Merge branch 'pr4/install-marker-and-identity' into pr5/surface-headers

This commit is contained in:
Saket Aryan
2026-09-16 20:36:27 +05:30
9 changed files with 943 additions and 202 deletions
@@ -145,36 +145,49 @@ def _install_salt() -> str:
keys off that file, so recording an event would silently suppress the
install event.
On a read-only or full data directory the fallback is derived from the data
directory path: stable for the machine rather than random per call, so the
failure mode is a weaker salt and not unbounded cardinality in PostHog.
Published atomically, and there is deliberately no derived fallback. Creating
the file with O_CREAT|O_EXCL and then writing into it leaves a window where
the file exists and is empty, and a concurrent hook that reads it in that
window gets nothing. Falling back to a digest of the path would hand that
process a salt an attacker can compute, memoized for its whole run, which is
the privacy control this function exists to provide silently turning itself
off under load. The salt is written to a private temp file first and linked
into place, so the name either does not exist or already has the full value.
Returns "" when it genuinely cannot persist. Callers omit the hash entirely
rather than emit an unsalted one.
"""
global _salt_cache
if _salt_cache:
return _salt_cache
path = _salt_path()
temporary = path.with_name(f"{path.name}.{os.getpid()}.tmp")
try:
path.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
handle = os.open(path, os.O_CREAT | os.O_EXCL | os.O_WRONLY, 0o600)
handle = os.open(temporary, os.O_CREAT | os.O_EXCL | os.O_WRONLY, 0o600)
with os.fdopen(handle, "w", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
stream.write(uuid.uuid4().hex)
stream.flush()
os.fsync(stream.fileno())
try:
with os.fdopen(handle, "w", encoding="utf-8") as stream:
stream.write(uuid.uuid4().hex)
# Atomic claim: fails if another process already published one.
# os.link rather than replace, which would clobber theirs.
os.link(temporary, path)
except FileExistsError:
pass
except OSError:
pass
finally:
try:
temporary.unlink()
except OSError:
pass
except FileExistsError:
pass
except OSError:
# Cannot persist. Stable-per-machine beats random-per-call.
_salt_cache = hashlib.sha256(str(path).encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()
return _salt_cache
try:
_salt_cache = path.read_text(encoding="utf-8").strip()
except OSError:
_salt_cache = ""
if not _salt_cache:
_salt_cache = hashlib.sha256(str(path).encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()
return _salt_cache
@@ -187,10 +200,17 @@ def _scoped_digest(value: str, length: int = 16) -> str:
privacy control without the salt. Salting per install keeps every
within-account join the analytics actually use and gives up only
cross-machine joins on the same repository, which nothing computes.
Returns "" when there is no salt, so record() omits the property. An
unsalted digest over this input space is close to plaintext, and emitting one
under a name that implies it is hashed is worse than sending nothing.
"""
if not value:
return ""
return hashlib.sha256(f"{_install_salt()}:{value}".encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()[:length]
salt = _install_salt()
if not salt:
return ""
return hashlib.sha256(f"{salt}:{value}".encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()[:length]
def _safe_value(value: Any) -> Any:
@@ -252,6 +272,25 @@ def anonymous_id(identity: dict[str, str] | None = None) -> str:
return created
def _rotate_anonymous_id(identity: dict[str, str]) -> str:
"""Mint a fresh anonymous id because the account context is gone.
The previous id may already have been merged into a person profile by an
$identify, and that merge is permanent. Reusing it after a logout or a key
change attributes everything that follows to the account that just went
away, which is the same misattribution the key fingerprint exists to stop,
only arriving through the anonymous path instead.
`aliased` is cleared with it: the new id has never been merged, so it is
eligible to be aliased into whatever account comes next.
"""
created = f"code-anon-{uuid.uuid4().hex}"
identity["anonymous_id"] = created
identity.pop("aliased", None)
_write_identity(identity)
return created
def _install_state_path() -> Path:
return memory_core.data_dir() / "install-state.json"
@@ -380,11 +419,19 @@ def claim_version_change() -> str | None:
state["plugin_version"] = memory_core.PLUGIN_VERSION
state["upgraded_at"] = memory_core.utc_now()
temporary = path.with_suffix(f".{os.getpid()}.tmp")
try:
temporary = path.with_suffix(f".{os.getpid()}.tmp")
temporary.write_text(json.dumps(state), encoding="utf-8")
temporary.replace(path)
except OSError:
# Release the claim. The marker still records the old version, so
# without this the sentinel makes claim_version_change return early on
# every later run and this version's upgrade is never recorded again.
for leftover in (sentinel, temporary):
try:
leftover.unlink()
except OSError:
pass
return None
return previous
@@ -418,10 +465,17 @@ def record(
os=sys.platform,
python_version=platform.python_version(),
)
# Assigned only when the digest is real. _scoped_digest returns "" when
# the salt could not be persisted, and an empty property is worse than an
# absent one: it survives the None filter below and reads as a value.
if repo is not None:
properties["repo_hash"] = _scoped_digest(getattr(repo, "identity", ""))
repo_hash = _scoped_digest(getattr(repo, "identity", ""))
if repo_hash:
properties["repo_hash"] = repo_hash
if session_id:
properties["session_hash"] = _scoped_digest(session_id)
session_hash = _scoped_digest(session_id)
if session_hash:
properties["session_hash"] = session_hash
line = json.dumps(
{
"event": f"{EVENT_PREFIX}.{event}",
@@ -566,6 +620,14 @@ def _claim_parked(directory: Path) -> Path | None:
age = now - orphan.stat().st_mtime
except OSError:
continue
if age < CLAIM_STALE_SECONDS:
# Someone else holds a live lease on it. This check has to come
# first. Claiming a file bumps its attempt count and refreshes its
# mtime, so a sender that has just taken the final attempt looks
# exhausted to everyone else while it is actively draining. Judging
# exhaustion before liveness let a second sender unlink a batch out
# from under its owner, losing every event in it.
continue
# Attempts, not age. Every re-claim touches the mtime and every release
# backdates it by a fixed amount, so age is pinned near the stale
# threshold and never reaches the expiry. Age stays only as a backstop
@@ -576,9 +638,6 @@ def _claim_parked(directory: Path) -> Path | None:
except OSError:
pass
continue
if age < CLAIM_STALE_SECONDS:
# Someone else holds a live lease on it.
continue
claim = orphan.parent / _claim_name(_claim_attempt(orphan) + 1)
try:
orphan.replace(claim)
@@ -695,26 +754,43 @@ def resolve_distinct_id() -> tuple[str, str]:
if recorded == fingerprint:
return email, ""
if not recorded:
# Rows written before fingerprints existed. Adopt the current key
# rather than re-resolving: otherwise every existing user pays an
# uncached /v1/ping/ on every flush, forever, and a firewalled one
# pays the full timeout each time.
# Rows written before fingerprints existed. Verify rather than
# adopt: a key changed before the upgrade would otherwise bind the
# new key to the previous account's email, permanently, and the
# fingerprint would then agree with itself forever after.
verified = _resolve_email(key)
if not verified:
# Offline, firewalled, or the API is down. Keep the previous
# behaviour and retry on the next flush rather than dropping a
# real account attribution. Safe because the same network that
# failed /v1/ping/ is about to fail the PostHog POST, so nothing
# is delivered under the unverified identity in the meantime.
return email, ""
identity["email"] = verified
identity["key_fingerprint"] = fingerprint
_write_identity(identity)
return email, ""
return verified, ""
if not key:
# No key to verify the account with; do not keep attributing to it.
if email:
identity.pop("email", None)
identity.pop("key_fingerprint", None)
_write_identity(identity)
return _rotate_anonymous_id(identity), ""
return anonymous_id(identity), ""
resolved = _resolve_email(key)
if not resolved:
# The key changed and will not resolve (revoked, offline, API down).
# Do not keep attributing to the previous account.
# Reaching here with an email means the recorded fingerprint disagreed,
# so the key really did change. Drop the account and rotate: the stored
# anonymous id may already be merged into that account's person, and
# reusing it would keep the events on the profile we are trying to
# leave.
if email:
identity.pop("email", None)
identity.pop("key_fingerprint", None)
return _rotate_anonymous_id(identity), ""
return anonymous_id(identity), ""
# Alias only when going anonymous -> email for the first time. Once an anon
@@ -104,6 +104,67 @@ def test_a_fresh_claim_is_not_immediately_stealable(telemetry):
assert telemetry._claim_parked(first.parent) is None
def test_a_live_final_attempt_is_not_deleted_by_another_sender(telemetry):
"""Review finding: exhaustion was judged before liveness, so owners lost batches.
Claiming a parked file bumps its attempt count and refreshes its mtime. Once
the count reaches the budget, the owner draining it looked exhausted to every
other sender, which unlinked the file out from under it. Everything in that
batch was gone, which is precisely the loss this PR exists to stop.
"""
telemetry.record("search", reason="owned-by-the-first-sender")
spool = telemetry._spool_path()
stale = time.time() - (telemetry.CLAIM_STALE_SECONDS + 60)
os.utime(spool, (stale, stale))
claim = telemetry._claim_spool()
assert claim is not None
# Walk it to the final attempt, ageing it each round so it can be re-claimed.
# _claim_spool hands back a0 and _release_claim keeps the name, so it takes
# one full round per attempt to reach the budget.
for _ in range(telemetry.MAX_CLAIM_ATTEMPTS):
# Carry the marker through each rewrite so the final assertion proves the
# events survived, not merely that some file with the right name did.
telemetry._release_claim(claim, [{"event": "code.search", "uuid": "owned-by-the-first-sender"}])
parked = sorted(claim.parent.glob("telemetry-*.sending"))
assert parked, "the batch was dropped while still inside its budget"
os.utime(parked[0], (stale, stale))
claim = telemetry._claim_parked(claim.parent)
assert claim is not None
assert telemetry._claim_attempt(claim) >= telemetry.MAX_CLAIM_ATTEMPTS
assert claim.exists()
# The owner is draining it right now: fresh mtime, live lease.
second_sender = telemetry._claim_parked(claim.parent)
assert second_sender is None, "a second sender took a batch under a live lease"
assert claim.exists(), "a second sender deleted a batch its owner was draining"
assert "owned-by-the-first-sender" in claim.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
def test_an_exhausted_batch_is_still_discarded_once_its_lease_lapses(telemetry):
"""The liveness check must defer the cleanup, not cancel it.
Guards the obvious over-correction: skipping live claims is only safe if an
abandoned one at the same attempt count is still reaped on a later run.
"""
telemetry.record("search")
spool = telemetry._spool_path()
stale = time.time() - (telemetry.CLAIM_STALE_SECONDS + 60)
os.utime(spool, (stale, stale))
claim = telemetry._claim_spool()
assert claim is not None
exhausted = claim.parent / telemetry._claim_name(telemetry.MAX_CLAIM_ATTEMPTS)
claim.replace(exhausted)
os.utime(exhausted, (stale, stale))
assert telemetry._claim_parked(exhausted.parent) is None
assert not exhausted.exists(), "an abandoned exhausted batch was left behind forever"
def test_a_parked_batch_is_drained_behind_the_live_spool(telemetry):
"""Defect 6: parked claims were only reachable when no spool existed.