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Summary

Adds AbandonRuntimeUpgrade, which gives up one runtime upgrade operation on a node so no later UpgradeRuntime for it, under any attempt id, stages, fences or boots, and a Wake carrying it is refused where it would run the upgrade. Node-api forwards it. Nothing in the control plane calls it yet.

Terms

• Abandon: record an operation in sandbox_runtime_upgrade_abandoned, so every later call for it is refused before it stages, fences or boots.
• Settle: finish an operation's row: an interrupted one rolls back, and a verified boot retires what it superseded and, for a stopped target, stops the sandbox.

The problem

A pod that's gone doesn't prove its shim's UpgradeRuntime call is: a pod force-deleted mid-create can still have the call on its way to the node. A control plane that captures the sandbox's disk after deleting the pod can't know whether a late call will still fence and boot it.

How this fixes it

• The RPC. Sandbox-manager takes the sandbox's upgrade lock, which an UpgradeRuntime holds for its whole call, so a running upgrade finishes first, or the abandon answers UNAVAILABLE after the 5 s lock wait (abandon_runtime_upgrade in runtime_upgrade/rpc.rs). An unsettled operation to a stopped target is settled first, as its retry would be, and the sandbox is published again. An unsettled one to a started target answers ABORTED and is left to its own retry or to the recovery loop, which runs every 60 s (RECOVERY_INTERVAL).
• The record. 20261112170004_sandbox_runtime_upgrade_abandoned has no foreign key, so the record outlives the sandbox's row, and an operation the node never saw, or one for a sandbox it doesn't hold, is recorded too: a late call carrying stage_from would stage it. One recorded for another sandbox answers INVALID_ARGUMENT.
• The refusals. UpgradeRuntime refuses an abandoned operation before it stages, settles or starts anything, with FAILED_PRECONDITION, or INVALID_ARGUMENT when the call names another sandbox than the abandonment's, or another sandbox, target or authorization than the operation's record; begin_runtime_upgrade refuses to fence one. The already-on-target and refusal outcome writes refuse it in the same statement, so a call naming another sandbox, which takes another lock and can pass its own check before the abandon lands, records and starts nothing either, though it may be answered with the first refusal it reaches; one carrying stage_from may still stage its own absent sandbox. A Wake carrying one is refused with the same codes, in the RPC's order, before staging an absent sandbox for it and, under the upgrade lock, before upgrading or replaying for a stopped or suspended one (grpc_lifecycle/pause_resume.rs, run_runtime_upgrade).
• The report. GetRuntimeUpgrade answers abandoned, an attempt's own answer included, and INVALID_ARGUMENT when the abandonment names another sandbox, as it does for a report that names another sandbox.
• Node-api. It forwards the RPC on WorkerApiInternal with the authority GetRuntimeUpgrade takes (crates/l40_api/node/api/server/src/worker.rs). The node-api simulator answers it UNIMPLEMENTED.

Validation

• runtime_upgrade::rpc::tests: a_call_for_an_abandoned_operation_never_touches_the_disk, an_abandon_before_the_sandbox_is_staged_refuses_the_stage, an_unsettled_started_operation_isnt_abandoned, an_abandon_naming_another_sandbox_leaves_the_operation_alone, an_abandoned_operation_never_starts_a_sandbox_on_its_target, a_rolled_back_operation_is_abandoned_as_it_stands and an_unsettled_stay_stopped_operation_is_settled_then_abandoned (which also reads abandoned back for an attempt).

• runtime_upgrade::tests: an_abandoned_operation_refused_at_the_fence_records_nothing and an_abandoned_operation_already_on_its_target_records_nothing.

• runtime_upgrade::node_effects::tests: a_wake_carrying_an_abandoned_upgrade_never_wakes_the_sandbox, a_wake_carrying_an_abandoned_retired_upgrade_never_wakes_the_sandbox and a_wake_carrying_an_abandoned_upgrade_stages_nothing.

• Store runtime_upgrades::tests: an_abandoned_operation_never_fences_afterwards, only_a_settled_operation_is_abandoned, a_rolled_back_operation_is_abandoned_as_it_stands, an_abandoned_operation_records_no_outcome_for_another_sandbox and deleting_the_sandbox_keeps_its_abandoned_operations.

• Node-api worker::tests::the_internal_runtime_upgrade_abandon_is_forwarded_only_for_the_control_plane.

• The migration round-trip test covers the four runtime-upgrade migrations, and runtime_upgrade_downs_refuse_while_a_row_an_older_release_misreads_is_recorded covers the abandoned migration's guarded down.

• Each new guard was removed in turn (28 mutants: the RPC, Wake and store checks, the sandbox comparison in the abandoned refusal, the Wake's identity check ahead of it, each conjunct of the store's sandbox match, the settle-first and same-sandbox conditions, the shared is_done_with_the_sandbox predicate and each of its two callers, the republish, node-api's authority check, the down guard, the report's sandbox check and abandoned on each of its answers, and a fence refusal left unrecorded, and the abandoned clause in each outcome write), and at least one of the tests above failed for 27. The 28th, a fence refusal recorded instead of left unrecorded, changes nothing observable, since the refusal write itself refuses an abandoned operation.

• CI's own Rust entry points (run-rust-checks.sh clippy, tests-unprivileged and tests-privileged) ran on a Linux build host on this head: clippy passed, and 12,951 of 12,952 unprivileged and 72 of 78 privileged tests passed. The seven that failed need kernel features or paths that host lacks (fs-verity, a private cgroup namespace, a privileged device path), and none is in a crate this change touches. CI's privileged lane covers them.

• CI on this head passes, Rust tests, Rust clippy, Rust dependency checks and all 14 Kind / Firecracker smoke shards included.

Not validated: a Kind or deployed run of the RPC; nothing calls it yet.

Not covered

• sandbox_runtime_upgrade_abandoned is never pruned: its rows outlive the sandbox by design, one per abandoned operation. So once a node has abandoned an operation, the migration's down refuses until an operator deletes them.
• A Wake for an absent Direct sandbox checks for abandonment before staging it outside the upgrade lock, so one already past that check still stages the checkpoint; it's refused before the upgrade. A Kubernetes sandbox never takes an upgrade on a Wake.
• Not every refusal before the fence with a final code is recorded, although the UpgradeRuntime comment in manager.proto says so: the stale-copy eviction's, refuse_another_request's, a malformed request's and an abandoned operation's are not.

Dependencies

PR #1755 (stacked base). This merges after it.

Rollout

Deploy sandbox-manager and node-api before any control plane that calls AbandonRuntimeUpgrade: an older one answers it UNIMPLEMENTED. The migration's down refuses while an abandoned operation is recorded, since an older release would let a late call for it change a disk the control plane already captured.

Severity and risk

Severity: medium. Without it, a control plane can't safely capture a disk after deleting an upgrade's pod.

Risk: low. It acts only when called, and nothing calls it yet. Roll back by reverting; a binary rollback keeps the migration, as db/README.md requires.

Docs

docs/execution-environments.md, "Booting an upgrade in its pod": AbandonRuntimeUpgrade, the Wake's limits, and its rollout.

AI assistance: Claude Code drafted the code, tests, docs and this description.

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Walkthrough

The change adds a persistent record and RPC for abandoning runtime-upgrade operations. The sandbox manager settles eligible stopped-target upgrades before recording abandonment and returns ABORTED for unsettled operations. Later upgrade and Wake requests for abandoned operations are refused. Runtime-upgrade reports include abandonment state. Migration tests cover the new table and prevent rollback while abandonment records remain.

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 4454f

This adds a runtime-upgrade abandonment RPC, but nothing in the control plane calls it yet. A Wake that finds the sandbox already on its upgrade target can still start the sandbox after abandonment succeeds, which breaks the promise that an abandoned operation never boots. Close that gap, or accept it explicitly, before the control plane starts calling the RPC. The node-api forwarding test should also be made to distinguish real forwarding from a local stub response.

Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to 4454f

Existing identity checks and serialized settlement limit immediate exposure, and no automatic control-plane caller is enabled yet. However, the documented binary rollback can stop enforcing an abandonment that previously succeeded, allowing delayed upgrade activity to invalidate assumptions made before capturing a sandbox’s disk.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · observed: The documented schema-preserving binary rollback ignores durable abandonment records. Once a caller relies on a successful abandonment before disk capture, such a rollback can restore late-call behavior that the caller was told had been barred. This is a conditional rollback compatibility concern, not an established unprivileged exploit; no automatic control-plane caller is added here.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — Each durable decision affects one operation on one node across all pod attempts and survives sandbox deletion. Privileged callers can repeat it for multiple operations. Fleet-wide exposure depends on credential distribution and deployment reachability, which were not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Sandbox-manager applies the same Root, Operator, or node-api service principal policy as UpgradeRuntime’s base gate. Node-api applies policy-mutation authority before forwarding. That helper permits an absent authenticated-caller extension, so its security depends on the upstream authentication layer rather than the helper alone.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Settlement’s stop is constrained to the upgrade’s boot execution and refuses to stop an execution that has moved on. Caller context is retained, while recovery has no caller and is explicitly barred from starting or stopping a sandbox. These controls counter the concern that abandonment gains unrestricted lifecycle authority through settlement.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Before enabling callers that depend on abandonment, require rollback builds to preserve abandonment enforcement or explicitly prevent incompatible rollback after the guarantee has been consumed. Retaining the table alone is insufficient, and deleting records merely to pass the down-migration guard would discard finality.

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Title check		The title starts with the bracketed area [sbx-mgr], followed by a lowercase summary that matches the main change: adding the AbandonRuntimeUpgrade RPC so late UpgradeRuntime calls for an abandoned ope…
Description Follows The Pr Template		The PR description (perplexityai/SPACE #1756, author the-gigi-pplx) contains all four required items, each with real content: 1. "## Summary": Present. It states that merging adds `AbandonRuntimeU…
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Public-Safe Content		The public-safe check passes. I listed the 27 changed files and scanned every added line for the prohibited categories: URLs and hostnames, personal absolute paths, cloud account IDs and ARNs, private…

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The title starts with the bracketed area [sbx-mgr], followed by a lowercase summary that matches the main change: adding the AbandonRuntimeUpgrade RPC so late UpgradeRuntime calls for an abandoned operation are refused before fencing or booting. The title is specific and accurate, with no trailing period or ticket ID. The title uses the bracketed area form the requirements allow, and the summary starts with a lowercase word.

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The PR description (perplexityai/SPACE #1756, author the-gigi-pplx) contains all four required items, each with real content: 1. "## Summary": Present. It states that merging adds AbandonRuntimeUpgrade. The RPC records an operation in sandbox_runtime_upgrade_abandoned so later UpgradeRuntime calls for it are refused before they stage, fence, or boot. Node-api forwards the RPC. 2. "## Validation": Present. It names the test suites and individual tests run, the mutation testing, and the CI results. It also states "CI on this head passes" with the Rust tests, clippy, dependency checks, and smoke shards. 3. "## Severity and risk": Present. It gives "Severity: medium" and "Risk: low", with a rationale and a rollback note. 4. "AI assistance:" line: Present. It reads "AI assistance: Claude Code drafted the code, tests, docs and this description." Per the check, only presence is judged, not quality or length. No required item is missing or empty. The author lookup and code review were not needed for this description-only criterion.

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The check applies only when the pull request fixes a defect in application behavior under crates/, shim/, or ui/. This pull request does not fix an existing defect. It adds a new capability. - The title reads "[sbx-mgr] add AbandonRuntimeUpgrade…". The raw summary lists new RPC handlers, a new sandbox_runtime_upgrade_abandoned table and migration, new store functions, and new proto messages. - The description says: "Adds AbandonRuntimeUpgrade…", "Nothing in the control plane calls it yet", and "Without it, a control plane can't safely capture a disk after deleting an upgrade's pod." This describes a missing feature that is being introduced. It does not describe a bug in shipped behavior. - The objectives say the change "aims to record an upgrade operation as abandoned," which is also feature work. The review comments (the Wake-path ordering concerns) target code that this pull request introduces. They are not evidence of a pre-existing defect being fixed. The check therefore does not apply, and it passes. The Validation section still names specific regression-style tests, but that is not required here.

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The public-safe check passes. I listed the 27 changed files and scanned every added line for the prohibited categories: URLs and hostnames, personal absolute paths, cloud account IDs and ARNs, private keys, tokens, passwords, internal trackers, production or incident references, and cluster names. - The only pattern hits were migration version numbers (for example 20261112170001) in the migration test list, and ordinary comment text in worker.proto and the docs. None of these is sensitive. - No credentials, tokens, or private keys were added. - No internal URLs, hostnames, or tracker links were added. - No personal workstation paths were added. - The PR description contains no production logs, measurements, or incident details. Its Validation section describes CI results and test names only. The description does explain a race in UpgradeRuntime that a late call could fence or boot an abandoned upgrade. This explanation sits in a PR that adds the fix, so it is not an unfixed or undisclosed vulnerability. The check passes.

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crates/l40_api/node/api/server/src/worker/tests.rs: 1

366-370: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Make the forwarding assertion distinguish a forwarded call from a stub.

If abandon_runtime_upgrade returns Unimplemented locally after the authority check, this test still passes. Have the fake manager record the request or return a distinct response, and assert that result.

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Review comment at @crates/l40_api/node/api/server/src/worker/tests.rs around lines 366 - 370:
Update the test around WorkerApiInternal::abandon_runtime_upgrade so it verifies that the request reaches the fake sandbox manager, rather than passing on a local Unimplemented stub. Have the fake manager record the request or return a distinct response, then assert that evidence while preserving the existing authority-check behavior.

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@crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/runtime_upgrade.rs:
- Line 1431: Update the blocking Wake flow around
refuse_abandoned_runtime_upgrade so it checks the operation for abandonment
before returning success for a Started sandbox or resuming a Paused sandbox.
Order the resident-state check and any state transition so neither action can
occur for an abandoned operation.

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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/node/api/server/src/worker/tests.rs:
- Around line 366-370: Update the test around
WorkerApiInternal::abandon_runtime_upgrade so it verifies that the request
reaches the fake sandbox manager, rather than passing on a local Unimplemented
stub. Have the fake manager record the request or return a distinct response,
then assert that evidence while preserving the existing authority-check
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• crates/l30_storage/db/migrate/src/tests.rs
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• crates/l30_storage/sbx/mgr/store/src/db.rs
• crates/l30_storage/sbx/mgr/store/src/db/read/runtime_upgrade.rs
• crates/l30_storage/sbx/mgr/store/src/db/runtime_upgrades.rs
• crates/l30_storage/sbx/mgr/store/src/db/runtime_upgrades/tests.rs
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• crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/kubernetes/tests.rs
• crates/l40_api/cluster/controller/server/src/node_drain/store/lifecycle_writer_tests/restore_finalize.rs
• crates/l40_api/node/api/server/src/worker.rs
• crates/l40_api/node/api/server/src/worker/tests.rs
• crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/adapter.rs
• crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/grpc_lifecycle/pause_resume.rs
• crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/runtime_upgrade.rs
• crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/runtime_upgrade/node_effects/tests.rs
• crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/runtime_upgrade/rpc.rs
• crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/runtime_upgrade/rpc/tests.rs
• crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/runtime_upgrade/tests.rs
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[Consider] There are now two definitions of "settled". This one settles any non-Retired row, so a live RolledBack row gets finish_rollback. The store's Unsettled arm in abandon_runtime_upgrade treats RolledBack | Retired as settled, so a started target whose live row is still RolledBack is abandoned without finishing its rollback, and recovery finishes it after the abandon returns OK. That's probably harmless if finish_rollback only touches metadata, but it's easy for the two predicates to drift.

One option is a single RuntimeUpgradePhase::is_settled() (or an owes_settling(target_state) helper) that both the RPC and the store call, with a comment on why a RolledBack row counts as settled for a started target.

[the-gigi-pplx]

Fixed in fc2be30. Both checks now call one predicate, RuntimeUpgradePhase::is_done_with_the_sandbox (crates/l30_storage/sbx/mgr/store/src/db/runtime_upgrades.rs:93). It's an exhaustive match with no wildcard, so a new phase has to pick a side. The store's abandon uses it at runtime_upgrades.rs:730, and the RPC's settle-first uses it at runtime_upgrade/rpc.rs:645.

I unified on the store's definition, so RolledBack and Retired count as done for either target. A rolled-back row has already restored the sandbox's disk and released its fence. All it still owes is finish_rollback (runtime_upgrade.rs:990), which deletes the preserved copy (named by the operation, not the instance disk) and then the row. So a stopped target's rolled-back row is now abandoned as it stands, just like a started one's. Recovery still deletes the copy afterwards: unsettled_runtime_upgrades lists every row not yet retired, which is why I named the predicate for what it decides rather than is_settled, since recovery's meaning of "unsettled" is wider.

Tests:

• a_rolled_back_operation_is_abandoned_as_it_stands (runtime_upgrade/rpc/tests.rs:2602) covers both targets. It fails if the RPC goes back to != Retired, because the stopped target then finishes the rollback first.
• only_a_settled_operation_is_abandoned (store tests, at line 1818) now abandons a live RolledBack row before its rollback finishes.

Each drift is caught by a test: dropping RolledBack from the predicate fails both tests, and restoring the RPC's old condition fails the RPC test. The docs (docs/execution-environments.md:1715) say a rolled-back operation is abandoned as it stands and its copy is left to recovery.

[the-gigi-pplx]

A correction to the reply above, since the branch has been rebased: the fix now lives in 4454f25 (the branch's one commit), and the references move.

• is_done_with_the_sandbox is still at runtime_upgrades.rs:93. The store's abandon calls it at runtime_upgrades.rs:739, and the RPC's settle-first at runtime_upgrade/rpc.rs:654. finish_rollback is at runtime_upgrade.rs:1030.
• The RPC test a_rolled_back_operation_is_abandoned_as_it_stands is at runtime_upgrade/rpc/tests.rs:2763.
• The store-side check isn't in only_a_settled_operation_is_abandoned anymore. It's now its own store test with the same name, a_rolled_back_operation_is_abandoned_as_it_stands (runtime_upgrades/tests.rs:1991), so only_a_settled_operation_is_abandoned again checks a recorded outcome naming another sandbox on its own.
• The docs sentence is at docs/execution-environments.md:1717.

Nothing else changed: one predicate, both callers, and dropping RolledBack from it still fails both tests.

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Inline comments:
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@crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/runtime_upgrade.rs:
- Around line 1499-1500: Keep runtime_upgrade_guard held on the AlreadyOnTarget
path in run_runtime_upgrade through the Wake’s ordinary sandbox start, so
abandon_runtime_upgrade cannot succeed between that decision and the start.
Preserve the existing wake_lock-then-upgrade-guard acquisition order; do not
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• crates/l30_storage/db/migrate/src/tests.rs
• crates/l30_storage/sbx/mgr/store/Cargo.toml
• crates/l30_storage/sbx/mgr/store/src/db.rs
• crates/l30_storage/sbx/mgr/store/src/db/read/runtime_upgrade.rs
• crates/l30_storage/sbx/mgr/store/src/db/runtime_upgrades.rs
• crates/l30_storage/sbx/mgr/store/src/db/runtime_upgrades/tests.rs
• crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/sandbox/lifecycle/characterization_tests.rs
• crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/kubernetes/tests.rs
• crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/grpc_lifecycle/pause_resume.rs
• crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/runtime_upgrade.rs
• crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/runtime_upgrade/node_effects/tests.rs
• crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/runtime_upgrade/rpc.rs
• crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/runtime_upgrade/rpc/tests.rs
• crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/runtime_upgrade/tests.rs
• db/sandbox-manager/20261112170004_sandbox_runtime_upgrade_abandoned.down.sql
• db/sandbox-manager/20261112170004_sandbox_runtime_upgrade_abandoned.up.sql
• docs/execution-environments.md

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• crates/l30_storage/sbx/mgr/store/src/db.rs

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[Should fix] No test covers the ordering this RPC is built on: an abandon must wait behind an UpgradeRuntime that holds the sandbox's upgrade lock, and answer UNAVAILABLE after LOCK_WAIT. Today every abandon test runs one call after the other. The store's Unsettled check covers an upgrade that already fenced. But a call that has passed refuse_abandoned_runtime_upgrade and is still staging (stage_from) or evicting a stale copy has no row yet, so this lock is the only thing that stops an abandon from returning OK while that call goes on to stage the disk. Deleting this line would pass every test listed in the description, and it isn't among the 28 mutants. Add a #[tokio::test(start_paused = true)] that takes f.service.auto_lifecycle.runtime_upgrade_lock(&f.sandbox_id).lock_owned(), calls abandon_runtime_upgrade, and asserts Unavailable with nothing recorded (runtime_upgrade_abandoned is false). This follows retirement_gives_up_on_busy_artifacts_rather_than_waiting in node_effects/tests.rs. Ideally, also add a variant that parks a stage_from call inside staging and checks the abandon finishes only after it does.

[shehan-pplx]

[Consider] The Wake works out whether staging was refused because of an abandonment by matching on the status code (FailedPrecondition | InvalidArgument). That mapping is a second copy of abandoned_refusal's contract. If db_conn() or the read ever answers one of those codes, or the refusal codes change, the event reason will be wrong without anyone noticing. abandoned_refusal already separates the two cases as Result<Option<Status>, Status>. Expose that shape instead, for example pub(super) fn abandoned_runtime_upgrade_refusal(&self, ..) -> Result<Option<Status>, Status>. Then map Ok(Some(refusal)) to "runtime_upgrade_abandoned" and Err(error) to STAGING, and drop the code match.