[zibi-pplx]

Summary

Merging this stops the shim deleting a user-stopped sandbox after sbx-manager refuses the shim's own Stop with Unavailable.

#1501 made the shim count a Stop that failed with Unavailable as possibly admitted, so it keeps owning that stop: a connection that drops after admission reports Unavailable. But sbx-manager also refuses a Stop with Unavailable before admitting it:

• cleanup admission closed while it shuts down (cleanup_request_permit, crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/cleanup_executor.rs);
• the restart drain, which refuses state-writing RPCs before any handler runs (crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/restart_admission.rs).

The shim then kept ownership of a stop it never issued. If a user STOP landed before the shim's retry, legacy pod teardown deleted the user-stopped sandbox.

• sbx-manager marks every error its Stop handler returns before admission with x-space-stop-not-admitted: true, keeping the status code (STOP_NOT_ADMITTED_METADATA in crates/l20_domain/sbx/mgr/protocol/src/lib.rs). Every such error returns before admission commits.
• The shim reads that mark, or the restart drain's existing x-space-retry-on-successor, as a refusal whatever the code. An unmarked Unavailable, or a call that ended on the shim's side, still keeps ownership, which also covers an sbx-manager that predates the mark.

ci/test-duration-budget.toml also gives six Postgres- and setup-bound tests that this change doesn't touch room, because a slow runner failed the Rust tests job on durations alone with every test passing: two new entries at the file's 8 s formula, three db-migrate bootstrap tests that run every migration (11 s and 9 s), and grant_renewal_follows_the_lifecycle_checks, which ran 4.2 s against the 4 s bound, at its neighbours' 6 s.

Follows the review finding on #1501.

Validation

• TestLegacyKillOwnsOnlyAStopThatMayHaveBeenAdmitted (shim/space_test.go) gains "refused while shutting down" and "refused by the restart drain": one Stop and no Delete. With the marker check removed, the first fails with two Stops and one Delete, the user-stopped sandbox deleted.
• A "marked false" row checks that only the value sbx-manager sends counts as the mark.
• unpersisted_stop_and_delete_clean_up_through_node_manager_and_report_the_claim_failure now asserts that a Stop error returned after admission (an unpersisted claim, then Unavailable or Internal) is not marked, the direction that would make the shim give up a stop it issued.
• stop_refused_before_admission_is_marked_not_admitted checks that a Stop during shutdown answers Unavailable with the mark; stop_not_admitted_survives_grpc_trailers_and_keeps_its_code checks the mark through gRPC trailers.
• Locally: rustfmt --check on every changed Rust file, plus gofmt -l, go vet and go test for the shim. Rust was not compiled locally, so CI on this head is the build and test evidence.

Severity and risk

Severity: medium. It deletes a user-stopped sandbox's rootfs, but only when legacy pod teardown overlaps an sbx-manager shutdown or restart and a user STOP lands before the shim retries.

One window stays: while sbx-manager is down, between the old process exiting and its successor binding the socket, a Stop fails with an unmarked Unavailable (connection refused) and the shim keeps ownership. The client can't tell that from a connection that dropped after sending, so it fails safe, as #1501 does.

Risk: a wrongly marked error would make the shim give up a stop it did issue, leaving the sandbox stopped rather than deleted after pod teardown. Roll back by reverting this PR.

Rollout

Either component can deploy first. A new shim talking to an old sbx-manager behaves as #1501 does; an old shim ignores the trailer.

Stack

This fix stands alone and can merge first. The cleanup-state stack below builds on it, so each PR's diff shows only its own commit:

1. [shim] keep a Stop sbx-manager refused before admission as refused #1552 shim: keep a Stop refused before admission as refused (independent fix) ← this PR
2. [control-plane] drop cleanup_required from the stored lifecycle vocabulary #1553 control-plane: drop cleanup_required from the stored lifecycle vocabulary
3. [proto] publish whether a node-local cleanup owns a sandbox row #1554 proto: publish whether a node-local cleanup owns a sandbox row
4. [sbx-mgr] store cleanup ownership apart from the sandbox lifecycle #1555 sbx-mgr: store cleanup ownership apart from the sandbox lifecycle
5. [sbx-mgr] publish cleanup ownership on State, Wait and List #1556 sbx-mgr: publish cleanup ownership on State, Wait and List
6. [shim] decide a cleanup-owned row by its cleanup state, not its lifecycle #1557 shim: decide a cleanup-owned row by its cleanup state
7. [sbx-mgr-protocol] decode an owning cleanup to its combined status #1558 sbx-mgr-protocol: decode an owning cleanup to its combined status
8. [sbx-mgr] count sandbox rows by lifecycle and cleanup state #1559 sbx-mgr: count sandbox rows by lifecycle and cleanup state
9. [events] carry a transition's cleanup state apart from its lifecycle #1560 events: carry a transition's cleanup state apart from its lifecycle
10. [sbx-mgr] keep cleanup out of the sandbox lifecycle state machine #1561 sbx-mgr: keep cleanup out of the sandbox lifecycle state machine
11. [sbx-mgr] publish the lifecycle under a cleanup behind a switch #1562 sbx-mgr: publish the lifecycle under a cleanup behind a switch

Each PR keeps today's published behaviour; only the last adds a switch, off by default, that publishes the lifecycle under a cleanup.

AI assistance: an AI coding agent drafted the code, tests and this description; the author reviewed them, and a second AI agent reviewed the change.

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Walkthrough

The protocol adds a Stop-not-admitted metadata marker and helpers to mark and detect it. The server attaches the marker to failures that occur before Stop request admission. The shim captures Stop response trailers and uses marker values and error types to classify refusals and update legacy Stop ownership. Tests cover metadata round-tripping, server shutdown refusal, post-admission cleanup errors, and shim ownership behavior. Selected test duration limits also change.

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to f255f

Refused Stops no longer retain teardown ownership, reducing unintended deletion. The change affects sandbox cleanup error handling and permits longer-running tests, so it warrants review before merging.

Architecture risk: Low · up to f255f

The change affects 3 systems.

Changed systems: crates, shim, ci

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — crates (service) was modified; 6 changed files map to changed impact.
• observed — shim (service) was modified; 2 changed files map to changed impact.
• observed — ci (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in crates/l20_domain/sbx/mgr/protocol/src/lib.rs: Added documentation describing a request-refusal marker that allows a successor to replay the request and that the shim reads on a marked Stop.
• observed — Modified behavior in crates/l20_domain/sbx/mgr/protocol/src/lib.rs: Added the Stop-not-admitted metadata key, a helper that marks a supplied status while retaining its status code, and a predicate that returns true only when the marker value is exactly "true".
• observed — Modified behavior in crates/l20_domain/sbx/mgr/protocol/src/tests.rs: Added a test that checks an ordinary Unavailable status is unmarked, then verifies marked statuses with Unavailable and FailedPrecondition codes remain classified as stop-not-admitted and retain their codes after gRPC trailer round-tripping.
• observed — Modified behavior in crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/client/src/lib.rs: The protocol re-export list adds the stop-not-admitted metadata constant, status predicate, and status constructor.

Caution

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Failed checks: 1 error

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Weakened Safeguards Are Justified		The diff weakens the test-duration guard without a specific reason for each change. Tests that exceed the old ceilings can now pass CI: - ci/test-duration-budget.toml:79: adds a 6-second exception. …	Restore the previous ceilings and remove the new exceptions, or provide a specific reason for each change in the description or an adjacent comment.

Passed checks: 4 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title describes the main change and meets the specified format.
Description Follows The Pr Template		The description contains all four required items. It includes a summary, validation with “CI on this head,” severity and risk, and an AI assistance line that identifies an AI coding agent and its cont…
Bug Fixes Name A Regression Test		The Validation section names TestLegacyKillOwnsOnlyAStopThatMayHaveBeenAdmitted and states that its shutdown-refusal case fails without the marker check. The changed test checks for one Stop and no …
Public-Safe Content		The diff, title, and description contain no content that matches the listed failure conditions. The duration values are test budgets, not production measurements.

Full details: Description Follows The Pr Template

Explanation

The description contains all four required items. It includes a summary, validation with “CI on this head,” severity and risk, and an AI assistance line that identifies an AI coding agent and its contributions.

Full details: Bug Fixes Name A Regression Test

Explanation

The Validation section names TestLegacyKillOwnsOnlyAStopThatMayHaveBeenAdmitted and states that its shutdown-refusal case fails without the marker check. The changed test checks for one Stop and no Delete.

Full details: Weakened Safeguards Are Justified

Explanation

The diff weakens the test-duration guard without a specific reason for each change. Tests that exceed the old ceilings can now pass CI: - ci/test-duration-budget.toml:79: adds a 6-second exception. - ci/test-duration-budget.toml:94: raises the ceiling from 7 to 11 seconds. - ci/test-duration-budget.toml:97: raises the ceiling from 5 to 9 seconds. - ci/test-duration-budget.toml:98: raises the ceiling from 5 to 9 seconds. - ci/test-duration-budget.toml:107: adds an 8-second exception. - ci/test-duration-budget.toml:120: adds an 8-second exception. The description gives no reason for these changes. The existing file comment describes the exception policy but does not justify these entries or increases.

Resolution

Restore the previous ceilings and remove the new exceptions, or provide a specific reason for each change in the description or an adjacent comment.

[the-gigi-pplx]

Review — 3 findings

I found no correctness defect: the marker goes only on Stop errors that return before admission commits, and the shim reads it only from sbx-manager's own trailers.

Medium

1. crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/grpc_core.rs:741-781: no test fails if the not-admitted mark is put on a Stop error returned after admission, and that's the direction that matters.
   • Why it matters: a marked post-admission error makes the shim give up a stop it did issue, so pod teardown leaves the sandbox stopped instead of deleted.
   • Where it could happen: the shim's non-blocking path has reachable post-admission errors. After an unpersisted admission, run_cleanup_after_persistence_failure can return Unavailable, and an Internal follows when the stopping transition can't be persisted.
   • What the new test covers: stop_refused_before_admission_is_marked_not_admitted covers only the shutdown refusal, which is the safe direction.
   • What I ran: I wrapped four post-admission error sites in not_admitted: the is_unpersisted_for_sandbox(..)?, the run_cleanup_after_persistence_failure result, the "could not be persisted" Internal, and the run_admitted_stop_to_completion result. Then cargo nextest run -p pplx-space-sbx-mgr -E 'test(/stop/) | test(/unpersisted/) | test(/persistence_failure/)' still passed 102 of 102.
   • Suggested fix: a test that drives a Stop through an unpersisted admission (for example, failing the admission transaction's begin) and asserts the error is unmarked (!is_stop_not_admitted).

Low

2. shim/space.go:945: the shim requires the trailer value "true", but no test sends any other value. Changing the check to "key present" leaves TestLegacyKillOwnsOnlyAStopThatMayHaveBeenAdmitted passing. A "false" row in that table would pin it; sbx-manager only ever sends "true", so this is optional.
3. A window the description could name: while sbx-manager is down (between the old process exiting and its successor binding the socket), a Stop fails with an unmarked Unavailable ("connection refused"), and the shim keeps ownership. That's the original race, narrower now. It fails safe, and the client can't tell it apart from a connection that dropped after sending, so a sentence in the description is enough.

Verified against d6e35f1602b71aefd98bf468803b63f048c30b58.

What I ran:

• go vet ./... and go test ./... in shim/.
• The protocol and stop_admission_tests targets via nextest: 9 of 9 pass.
• Mutations, each caught by a test:
  • dropping the not-admitted check;
  • dropping the retry-on-successor check;
  • treating every Unavailable as refused;
  • not passing grpc.Trailer;
  • removing map_err(not_admitted) on the cleanup permit.
• A real grpc-go client and server: a marked error and a drain-marked error both read as refused, and an unmarked error doesn't.

What I read:

• For Stop, every marked Err in admit_lifecycle_cleanup_fenced returns before transaction.commit(). The one commit-then-Err path is auto-lifecycle Blocked, which Stop can't reach.
• x-space-retry-on-successor is written only before the handler or the admission transaction.
• A handoff that interrupts an in-flight RPC is unmarked, so the shim keeps ownership.

Compatibility:

• Old shim, new sbx-manager: codes are unchanged and the old shim ignores the trailer, so behaviour is as before.
• New shim, old sbx-manager: an unmarked Unavailable is still treated as unknown.

Not run: a tonic-server-to-grpc-go interop test (I covered each half separately), and CI on this head.

[the-gigi-pplx]

Approved. 3 non-blocking findings in the review comment above.

[zibi-pplx]

Thanks @the-gigi-pplx. Rebased the stack on main (47f3aa39); this PR's head is now 1f187d288249.

1. Post-admission errors unmarked. Agreed, that's the direction that matters. unpersisted_stop_and_delete_clean_up_through_node_manager_and_report_the_claim_failure already drives Stop through an unpersisted admission (blocking and non-blocking, node refusing or not), so it now also asserts !is_stop_not_admitted(&error) on the Unavailable/Internal it gets back. Your four wrapped sites all return through that path.
2. "false" value. Added a "marked false" row: Unavailable with x-space-stop-not-admitted: false keeps ownership (2 Stops, 1 Delete), so a key-present check fails it.
3. The down window. Added to Severity and risk: while no sbx-manager is bound, an unmarked Unavailable keeps ownership, which fails safe as [shim] keep a user-stopped sandbox through legacy pod teardown #1501 does.

[coderabbitai]

Nitpick comments: 1

shim/space_test.go: 1

2485-2500: Trivial · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Test the literal trailer names on both sides.

If one side changes a key, these tests can still pass while the shim treats a refused Stop as unmarked and deletes a user-stopped sandbox. Use literal keys in the Go test and assert the emitted keys in the Rust protocol tests.

Suggested fix

--- a/shim/space_test.go
+++ b/shim/space_test.go
@@
-	notAdmitted := metadata.Pairs(stopNotAdmittedTrailer, "true")
+	notAdmitted := metadata.Pairs("x-space-stop-not-admitted", "true")
@@
-		{"refused by the restart drain", status.Error(codes.Unavailable, "retry on successor"), metadata.Pairs(retryOnSuccessorTrailer, "true"), 1, 0},
+		{"refused by the restart drain", status.Error(codes.Unavailable, "retry on successor"), metadata.Pairs("x-space-retry-on-successor", "true"), 1, 0},
@@
-		{"marked false", status.Error(codes.Unavailable, "transport is closing"), metadata.Pairs(stopNotAdmittedTrailer, "false"), 2, 1},
+		{"marked false", status.Error(codes.Unavailable, "transport is closing"), metadata.Pairs("x-space-stop-not-admitted", "false"), 2, 1},
--- a/crates/l20_domain/sbx/mgr/protocol/src/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/l20_domain/sbx/mgr/protocol/src/tests.rs
@@
         let mut trailers = tonic::codegen::http::HeaderMap::new();
         marked.add_header(&mut trailers).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(trailers.get("x-space-stop-not-admitted").unwrap().to_str().unwrap(), "true");
         let decoded = tonic::Status::from_header_map(&trailers).unwrap();
@@
     let mut trailers = tonic::codegen::http::HeaderMap::new();
     status.add_header(&mut trailers).unwrap();
+    assert_eq!(trailers.get("x-space-retry-on-successor").unwrap().to_str().unwrap(), "true");
 
     let decoded = tonic::Status::from_header_map(&trailers).unwrap();

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Review comment at @shim/space_test.go around lines 2485 - 2500:
Update TestLegacyKillOwnsOnlyAStopThatMayHaveBeenAdmitted to use literal trailer
names for the stop-not-admitted and retry-on-successor metadata, rather than
constants shared with production code. In the Rust protocol tests, assert that
serialization emits those same literal trailer keys with the expected values
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Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @shim/space_test.go:
- Around line 2485-2500: Update
TestLegacyKillOwnsOnlyAStopThatMayHaveBeenAdmitted to use literal trailer names
for the stop-not-admitted and retry-on-successor metadata, rather than constants
shared with production code. In the Rust protocol tests, assert that
serialization emits those same literal trailer keys with the expected values
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