Reduce the number of stat calls in "spack verify" (#37251)

Spack comes to a crawl post-install of nvhpc, which is partly thanks to
this post install hook which has a lot of redundancy, and isn't correct.

1. There's no need to store "type" because that _is_ "mode".
2. There are more file types than "symlink", "dir", "file".
3. Don't checksum device type things
4. Don't run 3 stat calls (exists, stat, isdir/islink), but one lstat
   call
5. Don't read entire files into memory

I also don't know why `spack.crypto` wasn't used for checksumming, but I
guess it's too late for that now. Finally md5 would've been the faster
algorithm, which would've been fine given that a non cryptographicall
checksum was used anyways.

lib/spack/spack/test/verification.py

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 """Tests for the `spack.verify` module"""
 import os
 import shutil
+import stat
 import sys
 
 import pytest
@@ -30,22 +31,12 @@ def test_link_manifest_entry(tmpdir):
     os.symlink(file, link)
 
     data = spack.verify.create_manifest_entry(link)
-    assert data["type"] == "link"
     assert data["dest"] == file
     assert all(x in data for x in ("mode", "owner", "group"))
 
     results = spack.verify.check_entry(link, data)
     assert not results.has_errors()
 
-    data["type"] = "garbage"
-
-    results = spack.verify.check_entry(link, data)
-    assert results.has_errors()
-    assert link in results.errors
-    assert results.errors[link] == ["type"]
-
-    data["type"] = "link"
-
     file2 = str(tmpdir.join("file2"))
     open(file2, "a").close()
     os.remove(link)
@@ -64,18 +55,18 @@ def test_dir_manifest_entry(tmpdir):
     fs.mkdirp(dirent)
 
     data = spack.verify.create_manifest_entry(dirent)
-    assert data["type"] == "dir"
+    assert stat.S_ISDIR(data["mode"])
     assert all(x in data for x in ("mode", "owner", "group"))
 
     results = spack.verify.check_entry(dirent, data)
     assert not results.has_errors()
 
-    data["type"] = "garbage"
+    data["mode"] = "garbage"
 
     results = spack.verify.check_entry(dirent, data)
     assert results.has_errors()
     assert dirent in results.errors
-    assert results.errors[dirent] == ["type"]
+    assert results.errors[dirent] == ["mode"]
 
 
 def test_file_manifest_entry(tmpdir):
@@ -89,25 +80,25 @@ def test_file_manifest_entry(tmpdir):
         f.write(orig_str)
 
     data = spack.verify.create_manifest_entry(file)
-    assert data["type"] == "file"
+    assert stat.S_ISREG(data["mode"])
     assert data["size"] == len(orig_str)
-    assert all(x in data for x in ("mode", "owner", "group"))
+    assert all(x in data for x in ("owner", "group"))
 
     results = spack.verify.check_entry(file, data)
     assert not results.has_errors()
 
-    data["type"] = "garbage"
+    data["mode"] = 0x99999
 
     results = spack.verify.check_entry(file, data)
     assert results.has_errors()
     assert file in results.errors
-    assert results.errors[file] == ["type"]
+    assert results.errors[file] == ["mode"]
-
-    data["type"] = "file"
 
     with open(file, "w") as f:
         f.write(new_str)
 
+    data["mode"] = os.stat(file).st_mode
+
     results = spack.verify.check_entry(file, data)
 
     expected = ["size", "hash"]

lib/spack/spack/verify.py

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 import base64
 import hashlib
 import os
+import stat
+from typing import Any, Dict
 
 import llnl.util.tty as tty
 
@@ -14,35 +16,33 @@
 import spack.util.spack_json as sjson
 
 
-def compute_hash(path):
+def compute_hash(path: str, block_size: int = 1048576) -> str:
-    with open(path, "rb") as f:
+    # why is this not using spack.util.crypto.checksum...
-        sha1 = hashlib.sha1(f.read()).digest()
+    hasher = hashlib.sha1()
-        b32 = base64.b32encode(sha1)
+    with open(path, "rb") as file:
-        return b32.decode()
+        while True:
+            data = file.read(block_size)
+            if not data:
+                break
+            hasher.update(data)
+    return base64.b32encode(hasher.digest()).decode()
 
 
-def create_manifest_entry(path):
+def create_manifest_entry(path: str) -> Dict[str, Any]:
-    data = {}
+    try:
+        s = os.lstat(path)
+    except OSError:
+        return {}
 
-    if os.path.exists(path):
+    data: Dict[str, Any] = {"mode": s.st_mode, "owner": s.st_uid, "group": s.st_gid}
-        stat = os.stat(path)
 
-        data["mode"] = stat.st_mode
+    if stat.S_ISLNK(s.st_mode):
-        data["owner"] = stat.st_uid
-        data["group"] = stat.st_gid
-
-        if os.path.islink(path):
-            data["type"] = "link"
         data["dest"] = os.readlink(path)
 
-        elif os.path.isdir(path):
+    elif stat.S_ISREG(s.st_mode):
-            data["type"] = "dir"
-
-        else:
-            data["type"] = "file"
         data["hash"] = compute_hash(path)
-            data["time"] = stat.st_mtime
+        data["time"] = s.st_mtime
-            data["size"] = stat.st_size
+        data["size"] = s.st_size
 
     return data
 
@@ -75,38 +75,28 @@ def check_entry(path, data):
         res.add_error(path, "added")
         return res
 
-    stat = os.stat(path)
+    s = os.lstat(path)
 
     # Check for all entries
-    if stat.st_mode != data["mode"]:
+    if s.st_uid != data["owner"]:
-        res.add_error(path, "mode")
-    if stat.st_uid != data["owner"]:
         res.add_error(path, "owner")
-    if stat.st_gid != data["group"]:
+    if s.st_gid != data["group"]:
         res.add_error(path, "group")
 
-    # Check for symlink targets  and listed as symlink
+    # In the past, `stat(...).st_mode` was stored
-    if os.path.islink(path):
+    # instead of `lstat(...).st_mode`. So, ignore mode errors for symlinks.
-        if data["type"] != "link":
+    if not stat.S_ISLNK(s.st_mode) and s.st_mode != data["mode"]:
-            res.add_error(path, "type")
+        res.add_error(path, "mode")
-        if os.readlink(path) != data.get("dest", ""):
+    elif stat.S_ISLNK(s.st_mode) and os.readlink(path) != data.get("dest"):
         res.add_error(path, "link")
-
+    elif stat.S_ISREG(s.st_mode):
-    # Check directories are listed as directory
-    elif os.path.isdir(path):
-        if data["type"] != "dir":
-            res.add_error(path, "type")
-
-    else:
         # Check file contents against hash and listed as file
         # Check mtime and size as well
-        if stat.st_size != data["size"]:
+        if s.st_size != data["size"]:
             res.add_error(path, "size")
-        if stat.st_mtime != data["time"]:
+        if s.st_mtime != data["time"]:
             res.add_error(path, "mtime")
-        if data["type"] != "file":
+        if compute_hash(path) != data.get("hash"):
-            res.add_error(path, "type")
-        if compute_hash(path) != data.get("hash", ""):
             res.add_error(path, "hash")
 
     return res