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MechaCat02 05063694d2 fix: close eight regressions the audit pass found, five of them mine
Two adversarial reviews over 61119be, 1d9fb11 and eb0e405. The merge itself came
back clean — client_upload_id end to end, TempFileGuard's arm/retarget/disarm, the
supervised sweep wiring and v_feed's column parity were all verified sound. What
follows is what my own three commits broke.

BLOCKER — a post-release rebuild was permanently impossible, and it 404'd the keepsake

1d9fb11 deferred prune_superseded_archives to run only on success, so a failed
rebuild could no longer destroy the last good archive. It did not follow that
through: ensure_export_space runs BEFORE the prune, so at rebuild time the previous
generation is still on disk and counted against free. That halves the gallery a
rebuild can survive (~4.6 GB) relative to what the upload gate accepts (~7.8 GB) —
and it self-locks, because invalidate_and_arm bumps the epoch on COMMIT, which 404s
both download routes immediately, while the only code that could free the space now
runs only after a success that can never happen. A guest deleting their own photo is
enough to trigger it. Recovery needed `docker exec rm`.

Now two-phase: try to build while preserving the old generation; if that genuinely
does not fit, reclaim it and try once more. Strictly better than both the original
ordering and my change — the old archive is sacrificed only when it is the only way
to get a new one.

BLOCKER — the deferred prune could delete the last archive when a worker LOST the race

run_*_export_inner returned Ok(()) on the superseded/discard path, so `res.is_ok()`
fired the prune with the worker's own RETIRED epoch as keep_seq. At that moment the
winning generation is still `pending` with no file, so protected_files is empty and
the last good archive was deleted with no replacement. Exactly the invariant
deferring the prune was meant to establish. Returns Err(Superseded) now, which
abandon_if_superseded already swallows for the caller.

BLOCKER — the low-disk banner could never fire before the wall

eb0e405's gate refuses at `free < keepsake + DISK_RESERVE`, while disk_is_low warned
at `free < keepsake`. The two differ by the whole reserve, so the wall always came
first: every guest blocked from uploading while the host dashboard showed ~27 GB free
and no banner, with nobody on site. disk_is_low now shares the gate's expression plus
a 25% margin, and a test asserts the banner fires at the gate threshold across the
whole gallery-size range.

BLOCKER — I raised the unauthenticated bcrypt ceiling 24x on a 2 vCPU box

1d9fb11 moved admin_login's tight bucket after verify_password (correct — that is what
stops a guest locking the operator out) but replaced the incidental 5/min bound on
bcrypt with 120/min and nothing global. bcrypt is on spawn_blocking, but tokio's
blocking pool is 512 threads, so "off the runtime" is not "bounded": enough concurrent
verifies preempt both async workers and uploads, feed and SSE stall. Three
unauthenticated endpoints reach bcrypt and every guest shares one NAT IP, so per-IP
limits bound nothing globally. Adds a process-wide semaphore of `cores - 1` around both
verify and hash, and drops the ceiling to 30.

Also correcting my own claim: "a correct password is never throttled" was wrong. The
failure bucket cannot block it, but the CPU ceiling still can. The code comment said so;
the commit message did not.

BLOCKER — migration 025 could crash-loop the app on boot

Its UPDATE derives `Name (8hex)` with no guard against idx_user_event_name_ci. A guest
who had already joined as exactly that string makes the migration fail, which
propagates out of create_pool, exits main, and `restart: unless-stopped` turns it into
a permanent loop — a worse version of the lockout the migration exists to clean up.
Now skips colliding rows (create_admin_user already falls back to Admin-<8hex>, so the
cleanup is convenience, not load-bearing). Also `role = 'guest'` rather than
`<> 'admin'`, which was renaming legitimately promoted hosts named "Host".

DEGRADATION — the watchdog's suspension credit was unbounded

Background tabs are throttled to ~1 tick/min WITHOUT the network stack pausing, and the
tick gap cannot tell that from a freeze. Crediting every late tick grew the observed
silence by only one interval per real minute, so a dead socket took ~18 minutes to
detect while holding the queue's processing latch. Credit is now capped at one stall
window and REFILLS on real progress: an upload that is moving survives any number of
screen locks, while one that is silent and suspended is detected within ~3 minutes.

DEGRADATION — the 4xx log line was an unauthenticated log-injection vector

validate_display_name allowed newlines, several 4xx messages interpolate the name, and
%message wrote it unescaped. Two unauthenticated /join requests could forge arbitrary
lines in the only forensic record an unattended event has. Fixed at both ends: control
characters rejected at the door, and `detail = ?message` escapes on the way out (which
also stops colliding with tracing's reserved `message` field). 401/404 drop to DEBUG —
they carry no operator signal and were the cheapest lines for a scanner to use to roll
the 30 MB log window in minutes.

DEGRADATION — the quota floor was inverted exactly where it mattered

`computed.max(MIN.min(budget))`: `budget` is the whole disk's share, so below 500 MiB
the "floor" became the entire remaining budget and EVERY uploader was authorised all of
it — 400 MB free, 3 uploaders, 300 MB each. A test pinned that as correct under the name
`the_floor_never_exceeds_what_the_disk_can_back`. Both fixed.

Also replaces the headline gate test, which asserted its own precondition inside an `if`
on that precondition and could not fail. It now pins what actually binds the gate to the
preflight — that required_free_bytes charges for both halves — plus the ceiling band.

Verified: 151/151 backend tests against a live Postgres, clippy clean, 58/58 vitest,
svelte-check 0 errors, eslint clean, both builds, caddy validate, and the migration
collision reproduced against Postgres 16 before and after.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-08 22:33:43 +02:00
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Migrations

SQLx-managed Postgres migrations. Each NNN_topic.up.sql has a matching NNN_topic.down.sql. Run by sqlx::migrate!() at app start.

Rules

  1. Never edit a shipped migration. If a column needs to change or a fix needs to land, write a new migration. Production has already applied the old one and SQLx tracks each by checksum — editing in place will fail to apply on existing databases.
  2. Always pair .up.sql with a .down.sql. Reverts may not be perfect (data loss is sometimes unavoidable) but the file must exist and do the best it can.
  3. Prefer additive changes. New columns, new tables, new keys in config. Drop / rename only when there is no alternative.
  4. No business logic in migrations. Schema + seeds only. Anything that needs Rust code goes in a one-off binary, not a migration file.
  5. One concern per migration. Easier to revert. Easier to read in git log.

Numbering

Zero-padded three digits, monotonically increasing. The next free number lives at the bottom of the directory listing — pick that.

Seed-only migrations

When you only need to add config keys (feature flags, defaults), use INSERT … ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING so existing operator overrides survive. See 009_feature_toggles.up.sql for the canonical shape.