Crash: encode_NameValue_list called with count=21, s=NULL on worker
rejoin, causing SIGSEGV in persist_worker_hook_fun.
Root cause: free_name_val_list(xce_name_val_t***, int) accepted count by
value. It zeroed *vals (resvals_to_sched = NULL) but could not zero
nresvals_to_sched. Any caller that freed the scheduler resource snapshot
(opget.c workerlist, reply.c clusterconf, dataex.c, sched.c dispatch)
left nresvals_to_sched stale. When the worker later rejoined and the
WAL HOOK fired, the WAL encoder read count=21 with a NULL pointer.
Fix: change signature to free_name_val_list(xce_name_val_t***, int*)
so both fields are zeroed atomically. Update all 7 call sites.
Root cause: test_heartbeat_stale_no_crash_without_primary had
heartbeat_timeout_ms=100 < heartbeat_interval_ms=3000, causing ha_init
to return -EINVAL before memset. The test ignored the return value and
called ha_fini on garbage stack memory. The watchdog_thread field
happened to hold the value 3 (from a prior stack frame), so
ha_stop_watchdog called pthread_join(3, NULL) — crash at 0x2d3
(__pthread_clockjoin_ex accessing thread-struct field at offset 0x2d0).
Fix 1 (test): valid config (interval=2000, timeout=3000). Staleness is
injected via last_heartbeat -= 10s, so timeout value was irrelevant.
Added TEST_ASSERT_EQUAL_INT check on ha_init return.
Fix 2 (ha_init): move memset before validation so ha_fini is safe to
call even after a failed init — prevents the same bug class in callers
that check ha_init's return late.
Verified: test_ha_role 11/11 PASS in both non-ASAN and ASAN builds.
Replace monolithic add_worker with three focused functions:
- apply_join_state (static under production, exported under XCE_TESTING):
shared status/resource update called by both create and rejoin paths;
clears XCE_WORKER_UNAVAIL, applies hconfig overrides, updates resources
- init_worker: first-time join path via makeWorker + apply_join_state
- rejoin_worker: reconnect path with explicit admin-bit preservation
(XCE_WORKER_ADMIN_MASK = LOCKEDU|CLOSED|HIDDEN|CLOSED_BY_ADMIN)
Also makes find_matched_hostconfig non-static so join.c can call it
via the extern declaration already in worker.h.
Removes add_worker (no longer declared in worker.h, no callers).
All 7 tests in test_worker_join pass:
apply_join_state (clears UNAVAIL, hosttype override, resource values),
init_worker (creates entry, returns correct idx),
rejoin_worker (updates attrs/ep, preserves admin bits).
- create_lost_and_found(): provide hostattrs_t so makeWorker succeeds
- collect_queues/collect_workers (dataex.c): skip lost_and_found sentinel
so it is never pushed to apiserver or scheduler
- mark_worker_unavail(): reset hosttype/hostmodel to "unknown" and zero
all numeric attrs, then update resvals and slots — prevents stale
capacity from being visible while the host is down
- restore_worker(): apply the same attr reset on WAL recovery so
restored-but-unavailable workers advertise no capacity until reconnect;
also remove dead calloc() that was immediately overwritten by makeWorker
- Extract reset_hostattrs_unknown() helper to eliminate copy-paste
- Define XCE_LOST_AND_FOUND_NAME constant in config_repl.h; replace all
six raw "lost_and_found" string literals across config_repl.c and dataex.c
- handle_config_request(): primary-side handler sends up-to-date flag or
version_tag; SHA-256 integrity check guards against in-place file changes;
sha256/bytes fields left NULL pending Task 11 typemap shims
- fetch_config_from_primary(): standby fetch with exponential backoff retry
(20 attempts, 500ms..5s); falls back to saved config via load_primary_config();
do_one_config_fetch() stubbed (-ENOSYS) until Task 11 wires capnp over SSL
- handle_controller_join(): registers standby endpoint in ha.standby_endpoints
via zarray_store() for OP_upgradeConfig fan-out; sends success reply
- Moved load_primary_config() from myconf.c to config_repl.c so the unit test
binary (which links config_repl.c but not myconf.c) can resolve it
- myapp.c: capture am_i_primary() into is_primary (avoids redundant
second probe call); after load_primary_config() succeeds, record
CTRL_PRIMARY role via atomic_store_explicit so cluster_init_phase2()
sees the correct role (ha_init() defaults to CTRL_STANDBY)
- myapp.c: add #include "ha.h" for CTRL_PRIMARY, atomic_store_explicit,
and memory_order_release
- cluster.c: cluster_init() wrapper now calls cluster_fini(c) before
returning on create_ssl_context failure, hook failure, and
cluster_init_phase2 failure — prevents SSL ctx and phase1 resource leak
- load_primary_config(): resolves conf/current, reads raw bytes, computes
SHA-256 tag, decodes Cap'n Proto via load_cluster_config_from_file(),
checks reserved names, sets config_generation, checks staleness
- myconf_fini(): frees conffile and cluster_config (calls free_ClusterConfig)
- Remove static cf global from myconf.c; get_default_conf() now uses a
local struct cluster_configuration* via load_cluster_config()
- Add load_primary_config_for_test() under XCE_TESTING in config_repl.c
to test path resolution without triggering FATAL
- Add xce/cluster_def.h include to config_repl.c and test_config_repl.c
so cluster_t is complete when XCE_TESTING is active
- TDD: test_load_primary_config_missing_returns_error passes (18/18)
When a worker re-joins and already exists in workermgr, makeWorker_()
now overrides the existing slot instead of returning EEXIST. Admin-set
flags (LOCKEDU, CLOSED, HIDDEN, CLOSED_BY_ADMIN) survive the override.
Add XCE_WORKER_CLOSED_BY_ADMIN flag to distinguish admin-closed hosts
from workload-closed ones. worker_ctrl sets/clears it alongside CLOSED.
Refactor worker_init/worker_destroy into copy_worker/kill_worker helpers
shared by both fresh creation and override paths.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Four bugs fixed:
1. persist.c: array job WAL loop aborted after index [0] when replication
returned -ENODEV (no standbys). Loop guard now uses the return value of
persist_wal_sync_append() which is 0 on local-disk success regardless of
replication status.
2. join.c: WAL-recovered worker slot (status=UNAVAIL) caused add_worker() to
return -EEXIST on reconnect. New EEXIST path in handle_worker_join() looks
up the existing slot by name, updates its endpoint, and clears UNAVAIL so
the normal hook/reply/on_worker_join flow proceeds.
3. xcectx.c: cbuf_get() in xce_hello() blocked indefinitely when the TCP
connection dropped because no error handler was registered. Added
handle_disconnect() which sets ctx->state=XCE_CTX_ERR and calls
cbuf_tryput(-ECONNRESET) to unblock the waiter, allowing
checking_connection() to detect the failure and rejoin.
4. cluster.c: persist_recover() was called before cluster_build_resources()
populated resmgr, causing restore_worker() → add_hostattrs_resvals() to
fail with EEXIST noise. Moved persist_recover() to after HOOK_AFTER_EVENT
so resmgr is fully populated before WAL replay.
All three persist hook functions (job/worker/queue) were ignoring the
situation argument, so they fired on both BEFORE and AFTER events.
BEFORE_EVENT hooks pass different va_list layouts than AFTER_EVENT:
- WORKER_JOIN BEFORE: (cluster_t*, char* name, int 0) vs AFTER: (cluster_t*, worker_t*)
- JOB_NEW BEFORE: (cluster_t*, xce_job_submit_t*) vs AFTER: (cluster_t*, xlist_t*)
Reading the wrong type from va_list caused a dereference crash.
Fix: return 0 immediately on HOOK_BEFORE_EVENT in all three hooks.
WAL payloads:
- Job state transitions (START/FINISH/FAIL/STOP/RESUME/UPDATE etc):
wal_jobstate_t {uint64_t jobid, uint32_t state} — restores exact state flags
- Queue state (QUEUE_CTRL): wal_queuehdr_t {uint32_t status} + name string —
re-applies admin open/close/active/inactive after config queues are built
- Worker CTRL: existing [uint32_t detail][capnp xce_worker_t] unchanged
New recovery functions:
- restore_job_state(c, jobid, state): looks up job, overwrites state flags
- restore_queue_state(c, name, status): looks up queue, overwrites status
apply_wal_entry: dispatches all WAL types including job state and queue
test_repl_apply.c: weak stubs for restore_job_state/restore_queue_state
so unit test binary links without job.c/queue.c
WAL hooks now write real Cap'n Proto payloads instead of stub uint32_t:
- WAL_JOB_SUBMIT: full xce_job_t serialized via encode_Job/write_Job
- WAL_WORKER_CTRL: [uint32_t detail][xce_worker_t capnp] via encode_Worker
- Other job events (START/FINISH/FAIL/STOP etc): uint64_t jobid only
restore_job(): deserializes Cap'n Proto xce_job_t, guards against duplicate
replay with key_find check, then calls create_job()
worker_from_capnp(): skips 4-byte detail prefix, deserializes xce_worker_t,
guards against duplicate replay, then calls restore_worker()
join.c: pass worker_t* (looked up by idx via vget) to WORKER_JOIN hook
so persist hook can serialize worker data without touching workermgr RTTI
Replace all fprintf(stderr,...) calls with INFO/WARN/ERROR/TRACE so
persist.c output appears in the controller's structured log rather than
mixing plain text on stderr with tlog-formatted output.
Three identical static copies (controller, worker, scheduler) replaced
with a single xce_parse_peers() in src/lib/cluster.c.
The libxce version is the canonical implementation: stores the logical
name from 'name=host:port' syntax so daemons on the same dev host can
identify themselves by name rather than IP address.
- xce_candidate_t gains name[] field for logical peer identity
- parse_peers stores name prefix before '=' (empty when omitted)
- cluster_init matches own identity by name first, hostname as fallback
enabling multiple controllers on the same dev host via
--peers ctrl-1=10.0.1.1:7000,ctrl-2=10.0.1.2:7001
- myconf_t gains peers_cfg (xce_cluster_config_t) populated from --peers
- controller/main.c: parse --peers host:port,... via argp; ca_cert_path
auto-derived from workdir/certs/xce.crt (no --ca-cert flag needed)
- cluster_init: derive my_priority from position in peers list (index 0 =
primary); fall back to 0 when --peers not given (single-node mode)
- Add HA_DEFAULT_* constants to ha.h; use them in cluster_init()
- Strip stale task-label comments (P1-3a, P1-5, P1-6, P3-6 refs)
- Remove self-documenting 'Step N:' annotations from ha_do_promote/demote
- Rewrite stale forward-reference notes as current WHY comments
- Remove resolved TODO P0-8b from cluster.c
Add test-only function ha_trigger_manual_failover_for_test() to exercise manual
failover state machine (demote → promote cycle) without requiring live cluster_t.
Test coverage:
- test_manual_failover_transitions_role_and_increments_term: Validates role
transitions (PRIMARY → STANDBY → PRIMARY) and term monotonicity
- test_manual_failover_resets_hooks_registered: Confirms demotion resets the
hooks_registered idempotency guard
- test_manual_failover_monotonic_term_across_multiple_cycles: Validates term
remains monotonically increasing across 5 consecutive failover cycles
Implementation:
- Exposed only under #ifdef XCE_TESTING in ha.h
- Function body (6 lines): calls ha_do_demote() then ha_do_promote(); returns
the new term value via atomic_load_explicit()
- Enables design validation (P3-6) without test-cluster infrastructure
All tests pass. Build clean.
Add test_p2_integration.c with 7 integration tests covering the assembled P2
replication system: WAL_CHECKPOINT assert invariant, trim_lsn with active standby,
checkpoint must not update last_replicated_crc, sync degraded mode, full catch-up
lifecycle, needs_snapshot boundary conditions, and API completeness gate.
All 32 controller unit tests pass (0 failures).
Implement the catch-up state machine as testable pure-logic functions:
- repl_start_catchup(): marks standby in_catch_up=1, stores join_applied_lsn
- repl_complete_catchup(): clears in_catch_up=0, broadcasts ack_cond so any
blocked repl_wait_ack() re-checks the ACK condition immediately
- repl_needs_snapshot(): pure predicate — returns 1 when standby LSN predates
oldest surviving WAL segment (snapshot transfer required), 0 otherwise
Also fixes pre-existing linker error: repl.c was missing from controller_src
(xce_controller production binary), causing undefined references to repl_*
symbols introduced in P2-4.
7 new TDD tests in test_repl_catchup.c — all pass. Existing tests green.
- Move repl.h from controller/ to include/ (shared header) to break
persist.h ↔ repl.h circular include
- Extract wal_entry_hdr_t + wal_entry_type into include/wal_types.h so
repl.h can include only what it needs without pulling in all of persist.h
- Add replicator_t repl field to persist_t (embedded by value, P2-4)
- Wire repl_init/repl_fini into persist_init/persist_fini lifecycle
- Wire repl_broadcast into persist_wal_async after each WAL write;
last_replicated_crc updated here (not in persist_write_checkpoint_marker)
- Wire repl_wait_ack into persist_wal_sync_append; returns 0 on local
WAL success; sync_rc_out carries -ENODEV/-ETIMEDOUT for degraded mode
- Add 4 TDD tests in test_persist_repl.c: structural repl field check,
async no-standbys succeeds, sync degraded mode rc, checkpoint CRC invariant
Implements sync replication wait: primary blocks until at least one non-catching-up
standby ACKs the target LSN, or times out. Uses pthread_cond_timedwait with
CLOCK_REALTIME deadline. Inner loop rechecks all standbys after each wakeup to
guard against spurious wakeups.
ACK deadlock prevention: repl_on_ack() is called exclusively from the io_worker
read callback (not vtaskmgr), so it only does atomic_store + pthread_cond_signal —
safe to call while vcpu threads block in repl_wait_ack().
4 new TDD tests (all green, 9 total in test_repl_unit):
- test_wait_ack_no_standbys_returns_enodev
- test_wait_ack_already_acked
- test_wait_ack_timeout (verifies >=80ms elapsed)
- test_wait_ack_woken_by_background_ack (pthread thread signals after 30ms)
Upgrade apply_wal_entry() from P0 static no-op stub to the real public
standby replay path:
- Reject oversized payloads (> MAX_WAL_PAYLOAD_BYTES) with -EMSGSIZE
- Skip WAL_CHECKPOINT (100) entries silently — local-only markers, never
replicated to standbys; current_lsn is NOT advanced on skip
- Skip unknown types (> WAL_ENTRY_TYPE_MAX) with WARN log and rc=0 for
forward compatibility with WAL written by newer controller versions
- Advance current_lsn to hdr->lsn+1 and update last_crc under p->lock
for all accepted known entries
- Gate restore_job()/worker_from_capnp() calls on p->cluster != NULL so
unit tests work without a full cluster wired in
- Add NULL guard returning -EINVAL for missing p or hdr
Add public declaration in persist.h with forward-declare stubs for
restore_job/worker_from_capnp in persist.c (avoids heavy cluster.h chain).
Test suite: 5 new Unity tests in test_repl_apply.c covering all branches.
Weak stubs for restore_job/worker_from_capnp in the test file satisfy the
linker without linking job.c/worker.c's heavy dependency graph.
All 5 new tests pass; full controller suite green.
Add replicator_t structure with per-standby connection slots (standby_conn_t),
lifecycle (repl_init/repl_fini), slot management (repl_add_standby,
repl_remove_standby, repl_expire_disconnect_slots), ACK tracking
(repl_on_ack), WAL trim guard (repl_trim_lsn), and stubs for
repl_broadcast/repl_wait_ack (wired in P2-3/P2-4).
Uses mylock_t (pthread_mutex_t alias) with mylock_lock/mylock_unlock.
snap_interval_s==0 in repl_expire_disconnect_slots forces immediate expiry
to support deterministic unit testing.
5 new Unity tests all pass; 115 pre-existing controller tests unchanged.
Add redirect helpers to ha.c/ha.h so a standby controller never accepts
join requests as if it were the primary:
- ha_should_redirect(): returns 1 when role is STANDBY and primary_host/port
are known — caller should send E_XCE_REDIRECT.
- ha_no_primary_known(): returns 1 when role is STANDBY but primary address
is not yet known — caller should send E_XCE_NOMASTER (retry later).
- Add E_XCE_NOMASTER and E_XCE_REDIRECT to errnox.h.
- Wire both guards into handle_join_() in join.c (before the role switch)
so all join types (worker, scheduler, apiserver, client) are protected.
- Full redirect response sends status=-E_XCE_REDIRECT with nodata body;
the primary host:port are logged so operators can trace misrouted clients.
Full Cap'n Proto RedirectInfo response body is deferred to a follow-up
(schema union would require regenerating capnp bindings).
5 new TDD tests — 110 total, 0 failures.
- ha_do_promote(): atomic_fetch_add term, set role=PRIMARY, reset
last_received_crc to WAL_CRC_NONE (COH-5 chain restart on promotion)
- ha_do_demote(): set role=STANDBY, reset hooks_registered idempotency guard
- ha_install_sigusr1(): sigaction handler stores only atomic int —
async-signal-safe per POSIX.1-2017 §2.4.3; global g_sigusr1_ha set
once before signals are enabled
- ha_promote_to_primary() / ha_demote_to_standby() remain (void)c stubs
pending P1-5 cluster wiring
Tests: 3 new cases in test_ha_role.c
test_promote_increments_term: term > term_before, role == PRIMARY
test_demote_sets_standby_role: role reverts to STANDBY after promote+demote
test_sigusr1_sets_failover_requested: raise(SIGUSR1) sets atomic flag
Result: 100 Tests 0 Failures 0 Ignored (controller suite)
