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[cr-test] sbx-mgr: end an artifact backup whose artifact a newer suspend replaced - #1457
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 A sidecar naming another artifact returns a typed Superseded error; only that is evidence.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before they are polled: a sidecar naming this artifact continues and is recorded, one naming another ends the attempt superseded, and a missing one retries.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 The upload is superseded only when both the artifact and the source differ, so a pre-upgrade import still submits.
The worker treats Superseded as permanent unless the handoff already persisted this attempt's transfers, which it rejoins.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.
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Walkthrough
Backup submission now rejects suspend artifacts that no longer match the sandbox’s pinned artifact. Transfer submission checks canonical suspend sidecars before and after queuing uploads. The upload executor ends superseded attempts unless a concurrent handoff has persisted transfer IDs, and supports payloads created by earlier binaries.
Possibly related PRs
perplexityai/SPACE#1241: Both changes handle artifact-backup supersession through sidecar identity checks, submission handling, worker failure behavior, and event documentation.
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 7ce50
This change alters how suspend backups are admitted, submitted, and ended when a newer suspend replaces the artifact. It is covered by tests, and no concrete defect was found. Because it changes backup upload and failure handling, it deserves owner attention before merge. Owners should accept the documented risks that transfers are left orphaned after supersession and that attempts can fail if the directory moves mid-check.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 7ce50
The change strengthens backup identity checks and rejects obsolete work without establishing a new access path. Remaining uncertainty concerns older queued backups and cleanup after permanent failure.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
observed — The traced backup route remains associated with an existing sandbox artifact and an immutable backup-attempt destination. Existing public admission checks artifact-to-sandbox ownership; transfer requests retain the sandbox subject and pass through volume-manager peer authorization. No broader caller authority was established by the changed route.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The TeardownFence exception bypasses the new pinned-artifact admission check because capture publication precedes suspend commit. Traced callers select it through internal generation-scoped teardown handling; ordinary public backup callers use other handoff modes. Upload-side sidecar checks still apply to canonical suspend submissions.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — On supersession, the worker reloads only the same active job and requires persisted transfer IDs before continuing. This preserves already handed-off work without treating a replacement sidecar as permission to submit fresh files under the obsolete attempt.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Consider an explicitly owned reconciliation path for failed-attempt remote objects, with deletion conditioned on terminal ownership and exclusion of valid concurrent handoffs. This would bound retained backup data without confusing job failure with completed cleanup; it is a hardening proposal, not a verified new vulnerability.
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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.