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fix(codex): serialize config writers under one canonical lock and bind recovery to it (carry #6774) - #6811
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Coordinate cooperating config writers through one explicit lock handle. Fence stale-lock takeover and initialization, and select journal replay and live-owner checks within the same config write section. Stub quota transport in two metadata-only test fixtures; retain every assertion and timeout while keeping synthetic credentials offline. Carries the Codex config writer work from c7ac1a0, with reproduced lock takeover and journal selection regressions fixed. Co-authored-by: Devin AI <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Key the lock by the canonical write destination and revalidate it immediately before every rename, including prompt durable writes and the Windows replace retries. Keep journal selection, recovery, removal and cleanup inside one held section, and leave an absent Codex home alone. Record host and process-start evidence with each lock and claim. Only a same-host owner proven dead is taken over; foreign-host, hostless and unverifiable records report a non-retryable unsafe state naming the lock. Validate namespace types and POSIX ownership; on Windows the claims directory is hardened through the existing ACL helper. Bound acquisition with a finite timeout on a monotonic clock, release the prompt store lock when config acquisition throws, and pin native feature children to the held canonical home. A native transition refuses when the locked file is not config.toml, and an alias retarget during the child restores the locked file from its preimage. Co-authored-by: 김상훈 <luvs01@hanmail.net> Co-authored-by: Devin AI <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Capture canonical bytes or absence before transition staging and protect all later validations, publications, child errors, and postconditions in one recovery scope. Restore only the witnessed canonical destination; retain the original private preimage when replacement makes recovery unsafe. Cover alias retargets before wrapper entry and initial spawn validation, canonical replacement before spawn, and failed standalone toggle rollback. Co-authored-by: 김상훈 <luvs01@hanmail.net> Co-authored-by: Devin AI <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
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Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ManagementRoute
participant ConfigWriteLock
participant FeatureTransition
participant CodexChild
participant ConfigFile
ManagementRoute->>ConfigWriteLock: acquire active config lock
ConfigWriteLock->>FeatureTransition: provide held lock
FeatureTransition->>CodexChild: pass canonical CODEX_HOME and validation callback
CodexChild->>ConfigFile: write feature configuration
FeatureTransition->>ConfigFile: publish staged edits under the held lock
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| // result into a history mutation on a home we do not own. | ||
| removeJournal(); | ||
| cleanExternalProviderJournal(); |
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When an external model_provider is active and another OpenCodex process holds the new config lock, cleanExternalProviderJournal() throws ConfigWriteLockRefusal, but restoreNativeCodexAsync() catches only CodexHomeOwnerRefusal and CodexRestoreRefusal. Consequently the management OFF route and stop teardown reject instead of receiving the structured retryable failure that the non-external restore path returns; the synchronous branch repeats the same problem. Catch this refusal and map it to a failed CodexNativeRestoreResult with the lock's retryability.
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Review comments at @src/codex/config-write-lock.ts:
- Around line 188-192: In `withConfigWriteRecovery`, recovery updates
`destinations` but leaves watched `targets` stale after restoring or unlinking
the canonical config. Extract the witness-map updates from
`publishConfigWrite`’s `afterRename` into a shared helper, then call it from
both `afterRename` and the recovery branch so both maps reflect the canonical
destination’s current state.
Review comments at @src/codex/inject-coordination.ts:
- Line 388: Add unlinkSync to the existing node:fs import in the module and use
the imported symbol in the destination cleanup condition instead of calling
require inline.
Review comments at @src/codex/prompt-lock-owner.ts:
- Around line 27-38: Update ownerState to classify a valid-PID record with
incomplete or unavailable host/process-start evidence as live when
isProcessAlive does not confirm the PID is dead; keep dead PIDs and invalid
records unsafe so they cannot authorize takeover. Preserve the existing
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| if (recovery.preimage === null) { validateRecovery(); if (recovery.identity !== null) unlinkSync(canonical); } | ||
| else atomicWriteFileStreamed(canonical, fd => writeFileSync(fd, recovery.preimage!), { validateBeforeRename: validateRecovery }); | ||
| } | ||
| destinations.set(held, destination(canonical)); |
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Advance the watched artifact target after recovery restores or unlinks the canonical config.
Root cause: two witness maps track the canonical destination for each LockHandle:
destinations, whichassertConfigWriteDestinationchecks.targets, whichpublishConfigWriteTargetchecks.
publishConfigWrite's afterRename (lines 114-122) advances both maps. The recovery branch of withConfigWriteRecovery advances only destinations (line 192). Recovery rewrites the canonical file through atomicWriteFileStreamed, which creates a new inode, or it unlinks the file (line 189). Either way, the targets entry for CODEX_CONFIG_PATH keeps the old dev:ino.
Trigger path:
src/codex/inject.tscallsbeginCodexWriteSection, which callswatchConfigWriteTargets(held, [CODEX_CONFIG_PATH, …]).reconcileAndDerivePlanrunsv1Reconcile.run(heldConfigWriteLock), which runstransitionMultiAgentV2.- The native child replaces
config.toml.afterRenameadvances both maps to the child's inode. - A later ordinary failure occurs. Examples are "codex feature command did not disable multi_agent_v2" or the v1 thread-limit postcondition.
withConfigWriteRecoveryrestores the preimage under a new inode and updates onlydestinations. transitionMultiAgentV2returns{ ok: false }withoutretryable: false.src/codex/inject/multi-agent-v2.tsmaps that to a refusal, and the injector throwsCodexInjectRefusal.- The injector's catch (
src/codex/inject.tsLine 585 or Line 682) callsrestoreCodexPreImages(preImages, heldConfigWriteLock). publishCodexArtifact(CODEX_CONFIG_PATH, …)callspublishConfigWriteTarget. Line 285 compares the staleexpected.inodewith the restored inode and throws "Codex artifact destination changed".restoreCodexPreImagesmarksconfigunrestored and then also skipsjournal(src/codex/inject-coordination.tsLine 383). The injector throwsCodexPartialWriteError.injectCodexConfig(src/codex/inject.tsLines 199-207) does not catchCodexPartialWriteError, so it escapes to the caller as an exception.
Consequence: the transition recovery had already restored the correct bytes. The user still sees a partial-write failure that names config and journal as unrestored, and an uncaught exception reaches the caller.
Fix: move witness advancement into one helper and call it from publishConfigWrite and from the recovery branch.
🐛 Proposed fix
+function advanceConfigWitness(held: LockHandle, canonical: string, after: Destination): void {
+ destinations.set(held, after);
+ const watched = targets.get(held);
+ if (watched) for (const [path, expected] of watched) if (expected.canonical === canonical) watched.set(path, after);
+}
@@ publishConfigWrite afterRename
- destinations.set(held, after);
- const watched = targets.get(held);
- if (watched) for (const [path, expected] of watched) if (expected.canonical === canonical) watched.set(path, after);
+ advanceConfigWitness(held, canonical, after);
@@ withConfigWriteRecovery
- destinations.set(held, destination(canonical));
+ advanceConfigWitness(held, canonical, destination(canonical));Add a regression test to tests/codex-integration/codex-config-write-lock.test.ts:
- Call
beginCodexWriteSection(held). - Run
transitionMultiAgentV2with a child that replacesconfig.tomlbut leaves the flag enabled. - Call
restoreCodexPreImages(pre, held). - Expect
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Review comment at @src/codex/config-write-lock.ts around lines 188 - 192:
In `withConfigWriteRecovery`, recovery updates `destinations` but leaves watched
`targets` stale after restoring or unlinking the canonical config. Extract the
witness-map updates from `publishConfigWrite`’s `afterRename` into a shared
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| publishCodexArtifact(path, held, (destination, hooks) => { | ||
| if (bytes === null) { | ||
| hooks.validateBeforeRename?.(destination); | ||
| if (existsSync(destination)) require("node:fs").unlinkSync(destination); |
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Replace the inline require("node:fs") with an ES import.
Line 388 calls require("node:fs").unlinkSync(destination) inside an ES module. The module already imports existsSync and readFileSync from node:fs. Add unlinkSync to that import.
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--- "a/src/codex/inject-coordination.ts"
+++ "b/src/codex/inject-coordination.ts"
@@ -385,7 +385,7 @@
publishCodexArtifact(path, held, (destination, hooks) => {
if (bytes === null) {
hooks.validateBeforeRename?.(destination);
- if (existsSync(destination)) require("node:fs").unlinkSync(destination);
+ if (existsSync(destination)) unlinkSync(destination);
hooks.afterRename?.(destination);
} else if (readOrNull(destination) !== bytes) atomicWriteFile(destination, bytes, undefined, hooks);
});Also add unlinkSync to the existing node:fs import at the top of the file.
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Add unlinkSync to the existing node:fs import in the module and use the imported
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…nsation The locked compensation hardening deliberately defers journal restoration until both config and profile are restored. The integration expectation still assumed independent journal restoration from origin/dev and the #6774 carry (51c1f18), so a real EACCES on the profile produced the additional journal entry and failed hosted CI despite preserving all current bytes. Retain production behavior: the wp3 contract requires the current journal to remain recovery authority when artifact compensation fails. Update the expected deferred journal diagnostic and cover matching, absent, and different journal preimages, asserting that the current journal survives in every case. Historical-function replay confirms that the older compensation deletes a current journal for an absent preimage after the profile restore has failed. Co-authored-by: 김상훈 <luvs01@hanmail.net> Co-authored-by: Devin AI <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
The Lab activation walk follows free calls; an optional callback parameter invoked as a free call has no declaration to inspect. Carry it as hooks.validateBeforeRename like the atomic writer does. Co-authored-by: 김상훈 <luvs01@hanmail.net> Co-authored-by: Devin AI <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Cache lazy owner identity probes, including unavailable results, and probe other process starts only when liveness permits takeover. Rely on profile ACLs for claims directories and separate contender startup from acquisition deadlines. Co-authored-by: 김상훈 <luvs01@hanmail.net> Co-authored-by: Devin AI <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
…probes Resolve reg.exe through the trusted Windows system directory and query MachineGuid with argv, strict parsing, a three-second timeout and a process-local cache. Read Linux machine-id files directly; retain macOS identity probes. Record this Windows process's start identity as unknown without spawning. Missing start evidence disables only the PID-reuse comparison: live or unknown PIDs remain busy, while matching-host owners proven dead twice remain recoverable past the grace window. Failed host discovery still publishes hostless records that later contenders must preserve as unsafe. Cover registry parsing, command failure, caching, trusted executable resolution, and unknown-start takeover. Align Windows journal and unsafe writer fixtures with the canonical production home; retain the contention deadline while separately bounding successful Windows initialization. Document the identity sources and conservative recovery contract. Co-authored-by: 김상훈 <luvs01@hanmail.net> Co-authored-by: Devin AI <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Only set, inspect, and restore Codex_Home on platforms with case-sensitive environment names. On Windows that assignment overwrites CODEX_HOME and makes the held-home fixture operate on B instead of A. Keep the ORCA override removal assertion on every platform and retain the POSIX case-variant checks. Strip all inherited CODEX_HOME case variants before spawning the injector fixture. A duplicate Windows environment name can select the inherited home, where v2 is off, so reconciliation never calls the toggle. Preserve the injector result and effective home in diagnostics even when no child ran. The legacy eligibility mock bypasses coordinator namespace admission, and the canonical junction/lock checks succeed with the isolated environment; no production-path change is needed for this fixture defect. Verification with Bun 1.4.0 on macOS: - Simulated case-insensitive child environment: 0 pass / 1 fail before the environment cleanup, 1 pass / 0 fail after it; effective home and skipped toggle matched the Windows failure mechanism. Native Windows not rerun. - bun scripts/test.ts with codex-config-write-lock, codex-prompt-lock, codex-inject-write-lock, codex-v2-gate, both layout files, and file-size ratchet: 305 pass / 1 skip / 0 fail across seven files. - bun run typecheck: exit 0. Co-authored-by: 김상훈 <luvs01@hanmail.net> Co-authored-by: Devin AI <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
On Windows the JavaScript realpath can leave 8.3 short components unexpanded, so the same config could canonicalize to different strings depending on whether the file existed, and a held handle was refused as unsafe. Use realpathSync.native for every lock destination, home and alias comparison, as the Codex path module already does. Reproduced and verified with an 8.3 TEMP on a native Windows host. Co-authored-by: 김상훈 <luvs01@hanmail.net> Co-authored-by: Devin AI <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Retry claim, reservation, evidence and quarantine filesystem operations through the existing bounded Windows retry envelope. Exhaustion stays busy and cannot authorize takeover, including sharing contention followed by EEXIST. Revalidate the release token before each retry and preserve writer errors. Co-authored-by: 김상훈 <luvs01@hanmail.net> Co-authored-by: Devin AI <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Remember completed local reservations whose bounded cleanup fails and retry their removal before acquisition, preserving active reservations. Revalidate captured parent and entry identities and exact claim evidence before destructive attempts so replacements survive retry sleeps. Preserve normal ENOENT handling when a scanned peer releases its claim. Co-authored-by: 김상훈 <luvs01@hanmail.net> Co-authored-by: Devin AI <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Share claim evidence guards with reusable prompt/config locks. Revalidate observed bytes, inode and parent before every takeover or cleanup attempt, and bind exclusive creation and release retries to their captured namespace. Cover sharing-error replacement races deterministically on all three codes. Co-authored-by: 김상훈 <luvs01@hanmail.net> Co-authored-by: Devin AI <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
The fenced stale-record reader parsed the observed body without the token and pid shape gate, so an expired dead-owner record missing its token could be quarantined. Apply the same gate as readRecord. Co-authored-by: 김상훈 <luvs01@hanmail.net> Co-authored-by: Devin AI <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
The Lab activation walk follows free calls and cannot inspect callback parameters. Pass the operation and its observers in one step object, as rename validation already does. Co-authored-by: 김상훈 <luvs01@hanmail.net> Co-authored-by: Devin AI <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
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Summary
This PR carries #6774 by @luvs01 (which itself carries c7ac1a0) onto current
dev, together with hardening found in maintainer review. The first commit is the original change; the second and third add the hardening.Cooperating OpenCodex writers of the Codex config and profile now share one config lock with explicit held handles. This covers feature edits, injection, prompt projection, restore, and the management agent-settings and prompt routes. Journal selection, owner checks, recovery, removal, and journal cleanup all run inside the same held section.
The hardening on top of #6774:
unsaferesult that names the lock path. Callers keepunsafeseparate from transientlocked.[0, 10000]ms timeout measured on a monotonic clock, and0means one attempt. The prompt-store lock is released if config acquisition throws.config.toml. The canonical preimage is captured before the first transition write, and an alias retarget at any later point restores the locked file. Restoration refuses if the canonical destination itself changed, and keeps the preimage as evidence.Open security-review decision for the maintainer. The current-user ownership check for the lock namespace runs on POSIX only. On Windows, ownership relies on the per-user profile ACL;
structure/codex-home.mddocuments this. Per-acquisition ACL hardening was tried and removed because each icacls/PowerShell spawn made Windows acquisitions exceed the 2 s bound. Please confirm that this scope is acceptable, or ask for Windows SID verification.Co-authored-by: 김상훈 luvs01@hanmail.net
Co-authored-by: Devin AI <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
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bun scripts/test.ts: config-write-lock, prompt-lock, inject write-lock/v1-reconcile/missing-config, journal and journal-recovery, prompt journal/layers/route, features cache, v2 gate, auth API, WSL home, config mutation lock, management provider atomicity, Windows atomic replace,cli-v2-runtime,cli-agent-runtime-settings, and the layout and file-size ratchet tests. Result: 1034 pass / 1 skip / 0 fail at the PR head.bun run typecheck,bun run structure:check, andbun run privacy:scanall pass.Checklist
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