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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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id: "bug-660"
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status: "fixed"
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status_updated: "2026-09-24"
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status_note: ""
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component: "controller"
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severity: "unknown"
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timestamp: "2026-06-17T22:00:00Z"
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last_seen: "2026-09-19T09:00:00Z"
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occurrences: 1
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files: ["src/controller/ha.c"]
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tags: ["controller", "ha", "election", "prevote", "convergence", "fresh_heartbeat", "raft_cb_vote_eligible", "primary_ctrl_fd", "slow-election"]
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related: []
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legacy: true
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---
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# bug-660: Failover election takes minutes (11+ PreVote rounds) to converge
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## Description
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Failover election takes minutes (11+ PreVote rounds) to converge. A standby keeps denying a legitimately-higher-term candidate's PreVote with reason=fresh_heartbeat for ~2.5 min AFTER its primary died (ctrl-3 killed 21:44:14, ctrl-2 logs 'PreVote DENIED ... reason=fresh_heartbeat (my_term=3)' until 21:46:58).
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## Environment
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_Not recorded (migrated from buglog.json)._
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## Reproduction
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_Not recorded (migrated from buglog.json)._
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## Root cause
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The PreVote/vote eligibility gate raft_cb_vote_eligible (ha.c:311) denied on `role==CTRL_STANDBY && ha_heartbeat_is_fresh(ha)` — checking freshness ALONE. ha_heartbeat_is_fresh derives from ha->last_activity, but ha_arm_heartbeat_timeout_vtask resets last_activity=now on EVERY watchdog (re-)arm, and ha_prevote_rearm_liveness re-arms it after every lost PreVote. So a node with NO live primary perpetually refreshes its own 'fresh heartbeat' each failover cycle and denies all other candidates (reason=fresh_heartbeat), blocking convergence until it happens to restart. The sibling gate in handle_request_vote (ha.c:2205) already required `primary_ctrl_fd >= 0 && is_fresh`; raft_cb_vote_eligible was missing the primary_ctrl_fd guard. The existing fresh-deny tests even documented the intent ('the deny gate requires a live connection AND a fresh heartbeat', set primary_ctrl_fd=999), but production didn't enforce it.
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## Fix
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Added `ha->primary_ctrl_fd >= 0 &&` to the ha.c:311 eligibility gate (mirrors ha.c:2205). primary_ctrl_fd is -1 on init / after the primary RDHUPs / after the liveness watchdog fires, and a real fd only via config_repl.c:1451 (first ctrlhello from the live primary) — so a dead/absent primary no longer masquerades as fresh and the standby GRANTS, converging in ~1 round. Kept cluster.c:526 denial-reason logging in sync. TDD: test_pre_vote_dead_primary_grants_despite_fresh_activity (fresh last_activity + primary_ctrl_fd=-1 -> GRANT); verified RED (Expected 1 Was 0) without the guard, GREEN with it, and the 3 existing fresh-deny tests (fd=999) unaffected. Full controller suite + libxce 169/0, zero regressions.
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## Verification
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_Not recorded (migrated from buglog.json)._
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## References
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_Not recorded (migrated from buglog.json)._
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