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fix(iouring): leave a conn whose dispatch goroutine exited to close it, or upgraded it to h2c, to its queued exit (celeris#780) - #799

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#765 (celeris#758) made rerunHandOff leave a promoted async conn to its dispatch goroutine's claim when the goroutine has cleared asyncRun but not yet enqueued the claim. The goroutine's other exits have the same shape: they clear asyncRun under asyncInMu, unlock, and only then enqueue cs.

exit set before asyncRun is cleared what the queued entry does
processErr (a handler error, a write error, Connection: close), the panic exit, the error after a Detach asyncClosed closeConn(cs.fd)
h2c upgrade protocol H2C (by switchToH2Local), or asyncClosed if the switch or the 101 write failed asyncH2Promoted: h2Conns, markDirty

rerunHandOff (a reap retry, or a reap landing) and tryTransplant's async branch read only asyncRun and the claim. A hand-off run in that window:

  • a close exit: handed the conn off, and then the queued asyncClosed entry ran closeConn(cs.fd) on the number the hand-off had just closed. The next accept can hold that number: another client's connection is closed.
  • the h2c exit: handed an H2C conn to the HTTP/1 epoll target.

This PR is item 1 and item 2's celeris half of #780. Fixes #780

Failing-first

The new tests drive the real drain, reap, retry and hand-off code on one promoted conn of an fdlFixture, with the kernel taken out of the loop. The exit window is an input, not a race to win. They are the issue's review probe, turned into regression tests, plus the landing site for the h2c exit and two arms for tryTransplant:

  • TestReapRerunLeavesAnExitingDispatchToItsExit: the reap retry and the reap landing, each against the close exit and the h2c exit, plus the ordering control (the exit's enqueue lands before the drain).
  • TestTryTransplantLeavesAClosingAsyncConnAlone: a completion's tryTransplant in the close exit's window, with the recv armed (it placed a reap, whose landing handed the conn off) and with the recv arm dropped by a full SQ ring (it handed the conn off on the spot).

A decoy connection is dup3'd onto the number a hand-off closes, as the next accept would take it.

The failing-first run is main dfd044f with the test file added by -overlay, byte-identical to this PR's (sha256 3811b842…, both hashes in 780/logs/ff-test.sha256). -race -v -count=3, Docker linux/arm64, 4 CPUs, in two shapes: m8 is CI's (8 MiB memlock, one io_uring worker), unl has unlimited memlock.

subtest main m8 main unl this PR m8 (-count=10) this PR unl (-count=10)
close_exit_enqueued_before_the_retry_drain_CONTROL PASS 3/3 PASS 3/3 PASS 10/10 PASS 10/10
close_exit_retry_between_unlock_and_enqueue FAIL 3/3 FAIL 3/3 PASS 10/10 PASS 10/10
h2c_exit_retry_between_unlock_and_enqueue FAIL 3/3 FAIL 3/3 PASS 10/10 PASS 10/10
close_exit_reap_lands_before_the_drain FAIL 3/3 FAIL 3/3 PASS 10/10 PASS 10/10
h2c_exit_reap_lands_before_the_drain FAIL 3/3 FAIL 3/3 PASS 10/10 PASS 10/10
TestTryTransplantLeavesAClosingAsyncConnAlone/recv_armed FAIL 3/3 FAIL 3/3 PASS 10/10 PASS 10/10
TestTryTransplantLeavesAClosingAsyncConnAlone/recv_dropped FAIL 3/3 FAIL 3/3 PASS 10/10 PASS 10/10

0 data races in all four logs. What main did, identical in all 6 runs (the celeris780 lines):

arm main this PR
close exit, retry adopted=1, the decoy on the reused number closed by the queued entry adopted=0, the conn closed by its entry
h2c exit, retry adopted=1 (an H2C conn handed to the HTTP/1 target) adopted=0, and the queued entry finishes the upgrade (h2Conns=[6])
close / h2c exit, landing adopted=1 adopted=0
tryTransplant, recv armed a reap placed, adopted=1 when it landed, the decoy closed no reap, adopted=0
tryTransplant, recv dropped adopted=1 at once, the decoy closed adopted=0

One difference from the issue's probe: on main the h2c arm shows h2Conns=[] and no stale dirty entry, where the probe (at #765's head) showed h2Conns=[6]. #745, merged since, added the one-owner slot check to drainDetachQueue before the h2c branch, so the queued asyncH2Promoted entry of a handed-off conn is now skipped, as the issue predicted. The hand-off itself was not stopped by it, and that is what the arm fails on.

Logs: 780/logs/ff-dfd044f-{m8,unl}.log, 780/logs/fix-a83e045-new-{m8,unl}.log.

The fix

rerunHandOff (fd_lifetime.go): after running and claimed, it also leaves the conn alone when asyncClosed is set or its protocol is not HTTP/1. Both are published before the goroutine clears asyncRun, so reading them under asyncInMu after seeing it clear is ordered. asyncH2Promoted is stored after the unlock, so it is not used. The claim check stays first, so TransplantClaimDeferred counts exactly what it counted.

tryTransplant's async branch (transplant_source.go): it also returns when asyncClosed is set, read in the same asyncInMu section. The h2c exit needs no check there: the protocol gate below it refuses an H2C conn.

Item 3 of the issue (the more general rule: act only on a hand-off the worker took from a drained claim) is not done. The two fields cover every exit the goroutine has today: processErr, panic, post-Detach error, h2c switched or failed. The revert to inline (celeris#364) is not an exit of this kind: it clears asyncPromoted, so rerunHandOff takes the tryTransplant path, which owns an inline conn.

Also item 2's celeris half: the comment on TestSweepDoesNotReClaimAnAsyncHandoff now gives TransplantClaimDeferred #765's meaning. The probatorium half (report/engine_counter.go, the engine_transplant_claim_deferred Counts string, still the old wording on probatorium main 6ce66eb) is goceleris/probatorium#453 (draft). Item 4 (the ClaimDeferred = 2 pin) is untouched: this PR does not change that test.

Controls

Run by 780/suite.sh (stage ctl) with tools/run_mutants.sh, m8, -race, each an -overlay of the fix head's files (the tree is never edited). NEG is main's two files, copied from the pristine main worktree.

control what it removes verdict subtests that fail
NEG the whole fix KILLED all 6 window arms (8 FAIL lines); the control passes
M1 rerunHandOff's exit check KILLED the 4 retry and landing arms
M2 rerunHandOff reads only the protocol KILLED the 2 close-exit arms
M3 rerunHandOff reads only asyncClosed KILLED the 2 h2c-exit arms
M4 tryTransplant's asyncClosed check KILLED the 2 tryTransplant arms

Each part of the fix is needed, and each arm catches only the part it is about. Log: 780/logs/controls-m8.log.

Suites

Docker linux/arm64, 4 CPUs, seccomp=unconfined, at this head (a83e045); logs 780/logs/.

suite shape PASS FAIL SKIP data races rc
./engine/iouring -race -v m8 (1 worker) 348 0 5 0 0
./engine/iouring -race -v unl 351 0 2 0 0
./adaptive/... -race -v unl 115 0 0 0 0
root package -race -v m8 544 0 4 0 0

Every skip is the environment's: at m8 the three TestListenCloses… init-failure tests need two workers' memlock; in both shapes the two TestPauseAccept…SynackRetriesZero tests need net.ipv4.tcp_synack_retries=0 (the VM reads 5); in the root package the three io_uring TestAdaptiveSettledRouteRetime592 subtests skip at 8 MiB (#709), and TestRouteAdaptive_SettleReopenCost is opt-in.

Cost

None on the per-request path. rerunHandOff runs only for a reap retry or a reap landing, which exist only while an io_uring→epoll drain is set. tryTransplant runs after a completion only while a drain is set (w.transplant.Load() != nil). Each gains one atomic load (two in rerunHandOff) inside a lock section it already takes. No new lock, no read-modify-write.

Follow-ups

The review's minor findings and nits are in #816:

  • assert the h2c arms' intended outcome (the conn keeps its slot and is registered on h2Conns), not only that no hand-off happened;
  • write down the exit contract endDispatch relies on;
  • add a witness that the retry arms reach rerunHandOff;
  • one failure on the merged tree that the review could not attribute;
  • two flakes it saw on main.

Reproduce

Every number above comes from evidence/lanes-20260927/EP-3/780/suite.sh (stages ff fix ctl pkg amd64), 780/make_mutants.sh and tools/{run.sh,run_mutants.sh,tally.sh,pertest.sh,lint.sh} in the probatorium evidence tree. The runner takes a laptop slot per container, one container at a time.

…t, or upgraded it to h2c, to its queued exit (celeris#780)

A reap retry, a reap landing (rerunHandOff) and tryTransplant's async branch
read only asyncRun and the claim. The dispatch goroutine's processErr, panic
and h2c-upgrade exits clear asyncRun under asyncInMu and enqueue only after
unlocking, so a hand-off run in that window handed off a conn its goroutine
had asked to close (the queued close then ran closeConn on the number the
hand-off gave up) or an H2C conn to the HTTP/1 epoll target. rerunHandOff now
also leaves a conn with asyncClosed set or a protocol other than HTTP/1 to
its exit, and tryTransplant's async branch leaves one with asyncClosed set.

Also updates the TransplantClaimDeferred description in the comment on
TestSweepDoesNotReClaimAnAsyncHandoff to #765's widened meaning.
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The iouring hand-off paths now leave async connections on their queued close or H2C-upgrade exit paths when exit state is published before detach processing. Regression tests cover reap retries, reap landings, worker-side transplant attempts, and descriptor reuse. A sweep-test comment clarifies which events can encounter a transplant claim.

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Async hand-off exit windows

Layer / File(s) Summary
Guard reap hand-offs against exit state
engine/iouring/fd_lifetime.go, engine/iouring/handoff_exit_window_test.go, engine/iouring/sweep_unit_test.go
rerunHandOff checks the async close and protocol state before finishing a transplant. Regression tests cover reap retries and landings during close and H2C exit windows. The sweep-test comment includes retries and landings among events that can encounter a transplant claim.
Guard worker-side transplants
engine/iouring/transplant_source.go, engine/iouring/handoff_exit_window_test.go
tryTransplant checks asyncClosed under asyncInMu and returns for closed connections. Tests cover close exits with armed and dropped receives, including descriptor reuse.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 49ac1

The H2C hand-off concern is addressed by the existing protocol check. The receive-path measurement remains outstanding; obtain it or explicitly accept the bounded performance uncertainty before merging.

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  • observed — engine (service) was modified; 4 changed files map to changed impact.

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  • observed — Modified behavior in engine/iouring/handoff_exit_window_test.go: Adds a Linux-only test file with imports and comments describing the async-exit windows and regression cases covered.
  • observed — Modified behavior in engine/iouring/handoff_exit_window_test.go: Adds fixture and exit-state helpers that promote a connection, start a drain, then model close or H2C state publication before the detach enqueue.
  • observed — Modified behavior in engine/iouring/handoff_exit_window_test.go: Adds helpers to collect and land reap completions and to place a live replacement connection on a reused descriptor for close-safety checks.
  • observed — Modified behavior in engine/iouring/handoff_exit_window_test.go: Adds tests for reap retries and reap landings during close and H2C exit windows. The control case enqueues the exit before draining; window cases assert no hand-off of exiting connections, and the close case checks that the queued close does not affect a replacement connection.
🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4
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Check name Status Explanation
Title check ✅ Passed The title uses the required conventional-commit form, describes the iouring hand-off fix in plain words, and ends with the issue reference (celeris#780).
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the hand-off race, the affected code paths, the regression tests, and the reported validation results.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Issue #780 requirements are met. engine/iouring/fd_lifetime.go blocks rerunHandOff when asyncClosed is set or the protocol is no longer HTTP/1. engine/iouring/transplant_source.go checks `asyn…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed All changed files implement issue #780 guards, regression tests, or the requested TransplantClaimDeferred description. No unrelated change is demonstrated.

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Provide a measurement for the receive-CQE path.

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@coderabbitai About the nitpick in your review at 49ac1e7 (a measurement for the new atomic reads, fd_lifetime.go:228): rerunHandOff does not run on the per-request receive path. It runs only for a reap retry or a reap landing, and those exist only while an io_uring-to-epoll drain is set. The PR body's "Cost" section covers this. I recorded the nit in #816: #816 (comment)

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@FumingPower3925, the review did name the reap-landing and retry paths. My earlier reply was too broad when it said the nit was based on the wrong path. The error was calling those drain-only paths the “receive-CQE path” for a performance measurement. engine/iouring/fd_lifetime.go, Line 136 calls rerunHandOff on a reap landing. Line 273 calls it on a reap retry after the drain check. The measurement nit remains withdrawn.

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Follow-ups from #765: a reap retry hands off a conn in the dispatch goroutine's close and h2c exit windows, TransplantClaimDeferred wording

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