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What changed

Retention checks last_accessed_at in the database before clearing an artifact. With batched hit writes enabled, a download can record a hit after the sweep's initial flush while that hit is still only in memory. The retention update can then clear an artifact that was just served.

Serialize batch flushes with retention clears, flush pending artifact hits before the conditional clear, and hold the batch locks through that clear. If writing hits fails, abort the clear and restore the batch. Add a regression test for a hit buffered after the sweep's initial flush.

Validation

• go test ./internal/database ./internal/retention passes.
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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Expired artifacts are no longer cleared when they have a buffered hit recorded at or after the cleanup cutoff.

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Walkthrough

ClearExpiredArtifact now checks for a pending hit at or after the cutoff before it starts a transaction. A regression test verifies that the artifact is not cleared when such a hit exists.

Changes: Artifact retention

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Check pending hits before clearing internal/database/retention.go, internal/database/retention_test.go	ClearExpiredArtifact returns without clearing when the pending hit timestamp is at or after the cutoff. The regression test checks that the call returns false without an error.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested labels: bug

Suggested reviewers: pinguinfuss, simonchrz

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 5500a

The new check does not fully protect recently served artifacts. A hit that is drained for persistence, or buffered just after the check, can still let retention clear the artifact and queue its object for deletion. Serialize the clear with hit flushing and recording before merging.

Security architecture risk: Low · up to 5500a

The change protects recently used downloads in an additional case without expanding access or privileges. It does not fully eliminate the existing eviction race, and protection across shared deployments remains unconfirmed.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The changed decision affects cached artifacts selected by the existing retention policy. Request activity can influence retention through the corresponding artifact's hit record, but the new branch only prevents a clear; it grants no new deletion authority or ability to select an arbitrary storage path. No broader tenant or environment exposure was established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Retention eligibility remains controlled by configured ecosystem/package rules and locally calculated cutoffs. Hit timestamps are generated by the server, and SQL values remain parameterized. The pending-hit check does not replace these policy and identity controls.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Existing failure containment remains: an initial flush error aborts the sweep, failed batch writes are restored for retry, and a deletion-queue error rolls back the clear. Queued objects wait at least an hour or the configured signed-URL lifetime, referenced paths are excluded from reclaim selection, and failed deletes remain retryable. These controls mitigate interruption and cleanup failures but do not make the pending-hit check atomic with clearing.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — If strict recent-hit protection is required, define coordination covering pending and in-flight batches through the conditional clear, including failure restoration and shared-instance ownership. Validate forced drain-to-commit and check-to-clear interleavings. This would strengthen a pre-existing limitation, not remediate a newly introduced security finding.

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Explanation

The title "Prevent retention from clearing recently served artifacts" matches the main change. The summary says ClearExpiredArtifact now checks buffered hits and returns (false, nil) when a pending hit is at or after the cutoff, so a recently served artifact is not cleared. The objectives also describe serializing batch flushes with retention clears and flushing pending hits before a conditional clear. The title names the goal rather than every mechanism, which is acceptable.

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Additional comments: 1

internal/database/retention.go: 1

86-94: Trivial · Nitpick

Unverified finding
Verification ran but could not confirm this finding. It is shown for review, not as a verified issue.

Holding both hit locks through the clear is intentional. Lock ordering is consistent.

flushHits takes flushMu, then calls take and add, which take mu only briefly. ClearExpiredArtifact takes flushMu, then mu. Both paths use the same order, so no deadlock results.

flushHitsLocked bypasses take and add. It does not re-acquire mu, so the non-reentrant mutex is safe.

One side effect: RecordArtifactHit blocks on mu while the clear transaction runs. This applies to every request that records a hit. The delay is bounded by the transaction time. Watch it if clears slow down on Postgres.

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[simonchrz]

Thanks for this. The race is real, and the locking is correct as far as I can see: both paths take flushMu before mu, so they can't deadlock. I'd like the clear to be cheaper before this merges.

What it costs

hits.mu is taken by every cached download and every metadata hit. ClearExpiredArtifact now holds it over two transactions for each artifact it clears. I measured 1000 clears in a row on local SQLite while 8 goroutines recorded hits:

	main	this PR
RecordArtifactHit, median	~100 ns	1.1 ms
RecordArtifactHit, max	5–60 µs	1.7–3.5 ms

That is on a fast local disk. On a slow disk, or with Postgres over a network, each transaction takes longer and so does the wait. Hits are batched so that requests don't wait on database writes.

What it doesn't close

• A request reads the record and opens the object before it records its hit (readStored). A clear in between still goes through.
• Proxies that share a Postgres database don't see each other's buffers.

The delete queue's grace period is what keeps such a download working (see the comment on sweepRetention), so what the race costs is one refetch.

Suggestion

In ClearExpiredArtifact, take hits.mu only to look the artifact up in pending, and return false when it has a hit at or after cutoff. That needs no write under the lock, no flushMu and no flushHitsLocked, and it narrows the window about as much. Your test should pass with it unchanged.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @internal/database/retention.go:
- Line 89: Keep db.hits.mu held from the pending-hit check through completion of
the clear transaction so RecordArtifactHit cannot buffer a hit in between.
Coordinate the lock order with batch flushing and preserve a consistent order to
avoid deadlocks.
- Line 88: Serialize the retention clear with the `flushHits` batch lifecycle so
the pending-hit lookup cannot race with batch removal or persistence. Coordinate
operations that move or consume `db.hits.pending` with the clear, and if
persistence fails, restore the batch and abort the clear.

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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Serialize the clear with in-flight batch flushes.

If flushHits calls take() before this lookup, the recent hit is no longer in db.hits.pending. Pause the flush before writeHits, then run this clear. The lookup finds no hit, and the UPDATE can clear the artifact and queue its object for deletion. When the flush resumes, it updates the access timestamp but does not restore the artifact.

Use shared serialization across batch removal, persistence, and the clear. If persistence fails, restore the batch and abort the clear.

Based on learnings, coordinate all operations that move or consume the shared pending state.

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Review comment at @internal/database/retention.go at line 88:
Serialize the retention clear with the `flushHits` batch lifecycle so the pending-hit lookup cannot race with batch removal or persistence. Coordinate operations that move or consume `db.hits.pending` with the clear, and if persistence fails, restore the batch and abort the clear.

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[simonchrz]

Declining this one: closing the remaining window needs the clear to hold hits.mu (and flushMu) across the transaction, which is what the first version did and what made every cached download wait on retention writes (~100 ns → ~1.1 ms per hit in my measurement). What the window costs is one refetch: the delete queue's grace period keeps a download that races the clear working (see sweepRetention). The lookup narrows the window enough for that.

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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Keep hit recording excluded until the clear completes.

If the lookup finds no recent hit, this unlock lets RecordArtifactHit buffer a recent hit before the transaction starts. The UPDATE still sees the old persisted timestamp. It therefore clears the recently served artifact and queues its object for deletion.

Keep the pending-hit check and the clear in one critical section through transaction completion. Coordinate the lock order with batch flushing.

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Review comment at @internal/database/retention.go at line 89:
Keep db.hits.mu held from the pending-hit check through completion of the clear transaction so RecordArtifactHit cannot buffer a hit in between. Coordinate the lock order with batch flushing and preserve a consistent order to avoid deadlocks.

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[simonchrz]

Declining this one: closing the remaining window needs the clear to hold hits.mu (and flushMu) across the transaction, which is what the first version did and what made every cached download wait on retention writes (~100 ns → ~1.1 ms per hit in my measurement). What the window costs is one refetch: the delete queue's grace period keeps a download that races the clear working (see sweepRetention). The lookup narrows the window enough for that.

[simonchrz]

Thanks, this is what I had in mind.