fix(epoll, iouring, std): graceful shutdown waits for the HTTP/2 streams on the shared worker pool, and std for its h2c streams (celeris#759)

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Rebased onto main c8400ba once #803 (celeris#753, merged as 5cafb08) and #807 (celeris#760, merged as c8400ba) had landed: the branch now carries only the #759 commits (round 1 and round 2; the stack's merge commits are gone). It uses std's drainCtx from #803 and epoll's shutdown drain budget (sendDrainWait) from #807. The reviewed head was 92d3271; the diff against main is that head's own change, line for line (the same lines 92d3271 adds and removes against #803 + #807's reviewed heads). The numbers below are from 92d3271 unless they say otherwise; 0df4ac2, on top, fixes one CodeRabbit finding (Fix, last bullet).

Defect

• epoll, io_uring, adaptive, a stream on an async route (Route.Async(), or a route Config.AsyncHandlers has made async): runHandler submits the stream to the shared H2 worker pool, and its response comes back through the connection's write queue, which only the event loop drains. At shutdown the loops cancelled the conn's streams and closed the fd under the handler: the client got unexpected EOF, and the OnShutdown hooks ran before the handler had finished.
• std, every h2c stream: h2c.NewHandler hijacks the connection and serves it on a one-off server, so http.Server.Shutdown waited for no h2c stream: the hooks ran, and a direct Shutdown returned, while the handler was still running.

Round 2 (review of round 1's fix):

• While the native engines waited for the pool handlers they kept their listeners, and accepted and served new connections (HTTP/1.1 and h2c) for up to the whole budget, then cut them at its end.
• The GOAWAY did not enforce its last-stream-id: a stream the client opened above it, which the client counts as not processed and may retry elsewhere (RFC 9113 §6.8), was served, so a non-idempotent request could run twice.
• A response still waiting for the client's WINDOW_UPDATE after its handler had returned looked settled, and the rest of it was cut (async and sync routes: any client with the default 64 KiB windows).
• A Shutdown ctx without a deadline got the 250 ms floor (fix(epoll): shutdown sends what the sockets have not taken yet before it closes the conns (celeris#760) #807's round-2 finding), on io_uring's copy of the bound too.

Fix

• protocol/h2/stream: the Processor counts its pool handlers (poolRunning, an atomic incremented before Submit and decremented after executeHandler has returned), records the GOAWAYs it sends (goAwaySent, goAwayLastID, on the frame-processing path under H2State.mu), refuses a stream above the last one named with RST_STREAM(REFUSED_STREAM) before its handler runs (its headers decoded all the same, so the HPACK state stays in step), and reports streams with outbound DATA buffered for WINDOW_UPDATE (OutboundPending). internal/conn: H2State.PoolHandlersRunning, OutboundPending, and GoAway, which sends GOAWAY(NO_ERROR, the last client stream) once the server preface is out.
• epoll and io_uring (and so adaptive): once its context is cancelled, a loop or worker sends every HTTP/2 connection GOAWAY and keeps turning, reading and writing as usual on the conns it has, until no HTTP/2 connection has a pool handler running, a response in its write queue, or DATA waiting for WINDOW_UPDATE (h2PoolSettled); then it shuts down as before. The wait is bounded as fix(epoll): shutdown sends what the sockets have not taken yet before it closes the conns (celeris#760) #807's send drain is: while the budget the last Engine.Shutdown handed over is live (until its deadline, or, for a ctx without one, until it is done), no longer than WriteTimeout, never less than 250 ms.
• Accepting stops: epoll closes its listener when its context is cancelled (stopAccepting), and never re-creates it after; io_uring cancels its accept and closes its listener when the wait for HTTP/2 begins (its 250 ms send drain without that wait still answers a connection that arrives inside it, as Server.Start / StartWithListener never return after Shutdown on io_uring and epoll: Listen blocks on a Background context and Engine.Shutdown is a no-op #595 designed; doing the cancel on every shutdown submitted the SQ ring early and fired queued driver closes as normal ones, TestDriverShutdownReleasesDescriptors).
• std: Bridge counts the HTTP/2 requests in their handler, and the drain, after http.Server.Shutdown, waits for that count to reach zero, bounded by the drain's context (fix(std): a cancel of StartWithContext's context keeps Config.ShutdownTimeout (celeris#753) #803).
• engine.Engine.Shutdown's and Server.Shutdown's docs say what the engines do now.
• At merge (CodeRabbit on the rebased head): the refusal no longer touches the stream after sendRSTStreamAndMarkClosed, which had already deleted it and put it back in the stream pool, so it wrote the state of whatever stream another connection had taken from the pool, and deleted this connection's stream with that stream's ID (0df4ac2). TestRefusedStreamIsLeftAloneOnceReleased (protocol/h2/stream) fails on 3f75937 ("ID 0, state Closed; want ID 0, Idle") and passes on 0df4ac2 (train9-20260929/808/fix-tests.log).

Failing first and controls

scripts/controls.sh 759 92d3271 1 <the tests> '. ./engine/iouring/' 759/variants-r2 unl (variant files built by 759/r2-variants.sh, copied over this PR's tree with cp; one container, linux/arm64, 4 CPUs, unlimited memlock; scripts/controls-table.py counts failing leaf subtests; log 759/controls/92d3271-variants-r2-unl.log):

variant	DriverShutdown ReleasesDescriptors (io_uring)	ShutdownAccepts NoNewConnection	ShutdownH2Pool WaitIsBounded	ShutdownRefuses StreamsAfterGoAway	ShutdownSendsH2GoAway ThenFinishesStreams	ShutdownWaitsFor FlowControlledH2Response
this PR (92d3271)	0/1	0/4	0/6	0/3	0/9	0/8
m1	0/1	3/4	0/6	0/3	0/9	0/8
m2	0/1	0/4	0/6	3/3	0/9	0/8
m3	0/1	0/4	0/6	0/3	0/9	6/8
m4	0/1	0/4	0/6	0/3	3/9	0/8
r1head	0/1	3/4	0/6	3/3	1/9	6/8

Cells are failing leaf subtests over leaves run.

• r1head: this PR's round-1 head f9f5201 merged with fix(epoll): shutdown sends what the sockets have not taken yet before it closes the conns (celeris#760) #807's round-2 head (the negative control for round 2). m1 no stopAccepting; m2 no refusal above the GOAWAY; m3 the wait ignores DATA held by flow control; m4 round 1's bound (a ctx without a deadline gets the floor).
• TestShutdownAcceptsNoNewConnection (std, epoll, io_uring, adaptive): a new HTTP/1.1 and a new h2c connection 300 ms into a shutdown held by a pool handler. The fix: "connect: connection refused" on every engine; r1head: served on epoll, io_uring and adaptive.
• TestShutdownRefusesStreamsAfterGoAway (native): streams 3 (async route) and 5 (sync) opened after GOAWAY(last=1) get RST_STREAM(REFUSED_STREAM) and are not served; stream 1 still finishes. r1head on epoll: "2 stream(s) opened after the GOAWAY were served; frames: GOAWAY(last=1), HEADERS(s5), DATA(s5), HEADERS(s3), DATA(s3), HEADERS(s1), DATA(s1)".
• TestShutdownWaitsForFlowControlledH2Response (all engines, sync and async route): a 1 MiB response behind 65535-byte windows, opened 400 ms into a 5 s shutdown; r1head cut it at 65535 bytes on every native engine and route; std and the fix deliver it whole.
• TestShutdownSendsH2GoAwayThenFinishesStreams/*/Shutdown-background: a Shutdown(context.Background()) whose pool handler is released 600 ms after the GOAWAY; r1head (whose epoll already has fix(epoll): shutdown sends what the sockets have not taken yet before it closes the conns (celeris#760) #807's round-2 bound) fails it on io_uring: "stream 1 got status "" body ""; frames: GOAWAY, read: EOF". TestShutdownH2PoolWaitIsBounded's Start returned lines read 501-506 ms (500 ms budget).
• TestDriverShutdownReleasesDescriptors (engine/iouring, existing) failed on an intermediate head (85be79f) of this round, where io_uring cancelled its accept on every shutdown; it is in this run so that the placement is pinned.
• Round 1's failing-first on main 67fdb78 (drain order 15/48, GOAWAY 6/6 FAIL) and its controls (revert, pool count, std's wait, GOAWAY, unbounded wait) stand: 759/logs/67fdb78-unlimited-wiretests.log, 759/controls/f9f5201-variants-unl.log.

Suites

scripts/suites.sh 759 unl '<pkgs>' base:a73afb6 head:92d3271: go test -race -count=1 -v, base (main a73afb6, which the stack carries through #807) and head in one container, linux/arm64, 4 CPUs, unlimited memlock (several io_uring workers). Counts are --- PASS/FAIL/SKIP lines, top-level | subtests (scripts/suites-table.py; logs 759/suites/unl-*-head92d3271.log).

packages	base a73afb6	head 92d3271
./protocol/h2/... ./engine/std/ ./engine/epoll/ ./engine/iouring/ ./internal/conn/ .	926/0/6 | 368/0/0	935/0/6 | 441/0/0
./adaptive/	98/0/0 | 18/0/0	98/0/0 | 18/0/0

The head adds 9 top-level tests (this stack's: #803's 2, #807's 2, this PR's 5) and 73 subtests; the skips are the same tests in both arms. Rebased head 3f75937 (on main c8400ba, which adds #766, #776, #800, #801, #799, #767, #803, #805 and #807 to a73afb6): go test -race -count=1 -v ./protocol/h2/... ./engine/ ./engine/std/ ./engine/epoll/ ./engine/iouring/ ./internal/conn/ ./adaptive/ . then this PR's and #807's shutdown tests and TestDriverShutdownReleasesDescriptors -count=3, one container, linux/arm64, 4 CPUs, unlimited memlock: every package ok, 1108/0/6 | 1008/0/2 (train9-20260929/808/trial-tests.log). The CI shape (8 MiB memlock, one io_uring worker) is this PR's CI (below): on this laptop its run is VOID for io_uring (the head arm of 759/suites/m8-...-head92d3271.log could not start io_uring, "io_uring not available", because other lanes' root containers share the memlock charge). linux/amd64 (emulated, no -race, this stack's shutdown tests): every std, epoll and adaptive leaf passes; every io_uring case fails with "io_uring not available on this system", the emulator (759/suites/amd64-root-head92d3271.log). go vet and golangci-lint (the repo config) are clean for GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 and arm64.

CI

CI on 92d3271: 19/19 checks pass, one benchmark job skipped (CI run 36406739509, Coverage run 36406739482). The root package took 113.4 s (Unit) and 116.2 s (Coverage) of its 300 s timeout; main 71.1 s (dbbaaee, CI run 36406691708); #807 alone 103.5 s / 108.5 s.

Cost

The request paths gain: poolRunning (two atomic adds per pool-dispatched stream, round 1), a bool load in runHandler per stream (round 2), and std's h2Streams (round 1). Under the laptop timing lock (scripts/bench-r2.sh a73afb6 98ba46d 85be79f 10: one container, 4 CPUs, 10 rounds interleaved base, head, head, base; bench/benchstat-r2-20260928T095129Z.txt), BenchmarkPoolDispatch: main 248.4 ns ± 14 %, this head (85be79f, whose processor.go differs from this one in a comment only) 249.3 / 239.3 ns (p=0.681 / 0.231: no change detected, within a ±14 % spread). Round 1's std bridge benchmark: no change within ±5 % (bench/benchstat-20260928T064712Z-short.txt). The rest is at shutdown only: OutboundPending walks the streams under locks, once per loop turn while a shutdown waits.

Deadlock check

OutboundPending takes the manager's mu (read) and then each stream's mu (read); nothing takes a stream's mu and then the manager's (flushStreamOutbound reserves windows under the stream's mu with atomics only; the SETTINGS path takes the manager's then the stream's, the same order; flushConnWindowStalledStreams releases the manager's before it takes a stream's). The order is written on OutboundPending. The native wait is the ordinary loop turning with a wait of at most 10 ms; it holds nothing while it turns, and GoAway takes the conn's detachMu and then H2State.mu, as ProcessH2's callers do. TestShutdownH2PoolWaitIsBounded is the hang check (a handler that never returns must not hold Start past the budget + 3 s), and the flow-control test runs OutboundPending against pool handlers and WINDOW_UPDATE processing under -race in the suites.

Docs and follow-ups

goceleris/docs#82 (stacked on #81). Follow-ups from the review, none blocking: #820 (std never sends an h2c connection GOAWAY and such a connection outlives the drain; a bound test that passes on main; cost wording).

Fixes #759

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Walkthrough

HTTP/2 shutdown now tracks active stream handlers and pending responses. Native engines send GOAWAY and drain stream work within engine-specific budgets. The standard-library engine counts active h2c handlers and waits for them within the shutdown context. New tests cover these behaviors across engines.

Changes

HTTP/2 stream drain state

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Stream handler and GOAWAY tracking protocol/h2/stream/processor.go, internal/conn/h2.go, protocol/h2/stream/goaway_refuse_test.go, protocol/h2/stream/pool_dispatch_bench_test.go	The processor tracks pooled handlers, outbound response data, and the GOAWAY last-stream ID. H2State exposes the drain state and sends GOAWAY. Tests cover refused streams, and a benchmark measures pooled stream dispatch.

Native engine shutdown

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Epoll drain engine/epoll/conn.go, engine/epoll/loop.go	Epoll stops accepting and sends GOAWAY during shutdown. It continues processing connections while handlers or response output remain, with polling capped at 10 ms.
io_uring drain engine/iouring/conn.go, engine/iouring/engine.go, engine/iouring/worker.go	io_uring passes the shutdown context to workers. Workers stop accepting and wait for HTTP/2 handlers and pending output before the bounded send drain.

Standard-library and cross-engine behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
h2c handler tracking engine/std/bridge.go, engine/std/engine.go, engine/std/bridge_bench_test.go	The bridge counts active HTTP/2 requests. Shutdown waits for that count to reach zero or for its context to expire. A benchmark measures bridge handling for HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 requests.
Shutdown contract and tests engine/engine.go, server.go, shutdown_drain_order_linux_test.go, shutdown_h2_pool_linux_test.go	Documentation describes engine-specific shutdown behavior. Linux tests cover drain ordering, GOAWAY, refused streams, connection acceptance, bounded waits, and flow-controlled responses.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 0df4a

The HTTP/2 shutdown draining change looks sound. One new test relies on a fixed sleep and may be flaky under -race, so it is worth fixing, but it should not block the merge.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 0df4a

Shutdown now coordinates in-flight HTTP/2 work across several engines. The changes improve handling of active streams, but deadline and connection-lifecycle edge cases remain important to the shutdown guarantee. No newly introduced security vulnerability was established.

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No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — A network client controls whether to open further HTTP/2 streams and whether flow-control updates arrive. Those choices can affect shutdown work for its connection; native-engine waiting is subject to the configured drain limits, while handlers use the shared pool.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Native engines name the last client stream in GOAWAY. The processor’s refusal check prevents a later-numbered client stream from reaching either the inline handler or shared pool, limiting the risk that work the client considers unprocessed is also executed by this server.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Std’s handler counter describes requests currently inside Bridge.ServeHTTP, not whether a previously hijacked h2c connection can start another request. A zero-count observation alone therefore does not establish connection quiescence; the inspected change does not establish that this connection reachability was introduced by the PR.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — If shutdown must guarantee that no h2c request begins after hooks run, explicitly quiesce or track hijacked h2c connections rather than relying only on the active-handler counter; otherwise state the narrower guarantee.

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✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy the coding requirements in #759. Native engines track shared-pool handlers and pending outbound DATA, send GOAWAY, reject later streams with REFUSED_STREAM, stop accepting connecti…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes remain within #759. The benchmarks measure the new pool and h2c accounting paths. The documentation records the changed shutdown contract. The regression tests validate the required shutdo…
Title check	✅ Passed	The title uses the required Conventional Commit format, describes the HTTP/2 graceful-shutdown change, and ends with the issue reference (celeris#759).
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the shutdown defect, implementation, tests, controls, CI results, and follow-up work for the changeset.

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Round 2, from the round-1 review. Every blocking finding is fixed on this head (92d3271); the description is updated, and its numbers are from this head's runs.

• New connections accepted and served during the HTTP/2 wait (two findings): epoll closes its listener when its context is cancelled; io_uring cancels its accept and closes its listener when the HTTP/2 wait begins (on every shutdown, its early submit fired queued driver closes as normal ones, TestDriverShutdownReleasesDescriptors). Test: TestShutdownAcceptsNoNewConnection ("connection refused" on every engine at 300 ms).
• The GOAWAY did not enforce its last-stream-id: the processor records its GOAWAYs and refuses a stream above the last one named with RST_STREAM(REFUSED_STREAM) before its handler runs. Test: TestShutdownRefusesStreamsAfterGoAway.
• DATA waiting for WINDOW_UPDATE was cut: the wait includes streams with outbound DATA buffered (OutboundPending). Test: TestShutdownWaitsForFlowControlledH2Response (1 MiB behind 65535-byte windows, whole on every engine and route).
• The no-deadline bound (fix(epoll): shutdown sends what the sockets have not taken yet before it closes the conns (celeris#760) #807's finding) is applied to io_uring's copy too, and engine.Engine.Shutdown's doc is rewritten (two minor findings).

goceleris/docs#82 says the same. Other minor and nit findings: #820.

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✅ 54 untouched benchmarks
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Performance Changes

	Benchmark	BASE	HEAD	Efficiency
🆕	BenchmarkPoolDispatch	N/A	2.2 µs	N/A

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Review comments at @engine/std/engine.go:
- Around line 219-225: Update Engine.drain to set an HTTP/2 drain gate before
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Review comments at @protocol/h2/stream/processor.go:
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