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data-plane: retry a Native read whose runtime connection failed, and answer 503 - #1620
When the data plane's connection to a sandbox's runtime fails before the runtime answers a Native file call, a read-only call is now sent once more over a new connection. A failure that remains is answered with the retryable 503 service_unavailable and a Retry-After, not a 500. A failure the retry recovers from is logged as a warning, not an error.
During Native creates under load, the data plane logged "gRPC client transport error before status was returned" at ERROR (SpacedStat, 0 ms) and "native file operation failed" at WARN. ECW logged neither. These are not not-ready probes. The call went out on a connection the data plane had kept to the endpoint (on Kubernetes, the pod's address) from an earlier sandbox whose pod had since gone. That connection was dead, and the runtime never saw the call: the connection was reset at once, or, where the network drops such packets, the call waited out the 5 s HTTP/2 keep-alive timeout. The next call got a new connection and succeeded. #1619 stops dead connections from being reused; this PR handles a call that still meets one.
What the client got for those calls: HTTP 500 internal with retryable: true and no Retry-After for a reset connection, or 503 service_unavailable ("http2 error") after 5 s for a dropped one. The documented answer for a request refused before any work (docs/troubleshooting.md) is a retryable 429 or 503 with Retry-After; the 500 was not it.
WorkerFailure::from_status (pplx-space-native-files, shared by the API's files routes and the data plane) now answers a client-side transport failure as 503 service_unavailable with a one-second Retry-After. is_client_transport_failure tells that failure apart from any status the runtime sent, whatever its code or words. A call that was never sent (is_client_connect_failure) counts as refused before it started. The "native file operation failed" warning is for 5xx answers other than 503 and 504, so it no longer fires for these.
On the data plane, files:stat and files:modified are sent once more over a fresh preparation and connection after a client-side transport failure, as files:list and files:read stream opens already were. Mutations are not sent again; one that nothing deduplicates is answered as not retryable, as before.
The gRPC client trace (pplx-space-common-grpc) takes a new request mark, RetriedOnTransportFailure. It leaves a marked call's transport failure to the caller, which logs it at WARN when it sends the call again and at ERROR otherwise; a failure nobody reports, or one after the decision, such as a stream's once it opened, is an ERROR. Only the first attempt is marked, so if the runtime still can't be reached on the retry, that attempt logs ERROR as before. Every other client's transport failures are unchanged.
Validation
native_files/tests/transport_failure.rs puts the fake runtime behind FaultyProxy (native_files/tests/proxy.rs, which data-plane: ping idle runtime connections so a dead one isn't reused #1619's stale-connection test now shares as Fault::Quiet). With Fault::Reset it resets a stale connection on the HEADERS frame of the client's next call; marking connections stale first round-trips a ping on each, bounded at 5 s, so a control frame from the client crosses the stale connection before that call. The tests capture what the gRPC client trace logs:
a_read_whose_connection_was_reset_is_answered_over_a_new_one: 200, the runtime got one call, and one transport failure was logged at WARN. It fails with the mark removed (ERROR logged) and with files:stat back on the draining-only reconnect (503).
a_read_the_runtime_cannot_be_reached_for_is_the_retryable_503: 503 service_unavailable, retryable: true, Retry-After: 1; WARN then ERROR. It fails without the shared mapping (500), without the mark, and without the read-only retry.
a_mutation_whose_connection_was_reset_is_not_sent_again: 503, retryable: false, one ERROR, no second call. It fails without the shared mapping.
The read and mutation tests fail when the proxy resets a stale connection on any client frame, as it first did: the client's ping answer resets it before the next call.
a_call_whose_stream_the_runtime_reset_is_not_sent_again_and_logs_an_error: a runtime that resets each stream with CANCEL, for files:stat and files:list. Neither is sent again, and its trace logs one ERROR. It fails (one WARN) when the caller reports every marked failure as retried.
a_marked_transport_failure_is_logged_at_the_level_its_caller_reports (pplx-space-common-grpc): WARN when reported retried, ERROR when not, ERROR for a failure after the report and for one never reported. It fails without the fallback on drop and when a failure after the report is held instead of logged.
a_runtime_the_connection_to_failed_is_answered_as_unreachable_and_retryable (pplx-space-native-files) covers the shared mapping for a broken connection, a dial that failed, and the runtime's own "transport error" answer, which stays a 500. It fails without the mapping.
The existing rule that a unary call is not sent again when the runtime itself answers "transport is closing" still holds (a_draining_runtime_is_reached_again_through_a_fresh_preparation).
At 2f4a83d: cargo fmt, cargo clippy --all-features -D warnings on pplx-space-common-grpc, pplx-space-native-files, pplx-space-data-plane-server and pplx-space-api, cargo check --workspace --all-targets --locked, cargo arch, and cargo nextest --all-features for pplx-space-common-grpc, pplx-space-native-files and pplx-space-data-plane-server (544 passed; the data-plane suite 30 of 30 times) and pplx-space-api (2598 passed) with Postgres and Redis: all pass.
Kind, current seed guest. A test script (kept out of the repository) makes a new sandbox's pod reuse the address of a deleted one the data plane holds a connection to; the drop case adds a rule in the new pod's network namespace that drops packets of connections it never saw. First files:stat on the new sandbox, and what the data plane logged:
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this change
connection reset
500 internal after 10–18 ms (4 of 4); ERROR + WARN each time
200 (3 of 3); one WARN "… the call is retried over a new connection" each time, no ERROR
packets dropped
503 after 5009–5013 ms (3 of 3)
200 after 5051–5057 ms (2 of 2); one WARN each time, no ERROR
Native typed smoke on Kind with SPACE_SMOKE_KIND_ADMIN_TOKEN_FILE set: 46 passed, 1 failed, 12 ignored. The failure (native.forced_drain_re_places_stopped_sandbox: the node never reached drained) was two sandboxes left over from my own earlier test script on that node; with them deleted, the scenario passed when re-run alone on this change.
Severity and risk
Severity: medium. The ERROR lines are what an error-rate alert counts, at about one per Native create under load. The 500 is a non-standard answer for a transport failure that a retry fixes.
Risk:
A files:stat or files:modified whose connection fails costs one more preparation and attempt. The API's own files routes now answer a client-side transport failure to a runtime as 503 instead of 500.
A transport failure that a retry recovers from is logged at WARN instead of ERROR. One that persists still logs ERROR.
Roll back by reverting; nothing is stored.
Stack
On #1619, now merged, which keeps the data plane from reusing a dead connection at all; together they remove both the 5 s wait and the log lines.
Why: Native files calls that hit client-side transport failures now return a retryable 503 with Retry-After instead of a 500, and read-only calls are retried once. Behavior is tested and clients should handle this better. Because it changes a versioned API error surface, owners should confirm that it is acceptable under the versioning policy before merging.
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Selected native-file calls retry once after eligible transport failures. Retried requests carry a marker that affects gRPC failure logging. Client transport failures map to HTTP 503 with Retry-After: 1. Read-only calls may retry, while mutations are not resent. Tests cover connection resets, exhausted retries, mutation failures, response classification, and log levels.
Merge Risk: High · up to 4815f
Native files calls that hit client-side transport failures now return a retryable 503 with Retry-After instead of a 500, and read-only calls are retried once. Behavior is tested and clients should handle this better. Because it changes a versioned API error surface, owners should confirm that it is acceptable under the versioning policy before merging.
Security architecture risk: Low · up to 2f4a8
Retries remain bounded, and ambiguous mutations are not automatically replayed. No introduced security weakness was established, but lost-response and interruption scenarios have incomplete coverage.
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No architecture-level concerns identified.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The effective change reaches Native file callers through data-plane retries and shared API/data-plane error responses. The public-entrypoint and high-fanout signals for Harness and FaultyProxy resolve to test-only helpers, not new production listeners or additional caller authority.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Client-controlled headers and sandbox identifiers continue through the API-owned authorization boundary on re-preparation. The grant is derived after sandbox ownership checking rather than accepting a runtime endpoint from the external caller. This control path predates the PR and is reused by the expanded retry behavior.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Failure containment preserves replay boundaries: transport errors do not trigger mutation reconnects, ambiguous unprotected mutations are marked non-retryable, and a read failure after streaming begins aborts the body rather than replaying delivered content. These controls counter duplicate-effect and partial-response risks.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Add fault coverage in which an unprotected mutation completes at the runtime but its response is lost, verifying no resend and a non-retryable terminal response. The current reset test exercises failure before the mutation reaches the worker; this proposal closes an assurance gap rather than identifying a demonstrated defect.
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Replace the fixed 200 ms sleep in ResettingProxy::stale with an explicit condition.
The sleep assumes that the client has finished sending its post-response frames within 200 ms. On a loaded CI host, those frames can arrive after stale_below is stored. The proxy then resets the connection on the client's trailing write instead of on the next call. Two tests then fail intermittently: the WARN-then-OK test, and the mutation test, which expects exactly one worker call and an ERROR log. A slow host can also make the sleep delay every run without need.
Make the proxy count client reads per connection. Wait, with a bounded poll, until the connection has gone quiet, for example no new bytes for a few polls under paused or injected time. Then mark the connection stale.
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/data/plane/server/src/native_files/call.rs:
- Around line 131-142: Update `retries_transport_failures` so the trace decision
for `BeforeStream` uses `should_reconnect_stream_open(status)` for the specific
status, rather than treating every stream-open failure as retried. Keep
`ReadOnly` behavior unchanged, and ensure non-retried stream-open errors remain
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@crates/l40_api/data/plane/server/src/native_files/tests/transport_failure.rs:
- Around line 50-54: Update stale and the relay flow so the proxy waits, with a
bounded timeout, for the first RPC to complete and triggers the connection reset
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…answer 503
When the data plane's connection to a sandbox's runtime failed before the
runtime answered a Native file call, as one kept to a pod address a later
pod was given does, the call failed. The shared mapping answered the
client's own transport failure as a 500 `internal`, logged a warning that
the file operation failed, and the gRPC client trace logged an error,
although the next call got a new connection and succeeded.
A client-side transport failure, which `is_client_transport_failure` tells
apart from any answer of the runtime's, is now the retryable 503
`service_unavailable` with a one-second `Retry-After`, from either server; a
call that was never sent counts as refused before it started. A read-only
unary call (`stat`, `modified`) is sent once more over a fresh preparation
and connection, as stream opens already were. Its first attempt is marked
so that the trace logs its transport failure as a warning: the second
attempt, which is not marked, logs an error if the runtime still can't be
reached. Mutations are not sent again.
A Native read or stream open marked its first attempt so that the gRPC
client trace logged a transport failure on it as a warning saying the call
is retried. The trace decided that from the failure alone, but whether the
call is sent again depends on the status the failure becomes: a stream the
runtime resets, for one, is not sent again, by a read (a remote reset is not
the client's own transport failure) or a stream open (a `CANCEL` reset is
not a closed connection). Such a call was logged as retried at warning
level, and nothing logged it as the error it was.
The trace now leaves a marked call's transport failure for its caller to
report once it has decided, at warning level if it sends the call again and
at error level otherwise. A failure the caller never reports is logged as an
error when the mark is dropped, as is one that comes after the report, such
as a stream's after it opened.
The transport-failure tests each wired a fake worker, the runtime address the
fake API grants and the Native files client by hand, as `Harness::start`
does. `Harness::with_runtime` now takes the worker and the address to grant,
a proxy in front of the worker or a runtime of the test's own, and
`Harness::start` builds through the same path.
The resetting proxy marked connections stale 200 ms after the first call and
then reset one on any byte the client sent. A control frame the client sent
later, such as a window update or a ping answer, could reset the connection
before the next call; the channel would then reconnect, so the read test
would miss its warning and the mutation could reach the runtime.
The proxy now reads the client's frames and resets a stale connection only
on the HEADERS frame that starts its next call, forwarding control frames as
before. Marking connections stale no longer sleeps: it has each open
connection carry a ping and the client's answer, bounded at 5 s, so a
client control frame crosses every stale connection before the next call.
With the proxy resetting on any frame again, the read and mutation tests
fail on that answer.
The transport-failure tests' resetting proxy and the stale-connection
test's quieting proxy were the same fixture with a different fault: each
numbered the connections it accepted, forwarded them to the fake runtime,
and misbehaved on the ones below a watermark. `FaultyProxy` in
`native_files/tests/proxy.rs` now does both, by `Fault::Reset` (reset on
the client's next call, control frames still pass) or `Fault::Quiet` (carry
nothing more either way), and the stale-connection test builds its harness
through `Harness::with_runtime`.
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Summary
When the data plane's connection to a sandbox's runtime fails before the runtime answers a Native file call, a read-only call is now sent once more over a new connection. A failure that remains is answered with the retryable 503
service_unavailableand aRetry-After, not a 500. A failure the retry recovers from is logged as a warning, not an error.During Native creates under load, the data plane logged "gRPC client transport error before status was returned" at ERROR (
SpacedStat, 0 ms) and "native file operation failed" at WARN. ECW logged neither. These are not not-ready probes. The call went out on a connection the data plane had kept to the endpoint (on Kubernetes, the pod's address) from an earlier sandbox whose pod had since gone. That connection was dead, and the runtime never saw the call: the connection was reset at once, or, where the network drops such packets, the call waited out the 5 s HTTP/2 keep-alive timeout. The next call got a new connection and succeeded. #1619 stops dead connections from being reused; this PR handles a call that still meets one.What the client got for those calls: HTTP 500
internalwithretryable: trueand noRetry-Afterfor a reset connection, or 503service_unavailable("http2 error") after 5 s for a dropped one. The documented answer for a request refused before any work (docs/troubleshooting.md) is a retryable 429 or 503 withRetry-After; the 500 was not it.WorkerFailure::from_status(pplx-space-native-files, shared by the API's files routes and the data plane) now answers a client-side transport failure as 503service_unavailablewith a one-secondRetry-After.is_client_transport_failuretells that failure apart from any status the runtime sent, whatever its code or words. A call that was never sent (is_client_connect_failure) counts as refused before it started. The "native file operation failed" warning is for 5xx answers other than 503 and 504, so it no longer fires for these.files:statandfiles:modifiedare sent once more over a fresh preparation and connection after a client-side transport failure, asfiles:listandfiles:readstream opens already were. Mutations are not sent again; one that nothing deduplicates is answered as not retryable, as before.pplx-space-common-grpc) takes a new request mark,RetriedOnTransportFailure. It leaves a marked call's transport failure to the caller, which logs it at WARN when it sends the call again and at ERROR otherwise; a failure nobody reports, or one after the decision, such as a stream's once it opened, is an ERROR. Only the first attempt is marked, so if the runtime still can't be reached on the retry, that attempt logs ERROR as before. Every other client's transport failures are unchanged.Validation
native_files/tests/transport_failure.rsputs the fake runtime behindFaultyProxy(native_files/tests/proxy.rs, which data-plane: ping idle runtime connections so a dead one isn't reused #1619's stale-connection test now shares asFault::Quiet). WithFault::Resetit resets a stale connection on the HEADERS frame of the client's next call; marking connections stale first round-trips a ping on each, bounded at 5 s, so a control frame from the client crosses the stale connection before that call. The tests capture what the gRPC client trace logs:a_read_whose_connection_was_reset_is_answered_over_a_new_one: 200, the runtime got one call, and one transport failure was logged at WARN. It fails with the mark removed (ERROR logged) and withfiles:statback on the draining-only reconnect (503).a_read_the_runtime_cannot_be_reached_for_is_the_retryable_503: 503service_unavailable,retryable: true,Retry-After: 1; WARN then ERROR. It fails without the shared mapping (500), without the mark, and without the read-only retry.a_mutation_whose_connection_was_reset_is_not_sent_again: 503,retryable: false, one ERROR, no second call. It fails without the shared mapping.a_call_whose_stream_the_runtime_reset_is_not_sent_again_and_logs_an_error: a runtime that resets each stream withCANCEL, forfiles:statandfiles:list. Neither is sent again, and its trace logs one ERROR. It fails (one WARN) when the caller reports every marked failure as retried.a_marked_transport_failure_is_logged_at_the_level_its_caller_reports(pplx-space-common-grpc): WARN when reported retried, ERROR when not, ERROR for a failure after the report and for one never reported. It fails without the fallback on drop and when a failure after the report is held instead of logged.a_runtime_the_connection_to_failed_is_answered_as_unreachable_and_retryable(pplx-space-native-files) covers the shared mapping for a broken connection, a dial that failed, and the runtime's own "transport error" answer, which stays a 500. It fails without the mapping.a_draining_runtime_is_reached_again_through_a_fresh_preparation).cargo fmt,cargo clippy --all-features -D warningson pplx-space-common-grpc, pplx-space-native-files, pplx-space-data-plane-server and pplx-space-api,cargo check --workspace --all-targets --locked,cargo arch, andcargo nextest --all-featuresfor pplx-space-common-grpc, pplx-space-native-files and pplx-space-data-plane-server (544 passed; the data-plane suite 30 of 30 times) and pplx-space-api (2598 passed) with Postgres and Redis: all pass.files:staton the new sandbox, and what the data plane logged:internalafter 10–18 ms (4 of 4); ERROR + WARN each timeSPACE_SMOKE_KIND_ADMIN_TOKEN_FILEset: 46 passed, 1 failed, 12 ignored. The failure (native.forced_drain_re_places_stopped_sandbox: the node never reached drained) was two sandboxes left over from my own earlier test script on that node; with them deleted, the scenario passed when re-run alone on this change.Severity and risk
Severity: medium. The ERROR lines are what an error-rate alert counts, at about one per Native create under load. The 500 is a non-standard answer for a transport failure that a retry fixes.
Risk:
files:statorfiles:modifiedwhose connection fails costs one more preparation and attempt. The API's own files routes now answer a client-side transport failure to a runtime as 503 instead of 500.Stack
On #1619, now merged, which keeps the data plane from reusing a dead connection at all; together they remove both the 5 s wait and the log lines.
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