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Adds j adb attach, which puts a remote device into the ADB server your machine already runs — so it shows up in Android Studio, adb, logcat, tradefed and gradle with no configuration at all.

j adb attach                  # every usable device on the exporter
j adb attach emulator-5554    # or by serial

Why

The existing path (forward_adb, j adb tunnel, -H/-P) points your tooling at the exporter's ADB server. That is exclusive: it only works if you own your local ADB server, so it fails the most common case, an IDE already running. Android Studio owns port 5037 and respawns its server there within ~3s of adb kill-server, so the port cannot reliably be taken over, and the previously documented workaround (kill Studio's server, bind the tunnel to 5037, restart the IDE) does not dependably work.

adb connect is additive instead. The exporter forwards a device's adbd onto a slot, Jumpstarter tunnels the slot, and plain adb connect adds it to the local server. Jumpstarter only moves the ADB protocol between the two machines; ADB does the rest. Several devices, from several exporters, coexist alongside your own emulators, and it works with no local ADB server too, since adb connect starts one.

tunnel is unchanged and remains the right choice when you do own your ADB server, or when a device cannot expose adbd over TCP (CI, headless runners, containers). The README compares the two and documents the requirements and limits of each.

Design notes

  • Slots are a fixed pool with a dynamic mapping. Children are resolved at lease establishment and @exportstream methods take no arguments, so a per-device child cannot express hotplug — a device appearing after lease start would be unreachable. A static pool (attach_slots, default 8) satisfies the transport while the device→slot mapping stays dynamic, so any serial adb devices reports works, including an emulator started mid-session.
  • Slot state is reconciled against adb forward --list before use. Forwards live in the ADB server, not in this driver, so a server restart or an external forward --remove-all invalidates our bookkeeping. Trusting memory made attach report success while creating no forward — client tunnelled to a dead port, device stuck offline, no error reported anywhere.
  • Ctrl+C has to be awaited in the event loop. Driver CLIs run in a worker thread driven by a BlockingPortal, while jmp shell handles Ctrl+C with anyio.open_signal_receiver and cancels the enclosing task group. A thread-side wait can observe neither — Python delivers signals only to the main thread, and anyio cancellation only unwinds tasks. portal.call(anyio.sleep_forever) puts the wait in a real task, so the cancel scope unwinds it and teardown runs. signal.signal() and short time.sleep() slices were both tried against hardware and still hung.
  • Tunnel liveness is decided by connecting, not by os.kill(pid, 0). A j adb tunnel orphaned by its parent shell keeps running, reparented to init, so the pid check succeeds long after the lease is gone — and the stale file was left for the next command to trust again. It is now removed on validation failure.
  • An ADB server already running on the exporter left the driver blind. A server claims the USB devices it finds, and only one can hold a given device. __post_init__ always ran adb start-server, so on a host where one was already listening the driver got a second server that saw an empty device list, while reporting success — adb start-server is silent and exits 0 either way. The driver now connects to its port, confirms the peer answers as ADB, and adopts it (adopt_existing_server, default true). close() no longer kills a server it did not start, which would drop the device claims of everything else on the host.
  • attach froze the device list at startup, so a device plugged in mid-session was never attached and an unplugged one left a dead entry and an occupied slot. _AttachSet.reconcile now matches the held set against what the exporter reports, behind --hotplug — off by default, since most exporters have a fixed set of devices bolted to a bench where polling only adds noise.

adb behaviours worth knowing (each verified against adb 1.0.41)

  • adb connect exits 0 even when it fails, reporting the reason on stdout (failed to connect to ..., failed to resolve host: ..., bad port number ...). The old check=True never fired, so a device that never attached was reported as attached. Now matched against adb's own success strings, connected to %s / already connected to %s.
  • adb start-server and adb devices block forever when a non-ADB process holds the port — they do not fail. Confirmed by binding a plain TCP listener: both hung until killed. Every adb call is now bounded by connect_timeout, and a non-ADB listener is declined rather than adopted.
  • attach() leaked the exporter's slot if the tunnel or adb connect failed after attach_device succeeded; a few failures exhausted the pool.
  • A failed device stayed blacklisted forever_failed was only cleared for devices in attached, which a failed device never reached. Re-plugging is now a real retry.

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Finding Fix
_read_tunnel_state indexed unvalidated JSON ([]TypeError, port > 65535 → OverflowError) every field validated, including bool as a pid; malformed records discarded, not raised
State file in shared temp dir chose an endpoint we then connect to moved to 0700 $XDG_STATE_HOME/jumpstarter, written 0600, O_NOFOLLOW, ownership verified
_remove_forward unbounded, could wedge teardown bounded and non-raising; slot freed regardless
_attach_one caught only CalledProcessError, so a hung adb killed the session now SubprocessError; teardown disconnect cannot skip _detach_device
README: adb disconnect cannot release the exporter slot stated explicitly, with a recovery step that does
Docstring coverage 55% 100% on production code

Testing

Adds client_test.py (the package's first client tests) and extends driver_test.py. Driver tests use a stateful fake adb that tracks forward state; the previous blanket subprocess.run mock returned "ok" for forward --list, which parses as no forwards, so every attach looked stale — which is why the reconciliation bug was invisible to it.

Verified on hardware: an AAOS head unit and an Android tablet, both attached to a Linux exporter over USB, attached together into a workstation's own ADB server and visible simultaneously in Android Studio beside a local emulator. SIGINT to the CLI exits cleanly with no leftover adb devices entries.

kirkbrauer and others added 3 commits August 26, 2026 14:58
Adds `j adb attach`, so a remote device joins the ADB server the developer's
machine already runs, instead of requiring them to point their tooling at the
exporter's server.

Pointing tooling at our server (`forward_adb`, `-H`/`-P`) is exclusive: the
client must own its ADB server. That fails the most common case -- an IDE is
already running. Android Studio owns port 5037 and respawns its server there
within ~3s of `adb kill-server`, so the port cannot be taken over, and the
existing guidance (kill Studio's server, bind the tunnel to 5037, restart the
IDE) does not reliably work.

`adb connect` is additive instead. The exporter forwards a device's adbd onto
a slot, Jumpstarter tunnels the slot, and plain `adb connect` adds it to the
local server. Android Studio, adb, logcat, tradefed and gradle then see the
device with no configuration at all -- Jumpstarter only moves the ADB protocol
between the two machines, and ADB does the rest. Several devices, from several
exporters, coexist alongside the developer's own emulators.

  j adb attach                  # every usable device on the exporter
  j adb attach emulator-5554    # or by serial

Design notes:

* Slots are a fixed pool of TcpNetwork children with a dynamic device->slot
  mapping. Children are resolved at lease establishment and @exportstream
  methods take no arguments, so a per-device child cannot express hotplug: a
  device appearing after lease start would be unreachable. A static pool
  satisfies the transport while the mapping stays dynamic, so any serial
  `adb devices` reports works -- including an emulator started mid-session --
  with nothing declared in advance.

* Slot state is reconciled against `adb forward --list` before use. Forwards
  live in the ADB server, not in this driver, so a server restart or an
  external `forward --remove-all` invalidates our bookkeeping. Trusting memory
  made attach report success while creating no forward, leaving the client
  tunnelled to a dead port with the device stuck `offline` and no error
  reported anywhere.

* `list_attached` returns string keys: gRPC maps cannot have integer keys.
  `adbd_port` is coerced to int for the same reason -- it arrives as 5555.0 and
  adb rejects `tcp:5555.0`.

* The client's public surface is `attach`, `forward_adb` and `devices`; the
  slot plumbing is private, since calling it directly means managing forwards
  and tunnels by hand.

`tunnel` is unchanged and remains the right choice when the client owns its ADB
server, or when a device cannot expose adbd over TCP -- the README compares the
two and documents the requirements and limits of each.

Tests use a stateful fake adb that tracks forward state. The previous blanket
`subprocess.run` mock returned "ok" for `forward --list`, which parses as no
forwards, so every attach looked stale -- which is why the reconciliation bug
was invisible to it.

Verified on hardware: an AAOS head unit and an Android tablet, both attached to
a Linux exporter over USB, attached together into a workstation's own ADB
server and visible simultaneously in Android Studio beside a local emulator.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`j adb attach` and `j adb tunnel` hung on Ctrl+C:

    ^CSIGINT pressed, terminating
    ^C^CException ignored in: <module 'threading' ...>
      File ".../threading.py", line 1624, in _shutdown
        lock.acquire()
    KeyboardInterrupt:

Driver CLIs run in a worker thread driven by a BlockingPortal, while jmp shell
handles Ctrl+C with anyio.open_signal_receiver and cancels the enclosing task
group. A thread-side wait cannot observe either mechanism: Python delivers
signals only to the main thread, and anyio cancellation only unwinds tasks.
So `Event().wait()` kept waiting after the CLI announced termination, the
context manager's `finally` never ran -- leaving a stale `adb connect` entry in
the developer's ADB server -- and a second Ctrl+C hung in threading._shutdown.

Waiting via `portal.call(anyio.sleep_forever)` puts the wait in a real task, so
the cancel scope unwinds it, the call re-raises in this thread, and teardown
proceeds. Applied to both `attach` and `tunnel`, which shared the bug.

Note for future changes here: neither `signal.signal()` nor `time.sleep()` in
short slices fixes this -- both were tried against hardware and still hung. The
wait has to happen in the event loop.

Verified on hardware: two devices attached, SIGINT to the CLI, process exits
cleanly and `adb devices` shows no leftover entries.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`_read_tunnel_state` treated a live PID as proof of a live tunnel. It is not:
a `j adb tunnel` orphaned by its parent shell keeps running and is reparented
to init, so `os.kill(pid, 0)` succeeds long after the lease carrying the tunnel
is gone. Every later `j adb` command then reused a port with nothing behind it:

    $ j adb devices
    * cannot start server on remote host
    adb: failed to check server version: cannot connect to daemon at
      tcp:127.0.0.1:5100: failed to connect to '127.0.0.1:5100': Connection refused

Reproduced on macOS against a live exporter, with a tunnel orphaned ~5h earlier;
the recorded port had no listener at all. The failure is also self-perpetuating,
because the stale file was left in place for the next command to trust again.

Now the state is validated by opening a connection to the recorded address, and
a state file that fails validation is removed so the next invocation falls
through to a fresh ephemeral tunnel. The pid check is kept as a cheap prefilter.

Adds client_test.py, the package's first client tests. Four of the six fail
without this change.

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Walkthrough

The ADB driver manages fixed exporter-side attach slots and can adopt an existing ADB server. The client adds j adb attach, connects selected remote devices to the local ADB server, validates tunnel state, and cleans up on interruption. Documentation and tests cover the new flow.

Changes

ADB attach support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Exporter attach slot pool
python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-adb/jumpstarter_driver_adb/driver.py, python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-adb/jumpstarter_driver_adb/driver_test.py
AdbServer creates configurable TCP slots, adopts compatible existing servers, and exports attach, detach, and listing methods. Tests cover allocation, reconciliation, server ownership, timeouts, and cleanup.
Client attach command
python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-adb/jumpstarter_driver_adb/client.py, python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-adb/jumpstarter_driver_adb/client_test.py
AdbClient discovers usable devices, reconciles static or hotplug targets, tunnels exporter slots, connects them to the local ADB server, and detaches them on exit.
Tunnel liveness and interrupt handling
python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-adb/jumpstarter_driver_adb/client.py, python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-adb/jumpstarter_driver_adb/client_test.py
Tunnel state now uses private files, ownership checks, validation, and socket liveness checks. Event-loop waits replace thread-side blocking waits. Tests cover malformed state, connection failures, cancellation, and cleanup.
Attach documentation and API listings
python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-adb/README.md, python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-adb/pyproject.toml
The README documents attach and tunnel behavior, server configuration, CLI options, Android Studio usage, and updated API members. Pytest configuration documents the AnyIO test setup.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to a2743

The new ADB attachment flow can leave exporter slots occupied after failed setup, reuse a live slot when ADB state cannot be read, or race concurrent attachments, potentially disconnecting or exposing the wrong device; invalid hotplug polling values can also overload the exporter. Merge should wait for these bounded lifecycle and concurrency issues to be addressed or explicitly accepted.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant AdbClient
  participant AdbServer
  participant LocalADB
  User->>AdbClient: Run j adb attach
  AdbClient->>AdbServer: Attach device to exporter slot
  AdbServer-->>AdbClient: Return slot endpoint
  AdbClient->>LocalADB: Run adb connect
  LocalADB-->>User: Report attached device
  User->>AdbClient: Press Ctrl+C
  AdbClient->>LocalADB: Run adb disconnect
  AdbClient->>AdbServer: Detach device
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A rabbit maps each slot in line
ADB links through tunnels fine
The client connects each remote friend
Ctrl+C starts the tidy end
Forwards clear and slots reset

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kirkbrauer and others added 2 commits August 27, 2026 19:30
The inline `attach` block pushed both `cli` and `adb` past ruff's
complexity limit (12 and 11, against a max of 10), failing lint-python.

Moves the body to `_cli_attach`, which is also where it belongs: the
click callback now just parses serials and delegates. Behaviour is
unchanged -- 43 tests pass before and after -- and `ExitStack` moves to a
module-level import instead of being imported inside the function.

Also applies `ruff format` to driver.py and driver_test.py, joining lines
that fit the 120-char limit. Formatting only, in this branch's own code.

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Two CI failures in the new code.

check-warnings (docs, -W): the `local_port:` entry in `attach`'s Args block
continued on a more deeply indented line. There is no sphinx.ext.napoleon
in docs/source/conf.py, so Google-style docstrings are parsed as raw RST and
that extra indent becomes a block quote:

    client.py:docstring of ...AdbClient.attach:15: ERROR: Unexpected
      indentation. [docutils]

Reproduced locally with `sphinx-build -W` over the same autoclass directives:
exit 1 before, exit 0 after. driver.py was already clean -- its Args blocks
keep continuations flush, which is the convention followed here.

type-check-python: `children` is typed dict[str, Driver], so `.host`/`.port`
did not resolve on a slot child. Narrows with `isinstance(..., TcpNetwork)`,
which also makes the test fail loudly if a slot ever becomes another Driver
type. `ty check` passes on the package.

43 tests still pass.

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In `@python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-adb/jumpstarter_driver_adb/client.py`:
- Around line 72-85: Harden _read_tunnel_state and _write_tunnel_state by
storing the tunnel state under a per-user directory with restrictive permissions
instead of the shared _TUNNEL_STATE_FILE location. Before parsing or using
state, reject symlinks, verify the file is owned by the current user, and
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- Around line 108-117: The _remove_forward method currently allows the ADB
forward-removal subprocess to block indefinitely. Pass connect_timeout as the
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In `@python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-adb/README.md`:
- Around line 180-183: Update the attach recovery instructions to state that adb
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Release the exporter slot on every attach failure.

_detach_device runs only after TcpPortforwardAdapter setup and adb connect succeed. A subprocess.TimeoutExpired from adb disconnect also skips it, even with check=False. Move detachment to an outer finally and handle disconnect failures so repeated failures cannot exhaust the slot pool.

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…plug

Two gaps in attach, plus the bugs found while fixing them.

**An ADB server already running on the exporter left the driver blind.**

An ADB server *claims* the USB devices it finds, and only one server can hold a
given device. `__post_init__` always ran `adb start-server`, so on a host where
one was already listening -- started by hand, by udev, by a previous run -- the
driver got a second server that saw an empty device list while reporting
success. `adb start-server` cannot reveal this: it is silent and exits 0 whether
it started a server or found one, so the status says nothing about which server
we ended up on. Verified locally: two servers coexist happily on 5037/15037,
each with its own view.

The driver now connects to its port, confirms the peer answers as ADB, and
adopts it (`adopt_existing_server`, default true). `close()` no longer kills a
server it did not start -- that would drop the device claims of everything else
on the host.

**`attach` froze the device list at startup.**

It resolved devices once and then blocked, so a device plugged in mid-session
was never attached and an unplugged one left a dead entry and an occupied slot.
`_AttachSet.reconcile` now matches the held set against what the exporter
reports, attaching what appeared and releasing what went away.

Off by default, behind `--hotplug`: most exporters have a fixed set of devices
bolted to a bench, where polling only adds traffic and noise for a list that
never changes.

**Bugs found along the way, each verified against adb 1.0.41:**

* `adb connect` exits 0 *even when it fails*, reporting the reason on stdout
  ("failed to connect to ...", "failed to resolve host: ...", "bad port number
  ..."). The old `check=True` therefore never fired, so a device that never
  attached was reported as attached. Now matched against adb's own two success
  strings, `connected to %s` and `already connected to %s`.

* `adb start-server` and `adb devices` *block forever* when a non-ADB process
  holds the port -- they do not fail. Confirmed by binding a plain TCP listener:
  both hung until killed. Unbounded calls could hang exporter startup, so every
  adb call is now bounded by `connect_timeout`, and a non-ADB listener is
  declined rather than adopted.

* `attach()` leaked the exporter's slot if the tunnel or `adb connect` failed
  after `attach_device` succeeded; a few failures exhausted the pool. The
  release now covers every failure path.

* A device whose attach failed and then disappeared stayed blacklisted forever,
  because `_failed` was only cleared for devices in `attached` -- and a failed
  device never got there. Re-plugging is now a real retry. Caught by a test.

**CodeRabbit findings:**

* `_read_tunnel_state` indexed unvalidated JSON: a `[]` root raised TypeError
  and a port outside 0-65535 raised OverflowError, aborting ordinary `j adb`
  commands instead of falling back. Every field is now checked (including bool,
  an int subclass, as a pid).
* The state file moved out of the shared temp directory into a 0700
  `$XDG_STATE_HOME/jumpstarter`, written 0600, opened `O_NOFOLLOW`, ownership
  verified. It records an endpoint we then connect to, so a world-writable path
  let another local user choose that endpoint; a liveness check cannot help,
  since a planted record can name a live pid.
* `_remove_forward` was unbounded, so an unresponsive server could wedge
  teardown. Bounded, non-raising, and the slot is freed regardless.
* `_attach_one` caught only `CalledProcessError`, so a hung local `adb`
  (`TimeoutExpired`) tore down the whole session. Now `SubprocessError`, and the
  teardown `adb disconnect` no longer raises past `_detach_device`.
* README: `adb disconnect` clears only the local entry and cannot release the
  exporter's slot -- the recovery steps now say so, and give one that does.
* Docstring coverage on production code is 100% (was 55%).

Tests: 74, up from 43. Each fix was checked by reverting it and watching the new
test fail. `_AttachSet` takes a Protocol rather than AdbClient, so
reconciliation is testable against a scripted stand-in.

Also documents that attach needs no local ADB server at all: if none is running,
`adb connect` starts one on 5037.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`client.devices = MagicMock(...)` tripped ty in CI:

    error[invalid-assignment]: Implicit shadowing of function `devices`

Replaces it with a `fail_listing` attribute the fake checks, which is also
clearer about what is being simulated -- a device listing that fails -- and
leaves `self.logger` as the only mock on the fake.

Note this reproduced only in CI: the same ty 0.0.75 accepts the old line under a
local PYTHONPATH invocation, so `uv run --isolated ty check` (what the Makefile
runs) is the check to trust here.

74 tests still pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CI's diff-coverage gate (`diff-cover --fail-under=80`) failed at 62.4% on
client.py. The tests were exercising the pieces but not the paths users actually
hit, so this adds real cases rather than exclusions:

* `devices()` parsing, including the states that cannot be forwarded --
  `offline` and `unauthorized` are skipped, `* daemon started successfully` is
  not mistaken for a serial, and `devices -l` property columns are ignored.
* `_cli_attach`, the body of `j adb attach`: exit 1 when nothing is attachable,
  exit 0 after a clean detach, devices released rather than left connected, a
  named serial attaching only itself, and no polling unless --hotplug is asked
  for (with a device appearing on the third tick when it is).
* `_wait_for_interrupt` and `_sleep_through_portal`: every interrupt kind returns
  instead of propagating -- if it did propagate, teardown would not run and a
  stale `adb connect` entry would be left behind -- while an unrelated error
  still surfaces rather than looking like a clean Ctrl+C.

The two anyio-cancellation tests are async because `get_cancelled_exc_class()`
resolves the running backend and raises NoEventLoopError outside a loop. The
package already sets `asyncio_mode = "auto"`, so no marker is needed.

Diff coverage now 88% (client.py 85.5%, driver.py 94.1%), verified with the same
diff-cover invocation the workflow runs. 95 tests pass.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CI failed with "async def functions are not natively supported" -- the package
sets `asyncio_mode = "auto"` but does not depend on pytest-asyncio, so the two
async tests I added were silently not run as coroutines. My local venv happened
to have the plugin, which is why this only showed up in CI.

Making them synchronous exposed a real bug in the production code, not just the
tests. Both waits run in a worker thread, off the event loop, and their except
arms called `anyio.get_cancelled_exc_class()` -- which resolves the *running*
backend and raises NoEventLoopError when there is none. So the handler meant to
recognise a cancellation raised from inside itself and masked it:

    off-loop get_cancelled_exc_class(): NoEventLoopError

`_is_cancelled` now matches asyncio's `CancelledError` directly, plus trio's
`Cancelled` by name so trio need not be installed, and needs no loop. The tests
are plain sync functions asserting exactly that, so this cannot regress into
depending on a plugin the package does not have.

Verified in a venv built without pytest-asyncio, matching `uv run --isolated`:
95 passed. Diff coverage 87%, gate passes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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302-313: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Do not treat a failed forward listing as "no forwards".

If adb forward --list fails or times out, _live_forwards returns {}. Two callers then act on that as authoritative:

  • attach_device (Line 242) releases every slot record. A later attach can reuse a slot that still carries another device's forward, and adb forward replaces it. The earlier device silently loses its forward while the client still holds it.
  • list_attached reports nothing attached.

Return an "unknown" result instead, and skip reconciliation on that pass so the existing mapping is kept.

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-    def _live_forwards(self) -> dict[int, str]:
+    def _live_forwards(self) -> dict[int, str] | None:
         """Return ``{local_port: device}`` for forwards the ADB server actually has.
 
         The single source of truth for what is published. ``adb forward --list``
-        prints ``<serial> tcp:<local> tcp:<remote>`` per line.
+        prints ``<serial> tcp:<local> tcp:<remote>`` per line. Returns None when the
+        server could not be asked, which is not the same as "there are none".
         """
         try:
             result = subprocess.run(
                 [self.adb_path, "forward", "--list"],
                 check=True,
                 capture_output=True,
                 text=True,
                 timeout=self.connect_timeout,
                 env=self.adb_env(),
             )
         except (subprocess.CalledProcessError, subprocess.TimeoutExpired, OSError) as e:
-            self.logger.warning("could not list adb forwards (%s); assuming none", e)
-            return {}
+            self.logger.warning("could not list adb forwards (%s); keeping the current mapping", e)
+            return None

Then guard both callers:

        live = self._live_forwards()
        if live is not None:
            for slot_port, occupant in list(self._slots.items()):
                ...
        live = self._live_forwards()
        if live is None:
            return {str(port): device for port, device in self._slots.items() if device is not None}
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In `@python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-adb/jumpstarter_driver_adb/driver.py`
around lines 302 - 313, Update _live_forwards to return an unknown result such
as None when adb forward --list fails, times out, or raises OSError, rather than
returning an empty mapping. In attach_device, skip slot reconciliation when the
result is unknown, and in list_attached return the existing _slots mapping
without reconciliation; preserve normal reconciliation when a live mapping is
available.
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In `@python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-adb/jumpstarter_driver_adb/client.py`:
- Around line 510-513: Validate the --poll-interval option used by the hotplug
watch flow before entering the loop, rejecting zero or negative values while
preserving positive intervals. Apply this consistently to both relevant option
handling paths, including the logic around _sleep_through_portal and the
alternate occurrence noted in the comment.

In `@python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-adb/jumpstarter_driver_adb/driver.py`:
- Around line 147-164: Update the adoption probe in the server-checking method
around subprocess.run to invoke a server-backed ADB command such as “adb
devices” instead of “adb version”, while preserving the existing timeout,
environment, exception handling, and return-code validation.

In `@python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-adb/README.md`:
- Around line 90-93: Update the fenced output block in the README to include a
text-oriented language identifier, such as text or console, on its opening fence
so it satisfies markdownlint MD040.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-adb/jumpstarter_driver_adb/driver.py`:
- Around line 302-313: Update _live_forwards to return an unknown result such as
None when adb forward --list fails, times out, or raises OSError, rather than
returning an empty mapping. In attach_device, skip slot reconciliation when the
result is unknown, and in list_attached return the existing _slots mapping
without reconciliation; preserve normal reconciliation when a live mapping is
available.
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Comment thread python/packages/jumpstarter-driver-adb/README.md Outdated
`asyncio_mode = "auto"` was configured without pytest-asyncio as a dependency,
so pytest ignored it outright:

    PytestConfigWarning: Unknown config option: asyncio_mode

Harmless in itself, but actively misleading: it advertises that a bare
`async def test_` will be run as a coroutine. It will not, which is how two such
tests in this branch reached CI before failing there.

This repo's convention is `@pytest.mark.anyio` with an `anyio_backend` fixture
(packages/jumpstarter/conftest.py) -- the main package has 287 async tests and no
`asyncio_mode` at all. The comment now records that, so the setting does not get
added back.

No test guard added: pytest already *fails* an unmarked coroutine test rather
than skipping it ("async def functions are not natively supported"). Checked by
adding a deliberately-unmarked failing test and confirming it was reported as
FAILED, not passed -- so the misleading setting was the entire problem.

Scoped to this package. Twelve other packages carry the same dead setting; none
is currently skipping tests because of it (their async tests use the anyio
marker, verified by running ssh-mitm's suite without pytest-asyncio installed),
so cleaning those up belongs in its own change.

95 tests pass, and the warning is gone.

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kirkbrauer requested review from bennyz and mangelajo August 28, 2026 01:48
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except (subprocess.CalledProcessError, subprocess.TimeoutExpired, OSError) as e:
self.logger.warning("could not list adb forwards (%s); assuming none", e)
return {}

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this might cause used slots to be cleaned up if we fail listing?

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Yeah, I need to look into this. I'm not convinced this slot mechanism is the best way to handle this anyways, but good suggestion.

Comment on lines +147 to +164
try:
result = subprocess.run(
[self.adb_path, "version"],
check=False,
capture_output=True,
text=True,
timeout=min(self.connect_timeout, 10),
env=self.adb_env(),
)
except (subprocess.TimeoutExpired, OSError):
self.logger.warning(
"something is listening on %s:%d but does not answer as an ADB server; "
"not adopting it. Free the port, or set a different 'port' in the exporter config.",
self.host,
self.port,
)
return False
return result.returncode == 0

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adb version is a client-local command — it prints the local binary's version and exits without contacting ANDROID_ADB_SERVER_PORT. So the adoption probe here only confirms that the adb binary works, not that an ADB server is actually serving on our port. A non-ADB listener that accepted the TCP connect on line 142 would still be "adopted", and every subsequent adb call directed at it (devices, forward, etc.) would hang.

Consider replacing this with a command that actually talks to the server, e.g. adb devices (bounded by the same timeout). That way the second check genuinely confirms the peer speaks the ADB protocol.

Alternatively, reading the raw ADB protocol greeting from the socket (the host:version service) would avoid spawning a subprocess entirely, but adb devices is simpler and good enough here.


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Humm, so I wonder which ADB version we should even report here, the client's or the exporter's? Maybe it's best to just keep it client-local and show the local ADB server instead for consistency.

Comment on lines +553 to +559
@click.option(
"--poll-interval",
type=float,
default=2.0,
show_default=True,
help="attach: seconds between device checks, with --hotplug",
)

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With --poll-interval 0 (or negative), the hotplug loop calls devices() on the exporter without any pause, effectively busy-looping. anyio.sleep(0) returns immediately, so this saturates both the gRPC link and the exporter's ADB server.

Consider constraining to a positive minimum, e.g.:

@click.option(
    "--poll-interval",
    type=click.FloatRange(min=0.1),
    default=2.0,
    show_default=True,
    help="attach: seconds between device checks, with --hotplug",
)

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Comment on lines +611 to +612
if args[0] == "attach":
serials = [a for a in args[1:] if not a.startswith("-")]

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Parsing serials from args[1:] by filtering not a.startswith("-") means that if someone passes e.g. j adb attach --hotplug --poll-interval 5 myserial, the value "5" gets treated as a serial because it doesn't start with -. It happens to not match any real device so it's harmless in practice, but it's still confusing.

Since attach is a Jumpstarter-specific subcommand being parsed manually out of the generic args, you might consider making it a proper Click subcommand or group. That said, this is a minor nit — the current approach works and the options are flags or explicit --key value pairs that Click already consumed, so args probably won't contain the option values by the time we get here. Just flagging in case the arg parsing behaves unexpectedly with custom orderings.


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This was originally done because we were basically intercepting the ADB commands, but I think maybe this is a better approach.

RuntimeError: adb reported a failure, or timed out.
"""
try:
result = subprocess.run([adb, "connect", target], check=False, capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=60)

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The 60-second timeout here is hardcoded while the driver side uses connect_timeout (default 30s) for its ADB calls. Consider making this configurable or at least documenting that adb connect uses a different timeout from the rest of the driver.

In practice, adb connect to a tunneled local port should resolve quickly, so 60s is likely fine as a ceiling. But if the exporter is far away or the tunnel is slow, the mismatch could be confusing.

Minor nit, not a blocker.


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Comment on lines +261 to +281
try:
subprocess.run(
[self.adb_path, "-s", device, "forward", f"tcp:{slot_port}", f"tcp:{adbd_port}"],
check=True,
capture_output=True,
text=True,
timeout=self.connect_timeout,
env=self.adb_env(),
)
except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
stderr = (e.stderr or "").strip()
raise RuntimeError(
f"could not attach {device}: {stderr or e}. The device may be offline, "
f"or adbd may not be listening on tcp:{adbd_port} (try `adb tcpip {adbd_port}`)."
) from e
except subprocess.TimeoutExpired as e:
raise RuntimeError(f"attaching {device} timed out after {self.connect_timeout}s") from e

self._slots[slot_port] = device
self.logger.info("attached %s on slot tcp:%d (device tcp:%d)", device, slot_port, adbd_port)
return self._slot_name(slot_port)

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The subprocess.run that creates the forward does not catch OSError, which can happen if e.g. the adb_path binary disappears or becomes non-executable at runtime (unlikely but possible after a package update). Both CalledProcessError and TimeoutExpired are caught, but an OSError would propagate unhandled.

Consider adding OSError to the except chain, or wrapping it in a RuntimeError with context:

except (subprocess.CalledProcessError, subprocess.TimeoutExpired, OSError) as e:

The _remove_forward method already handles all three, so this would be consistent.


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# genuine retry. Done for every remembered failure, not just attached devices:
# a device that *failed* and then vanished never entered `attached`, so
# clearing only those left it permanently blacklisted.
self._failed -= {device for device in self._failed if device not in here}

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The failed-set cleanup logic is correct but the set comprehension reads slightly backwards. Consider:

self._failed &= set(here)

This is equivalent (keep only failures that are still present) and is a bit more readable than building a set of things to remove and subtracting it. Not a functional issue at all — just a readability suggestion.


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Comment on lines +90 to +93
```
adopting the ADB server already listening on 127.0.0.1:15037; it owns the
connected devices, and this driver will leave it running
```

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This fenced block has no language identifier. Since these are Sphinx docs rendered with myst, the linter will flag this (MD040). Add text or console:

```text
DUT ──USB──▶ EXPORTER ──Jumpstarter tunnel──▶ YOU
...

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`_server_is_listening` asked `adb version` to confirm the peer on the port
speaks ADB. It does not: `adb version` reports the local client's own version
without contacting the server at all. Verified against adb 1.0.41 by pointing
ANDROID_ADB_SERVER_PORT at a plain TCP listener — `adb version` exits 0 having
opened zero connections to it, so any listener was adopted, which is the case
the probe exists to reject.

`adb devices` does contact the server: a real one answers in ~0.00s, and a
non-ADB listener leaves it to hit the timeout, which the probe already treats
as a refusal. The README's claim that such a listener is declined only becomes
true with this change.

Also reject a non-positive --poll-interval, which made anyio.sleep return at
once and turned the hotplug loop into an unthrottled poll of the exporter, and
label the README's ASCII diagram fences (markdownlint MD040).

test_init_validates_adb opened a real socket to port 15037, so it passed or
failed on whether the machine running it had an ADB server there. It now
refuses the connection like the other adoption tests.

Assisted-by: Claude
Signed-off-by: Kirk Brauer <kirkebrauer@gmail.com>
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