[Robbie Trencheny (robbiet480)]

Summary

Fixes the extension-side half of the "Refusing to register duplicate extension" loop that took Fleet host 671 offline on 2026-10-05 (and hit mac_enclosure_color on other Macs), and bumps the dot1x table to the current head of macadmins/osquery-extension#113.

What happened

1. dot1x.ext logged extension ping failed: timeout after 200ms and exited. osquery-go's Server.Run exits on the first failed ping, and timeout after 200ms is osquery-go's client lock wait (defaultWaitTime = 200ms), not osqueryd being gone. The lock can time out even when it is free: locker.Lock selects between "lock free" and "timer fired", and after a scheduling stall Go picks randomly between the two (with a 1ns wait, 502 of 1000 uncontended Lock calls fail).
2. osqueryd 5.23.1 then has to reap the dead registration. Its watcher holds the table registry lock while it detaches the table, and the detach waits on the primary SQLite connection's attach mutex, which a running query holds for its whole duration. Reaping stalls for as long as that query runs. If another extension registers meanwhile, the registry's writer-preferring boost::shared_mutex blocks the query too, and the deadlock is permanent (reproduced locally against the real osqueryd 5.23.1).
3. While the stale dot1x entry exists, every respawn is refused as a duplicate, exits with status 1 and is respawned every ~3s until osqueryd restarts.

Changes

• extserver/ (new shared module), used by both dot1x and mac_enclosure_color in place of Server.Run:
  • the client lock wait is --timeout (3s), not 200ms;
  • the extension exits only after 3 consecutive failed pings;
  • Duplicate extension registered is retried in-process with exponential backoff (interval .. 1m) instead of exiting;
  • the extension always deregisters on the way out, including on SIGTERM/SIGINT;
  • the extension registers a real version (-X main.version), so osquery_extensions.version is populated.
• release.yml stamps main.version from the release tag (v0.4.1 → 0.4.1).
• test.yml (new) runs vet and race tests for all three modules on macOS for PRs and pushes to main.
• dot1x: replace now points at robbiet480/osquery-extension@0f992a0 (PR #113 head, 2026-10-03; still open). The table goes from 24 to 41 columns and none are removed. New columns: interface_type, ssid, mac_address, client_status_name, authenticated_since, failure_reason, failure_code, failure_eap_code, identity, profile_name, mdm_payload_uuid, mdm_payload_type, mdm_profile_name, mdm_profile_identifier, server_validation, tls_trusted_server_names and tls_server_certificate_not_after.

Tests

The tests were committed first (46bf27d) against the unchanged behaviour, and they reproduce the production failures:

--- FAIL: TestTransientPingFailureDoesNotExit
    run exited before pings to recover: extension ping failed: timeout after 200ms
--- FAIL: TestDuplicateRegistrationRetries
    run exited before registration to succeed: status 1 registering extension: Duplicate extension registered
--- FAIL: TestRegistersVersion

After the fix, all four pass with go test -race -count=3, go vet and golangci-lint report nothing for all three modules, and goimports is clean.

I also ran an integration test against the real osqueryd 5.23.1 (osqueryd -S). Instance A registered dot1x and was then SIGSTOPped, and instance B started while A's registration was still live. The v0.4.0 build exits on the first duplicate refusal. The new build retries after 1s and then 2s, and registers as soon as osqueryd reaps A. After that, SELECT 1 FROM osquery_extensions WHERE name='dot1x' AND version='0.4.1-it' returns a row.

Not fixed here

The osqueryd-side deadlock is outside these extensions. These changes stop our extensions from triggering it, but nothing an extension does can recover an osqueryd that is already wedged; that needs an osqueryd restart.

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• New Features
  • Extensions now identify themselves with the version included in their release build.
• Improvements
  • Extension registration retries temporary duplicate-registration responses, and extensions can recover from transient connection-check failures.
  • Extensions shut down cleanly when osquery exits or the process receives a termination signal.
• Tests
  • Automated checks run on pushes and pull requests, including static analysis and race-enabled tests for the extension components.
  • The test target now also runs tests for the shared extension component.

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The pull request adds a shared osquery extension runner and switches dot1x and mac_enclosure_color to use it. Release builds embed the published tag as the binary version. CI and the Makefile run tests for the runner and extensions.

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Shared Extension Runner

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Add shared extension runner extserver/*	The new extserver package parses runner flags, creates and registers the server, runs periodic pings, retries duplicate registrations, and shuts down on cancellation. Tests cover ping failures, registration retries, shutdown, and version registration.
Adopt runner and embed release versions dot1x/go.mod, dot1x/main.go, mac_enclosure_color/go.mod, mac_enclosure_color/main.go, .github/workflows/release.yml	Both extensions delegate startup to extserver.Main and pass a version that defaults to "dev". Release builds set the version from the published tag without its leading "v".
Run tests in CI and Makefile .github/workflows/test.yml, Makefile	The workflow runs vet and race-enabled tests for extserver and both extensions. The Makefile test target includes extserver.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Main as extserver.Main
  participant Server as newServer
  participant Run as run
  participant Start as start
  participant Osquery as osquery extension manager
  Main->>Server: create server and register plugins
  Main->>Run: start server and ping loop
  Run->>Start: register extension
  Start->>Osquery: start extension
  Run->>Osquery: send periodic ping
  Main->>Run: cancel on shutdown signal

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