Merge pull request #16623 from machine424/reprep

fix: add reproducer for a dangling-reference issue in parsers and fix

.github/workflows/ci.yml

@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ jobs:
       - uses: prometheus/promci@443c7fc2397e946bc9f5029e313a9c3441b9b86d # v0.4.7
       - uses: ./.github/promci/actions/setup_environment
       - run: go test --tags=dedupelabels ./...
-      - run: go test --tags=forcedirectio,stringlabels -race ./tsdb/
+      - run: go test --tags=slicelabels -race ./cmd/prometheus
+      - run: go test --tags=forcedirectio -race ./tsdb/
       - run: GOARCH=386 go test ./...
       - uses: ./.github/promci/actions/check_proto
         with:

cmd/prometheus/main_test.go

@@ -660,7 +660,7 @@ func reloadPrometheusConfig(t *testing.T, reloadURL string) {
 	require.Equal(t, http.StatusOK, r.StatusCode, "Unexpected status code when reloading Prometheus")
 }
 
-func getGaugeValue(t *testing.T, body io.ReadCloser, metricName string) (float64, error) {
+func getMetricValue(t *testing.T, body io.Reader, metricType model.MetricType, metricName string) (float64, error) {
 	t.Helper()
 
 	p := expfmt.TextParser{}
@@ -676,7 +676,16 @@ func getGaugeValue(t *testing.T, body io.ReadCloser, metricName string) (float64
 	if len(metric) != 1 {
 		return 0, errors.New("metric not found")
 	}
+	switch metricType {
+	case model.MetricTypeGauge:
 		return metric[0].GetGauge().GetValue(), nil
+	case model.MetricTypeCounter:
+		return metric[0].GetCounter().GetValue(), nil
+	default:
+		t.Fatalf("metric type %s not supported", metricType)
+	}
+
+	return 0, errors.New("cannot get value")
 }
 
 func TestRuntimeGOGCConfig(t *testing.T) {
@@ -775,7 +784,7 @@ global:
 				defer r.Body.Close()
 
 				// Check the final GOGC that's set, consider go_gc_gogc_percent from /metrics as source of truth.
-				gogc, err := getGaugeValue(t, r.Body, "go_gc_gogc_percent")
+				gogc, err := getMetricValue(t, r.Body, model.MetricTypeGauge, "go_gc_gogc_percent")
 				require.NoError(t, err)
 				require.Equal(t, val, gogc)
 			}
@@ -798,3 +807,78 @@ runtime:
 		})
 	}
 }
+
+// TestHeadCompactionWhileScraping verifies that running a head compaction
+// concurrently with a scrape does not trigger the data race described in
+// https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/16490.
+func TestHeadCompactionWhileScraping(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	// To increase the chance of reproducing the data race
+	for i := range 5 {
+		t.Run(strconv.Itoa(i), func(t *testing.T) {
+			t.Parallel()
+
+			tmpDir := t.TempDir()
+			configFile := filepath.Join(tmpDir, "prometheus.yml")
+
+			port := testutil.RandomUnprivilegedPort(t)
+			config := fmt.Sprintf(`
+scrape_configs:
+  - job_name: 'self1'
+    scrape_interval: 61ms
+    static_configs:
+      - targets: ['localhost:%d']
+  - job_name: 'self2'
+    scrape_interval: 67ms
+    static_configs:
+      - targets: ['localhost:%d']
+`, port, port)
+			os.WriteFile(configFile, []byte(config), 0o777)
+
+			prom := prometheusCommandWithLogging(
+				t,
+				configFile,
+				port,
+				fmt.Sprintf("--storage.tsdb.path=%s", tmpDir),
+				"--storage.tsdb.min-block-duration=100ms",
+			)
+			require.NoError(t, prom.Start())
+
+			require.Eventually(t, func() bool {
+				r, err := http.Get(fmt.Sprintf("http://127.0.0.1:%d/metrics", port))
+				if err != nil {
+					return false
+				}
+				defer r.Body.Close()
+				if r.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
+					return false
+				}
+				metrics, err := io.ReadAll(r.Body)
+				if err != nil {
+					return false
+				}
+
+				// Wait for some compactions to run
+				compactions, err := getMetricValue(t, bytes.NewReader(metrics), model.MetricTypeCounter, "prometheus_tsdb_compactions_total")
+				if err != nil {
+					return false
+				}
+				if compactions < 3 {
+					return false
+				}
+
+				// Sanity check: Some actual scraping was done.
+				series, err := getMetricValue(t, bytes.NewReader(metrics), model.MetricTypeCounter, "prometheus_tsdb_head_series_created_total")
+				require.NoError(t, err)
+				require.NotZero(t, series)
+
+				// No compaction must have failed
+				failures, err := getMetricValue(t, bytes.NewReader(metrics), model.MetricTypeCounter, "prometheus_tsdb_compactions_failed_total")
+				require.NoError(t, err)
+				require.Zero(t, failures)
+				return true
+			}, 15*time.Second, 500*time.Millisecond)
+		})
+	}
+}

model/textparse/openmetricsparse.go

@@ -213,7 +213,9 @@ func (p *OpenMetricsParser) Comment() []byte {
 
 // Labels writes the labels of the current sample into the passed labels.
 func (p *OpenMetricsParser) Labels(l *labels.Labels) {
-	s := yoloString(p.series)
+	// Defensive copy in case the following keeps a reference.
+	// See https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/16490
+	s := string(p.series)
 
 	p.builder.Reset()
 	metricName := unreplace(s[p.offsets[0]-p.start : p.offsets[1]-p.start])

model/textparse/promparse.go

@@ -229,7 +229,9 @@ func (p *PromParser) Comment() []byte {
 
 // Labels writes the labels of the current sample into the passed labels.
 func (p *PromParser) Labels(l *labels.Labels) {
-	s := yoloString(p.series)
+	// Defensive copy in case the following keeps a reference.
+	// See https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/16490
+	s := string(p.series)
 	p.builder.Reset()
 	metricName := unreplace(s[p.offsets[0]-p.start : p.offsets[1]-p.start])