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[cr-test] sbx-mgr: end an artifact backup whose artifact a newer suspend replaced - #1443
A suspend publishes over the sandbox's one canonical snapshot directory. When a backup's synchronous handoff did not submit and a newer suspend published before the durable worker did, the worker pushed the newer suspend's files under the old attempt. Either its rootfs send was then refused on the old retained-source identity on every retry, ending in artifact_backup_failed with the queued uploads orphaned, or, with the old send already queued, the old attempt finalized ready from mixed artifacts.
For a suspend-origin upload from the canonical directory, submission now checks the sidecar's local_artifact_id before the first transfer and after the last. A sidecar naming another artifact returns a typed Superseded error; only that is evidence. A missing sidecar proves nothing yet: a publication can be between its renames. Submission continues; a source still missing fails it as retriable, and the check after the last transfer catches a publication that completed meanwhile. After the last transfer a missing sidecar fails the attempt, also as retriable. Publication is an atomic rename and volume-manager stages each source at submit, so a sidecar still naming this artifact proves every staged file was its.
An imported artifact keeps the exporter's sidecar, and its backup adopts a fresh id. The payload records sidecar_artifact_id: the id the sidecar names while the directory holds the artifact. That is the upload's id when preparation rewrote the sidecar, or what the sidecar named when it staged the uploaded metadata elsewhere. Every payload this binary writes carries the field, so its absence marks one an earlier binary wrote:
An earlier binary's queued transfers are checked before they are polled: a sidecar naming this artifact continues and is recorded, one naming another ends the attempt superseded, and a missing one retries.
Deferred btrfs-send capture, the default, always stages metadata. For an earlier binary's staged payload, the sidecar left in place also names the retained source the upload was prepared from. An import shares that source, and a newer suspend's capture has a new one. The upload is superseded only when both the artifact and the source differ, so a pre-upgrade import still submits.
The worker treats Superseded as permanent unless the handoff already persisted this attempt's transfers, which it rejoins. Otherwise it closes the cluster row failed and emits artifact_backup_failed with reason=artifact_superseded, documented in crates/libs/events/README.md.
The rootfs send, the only transfer volume-manager can refuse on identity, is now submitted first, and its refusal stops submission. Transfer ids keep artifact order.
submit_artifact_backup refuses, with FAILED_PRECONDITION and before preparing anything, a suspend artifact in the canonical directory that the row does not pin. A suspend's own handoff is exempt, because the row pins its capture only once that suspend commits. Only EnqueueArtifactBackup by local_artifact_id can be refused; node-drain promotion sends that and retries on its next tick.
Validation
At this head, cargo nextest run -p pplx-space-sbx-mgr -p pplx-space-sbx-mgr-store: 1979 passed, 1 skipped. Clippy -D warnings and cargo fmt --check are clean.
Fail without their fix: submission_ends_with_the_sidecar_naming_the_upload, imported_artifact_is_superseded_only_by_a_newer_publication, durable_artifact_backup_persists_the_submitted_artifact_identity, sidecar_identity_decides_a_deferred_submission, upload_of_a_replaced_artifact_rejoins_the_transfers_its_handoff_staged, sidecar_identity_supersedes_only_a_canonical_suspend_upload; upload_prepared_before_a_newer_publication_queues_no_transfer and upload_of_a_replaced_artifact_fails_permanently_without_a_transfer fail on main.
Fail at 4af23850, the head before the upgrade handling and admission check: transfers_an_earlier_binary_queued_are_checked_before_polling, transfers_an_earlier_binary_queued_for_the_named_artifact_are_polled, staged_import_an_earlier_binary_prepared_is_superseded_only_by_a_newer_capture, backup_of_a_replaced_suspend_artifact_is_refused_at_admission.
Kind at e8cc21d3: a failed handoff, a wake, a marker write and a newer suspend. Retained capture 4/4 and staged capture 3/3: the old attempt ended artifact_superseded with no refusal; the newer backup completed and restored the newer marker. Merge base fails both (retry_budget_exhausted; orphaned transfers).
Kind at this head, across an upgrade: shapes built on the merge-base binary under an object-store outage and a closed volume-manager socket, then the images rebuilt at this head. In 2 of 2 trials a replaced pre-upgrade attempt ended artifact_superseded with no transfer queued; the merge base queued the newer files under it and exhausted its retries. Persisted transfer ids and an import-shaped sidecar finalized ready (2/2); at 4af23850 the import shape ended superseded.
Typed smokes pass at this head: ecw.command_round_trip, ecw.pause_connect, ecw.sandbox_delete, native.resident_pause, native_contract.command_wakes_idle_suspended_sandbox, local.suspend_restore_cross_node_from_object_storage, local.deferred_btrfs_send_capture_restores_cross_node, local.suspend_snapshot_rows_are_per_attempt, local.cold_sandbox_eviction_wake_round_trip, local.pending_backup_census_reports_blocked_upload.
Severity and risk
Severity: medium. A repeated suspend after a failed handoff could fail a backup noisily or finalize one from mixed artifacts, including for backups queued before an upgrade.
Risk: each suspend-origin submission from the canonical directory reads the sidecar twice. A canonical directory moved away between the last submission and the second read, by a wake that consumes the checkpoint or by a sandbox deleted mid-upload, now fails that try. The moved files cannot be staged again, so the backup ends failed where main finished it ready. The window is one file read; a move during submission already fails the backup on main. An earlier binary's transfers that all queued before a newer suspend published end superseded. A by-id backup of a canonical artifact the row does not pin is refused, including a rolled-back capture, whose own job still uploads it. Consumers counting artifact_backup_failed without filtering on reason count superseded attempts. Roll back by reverting the four commits.
Rollout
No drain is needed. Payloads from an earlier binary are recognized by the absent field and checked before they are polled or submitted. An earlier binary ignores the field, and drops it when it rewrites a payload, which then reads as an earlier binary's again.
When Superseded ends an attempt, the transfers already queued, in that try or an earlier one, run under the failed attempt, and their objects stay there until the sandbox is deleted, because snapshot retention prunes only ready snapshots.
A suspend that fails after publishing over the canonical directory rolls the row back to its predecessor (rollback_suspending_to_paused), while the directory holds the newer capture's complete files. A by-id backup of the predecessor then uploads that capture under the predecessor's id, as on main. The files are one consistent capture, not the mixture this PR prevents. The row and directory disagreeing is a rollback problem, so it is fixed separately, at the rollback.
Kind can't reach two shapes through public operations, so unit tests cover them. The control plane refuses a wake while a backup is in flight, which rules out persisted ids followed by a newer suspend. A wake retires the replaced artifact's row, so a by-id request of it gets "not published" before admission. Real imports are simulated by a sidecar rewrite.
AI assistance: Claude Code drafted the code, tests and this description, and ran the Kind validation.
A suspend publishes its artifact over the sandbox's one canonical snapshot
directory. When a prepared backup's synchronous handoff does not submit and
a newer suspend publishes before the durable worker does, the worker pushed
the newer suspend's files under the old attempt's prefix, then had its
rootfs send refused on the old retained-source identity. The refusal was
retriable, so every retry failed the same way, the job ended with
artifact_backup_failed, and the queued plain-file uploads were orphaned.
Submission of a suspend-origin upload from the canonical directory now
checks the sidecar's local artifact id before queueing any transfer, and
again after the last one. A sidecar naming another artifact returns a
typed Superseded error. Only that is evidence. Before the first transfer,
a missing sidecar proves nothing yet: a publication can be between its
renames. Submission continues; a source still missing fails it as
retriable, and the check after the last transfer catches a publication
that completed meanwhile. After the last transfer
nothing follows, so a missing sidecar fails the attempt there, also as
retriable. The second check catches a publication during materialization
or between two submissions: publication is an atomic rename and
volume-manager stages each source at submit, so a sidecar still naming the
artifact proves every staged file was its.
An imported artifact lands in the canonical directory with the exporter's
sidecar, and its backup adopts a fresh id. Preparation rewrites that
sidecar with the adopted id unless it stages the uploaded metadata
elsewhere, as it does for a btrfs-send artifact with a retained-source
identity; then the sidecar keeps the exporter's id. The payload records
the id the sidecar named when the backup read it, and the check compares a
sidecar left in place against that id. A payload persisted before the
field existed compares against the adopted id. Other directories are not
checked: only a suspend publishes over a directory, and only over the
canonical one.
The worker treats Superseded as permanent unless the handoff has already
persisted this attempt's transfers, which it then continues with. Ending,
it closes the attempt's cluster row failed and emits
artifact_backup_failed with reason artifact_superseded, so an attempt
that emitted artifact_backup_queued still gets a terminal event. The
transfers already queued, in that try or an earlier one, run under the
failed attempt, and their objects stay there until the sandbox is
deleted, because snapshot retention prunes only ready snapshots.
Volume-manager can refuse a deferred upload's rootfs send when its
retained source is no longer the one the upload names, and can refuse no
other transfer on the artifact's identity. Submission pushed every plain
file first, so such a refusal left those pushes queued under an attempt
that could never finalize.
Submit the rootfs send first and stop at its refusal; the failure now
counts only the artifacts actually submitted. Its text no longer says
retention prunes the uploads already queued, since snapshot retention
prunes only ready snapshots. The transfer ids keep artifact order, which
the worker relies on to attribute each transfer's result.
…laced artifacts
The worker read an artifact backup's sidecar only when it submitted the
transfers itself. A payload an earlier sandbox-manager had already submitted
went straight to polling, so its transfers could be a newer suspend's files
and the attempt could finalize ready from them. Before polling such transfers
the worker now reads the sidecar as submission does after its last transfer:
one naming this artifact continues, one naming another ends the attempt with
`artifact_superseded`, and a missing one fails the try as retriable. Once the
check passes, the payload records the identity, so later tries poll without
checking again.
The payload's `sidecar_artifact_id` now names the id the sidecar holds while
the directory holds the artifact, and every payload this binary writes carries
it, so its absence marks a payload an earlier binary wrote. When such a
payload's preparation staged its metadata elsewhere, the sidecar left in place
can name an id that binary never recorded, such as an import's exporter id.
Absence is no evidence of replacement there, so the check is skipped and the
upload submits as it does on main.
A backup requested by id for a suspend artifact in the sandbox's suspend
directory uploaded whatever that directory held, even after a newer suspend
replaced it. `submit_artifact_backup` now compares the requested id with the
artifact the sandbox row pins and refuses a mismatch with FAILED_PRECONDITION
before preparing anything. A suspend's own handoff is exempt, because the row
pins its capture only once that suspend commits. An imported artifact matches
its row whatever its sidecar names, so its backup is still admitted.
…n pre-upgrade backups
Deferred btrfs-send capture is sandbox-manager's default, and each such
suspend backup stages its uploaded metadata elsewhere and leaves the sidecar
in place. A payload an earlier sandbox-manager wrote records no sidecar
identity, so the identity check skipped every payload of that default shape,
and transfers that binary had queued for a replaced capture could still
finalize ready.
The sidecar left in place also names the retained source the upload was
prepared from. An imported artifact's payload copied that source from the
sidecar along with the exporter's id, while a newer suspend writes its own.
For a payload an earlier binary wrote with its metadata staged elsewhere, the
check now ends the upload as superseded only when the sidecar names both
another artifact and another retained source, so an import's upload still
continues. A check that passes records the id the sidecar named, so later
tries poll without checking again.
Backup submission now checks whether a suspend artifact is still pinned and whether its canonical sidecar identifies the same artifact. Prepared uploads check artifact identity before and after transfer submission. Workers handle replacements during submission or before polling earlier transfers, and mark superseded uploads as permanently failed. Imported artifact sidecar identities and compatibility with earlier job payloads are also covered.
Possibly related PRs
perplexityai/SPACE#1241: Addresses artifact-backup supersession with sidecar identity checks, handoff handling, and permanent failure.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 7d10d
This change stops a suspend backup from uploading files that a newer suspend has replaced, and it fails such backups with a clear reason. Tests cover the key paths, and no defects were found. Because it changes upload retry and failure handling for sandbox backups, owners should watch the rollout.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 7d10d
The change tightens backup identity checks and prevents stale attempts from becoming restorable. No new authorization bypass was established. Queued uploads can still outlive failed attempts, and end-to-end cleanup and upgrade coverage remain incomplete.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
inferred — The directly affected integrity scope is a sandbox's canonical suspend files and their backup attempts. Upload destinations remain keyed by sandbox ID, attempt ID, and artifact kind; the inspected change does not establish an expansion to other sandboxes or storage authority.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The backup RPC retains peer authorization using ALLOW_SANDBOX_OPERATOR. The changed admission and submission checks add identity restrictions rather than granting callers a new authority or allowing them to select the teardown exemption.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
inferred — Failed-attempt data retention remains a lifecycle limitation, not an established newly introduced security condition. The base already discarded returned transfer handles on partial submission failure. The head also permits queued transfers to survive superseded termination; documentation identifies sandbox deletion as the storage-sweep backstop, but that independent cleanup path was not verified.
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Summary
A suspend publishes over the sandbox's one canonical snapshot directory. When a backup's synchronous handoff did not submit and a newer suspend published before the durable worker did, the worker pushed the newer suspend's files under the old attempt. Either its rootfs send was then refused on the old retained-source identity on every retry, ending in
artifact_backup_failedwith the queued uploads orphaned, or, with the old send already queued, the old attempt finalized ready from mixed artifacts.For a suspend-origin upload from the canonical directory, submission now checks the sidecar's
local_artifact_idbefore the first transfer and after the last. A sidecar naming another artifact returns a typedSupersedederror; only that is evidence. A missing sidecar proves nothing yet: a publication can be between its renames. Submission continues; a source still missing fails it as retriable, and the check after the last transfer catches a publication that completed meanwhile. After the last transfer a missing sidecar fails the attempt, also as retriable. Publication is an atomic rename and volume-manager stages each source at submit, so a sidecar still naming this artifact proves every staged file was its.An imported artifact keeps the exporter's sidecar, and its backup adopts a fresh id. The payload records
sidecar_artifact_id: the id the sidecar names while the directory holds the artifact. That is the upload's id when preparation rewrote the sidecar, or what the sidecar named when it staged the uploaded metadata elsewhere. Every payload this binary writes carries the field, so its absence marks one an earlier binary wrote:The worker treats
Supersededas permanent unless the handoff already persisted this attempt's transfers, which it rejoins. Otherwise it closes the cluster row failed and emitsartifact_backup_failedwithreason=artifact_superseded, documented incrates/libs/events/README.md.The rootfs send, the only transfer volume-manager can refuse on identity, is now submitted first, and its refusal stops submission. Transfer ids keep artifact order.
submit_artifact_backuprefuses, withFAILED_PRECONDITIONand before preparing anything, a suspend artifact in the canonical directory that the row does not pin. A suspend's own handoff is exempt, because the row pins its capture only once that suspend commits. OnlyEnqueueArtifactBackupbylocal_artifact_idcan be refused; node-drain promotion sends that and retries on its next tick.Validation
cargo nextest run -p pplx-space-sbx-mgr -p pplx-space-sbx-mgr-store: 1979 passed, 1 skipped. Clippy-D warningsandcargo fmt --checkare clean.submission_ends_with_the_sidecar_naming_the_upload,imported_artifact_is_superseded_only_by_a_newer_publication,durable_artifact_backup_persists_the_submitted_artifact_identity,sidecar_identity_decides_a_deferred_submission,upload_of_a_replaced_artifact_rejoins_the_transfers_its_handoff_staged,sidecar_identity_supersedes_only_a_canonical_suspend_upload;upload_prepared_before_a_newer_publication_queues_no_transferandupload_of_a_replaced_artifact_fails_permanently_without_a_transferfail on main.4af23850, the head before the upgrade handling and admission check:transfers_an_earlier_binary_queued_are_checked_before_polling,transfers_an_earlier_binary_queued_for_the_named_artifact_are_polled,staged_import_an_earlier_binary_prepared_is_superseded_only_by_a_newer_capture,backup_of_a_replaced_suspend_artifact_is_refused_at_admission.e8cc21d3: a failed handoff, a wake, a marker write and a newer suspend. Retained capture 4/4 and staged capture 3/3: the old attempt endedartifact_supersededwith no refusal; the newer backup completed and restored the newer marker. Merge base fails both (retry_budget_exhausted; orphaned transfers).artifact_supersededwith no transfer queued; the merge base queued the newer files under it and exhausted its retries. Persisted transfer ids and an import-shaped sidecar finalized ready (2/2); at4af23850the import shape ended superseded.ecw.command_round_trip,ecw.pause_connect,ecw.sandbox_delete,native.resident_pause,native_contract.command_wakes_idle_suspended_sandbox,local.suspend_restore_cross_node_from_object_storage,local.deferred_btrfs_send_capture_restores_cross_node,local.suspend_snapshot_rows_are_per_attempt,local.cold_sandbox_eviction_wake_round_trip,local.pending_backup_census_reports_blocked_upload.Severity and risk
Severity: medium. A repeated suspend after a failed handoff could fail a backup noisily or finalize one from mixed artifacts, including for backups queued before an upgrade.
Risk: each suspend-origin submission from the canonical directory reads the sidecar twice. A canonical directory moved away between the last submission and the second read, by a wake that consumes the checkpoint or by a sandbox deleted mid-upload, now fails that try. The moved files cannot be staged again, so the backup ends failed where main finished it ready. The window is one file read; a move during submission already fails the backup on main. An earlier binary's transfers that all queued before a newer suspend published end superseded. A by-id backup of a canonical artifact the row does not pin is refused, including a rolled-back capture, whose own job still uploads it. Consumers counting
artifact_backup_failedwithout filtering onreasoncount superseded attempts. Roll back by reverting the four commits.Rollout
No drain is needed. Payloads from an earlier binary are recognized by the absent field and checked before they are polled or submitted. An earlier binary ignores the field, and drops it when it rewrites a payload, which then reads as an earlier binary's again.
Not covered
submit_prepared_snapshot. Whichever merges second carries over the send-first order, the transfer-id re-sort,Superseded, bothcheck_prepared_artifactcalls,sidecar_artifact_idand its recording, the worker's rejoin and its pre-poll check. Both checks belong insubmit_prepared_snapshot_with_context, which Fix autosuspend stranding during volume-manager handoff #1121's hand-off calls directly. Keeping Fix autosuspend stranding during volume-manager handoff #1121's body drops both checks without a compile error.Supersededends an attempt, the transfers already queued, in that try or an earlier one, run under the failed attempt, and their objects stay there until the sandbox is deleted, because snapshot retention prunes only ready snapshots.rollback_suspending_to_paused), while the directory holds the newer capture's complete files. A by-id backup of the predecessor then uploads that capture under the predecessor's id, as on main. The files are one consistent capture, not the mixture this PR prevents. The row and directory disagreeing is a rollback problem, so it is fixed separately, at the rollback.AI assistance: Claude Code drafted the code, tests and this description, and ran the Kind validation.