// Package brainfstest is the shared harness for hyperguild#157's swap-race // tests: it keeps swapping a regular note, a symlink to an outside file, or a // FIFO (with a writer held open) into a path while a reader under test loops. // It observes two things: no sentinel byte from the outside file reaches the // reader's output, and the reader returns within a timeout. It does not cover // hard links, other paths into the reader, or races it does not generate. package brainfstest import ( "fmt" "os" "path/filepath" "strings" "sync" "sync/atomic" "syscall" "testing" "time" ) // Sentinel marks the outside file's contents. const Sentinel = "zqbrainfssentinelonefiftyseven" // outsideContent carries Sentinel in every field a reader might extract: the // frontmatter title and aliases, a heading, a wikilink and the body. const outsideContent = "---\ntitle: " + Sentinel + "\naliases:\n - " + Sentinel + "\n---\n# " + Sentinel + "\n\n" + Sentinel + " [[" + Sentinel + "]]\n" // Outside writes a file outside any brain dir containing Sentinel. func Outside(t *testing.T) string { t.Helper() p := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "secret.md") if err := os.WriteFile(p, []byte(outsideContent), 0o644); err != nil { t.Fatal(err) } return p } var swapSeq atomic.Int64 // StartSwap renames, in a loop, a regular note (content inside) and either // a symlink to outside or a FIFO into path, until the test ends. FIFOs get a // writer held open until the swapper exits, so a reader that skips the // handle check parks forever instead of reading EOF. The swapper is stopped // and awaited before t.TempDir cleanup. func StartSwap(t *testing.T, path, inside, outside string, fifo bool) { t.Helper() var stop atomic.Bool var wg sync.WaitGroup wg.Add(1) go func() { defer wg.Done() // A name of its own: swappers on one path share a test, and one // opening another's FIFO for write would block forever. tmp := fmt.Sprintf("%s.swap%d", path, swapSeq.Add(1)) // A relative link: os.Root refuses every absolute link on its own, so // an absolute in-brain target would test nothing. link := outside if rel, err := filepath.Rel(filepath.Dir(path), outside); err == nil { link = rel } var writers []*os.File defer func() { for _, w := range writers { _ = w.Close() } }() for i := 0; !stop.Load(); i++ { _ = os.Remove(tmp) switch { case i%2 == 0: _ = os.WriteFile(tmp, []byte(inside), 0o644) case fifo: if err := syscall.Mkfifo(tmp, 0o644); err == nil { if w, err := os.OpenFile(tmp, os.O_RDWR, 0); err == nil { writers = append(writers, w) } } default: _ = os.Symlink(link, tmp) } _ = os.Rename(tmp, path) } }() t.Cleanup(func() { stop.Store(true); wg.Wait() }) } // WriteSentinelAt writes a file carrying Sentinel at p (creating its // directory), for an in-brain symlink target. func WriteSentinelAt(t *testing.T, p string) string { t.Helper() if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(p), 0o755); err != nil { t.Fatal(err) } if err := os.WriteFile(p, []byte(outsideContent), 0o644); err != nil { t.Fatal(err) } return p } // AssertNoLeak loops read for d while a symlink swapper runs on path, and // fails if any output contains Sentinel. The symlink points outside the // brain; os.Root refuses that on its own, so pair it with AssertNoLeakFrom // and an in-brain target. func AssertNoLeak(t *testing.T, path, inside string, d time.Duration, read func() string) { t.Helper() AssertNoLeakFrom(t, path, inside, Outside(t), d, read) } // AssertNoLeakFrom is AssertNoLeak with the symlink pointing at target, e.g. // a file elsewhere in the brain written with WriteSentinelAt. func AssertNoLeakFrom(t *testing.T, path, inside, target string, d time.Duration, read func() string) { t.Helper() StartSwap(t, path, inside, target, false) leaks, iters := 0, 0 for deadline := time.Now().Add(d); time.Now().Before(deadline); iters++ { leaks += strings.Count(read(), Sentinel) } if leaks > 0 { t.Fatalf("symlink target %s leaked %d times in %d iterations", target, leaks, iters) } } // AssertNoHang loops read for d while a FIFO swapper (held writers) runs on // path, and fails if a read does not return within timeout. func AssertNoHang(t *testing.T, path, inside string, d, timeout time.Duration, read func()) { t.Helper() StartSwap(t, path, inside, Outside(t), true) done := make(chan struct{}) go func() { for deadline := time.Now().Add(d); time.Now().Before(deadline); { read() } close(done) }() select { case <-done: case <-time.After(timeout): t.Fatal("reader hung on a swapped-in FIFO with a writer held open") } }