windows: restart daemon children without stopping LanternSvc - #615
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Limit details: You’ve used the included review currently available. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe Windows service now enables recovery for non-crash failures and supervises daemon child exits with injectable restart backoff. Tests cover restart, shutdown, cancellation, failure, logging, and recovery configuration behavior. ChangesWindows service recovery
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The service now restarts daemon children in place, but its production retry timing still uses quadratic backoff rather than the required capped exponential schedule, which can lead to incorrect recovery timing after repeated crashes. The PR should not be merged until that behavior is corrected or explicitly accepted; the related timing constants also need clearer documentation. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant WindowsService
participant service.run
participant ChildProcess
participant RestartBackoff
WindowsService->>service.run: Execute service
service.run->>ChildProcess: Start daemon child
ChildProcess-->>service.run: Return exit result
service.run->>RestartBackoff: Wait before restart
RestartBackoff-->>service.run: Complete restart delay
service.run->>ChildProcess: Restart daemon child
WindowsService->>service.run: Request shutdown
service.run->>RestartBackoff: Cancel pending delay
service.run->>ChildProcess: Stop active child
service.run-->>WindowsService: Return service result
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Pull request overview
This PR updates the Windows service host (LanternSvc) to supervise and restart its daemon child process in-process (instead of exiting and relying solely on Windows SCM recovery), improving resilience when the daemon terminates unexpectedly.
Changes:
- Centralized daemon restart backoff constants and reused them across babysitting/supervision paths.
- Refactored the Windows service handler to keep running after child exit, perform crash handling, and restart the child with backoff while handling stop/shutdown safely.
- Added Windows-specific unit tests covering restart behavior, stop-during-backoff behavior, and service recovery configuration.
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| File | Description |
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| cmd/lanternd/lanternd.go | Extracts shared backoff constants and wires them into the existing child babysitter loop. |
| cmd/lanternd/lanternd_windows.go | Implements in-service child supervision/restart with injected backoff and spawn functions; factors out service recovery configuration. |
| cmd/lanternd/lanternd_windows_test.go | Adds unit tests for child restart supervision, stop handling during backoff, restart failure behavior, and service recovery configuration. |
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In `@cmd/lanternd/lanternd_windows.go`:
- Around line 89-94: Add Go doc comments immediately before
windowsServiceRecoveryConfigurer, configureWindowsServiceRecovery,
windowsServiceChild, windowsServiceBackoff, and service, documenting their
recovery, cancellation, and test-injection contracts without changing behavior.
- Around line 206-208: Update the newBackoff factory used by newWindowsService
to provide capped exponential delays rather than common.NewBackoff’s quadratic
waitScale × n² behavior. Preserve the windowsServiceBackoff injection interface
and enforce daemonRestartBackoffMax as the upper bound.
In `@cmd/lanternd/lanternd.go`:
- Around line 243-247: Add identifier-leading Go doc comments for
daemonRestartBackoffMax and daemonRestartBackoffResetAfter, documenting the
maximum restart delay and the stable-runtime threshold shared by babysit and the
Windows service supervisor.
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| type windowsServiceRecoveryConfigurer interface { | ||
| SetRecoveryActions([]mgr.RecoveryAction, uint32) error | ||
| SetRecoveryActionsOnNonCrashFailures(bool) error | ||
| } | ||
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| func configureWindowsServiceRecovery(service windowsServiceRecoveryConfigurer) error { |
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Document the internal service contracts.
Add Go doc comments immediately above windowsServiceRecoveryConfigurer, configureWindowsServiceRecovery, windowsServiceChild, windowsServiceBackoff, and service. Describe their recovery, cancellation, and test-injection contracts.
As per coding guidelines, “Use Go doc comments (// Foo ...) for exported identifiers and any unexported ones with non-obvious contracts.”
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In `@cmd/lanternd/lanternd_windows.go` around lines 89 - 94, Add Go doc comments
immediately before windowsServiceRecoveryConfigurer,
configureWindowsServiceRecovery, windowsServiceChild, windowsServiceBackoff, and
service, documenting their recovery, cancellation, and test-injection contracts
without changing behavior.
Source: Coding guidelines
| newBackoff: func() windowsServiceBackoff { | ||
| return common.NewBackoff(daemonRestartBackoffMax) | ||
| }, |
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Use capped exponential backoff.
newWindowsService injects common.NewBackoff(daemonRestartBackoffMax) into the Windows service restart loop. common.Backoff.Wait calculates waitScale * n², so repeated daemon exits do not follow the documented exponential restart policy. Replace it with a capped exponential implementation while keeping the injected interface.
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In `@cmd/lanternd/lanternd_windows.go` around lines 206 - 208, Update the
newBackoff factory used by newWindowsService to provide capped exponential
delays rather than common.NewBackoff’s quadratic waitScale × n² behavior.
Preserve the windowsServiceBackoff injection interface and enforce
daemonRestartBackoffMax as the upper bound.
| const ( | ||
| daemonRestartBackoffMax = 60 * time.Second | ||
| daemonRestartBackoffResetAfter = 2 * time.Minute | ||
| ) | ||
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Document the shared restart timing constants.
These constants define the restart backoff contract used by both babysit and the Windows service supervisor. Add identifier-leading Go doc comments that explain the maximum delay and the stable-runtime threshold.
As per coding guidelines, unexported identifiers with non-obvious contracts require Go doc comments.
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const (
+ // daemonRestartBackoffMax is the maximum delay between daemon restarts.
daemonRestartBackoffMax = 60 * time.Second
+ // daemonRestartBackoffResetAfter is the stable child runtime required to reset backoff.
daemonRestartBackoffResetAfter = 2 * time.Minute
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| const ( | |
| daemonRestartBackoffMax = 60 * time.Second | |
| daemonRestartBackoffResetAfter = 2 * time.Minute | |
| ) | |
| const ( | |
| // daemonRestartBackoffMax is the maximum delay between daemon restarts. | |
| daemonRestartBackoffMax = 60 * time.Second | |
| // daemonRestartBackoffResetAfter is the stable child runtime required to reset backoff. | |
| daemonRestartBackoffResetAfter = 2 * time.Minute | |
| ) |
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In `@cmd/lanternd/lanternd.go` around lines 243 - 247, Add identifier-leading Go
doc comments for daemonRestartBackoffMax and daemonRestartBackoffResetAfter,
documenting the maximum restart delay and the stable-runtime threshold shared by
babysit and the Windows service supervisor.
Source: Coding guidelines
Fixes getlantern/engineering#3851.
Summary
Why
LanternSvcpreviously returned from its service handler whenever the daemon child exited. Recovery then depended entirely on Windows Service Control Manager configuration, which could leave Lantern installed but unable to reconnect.The service host now supervises the daemon process directly. If the child terminates, Lantern cleans up its network state and starts a replacement while the same
LanternSvcprocess remains running. Windows SCM recovery remains as a fallback if supervision itself fails.The Lantern Windows smoke test confirmed that killing the daemon child creates a replacement child under the same running
LanternSvchost:https://github.com/getlantern/lantern/actions/runs/32820317801
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