myxce/.wolf/bugs/bug-1825.md
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bug was found on, 12% the build profile, 36% a way to reproduce, and 58% of
the file was OpenWolf hook auto-detections ("Missing guard clause",
"Function not marked async" on .md files).

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  --commit hashes git resolves), note, recur, set, show, list, triage,
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  records, a legacy record hand-changed to fixed without the fix-time
  sections, a new record claiming legacy: true, or a stale index refuse
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- bug-1866 rewritten to the full standard as the worked example.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-28 03:40:11 +00:00

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id status status_updated status_note component severity timestamp last_seen occurrences files tags related legacy
bug-1825 fixed 2026-09-24 scheduler crash 2026-09-17T07:10:00Z 2026-09-19T09:00:00Z 1
src/scheduler/src/sim_picker.c
scheduler
sim-mode
repl
limit-plugin
plugin-bootstrap
architectural-gap
discovered-during-scheduler-sim-diagnostics
driver-parity
true

bug-1825: verified architectural gap discovered while closing out scheduler-sim-diagnostics task 5 (final…

Description

NOT A CRASH -- significant, verified architectural gap discovered while closing out scheduler-sim-diagnostics task 5 (final validation task for the new info limit REPL command). The limit plugin is never registered in ANY simulation-mode driver path, so info limit <name|all> will ALWAYS report "no limits configured"/"no such limit" for a real operator running xce_scheduler -i/-s <replay> against a genuine recording -- even one whose original live run had limits configured and actively enforced. The entire feature built across scheduler-sim-diagnostics tasks 1-5 is correctly implemented, thoroughly tested, and read-only/deterministic as designed, but is currently INERT in real production usage: every positive-display test path (tasks 2-3, showing a limit's configured setting and live usage) only exercises the code via a test-only helper that hand-registers the plugin into core->plugins directly, which has no production equivalent in sim mode.

Environment

Not recorded (migrated from buglog.json).

Reproduction

Not recorded (migrated from buglog.json).

Root cause

register_limit() (plugins/limit.c:609) has exactly one call site in the entire codebase: scheduler.c:605, inside sched_register_plugins(), which is itself called only from scheduler.c:827 -- the normal-mode (controller-connected, live) driver's sched_init() path. Sim mode's own plugin-bootstrap mechanism, sim_bootstrap_picker() (sim_picker.c), exists specifically to register a picker plugin (builtin_fcfs, via plugin_register_core()) for simulation/replay mode, since sim mode deliberately does not run the full normal-mode init sequence -- but it only ever registers the PICKER plugin category. It has no equivalent step for the limit plugin (or, by the same reasoning, potentially other plugin categories registered by sched_register_plugins() that were never audited for this gap). Confirmed via full-codebase grep: register_limit()/sched_register_plugins() are never referenced anywhere under sim.c/sim_loop.c/sim_picker.c/driver.c/repl*.c, and no write into core->plugins occurs anywhere in the sim-mode driver files. This is the same class of gap scheduler-driver-equivalence.md already documents for OTHER driver-parity properties (e.g. bug-1613's sched_account_jobs() gap) -- a sim-mode driver feature silently missing something the normal-mode driver does, discovered only when a REPL feature tried to read state that assumes it.

Fix

FIXED (2026-09-17, scheduler-sim-diagnostics task 6). Added limit_new_plugin() factory (extracted from register_limit(), mirroring builtin_fcfs_new_plugin()'s established pattern) and a new sim_bootstrap_limit_plugin() (new file src/scheduler/src/sim_limit.c, mirroring sim_picker.c's structure exactly): registers the limit plugin via plugin_register_core() and seeds it with sim->core.config (the snapshot's own borrowed-reference config, which already carries the original session's limit configuration -- no recording/replay format change needed) via a new limit_seed_config(plugin, xce_sched_core_t* core, config) entry point. Wired into sim_loop.c alongside the existing sim_bootstrap_picker(sim) call.

First attempt (round 1) set plugin->sched = (void*)sim (a disguised xce_sched_sim_driver_t*) to reuse the existing config_hook path -- REJECTED on independent review: this repeats the exact pointer-to-first-member cross-cast pattern that already corrupted memory once in this codebase (see this bug's own root_cause note and core.h's xce_core_cache_clear_cb_t doc comment for that prior incident). Round 2 eliminated the cast entirely: limit_seed_config() takes xce_sched_core_t* core as an honest parameter (a real field both xce_scheduler_t and xce_sched_sim_driver_t genuinely have), delegating to a shared limit_seed_config_impl() also used by normal-mode limit_update_config(). No cast, no aliasing risk -- confirmed structurally sound by two independent reviewers, each reading the actual struct definitions and full call chain rather than trusting the report.

Also closed: sim_limit.c added to sched_sim_isolation_lib's source list (meson.build) so Req 5 AC 17's mechanical controller-I/O-isolation check covers it (round 1 omitted this; round 2 fixed it, sched_sim_isolation_test independently re-verified passing with the new file included).

Ripple: two waves of an identical, minimal link-satisfying stub pattern across the ~24 white-box test files that #include "../src/sim_loop.c" (one for limit_new_plugin(), one for limit_seed_config()) -- same established 'duplicate, don't share' idiom this file family already used for the earlier scheduler-sim-diagnostics tasks' repl_info.c ripple.

TDD: RED->GREEN verified for both the config-seed test and the remediation itself (a temporary limit_seed_config() no-op stub reproduced the exact expected single-test failure, reverted cleanly). Full scheduler suite: 78/78 Ok, 0 Fail; sched_repl_limit_table_test 26/26; sched_limit_plugin_test 5/5 (zero regression to normal-mode registration); sched_sim_isolation_test 5/5 (genuinely covering the new file).

Deliberately NOT fixed (separate, larger, tracked as a distinct follow-up item in .kiro/specs/scheduler-sim-diagnostics/tasks.md, not this bug): limit matching (limit_job_election()) is still never invoked during replay -- it's only reachable via plugin_job_election(), which is normal-mode-only (one caller, scheduler.c) and would itself need a core-safe variant before it could be wired into sim_loop.c's decision path. So 'info limit' now shows real CONFIGURED settings against a real replay, but live USAGE will still correctly show 'no active usage instance yet' until that separate, larger fix lands.

Verification

Not recorded (migrated from buglog.json).

References

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