fix(iouring): never release a descriptor number while an op can still resolve it: close paths, hijack, shutdown (celeris#685)

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Fixes #685
Refs #715

This PR supersedes the draft PR #781. It carries #781's three test commits unchanged. It also changes how arm A is judged, so that the arm can pass on a fixed tree while it still cannot pass a tree without the fix (see "The #715 trial, adapted" below). #781 can be closed once this is reviewed.

Round 3 (head bf129c8: four commits on e48adee). Round 2 left a regression in this PR, #798 item 1: a pending SEND_ZC notification held a closed connection's descriptor until the 5 s backstop, which counted CloseFDForced. It is fixed here, failing-first (see "Round 3" below). The #685 acceptance set was re-run on bf129c8: the trials and their negative control, natural load, the whole suites, #767's park tests, the rate, and the CI job's steps. Every number below is from bf129c8, or from trees built from it, unless its row says round 2. The rest of #798 stays open.

Round 2 (head e48adee, rebased on main dfd044f, which includes #745, #744 and #746). The round-2 review's major finding is fixed failing-first: the trials' hit rule could pass a tree without the fix when a free descriptor number lay below A's. Its minors are tracked in #798.

Summary

Fixed files are off (#541), so a recv or send SQE names its descriptor by number. The kernel resolves that number when it issues the op, not when the SQE is written. The close paths released the number while an op on it could still be issued:

• finishClose / finishCloseDetached queued the ops' cancels and then called close(2) at once. Two kinds of recv were not issued yet at that point:
  • a recv still in the SQ ring, for example a promoted connection's re-arm (adaptive: after the epoll→io_uring promote, a fresh connection's request is read off its socket and never answered (h2c closed at the 10 s header deadline, WS handshake timeout; 7 events, mechanism not attributed) #715's arm A);
  • a recv linked behind a SEND (flushSendLink). The kernel issues it only when the SEND completes, as task work, and that task work can still be queued when the SEND's CQE is read. No cancel can find such a recv.
• hijackConn handed the socket over with only a queued cancel. An owed recv (a multishot recv stays armed across its request) could read the hijacker's first bytes before that cancel was submitted.
• Worker shutdown closed every descriptor before any owed op had ended.

A sibling worker's accept that was given the freed number before the closer's next io_uring_enter then had its connection's request read by the old recv. That read was dropped as stale_recv_data_closed, and the client was never answered. This is #715's signature: the request is fully received, nothing is sent, and the connection is closed at the header deadline.

The fix applies #681's rule to every path: a descriptor number is released only when no op that names it can still be issued.

path	what it does now	shown by
finishClose, finishCloseDetached	While the kernel owes an op that names the descriptor (fdOwed: fdOps > 0, which is kernelInflight less a SEND_ZC notification; see "Round 3"), the close path does everything as before (cancels, closedOps, deferred release) but does not close. It hands the descriptor to its pendingRelease entry, and drainPendingRelease closes it once no owed op names it: at the last owed op's terminal CQE, or as soon as only SEND_ZC notifications are left. The connState still waits for those. The socket's read side is shut down as well (SHUT_RD on the H1 fast path; SHUT_RDWR where the path already half-closed), so an owed recv ends as soon as it is issued. This includes a linked recv that no cancel can find, and it holds even where cancels fail (#682).	715ArmA, 715ArmAHole, 685Linked, 685LinkedHole (fail without the fix; the noshut mutant fails the linked pair); the SEND_ZC case: TestCloseReleasesDescriptorWithOnlyAZCNotificationOwed
hijackConn	When an op is owed, it submits its cancels before handing the socket over.	685HijackMultishotCoop
worker shutdown	endOwedOpsAtShutdown cancels and shuts down every connection with an op owed, then runs the ring until those ops' terminal CQEs have arrived (bounded at 250 ms). A SEND_ZC notification is not waited for (TestShutdownDoesNotWaitForAZCNotification). Only then are the descriptors closed. It runs before shutdownDrivers, which relies on nothing being submitted after it.	by construction only. TestShutdownEndsOwedOpsBeforeClosing checks that the drain neither leaks nor hangs; main passes it too, and no trial fails without the drain (#798 item 3)
park	A worker does not park while a kept descriptor is outstanding (closeFDOwed).	#767's park FIN tests fail with the gate removed (reviewer's mutant M2); no test in this PR does (#798 item 2)

EngineMetrics gains two fields, summed on the adaptive engine:

• CloseFDDeferred, a rate: closes that kept their descriptor until the owed op completed.
• CloseFDForced: the 5 s release backstop closing a descriptor with an op still owed. It must stay 0. Since round 3 that holds with SEND_ZC on too: a pending SEND_ZC notification names no descriptor, so it is not an owed op (Follow-ups from #793: a SEND_ZC notification counted as an owed op, the unpinned park gate and shutdown drain, and two counter/exit nits #798 item 1).

Round 3: a SEND_ZC notification no longer holds the descriptor (#798 item 1)

Round 2 left a regression in this PR, filed as #798 item 1.

• fdOwed was kernelInflight > 0, and kernelInflight counts a SEND_ZC until its notification CQE.
• The notification names no descriptor: by then the send has been issued and has completed (its first CQE, F_MORE).
• But a peer that stops reading keeps the unsent part of the send queued, and the notification with it, for as long as the socket is open. Keeping the descriptor is what keeps the socket open.

So a close whose only owed op was that notification held its descriptor until the 5 s release backstop, which forced the close and counted CloseFDForced. Worker shutdown's drain likewise ran out its 250 ms bound. Production reaches it through any unlinked send of 4 KiB or more (SEND_ZC is on wherever the probe finds it functional) to a peer that stalls, reaped by the closing-drain sweep.

The fix

The rule counts only the ops that name the descriptor. The send buffer's lifetime is unchanged.

• fdOps(cs) is kernelInflight, less one while zcNotifPending (a connection has one send in flight at most). fdOwed uses it, so a close with only the notification owed closes its descriptor at once, as main did.
• A closed identity keeps the same count in its closedOps entry: fdOps, an int16 in the padding after handoff, so the entry stays 32 bytes (TestClosedOpsEntryStaysThirtyTwoBytes).
  • noteClosedInflight adds the connection's fdOps.
  • staleConnCQE takes one off at a recv's or a plain send's terminal CQE, and at a SEND_ZC's first CQE. It takes none off at the notification.
• drainPendingRelease closes a kept descriptor as soon as no owed op names it (closedFDNamed: a map lookup only for a connection whose last send was armed as SEND_ZC). It still releases the connState only when kernelInflight reaches 0: the notification is what says the kernel has let go of sendBuf. This covers the two ways the notification ends up alone after a close that kept the descriptor for another op:
  • a recv armed behind the send (the keep-alive path arms one behind every unlinked send) that the close's cancel and shutdown end;
  • the send's own first CQE, still unread when the close ran.
• Worker shutdown's drain waits only for ops that name a descriptor. A live connection's SEND_ZC whose first CQE the drain reads is noted in a drain-local set (zcDone). The drain writes nothing on the connection: handleSend is exactly as on e48adee.

No lock is added or taken, and no syscall is added. The new per-close work is an int16 add at the close, a flag test in staleConnCQE's path for a closed identity, and a flag test (sendIsZC) in drainPendingRelease for an entry that kept its descriptor. The cost table below is round 2's, on e48adee, and was not re-measured.

The tests

TestCloseReleasesDescriptorWithOnlyAZCNotificationOwed and TestShutdownDoesNotWaitForAZCNotification (in fd_lifetime_close_test.go) set up the same scenario:

• a synthetic worker with a real ring;
• SEND_ZC on as the engine turns it on (the startup probe must find it functional, then CELERIS_IOURING_SEND_ZC=on through resolveSendZCPolicy);
• a 64 KiB SEND_ZC over loopback TCP to a peer with a 4 KiB receive buffer that reads nothing. The test first checks that the notification is still owed 100 ms after the send.

The close cases go through closeConn, which defers the close, and then the closing-drain sweep's own two calls:

case	owed at the close	the descriptor must
notif-only	the notification	close at the close
recv-and-notif	a recv armed behind the send, and the notification	stay kept for the recv, then close once the cancel ends it
send-done-after-close	the send, whose first CQE is in the ring, unread	stay kept for the send, then close once that CQE is read

Each close case then checks three things:

• The descriptor is closed within 200 ms of the close, and CloseFDForced stays 0. With the rule right, the descriptor goes either at the close or at the drainPendingRelease of the first loop pass that reads the last naming op's CQE, and a test pass waits at most 10 ms for completions. So 200 ms is 20 passes of headroom for -race in a 4-CPU container, and 25 times shorter than the 5 s backstop.
• The send buffer: after the descriptor is closed, the connState must stay queued for release, with the notification still owed, through 100 ms of release passes.
• The notification must then release it: the peer reads everything and gets EOF, the notification arrives while the connState is still queued, and the connState is released by it, not by the backstop.

The shutdown cases (notif-pending, and send-done-during-drain with the send's first CQE in the ring when the drain starts) must end the drain within 100 ms. Held for the notification, the drain runs its whole 250 ms bound.

Measured

The laptop shapes are the ones described under "Measured" below. The negative control is the head with worker.go and fd_lifetime.go cp'd back from 0f36096 (scripts/mkneg798.sh), the new tests kept.

tree	shape × count	close cases (3)	shutdown cases (2)
failing first 0f36096 (e48adee + the tests)	m8 × 2, ci × 2	FAIL 4/4 each: the descriptor closed 5.000 to 5.013 s after the close, CloseFDForced=1 every time	FAIL 4/4 each: 251 to 263 ms
head bf129c8	m8 × 20	PASS 20/20 each: closed 0.016 to 1.455 ms after the close, CloseFDForced=0	PASS 20/20 each: at most 0.077 ms
head	ci × 20	PASS 20/20 each: 0.027 to 0.435 ms	PASS 20/20 each: at most 0.134 ms
head	unc × 20	PASS 20/20 each: 0.011 to 0.556 ms	PASS 20/20 each: at most 0.263 ms
negative control	m8 × 2, ci × 1	FAIL 3/3 each: 5.001 to 5.011 s, CloseFDForced=1	FAIL 3/3 each: 254.6 to 261.5 ms
mutant bufearly: the connState released with the descriptor	m8 × 2	FAIL 2/2 each: the descriptor goes at once, but so does the connState, with the notification still owed	PASS 2/2 each
mutant nostalefirst: staleConnCQE ignores a closed identity's SEND_ZC first CQE	m8 × 2	send-done-after-close FAIL 2/2 (5.0 s, CloseFDForced=1); the other two PASS 2/2	PASS 2/2 each
mutant noshutfirst: the shutdown drain does not note a SEND_ZC first CQE	m8 × 2	PASS 2/2 each	send-done-during-drain FAIL 2/2 (257 to 259 ms); notif-pending PASS 2/2

• In every head run of every close case, the peer read exactly the 65,536 bytes the send completed with and then EOF. The notification arrived with the connState still queued, and released it.
• The bufearly mutant is the wrong fix, the one that would release the send buffer with the descriptor. The buffer check is what fails it (pendingRelease=[] kernelInflight=0 with the notification still owed). So the tests pin that the fix releases the descriptor and not the buffer.
• The same 20-run legs also ran the fd-lifetime and SEND_ZC unit tests around the new ones: TestFinishClose*, TestShutdownEndsOwedOpsBeforeClosing, both entry-size pins, TestSendZC*, TestPrepSendSQE*, TestUseSendZC and TestPlainSendErrorStillFailsTheConnection. That is 16 tests × 20 runs, 320 of 320 PASS in each shape.

CI

run	head	result
36384232278, failing first	0f36096	RED: the unit job's engine/iouring step failed on exactly the two new tests (all 5 cases). The descriptor was held 5.002 to 5.008 s with CloseFDForced=1, and shutdown's drain took 251.5 and 251.6 ms. Every other job was green.
36384921184	cd03600	RED, superseded. The first version of the drain's change moved handleSend's SEND_ZC branch into a function. The #587 detector control's mutant anchors on the lock at the top of that branch; it exited 2 (the detachMu acquire was not found), so the zc-window job failed on both arches. bf129c8 puts handleSend back exactly as it was.
36385419739	bf129c8	green, every job. The new recv-theft step (see below), on x86 and arm64 at the runner's 8 MiB memlock: want 6 PASS (15 cases), passed 6 (15 cases), FAIL lines 0, SKIP lines 0. The unit job's package step: every case PASS, SKIP lines 5, all allowed. zc-window: fixed and ZC-off 3/3 PASS, and the #587 mutant killed 3/3 with its race report, on both arches. Coverage 36385419741 green.

The recv-theft job gains a step, celeris#798 a SEND_ZC notification holds no descriptor (both arches, skipping forbidden). The two tests otherwise run only in the unit job's package step, on x86. The step runs them by name, -race, three runs, at the runner's own 8 MiB memlock (the pages SEND_ZC pins count against it). It fails on any FAIL or SKIP line: a SKIP would mean the runner gave the engine no working SEND_ZC, and nothing was tested.

The other users of kernelInflight, checked

• The connState release and the SIGSEGV in iouring Worker.run after ~16h under churn-close+auto+upg load #256 buffer rule still gate on kernelInflight, the notification included. Only the descriptor's close moved.
• The adaptive: forced switches leave keep-alive connections behind — async conns miss the 1.2 s flap window in every run, and a one-worker io_uring strands sync conns until their requests fail #657 / fix(iouring): hand a connection to epoll only when no read can still resolve its fd (celeris#657) #681 hand-off gates are untouched: onlyRecvInFlight, the R0 gate and noteHandoffInFlight still refuse, or count, a connection with a notification pending. The hand-off's own closedOps entry gets an fdOps it never reads.
• handoff_loss counters are unchanged.
• The park gate closeFDOwed is decremented where the descriptor is closed, which is now possibly before the connState's release. A worker whose kept descriptors are all closed may park with a connState still queued for a notification, as main does; that connState needs no descriptor.
• hijackConn's submit-before-handover uses fdOwed. A hijack with a send pending is refused, so it never sees a notification.
• staleConnCQE's generation-collision residual: the number can be reused while a closed identity's notification is still to come, as before io_uring close paths close the fd while a linked RECV can still resolve its number (the #657 fd-lifetime rule, not yet applied to close/hijack/shutdown) #685 for that one CQE (the comment there says so).
• The detector control's mutant anchors on fdOwed's body; its anchor follows (.github/scripts/mutant-685-release-owed-fd.py).

Why this design, and not submit-before-close

#715's control arm submits the ring before close(2). I did not take that route:

• It does not cover the linked recv. A submit does not issue a recv that is chained behind a pending or just-completed SEND. TestRecvTheft685Linked shows that case is reachable: without the fix it fails 30 of 30 on the laptop, and it fails every run in CI's detector control on both arches.

• It costs one io_uring_enter per affected close. Under adaptive: after the epoll→io_uring promote, a fresh connection's request is read off its socket and never answered (h2c closed at the 10 s header deadline, WS handshake timeout; 7 events, mechanism not attributed) #715's skeptic load, close_with_unsubmitted_recv counted:

  • 9,479 of 55,573 and 7,247 of 58,363 async Connection: close closes (no -race);
  • 12,633 of 40,180 and 12,702 of 39,271 closes (-race).

  That is 12 to 32 % of closes (evidence/celeris-715/hypothesis-a-skeptic/TALLY.txt), and each one would need its own syscall, unless the closes were batched.

Keeping the number until the terminal CQE covers both forms and adds no enter on the close paths. The close(2) moves from the close path to the release, one iteration later. The only syscall it adds there is the fast path's shutdown(SHUT_RD), and only when an op is owed there, which is a server-side close with the recv armed (a timeout). A hijack with an op owed adds one io_uring_enter (single-shot recv owes nothing at a hijack, so the default build never pays it).

What the peer sees barely changes:

• An issued recv holds its own reference to the file, so the socket was never released before that recv's cancel landed. The FIN or RST went out then, and it goes out at the same point now.
• Only a close with a recv still in the SQ ring used to release the socket at the close. It now does so one enter later.

Measured

Laptop: a Docker linux/arm64 VM, kernel 7.0.12-linuxkit, go1.27.1, one container at a time, each through the laptop slot lock.

• ci shape: --cpus 4, memlock unlimited (two io_uring workers), -race.
• unc shape: no CPU cap, memlock unlimited, no -race.
• m8 shape: --cpus 4, memlock 8 MiB (the CI unit job's shape, one worker), -race.

Every trial is -tags=validation with CELERIS_RECV_THEFT_715=1. Verdicts come from the --- PASS/FAIL lines, and the fields from each trial's result line. The negative control is the head with worker.go and fd_lifetime.go cp'd back from eb71d8a (the commit before the fix), and fd_lifetime_close_test.go removed.

Trials: the fix, its negative control, and three mutants

tree	shape × count	715ArmA	715ArmAHole	685Linked	685LinkedHole	685HijackMultishotCoop	715Control, 715ArmC, HijackSingleShot, HijackMultishotDefer
head bf129c8	ci × 10	PASS 10/10	PASS 10/10	PASS 10/10	PASS 10/10	PASS 10/10	PASS 10/10 each
head	unc × 10	PASS 10/10	PASS 10/10	PASS 10/10	PASS 10/10	PASS 10/10	PASS 10/10 each
negative control (built from bf129c8)	ci × 10	FAIL 10/10	FAIL 10/10	FAIL 10/10	FAIL 10/10	FAIL 10/10	PASS 10/10 each
negative control, round 2 (e48adee)	ci × 60 / ci × 30	FAIL 60/60		FAIL 30/30
negative control + verdict mutant (round 1's hit rule, scripts/mkverdict.sh), round 2	ci × 10	FAIL 10/10	PASS 10/10: the false pass	FAIL 10/10	PASS 10/10: the false pass
mutant fdowed (fdOwed always false: the rule off everywhere), round 2; on bf129c8 the CI job's detector step runs it (below)	ci × 5	FAIL 5/5	FAIL 5/5	FAIL 5/5	FAIL 5/5	FAIL 5/5	PASS 5/5 each
mutant noshut (number kept, no read-side shutdown), round 2	ci × 5	PASS 5/5	PASS 5/5	FAIL 5/5 (released=false)	FAIL 5/5 (released=false)	PASS 5/5	PASS 5/5 each

• On the head, every arm A, hole, control and linked trial read held_open=true, held_by_a=true and reused=false. The closer's number still named A's socket while the closer was parked (its peer was A's local address), so the sibling was given another number, and B was answered. released=true in every trial: the kept number was closed after the closer's release. Every hijack arm read its bytes.
• On the negative control, every arm A, hole and linked trial read reused=true and stolen=true: the sibling got A's number, and the old recv read B's request, byte for byte. The hole arms skipped 10 and 13 sibling accepts of a lower free number on the way (hole_accepts; 10 and 14 in round 2), and then hit A's number. The COOP hijack arm's recv read the hijacker's payload in every run. No trial, on the head or the negative control, needed more than 2 of its 10 attempts, so none came near INCONCLUSIVE.
• The verdict mutant puts back round 1's rule, under which any sibling accept while the closer was parked was a hit. On the tree without the fix, the hole arms then PASS 10 of 10 with reused=false held_open=false: B filled the hole and A's released number was never tested. This is the reviewer's false pass (1 in 101 trials), made deterministic. Under the round-2 rule the same tree fails every trial.
• The noshut mutant shows the read-side shutdown is load-bearing. The linked recv's cancel misses, because the recv is not issued yet. Without SHUT_RD, that recv, once issued on A's own socket, waits for bytes that never come, so the kept number is never released (the 5 s backstop would force it).

The hijack arms explain the COOP-only failure:

• With single-shot recv, nothing is owed at a hijack (op_owed=+0 in every run), because the recv that brought the request has completed.
• A multishot recv is owed. On a DEFER_TASKRUN ring its completion waits for the enter, so the queued cancel wins either way.
• On a ring without DEFER_TASKRUN (the high tier's COOP_TASKRUN build, which kernels before 6.1 get), the completion runs at the worker's next syscall return, before that enter.

The CI job's own steps, run on the laptop

The recv-theft job's steps, and the zc-window job's one step, were extracted verbatim from each tree's ci.yml (scripts/r3-ci_step.sh, round 2's scripts/ci_step.sh). Only the sudo prlimit line is dropped: docker's --ulimit does its job, at 8 MiB for the #798 step, as on the runner.

step	tree	result
1, the trials	head bf129c8	rc=0: 45 of 45 PASS
1, the trials	negative control, round 2	rc=1: 20 of 45 PASS; ArmA, ArmAHole, Linked, LinkedHole and Coop FAIL 5/5 each
2, the detector control	head bf129c8	rc=0: ArmA, ArmAHole, Linked, LinkedHole and Coop each 3 result lines, all 3 detecting the theft, 0 PASS; Control, SingleShot, MultishotDefer PASS 3/3 (the fdowed mutant, its anchor updated to the new fdOwed)
2, the detector control	head + verdict mutant, round 2	rc=1: ArmAHole and LinkedHole detected 0 of 3 and PASS 3/3. A regression of the hit rule turns this step red
3, the #798 SEND_ZC tests (new)	head bf129c8	rc=0: 6 of 6 PASS (15 of 15 cases), memlock 8 MiB
3, the #798 SEND_ZC tests	#798 negative control	rc=1: 0 of 6 PASS, 21 FAIL lines (every case of every run)
zc-window (#587 window test and its detachMu mutant)	head bf129c8	rc=0: fixed and ZC-off 3/3 PASS with no race report; the #587 mutant applies and is killed 3/3, each by its own DATA RACE report

The detector control now judges a mutant run by its result line, not by its --- FAIL line. A close-path trial must report hit=true reused=true stolen=true, and the Coop arm op_owed=+1 hijacker_read=false. An INCONCLUSIVE run, a setup t.Fatal or a race report fails the test without detecting anything, and the step no longer counts that as a detection.

CI (GitHub-hosted, both arches), the recv-theft job

run	head	x86	arm64
36365755720, failing first (round 1): the tests and the job, no engine change	943d54b	RED: ArmA FAIL 5/5, Linked FAIL 5/5, Control PASS 5/5, ArmC PASS 5/5	RED, the same
36375991980 (round 2)	e48adee	green: all 9 trials PASS 5/5 (45/45). Detector control under fdowed: ArmA, ArmAHole, Linked, LinkedHole and Coop each 3 result lines, all 3 detecting the theft, 0 PASS; Control, SingleShot and MultishotDefer PASS 3/3	green, the same
36385419739	bf129c8	green: all 9 trials PASS 5/5 (45/45); the detector control the same as round 2's; the #798 step 6 of 6 PASS (15 of 15 cases), no SKIP	green, the same

The whole CI run 36385419739 on bf129c8 is green: Unit, Adaptive, Lint (actionlint and zizmor over the workflow), Build on both OSes, Conformance, Driver Conformance, the init-failure job, both SEND_ZC window jobs and both recv-theft jobs. Coverage (36385419741) is a separate workflow run, also green. Round 2's run was 36375991980.

Natural load, no holds, no validation tag

This is #715's skeptic test TestSkeptic715NaturalProd, taken verbatim from the skeptic's patch. It runs for 20 s:

• 8 client goroutines send async Connection: close requests;
• 32 client goroutines send a fresh connection each with one request;
• the server has two workers.

A request counts as lost if it is never answered (B) or its connection is never closed (A).

tree	runs (unc + ci)	requests	lost	stale_recv_data_closed
head bf129c8	3 + 2	3,156,157	0	0
head, round 2 (e48adee)	3 + 2	4,462,865	0	0
negative control, round 2	3 + 2	3,450,914	1,137	1,137
main dfd044f, round 2	3 + 2	3,752,908	1,196	1,196

In every run without the fix, stale_recv_data_closed equals the lost count exactly, and it is nonzero in each run: 176 to 270 per 20 s run.

Whole suites on the head (bf129c8, laptop)

package	shape	top-level PASS	FAIL	SKIP
./engine/iouring/	m8 (CI unit: 8 MiB, one worker, -race)	219	0	5, exactly the five the unit step allows (the three #656 and two synack=0 tests, which other steps run)
./engine/iouring/	memlock unlimited, -race, CELERIS_REQUIRE_IOURING_WORKERS=1	222	0	2 (the synack=0 pair, which needs its sysctl)
./engine/iouring/, -tags=validation	the same	233	0	2 (the same)
./adaptive/	memlock unlimited, -race, CELERIS_REQUIRE_UPSWITCH=1, CI's -skip	95	0	0
./adaptive/	m8, -race	91	0	4, the same four as round 2's head and main dfd044f in this shape

The engine/iouring counts are round 2's plus the two new tests. In round 2, the m8 ./adaptive/ row came from a second run. The first (04:52Z) stopped at TestIdleConnsFollowSwitchRevertSync: the lazy io_uring standby's ring setup failed with ENOMEM ("likely RLIMIT_MEMLOCK"), the switch was aborted, and the test dereferenced the missing sub-engine (a nil-pointer panic in the test, at idle_follow_switch_test.go:202), which ended the package run.

• Another lane's container, with memlock unlimited, was running at the time. Root containers on this laptop share uid 0's locked-memory accounting, so its rings count against an 8 MiB container's limit.
• Re-run with a docker ps sidecar and interleaved with main, the four IdleConnsFollowSwitch tests passed 40/40 on the head and 40/40 on main. The whole package then matched main exactly.
• The test's panic on an aborted switch is main's (fix(engine): sweep the connections a switch leaves behind, instead of waiting for each to send again (celeris#657) #687), and is flagged for a separate fix.

Cross-check with #712 (PR #767)

#767's four park FIN tests were added to a copy of each tree, with no #767 engine change.

tree	shapes	TestParkedWorkerSendsFINFor{AHeaderTimeout,AReadTimeout}Close	TestRunningWorker…, TestParkedAsyncWorker…
head bf129c8	m8 × 5, unc × 5	PASS 10/10 each	PASS 10/10 each
negative control, round 2	m8 × 5	FAIL 5/5 each (no FIN while parked, as #767 reports on main)	PASS 5/5 each

This follows from the park gate. A close with its recv owed now keeps the descriptor until that recv's terminal CQE, and the worker does not park before then, so the close(2), and with it the FIN, happens before the park. #767's pre-park flush remains correct on top of this, and the two PRs merge in either order; rebasing one onto the other conflicts only in the park block of run(). The reverse also holds: with the gate term removed (the round-2 reviewer's mutant M2), these two #767 tests fail 3/3 while every test of this PR passes (#798 item 2).

Cost

Measured in round 2, on e48adee against its negative control. Round 3 adds no syscall and was not re-timed (see "Round 3"). Two instruments, each with the overlay bench/zz_bench685_close_test.go, which compiles against both trees:

• Close685: one close per iteration on a synthetic worker with a real ring, on an AF_UNIX socketpair (not TCP). The recv SQE is placed and not submitted (owed=yes), or not placed at all (owed=no). Each iteration then runs closeConn, one loop iteration's worth of ring work, and drainPendingRelease.
• Churn685: an in-process engine and a loopback TCP client. Each iteration dials, sends one Connection: close request, and reads to EOF.

Timing ran under the laptop's timing lock, with no other container on the host (containers=0; macOS load average 3.4 to 4.5 is recorded per round in META.txt). There were 20 interleaved rounds per tree, each --cpus 4 with -count=1, and benchstat compared them (bench/close685-r2-r20/).

benchmark	base	head	delta	syscalls per close, base → head (strace -f -c, 2,001 iterations × 2)	MDE at n=20
Close685/fast/owed=yes	3.638 µs ± 1%	3.815 µs ± 1%	+4.87% (p=0.000), about 177 ns	shutdown 0 → 1.000; close 2.004, io_uring_enter 1.000 on both	1.3%
Close685/fast/owed=no	2.962 µs	2.962 µs	~ (p=0.703)	identical (close 2.004)	0.6%
Close685/detached/owed=yes	3.704 µs	3.726 µs	~ (p=0.387)	identical: shutdown 1.000 on both (SHUT_WR becomes SHUT_RDWR)	1.0%
Close685/detached/owed=no	3.069 µs	3.079 µs	~ (p=0.597)	identical	1.3%
Churn685/sync	40.24 µs ± 10%	38.85 µs ± 9%	~ (p=0.108)	identical: close 2.03, no shutdown, io_uring_enter 4.83 to 4.90 per request on both	9.9%
Churn685/async	79.76 µs ± 5%	81.24 µs ± 3%	~ (p=0.640)	identical: close 2.03, shutdown 1.000, io_uring_enter 6.07 to 6.58 per request on both	4.8%

• The close count is 2 per close because a socketpair has two ends; the extra 0.004 is setup.
• The MDE column is the shift a two-sided Mann-Whitney test detects with 80% power at these n, from each row's robust spread (scripts/mde.py).
• Allocations are unchanged in every row.
• An earlier 10-round run of the same trees (bench/close685-r2-r10/) had the same medians. Its fast/owed=yes row came out at p=0.089, because three base samples were outliers (3.88, 4.06 and 4.91 µs against a 3.63 µs median). That is why the run was repeated at 20 rounds.

The only measurable cost is the fast path's shutdown(SHUT_RD), and only a close with a recv owed pays it. No io_uring_enter is added on any close path; a hijack with an op owed adds one, and nothing is owed at a single-shot hijack.

How often each path is taken was measured with rate/zz_rate685_test.go on bf129c8, in the unc and ci shapes (identical counts, the same as round 2's):

closes	CloseFDDeferred
2,000 sync-mode Connection: close closes	0
2,000 async Connection: close closes	2,000
200 idle-timeout closes	200

CloseFDForced and StaleRecvDataClosed were 0 throughout.

So:

• the sync churn path never pays;
• the async path, which takes the deferral on every close, pays no extra syscall;
• only server-side closes with a recv armed on the fast path pay the one shutdown.

The laptop churn rows cannot exclude a regression below about 5% (async) or 10% (sync). The bare-metal A/B, on both arches, is queued for the cluster as the lane 685 row of evidence/_queue/cluster.tsv ("queued (lane 685)"). It follows the #674 A/B template:

• a same-run ABA: main at the PR's merge-base, this PR, and a main twin;
• churn-close plus four keep-alive rows, on iouring-h1-sync, iouring-h1-async and adaptive-h1-async, with epoll-h1-async as the untouched control;
• compare_arms.py's floors, measured in-run for each arch.

Its PASS rule also covers churn-close client errors and connection resets, StaleRecvDataClosed and CloseFDForced.

The #715 trial, adapted

Arm A used to count a hit only when the sibling accepted B on the exact number the close had freed. A fix that keeps the number allocated leaves the sibling nothing to take there, so every attempt would read INCONCLUSIVE. Round 1 then counted any sibling accept while the closer was parked, on whatever number, and that was too loose. When a free number lay below A's, B filled it, A's released number was never tested, and a tree without the fix could pass (1 of 101 review trials).

Round 2's rule (theftHit): a sibling accept tests the theft only when

• it was given A's number (reused: the close released it; the sibling is then parked with B's recv prepared), or
• A's number still named A's socket when the closer parked (held_by_a: getpeername on the number returns A's local address). The close kept the number, no accept could be given it, and B must be served.

Any other sibling accept filled a lower hole. It is skipped (hole_accepts) and the next candidate is dialed. The judge also fails a hit that is neither, as a belt. The trial records:

• reused, held_open (the number named a socket), held_by_a;
• released: a kept number released after the closer's release;
• hole and hole_accepts.

Two more changes:

• The *Hole arms close one undialed candidate, whose number is below A's, once the closer is parked. So every one of their trials exercises the rule.
• waitEngineQuiet: each attempt starts only when the engine has accepted every connection the trial dialed and holds none of them. A candidate a missed attempt left in the closer's accept queue used to be accepted and closed after the next attempt's hole fill, which is where the natural holes came from.

The verdict itself is unchanged: B answered, and no stale recv carrying B's bytes. On the tree without the fix, every trial of all four close-path arms fails with reused=true stolen=true (130 of 130 across the runs above). Under round 1's rule, the hole arms pass that tree every time.

Deadlocks and locks

No lock is added or taken on any new path. The round-2 changes are test and CI changes only. Round 3's change takes no lock either: the shutdown drain's note is local to the drain, and handleSend is unchanged.

• The close paths add only syscalls: shutdown, and the deferred close.
• completeSend calls finishCloseAny while holding cs.detachMu, as before; nothing new there takes a lock.
• endOwedOpsAtShutdown runs on the worker thread with no lock held, before shutdownDrivers takes driverMu. It is also before waitDriverCloses (fix(iouring): close a driver conn's engine descriptor off the worker, and fire onClose after the close (celeris#735) #744), which waits for the driver closes handed off the worker; neither waits on the other.
• The park gate reads a worker-local counter next to the existing flags, outside wakeMu.

Not covered, and residuals

• Worker shutdown and the ENOBUFS re-arm (multishot recv) are covered by construction only: no trial fails without endOwedOpsAtShutdown, and none reaches the ENOBUFS re-arm (Follow-ups from #793: a SEND_ZC notification counted as an owed op, the unpinned park gate and shutdown drain, and two counter/exit nits #798 item 3).
• The park gate is pinned only by test(iouring): regression arms for #712 (fixed by #793) #767's park FIN tests, not by a test in this PR (Follow-ups from #793: a SEND_ZC notification counted as an owed op, the unpinned park gate and shutdown drain, and two counter/exit nits #798 item 2).
• A SEND_ZC notification that never arrives still leaves its connState to the 5 s backstop, which releases it with a WARN, as on main. Only the descriptor no longer waits for it (round 3).
• Fixed files (off, io_uring: fixed-file support is unimplemented behind a malformed accept SQE — readiness checklist before it can be enabled #541) keep their own CLOSE_DIRECT. fdOwed is false for them.
• io_uring: every async cancel fails with -EINVAL on Linux 5.10-5.18 (IORING_ASYNC_CANCEL flags are 5.19+) #682 (5.10-5.18 kernels whose cancels fail) is not fixed here. Its close-path symptom improves: an owed recv now ends at the read-side shutdown instead of lingering.
• adaptive: after the epoll→io_uring promote, a fresh connection's request is read off its socket and never answered (h2c closed at the 10 s header deadline, WS handshake timeout; 7 events, mechanism not attributed) #715 stays open until a no-fault container leg on this fix shows 0 events.

Evidence

Everything is under evidence/celeris-685/.

Round 3's numbers are all in TALLY-r3.txt, regenerated by scripts/tally_all_r3.sh (scripts/r3-tally798.py reads the new tests' result lines):

• logs/r3-*;
• CI: ci/TALLY-r3-36385419739.txt (scripts/r3-ci_tally.sh), ci/r3-36384232278-unit.log (failing first) and ci/r3-36384921184-zcwindow.txt;
• scripts/:
  • r3-run.sh and r3-chain.sh, with r3-list1.txt (failing first) and r3-list-final.txt: one container at a time, slot owner lane-685b;
  • r3-cisteps-final.sh, with r3-ci_step.sh and r3-extract_ci_step.py: the CI steps, extracted verbatim;
  • mkneg798.sh: the cp-revert tree; mkmut798.sh: the three mutants.

Runs on 717155e and cd03600 are in logs/r3-superseded/ and are not cited.

Round 2's numbers are all in TALLY-r2.txt, regenerated by scripts/tally_all_r2.sh (scripts/tally.py for the logs, scripts/ci_tally.sh for CI, scripts/strace_tally.py for the syscall counts). TALLY.txt is round 1's, on 91a8824, and is superseded.

• logs/r2-*, ci/TALLY-36375991980.txt, bench/close685-r2-r10/;
• scripts/:
  • run.sh, in-container.sh, chain.sh with r2-list1.txt and r2-list2.txt, r2-cisteps.sh: every run above, one container at a time through the laptop slot lock;
  • mkneg.sh: the cp-revert tree; mkmut.sh: the fdowed and noshut mutants; mkverdict.sh: round 1's hit rule;
  • ci_step.sh, extract_ci_step.py, mkcopy.sh: the CI job's steps, extracted verbatim;
  • mknat.sh and natural/, mkx712.sh and x712/, mkrate.sh and rate/;
  • bench.sh and bench/, strace.sh and strace-in.sh.

Round 1's logs/head-trials-unc20.log ends in a bash parse error, because in-container.sh was edited while that run was in progress. Its trials had all passed, but the committed script did not produce that log. It is not cited here. Every round-2 and round-3 log ends with go_test_rc (or the step's rc) and docker rc.

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io_uring close, hijack, and shutdown paths now retain descriptors while kernel operations can still name them. The change adds receive-theft validation, Linux tests, deferred and forced close metrics, and repeated CI checks.

Changes

io_uring descriptor lifetime

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track descriptor-naming operations engine/iouring/worker.go, engine/iouring/fd_lifetime.go, engine/iouring/conn.go, engine/iouring/ring.go, engine/iouring/handoff_loss.go, engine/engine.go, engine/iouring/engine.go, adaptive/engine.go, adaptive/handoff_loss_metrics_test.go, engine/iouring/handoff_loss_metrics_test.go	Close paths distinguish operations that still name the descriptor from operations that retain connection state. Metrics report deferred and forced closes, and adaptive metrics aggregate both counters.
Drain owed operations during shutdown engine/iouring/fd_lifetime.go, engine/iouring/worker.go, engine/iouring/fd_lifetime_close_test.go, engine/iouring/fd_probe_linux_test.go	Shutdown drains descriptor-naming operations before closing descriptors. Tests cover close timing, shutdown, SEND_ZC notifications, and descriptor probes.
Instrument and exercise receive-theft interleavings internal/recvtheft/*, engine/iouring/conn.go, engine/iouring/ring.go, engine/iouring/worker.go, engine/iouring/handoff_loss.go, engine/iouring/recv_theft_*_linux_test.go	Validation hooks record close, accept, promotion, hijack, and stale-recv events. Linux tests exercise hijack, linked-recv, async-handoff, and production-build cases.
Run repeated and mutation-control checks .github/workflows/ci.yml, .github/scripts/mutant-685-release-owed-fd.py	CI repeats validation tests on two Ubuntu architectures, checks SEND_ZC cases, and verifies that theft tests detect a disabled fd-lifetime rule.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested labels: enhancement

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7ed3a

Under SQPOLL, an outstanding receive may take bytes intended for a hijacked connection. Address that narrow risk before merging, or explicitly accept it; the shutdown test also retains a tight timing bound.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7ed3a

The normal close and shutdown paths now keep descriptor numbers allocated until pending operations have finished, reducing the risk of one connection consuming another’s data. Exceptional timeout paths still release descriptors before completion, so the protection is not absolute; no new or worsened security exposure was established.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The relevant exposure is across connections sharing the process descriptor table: if a number is released while an old receive can still resolve it, that receive may consume bytes from a successor connection. The evidence does not establish a tenant boundary.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• observed — The exceptional backstop can close a retained descriptor while an operation remains owed. Shutdown likewise closes retained descriptors after its bounded drain, regardless of the drain result. These are residual exceptions to the new protection, not established PR-introduced findings.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Hijack rejects fixed-file and pending-send connections, cancels outstanding operations, and submits owed operations before handing off the socket on the currently selected non-SQPOLL path.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — The worker records a forced-close counter when the pending-release backstop closes a descriptor with operations outstanding, making that exception distinguishable from an ordinary deferred close.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Before enabling SQPOLL or changing close backstops, validate cancellation-through-handoff and shutdown ordering for unresolved receives, and monitor forced closes as a breach of the normal descriptor-lifetime invariant.

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✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title uses the required Conventional Commit format, uses the valid type fix, clearly describes the io_uring descriptor-lifetime change, and ends with (celeris#685).
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the descriptor-lifetime fix, affected close, hijack, shutdown, and SEND_ZC paths, tests, metrics, linked issues, and validation results.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	[#685] fd_lifetime.go applies the descriptor-number rule to close and shutdown paths. worker.go retains an owed descriptor until descriptor-naming operations drain, separates SEND_ZC notification …
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changed production code, metrics, validation instrumentation, mutation script, CI job, and tests support descriptor lifetime, close, shutdown, hijack, SEND_ZC, or descriptor-reuse detection for [#…

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Round 2: response to the review

Head e48adee, rebased on main dfd044f (#745, #744 and #746; git merge-tree was clean, and the product diff is unchanged). Everything was re-measured on this head. The body is rewritten with round-2 numbers only.

Major: the trials' hit rule could pass a tree without the fix (fixed, failing-first)

The reviewer's diagnosis is right. The trials counted any sibling accept while the closer was parked as a hit. When a free number lay below A's, the sibling accepted B there, and A's released number was never tested (b_fd=13 under fd=27).

Where the holes came from. A candidate that a missed attempt left in the closer's accept queue was accepted only once the closer was released. Its close then landed after the next attempt had filled the holes. A round-2 smoke on the negative control, run before waitEngineQuiet below existed (logs/r2smoke-neg-hole.log), showed it directly: one attempt skipped 4 such accepts (14, 16, 17 and 18, all under 27) after two misses.

The fix, in e48adee (tests and CI only; no engine change):

• theftHit: a sibling accept tests the theft only when it was given A's number, or when A's number still named A's socket at the hold. The latter is held_by_a: getpeername on the number returns A's local address, which is stricter than round 1's /proc/self/fd "is a socket" check. Any other sibling accept filled a hole; it is logged as hole_accepts, skipped, and the next candidate is dialed. The judge also fails a hit that is neither reused nor held_by_a, in case the rule is ever loosened again.
• TestRecvTheft715ArmAHole and TestRecvTheft685LinkedHole close one undialed candidate, whose number is below A's, once the closer is parked. The hole is there in every trial, so the rule is tested every time, not in 1% of trials.
• waitEngineQuiet: an attempt starts only when the engine has accepted every connection the trial dialed and holds none of them. Before, the only condition was that it held none. On the negative control, plain arm A then skipped 0 hole accepts in 70 trials.
• The CI detector control judges each mutant run by its result line: hit=true reused=true stolen=true for the four close-path trials, and op_owed=+1 hijacker_read=false for Coop. It no longer counts a bare --- FAIL, which an INCONCLUSIVE run, a setup t.Fatal or a race report also produce. Both hole arms join the trials step and the judged set.

Failing-first for the rule. scripts/mkverdict.sh puts round 1's rule back (the verdict mutant):

tree	shape × count	ArmAHole	LinkedHole	ArmA	Linked
negative control + verdict mutant	ci × 10	PASS 10/10, reused=false held_open=false: the false pass, deterministic	PASS 10/10, the same	FAIL 10/10	FAIL 10/10
negative control (round-2 rule)	ci × 10	FAIL 10/10, reused=true stolen=true	FAIL 10/10, the same	FAIL 10/10	FAIL 10/10
negative control	ci × 60 / × 30			FAIL 60/60	FAIL 30/30
head	ci × 10, unc × 10	PASS 20/20, held_by_a=true	PASS 20/20, the same	PASS 20/20	PASS 20/20

Every negative-control trial found its hit within 2 of its 10 attempts. That covers 165 trials across the negative control and the fdowed mutant, so INCONCLUSIVE is not a practical risk for the detector step.

The detector step catches a regression of the rule. Both steps of the recv-theft job, extracted verbatim from the tree's ci.yml (scripts/ci_step.sh), were run on the laptop:

• step 1 on the head: rc=0, 45 of 45 PASS;
• step 1 on the negative control: rc=1, 20 of 45 PASS; ArmA, ArmAHole, Linked, LinkedHole and Coop FAIL 5/5 each;
• step 2 on the head: rc=0, all five judged trials detected 3 of 3;
• step 2 on the head + verdict mutant: rc=1, ArmAHole and LinkedHole detected 0 of 3 and PASS 3/3.

CI: 36375991980 at e48adee is green on both arches. The trials passed 45/45 per arch. In the detector control, each of the five judged trials had 3 result lines, all 3 detecting the theft, and 0 PASS; the three controls passed 3/3.

Minors and nits

• Engine minors (the SEND_ZC notification counted as owed, the unpinned park gate, the shutdown drain with no failing test, EBUSY in the drain, the deferred-close batch): filed as Follow-ups from #793: a SEND_ZC notification counted as an owed op, the unpinned park gate and shutdown drain, and two counter/exit nits #798 (v1.6.0), with the reviewers' evidence and a suggested fix for each. The body now says that CloseFDForced must stay 0 except with SEND_ZC on (Follow-ups from #793: a SEND_ZC notification counted as an owed op, the unpinned park gate and shutdown drain, and two counter/exit nits #798 item 1). It also says the shutdown drain is covered by construction only, and the park gate only by test(iouring): regression arms for #712 (fixed by #793) #767's tests (Follow-ups from #793: a SEND_ZC notification counted as an owed op, the unpinned park gate and shutdown drain, and two counter/exit nits #798 items 2 and 3).

• Shutdown and ENOBUFS have no failing-first evidence: the table in the body now has a "shown by" column. The shutdown row reads "by construction only"; the ENOBUFS re-arm is item 3 of Follow-ups from #793: a SEND_ZC notification counted as an owed op, the unpinned park gate and shutdown drain, and two counter/exit nits #798.

• The cluster row: rewritten (evidence/_queue/cluster.tsv, lane 685 row). It now follows the fix(engine): keep serving on a paused listener for 1.5 s with TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT cleared, so a switch or PauseAccept no longer resets clients that had not yet sent a request (celeris#662, #675) #674 A/B template:

  • an ABA design with an in-run twin: main = the PR's merge-base at dispatch, the PR head, and a main twin;
  • B defined as the merge-base at dispatch, not a fixed main;
  • client errors and connection resets added to the PASS rule, next to StaleRecvDataClosed and CloseFDForced;
  • adaptive sync dropped;
  • compare_arms.py's pre-registered floors in place of the borrowed ~1.5%.

• The cost section: re-measured on the rebased trees, at 20 rounds under the timing lock. Close685/fast/owed=yes is +4.87% (p=0.000); every other row is ~. The section now also carries:

  • strace -c counts per close: the only change is shutdown 0 → 1.000 on fast/owed=yes, and close and io_uring_enter are identical on every row;
  • the minimum detectable effect of each row at n=20: Close685 0.6 to 1.3%, churn async 4.8%, churn sync 9.9%;
  • the fact that Close685 runs on AF_UNIX socketpairs;
  • the hijack enter.

  A first 10-round run had the same medians, but three outliers put fast/owed=yes at p=0.089, which is why the run was repeated. Both are in bench/.

• One whole-suite run failed and did not recur. The first m8 ./adaptive/ run stopped at TestIdleConnsFollowSwitchRevertSync. The lazy io_uring standby hit ENOMEM (memlock) while another lane's memlock-unlimited container was running; root containers here share uid 0's locked-memory accounting. The test then dereferenced the missing sub-engine (a panic in main's fix(engine): sweep the connections a switch leaves behind, instead of waiting for each to send again (celeris#657) #687 test, flagged for a separate fix). Re-run interleaved with main and logged with a docker ps sidecar: 40/40 on the head, 40/40 on main, and the whole package at 91/0/4 on both.

• Evidence hygiene:

  • Round 1's head-trials-unc20.log does end with a bash parse error: in-container.sh was edited while that run was in progress. None of round 2's logs has that problem; each ends with go_test_rc and docker rc.
  • Coverage is its own workflow run, and the body now links it separately.

Evidence: evidence/celeris-685/TALLY-r2.txt (scripts/tally_all_r2.sh), logs/r2-*, ci/TALLY-36375991980.txt, bench/close685-r2-r10/, and the round-2 scripts mkverdict.sh, ci_step.sh, extract_ci_step.py, mkcopy.sh, strace.sh and the r2-* run lists.

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engine/iouring/worker.go (1)

4251-4253: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial

Measure deferred-close overhead before merge.

fdOwed can defer close(2) until the terminal CQE. closeFDOwed can prevent worker parking, and idle iterations can call time.Now(). The H1 close path can also add shutdown(SHUT_RD). These operations add work during connection churn.

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• .github/workflows/ci.yml
• adaptive/engine.go
• engine/iouring/engine.go
• engine/iouring/worker.go

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