fix(offline): close the ordering gaps the terminal lock still left open - #1387
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Follow-up to #1380, which merged while these were still in review. The lock went in one line too late. cleanup_connection_state reset the processing semaphore to one permit before taking it, so the case the lock was added for stayed open: a finisher holding its stamp could widen the semaphore back to 64 after that reset, and the next connection would drain its backlog concurrently with no permit serializing the ratchet advances a whole-cache flush would then persist. The comment there claimed otherwise, which made it worse than an omission. connect() reset the same offline state without the lock at all. The previous connection's finisher is detached and can still be publishing when a new attempt starts, so its writes could interleave with the state that attempt establishes and leave offline_sync_completed set on a connection that has not drained anything. publish_offline_sync_live_state now re-reads the generation itself. Every caller holds the lock by the time it runs, but each made its own check before taking it, and a teardown waiting on that same lock could have retired the generation in between. One check in the single place they all go through covers the upgrade-failure fallback too, which had none. Tests: a_teardown_leaves_the_next_drain_on_one_permit asks the semaphore whether two stanzas can be in flight at once, since async_lock::Semaphore exposes no count.
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WalkthroughThe change serializes offline connection setup and cleanup with detached drain finishers. It rejects stale generation updates and adds semaphore regression tests for reset ordering and stale finisher behavior. ChangesOffline sync lifecycle
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The synchronization changes reduce stale offline-drain interference, but an overlapping connection attempt can still be affected by cleanup from the previous connection, potentially disconnecting the replacement or clearing its offline-processing state. This should be fenced or explicitly accepted before merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant connect_graph
participant cleanup_connection_state_inner
participant publish_offline_sync_live_state
participant offline_terminal_lock
participant message_semaphore
connect_graph->>offline_terminal_lock: Acquire before clearing connection state
cleanup_connection_state_inner->>offline_terminal_lock: Acquire before resetting semaphore
publish_offline_sync_live_state->>publish_offline_sync_live_state: Check connection generation
publish_offline_sync_live_state-->>message_semaphore: Skip updates if generation is retired
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| Filename | Overview |
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| src/client.rs | Adds a test-only synchronization flag used to observe teardown reaching the terminal-lock boundary. |
| src/client/lifecycle.rs | Moves connection and teardown offline-state resets under the shared terminal lock and initializes the test synchronization flag. |
| src/client/sessions.rs | Revalidates the connection generation inside the serialized live-state publication path. |
| src/client/tests.rs | Adds deterministic tests confirming stale finishers cannot widen the next drain and teardown cannot reset permits before acquiring the terminal lock. |
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participant Test
participant Teardown
participant Lock as offline_terminal_lock
participant Semaphore
Test->>Lock: acquire
Test->>Teardown: start cleanup
Teardown->>Teardown: signal gate reached
Teardown->>Lock: wait
Test->>Semaphore: verify permits remain wide
Test->>Lock: release
Lock-->>Teardown: acquire
Teardown->>Semaphore: reset to one permit
Teardown->>Lock: release
Test->>Semaphore: verify exactly one permit
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In `@src/client/tests.rs`:
- Around line 7619-7621: Strengthen the stale-generation test around
complete_offline_sync_for_generation by synchronizing a finisher that has
already passed the initial generation check with a deterministic barrier before
permit publication. Run cleanup while that finisher is paused, release the
barrier afterward, then assert that exactly one permit acquisition succeeds and
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src/client/sessions.rsallows a completion racing a new pre-loginconnect()to pass theconnection_generationre-check becauseconnect_graphresets offline state before incrementing the generation, risking acceptance of stale connection work; update the generation ordering or re-check logic.src/client/tests.rsdoes not exercise the intended race:cleanup_connection_state()incrementsconnection_generationbefore the stale finisher runs, so the test can pass without validating the new guard; add a test that reproduces the actual pre-loginconnect()interleaving.
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<violation number="1" location="src/client/sessions.rs:423">
P1: When a completion races a new pre-login `connect()`, `connection_generation` still has the same value because `connect_graph` resets offline state before `<success>` increments it. This re-check therefore accepts the stale completion after the reset and marks the new attempt live; fence completions with a per-connect attempt epoch (invalidated before the reset), or otherwise keep the attempt identity coupled to this check.</violation>
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<violation number="1" location="src/client/tests.rs:7620">
P2: The new test does not exercise the race or the new re-check it is written to guard. `cleanup_connection_state()` bumps `connection_generation` (lifecycle.rs:1742 `fetch_add(1)`) before the stale finisher runs, so `complete_offline_sync_for_generation(711, stale_generation)` returns immediately at the first generation check (sessions.rs:309 `if connection_generation.load(..) != generation { return; }`) and never reaches `publish_offline_sync_live_state` or the semaphore-widening path. The `!concurrent_permits` assertion therefore holds trivially, and the test would still pass if the lock-ordering fix in `cleanup_connection_state` were reverted. It also leaves the newly added generation re-check in `publish_offline_sync_live_state` uncovered. To exercise the actual interleaving (a finisher that has already passed its generation check and claims its stamp, then is retired by teardown before it widens the semaphore), the stale finisher must run against a generation that still matches until publish time.</violation>
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| // Re-read under `offline_terminal_lock`, which every caller holds: the | ||
| // check each of them made before taking it could have been overtaken | ||
| // by the teardown waiting for that same lock. | ||
| if self.connection_generation.load(Ordering::Acquire) != generation { |
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P1: When a completion races a new pre-login connect(), connection_generation still has the same value because connect_graph resets offline state before <success> increments it. This re-check therefore accepts the stale completion after the reset and marks the new attempt live; fence completions with a per-connect attempt epoch (invalidated before the reset), or otherwise keep the attempt identity coupled to this check.
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<comment>When a completion races a new pre-login `connect()`, `connection_generation` still has the same value because `connect_graph` resets offline state before `<success>` increments it. This re-check therefore accepts the stale completion after the reset and marks the new attempt live; fence completions with a per-connect attempt epoch (invalidated before the reset), or otherwise keep the attempt identity coupled to this check.</comment>
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+ // Re-read under `offline_terminal_lock`, which every caller holds: the
+ // check each of them made before taking it could have been overtaken
+ // by the teardown waiting for that same lock.
+ if self.connection_generation.load(Ordering::Acquire) != generation {
+ log::debug!(
+ target: "Client/OfflineSync",
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P2: The new test does not exercise the race or the new re-check it is written to guard. cleanup_connection_state() bumps connection_generation (lifecycle.rs:1742 fetch_add(1)) before the stale finisher runs, so complete_offline_sync_for_generation(711, stale_generation) returns immediately at the first generation check (sessions.rs:309 if connection_generation.load(..) != generation { return; }) and never reaches publish_offline_sync_live_state or the semaphore-widening path. The !concurrent_permits assertion therefore holds trivially, and the test would still pass if the lock-ordering fix in cleanup_connection_state were reverted. It also leaves the newly added generation re-check in publish_offline_sync_live_state uncovered. To exercise the actual interleaving (a finisher that has already passed its generation check and claims its stamp, then is retired by teardown before it widens the semaphore), the stale finisher must run against a generation that still matches until publish time.
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<comment>The new test does not exercise the race or the new re-check it is written to guard. `cleanup_connection_state()` bumps `connection_generation` (lifecycle.rs:1742 `fetch_add(1)`) before the stale finisher runs, so `complete_offline_sync_for_generation(711, stale_generation)` returns immediately at the first generation check (sessions.rs:309 `if connection_generation.load(..) != generation { return; }`) and never reaches `publish_offline_sync_live_state` or the semaphore-widening path. The `!concurrent_permits` assertion therefore holds trivially, and the test would still pass if the lock-ordering fix in `cleanup_connection_state` were reverted. It also leaves the newly added generation re-check in `publish_offline_sync_live_state` uncovered. To exercise the actual interleaving (a finisher that has already passed its generation check and claims its stamp, then is retired by teardown before it widens the semaphore), the stale finisher must run against a generation that still matches until publish time.</comment>
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+ // The finisher of the retired drain runs late and finds its slot taken.
+ client
+ .complete_offline_sync_for_generation(711, stale_generation)
+ .await;
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The semaphore test awaited the whole teardown before starting the stale finisher, so it never met the reset boundary: it passed on the generation re-check alone and would have kept passing with the reset moved back outside the lock. It is renamed for what it actually pins. The ordering itself is now covered by holding offline_terminal_lock and asserting a teardown cannot narrow the semaphore while it is held, which is the only way to observe the boundary from outside. Verified against the regression: with the reset moved back out, the new test fails and the sequential one still passes.
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Greptile is right, and it is a good catch on a test rather than on the code. Fixed in f73de30.
The ordering itself is covered by a second test that holds Verified both directions: with the reset moved back out, 1861 lib tests pass, clippy clean. Generated by Claude Code |
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In `@src/client/tests.rs`:
- Around line 7659-7661: Add a test-only synchronization hook immediately before
offline_terminal_lock acquisition in cleanup_connection_state_inner, have the
terminal-lock ordering test await that hook instead of relying on the fixed
yield_now loop, then assert semaphore state only after the hook signals lock
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A drain that could acquire nothing at all satisfied the old negation while being just as broken, so the semaphore assertions now name the count they mean.
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Three review points here, all against The test not contending (Greptile, cubic P2). Correct, and already fixed in f73de30: the sequential test is renamed Zero permits satisfying the negation (CodeRabbit). Fair, and fixed in e197f1b. Covering the re-check inside cubic P1, the pre-login Semver Checks is the advisory 1861 lib tests pass, clippy clean. Generated by Claude Code |
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…g yields The ordering test waited a fixed number of scheduler turns and then asserted, which happened to work but proved nothing: nothing tied those turns to the teardown actually arriving at the lock. cleanup_connection_state now sets a #[cfg(test)] flag on the line above the acquisition, the same shape as the signal_flush test hooks, and the test waits for that. Everything the transition writes is on the far side of that point, so when the flag fires with the lock held the semaphore provably has not been reset; move the reset back out and it provably has. Verified both ways.
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Both of you landed on the same remaining point about the ordering test, and you are right that it proved nothing. Fixed in 7a92603. The fixed
That is the whole of what is open here. For the record on the rest of the round: cubic's pre-login 1861 lib tests pass, clippy clean. Generated by Claude Code |
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The last paragraph still explained non-vacuity in terms of the generation bump, which the gate flag replaced, so it described a mechanism the test no longer uses.
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Right, and worth fixing rather than waving off: the last paragraph still explained non-vacuity in terms of the generation bump, which the gate flag replaced, so it described a mechanism the test no longer uses. That is exactly the kind of comment that outlives its code and misleads the next reader. Fixed in bcb4663 — it now says what the test actually waits on and why that makes the assertion provable. Nothing else open on my side. Generated by Claude Code |
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Two items from the latest walkthrough, neither of them an inline comment, so answering here. The overlapping-connection-attempt risk does not hold, and it is the same claim I checked on #1380. The docstring-coverage warning I am leaving as is. Everything load-bearing here carries its reasoning at the point the decision is made; padding the rest to clear a percentage would be noise. Generated by Claude Code |
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Summary
Follow-up to #1380. That PR merged at
f941a87while three ordering gaps were still open, one of them mine to begin with: theoffline_terminal_lockit introduced was acquired one line after the reset it was meant to protect, and the comment beside it claimed the opposite. This takes the lock before that reset, extends it to theconnect()side, and moves the generation re-check into the single place every publication goes through.I would have folded this into #1380; it merged first, so it is a separate change rather than a follow-up I chose to leave.
The permit reset
cleanup_connection_statereset the processing semaphore to one permit before takingoffline_terminal_lock, so the exact case the lock was added for was untouched: a finisher already holding its generation stamp could widen the semaphore back to 64 after that reset, and the next connection would drain its backlog concurrently with no permit serializing the ratchet advances a whole-cache Signal flush would then persist. The comment there asserted this could not happen, which is worse than having said nothing. The lock is now taken before the reset, so the whole drain-to-live write set is ordered against the whole teardown reset set.The connect() side
connect()reset the same offline state without the lock at all. The previous connection's finisher is detached and can still be publishing when a new attempt begins, so its writes could interleave with the state that attempt establishes and leaveoffline_sync_completedset on a connection that has drained nothing — which would makewait_for_offline_delivery_endreturn immediately and send receipts 1:1 instead of aggregated. The reset block now runs under the same lock.The re-check
publish_offline_sync_live_statenow re-reads the connection generation itself. Every caller holds the lock by the time it runs, but each made its own check before taking it, and a teardown waiting on that same lock could have retired the generation in between. Putting the check in the one place they all funnel through also covers the upgrade-failure fallback incomplete_offline_sync_for_generation, which had none.Not changed
A review comment on #1380 held that an old
cleanup_connection_statecould reset a replacement connection's drain. That is prevented by construction rather than by a fence:cleanup_connection_stateis awaited insideconnect()atsrc/client/lifecycle.rs:990beforeconnect()returns, so the run loop cannot reach the next attempt until it has finished, and the one out-of-band teardown path (src/client/lifecycle.rs:1590-1594) is guarded bystill_owns_connection, whose comment says it exists precisely so cleanup does not run for a replacement.Validation
Workspace-wide clippy does not build in my environment (a plugin pulls
alsa-sysand the systemalsadev package is absent), so full matrix left to CI.a_teardown_leaves_the_next_drain_on_one_permitpins the semaphore invariant. It asks the semaphore the question the drain actually asks, whether two stanzas can be in flight at once, becauseasync_lock::Semaphoreexposes no count.Refs #1377.
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