconds long destroyed a complete, verified, durable backup. Sealing, verification, the sidecar sweep and the file fsync now all precede the rename.
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Normal.openfails closed when a marker cannot bestat'd, instead of readingEACCESas absent.OsStringrather than lossyDisplay, which named a different file on a non-UTF-8 path.open_live_familyactivates WAL before stamping the fence, matchingopen_supported.remove_restore_markertolerates an already-absent marker instead of poisoning an otherwise recovered store.0700bymkdirrather than chmod-after-create, and is no longer leaked by an early return.EEXIST.O_DIRECTORY/O_NONBLOCK, so a FIFO cannot block before the type check.Test oracles
Three tests passed for the wrong reason.
backup_deadline_interrupts_verification_sqltripped a redundant pre-flight guard and never reached the progress handler it names. Removing the guard makes it exercise the handler; confirmed by observing the test fail when the handler is disabled.secure_destinationon a 1 ms deadline, so losing the race skipped its mid-flight assertions silently. It now drives expiry from inside the hook and asserts the hook ran.threshold_size_restore_rtonow timesrestorealone rather than including two post-restore operations, and guards on free space instead of failing opaquely on a constrained runner.Caller-visible changes
backupreturnsBackupManifestdirectly rather than a single-fieldBackupResultwrapper.KernelFacts::event_lagbecomescommit_lag: Option<i64>,Nonewhen no consumer is registered, so it can no longer read zero while the outbox grows unattended.KernelFacts::main_file_warnis dropped; callers comparemain_file_bytesagainst the publicMAIN_FILE_WARN_BYTES.commit_seqin the same struct.Follow-ups filed, not in this PR
magic-context-s6aa—restoretakes no deadline while holding the writer and every reader across two fullintegrity_checkruns and a whole-file copy.magic-context-2w05— the manifest is never persisted beside the artifact, so an operator cannot tell aSensitivebackup from aNormalone, and a caller that dies afterbackup()loses thecapture_pin_id.CI
Check (plugin)andreviewalso fail on the base branch (#117) and are unrelated to this diff, which touches no TypeScript.Stack
Part 8 of 8. Depends on #117.
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