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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change schedules debounced database sync through idle callbacks when available. It replaces Electron file transfers with chunked upload and read sessions, adds file-session and path-management logic, and expands storage tests. It also updates Electron and adds browser-debugging instructions. ChangesDatabase Sync Scheduling and Debugging
Chunked Electron File Storage
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ElectronFilesController
participant StorageChannelAPI
participant createStorageBackend
participant UploadSessions
participant UploadSession
ElectronFilesController->>StorageChannelAPI: createUploadSession(fileId, subdir)
StorageChannelAPI->>createStorageBackend: Dispatch upload-session request
createStorageBackend->>UploadSessions: Create session for file path
UploadSessions->>UploadSession: Initialize temporary write stream
ElectronFilesController->>StorageChannelAPI: uploadChunk(sessionId, buffer)
createStorageBackend->>UploadSession: Write chunk
ElectronFilesController->>StorageChannelAPI: commitUpload(sessionId)
createStorageBackend->>UploadSession: Commit session
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Resolve the upload error handling and unbounded read allocation before merging. Storage operations rooted at a filesystem root also need the containment fix. Security Architecture ReviewSecurity architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Chunking improves responsiveness and strengthens path scoping, but the new session design introduces material resource-exhaustion and failure-containment risks. Recovery also no longer recognizes the previous backup format. These issues can affect the application and its vault data; a new remote-access or arbitrary-filesystem-access path was not established. Retained concerns
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Review comments at @packages/app/src/core/database/ManagedDatabase.ts:
- Line 66: Update the requestIdleCallback call in ManagedDatabase’s automatic
persistence flow to pass a finite timeout, such as sync.deadline, so this.sync()
eventually runs even when the browser cannot find an idle period.
- Line 66: Update the idle callback scheduling in ManagedDatabase so it stores
the handle returned by requestIdleCallback and clears that handle when the
callback starts. In close(), cancel any pending idle callback using its stored
handle, while preserving the existing debouncedSync cancellation.
Review comments at @packages/app/src/electron/requests/storage/main.ts:
- Around line 174-203: Update commitUpload to remove its uploadSessions entry
when reporting a cancelled session, then rethrow session.error unchanged. On the
successful cleanup path, also remove the resolved-path entry from
pathUploadSessions only if it still maps to this sessionId.
- Around line 150-166: Attach a persistent error listener to each stream created
in createUploadSession, recording errors on that session so uploadChunk can
propagate them through its existing session.error check. Register the listener
after stream creation and before storing the session; do not rely on
stream.write’s return value or the drain event to handle filesystem errors.
- Around line 181-185: In commitUpload, recheck session.error immediately after
awaiting the stream’s finish event and before publishing the upload; reject the
commit if the session was cancelled while the stream was finishing.
Review comments at @packages/app/src/electron/requests/storage/renderer.ts:
- Around line 28-43: Update write to abort the upload session if chunk upload or
commit fails, then rethrow the original error; remove the unreachable Unexpected
end of file check. Add an abortUpload channel method and implement it in the
backend to close and remove the session, deleting the staging file and path
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85-90: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy liftCoordinate per-path operations before using
fs/promises.The synchronous mutations in
get,delete, andcommitUploadcan block the Electron main process. However, replacing them with independent awaitedrenameandrmcalls is unsafe.
createUploadSessionreuses the same temporary and backup paths for aresolvedPath. During an awaited commit mutation, a replacement session,get, ordeletecan reuse or remove those paths. The commit can then publish or remove another session's file. Add a per-path operation queue covering session replacement, commit, recovery, and deletion before converting these mutations tofs/promises. Otherwise, retain the synchronous mutations.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 143-151: Serialize the cancellation-through-registration phase in
ElectronFilesController.write per resolvedPath, so concurrent writes to the same
file cannot both create staging streams before registering in
pathUploadSessions. Keep session lookup, cancellation, and creation/registration
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- Around line 85-90: Keep the synchronous filesystem mutations in the get,
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- Around line 56-60: Update PathsResolver.isAllowedPath to split filenames on
both forward and backslashes before checking segments against tmpPrefix, so
Windows-style reserved paths are rejected while normal paths remain allowed.
Review comments at @packages/app/src/electron/requests/storage/UploadSession.ts:
- Around line 39-42: Keep a persistent error listener on the WriteStream created
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- Around line 18-42: Serialize the full session-creation flow in `create` with a
mutex keyed by `resolvedPath`. Hold the lock from checking and aborting any
previous session through `UploadSession.init` and registration in
`pathUploadSessions` and `uploadSessions`, so concurrent calls for the same path
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The final buffer must be not resizable, because TextEncoder does not work on mutable buffer.
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- Around line 22-42: Validate the renderer-supplied size in FileReadSession.read
before allocating the ArrayBuffer: reject values that are not positive integers
and cap valid reads at a fixed maximum such as 16 MiB. Use the validated, capped
size for both allocation and the file read.
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- Around line 26-30: Update FileReadSessions.create to reject paths that exist
but are not regular files before opening the session; use an isFile check
alongside the existing existence check so directory paths return null and never
reach FileReadSession.open.
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- Around line 47-73: Update the read loop in `get` to run inside a try/finally
and call `this.storageApi.closeReader(sessionId)` in the finally block, removing
the EOF-only close so cleanup also occurs when `readChunk` rejects. Update
`closeReader` to remove the session after closing it while preserving its
existing missing-session error.
- Around line 47-73: Update the get method to decrypt the assembled buffer
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🟠 Major · Reject symlink traversal in storage paths. · PathsResolver.ts:24-53
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftReject symlink traversal in storage paths.
joinPathchecks only lexical path segments. IfvaultDir/linkis an existing symlink to an outside directory, renderer requests such asget("link/secret.txt"),write("link/secret.txt", ...), anddelete(["link/secret.txt"])can operate on the outside file.list()can also recurse through the symlink and expose outside names.Apply symlink-aware containment to every storage operation. Reject symlink components, and prevent listing from following symlink entries.
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🟡 Minor · Remove closed sessions from the registry. · main.ts:88-97
packages/app/src/electron/requests/storage/main.ts:88-97
🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winRemove closed sessions from the registry.
ElectronFilesController.get()callscloseReaderafter each read. This handler closes the file descriptor but leaves the session in the registry. Repeated reads can retain one closed session object per read for the backend’s lifetime. Call the registry’s cleanup method instead.Suggested fix
const session = readSessions.getById(sessionId); if (!session) throw new Error(`No session found for id ${sessionId}`); - await session.close(); + await readSessions.close(sessionId);🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Closes #362
The problem
It seems the problem is every time the DB is saved on disk, we copy 98 mb from renderer process into main process.
Currently there are no way to transfer buffer into main process. Electron API explicitly declare they expect only MessagePort in "transferable" list. There are issue about it: electron/electron#34905 (comment)
The core problem is renderer thread synchronously copy 98mb.
The solution
To solve a problem we update FS backend. Now we create upload session and then upload file by small chunks.
As result - each blocked operation of copyin becomes small, then even loop can handle user input and schedule next chunk copying.
I've added tests to make sure files will not be corrupted.
Side changes
I've update the Electron up to latest version and I found the extensions does work there now and no problems with Wayland on my machine.
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