fix(clone): harden per review: symlink-safe scaffolding, race-safe cleanup, decode guard, bounded git queue

Addresses all four findings from the #251 review:

- Scaffolding no longer writes through repository-controlled symlinks.
  The guard lives in hooks-config.ts (settingsWriteBlocker) so it also
  covers quick-start/docker/ralph writers, not just the clone route:
  refuses a symlinked .claude or settings.local.json, a .claude that is
  a file, or one resolving outside the case. The clone route surfaces
  the refusal as a user-visible warning, and the CLAUDE.md write checks
  presence via lstat so a BROKEN repo-shipped symlink counts as present
  (existsSync follows links and would have created the outside target).

- Failed-clone cleanup can no longer delete a concurrent winner's tree:
  git clones into an attempt-owned temp sibling (.<name>.cloning-<rand>)
  which is atomically renamed into place; the loser reports
  DESTINATION_EXISTS and only ever removes its own temp dir.

- decodeURIComponent(url.pathname) is guarded: malformed percent-escapes
  now come back as BAD_SYNTAX instead of an uncaught URIError 500.

- The git pool's waiter queue is bounded (CODEMAN_MAX_GIT_QUEUE, default
  16): overflow answers BUSY immediately (HTTP 429 via RATE_LIMITED),
  and queue time counts against the operation's own deadline.

Tests: hostile symlink fixture repo (route level), settingsWriteBlocker
units, concurrent same-destination race, temp-dir leak assertions,
percent-escape rejection, and a fake-git pool-bounds suite.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Codeman maintainer
2026-08-10 00:07:01 +02:00
parent 6cc7b4328b
commit 93df8188a5
6 changed files with 391 additions and 34 deletions
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@@ -37,15 +37,21 @@
* Every git spawn has a timeout, a hard kill escalation, captured-output caps,
* and shares a small global concurrency pool (same reasoning as
* `document-conversion-limiter.ts`: N simultaneous clones of large repos is a
* localhost resource-exhaustion vector). Cloning is otherwise unbounded in disk
* and time, which is exactly why the caller must treat the timeout as normal.
* localhost resource-exhaustion vector). The pool's waiter queue is itself
* bounded (overflow answers BUSY immediately), and time spent queued counts
* against the operation's own deadline, so a caller's timeout bounds the whole
* call rather than starting when a slot happens to free up. Cloning is
* otherwise unbounded in disk and time, which is exactly why the caller must
* treat the timeout as normal.
*
* @module git-clone
*/
import { spawn, execFileSync } from 'node:child_process';
import { randomBytes } from 'node:crypto';
import { existsSync } from 'node:fs';
import { rm } from 'node:fs/promises';
import { rename, rm } from 'node:fs/promises';
import { basename, dirname, join } from 'node:path';
import { EXEC_TIMEOUT_MS } from './config/exec-timeout.js';
// ─── Tunables ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -78,6 +84,18 @@ const MAX_CONCURRENT_GIT_OPERATIONS = (() => {
return Number.isFinite(raw) && raw >= 1 ? Math.floor(raw) : 2;
})();
/**
* Waiters allowed BEHIND the pool before new work is refused outright with
* BUSY. Without a bound, every queued request holds its HTTP connection (and
* its closure) open indefinitely, so a burst of clone requests becomes the
* memory/socket exhaustion the pool exists to prevent. Override with
* CODEMAN_MAX_GIT_QUEUE (0 disables queuing entirely).
*/
const MAX_QUEUED_GIT_OPERATIONS = (() => {
const raw = Number(process.env.CODEMAN_MAX_GIT_QUEUE);
return Number.isFinite(raw) && raw >= 0 ? Math.floor(raw) : 16;
})();
/** Longest accepted repository operand. Real URLs are far shorter; this bounds abuse. */
const MAX_REPOSITORY_LENGTH = 2048;
/** Longest accepted branch/tag. git's own limit is much higher; 200 covers every real ref. */
@@ -156,6 +174,7 @@ export type GitFailureCode =
| 'REF_NOT_FOUND'
| 'HOST_UNREACHABLE'
| 'DESTINATION_EXISTS'
| 'BUSY'
| 'FAILED';
export interface GitFailure {
@@ -314,7 +333,16 @@ export function parseGitRepositoryUrl(input: string): GitUrlParse {
}
const host = url.host;
if (!host || !HOST_RE.test(host)) return reject('BAD_SYNTAX', 'That URL has no usable hostname.');
const { owner, repo } = splitRepoPath(decodeURIComponent(url.pathname));
// `new URL` tolerates malformed percent-escapes ("%zz" passes through), but
// decodeURIComponent throws on them: uncaught, that URIError was a 500 for
// what is simply a malformed URL.
let pathname: string;
try {
pathname = decodeURIComponent(url.pathname);
} catch {
return reject('BAD_SYNTAX', 'That URL contains an invalid percent-escape.');
}
const { owner, repo } = splitRepoPath(pathname);
const warnings: string[] = [];
if (scheme === 'http') warnings.push('Plain http:// is unencrypted. Prefer https:// when the host offers it.');
@@ -519,6 +547,13 @@ export function classifyGitFailure(stderr: string, timedOut: boolean, spawnError
stderr: clean,
};
}
if (spawnError && spawnError.startsWith('EBUSY')) {
return {
code: 'BUSY',
message: 'Too many git operations are already running on this server. Try again in a moment.',
stderr: clean,
};
}
if (timedOut) {
return {
code: 'TIMEOUT',
@@ -571,25 +606,57 @@ function firstLine(text: string): string {
// ─── IO: bounded git spawns ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
let activeGitOperations = 0;
const gitWaiters: Array<() => void> = [];
type SlotAcquisition = 'acquired' | 'queue-full' | 'timed-out';
interface GitSlotWaiter {
grant: () => void;
}
const gitWaiters: GitSlotWaiter[] = [];
/** Test/diagnostic hook: git operations currently holding a slot. */
export function getActiveGitOperationCount(): number {
return activeGitOperations;
}
function acquireGitSlot(): Promise<void> {
/** Test/diagnostic hook: git operations currently queued behind the pool. */
export function getQueuedGitOperationCount(): number {
return gitWaiters.length;
}
/**
* Acquire a pool slot, waiting at most `maxWaitMs` in a BOUNDED queue.
*
* Both failure modes resolve (never reject): a full queue answers immediately,
* and a queue wait that exhausts the caller's deadline removes itself before
* resolving, so an abandoned waiter can never be granted a slot later and leak
* it.
*/
function acquireGitSlot(maxWaitMs: number): Promise<SlotAcquisition> {
if (activeGitOperations < MAX_CONCURRENT_GIT_OPERATIONS) {
activeGitOperations++;
return Promise.resolve();
return Promise.resolve('acquired');
}
return new Promise<void>((resolve) => gitWaiters.push(resolve));
if (gitWaiters.length >= MAX_QUEUED_GIT_OPERATIONS) return Promise.resolve('queue-full');
return new Promise<SlotAcquisition>((resolve) => {
const waiter: GitSlotWaiter = {
grant: () => {
clearTimeout(timer);
resolve('acquired');
},
};
const timer = setTimeout(() => {
const idx = gitWaiters.indexOf(waiter);
if (idx !== -1) gitWaiters.splice(idx, 1);
resolve('timed-out');
}, maxWaitMs);
gitWaiters.push(waiter);
});
}
function releaseGitSlot(): void {
const next = gitWaiters.shift();
// Hand the slot straight over so the active count can never exceed the cap.
if (next) next();
if (next) next.grant();
else activeGitOperations--;
}
@@ -611,7 +678,18 @@ interface GitRun {
* signal is used rather than `child.kill()`.
*/
async function runGit(args: string[], timeoutMs: number, maxStdoutBytes: number): Promise<GitRun> {
await acquireGitSlot();
// The queue wait spends the SAME deadline as the operation: `timeoutMs` is a
// promise about the whole call, not about git's runtime after some unbounded
// wait. A full queue is refused outright rather than queued.
const queuedAt = Date.now();
const slot = await acquireGitSlot(timeoutMs);
if (slot === 'queue-full') {
return { stdout: '', stderr: '', code: null, timedOut: false, spawnError: 'EBUSY: git operation queue is full' };
}
if (slot === 'timed-out') {
return { stdout: '', stderr: '', code: null, timedOut: true };
}
const remainingMs = Math.max(1, timeoutMs - (Date.now() - queuedAt));
try {
return await new Promise<GitRun>((resolve) => {
let child: ReturnType<typeof spawn>;
@@ -649,7 +727,7 @@ async function runGit(args: string[], timeoutMs: number, maxStdoutBytes: number)
timedOut = true;
killTree('SIGTERM');
killTimer = setTimeout(() => killTree('SIGKILL'), 3_000);
}, timeoutMs);
}, remainingMs);
child.stdout?.on('data', (chunk: Buffer) => {
stdoutBytes += chunk.length;
@@ -735,10 +813,14 @@ export async function probeGitRemote(
/**
* Clone `repository` into `destination`.
*
* On failure the destination is removed — but only when it did not exist before
* the attempt, so a half-written clone is cleaned up while an existing
* directory is never touched. Callers still reject a pre-existing destination
* upfront; this is the second line of that same defence.
* git clones into an ATTEMPT-OWNED temp sibling (`.<name>.cloning-<random>`,
* dot-prefixed so an orphan from a crash never shows up as a case), which is
* atomically renamed into place on success. Two concurrent requests for the
* same destination used to both pass the existence check, and the loser's
* failure cleanup then deleted the WINNER's freshly cloned tree; now each
* attempt only ever creates and removes its own directory, the rename decides
* the winner, and the loser reports DESTINATION_EXISTS. The upfront existence
* check stays as the fast path for the common non-racing case.
*
* Never throws; every outcome is a `CloneResult`.
*/
@@ -752,19 +834,51 @@ export async function cloneRepository(opts: CloneOptions): Promise<CloneResult>
failure: { code: 'REF_NOT_FOUND', message: 'Invalid branch or tag name.', stderr: '' },
};
}
const preexisting = existsSync(opts.destination);
if (preexisting) {
if (existsSync(opts.destination)) {
return {
ok: false,
failure: { code: 'DESTINATION_EXISTS', message: 'The destination directory already exists.', stderr: '' },
};
}
const run = await runGit(buildCloneArgs(opts), opts.timeoutMs ?? GIT_CLONE_TIMEOUT_MS, MAX_STDERR_BYTES);
if (run.code === 0 && !run.spawnError) return { ok: true, stderr: sanitizeGitOutput(run.stderr) };
// Sibling of the destination (same filesystem), so the rename is atomic.
const attemptDir = join(
dirname(opts.destination),
`.${basename(opts.destination)}.cloning-${randomBytes(6).toString('hex')}`
);
const run = await runGit(
buildCloneArgs({ ...opts, destination: attemptDir }),
opts.timeoutMs ?? GIT_CLONE_TIMEOUT_MS,
MAX_STDERR_BYTES
);
if (run.code === 0 && !run.spawnError) {
try {
await rename(attemptDir, opts.destination);
return { ok: true, stderr: sanitizeGitOutput(run.stderr) };
} catch (err) {
// Renaming a directory onto an existing non-empty one fails: someone
// else won the race. Clean up OUR tree only; theirs is never touched.
await rm(attemptDir, { recursive: true, force: true }).catch(() => {});
const code = (err as NodeJS.ErrnoException).code;
if (code === 'EEXIST' || code === 'ENOTEMPTY' || code === 'ENOTDIR' || code === 'EPERM') {
return {
ok: false,
failure: { code: 'DESTINATION_EXISTS', message: 'The destination directory already exists.', stderr: '' },
};
}
return {
ok: false,
failure: {
code: 'FAILED',
message: `Could not move the finished clone into place: ${String(err)}`,
stderr: '',
},
};
}
}
// Remove ONLY the directory this attempt created (git may have written a
// partial tree, or nothing at all).
await rm(opts.destination, { recursive: true, force: true }).catch(() => {});
// Remove ONLY this attempt's temp directory (git may have written a partial
// tree, or nothing at all). The destination is never deleted on failure.
await rm(attemptDir, { recursive: true, force: true }).catch(() => {});
return { ok: false, failure: classifyGitFailure(run.stderr, run.timedOut, run.spawnError) };
}