fix: nil pointer dereference in containerIDFromMountInfo

[wangtsingx]

Summary

Fix a nil pointer panic in containerIDFromMountInfo when os.Open fails.

Problem

In pkg/host/info.go, the containerIDFromMountInfo function registered a defer closure calling f.Close() before checking the error from os.Open. When the mountinfo file cannot be opened (e.g., the file does not exist or is unreadable), os.Open returns a nil *os.File along with the error. The deferred closure then attempts to call nil.Close(), causing a panic instead of returning the error gracefully.

This is inconsistent with the readOsRelease function in the same file, which correctly checks the error before registering the defer.

Fix

Move the error check before the defer registration so that the function returns early when os.Open fails, preventing the nil pointer dereference. Also cleaned up the error handling by removing the now-unnecessary errs variable.

Test

Added TestInfo_containerIDFromMountInfo which verifies that calling containerIDFromMountInfo with a non-existent path returns an error without panicking.

All existing tests in pkg/host continue to pass.

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Codecov Report

❌ Patch coverage is 75.00000% with 1 line in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 84.82%. Comparing base (1644ce4) to head (8b61b0a).
⚠️ Report is 4 commits behind head on main.

Files with missing lines	Patch %	Lines
pkg/host/info.go	75.00%	1 Missing ⚠️

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... and 6 files with indirect coverage changes

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Code Review

CI Failure Analysis: Performance Tests — False Positive

The CI "Performance Tests" job failed, but this is not caused by this PR. Here's why:

1. No dependency between the changed code and the failing benchmark

The failing benchmark is BenchmarkSecurityViolationsProcessor/AppProtect_100 in internal/collector/securityviolationsprocessor. This PR only touches pkg/host/info.go and pkg/host/info_test.go. Verified with go list -deps — securityviolationsprocessor has no transitive dependency on pkg/host.

2. The baseline benchmark value is anomalous

The CI tool compared this commit against baseline 8c77042 (a renovate bot commit updating go-syslog). The baseline reports 47712 ns/op for BenchmarkSecurityViolationsProcessor/AppProtect_100, but the same benchmark on a recent main CI run (commit 8c77042, run #29258898401) measured ~477000 ns/op — exactly what this PR also measures. The baseline value is ~10x lower than reality, causing the false 10x regression alert.

Source	ns/op
This PR (8b61b0a)	~476,699
Previous main CI run (8c77042, run #29258898401)	~475,909
CI baseline used for comparison	47,712 ← anomalous

3. Another unrelated PR has the same failure

PR #1807 (grpc-middleware update, run #29327605813) also failed the Performance Tests job, confirming this is a systemic issue with the benchmark comparison tooling, not this PR's changes.

Code Changes Review

Fix is correct. Moving the os.Open error check before the defer registration prevents the nil pointer dereference when the file cannot be opened. The pattern now matches readOsRelease in the same file.

One minor observation: the errs variable was renamed to err in the defer closure. Since the function uses unnamed return values, the defer's modification to err after a Close() error has no effect on the returned error — the return value is already determined when the defer runs. This is a pre-existing issue (the original errs had the same problem) and is not a regression introduced by this PR, but it means Close() errors are silently lost on the success path. Not blocking; can be addressed separately if desired.

Test is adequate. TestInfo_containerIDFromMountInfo verifies the panic is fixed. Could optionally add a test for the happy path (valid mountinfo file with a container ID), but the existing integration tests cover that.

Verdict

The code changes are correct and safe to merge. The CI failure is a false positive from an anomalous benchmark baseline — safe to re-run the Performance Tests job or ignore the alert.