layer deletion: Improve a comment and fix TOCTOU (#4673)

The comment referenced an issue that was already closed. Remove that
reference and replace it with an explanation why we already don't print
an error.

See discussion in
https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/2934#issuecomment-1626505916

For the TOCTOU fixes, the two calls after the `.exists()` both didn't
handle the situation well where the file was deleted after the initial
`.exists()`: one would assume that the path wasn't a file, giving a bad
error, the second would give an accurate error but that's not wanted
either.

We remove both racy `exists` and `is_file` checks, and instead just look
for errors about files not being found.
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arpad-m
2023-07-12 15:52:14 +02:00
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parent a1d6b1a4af
commit 1355bd0ac5
2 changed files with 10 additions and 12 deletions

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@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
use std::{
borrow::Cow,
future::Future,
io::ErrorKind,
path::{Path, PathBuf},
pin::Pin,
};
@@ -343,18 +344,14 @@ impl RemoteStorage for LocalFs {
async fn delete(&self, path: &RemotePath) -> anyhow::Result<()> {
let file_path = path.with_base(&self.storage_root);
if !file_path.exists() {
match fs::remove_file(&file_path).await {
Ok(()) => Ok(()),
// The file doesn't exist. This shouldn't yield an error to mirror S3's behaviour.
// See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_DeleteObject.html
// > If there isn't a null version, Amazon S3 does not remove any objects but will still respond that the command was successful.
return Ok(());
Err(e) if e.kind() == ErrorKind::NotFound => Ok(()),
Err(e) => Err(anyhow::anyhow!(e)),
}
if !file_path.is_file() {
anyhow::bail!("{file_path:?} is not a file");
}
Ok(fs::remove_file(file_path)
.await
.map_err(|e| anyhow::anyhow!(e))?)
}
async fn delete_objects<'a>(&self, paths: &'a [RemotePath]) -> anyhow::Result<()> {

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@@ -19,9 +19,10 @@ pub(super) async fn delete_layer<'a>(
let path_to_delete = conf.remote_path(local_layer_path)?;
// XXX: If the deletion fails because the object already didn't exist,
// it would be good to just issue a warning but consider it success.
// https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/issues/2934
// We don't want to print an error if the delete failed if the file has
// already been deleted. Thankfully, in this situation S3 already
// does not yield an error. While OS-provided local file system APIs do yield
// errors, we avoid them in the `LocalFs` wrapper.
storage.delete(&path_to_delete).await.with_context(|| {
format!("Failed to delete remote layer from storage at {path_to_delete:?}")
})