fix(gallery): a missing thumbnail tier must not take the backend down (#1128)

The first load of a gallery whose ?w= tiers do not exist yet could exit the Node
process — not 500 one tile, kill the backend. Two defects stacked.

The reader: LocalFsStorage.get() returns a lazy fs.createReadStream, so an ENOENT
arrives after the await returned and outside the route's try/catch. An unhandled
'error' event is a process-level throw. pipeStreamToResponse attaches the handler
the routes were missing — 404 for a vanished source, connection destroyed if
bytes are already on the wire, file headers cleared so the JSON error is not
served as image/jpeg or cached as a broken tile for an hour. Applied to all nine
streaming responses in gallery.js.

The writer: ensureThumbnailAtWidth passed regenerate:true, whose first act is to
DELETE the target — on a path only reached when the tier is absent. A grid fires
one request per tile, so one request unlinked the file another had just published
and handed to a reader. Without the flag the write is an atomic rename.

Generation is now also deduped per tier key: 8 concurrent requests ran 5 Sharp
passes before, 1 after.

Reported with a full diagnosis by @BraynArts.
This commit is contained in:
Paul Nothaft
2026-08-22 21:37:15 +02:00
committed by GitHub
parent e243a88410
commit f735d26422
5 changed files with 393 additions and 30 deletions
@@ -371,5 +371,88 @@ describe('preview tiers (#1095)', () => {
await imageProcessor.deleteThumbnailTiers(await db('photos').where({ id: photo.id }).first());
expect(fs.existsSync(abs)).toBe(false);
});
/**
* The crash in #1128 needed two things: a tier that disappears, and a
* reader that dies on it. The reader is fixed in streamResponse; this is
* the half that stops the file disappearing in the first place.
*/
describe('concurrent generation (#1128)', () => {
it('never leaves the tier absent once it has been published', async () => {
const photo = await seedThumbPhoto();
const key = imageProcessor.thumbnailTierKeys(photo).find((k) => k.includes('_w600_'));
const abs = path.join(process.env.STORAGE_PATH, key);
// A grid fires one request per tile at once, and on a cold gallery
// every one of them misses the cache. Previously each carried
// `regenerate: true`, whose first act is to DELETE the target — so a
// later arrival unlinked the file an earlier one had already published
// and handed to a reader.
const watcher = [];
const poll = setInterval(() => watcher.push(fs.existsSync(abs)), 1);
const results = await Promise.all(
Array.from({ length: 12 }, () => imageProcessor.ensureThumbnailAtWidth(photo, 600))
);
clearInterval(poll);
expect(results.every((r) => r === key)).toBe(true);
expect(fs.existsSync(abs)).toBe(true);
// Once true, never false again: no window where a validated file is gone.
const firstSeen = watcher.indexOf(true);
if (firstSeen !== -1) {
expect(watcher.slice(firstSeen).every(Boolean)).toBe(true);
}
});
it('runs one generation for a burst of requests, not one per request', async () => {
const photo = await seedThumbPhoto();
const thumbDir = path.join(process.env.STORAGE_PATH, 'thumbnails');
await fs.promises.mkdir(thumbDir, { recursive: true });
// Counted through the staging files LocalFsStorage writes:
// `<key>.tmp.<pid>.<hex>`, one per put, each a distinct random suffix.
// So distinct temp names == distinct generations, which is the thing
// the dedupe is supposed to collapse. (Spying on generateThumbnail
// would not work — ensureThumbnailAtWidth calls it through the
// module-local binding, so an export spy never sees it.)
const seen = new Set();
const poll = setInterval(() => {
for (const f of fs.readdirSync(thumbDir)) {
if (f.includes('_w900_') && f.includes('.tmp.')) seen.add(f);
}
}, 1);
const results = await Promise.all(
Array.from({ length: 8 }, () => imageProcessor.ensureThumbnailAtWidth(photo, 900))
);
clearInterval(poll);
const abs = path.join(
process.env.STORAGE_PATH,
imageProcessor.thumbnailTierKeys(photo).find((k) => k.includes('_w900_'))
);
expect(fs.existsSync(abs)).toBe(true);
expect(new Set(results).size).toBe(1);
// 8 requests, at most one Sharp pass. Before the dedupe this was 8 —
// and on an external photo, 8 full reads of the original.
expect(seen.size).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1);
});
it('does not cache a failure — a later request retries', async () => {
const photo = await seedThumbPhoto();
// Source removed underneath: generation fails and must not poison the
// key for the lifetime of the process.
const src = path.join(process.env.STORAGE_PATH, 'events/active', photo.path);
const saved = await fs.promises.readFile(src);
await fs.promises.unlink(src);
expect(await imageProcessor.ensureThumbnailAtWidth(photo, 600)).toBeNull();
await fs.promises.writeFile(src, saved);
expect(await imageProcessor.ensureThumbnailAtWidth(photo, 600)).toContain('_w600_');
});
});
});
});