cbbkrd-tech/ln-628-concurrency-auditor

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Concurrency Auditor (L3 Worker)

Specialized worker auditing concurrency and async patterns.

Purpose & Scope

• Worker in ln-620 coordinator pipeline
• Audit concurrency (Category 11: High Priority)
• Check race conditions, async/await, thread safety
• Calculate compliance score (X/10)

Inputs (from Coordinator)

Receives contextStore with tech stack, language, codebase root, output_dir.

Workflow

1. Parse context + output_dir
2. Check concurrency patterns
3. Collect findings
4. Calculate score
5. Write Report: Build full markdown report in memory per shared/templates/audit_worker_report_template.md, write to {output_dir}/628-concurrency.md in single Write call
6. Return Summary: Return minimal summary to coordinator

Audit Rules

1. Race Conditions

What: Shared state modified without synchronization

Detection Patterns:

| Language | Pattern | Grep | |----------|---------|------| | Python | Global modified in async | global\s+\w+ inside async def | | TypeScript | Module-level let in async | ^let\s+\w+ at file scope + async function modifies it | | Go | Map access without mutex | map\[.*\].*= without sync.Mutex in same file | | All | Shared cache | cache\[.*\]\s*= or cache\.set without lock |

Severity:

• CRITICAL: Race in payment/auth (payment, balance, auth, token in variable name)
• HIGH: Race in user-facing feature
• MEDIUM: Race in background job

Recommendation: Use locks, atomic operations, message queues

Effort: M-L

2. Missing Async/Await

What: Callback hell or unhandled promises

Detection Patterns:

| Issue | Grep | Example | |-------|------|---------| | Callback hell | \.then\(.*\.then\(.*\.then\( | .then().then().then() | | Fire-and-forget | async.*\(\) not preceded by await | saveToDb() without await | | Missing await | return\s+new\s+Promise in async function | Should just return await or return value | | Dangling promise | \.catch\(\s*\) | Empty catch swallows errors |

Severity:

• HIGH: Fire-and-forget async (can cause data loss)
• MEDIUM: Callback hell (hard to maintain)
• LOW: Mixed Promise styles

Recommendation: Convert to async/await, always await or handle promises

Effort: M

3. Resource Contention

What: Multiple processes competing for same resource

Detection Patterns:

| Issue | Grep | Example | |-------|------|---------| | File lock missing | open\(.*["']w["']\) without flock or lockfile | Concurrent file writes | | Connection exhaustion | create_engine\(.*pool_size check if pool_size < 5 | DB pool too small | | Concurrent writes | writeFile or fs\.write without lock check | File corruption risk |

Severity:

• HIGH: File corruption risk, DB exhaustion
• MEDIUM: Performance degradation

Recommendation: Use connection pooling, file locking, asyncio.Lock

Effort: M

4. Thread Safety Violations

What: Shared mutable state without synchronization

Detection Patterns:

| Language | Safe Pattern | Unsafe Pattern | |----------|--------------|----------------| | Go | sync.Mutex with map | map[...] without Mutex in same struct | | Rust | Arc<Mutex<T>> | Rc<RefCell<T>> in multi-threaded context | | Java | synchronized or ConcurrentHashMap | HashMap shared between threads | | Python | threading.Lock | Global dict modified in threads |

Grep patterns:

• Go unsafe: type.*struct\s*{[^}]*map\[ without sync.Mutex in same struct
• Python unsafe: global\s+\w+ in function + threading.Thread in same file

Severity: HIGH (data corruption possible)

Recommendation: Use thread-safe primitives

Effort: M

5. Deadlock Potential

What: Lock acquisition in inconsistent order

Detection Patterns:

| Issue | Grep | Example | |-------|------|---------| | Nested locks | with\s+\w+_lock:.*with\s+\w+_lock: (multiline) | Lock A then Lock B | | Lock in loop | for.*:.*\.acquire\(\) | Lock acquired repeatedly without release | | Lock + external call | .acquire\(\) followed by await or requests. | Holding lock during I/O |

Severity: HIGH (deadlock freezes application)

Recommendation: Consistent lock ordering, timeout locks (asyncio.wait_for)

Effort: L

6. Blocking I/O in Event Loop (Python asyncio)

What: Synchronous blocking calls inside async functions

Detection Patterns:

| Blocking Call | Grep in async def | Replacement | |---------------|---------------------|-------------| | time.sleep | time\.sleep inside async def | await asyncio.sleep | | requests. | requests\.(get\|post) inside async def | httpx or aiohttp | | open() file | open\( inside async def | aiofiles.open |

Severity:

• HIGH: Blocks entire event loop
• MEDIUM: Minor blocking (<100ms)

Recommendation: Use async alternatives

Effort: S-M

Scoring Algorithm

MANDATORY READ: Load shared/references/audit_scoring.md for unified scoring formula.

Output Format

MANDATORY READ: Load shared/templates/audit_worker_report_template.md for file format.

Write report to {output_dir}/628-concurrency.md with category: "Concurrency" and checks: race_conditions, missing_await, resource_contention, thread_safety, deadlock_potential, blocking_io.

Return summary to coordinator:

Report written: docs/project/.audit/628-concurrency.md
Score: X.X/10 | Issues: N (C:N H:N M:N L:N)

Reference Files

• Worker report template: shared/templates/audit_worker_report_template.md
• Audit scoring formula: shared/references/audit_scoring.md
• Audit output schema: shared/references/audit_output_schema.md

Critical Rules

• Do not auto-fix: Report only, concurrency fixes require careful human review
• Language-aware detection: Use language-specific patterns (Go sync.Mutex, Python asyncio.Lock, Java synchronized)
• Effort realism: S = <1h, M = 1-4h, L = >4h
• Critical path escalation: Race conditions in payment/auth = CRITICAL, regardless of other factors
• Exclusions: Skip test files, skip single-threaded CLI tools, skip generated code

Definition of Done

• contextStore parsed (language, concurrency model, output_dir)
• All 6 checks completed (race conditions, missing await, resource contention, thread safety, deadlock potential, blocking I/O)
• Findings collected with severity, location, effort, recommendation
• Score calculated per shared/references/audit_scoring.md
• Report written to {output_dir}/628-concurrency.md (atomic single Write call)
• Summary returned to coordinator

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Version: 3.0.0 Last Updated: 2025-12-23