fix(flash): pin uploads to the requested port and fail loudly on mismatch - #73
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…atch pioarduino's Hybrid-Compile pass (custom sdkconfig -> '*** Compile Arduino IDF libs ***') re-invokes a child 'pio run -e <env> -t upload' that forwards targets but no CLI options, so our --upload-port was dropped and the child auto-detected a port — flashing whichever device it found first. Real incident 2026-08-25: a meshnology_w10 16MB image landed on the 8MB Heltec Wireless Tracker V2 one hub over, boot-looping it while the job reported success. - Export PLATFORMIO_UPLOAD_PORT in the upload subprocess env: the project- option override survives into the hybrid child run (verified on pio 6.1.19; the CLI flag still wins in the outer run). - Post-flash assertion: compare every port the output claims was used (Auto-detected / Using manually specified / esptool 'Serial port X:') against the requested one; mismatch forces exit 1 with an upload_port_mismatch error naming both ports. Applied to flash/pio_flash, flash_start jobs (also written into the job log; flash_poll now surfaces 'error'), and the device-install/update.sh wrappers. - Reject empty or glob port arguments up front: 'pio run --upload-port ""' silently drops the option and auto-detects (proven), and a glob pattern makes PlatformIO pick whatever matches. - flash_start also gains the silent-DFU-failure detection flash() already had. The root-cause fix (forwarding --upload-port in the HybridCompile child command) belongs in meshtastic/pioarduino-platform-espressif32 and is tracked separately.
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 1 included review per hour; 0 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds upload-port validation, per-port locking, wrong-port detection, and complete asynchronous job-state publication for flash operations. Unit tests cover contention, lock cleanup, mismatch failures, script serialization, and polling consistency. ChangesFlash port safety
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change pins uploads and rejects mismatched ports, but exact path comparison can falsely fail a successful flash when a device alias is used; the PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness of this bounded compatibility risk. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant flash_start
participant PortLock
participant FlashWorker
participant JobPolling
Client->>flash_start: start flash for requested port
flash_start->>PortLock: acquire port lock
flash_start->>FlashWorker: create and run job
FlashWorker->>FlashWorker: publish result and error fields
FlashWorker->>PortLock: release port lock
FlashWorker->>JobPolling: publish terminal status
Client->>JobPolling: poll job
JobPolling-->>Client: return consistent status snapshot
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In `@CHANGELOG.md`:
- Line 96: Split the unrelated simulation traceroute fix into its own Fixed list
item before the existing “the sim emitted only in-flight traceroute requests”
text, keeping the flash-safety entry focused on its original fix.
- Line 84: Update the Hybrid-Compile changelog entry so the literal PlatformIO
banner “*** Compile Arduino IDF libs ***” is rendered as code or has its
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In `@src/meshtastic_mcp/flash.py`:
- Around line 865-871: In the worker completion path, update all terminal result
fields—including exit_code, finished_at, duration_s, port, and conditional
error—before publishing the terminal status. Move the assignment to
state["status"] in the relevant worker function after these fields, while
keeping the entire update sequence protected by _jobs_lock so flash_poll()
cannot observe incomplete failure details.
- Around line 846-854: Wrap every flash operation, including the worker body in
flash_start and the synchronous flash, erase_and_flash, and update_flash paths,
with the shared registry.port_lock(port) keyed by the target port. Hold the lock
across the full operation through pio.run or _run_install_script, and release it
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…s last Review follow-up on #73. Uploads took no in-process lock, so two concurrent flashes could drive the same serial line — and a live connect() holding the port made flash()'s ensure_port_free pre-flight read the device as wedged and power-cycle its hub slot mid-upload. Every upload path (flash, flash_start, erase_and_flash, update_flash) now takes the same non-blocking registry.port_lock the connect/serial paths use, and flash() holds it across the pre-flight for that reason. flash_start acquires on the calling thread, so a busy port fails fast instead of becoming a job the caller finds dead on its first poll. Background jobs also published `status` before the fields explaining it, and _poll_job read job fields outside _jobs_lock — so a poll could return a failed flash with no `error` naming the wrong port. The poll now snapshots under the lock and both workers set status last. Changelog: split the traceroute note back into its own bullet (it had been folded into the flash entry) and backtick the PlatformIO banner that was rendering as emphasis.
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139-157: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winNormalize port paths before you compare them.
_verify_upload_portcompares the reported port torequestedby exact string equality. A caller can pass a device alias, for example/dev/serial/by-id/usb-..., while PlatformIO reports the resolved/dev/ttyUSB0. The guard then reportsupload_port_mismatch, and the caller rewritesexit_codeto 1 for a flash that landed on the correct device.Compare resolved paths instead.
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+def _same_port(a: str, b: str) -> bool: + return a == b or os.path.realpath(a) == os.path.realpath(b) + + def _verify_upload_port(requested: str, stdout: str | None, stderr: str | None) -> str | None: @@ blob = f"{stdout or ''}\n{stderr or ''}" used = {m.rstrip(":") for m in _USED_PORT_RE.findall(blob)} - wrong = sorted(p for p in used if p != requested) + wrong = sorted(p for p in used if not _same_port(p, requested))🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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343-369: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winConsider also locking the recovered port path.
port_recovery.ensure_port_freecan return a different/devpath. The upload then runs on that path while the held lock keys the original path. A concurrentconnect()orserial_openon the recovered path is not blocked during the upload.Keep the requested-path lock, and acquire the recovered-path lock too when the paths differ.
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extra_env = _upload_port_env(port, build_flags) + extra_lock = _acquire_port(port, "flash") if port != requested_port else None with userprefs.temporary_overrides(userprefs_overrides) as effective: @@ finally: + if extra_lock is not None: + _release_port(extra_lock) _release_port(lock)🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/meshtastic_mcp/flash.py`:
- Around line 84-96: Update _acquire_port to acquire the port lock before
calling registry.active_session_for_port(port), preventing serial_open from
registering between the check and lock acquisition. If an active session is
found after locking, release the acquired lock before raising FlashError;
preserve the existing busy-lock error and return the held lock for successful
acquisitions.
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In `@src/meshtastic_mcp/flash.py`:
- Around line 139-157: Update _verify_upload_port to normalize or resolve both
requested and reported port paths before comparing them, so aliases such as
/dev/serial/by-id paths match their resolved device paths. Preserve the existing
behavior of returning None when no mismatched port remains and reporting
genuinely different ports as errors.
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In `@src/meshtastic_mcp/flash.py`:
- Around line 343-369: Update the flash flow around ensure_port_free and
_release_port so the requested-path lock remains held, and acquire an additional
lock for the recovered port whenever its path differs from the original. Keep
the recovered-port lock held through pio.run, then release it during cleanup
alongside the original lock.
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…e it serial_open registers its session while holding the same port_lock, so _acquire_port's check-then-acquire order could miss a session that registered in the window: the flash then took the freed lock and uploaded under a live monitor. Acquire first, check second, release on rejection — the order serial_open itself uses.
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#73 landed the flash port-safety work in flash.py while this branch was extracting the same job machinery into jobs.py. Resolution: - kept the jobs.py registry; master's inline _start_job/_poll_job were what it replaced. jobs.poll() already reads every field under LOCK, so #73's poll-snapshot fix is inherent here — its regression test went with it, since the mechanism it patched (fields read after the log, outside the lock) no longer exists. The status-last worker ordering carried over intact. - kept the per-port upload lock, including the release-on-start-failure guard now wrapping jobs.start. - flash_poll maps the registry's `worker_error` back to `error`, the key #73 documented for wrong-port and silent-DFU failures.
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…an reach them (meshtastic#75) Two hazards the rules didn't cover, both hit during the 2.8.0 soak prep. MESHTASTIC_FIRMWARE_ROOT names one checkout and every session on the machine gets the same value, so concurrent agents build in one .pio tree. PlatformIO cleans .pio/build/* when the env changes — on 2026-08-26 a finished seeed-xiao-s3 artifact was deleted by another session between build_poll reporting done and the next ls. A done build is perishable. And a unit-test run in a worktree shelled out to a real pio upload with a macOS port path and orphaned it to systemd --user; an invalid port is exactly what sends PlatformIO to auto-detect, which is what meshtastic#73 fixed at the source. Recorded as an anti-pattern so the next test doesn't reinvent it. Signed-off-by: James Rich <james.a.rich@gmail.com>
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The incident
On 2026-08-25 a
flash_start(env=meshnology_w10, port=/dev/cu.usbmodem1201)job flashed a different device: the log showsLooking for upload port... / Auto-detected: /dev/cu.usbmodem13201, and the 16MB-partition-table W10 image landed on an 8MB Heltec Wireless Tracker V2 on the same bench, boot-looping it (partition 3 invalid ... exceeds flash chip size). The job reported success.Root cause (not an arg-passing bug here)
Every flash path in this repo has always passed
--upload-port, and the incident tool call carried the correct port. The port is lost inside pioarduino's Hybrid-Compile pass: when a custom sdkconfig triggers*** Compile Arduino IDF libs ***(e.g. a variant's first build),idf_lib_copyin the platform'sespidf.pyre-invokes a childpio run -e <env> -t uploadthat forwards targets but no CLI options — the child auto-detects a port and flashes whatever it finds. Telltales in the incident log: the hybrid-compile banner,Auto-detected:instead ofUsing manually specified:, and stderr ending*** [checkprogsize] Explicit exit, status 0(the outer sconsenv.Exit(child_rc)).Also proven while investigating:
pio run --upload-port ""silently drops the option (click passes the empty string, the run processor treats it as unset) → auto-detect.The fix (defense in depth, all flash paths)
PLATFORMIO_UPLOAD_PORT=<port>in the subprocess environment — the project-option override is inherited by nested pio runs (verified on pio 6.1.19; the CLI flag still wins in the outer run)._verify_upload_portcompares every port the output claims was used (Auto-detected:/Using manually specified:/ esptool'sSerial port X:) against the requested one. A mismatch forces exit 1 with anupload_port_mismatcherror naming both ports — inflash/pio_flash,flash_startjobs (also appended to the job log;flash_pollnow surfaceserror), and theerase_and_flash/update_flashscript wrappers.portarguments now raiseFlashErrorup front in all four entry points.flash_startalso gains the silent-DFU-failure detectionflash()already had.Testing
tests/unit/test_upload_port_guard.py, including a reproduction condensed from the incident log.The root-cause fix — forwarding
--upload-portin the HybridCompile child command — belongs in meshtastic/pioarduino-platform-espressif32 and is being prepared separately.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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