fix(panel): bed om en planlagt genstart, ikke en der dør med afsenderen
Release / Build and publish image (push) Failing after 10m6s

Knappen tog produktionen ned og lod den ligge. Panelets almindelige restart
udfører arbejdet mens forespørgslen står åben: den stopper containeren — hvilket
slår denne proces ihjel — og panelet, der ser afsenderen forsvinde, når aldrig
til den halvdel, der starter igen. Fire minutters nedetid den 18. august, og det
kan ikke lappes herfra: enhver knap, der synkront beder om sin egen død, har
samme form.

safe-restart planlægges i stedet. Panelet svarer "Restart scheduled" og gør
arbejdet bagefter for egen regning, så intet afhænger af, at denne proces stadig
er i live til at høre svaret.

Prøven hang bagefter, og det var prøvens skyld: dens falske panel læste aldrig
forespørgslens krop, og der er en nu. En server, der ikke læser hvad den fik,
opdager aldrig at afsenderen har lagt på — så httptest ventede på en handler, der
aldrig vendte tilbage, og hele binæren løb tør for tid i stedet for den ene
forespørgsel.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
Kristian Wind
2026-08-18 23:15:10 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent b0f78d1549
commit 993822f6fd
2 changed files with 23 additions and 2 deletions
+16 -2
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@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
"context"
"fmt"
"net/http"
"strings"
"time"
)
@@ -72,13 +73,26 @@ func (s *Server) handleRestartFromPanel(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request)
ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.WithoutCancel(r.Context()), 10*time.Second)
defer cancel()
url := fmt.Sprintf("%s/api/servers/%s/restart", s.cfg.PanelURL, s.cfg.PanelServerID)
req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodPost, url, nil)
// safe-restart rather than restart, and the difference is not politeness.
//
// The plain endpoint does its work while the request is open: it stops the
// container — which kills this process — and the panel, seeing the caller
// vanish, never gets to the starting half. That took production down and left
// it down for four minutes on 18 August, and it cannot be fixed from this side:
// any button that synchronously asks for its own death has the same shape.
//
// safe-restart is scheduled. The panel answers "Restart scheduled" and does the
// work on its own afterwards, so nothing depends on this process still being
// alive to hear the reply.
url := fmt.Sprintf("%s/api/servers/%s/safe-restart", s.cfg.PanelURL, s.cfg.PanelServerID)
body := strings.NewReader(`{"backup_first":false,"target_id":""}`)
req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodPost, url, body)
if err != nil {
s.internal(w, r, "build panel request", err)
return
}
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+s.cfg.PanelToken)
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
resp, err := (&http.Client{Timeout: 10 * time.Second}).Do(req)
if err != nil {
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@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
package httpapi
import (
"io"
"net/http"
"net/http/httptest"
"strings"
@@ -15,6 +16,11 @@ import (
// request has to end either way, or whatever sits in front answers for it.
func TestAPanelThatNeverAnswersStillEndsTheRequest(t *testing.T) {
panel := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
// Drained first. A real server reads what it was sent, and one that does not
// never learns the caller has hung up — httptest.Server.Close then waits for
// a handler that will never return, and the whole binary times out instead
// of the one request.
_, _ = io.Copy(io.Discard, r.Body)
<-r.Context().Done()
}))
defer panel.Close()
@@ -56,6 +62,7 @@ func TestAPanelThatNeverAnswersStillEndsTheRequest(t *testing.T) {
// And a panel that says no must say so in this server's own words, not in a proxy's.
func TestAPanelThatRefusesSaysSoAsJSON(t *testing.T) {
panel := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
_, _ = io.Copy(io.Discard, r.Body)
w.WriteHeader(http.StatusForbidden)
}))
defer panel.Close()