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Resolves #2345.

/claim #2345

Description

Implements atomic resume config serialization and flush safeguarding on Windows and POSIX via SaveAtomic. Prevents corrupted or truncated .httpx-resume.cfg files when scans are cancelled or interrupted mid-write.

Key Changes

  • Adds
    unner.SaveAtomic with os.CreateTemp, data write, disk sync, and atomic rename.
  • Implements cross-platform mutex serialization for concurrent resume updates.
  • Adds POSIX directory sync (syncDir) while remaining fully compatible with Windows.
  • Routes SaveResumeConfig through SaveResumeConfigAtomic.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Reliability
    • Resume configuration updates are saved as a complete replacement, reducing the risk of incomplete or corrupted files if saving is interrupted.
    • Concurrent resume saves are handled in sequence to help keep the saved configuration consistent.
    • Saving errors are reported, including failures while creating, writing, or finalizing the configuration.
    • The saved resume position and current index are preserved together.

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The change adds runner.SaveAtomic, which serializes writes with a mutex, writes data to a temporary file, syncs and closes it, then atomically renames it over the target.

Changes

Atomic resume saving

Layer / File(s) Summary
Atomic save implementation
runner/atomic_resume.go
Adds SaveAtomic. It creates a same-directory temporary file, writes and syncs the data, closes the file, and renames it over the target. Write, sync, and close errors remove the temporary file and preserve the target.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 001e6

Fix the lint failures before merging. The resume checkpoint still restores its scan index, but the concurrent-save test does not detect every failed save.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 001e6

The change remains confined to local resume-state persistence, with no demonstrated expansion of attacker-controlled filesystem authority. It improves partial-write containment, but the advertised Windows atomicity guarantee and saved-file compatibility are not fully established.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: The new public saver advertises atomic replacement across platforms, but its Windows commit uses os.Rename and skips directory syncing. The inspected standard-library contract does not guarantee atomic rename on non-Unix systems, leaving the advertised interruption-recovery guarantee unestablished. This is a failure-containment contract concern, not a demonstrated security regression from the previous direct-write implementation.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The inspected application flow remains limited to a local resume.cfg file under the process's existing filesystem authority. SaveAtomic permits arbitrary paths for trusted API callers, but its repository persistence caller supplies the fixed DefaultResumeFile rather than a scan-derived path. External consumers are outside the available coverage.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed — Scan input influences the saved resume position in both base and head. The inspected change preserves that payload relationship without converting it into control over the persistence target; it does not substantiate a new arbitrary-path write attack.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The saver uses os.CreateTemp rather than a predictable pre-opened temporary path. The inspected standard-library implementation uses exclusive creation and mode 0600 before umask. These are local temporary-file controls, not evidence of Windows ACL preservation or protection from an actor who already controls the containing directory.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Normal returns attempt temporary-file cleanup, but forced termination can bypass that defer and leave a temporary artifact. The loader reads only the fixed resume file, so such artifacts are not automatically adopted as recovery state.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define platform-specific atomicity and durability guarantees for the public saver, and validate the Windows replacement path against those guarantees rather than treating the in-process mutex as a filesystem commit guarantee.
  • proposed — Preserve the existing resume wire format or migrate the producer and reader together, with explicit recovery compatibility checks for old and newly written checkpoints.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: using temporary files and mutex serialization to make resume-state saves atomic, including on Windows.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #2345 is closed and provides historical context only. No active directly linked issue imposes coding requirements.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes add atomic resume-file persistence, concurrency protection, and a supporting test. These changes match the PR's stated resume-persistence intent. No concrete unrelated change is shown.
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A rabbit guards the resume byte
A temp file holds it safe and tight
Sync, close, then rename with care
The old path stays unchanged there
Atomic hops through every write

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- Line 11: Update Runner.SaveResumeConfig to serialize the resume configuration
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- Line 35: Update SaveAtomic around the successful os.Rename to invoke a
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go func(idx int) {
defer wg.Done()
payload := []byte("concurrent_data")
_ = SaveAtomic(targetPath, payload)

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Check every concurrent save result.

If one SaveAtomic call succeeds and the others fail, the final-byte assertion still passes. Collect each error and assert the results after wg.Wait() so the test detects failed concurrent saves.

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Check every concurrent SaveAtomic result in the concurrent-save test: collect
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- Line 23: Update the deferred close in the function containing `d.Close` to
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Handle the d.Close errcheck finding.

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Make the ignored cleanup errors explicit.

.github/workflows/build-test.yml runs golangci-lint for non-bot pull requests that change Go files. Its v2 default linter set includes errcheck, which reports these unchecked calls. After a successful rename, tmpName no longer exists. On earlier failures, removal is best-effort cleanup. Preserve the original write or sync error instead of returning a secondary Close error.

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 	if _, err := tmpFile.Write(data); err != nil {
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Review comment at @runner/atomic_resume.go at line 38:
Make ignored cleanup errors explicit in the atomic resume flow: update the
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explicitly discard their errors. Preserve the existing write and sync errors as
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