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This PR makes the advisory file lock work the way callers already assume it does: the lock key is canonicalised through the symlink referent, so a symlink alias and the file it points to share one lock.

Today two writers that reach the same file through different paths - one through a symlink, one through the real path - take different locks and can overwrite each other. Every writer in the file-write-safety chain picks its lock through this key, so this fix has to land before the guarded writes do.

It is the second of nine PRs for epic #1375 (chain tracked on #1991).

Related GitHub Issue

Closes: #2017 (this unit's tracking issue).
Refs: #1991 (chain tracking), #1375 (epic).

Description

What this PR changes:

  1. The lock key for a write target is resolved through the symlink referent before locking, so an alias and its referent serialize on one lock.
  2. Unrelated paths keep independent locks - the change does not coarsen locking.

Why the diff looks bigger than the change: the chain is non-cumulative - this branch is based on main and carries its own copy of the earlier unit's content, which the GitHub diff shows as context.

Review focus: the lock-key resolution and its spec (the files exercised by step 1 of the Test Procedure).

Test Procedure

From the repository root, with dependencies installed:

pnpm --dir src test -- core/task-persistence/__tests__/TaskHistoryStore.lockKey.spec.ts utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.lockKey.spec.ts

Expected: 27 passed, 1 skipped (the skipped case is the win32 symlink variant, verified manually). Then pnpm --dir src exec eslint --max-warnings=0 on the touched files - clean.
Environment: Windows 11, Node 20, unit layer only.

Pre-Submission Checklist

  • Scope is one gate scope and matches the unit.
  • No .changeset or CHANGELOG changes (AGENTS.md).
  • src/eslint-suppressions.json unchanged - no suppression count increased.
  • New code lints clean (--max-warnings=0) rather than relying on suppressions.
  • Tests added at the lowest layer that would have caught each finding.
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Documentation Updates

No user-facing documentation change: the lock key is internal behaviour. No .changeset and no CHANGELOG edit (AGENTS.md).

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Verification at this head

  • Lock-key suites: 27 passed, 1 skipped (win32 symlink variant verified manually).
  • ESLint --max-warnings=0 clean on every file in the unit; Prettier clean; suppressions unchanged.
  • CI at this head: all required checks green, mutation-diff green.

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Reviewer and maintainer questions are welcome as comments on this PR or on #1991.

Post-commit durability port (8c8db37)

Port of the U3 durability fix to this unit's copies (identical catch shape): safeWriteJson marks the staged path consumed on PostCommitDurabilityError, and safeWriteText's failure cleanup removes the staged temp only when the commit never landed (using the committed flag it already tracks). Regression test + two negative controls (each guard off reddens exactly the new test). 80/81 (1 pre-existing skip).

CI/review round final head (6d0bc87)

Refreshed onto main 4f1dee18e (merge 596f2d398, no conflicts; lint-gate commit drops imports main's side orphaned; format-gate commit reformats two specs for the prettier version main now pins - main also added the .prettierignore that previously shielded them). Review follow-ups ported from U3 at 6d0bc8742: real directory descriptor + cause assertion in the durability test, exact staging-release path assertions. All six required checks green at 6d0bc8742.

Review round final head (5f93883)

After the durability-probe portability work (d5a68d13f: the failure is injected by watching the commit rename - the parent-directory fsync is the only fsync after it - so no descriptor is fabricated and the Windows lane passes), CodeRabbit's two new threads are fixed at 5f938837b: resolveLockKey now falls back to the link walk only on ENOENT (a transient EACCES/EIO can no longer key a writer to the alias while another keys the referent; regression test with negative control), and the cleanup-safety test restores its spies in a finally block. All six required checks green.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added safer text and byte-file publishing with atomic updates and optional backups.
    • File updates follow symlinks to their targets and preserve existing permissions. Durability issues after publishing are reported.
  • Bug Fixes
    • JSON updates now lock, merge, and publish against the resolved target, keeping paths to the same file consistent.
    • Cleanup of already-removed temporary files no longer produces a duplicate error.
    • Failure to remove a backup after publishing no longer causes a successful write to be reported as failed.

The pull request adds safeWriteText for staged text and byte publication with optional backups. It updates safeWriteJson to resolve symlink targets, lock by canonicalized paths, and delegate publication to safeWriteText.

Changes: Atomic file publishing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Resolve targets and stage text
src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts, src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.spec.ts
Adds target and lock-key resolution, staging options, and error types. Writes strings or bytes to staging files, preserves target modes, and validates caller-supplied staging files. Tests cover staging, modes, content, and resolution.
Publish, preserve, and clean up
src/services/file-safety/safeWriteText.ts, src/services/file-safety/__tests__/safeWriteText.spec.ts
Publishes staged files with copy-based backups, Windows DACL handling, and parent-directory fsync checks. Cleanup failures are reported through warnings. Tests cover commit outcomes, backup cleanup, and platform-specific behavior.
Integrate JSON writes and symlink-aware locks
src/utils/safeWriteJson.ts, src/utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.test.ts, src/utils/__tests__/safeWriteJson.lockKey.spec.ts, src/eslint-suppressions.json
Updates JSON writes to lock and operate on resolved targets, then delegates publication to safeWriteText. Tests cover lock release, merge behavior, symlinks, and publication outcomes. Decreases the no-explicit-any suppression count from 4 to 3.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant safeWriteJson
  participant resolveLockKey
  participant proper-lockfile
  participant resolvePublishTarget
  participant safeWriteText
  safeWriteJson->>resolveLockKey: Resolve canonical lock key
  safeWriteJson->>proper-lockfile: Acquire lock
  safeWriteJson->>resolvePublishTarget: Resolve target while locked
  safeWriteJson->>safeWriteText: Publish staged JSON with backup
  safeWriteJson->>proper-lockfile: Release lock
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ed9b2

Resolve both file-safety risks before merging: a transient path-resolution failure can let concurrent alias and referent writes bypass serialization, and a process able to alter a destination directory during staging can redirect a write through a replacement symlink.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 2945a

Canonical locking improves ordinary alias handling, and publication failures preserve useful recovery information. However, long symlink chains can still produce different locks during publication, and project configuration updates now follow links to files outside the project without explicit target authorization. The latter risk depends on link control, filesystem permissions, and a configuration-update action.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: Project MCP updates now publish through an existing .roo/mcp.json symlink rather than replacing the link. A party controlling that link can redirect an otherwise project-scoped update to an accessible external configuration, potentially including global tool-approval settings. No referent authorization is enforced along the inspected write path. Exploitation requires a suitable readable JSON referent, permission to replace it, and an update action; intentional external-link support and the wider trust policy remain unresolved.
  • Medium · reliability · inferred: When a referent is temporarily absent during backup publication, a symlink chain longer than eight links can yield an intermediate lock key. If the referent returns before post-lock resolution, the caller can read, merge, and publish under a different lock from referent writers. This permits lost updates or conflicting backup and rollback ownership over the same file. Strict resolution rejects a still-dangling link, but does not validate that a recovered target matches the acquired lock.
Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated exposure is filesystem configuration reachable by the extension host, rather than a new remote endpoint. A project-controlled link can select an external referent, but successful replacement requires accessible JSON and sufficient directory permissions. Linking project MCP configuration to global MCP settings could make a project-labelled update persist beyond that project.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The conditional attack path is control of a project configuration symlink, followed by a project configuration-update action, then canonical resolution and publication to an external referent. Base behavior already read through symlinks, but replaced the link on write; the changed write destination is the introduced condition. This is an ownership-boundary concern, not a verified arbitrary-content write or command-execution finding.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — MCP webview operations supply server, source, and tool identifiers rather than arbitrary publication paths. The service selects project or global configuration internally and parses its content. MCP connection setup also honors global and server disable flags. These controls constrain invocation and execution, but are distinct from authorization to mutate an external symlink referent.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Commit-aware recovery improves failure containment, but depends on exclusive ownership of the publication target. Divergent fallback lock keys weaken that prerequisite: a rollback can compete with another writer's publication even though both use the advertised advisory-lock workflow.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define caller-specific referent ownership policy: project configuration writers could reject out-of-scope referents unless the user explicitly authorizes them, while the general publication API remains usable for intentionally external paths.
  • proposed — Make lock fallback distinguish a terminal referent from a truncated or cyclic walk, and reject or safely retry unresolved identity rather than proceeding under an intermediate key. Validate convergence through publication absence, restoration, and concurrent merges.

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Check name Status Explanation Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check Error The pull request contains changes that do not implement issue #2017. safeWriteText.ts adds a broad publishing API with backup copies, Windows DACL capture and restore, staging-path validation, stagi… Move the backup, DACL, staging, rollback, durability, and related test changes to separately scoped pull requests or issues. Keep this pull request limited to lock-key canonicalization and its focused tests.
Security Boundaries Error The prior finding remains present in changed code. safeWriteText publicly accepts options.tempPath; it only checks same-directory placement, regular-file type, target identity, the .new_*.tmp ba… Remove public pathname-based staging, or replace it with a trusted file-handle/internal staging API. If pathname support remains, create staging files through an ownership-safe exclusive protocol and bind the opened handle to that creation;…
Regression Evidence Warning Focused regression coverage remains incomplete. The changed resolveLockKey implementation canonicalizes the parent directory and rejoins the basename (safeWriteText.ts:284-287), and `safeWriteJson… Add a lowest-layer test for two unrelated paths. Assert that resolveLockKey(pathA) and resolveLockKey(pathB) differ, or call safeWriteJson for both and assert that acquireFileLock receives distinct arguments. Retain the existing ali…
Passed Passed checks: 5 passed
Check name Status Explanation
Title check Passed The title clearly identifies the primary change: canonical advisory lock keys. It matches the stated objective of making symlink aliases and referents share one lock.
Description check Passed The description covers the linked issues, implementation, review focus, test procedure, environment, verification results, scope, documentation impact, and follow-up context. It is sufficiently comple…
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #2017 requires one advisory lock key for a symlink alias and its referent, while unrelated paths keep independent locks. safeWriteJson calls resolveLockKey before acquireFileLock. `resolve…
Persistence Integrity Passed No explicit persistence-integrity failure is introduced. safeWriteJson awaits directory setup, merge reads, streaming completion, safeWriteText, cleanup, and lock release. safeWriteText fsyncs s…
Lifecycle Resource Cleanup Passed No changed lifecycle path shows an untracked resource leak or duplicate work. In safeWriteText, every successful openSync is paired with closeSync in finally (lines 475-489, 505-527, 594-613, …
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Explanation

The description covers the linked issues, implementation, review focus, test procedure, environment, verification results, scope, documentation impact, and follow-up context. It is sufficiently complete, although its checklist does not reproduce every item from the repository template.

Full details: Linked Issues check

Explanation

Issue #2017 requires one advisory lock key for a symlink alias and its referent, while unrelated paths keep independent locks. safeWriteJson calls resolveLockKey before acquireFileLock. resolveLockKey resolves the referent and canonicalizes the parent directory, with bounded handling for dangling links and propagation of non-ENOENT errors. The lock-key tests cover referent locking, independent paths, missing targets, and non-ENOENT failures.

Full details: Persistence Integrity

Explanation

No explicit persistence-integrity failure is introduced. safeWriteJson awaits directory setup, merge reads, streaming completion, safeWriteText, cleanup, and lock release. safeWriteText fsyncs staged content, uses an atomic fs.rename commit, copies and fsyncs backups before commit, and preserves the published target on post-commit directory-fsync failure with PostCommitDurabilityError. The changed tests cover failed commits, cleanup, rollback behavior, and post-commit durability.

Full details: Lifecycle Resource Cleanup

Explanation

No changed lifecycle path shows an untracked resource leak or duplicate work. In safeWriteText, every successful openSync is paired with closeSync in finally (lines 475-489, 505-527, 594-613, and 651-655). DACL dumps, staging files, backups, and staging directories have success and failure cleanup paths. In safeWriteJson, the advisory lock is released in the outer finally after resolution, merge, streaming, publish, and error paths (lines 76-81, 86-188). The JSON stream helper is unchanged from the base revision, so its existing behavior is not introduced by this pull request.

Full details: Out of Scope Changes check

Explanation

The pull request contains changes that do not implement issue #2017. safeWriteText.ts adds a broad publishing API with backup copies, Windows DACL capture and restore, staging-path validation, staging cleanup, and post-commit durability errors. Its 1,817-line test suite covers those behaviors. safeWriteJson also changes backup, rollback, and post-commit cleanup behavior. These changes are separate from canonical advisory lock keys and independent-path locking.

Resolution

Move the backup, DACL, staging, rollback, durability, and related test changes to separately scoped pull requests or issues. Keep this pull request limited to lock-key canonicalization and its focused tests.

Full details: Security Boundaries

Explanation

The prior finding remains present in changed code. safeWriteText publicly accepts options.tempPath; it only checks same-directory placement, regular-file type, target identity, the .new_*.tmp basename, and nlink === 1 after opening. Those checks do not establish that the caller created or owns the file. In the temp-path branch, the implementation opens and fsyncs the existing file without writing content, then renames it over the target. A caller or directory-writable attacker can place sensitive bytes in .new_attack.tmp beside the target and pass that path, causing those bytes to be published while the requested content is ignored. This is a changed path and matches the explicit security-boundary failure condition.

Resolution

Remove public pathname-based staging, or replace it with a trusted file-handle/internal staging API. If pathname support remains, create staging files through an ownership-safe exclusive protocol and bind the opened handle to that creation; filename convention, regular-file checks, and nlink are insufficient.

Full details: Regression Evidence

Explanation

Focused regression coverage remains incomplete. The changed resolveLockKey implementation canonicalizes the parent directory and rejoins the basename (safeWriteText.ts:284-287), and safeWriteJson passes that key to acquireFileLock (safeWriteJson.ts:76-81). Current tests cover canonicalization, dangling links, cycles, alias/referent locking, and non-ENOENT errors, but repository-wide search found no test that resolves two unrelated paths and asserts different keys or lock arguments. The prior failure is therefore unresolved.

Resolution

Add a lowest-layer test for two unrelated paths. Assert that resolveLockKey(pathA) and resolveLockKey(pathB) differ, or call safeWriteJson for both and assert that acquireFileLock receives distinct arguments. Retain the existing alias/referent equality coverage.

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…ve (U1, issue 1375)

Split unit U1 of PR 1833. Three changes, each with a test that fails without it:
- a caller-supplied staging path is checked for location and file type before anything is written, so an arbitrary path or a symlink cannot be published onto the target;
- a failed parent-directory fsync on POSIX is reported as PostCommitDurabilityError instead of being swallowed, so a successful return never claims durability the filesystem did not grant;
- the staged file and this write's own staging directory are released before RollbackFailureError is thrown.

Focused coverage for resolveLockKey added: canonical parent directory, a dangling-link chain, and termination at the bounded depth on a two-link cycle.
…ishTarget (U1, issue 1375)

The resolver may fall back to the given path only when lstat also reports the path as absent. An EACCES or EIO failure says nothing about whether the path is a link, so falling back would publish through a link we were not allowed to inspect. Focused tests added for both branches.
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compile failed at the unit head on three points:
- RollbackFailureError needs a string backupPath, but the throw now happens after cleanup, so the
  `string | null` narrowing was lost. The failure is now held as { error, backupPath }.
- The async lstat stand-in is built on the Stats prototype so it satisfies fsSync.Stats.
- The realpath/readlink mocks are typed to the real signatures; the readlink mock answers once
  because only the link path is read.

tsc clean, 50 tests pass, ESLint --max-warnings=0 clean, no suppression change.
The any usage this entry covered is gone in the rewritten file, so the count drops 4 -> 3.
eslint --prune-suppressions --max-warnings=0 confirms it.
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Adopts the lineage's evolved safeWriteText (the Zoo-Code-Org#1912 copy): the backup is
now copied without ever moving the target, closing the crash-loss window
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Port of the Zoo-Code-Org#1912 spec fix: the target-itself test passed a name the
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Port of the Zoo-Code-Org#1912 test strengthening: the rejection lands after the open,
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🟠 Major · Do not publish a caller-controlled staging path without binding it to… · safeWriteText.ts:350-529

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Do not publish a caller-controlled staging path without binding it to the opened file.

lstat rejects a symlink only before openSync(tempPath, "r+"). A concurrent process with write access to the target directory can replace the staging path with a symlink to another regular file. openSync follows that symlink, and fstatSync can still report a regular file with nlink === 1. The subsequent rename(tempPath, targetPath) moves the symlink itself, so the target can become an attacker-selected symlink. The mode operation also applies to the unintended referent.

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In the caller-supplied staging branch of safeWriteText, bind the opened file to
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🟡 Minor · Propagate non-ENOENT parent-resolution errors before acquiring the… · safeWriteText.ts:284-287

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Propagate non-ENOENT parent-resolution errors before acquiring the lock.

safeWriteJson checks the input directory before locking. If the final target is absent through a symlinked parent, resolvePublishTarget can retain the alias path. A recoverable non-ENOENT error from fs.realpath(dirPath) is then converted to the alias directory, so this writer acquires an alias lock while a direct writer acquires the canonical lock. Both writes can reach the same referent without serialization. Merge callers can lose updates.

Retain the ENOENT fallback, but propagate every other error:

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-	const canonicalDir = await fs.realpath(dirPath).catch(() => dirPath)
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