ROX-33222: handle multiple hardlinks - #1468
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds eBPF hardlink event capture, Rust link-event serialization, and reference-counted inode tracking. It updates unlink and rename cleanup and adds tests for monitored, ignored, and multiple hardlink scenarios. ChangesHardlink event tracking
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔴 Critical · up to The change currently includes a compile error and can misidentify file paths or retain stale inode tracking during hardlink operations, so it is not safe to merge until these correctness issues are fixed. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Filesystem
participant trace_path_link
participant RingBuffer
participant HostScanner
Filesystem->>trace_path_link: create hardlink
trace_path_link->>RingBuffer: submit FILE_ACTIVITY_LINK
RingBuffer->>HostScanner: deliver link event
HostScanner->>HostScanner: update inode reference count and host path
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In `@fact/src/event/mod.rs`:
- Line 158: Update the FileData::Link match pattern to use tuple-variant syntax,
replacing the invalid struct-style pattern with a wildcard payload match.
In `@fact/src/host_scanner.rs`:
- Around line 521-526: Update the rename handling around unref_inode and the
inode_map insertion so a destination inode with remaining monitored hardlinks
retains a valid destination path rather than being assigned the overwritten
path. Store or rebuild per-inode monitored paths before forwarding the rename
event, while preserving the old_inode mapping for the renamed source.
- Line 428: Update the ignored-event cleanup branch following
update_entry_with_inode in the host scanner to also remove the matching
usage_count entry when removing inode_map and kernel_inode_map entries. Preserve
reference-aware removal for events that actually added a monitored reference.
In `@tests/test_path_link.py`:
- Line 291: Update the test around server.wait_events(events) to add a bounded
quiescence check after the expected UNLINK event, draining or observing
subsequent queued events before asserting that none are OPEN. Preserve the
existing expected-event verification and use the test’s existing event-server
mechanisms.
- Around line 66-68: Extend the test covering the monitored hardlinks created
with os.link to unlink one non-primary link, open another remaining monitored
link, and assert that an OPEN event is emitted with the expected host_path. Keep
the existing CREATION assertions and use the test’s established event-waiting
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔴 Critical | ⚡ Quick win
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Use a tuple-variant pattern.
FileData::Link is declared as Link(BaseFileData), so FileData::Link { .. } is invalid and prevents compilation. Change it to FileData::Link(_).
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In `@fact/src/event/mod.rs` at line 158, Update the FileData::Link match pattern
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| match self.build_host_path(event) { | ||
| Some(host_path) => self | ||
| .update_entry_with_inode(*inode, host_path) | ||
| .update_entry_with_inode(*inode, host_path, true) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Clear usage counts during ignored-event cleanup.
Line 428 increments the inode count before the later ignored-event branch directly removes only inode_map and kernel_inode_map. For a creation under a monitored parent that fails the final glob match, the count remains. A later monitored hardlink increments that stale count, so its final unlink leaves the inode tracked with no monitored path.
Remove the matching usage_count entry when ignored-event cleanup removes an inode, or route cleanup through reference-aware removal only when the event added a reference.
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In `@fact/src/host_scanner.rs` at line 428, Update the ignored-event cleanup
branch following update_entry_with_inode in the host scanner to also remove the
matching usage_count entry when removing inode_map and kernel_inode_map entries.
Preserve reference-aware removal for events that actually added a monitored
reference.
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| unreachable!("old inode not found for rename event"); | ||
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| inode_map.insert(*old_inode, path); | ||
| self.inode_map.borrow_mut().insert(*old_inode, path); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift
Keep a valid path for a destination inode with remaining links.
If the destination inode has more than one monitored link, unref_inode(inode) retains its inode_map entry. Line 526 then assigns that same path to old_inode, although the destination path was overwritten. Later activity through another destination hardlink can therefore use the replaced path as its host_path.
Store each monitored path per inode, or rebuild the destination inode path mapping before forwarding the rename event.
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In `@fact/src/host_scanner.rs` around lines 521 - 526, Update the rename handling
around unref_inode and the inode_map insertion so a destination inode with
remaining monitored hardlinks retains a valid destination path rather than being
assigned the overwritten path. Store or rebuild per-inode monitored paths before
forwarding the rename event, while preserving the old_inode mapping for the
renamed source.
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| os.link(original, link3) |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Test partial monitored-link removal.
This test creates multiple monitored dentries but verifies only CREATION events. It does not test the reference-count transition that this PR changes.
Unlink one non-primary monitored hardlink, then open another remaining monitored hardlink. Assert that the OPEN event is still emitted with the expected host_path. Otherwise, an implementation that removes the inode after the first unlink will pass this suite.
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In `@tests/test_path_link.py` around lines 66 - 68, Extend the test covering the
monitored hardlinks created with os.link to unlink one non-primary link, open
another remaining monitored link, and assert that an OPEN event is emitted with
the expected host_path. Keep the existing CREATION assertions and use the test’s
established event-waiting and cleanup helpers.
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Assert that no later OPEN event is emitted.
server.wait_events(events) returns as soon as it consumes the expected UNLINK event. EventServer._wait_events does not inspect subsequent queue entries. An incorrect OPEN event from line 266 can arrive after that return, and this test will still pass.
Add a bounded quiescence assertion that drains or observes the event queue after the expected events. Then assert that it contains no OPEN event.
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In `@tests/test_path_link.py` at line 291, Update the test around
server.wait_events(events) to add a bounded quiescence check after the expected
UNLINK event, draining or observing subsequent queued events before asserting
that none are OPEN. Preserve the existing expected-event verification and use
the test’s existing event-server mechanisms.
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When files are tracked via their inode (host), we need to take into account that access may be done using a dentry (path) that is not the monitored one. Also, we need to adapt the kernel "monitored" inode life-cycle to verify if there are paths still monitored. The host_scanner model has to be updated to support several paths per inode.
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