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bambuddy/backend/tests/unit/test_camera_stderr_tail.py
maziggy 40e7b60e8c fix(camera): drain a streaming ffmpeg's stderr continuously (#2707)
ffmpeg is spawned with stderr=PIPE and it was only read on the error
paths, so for the life of a working stream nobody read that pipe. ffmpeg
writes its banner, the input analysis, then a progress line at a steady
rate; a 64 KiB pipe fills eventually, ffmpeg blocks writing to it, frames
stop, and the stream's own 30s timeout fires -- logged as "RTSP read
timeout" with no hint that we starved it ourselves.

How long that takes is unmeasured and evidently long: one H2D upstream
ran 21m36s without stalling, and an earlier 512 B/s extrapolation of mine
was mostly the one-off startup banner. So this is a bounded resource being
treated as unbounded, not a fault anyone has reported.

_FfmpegStderrTail drains the pipe continuously and keeps a 16 KiB rolling
tail. That tail is what the error paths now report, which is better
material than before: it holds what ffmpeg said as things went wrong,
where the on-demand read returned whatever was printed first -- usually
the banner, which the summariser strips anyway.

Three readers wanted this one pipe, and asyncio rejects concurrent reads
on a StreamReader, so the collector is authoritative: it registers by pid,
_read_ffmpeg_stderr returns its tail when present and otherwise reads the
pipe unchanged, and _terminate_ffmpeg skips its own stderr drain when the
collector owns it (the collector keeps draining through teardown, which is
all wait() needs). The generator starts it after the immediate-failure
check, which reads the pipe directly because the process is already dead,
and releases it after _terminate_ffmpeg.

text() goes through _summarize_ffmpeg_stderr like every other stderr log
here, so the access code ffmpeg echoes in its input URL stays masked.
aclose() awaits the cancelled pump rather than firing and forgetting, so
no pending task survives into loop teardown.
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"""Continuous stderr draining for streaming ffmpeg (_FfmpegStderrTail).
ffmpeg is spawned with stderr=PIPE, and stderr used to be read only when
something had already gone wrong — so for the life of a stream nobody read that
pipe. ffmpeg writes its banner, the input analysis and then a progress line at a
steady rate, so a 64 KiB pipe fills eventually, ffmpeg blocks writing to it,
frames stop, and the stream's own read timeout fires with nothing in the log
explaining that we starved it.
How long that takes is unmeasured and evidently long — one H2D upstream ran
21m36s without stalling — so this is a bounded resource being treated as
unbounded rather than an observed failure. These tests pin the four properties
that matter: the pipe is always drained, the retained tail is bounded, the tail
is what the error paths report, and it goes through the same redaction funnel as
every other stderr log in this module.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import asyncio
import pytest
from backend.app.api.routes import camera
pytestmark = pytest.mark.asyncio
class _Reader:
"""Feeds queued chunks, then blocks like a live-but-quiet ffmpeg."""
def __init__(self, chunks: list[bytes], then_block: bool = True) -> None:
self._chunks = list(chunks)
self._then_block = then_block
self.reads = 0
async def read(self, _size: int = -1) -> bytes:
self.reads += 1
if self._chunks:
return self._chunks.pop(0)
if self._then_block:
await asyncio.Event().wait() # never returns, never EOFs
return b""
class _Proc:
def __init__(self, reader, pid: int = 88010) -> None:
self.pid = pid
self.returncode = None
self.stdout = None
self.stderr = reader
@pytest.fixture(autouse=True)
def _no_leaked_tails():
yield
# Last-resort teardown only — this fixture is sync, so it cancels without
# awaiting. Tests are expected to aclose() their own tails.
for tail in list(camera._stderr_tails.values()):
if tail._task is not None:
tail._task.cancel()
camera._stderr_tails.clear()
async def _settle() -> None:
"""Let the pump task run."""
for _ in range(5):
await asyncio.sleep(0)
async def test_it_keeps_draining_a_stream_that_never_closes_stderr():
"""The whole point: the pipe is read continuously, not on demand."""
reader = _Reader([b"first\n", b"second\n"])
tail = camera._FfmpegStderrTail(_Proc(reader))
await _settle()
assert reader.reads >= 3, "pump stopped reading instead of following the pipe"
assert "second" in (tail.text() or "")
await tail.aclose()
async def test_the_retained_tail_is_bounded():
"""A long-running stream must not turn the pipe into unbounded memory."""
oversized = b"x" * (camera._FFMPEG_STDERR_TAIL_BYTES * 3)
tail = camera._FfmpegStderrTail(_Proc(_Reader([oversized])))
await _settle()
assert len(tail._buffer) == camera._FFMPEG_STDERR_TAIL_BYTES
await tail.aclose()
async def test_the_tail_keeps_the_newest_output():
"""Recent output is what explains a failure; the banner gets stripped anyway."""
filler = b"stale-line\n" * 4000
tail = camera._FfmpegStderrTail(_Proc(_Reader([filler, b"Connection timed out\n"])))
await _settle()
text = tail.text() or ""
assert "Connection timed out" in text
assert len(tail._buffer) <= camera._FFMPEG_STDERR_TAIL_BYTES
await tail.aclose()
async def test_read_ffmpeg_stderr_defers_to_the_collector():
"""Two readers on one StreamReader raise, so the on-demand read must not
touch a pipe the collector owns."""
reader = _Reader([b"Server returned 401 Unauthorized\n"])
process = _Proc(reader)
tail = camera._FfmpegStderrTail(process)
await _settle()
reads_before = reader.reads
result = await camera._read_ffmpeg_stderr(process)
assert "401 Unauthorized" in (result or "")
assert reader.reads == reads_before, "on-demand read raced the collector"
await tail.aclose()
async def test_read_ffmpeg_stderr_still_reads_the_pipe_without_a_collector():
"""An immediately-failed ffmpeg has no collector; that path must still work."""
process = _Proc(_Reader([b"Server returned 404 Not Found\n"], then_block=False))
result = await camera._read_ffmpeg_stderr(process)
assert "404 Not Found" in (result or "")
async def test_the_tail_redacts_the_access_code():
"""ffmpeg echoes its input URL, which carries the printer's access code.
This is a new stderr-to-log path, so it gets the same guarantee as the rest:
everything goes through _summarize_ffmpeg_stderr.
"""
secret = "12345678"
leaky = f"[rtsp @ 0x55] Failed to resolve rtsp://bblp:{secret}@127.0.0.1:8554/streaming/live/1\n"
tail = camera._FfmpegStderrTail(_Proc(_Reader([leaky.encode()])))
await _settle()
text = tail.text() or ""
assert secret not in text, "access code leaked into a log line"
# Assert the line SURVIVED with the credential masked, not that it was
# dropped — otherwise this passes whenever the summariser happens to filter
# the line out, and proves nothing about redaction.
assert "Failed to resolve" in text, "line was filtered, so redaction is untested"
assert "[REDACTED]" in text
await tail.aclose()
async def test_close_releases_ownership_and_is_idempotent():
process = _Proc(_Reader([b"line\n"]))
tail = camera._FfmpegStderrTail(process)
await _settle()
assert camera._stderr_tails.get(process.pid) is tail
await tail.aclose()
await tail.aclose() # must not raise
assert process.pid not in camera._stderr_tails
async def test_a_process_without_stderr_is_handled():
"""Fakes and some spawn paths pass stderr=None; must not register or crash."""
process = _Proc(None, pid=88099)
tail = camera._FfmpegStderrTail(process)
assert tail.text() is None
assert process.pid not in camera._stderr_tails
await tail.aclose()
async def test_the_stream_generator_owns_then_releases_the_collector(monkeypatch):
"""Lifecycle inside the real generator: registered while streaming, gone after.
The other generator tests use fakes with stderr=None, so they never build a
collector at all — this is the one that would catch a missing close() or a
reader race between the collector and teardown.
"""
printer_id = 8842
stream_id = f"{printer_id}-fanout-stderrtail"
class _FrameThenBlock:
def __init__(self) -> None:
self._sent = False
async def read(self, _size: int = -1) -> bytes:
if self._sent:
await asyncio.Event().wait() # stay alive, don't trigger reconnect
self._sent = True
return b"\xff\xd8frame\xff\xd9"
class _Proc2:
def __init__(self) -> None:
self.pid = 88042
self.returncode = None
self.stdout = _FrameThenBlock()
self.stderr = _Reader([b"Stream #0:0: Video: h264\n"])
def terminate(self) -> None:
self.returncode = 0
def kill(self) -> None:
self.returncode = -9
async def wait(self) -> int:
if self.returncode is None:
self.returncode = 0
return self.returncode
process = _Proc2()
class _FakeServer:
def close(self) -> None:
pass
async def wait_closed(self) -> None:
pass
async def _fake_exec(*_a, **_kw):
return process
async def _fake_proxy(_ip, _port):
return 48777, _FakeServer()
monkeypatch.setattr(camera, "get_ffmpeg_path", lambda: "/fake/ffmpeg")
monkeypatch.setattr(camera, "create_tls_proxy", _fake_proxy)
monkeypatch.setattr(camera.asyncio, "create_subprocess_exec", _fake_exec)
stream = camera.generate_rtsp_mjpeg_stream(
ip_address="192.0.2.44",
access_code="c",
model="P2S",
fps=15,
stream_id=stream_id,
disconnect_event=asyncio.Event(),
printer_id=printer_id,
)
try:
chunk = await asyncio.wait_for(anext(stream), timeout=5.0)
assert b"frame" in chunk
assert process.pid in camera._stderr_tails, "generator did not take stderr ownership"
await asyncio.wait_for(stream.aclose(), timeout=5.0)
assert process.pid not in camera._stderr_tails, "collector outlived its stream"
finally:
camera._active_streams.pop(stream_id, None)
camera._disconnect_events.pop(stream_id, None)
camera._stream_last_frame_times.pop(stream_id, None)
camera._last_frames.pop(printer_id, None)
camera._last_frame_times.pop(printer_id, None)
camera._stream_start_times.pop(printer_id, None)
camera._spawned_ffmpeg_pids.pop(process.pid, None)
async def test_terminate_skips_stderr_while_a_collector_owns_it():
"""_terminate_ffmpeg must not add a second reader to an owned pipe."""
reader = _Reader([b"tearing down\n"])
class _Killable(_Proc):
def terminate(self):
self.returncode = 0
def kill(self):
self.returncode = -9
async def wait(self):
if self.returncode is None:
self.returncode = 0
return self.returncode
process = _Killable(reader, pid=88020)
tail = camera._FfmpegStderrTail(process)
await _settle()
reads_before = reader.reads
await asyncio.wait_for(camera._terminate_ffmpeg(process, "88020-fanout-abcd"), timeout=2.0)
# The collector, not _terminate_ffmpeg, is the only reader that advanced.
assert reader.reads >= reads_before
assert tail.text() is not None
await tail.aclose()