Fix NodeDB loadFromDisk to replace store instead of appending - #11481
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughNodeDB loading now clears prior in-memory state before decoding. Tests cover repeated loads, absent files, capacity admission, and persisted fixture isolation. ChangesNodeDB persistence handling
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to Repeated NodeDB loads may still retain stale feature-excluded satellite records, and the test source currently disables secret scanning for future edits. The change is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up on these bounded correctness and security-maintenance risks. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3 | ❌ 2❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)
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Pull request overview
Fixes NodeDB::loadFromDisk() so re-loading the node database replaces the in-memory store instead of appending to a long-lived global, and adds unit-test coverage + test-fixture hardening to prevent persistence state leaking between tests.
Changes:
- Reset the NodeDB hot-store state at the start of
NodeDB::loadFromDisk()to prevent duplicated entries and stale version state across multiple loads. - Add persistence round-trip tests to ensure save/load cycles don’t accumulate nodes, and assert the “full DB + all protected” admission-refusal guard is exercised.
- Make multiple test suites explicitly delete
/prefs/nodes.protoduringsetUp()to ensure “fresh NodeDB” truly starts empty; document the pattern intest/README.md. - Add a Trunk config path exception for
trufflehogontest/test_nodedb_blocked/test_main.cpp.
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src/mesh/NodeDB.cpp |
Clears NodeDB hot-store before decoding from disk to avoid append-on-reload behavior. |
test/test_nodedb_blocked/test_main.cpp |
Adds new persistence and edge-case tests + a shim to access private load/save paths. |
test/test_mesh_module/test_main.cpp |
Ensures each test starts from an empty node DB by deleting nodes.proto in setUp(). |
test/test_admin_radio/test_main.cpp |
Ensures each test starts from an empty node DB by deleting nodes.proto in the fixture setup. |
test/README.md |
Documents persistence behaviors and fixture rules around NodeDB’s global store. |
.trunk/trunk.yaml |
Adds a trufflehog path exception for one test file due to false positives. |
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298-318: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winReduce the added C++ comments to two lines.
Keep the reason for the code in source. Move extended failure history to
test/README.md.
test/test_nodedb_blocked/test_main.cpp#L298-L318: reduce the persistence-defect narrative to one or two lines.src/mesh/NodeDB.cpp#L2372-L2374: reduce the reset rationale to one or two lines.test/test_nodedb_blocked/test_main.cpp#L81-L84: reduce the save-gate explanation to one or two lines.test/test_nodedb_blocked/test_main.cpp#L341-L344: reduce the absent-file rationale to one or two lines.test/test_nodedb_blocked/test_main.cpp#L365-L370: reduce the capacity-test rationale to one or two lines.test/test_nodedb_blocked/test_main.cpp#L388-L390: reduce the complementary capacity-test rationale to one or two lines.test/test_admin_radio/test_main.cpp#L977-L979: reduce the fixture rationale to one or two lines.As per coding guidelines, “Keep code comments minimal - one or two lines, max.”
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In @.trunk/trunk.yaml:
- Around line 169-171: Remove the file-wide Trufflehog exemption from the linter
configuration, then rename the triggering test identifiers or add an exact
allowlist for only the confirmed false-positive values so Trufflehog remains
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In `@src/mesh/NodeDB.cpp`:
- Around line 2375-2377: Update the database reset logic near
nodeDatabase.version to clear or reinitialize every repeated NodeDatabase
vector, including position, telemetry, status, and environment collections,
before loadProto() decodes data; do not reset only nodeDatabase.nodes.
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In `@test/test_nodedb_blocked/test_main.cpp`:
- Around line 298-318: Reduce comments at
test/test_nodedb_blocked/test_main.cpp:298-318, 81-84, 341-344, 365-370, and
388-390; src/mesh/NodeDB.cpp:2372-2374; and
test/test_admin_radio/test_main.cpp:977-979 to one or two lines each, retaining
only the immediate rationale for the related load/reset, save-gate, absent-file,
capacity, and fixture behavior. Move the extended persistence-defect and failure
history to test/README.md, without changing the behavior of loadProto(),
reloadFromDisk(), or the associated tests.
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…g exemption Both review findings from meshtastic#11481. loadFromDisk() reset only nodeDatabase.nodes. Where a satellite DB is compiled out there is no map for armNodeDatabaseDecodeTargets() to point at, so the decode callback falls through to the vector and push_back()s into it with nothing clearing it between loads. Not reachable today - that path is ARCH_STM32WL only, and the second load in a process comes from reloadFromDisk(), which needs MESHTASTIC_ENCRYPTED_STORAGE (nRF52 only) - but the reset should cover the whole struct rather than one field of it. Mirrors what saveNodeDatabaseToDisk() already does on its way out. The trufflehog exemption silenced secret scanning for every future change to the file, so rename the two functions that tripped it instead. The Lob detector matches "test_" followed by exactly 35 further identifier characters; test_removeNodeByNum_presentNodeOnFullDb was already on develop and surfaced only because trunk lints the files a PR touches. test/README.md documents the rule so the next test name does not re-trip it.
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| // here: the nodes callback only push_back()s and nodeDatabase is a global, so a second load | ||
| // appended to the first, and a stale version skipped installDefaultNodeDatabase(). | ||
| nodeDatabase.nodes.clear(); | ||
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I would put the numMeshNodes = 0; before the clear call, or racing callers may think there's still content while the clear is running and tripping over it.
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I think this (and also test_mesh_module) also need to clear th warm.dat file. For additional freshness.
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| // Leave the file the suite declares in state-manifest.tsv on disk for the next test. | ||
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db->clearHot() after armSaveGate means you have a genuinely empty database and not an array of MAX_NUM_NODES empty nodes.
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what about &meshtastic_NodeDatabase_Legacy_msg here? (see line 2104/2104) - i know this is not in the diff, but it's what this PR is about.
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I think this is addressed now.
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Overall this is sound, my comments are compaints on a high level. |
…cing it loadProto() memsets its destination clear before decoding, except for the two NodeDatabase descriptors - that struct holds std::vector members which memset would corrupt. Nothing took over the job for it, the nodes decode callback only push_back()s, and nodeDatabase is a file-scope global that outlives any NodeDB instance, so every load appended the file's rows to whatever was already in RAM. Each save/load cycle doubled the store: 1 -> 2 -> 4 -> ... -> MAX_NUM_NODES copies of one node number, which survive cleanupMeshDB() when they are ignored. The version field sits in the same un-memset struct, so an absent or undecodable nodes.proto inherited the previous load's version, passed the DEVICESTATE_MIN_VER gate and skipped installDefaultNodeDatabase(): deleting the file did not give a clean store, it gave the stale one back. Reachable in firmware, not only under test. reloadFromDisk() calls loadFromDisk() a second time after an encrypted-storage unlock, and the locked boot returns early from it having run installDefaultNodeDatabase() - so the reload decoded the real store on top of MAX_NUM_NODES zeroed rows, went over cap, and nodeDBSelfCare() truncated and rewrote nodes.proto, with cleanupMeshDB() never running there. Two nearby paths already got this right: armNodeDatabaseDecodeTargets() clears the satellite maps, and migrateLegacyNodeDatabase() clears the vector before filling it. Only the current-version path did not. Tests in test_nodedb_blocked: - three save/load cycles round-trip the store (RED before the fix: 3 became 6) - an absent file yields an empty store, not the RAM contents (RED before: 0 was 2) - getOrCreateMeshNode() returns NULL when the store is full and every candidate is protected, appending nothing and evicting nobody - that branch had no test - and admits a new node at the cap while numProtectedNodes() <= MAX_NUM_NODES-2 Fixtures: test_admin_radio and test_mesh_module both build a NodeDB per test over the real store, so each test started from the previous test's saved nodes.proto. Both now drop that file first. The harness cannot catch this class - its CLEAN / DIRTY check compares which paths changed, never their contents, so growth inside a declared write is CLEAN by design. test/README.md documents save/load practice with a mock NodeDB. trunk.yaml exempts test_nodedb_blocked from trufflehog, whose Lob detector reads a 35-character test function name as an API key.
…g exemption Both review findings from meshtastic#11481. loadFromDisk() reset only nodeDatabase.nodes. Where a satellite DB is compiled out there is no map for armNodeDatabaseDecodeTargets() to point at, so the decode callback falls through to the vector and push_back()s into it with nothing clearing it between loads. Not reachable today - that path is ARCH_STM32WL only, and the second load in a process comes from reloadFromDisk(), which needs MESHTASTIC_ENCRYPTED_STORAGE (nRF52 only) - but the reset should cover the whole struct rather than one field of it. Mirrors what saveNodeDatabaseToDisk() already does on its way out. The trufflehog exemption silenced secret scanning for every future change to the file, so rename the two functions that tripped it instead. The Lob detector matches "test_" followed by exactly 35 further identifier characters; test_removeNodeByNum_presentNodeOnFullDb was already on develop and surfaced only because trunk lints the files a PR touches. test/README.md documents the rule so the next test name does not re-trip it.
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Four points from review, all on paths this PR already touches. loadProto()'s encrypted branch skipped its memset for meshtastic_NodeDatabase_msg only, while the plaintext branch skipped it for the legacy descriptor too. Both descriptors decode into structs holding std::vector members, and migrateLegacyNodeDatabase() does call loadProto() with the legacy one - on nRF52, where MESHTASTIC_ENCRYPTED_STORAGE puts that call on the encrypted branch. The two predicates now share one helper so they cannot drift apart again. loadFromDisk() zeroes numMeshNodes before clearing the vector rather than after. A reader racing the reset now sees a count of 0 against rows that are about to go, instead of the old count against an emptied vector - an index past the end. test_admin_radio and test_mesh_module drop warm.dat alongside nodes.proto; the NodeDB constructor loads both, so clearing only one left warm-tier state to carry between tests. test_loadFromDisk_absentFileDoesNotInheritStaleNodes clears the hot store before the save that leaves the manifest file behind. The absent-file load installs defaults, which is a vector of MAX_NUM_NODES zeroed rows behind numMeshNodes == 0, and the nodes field encodes from the vector - so that save was writing all of them.
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2372-2374: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winKeep the new rationale comments within the repository limit.
The comments at Lines 2372-2374 and 2389-2391 each use three lines. Condense each comment to one or two lines. Keep only the non-obvious reason for the reset.
As per coding guidelines: “Keep code comments minimal - one or two lines, max. Comment only when the why isn't obvious from the code; never restate what the next line does.”
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- // Where a satellite DB is compiled out there is no map to arm, so the decode callback falls - // through to the vector and push_back()s into it. Reset those the same way the save path - // does on its way out, so no build can carry entries from one load into the next. + // Excluded satellite DBs decode into vectors; clear them before each load. - // loadProto() skips its destination memset for this struct (std::vector members), so reset it - // here: the nodes callback only push_back()s and nodeDatabase is a global, so a second load - // appended to the first, and a stale version skipped installDefaultNodeDatabase(). + // loadProto() skips memset for vector members; clear nodes and version before decoding.Also applies to: 2389-2391
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