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temps upgrade held the whole release artifact in memory, twice over.

  1. download_asset buffered the response into a Bytes and then .to_vec()'d it, so both copies of the ~110 MB tarball were live at once.
  2. extract_binary_from_tarball read the uncompressed binary (~270 MB: .text ~185 MB, .rodata ~59 MB) into a Vec via read_to_end, which doubles its capacity while growing, with the tarball buffer still alive for the whole extraction.
  3. replace_binary then handed those 270 MB to fs::write, so the page cache filled with the same amount of dirty pages on top.

On a self-hosted instance with 1 GB of RAM already running temps serve, that peak does not fit. The kernel goes into swap thrashing and, with a fraction of a vCPU available, nothing gets scheduled: the reported symptom is the whole host becoming unreachable (SSH times out during banner exchange), not just the command failing. The last line printed is "Replacing binary", because that println! happens before the write.

Everything now streams through disk. Nothing in the flow ever needs the artifact whole.

Measurement

Peak RSS (VmHWM from /proc/self/status) of a harness running the two code paths over a synthetic 273 MB binary in a 73 MB tarball:

Path Peak RSS
before (buffer tarball, read_to_end, fs::write) 353,880 kB
after (stream to disk, io::copy) 2,488 kB

Roughly 350 MB down to 2.5 MB, and the "before" figure is a lower bound: the harness reads the tarball once, while the real download_asset kept the Bytes and its to_vec() copy alive simultaneously, on a tarball half again as large.

Both paths produced a byte-identical binary (same SHA256).

Changes

All in crates/temps-cli/src/commands/upgrade.rs.

  • download_asset_to_file / download_ee_asset_to_file stream the response chunk by chunk into a temporary file and feed Sha256 in the same loop, returning the hex digest. No second read for the checksum.
  • verify_computed_checksum compares an already-computed digest against a .sha256 body. verify_checksum keeps its signature and now delegates to it, so its callers and tests are untouched.
  • extract_binary_from_tarball_file runs GzDecoder over the tarball File and std::io::copys the entry into the staging file. The in-memory extract_binary_from_tarball stays for its other callers.
  • Checksum verification still runs before anything is unpacked. That is why the tarball is staged to disk rather than piped download to gunzip to tar to binary: the pipeline would save 110 MB of scratch disk but would write unverified bytes over the live executable. The reasoning is recorded as a comment at the call site.
  • The tarball is staged next to the target binary, not in std::env::temp_dir(), which is a tmpfs on many small hosts and would put those 110 MB straight back in RAM. That directory is already known-writable via check_write_permission.
  • ScopedTempFile removes the download and staging files on the ordinary failure paths. It cannot cover a SIGKILL, so reaping orphaned .temps-upgrade-*.<pid> files needs a PID liveness check and is left for a follow-up.
  • Validate before the rename: the extracted size is compared against the tar header's declared size, and a mismatch removes the staging file and fails. The verified checksum covers the tarball, not the write, so a short write (full disk, truncated stream) could otherwise put a plausible but incomplete file over the live executable.
  • sync_all before the rename, in both the streaming and the replace_binary paths. The rename is atomic for metadata only, so without the fsync a power cut can leave a correctly sized file of garbage where the system's executable was.
  • Both flows are converted: the public release path and the EE path.

Unchanged: printed messages, release artifact format, the atomic rename, and the PID suffix on the staging file.

Validation

  • cargo check --lib -p temps-cli: clean, no warnings.
  • cargo test --lib -p temps-cli: 221 passed, 0 failed. The existing verify_checksum and extract_binary_from_tarball tests are unmodified and still pass.
  • New tests cover: streaming extraction to disk; streaming output byte-identical to the in-memory path on a payload large enough that read_to_end reallocates; missing temps entry leaves nothing staged; missing tarball names the path in the error; ScopedTempFile removal and disarm; PID suffix on both temp paths; finalize_staged_binary renaming and setting mode 0755; checksum mismatch reporting both hashes.
  • Invalid checksum: the comparison sits between the download and the extraction, so a mismatch aborts with the target binary untouched and both temporaries removed by their guards. The mismatch itself is covered by test_verify_computed_checksum_reports_both_hashes_on_mismatch.

Type of change

  • Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
  • New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)
  • Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
  • Documentation update

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  • I have written tests that cover the changes
  • All new and existing tests pass (cargo test --lib)
  • cargo check --lib passes with no warnings
  • My commits follow the Conventional Commits format
  • I have updated documentation where necessary

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Reported against a self-hosted 1 GB instance upgrading on the nightly channel.


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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved upgrade reliability by streaming downloads and extracting files through a staged replacement process.
    • Added checksum verification and extraction-size validation to help prevent incomplete or invalid upgrades.
    • Improved cleanup of temporary files when upgrades fail or are interrupted.
    • Added durability safeguards to reduce the risk of corrupted installations.

The upgrade path held the whole release artifact in memory twice over: the
tarball was buffered into a Bytes and copied into a Vec, then the ~270 MB
uncompressed binary was read into another Vec that doubles while growing, with
the tarball still alive. On a 1 GB host running the server the peak does not
fit, the kernel starts swap thrashing and the machine stops answering SSH.

Download now streams to a temporary file next to the target binary, feeding the
SHA256 in the same pass so the digest is available without a second read.
Extraction gunzips and untars from that file straight into the staging file the
atomic rename already consumed. Peak memory is one copy buffer.

Checksum verification still happens before anything is unpacked, which is why
the tarball is staged to disk instead of piped directly into the untar. The
staging file keeps its PID suffix and the rename stays atomic; both are now
preceded by an fsync, and the extracted size is compared against the tar
header's declared size so a truncated read cannot land over the live
executable.
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## [Unreleased]

### Fixed

- **cli:** Validate the extracted upgrade entry and clean up staged writes

### Performance

- **cli:** Stream the upgrade download and extraction to disk

### Refactor

- **cli:** Take &Path in replace_binary

### Styling

- **cli:** Apply rustfmt to the streaming upgrade helpers

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The upgrade command now streams OSS and EE tarballs to disk, verifies computed checksums, extracts binaries into staged files, fsyncs outputs, and atomically replaces installed binaries. Temporary-file cleanup and staged replacement behavior are covered by tests.

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Upgrade installation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Streaming downloads and checksum verification
crates/temps-cli/src/commands/upgrade.rs
OSS and EE downloads stream to files while computing hashes. Checksum parsing and verification support precomputed digests.
Staged extraction and atomic installation
crates/temps-cli/src/commands/upgrade.rs
Tarballs extract the temps entry into staged files. The installer validates size, syncs output, sets executable permissions, and atomically renames the staged binary.
Temporary-file cleanup and behavioral validation
crates/temps-cli/src/commands/upgrade.rs
PID-scoped paths, scoped cleanup, checksum handling, extraction, and staged replacement are covered by tests.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to fbfe9

The upgrade flow now streams artifacts to disk, greatly reducing memory pressure, but archive validation can still accept an invalid temps entry and failed replacements can leave staged files consuming disk space. The PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner awareness or follow-up for these bounded correctness and cleanup risks.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant UpgradeCommand
  participant DownloadEndpoint
  participant DownloadedTarball
  participant ChecksumVerifier
  participant StagedBinary
  participant InstalledBinary
  UpgradeCommand->>DownloadEndpoint: request upgrade asset
  DownloadEndpoint->>DownloadedTarball: stream tarball and compute hash
  UpgradeCommand->>ChecksumVerifier: verify computed checksum
  UpgradeCommand->>DownloadedTarball: extract temps entry
  DownloadedTarball->>StagedBinary: write and sync binary
  UpgradeCommand->>InstalledBinary: atomically replace binary
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Clippy (advisory) is red, but not on anything this PR touches:

error: using `chunks_exact` with a constant chunk size
  --> crates/temps-query-redis/src/lib.rs:263:14
  --> crates/temps-query-redis/src/lib.rs:364:33
  = note: `-D clippy::chunks-exact-to-as-chunks` implied by `-D warnings`

chunks_exact_to_as_chunks is a newer lint than the toolchain main last ran clippy against, so it now fires on temps-query-redis, a crate outside this diff. Leaving it out of this PR rather than widening the scope. The fix, if wanted separately, is the two suggested rewrites: .chunks_exact(2) to .as_chunks::<2>().0.iter() at line 263, and flat_values.chunks_exact(2) to flat_values.as_chunks::<2>().0 at line 364.

Clippy did flag one thing in this diff on the previous commit, a ptr_arg on replace_binary taking &PathBuf where the new call path only needs &Path. That is fixed in fbfe9bb, and cargo clippy --lib -p temps-cli is clean locally.


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In `@crates/temps-cli/src/commands/upgrade.rs`:
- Around line 1483-1502: Update replace_binary to guard tmp_path with the
existing ScopedTempFile cleanup mechanism used by the streaming paths, ensuring
write_all or sync_all failures remove the staged file while preserving
finalize_staged_binary behavior on success.
- Around line 1330-1358: Use the tar entry’s Entry::size() value rather than
entry.header().size() when validating extracted bytes, preserving PAX and
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finalized or renamed, removing the staged destination first and returning an
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Compare the copied byte count against Entry::size rather than
Header::size: the former is what the entry reader yields and honours a PAX
size override, while the latter reports the logical size and disagrees for
PAX and sparse entries, which would surface as a truncation that never
happened.

Reject an entry named temps that is not a regular file, or that is empty.
A symlink or an empty file carrying that name copies zero bytes and passes
a 0 == 0 size check, which would rename it over the live executable.

Guard the staged file in replace_binary with the same ScopedTempFile the
streaming paths use, so a failed write or fsync does not leave a partial
file holding the disk space needed to retry.
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