Stop cache eviction in progress at shutdown (closes #102)

StartEviction runs the eviction goroutine with its own context, which
StopEviction cancels in place of the old stop channel, so a pass in
progress stops at its next database call, file, row or eviction
candidate instead of running to completion, and no new pass starts.
StopEviction takes a context: when it ends before the goroutine exits,
StopEviction stops waiting and returns an error wrapping it. The
handlers' stop hook passes fx's stop context, so an eviction still
running at fx's stop deadline fails the stop and the exit code is 1.
A stop logs at most one warning.

Model: opus-5-5

TODO.md

@@ -29,6 +29,15 @@ P2: security: referer blacklist
 
 # Completed Steps
 
+- 2026-10-04 shutdown stops cache eviction in progress (closes #102):
+  `StartEviction` runs the eviction goroutine with its own context, which
+  `StopEviction` cancels, so a pass in progress stops at its next database
+  call, file, row or eviction candidate instead of running to completion, and
+  no pass starts after it, so a stop logs at most one warning;
+  `StopEviction` takes a context and, when that context ends before the
+  goroutine exits, stops waiting and returns its error; the handlers' stop hook
+  passes fx's stop context, so an eviction still running when fx's stop
+  deadline ends fails the stop and makes the exit code 1.
 - 2026-10-04 dead code in `internal/imgcache` is gone (closes #73): `Purge`,
   which only returned an error and which nothing called, is no longer part of
   the `ImageCache` interface or `Service`; the `SignatureValidator`,

internal/handlers/handlers.go

@@ -58,23 +58,16 @@ func New(lc fx.Lifecycle, params Params) (*Handlers, error) {
 	}
 
 	lc.Append(fx.Hook{
-		// The eviction goroutine must outlive OnStart, so it cannot
+		//nolint:contextcheck // the eviction loop outlives OnStart; OnStop cancels it
-		// inherit this hook's context. It makes its own instead, which
-		// leaves it uncancellable: an in-flight pass runs to completion
-		// during OnStop regardless of the shutdown deadline. Making the
-		// loop cancellable changes shutdown semantics and is tracked
-		// separately in issue #102, rather than being folded into the
-		// lint-conformance change that surfaced it.
-		//nolint:contextcheck // see issue #102
 		OnStart: func(_ context.Context) error {
 			return s.initImageService()
 		},
-		OnStop: func(_ context.Context) error {
+		OnStop: func(ctx context.Context) error {
-			if s.imgCache != nil {
+			if s.imgCache == nil {
-				s.imgCache.StopEviction()
+				return nil
 			}
 
-			return nil
+			return s.imgCache.StopEviction(ctx)
 		},
 	})
 

internal/imgcache/cache.go

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ import (
 	"io"
 	"log/slog"
 	"path/filepath"
-	"sync"
 	"time"
 
 	lru "github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru/v2"
@@ -69,11 +68,11 @@ type Cache struct {
 
 	// Eviction machinery. The channels are created in NewCache so
 	// stores can signal write pressure without racing StartEviction.
+	// evictionCancel, set by StartEviction, cancels the eviction
+	// goroutine's context.
 	evictionPressure chan struct{}
-	evictionStop     chan struct{}
 	evictionDone     chan struct{}
-	evictionStarted  bool
+	evictionCancel   context.CancelFunc
-	evictionStopOnce sync.Once
 
 	// metaCache holds the content types of the variants most recently
 	// stored or served, so a hit does not read the variant's .meta file.
@@ -112,7 +111,6 @@ func NewCache(db *sql.DB, config CacheConfig) (*Cache, error) {
 		log:              log,
 		disabled:         config.DisableDiskCache,
 		evictionPressure: make(chan struct{}, 1),
-		evictionStop:     make(chan struct{}),
 		evictionDone:     make(chan struct{}),
 		metaCache:        metaCache,
 		contentLocks:     newContentLock(),

internal/imgcache/eviction.go

@@ -117,7 +117,10 @@ func (c *Cache) EvictToLimit(ctx context.Context) error {
 
 // evictBatch fetches one batch of LRU candidates across variants and
 // source blobs and evicts them oldest-first until excessBytes are
-// freed or the batch is exhausted. It returns the bytes freed.
+// freed or the batch is exhausted. It returns the bytes freed. A
+// candidate that fails once ctx is cancelled (every one started after
+// that fails at its first database call) ends the batch with ctx's
+// error, without a warning.
 func (c *Cache) evictBatch(ctx context.Context, excessBytes int64) (int64, error) {
 	candidates, err := c.evictionCandidates(ctx)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -133,6 +136,10 @@ func (c *Cache) evictBatch(ctx context.Context, excessBytes int64) (int64, error
 
 		err := c.evictCandidate(ctx, candidate)
 		if err != nil {
+			if ctx.Err() != nil {
+				return freed, ctx.Err()
+			}
+
 			c.log.Warn("failed to evict cache entry",
 				"cache_key", candidate.cacheKey,
 				"content_hash", candidate.contentHash,
@@ -424,37 +431,44 @@ func (c *Cache) notifyWritePressure() {
 // startup and again on every periodic tick thereafter, and evicts to
 // the configured limit on the given periodic interval and on
 // write-pressure notifications. It is a no-op on a disabled cache or
-// when already started.
+// when already started. The goroutine outlives the caller, so it runs
+// with its own context, which StopEviction cancels.
 func (c *Cache) StartEviction(interval time.Duration) {
-	if c.disabled || c.evictionStarted {
+	if c.disabled || c.evictionCancel != nil {
 		return
 	}
 
-	c.evictionStarted = true
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	c.evictionCancel = cancel
 
-	go c.evictionLoop(interval)
+	go c.evictionLoop(ctx, interval)
 }
 
-// StopEviction stops the background eviction goroutine and waits for
+// StopEviction cancels the background eviction goroutine, which
-// it to exit. It is safe to call when eviction was never started, and
+// interrupts a pass in progress, and waits for it to exit or for ctx to
-// safe to call more than once.
+// end, whichever comes first. In the second case it returns an error
-func (c *Cache) StopEviction() {
+// wrapping ctx's error. It is safe to call when eviction was never
-	if !c.evictionStarted {
+// started, and safe to call more than once.
-		return
+func (c *Cache) StopEviction(ctx context.Context) error {
+	if c.evictionCancel == nil {
+		return nil
 	}
 
-	c.evictionStopOnce.Do(func() {
+	c.evictionCancel()
-		close(c.evictionStop)
+
-		<-c.evictionDone
+	select {
-	})
+	case <-c.evictionDone:
+		return nil
+	case <-ctx.Done():
+		return fmt.Errorf("cache eviction still running: %w", ctx.Err())
+	}
 }
 
-// evictionLoop is the body of the background eviction goroutine.
+// evictionLoop is the body of the background eviction goroutine. It
-func (c *Cache) evictionLoop(interval time.Duration) {
+// returns when ctx is cancelled, and starts no pass after that.
+func (c *Cache) evictionLoop(ctx context.Context, interval time.Duration) {
 	defer close(c.evictionDone)
 
-	ctx := context.Background()
-
 	c.runReconciliationPass(ctx)
 	c.runEvictionPass(ctx)
 
@@ -463,7 +477,7 @@ func (c *Cache) evictionLoop(interval time.Duration) {
 
 	for {
 		select {
-		case <-c.evictionStop:
+		case <-ctx.Done():
 			return
 		case <-ticker.C:
 			// Reconciliation walks the cache directories, so it only
@@ -484,8 +498,13 @@ func (c *Cache) evictionLoop(interval time.Duration) {
 }
 
 // runEvictionPass runs one eviction pass, logging failures instead of
-// propagating them (the loop must keep running).
+// propagating them (the loop must keep running). It does nothing once
+// ctx is cancelled.
 func (c *Cache) runEvictionPass(ctx context.Context) {
+	if ctx.Err() != nil {
+		return
+	}
+
 	err := c.EvictToLimit(ctx)
 	if err != nil {
 		c.log.Warn("cache eviction pass failed", "error", err)
@@ -493,8 +512,13 @@ func (c *Cache) runEvictionPass(ctx context.Context) {
 }
 
 // runReconciliationPass runs one reconciliation pass, logging failures
-// instead of propagating them (the loop must keep running).
+// instead of propagating them (the loop must keep running). It does
+// nothing once ctx is cancelled.
 func (c *Cache) runReconciliationPass(ctx context.Context) {
+	if ctx.Err() != nil {
+		return
+	}
+
 	err := c.reconcileAccounting(ctx)
 	if err != nil {
 		c.log.Warn("cache accounting reconciliation failed", "error", err)
@@ -511,7 +535,8 @@ func (c *Cache) runReconciliationPass(ctx context.Context) {
 // know (and rows whose files are gone), and sweeps stale temp files
 // left behind by crashed writes. Running it periodically, not just
 // once, bounds how long such drift can accumulate unaccounted for on a
-// long-running process to one eviction interval.
+// long-running process to one eviction interval. Once ctx is cancelled,
+// it stops at the next file or row and returns ctx's error.
 func (c *Cache) reconcileAccounting(ctx context.Context) error {
 	if c.disabled {
 		return nil
@@ -546,6 +571,10 @@ func (c *Cache) reconcileVariantFiles(ctx context.Context) error {
 	return filepath.WalkDir(
 		c.variants.baseDir,
 		func(path string, entry fs.DirEntry, err error) error {
+			if ctx.Err() != nil {
+				return ctx.Err()
+			}
+
 			if err != nil || entry.IsDir() {
 				return err
 			}
@@ -634,6 +663,10 @@ func (c *Cache) reconcileVariantRows(ctx context.Context) error {
 	}
 
 	for _, key := range keys {
+		if ctx.Err() != nil {
+			return ctx.Err()
+		}
+
 		if c.variants.Exists(key) {
 			continue
 		}
@@ -699,6 +732,10 @@ func (c *Cache) reconcileSourceFiles(ctx context.Context) error {
 	return filepath.WalkDir(
 		c.srcContent.baseDir,
 		func(path string, entry fs.DirEntry, err error) error {
+			if ctx.Err() != nil {
+				return ctx.Err()
+			}
+
 			if err != nil || entry.IsDir() {
 				return err
 			}
@@ -760,6 +797,10 @@ func (c *Cache) reconcileSourceRows(ctx context.Context) error {
 	}
 
 	for _, hash := range hashes {
+		if ctx.Err() != nil {
+			return ctx.Err()
+		}
+
 		if c.srcContent.Exists(hash) {
 			continue
 		}

internal/imgcache/eviction_internal_test.go

@@ -4,9 +4,12 @@ import (
 	"bytes"
 	"context"
 	"database/sql"
+	"errors"
 	"io/fs"
+	"log/slog"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
@@ -657,7 +660,7 @@ func TestEvictionRunsUnderWritePressure(t *testing.T) {
 	// An interval far longer than the test ensures only write
 	// pressure can trigger eviction here.
 	cache.StartEviction(time.Hour)
-	defer cache.StopEviction()
+	defer func() { _ = cache.StopEviction(t.Context()) }()
 
 	keys := []VariantKey{
 		testVariantKeyOne, testVariantKeyTwo, testVariantKeyThree,
@@ -690,7 +693,7 @@ func TestEvictionRunsOnPeriodicSchedule(t *testing.T) {
 	// write-pressure notification fires and only the periodic ticker
 	// can trigger eviction.
 	cache.StartEviction(100 * time.Millisecond)
-	defer cache.StopEviction()
+	defer func() { _ = cache.StopEviction(t.Context()) }()
 
 	keys := []VariantKey{
 		testVariantKeyOne, testVariantKeyTwo, testVariantKeyThree,
@@ -751,7 +754,7 @@ func TestStartEvictionReconcilesAccountingWithDisk(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 
 	cache.StartEviction(time.Hour)
-	defer cache.StopEviction()
+	defer func() { _ = cache.StopEviction(t.Context()) }()
 
 	deadline := time.Now().Add(5 * time.Second)
 
@@ -808,7 +811,7 @@ func TestPeriodicReconciliationAdoptsFileThatAppearsAfterStartup(t *testing.T) {
 	const interval = 100 * time.Millisecond
 
 	cache.StartEviction(interval)
-	defer cache.StopEviction()
+	defer func() { _ = cache.StopEviction(t.Context()) }()
 
 	// Let startup reconciliation run and settle on an empty cache
 	// before introducing the untracked file, so the adoption we assert
@@ -862,6 +865,242 @@ func TestPeriodicReconciliationAdoptsFileThatAppearsAfterStartup(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// TestStopEvictionInterruptsPassInProgress holds the test database's
+// only connection, so the startup reconciliation pass waits for it, and
+// checks that StopEviction stops that pass instead of waiting for the
+// connection to come free, and that the stop logs one warning: the
+// interrupted reconciliation's, with no eviction pass started after it.
+func TestStopEvictionInterruptsPassInProgress(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	cache, _ := newEvictionTestCache(t, 1<<30)
+
+	var logBuf bytes.Buffer
+
+	cache.log = slog.New(slog.NewJSONHandler(&logBuf, nil))
+
+	conn, err := cache.db.Conn(t.Context())
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("failed to take the database connection: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	defer func() { _ = conn.Close() }()
+
+	cache.StartEviction(time.Hour)
+
+	// The pass is in progress once it waits for the connection.
+	deadline := time.Now().Add(5 * time.Second)
+
+	for cache.db.Stats().WaitCount == 0 {
+		if time.Now().After(deadline) {
+			t.Fatal("the reconciliation pass never waited for the database")
+		}
+
+		time.Sleep(10 * time.Millisecond)
+	}
+
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(t.Context(), 5*time.Second)
+	defer cancel()
+
+	err = cache.StopEviction(ctx)
+	t.Logf("StopEviction() error = %v", err)
+
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("StopEviction() error = %v, want nil: the pass waiting for "+
+			"the database did not stop", err)
+	}
+
+	t.Logf("log output: %s", logBuf.String())
+
+	warnings := strings.Count(logBuf.String(), `"level":"WARN"`)
+	if warnings != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("the stop logged %d warnings, want 1", warnings)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestEvictToLimitStopsAtNextCandidateOnceCancelled cancels the context
+// while the oldest of three source blobs is being evicted, and checks that
+// EvictToLimit then returns context.Canceled without evicting the other
+// two or logging a warning for either of them.
+func TestEvictToLimitStopsAtNextCandidateOnceCancelled(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	cache, _ := newEvictionTestCache(t, 1)
+
+	var logBuf bytes.Buffer
+
+	cache.log = slog.New(slog.NewJSONHandler(&logBuf, nil))
+
+	hashes := []ContentHash{
+		storeEvictionTestSource(t, cache, "cancel.example.com", "/a.jpg",
+			bytes.Repeat([]byte{0x61}, 1000)),
+		storeEvictionTestSource(t, cache, "cancel.example.com", "/b.jpg",
+			bytes.Repeat([]byte{0x62}, 1000)),
+		storeEvictionTestSource(t, cache, "cancel.example.com", "/c.jpg",
+			bytes.Repeat([]byte{0x63}, 1000)),
+	}
+
+	base := time.Now().Add(-time.Hour)
+
+	for i, hash := range hashes {
+		setSourceLastAccessed(t, cache, hash, base.Add(time.Duration(i)*time.Minute))
+	}
+
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(t.Context())
+	defer cancel()
+
+	cache.evictSourceBlobTestHook = func(ContentHash) { cancel() }
+
+	err := cache.EvictToLimit(ctx)
+	t.Logf("EvictToLimit() error = %v", err)
+	t.Logf("log output: %s", logBuf.String())
+
+	if !errors.Is(err, context.Canceled) {
+		t.Errorf("EvictToLimit() error = %v, want context.Canceled", err)
+	}
+
+	if cache.srcContent.Exists(hashes[0]) {
+		t.Errorf("source blob %s, evicted when the context was cancelled, "+
+			"is still on disk", hashes[0])
+	}
+
+	for _, hash := range hashes[1:] {
+		if !cache.srcContent.Exists(hash) {
+			t.Errorf("source blob %s was evicted after the context was cancelled", hash)
+		}
+	}
+
+	if strings.Contains(logBuf.String(), `"level":"WARN"`) {
+		t.Errorf("EvictToLimit logged a warning after the context was cancelled")
+	}
+
+	assertNoDanglingReferences(t, cache)
+}
+
+// TestStopEvictionReturnsWhenItsContextEnds pauses an eviction pass where
+// cancellation cannot reach it, after a source blob's rows are deleted and
+// before its file is removed, and checks that StopEviction returns its
+// context's error when that context ends instead of waiting for the pass.
+// Once the pass goes on, the goroutine exits and no row points at a
+// missing file.
+func TestStopEvictionReturnsWhenItsContextEnds(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	cache, _ := newEvictionTestCache(t, 1)
+
+	paused := make(chan struct{})
+	resume := make(chan struct{})
+
+	cache.evictSourceBlobTestHook = func(ContentHash) {
+		close(paused)
+		<-resume
+	}
+
+	hash := storeEvictionTestSource(t, cache, "stop.example.com", "/a.jpg",
+		bytes.Repeat([]byte{0x61}, 1000))
+
+	cache.StartEviction(time.Hour)
+
+	select {
+	case <-paused:
+	case <-time.After(5 * time.Second):
+		t.Fatal("the eviction pass never reached the source blob")
+	}
+
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(t.Context(), 50*time.Millisecond)
+	defer cancel()
+
+	err := cache.StopEviction(ctx)
+	t.Logf("StopEviction() error = %v", err)
+
+	if !errors.Is(err, context.DeadlineExceeded) {
+		t.Errorf("StopEviction() error = %v, want context.DeadlineExceeded", err)
+	}
+
+	close(resume)
+
+	err = cache.StopEviction(t.Context())
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("second StopEviction() error = %v, want nil", err)
+	}
+
+	assertNoDanglingReferences(t, cache)
+
+	if cache.srcContent.Exists(hash) {
+		t.Errorf("source blob %s is still on disk after its rows were deleted", hash)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestReconciliationWalksStopOnceCancelled checks that both directory
+// walks of a reconciliation pass return the context's error once it is
+// cancelled, leaving in place a stale temp file they would otherwise
+// remove.
+func TestReconciliationWalksStopOnceCancelled(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	cache, _ := newEvictionTestCache(t, 1<<30)
+
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(t.Context())
+	cancel()
+
+	staleTime := time.Now().Add(-2 * staleTempFileAge)
+
+	walks := map[string]func(context.Context) error{
+		cache.variants.baseDir:   cache.reconcileVariantFiles,
+		cache.srcContent.baseDir: cache.reconcileSourceFiles,
+	}
+
+	for dir, walk := range walks {
+		tempFile := filepath.Join(dir, tempFilePrefix+"stale")
+
+		err := os.WriteFile(tempFile, []byte("partial"), 0o600)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("failed to write temp file: %v", err)
+		}
+
+		err = os.Chtimes(tempFile, staleTime, staleTime)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("failed to backdate temp file: %v", err)
+		}
+
+		err = walk(ctx)
+		t.Logf("walk of %s: error = %v", dir, err)
+
+		if !errors.Is(err, context.Canceled) {
+			t.Errorf("walk of %s: error = %v, want context.Canceled", dir, err)
+		}
+
+		_, err = os.Stat(tempFile)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("walk of %s went on after cancellation: %v", dir, err)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// TestReconciliationPassLogsNoWarningOnceCancelled checks that a
+// reconciliation pass run with an already cancelled context logs no
+// warning, so a periodic tick the loop takes after a stop adds no
+// warning to the one from the pass the stop interrupted.
+func TestReconciliationPassLogsNoWarningOnceCancelled(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+
+	cache, _ := newEvictionTestCache(t, 1<<30)
+
+	var logBuf bytes.Buffer
+
+	cache.log = slog.New(slog.NewJSONHandler(&logBuf, nil))
+
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(t.Context())
+	cancel()
+
+	cache.runReconciliationPass(ctx)
+	t.Logf("log output: %s", logBuf.String())
+
+	if strings.Contains(logBuf.String(), `"level":"WARN"`) {
+		t.Errorf("runReconciliationPass logged a warning with a cancelled context")
+	}
+}
+
 // TestEvictSourceBlobExcludesConcurrentStoreOfIdenticalContent exercises
 // the exact TOCTOU window between evictSourceBlob's row-deletion
 // transaction commit and its content file unlink: a concurrent