[PATCH v4 1/3] models: Use database constraints to prevent split Series

Stephen Finucane stephen at that.guru
Mon Dec 9 00:33:17 AEDT 2019


On Sun, 2019-12-08 at 22:14 +1100, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> Daniel Axtens <dja at axtens.net> writes:
> 
> > > Currently, the 'SeriesReference' object has a unique constraint on the
> > > two fields it has, 'series', which is a foreign key to 'Series', and
> > > 'msgid'. This is the wrong constraint. What we actually want to enforce
> > > is that a patch, cover letter or comment is referenced by a single
> > > series, or rather a single series per project the submission appears on.
> > > As such, we should be enforcing uniqueness on the msgid and the project
> > > that the patch, cover letter or comment belongs to.
> > 
> > OK, so I've been working on this and making good progress.
> > 
> > My fundamental issue with the current design, and this extension of it,
> > is that we're ignoring or working against the tools that databases
> > provide for concurrency. This patch is an improvement, no doubt, but I'd
> > really like to solve it properly.
> > 
> > Because we have multiple processes operating on the database - processes
> > without external syncronisation - we need to rely on the database to
> > provide the synchronisation primitive. Currently we're doing things like
> > asking the database to check if something exists and then creating it if
> > it does not. This is embeds TOCTOU problems, similar to the ones I fixed
> > for Person creation a while back. What we should be doing is
> > get_or_create style - basically more aggressively attempting to create
> > the thing we need and if that fails, then do the lookup for the existing
> > object.
> > 
> > This design pervades the series parser. It doesn't generally bite us
> > because we generally, more or less, parse in series.
> > 
> > I'm basically refactoring the parser to be
> > 'try-creating-and-catch-failures' rather than
> > 'lookup-and-create-if-missing'. It is a bit tricky but I think I'm at
> > least 80% of the way there.
> 
> The more I think about this patch, the more I see it does actually move
> us in the right direction. Let's run with it for now.

That was going to be my response to your previous reply: does anything
I'm doing in that series wrt *the models* not make sense, and if not,
should we apply it anyway since the parser is easily reworked again in
the future, but model changes are a little more permanent.

> As for my rewrite, well, series parsing is really hard. I'm also working
> from a data set that has a whole set of bizzare things including series
> of patches in-reply-to a cover letter, a series of patches that's half
> threaded and half unthreaded and a patch series that contains - by
> design - multiple patches per "number" (i.e. 3 patches each numbered
> 1/N, 3 patches numbered 2/N...), so that means I'm forever fighting
> weird edge-cases of how people used git a decade ago. So I'm going to
> pass on trying to rewrite it for now.

Any chance you can share this dataset? The only one I have to work with
is the Patchwork one which isn't that large. I did request the DPDK
archives some time back but I haven't checked whether what I received
even works.

Stephen

> I'll go over it with a finer-toothed comb and do a proper review, but I
> withdraw my overall objection.
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
> > I would be happy to leave my series parsing rework and Mete's work to a
> > 2.3, or I'd be happy to try and grind through, get these done, and make
> > 2.2 the final release in the 2.x series. What do you think?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Daniel
> > 
> > Stephen Finucane <stephen at that.guru> writes:
> > 
> > > This requires adding a new field to the object, 'project', since it's
> > > not possible to do something like the following:
> > > 
> > >   unique_together = [('msgid', 'series__project')]
> > > 
> > > This is detailed here [1]. In addition, the migration needs a precursor
> > > migration step to merge any broken series.
> > > 
> > > [1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/4440189/613428
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen at that.guru>
> > > Closes: #241
> > > Cc: Daniel Axtens <dja at axtens.net>
> > > Cc: Petr Vorel <petr.vorel at gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > > v4:
> > > - Further tweaks to logging
> > > v3:
> > > - Improve logging
> > > ---
> > >  .../0038_unique_series_references.py          | 121 +++++++++++++++++
> > >  patchwork/models.py                           |   6 +-
> > >  patchwork/parser.py                           | 123 +++++++++---------
> > >  patchwork/tests/test_parser.py                |   9 +-
> > >  patchwork/tests/utils.py                      |   6 +-
> > >  5 files changed, 199 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
> > >  create mode 100644 patchwork/migrations/0038_unique_series_references.py
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/patchwork/migrations/0038_unique_series_references.py b/patchwork/migrations/0038_unique_series_references.py
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 00000000..91799020
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/patchwork/migrations/0038_unique_series_references.py
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
> > > +from django.db import connection, migrations, models
> > > +from django.db.models import Count
> > > +import django.db.models.deletion
> > > +
> > > +
> > > +def merge_duplicate_series(apps, schema_editor):
> > > +    SeriesReference = apps.get_model('patchwork', 'SeriesReference')
> > > +    Patch = apps.get_model('patchwork', 'Patch')
> > > +
> > > +    msgid_seriesrefs = {}
> > > +
> > > +    # find all SeriesReference that share a msgid but point to different series
> > > +    # and decide which of the series is going to be the authoritative one
> > > +    msgid_counts = (
> > > +        SeriesReference.objects.values('msgid')
> > > +        .annotate(count=Count('msgid'))
> > > +        .filter(count__gt=1)
> > > +    )
> > > +    for msgid_count in msgid_counts:
> > > +        msgid = msgid_count['msgid']
> > > +        chosen_ref = None
> > > +        for series_ref in SeriesReference.objects.filter(msgid=msgid):
> > > +            if series_ref.series.cover_letter:
> > > +                if chosen_ref:
> > > +                    # I don't think this can happen, but explode if it does
> > > +                    raise Exception(
> > > +                        "Looks like you've got two or more series that share "
> > > +                        "some patches but do not share a cover letter. Unable "
> > > +                        "to auto-resolve."
> > > +                    )
> > > +
> > > +                # if a series has a cover letter, that's the one we'll group
> > > +                # everything under
> > > +                chosen_ref = series_ref
> > > +
> > > +        if not chosen_ref:
> > > +            # if none of the series have cover letters, simply use the last
> > > +            # one (hint: this relies on Python's weird scoping for for loops
> > > +            # where 'series_ref' is still accessible outside the loop)
> > > +            chosen_ref = series_ref
> > > +
> > > +        msgid_seriesrefs[msgid] = chosen_ref
> > > +
> > > +    # reassign any patches referring to non-authoritative series to point to
> > > +    # the authoritative one, and delete the other series; we do this separately
> > > +    # to allow us a chance to raise the exception above if necessary
> > > +    for msgid, chosen_ref in msgid_seriesrefs.items():
> > > +        for series_ref in SeriesReference.objects.filter(msgid=msgid):
> > > +            if series_ref == chosen_ref:
> > > +                continue
> > > +
> > > +            # update the patches to point to our chosen series instead, on the
> > > +            # assumption that all other metadata is correct
> > > +            for patch in Patch.objects.filter(series=series_ref.series):
> > > +                patch.series = chosen_ref.series
> > > +                patch.save()
> > > +
> > > +            # delete the other series (which will delete the series ref)
> > > +            series_ref.series.delete()
> > > +
> > > +
> > > +def copy_project_field(apps, schema_editor):
> > > +    if connection.vendor == 'postgresql':
> > > +        schema_editor.execute(
> > > +            """
> > > +            UPDATE patchwork_seriesreference
> > > +              SET project_id = patchwork_series.project_id
> > > +            FROM patchwork_series
> > > +              WHERE patchwork_seriesreference.series_id = patchwork_series.id
> > > +        """
> > > +        )
> > > +    elif connection.vendor == 'mysql':
> > > +        schema_editor.execute(
> > > +            """
> > > +            UPDATE patchwork_seriesreference, patchwork_series
> > > +              SET patchwork_seriesreference.project_id = patchwork_series.project_id
> > > +            WHERE patchwork_seriesreference.series_id = patchwork_series.id
> > > +        """
> > > +        )  # noqa
> > > +    else:
> > > +        SeriesReference = apps.get_model('patchwork', 'SeriesReference')
> > > +
> > > +        for series_ref in SeriesReference.objects.all().select_related(
> > > +            'series'
> > > +        ):
> > > +            series_ref.project = series_ref.series.project
> > > +            series_ref.save()
> > > +
> > > +
> > > +class Migration(migrations.Migration):
> > > +
> > > +    dependencies = [('patchwork', '0037_event_actor')]
> > > +
> > > +    operations = [
> > > +        migrations.RunPython(
> > > +            merge_duplicate_series, migrations.RunPython.noop, atomic=False
> > > +        ),
> > > +        migrations.AddField(
> > > +            model_name='seriesreference',
> > > +            name='project',
> > > +            field=models.ForeignKey(
> > > +                null=True,
> > > +                on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.CASCADE,
> > > +                to='patchwork.Project',
> > > +            ),
> > > +        ),
> > > +        migrations.AlterUniqueTogether(
> > > +            name='seriesreference', unique_together={('project', 'msgid')}
> > > +        ),
> > > +        migrations.RunPython(
> > > +            copy_project_field, migrations.RunPython.noop, atomic=False
> > > +        ),
> > > +        migrations.AlterField(
> > > +            model_name='seriesreference',
> > > +            name='project',
> > > +            field=models.ForeignKey(
> > > +                on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.CASCADE,
> > > +                to='patchwork.Project',
> > > +            ),
> > > +        ),
> > > +    ]
> > > diff --git a/patchwork/models.py b/patchwork/models.py
> > > index 7f0efd48..dbaff024 100644
> > > --- a/patchwork/models.py
> > > +++ b/patchwork/models.py
> > > @@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ class Project(models.Model):
> > >      webscm_url = models.CharField(max_length=2000, blank=True)
> > >      list_archive_url = models.CharField(max_length=2000, blank=True)
> > >      list_archive_url_format = models.CharField(
> > > -        max_length=2000, blank=True,
> > > +        max_length=2000,
> > > +        blank=True,
> > >          help_text="URL format for the list archive's Message-ID redirector. "
> > >          "{} will be replaced by the Message-ID.")
> > >      commit_url_format = models.CharField(
> > > @@ -787,6 +788,7 @@ class SeriesReference(models.Model):
> > >      required to handle the case whereby one or more patches are
> > >      received before the cover letter.
> > >      """
> > > +    project = models.ForeignKey(Project, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
> > >      series = models.ForeignKey(Series, related_name='references',
> > >                                 related_query_name='reference',
> > >                                 on_delete=models.CASCADE)
> > > @@ -796,7 +798,7 @@ class SeriesReference(models.Model):
> > >          return self.msgid
> > >  
> > >      class Meta:
> > > -        unique_together = [('series', 'msgid')]
> > > +        unique_together = [('project', 'msgid')]
> > >  
> > >  
> > >  class Bundle(models.Model):
> > > diff --git a/patchwork/parser.py b/patchwork/parser.py
> > > index c424729b..c0084cc0 100644
> > > --- a/patchwork/parser.py
> > > +++ b/patchwork/parser.py
> > > @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import re
> > >  
> > >  from django.contrib.auth.models import User
> > >  from django.db.utils import IntegrityError
> > > +from django.db import transaction
> > >  from django.utils import six
> > >  
> > >  from patchwork.models import Comment
> > > @@ -256,16 +257,9 @@ def _find_series_by_references(project, mail):
> > >      for ref in refs:
> > >          try:
> > >              return SeriesReference.objects.get(
> > > -                msgid=ref[:255], series__project=project).series
> > > +                msgid=ref[:255], project=project).series
> > >          except SeriesReference.DoesNotExist:
> > >              continue
> > > -        except SeriesReference.MultipleObjectsReturned:
> > > -            # FIXME: Open bug: this can happen when we're processing
> > > -            # messages in parallel. Pick the first and log.
> > > -            logger.error("Multiple SeriesReferences for %s in project %s!" %
> > > -                         (ref[:255], project.name))
> > > -            return SeriesReference.objects.filter(
> > > -                msgid=ref[:255], series__project=project).first().series
> > >  
> > >  
> > >  def _find_series_by_markers(project, mail, author):
> > > @@ -1092,47 +1086,65 @@ def parse_mail(mail, list_id=None):
> > >          except IntegrityError:
> > >              raise DuplicateMailError(msgid=msgid)
> > >  
> > > -        # if we don't have a series marker, we will never have an existing
> > > -        # series to match against.
> > > -        series = None
> > > -        if n:
> > > -            series = find_series(project, mail, author)
> > > +        for attempt in range(1, 11):  # arbitrary retry count
> > > +            try:
> > > +                with transaction.atomic():
> > > +                    # if we don't have a series marker, we will never have an
> > > +                    # existing series to match against.
> > > +                    series = None
> > > +                    if n:
> > > +                        series = find_series(project, mail, author)
> > > +                    else:
> > > +                        x = n = 1
> > > +
> > > +                    # We will create a new series if:
> > > +                    # - there is no existing series to assign this patch to, or
> > > +                    # - there is an existing series, but it already has a patch
> > > +                    #   with this number in it
> > > +                    if not series or Patch.objects.filter(
> > > +                            series=series, number=x).count():
> > > +                        series = Series.objects.create(
> > > +                            project=project,
> > > +                            date=date,
> > > +                            submitter=author,
> > > +                            version=version,
> > > +                            total=n)
> > > +
> > > +                        # NOTE(stephenfin) We must save references for series.
> > > +                        # We do this to handle the case where a later patch is
> > > +                        # received first. Without storing references, it would
> > > +                        # not be possible to identify the relationship between
> > > +                        # patches as the earlier patch does not reference the
> > > +                        # later one.
> > > +                        for ref in refs + [msgid]:
> > > +                            ref = ref[:255]
> > > +                            # we don't want duplicates
> > > +                            try:
> > > +                                # we could have a ref to a previous series.
> > > +                                # (For example, a series sent in reply to
> > > +                                # another series.) That should not create a
> > > +                                # series ref for this series, so check for the
> > > +                                # msg-id only, not the msg-id/series pair.
> > > +                                SeriesReference.objects.get(
> > > +                                    msgid=ref, project=project)
> > > +                            except SeriesReference.DoesNotExist:
> > > +                                SeriesReference.objects.create(
> > > +                                    msgid=ref, project=project, series=series)
> > > +                    break
> > > +            except IntegrityError:
> > > +                # we lost the race so go again
> > > +                logger.warning('Conflict while saving series. This is '
> > > +                               'probably because multiple patches belonging '
> > > +                               'to the same series have been received at '
> > > +                               'once. Trying again (attempt %02d/10)',
> > > +                               attempt)
> > >          else:
> > > -            x = n = 1
> > > -
> > > -        # We will create a new series if:
> > > -        # - there is no existing series to assign this patch to, or
> > > -        # - there is an existing series, but it already has a patch with this
> > > -        #   number in it
> > > -        if not series or Patch.objects.filter(series=series, number=x).count():
> > > -            series = Series.objects.create(
> > > -                project=project,
> > > -                date=date,
> > > -                submitter=author,
> > > -                version=version,
> > > -                total=n)
> > > -
> > > -            # NOTE(stephenfin) We must save references for series. We
> > > -            # do this to handle the case where a later patch is
> > > -            # received first. Without storing references, it would not
> > > -            # be possible to identify the relationship between patches
> > > -            # as the earlier patch does not reference the later one.
> > > -            for ref in refs + [msgid]:
> > > -                ref = ref[:255]
> > > -                # we don't want duplicates
> > > -                try:
> > > -                    # we could have a ref to a previous series. (For
> > > -                    # example, a series sent in reply to another
> > > -                    # series.) That should not create a series ref
> > > -                    # for this series, so check for the msg-id only,
> > > -                    # not the msg-id/series pair.
> > > -                    SeriesReference.objects.get(msgid=ref,
> > > -                                                series__project=project)
> > > -                except SeriesReference.DoesNotExist:
> > > -                    SeriesReference.objects.create(series=series, msgid=ref)
> > > -                except SeriesReference.MultipleObjectsReturned:
> > > -                    logger.error("Multiple SeriesReferences for %s"
> > > -                                 " in project %s!" % (ref, project.name))
> > > +            # we failed to save the series so return the series-less patch
> > > +            logger.warning('Failed to save series. Your patch with message ID '
> > > +                           '%s has been saved but this should not happen. '
> > > +                           'Please report this as a bug and include logs',
> > > +                           msgid)
> > > +            return patch
> > >  
> > >          # add to a series if we have found one, and we have a numbered
> > >          # patch. Don't add unnumbered patches (for example diffs sent
> > > @@ -1170,14 +1182,9 @@ def parse_mail(mail, list_id=None):
> > >              # message
> > >              try:
> > >                  series = SeriesReference.objects.get(
> > > -                    msgid=msgid, series__project=project).series
> > > +                    msgid=msgid, project=project).series
> > >              except SeriesReference.DoesNotExist:
> > >                  series = None
> > > -            except SeriesReference.MultipleObjectsReturned:
> > > -                logger.error("Multiple SeriesReferences for %s"
> > > -                             " in project %s!" % (msgid, project.name))
> > > -                series = SeriesReference.objects.filter(
> > > -                    msgid=msgid, series__project=project).first().series
> > >  
> > >              if not series:
> > >                  series = Series.objects.create(
> > > @@ -1190,12 +1197,8 @@ def parse_mail(mail, list_id=None):
> > >                  # we don't save the in-reply-to or references fields
> > >                  # for a cover letter, as they can't refer to the same
> > >                  # series
> > > -                try:
> > > -                    SeriesReference.objects.get_or_create(series=series,
> > > -                                                          msgid=msgid)
> > > -                except SeriesReference.MultipleObjectsReturned:
> > > -                    logger.error("Multiple SeriesReferences for %s"
> > > -                                 " in project %s!" % (msgid, project.name))
> > > +                SeriesReference.objects.create(
> > > +                    msgid=msgid, project=project, series=series)
> > >  
> > >              try:
> > >                  cover_letter = CoverLetter.objects.create(
> > > diff --git a/patchwork/tests/test_parser.py b/patchwork/tests/test_parser.py
> > > index 0bf71585..0edbd87a 100644
> > > --- a/patchwork/tests/test_parser.py
> > > +++ b/patchwork/tests/test_parser.py
> > > @@ -421,17 +421,20 @@ class SeriesCorrelationTest(TestCase):
> > >          msgids = [make_msgid()]
> > >          project = create_project()
> > >          series_v1 = create_series(project=project)
> > > -        create_series_reference(msgid=msgids[0], series=series_v1)
> > > +        create_series_reference(msgid=msgids[0], series=series_v1,
> > > +                                project=project)
> > >  
> > >          # ...and three patches
> > >          for i in range(3):
> > >              msgids.append(make_msgid())
> > > -            create_series_reference(msgid=msgids[-1], series=series_v1)
> > > +            create_series_reference(msgid=msgids[-1], series=series_v1,
> > > +                                    project=project)
> > >  
> > >          # now create a new series with "cover letter"
> > >          msgids.append(make_msgid())
> > >          series_v2 = create_series(project=project)
> > > -        ref_v2 = create_series_reference(msgid=msgids[-1], series=series_v2)
> > > +        ref_v2 = create_series_reference(msgid=msgids[-1], series=series_v2,
> > > +                                         project=project)
> > >  
> > >          # ...and the "first patch" of this new series
> > >          msgid = make_msgid()
> > > diff --git a/patchwork/tests/utils.py b/patchwork/tests/utils.py
> > > index 577183d0..4ead1781 100644
> > > --- a/patchwork/tests/utils.py
> > > +++ b/patchwork/tests/utils.py
> > > @@ -282,8 +282,12 @@ def create_series(**kwargs):
> > >  
> > >  def create_series_reference(**kwargs):
> > >      """Create 'SeriesReference' object."""
> > > +    project = kwargs.pop('project', create_project())
> > > +    series = kwargs.pop('series', create_series(project=project))
> > > +
> > >      values = {
> > > -        'series': create_series() if 'series' not in kwargs else None,
> > > +        'series': series,
> > > +        'project': project,
> > >          'msgid': make_msgid(),
> > >      }
> > >      values.update(**kwargs)
> > > -- 
> > > 2.23.0



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