test(approval): stop the gate tests racing their own TTL - #5834
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The polling tests park a call, poll for the row, then decide it. None of them wait for expiry, so the gate's TTL only has to outlast the poll -- and it twice did not. tinyhumansai#2367 raised it 500ms -> 2s after the row expired before decide could fire; 2s then lost the same race under cargo-llvm-cov, failing as "the outcome was not Allow" rather than naming the expiry. store::decide runs expire_stale_with_now before its own conditional UPDATE, so a lapsed row is denied first and decide returns Ok(None). The bare .unwrap() at those call sites unwraps the Result, not the Option, so that case passed through silently. Split the TTL instead of raising it a third time: test_gate now uses the production DEFAULT_APPROVAL_TTL, and the five tests that actually wait a park out ask for EXPIRY_TEST_TTL explicitly. The effective_ttl fallback tests take a distinct BOOT_TTL_UNDER_TEST and assert against it rather than a bare 2, so they can no longer pass against the wrong source. decide_parked() asserts the row was still open, so any residual instance names the expiry instead of the outcome.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe approval gate test fixture now supports explicit TTL values and synchronized expiry execution. Expiry-sensitive tests use a dedicated locked fixture, while other tests use production or named boot TTL values. ChangesApproval gate test stabilization
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change removes the shared default-TTL race from most approval-gate tests, but expiry-focused tests can still inherit an external TTL override and become intermittently timing-sensitive. This is a bounded test-reliability risk that should be addressed or explicitly accepted before merge. Suggested reviewers: Poem
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1480-1493: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winIsolate
OPENHUMAN_APPROVAL_TTL_SECSin expiry tests.In debug builds,
effective_ttl()overrides the TTL passed totest_gate_with_ttl(ttl). A valid environment value can therefore replaceEXPIRY_TEST_TTL, causing immediate expiry or a much longer wait. Clear or isolate this variable for fixture-controlled tests.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/openhuman/security/approval/gate.rs`:
- Around line 1470-1478: Update the stale TTL documentation around test_gate and
related tests: change the “four” count to five, describe test_gate as using
DEFAULT_APPROVAL_TTL rather than a 2-second fixture, and update the
external-channel test documentation to reflect its explicit EXPIRY_TEST_TTL
usage. Modify only the comments near test_gate, the external-channel test, and
the references around lines 2512 and 2928.
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In `@src/openhuman/security/approval/gate.rs`:
- Around line 1480-1493: Update the expiry-test fixture helper
test_gate_with_ttl so OPENHUMAN_APPROVAL_TTL_SECS cannot override its supplied
ttl, isolating fixture-controlled tests from the process environment while
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PR #5834 — test(approval): stop the gate tests racing their own TTL
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Tests-only change to security/approval/gate.rs that removes the implicit TTL contract between the test_gate() fixture and its distant call sites. test_gate() now builds a gate with the production DEFAULT_APPROVAL_TTL (10 min), so tests that never wait for expiry can no longer race it; the handful that genuinely wait a park out opt into a short EXPIRY_TEST_TTL (2s) explicitly, and the effective_ttl fallback tests use a distinct, un-shared BOOT_TTL_UNDER_TEST (7s) so they can't pass against the wrong source. A new decide_parked() helper asserts the row was still open (decide(...).unwrap().is_some()), so a mid-test expiry now fails naming the expiry instead of silently swallowing Ok(None) and failing two lines later on the outcome. The root-cause analysis (expiry-before-UPDATE in store::decide + a bare .unwrap() unwrapping the Result, not the Option) is accurate and well-supported, and the runtime table (2.50s → 2.52s, identical test set) is a convincing proof that no test_gate() caller silently sits on the 10-minute default. Overall: a clean, well-reasoned fix. No blockers, no majors — two doc-consistency nitpicks below.
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Add EXPIRY_TEST_TTL / BOOT_TTL_UNDER_TEST consts and a test_gate_with_ttl() + decide_parked() helper; repoint test_gate() at DEFAULT_APPROVAL_TTL; move the 5 expiry-waiting tests and 3 fallback tests onto explicit TTLs; drop stale // TTL = 500ms / 2s inline comments. |
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No blocking or major issues. Two nitpicks, both introduced/left by this diff:
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src/openhuman/security/approval/gate.rs:1472— the doc comment undercounts theEXPIRY_TEST_TTLcall sites. Thetest_gate()doc says "the four that do ask forEXPIRY_TEST_TTLexplicitly", but there are five call sites:timeout_returns_deny(2042),cancel_flow_run_parks_for_approval_when_a_gate_is_present(2069), theTrustedAutomationflow test (2749),intercept_with_external_channel_origin_persists_and_ttl_denies(2898), andflow_tool_trust_auto_allows_before_parking(3155). The fifth is exactly the one the PR description calls out as having "hid from the obvious search" — the comment reads like it predates that discovery and wasn't updated. Since the whole point of this PR is to kill drifted TTL comments, it'd be a shame to ship a fresh one.// before /// reach it, and the four that do ask for [`EXPIRY_TEST_TTL`] explicitly // after /// reach it, and the five that do ask for [`EXPIRY_TEST_TTL`] explicitly
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src/openhuman/security/approval/gate.rs:2928— stale "matches the test_gate fixture" comment survives the decoupling. This test now builds its gate withtest_gate_with_ttl(EXPIRY_TEST_TTL)(line 2898), yet the outcome comment still readsTTL-denies (2s — matches the test_gate fixture).. After this PRtest_gate()is no longer 2s (it'sDEFAULT_APPROVAL_TTL, 10 min), so the "matches the test_gate fixture" attribution is now wrong — the same kind of coupling comment the PR sets out to remove. The 2s value is still correct, only the source is misattributed.// before // Without a routable channel approval surface, the parked future // TTL-denies (2s — matches the test_gate fixture). // after // Without a routable channel approval surface, the parked future // TTL-denies after `EXPIRY_TEST_TTL`.
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- Guarding against a future re-introduction of the 10-minute hang. The only thing now stopping a newly-added test from calling
test_gate()and then waiting a park out — silently re-incurring the fullDEFAULT_APPROVAL_TTL(10 min) hang you hunted down via the 600s wall-clock spike — is a human noticing the suite got slow. That's the fragile detector you describe. Not blocking, and I don't think a clean guard exists for the tests that deliberately let the TTL fire, but is it worth a short note indecide_parked()/test_gate()'s doc ("if you need a park to expire, usetest_gate_with_ttl(EXPIRY_TEST_TTL)") so the next author doesn't have to rediscover this from a slow CI run?
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- Root cause is correctly diagnosed:
store::deciderunsexpire_stale_with_now(...)before its conditionalUPDATE ... WHERE decided_at IS NULL, so a lazily-expired row yieldsOk(None); the previousgate.decide(...).unwrap()unwrapped theResult, not theOption, letting the miss pass silently. decide_parked()closes exactly that gap:gate.decide(request_id, decision).unwrap().is_some()now fails on the expiry with an accurate message.BOOT_TTL_UNDER_TEST(7s) is deliberately distinct from bothDEFAULT_APPROVAL_TTLandEXPIRY_TEST_TTL, so theeffective_ttlfallback asserts (garbage/unset→ boot TTL) can't pass against the wrong source — a genuine tightening, not just an adaptation.- Tests-only; no production behavior changes.
mergeable: MERGEABLE, no conflicts againstmain. Verified test set is identical to baseline (124 tests) at ~unchanged wall time.
Review-only, per request: this is posted as a plain comment — I have not approved, requested changes, or merged. All findings above are nitpicks/questions; nothing here blocks the PR.
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Nit: this now undercounts. There are five test_gate_with_ttl(EXPIRY_TEST_TTL) call sites (2042, 2069, 2749, 2898, 3155) — the fifth is the flow_tool_trust_auto_allows_before_parking one the PR description says "hid from the obvious search". Reads like the comment predates finding it.
| /// reach it, and the four that do ask for [`EXPIRY_TEST_TTL`] explicitly | |
| /// reach it, and the five that do ask for [`EXPIRY_TEST_TTL`] explicitly |
The expiry tests asked test_gate_with_ttl for a two second window, but effective_ttl reads OPENHUMAN_APPROVAL_TTL_SECS at park time, not at construction, and the suite is a debug build so that override is live. The effective_ttl_* tests set the variable for the length of their assertion. Tests are threads in one process, so an expiry test could park under their 42 and outlive the wait it was written for, which is the same class of race this branch exists to remove. Add expiry_gate, which takes TEST_ENV_LOCK and returns the guard so it is held for the whole test rather than only while the gate is built. test_gate_with_ttl itself stays lock free because the effective_ttl_* tests call it while already holding the lock. The helper doc said four call sites ask for EXPIRY_TEST_TTL. There are five.
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In `@src/openhuman/security/approval/gate.rs`:
- Around line 1515-1518: Update the expiry_gate test setup to control
OPENHUMAN_APPROVAL_TTL_SECS while TEST_ENV_LOCK is held: save its existing
value, set it to the intended EXPIRY_TEST_TTL for the test, and restore or
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| let env = crate::openhuman::config::TEST_ENV_LOCK | ||
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| .unwrap_or_else(|e| e.into_inner()); | ||
| let (gate, dir) = test_gate_with_ttl(EXPIRY_TEST_TTL); |
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Make expiry_gate() independent of inherited TTL overrides.
When OPENHUMAN_APPROVAL_TTL_SECS contains a valid value, ApprovalGate::effective_ttl() uses it at park time instead of EXPIRY_TEST_TTL. expiry_gate() only holds TEST_ENV_LOCK; it does not control this variable. Set or remove the variable while the guard is held, and restore its prior value on drop. Otherwise, expiry tests can use an unintended duration or 0, which can make them timing-sensitive.
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In `@src/openhuman/security/approval/gate.rs` around lines 1515 - 1518, Update the
expiry_gate test setup to control OPENHUMAN_APPROVAL_TTL_SECS while
TEST_ENV_LOCK is held: save its existing value, set it to the intended
EXPIRY_TEST_TTL for the test, and restore or remove the prior value when the
guard is dropped. Ensure ApprovalGate::effective_ttl() uses the test TTL
throughout the expiry test without affecting other tests.
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Rust Core Coveragefailed on an unrelated PR (#5822) with a test that PR does not touch:The same test had passed one commit earlier in the same job (
1017 passed; 0 failed, 21.46s) and the red run had the same test count and was the faster of the two (20.70s) — so nothing about that PR added load. It is a TTL race, and the assertion that fires names the wrong event.Why
Most tests here park a call, poll for the row, then decide it. Nothing in them waits for expiry, so the gate's TTL only has to outlast the poll. Twice it did not:
decidecould fire".cargo-llvm-cov, where 1017 tests share a runner and eachsleep(10ms)in a 50×10ms poll loop stretches.The mechanism is in
store::decide, which runsexpire_stale_with_now(conn, Utc::now())before its own conditionalUPDATE … WHERE decided_at IS NULL. Once the row is pastexpires_at, expiry writes theDenyfirst, theUPDATEmatches 0 rows, anddecidereturnsOk(None)— the benign "expiry-while-live race" thatDecideMiss::AlreadyResolvedalready documents.And the call sites did
gate.decide(…).unwrap(), which unwraps theResult, not theOption. SoOk(None)passed through silently, the waiter was never woken, the park resolved as a TTLDeny, and the test failed two lines later on the outcome.The change
Raising the number a third time would only move the threshold, so this removes the coupling instead.
test_gate()now uses the productionDEFAULT_APPROVAL_TTL. Tests that never wait for expiry can no longer reach it.EXPIRY_TEST_TTL(2s) explicitly, so the suite's runtime is unchanged.effective_ttlfallback tests take a distinctBOOT_TTL_UNDER_TEST(7s) and assert against that constant instead of a bareDuration::from_secs(2). A number shared with the default would let them pass against the wrong source, so this makes them stricter, not just adapted.decide_parked()asserts the row was still open, so any residual instance names the expiry rather than the outcome.The TTL was an undocumented contract between
test_gate()and distant call sites, and it had already drifted: two still said// TTL = 500msand two more// boot-time TTL = 2s, all three raises out of date.One test hid from the obvious search
flow_tool_trust_auto_allows_before_parkingalso waits a park out, but assertsDeny { .. }without inspecting the reason, so it does not match a grep for"timed out". I only caught it because the suite went from 2.50s to 600.35s — one test sitting out the full 10-minute TTL — and it was the last to report. It now takesEXPIRY_TEST_TTLtoo. Runtime is the detector: if it stays at ~2.5s, no test is silently waiting on the default.Verification
main(baseline)Identical test set (diffed by name, both directions), same feature set CI uses.
The diagnostic half is proved with two throwaway tests that park, sleep past a 150ms TTL, then decide — deleted before commit:
The first reaches a
panic!()placed after the unwrap, which is what "passed through silently" means concretely; the second stops at the decision and says why.Tests only — no production code changes.
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