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fix(desktop): close SSH forwards before installing an update - #14276

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What Changed

Before an update install quits the app, the desktop now closes its local SSH forwards (ssh -N -L children). It does this through a new closeLocalForwards on the SSH environment manager, called in DesktopUpdates.install just before quitAndInstall. Remote servers are left running. desktopSshLayer moved below DesktopUpdates.layer in main.ts so the updater can depend on it.

Why

The updater quit skips the normal shutdown, so the scope finalizer that kills the forwards never runs. The forwards are orphaned and the relaunched app stacks a second one on the same host. Closing them beforehand, the same way backends are already stopped, fixes that path.

Validated with unit tests (tunnel.test.ts and the desktop updates/ssh suites) plus typecheck. I did not run a real update and relaunch.

Fixes #14268

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Fixes #14268

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Desktop updates now close active local SSH port forwards after stopping backend instances and before restarting the app. This helps prevent existing forwards from lingering through an update. SSH connections can be re-established afterward.

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// The updater quit skips the scope finalizers that normally reap SSH
// forwards, so they would outlive this process.
yield* sshEnvironment.closeLocalForwards;

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🟠 High updates/DesktopUpdates.ts:650

quitAndInstall can leave an SSH ssh -L forward orphaned, causing the relaunched app to fail when it reuses that local port. closeLocalForwards only closes the forwards present when it snapshots the map, so an IPC-driven ensureEnvironment that runs concurrently can register a new forward after the snapshot; because updater shutdown skips the manager finalizer, that entry is never killed. Block new SSH environment ensures once installation starts or make closeLocalForwards reject concurrent ensures.

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In file @apps/desktop/src/updates/DesktopUpdates.ts around line 650:

`quitAndInstall` can leave an SSH `ssh -L` forward orphaned, causing the relaunched app to fail when it reuses that local port. `closeLocalForwards` only closes the forwards present when it snapshots the map, so an IPC-driven `ensureEnvironment` that runs concurrently can register a new forward after the snapshot; because updater shutdown skips the manager finalizer, that entry is never killed. Block new SSH environment ensures once installation starts or make `closeLocalForwards` reject concurrent ensures.

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// The updater quit skips the scope finalizers that normally reap SSH
// forwards, so they would outlive this process.
yield* sshEnvironment.closeLocalForwards;

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🟠 High updates/DesktopUpdates.ts:650

When quitAndInstall fails or emits an error, recovery kills every active SSH forward, so existing SSH-backed renderer sessions retain loopback URLs whose listeners no longer exist. recoverFailedInstall only restarts backend instances and never reruns ensureEnvironment; preserve or restore the forwards during recovery, or defer closeLocalForwards until the updater has committed to exit.

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In file @apps/desktop/src/updates/DesktopUpdates.ts around line 650:

When `quitAndInstall` fails or emits an error, recovery kills every active SSH forward, so existing SSH-backed renderer sessions retain loopback URLs whose listeners no longer exist. `recoverFailedInstall` only restarts backend instances and never reruns `ensureEnvironment`; preserve or restore the forwards during recovery, or defer `closeLocalForwards` until the updater has committed to exit.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This is a focused update-shutdown bug fix with tests for normal cleanup ordering, but cleanup can race with tunnel creation and can leave recovered SSH sessions without their listeners after an install failure. The concurrent and recovery paths are not covered, leaving material lifecycle risk to resolve.

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The SSH environment manager now closes local forwards without stopping remote servers. Desktop update installation invokes that cleanup after stopping backend instances and before quitting to install the update.

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SSH Forward Cleanup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Close local forwards without stopping remote servers
packages/ssh/src/tunnel.ts, packages/ssh/src/tunnel.test.ts
The manager clears its tunnel registry and closes registered local tunnel scopes concurrently. The test checks that reconnecting creates a new tunnel, which stops its remote server when its scope ends.
Run SSH cleanup before update installation
apps/desktop/src/ssh/DesktopSshEnvironment.ts, apps/desktop/src/updates/DesktopUpdates.ts, apps/desktop/src/main.ts, apps/desktop/src/updates/updatesTestHarness.ts, apps/desktop/src/updates/DesktopUpdates.test.ts
The desktop SSH service exposes the cleanup operation. The update flow calls it after stopping backend instances and before quitAndInstall. The application layer provides the SSH layer, and update tests check install and recovery steps.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to faa76

An update can still leave an SSH forward open if tunnel creation overlaps cleanup. Synchronize creation and cleanup before merging. Failed-install connections already have a reconnect path.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to faa76

Closing forwards before installation reduces the usual risk of leaving them behind. If installation fails, however, the cleanup can leave a remote server running without a tracked forward to stop it during a later normal shutdown. The exposure is conditional and its remote accessibility has not been established.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: Clearing tunnel ownership before installer handoff can strand a remote server after a failed install; suppressed forward-kill failures can likewise leave a local forward without a registry entry for retry.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The cleanup acts on all forwards in this manager's registry, across its SSH targets, rather than on an arbitrary OS process. Residual exposure on a failed install is bounded by those targets and their remote services; remote reachability beyond the SSH host is unverified.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — If installation fails after successful cleanup and no forward is re-created, the remote server can remain running after a later normal shutdown: the entry that would authorize its stop has been removed. This is a newly affected failed-install path, not evidence of an externally exploitable remote endpoint.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The new cleanup effect has no evidenced direct IPC route. An existing schema-decoded SSH IPC method can invoke ensureEnvironment, while per-target locking used by ensureEnvironment is not used by the registry-wide cleanup.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — A forward created after the cleanup snapshot can escape that pass. Reachability during installer handoff is not established; moreover, successful installation already orphaned forwards before this change, so this possible race is not assessed as a separate worsened security condition.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Keep remote-server cleanup ownership independently of local-forward entries, reconcile it during failed-install recovery, and make failed forward termination observable and retryable before installer handoff. A creation barrier would make the cleanup snapshot definitive.
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Description check ✅ Passed The description clearly explains what changed, why the change was needed, testing performed, and the absence of UI changes. It follows the required sections and identifies that a real update-and-relau…
Title check ✅ Passed The title is concise and accurately describes the primary change: closing SSH forwards before installing a desktop update.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue [#14268] requires the old desktop instance to close local SSH forwards before update relaunch. DesktopUpdates.install now calls sshEnvironment.closeLocalForwards after backend shutdown and b…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changed files support issue [#14268]. The layer wiring enables the updater dependency. The SSH manager operation implements local-forward cleanup. Desktop update tests and SSH tunnel tests verify …
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- Around line 1768-1770: Update closeLocalForwards to serialize cleanup with
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const entries = [...tunnels.values()];
tunnels.clear();
return Effect.forEach(entries, closeTunnelEntry, { concurrency: "unbounded" });

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Serialize cleanup with tunnel creation.

If ensureEnvironment is launching a tunnel while closeLocalForwards runs, tunnels.clear() can execute before createTunnelEntry calls tunnels.set(...). The new forward then escapes this cleanup and can remain open when the updater quits. Serialize cleanup with in-flight creation, and prevent new creation until installation quits or recovery completes.

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Review comment at @packages/ssh/src/tunnel.ts around lines 1768 - 1770:
Update closeLocalForwards to serialize cleanup with in-flight createTunnelEntry
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Motivation: The update install path stops backends and then calls quitAndInstall. The updater quit is allowed through without the normal desktop shutdown, so the SshEnvironmentManager scope finalizer never runs. The local `ssh -N -L` children are reparented to PID 1 and keep listening, and the relaunched app opens a second forward to the same host.

Approach: Add SshEnvironmentManager.closeLocalForwards, exposed on DesktopSshEnvironment, and call it in DesktopUpdates.install right after the backends are stopped and before quitAndInstall. It unregisters each tunnel entry before closing it, so the existing finalizer kills only the local ssh process and does not stop the remote server. If quitAndInstall fails the app stays up with its forwards closed, and the next ensureEnvironment recreates them. desktopSshLayer moves below DesktopUpdates.layer in main.ts so the updater can depend on it.

Validation (run locally, macOS):
- vp test run src/tunnel.test.ts in packages/ssh: 20 passed, including a new test that closeLocalForwards kills the forward without running the remote stop command.
- vp test run src/updates src/ssh in apps/desktop: 88 passed; install-step assertions now expect closeLocalForwards before quitAndInstall.
- tsc --noEmit clean for both packages; vp fmt applied; vp lint shows only a warning in a file this change does not touch.
Not run: a real Electron update and relaunch. Correctness of the orphaning mechanism rests on the code path described above, not on a live reproduction. Other orphans mentioned in the report may come from the separate reconnect leak and are not addressed here.

Report: pingdotgg#14268
Signed-off-by: Pujitha Paladugu <10557236+pujitha24@users.noreply.github.com>
Assisted-by: claude-sonnet-5-5 (via Claude Code)

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