[ssh-process] Fix callback lifetime and remove error storage

[tobe2098]

Description

• What does this PR do? This PR first fixes the callback lifetime in PlainSSHProcess, and removes the previous convention of storing an exception pointer and re-throwing. Instead, we store the actual status of the channel and re-throw an error on every attempt.

• Why is this change needed? The previous implementation only registered callbacks during read_exit_code, which could cause a loss of the exit status of the ssh_channel.

Related Issue(s)

Closes #4990

Testing

• Unit tests
• Test classic mounts manually

Checklist

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• I have added integration tests or no new ones were appropriate
• I have updated documentation or no changes were appropriate
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✅ Project coverage is 87.37%. Comparing base (9a4f5dc) to head (cb7257e).
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Pull request overview

This PR addresses libssh channel exit-status retrieval reliability by registering channel callbacks for the full PlainSSHProcess lifetime (instead of only during read_exit_code()), and refactors unit tests to use a callback-driven mock rather than storing/rethrowing exceptions.

Changes:

• Register libssh channel callbacks when creating the channel, and track exit status / EOF / close via callbacks in PlainSSHProcess.
• Remove the “store exception_ptr and rethrow later” behavior in favor of storing channel state and throwing on each failed attempt.
• Update unit tests to use a new callback/event polling mock (CallbackEngineMock) to drive exit status, EOF, and close events.

Reviewed changes

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Show a summary per file

File	Description
tests/unit/test_sshfsmount.cpp	Switches sshfs-related tests from exit-status mock to callback-engine mock.
tests/unit/test_ssh_process.cpp	Updates exit status retrieval test to push callback state rather than invoking callback directly.
tests/unit/test_sftpserver.cpp	Refactors SFTP server tests to drive process lifecycle via callback-engine mock states.
tests/unit/test_plain_ssh_session.cpp	Introduces callback-engine mock instantiation to support new callback registration behavior.
tests/unit/mock_ssh_process_exit_status.h	Repurposes/duplicates mock definitions into callback-engine style types (now overlaps with new header).
tests/unit/mock_ssh_callback_engine.h	Adds new callback-engine mock used by updated unit tests.
src/ssh/plain_ssh_process.cpp	Implements lifetime callbacks and new exit-code/EOF/close tracking logic.
include/multipass/ssh/plain_ssh_process.h	Updates PlainSSHProcess interface/state to support callbacks and optional exit result.

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (1)

src/ssh/plain_ssh_process.cpp:57

• If ssh_channel_open_session() or ssh_channel_request_exec() throws after callbacks are registered, PlainSSHProcess will never reach its destructor, so callbacks can remain registered with userdata = this while the partially-constructed object is being unwound. Unregister callbacks on these error paths to avoid potential use-after-free during libssh cleanup.

    mp::SSH::throw_on_error(channel,
                            session,
                            "[ssh proc] failed to open session channel",
                            ssh_channel_open_session);
    mp::SSH::throw_on_error(channel,

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Pull request overview

Copilot reviewed 7 out of 7 changed files in this pull request and generated 1 comment.

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (3)

src/ssh/plain_ssh_process.cpp:257

• read_stream() uses only the internal channel_closed flag to decide whether the channel is closed. Since this flag is updated only via callbacks, it can lag behind the actual libssh channel state; when the channel is already closed, this can lead to calling ssh_channel_read_timeout() and throwing on the new libssh “closed channel” error instead of returning gracefully.

    // If the channel is closed there's no output to read
    if (!channel || channel_closed) // TODO@sftp
    {
        mpl::trace_location(category, "{}", !channel ? "null channel" : "channel closed");
        return std::string();
    }

src/ssh/plain_ssh_process.cpp:279

• In the read error path, the “channel closed” special-case check also relies only on channel_closed. If the close callback hasn’t fired yet but libssh already considers the channel closed, this will throw instead of returning the buffered output.

        if (num_bytes < 0)
        {
            // Latest libssh now returns an error if the channel has been closed instead of
            // returning 0 bytes
            if (channel_closed)
            {
                mpl::trace_location(category, "channel closed");
                return output.str();
            }

tests/unit/mock_ssh_callback_engine.h:58

• CallbackEngineMock unconditionally calls channel_eof_function/channel_close_function when cb_s.eof/cb_s.closed are set. In libssh these callback function pointers are optional and can legitimately be null; this mock should guard against null to avoid test crashes when a caller only registers a subset of callbacks.

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Pull request overview

Copilot reviewed 7 out of 7 changed files in this pull request and generated 4 comments.

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tests/unit/mock_ssh_callback_engine.h:35

• The TODO comment has a grammatical typo (“can we can rid”).