fix(eks): refuse an unreadable ownership record instead of treating it as absent

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Why

KSail keeps a record of which AWS region each EKS cluster was created in, so start, stop and delete cannot be aimed at a same-named cluster in another region. If that record was damaged (a cut-off write, a full disk, wrong permissions), KSail treated it as missing and trusted the regenerated cluster config instead, which can name the wrong region. That silently removed the safeguard.

What

A record that exists but cannot be read now stops the action, with a message naming the file and how to fix it. A genuinely missing record, an older-format record, and a healthy record beside a damaged one for another region all behave as before. One side effect: the command-line path that restores saved AWS variable names now also reports a damaged record instead of silently ignoring it.

Fixes #6429

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Verification at d1ce815c:

• New tests:
  • state: a truncated record fails with ErrEKSOwnershipStateUnreadable (not NotFound) and names the file.
  • state: a mode-000 record does the same.
  • state (control): a usable record beside a truncated one in another region is still returned.
  • clusterapi: an eks.yaml beside a truncated record is refused, naming the file.
  • clusterapi: with no eks.yaml, binding from an unreadable record is refused.
• Ablation (RED): I disabled the new unreadable branch. Exactly the four refusal tests failed, and every control stayed green. That includes the existing legacy-record absence test, the usable-beside-legacy test, the config-with-no-record test and the new usable-beside-damaged test.
• GREEN: pkg/svc/state, pkg/cli/clusterapi and pkg/cli/cmd/cluster pass in full. go vet is clean.
• Callers of ListEKSOwnershipStates checked (acceptance criterion 4):
  • confirmConfigMatchesOwnership and bindFromOwnershipRecord now refuse, as tested.
  • restoreListedAWSOptions (CLI) returns its existing "load persisted AWS credential mappings" error, because the new sentinel is neither NotFound nor Invalid.
  • resolveCluster (local API) is unchanged and still reports the cluster as not found when the only record is unreadable. That fails closed, so I left it alone rather than add an untested change.
• Local golangci-lint cannot analyse this Go 1.27 module, so lint relies on CI.

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Walkthrough

The state service now distinguishes unreadable EKS ownership records from absent records and includes affected paths in the error. Valid records remain listable when another record is unreadable. CLI binding checks now reject unreadable records with an api.ErrInvalid error that names the record and remediation. Tests cover truncated, inaccessible, and mixed valid/unreadable records.

Priority: ⬆️ High

Severity of issue fixed: High

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d1ce8

An inaccessible ownership-state directory can be mistaken for no ownership record, allowing binding to proceed without validating existing ownership evidence. Handle the directory read error before merging.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check	❌ Error	Most requirements for #6429 are implemented. ListEKSOwnershipStates returns ErrEKSOwnershipStateUnreadable with file paths, confirmConfigMatchesOwnership and bindFromOwnershipRecord refuse the…	Update resolveCluster to handle ErrEKSOwnershipStateUnreadable separately from ErrEKSOwnershipStateNotFound. Preserve the sentinel and affected file path in an actionable error, then add a regression test for this caller.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: unreadable EKS ownership records are no longer treated as absent.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the problem, the behavior change, remediation details, preserved behavior, and test coverage. It is directly related to the changeset.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changed state handling, CLI caller handling, error helper, and regression tests all directly support #6429. The changes preserve legacy no-record behavior and support the required damaged-record s…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 86.67% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 15 functions across 4 files.

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Explanation

Most requirements for #6429 are implemented. ListEKSOwnershipStates returns ErrEKSOwnershipStateUnreadable with file paths, confirmConfigMatchesOwnership and bindFromOwnershipRecord refuse the unreadable case, and tests cover truncated, mode-000, legacy, adjacent-usable, and binding cases. However, resolveCluster remains unchanged and reports the cluster as not found when only an unreadable ownership record exists. This still conflates unusable ownership evidence with absence and does not provide the required actionable unreadable-record diagnostic for that caller.

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🟠 Major · Handle unreadable state directories before globbing.

pkg/svc/state/eks_ownership_state.go:146
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Handle unreadable state directories before globbing. clusterStateDir only constructs the validated path. Go's filepath.Glob ignores errors from os.Stat, os.Open, and directory reads, so an inaccessible directory can return no paths even when it contains ownership records. ListEKSOwnershipStates then returns ErrEKSOwnershipStateNotFound, and confirmConfigMatchesOwnership accepts config-only binding. Use os.ReadDir and propagate its enumeration error before treating the directory as absent.

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In `@pkg/svc/state/eks_ownership_state.go` at line 146, Update
ListEKSOwnershipStates to enumerate the validated clusterStateDir with
os.ReadDir before matching ownership files, and propagate any directory-read
error instead of allowing an inaccessible directory to appear empty. Preserve
the existing not-found behavior only when the directory is genuinely absent or
contains no matching records, and keep the ownership filename filtering
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In `@pkg/svc/state/eks_ownership_state.go`:
- Line 146: Update ListEKSOwnershipStates to enumerate the validated
clusterStateDir with os.ReadDir before matching ownership files, and propagate
any directory-read error instead of allowing an inaccessible directory to appear
empty. Preserve the existing not-found behavior only when the directory is
genuinely absent or contains no matching records, and keep the ownership
filename filtering unchanged.

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Resolution of CodeRabbit's finding outside the diff (review at d1ce815c, "Handle unreadable state directories before globbing"): valid, fixed in 3fcbb6cf.

filepath.Glob drops directory read errors, so a state directory the process cannot read listed as empty and reported absence. That is the same fail-open this PR closes for files, one level up. The listing now reads the directory with os.ReadDir. A directory that does not exist is still absence; any other read error returns ErrEKSOwnershipStateUnreadable, naming the directory.

• New test: TestListEKSOwnershipStatesRefusesAnUnreadableStateDirectory (mode-000 directory). Control: TestListEKSOwnershipStatesReportsAbsenceForAMissingStateDirectory.
• Ablation: I made the read error return an empty listing instead, keeping the code building. Only the new directory test failed.
• GREEN: pkg/svc/state, pkg/cli/clusterapi and pkg/cli/cmd/cluster pass in full.