Add a test target, and make CI actually run it - #187
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The CI job that gates every merge to main has been named "test" since it was written, and its only step ran "make" -- a build. No test had ever run in CI. There was no "make test" either, so there was no local one to run by hand. The test target carries -race, and not as a separate opt-in target. This repository's high-priority backlog is dominated by a single bug class: data races on the served RPZ zone (#149, #150, #151, #153, #157), which is exactly the class the race detector finds mechanically. A green suite that was run without it answers a question nobody was asking. Two details that are easy to get wrong: - the target does not reuse $(GO). That sets CGO_ENABLED=0 for reproducible static release builds, and -race requires cgo, so inheriting it makes "go test -race" fail outright. It also pins GOOS/GOARCH, and a cross-compiled test binary cannot be run by the machine that built it -- inheriting that would break "make test" for anyone who had set GOOS for a release build. - "make test" stays scoped to the fast in-process suite. The integration rig (#185) gets its own target and its own job, because it will want containers and wall-clock that a per-PR gate must not have. Keeping this one quick is what stops it being switched off the first time it is inconvenient. pr.yml also had no setup-go step at all, so it ran against whatever Go the runner image happened to ship, and actions/checkout was still at v2. It now reads the toolchain from go.mod, which cannot drift from the module the way a literal pin can, and uses the v6 actions the other workflows in this repo already moved to. build.yml and container.yml are deliberately untouched: build.yml already uses go-version stable with v6 actions, and container.yml's pin is current. Only pr.yml was broken.
Until now nothing in the suite started a second goroutine, so "go test -race" passed in 1.4 seconds while the races sat in the code. The detector had nothing to observe. Enabling it in CI without this would have been ceremony. Two tests pass today and cover code that had no test at all: ProcessIxfrIntoAxfr (does a removal actually leave the served zone, does an addition actually land) and PruneRpzIxfrChain (with no downstream serials there is no floor, so nothing may be pruned -- getting that wrong discards IXFR history downstreams still need, which is the failure behind #160). Coverage 2.5% -> 3.5%. Modest, and honest: these are the two functions the reproducers below need, not a number-raising exercise. Two reproducers demonstrate open bugs, and both fire: - ProcessIxfrIntoAxfr writing pd.Rpz.Axfr.Data while QueryResponder reads it. This is the production pairing exactly -- the engine writes from mqtt.go, which holds no lock anywhere in the file, and the DNS handler reads at dnshandler.go:429, outside the only lock in its file. Reproduces #149 and #153. - PruneRpzIxfrChain against itself. It reslices pd.Rpz.IxfrChain and reads pd.DownstreamSerials with no lock at all, and it is called per inbound IXFR request from RpzIxfrOut, so two downstreams asking at once is enough. With no ACL on IXFR (#152), who gets to cause that is not controlled either. Reproduces #150 and #151. Reported precisely: in the second test the DownstreamSerials write that also races is the test's own, standing in for what the real IXFR path does before pruning. The Prune-against-Prune race is production code on both sides. THE REPRODUCERS ARE OPT-IN, via POP_RACE_REPRO=1. They fail by design, because the bugs are real and unfixed. Leaving them on would paint CI red on every PR for defects that PR did not introduce, and a permanently red gate is worse than no gate -- it gets ignored, then removed. When a fix lands (PR #174 carries the snapshot-based model for #149) the matching reproducer should become unconditional: that is the moment it stops being a demonstration and becomes a regression test, and it is the cheapest proof the fix works. Deliberately NOT fixed here. #174 owns the concurrency model and is under review; this is evidence for it, not a competitor.
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In @.github/workflows/pr.yml:
- Around line 10-18: Add a job-level permissions block for the pull-request
workflow with contents set to read, keeping the checkout and setup-go steps
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Apply the same fix in @.github/workflows/pr.yml around lines 12 - 18: The
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Both from the CodeRabbit review on #187, and both valid. The GOTEST comment claimed a protection the code did not provide. It said dropping GOOS/GOARCH kept "make test" from cross-compiling, but the go command reads them from the ENVIRONMENT -- not passing them through changes nothing, so "GOOS=linux make test" still built a linux binary that the host then could not run. Verified before and after: $ GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm64 make -n test before: CGO_ENABLED=1 go test -race -cover ./... after: GOOS= GOARCH= CGO_ENABLED=1 go test -race -cover ./... An empty value is treated as unset by the go command (GOOS= go env GOOS prints the host), so clearing them explicitly is what actually pins the tests to the machine running them. The PR job also now takes a read-only token and stops checkout persisting credentials into .git/config. It builds and runs code from the pull request, so it should not hold a write-capable credential that the code it is running could pick up. Nothing in the job pushes anything.
They were scaffolding with a specific purpose: demonstrate that #149, #150, #151 and #153 were real, at their production call sites, so #174 could be judged on evidence rather than on reading. That worked — they failed exactly as predicted, and #174 has since been merged with #190 on top of it. They cannot survive that merge. Every API they exercise is deleted by #174: ProcessIxfrIntoAxfr, PruneRpzIxfrChain, Rpz.Axfr, RpzAxfr, RpzData.IxfrChain and the exported DownstreamSerials are all gone, because the fix removes the shared mutable state rather than locking it. Ported verbatim onto that branch the file produces ten "undefined" errors. That matters more than it sounds, because git would NOT have caught it. This file is an ADDITION and #174 MODIFIES other files, so the two merge cleanly and the build then fails on main. Removing it here keeps this PR to the part that has no overlap: the test target and the CI gate. What replaces them is better. #190 added snapshot_invariants_test.go to #174, which guards the model that made the races impossible rather than demonstrating the races themselves — and does so structurally, so a future change that reintroduces the shape fails the build. Honest consequence: this PR now contributes no coverage. The two tests here that PASSED covered ProcessIxfrIntoAxfr and PruneRpzIxfrChain, which #174 also deletes. The gate is the value; the tests worth keeping arrive with #174. The reproducers remain in this branch's history if they are ever wanted.
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Whitespace only, no behaviour change: two lines used spaces where the rest of the file uses tabs, so bootstrap.go was the one file in the package that gofmt -l reported. Worth doing now because "make test" is a CI gate as of #187 but gofmt is not, so nothing would have caught this on its own -- and an unformatted file in the tree makes "gofmt -l is clean" useless as a check for everyone after.
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Fills the gap that the CI job named
testhas never run a test.Scope note: this PR originally also carried race reproducers for #149/#150/#151/#153. Those have been removed — see the last commit. They did their job (they were the evidence #174 was judged on) and they cannot coexist with #174, which deletes every API they exercise. What is left here is the part with zero overlap with any in-flight work: the test target and the CI gate.
What was wrong
pr.ymlgates every merge tomain. Its job is calledtest; its only step ranmake, which is a build. Across all workflows,go testnever executed. There was nomake testeither, so there was no local one to run by hand. Coverage onmainis 2.5%, from a singlepolicy_test.go, and the race detector appeared nowhere.That matters here more than it would elsewhere, because the high-priority backlog is dominated by one bug class — data races on the served RPZ zone. That is precisely the class
go test -racefinds mechanically.What this does
make test, with-racealways on rather than as a separate opt-in target. Two details worth reviewing:$(GO). That setsCGO_ENABLED=0for static release builds and-racerequires cgo, so inheriting it makesgo test -racefail outright. It also pinsGOOS/GOARCH, and a cross-compiled test binary cannot be run by the machine that built it — so those are cleared explicitly, not merely left unset (see the review fix below).pr.ymlhad nosetup-gostep at all, so it ran against whatever Go the runner image shipped, andactions/checkoutwas still at v2. It now reads the toolchain fromgo.modand uses the v6 actions the other workflows already moved to. It also takes a read-only token and stops checkout persisting credentials, since it builds and runs pull-request-controlled code.build.ymlandcontainer.ymlare deliberately untouched.build.ymlalready usesgo-version: stablewith v6 actions andcontainer.yml's pin is current — onlypr.ymlwas broken. (I initially thought both pinned 1.23.1; that reading came from a branch four commits behindmain, and it was wrong.)Review findings (CodeRabbit), both valid, both fixed
GOOSleak. My comment claimed droppingGOOS/GOARCHstoppedmake testcross-compiling. It didn't — the go command reads them from the environment, soGOOS=linux make teststill built a linux binary the host couldn't run. Verified before and after:permissions: contents: readpluspersist-credentials: false.Honest accounting
This PR now contributes no coverage. The two tests it had that passed covered
ProcessIxfrIntoAxfrandPruneRpzIxfrChain, which #174 also deletes. The gate is the value here; the tests worth keeping arrive with #174 via #190'ssnapshot_invariants_test.go.Suggested merge order
The reverse order breaks
main: #174 deletes the APIs the removed reproducers used, and git would have merged the two cleanly because one adds a file and the other modifies different files.Verification
go vetclean,gofmtclean,make buildandmake testboth pass, andmake -n testconfirms theGOOSfix.