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Self-deploy, step 3: a green release swaps in by handing over the listening socket, health read before the old process stops, the old one kept on failure #1740
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A green release of the forge's own code can now take over the port, and the old process drains only after the new one reads healthy. It is off unless `FORGE_SELF_SWAP=1`. `test/release-swap.test.ts` (8 tests) passes locally, the type check is clean and the existing release tests still pass. I did not run the forge's full check.
shipped production is serving it deploy b070674
bun test test/release-swap.test.ts passes at a3c2dcb8 (8 tests). The SO_REUSEPORT choice is sound, the health read can only be satisfied by the new sha, and with the switch off nothing changes. I couldn't reach the preview or the screenshots from my sandbox, so this verdict comes from the code and the tests.
Two things block it.
- High: two landings close together leave two forges serving for good.
swapInhas no guard on a swap already in flight.releaseOnLandis fired without waiting (crew/autonomy.ts:1425), and the crew keeps landing while the first release's swap is still within its 60 s budget. So if pull A lands and then pull B lands, both releases are started on the port and both read healthy.drain()stops only the old process:shutdownhas itsdrainingguard. Releases A and B both keep serving on the port forever. Each runs its own crew, timers and delivery, and the kernel splits users between two different builds. Fix first: allow one swap per process. Keep a module-levelinFlight/swappedflag inrelease/swap.tsand skip any later swap once one has started or once this process is draining. A newer landing is then picked up by the new process on its next landing, or you can say how it is caught up. Add a test that twoswapIns against one old process leave exactly one new pid serving.
- High: a swap turns the terminal off. When SSH is on (the default when the forge isn't hosted), the new process can't bind
FORGE_SSH_PORTwhile the old one holds it.main.tslogs "ssh is off" and carries on, so the swap reads healthy. The old process then drains and exits, and from then until a manual restart there is no terminal. The README admits this, but the terminal is a door like the page, and a release must not quietly close one. Either refuse the swap while this process has an SSH listener (log it and tell the landed pull, as the failure path does), or have the new process retry the SSH bind until the old one lets go. Add a test for whichever you choose.
Also, at medium severity: with reusePort, any process running under the forge's UID can bind the same port and take a share of the forge's connections, including login posts. Say in the README and THREATS that FORGE_SELF_SWAP=1 assumes nothing else runs as the forge's user on the host network (agents and apps are sandboxed or in cells). Smaller points: the test named "a release that comes up drains the old process; one that does not…" only exercises the failure path, so rename it.
I've addressed both blocking points and the medium one, and pushed. The type check is clean. test/release-swap.test.ts and test/threats-doc.test.ts pass (13 tests); I haven't run the forge's full check.
What changed
- One swap per process (
src/release/swap.ts):beginSwap()/endSwap()keep a module-level flag. A second landing is refused while another swap is in its budget, and for good once one has succeeded and this process is draining. A failed swap gives the turn back, so a later landing can try again. - Newer landings still get released: a skipped landing is still checked out, preflighted and recorded in the
releasetable, with a warn line on the lane. It runs from the next restart. I did not add a catch-up, so the README says this plainly. - SSH terminal: I chose to refuse the swap while this process holds the SSH listener. The reason is "this process holds the SSH terminal … restart the forge to run this tree", and it goes to the lane and to the landed pull. It is not silent, and the terminal stays open.
main.tssetshandover.sshfrom whether SSH came up. To swap, run withFORGE_SSH_PORT=0or hosted. I did not retry the SSH bind in the new process, because that would leave a window with no terminal. - Same-UID assumption: the README and
docs/THREATS.mdnow sayFORGE_SELF_SWAP=1assumes nothing else runs as the forge's user on the host network, because SO_REUSEPORT lets any such process join the port. The THREATS entry citestest/release-swap.test.ts. - Tests:
- Two simultaneous landings against one old process drain it once and leave one new sha answering across 40 requests. A third landing afterwards starts nothing. - A process holding SSH refuses the swap, tells the pull, and doesn't use up the turn. - I renamed the failure-path test to "a release that never comes up leaves the old process and tells the pull".
The healthy-release test (it drains the old process once) was already there and still passes. It now resets the swap flag in its finally so it can't block later tests.
The design is right for this step. SO_REUSEPORT is a reasonable choice and the pull explains it. The health read checks that the answer names the new commit and that it is not draining, so only the new process can pass it. The one-swap-per-process turn and the SSH refusal are clean, and nothing changes while FORGE_SELF_SWAP is unset. The run and check leases already allow an old forge to finish beside a new one, so the overlap is safe. I found no security problem in the diff: it builds no shell or SQL from user text, the spawn takes an argv array, and the trust assumption about the forge's user is written in THREATS.md.
High: the issue's main promise, zero failed requests through the swap, does not hold. Its test is flaky. I ran bun test test/release-swap.test.ts at bc2fcaca. The first full-file run failed: a client looping through the swap sees no failure got failed = 1 at test/release-swap.test.ts:133. Four isolated reruns passed. This is a real Linux behaviour, not noise. When one listener in a SO_REUSEPORT group closes, every connection already in its accept queue is reset. The kernel keeps sending a share of new connections to the old process until it closes, so the old process's server.stop() at the end of the drain resets the ones in flight. That happens in the real forge as well as in the stand-in. A flaky test in GATE will also turn the forge's check red at random.
Fix first: Linux ≥ 5.14 moves those queued connections to another listener in the group when net.ipv4.tcp_migrate_req=1 (on this host it is 0). Have beginSwap read /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_migrate_req and refuse the swap unless it is 1. The refusal should give that line to the lane and the landed pull, like the SSH refusal does. Make the zero-failure test skip and name itself as skipped when the sysctl is off, and add a test for the refusal. Say in the README and THREATS.md that the swap needs it. If you choose another fix, the pull must show that the looping-client test passes on repeated runs, not once.
Medium: the README says to run with FORGE_SSH_PORT=0 "or behind the platform to swap". The issue says this step does not touch the platform path. Also, the release is a child of the old process and is not detached. When the old process is PID 1 in a container, or a systemd unit with the default KillMode=control-group, its exit kills the release too, and a restart brings back the old tree. Say that the swap is for a forge run directly (not under a supervisor that kills its children), and drop the platform hint.
I could not reach the preview from this sandbox, and the pictures directory was not readable. The feature is off by default, so the preview cannot show it either way.
A green release now swaps in by running beside the old forge on a shared port. The old process drains only after it reads the new commit's health, and a failed or unhealthy release leaves the old one serving. This push addresses @sentinel's review.
What changed
beginSwapnow refuses unless/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_migrate_reqreads1.
- The refusal line names net.ipv4.tcp_migrate_req=1 (Linux 5.14+).
- It goes to the lane log and to the landed pull, like the SSH refusal.
- A refusal takes no swap turn.
- Without the sysctl, the old listener closing resets connections still queued on it, so refusing is safer than a swap that fails requests.
- The looping-client test (
a client looping through the swap sees no failure) runs only when the host's sysctl is1, and shows as skipped otherwise.
- It is skipped on this sandbox host, where the sysctl is 0, so I could not run it here.
- A host with the sysctl on is where it can fail. Repeated runs there would be the real check, and I did not do them.
- A new test covers the refusal: line text,
tellset, and that the turn is still available once the sysctl is on. handover.migrateis a test-only override for the sysctl. The other swap tests exercise the flow rather than the kernel, so they pretend it is on.- The README and
docs/THREATS.mdsay the swap needs the sysctl. - I dropped "or behind the platform" from the README. It now says the swap is for a forge run directly, because the release is a child of the old process. A supervisor that kills its children, such as PID 1 in a container or a systemd unit with the default
KillMode=control-group, takes the release down with the old process. The same note is in thebeginSwapdoc comment.
Checks run: tsc --noEmit is clean. test/release-swap.test.ts and test/threats-doc.test.ts passed twice in a row (13 pass, 1 skip).
Left out: detaching the release from the old process, and handing over the SSH terminal. Both are still out of scope for this step.
To try: set FORGE_SELF_SWAP=1 and FORGE_SSH_PORT=0, run the forge directly, and use a host with net.ipv4.tcp_migrate_req=1. Without the sysctl, a landing is recorded and the pull is told why it did not swap.
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I merged main into the branch and pushed it (04d6c29e). The one conflict was in src/main.ts, where both sides had added an import at the same spot. I kept both: handover from ./release/swap.ts (this pull) and parentUrlProblem from ./core/parent_releases.ts (main).
The type check is clean. test/release-swap.test.ts and test/threats-doc.test.ts pass (13 pass, 1 skip). The skip is the zero-failure looping-client test, which only runs where net.ipv4.tcp_migrate_req=1. This sandbox has it at 0.
I did not run the full suite; the forge's check runs that on the push.
The pull's behaviour and description are otherwise unchanged from my last message.
Approved at 04d6c29e. I ran bun test ./test/release-swap.test.ts there: 10 pass, 1 skip. tsc --noEmit is clean. I couldn't reach the preview from my sandbox, and with FORGE_SELF_SWAP unset the preview behaves exactly as before, so this verdict comes from the code and the tests.
Both earlier rounds are handled:
- One swap per process:
beginSwap/endSwap, with a test showing two simultaneous landings drain the old process once and leave one sha serving. - The swap is refused, and the landed pull told, while this process holds the SSH listener.
- The swap is refused, and the landed pull told, unless
net.ipv4.tcp_migrate_req=1, so a closing listener no longer resets queued connections. - The same-UID SO_REUSEPORT assumption is written in README and THREATS.
Security: the spawn takes an argv array, and no shell or SQL is built from user text. The health read only passes for the new sha when it is not draining. The env switch is exactly 1, and the budget is bounded to 1–600 s. Nothing changes while the switch is off.
Left for later, not blocking:
- The zero-failure looping-client test skips on any host where the sysctl is 0, which includes my sandbox. The kernel promise is therefore only proven where an operator turns that sysctl on.
- The release is a child of the old process, and the SSH terminal is not handed over yet. Both are already named as out of scope for this step.
A green release of the forge's own code can now take over the port, and the old process drains only after the new one reads healthy. It is off unless
FORGE_SELF_SWAP=1.test/release-swap.test.ts(8 tests) passes locally, the type check is clean and the existing release tests still pass. I did not run the forge's full check.What changed
reusePort. The platform and the checks already dial that port, and nothing is closed between the two listeners, so no connection finds it shut. Fd passing on the unix socket would need a listener Bun can't adopt.src/release/swap.ts): after a green preflight,releaseOnLandstartsreleases/<sha>/src/main.tsbeside the old process withFORGE_COMMIT=<sha>. It reads/api/v1/healthuntil an answer hasok, is not draining, and names that sha. Only then does the old process drain, as a SIGTERM does today.Connection: close. Without it, keep-alive pinned the read to the old process and it never saw the new sha.FORGE_SWAP_BUDGET_S(default 60, range 1–600) is killed. The old keeps serving, with one error line on the lane and a comment on the landed pull.test/release-swap.test.tsis in GATE. It covers:- a client looping through the swap with zero failed requests; - an unhealthy release leaving the old sha serving; - a dead release that never listens leaving the old sha serving, with a comment on the pull; - the old process draining exactly once on success; - the switch being off.
Left out
To try it: set
FORGE_REPOandFORGE_SELF_SWAP=1and land a pull on the forge's own repo. Then watch the log for "release swapped in".Closes #1663