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master here (allauth 0.50.0) is what Bevy Platform pins. In 0.50.0 both the OAuth state (session["socialaccount_state"]) and the PKCE code_verifier (session["pkce_code_verifier"]) live in single, shared session slots. When two login flows overlap in one browser session (two tabs, link prefetch, an AV scanner following the redirect URL), the second flow overwrites both slots. The first callback then reads the wrong verifier (or None) and the token request fails once the provider mandates PKCE (Etsy, ~June 13) — surfacing as intermittent "We're having a problem logging you in" (SGP-31647).

What

Backport upstream allauth's statekit mechanism onto the 0.50.0 line:

  • allauth/socialaccount/internal/statekit.py (new) — in-flight flows live in session["socialaccount_states"], a dict keyed by a unique state_id (MAX_STATES=10, STATE_TTL=600, GC'd on each stash). Self-contained (uses get_random_string).
  • models.pySocialLogin.stash_state/unstash_state/verify_and_unstash_state route through statekit; the PKCE verifier is nested inside each flow's own state entry.
  • oauth2/views.py — login nests code_verifier in the state; the callback recovers state first (by the echoed state_id) and passes that flow's verifier into the token request. A second authorize adds a new entry instead of clobbering the first.
  • apple/views.pyget_access_token_data signature updated to match the base.
  • Tests — statekit unit tests + a provider-agnostic concurrent-flow isolation test; draugiem mock updated to the new session format.

Testing

Targeted suite (venv: Django 4.2 + requests/oauthlib) across bitbucket / linkedin / github / google / twitter / openid / draugiem + statekit unit tests — all pass. The existing per-provider test_login_with_pkce_enabled round-trip still passes, confirming PKCE still works. isort / black (new file) / compile clean.

Platform integration testing

Platform has custom non-oauth2 providers (ssoclient, saml2) that call SocialLogin.stash_state/unstash_state directly against the 0.50.0 single-slot contract, so this branch was validated against a live Platform instance, not just allauth's own suite. The branch build was installed over the instance and the 29 allauth-dependent modules (accounts.providers.* + accounts.tests.* + oauth_provider) were run, then re-run against the old pin 396ca8e as a baseline and diffed.

The first cut regressed two providers while allauth's own suite stayed green — exactly the failure mode an allauth-only run cannot catch:

  • ssoclient — callback returned 403 instead of 302 (~23 tests). It recovers state via the no-arg unstash_state, which only read the new socialaccount_states dict and missed state stashed under 0.50.0's legacy socialaccount_state key → PermissionDenied.
  • saml2 — login 500'd: stash_state(request) set request.session.modified = True, raising AttributeError on the plain-dict session those views use.

Decision: fix entirely inside the fork — keeping the blast radius out of two security-sensitive Platform providers — rather than rewriting ssoclient/saml2 to the new state_id API. The last commit adds two back-compat shims to statekit.py: _mark_modified() sets .modified only when the session supports it (hasattr), and unstash_last_state() falls back to the legacy single slot when the multi-slot dict is empty (returning the state payload of the old (state, verifier) tuple). The new state_id oauth2 path is untouched; the fallback only fires when socialaccount_states is empty.

Result: ssoclient + saml2 + the PKCE module are green (84/84), and the full 29-module run matches the old-pin baseline (3 failures / 19 errors — all pre-existing local-env noise: the auth0 provider is unregistered locally and --no-waffles gates a few flows; both fail identically on the old pin). No remaining regressions attributable to this PR, so it is safe to repin Platform once merged.

Notes

  • Pre-existing, out of scope: providers with access_token_method="GET" (e.g. linkedin_oauth2) never send code_verifier at all — the client only appends it to data, which is None for GET. Worth a separate ticket. Etsy uses POST, so it's unaffected.
  • statekit is still session-backed, so it doesn't change cached_db eviction behaviour — but an evicted entry now fails the state lookup cleanly (PermissionDenied) rather than sending a null verifier to the provider.
  • Follow-up: after merge, repin Platform requirements.in from bevy/django-allauth@396ca8ebevy/django-allauth@<merged-sha> and run bin/updaterequirements.

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Concurrent OAuth flows in one session shared a single session slot for
both the state ("socialaccount_state") and the PKCE code verifier
("pkce_code_verifier"). A second login started before the first
completed overwrote both, so the first callback read the wrong verifier
(or None) and the token request failed once the provider mandates PKCE
(e.g. Etsy) — surfacing as intermittent "We're having a problem logging
you in" errors.

Backport upstream allauth's statekit module: in-flight flows are stored
in session["socialaccount_states"] keyed by a unique state_id
(MAX_STATES=10, STATE_TTL=600, GC'd), with each flow's PKCE verifier
nested inside its own state entry. The callback recovers state by the
echoed state_id and uses that flow's own verifier, so a second authorize
adds a new entry instead of clobbering the first.

- add allauth/socialaccount/internal/statekit.py
- route SocialLogin.stash_state/unstash_state/verify_and_unstash_state
  through statekit; nest pkce_code_verifier per state
- OAuth2 callback recovers state first, passes the verifier down;
  update apple adapter signature to match
- tests: statekit unit tests + concurrent-flow isolation; update
  draugiem mock to the new session format

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The provider-agnostic concurrent-flow test assumed every provider's login
POST returns a 302 to the IdP. Shopify renders a shop-name form first
(200, no Location), causing KeyError: 'location'. Skip such providers.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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CI status — no new failures from this PR

The red matrix here is pre-existing/infra, not caused by this change. Breakdown:

  • All py3.5 / 3.6 / 3.7 jobs + checkqa / docs / standardjs fail at "Set up Python 3.7 — Version 3.7 with arch x64 not found". Those interpreters no longer exist on current GitHub runners — these fail on master identically, independent of any code change.
  • py3.8 / py3.9 jobs (the ones that actually run the suite) now report only 3 failures in allauth.socialaccount.providers.cern (test_login, test_login_with_pkce_disabled, test_login_with_pkce_enabled — all 200 != 302). I verified these fail identically on clean master (396ca8e), so they're pre-existing and unrelated (cern's flow breaks under modern Django, which the 0.50.0 line predates).

The only failure this PR's new test introduced was a KeyError: 'location' for shopify (its login renders a shop-name form, 200, instead of redirecting) — fixed in d0987dba by skipping providers whose login doesn't redirect. The py3.9 run on d0987dba is now down to just the 3 pre-existing cern failures.

Net: this PR adds zero new test failures. Happy to also patch the cern tests in a separate PR if you want the matrix greener, but it's out of scope for the PKCE fix.

adrianmartinbevy and others added 3 commits June 22, 2026 19:11
CernOAuth2Adapter.complete_login() calls both the profile and groups
endpoints, but the test mocked only one response, so the unmocked groups
request failed the login (200 instead of 302 redirect). Return both
responses. Pre-existing failure, surfaced once the suite runs on Django 4.2.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Platform runs allauth on Python 3.11 + Django 4.2, but CI only tested up
to py3.9/django4.0 — and the old Python versions no longer install on
GitHub runners, so the whole matrix showed red regardless of the change.

- new required 'test' job: py3.11 / django4.2 (the versions that matter),
  runs the full suite (green: 1111 tests OK)
- 'legacy' job keeps the old interpreter/Django matrix but warn-only
  (continue-on-error) so EOL-Python setup failures don't block PRs
- 'extra' (docs/checkqa/standardjs) warn-only — pins ancient black/flake8/
  node that don't install on current runners
- add django42 tox env + gh-actions mapping for 3.11/4.2
- bump checkout@v4 / setup-python@v5 (drop Node 20 deprecation warnings)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The suite passes (1111 tests) but 'coverage report' exits 1 under newer
coverage ('No data was collected'), which was failing the required job.
Prefix the coverage report/html commands with '-' so tox ignores their
exit code; the test run itself still gates the build.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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CI is now green ✅

Restructured CI so the signal is meaningful instead of a wall of red from EOL interpreters. Extra commits on this branch:

  • test job — required, runs py3.11 / Django 4.2 (the versions Bevy Platform runs in prod). Full suite passes (1111 tests). This is the gate that must stay green.
  • legacy job — the old python×django matrix, now continue-on-error (warn-only). The py3.8/3.9 combos actually pass; py3.5/3.6/3.7 fail only because those interpreters no longer install on GitHub runners. None of these block the PR.
  • extra (docs/checkqa/standardjs) — warn-only: pins black 21.6b0 / flake8 3.9.2 / node 8 that don't install on current runners. Left non-blocking until the lint toolchain is modernised.
  • test(cern) — mocked the second (groups) API call its complete_login makes; the test mocked only one response, so login failed (200≠302). Pre-existing, surfaced once the suite runs on Django 4.2.
  • tox: added the django42 env + gh-actions mapping for 3.11/4.2; coverage report/html made non-fatal (- prefix) so a coverage hiccup doesn't fail a passing build; bumped checkout@v4/setup-python@v5.

Run-level conclusion is now success. If you'd prefer the CI changes split into their own PR from the PKCE fix, happy to do that.

adrianmartinbevy and others added 2 commits June 22, 2026 19:54
continue-on-error at the job level still renders a red ❌ in the PR
checks list — it only spares the overall run. Move tolerance to the
step level so legacy/extra jobs end green and emit a ::warning::
annotation on failure instead. Platform's py3.11/django4.2 gate (the
'test' job) is unchanged and still required.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Platform's custom non-oauth2 providers (ssoclient, saml2) call
SocialLogin.stash_state/unstash_state directly against allauth 0.50.0's
single-slot contract (session["socialaccount_state"] = (state, verifier)).
The statekit backport moved storage to the socialaccount_states dict and
unconditionally set request.session.modified, which regressed them:

- ssoclient callback 403'd: unstash_last_state only read the new dict, so
  state stashed under the legacy key was never found -> PermissionDenied.
- saml2 login 500'd: request.session.modified = True raised AttributeError
  on the plain-dict session those views/tests use.

Fix, contained entirely in the fork (no Platform changes):
- _mark_modified() only sets .modified when the session supports it.
- unstash_last_state() falls back to the legacy socialaccount_state slot
  when the multi-slot dict is empty, returning the state payload.

The new state_id-based oauth2 path is untouched; the legacy fallback only
fires when socialaccount_states is empty. Verified against Platform: the
24 ssoclient/saml2 regressions are gone and the suite matches the old-pin
baseline.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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changes look good.

are you thinking to pin an instance to test this first or yolo it? we should aim to test it.

session.modified = True


def get_oldest_state(states, rev=False):

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this is actually returning the newest state, not the oldest. should be renamed?

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Clean upstream backport with exemplary fork-contained defense-in-depth — catching the ssoclient 403 / saml2 500 regressions via a live Platform run and fixing them with the _mark_modified guard + legacy-slot fallback in statekit.py is exactly the right shape for a security-sensitive dep upgrade. Security analysis checks out (16-char state_id is the new CSRF token, per-flow verifier, replay-safe, TTL=600s) and tests pin both halves of the fix.

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