fix(controller): clamp committed_config_tag to own loaded config on promotion

bug-1462: raft_cb_become_leader baselined committed_config_tag to the
majority-safe floor across voters, correct for WAL LSN safety but wrong
for config tags — a leader's own actively-loaded config isn't
speculative like an unacknowledged WAL entry. On a fresh deploy every
peer reports tag=0 except the new primary, so the floor stuck at 0
forever and late-joining standbys never received a config push.

ha_promotion_config_tag_floor() clamps to max(safe_tag, self_tag),
mirroring bug-1060's WAL-truncation clamp pattern. Validated with
20-round sequential (63 jobs, zero loss) and 20-round chaotic
overlapping-kill (zero committed divergence, zero committed job loss)
HA failover soaks; unit suite 977/977 green.

src/controller/ha.c

@@ -814,6 +814,13 @@ uint64_t ha_promotion_truncate_floor(uint64_t safe_lsn, uint64_t durable_tip)
     return safe_lsn > durable_tip ? safe_lsn : durable_tip;
 }
 
+/* ── bug-1462: never floor committed_config_tag below the leader's own
+ * loaded config — see ha.h for full rationale. */
+uint64_t ha_promotion_config_tag_floor(uint64_t safe_tag, uint64_t self_tag)
+{
+    return safe_tag > self_tag ? safe_tag : self_tag;
+}
+
 /* ── raft-drive-async task 1.1: peer-scaled liveness reservation ─────────────
  *
  * Pure: reserved = max(1, min(n_peers - 1, n_vcpus - 1)).  The floor of 1 is
@@ -1275,8 +1282,16 @@ static void raft_cb_become_leader(void *ctx, uint64_t term)
              * Req 2.3 (ha-repl-hardening). */
             atomic_store_explicit(&ha->last_known_committed_lsn, safe_lsn,
                                   memory_order_release);
-            /* Update committed config tag baseline for the post-election decision loop */
+            /* Update committed config tag baseline for the post-election decision
-            atomic_store_explicit(&ha->committed_config_tag, safe_tag,
+             * loop.  bug-1462: clamp to the leader's OWN loaded config tag —
+             * unlike WAL LSN, a node's actively-loaded config is never
+             * speculative, so the bare majority floor (correct for LSN) must
+             * not be allowed to strand a real config behind an all-zero floor
+             * reported by voters that never received a live config push.
+             * See ha_promotion_config_tag_floor's doc comment (ha.h). */
+            uint64_t committed_tag_floor =
+                ha_promotion_config_tag_floor(safe_tag, ectx->self_tag);
+            atomic_store_explicit(&ha->committed_config_tag, committed_tag_floor,
                                   memory_order_release);
         }
     }

src/controller/ha.h

@@ -817,6 +817,28 @@ void ha_compute_safe_committed_lsn(ha_elect_ctx_t *ctx,
  * producing divergent WALs and a permanent prevote deadlock. */
 uint64_t ha_promotion_truncate_floor(uint64_t safe_lsn, uint64_t durable_tip);
 
+/* ── bug-1462: config_tag floor for post-election committed_config_tag ───────
+ *
+ * ha_promotion_config_tag_floor: clamp the post-election committed_config_tag
+ * baseline so it never drops below the config the new leader already has
+ * loaded.
+ *
+ * Returns max(safe_tag, self_tag).  safe_tag is the majority-threshold config
+ * tag from the vote replies (ha_compute_safe_committed_lsn); self_tag is the
+ * candidate's own actively-loaded config tag at election time. Unlike WAL LSN
+ * (where an unacknowledged entry is genuinely speculative), a node's own
+ * loaded config is never speculative — so the majority floor, correct for
+ * LSN, is wrong for config_tag.
+ *
+ * Root cause it fixes: on a cluster where no live admin config push had ever
+ * happened, every peer voter reported config_tag=0 while the new leader's own
+ * self_tag was a real, non-zero, loaded tag. The majority floor picked 0,
+ * permanently stalling the heartbeat-driven HA_REPL_PUSH_CONFIG decision for
+ * any standby not connected at the exact instant of promotion (a late
+ * joiner) — WAL/job replication was unaffected since it correctly floors at
+ * genuinely-speculative LSN 0. */
+uint64_t ha_promotion_config_tag_floor(uint64_t safe_tag, uint64_t self_tag);
+
 /* ── raft-drive-async task 1.1: peer-scaled liveness reservation ─────────────
  *
  * drive_async_liveness_reserved: PURE derivation of VTASK_LIVENESS_RESERVED —

src/controller/testsuite/test_ha_election.c

@@ -1216,6 +1216,69 @@ static void test_promotion_never_truncates_own_committed_entries(void)
     printf("test_promotion_never_truncates_own_committed_entries: PASS\n");
 }
 
+/* ── bug-1462: a new leader must never floor its OWN config below what it
+ * already has loaded ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+ *
+ * ha_compute_safe_committed_lsn's majority-floor math is correct for WAL LSN
+ * (an unacknowledged entry is genuinely speculative) but wrong for config_tag:
+ * the new primary's own actively-loaded config is not speculative the way an
+ * unacknowledged WAL entry is.
+ *
+ * Production root cause (bug-1462): on a cluster where no live admin config
+ * push has ever happened (deploy-ha.sh seeds cluster.bin on disk pre-boot),
+ * every peer voter reports config_tag=0 while the new primary's own self_tag
+ * is a real, non-zero, currently-loaded tag.  The majority floor picks 0, so
+ * raft_cb_become_leader baselines ha->committed_config_tag at 0.  The one-shot
+ * promotion push still gets already-connected standbys the real config (it
+ * reads myconf directly), but any LATE-joining standby depends entirely on
+ * the heartbeat-driven `standby_tag < committed_tag` decision loop — which
+ * can never fire again for the rest of the term because committed_tag is
+ * stuck at 0.  Config replication silently stops while WAL/job replication
+ * (which floors correctly, since LSN 0 IS legitimately unacknowledged)
+ * continues to work — exactly the observed symptom.
+ *
+ * Fix (mirrors bug-1060's ha_promotion_truncate_floor precedent): clamp the
+ * post-election config_tag baseline to max(majority_safe_tag, self_tag).
+ *
+ * RED before the fix: ha_promotion_config_tag_floor does not exist (undefined
+ * reference).
+ */
+static void test_promotion_config_tag_never_drops_below_own_loaded_config(void)
+{
+    /* The bug-1462 case: majority floor (0) is BELOW the leader's own loaded
+     * tag (0x860cfd4f59ef9381) — no peer has ever received a live config push,
+     * but the leader itself demonstrably has one.  The floor must clamp UP to
+     * self_tag so the heartbeat decision loop can still push it to late
+     * joiners for the rest of the term. */
+    TEST_ASSERT_EQUAL_UINT64_MESSAGE(
+        0x860cfd4f59ef9381ULL,
+        ha_promotion_config_tag_floor(/*safe_tag=*/0ULL,
+                                       /*self_tag=*/0x860cfd4f59ef9381ULL),
+        "config_tag floor must never fall below the leader's own loaded config "
+        "(a node's actively-loaded config is not speculative like an "
+        "unacknowledged WAL entry)");
+
+    /* Equal: floor stays at self_tag (no-op). */
+    TEST_ASSERT_EQUAL_UINT64_MESSAGE(
+        100ULL, ha_promotion_config_tag_floor(100ULL, 100ULL),
+        "equal safe_tag and self_tag -> floor at that tag");
+
+    /* safe_tag ABOVE self_tag: a majority genuinely holds a newer config than
+     * this node loaded (e.g. this node was behind before winning) — follow
+     * the majority-safe tag, same as the LSN case follows safe_lsn above the
+     * durable tip. */
+    TEST_ASSERT_EQUAL_UINT64_MESSAGE(
+        200ULL, ha_promotion_config_tag_floor(200ULL, 100ULL),
+        "when safe_tag exceeds self_tag, the floor follows the majority-safe tag");
+
+    /* Fresh boot / never configured: both zero -> floor 0. */
+    TEST_ASSERT_EQUAL_UINT64_MESSAGE(
+        0ULL, ha_promotion_config_tag_floor(0ULL, 0ULL),
+        "no config anywhere yet: floor 0");
+
+    printf("test_promotion_config_tag_never_drops_below_own_loaded_config: PASS\n");
+}
+
 /* ── Test suite entry point ───────────────────────────────────────────────── */
 
 void test_ha_election(void)
@@ -1252,6 +1315,10 @@ void test_ha_election(void)
     /* Req 2.8 — zero config_tag candidate must not win when peer has config */
     RUN_TEST(test_zero_config_tag_candidate_does_not_win_when_peer_has_config);
 
+    /* bug-1462 — post-election config_tag floor must never drop below the
+     * leader's own loaded config */
+    RUN_TEST(test_promotion_config_tag_never_drops_below_own_loaded_config);
+
     /* Req 2.9 — single-node self-election */
     RUN_TEST(test_single_node_self_elects_as_primary);