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

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Saket Aryan
2026-09-16 20:36:27 +05:30
9 changed files with 943 additions and 202 deletions
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@@ -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
@@ -265,6 +265,109 @@ def test_an_unresolvable_key_falls_back_to_the_anonymous_id(isolated_env, monkey
assert telemetry.resolve_distinct_id()[0].startswith("code-anon-")
def test_logging_out_does_not_leave_events_on_the_previous_account(isolated_env, monkeypatch):
"""Review finding: clearing the email kept an id already merged into a person.
The anonymous id is offered to PostHog as $anon_distinct_id on first sign-in,
and that merge is permanent. Keeping it after the key goes away means every
later anonymous event lands on the account that just left.
"""
# Run anonymously first, which is the only way an id exists to be merged.
merged = telemetry.anonymous_id()
monkeypatch.setenv("MEM0_API_KEY", "key-for-account-a")
with patch.object(telemetry, "_resolve_email", lambda key: "a@example.com"):
identified, alias = telemetry.resolve_distinct_id()
assert identified == "a@example.com"
assert alias == merged, "the anonymous id was merged into this account"
monkeypatch.delenv("MEM0_API_KEY", raising=False)
after_logout, logout_alias = telemetry.resolve_distinct_id()
assert after_logout.startswith("code-anon-")
assert after_logout != merged, "reused an id already merged into the previous account"
assert logout_alias == ""
assert "aliased" not in telemetry._read_identity(), "rotated id must be aliasable again"
def test_a_changed_key_that_will_not_resolve_rotates_the_anonymous_id(isolated_env, monkeypatch):
"""Same leak by the other route: fingerprint disagrees and the lookup fails."""
merged = telemetry.anonymous_id()
monkeypatch.setenv("MEM0_API_KEY", "key-for-account-a")
with patch.object(telemetry, "_resolve_email", lambda key: "a@example.com"):
telemetry.resolve_distinct_id()
monkeypatch.setenv("MEM0_API_KEY", "key-for-account-b")
with patch.object(telemetry, "_resolve_email", lambda key: ""):
after, alias = telemetry.resolve_distinct_id()
assert after.startswith("code-anon-")
assert after != merged
assert alias == ""
assert "email" not in telemetry._read_identity()
def test_a_legacy_cached_email_is_verified_before_the_key_is_bound(isolated_env, monkeypatch):
"""Review finding: a key changed before upgrading bound the wrong account.
Rows written before fingerprints existed carry an email and no fingerprint.
Adopting the current key without checking pinned that key to the previous
account's email, and every run after that agreed with itself.
"""
telemetry._write_identity({"email": "old@example.com", "anonymous_id": "code-anon-seed"})
monkeypatch.setenv("MEM0_API_KEY", "key-for-account-b")
with patch.object(telemetry, "_resolve_email", lambda key: "new@example.com"):
resolved, alias = telemetry.resolve_distinct_id()
assert resolved == "new@example.com"
assert alias == "", "email to email must never alias; it merges two real people"
stored = telemetry._read_identity()
assert stored["email"] == "new@example.com"
assert stored["key_fingerprint"] == telemetry._digest("key-for-account-b")
def test_a_legacy_row_keeps_working_when_the_account_cannot_be_checked(isolated_env, monkeypatch):
"""Firewalled users must not lose attribution, and must not bind unverified.
The same network that fails /v1/ping/ fails the PostHog POST, so nothing is
delivered under the unverified identity while this holds.
"""
telemetry._write_identity({"email": "old@example.com"})
monkeypatch.setenv("MEM0_API_KEY", "key-for-account-b")
with patch.object(telemetry, "_resolve_email", lambda key: ""):
resolved, _ = telemetry.resolve_distinct_id()
assert resolved == "old@example.com"
assert "key_fingerprint" not in telemetry._read_identity(), "bound an unverified key"
def test_a_failed_upgrade_claim_can_be_retried(isolated_env, monkeypatch):
"""Review finding: a failed rewrite left the sentinel and suppressed forever.
claim_version_change returns early on FileExistsError, and the marker still
holds the old version, so the upgrade for that version was never recorded
again on that machine.
"""
telemetry.claim_install()
state_path = memory_core.data_dir() / "install-state.json"
state = json.loads(state_path.read_text())
state["plugin_version"] = "0.0.1-old"
state_path.write_text(json.dumps(state), encoding="utf-8")
real_replace = Path.replace
def failing_replace(self, target):
raise OSError("disk full")
monkeypatch.setattr(Path, "replace", failing_replace)
assert telemetry.claim_version_change() is None
monkeypatch.setattr(Path, "replace", real_replace)
assert telemetry.claim_version_change() == "0.0.1-old", "sentinel suppressed the retry"
def test_first_run_is_not_flipped_by_writing_the_identity_file(isolated_env):
"""The identity file is written by a successful flush, not by recording.
@@ -350,14 +453,59 @@ def test_salt_does_not_touch_the_identity_file(isolated_env):
assert not telemetry._identity_path().exists()
def test_salt_is_stable_when_it_cannot_be_persisted(isolated_env, monkeypatch):
"""A read-only data dir must degrade to a weaker salt, not to random-per-call.
def test_no_salt_means_no_hash_rather_than_an_unsalted_one(isolated_env, monkeypatch):
"""A read-only data dir drops the property; it must not emit a weak digest.
Random per call is unbounded cardinality in PostHog, which is worse than no
salt at all.
The previous fallback was a digest of the salt file's own path, which an
attacker can compute, memoized for the whole process. A property named
repo_hash carrying an effectively unsalted digest is worse than no property:
it reads as protected and is not.
"""
telemetry._salt_cache = ""
monkeypatch.setattr(telemetry.os, "open", lambda *a, **k: (_ for _ in ()).throw(OSError("read-only")))
first = telemetry._install_salt()
assert telemetry._install_salt() == ""
assert telemetry._scoped_digest("git@github.com:acme/secret.git") == ""
def test_a_half_written_salt_is_never_visible_to_another_process(isolated_env, monkeypatch):
"""The window this closes: file created, value not yet written.
O_CREAT|O_EXCL then write leaves the name present and empty in between. A
hook reading it there used to get "", fall back to the path digest and cache
that for its whole run, so the same repo hashed two ways depending on timing.
Publishing by link means the name either does not exist or is complete.
"""
telemetry._salt_cache = ""
assert telemetry._install_salt() == first
salt_path = telemetry._salt_path()
observed = []
real_link = telemetry.os.link
def observing_link(source, target):
# Stand where the racing reader stands: after the temp file is written,
# before the real name exists.
observed.append(salt_path.exists())
return real_link(source, target)
monkeypatch.setattr(telemetry.os, "link", observing_link)
salt = telemetry._install_salt()
assert observed == [False], "the salt name existed before it held a value"
assert len(salt) == 32
assert salt_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8").strip() == salt
def test_a_concurrent_writer_does_not_clobber_the_published_salt(isolated_env):
"""Second process to finish must adopt the first one's salt, not replace it.
os.link rather than os.replace is what makes losing the race harmless.
"""
telemetry._salt_cache = ""
first = telemetry._install_salt()
telemetry._salt_cache = ""
second = telemetry._install_salt()
assert second == first
assert not list(telemetry._salt_path().parent.glob("telemetry-salt.*.tmp")), "temp file left behind"