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revlog: add a mechanism to verify expected file position before appending
If someone uses `hg debuglocks`, or some non-hg process writes to the .hg
directory without respecting the locks, or if the repo's on a networked
filesystem, it's possible for the revlog code to write out corrupted data.
The form of this corruption can vary depending on what data was written and how
that happened. We are in the "networked filesystem" case (though I've had users
also do this to themselves with the "`hg debuglocks`" scenario), and most often
see this with the changelog. What ends up happening is we produce two items
(let's call them rev1 and rev2) in the .i file that have the same linkrev,
baserev, and offset into the .d file, while the data in the .d file is appended
properly. rev2's compressed_size is accurate for rev2, but when we go to
decompress the data in the .d file, we use the offset that's recorded in the
index file, which is the same as rev1, and attempt to decompress
rev2.compressed_size bytes of rev1's data. This usually does not succeed. :)
When using inline data, this also fails, though I haven't investigated why too
closely. This shows up as a "patch decode" error. I believe what's happening
there is that we're basically ignoring the offset field, getting the data
properly, but since baserev != rev, it thinks this is a delta based on rev
(instead of a full text) and can't actually apply it as such.
For now, I'm going to make this an optional component and default it to entirely
off. I may increase the default severity of this in the future, once I've
enabled it for my users and we gain more experience with it. Luckily, most of my
users have a versioned filesystem and can roll back to before the corruption has
been written, it's just a hassle to do so and not everyone knows how (so it's a
support burden). Users on other filesystems will not have that luxury, and this
can cause them to have a corrupted repository that they are unlikely to know how
to resolve, and they'll see this as a data-loss event. Refusing to create the
corruption is a much better user experience.
This mechanism is not perfect. There may be false-negatives (racy writes that
are not detected). There should not be any false-positives (non-racy writes that
are detected as such). This is not a mechanism that makes putting a repo on a
networked filesystem "safe" or "supported", just *less* likely to cause
corruption.
Differential Revision: https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D9952
author | Kyle Lippincott <spectral@google.com> |
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date | Wed, 03 Feb 2021 16:33:10 -0800 |
parents | 34a46d48d24e |
children | 0f26ee69cf36 |
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Enable obsolete markers $ cat >> $HGRCPATH << EOF > [experimental] > evolution.createmarkers=True > [phases] > publish=False > EOF Build a repo with some cacheable bits: $ hg init a $ cd a $ echo a > a $ hg ci -qAm0 $ hg tag t1 $ hg book -i bk1 $ hg branch -q b2 $ hg ci -Am1 $ hg tag t2 $ echo dumb > dumb $ hg ci -qAmdumb $ hg debugobsolete b1174d11b69e63cb0c5726621a43c859f0858d7f 1 new obsolescence markers obsoleted 1 changesets $ hg phase -pr t1 $ hg phase -fsr t2 Make a helper function to check cache damage invariants: - command output shouldn't change - cache should be present after first use - corruption/repair should be silent (no exceptions or warnings) - cache should survive deletion, overwrite, and append - unreadable / unwriteable caches should be ignored - cache should be rebuilt after corruption $ damage() { > CMD=$1 > CACHE=.hg/cache/$2 > CLEAN=$3 > hg $CMD > before > test -f $CACHE || echo "not present" > echo bad > $CACHE > test -z "$CLEAN" || $CLEAN > hg $CMD > after > "$RUNTESTDIR/pdiff" before after || echo "*** overwrite corruption" > echo corruption >> $CACHE > test -z "$CLEAN" || $CLEAN > hg $CMD > after > "$RUNTESTDIR/pdiff" before after || echo "*** append corruption" > rm $CACHE > mkdir $CACHE > test -z "$CLEAN" || $CLEAN > hg $CMD > after > "$RUNTESTDIR/pdiff" before after || echo "*** read-only corruption" > test -d $CACHE || echo "*** directory clobbered" > rmdir $CACHE > test -z "$CLEAN" || $CLEAN > hg $CMD > after > "$RUNTESTDIR/pdiff" before after || echo "*** missing corruption" > test -f $CACHE || echo "not rebuilt" > } Beat up tags caches: $ damage "tags --hidden" tags2 $ damage tags tags2-visible $ damage "tag -f t3" hgtagsfnodes1 1 new orphan changesets 1 new orphan changesets 1 new orphan changesets 1 new orphan changesets 1 new orphan changesets Beat up branch caches: $ damage branches branch2-base "rm .hg/cache/branch2-[vs]*" $ damage branches branch2-served "rm .hg/cache/branch2-[bv]*" $ damage branches branch2-visible $ damage "log -r branch(.)" rbc-names-v1 $ damage "log -r branch(default)" rbc-names-v1 $ damage "log -r branch(b2)" rbc-revs-v1 We currently can't detect an rbc cache with unknown names: $ damage "log -qr branch(b2)" rbc-names-v1 --- before * (glob) +++ after * (glob) @@ -1,8 +?,0 @@ (glob) -2:5fb7d38b9dc4 -3:60b597ffdafa -4:b1174d11b69e -5:6354685872c0 -6:5ebc725f1bef -7:7b76eec2f273 -8:ef3428d9d644 -9:ba7a936bc03c *** append corruption