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099ee1a216 feat(raft-apply-decoupling): route DIVERGENT verdict through existing fence (task 5.2)
Add bool apply_divergent to the existing recover_policy_inputs_t;
persist_recover_decision() unconditionally short-circuits to the
existing RECOVER_DECISION_FENCE_UNRECOVERABLE when true, reusing the
same sticky recovery_unrecoverable flag and
persist_recover_loud_fence_if_unrecoverable() -- no new fence
mechanism, no ha.c changes needed (the existing promotion gate
already reads the flag independently), no new self-termination path.

Fixes a real bug found during review: the fence's operator-facing
ERROR() log unconditionally asserted a "no healthy peer reachable...
durable_floor_lsn < hwm" clause that was only truthful for the
pre-existing structural-fence trigger. For the new apply_divergent
trigger this produced literally false claims in test output
("100 < 100", "2 < 0"). Fixed by branching the log call itself on
apply_divergent so it states only the verified reason.
2026-07-04 12:22:09 +00:00
c005d40741 feat(raft-apply-decoupling): post-replay apply-correctness verification (task 5.1)
Add apply_verdict_t (APPLY_CLEAN/APPLY_DIVERGENT) computed alongside
the existing structural (CRC) recover_verdict_t. Dual-check design:
an entity-count check (WAL_JOB_SUBMIT entries scanned vs live jobmgr
growth, genuinely independent of apply_committed_entry()'s return
code) and a position check against a new last_applied_lsn field
(forward-looking infrastructure for task 6's live pump).

Fixes a real bug found during review: the position check's
expectation was computed from the physical WAL-scan tip
(current_lsn - 1), which advances past checkpoint markers and
unknown entry types that never reach apply_committed_entry(). A
crash between persist_checkpoint()'s marker-fsync step and its
later snapshot-persist step leaves a trailing checkpoint marker on
next boot, which falsely reported APPLY_DIVERGENT on a perfectly
clean recovery -- reachable today, not gated behind a future task.
Fixed by reading last_applied_lsn directly, which only advances for
entries actually dispatched through the apply seam.

Known accepted gap: entity-count check covers jobs only, not
workers (which can genuinely be created via WAL_WORKER_CTRL) --
documented for future extension.
2026-07-04 11:32:21 +00:00
665b29f5b0 test(raft-apply-decoupling): durable fact retention under sustained quorum loss (task 4.2)
Add test_fact_state_unchanged_throughout_quorum_loss_outage to
test_commit_barrier_reply.c (30->31), no production changes. Drives
a real repl_remove_standby quorum-loss window through all 4
fact-receipt handlers, polls live state and committed_lsn at 5
time-spread points (not once), asserts a real hook-spy never sees
AFTER_EVENT fire, and confirms durable WAL presence via direct
on-disk read.

Documents an architectural asymmetry for task 6 planning: facts have
no commit-timeout concept (COMMIT_MODE_RETAIN registers no
continuation, "never honors the timeout") unlike commands'
commit_submit_async -- the apply pump must discover newly-committed
retained facts purely via committed_lsn advancement, not any
per-fact signal.

Closes out task-group 4 (fact apply-after-commit split).
2026-07-04 07:22:21 +00:00
23cbfb48e1 feat(raft-apply-decoupling): split fact receipt to durable-append-only (task 4.1)
Convert on_job_start/on_job_finish/on_job_fail/on_job_postdone to
validate and durably append only -- BEFORE_EVENT validation hook
unchanged, AFTER_EVENT (post-mutation) hook no longer fires at
receipt, live state mutation removed. Adds persist_submit_job_fact()
(persist.c) since the durable append previously lived inside the
very AFTER_EVENT hook this task silences; wire format is unchanged
and identical to what apply_committed_entry() already routes.

mark_job_start/mark_job_finish (single caller each) renamed in place
to record_job_start_fact/record_job_finish_fact. mark_job_fail/
mark_job_update (shared with job_ctrl's client-command path, out of
boundary) left untouched; new durable-append-only siblings
record_job_fail_fact/record_job_update_fact added instead.

Accepts a narrow, permanent regression: on_job_postdone's finish_time
anomaly backstop has no wire-format equivalent and is dropped
(affects only a rare no-prior-exit-status path).

Two critical hazards discovered by review, documented in tasks.md,
MUST be resolved before task 6 wires apply_committed_entry() into a
live path: (1) persist_job_hook_fun still fires on HOOK_DETAIL_JOB_UPDATE
and will double-append every live-applied fact; (2) record_job_fail_fact/
record_job_update_fact precompute a final state that can be silently
clobbered by a concurrent intervening fact once apply is deferred by
the commit round-trip.
2026-07-04 07:00:09 +00:00
f357215a6d test(raft-apply-decoupling): command failure path leaves no trace under repetition (task 3.3)
Add 4 tests to test_commit_barrier_reply.c (25->29), no production
changes: explicit-FAILED via truncation (distinct from timeout),
repeated failure loops (5 cycles) for both timeout and truncation,
and an array_size>1 mixed-outcome test proving a committed sibling's
apply hand-off isn't blocked by failing siblings while producing
zero phantom jobs for the failures and exactly one batch-level
failure reply.

Closes out task-group 3 (command apply-after-commit ordering).
2026-07-04 06:05:06 +00:00
df4d2fa0ed feat(raft-apply-decoupling): convert job submit to continuation-based commit (task 3.2)
Replace handle_jobsubmit()'s blocking commit call (task 3.1) with a
real async registration against commit_submit_async(). On
FAILED/timeout, replies failure immediately with no job constructed.
On COMMITTED, hands off to a new pending-apply registration
(persist_register_pending_apply) for the ordered apply pump (task
6.1, not yet built) to consume -- does not apply or reply directly,
per design.

Deviates from design.md's stated integration site: appends via the
same ha_primary_log_append/persist_wal_async primitive the RETAIN-fact
path already uses and calls commit_submit_async directly on
p->repl.ce, bypassing repl_wait_majority_ack/repl_submit_majority_commit
in repl.c. Verified safe -- majority-ack detection is driven entirely
by (ce, lsn) events inside the commit engine, agnostic to which
wrapper registered the continuation -- but narrows the reusable
primitive design.md intended; documented in tasks.md.

Deletes (not preserves-dead) task 3.1's bug-1408 notification fix --
apply_committed_entry()'s WAL_JOB_SUBMIT case (task 2.2) already
fires the notification per-entry, immune to the batch-suppression
class bug-1408 fixed.

IMPORTANT: no live path applies a successfully-committed job
submission until task 6 lands (only restart replay does) -- every
successful submission commits durably but gets zero reply until
then. This commit range must not be soak-tested or deployed against
live traffic before task 6 completes.
2026-07-04 05:35:35 +00:00
6f1fa97fab feat(raft-apply-decoupling): defer job construction past the commit barrier (task 3.1)
Reorder handle_jobsubmit() so job objects are constructed via
create_job() only after the WAL commit succeeds, not before. Adds
jobid_range_exists() for a fast-fail pre-check with no WAL work, and
persist_submit_job_payloads_and_commit() (persist.c) operating on raw
xce_job_t* payloads instead of pre-existing job_t*. Commit remains
synchronous -- converting to the continuation-based commit API is
task 3.2.

Fixes bug-1408 (found during review): the post-commit array-
construction loop suppressed notification for an entire array batch
if any one sibling element failed to construct, stranding other
durably-committed and successfully-constructed jobs invisible until
the next restart's replay. Notification now fires unconditionally
for every successfully-constructed element, independent of sibling
failures; the client reply still separately reports the batch's
construction status.
2026-07-04 04:44:43 +00:00
8febd663d5 test(raft-apply-decoupling): idempotent and ordered re-application of apply seam (task 2.4)
Add test_apply_reapply_idempotency.c (3 tests, no production changes):
triple-reapplication of an identical job submit with hook-count and
pointer-identity assertions across every call, the NOOP_DUPLICATE
guard branch (untested by task 2.2), and the task's named scenario --
real SUBMIT then real FINISH then a stale out-of-order START, all
through the real apply_committed_entry() dispatch -- confirming the
job stays terminal with no spurious notification.

Closes out task-group 2 (shared apply seam for committed entries).
2026-07-04 00:44:55 +00:00
50d016d905 feat(raft-apply-decoupling): point restart replay at apply_committed_entry seam (task 2.3)
Rewire replay_wal()'s per-entry apply call from apply_wal_entry() to
apply_committed_entry() (task 2.2's shared dispatch seam), so restart
replay and the future live commit-advance pump (task 6.1) both
produce materialized state deterministically from the committed log.
apply_wal_entry() is not retired -- it remains ha.c's live standby
catch-up/replicated-apply dispatch, untouched.

Documents a real hazard: replay now fires AFTER_EVENT hooks for the
full post-checkpoint WAL range on every restart, including entries
already applied+notified in a prior process life. Traced and
confirmed inert today for both hook consumers (scheduler registers
post-boot, apiserver gates notify on a connected endpoint empty at
boot); flagged in tasks.md and in-line at the call site for
re-verification before tasks 4.1/6.1/6.2/6.3 make this path broadly
live.
2026-07-04 00:32:46 +00:00
8c00f20cec feat(raft-apply-decoupling): build apply_committed_entry single dispatch seam (task 2.2)
Add apply_committed_entry(persist_t*, wal_type, lsn, payload, len) in
persist.c/persist.h as the single seam that turns a committed WAL
entry into an in-memory mutation plus its post-mutation notification
hook, covering job submit, job-state facts, queue control, and
worker control. Job-state facts route through 2.1's guard-only
apply_job_update_transition() core and fire a generic
HOOK_DETAIL_JOB_UPDATE, not per-type hooks — the wire format
(wal_jobstate_t {jobid, state}) cannot supply what the type-specific
cores/hooks require. This is a real, documented deviation from
design.md's per-type dispatch wording; tasks.md's Implementation
Notes flags it as unresolved and blocking for whoever wires this
into a live path (4.1/6.2/6.3).

Not yet wired into any live call site (replay wiring is 2.3).
2026-07-03 16:51:47 +00:00
41d36204d5 feat(raft-apply-decoupling): extract guarded fact transition logic into reusable cores (task 2.1)
Split mark_job_start/finish/fail/update in job.c into four hook-free
core functions (apply_job_*_transition) containing only the
monotonic-rank guard and mutation. Wrappers now peek the same guard
to decide hook-firing, then delegate to the core, preserving exact
pre-extraction hook-firing timing. Prerequisite for task 2.2's
apply_committed_entry() dispatch and the ordered apply pump (6.1).
2026-07-03 15:26:22 +00:00
2d9f1e947a test(raft-apply-decoupling): genuine multi-threaded concurrency tests for commit resolve (task 1.5)
Closes out task-group 1 (the commit-engine event-driven-resolve
keystone). Pure test-only: real pthreads racing the admission gate,
the sweep thread, and commit_on_ack, not sequential calls dressed as
concurrent. Adds the genuine two-real-thread ack-vs-sweep-thread race
both task-1.3 review rounds flagged as a nice-to-have (the existing
race test only proved the tie-break via single-thread white-box state
manipulation).

Also resolves the bug-1407 saga: task 1.4's "closed, 70/70" and this
task's initial "reopened, 10/10 failing" were both correct,
contradictory measurements of the identical source commit. Root cause
was a stale incremental-build artifact in the shared build/ directory
(ninja -C build rebuilt incrementally across 5 sequential tasks
without ever a fresh meson setup) -- not a source regression. Proven
by isolating each measurement in a throwaway git worktree with a
fresh build. bug-1407 is genuinely closed; the incremental-build
staleness gotcha is now documented in cerebrum.md for the remaining
task series.
2026-07-03 13:07:44 +00:00
9b4b805a27 feat(raft-apply-decoupling): resolve pending continuations on demotion/truncation (task 1.4)
commit_resolve_pending_above(ce, lsn_floor, rc) fails every registered
continuation for lsn > lsn_floor, reusing commit_resolve()'s existing
exactly-once/idempotent guarantee (no parallel bookkeeping path).

Truncation: a new on_truncate/truncate_cb_ctx callback on persist_t
(same inversion-of-control shape as the existing on_durable_advance
hook) fires from persist_truncate_wal_above after releasing p->lock,
only when entries were actually removed. This one wrapper covers all
three real truncation call sites: raft_cb_become_leader's
post-election truncate, the library's on_truncate_from
conflict-reconcile, and ha_demotion_convergence_fn's post-demotion
truncate.

Demotion: raft_cb_become_follower calls
commit_resolve_pending_above(&c->commit, 0, -XCE_ERR_STANDBY) --
lsn_floor=0 fails everything, since a demoted node can never
authoritatively confirm anything still pending (CP posture).

Without this, a demoted or truncated node would leave any pending
async command permanently unresolved -- the requester would simply
never get a reply, worse than today's bounded-timeout behavior.

Also closes bug-1407 (pre-existing test_config_repl flake, unrelated
to this feature) -- confirmed fixed as a side effect of prior tasks
in this series, 70/70 passing across 3 independent runs.
2026-07-03 11:58:10 +00:00
530a02bda3 feat(raft-apply-decoupling): arm timeout for async commit continuations (task 1.3)
Converting COMMIT_MODE_WAIT away from a blocking wait removed the only
mechanism that ever detected a commit timing out (the caller's own
pthread_cond_timedwait deadline). Adds a dedicated per-commit-engine
sweep thread that arms an equivalent timeout for async-registered
continuations, resolving FAILED/-ETIMEDOUT within the same
DEFAULT_SYNC_TIMEOUT_MS window the old blocking path used, with no
thread parked to detect it.

Chose a private sweep thread over the shared delaymgr: wiring
delaymgr would touch cluster.c/ha.c (out of boundary) and its 200ms
poll granularity vs the 500ms default timeout would add jitter,
breaking the "identical failure timing" no-regression bar.

Round 1 review rejected a lost-wakeup race: the sweep loop computed
its next-deadline snapshot under lock, unlocked to dispatch, then
slept on the stale snapshot -- a registration landing mid-dispatch
had its broadcast lost (no thread parked on the condvar), so the
sweep thread could sleep on an absent/late deadline indefinitely.
Fixed by holding the lock continuously across scan-then-wait
decisions and always re-scanning immediately before ever waiting
(recheck-then-wait idiom). Round 2 review independently reproduced
the round-1 bug shape against the fix to confirm it actually closes
the race, not just narrows it.
2026-07-03 10:35:37 +00:00
fd7a0746eb feat(raft-apply-decoupling): commit engine resolve primitive + majority-ack wiring (task 1.2)
commit_resolve() delivers a registered continuation's outcome exactly
once (idempotent re-resolve), dispatched off-thread via
vtask_enq_classified(VTASK_LIVE_BLOCK) so it never runs inline on the
replication-ACK or iomgr path. Wired into all 6 commit.c-internal
paths that can advance committed_lsn/writable_lsn.

Review caught a real task-graph gap, not a defect: converting
COMMIT_MODE_WAIT away from a blocking wait also removes the only
mechanism that ever detected a commit timing out (the caller's own
cond_timedwait deadline). Nothing yet arms an equivalent timeout for
async-registered continuations, and nothing wires demotion/log-truncation
detection to commit_resolve(FAILED, ...) -- left as-is, a pending async
command during quorum loss would hang forever instead of failing,
which is worse than today. Split into new tasks 1.3 (timeout arming)
and 1.4 (demotion/truncation wiring), renumbered the old concurrency
test to 1.5, and made 3.2 depend on both since its failure/timeout
observable is meaningless without them. design.md's File Structure
Plan updated to reflect that ha.c/persist.c need a narrow touch for
1.4's detection hooks.
2026-07-03 09:03:50 +00:00
10d157f8c5 feat(raft-apply-decoupling): add commit engine continuation registration (task 1.1)
commit_submit_async() lets a WAIT-mode caller register a continuation
against an appended LSN instead of blocking on pthread_cond_timedwait,
reusing the existing admission-cap discipline (wait_admit_locked/
wait_release_locked) so the bounded-capacity guarantee carries over
unchanged. Purely additive: no existing call site (repl_wait_majority_ack)
is touched yet -- that switch lands in task 3.2 once commit_resolve()
(task 1.2) exists to drive it.
2026-07-03 07:55:35 +00:00
9318f9977e fix: close bug-1401 ctrlstatus leak, bug-1400 jobsub leak; harden bug-1396 harness
bug-1401: xce_free_ctrlstatus(s) was defined as free_CtrlStatus(s), which
only frees the fields inside xce_ctrlstatus_t. The real client reply path
(decode_CtrlStatus_ptr) calloc's the struct itself, so every ctrlstatus call
leaked sizeof(xce_ctrlstatus_t) (120 bytes). Existing unit tests never caught
it because they built/freed the struct via the raw stack-decode + bare
free_CtrlStatus() helpers, never exercising the actual client macro. Fixed
by switching the macro to free_CtrlStatus_ptr(&(s)) and added a regression
test that exercises the real heap-decode path; RED confirmed the exact
120-byte/1-alloc LeakSanitizer signature before the fix.

bug-1400: the originally reported SEGV in cmd_jobsub on malformed positional
input is stale — NULLSTR guards added 2025-11-05 already reject it cleanly.
The real residual defect was submit.start_info leaking on all 4 early-return
validation paths; fixed by routing them through a shared `goto cleanup`
(matches the existing goto-clean idiom in queue_ctrl).

bug-1396 (job-count anomaly after cold-restart-all, not yet root-caused):
instrumented test-commit-durability.sh's assert_job_count() to dump the live
joblist and ACKED_FILE ledger on any count mismatch instead of only the
count, per the bug's own recorded next step.

Verified: controller ASAN build + full controller_unit_test green; lib
xcelib_test 285/285 green, 0 ASAN leaks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SDWVNQLKxqTVHh42cH7rV3
2026-07-03 02:40:52 +00:00
5cb36794d2 fix(raft-drive-async): resolve snapshot chunk-drop (bug-1386) and chunk misordering (bug-1389)
ha_send_snapshot_to_standby ignored the network send's return value in its
chunk loop, silently truncating a transfer on a mid-stream error while still
logging "complete" (bug-1386). Fixing the silent drop exposed a second,
independent bug in the same pipeline: ha_handle_snapshot_chunk appended
received chunks in arrival order instead of at their wire-carried
chunk_offset, so out-of-order delivery across the vtask pool corrupted the
reassembled file even though every chunk's bytes were individually correct
(bug-1389). Fixed by checking every fallible call in the send loop and
switching the receiver to pwrite-at-offset with a count-based completion
tracker.

Adds snapverify/snapdiff xce_test commands (offline checkpoint-file
structural validator and byte-level comparator) used to diagnose bug-1389 and
kept as standing diagnostic tools for future snapshot-transfer triage.

g_drive_async_configpush_offload flipped back ON after both fixes, validated
via 6-round chaotic + 3/3 force-snapshot soak (raft-drive-async task 3.3).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01SDWVNQLKxqTVHh42cH7rV3
2026-07-03 02:40:12 +00:00
1ce007814d fix(raft-drive-async): fix bug-1376 cold-start self-deadlock, flip peerctrl+snapshot flags ON
Root cause: peer_ctrl_msg_handler held ep->dispatch_inflight incremented
across the entire peer_ctrl_dispatch_to_pool call, including its inline
fallback (the common cold-start shape when ha->pool isn't wired yet). That
inline body can reach raft_cb_become_follower, which -- now that
cluster_init_phase2 ran synchronously earlier in the same call chain and
wired the pool -- tears down its own loser vote-ep (the very ep whose reply
triggered this call) via the deferred path (vote_ep_teardown_async), whose
endpoint_mark_tearing_down spins waiting for dispatch_inflight==0 on that
SAME ep. That count is held only by this exact call, on this exact thread,
and can't reach 0 until the spin itself returns -- a permanent self-deadlock.

Confirmed live via a gdb thread backtrace: added a GDB_WRAP debug seam to
run-ha-soak.sh (launches a named node directly under `gdb --batch` so it
becomes ptrace-legal as gdb's own direct child under yama scope 1, bypassing
a live-attach restriction), then SIGINT to gdb once the log went stale for a
bounded interrupt + full backtrace. The frame dump showed pool=0x0 at
peer_ctrl_dispatch_to_pool, and the same ep pointer in the nested
vote_ep_teardown_async -> endpoint_mark_tearing_down frame, spinning on
sched_yield().

Fix: moved the dispatch_inflight release into peer_ctrl_dispatch_to_pool
itself, at the exact right point per exit path -- released BEFORE calling
the inline body on every fallback path (pool==NULL, OOM, enqueue failure),
since io_worker is single-threaded and the inline path never enqueues
anything (no pool-worker race left to protect against once inline execution
is committed to); released only AFTER the non-blocking enqueue completes on
the success path, preserving the original protection for the genuinely
concurrent pool-worker case.

New unit test test_vep_self_teardown_does_not_deadlock uses a bounded
pthread_timedjoin_np so a regression fails loud instead of hanging the
suite. RED confirmed via a temporary manual revert (ETIMEDOUT) before
restoring the fix.

Live-verified with both flags ON: --force-snapshot soak (the exact repro
shape) completes without hanging across repeated runs, confirms real
snapshot installs, zero divergence, zero job loss; a 6-round --chaotic soak
also passed clean; full controller suite green throughout.

g_drive_async_snapshot_offload and g_drive_async_peerctrl_dispatch_enabled
now default ON in production, closing raft-drive-async tasks 3.1 and 3.2.
g_drive_async_configpush_offload stays OFF -- a distinct, still-open hazard
in push_config_transport_only's endpoint handling (task 3.3, unrelated to
this bug).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014dZVSx3CdBjys9BB6hqpxP
2026-07-02 07:18:42 +00:00
f3b6e6ae3b fix(raft-drive-async): close snapshot-lane borrowed-endpoint hazard + catch-up checkpoint-marker bug
Both fixes are real and independently verified; the drive-async flags
(g_drive_async_snapshot_offload, g_drive_async_peerctrl_dispatch_enabled)
stay at their production-default OFF -- see the tasks.md session note for
why the flip itself doesn't land in this commit.

1. Snapshot-lane borrowed-endpoint hazard (task 3.2, bug-1197 family):
   ha_snapshot_send_dispatch now takes endpoint_ref(ep) before submitting to
   the slow lane, released on every non-lane terminal path and by
   snapshot_lane_fn on completion. Reuses the general bug-1298 endpoint
   refcount system (standby-ep teardown already routes through
   endpoint_unref via cluster.c's endpoint_killer) -- a concurrent RDHUP
   teardown can now only drop the owner's reference while a transfer is in
   flight, never free the ep out from under it. New test:
   test_snapshot_offload_holds_endpoint_ref_across_transfer (RED->GREEN).

2. Catch-up streamer WAL_CHECKPOINT bug (found while verifying #1 via a live
   soak, pre-existing, unrelated to the drive-async flags): ha_stream_wal_
   to_standby had no filter for WAL_CHECKPOINT markers -- local-only
   bookkeeping that still consumes a real LSN slot via persist_write_
   checkpoint_marker's own current_lsn++. It shipped one to a catching-up
   standby, which correctly refused it (persist_wal_write_replicated
   rejects type==WAL_CHECKPOINT) and got stuck retrying the same LSN
   forever. Fixed by skipping WAL_CHECKPOINT entirely in the streamer loop,
   mirroring the existing replay_wal/term-index precedent of treating
   checkpoint-marker LSNs as invisible gaps. New test:
   test_wal_stream_skips_checkpoint_marker (RED->GREEN).

Attempted flipping both drive-async flags ON after landing these fixes (the
"full fix, defer prod flip" decision's prerequisite -- 4.1+4.2 are green).
A 6-round --chaotic soak passed clean, but a --force-snapshot soak (a
genuinely empty node cold-start rejoin, the one scenario chaotic mode never
exercises) surfaced a THIRD, not-yet-root-caused issue: the freshly-wiped
node's own self-election appears to race cluster_init_phase2's vtask-pool
wiring, then the process hangs silently (no crash, no ASAN report) until
killed. Reverted both flags to OFF rather than ship an unproven state --
production behavior is unchanged by this commit. Full controller suite
green and both soaks (--force-snapshot, 6-round --chaotic) pass clean with
flags OFF, confirming no regression from the two logic fixes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014dZVSx3CdBjys9BB6hqpxP
2026-07-02 04:54:17 +00:00
f3c86a683a feat(walcompare): add per-member checkpoint-floor awareness (raft-ha-core-safety 5.10a / ha-entity-snapshots 7.1)
walcompare previously had no concept of a per-member compaction floor:
committed_lsn only capped the HIGH end (skip LSNs a member hasn't
caught up to yet), but the LOW end unconditionally expected every
member to hold raw WAL from LSN 1. A member that legitimately caught
up via a full-checkpoint snapshot holds no raw WAL at or below its own
checkpoint LSN by design (that range was entity-restored, not
WAL-replayed) -- so it was always flagged MISSING/divergent there,
regardless of whether the restore was correct. This is the root cause
ha-entity-snapshots task 7.1 diagnosed (committed_divergence=11 on an
otherwise-healthy soak) and raft-ha-core-safety task 5.10a's residual.

Adds member_snapshot_floor(): each member's own snap/ sibling
directory (matching the deployed <data>/wal + <data>/snap layout) is
scanned for the highest installed snap-<lsn>.{capnp,bin} file. Any LSN
at or below that member's own floor is excluded from its comparison
the same way an LSN above its own committed_lsn already is -- never
uniform/shared across members, since compaction is a per-member fact.
wc_status() gains a new "compacted" token distinct from "MISSING" so
the machine-readable report can tell the two apart.

Two new regression tests prove: (1) the floor correctly suppresses the
compacted range from comparison, and (2) it does NOT mask a genuine
divergence within the range a member still claims to hold. Caught and
fixed one bug myself before landing: the floor comparison was
off-by-one (< instead of <=), which the first test run surfaced
immediately (Expected 0 Was 1).

test_walcompare 17/17, test_ha_core_safety 28/0, test_config_repl
66/0, test_waldump 7/0 (all no-regression). Soak --selftest 17/17.
2026-07-02 02:59:08 +00:00
7eefe769a3 test(raft-ha-core-safety): fix 2 stale tests surfaced by first full-suite ASAN sweep (task 7.1)
A full 69-group sweep of controller_unit_test (this spec's harness had
never been run end-to-end before) found 2 deterministic failures,
both test-only staleness against already-shipped, already-approved
production behavior from earlier in this same spec:

- test_ha_vote_gate: test_pre_vote_catch_up_denies asserted the
  pre-task-5.3 unconditional in_catch_up PreVote deny. Task 5.3
  (bf88681) deliberately gated that deny on primary_ctrl_fd>=0 &&
  ha_heartbeat_is_fresh to fix a real round-4 election-stall — this
  test's exact scenario (stale heartbeat, primary_ctrl_fd=-1) is the
  case 5.3 intentionally flipped to grant. Split into
  test_pre_vote_catch_up_grants_when_primary_unreachable (matches the
  current contract) and test_pre_vote_catch_up_denies_while_primary_live
  (preserves the original protective intent, correctly scoped).

- test_egress_filter: test_live_submit_tags_submit_lsn called the
  JOB_NEW persist_job_hook_fun AFTER_EVENT hook directly, but task 5.9
  (15be5d9, bug-1306 fix) made that hook's WAL_MODE_WAIT branch
  notify-only, moving the real WAL append + commit barrier into
  persist_submit_wal_and_commit(). 5.9 relocated 4 equivalent tests in
  test_persist_hooks.c but missed this one. Now drives
  persist_submit_wal_and_commit() directly, mirroring that pattern.

No production code changed. Full 69-group suite: 0 Failures, 0 ASAN
reports (independently reproduced 3x: initial sweep, implementer,
reviewer).
2026-07-01 14:31:26 +00:00
9344b8ed60 docs(raft-ha-core-safety): document term-blind bypass safe-by-guard + pin restart identity (task 6.2)
The term-blind ha_apply_single_entry direct-persist branch (carried
forward from task 2.4) is unreachable with a real non-zero term in any
current production path: its only trigger, raft_send_append_entries,
has zero production call sites (library simulator only). Both real
senders (repl_broadcast, ha_stream_wal_to_standby) always emit a
non-zero term for a present LSN. Documents this in ha.c and design.md
rather than structurally retiring a dormant path (YAGNI), with an
explicit flag for future re-evaluation if a heartbeat-driver task ever
wires up raft_send_append_entries.

Adds two regression pins: restart preserves (term,lsn) identity
(replay_wal already reconstructs the term index via record_entry_term),
and real senders never produce the term-blind wire shape.

test_ha_core_safety 28/0, no regression, no ASAN reports.
2026-07-01 13:55:06 +00:00
4e1e3e07fb test(raft-ha-core-safety): end-to-end (term,payload) fidelity across replication + catch-up (task 6.1)
Integration test proves the guarantee tasks 2.3/2.4 hardened in
isolation (synthetic fault injection on the streamer) also holds
end-to-end over two real persist_t/WAL instances through the real
production ingest seam (ha_apply_wal_catchup_entry). Covers live
in-term replication and cross-term catch-up: no term==0 sourced for a
live entry, no non-empty entry ever lands as PLEN=0, standby persists
the entry's stored term (not the AE header's leader-current-term,
the bug-1067 split), and walcompare reports a clean committed prefix.

test_ha_core_safety 26/0, no regression, no ASAN reports.
2026-07-01 13:31:02 +00:00
a53b9a7b6c feat(raft-ha-core-safety): establish snapshot (term,lsn) boundary on install (task 3.2)
Adds checkpointTerm (@6, append-only) to the SnapshotTransfer wire
message. The leader stamps it via persist_entry_term(p, checkpoint_lsn)
when sending a snapshot; the standby reconciles it into its own
per-LSN term index (persist_reconcile_checkpoint_term) right after
persist_load_snapshot succeeds, before applied_lsn advances. This
authoritatively overwrites any stale local term a divergent
pre-snapshot entry left at the checkpoint LSN, closing the gap task
3.1's RED test proved (Expected 7 Was 3 -> now passes). Transport
stays persist_t-free; the reconcile lives in persist.c per the
existing dependency direction. Decode is auto-generated via capnp
mapname; only the hand-rolled encode path (request.c/typemap.h, needed
for the raw snapshot payload) required a matching manual update.

test_ha_core_safety 25/0, test_config_repl 66/0, no ASAN reports.
2026-07-01 13:08:10 +00:00
21858faba4 test(raft-ha-core-safety): RED — snapshot install does not reconcile (term,lsn) boundary (task 3.1)
ha_handle_snapshot_chunk/persist_load_snapshot advance checkpoint_lsn,
current_lsn, and applied_lsn on snapshot install but never touch the
per-LSN term index, so a divergent pre-snapshot entry's stale local
term survives the install unreconciled. New test proves the gap
(Expected 7 Was 3); fix lands in task 3.2.
2026-07-01 09:46:39 +00:00
cc31a009ed feat(ha-entity-snapshots): consume restoration indicator in the catch-up receive handler (task 6.1)
ha_handle_snapshot_chunk now logs whether a received checkpoint was
fully entity-restored or was a legacy position-only file (INFO level,
framed as an expected rollout state -- never an error, per design.md).
The rc-gates-applied_lsn control flow is byte-for-byte unchanged from
task 5.2 (confirmed by review) -- this task is purely additive
observability, matching design.md's own note that this call site
"needs no change" once persist_load_snapshot's gate is correct.

New test drives the legacy path end-to-end through the real production
handler (rc==0, file renamed, applied_lsn advances to the legacy LSN).

This completes the integration layer -- write path (jobs+queues),
restore-before-advance read path, and the production wiring are all in
place and independently reviewed. Only validation tasks remain (7.1
chaotic soak, 8.1 rollback compatibility).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JDYFbrgyDHbvNYcxApKhrX
2026-07-01 08:41:18 +00:00
9fdb6778d4 feat(ha-entity-snapshots): restore-before-advance load_snapshot implementation (task 5.2)
Replaces the naive task-5.1 stopgap with the real restore contract:
detects legacy vs entity-bearing checkpoints by remaining file size;
restores every job then every queue status via restore_job/
restore_queue_state, in file order, with bounds-checked length-prefixed
reads; only after every entity restores successfully does
current_lsn/checkpoint_lsn commit to the checkpoint's position. Every
failure path (bounds check, decode, restore error, unrecognized
format_version) returns before that single commit point -- position is
provably untouched on failure, never partially advanced.

Also fixes the pre-existing restore_job decode leak (job.c): job_init
deep-copies submit (never nulled) and MOVE_PTRs allocs/pidinfo/
pend_reasons (nulled on the one path that runs) -- free_Job(&j) is safe
unconditionally on every reachable return path (EEXIST early-return,
create_job success, create_job failure), verified against the exact
generated free_*_ptr null-check guards.

Two pre-existing test_config_repl.c wire-protocol tests needed their
synthetic garbage snapshot bodies updated to a well-formed empty-entity
tail, since load_snapshot now genuinely parses past the legacy header
(previously ignored); their actual assertions (chunk-reassembly
correctness) are unchanged.

This is the exact function/contract that caused task 2.2's rejection
(position advancing before restore validated). Independent review
traced the memory-safety fix through the generated capnp code field-by-
field, confirmed the test_config_repl.c change doesn't weaken any
assertion, and confirmed restore_queue_state's ENOENT-aborts-the-whole-
checkpoint behavior is faithful to design.md's unconditional contract
(flagged as a watch-item for task 7.1's soak, not a defect).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JDYFbrgyDHbvNYcxApKhrX
2026-07-01 08:30:10 +00:00
a8e300d96a test(ha-entity-snapshots): RED tests for load_snapshot restore contract (task 5.1)
Extends persist_load_snapshot's public signature with an
out_entities_restored bool*, per design.md's documented contract. The
static load_snapshot function -- the real restore logic -- is completely
untouched (still today's watermark-only implementation, byte-identical
to before this task); only a thin wrapper was added that naively maps
*out_entities_restored = (rc==0), deliberately scaffolding so the 3 new
RED tests fail for genuine reasons rather than accidentally passing.
ha_handle_snapshot_chunk's sole call site gets a mechanical
declare-and-pass update -- confirmed inert, never reads the new
out-param (task 6.1's job).

Three tests against persist_load_snapshot directly (unlike prior tasks'
tests, which deliberately stayed on the raw-byte-parsing side to avoid
this exact function): restore-before-advance (fails at the job-lookup
assertion -- nothing is ever restored today), corrupted-entity-leaves-
position-unchanged (fails at rc!=0 -- today's code ignores the corrupted
section entirely, since load_snapshot never reads past the legacy
header), legacy-file-reports-position-only (fails at entities_restored==
false -- the naive wrapper claims restoration for every rc==0 case,
including legacy files).

This is the exact function/call site that caused task 2.2's rejection
(a live position-advances-before-restore-validates hazard). Independent
review verified load_snapshot's body is byte-identical to commit
d52eb94, the wrapper does nothing beyond the naive mapping, and ha.c's
change never reads the new out-param anywhere -- no repeat of that
mistake here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JDYFbrgyDHbvNYcxApKhrX
2026-07-01 07:56:57 +00:00
221d86788d test(ha-entity-snapshots): RED test for the rotation guard (task 4.2)
A checkpoint file whose position matches an in-flight peer transfer
(task 4.1's snapshot_inflight_lsn[]) must survive rotate_snapshots even
when snap_keep_n would otherwise delete it. Genuinely fails today (file
removed, access() returns -1) since rotate_snapshots has no awareness of
in-flight transfers yet.

Executed directly (no subagent dispatch) per the hybrid execution-mode
decision -- small, single-file, isolated test.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JDYFbrgyDHbvNYcxApKhrX
2026-07-01 07:34:37 +00:00
8d1ee8b761 feat(ha-entity-snapshots): track in-flight snapshot transfer LSN per peer (task 4.1)
Adds snapshot_inflight_lsn[MAX_HA_CANDIDATES] to ha_state_t, alongside the
existing snapshot_inflight[] flag it mirrors exactly: set to the
checkpoint's LSN at ha_snapshot_send_dispatch before a transfer's first
byte goes out, cleared to 0 at every completion/failure path
(snapshot_lane_fn's normal completion, and all 3 early-return failure
sites: malloc failure, slowlane dedup-refuse, slowlane submit failure).

This is the foundation task 4.3 will consult from rotate_snapshots to
avoid deleting a checkpoint file a peer is still mid-transfer reading
from -- the one genuinely new retention guard this feature needs (the
existing write_snapshot-before-trim_wal_segments sequencing already
satisfies the WAL-trim side of Requirement 3).

Proven via a new gated unit test (test_ha_liveness.c) that observes the
tracked LSN mid-flight while the send body is parked at a test gate, not
just before/after -- confirms the lifecycle ordering, not just the
endpoints.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JDYFbrgyDHbvNYcxApKhrX
2026-07-01 07:26:44 +00:00
86b12b8323 test(ha-entity-snapshots): RED test for queue status checkpoint content (task 3.1)
Queue's (name, status) round-trip through write_snapshot's raw on-disk
bytes -- a plain fixed record (no capnp; queue definitions are
config-owned, only runtime admin status is WAL/snapshot-tracked, per
design.md's corrected queue model). Fails today (Expected 4 Was 0) since
write_snapshot still hardcodes queue_count=0 from task 2.2's placeholder.
Does not call persist_load_snapshot, following task 2.2's established
raw-byte-parsing pattern.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JDYFbrgyDHbvNYcxApKhrX
2026-07-01 06:38:26 +00:00
5929af1078 feat(ha-entity-snapshots): entity-bearing checkpoint write path for jobs (task 2.2)
write_snapshot now Cap'n-Proto-encodes every retained job under nested
table+per-entity RTTI_LOCK_READ (table lock alone does not exclude a
concurrent per-entity writer -- design.md's central correctness finding),
appends length-prefixed job frames after a new format_version marker, and
fixes a previously-unchecked fdatasync return. Any failure anywhere in the
path (encode, write, sync) discards the whole checkpoint -- no partial
file at the final path, proven by a real mid-encode-loop fault-injection
test (forces one specific job's encode to fail among N, asserts nothing
survives).

Also fixed two pre-existing bugs in task 1.1's test fixture: terminal-state
seeded jobs need a non-zero finish_time or job_should_retain's retention
window silently excludes them from any checkpoint; the fixture needs
xstring_table_init or every seeded job's submit/start_info silently
decodes as NULL.

Round 1 of this task also touched load_snapshot/persist.h to make the
round-trip tests pass end-to-end, but review caught a live hazard: it
advanced current_lsn/checkpoint_lsn BEFORE the entity-decode loop ran, so
a decode failure still left the position advanced -- reachable today
through the unmodified ha_handle_snapshot_chunk production path, not
hypothetical. Remediated by fully reverting load_snapshot/persist.h to
byte-identical pre-task-2.2 state and rewriting the round-trip tests to
parse write_snapshot's raw on-disk bytes directly (read_Job/decode_Job)
instead of round-tripping through persist_load_snapshot -- proves the
write side without depending on load_snapshot, which stays task 5.2's
scope entirely, not started here.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JDYFbrgyDHbvNYcxApKhrX
2026-07-01 06:30:28 +00:00
0f344da89a test(ha-entity-snapshots): RED tests for job checkpoint content (task 2.1)
Three tests against the current sentinel-only write_snapshot/load_snapshot:
job content round-trip and concurrent-mutation-not-torn genuinely FAIL
(RED) since no entity content is written today; write-failure-discard
already passes (write_snapshot's open()-failure path already discards
correctly) -- flagged transparently as a GREEN-from-day-one regression
guard rather than faked RED, per real fault injection (directory removal
-> genuine ENOENT).

Carries forward two notes for task 2.2: fdatasync's return value is
currently unchecked in write_snapshot (persist.c:1505), and a mid-encode-
loop fault-injection test should be added once the per-job encode loop
exists.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JDYFbrgyDHbvNYcxApKhrX
2026-07-01 05:18:45 +00:00
10f9bbfd9d feat(ha-entity-snapshots): add spec + task 1.1 test fixture
Adds the ha-entity-snapshots Kiro spec (requirements, design, research,
tasks) for task 5.10a / raft-ha-core-safety: making the HA checkpoint an
actually-restorable copy of committed job/queue state instead of a
position-only sentinel, closing the residual chaotic-soak divergence gap.

Task 1.1 (foundation): reusable test fixture snapent_make/snapent_teardown
in a new test_persist_snapshot_entities.c, seeding N jobs (varying state)
and M queues (varying status) into a real persist_t+cluster_t for later
write/load/rotation-guard tests to build on. Build clean; new suite 1/1;
regression spot-checks (test_persist_hooks 19/19, test_commit_barrier_reply
22/22) clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JDYFbrgyDHbvNYcxApKhrX
2026-07-01 04:55:55 +00:00
0d70d5e412 fix(controller): debounce RDHUP-triggered failover — stop the term-escalation storm (bug-1310, task 5.10b)
A dead primary's control fd RDHUPs faster than an election settles. The 5.6
guard only drops an RDHUP while the role is instantaneously CTRL_ELECTING/
prevote; an RDHUP landing in the gap after a lost election (role briefly back
to CTRL_STANDBY) re-triggers a fresh ha_begin_failover -> PreVote -> real
election (term++). One bump per RDHUP -> unbounded escalation under a sustained
cadence (observed round 4: 48 begin_failovers, terms 6->24, round overran the
harness window).

Fix: ha_state_t.last_failover_ms (atomic) stamped at ha_begin_failover;
ha_on_primary_ctrl_fd_rdhup drops an RDHUP within 2*election_timeout_ms of the
last trigger (closes the dead fd, returns) so the election's own jittered retry
(5.7) runs without the external RDHUP cadence adding term bumps. First trigger
never debounced; genuine loss still fails over, at most once per window.

Validation: unit-proven — test_rdhup_within_cooldown_is_debounced (recent
last_failover -> stays CTRL_STANDBY) vs test_rdhup_single_node_reaches_primary
(last_failover=0 -> CTRL_PRIMARY) is a differential proof. Soak: 10/10 elect,
terms 4->14 bounded, begin_failover 14/14/12 (was 48), committed_job_loss=0, no
regression. The stochastic storm did not recur this run (debounce fired 0x), so
soak-reproduction of the storm is still pending; the mechanism rests on the
unit test. Election suites green (rdhup 8/0, prevote 12/0, core_safety 24/0,
election 28/0, failover_prevote 6/0).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JDYFbrgyDHbvNYcxApKhrX
2026-07-01 01:32:27 +00:00
15be5d94e8 fix(controller): extract job-submit commit barrier out of the hook fan-out — stop committed-job-loss (bug-1306)
raft-apply-decoupling item #1 (down payment). xce_run_hooks returns only the
LAST-registered hook's rc, so a later JOB AFTER_EVENT subscriber (sched/
apiserver) returning 0 clobbered persist_job_hook_fun's commit -ETIMEDOUT.
handle_jobsubmit then replied 'jobsubmit ok' for an entry that never reached
majority, and a new-term leader legally discarded it (committed-job-loss,
Commit Durability violation).

- persist.c/.h: new persist_submit_wal_and_commit(p, jlist) — the explicit raft
  step (WAL append + majority-commit barrier) returning the commit verdict
  directly. persist_job_hook_fun's WAL_MODE_WAIT branch is now a no-op.
- job.c handle_jobsubmit: call the explicit step, read commit_rc DIRECTLY,
  reject on <0 before firing the now notification-only AFTER hook
  (canonical commit -> notify -> reply).
- tests: +test_job_hook_new_is_notify_only regression pin; 4 hook tests
  relocated to drive the explicit step. persist_hooks 19/0, e2e_hooks 3/0,
  commit_barrier_reply 22/0, commit_durability 38/0.

Proven: 10-round chaotic soak committed_job_loss 5 -> 0 (same election code).
Residual soak FAILs (divergence catch-up lag + a round-4 election-escalation
tail) are NOT job loss — tracked as task 5.10.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JDYFbrgyDHbvNYcxApKhrX
2026-07-01 00:42:30 +00:00
6e05dc1523 fix(libxce): endpoint reference count — kill teardown-vs-dispatch UAF (bug-1298, task 5.8)
The io_worker freed an endpoint (endpoint_killer, cluster.c) on connection
teardown while the vtask dispatcher concurrently read ep->busy
(endpoint_is_task_blocked, netio.c) on a queued vtask — a heap-use-after-free
that ABORTed a controller mid-chaotic-soak (round 4), dropping the cluster
below quorum so no primary could be elected.

Replace the accumulation of ad-hoc ep-lifetime patches (bug-1282 lockless busy,
bug-1197 dispatch_inflight drain + deferred teardown vtask) with one principled
invariant: an endpoint lives until its reference count reaches 0.

  - endpoint_t.refcnt (_Atomic) + heap_alloc flag; endpoint_get starts a heap ep
    at refcnt=1 (the owner ref).
  - endpoint_ref/endpoint_unref: the last unref fini's + frees a heap ep.
    Embedded eps (client ctx->ep, heap_alloc=0) are never freed here — their
    container owns them — so a vtask-balanced ref/unref pair is a safe no-op.
  - vtask_enq takes a per-vtask ref on the bound ep BEFORE publishing the task to
    the dispatcher; run_task / taskq_item_killer release it. So the dispatcher can
    read ep->busy on any queued vtask without the ep being freed underneath it.
  - every HEAP-ep teardown site (endpoint_killer, handle_endpoint_error, the
    vote/prevote connect-fail paths, the vote-ep loser/teardown paths, the standby
    reconnect/eviction paths) now drops its owner ref via endpoint_unref instead of
    raw endpoint_fini+free. Several of those also leaked the ep struct before
    (endpoint_fini-only); unref fixes the leak too.

Validation: controller_unit_test 182 tests / 0 failures (test_ha_vep_teardown
updated — its OFF-path test asserted the old struct leak, now fixed). 6-round
ASAN chaotic soak: ZERO AddressSanitizer reports, ctrl-3 no longer crashes at
round 4, all 6 rounds elect at bounded terms. (The pre-existing iomgr_fini ->
SSL_CTX_free abort under openssl 3.6 in the aggregate test binary is unrelated.)

Note: with the crash gone, the soak now reaches rounds 4-6 for the first time and
surfaces a SEPARATE, pre-existing committed-job-loss/divergence (the bug-795/828
failover catch-up gap; ha-commit-durability domain) — not a refcount regression
(ASAN clean; rounds 1-3 are loss-free).
2026-06-30 14:24:47 +00:00
74784b2b18 fix(raft-ha-core-safety): randomize per-campaign election timeout to [T,2T] (task 5.7)
The per-campaign election watchdog was armed with a FIXED election_timeout_ms
(raft_start_election -> on_schedule_timeout -> raft_cb_schedule_timeout). Under
cold-connection churn a just-restarted survivor opens a fresh TCP+SSL endpoint
per vote round, so its single needed grant can land a hair AFTER a constant
deadline on EVERY campaign -- a resonance: the campaign times out, the term
re-escalates, and the now-stale grant is dropped (DropStaleResponse). Forever.
Terms climb unbounded; the freshest survivor never tallies quorum. This is the
final round-4 chaotic-soak election-liveness stall.

Fix (Ongaro thesis 3.4): re-randomize the watchdog per campaign to the canonical
[T, 2T] interval in the HA adapter, so some campaign's deadline falls AFTER its
grant RTT and the grant lands in-window. Done in raft_cb_schedule_timeout so the
pure (sim-tested) raft library stays deterministic. Independent of
election_jitter_max_ms (which tunes only the sub-second startup/stagger jitter)
so it spreads even when jmax is small/0; never below the configured floor so
genuine-loss failover is not sped up past election_timeout_ms.

Preserves Election Safety (no change to term/vote/DropStaleResponse logic).

new ha_jittered_election_delay() helper + 2 unit tests (RED verified: stubbing
jitter to 0 fails test_5_7_campaign_timeout_is_randomized with the resonance
message; PIN guards floor + modulo-by-zero). Suite: 24 Tests / 0 Failures.
2026-06-30 13:29:15 +00:00
81cb09a8db fix(controller): drop RDHUP while electing — break dueling-candidate term escalation (task 5.6)
After 5.5 let the freshest survivor win PreVote and ENTER the real election,
round 4 still stalled: the dead primary's control fd keeps RDHUP'ing on a
deterministic ~15s cadence, and ha_on_primary_ctrl_fd_rdhup's 5.2 suppress only
catches CTRL_STANDBY — so an ELECTING node fell through to ha_begin_failover and
restarted a fresh PreVote, preempting its own in-progress real election. Every
cycle bumped the term (21->25->28->29...) and kept two survivors dueling in
lockstep, defeating the jittered election-timeout tiebreak.

Guard the RDHUP entry: if role==CTRL_ELECTING or a PreVote round is in progress,
close the dead control fd and return WITHOUT restarting failover — let the
in-progress round finish or time out (its election timeout is jittered, which
desynchronizes the duel so one survivor wins). A node not currently electing
still takes the normal 5.2-suppress / genuine-loss failover path.

RED+PIN in test_ha_core_safety.c (22 Tests / 0 Failures): CORE RED — CTRL_ELECTING
+ RDHUP must not start a new PreVote (Expected 0 Was 1 on baseline); PIN — genuine
loss (STANDBY, not electing) still fails over. Preserves Election Safety, 5.2
suppression, and genuine-loss liveness. Re-running 7.2.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019dbTHR9CsEYK9RsqmQpQpC
2026-06-30 11:47:09 +00:00
bf88681fb0 fix(raft-ha-core-safety): catching-up survivor must grant PreVote when primary gone (task 5.3)
The round-4 election stall surfaced by the 7.2 soak (bug-1272): after several
overlapping kills the only fully-up-to-date node is killed and the two survivors
are both restarted-and-lagging (in_catch_up=1) with no live primary left to catch
up FROM — so the flag never clears. Each holds the full committed prefix and is a
SAFE candidate, yet raft_cb_vote_eligible denied ALL PreVotes while in_catch_up
UNCONDITIONALLY, so they mutually denied and the election deadlocked forever.

Gate the in_catch_up deny on a LIVE primary (primary_ctrl_fd>=0 &&
ha_heartbeat_is_fresh), mirroring the heartbeat-fresh deny one block up. The
deny's purpose is to avoid disrupting a primary that is actively replicating to
us; once the primary is unreachable, raft_log_ok (already applied in Step 2 of
raft_on_pre_vote_request, before this callback) guarantees the candidate's log
>= ours, so granting a fresher candidate is safe (Leader Completeness preserved).

Adds 3 cases to test_ha_core_safety.c driving the real raft_on_pre_vote_request:
CORE RED (catching-up survivor + primary gone must GRANT a fresh candidate),
PIN (still DENY while a live primary feeds it), PIN (STALE candidate still DENIED
by logOk). test_ha_core_safety 20 Tests / 0 Failures; 5.1/5.2 unaffected.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019dbTHR9CsEYK9RsqmQpQpC
2026-06-30 02:44:45 +00:00
806257afcf test(raft-ha-core-safety): RED tests for election liveness & safety under churn (task 5.1)
Add three Phase-5 cases to test_ha_core_safety.c pinning the spurious-failover
root cause (research.md §"Phase 4/5"):

- CORE RED test_5_1_spurious_failover_suppressed_while_primary_alive: a
  control-channel flap (transient RDHUP) while a current-term primary is alive
  (fresh heartbeat) must NOT launch a PreVote failover. FAILs on baseline
  (Expected 0 Was 5) — the RDHUP-initiation path (ha_on_primary_ctrl_fd_rdhup
  -> ha_begin_failover -> ha_start_prevote_async synchronous branch) has no
  ha_heartbeat_is_fresh guard, unlike the deferred ha_failover_stagger_fn path.
  GREEN when task 5.2 adds that guard.

- LIVENESS test_5_1_genuine_loss_elects_and_advances_term: genuine loss (stale
  heartbeat) still launches a real failover; a failed round re-arms; rapid
  rounds advance the term. Guards 5.2 against over-suppression (Req 6.1/6.2/6.3).

- SAFETY test_5_1_election_safety_one_primary_per_term: two candidates contest
  the same term; the real handle_request_vote grants at most one vote per term
  (A=3/B=0), so at most one committing primary per term. Falsifiable Election
  Safety check mapped to raft/raft.tla (Req 4.1/4.3).

Deterministic (no sleeps; clock reads only), c==NULL unit-test mode, clean
ha_fini teardown. test_ha_core_safety suite: 17 Tests / 1 Failure (the
intended RED); all 2.x/4.x/seam cases still pass; no new ASAN leaks.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019dbTHR9CsEYK9RsqmQpQpC
2026-06-30 00:22:33 +00:00
837c35c255 test(raft-drive-async): network-partition soak primitive + RED/GREEN scenario (task 4.1)
Add in-process partition blackhole primitive (no privilege required):
- Evict partitioned peer from standby_endpoints so reconnect fires
- RED mode: reconnect connect parks in gate → blocks delaymgr tick
  (proves pre-change build heartbeat stalls on unreachable peer)
- GREEN mode: real offload path runs → slowlane_submit non-blocking
  → tick returns promptly → survivor heartbeats continue every tick
- Heal: re-add peer, both standbys receive heartbeats post-heal

Requirements: 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4
Boundary: PartitionTest

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-29 04:37:20 +00:00
01b7d6b7d5 test(raft-ha-core-safety): follower-reconvergence discriminator — Phase 4 sound (tasks 4.1/4.2)
Deterministic follower-level test drives the REAL ha_consume_append_entries
with a leader-style backtracking AE sequence against a multi-entry former-
primary divergent tail (12-15 @old term, committed 1..11). Follower
backtracks, conflict-truncates 14/15, accepts leader term-6 entries,
preserves committed prefix. Reviewer adversarially falsified (neuter intake
=> reached=0). VERDICT: follower-side reconvergence + applied-agreement gate
already sound on baseline => NO Phase-4 production fix needed. Redirects the
live-stall root cause to Phase 5 (channel-flap + in_catch_up-blocks-prevote-
reply). 4.1 + apply-gap pins green; 14/0 suite.
2026-06-28 03:42:06 +00:00
63b9c5a81a fix(raft-ha-core-safety): streamer fail-loud bounded-retry, never ship empty (task 2.4)
Root-cause source fix: ha_stream_wal_to_standby reads the entry body via
stream_read_entry_body (bounded retry max 4, no sleep); on persistent short
pread/malloc-fail it fails loud + ABORTS the stream (flush valid prefix,
drop unreadable entry, -EIO) instead of shipping PLEN=0. Incomplete stream
re-driven by ACK-driven catch-up. With the 2.2 guard this closes the live
cross-term payload-loss divergence. 2.3 CORE RED -> GREEN (fail-loud: no
empty persisted; + retry-recover test ships full 64). Term-blind structural
retirement deferred to 6.2 (empty-over-full safety enforced by 2.2 guard +
pinned). 12/12 core suite; siblings green; no regression introduced.
Phase 2 complete.
2026-06-27 15:42:37 +00:00
ae8291ed56 test(raft-ha-core-safety): cross-term streamer payload-integrity RED (task 2.3)
Minimal XCE_TESTING fault-injection seam in ha_stream_wal_to_standby
(NULL/production-inert) forces a short body read on a cross-term entry.
CORE RED proves the streamer ships PLEN=0 for a full (source_len=64)
cross-term entry: instrumentation source_len=64 SEND_len=0 RECV_len=0 ->
loss is SEND-side (answers task 1.3's open send-vs-transitive question).
2 honest pins (term-blind route guarded by 2.2; below-tip fence). 11
tests/1 RED; production xce_controller links clean without the seam.
2026-06-27 11:24:16 +00:00
056675c8b3 fix(raft-ha-core-safety): (term,lsn,payload-crc)-aware persist guard (task 2.2)
Payload-aware repair: identical payload = idempotent no-op; non-empty
differing payload at the TIP = repair (truncate-to-lsn-1 + re-append,
committed_lsn snapshot/restored under lock); empty-over-stored = keep
(never degrade); BELOW-tip conflict = loud non-promotable fence
(recovery_unrecoverable), never truncate the tail or lower committed_lsn.
read_entry_meta_locked computes payload-crc identically to walcompare.
Turns 2.1 case (a) green; new below-tip regression test pins the
committed-boundary safety. Review round 1 caught + fixed a committed-data-
loss bug (tail-truncate on below-tip conflict). 8/8 target suite, sibling
persist/repl/catchup/durability suites green; persist-before-ACK intact.
2026-06-27 10:57:37 +00:00
3b5eda1429 test(raft-ha-core-safety): payload-aware persist-guard RED + pins (task 2.1)
Case (a) empty-then-full = genuine RED (payload-blind guard at persist.c:822
no-ops the corrective write, Expected 64 Was 0). Cases (b) full-then-empty
and (c) identical-rewrite = baseline-passing pins that constrain the 2.2
fix asymmetry (empty must never overwrite stored full; identical re-stream
stays idempotent). 7 tests/1 RED/no ASAN.
2026-06-27 10:20:02 +00:00
dc50924833 test(raft-ha-core-safety): harness infrastructure + payload-loss smoke-RED (task 1.4)
New test_ha_core_safety.c with deterministic gate/probe seams (no sleeps,
drain-before-fini per bug-1224): payload-controllable WAL writer, on-disk
(term,pcrc,len) readback probe, walcompare observer, apply-gap + kill/
election injection for phases 2.3/4.1/5.1. Smoke-RED (Expected 64 Was 0)
proves the payload-blind (term,lsn)-only guard at persist.c:822 drops a
corrective full-payload write at a committed LSN. 5 tests/1 RED/4 seam
PASS, no ASAN errors.
2026-06-27 09:49:51 +00:00
b028d25dbd test(raft-ha-core-safety): machine-checkable walcompare report (task 1.1)
Per-member (lsn,term,pcrc,present) report + committed-vs-uncommitted
divergence classification via walcompare_report()/--report. Soak signal
(OK/exit-code) preserved. 4 new unit tests, all GREEN.
2026-06-27 04:53:32 +00:00