fix(plugin): kill the process and close conn on every startPlugin failure - #299
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In `@internal/plugin/manager.go`:
- Around line 396-398: Update the plugin startup error path around
cmd.Process.Kill to call cmd.Wait after the kill attempt, including when the
kill returns os.ErrProcessDone, before returning the startup error; retain the
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Fixed in 9f9f01f: calls cmd.Wait() after Process.Kill() in the cleanup defer, tolerating os.ErrProcessDone from either call. |
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In `@internal/plugin/manager.go`:
- Around line 399-401: Update the cmd.Wait cleanup handling to also suppress
warnings when isExpectedShutdownError classifies the waitErr as an expected
shutdown, while retaining warnings for unexpected errors and the existing
os.ErrProcessDone case.
- Around line 396-401: The plugin cleanup around cmd.Process.Kill and cmd.Wait
must be bounded when descendant processes keep inherited stdout or stderr open.
Terminate the plugin process group when descendants are permitted, then wait
with a deadline so startPlugin can still close conn and remove address; add a
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Done in fdbee1d: the plugin now runs in its own process group so cleanup can terminate it along with any descendants, the wait is bounded so a descendant holding stdout/stderr open can no longer block startPlugin indefinitely, and the cleanup warning now goes through isExpectedShutdownError so a killed process's signalled exit isn't logged as a failure. |
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111-115: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winDo not treat an unavailable
pgrepas a successful cleanup check.
exec.Command("pgrep", ...).Output()returns an error for both exit status 1 and execution failures. Because the callers negate this helper, a missingpgrepcan make the cleanup assertion pass immediately. Returnfalseonly for*exec.ExitErrorwith exit code 1, and fail the test for other errors.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@internal/plugin/process_windows.go`:
- Around line 12-19: Update killProcessGroup to terminate the Windows process
tree, preferably by assigning the plugin process to a Windows Job Object
configured to kill its descendants and closing the job during cleanup. If tree
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In `@internal/plugin/manager_startplugin_cleanup_test.go`:
- Around line 111-115: Update anyProcessRunningFor to return false only when
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| // killProcessGroup kills the plugin's direct process. Windows has no | ||
| // equivalent of a POSIX process group signal here, so descendants that | ||
| // inherit stdout/stderr are not separately terminated. | ||
| func killProcessGroup(cmd *exec.Cmd) error { | ||
| if cmd.Process == nil { | ||
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| return cmd.Process.Kill() |
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Terminate the Windows process tree during failed startup.
On Windows, cmd.Process.Kill() terminates only the direct plugin process. A descendant that inherits stdout or stderr can keep cmd.Wait() blocked. The cleanup defer then returns after pluginForceKillTimeout, while the descendant and wait goroutine remain active. Use a Windows Job Object, or exclude this cleanup guarantee on Windows and skip the unsupported regression case.
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In `@internal/plugin/process_windows.go` around lines 12 - 19, Update
killProcessGroup to terminate the Windows process tree, preferably by assigning
the plugin process to a Windows Job Object configured to kill its descendants
and closing the job during cleanup. If tree termination cannot be supported,
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Reviewed locally, plus a run of internal/plugin's tests on a Windows machine to check the cross-platform angle.
The manager.go change is good. Collapsing five post-spawn failure paths into one success-gated defer is the right shape, it closes the two paths (Configure / CheckReady) that previously leaked the process, connection and socket outright, and bounding the reap wait is a real fix. The process_unix.go / process_windows.go split is done properly.
Main feedback is on the test file, plus two consistency gaps in the production change.
1. stop() didn't get the same treatment. This PR enables Setpgid for every plugin and adds killProcessGroup, but only uses it in startPlugin's failure defer. stop() still force-kills with cmd.Process.Kill() (manager.go:261), so descendants of a successfully-started plugin leak on clean shutdown; and its <-done at manager.go:265 is unbounded, so it can hang forever on exactly the descendant-holds-stdout case bounded here. Both are outside the diff, hence no inline comments — raised as #310 so they can land as their own scoped PR. They're the difference between fixing the startup path and fixing the mechanism.
2. The test file needs restructuring rather than patching. TestMain is the root cause of most of it: the four tests map 1:1 onto four binaries, so building up front saves nothing and instead makes every run (and every -run filter) build all four; and because TestMain has no *testing.T, it forces os.MkdirTemp over t.TempDir() and helpers that can't take t/t.Helper(). Replacing it with a per-test newFixturePlugin(t, mode) helper resolves that cluster at once and unblocks t.Parallel(). It's also the only TestMain in the repo, and t.TempDir() is otherwise used 100:1 over os.MkdirTemp.
3. Windows. The file carries no build constraint but is Unix-only in three ways. Verified on Windows: the package compiles and TestMain succeeds, but all four tests here fail because fixtures are built without a .exe extension, so cmd.Start() can't find them. Behind that sit two latent issues that would bite the moment it's fixed — syscall.Signal(0) is unsupported on Windows so processAlive is always false, and pgrep/pkill don't exist so the anti-orphan assertions pass vacuously and the cleanup net is a no-op. Simplest fix is //go:build unix plus a _unix_test.go rename, matching the existing internal/files/paths_windows_test.go precedent; making it genuinely cross-platform needs all three addressed. AF_UNIX itself works on Windows, so real coverage there is feasible if we want it.
Also: it's effectively an integration test (go build, real processes, real gRPC over a real socket) running by default in make test — worth gating.
Out of scope, raised separately: five TestManager_discoverPlugins_* tests also fail on Windows but fail identically on main — internal/files/files.go:77 gates discovery on the Unix execute bit, which doesn't exist on Windows (#311). And no CI job runs on Windows at all, so none of this is caught automatically (#312).
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This file has no build constraint, but it's Unix-only in three separate ways (syscall.Signal(0), pgrep, pkill). Its production counterparts are correctly split into process_unix.go / process_windows.go; the tests should follow.
Verified on a Windows machine: the package compiles and TestMain runs, but all four tests in this file fail. Two further Unix assumptions are latent behind that (see comments below).
There's an existing precedent in the repo for exactly this:
internal/files/paths.go no tag, cross-platform
internal/files/paths_test.go no tag, runs everywhere
internal/files/paths_windows_test.go //go:build windows
Suggest matching it: tag this file //go:build unix and rename to manager_startplugin_cleanup_unix_test.go for symmetry with the production split, then add a ..._windows_test.go counterpart tagged //go:build windows if we want coverage of this path on Windows.
Worth noting AF_UNIX works fine on Windows (confirmed: net.Listen("unix", ...) and net.DialTimeout("unix", ...) both succeed), so generateAddress always returning unix is not a blocker for that.
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TestMain is the root cause of several issues below, and it isn't buying us anything.
The four tests map 1:1 onto four distinct binaries — no test uses a binary built for another. So building them all up front doesn't avoid any compile cost; it adds it: every run builds all four, and go test -run TestManager_startPlugin_HealthyPluginSurvivesAndIsReturned still builds all four, because TestMain runs regardless of -run.
It also forces the problems flagged below: there's no *testing.T in TestMain, which is why we get os.MkdirTemp instead of t.TempDir() and helpers that can't take t/t.Helper().
Suggest dropping TestMain entirely in favour of a per-test helper, e.g. newFixturePlugin(t *testing.T, mode fixtureMode) string, building its one binary into t.TempDir(). Same total compile count, and it removes the package-level global, restores t.TempDir() and t.Helper(), and unblocks t.Parallel().
This is also the only TestMain in the repo.
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Two problems in this doc comment.
It says the fixture is compiled "three times"; the loop below builds four.
The stated rationale — "Building once in TestMain keeps every test from paying the compile cost" — is not true. Each test uses exactly one distinct binary, so no test would ever pay for another's compile. Building up front makes every run pay for all four.
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| dir, err = os.MkdirTemp("", "mcpd-fixtureplugin-") |
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os.MkdirTemp should be t.TempDir(), which cleans up automatically and removes the need for the cleanup return value. Repo-wide it's currently t.TempDir() x100 vs os.MkdirTemp x1 (this line).
Blocked by the TestMain design (no *testing.T available) — resolved by moving to a per-test helper.
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This is the concrete Windows breakage, confirmed empirically.
go build -o <dir>/healthy-plugin writes exactly that name — with an explicit -o, Go does not append .exe on Windows. Windows exec.LookPath then requires a PATHEXT extension, so startPlugin's cmd.Start() fails with executable file not found in %PATH% even though the file is on disk.
That single cause fails all four tests in this file, each at manager.go:377, e.g.:
"failed to start process: exec: \"...\\checkready-fail-plugin\": executable file not found in %PATH%" does not contain "plugin not ready"
If this file becomes Unix-only via //go:build unix the point is moot; if we want it cross-platform, the output name needs a .exe suffix on Windows.
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fixturePlugin and its Configure, CheckReady and GetMetadata methods have no doc comments (nor does main); only spawnBlockingDescendant does. Test-only code still wants doc comments on exported-shaped surface like this.
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Dispatching behaviour off a substring match against filepath.Base(os.Args[0]) is doing a lot of implicit work — it's why we need four near-identical binaries, and it couples fixture behaviour to filenames chosen in a different file.
An explicit flag or env var per behaviour would be clearer and would let one binary serve all cases. If the goal was avoiding shared env-var state between parallel tests, a --mode flag on the child process achieves that without name matching.
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This enables Setpgid for every plugin, but killProcessGroup is only wired into startPlugin's failure defer below (line 400). The graceful path still uses p.cmd.Process.Kill() in stop() (manager.go:261), which signals only the direct child.
Net effect: a plugin that starts successfully and later spawns descendants leaks all of them on normal daemon shutdown via StopPlugins -> stop() — the same orphan class this PR fixes, on the clean-shutdown path.
stop() is outside this diff, so no change requested here. Raised as #310 so it can land as its own small PR.
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Bounding this wait is the right call, and the comment explaining why is genuinely useful.
The identical hazard still exists unbounded in stop(): after p.cmd.Process.Kill() at manager.go:261 it does processExitErr = <-done at manager.go:265 with no timeout. If a descendant holds the plugin's piped stdout/stderr open, cmd.Wait() never returns and stop() hangs indefinitely — exactly the failure mode this select prevents.
Outside this diff, so no change requested here; tracked in #310.
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Nit, but worth fixing while this file is new: !windows should be unix.
unix is a build constraint (Go 1.19+; go.mod is at 1.26) covering exactly aix, android, darwin, dragonfly, freebsd, hurd, illumos, ios, linux, netbsd, openbsd, solaris — precisely the platforms where SysProcAttr.Setpgid and syscall.Kill exist. !windows is broader than intended and includes platforms where they don't:
GOOS=js GOARCH=wasm -> cmd.SysProcAttr.Setpgid undefined
GOOS=plan9 GOARCH=amd64 -> Setpgid undefined; undefined: syscall.Kill
Not a live bug — .goreleaser.yaml builds linux and darwin only, so nothing we ship hits it. The reason to change it is that //go:build unix matches the _unix.go filename and states the actual requirement.
Related: unix is not a recognised GOOS filename suffix, so process_unix.go gets no implicit constraint from its name — this tag line is doing all the work here. (By contrast _windows.go is recognised, so the tag in process_windows.go is redundant; leave it, it matches internal/files/paths_windows_test.go.)
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In `@internal/plugin/manager_startplugin_cleanup_test.go`:
- Line 138: After killing the fixture process through plg.cmd.Process.Kill(),
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Reap the healthy fixture process.
plg.cmd is an *exec.Cmd. After Process.Kill(), call plg.cmd.Wait() to reap the child and release its resources. Ignore the expected exit error.
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In `@internal/plugin/manager_startplugin_cleanup_test.go` at line 138, After
killing the fixture process through plg.cmd.Process.Kill(), call plg.cmd.Wait()
and ignore its expected exit error so the child is reaped and resources are
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Thanks for the thorough review, and especially for running it on Windows, that caught things I couldn't have seen locally. deb3865 addresses the test-file points:
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Re-reviewed at 737b1ab. This addresses effectively all of the previous round, the file rename included.
Verified locally:
- Full suite passes: 27 packages, 0 failures.
go vet ./...clean. - The four tests now run in parallel (1.5-2.5s each), and
-shortskips them: 3.05s -> 0.29s. - Build matrix passes for linux, darwin, windows, js/wasm, plan9 and wasip1.
anyProcessRunningForis genuinely non-vacuous now. I confirmed it reportstrueagainst a live fixture, so the "no orphan survives" assertions are actually asserting something. That was my main doubt last round.
process_other.go is a good call, and a gap I missed: moving process_unix.go to //go:build unix on its own would have left js, plan9 and wasip1 with no implementation at all. The three tags are now mutually exclusive and exhaustive.
Dropping TestMain for a per-test newFixturePlugin came out cleaner than I expected. Baking the mode in with -ldflags removes the filename coupling entirely, and the fail-fast on an unknown mode is a nice touch.
I verified the above at deb3865; 737b1ab is a 100% pure rename (0 insertions, 0 deletions), so it all still holds.
One non-blocking nit below. The stop() work stays out of scope here and is tracked in #310.
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Non-blocking nit, and the one thing this rework introduces.
anyProcessRunningFor is only ever called from inside require.Eventually's condition, and testify runs that condition on a separate goroutine (go checkCond() in assert.Eventually). t.Fatalf calls FailNow, which the testing docs say must be called from the goroutine running the test, not from one created during it.
Measured behaviour rather than theory: the Fatalf message does print, but the goroutine exits without sending on testify's channel, so Eventually blocks for its full waitFor and then reports Condition never satisfied on top. The result is a delayed, doubled and slightly misleading failure instead of a clean one.
Only reachable when pgrep fails for a reason other than exit 1 (binary missing, permission error), so it is rare on the platforms this file now targets.
Minimal fix is t.Errorf(...) followed by return false. require.EventuallyWithT with a *assert.CollectT is the tidier option if you would rather keep assertions inside the condition.
The same pattern exists in anyPluginSocketExists (require.NoError on the Glob error), though that one is effectively unreachable since the pattern is built from a known-good basename.
Both anyProcessRunningFor and anyPluginSocketExists are only ever called from
inside require.Eventually's condition, which testify runs on its own goroutine.
t.Fatalf and require.NoError both reach FailNow there, which the testing docs
say must be called from the goroutine running the test.
Measured on the configure-failure test with pgrep pointed at a missing binary:
before FAIL 2.39s running pgrep ...: executable file not found
Error: Condition never satisfied
after FAIL 0.38s running pgrep ...: executable file not found
The message printed either way, but the condition goroutine exited without
signalling testify, so Eventually blocked for its full waitFor and then stacked
a misleading second cause on top. t.Errorf plus an early return fails the test
just as hard, names one cause, and returns promptly.
anyPluginSocketExists gets the same treatment for its Glob error. That one is
effectively unreachable, since the pattern is built from a known-good basename,
but the shape is identical and worth not leaving behind.
Reported by @peteski22 on mozilla-ai#299.
internal/plugin: ok, go vet clean, gofmt clean.
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Fixed in Exactly as you described: the message prints either way, the condition goroutine exits without signalling testify, Confirmed the scope before changing anything: both helpers are called only from inside
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So the descendant died milliseconds after being forked and never held the plugin's inherited stdout/stderr open. That matters because The fix is a sleeping timer instead of Unmutated, Worth saying plainly: the cleanup code in this PR was correct, but the evidence I gave you for it was not. Until this commit the test could not have told us either way. Separately, while working on #310 I hit a harness detail you may want to know about. |
…lure Every post-spawn failure branch in startPlugin killed the child process except the last two: a failed adapter.Configure or adapter.CheckReady returned an error with no cleanup at all. At that point the child is already running with an open socket and gRPC connection, so the return leaked the OS process, the gRPC client connection, and the unix socket file under os.TempDir(). This is unrecoverable by any other path. StartPlugins returns as soon as startPlugin errors, without ever adding the plugin to m.plugins. Both StopPlugins and the daemon's shutdown handler only iterate m.plugins, so a plugin that leaks here outlives the daemon process entirely. Replaces the three duplicated cmd.Process.Kill() blocks with a single defer, set up right after cmd.Start() succeeds and gated by a success bool set just before the one successful return. It kills the process, closes conn if one was opened, and removes the socket file - covering all five failure branches uniformly instead of three by accident. Added a real fixture plugin binary (testdata/fixtureplugin) that speaks the actual plugin gRPC protocol and can be built to fail Configure or CheckReady on purpose, so the new tests exercise startPlugin against a real process instead of asserting against internals.
cmd.Wait() also waits for the stdout/stderr copy goroutines, so a descendant that inherited either fd could keep startPlugin's cleanup blocked after Process.Kill() only terminated the direct process. Run the plugin in its own process group so cleanup can signal the whole group, and bound the wait so a lingering descendant can no longer block startPlugin indefinitely. Also stop logging an expected signalled exit as a cleanup failure by routing the wait error through isExpectedShutdownError.
… the cleanup tests unix-only and parallel Address review on the startPlugin cleanup tests: - drop TestMain: each test now builds its own fixture into t.TempDir() via newFixturePlugin(t, mode), so no test pays for another's compile and helpers can take *testing.T / t.Helper() - select the fixture's behaviour with -ldflags "-X main.mode=..." instead of matching on the binary's basename - tag the test file //go:build unix (null signal, pgrep, pkill) to match the process_unix.go / process_windows.go split - anyProcessRunningFor and killAllRunningFor fail the test when pgrep or pkill cannot run, instead of silently reporting "nothing running" - run the four tests with t.Parallel() and skip them under -short - order helpers alphabetically; add doc comments to the fixture's types - process_unix.go: //go:build unix rather than !windows, and add a !unix && !windows fallback so the package still builds on js/wasm and plan9
manager_startplugin_cleanup_test.go carries //go:build unix but the filename gave it no implicit constraint (unix is not a recognised GOOS filename suffix, unlike windows). Rename it to manager_startplugin_cleanup_unix_test.go for symmetry with the process_unix.go / process_windows.go split it tests, matching the existing paths.go / paths_test.go / paths_windows_test.go precedent in internal/files.
Both anyProcessRunningFor and anyPluginSocketExists are only ever called from
inside require.Eventually's condition, which testify runs on its own goroutine.
t.Fatalf and require.NoError both reach FailNow there, which the testing docs
say must be called from the goroutine running the test.
Measured on the configure-failure test with pgrep pointed at a missing binary:
before FAIL 2.39s running pgrep ...: executable file not found
Error: Condition never satisfied
after FAIL 0.38s running pgrep ...: executable file not found
The message printed either way, but the condition goroutine exited without
signalling testify, so Eventually blocked for its full waitFor and then stacked
a misleading second cause on top. t.Errorf plus an early return fails the test
just as hard, names one cause, and returns promptly.
anyPluginSocketExists gets the same treatment for its Glob error. That one is
effectively unreachable, since the pattern is built from a known-good basename,
but the shape is identical and worth not leaving behind.
Reported by @peteski22 on mozilla-ai#299.
internal/plugin: ok, go vet clean, gofmt clean.
The blocking descendant in testdata/fixtureplugin never blocked. Its body was
a bare `select {}`, and with no other goroutine alive the Go runtime's deadlock
detector fires immediately:
$ FIXTURE_DESCENDANT_BLOCK=1 ./fixture
fatal error: all goroutines are asleep - deadlock!
goroutine 1 [select (no cases)]:
main.main()
.../testdata/fixtureplugin/main.go:98
exit status 2
So the descendant died on its own within milliseconds of being forked and
never held the plugin's inherited stdout/stderr open at all. pgrep during a run
showed one pid, the plugin's, where there should have been two.
That made TestManager_startPlugin_CleansUpDescendantWithinDeadline, the
regression guard for this PR's process-group cleanup, unable to fail. It
asserts that no process from the fixture binary survives startPlugin's
cleanup, and nothing survived either way. Swapping killProcessGroup(cmd) back
to cmd.Process.Kill() in startPlugin's defer, exactly the pre-fix behavior the
test exists to catch, still left it green.
A sleeping timer keeps a runnable goroutine around, so the runtime has nothing
to detect and the process blocks the way the comment always claimed.
With the fixture fixed the guard behaves as intended: pgrep reports two pids
after startup, and that same mutation now fails it.
--- FAIL: TestManager_startPlugin_CleansUpDescendantWithinDeadline (5.42s)
neither the plugin process nor the descendant it forked may survive
startPlugin's cleanup
Unmutated: go test ./internal/plugin/ ok, 2.667s.
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startPluginhas five failure paths after the child process is spawned. Three already killed the process explicitly, but two (adapter.Configureandadapter.CheckReady) returned errors with no cleanup at all. That leaks the process, the gRPC connection, and the unix socket file permanently: the plugin is never added tom.plugins, soStopPluginsnever finds it to clean up.The fix moves cleanup into a single deferred function set up right after
cmd.Start(). Asuccessflag gates it: if the function returns early for any reason, the defer kills the process, reaps it withcmd.Wait(), closes the connection if one was opened, and removes the socket file. This replaces three separatecmd.Process.Kill()calls with one and covers the two branches that previously had no cleanup.PR Type
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