Refactor confusing & fragile event bus logic to use callbacks and not channels; ref pterodactyl/panel#2298

events/events.go

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ package events
 
 import (
 	"encoding/json"
+	"github.com/pkg/errors"
+	"reflect"
 	"strings"
 	"sync"
 )
@@ -12,14 +14,13 @@ type Event struct {
 }
 
 type EventBus struct {
-	sync.RWMutex
+	mu        sync.RWMutex
-
+	callbacks map[string][]*func(Event)
-	subscribers map[string]map[chan Event]struct{}
 }
 
 func New() *EventBus {
 	return &EventBus{
-		subscribers: make(map[string]map[chan Event]struct{}),
+		callbacks: make(map[string][]*func(Event)),
 	}
 }
 
@@ -39,29 +40,27 @@ func (e *EventBus) Publish(topic string, data string) {
 		}
 	}
 
+	e.mu.RLock()
+	defer e.mu.RUnlock()
+
 	// Acquire a read lock and loop over all of the channels registered for the topic. This
 	// avoids a panic crash if the process tries to unregister the channel while this routine
 	// is running.
-	go func() {
+	if _, ok := e.callbacks[t]; ok {
-		e.RLock()
+		evt := Event{Data: data, Topic: topic}
-		defer e.RUnlock()
+		for _, callback := range e.callbacks[t] {
-
+			go func(evt Event, callback func(Event)) {
-		if ch, ok := e.subscribers[t]; ok {
+				callback(evt)
-			e := Event{Data: data, Topic: topic}
+			}(evt, *callback)
-
-			for channel := range ch {
-				go func(channel chan Event, e Event) {
-					channel <- e
-				}(channel, e)
 		}
 	}
-	}()
 }
 
+// Publishes a JSON message to a given topic.
 func (e *EventBus) PublishJson(topic string, data interface{}) error {
 	b, err := json.Marshal(data)
 	if err != nil {
-		return err
+		return errors.WithStack(err)
 	}
 
 	e.Publish(topic, string(b))
@@ -69,45 +68,65 @@ func (e *EventBus) PublishJson(topic string, data interface{}) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-// Subscribe to an emitter topic using a channel.
+// Register a callback function that will be executed each time one of the events using the topic
-func (e *EventBus) Subscribe(topics []string, ch chan Event) {
+// name is called.
-	e.Lock()
+func (e *EventBus) On(topic string, callback *func(Event)) {
-	defer e.Unlock()
+	e.mu.Lock()
+	defer e.mu.Unlock()
 
-	for _, topic := range topics {
+	// Check if this topic has been registered at least once for the event listener, and if
-		if _, exists := e.subscribers[topic]; !exists {
+	// not create an empty struct for the topic.
-			e.subscribers[topic] = make(map[chan Event]struct{})
+	if _, exists := e.callbacks[topic]; !exists {
+		e.callbacks[topic] = make([]*func(Event), 0)
 	}
 
-		// Only set the channel if there is not currently a matching one for this topic. This
+	// If this callback is not already registered as an event listener, go ahead and append
-		// avoids registering two identical listeners for the same topic and causing pain in
+	// it to the array of callbacks for this topic.
-		// the unsubscribe functionality as well.
+	if e.index(topic, reflect.ValueOf(callback)) < 0 {
-		if _, exists := e.subscribers[topic][ch]; !exists {
+		e.callbacks[topic] = append(e.callbacks[topic], callback)
-			e.subscribers[topic][ch] = struct{}{}
-		}
 	}
 }
 
-// Unsubscribe a channel from a given topic.
+// Removes an event listener from the bus.
-func (e *EventBus) Unsubscribe(topics []string, ch chan Event) {
+func (e *EventBus) Off(topic string, callback *func(Event)) {
-	e.Lock()
+	e.mu.Lock()
-	defer e.Unlock()
+	defer e.mu.Unlock()
 
-	for _, topic := range topics {
+	i := e.index(topic, reflect.ValueOf(callback))
-		if _, exists := e.subscribers[topic][ch]; exists {
+
-			delete(e.subscribers[topic], ch)
+	// If i < 0 it means there was no index found for the given callback, meaning it was
-		}
+	// never registered or was already unregistered from the listeners. Also double check
+	// that we didn't somehow escape the length of the topic callback (not sure how that
+	// would happen, but lets avoid a panic condition).
+	if i < 0 || i >= len(e.callbacks[topic]) {
+		return
 	}
+
+	// We can assume that the topic still exists at this point since we acquire an exclusive
+	// lock on the process, and the "e.index" function cannot return a value >= 0 if there is
+	// no topic already existing.
+	e.callbacks[topic] = append(e.callbacks[topic][:i], e.callbacks[topic][i+1:]...)
 }
 
-// Removes all of the event listeners for the server. This is used when a server
+// Removes all of the event listeners that have been registered for any topic.
-// is being deleted to avoid a bunch of de-reference errors cropping up. Obviously
+func (e *EventBus) RemoveAll() {
-// should also check elsewhere and handle a server reference going nil, but this
+	e.mu.Lock()
-// won't hurt.
+	defer e.mu.Unlock()
-func (e *EventBus) UnsubscribeAll() {
-	e.Lock()
-	defer e.Unlock()
 
-	// Reset the entire struct into an empty map.
+	e.callbacks = make(map[string][]*func(Event))
-	e.subscribers = make(map[string]map[chan Event]struct{})
+}
+
+// Finds the index of a given callback in the topic by comparing all of the registered callback
+// pointers to the passed function. This function does not aquire a lock as it should only be called
+// within the confines of a function that has already acquired a lock for the duration of the lookup.
+func (e *EventBus) index(topic string, v reflect.Value) int {
+	if _, ok := e.callbacks[topic]; ok {
+		for i, handler := range e.callbacks[topic] {
+			if reflect.ValueOf(handler).Pointer() == v.Pointer() {
+				return i
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	return -1
 }

router/router_server.go

@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ func deleteServer(c *gin.Context) {
 	}
 
 	// Unsubscribe all of the event listeners.
-	s.Events().UnsubscribeAll()
+	s.Events().RemoveAll()
 
 	// Destroy the environment; in Docker this will handle a running container and
 	// forcibly terminate it before removing the container, so we do not need to handle

router/websocket/listeners.go

@@ -51,22 +51,25 @@ var e = []string{
 // to the connected websocket.
 func (h *Handler) ListenForServerEvents(ctx context.Context) {
 	h.server.Log().Debug("listening for server events over websocket")
+	callback := func(e events.Event) {
+		if err := h.SendJson(&Message{Event: e.Topic, Args: []string{e.Data}}); err != nil {
+			h.server.Log().WithField("error", err).Warn("error while sending server data over websocket")
+		}
+	}
 
-	eventChannel := make(chan events.Event)
+	// Subscribe to all of the events with the same callback that will push the data out over the
-	h.server.Events().Subscribe(e, eventChannel)
+	// websocket for the server.
+	for _, evt := range e {
+		h.server.Events().On(evt, &callback)
+	}
 
 	go func(ctx context.Context) {
 		select {
 		case <-ctx.Done():
-			h.server.Events().Unsubscribe(e, eventChannel)
+			// Once this context is stopped, de-register all of the listeners that have been registered.
-
+			for _, evt := range e {
-			close(eventChannel)
+				h.server.Events().Off(evt, &callback)
+			}
 		}
 	}(ctx)
-
-	for d := range eventChannel {
-		if err := h.SendJson(&Message{Event: d.Topic, Args: []string{d.Data}}); err != nil {
-			h.server.Log().WithField("error", err).Warn("error while sending server data over websocket")
-		}
-	}
 }

server/listeners.go

@@ -11,40 +11,28 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 )
 
-// Adds all of the internal event listeners we want to use for a server.
+// Adds all of the internal event listeners we want to use for a server. These listeners can only be
+// removed by deleting the server as they should last for the duration of the process' lifetime.
 func (s *Server) StartEventListeners() {
-	console := make(chan events.Event)
+	console := func(e events.Event) {
-	state := make(chan events.Event)
-	stats := make(chan events.Event)
-
-	go func(console chan events.Event) {
-		for data := range console {
 		// Immediately emit this event back over the server event stream since it is
 		// being called from the environment event stream and things probably aren't
 		// listening to that event.
-			s.Events().Publish(ConsoleOutputEvent, data.Data)
+		s.Events().Publish(ConsoleOutputEvent, e.Data)
 
 		// Also pass the data along to the console output channel.
-			s.onConsoleOutput(data.Data)
+		s.onConsoleOutput(e.Data)
 	}
 
-		s.Log().Fatal("unexpected end-of-range for server console channel")
+	state := func(e events.Event) {
-	}(console)
+		s.SetState(e.Data)
-
-	go func(state chan events.Event) {
-		for data := range state {
-			s.SetState(data.Data)
 	}
 
-		s.Log().Fatal("unexpected end-of-range for server state channel")
+	stats := func(e events.Event) {
-	}(state)
-
-	go func(stats chan events.Event) {
-		for data := range stats {
 		st := new(environment.Stats)
-			if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(data.Data), st); err != nil {
+		if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(e.Data), st); err != nil {
 			s.Log().WithField("error", errors.WithStack(err)).Warn("failed to unmarshal server environment stats")
-				continue
+			return
 		}
 
 		// Update the server resource tracking object with the resources we got here.
@@ -57,13 +45,10 @@ func (s *Server) StartEventListeners() {
 		s.emitProcUsage()
 	}
 
-		s.Log().Fatal("unexpected end-of-range for server stats channel")
-	}(stats)
-
 	s.Log().Info("registering event listeners: console, state, resources...")
-	s.Environment.Events().Subscribe([]string{environment.ConsoleOutputEvent}, console)
+	s.Environment.Events().On(environment.ConsoleOutputEvent, &console)
-	s.Environment.Events().Subscribe([]string{environment.StateChangeEvent}, state)
+	s.Environment.Events().On(environment.StateChangeEvent, &state)
-	s.Environment.Events().Subscribe([]string{environment.ResourceEvent}, stats)
+	s.Environment.Events().On(environment.ResourceEvent, &stats)
 }
 
 var stripAnsiRegex = regexp.MustCompile("[\u001B\u009B][[\\]()#;?]*(?:(?:(?:[a-zA-Z\\d]*(?:;[a-zA-Z\\d]*)*)?\u0007)|(?:(?:\\d{1,4}(?:;\\d{0,4})*)?[\\dA-PRZcf-ntqry=><~]))")