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fix(daemon): controlled exit on SIGTERM — gate new work, drain 5 s, flush - #1486

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Follow-up to #1480 / #1482: the first of the two known limits noted in #1482.

Problem

On Linux and macOS the daemon did not handle SIGTERM. The signal's default action killed the process instantly: no zccache flush, and the pid/port/status files were left behind. SIGTERM comes from:

  • fbuild daemon kill without --force.
  • The escalation in fbuild daemon stop.
  • docker stop, systemd, and CI runner teardown.

The existing graceful HTTP drain is not a fit either, because it waits for every open request, and a running build is one long request.

Change: controlled exit on SIGTERM

  1. Stop accepting work immediately. The operation routes (/api/build, /api/deploy, /api/monitor, /api/install-deps, /api/reset, /api/test-emu) answer 503 with a failed OperationResponse: "fbuild daemon is shutting down and accepts no new work; rerun the command to start a fresh daemon". The CLI already prints that message. The same gate applies after an accepted HTTP shutdown, since both set is_shutting_down.
  2. Give in-flight operations up to 5 s (SHUTDOWN_DRAIN_BUDGET). This uses a new exact in-flight counter, DaemonContext::active_operations, kept by OperationGuard. The existing operation_in_progress bool is cleared by whichever of two concurrent operations finishes first, so it can't be used to wait for all of them.
  3. Persist and clean up. Flush zccache with the existing 4 s cap (EXIT_FLUSH_BUDGET), remove the pid/port/claim/status files, then exit. Build children still running at that point are reaped by the process containment group.

The worst case is 5 s + 4 s. Normally it is about 150 ms plus whatever an in-flight operation needs.

CLI: after a delivered graceful terminate, fbuild daemon stop now waits TERMINATE_EXIT_BUDGET + 1 s (10 s) before forcing a kill, so the kill never lands mid-flush. A refused terminate (the usual Windows taskkill case) keeps the old 5 s wait.

persist_and_clean_up is now the single cleanup-and-flush step for both the HTTP/Ctrl+C exit and the SIGTERM exit. Windows is unchanged: its close, logoff and shutdown events already go through the graceful path.

Validation

  • soldr cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings, bash test, cargo fmt --check: all clean.
  • New tests:
    • shutdown::tests: operations run normally; operations are refused with the message once shutdown starts; the drain returns as soon as the last operation ends; the drain gives up at its budget; the budget constants are consistent.
    • operation_guards_count_concurrent_operations_exactly.
  • End to end on the real binaries (dev mode):
    • SIGTERM during a build that outlasts the drain (clean ESP32 build): the log shows SIGTERM received … in_flight=1. A second build sent 0.35 s later was refused with the message above. After 5 s the log shows in-flight operations still running after 5s; exiting anyway, then metadata cache flushed and zccache backend flushed (about 155 ms). The pid/port files were removed. The in-flight build reported lost connection to daemon mid-build.
    • SIGTERM during a build that finishes inside the window (uno --clean): in-flight operations finished, then the flush and exit. The daemon exited 339 ms after SIGTERM, and the build succeeded.

Not in this PR

The second limit, zccache's flush order and the consistency of a partial flush, is tracked upstream as zackees/zccache#1719.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Daemon shutdown now allows in-progress operations up to five seconds to finish before exiting. New operations receive a service-unavailable response once shutdown begins.
    • Shutdown cleanup removes daemon status and ownership records and attempts to flush cached data within a bounded time.
    • The stop command allows the daemon’s graceful-exit window to complete before forcing termination. The wait varies by platform, and the existing five-second confirmation period after a forced kill remains unchanged.

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The daemon now coordinates operation admission with shutdown. On SIGTERM, it refuses selected new operations, waits for admitted requests and active operations within a fixed budget, then removes daemon records and performs a bounded cache flush. The CLI adjusts its wait based on the platform and termination outcome.

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Daemon shutdown flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Termination signals and timing
crates/fbuild-core/src/daemon_health.rs, crates/fbuild-core/src/platform/*/process.rs, crates/fbuild-cli/src/cli/daemon_stop.rs
Adds shared drain and flush budgets, platform termination-signal functions, and CLI waits based on the platform and terminate outcome.
Operation admission and tracking
crates/fbuild-daemon/src/context.rs, crates/fbuild-daemon/src/handlers/operations/common.rs, crates/fbuild-daemon/src/handlers/operations/build.rs
Coordinates request admission with shutdown, counts admitted requests and active operations, and keeps streaming operations tracked across worker execution. Drain waits include both counts.
Shutdown orchestration and cleanup
crates/fbuild-daemon/src/shutdown.rs, crates/fbuild-daemon/src/main.rs, crates/fbuild-daemon/src/handlers/health.rs, crates/fbuild-daemon/src/lib.rs, crates/fbuild-daemon/src/README.md
Adds shutdown middleware and termination handling, gates selected operation routes, and delegates daemon-record removal and bounded cache flushing to shared cleanup. Tests cover admission, refusal, draining, and the combined termination budget.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant TerminationSignal
  participant DaemonTask
  participant OperationRoutes
  participant DaemonContext
  participant Cleanup
  participant Zccache
  TerminationSignal->>DaemonTask: SIGTERM received
  DaemonTask->>OperationRoutes: begin shutdown
  OperationRoutes-->>DaemonTask: refuse new operations with HTTP 503
  DaemonTask->>DaemonContext: wait for admitted requests and active operations
  DaemonTask->>Cleanup: remove daemon records
  Cleanup->>Zccache: flush within exit budget
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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a59fd

The existing shutdown test fails under the new admission contract. Update its setup before merging; the investigated emulator routes do not require an additional shutdown gate.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a59fd

A request that remains open before starting an operation can now prevent ordinary HTTP shutdown. Forced termination remains available, but the change affects a shared availability control. The consequences of flushing the cache when work outlasts the drain period are not fully established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: An admitted operation request that remains pending before starting work can keep non-forced HTTP shutdown in conflict, changing the shutdown availability boundary from active work to open request futures. Effective attacker reachability remains unverified.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — A client able to reach an operation route could affect that daemon’s ordinary HTTP shutdown by holding an admitted request open. The evidence does not support a claim of cross-tenant or externally reachable exposure.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A pending operation request retains its admission token without requiring active work. Repeating or sustaining such a request makes non-forced shutdown return conflict; forced shutdown and SIGTERM are countervailing controls.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The shared admission mutex orders accepted operation requests before the shutdown transition. Non-forced HTTP shutdown rejects counted work; forced shutdown can close admission despite it.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — On drain timeout, persistence proceeds without joining remaining operations. The inspected cache wrapper delegates flush to its backend; serialization with surviving writes and restart consistency were not established.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Bound or cancel admission for requests stalled before operation startup while preserving the rule that no work starts after admission closes.
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zackees force-pushed the fix/sigterm-controlled-exit branch 2 times, most recently from 7c680fb to 02a4aab Compare September 26, 2026 21:43
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zackees force-pushed the fix/sigterm-controlled-exit branch 2 times, most recently from 249e8a6 to 95e5afe Compare September 27, 2026 06:05
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Before this, SIGTERM on Linux/macOS (`fbuild daemon kill`, the escalation
in `fbuild daemon stop`, docker stop, CI teardown) killed the daemon with
no zccache flush and stale pid/port files. Routing it through the graceful
HTTP drain would instead wait out every running build.

- New fbuild_daemon::shutdown:
  - refuse_new_operations_when_shutting_down: operation routes (build,
    deploy, monitor, install-deps, reset, test-emu) answer 503 with a failed
    OperationResponse once shutdown has started (SIGTERM or HTTP shutdown).
  - exit_on_terminate: on SIGTERM, refuse new work, wait up to 5 s for
    in-flight operations, flush zccache (4 s cap), clean up records, exit.
  - persist_and_clean_up: the pid/port/claim/status cleanup + bounded flush
    now shared by every clean exit.
- DaemonContext::active_operations: exact in-flight count kept by
  OperationGuard (the operation_in_progress bool is cleared by the first of
  two concurrent operations to finish), plus wait_for_operations(budget).
- fbuild_core::daemon_health: SHUTDOWN_DRAIN_BUDGET (5 s), EXIT_FLUSH_BUDGET
  (4 s), TERMINATE_EXIT_BUDGET (their sum).
- `fbuild daemon stop`: after a delivered graceful terminate, wait
  TERMINATE_EXIT_BUDGET + 1 s before the forced kill so it never lands
  mid-flush; a refused terminate keeps the 5 s wait.

Follow-up to #1480 / #1482.
The platform boundary forbids #[cfg(unix)] outside fbuild_core::platform.
Add fbuild_core::platform::process::daemon_terminate_signal() (tokio
SIGTERM on Linux/macOS, never resolves on Windows, whose termination
requests already arrive via register_daemon_shutdown_handler) and use it
from the daemon. Regenerate ci/platform_boundary_research.tsv for the
shifted windows/process.rs rows.
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Addressed in subsequent PR commits; all inline threads resolved and focused shutdown tests pass after rebase.

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CodeRabbit follow-up verified on rebased head 2a8afafc: all three inline findings are resolved (platform-specific terminate budget, atomic admission handshake, and admission-token shutdown test). The two stale changes-requested reviews were dismissed after confirming their threads were resolved. Local validation: soldr cargo test -p fbuild-daemon shutdown --lib (11 passed), soldr cargo test -p fbuild-daemon --lib (272 passed, 1 existing ignored), platform-boundary policy/tests, and diff check. Fresh CI is running.

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