fix(publisher): tolerate transient device-flow failures during login polling (#1588)
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Follow-up to my analysis on #1543.

Heads up on the shape first: this builds on #1290's poll-loop seams and
github wont let me target a fork branch, so the diff shows its two
commits too. Review only the last commit, the first two are #1290
unchanged, credit to @developer-ishan. Happy to rebase whichever way
#1290 goes, or split differently if that's easier to review.

What it does. pollForToken treats every non-pending answer as terminal,
so one flaky response kills a login the user may already have approved
in the browser. This spends a small grace budget (2 polls) on
incorrect_device_code before giving up, retries 5xx with a growing
backoff, and returns status plus body on other non-200s instead of dying
inside json.Unmarshal on an html error page. Terminal errors now carry
error_description and error_uri, and a timeout that happens after
polling recovered reports a plain timeout, not a stale error from
minutes earlier.

Also honours the interval and expires_in GitHub returns with the device
code (RFC 8628 3.2) instead of hardcoding 5/900, clamped (60s / 3600s)
so a misbehaving response can't stall the CLI or overflow the duration
math.

One thing I changed my mind on from the issue comment: I wrote there
that the client should wait one interval before the first poll. Dropped
that. My own repro test showed 40s of clean polling before authorize, so
the propagation theory doesn't hold, and the grace retry covers the same
window without taxing every fast login. First poll stays immediate,
pinned by a test.

Root cause note: I can't prove the GitHub-side race (cli/cli#9302 is the
same error class but was closed on an unconfirmed "platform race"). So
this isn't claimed as a root-cause fix, it makes the login recoverable
if the condition is transient and diagnosable if it isn't. Btw
incorrect_device_code is a GitHub extension, not an RFC 8628 3.5 code,
so there's no spec retry semantic being violated by the grace polls.

## Test

12 new tests in github_at_device_flow_internal_test.go, all green with
-race (33 in the package). #1290's four tests pass unmodified.
golangci-lint clean in the touched files under both v2.11.4 (this
branch's CI pin) and v2.13.1 (what main pins now).

## AI Disclosure

AI assistance (Claude) was used for issue research and during
development. All changes were reviewed and tested by the author.

Fixes #1543

---------

Co-authored-by: developer-ishan <igupta@groupon.com>
Co-authored-by: Ishan Gupta <62565307+developer-ishan@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: developer-ishan <guptaishan849@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Radoslav Dimitrov <radoslav@stacklok.com>
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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@ -26,6 +26,20 @@ const (
// maximum to the implementation; this prevents a misbehaving auth server
// from growing the interval unboundedly.
maxPollInterval = 60
// defaultExpiresIn is the device-code lifetime in seconds used when the
// device-code response omits expires_in.
defaultExpiresIn = 900
// maxExpiresIn caps the device-code lifetime a response may claim. It sits
// well past GitHub's documented 15 minutes; the cap stops a misbehaving or
// hostile response from pushing the deadline (and the polling loop) far
// into the future.
maxExpiresIn = 3600
// incorrectDeviceCodeGraceRetries is the total number of extra polls a
// single login may spend on incorrect_device_code before giving up — a
// budget for the whole login, not per occurrence. cli/cli#9302 reports the
// same error for a code that had just been issued; a genuinely invalid code
// still fails, only a few seconds later.
incorrectDeviceCodeGraceRetries = 2
)
// DeviceCodeResponse represents the response from GitHub's device code endpoint
@ -43,6 +57,38 @@ type AccessTokenResponse struct {
TokenType string `json:"token_type"`
Scope string `json:"scope"`
Error string `json:"error,omitempty"`
// ErrorDescription and ErrorURI accompany Error in GitHub's responses;
// surfacing them turns opaque failures like "incorrect_device_code" into
// diagnosable reports.
ErrorDescription string `json:"error_description,omitempty"`
ErrorURI string `json:"error_uri,omitempty"`
}
// errorDetail renders Error together with any error_description and error_uri
// GitHub returned, so failures reach the user diagnosable rather than opaque.
func (r AccessTokenResponse) errorDetail() string {
detail := r.Error
if r.ErrorDescription != "" {
detail += ": " + r.ErrorDescription
}
if r.ErrorURI != "" {
detail += " (" + r.ErrorURI + ")"
}
return detail
}
func decodeAccessTokenResponse(statusCode int, body []byte) (AccessTokenResponse, error) {
var tokenResp AccessTokenResponse
// OAuth errors may use HTTP 400 (RFC 6749 §5.2), not just HTTP 200.
if statusCode != http.StatusOK && statusCode != http.StatusBadRequest {
return tokenResp, fmt.Errorf("token endpoint returned %d: %s", statusCode, body)
}
err := json.Unmarshal(body, &tokenResp)
if statusCode == http.StatusBadRequest && (err != nil || tokenResp.Error == "") {
return tokenResp, fmt.Errorf("token endpoint returned %d: %s", statusCode, body)
}
return tokenResp, err
}
// RegistryTokenResponse represents the response from registry's token exchange endpoint
@ -61,9 +107,17 @@ type GitHubATProvider struct {
// accessTokenURL is the GitHub access-token polling endpoint. It is a field
// (rather than the package constant) so tests can point it at a mock server.
accessTokenURL string
// deviceCodeURL is the GitHub device-code endpoint, a field for the same
// reason as accessTokenURL.
deviceCodeURL string
// pollInterval is the initial polling interval in seconds. Defaults to
// defaultPollInterval; overridable in tests to avoid real delays.
// defaultPollInterval; overridable in tests to avoid real delays. Updated
// from the device-code response's interval when GitHub returns one.
pollInterval int
// expiresIn is the device-code lifetime in seconds. Defaults to
// defaultExpiresIn; updated from the device-code response's expires_in
// when GitHub returns one.
expiresIn int
// sleep abstracts time.Sleep so tests can run without real delays and
// assert the back-off sequence. Defaults to time.Sleep.
sleep func(time.Duration)
@ -86,7 +140,9 @@ func NewGitHubATProvider(registryURL, token string) Provider {
registryURL: registryURL,
providedToken: token,
accessTokenURL: GitHubAccessTokenURL,
deviceCodeURL: GitHubDeviceCodeURL,
pollInterval: defaultPollInterval,
expiresIn: defaultExpiresIn,
sleep: time.Sleep,
}
}
@ -173,7 +229,7 @@ func (g *GitHubATProvider) requestDeviceCode(ctx context.Context) (string, strin
return "", "", "", err
}
req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodPost, GitHubDeviceCodeURL, bytes.NewBuffer(jsonData))
req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodPost, g.deviceCodeURL, bytes.NewBuffer(jsonData))
if err != nil {
return "", "", "", err
}
@ -202,6 +258,21 @@ func (g *GitHubATProvider) requestDeviceCode(ctx context.Context) (string, strin
return "", "", "", err
}
// Per RFC 8628 §3.2 interval and expires_in are bound to this device code,
// so reset any pacing left over from a previous code before adopting them.
// Clamp both: a hostile or buggy response must not grow the interval past
// maxPollInterval (the invariant maxPollInterval exists for) nor push the
// deadline unboundedly into the future, and clamping also keeps the
// derived time.Duration well clear of int64 overflow.
g.pollInterval = defaultPollInterval
g.expiresIn = defaultExpiresIn
if deviceCodeResp.Interval > 0 {
g.pollInterval = min(deviceCodeResp.Interval, maxPollInterval)
}
if deviceCodeResp.ExpiresIn > 0 {
g.expiresIn = min(deviceCodeResp.ExpiresIn, maxExpiresIn)
}
return deviceCodeResp.DeviceCode, deviceCodeResp.UserCode, deviceCodeResp.VerificationURI, nil
}
@ -222,11 +293,26 @@ func (g *GitHubATProvider) pollForToken(ctx context.Context, deviceCode string)
return "", err
}
// Default polling interval and expiration time
// Pacing comes from the device-code response (via requestDeviceCode),
// falling back to GitHub's documented defaults.
interval := g.pollInterval
expiresIn := 900 // 15 minutes
expiresIn := g.expiresIn
// Zero-value fallback: providers built directly rather than through
// requestDeviceCode (the test seam) carry no lifetime. Keep this guard.
if expiresIn <= 0 {
expiresIn = defaultExpiresIn
}
deadline := time.Now().Add(time.Duration(expiresIn) * time.Second)
graceRetries := 0
// serverErrorInterval grows the wait between consecutive 5xx retries and is
// reset by any other response.
serverErrorInterval := interval
// lastErr holds the most recent retryable failure so a deadline reached
// mid-retry reports that diagnostic instead of a bare "timed out". It is
// cleared whenever polling recovers, so a genuine user timeout after a
// recovered blip still reports plainly.
var lastErr error
for time.Now().Before(deadline) {
req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodPost, g.accessTokenURL, bytes.NewBuffer(jsonData))
if err != nil {
@ -247,8 +333,20 @@ func (g *GitHubATProvider) pollForToken(ctx context.Context, deviceCode string)
return "", err
}
var tokenResp AccessTokenResponse
err = json.Unmarshal(body, &tokenResp)
// A transient 5xx must not abandon a login the user may already have
// approved in the browser. Each consecutive 5xx grows the wait by 5s up
// to maxPollInterval, so a sustained outage costs a couple of dozen
// requests rather than hundreds; the deadline bounds the number of
// these retries.
if resp.StatusCode >= http.StatusInternalServerError {
lastErr = fmt.Errorf("token endpoint returned %d", resp.StatusCode)
serverErrorInterval = min(serverErrorInterval+5, maxPollInterval)
g.sleep(time.Duration(serverErrorInterval) * time.Second)
continue
}
serverErrorInterval = interval
tokenResp, err := decodeAccessTokenResponse(resp.StatusCode, body)
if err != nil {
return "", err
}
@ -263,12 +361,26 @@ func (g *GitHubATProvider) pollForToken(ctx context.Context, deviceCode string)
interval = maxPollInterval
}
}
lastErr = nil
g.sleep(time.Duration(interval) * time.Second)
continue
}
if tokenResp.Error != "" {
return "", fmt.Errorf("token request failed: %s", tokenResp.Error)
failure := fmt.Errorf("token request failed: %s", tokenResp.errorDetail())
// incorrect_device_code has been reported for codes that were in
// fact valid (cli/cli#9302; cause never confirmed), so spend a
// couple of grace polls before abandoning a login the user may
// have approved.
if tokenResp.Error == "incorrect_device_code" && graceRetries < incorrectDeviceCodeGraceRetries {
graceRetries++
lastErr = failure
g.sleep(time.Duration(interval) * time.Second)
continue
}
return "", failure
}
if tokenResp.AccessToken != "" {
@ -279,6 +391,9 @@ func (g *GitHubATProvider) pollForToken(ctx context.Context, deviceCode string)
return "", fmt.Errorf("failed to obtain access token")
}
if lastErr != nil {
return "", fmt.Errorf("device code authorization timed out; last response: %w", lastErr)
}
return "", fmt.Errorf("device code authorization timed out")
}

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@ -0,0 +1,532 @@
package auth
import (
"context"
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"net/http"
"net/http/httptest"
"sync"
"testing"
"time"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
)
// seqTokenServer serves a fixed sequence of (status, body) responses, one per
// request, reusing the last one once the sequence is exhausted. Unlike
// newMockTokenServer it can serve non-200 statuses and non-JSON bodies, which
// the transient-5xx path needs.
type seqTokenServer struct {
srv *httptest.Server
mu sync.Mutex
seen int
items []seqResp
}
type seqResp struct {
status int
body string
}
func newSeqTokenServer(t *testing.T, items ...seqResp) *seqTokenServer {
t.Helper()
s := &seqTokenServer{items: items}
s.srv = httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) {
s.mu.Lock()
item := s.items[len(s.items)-1]
if s.seen < len(s.items) {
item = s.items[s.seen]
}
s.seen++
s.mu.Unlock()
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
w.WriteHeader(item.status)
_, _ = w.Write([]byte(item.body))
}))
t.Cleanup(s.srv.Close)
return s
}
func (s *seqTokenServer) requests() int {
s.mu.Lock()
defer s.mu.Unlock()
return s.seen
}
func okResp(body string) seqResp { return seqResp{status: http.StatusOK, body: body} }
// serverErrorResp is a 502 carrying an HTML body rather than JSON, the shape a
// transient edge failure takes.
func serverErrorResp() seqResp {
return seqResp{status: http.StatusBadGateway, body: `<html>Server Error</html>`}
}
const (
testClientID = "test-client-id"
pendingBody = `{"error":"authorization_pending"}`
incorrectBody = `{"error":"incorrect_device_code"}`
// The full shape GitHub sends for this error, description and URI included.
incorrectVerboseBody = `{"error":"incorrect_device_code","error_description":"The device_code provided is not valid.","error_uri":"https://docs.github.com/developers/apps/authorizing-oauth-apps#error-codes-for-the-device-flow"}`
tokenBody = `{"access_token":"gho_test_token","token_type":"bearer","scope":"read:org,read:user"}` // #nosec G101 -- test fixture, not a real secret
)
// TestPollForToken_IncorrectDeviceCodeIsTerminalAfterGrace confirms a code that
// stays invalid past the grace polls still fails, and fails with the error
// GitHub reported rather than a rewritten one.
func TestPollForToken_IncorrectDeviceCodeIsTerminalAfterGrace(t *testing.T) {
gh := newSeqTokenServer(t, okResp(pendingBody), okResp(pendingBody), okResp(incorrectBody))
p, _ := newPollTestProvider(gh.srv.URL)
_, err := p.pollForToken(context.Background(), "issued-device-code")
require.Error(t, err)
assert.Equal(t, "token request failed: incorrect_device_code", err.Error())
// 2 pending + 1 incorrect + 2 grace polls that also answer incorrect.
assert.Equal(t, 5, gh.requests())
}
// TestPollForToken_TransientIncorrectDeviceCodeRecovered covers the case the
// grace retries exist for: one incorrect_device_code between a pending poll and
// a successful one must not discard a token the user already authorised.
func TestPollForToken_TransientIncorrectDeviceCodeRecovered(t *testing.T) {
gh := newSeqTokenServer(t, okResp(pendingBody), okResp(incorrectBody), okResp(tokenBody))
p, _ := newPollTestProvider(gh.srv.URL)
token, err := p.pollForToken(context.Background(), "issued-device-code")
require.NoError(t, err, "one transient incorrect_device_code must not be fatal")
assert.Equal(t, "gho_test_token", token)
assert.Equal(t, 3, gh.requests())
}
func TestPollForToken_OAuthErrorsRetryOnBadRequest(t *testing.T) {
for _, status := range []int{http.StatusOK, http.StatusBadRequest} {
for _, code := range []string{"authorization_pending", "slow_down", "incorrect_device_code"} {
t.Run(fmt.Sprintf("%d/%s", status, code), func(t *testing.T) {
gh := newSeqTokenServer(t,
seqResp{status: status, body: fmt.Sprintf(`{"error":%q}`, code)},
okResp(tokenBody),
)
p, slept := newPollTestProvider(gh.srv.URL)
p.pollInterval = defaultPollInterval
token, err := p.pollForToken(context.Background(), "issued-device-code")
require.NoError(t, err)
assert.Equal(t, "gho_test_token", token)
assert.Equal(t, 2, gh.requests())
wait := time.Duration(defaultPollInterval) * time.Second
if code == "slow_down" {
wait += 5 * time.Second
}
assert.Equal(t, []time.Duration{wait}, *slept)
})
}
}
}
func TestPollForToken_BadRequestOAuthErrorsRemainTerminal(t *testing.T) {
for _, code := range []string{"access_denied", "expired_token", "unknown_error", "incorrect_device_code"} {
t.Run(code, func(t *testing.T) {
gh := newSeqTokenServer(t, seqResp{
status: http.StatusBadRequest,
body: fmt.Sprintf(`{"error":%q,"error_description":"Request rejected","error_uri":"https://github.com/error"}`, code),
})
p, slept := newPollTestProvider(gh.srv.URL)
token, err := p.pollForToken(context.Background(), "issued-device-code")
require.EqualError(t, err, "token request failed: "+code+": Request rejected (https://github.com/error)")
assert.Empty(t, token)
retries := 0
if code == "incorrect_device_code" {
retries = incorrectDeviceCodeGraceRetries
}
assert.Equal(t, 1+retries, gh.requests())
assert.Len(t, *slept, retries)
})
}
}
// TestPollForToken_ErrorDescriptionAndURISurfaced confirms the grace budget is
// spent in full against a persistently invalid code, and that GitHub's
// error_description and error_uri reach the user instead of being discarded.
func TestPollForToken_ErrorDescriptionAndURISurfaced(t *testing.T) {
gh := newSeqTokenServer(t, okResp(incorrectVerboseBody))
p, _ := newPollTestProvider(gh.srv.URL)
_, err := p.pollForToken(context.Background(), "issued-device-code")
require.Error(t, err)
assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), "incorrect_device_code")
assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), "The device_code provided is not valid.")
assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), "error-codes-for-the-device-flow")
assert.Equal(t, 1+incorrectDeviceCodeGraceRetries, gh.requests())
}
// TestPollForToken_TransientServerErrorRetried confirms a 5xx (which carries an
// HTML body, not JSON) is retried rather than ending the login.
func TestPollForToken_TransientServerErrorRetried(t *testing.T) {
gh := newSeqTokenServer(t,
serverErrorResp(),
okResp(tokenBody),
)
p, slept := newPollTestProvider(gh.srv.URL)
token, err := p.pollForToken(context.Background(), "issued-device-code")
require.NoError(t, err)
assert.Equal(t, "gho_test_token", token)
assert.Equal(t, 2, gh.requests())
assert.Len(t, *slept, 1, "the 5xx must be followed by one back-off")
}
// TestPollForToken_FirstPollIsImmediate pins the polling schedule: the first
// request goes out without a preceding sleep, so a user who authorises quickly
// is not made to wait an interval for nothing.
func TestPollForToken_FirstPollIsImmediate(t *testing.T) {
gh := newSeqTokenServer(t, okResp(tokenBody))
p, slept := newPollTestProvider(gh.srv.URL)
_, err := p.pollForToken(context.Background(), "issued-device-code")
require.NoError(t, err)
assert.Equal(t, 1, gh.requests())
assert.Empty(t, *slept, "an immediately successful poll must not sleep")
}
// TestRequestDeviceCode_HonoursServerIntervalAndExpiry confirms the interval and
// expires_in in the device-code response are adopted rather than dropped.
func TestRequestDeviceCode_HonoursServerIntervalAndExpiry(t *testing.T) {
device := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) {
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
_, _ = w.Write([]byte(`{"device_code":"dc-1","user_code":"AAAA-BBBB","verification_uri":"https://github.com/login/device","expires_in":60,"interval":7}`))
}))
t.Cleanup(device.Close)
p := &GitHubATProvider{
clientID: testClientID,
deviceCodeURL: device.URL,
pollInterval: defaultPollInterval,
expiresIn: defaultExpiresIn,
}
deviceCode, userCode, uri, err := p.requestDeviceCode(context.Background())
require.NoError(t, err)
assert.Equal(t, "dc-1", deviceCode)
assert.Equal(t, "AAAA-BBBB", userCode)
assert.Equal(t, "https://github.com/login/device", uri)
assert.Equal(t, 7, p.pollInterval, "interval from the response must be adopted")
assert.Equal(t, 60, p.expiresIn, "expires_in from the response must be adopted")
}
// TestRequestDeviceCode_KeepsDefaultsWhenOmitted confirms a response without
// interval or expires_in leaves the documented defaults in place.
func TestRequestDeviceCode_KeepsDefaultsWhenOmitted(t *testing.T) {
device := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) {
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
_, _ = w.Write([]byte(`{"device_code":"dc-2","user_code":"EEEE-FFFF","verification_uri":"https://github.com/login/device"}`))
}))
t.Cleanup(device.Close)
p := &GitHubATProvider{
clientID: testClientID,
deviceCodeURL: device.URL,
pollInterval: defaultPollInterval,
expiresIn: defaultExpiresIn,
}
_, _, _, err := p.requestDeviceCode(context.Background())
require.NoError(t, err)
assert.Equal(t, defaultPollInterval, p.pollInterval)
assert.Equal(t, defaultExpiresIn, p.expiresIn)
}
// deviceCodeServerReturning serves a single device-code response with the given
// raw JSON body, for exercising interval/expires_in handling.
func deviceCodeServerReturning(t *testing.T, body string) string {
t.Helper()
srv := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) {
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
_, _ = w.Write([]byte(body))
}))
t.Cleanup(srv.Close)
return srv.URL
}
// TestRequestDeviceCode_ClampsExcessiveInterval confirms an interval far above
// maxPollInterval is clamped, protecting the same invariant maxPollInterval
// enforces on the slow_down path.
func TestRequestDeviceCode_ClampsExcessiveInterval(t *testing.T) {
url := deviceCodeServerReturning(t,
`{"device_code":"dc","user_code":"AAAA-BBBB","verification_uri":"https://github.com/login/device","expires_in":900,"interval":86400}`)
p := &GitHubATProvider{clientID: testClientID, deviceCodeURL: url, pollInterval: defaultPollInterval, expiresIn: defaultExpiresIn}
_, _, _, err := p.requestDeviceCode(context.Background())
require.NoError(t, err)
assert.Equal(t, maxPollInterval, p.pollInterval, "interval above the cap must be clamped")
}
// TestRequestDeviceCode_ClampsOverflowValues covers the overflow pair: values
// large enough that time.Duration(n)*time.Second wraps negative would make
// sleep return instantly (spinning the loop) and put the deadline in the past
// (yielding zero polls). Clamping keeps both within safe bounds.
func TestRequestDeviceCode_ClampsOverflowValues(t *testing.T) {
url := deviceCodeServerReturning(t,
`{"device_code":"dc","user_code":"AAAA-BBBB","verification_uri":"https://github.com/login/device","expires_in":10000000000,"interval":10000000000}`)
p := &GitHubATProvider{clientID: testClientID, deviceCodeURL: url, pollInterval: defaultPollInterval, expiresIn: defaultExpiresIn}
_, _, _, err := p.requestDeviceCode(context.Background())
require.NoError(t, err)
assert.Equal(t, maxPollInterval, p.pollInterval)
assert.Equal(t, maxExpiresIn, p.expiresIn)
}
// TestRequestDeviceCode_IgnoresNegativeValues confirms negative interval and
// expires_in are rejected in favour of the defaults, so neither can produce a
// negative sleep or a deadline already in the past.
func TestRequestDeviceCode_IgnoresNegativeValues(t *testing.T) {
url := deviceCodeServerReturning(t,
`{"device_code":"dc","user_code":"AAAA-BBBB","verification_uri":"https://github.com/login/device","expires_in":-1,"interval":-1}`)
p := &GitHubATProvider{clientID: testClientID, deviceCodeURL: url, pollInterval: defaultPollInterval, expiresIn: defaultExpiresIn}
_, _, _, err := p.requestDeviceCode(context.Background())
require.NoError(t, err)
assert.Equal(t, defaultPollInterval, p.pollInterval, "negative interval must fall back to the default")
assert.Equal(t, defaultExpiresIn, p.expiresIn, "negative expires_in must fall back to the default")
}
// TestPollForToken_TimeoutSurfacesLastError covers F2: when the deadline lands
// mid-retry, the timeout must carry the last retryable diagnostic instead of a
// bare "timed out". The grace poll records the full-shape incorrect_device_code
// and its following sleep crosses the (1-second) deadline.
func TestPollForToken_TimeoutSurfacesLastError(t *testing.T) {
gh := newSeqTokenServer(t, okResp(incorrectVerboseBody))
p := &GitHubATProvider{
clientID: testClientID,
accessTokenURL: gh.srv.URL,
pollInterval: 1,
expiresIn: 1, // deadline ~1s out
sleep: func(time.Duration) { time.Sleep(1100 * time.Millisecond) },
}
_, err := p.pollForToken(context.Background(), "issued-device-code")
require.Error(t, err)
assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), "timed out")
assert.Contains(t, err.Error(), "The device_code provided is not valid.",
"the last retryable diagnostic must survive the timeout")
}
// TestPollForToken_TimeoutAfterRecoveryIsBare confirms lastErr is cleared when
// polling recovers: one transient 502 followed by healthy pending polls and
// then a genuine user timeout must report plainly, not blame the stale 502.
func TestPollForToken_TimeoutAfterRecoveryIsBare(t *testing.T) {
gh := newSeqTokenServer(t,
serverErrorResp(),
okResp(pendingBody),
)
p := &GitHubATProvider{
clientID: testClientID,
accessTokenURL: gh.srv.URL,
pollInterval: 1,
expiresIn: 1, // deadline ~1s out
sleep: func(time.Duration) { time.Sleep(400 * time.Millisecond) },
}
_, err := p.pollForToken(context.Background(), "issued-device-code")
require.Error(t, err)
assert.Equal(t, "device code authorization timed out", err.Error(),
"a recovered 502 must not be reported as the cause of a user timeout")
}
// Non-OAuth failures retain HTTP diagnostics rather than JSON parsing errors.
func TestPollForToken_NonOKStatusSurfacesStatusAndBody(t *testing.T) {
for _, tt := range []struct {
name string
resp seqResp
}{
{"rate_limited", seqResp{status: http.StatusTooManyRequests, body: "<html>rate limited</html>"}},
{"bad_request_html", seqResp{status: http.StatusBadRequest, body: "<html>bad request</html>"}},
{"bad_request_invalid_json", seqResp{status: http.StatusBadRequest, body: `{"error":`}},
{"bad_request_empty_error", seqResp{status: http.StatusBadRequest, body: `{"error":""}`}},
{"bad_request_token", seqResp{status: http.StatusBadRequest, body: tokenBody}},
{"pending_on_other_status", seqResp{status: http.StatusForbidden, body: pendingBody}},
} {
t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
gh := newSeqTokenServer(t, tt.resp)
p, slept := newPollTestProvider(gh.srv.URL)
token, err := p.pollForToken(context.Background(), "issued-device-code")
require.EqualError(t, err, fmt.Sprintf("token endpoint returned %d: %s", tt.resp.status, tt.resp.body))
assert.Empty(t, token)
assert.Equal(t, 1, gh.requests(), "a non-retryable status must stop polling")
assert.Empty(t, *slept)
})
}
}
// TestPollForToken_ConsecutiveServerErrorsBackOff confirms the 5xx wait grows by
// 5s per consecutive failure and is capped, so a sustained outage costs a
// bounded number of requests rather than hammering the endpoint.
func TestPollForToken_ConsecutiveServerErrorsBackOff(t *testing.T) {
responses := make([]seqResp, 0, 4)
for range [3]struct{}{} {
responses = append(responses, serverErrorResp())
}
responses = append(responses, okResp(tokenBody))
gh := newSeqTokenServer(t, responses...)
p, slept := newPollTestProvider(gh.srv.URL)
token, err := p.pollForToken(context.Background(), "issued-device-code")
require.NoError(t, err)
assert.Equal(t, "gho_test_token", token)
// Base interval is 0 in the test provider, so the waits are 5, 10, 15.
require.Len(t, *slept, 3)
assert.Equal(t, 5*time.Second, (*slept)[0])
assert.Equal(t, 10*time.Second, (*slept)[1])
assert.Equal(t, 15*time.Second, (*slept)[2])
}
// TestPollForToken_ServerErrorBackOffResetsOnRecovery confirms the 5xx growth is
// reset by any non-5xx response, so an intermittent endpoint does not
// accumulate an ever-longer wait across separate blips.
func TestPollForToken_ServerErrorBackOffResetsOnRecovery(t *testing.T) {
serverError := serverErrorResp()
gh := newSeqTokenServer(t,
serverError,
okResp(pendingBody),
serverError,
okResp(tokenBody),
)
p, slept := newPollTestProvider(gh.srv.URL)
token, err := p.pollForToken(context.Background(), "issued-device-code")
require.NoError(t, err)
assert.Equal(t, "gho_test_token", token)
// 5s for the first 5xx, 0s for the pending poll (base interval), then 5s
// again — not 10s — because the pending response reset the growth.
require.Len(t, *slept, 3)
assert.Equal(t, 5*time.Second, (*slept)[0])
assert.Equal(t, 0*time.Second, (*slept)[1])
assert.Equal(t, 5*time.Second, (*slept)[2])
}
// TestRequestDeviceCode_PacingDoesNotLeakAcrossCodes covers F4: interval and
// expires_in are bound to the code they were issued with, so a second request
// that omits them must fall back to defaults rather than inherit the first.
func TestRequestDeviceCode_PacingDoesNotLeakAcrossCodes(t *testing.T) {
var call int
srv := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, _ *http.Request) {
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
if call == 0 {
_, _ = w.Write([]byte(`{"device_code":"dc1","user_code":"AAAA-BBBB","verification_uri":"https://github.com/login/device","expires_in":120,"interval":55}`))
} else {
_, _ = w.Write([]byte(`{"device_code":"dc2","user_code":"CCCC-DDDD","verification_uri":"https://github.com/login/device"}`))
}
call++
}))
t.Cleanup(srv.Close)
p := &GitHubATProvider{clientID: testClientID, deviceCodeURL: srv.URL, pollInterval: defaultPollInterval, expiresIn: defaultExpiresIn}
_, _, _, err := p.requestDeviceCode(context.Background())
require.NoError(t, err)
assert.Equal(t, 55, p.pollInterval)
assert.Equal(t, 120, p.expiresIn)
_, _, _, err = p.requestDeviceCode(context.Background())
require.NoError(t, err)
assert.Equal(t, defaultPollInterval, p.pollInterval, "second code must not inherit the first's interval")
assert.Equal(t, defaultExpiresIn, p.expiresIn, "second code must not inherit the first's expires_in")
}
// TestLogin_ClientIDStableAcrossDeviceCodeAndPolls covers the whole device flow
// end to end and pins the one invariant that makes incorrect_device_code
// meaningful: the health endpoint is read once, and the client_id the device
// code was issued under is the one every poll carries. The mock token endpoint
// answers incorrect_device_code for any other pairing.
func TestLogin_ClientIDStableAcrossDeviceCodeAndPolls(t *testing.T) {
var mu sync.Mutex
healthCalls := 0
deviceClientID := ""
pollClientIDs := []string{}
pollCount := 0
const issued = "dc-login"
registry := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
if r.URL.Path != "/v0/health" {
http.NotFound(w, r)
return
}
mu.Lock()
healthCalls++
id := fmt.Sprintf("Iv23liCLIENT%04d", healthCalls)
mu.Unlock()
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
_, _ = fmt.Fprintf(w, `{"status":"ok","github_client_id":"%s"}`, id)
}))
t.Cleanup(registry.Close)
device := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
var req map[string]string
// assert, not require: t.FailNow from a handler goroutine is unsupported.
if !assert.NoError(t, json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode(&req)) {
http.Error(w, "bad request body", http.StatusBadRequest)
return
}
mu.Lock()
deviceClientID = req["client_id"]
mu.Unlock()
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
_, _ = fmt.Fprintf(w, `{"device_code":"%s","user_code":"CCCC-DDDD","verification_uri":"https://github.com/login/device","expires_in":900,"interval":5}`, issued)
}))
t.Cleanup(device.Close)
tokenSrv := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
var req map[string]string
// assert, not require: t.FailNow from a handler goroutine is unsupported.
if !assert.NoError(t, json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode(&req)) {
http.Error(w, "bad request body", http.StatusBadRequest)
return
}
mu.Lock()
pollClientIDs = append(pollClientIDs, req["client_id"])
bound := req["client_id"] == deviceClientID && req["device_code"] == issued
pollCount++
first := pollCount == 1
mu.Unlock()
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
switch {
case !bound:
_, _ = w.Write([]byte(incorrectBody))
case first:
_, _ = w.Write([]byte(pendingBody))
default:
_, _ = w.Write([]byte(tokenBody))
}
}))
t.Cleanup(tokenSrv.Close)
p := &GitHubATProvider{
registryURL: registry.URL,
deviceCodeURL: device.URL,
accessTokenURL: tokenSrv.URL,
pollInterval: defaultPollInterval,
expiresIn: defaultExpiresIn,
sleep: func(time.Duration) {},
}
require.NoError(t, p.Login(context.Background()))
assert.Equal(t, "gho_test_token", p.githubToken)
mu.Lock()
defer mu.Unlock()
assert.Equal(t, 1, healthCalls, "Login must read the health endpoint exactly once")
assert.Equal(t, "Iv23liCLIENT0001", deviceClientID)
for _, id := range pollClientIDs {
assert.Equal(t, deviceClientID, id,
"every poll must carry the client_id the device code was issued under")
}
}

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@ -70,6 +70,10 @@ mcp-publisher login github [--token=PAT] [--registry=URL]
[publishing from GitHub Actions](../../modelcontextprotocol-io/github-actions.mdx) authenticates
without a browser. This flag is accepted by `login github` only.
Interactive login handles retryable OAuth errors in both HTTP 200 and HTTP 400 responses.
Access denial, expired codes, and unrecognized OAuth errors still stop polling; an
`incorrect_device_code` error receives at most two additional attempts per login.
#### GitHub OIDC (CI/CD)
```bash
mcp-publisher login github-oidc [--registry=URL]