The schedAdmin dispatch case blocks its vtask handler thread for up to 5s
waiting on a cross-process reply while holding c->sched.lock -- bounded
blocking on a vtask thread, which ha-async-io.md permits only under an
admission reservation. The real risk isn't just the wait itself: since
c->sched.lock serializes concurrent requests one at a time, a burst of N
concurrent schedAdmin calls could already occupy N vtask threads for up to
N*5s each before this fix.
Now acquires vtaskmgr_blocking_acquire(&c->vtaskmgr) before ever locking
c->sched.lock, releasing on every exit path -- the same shared admission
budget commit.c's commit-wait barrier already gates on (wired via
commit_set_pool). Admission-exhausted requests fast-reject with
{ok=false, error="server busy, try again"} rather than queuing. New test:
test_schedadmin_fast_rejects_when_admission_exhausted, using a poison
c->sched.ep sentinel to prove the fast-reject happens before any
lock/forward attempt.
Bugs fixed, discovered across a day of live-operator testing against a
real deployed cluster:
- bug-1584: clock anchors never initialized to real wall-clock values,
timestamps showed system uptime instead of Unix epoch.
- bug-1585: heap-use-after-free in the normal-mode driver's periodic
resval update path -- core_events.c's RESVALS_FULL/_DELTA handlers do a
shallow zarray_put() of the wire-decoded xce_val_t*, but driver.c's
release_translated_payload() unconditionally freed the same decoded
array right after, so the next periodic report for the same
worker+resource triggered a UAF read via kill_sched_resval(). New
regression test: test_resval_ownership.c.
- bug-1587/1588/1591: raw-ns/raw-uint64 jobid/timestamp prints across the
REPL/SIM family converted to the same human-readable formatting already
used elsewhere (fmt_jobid(), timestamp formatting).
- bug-1590: repl_info.c's XCE_VAL_NUMERIC checks corrected to
Value_u_fvalue, fixing `info worker`/`info resource` falling back to
0.00 for real numeric resvals.
task 12.5 (Req 5.22 amendment) -- five REPL gaps surfaced by a live
operator session, each with its own bug id:
- bug-1594: `continue`/`step` reaching EOF with no breakpoint hit now
re-enters the REPL via xce_repl_on_replay_complete() instead of exiting
the process; step/continue issued after replay is already complete
re-prompt instead of silently exiting.
- bug-1595: `step`/`continue` now echo each input event (not just
decisions) via repl_print_event_summary(), in real event/decision
order.
- bug-1593: `info resource <name>|all` now reports resource definition
metadata restricted to XCE_RESF_GLOBAL/XCE_RESF_SHARED resources, read
from core->sharedInst, instead of aggregating host-based resources
across every worker.
- bug-1596: repl_split_tokens() strips one matching pair of surrounding
quote characters from each token.
See requirements.md's Req 5 AC 22 "Amendment (2026-08-19)" for the full
rationale on each of the five task 12.5 gaps.
Full scheduler suite green (41/42; the one remaining failure,
test_recordstart_symlink_escape_replies_error, is the pre-existing
unrelated bug-1560).
These edits (three-thread picker correction in brief.md, record_dir
path-validation and kvmgr-audit requirements in requirements.md,
OPCode_schedAdmin folded into the peer-authentication-hardening
backlog item in roadmap.md) were made during earlier requirements
review and design work but left uncommitted. Reviewed for accuracy
against the completed implementation — all still correct, persisting
as-is.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
