* Make backend tests wait on conditions instead of durations
The backend workflow has a long tail of runs that fail once and pass on
a rerun. Every one of them comes down to a test assuming an operation
finishes within some duration rather than waiting for the state it
needs. Three were reproducible and each was reproduced against the old
code before being changed: TestServerAuthHooks minted a token that lived
one second and never tested expiry, so a slow runner turned the first
POST into a 401; TestServerApp_AnonMode saw "connection refused" because
waitForHTTPServerStart returned silently after three seconds and left a
later assertion to fail with something unrelated; TestFsStore_Cleanup
slept 200ms against a 300ms ttl that Cleanup widens to 400ms with its
commit grace, so roughly 100ms of stall collected an image meant to
survive.
Fixed sleeps before asserting on asynchronous work are replaced with
polls on the condition itself, using require.Eventually and
require.EventuallyWithT, and require.Never where the assertion is that
something did not happen. Polling closures assert on the CollectT they
are handed rather than on t, since testify runs them on another
goroutine, and polls that issue HTTP requests stay under the rate limit
on the routes they poll through.
Where a test needs time to have passed, the clock input is pinned
instead: staging ages are stamped with os.Chtimes on both sides of the
cleanup boundary right before each call, which also makes the 100ms
commit grace an exact case rather than something no assertion reaches,
and the RSS tests set store.Comment.Timestamp explicitly rather than
racing the wall clock into the first 100ms of a second so pubDate
matches.
chooseUnusedPort takes a port from the kernel's ephemeral range. Picking
at random out of a fixed 10000-port window let two package binaries,
which go test ./... runs concurrently, land on the same number between
the probe closing and the server binding. The start helpers fail naming
the port they waited on, and the SSL tests wait on the redirect port as
well as the TLS one.
Arbitrary budgets that nothing tests are gone: ten HTTP clients with a
one-second timeout against bolt-backed import and export, the "should
take about 100msec" assertions, and a one-second bound on noticing an
already cancelled context. Shutdown stays bounded at ten seconds so a
hang is still caught.
Two assertions get stronger. TestServerAuthHooks accepted 403 or 401
from a blocked user, an alternative that existed only because the short
token could expire mid-test; it is deterministically 403 now.
TestAdmin_BlockedList asserted two users blocked while one carried the
same 150ms ttl the next step waits to lapse, so the halves raced each
other.
goleak stops reporting the regexp2 clock goroutine, which chroma pulls
in for syntax highlighting and which lives for up to a second after the
last match with a timeout; it ends on its own but a binary finishing
inside that window was reported as leaking, and this suite now finishes
sooner. The ignore for net/http.(*Server).Shutdown goes the other way:
it no longer matches anything, with both packages run fifteen times each
under CPU oversubscription to confirm.
Two gaps the change would otherwise have opened are covered directly
rather than left to the side effects that used to cover them. The
one-second token was the only thing exercising the authenticator's
ClaimsUpd hook on refresh, so TestServerApp_ClaimsUpd now calls the hook
itself and checks admin, blocked, email and restricted-name
impersonation, including the two pass-through cases. Lifting the
open-route limit removed the last incidental exercise of the rate
limiter, so TestRateLimiter drives a burst past the allowance and checks
the refusals and that the limit is per client. Both run without a wall
clock, and both were confirmed to fail when the behaviour they cover is
removed.
Production code is untouched. The two sleeps outside test code, the 429
backoff in cmd/cleanup.go and the submit poll in store/image/image.go,
are left alone: no CI failure implicates them.
Test sleeps drop from 67 to 21, all of them either inside a
testing/synctest bubble or a poll interval. The suite runs in about 22
seconds instead of 46, mostly because
TestPublic_FindCommentsCtrl_ConsistentCount no longer paces a hundred
subtests with an 80ms sleep each to stay under the open route limit. The
300s per-package budget now matches across both workflows, the race_test
target and the documented command, and CLAUDE.md records the convention.
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backend/app/cmd/import_test.go # modified:
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backend/app/rest/api/migrator_test.go # modified:
backend/app/rest/api/rest_private_test.go # modified:
backend/app/rest/api/rest_public_test.go # modified:
backend/app/rest/api/rest_test.go # modified:
backend/app/rest/api/rss_test.go # modified:
backend/app/rest/proxy/image_test.go # modified:
backend/app/store/image/fs_store_test.go # modified:
backend/app/store/service/service_test.go # modified:
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* Apply go fix under Go 1.27
Go 1.27 extends go fix with the modernizers, so `go fix ./...` now
rewrites patterns the language has since replaced. Running it across all
three modules produces this: legacy sync/atomic calls on plain integers
become the atomic types (notify.Service.closed, image.Service.term and
submitCount, and several test counters), reverse index loops become
slices.Backward, a Split-then-index becomes strings.Cut, counted loops
become range over an int, and interface{} becomes any in the e2e suite.
The example module needed no changes. The e2e module is behind a build
tag, so it only matches with `go fix -tags e2e ./...`.
One knock-on: prealloc can see the bound of a loop once it is written as
range over an int, so the slice it feeds is now preallocated.
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'fix/backend-test-flakiness' on '7c312da1'. # # Changes to be committed:
backend/app/migrator/native.go # modified: backend/app/notify/notify.go
backend/app/rest/api/rest_private_test.go # modified:
backend/app/store/comment.go # modified:
backend/app/store/image/image.go # modified:
backend/app/store/service/service_test.go # modified:
backend/app/store/service/title_test.go # modified: e2e/e2e_test.go #
modified: e2e/widgets_test.go #
alterComment issued two engine.Flag calls (Blocked, then Verified) for
every comment, so a listing of N comments triggered up to 2N BoltDB read
transactions even when many comments shared the same author. Find,
FindSince, User and Last all funnel through it.
Add a userFlagCache that memoises blocked/verified results by site and
user for the duration of a single listing, so repeated authors are
looked up once. alterComment keeps its signature for single-comment
callers (Get) by using a fresh cache; the batch paths share one.
The limit() boundary used >=, so a subtree that fit the page exactly was
treated as overflow and dropped — under-filling the final page (e.g.
limit=5 over subtrees 3,2 returned only the first subtree, 3 comments,
instead of both). Change it to > so an exact-fit subtree is included;
the first node is still always returned in full and larger subtrees
still overflow to the next page.
Adds table tests for MakeTree's limit/offset pagination and countReplies,
and updates the /find consistent-count expectations for the corrected
boundary.
notify/email.go accumulated multi-recipient errors with
multierror.Append(fmt.Errorf(...)) instead of
multierror.Append(result, ...), so the accumulator was overwritten each
iteration and only the last failing recipient's error survived; earlier
failures were silently dropped. The telegram notifier did it correctly.
Replace hashicorp/go-multierror with the stdlib errors.Join everywhere
it was used (notify/email.go, notify/telegram.go, rest/api/rest_private.go,
store/service/service.go, store/image/image.go and store/engine/bolt.go),
which fixes the bug and drops the direct dependency. It stays indirect
because go-pkgz/lcw/v2 still imports it. A regression test in
email_test.go now sends two failing recipients and asserts both errors
are reported.
Go 1.25's testing/synctest package (GA) provides a fake clock bubble
for deterministic goroutine and timer testing. Convert tests that
waited on real-time durations to use synctest, removing most wall-clock
time.Sleep workarounds.
Converted (11 tests, 9 files):
- notify/notify_test.go — all tests, replaced 17 time.Sleep(110ms) with synctest.Wait()
- store/service/service_test.go — VoteSameIPWithDuration, UserReplies, submitImages,
ResubmitStagingImages, deleteImagesOnCommentDelete
- store/image/{image,bolt_store}_test.go — Cleanup, Submit, SubmitDelay
- store/engine/bolt_test.go — FlagListBlocked
- providers/telegram_test.go — DispatchTelegramUpdates
- migrator/backup_test.go — TestBackup_Do
- _example/memory_store/accessor/data_test.go — FlagListBlocked
Simplifications along the way:
- notify/notify_mock.go: dropped the 10ms time.After delay and
ctx.Done select in MockDest — the artificial I/O simulation is
pointless and blocked synctest.Wait from draining the queue
- Removed three dead-code time.Sleep(1s) calls in EditCommentDurationFailed,
EditCommentAdmin, and Info tests: prepopulated comments from 2017
already exceed any EditDuration/ReadOnlyAge under real clock, making
the sleeps meaningless
- UserReplies: replaced the Eventually+Sleep+mutex polling with a
direct time.Sleep under fake clock
Skipped (incompatible with synctest):
- fs_store_test.go: relies on OS file mtime (real wall clock)
- rss_test.go: needs real wall-clock second boundary for pubDate
- admin/rest_private/rest_public tests: httptest network I/O
- cmd/server_test.go: real HTTP server startup polling
Notes on quirks encountered:
- synctest.Wait() does NOT advance fake time, contrary to what one
might expect. It only returns once all other bubble goroutines are
durably blocked. To advance the fake clock, the test goroutine must
itself call time.Sleep
- BoltDB keys the "last" bucket by comment.Timestamp nanosecond string.
Rapid b.Create calls under frozen fake time produce identical keys
and overwrite each other. TestService_UserReplies adds
time.Sleep(time.Nanosecond) between Creates to advance the clock
- Bolt image Cleanup uses strict age > ttl. Under fake time the
age-ttl delta is exactly zero at the boundary, so subtract 1ms from
the passed ttl to stay strictly under
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The image proxy got an ssrfSafeTransport in commit aca0cff3 that resolves
DNS first, blocks any IP in private/reserved CIDRs, then dials by IP to
defeat DNS rebinding. The TitleExtractor used to construct comments'
PostTitle from Locator.URL — a user-supplied field — was missed by that
fix and kept using http.DefaultTransport. The hostname allowlist there
checks the parsed URL host but never the IP it resolves to, so a domain
suffix-matching an allowed host (or 127.0.0.1 itself when AllowedHosts
is empty) reaches the metadata service or any other internal endpoint.
The same gosec rule (G704) was excluded globally in .golangci.yml as part
of aca0cff3, so this gap was not caught by the linter either.
Extract the transport into a new safehttp package so it lives in one
place and can be reused, then pass safehttp.Transport() into the
TitleExtractor's http.Client at construction (cmd/server.go). The image
proxy switches to safehttp.Transport() too — same behaviour, no longer
duplicated.
Reproduction in title_test.go uses the production-style client to hit
an httptest.Server (always 127.0.0.1) and asserts the dialer refuses
even though "127.0.0.1" is in the allowed-domains list. A control case
shows the same setup without safehttp.Transport returns the page —
making the original vulnerability explicit.
The store tests stored timestamps with time.Local in their fixtures and
asserted equality against returned values that the engine round-trips
through UTC. assert.Equal compares zone identity, so on UTC machines
(CI, most cloud envs) Local==UTC and the tests passed; on a developer
machine in any other timezone (here BST, UTC+1) TestService_Put,
TestService_List, TestBoltDB_InfoPost, TestBoltDB_InfoList and several
others would fail with same wall-clock numbers but mismatched zones.
Replace time.Local with time.UTC across store/comment_test.go,
store/formatter_test.go, store/service/service_test.go,
store/engine/bolt_test.go, store/engine/engine_test.go. Production code
is untouched.
Apply go fix ./... analysers (Go 1.26) across backend and examples:
- interface{} → any (type alias, no behaviour change)
- for i := 0; i < N; i++ → for range N / for i := range N
- slices.Contains / slices.ContainsFunc replacing manual loops
- strings.SplitSeq replacing strings.Split in range (avoids allocation)
- strings.CutPrefix replacing HasPrefix+TrimPrefix
- min() replacing manual if/else
- fmt.Appendf replacing []byte(fmt.Sprintf(...))
- strings.Builder replacing string += concatenation
- wg.Go(func(){}) replacing wg.Add(1)/go/wg.Done() pattern
- removed redundant ii := i loop variable copies (unnecessary since Go 1.22)
omitempty on struct-typed JSON fields: go fix removed omitempty from
struct-typed fields (time.Time, PostInfo, UserDetailEntry) because
encoding/json's omitempty never applied to struct types — it was always
a no-op. Kept as bare tags (no omitzero replacement) to preserve the
existing serialisation behaviour.
Replace strings.Split(RemoteAddr, ":") with net.SplitHostPort for correct
IPv6 address extraction in vote deduplication and comment IP tracking.
Harden image proxy: add SSRF-safe transport blocking private/reserved IPs
at connection time with DNS rebinding protection, sanitize error messages
to prevent information leakage, add response size limit via io.LimitReader.
Fix shadowed error variables in BlockedUsers, SetTitle, and Delete methods.
Exclude gosec taint analysis false positives at linter config level.
`format=tree` pagination provides top-level comments with all replies
and returns the last top-level comment as `last_comment` to be used
as `offset` for the next page. If comments and replies overflow
the limit, the one stepping out of the limit will not be returned.
If the first comment and its replies after the given offset overflow
the limit, it will be returned with all the replies.
`format=plain` pagination works by providing all comments and returning
the last comment as `last_comment` to be used as `offset`
for the next page.
MakeTree calculated Info locally for historical reasons,
and the results were consistent with the dataService.Info call
but calculated differently.
That change fixes that, ensuring that Info is requested
in the same manner.
Previously, images were deleted only from comments deleted
before EditDuration expiration. After this change, any deletion
of the comment deletes images if they are not used elsewhere
in comments under the same page.
Previously, only the first one was returned for site-wide requests,
and now all returned information will be correctly aggregated,
and the PostInfo.URL and PostInfo.ReadOnly parameters will be dropped.
Allowed domains consist of `REMARK_URL` second-level domain (or whole IP in case it's IP like `127.0.0.1`) and `ALLOWED_HOSTS`. That is needed to prevent Remark42 from asking arbitrary servers and storing the page title as the comment.PostTitle.
Previous behaviour allowed the caller of the API to create a comment
with an arbitrary URL and learn the title of the page, which might be
accessible to the server Remark42 is installed on but not to the user
outside that network (CWE-918).
Allowed domains consist of `REMARK_URL` second-level domain (or whole IP in case it's IP like `127.0.0.1`) and `ALLOWED_HOSTS`. That is needed to prevent Remark42 from asking arbitrary servers and storing the page title as the comment.PostTitle.
Previous behaviour allowed the caller of the API to create a comment
with an arbitrary URL and learn the title of the page, which might be
accessible to the server Remark42 is installed on but not to the user
outside that network (CWE-918).
Previously, we stripped unsafe HTML tags but left some,
but it's not expected to have a link in a title or username,
so the new behaviour is stripping everything.
Previously, proxied and local images were checked for presence in the
storage before previewing or posting the comment. That logic resulted in
an inability to post with an image when a proxy for images is enabled,
as proxied images are not downloaded to disk before the first time
someone loads them, which could only happen after the user either
previews or posts the message.
After this change, preview and post only checks the local images'
presence and ignore the proxied ones.
(url) is a text inserted by default and never an intended URL.
That additional validation will ensure that users won't post relative
links because they are rarely intended.
I haven't found a linter for these, so I had to catch these manually.
I found #757 to fix one of these, and I thought it would be good
to fix everything at once.
Previously, the cache kept the entry and deletion of the parent comment
after child deletion was not possible for the rest
of cache life (5m) duration. Now it's possible to delete
a parent comment after the deletion of the child comment
by a user or admin.
Resolves#1481
Previously we built a Docker image just for the test,
but the introduction of multi-arch build in 9fbf0952
build also meant the push of the image, so it was
restricted only to the master branch.
This change re-introduces the Docker image build
outside the master branch, which is helpful
in pull requests.
We recently had a few frontend PRs which broke
the Docker image build silently, and that change
prevents it from happening.
Also:
- make commitTTL equal to EditDuration,
so that image is committed to permanent
storage after comment can no longer be edited
- move cleanupTTL to Cleanup function,
as it's not used elsewhere in the code
- add variables to some tests sleeps, so that
instead of being magic numbers they would
rely on timers of structures they suppose
to wait for
That function returns an error in a never
expected condition, and that error would be
logged message on the caller side:
none of the callers handles it.
That change hides that error from the caller
so that function would have a signature that
better fit what it does and how it behaves.
