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Error initializing IMB disk cache results in no results

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript, vscode
Domain
devtools

Research direction

Start by reproducing the restart sequence in the CodeQL extension: run a query, change a setting that restarts the query server, then run the query again. Trace the QueryServerBackendManager and EvaluationServer entry points named in the stack trace, and verify that the stopped query releases the IMB cache lock. Done means the subsequent query executes successfully instead of returning no results.

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Description

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Describe the bug
Changing the settings of the CodeQL extension while running a query results in the restart of the query server.
This restart successfully stops the running query, but is unable to properly release the lock on the IMB cache directory of the selected database.

Subsequent query executions return with a no result response and the query log contains the stack trace (with *** if information is redacted)

Jun 29, 2021 1:25:48 PM org.eclipse.lsp4j.jsonrpc.RemoteEndpoint fallbackResponseError
SEVERE: Internal error: Error initializing the IMB disk cache: the cache directory is already locked by another running process. Only one instance of the IMB can access a cache directory at a time. The lock file is located at /Users/***/Library/Application Support/Code/User/workspaceStorage/***/GitHub.vscode-codeql/***/***/db-cpp/default/cache/.lock
(eventual cause: OverlappingFileLockException)
java.util.concurrent.CompletionException: Error initializing the IMB disk cache: the cache directory is already locked by another running process. Only one instance of the IMB can access a cache directory at a time. The lock file is located at /Users/***/Library/Application Support/Code/User/workspaceStorage/***/GitHub.vscode-codeql/***/***/db-cpp/default/cache/.lock
(eventual cause: OverlappingFileLockException)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.encodeThrowable(Unknown Source)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.uniComposeStage(Unknown Source)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.CompletableFuture.thenCompose(Unknown Source)
	at com.semmle.api.server.QueryServerBackendManager.lambda$withDB$0(QueryServerBackendManager.java:70)
	at com.semmle.util.concurrent.FutureUtils.supplyCompose(FutureUtils.java:217)
	at com.semmle.util.concurrent.FutureUtils.futureFinally(FutureUtils.java:159)
	at com.semmle.api.server.QueryServerBackendManager.withDB(QueryServerBackendManager.java:70)
	at com.semmle.api.server.QueryServerBackendManager.withDBExclusive(QueryServerBackendManager.java:57)
	at com.semmle.api.server.EvaluationServer.lambda$clearCache$11(EvaluationServer.java:253)
	at com.semmle.api.server.QueryServerProgressHelper.lambda$null$0(QueryServerProgressHelper.java:47)
	at com.semmle.util.concurrent.FutureUtils.supplyCompose(FutureUtils.java:217)
	at com.semmle.api.server.QueryServerProgressHelper.lambda$withProgressAndCancellation$1(QueryServerProgressHelper.java:47)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: Error initializing the IMB disk cache: the cache directory is already locked by another running process. Only one instance of the IMB can access a cache directory at a time. The lock file is located at /Users/***/Library/Application Support/Code/User/workspaceStorage/***/GitHub.vscode-codeql/***/***/db-cpp/default/cache/.lock
(eventual cause: OverlappingFileLockException)
	at com.semmle.inmemory.caching.RelationCacheImpl.takeFilesystemLock(RelationCacheImpl.java:351)
	at com.semmle.inmemory.caching.RelationCacheImpl.create(RelationCacheImpl.java:110)
	at com.semmle.inmemory.caching.RelationManager.<init>(RelationManager.java:93)
	at com.semmle.inmemory.MemoryBackend.<init>(MemoryBackend.java:142)
	at com.semmle.api.server.QueryServerBackendManager.createBackend(QueryServerBackendManager.java:78)
	at com.semmle.api.server.QueryServerBackendManager$WaitingEntry.create(QueryServerBackendManager.java:99)
	at com.semmle.api.server.QueryServerBackendManager.scheduleUnblockedTasks(QueryServerBackendManager.java:139)
	at com.semmle.api.server.QueryServerBackendManager.withDB(QueryServerBackendManager.java:69)
	... 8 more
Caused by: java.nio.channels.OverlappingFileLockException
	at com.semmle.util.files.FileSystemLock.<init>(FileSystemLock.java:75)
	at com.semmle.inmemory.caching.RelationCacheImpl.takeFilesystemLock(RelationCacheImpl.java:347)
	... 15 more

Version
CodeQL CLI: v2.3.4
CodeQL Extension: v1.5.1

Visual Studio Code:
Version: 1.57.1 (Universal)
Commit: 507ce72a4466fbb27b715c3722558bb15afa9f48
Date: 2021-06-17T13:28:32.912Z
Electron: 12.0.7
Chrome: 89.0.4389.128
Node.js: 14.16.0
V8: 8.9.255.25-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 20.5.0

To reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior.

  1. Execute a query
  2. Change settings in the CodeQL extension that restart the query server (e.g., the amount ram or nr of threads to use)
  3. Re-execute the stopped query

Expected behavior
Execution of the query

Additional context
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