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Fix actions concurrency groups cross-branch leak (#37311)#37331

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Fix actions concurrency groups cross-branch leak (#37311)#37331
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Backport #37311 by @silverwind

Problem

Workflow-level concurrency groups were evaluated — and jobs were parsed — before the run was persisted, so run.ID was 0 and github.run_id in the expression context resolved to an empty string. Expressions like:

concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
  cancel-in-progress: true

collapsed to <workflow>- on every push event (head_ref is empty on push), so cancel-in-progress cancelled in-progress runs across unrelated branches, not just the current one.

Reproduced on a 1.26 instance:

  • push to masterci run starts
  • push to feature-branch → the master run gets cancelled

GitHub Actions' documented semantic: on push events github.run_id is unique per run, so the group is unique → no cancellation; on PR events github.head_ref is the source branch → cancellation is per-PR.

Fix

Insert the run before parsing jobs or evaluating workflow-level concurrency, so run.ID is populated in time for every expression that reads github.run_id — not just the concurrency group, but also run-name, job names, and runs-on.

jobparser.Parse now runs inside the InsertRun transaction, after db.Insert(ctx, run). Workflow-level concurrency evaluation runs next and only mutates run in memory. All concurrency-derived fields (raw_concurrency, concurrency_group, concurrency_cancel) plus status and title are persisted in a single final UpdateRun at end-of-transaction — one INSERT + one UPDATE per run in both the concurrency and non-concurrency paths (matches pre-branch parity, one fewer UpdateRepoRunsNumbers COUNT than the interim state).

GenerateGiteaContext now sets run_id from run.ID unconditionally; every caller passes a persisted run.

Verification: tested end-to-end on a 1.26 deployment. Before the patch, two successive ci pushes (one to master, one to a feature branch) cross-cancelled each other. After the patch, the same pushes — in both orders (master→branch, branch→master) — run to completion simultaneously across 15+ runs with zero cancellations.

Regression tests in services/actions/context_test.go:

  • TestEvaluateRunConcurrency_RunIDFallback — unit check that EvaluateRunConcurrencyFillModel resolves github.run_id from run.ID.
  • TestPrepareRunAndInsert_ExpressionsSeeRunID — full-flow check: calls PrepareRunAndInsert with ${{ github.run_id }} in both run-name and the concurrency group, then asserts the persisted Title, ConcurrencyGroup, and RawConcurrency contain / survive the run's ID. Re-ordering db.Insert relative to either parse or concurrency eval fails this test.

Relation to #37119

#37119 also moves concurrency evaluation into InsertRun but keeps it before db.Insert, then tries to populate run_id only when run.ID > 0 — which is still 0 at that call site, so the cross-branch leak would survive that PR as written. This PR fixes the ordering so that run.ID is actually populated at eval time, and broadens it to cover parse-time expression interpolation too.


This PR was written with the help of Claude Opus 4.7

## Problem

Workflow-level concurrency groups were evaluated — and jobs were parsed
— before the run was persisted, so `run.ID` was `0` and `github.run_id`
in the expression context resolved to an empty string. Expressions like:

```yaml
concurrency:
  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.head_ref || github.run_id }}
  cancel-in-progress: true
```

collapsed to `<workflow>-` on every push event (`head_ref` is empty on
push), so `cancel-in-progress` cancelled in-progress runs across
**unrelated branches**, not just the current one.

Reproduced on a 1.26 instance:
- push to `master` → `ci` run starts
- push to `feature-branch` → the `master` run gets cancelled

GitHub Actions' documented semantic: on push events `github.run_id` is
unique per run, so the group is unique → no cancellation; on PR events
`github.head_ref` is the source branch → cancellation is per-PR.

## Fix

Insert the run **before** parsing jobs or evaluating workflow-level
concurrency, so `run.ID` is populated in time for every expression that
reads `github.run_id` — not just the concurrency group, but also
`run-name`, job names, and `runs-on`.

`jobparser.Parse` now runs inside the `InsertRun` transaction, after
`db.Insert(ctx, run)`. Workflow-level concurrency evaluation runs next
and only mutates `run` in memory. All concurrency-derived fields
(`raw_concurrency`, `concurrency_group`, `concurrency_cancel`) plus
`status` and `title` are persisted in a single final `UpdateRun` at
end-of-transaction — one `INSERT` + one `UPDATE` per run in both the
concurrency and non-concurrency paths (matches pre-branch parity, one
fewer `UpdateRepoRunsNumbers` `COUNT` than the interim state).

`GenerateGiteaContext` now sets `run_id` from `run.ID` unconditionally;
every caller passes a persisted run.

**Verification**: tested end-to-end on a 1.26 deployment. Before the
patch, two successive `ci` pushes (one to master, one to a feature
branch) cross-cancelled each other. After the patch, the same pushes —
in both orders (master→branch, branch→master) — run to completion
simultaneously across 15+ runs with zero cancellations.

**Regression tests** in `services/actions/context_test.go`:
- `TestEvaluateRunConcurrency_RunIDFallback` — unit check that
`EvaluateRunConcurrencyFillModel` resolves `github.run_id` from
`run.ID`.
- `TestPrepareRunAndInsert_ExpressionsSeeRunID` — full-flow check: calls
`PrepareRunAndInsert` with `${{ github.run_id }}` in both `run-name` and
the concurrency group, then asserts the persisted `Title`,
`ConcurrencyGroup`, and `RawConcurrency` contain / survive the run's ID.
Re-ordering `db.Insert` relative to either parse or concurrency eval
fails this test.

## Relation to go-gitea#37119

[go-gitea#37119](go-gitea#37119) also moves
concurrency evaluation into `InsertRun` but keeps it **before**
`db.Insert`, then tries to populate `run_id` only when `run.ID > 0` —
which is still `0` at that call site, so the cross-branch leak would
survive that PR as written. This PR fixes the ordering so that `run.ID`
is actually populated at eval time, and broadens it to cover parse-time
expression interpolation too.

Co-authored-by: Claude (Opus 4.7) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@silverwind silverwind merged commit 7bd55de into go-gitea:release/v1.26 Apr 21, 2026
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