fix(grpc-proxy): detect stateful sessions whose worker is gone - #1029
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Rejoining an existing stateful session published the reconnect message
with a core NATS publish, which succeeds whether or not a worker is
subscribed. When the session's worker was gone the message was silently
discarded, the proxy reported a healthy rejoin, and the client was left
holding a session cookie it presented again on every retry. No error was
raised on any path, so the session never recovered without operator
action.
The recovery path already existed: the director clears the client's
request id cookie on ErrSessionNotFound, and a client that drops the
cookie opens a fresh session on its next request. It was unreachable
because the rejoin could not tell a dead session from a live one.
Send the reconnect as a request instead. A no-responders answer means
nothing can serve the session, so report ErrSessionNotFound and let the
existing cookie-clearing path recover it. Interest is confirmed twice
before acting, because a single answer can reflect a momentary gap in
interest propagation and the cost of believing it is severing a live
session. A subscribed worker that does not answer is treated as live,
which is how the previous publish behaved.
On the worker side, acknowledge reconnects the way the polling listener
already does, and subscribe to the reconnect subject before the first
CONNECT rather than after it, so a rejoin arriving during session
establishment is not mistaken for a dead session.
The two sides are independent. The proxy change alone is sufficient and
costs one short probe deadline per rejoin against workers that predate
the acknowledgement; the worker change removes that cost. Rollout order
does not matter.
This mirrors polling_request in the invocation service, which already
maps a no-responders answer onto "no worker picked this up".
Adds nvcf_grpc_proxy_service_stateful_rejoin_total{result}, pre-
initialised across all four outcomes.
Promotes github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2 from an indirect dependency
to a direct test dependency at v2.11.6, matching the version already
used elsewhere in the repo, so the tests exercise real no-responders
semantics rather than a mock. Apache-2.0, already present in
MODULE.bazel.
Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe stateful rejoin path now uses NATS request/reply probing, reports missing workers as ChangesStateful session rejoin
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change enables automatic recovery when a stateful session's worker is gone, but merge readiness remains moderate because completed sessions may still be acknowledged as available, leaving clients with an unusable session cookie instead of recovering cleanly. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant FunctionInvoker
participant NATS
participant WorkerProxy
Client->>FunctionInvoker: Rejoin existing session
FunctionInvoker->>NATS: Request reconnect probe
NATS->>WorkerProxy: Deliver reconnect request
WorkerProxy-->>NATS: Acknowledge or accept reconnect
NATS-->>FunctionInvoker: Return response or no-responders
FunctionInvoker-->>Client: Continue rejoin or return ErrSessionNotFound
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src/libraries/go/worker/proxy/proxy.go (1)
257-262: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 TrivialConsider updating the session sequence diagram.
This change alters the rejoin interaction between the proxy and the worker.
Proxynow waits for every connection handler, and the reconnect subscription starts before the first CONNECT. If a sequence or architecture diagram documents the stateful session flow, update it to show the request/reply probe and the acknowledgement.I can draft the updated sequence if you point me at the existing diagram.
As per coding guidelines: "When a change modifies runtime behavior, data flow, or component interactions, ask whether architecture or sequence diagrams need updating."
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`@src/invocation-plane-services/grpc-proxy/proxy/invocation/function_invoker.go`:
- Around line 365-367: Update the error text in function_invoker.go lines
365-367 to describe the failed NATS request rather than a publish, including the
caller-cancellation path; update the RejoinFailed comment in metrics.go line 334
to state that the reconnect request failed.
In `@src/libraries/go/worker/proxy/proxy_e2e_test.go`:
- Around line 284-289: Update the reconnect assertion around require.Eventually
so the request error is captured safely under a mutex, avoiding an
unsynchronized write/read. Remove the eagerly evaluated lastErr message
argument, then read the captured error under the same mutex after Eventually
returns and use it in a follow-up failure assertion or message.
In `@src/libraries/go/worker/proxy/proxy.go`:
- Around line 209-228: Register the reconnect listener with wg before launching
serveStatefulReconnects, and ensure that listener calls wg.Done() when it exits.
This keeps the WaitGroup counter nonzero throughout reconnect listening so
reconnect handlers can safely call Add before Proxy’s wg.Wait returns; preserve
the existing cancellation-driven shutdown behavior and confirm Proxy callers
cancel the context during session teardown.
- Around line 283-297: Rename the inner unmarshalled WorkerInvokeFunctionRequest
in the reconnect loop to reconnectWork to avoid shadowing the outer work
parameter. Update payload/configuration reads to use reconnectWork, while
keeping work.RequestId for session-scoped logs and the disconnectCallback,
including the malformed-payload warning.
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In `@src/libraries/go/worker/proxy/proxy.go`:
- Around line 257-262: Update the existing session sequence or architecture
diagram to reflect the rejoin flow around the proxy and worker: show reconnect
subscription starting before the first CONNECT, the request/reply probe, its
acknowledgement, and Proxy waiting for all connection handlers before returning.
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Review flagged that the reconnect listener calls wg.Add from its own goroutine while Proxy is in wg.Wait. A reconnect arriving at the instant the last connection finishes takes the counter from zero back to one while Wait is returning, which is the misuse the race detector reports. Holding a WaitGroup reference for the listener itself, the obvious fix, deadlocks: the listener only exits once the session context is cancelled, and that cancellation is deferred until after Proxy returns, so the wait and the listener would wait on each other. Verified by applying it and watching a session with one closed tunnel never return. Track connections with a small lock instead, so registering a connection and declaring the session over happen under the same lock and the listener is never counted. A reconnect that loses the race is refused rather than served against a finished session. Adds a test for the natural teardown path, where the connections close and nothing cancels the context. Every existing test cancels at teardown, which is why the deadlock above went unnoticed. Also corrects two stale references to the old publish in the error text and the metric comment. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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Thanks, all three findings addressed in 5f17d21. WaitGroup race (major). The finding is correct and I fixed it, but not with the suggested patch, because that patch deadlocks. I applied it and ran a session whose only tunnel closes with nothing cancelling the context: The reason is that Fixed instead with a small Added Stale publish vocabulary (minor). Fixed in both places. Test error reporting (minor). Correct on both counts, the message argument was evaluated eagerly and the write was unsynchronized. Now captured under a mutex and asserted after |
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347-362: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winReturn a no-responder result for a sealed reconnect.
probeSessionWorkertreats an unanswered request from an active subscription asRejoinAssumedLive. Movingmsg.Respond(nil)afterconns.add()will not clear the cookie. Whenconns.add()returnsfalse, make the probe returnnats.ErrNoRespondersinstead of timing out.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/libraries/go/worker/proxy/proxy.go`:
- Around line 347-362: Update the reconnect handling around conns.add and
probeSessionWorker so a sealed reconnect returns nats.ErrNoResponders. Only
acknowledge the request after conns.add succeeds; when it returns false, respond
with the no-responders result before returning, while preserving the existing
handling for successful reconnects.
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The unmarshalled reconnect payload shadowed the work parameter, so the malformed-payload warning logged the request id of the payload that had just failed to parse. That field was therefore always empty for exactly the message an operator needs to trace. Name the payload apart from the session so the log keeps the session id and the two stay distinguishable at every use. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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357-359: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winPropagate trace context and record acknowledgement failures.
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msg.Respond(nil)with aRespondMsgresponse that usestracing.NatsHeaderCarrierto inject W3C Trace Context. Record any acknowledgement error onspanbefore continuing.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 357-359: Update the acknowledgement block in the proxy handler to
replace msg.Respond(nil) with a RespondMsg response using
tracing.NatsHeaderCarrier to inject W3C trace context, and record any
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Issues
Closes #1028
Why
When a client reconnects to an existing stateful gRPC session, the proxy hands it back to its worker by publishing on
stateful_session.reconnect.<requestId>. That was a core NATS publish, which succeeds whether or not anything is subscribed.If the session's worker is gone, the message is discarded and the publish still returns success. The proxy reports a healthy rejoin, waits for a worker that cannot arrive, and the client keeps presenting a session cookie for a session that can never be served. No error is raised anywhere, so nothing recovers and the session stays broken until the function is restarted or rolled over.
The recovery machinery already exists and is wired to the client:
StreamDirector.ServeHTTPclears the request id cookie onErrSessionNotFound, and a client that drops the cookie opens a fresh session on its next request. It was simply unreachable, because the rejoin had no way to tell a dead session from a live one.What changed
Proxy,
joinExistingSession:ErrSessionNotFound, which reaches the existing cookie-clearing path and lets the client recover on its own.Worker library,
HttpProxy.Proxy:The two sides are independent and rollout order does not matter. The proxy change alone is sufficient; against workers that predate the acknowledgement it costs one 500ms probe deadline per rejoin, which the worker change removes.
This mirrors
polling_requestin the invocation service, which already maps a no-responders answer onto "no worker picked this up", and whose caller turns that into a clear client-visible error.Customer Release Notes
Stateful gRPC sessions that lose their worker now recover automatically. Previously such a session produced sustained errors with no self-healing and required the function to be restarted; the client is now told to start a new session and does so on its next request.
Plan Summary
Not applicable.
Usage
New metric
nvcf_grpc_proxy_service_stateful_rejoin_total{result}, pre-initialised acrossacked,assumed_live,no_responders,failed.A sustained
no_respondersrate means clients are holding cookies for sessions whose workers are gone. Before this change those rejoins were dropped silently and the condition was not observable.Testing
go test -raceandbazel testboth pass for the two affected packages, plus the full package suites forgrpc-proxyand the worker library.Five new tests, run against a real embedded NATS server rather than a mock, because the change rests on no-responders semantics being real:
ErrSessionNotFound, detected in ~0.26s, which is the confirmation delay rather than a probe deadlineNo QA needed beyond the usual staging soak.
Notes
Scope: this addresses sessions that cannot be handed back to a worker. It does not address worker CONNECT tokens expiring while work waits for a concurrency slot, which is a separate failure mode and needs the shared
consts.Timeoutsplit first.Unrelated observation, deliberately not fixed here:
tcpConnectsets no read deadline on the CONNECT response, so a proxy that accepts the TCP connection but never replies blocks the worker indefinitely and context cancellation does not reach it.src/invocation-plane-servicesis excluded from gazelle at rootBUILD.bazel, so thego_testrule was updated by hand.References
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Dependencies
github.com/nats-io/nats-server/v2promoted from an indirect dependency to a direct test dependency atv2.11.6, matching the version already used elsewhere in the repo. Apache-2.0, on the allow list, already registered inMODULE.bazel. No NOTICE change: it is test-only and already present in the dependency graph.Summary by CodeRabbit
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