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commitRootedFileContents' overwrite opened the observed file, verified its
identity and preimage through the handle, and then truncated and rewrote it
in place. The truncation is the last irreversible step, and it happens
before the first byte of the replacement is written: a write failure after
it - ENOSPC is the canonical case, and no mid-write failure is reportable
otherwise - destroyed the working file instead of failing the command:
existing.txt holds "observed\n"; the tool writes with a full disk
-> write fails -> existing.txt is now empty
The same in-place truncation rewrites a hard link sibling's bytes when the
replaced name is reached through another link, and it shows every
intermediate state to a concurrent reader.
The commit now stages the replacement bytes to a side file created through
the root handle (pathjail.CreateTemp, the same mechanism the structured
patch path publishes with), carries the observed file's permission bits
over, re-checks the observed identity against the path as late as the
rename allows, and swaps the path over with root.Rename. A create stages
the same way and publishes through the exclusive no-replace link, so a
raced create is refused rather than replaced, and a create whose bytes
cannot complete leaves no file at all. Failures remove the side file and
leave the preimage standing, which the new regression tests pin at both
the commit layer and the write/edit tools, each side file accounted for.
Identity and preimage validation, the rooted-open containment (a parent
swapped for a symlink is still refused by the kernel), the
errFileChangedDuringWrite surface, and the before-open race hooks are
unchanged.
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WalkthroughRooted file commits now stage content in side files before publication. Creates use exclusive no-replace publication. Overwrites recheck identity and preserve permissions. Failed writes retain the preimage and remove staging files. ChangesRooted File Commit
Priority: ⬆️ High Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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CommitTool->>SideFile: Stage replacement bytes
CommitTool->>RootedTarget: Recheck target identity
CommitTool->>RootedTarget: Publish staged file
RootedTarget-->>CommitTool: Success or collision error
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Check name Status Explanation Title check The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: replacing in-place truncation with atomic file publication. Linked Issues check Issue #1156coding requirements are met.internal/tools/file_commit.gostages overwrite and create content through the root, preserves overwrite permission bits, rechecks target identity before over…Out of Scope Changes check The changes stay within Issue #1156. Thepathjail.RenameNoReplaceprimitive, platform implementations,CreateTempMode, and theinternal/observabilitywrapper support rooted atomic and no-replace…Description Check Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled. Full details: Linked Issues check
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#1156coding requirements are met.internal/tools/file_commit.gostages overwrite and create content through the root, preserves overwrite permission bits, rechecks target identity before overwrite publication, and publishes creates without replacement. Rename publication detaches hard-linked names and prevents partial target content. Failed staging removes the side file and leaves the preimage unchanged. Tests cover hard-link siblings, permission bits, failed overwrites and creates, no-replace races, symlink targets, and publish-time identity checks. The reported repository tests and verification commands pass.
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#1156. Thepathjail.RenameNoReplaceprimitive, platform implementations,CreateTempMode, and theinternal/observabilitywrapper support rooted atomic and no-replace publication. The added tests verify the required file-write, cleanup, permission, identity, symlink, hard-link, and race behavior. No unrelated production behavior is demonstrated.
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- Line 169: Update the permission handling in the file commit flow around
`temp.Chmod` so newly published files retain the effective mode produced by the
process umask, while replacement bytes remain private during staging. Add a Unix
regression test that verifies a restrictive umask is respected.
- Line 119: In the no-replace create path in publishStructuredPatchNoReplace,
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- The create arm published through the structured-patch no-replace
publisher, whose exclusive-copy fallback copies into the visible
target, so a concurrent reader could see partial content under a
filesystem that refuses hard links. The create path now reserves the
name with the same exclusive create it has always honored and hands
the reserved file the finished side-file bytes in one rename, over an
empty file this call itself reserved, so a reader sees only the absent
file, the empty reservation, or the whole file. Losing the reservation
still refuses the raced create, and cleanup after a failure removes
only what the same-file identity check proves this call created.
- The publish carried the requested permission bits to the side file
with a chmod, which never consults the process umask, so a umask-077
process that used to receive a 0o600 file from the exclusive create
received 0o644 - readable by every stranger. The reserved create now
supplies the mode: the bits the kernel granted its reservation under
the caller's umask are observed from the reservation and carried to
the side file before the rename, on every platform, with no
umask-syscall dance.
The structured-patch publisher keeps its own pinned fallback contract;
only the file tool's create arm changes. The restrictive-umask
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- Around line 43-51: Update commitRootedFileCreate and commitRootedFileOverwrite
so final publication cannot replace a destination changed after validation: use
a conditional compare-and-swap publication primitive or serialize the complete
validate, stage, and publish sequence across all writers. Preserve atomic
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| // Both publishes are atomic against a concurrent reader: the replacement bytes | ||
| // are written whole to a side file in the target's directory and the target is | ||
| // swapped wholesale. A create reserves the name with the exclusive create it | ||
| // has always honored and hands it the finished bytes in one rename, so losing | ||
| // that reservation refuses instead of replacing the raced file; an overwrite | ||
| // publishes through a rename, which hands the path over in one step. A failure | ||
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Make final publication conditional on the validated object.
commitRootedFileCreate and commitRootedFileOverwrite perform a separate identity check before root.Rename. os.Root.Rename replaces an existing non-directory destination and provides no identity or no-replace condition. A concurrent replacement after the check can therefore be silently overwritten. This violates the create no-replace and overwrite conflict guarantees. Narrowing the documentation alone would leave the behavioral defect.
Use a conditional compare-and-swap publication primitive, or serialize the complete validate, stage, and publish sequence across all writers. Preserve atomic publication for readers.
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Update commitRootedFileCreate and commitRootedFileOverwrite so final publication
cannot replace a destination changed after validation: use a conditional
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Thanks for this. Staging the bytes beside the target is the right shape for the ENOSPC case, but the rename changes two things that main gets right today.
On Windows, a file that another process has open can't be written any more. root.Rename over an existing name fails while any process holds the destination open, whatever share mode the reader asked for. I drove write_file through the registry with a plain os.Open reader holding the target. Main overwrites it; this head refuses with renameat zero-write.….tmp open.txt: Access is denied. and keeps the old bytes. edit_file goes through the same commit. Editors, language servers, test runs and antivirus scanners hold files open all the time on Windows, so this would show up as intermittent failures in the file tools. Failing closed is the right direction, but it needs either a publish that works with open readers on Windows or a fallback when the rename is refused, plus a test with an open reader.
Symlinked files. The rename replaces the name it's given, so for a symlink inside the workspace it swaps the link for a regular file and the target keeps its old bytes. Main writes through the link: root.OpenFile follows links that stay inside the root, and both identity checks look through it. I couldn't create a symlink on this box (no symlink privilege), so this comes from rename semantics rather than a run; a test on the Linux and macOS runners would settle it. Hard links get the same treatment, which the description calls intended. Vim's backupcopy=auto writes in place for exactly these two cases, and keeping main's behaviour for linked targets is worth considering.
CodeRabbit's open point is right in substance too. Main wrote through the handle it had validated, so the identity check bound the write. Publishing by name gives that up for the window between the Stat and the Rename.
A create now publishes with a kernel no-replace rename, with a no-replace hard-link fallback for filesystems that cannot support it, so losing the create race can no longer replace the winner. This removes the reservation and its identity-sensitive cleanup entirely. An overwrite resolves a final-component symlink and renames over the file the link names, preserving the link as main did. The destination identity is rechecked as the last operation before the rename; when the platform refuses the rename (notably Windows with an open reader), the write falls back to the previous in-place path only after reopening and revalidating the same object and preimage. The staged file now carries the observed overwrite mode rather than the staging mode, and the mode regression test uses a value distinct from the staging mode.
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Thanks for the feedback @Vasanthdev2004 Pushed Create no longer reserves a name. Overwrite revalidates as late as the rename allows. The target identity is checked with Windows open readers take the in-place fallback when the rename is refused: the destination is reopened, identity and preimage are revalidated through that handle, and only then is the previous write path used. Symlinks are resolved through Permissions: creates derive the published mode from the staging open under the process umask while content is staged Validation in the worktree: |
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Thanks, both are handled at 48f65ca.
- Open readers. My probe with a plain
os.Openreader holding the target overwrites again, and the fallback re-validates the same object before it writes in place. Each of these fails a test: taking the fallback out, skipping its identity and preimage recheck, or dropping theLstatcheck right before the rename. - Symlinks. The publish now goes to the link's target inside the root, and absolute or escaping links are refused.
TestOverwriteKeepsAnInWorkspaceSymlinkskips here, where I have no symlink privilege, but it runs on the Linux and macOS runners, and CI is 10/10.
Hard links still detach, which is what the issue asks for, and the kernel no-replace create is cleaner than reserving the name first. internal/pathjail and internal/tools pass under -race on Windows, and vet is clean for windows, linux and darwin. Approving.
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Fixes #1156
What changed and why
commitRootedFileContents' overwrite truncated the observed file in place before the replacement was written. A write that failed after that point — ENOSPC being the canonical case — destroyed the caller's file instead of failing the command, rewrote a hard link sibling's bytes through the shared inode, and exposed every intermediate state to a concurrent reader. The invariant the preimage checks work to protect ("the bytes the caller observed stay the bytes until the write commits") ended at the truncate.The commit now stages the replacement and publishes it atomically:
pathjail.CreateTempMode), carries the observed permission bits onto it, resolves a final-component symlink inside the root and renames over the file the link names. The link survives, as it did on main, and its target receives the new bytes. The destination identity is re-checked withLstatas the last operation before the rename.pathjail.RenameNoReplace(kernelrenameat2,renameatx_np, orFileRenameInformationwith replacement disabled). Filesystems without a no-replace rename fall back to a no-replace hard link, which also never exposes a partially copied target. The reserved-name step and its identity-sensitive cleanup are gone entirely.TestOverwriteSucceedsWithAnOpenReadercovers a plainos.Openreader holding the target.0o644at staging time and carry the umask-granted bits to publication, while content is staged owner-only. Overwrites stage0o600and carry the observed mode; the regression test now uses0o640, a value the staging mode cannot satisfy by coincidence.Root.OpenRootand pass bare components to the no-replace primitive; final-component symlinks are resolved throughroot.Lstat/root.Readlink, and absolute or escaping targets are refused.Identity/preimage validation, rooted-open containment,
errFileChangedDuringWrite, and the before-open race hooks are unchanged.Residual limitation
No supported platform offers a compare-and-swap rename. The overwrite path closes the validate→publish window to the final
Lstatimmediately beforerename, but a non-cooperating writer that replaces the name between that check and the syscall can still be replaced. The code documents this. Closing it fully would require a kernel CAS primitive, or serializing every writer outside the tools, which the tools cannot do. Create is now a true atomic no-replace publication.Regression evidence
TestOverwriteDoesNotTruncateAHardlinkSibling(committed, needs no hook) fails on the pre-fix code for the reason this change names:TestOverwriteKeepsTheObservedPermissionBitsuses0o640; on the code before the mode handoff fix it reports:file_commit_publish_test.gocovers the new publish semantics: an in-workspace symlink and link chain stay links while their target is rewritten; an open reader still gets a successful overwrite through the fallback; a refused publish falls back only after revalidating identity and preimage; a replacement installed immediately before publish is refused; and the hard-link create fallback publishes atomically while still refusing an existing name.file_commit_write_failure_test.goinjects the write failure at the exact point the old truncate had nothing left to lose:TestOverwriteFailureKeepsThePreimageStanding(write-tool and edit-tool paths, preimage reopened and checked byte for byte after the run, no side file left behind),TestCreateFailureCreatesNothing, andTestCommitRootedOverwriteFailedWriteIsTheWriteError(commit layer distinguishes the injected write error from a refused write).Verification
go test ./...— all packages passgo test -race ./internal/tools/ ./internal/pathjail/ ./internal/observability/— passmake fmt-check,go vet ./...— cleango run ./cmd/zero-release build+go run ./cmd/zero-release smoke— pass (0.11.0)windows/amd64andlinux/amd64, and built the three affected packages forandroid/arm64make lint-static— reports the same 4 pre-existing advisory staticcheck findings (installtest,proxydial,web_fetch), none in this changemake vulncheck— no vulnerabilities;git diff HEAD --check— cleanSummary by CodeRabbit
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