fix(mount): join background writers before shutdown - #520
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Navigate logical layers of code changes, visualize relationships, and explore their blast radius. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughSyncer now owns and joins background work during shutdown. The mount loop closes the Syncer on return. The watcher tracks its event loop, and tests check receipt and checkpoint worker termination. ChangesSyncer Lifecycle
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Closing a mount can record shutdown as a failed receipt attempt and consume retry capacity. Prevent that state change before merging. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to Shutdown now waits for mount-owned background work, reducing the chance of writes after teardown. The main mount path orders its shutdown steps, and no new access or privilege path was identified. Behavior for every possible caller of the new shutdown method was not fully verified. Retained concerns Security review detailsSecurity Blast Radius
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🔴 Shutdown exhausts pending receipt retries
When Close cancels an in-flight receipt request, the worker records that cancellation as a failed attempt. Repeated mount restarts can exhaust retries and leave an accepted writeback requiring manual attention.
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A deferred receipt worker polls an already accepted writeback operation. Close cancels its context, but the worker still passes the resulting context.Canceled error to applyOutboxOperationResult. That path calls incrementOutboxAttempt, which persists a retry delay and eventually sets NeedsAttention. The new mount-loop defer also calls Close on exits where the root context remains live, so shutdown now triggers this path even without a canceled root context.
Example: An operation remains pending through several short-lived mount runs. Each exit cancels its active receipt GET and records another failed attempt; eventually the mount stops retrying that operation despite its successful dispatch.
Recommended fix: After GetOperation, exit the worker without settling or modifying the durable outbox if its background context was canceled. Preserve actual transport failures while the syncer remains open, and add a test with a context-aware blocked GET verifying shutdown leaves AttemptCount, NeedsAttention, and NextAttemptAt unchanged.
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- Line 4450: In the receipt worker started by startBackground, check root.Err()
after GetOperation returns and before reloading the record or calling
applyOutboxOperationResult; return when the root context is canceled so shutdown
is not recorded as a failed receipt or counted against the retry budget.
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Do not record shutdown cancellation as a failed receipt.
When Close() cancels the receipt worker's root context, GetOperation can return context.Canceled. The worker then reloads the record and passes that error to applyOutboxOperationResult, which treats it as a cloud failure and increments the outbox attempt. This can consume the retry budget and persist shutdown as LastError. Return before reloading the record when root.Err() != nil.
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ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(root, timeout)
op, opErr := s.client.GetOperation(ctx, s.workspace, opID)
cancel()
+ if root.Err() != nil {
+ // Shutdown cancellation is not a remote receipt outcome.
+ return
+ }
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Review comment at @internal/mountsync/syncer.go at line 4450:
In the receipt worker started by startBackground, check root.Err() after
GetOperation returns and before reloading the record or calling
applyOutboxOperationResult; return when the root context is canceled so shutdown
is not recorded as a failed receipt or counted against the retry budget.
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Shutdown persists canceled receipt failures
Medium Severity
Close now cancels backgroundCtx and waits for receipt workers, so an in-flight GetOperation returns context.Canceled and still flows into applyOutboxOperationResult. That path records a durable failed attempt via incrementOutboxAttempt, which can push an accepted write toward NeedsAttention on a clean unmount instead of leaving the receipt pending for the next mount.
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Description
Summary
Fixes #469.
Mount tests could return while watcher, receipt-settlement, checkpoint, or WebSocket goroutines were still running. Those workers could write into
t.TempDir()while Go was removing it, causing intermittent Linux CI failures such as:TempDir RemoveAll cleanup: unlinkat ...: directory not emptyWhat changed
Syncer.Close()lifecycle boundary.FileWatcher.Close()join its fsnotify event loop and debounce callbacks.Syncer.Close().Syncer.Close()or recreate a removed mount directory.This fixes the ownership boundary rather than adding cleanup retries or timing delays.
Validation
-racetests: 10 repeated passes.-racetests: 10 repeated passes.go vet ./internal/mountsync ./cmd/relayfile-cli: passed.go test -count=1 ./...: passed repeatedly without reruns.internal/mountsyncrun completed in 83.028s.Note
Medium Risk
Changes mount/sync shutdown ordering and goroutine lifecycle; incorrect joins could stall shutdown or leave writers running, but scope is lifecycle teardown rather than sync protocol or auth.
Overview
Fixes intermittent TempDir cleanup failures by defining a clear shutdown boundary: background work must finish before the mount directory can be removed or handed off.
Syncer.Close()is new and idempotent. It cancels a dedicatedbackgroundCtx, resets the WebSocket, stops coalesced checkpoint timers, andWait()s on abackgroundWGso receipt settlement, checkpoint writers, WebSocket apply/reader goroutines, and similar tasks cannot keep writing under the mount root after teardown.Receipt workers and WebSocket dialing now launch through
startBackgroundinstead of untracked goroutines; checkpointAfterFunccallbacks are counted on the same wait group.readWebSocketLoopcancels and joins its nested transport reader on exit. The bootstrap watchdog wrapper blocks until its ticker goroutine stops.FileWatcher.Close()waits on the fsnotify loop (and debounce work) after closing the backend.The mount loop
defer syncer.Close()on every exit path. Tests replace receipt polling with assertions thatClosecancels blocked receipt work and joins writers, plus a regression that a running checkpoint cannot surviveCloseor recreate a removed mount dir.Reviewed by Cursor Bugbot for commit 79555e4. Bugbot is set up for automated code reviews on this repo. Configure here.