fix(auth): a refusal past an address's ceiling answers before its resets move

The push of a waiting reset runs after the refusal, on a session of its
own, as the members' notices are delivered (the short reading's L1). In
the request, the same statements for every address still differed in
time: an account with a reset waiting wrote it, and a write's commit waits
for the database's log to reach the disk, so how long a refusal took told
whether the address had an account with a reset waiting. Running the same
work for every address would not have closed that; leaving it out of the
request does. Tests wait for it (holdOutsCounted).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Tizian 「ティツィアーン」 <raisondetredev@pm.me>

packages/halkyon_base_server/lib/src/password/passwords.dart

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import 'dart:async';
 import 'dart:convert';
 import 'dart:math';
 import 'dart:typed_data';
@@ -20,6 +21,7 @@ import 'package:halkyon_base_server/src/srp/srp_math.dart';
 import 'package:halkyon_base_server/src/srp/srp_server.dart';
 import 'package:halkyon_base_server/src/totp/recovery_codes.dart';
 import 'package:halkyon_base_server/src/totp/totp.dart';
+import 'package:meta/meta.dart';
 import 'package:serverpod/serverpod.dart';
 import 'package:serverpod_auth_idp_server/core.dart';
 
@@ -150,7 +152,7 @@ final _keyProofsPerAddressAndNetwork = DatabaseRateLimiter(
 Future<void> _refuseAddressProvingTooOften(Session session, String hash) async {
   if (await _proofsPerAddress.countAttempts(session, key: hash) >=
       _proofsPerAddress.config.maxAttempts) {
-    await _heldOut(session, hash);
+    _heldOut(session, hash);
   }
 }
 
@@ -158,26 +160,65 @@ Future<void> _refuseAddressProvingTooOften(Session session, String hash) async {
 /// [hash]'s address past [_proofsPerAddress]' ceiling, the owner held out
 /// for its hour: the account's resets are pushed out past it (the full
 /// reading's H1), so whoever filled the ceiling can't carry one out
-/// meanwhile. The same queries for an address nobody has.
-Future<Never> _heldOut(Session session, String hash) async {
-  // SELECT * FROM "email_identity" WHERE "addressHash" = $1
-  final identity = await EmailIdentity.db.findFirstRow(
-    session,
-    where: (t) => t.addressHash.equals(hash),
-  );
-  await pushOutResets(
-    session,
-    identity?.authUserId ?? UuidValue.fromString(_nobody),
+/// meanwhile.
+///
+/// The push runs after the refusal, on a session of its own (the short
+/// reading's L1): an account with a waiting reset writes it, and a write's
+/// commit waits for the database's log to reach the disk, so done within
+/// the request, how long the refusal took would tell whether the address
+/// has an account with a reset waiting. Off the request's path, the
+/// refusal answers alike for every address.
+Never _heldOut(Session session, String hash) {
+  final pushing = _pushOutResetsOf(
+    session.serverpod,
+    hash,
     clock.now().toUtc().add(_proofsWindow),
   );
+  _holdOuts.add(pushing);
+  unawaited(pushing.whenComplete(() => _holdOuts.remove(pushing)));
   throw refusedFor(PasswordRefusal.tooManyAttempts);
 }
 
+/// The pushes [_heldOut] began, until they end.
+final _holdOuts = <Future<void>>{};
+
+/// Pushes the resets of [hash]'s account, if any, out to [heldOutUntil]
+/// ([pushOutResets]), on a session of its own: the request's closes first.
+/// It logs, so a failure is written.
+Future<void> _pushOutResetsOf(
+  Serverpod pod,
+  String hash,
+  DateTime heldOutUntil,
+) async {
+  final session = await pod.createSession();
+  try {
+    // SELECT * FROM "email_identity" WHERE "addressHash" = $1
+    final identity = await EmailIdentity.db.findFirstRow(
+      session,
+      where: (t) => t.addressHash.equals(hash),
+    );
+    if (identity != null) {
+      await pushOutResets(session, identity.authUserId, heldOutUntil);
+    }
+  } on Object catch (error) {
+    session.log(
+      'Pushing resets out failed: ${error.runtimeType}',
+      level: LogLevel.warning,
+    );
+  } finally {
+    await session.close();
+  }
+}
+
+/// Waits for the pushes [_heldOut] began: tests do.
+@visibleForTesting
+Future<void> holdOutsCounted() => Future.wait([..._holdOuts]);
+
 /// Counts a proof for [hash]'s address about to be checked; refused
 /// ([PasswordRefusal.tooManyAttempts]) past [_proofsPerAddress]' ceiling.
 Future<void> _countProof(Session session, String hash) async {
   if (!await _proofsPerAddress.tryRecordAttempt(session, key: hash)) {
-    await _heldOut(session, hash);
+    _heldOut(session, hash);
   }
 }
 

packages/halkyon_base_server/test/integration/password/resets_test.dart

@@ -3,7 +3,11 @@ import 'package:halkyon_base_server/base.dart';
 import 'package:halkyon_base_server/src/password/account_resets.dart'
     show pushOutResets, resetLivesAtMost, resetWaitsAtMost;
 import 'package:halkyon_base_server/src/password/passwords.dart'
-    show beginKeyProof, beginPasswordSignIn, completePasswordSignIn;
+    show
+        beginKeyProof,
+        beginPasswordSignIn,
+        completePasswordSignIn,
+        holdOutsCounted;
 import 'package:serverpod/serverpod.dart';
 import 'package:serverpod_auth_idp_server/core.dart';
 import 'package:test/test.dart';
@@ -121,28 +125,33 @@ void main() {
         return enrolment;
       });
 
-      /// A sign-in of Anna's from [network], with [totp] or none.
+      /// A sign-in of Anna's from [network], with [totp] or none; a refusal
+      /// past the address's ceiling once its push of her resets is done.
       Future<PasswordProof> signInFrom(
         String network, {
         String? totp,
         PasswordDevice? with_,
       }) => atNow(() async {
-        final challenge = await beginPasswordSignIn(
-          session,
-          address: 'anna@example.org',
-          network: network,
-        );
-        final answer = (with_ ?? device).answer(challenge);
-        return await completePasswordSignIn(
-          session,
-          challenge: challenge.challenge,
-          clientValue: answer.clientValue,
-          clientProof: answer.clientProof,
-          totpCode: totp,
-          instanceUrl: testInstanceUrl,
-          address: 'anna@example.org',
-          language: 'en',
-        );
+        try {
+          final challenge = await beginPasswordSignIn(
+            session,
+            address: 'anna@example.org',
+            network: network,
+          );
+          final answer = (with_ ?? device).answer(challenge);
+          return await completePasswordSignIn(
+            session,
+            challenge: challenge.challenge,
+            clientValue: answer.clientValue,
+            clientProof: answer.clientProof,
+            totpCode: totp,
+            instanceUrl: testInstanceUrl,
+            address: 'anna@example.org',
+            language: 'en',
+          );
+        } finally {
+          await holdOutsCounted();
+        }
       });
 
       /// Whoever knows Anna's password and has her mailbox asks a reset of