fix(remote-device): correct clock skew and half-open socket wedges - #629
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Two independent device-connector bugs, both surfaced by the same prod Realtime "Unauthorized" flood: - A forward-skewed device clock makes auth-js treat every fresh token as already-expired, refreshing in a tight loop forever (confirmed in prod: 9,300+ refreshes/24h on one device vs a healthy ~1/50min). Disable autoRefreshToken and drive refresh on our own fixed cadence, and correct Date.now for this process from the `Date` header every Supabase response carries, so every expiry check sees accurate time regardless of where it lives in the library. - checkConnectionHealth() trusted channel.state === 'joined' as proof of life with no independent check, so a half-open socket (sleep/ wake, dead peer) could leave it reading 'joined' forever with zero recovery attempt and zero telemetry. Cross-check against the last confirmed realtime heartbeat reply and force a recreate once it goes stale.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe remote channel now observes Supabase server time, corrects clock skew, disables automatic auth refresh, refreshes tokens on a fixed cadence, records monotonic heartbeat confirmations, and recreates channels with stale heartbeats. Tests cover clock correction, token refresh, timer cleanup, and half-open socket recovery. ChangesRemote channel recovery
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The PR’s server-clock correction can make socket-settle waits run far too long or be skipped, and can also cause heartbeat-based recovery decisions to be incorrect. This may delay or disrupt device reconnection, so the current head should not merge until elapsed-time and freshness checks use an unaffected monotonic or raw clock. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Supabase
participant RemoteChannel
participant FakeAuth
participant FakeRealtime
participant HealthCheck
Supabase-->>RemoteChannel: response with Date header
RemoteChannel->>RemoteChannel: adjust Date.now() for server skew
RemoteChannel->>FakeAuth: refresh session on fixed timer
FakeAuth-->>RemoteChannel: TOKEN_REFRESHED notification
RemoteChannel->>FakeRealtime: reauthorize with refreshed token
FakeRealtime-->>RemoteChannel: heartbeat confirmation
HealthCheck->>RemoteChannel: evaluate monotonic heartbeat age
RemoteChannel->>FakeRealtime: recreate stale channel
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In `@src/remote-device/remote-channel.ts`:
- Line 716: Update the stale-heartbeat telemetry call in the remote channel
reconnect flow to explicitly handle the promise returned by captureRemote:
invoke it with void and attach a catch handler that ignores telemetry failures,
matching the guarded telemetry calls elsewhere in the file.
- Around line 97-124: Update heartbeat liveness tracking in the subscription and
heartbeat-success paths around lastHeartbeatOkAt, plus the stale check near the
half-open recovery logic, to use a monotonic elapsed-time source for recording
and comparing heartbeat activity. Keep Date.now() limited to auth-expiry
correction, and add a regression test that applies server-time correction after
subscription then verifies stale detection still follows elapsed monotonic time.
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| const staleMs = Date.now() - this.lastHeartbeatOkAt; | ||
| if (staleMs > HEARTBEAT_STALE_TIMEOUT_MS) { | ||
| console.debug(`[DEBUG] ⚠️ Channel reads 'joined' but no confirmed heartbeat in ${Math.round(staleMs / 1000)}s - forcing recreate — ${this.connState()}`); | ||
| captureRemote('remote_channel_heartbeat_stale', { staleMs, attempt: this.reconnectAttempt }); |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Handle rejection from stale-heartbeat telemetry.
captureRemote() returns a promise. This new call has no await or rejection handler. If telemetry capture fails during a connectivity fault, it creates an unhandled rejection.
Use void captureRemote(...).catch(() => {}), consistent with the guarded telemetry calls in this file.
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In `@src/remote-device/remote-channel.ts` at line 716, Update the stale-heartbeat
telemetry call in the remote channel reconnect flow to explicitly handle the
promise returned by captureRemote: invoke it with void and attach a catch
handler that ignores telemetry failures, matching the guarded telemetry calls
elsewhere in the file.
The clock-skew correction (un)patches the global Date.now mid-run, which would jump the heartbeat-staleness and joining-overstay math by the whole offset — a backward jump suppresses wedge detection for as long as the offset. Record and compare both timers with performance.now() instead; Date.now stays for auth-expiry math only, where wall-clock is the point. Test drives now advance performance.now, and the stuck-at-joined drive pins Date.now hours backward as a regression guard (fails against the Date.now-based implementation, verified both ways). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_011rAeXGKpqJVmKJaNoVook1
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111-114: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winKeep socket-settle deadlines independent from the corrected wall clock.
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Date.now()process-wide.waitForSocketSettled()still calculates and checks its deadline withDate.now()at Lines 783-784.If a clock-aware request applies a backward correction after that deadline is created, the 300 ms settle wait can last for the full clock offset. A forward correction can skip the settle wait. Use
rawDateNow()orperformance.now()for both reads in that elapsed-time loop.Proposed fix
- const deadline = Date.now() + SOCKET_SETTLE_MAX_MS; - while (realtime.isDisconnecting() && Date.now() < deadline) { + const deadline = rawDateNow() + SOCKET_SETTLE_MAX_MS; + while (realtime.isDisconnecting() && rawDateNow() < deadline) { await this.sleep(SOCKET_SETTLE_POLL_MS); }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/remote-device/remote-channel.ts`:
- Around line 111-114: Update waitForSocketSettled() so both deadline creation
and elapsed-time checks use the monotonic raw clock, such as rawDateNow() or
performance.now(), instead of Date.now(). Keep the 300 ms settle-wait behavior
unchanged and independent of the process-wide Date.now override.
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Two independent device-connector bugs, both surfaced while investigating a prod Realtime "Unauthorized" flood:
@supabase/auth-jstreat every fresh token as already-expired, refreshing in a tight loop forever (confirmed in prod: one device did 9,300+ refreshes/24h vs a healthy ~1/50min baseline, and recurred again days later on the same machine). DisablesautoRefreshTokenand drives refresh on our own fixed 45-min cadence, and correctsDate.now()for the process from theDateheader every Supabase response carries — covers every expiry check in the library regardless of where it lives, rather than chasing individual call sites (two rounds of this fix landed on the wrong mechanism before this one).checkConnectionHealth()trustedchannel.state === 'joined'as proof of life with no independent verification, so a half-open socket (sleep/wake, dead peer) could leave it reading'joined'forever with zero recovery attempt and zero telemetry. Cross-checks against the last confirmed realtime heartbeat reply and forces a recreate once it goes stale.Test plan
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