fix: prevent malware manager lifecycle race - #926
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Signed-off-by: Khuswant Rajpurohit <khuswantrajpurohit18@gmail.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughContainer registrations now use cancellable contexts and synchronized state publication. Delayed initialization and shared-data retries stop on removal. Tests cover cancellation, replacement, concurrent lifecycle operations, and stale-state prevention. ChangesContainer lifecycle
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to A concurrent container ADD/REMOVE path can still recreate scan state for a container that has already been removed, creating a concrete lifecycle correctness risk. Merge should wait for this race to be fixed or explicitly accepted; the related regression tests also need more reliable synchronization. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ContainerCallback
participant ContainerLock
participant Registration
participant MalwareManager
participant SharedDataCache
participant WorkloadState
ContainerCallback->>ContainerLock: Serialize container lifecycle operation
ContainerCallback->>Registration: Admit, replace, or cancel registration
Registration->>MalwareManager: Start cancellable initialization
MalwareManager->>SharedDataCache: Retry shared-data retrieval
Registration-->>SharedDataCache: Cancel retry when removed
MalwareManager->>WorkloadState: Publish state only for active registration
ContainerCallback->>WorkloadState: Clear state during removal
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In `@pkg/malwaremanager/v1/malware_manager.go`:
- Around line 149-156: The container registration and cleanup transitions in
ContainerWatcher.containerCallback must be serialized per container to prevent a
remove from deleting a newer registration. Add a shared per-container lifecycle
lock or equivalent atomic conditional operation around registration replacement
and the cleanup sequence involving trackedContainers, scannedFiles, and related
mappings, and add a deterministic test covering overlapping add/remove
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In `@pkg/malwaremanager/v1/malware_manager.go`:
- Around line 116-121: Update the shim-process warning in the notification
handling block to use the MalwareManager component name. Bind the
startMalwareManager goroutine to the existing containerRegistration by passing
reg alongside notif.Container, and add a r.done check inside startMalwareManager
immediately before publishing podToWlid so cancelled registrations cannot write
stale state.
- Around line 156-168: Remove the mm.containerLocks.ReleaseLock(containerID)
call from the EventTypeRemoveContainer handler so the per-container lock entry
remains available across REMOVE and subsequent ADD events, preserving
serialization for callbacks using containerLocks.WithLock.
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116-140: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftRegister the ADD transition before slow work can let REMOVE overtake it.
If the ADD callback pauses after
GetProcessStatand beforeWithLock, a concurrent REMOVE can clear the container state first. The ADD then storesregat Line 139 and starts a timer that recreatesscannedFilesat Line 150 after removal completed.Admit the ADD operation before this pre-lock work, or attach an ordered generation and reject stale ADD registrations. Add a deterministic test for this interleaving.
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In `@pkg/malwaremanager/v1/malware_manager.go`:
- Around line 116-140: Update the ADD registration flow around
startMalwareManager and containerRegistration so the ADD transition is admitted
or generation-ordered before GetProcessStat and other pre-lock work, preventing
a concurrent REMOVE from being overwritten by a stale registration. Ensure stale
ADDs cannot start timers or recreate scannedFiles after removal, and add a
deterministic test covering REMOVE interleaving during the pre-lock work.
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116-140: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftRegister the ADD transition before slow work can let REMOVE overtake it.
If the ADD callback pauses after
GetProcessStatand beforeWithLock, a concurrent REMOVE can clear the container state first. The ADD then storesregat Line 139 and starts a timer that recreatesscannedFilesat Line 150 after removal completed.Admit the ADD operation before this pre-lock work, or attach an ordered generation and reject stale ADD registrations. Add a deterministic test for this interleaving.
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In `@pkg/malwaremanager/v1/malware_manager.go`:
- Around line 116-140: Update the ADD registration flow around
startMalwareManager and containerRegistration so the ADD transition is admitted
or generation-ordered before GetProcessStat and other pre-lock work, preventing
a concurrent REMOVE from being overwritten by a stale registration. Ensure stale
ADDs cannot start timers or recreate scannedFiles after removal, and add a
deterministic test covering REMOVE interleaving during the pre-lock work.
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Hey @matthyx , CodeRabbit found one more valid ordering edge case in #926: the ADD path does GetProcessStat before publishing the registration under containerLocks, so a concurrent REMOVE can potentially complete before the ADD is admitted. I haven't changed that part yet because it affects the lifecycle ordering design. Would you prefer that I register/admit the ADD before the slower GetProcessStat work, or use a generation-based approach? Also, the latest component-test run has 3 failures: Test_21, Test_30, and Test_33. These are in unrelated areas and some subtests within Test_30/Test_33 are passing, so I’m assuming these may be pre-existing/flake-related rather than caused by #917, but I wanted to flag them. |
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Thanks for tackling the lifecycle race — the containerRegistration + per-container resourcelocks approach for scannedFiles/trackedContainers is solid and the new tests do exercise the interleaving described in #917. I traced through the select { <-r.done / <-r.timer.C } + reg.mu synchronization and it correctly prevents scannedFiles from being resurrected after a REMOVE.
However, I don't think this closes #917 completely — there's a second async path with the exact same bug class that isn't covered by the new registration/lock mechanism:
Blocker: startMalwareManager can still resurrect state after removal
pkg/malwaremanager/v1/malware_manager.go:121
go mm.startMalwareManager(notif.Container)This goroutine is fired unconditionally on EventTypeAddContainer, completely outside the new containerRegistration/containerLocks mechanism — it's never cancelled by a subsequent EventTypeRemoveContainer. Inside it (line 173):
sharedData, err := mm.waitForSharedContainerData(container.Runtime.ContainerID)waitForSharedContainerData (line 189) calls backoff.Retry(context.Background(), ..., backoff.WithBackOff(backoff.NewExponentialBackOff())) — no WithMaxElapsedTime, and context.Background() is never cancelled, so this can keep retrying well past the container's actual lifetime. When it eventually succeeds, line 182 runs:
mm.podToWlid.Set(podID, w)If the container (and its pod) was already removed — which deletes podToWlid[podID] in the EventTypeRemoveContainer branch (line ~164) — this goroutine can write it right back afterward, with nothing left to ever clean it up (no future REMOVE will arrive for a pod that's already gone). That's the same "state recreated for a container that no longer exists" bug the PR title/description targets, just on podToWlid instead of scannedFiles.
Suggested fix: gate this goroutine the same way the timer-based init is gated — e.g. tie it to the containerRegistration (check r.cancelled/r.done before/after waitForSharedContainerData returns, under containerLocks.WithLock(containerID, ...)), or derive a context.Context from the registration's done channel and pass it into waitForSharedContainerData/backoff.Retry so it's cancelled on REMOVE.
Non-blocking: containerLocks mutexes are never released
pkg/resourcelocks/resourcelocks.go explicitly documents ReleaseLock: "This should be called when a resource is removed to prevent memory leaks." ContainerCallback's EventTypeRemoveContainer branch (line 158) never calls mm.containerLocks.ReleaseLock(containerID), so MalwareManager.containerLocks grows by one *sync.Mutex entry for every unique container ID ever seen over the process lifetime and never shrinks. On a node with high container churn over weeks/months this is a slow, unbounded leak. Worth adding a defer mm.containerLocks.ReleaseLock(containerID) (after the lock's critical section, so it's safe against a concurrent ADD racing to recreate it) inside the remove path.
Given the blocker above can still reproduce a variant of the original bug, I'd hold off on merging until startMalwareManager is tied into the same cancellation lifecycle as the timer-based init.
…ancellation lifecycle Address review feedback for kubescape#917: - Admit container registration under lock before executing pre-publication work - Bind startMalwareManager to registration context and cancel backoff on removal - Guard podToWlid and PID/shim publication against cancelled/superseded registrations - Add deterministic regression tests for pre-publication interleaving and backoff cancellation Signed-off-by: Khuswant Rajpurohit <khuswantrajpurohit18@gmail.com>
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Thanks @matthyx,Updated in the latest commit:
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pkg/malwaremanager/v1/malware_manager_test.go (1)
665-674: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueSynchronize on the
startMalwareManagergoroutine, not onreg.finished.
reg.finishedis closed by thestartDelayedInitgoroutine only. After the REMOVE event closesreg.done, that goroutine returns immediately, soreg.finishedsays nothing about thestartMalwareManagerbackoff goroutine that these two tests target. The assertions then rely on the 100 ms sleep, which makes the regression coverage timing-dependent.Call
startMalwareManagerfrom the test with an explicit completion channel, or replace the sleep with a bounded poll.♻️ Proposed test synchronization
- select { - case <-reg.finished: - case <-time.After(2 * time.Second): - t.Fatal("timed out waiting for registration goroutine to finish") - } - - time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond) - podID := "default/test-pod" - assert.False(t, mm.podToWlid.Has(podID), "podToWlid must not be set after REMOVE") + // Give the backoff goroutine time to observe the open gate and attempt a write. + assert.Never(t, func() bool { return mm.podToWlid.Has(podID) }, + 500*time.Millisecond, 20*time.Millisecond, "podToWlid must not be set after REMOVE")Also applies to: 734-743
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In `@pkg/malwaremanager/v1/malware_manager_test.go`:
- Around line 665-674: Update the affected tests to synchronize with the
startMalwareManager backoff goroutine rather than reg.finished, which only
tracks startDelayedInit. Pass an explicit completion channel to
startMalwareManager and await it with a bounded timeout before asserting
podToWlid lacks the removed pod; apply the same change to both test locations
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Summary
Fixes #917.
MalwareManager.ContainerCallbackcould leave delayed initialization running after a container was removed, allowingscannedFilesstate to be recreated for a container that no longer existed.Changes
EventTypeAddContainer.EventTypeRemoveContaineris received.scannedFilesinitialization with a per-registration mutex.Validation
go vet ./pkg/malwaremanager/...go test -race -count=5 ./pkg/malwaremanager/...go test -count=1 ./pkg/healthmanager/... ./pkg/malwaremanager/... ./pkg/nodeprofilemanager/...go test -race ./pkg/healthmanager/... ./pkg/nodeprofilemanager/...Closes #917.
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