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[sbx-mgr, cluster-controller] let an operator discard a retained suspend filesystem and keep recovery off newer copies - #1758
A sandbox whose suspend lost its runtime and kept no capture of its own is held on its node under sandbox-manager's shared suspend retention policy, with no supported way to release it. This change gives an operator an explicit way out, space-sbxmgr delete --discard-retained-filesystem --reason, which refuses while any capture of that sandbox could still finish and releases the Kubernetes pod whose teardown waited on it. A running suspend that fails that way now records the retention policy's failure reason, so an ordinary delete refuses it as it does recovery's. A cluster delete that never reached the node-local delete no longer lets the node's eviction erase such a sandbox either: the eviction refuses it, and the discard is the only way it leaves. Separately, a published activity clock is no longer dropped when a snapshot falls between it and the stored value, and the orphaned-sandbox reconciler no longer reverts a sandbox under a node whose report landed after the sweep listed it.
Terms
Suspend attempt: sandboxes.suspend_attempt_artifact_id and suspend_attempt_started_at in sandbox-manager's SQLite row, written by begin_suspend and begin_teardown_suspend. Recovery adopts only a capture whose metadata names the attempt, and an encrypted attempt's capture can still converge for six hours from its start (SUSPEND_ATTEMPT_RECOVERY_WINDOW).
Retention policy: suspend_evidence_requires_retention, true for a quarantined or failed row whose failure reason is suspend_publish_failed_no_artifact_runtime_gone (the runtime is gone and no usable capture of the attempt is kept) or suspend_capture_unresolved (an encrypted capture's evidence doesn't settle it). Erase safety reads it, and an ordinary delete refuses such a row.
Delete receipt: sandbox_execution_delete_receipts, the generation up to which a sandbox's executions were deleted. A pod's teardown poll answers DELETED, which lets the shim release the pod, only once the row is gone and a receipt covers the generation the pod waits on.
Activity clocks: sandboxes.last_access_at and last_command_at in the control plane, which a node publishes. Started recovery, the orphaned-sandbox revert and the failed-row repair restore a snapshot only if neither clock postdates it (sn.timestamp >= last_command_at).
Orphan revert: the orphaned-sandbox reconciler's recovery of a row whose pod is gone (OrphanDisposition::RecoverSuspended): it moves the row to suspended, unplaced, so the next wake restores its snapshot.
The problem
A retained sandbox has no way out. A sandbox the retention policy holds is quarantined, sandbox-manager doesn't recover it, and every delete refuses it. On Kubernetes, when the interrupted suspend was the pod's teardown, the pod stays Terminating too: the shim releases a task only on a durable, superseded or deleted answer.
A running suspend's failure leaves the only copy erasable. When a running suspend fails with its runtime gone before its capture returned (node-manager unreachable, the guest sync, staging setup, the encrypted capture record or volume, a plaintext capture), while its staging is still set to be discarded (the btrfs-send encode, the plaintext metadata), or when its classification finds no capture of the attempt, sandbox-manager quarantines the row at once with the cause as its failure reason. That isn't one of the retention policy's reasons, so an ordinary delete then erases what may be the sandbox's only copy, where recovery, quarantining the same state, records suspend_publish_failed_no_artifact_runtime_gone.
A cluster delete can erase the only copy without asking the node. A Kubernetes teardown with no observed execution, or whose pod has no runtime address (teardown.rs, the no-execution return and the resolve_pod_ip fallback), skips the node-local delete, the one call that refuses a row the retention policy holds. The control plane then deletes its row, internal-api reports the sandbox deleted on the node's next sync, node-ctl treats a quarantined row as reclaimable, and sandbox-manager's cluster-deleted eviction claims it (claim_quarantined_sandbox_for_eviction, which checks only the state and row version) and runs a DeleteRow cleanup that erases the filesystem.
The clock throttle hides activity just after a snapshot.advance_published_activity writes a published clock only when it is more than a minute past the stored one. A command at T, a suspend at T+10s, a restore, and a command at T+40s leave the stored clock at T, before the snapshot, so every recovery that reads the clocks treats the snapshot as covering the second command.
The orphan revert can run past a node's newer copy. A paused or started sandbox whose pod disappears still has its VM and disk on its node, and the control plane's marker still names the snapshot it was last restored from. The candidate listing skips a row whose node has reported it, but not one the node hadn't reported when the sweep listed it, such as a sandbox restored onto a node whose publishes there failed: node-ctl publishes every 60 seconds, and after an error internal-api answered it waits a full tick. If that node's publish lands between the listing and the plan, which awaits the pod probe first, the plan reverts the row, so the next wake restores the old snapshot while the node holds the newer bytes.
How this fixes it
Discard a retained filesystem explicitly.DeleteRequest.discard_retained_filesystem_reason, sent by space-sbxmgr delete <uuid> --discard-retained-filesystem --reason <text>, deletes the sandbox and its filesystem. It is accepted only from root or the local operator role, takes one full sandbox UUID and no template filter, and needs a reason (trimmed, at most 512 characters, one line, no invisible formatting, tag or bidirectional characters). Admission refuses any row the retention policy doesn't hold (CleanupAdmissionError::DiscardNotApplicable) and any sandbox not on the node (NotFound), and fails closed: a persistence failure refuses it rather than admitting best-effort cleanup. The CLI checks the same policy before sending. sandbox-manager logs the reason in a warning line before admission, which commits the row's deleting state that startup recovery finishes as a delete after a restart; once admitted it also records it in a delete_requested event with operation discard_retained_filesystem.
Never race an unfinished capture. Under the cleanup lock and the admission transaction, the discard also refuses while a capture could still finish (CleanupAdmissionError::DiscardCaptureUnfinished): while the row's suspend attempt is inside its six-hour window, while a backup of its artifacts is being admitted (the discard takes the artifact lock without waiting, as eviction does) or its upload is pending, running or cancelling, and while its runtime is live or the fallible liveness probe recovery uses can't read it to be gone. A retained row can't begin another suspend or upload, so the first two don't reopen once they close. Past the window an unresolved receipt doesn't block, since that is the evidence the policy keeps for this recovery.
Release the pod. A cleanup's row delete writes a receipt covering the newest of the row's own generation, the latest teardown suspend's, and the row's retained route high-water mark (last_observed_execution_generation, which nothing clears), in record_cleanup_execution_delete_receipt. A cleanup's quarantine clears the row's route, and sbx-mgr prunes a failed teardown job after ten days, so the high-water mark still names the generation of a teardown that waited longer than that. A teardown operation or a high-water value that doesn't decode is left out of the receipt, which covers the remaining inputs, rather than failing the delete. Inventory's stale-row removal keeps writing the row's own generation only.
Refuse the only copy on eviction too.claim_quarantined_sandbox_for_eviction reads the row in its own transaction, under the cleanup fence the eviction already holds, and refuses a row erase safety rates RetainedFilesystemOnlyCopy (QuarantinedEvictionClaim::RetainedFilesystemOnlyCopy), writing nothing. The eviction answers with the node-local delete's refusal (retained_filesystem_only_copy_status) and logs refusing cluster-deleted eviction; node-ctl routes that FailedPrecondition as a deferral, counts it as deferred and retries after its 30-minute back-off. The row stays quarantined on the node, where the discard delete finds it. The API teardown is unchanged: the copy lives only on the node, and every node path that erases it now refuses it.
Label a running suspend's failure by what it kept. The live publication-failure path takes the capture evidence of each failure site (CaptureEvidence). A failure that keeps no capture of this suspend, and a classification that finds none, record suspend_publish_failed_no_artifact_runtime_gone with the cause kept as the quarantine's message (mark_suspending_quarantined_retaining_only_copy) when the runtime is gone; a failure that may keep a usable capture, or whose live runtime couldn't be rolled back to paused, records the cause, as before. The evidence decides only the reason: every site quarantines exactly when it did, and a classification error or an unsettled encrypted capture still leaves the row suspending.
Let a clock cross a snapshot.advance_published_activity also writes last_access_at and last_command_at when a full snapshot's timestamp falls in [stored, published), the readers' own comparison, whatever the gap. Each clock's decision is computed once, in an advance CTE, and the SET re-checks only that the clock still moves forward against the row it locks, so a concurrent writer that advanced it further is never moved back.
Defer to a node whose report lands after the listing. The orphan reconciler's plan defers a recoverable row (OrphanDeferReason::NodeReportsLocalCopy) while its active node has reported the sandbox (node_observes_sandbox), whatever the age of that node's census, and recover_orphan_to_suspended checks the same condition in its own statement, so a report committed after the plan read still stops the revert. On the next sweep the listing skips the row for as long as the node's observed state exists. Each deferral counts in a new space.sandbox.api.reconciler.rows_deferred{reason,mode} counter.
The suspend attempt, its receipt classification and the no-capture timing are unchanged: recovery still adopts only the attempt's own capture and quarantines on its own schedule. The retention policy's two reasons and its predicate move to pplx-space-sbx-mgr-protocol unchanged, so the store and the CLI read one definition.
Validation
a_discard_delete_releases_the_pod_of_a_quarantined_teardown (sbx-mgr): a Kubernetes teardown lost before any capture is quarantined by startup recovery, by its cleanup's completion (which clears the route), and by that completion with its failed teardown job then pruned; with its attempt's window passed, its teardown poll and an ordinary delete are refused, a discard delete removes the row, and the next teardown poll answers DELETED.
a_discard_delete_refuses_while_a_capture_may_still_finish (sbx-mgr): the discard is refused, and the row stays quarantined, while the attempt is inside its window, while a backup upload is pending or a backup holds the artifact lock, while the runtime is live, and while its liveness can't be read.
a_discard_delete_refuses_every_other_row_and_caller (sbx-mgr): a discard of a stopped sandbox, of one quarantined for another reason, or of one not on the node is refused and leaves it as it was, as is one from a service peer, with a template filter, or with an empty or multi-line reason.
a_discard_delete_needs_its_reason_and_one_full_uuid and a_discard_is_sent_only_for_a_sandbox_held_as_its_only_copy (CLI): the flags' constraints, and the pre-check admitting both retention reasons, quarantined or failed, and nothing else.
a_failure_that_keeps_no_capture_holds_the_only_copy and a_classified_missing_capture_holds_the_only_copy (sbx-mgr): a running suspend's failure that keeps no capture, and a plaintext attempt whose classification finds none, quarantine with the only-copy reason and the cause as the message; a failure that may keep a capture records the cause and stays erasable. a_live_runtime_whose_rollback_fails_keeps_its_cause (sbx-mgr): a no-capture failure whose live runtime's rollback fails quarantines under its cause.
a_cluster_deleted_eviction_refuses_the_only_copy_and_leaves_it_for_a_discard (sbx-mgr): a quarantined teardown held as the only copy, past the eviction's quiescence window, is refused by the cluster-deleted eviction with the retained-filesystem refusal; no cleanup runs and the row stays quarantined; the discard delete then erases it. With the claim's refusal removed the eviction erases the row and the test fails. evict_cluster_deleted_sandbox_reclaims_retained_restoring_and_quarantined_rows still evicts a quarantined row the policy doesn't hold.
a_throttled_clock_still_advances_across_a_snapshot, a_throttled_clock_with_no_snapshot_between_is_still_dropped and a_snapshot_on_either_edge_of_the_throttle_window (sandbox store): a published clock 30 s past the stored one is written when a full snapshot falls between them, dropped when the snapshots fall outside, written for a snapshot at the stored instant and dropped for one at the published instant.
classify_missing_pod_defers_while_its_node_reports_the_sandbox (cluster controller): a paused row with a missing pod defers while its active node reports it, with a recent, stale or missing census, and recovers when another node reports it or a census leaves it out.
a_publish_landing_between_listing_and_plan_holds_the_revert (cluster controller) drives the real store through a reconciler sweep whose pod probe commits the node's census and observed state, opening the race deterministically: the row stays paused and the sweep reports one deferral. With the plan's defer and the recovery statement's check both removed, which is main's code, it reverts the row past the node's report. the_recovery_statement_refuses_while_the_node_reports_the_sandbox covers the statement's check on its own.
Each guard was disabled in turn: the discard's attempt-window, upload and live-runtime refusals and its applicability check, the two only-copy labels, the eviction claim's refusal, the receipt's teardown and high-water generations and its decode tolerance, the CLI's retention pre-check, the plan's defer, the recovery statement's check, and the clock crossing. Each mutant fails the test written for it.
The full workspace cargo nextest --all-targets --all-features, in CI's two lanes, on a build devbox, with the two packages CI builds at opt-level = 0 built that way. Unprivileged (not group(privileged)): all 12973 passed. Privileged (group(privileged) as root on a NoCoW btrfs): 72 of 78 passed; the six failures are the box's, in crates this change doesn't touch: three fs-verity tests (the box's kernel has none), two contained_launcher tests (the mirrored path's ancestors aren't root-owned) and spaced-guest-worker's embedding (it needs a private cgroup namespace). Workspace clippy with -D warnings, cargo fmt --check and cargo arch pass. The shim's regenerated manager.pb.go (protoc 35.0, protoc-gen-go v1.36.11) builds.
Not validated: a Kind run. None of these paths is reachable from a smoke scenario without killing a node process mid-suspend or deleting a pod under a paused sandbox.
Dependencies
None. This merges on its own.
Docs
docs/troubleshooting.md gains "A sandbox quarantined after an interrupted suspend": the two retention reasons and when each is recorded, how to tell (space-sbxmgr list, the admin debug route's quarantine episode, the events, the shim's failing teardown spans), the counters an alert can fire on, the discard delete, the cluster administrator's approval it needs, and when it refuses, what releases the pod, what happens when the control plane deleted the sandbox first (the eviction's refusal and node-ctl's retries), and how to finish in the control plane, including every condition quarantine recovery checks before it returns the sandbox to suspended. Its section on the orphan reconciler names the in-flight snapshot deferral that comes before the others. docs/observability.md's note on pods stuck Terminating links to it. A second section, "A sandbox whose pod is gone while its node still holds it", describes both ways the reconciler leaves such a sandbox to its node (the listing's unbounded skip and the defer for a late report) and the rows_deferred counter.
Rollout
No migration. DeleteRequest gains an optional field, which an older sandbox-manager ignores. The CLI checks the sandbox's state and failure reason itself before sending, so against an older sandbox-manager a discard reaches only a sandbox the retention policy holds, which that ordinary delete then refuses; deploy sandbox-manager before using the flag. The cluster-controller and control-plane store parts carry no schema or wire change and roll out independently.
Not covered
snapshots.timestamp is set when a node registers a backup with the control plane, after the capture, so readers can still treat a snapshot as covering activity between the capture and the registration. The clock fix closes only the throttle's part.
Activity a node never published before it died, and guest writes that move neither clock, still read as no activity to started recovery and the failed-row repair.
A sandbox quarantined at once with the runtime gone can be discarded only once its attempt's six-hour window has passed.
A failed row with a retention reason gets no attempt-window refusal from the discard: clear_finished_suspend_attempt clears the attempt when a row becomes failed. No current writer produces lifecycle failed (write_state_from refuses it as a target and no cleanup completion targets it), so only rows an older sandbox-manager wrote hold it, and none of them is mid-capture. The backup-upload and runtime refusals still apply to such a row.
On the Direct substrate, a paused sandbox on a node that is gone stays paused: Direct runs no orphan, drain or lost-node loop.
A paused or started row whose node keeps reporting it is skipped by the orphan reconciler's candidate listing with no bound, as on main: on a healthy node whose pod vanished without its teardown running, the row stays in its lifecycle without a pod indefinitely. The projection GC removes observed rows only for sandboxes suspended for seven days or deleted, so it doesn't bound this.
A node's publish writes its observed state early in its transaction and commits late. The plan and the recovery statement each read committed data as of their own statement, and publication takes no lock the reconciler holds, so a publish that wrote before the plan read but commits after the recovery statement runs isn't seen, and the revert goes ahead. Closing that window needs a lock shared with internal-api's publish path.
Severity and risk
Severity: high. A stranded teardown holds its pod in Terminating with no operator exit, a running suspend's failure can let an ordinary delete erase the only copy, a cluster delete that skips the node-local delete lets the node's eviction erase it, and the clock and orphan paths can restore older bytes than the sandbox last had while the user sees a healthy sandbox.
Risk: medium.
The discard delete erases what may be a sandbox's only copy. Only root or the local operator role can send it, for one named sandbox the retention policy holds, never while a capture could still finish, and the operator's reason is logged before the delete is admitted and goes into the event after.
A running suspend that fails with its runtime gone and no capture of its own kept now refuses an ordinary delete, where before a delete erased the filesystem. On Kubernetes, when that suspend was the pod's teardown, the pod stays Terminating until an operator discards the filesystem.
A quarantined row the retention policy holds is no longer evicted after a cluster delete. It stays on the node until an operator discards it, and node-ctl retries its eviction every 30 minutes until then.
A row whose node's report lands after the listing now waits for that node where main reverted it at once. After that one deferral the next listing skips it for as long as the node's observed state exists, as main does for any row its node reports.
Busy sandboxes pay one indexed snapshots lookup per clock on publications inside the throttle window.
Roll back by reverting this commit.
AI assistance: Claude Code drafted the code, tests and this description, under the author's direction and review.
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Walkthrough
The changes add an operator discard-delete path for eligible quarantined sandboxes, distinguish suspend failures by capture evidence, and record cleanup receipts using available generation data. Orphan recovery now defers when the active node reports a local copy. Published access and command activity clocks can also advance within the existing throttle when a full snapshot falls between the stored and published timestamps.
Merge Risk: High · previous review fe802
This change adds an operator command that can permanently erase a retained sandbox filesystem, changes who may delete sandboxes, and alters orphan recovery. Several concerns remain open: the discard reason can be lost if the process exits right after admission, pod teardown can skip node-local retention checks, and the troubleshooting runbook has inaccuracies. These should be resolved or explicitly accepted before merge.
Security architecture risk: Moderate · up to fe802
The change strengthens retention safeguards and restricts destructive discard to privileged local operators. One recovery invariant remains unresolved: expiration of the recovery window does not itself establish that the capture producer has stopped, yet it permits discard admission. A late producer could therefore overlap irreversible cleanup unless downstream serialization prevents it.
Retained concerns
Medium · reliability · inferred: The new discard admission permits an expired suspend attempt once uploads are absent and the sandbox runtime is confirmed gone, without establishing that the separate capture producer has terminated. The recovery-window definition explicitly says expiry is not that proof. After interruption or restart, a late producer could overlap irreversible cleanup unless node-side serialization excludes it; that downstream exclusion remains unresolved. Local locks, upload checks, and root/operator authorization substantially constrain this concern, and no unprivileged exploit or actual erase race was verified.
Security review details
Security Blast Radius
observed — A discard request selects one exact sandbox on the contacted node, rejects template-filtered selection, and refuses missing or non-retained targets. An authorized operator can deliberately destroy that sandbox's potentially only filesystem copy; the inspected path does not provide a cross-tenant bulk-discard operation.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — The retained concern is a privileged recovery and producer-ownership race, not a verified authentication bypass. Its consequence would be loss of recovery evidence or overlap with late capture work. The unresolved fact is whether node-side cleanup excludes such work after local admission locks have been lost or released.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The RPC authorization boundary uses UDS peer credentials and configured local identities. Missing peer credentials are rejected. Sandbox-manager inherits the local Operator-role mapping, while the discard-specific allowlist excludes ordinary service principals. Deployment-level guest-to-host UID isolation was not traced.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Discard requires generation inspection and atomic admission rather than best-effort cleanup. Its artifact lock moves into the admission task so caller cancellation cannot release it before admission finishes. Cleanup work is persisted before commit even when blocking execution skips the optional row intent, and transaction failures refuse admission.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Make destructive discard depend on capture-producer quiescence or an explicit cross-service cancellation fence, separate from automatic-recovery expiry. If downstream cleanup already provides that exclusion, document the ownership contract and exercise interruption followed by a late producer completion.
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[Should fix] This defer has no exit on a healthy node. If a pod disappears without its teardown running on the node, the node keeps listing the sandbox in every census, so node_reports_copy stays true and the row sits in paused/started with no pod indefinitely. As the PR's risk section says, a resume then answers 503. Nothing escalates it: the deferral is only logged and counted under the generic Deferred outcome of rows_classified, with no defer-reason label, and none of the settling events this doc comment lists (a teardown suspend's suspended, a quarantine, a census without the sandbox) is triggered by anything.
That swaps silent data loss for a silent, permanent outage of that sandbox. The trade is right, but the outage needs a bound and a signal. Suggested fix: track how long the row has been deferred for this reason (for example from the pod-missing observation the guard already carries). Past a cap of a few CENSUS_INVENTORY_MAX_AGE windows, move the row to the existing inert quarantined hold with a distinct reason (e.g. orphan_node_holds_local_copy) instead of deferring again. It then shows up on the quarantine counter and the troubleshooting doc this PR adds, and an operator has a defined path. Asking the node to run the teardown suspend would be better if that RPC is reachable from here. Either way, add a test that a deferral past the cap stops deferring.
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Thanks. Tracing this turned up something the risk section had wrong. The candidate listing (list_candidates_after) already skips any row whose active node has reported it, on main too, so a node that keeps listing the sandbox holds it there, unbounded, not in this defer. That pre-existing hold is now under "Not covered", since the projection GC removes observed rows only for sandboxes suspended for seven days or deleted, so it doesn't bound paused or started rows; a bound belongs on that listing.
The defer covers a narrower case main got wrong: a node report that lands between the listing and the plan, such as for a sandbox restored onto a node whose earlier publishes failed. Main reverts that row past the node's copy. a_publish_landing_between_listing_and_plan_holds_the_revert opens that race deterministically and fails without the defer, and recover_orphan_to_suspended now re-checks the node's report in its own statement, so a report committed after the plan read still stops the revert. A cap on the defer itself would bound nothing, since the next listing already skips the row, so this PR doesn't add one. Each deferral counts in space.sandbox.api.reconciler.rows_deferred{reason,mode}. All of this is in dc49e66.
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Rebased onto main as fe80237; the defer is unchanged. To recap the state: the candidate listing already skips any row whose active node has reported it, on main too, and that unbounded hold is listed under "Not covered". The defer covers a report that lands between the listing and the plan, and recover_orphan_to_suspended now checks the same condition (node_observes_sandbox) in its own statement. a_publish_landing_between_listing_and_plan_holds_the_revert opens that race deterministically, and the_recovery_statement_refuses_while_the_node_reports_the_sandbox covers the statement's check on its own. rows_deferred{reason,mode} is the signal.
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[Should fix] This snapshot-crossing probe is written out four times: the SET and the WHERE for each of last_access_at and last_command_at, with the same EXISTS at lines 492, 526 and 544. This is the node publish path, so a busy sandbox pays the probe twice per clock on every publish inside the throttle window. Four hand-kept copies of the rule that has to match the readers' sn.timestamp >= last_*_at comparison (portability::missing_suspending_pod_revert_eligibility and friends) can also drift apart.
Compute the two decisions once in a CTE and reference them from both places:
advance AS (
SELECT a.*,
(a.last_access_atIS NOT NULLAND (
s.last_access_at IS NULLORs.last_access_at<a.last_access_at- INTERVAL '1 minute'OR (s.last_access_at<a.last_access_atAND EXISTS (
SELECT1FROM snapshots sn
WHEREsn.sandbox_id=s.idANDsn.type='full'ANDsn.timestamp>=s.last_access_atANDsn.timestamp<a.last_access_at)))) AS move_access,
(/* same for last_command_at */) AS move_command
FROM activity a JOIN sandboxes s ONs.id=a.sandbox_idANDs.active_node_id= $1
)
Then use SET last_access_at = CASE WHEN adv.move_access THEN adv.last_access_at ELSE s.last_access_at END and WHERE adv.move_access OR adv.move_command OR .... Each probe runs once and the rule lives in one place.
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Fixed with the advance CTE (now in dc49e66): each clock's snapshot probe runs once, inside the CTE, and the rule lives in one place. One addition: the CTE's decisions come from its own read of the row, which a concurrent update doesn't re-evaluate, so each SET arm also re-checks s.X < advance.X against the locked row. That way a newer concurrent value is never moved back.
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Unchanged at fe80237: the advance CTE computes each clock's decision once, and each SET arm re-checks s.X IS NULL OR s.X < advance.X against the locked row, so a newer concurrent value is never moved back.
2887-2887: Trivial · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Use the staged artifact ID as this test’s recorded capture ID.
local_artifact_id is the artifact staged and completed by this test. Line 2887 records a different ID for the same suspend. The success assertion therefore does not cover the new capture-to-artifact identity contract. Pass local_artifact_id to begin_teardown_suspend. As per path instructions, flag tests that “no longer cover the changed behavior.”
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Review comment at @crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/grpc_lifecycle/tests.rs at line 2887:
Update the test’s begin_teardown_suspend call to pass local_artifact_id, the artifact staged and completed by the test, instead of creating a separate LocalArtifactId; keep the success assertion tied to that same artifact ID.
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Inline comments:
Review comments at
@crates/l40_api/cluster/controller/server/src/orphaned_sandboxes.rs:
- Around line 1627-1628: Serialize census publication and orphan recovery using
a shared lock, and update plan_orphan_in_tx to recheck the accepted census under
that lock immediately before recovery proceeds. Ensure a degraded report
committed after the initial census read prevents recovery from moving the
sandbox to suspended.
Review comments at @crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/grpc_core.rs:
- Around line 990-992: Update admit_retained_filesystem_discard to accept the
parsed operator reason and persist it with the delete intent before committing
admission, so the reason remains recorded if the request is cancelled or the
process exits afterward. Add a regression test that cancels the request after
admission commits and verifies the reason is retained.
Review comments at
@crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/grpc_lifecycle/suspend_snapshot.rs:
- Line 459: Update the handling of CaptureEvidence::Unclassified so failed
staging enumeration after runtime loss cannot make the row eligible for ordinary
deletion. Block ordinary deletion until a usable capture is proven, or preserve
the filesystem as potentially the only copy and require explicit discard.
Review comments at
@crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/suspend_snapshot_publication.rs:
- Line 1318: Update the capture-adoption decision around the `map_or` check so
an artifact is adopted only when independent evidence establishes it belongs to
this suspend; missing capture ID and predecessor must not make an older
canonical or unfiltered staging artifact eligible. When that proof is
unavailable, quarantine the artifact rather than adopting it.
Review comments at @crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/tests.rs:
- Line 16590: Update the test setup using insert_suspending_resuspend_capturing
so the post-capture failure case includes a capture representing successful
publication before the database staging failure; keep the missing-capture case
without capture files.
- Line 12296: Update the durable teardown fixtures that call
begin_teardown_suspend to use the same local_artifact_id that they stage and
back up, including the matching fixtures for this case. Add or retain a separate
mismatch-ID test that verifies refusal, so the positive case proves durability
for the recorded artifact.
Review comments at
@crates/l50_app/sbx/mgr/cli/src/dispatch/core/sandbox_commands.rs:
- Around line 355-356: Update the deletion status printed for each id in the
deleted loop to distinguish a nonblocking request from completed cleanup: report
“discard deletion requested” when cleanup is only scheduled, and report
completion only when the call is blocking and cleanup has completed.
Review comments at @docs/troubleshooting.md:
- Around line 118-120: Update the troubleshooting guidance for
suspend_publish_failed_no_artifact_runtime_gone to clarify that the control
plane’s failure_reason is generic and the cause is available in the node-local
quarantine’s reason_message; direct operators to that node-local evidence,
without implying the control-plane debug response includes the cause.
---
Nitpick comments:
Review comments at
@crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/grpc_lifecycle/tests.rs:
- Line 2887: Update the test’s begin_teardown_suspend call to pass
local_artifact_id, the artifact staged and completed by the test, instead of
creating a separate LocalArtifactId; keep the success assertion tied to that
same artifact ID.
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Major · Include node-held rows in the candidate scan. · orphaned_sandboxes.rs:1851-1859
crates/l40_api/cluster/controller/server/src/orphaned_sandboxes.rs:1851-1859 Major · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift
Include node-held rows in the candidate scan.
If the placed node continues to report a sandbox after its pod disappears, node_reports_copy requires its sandbox_observed_states row. This NOT EXISTS predicate excludes that same sandbox before tick can start the hold clock. The 15-minute cap therefore never quarantines a continuously reported copy. Make candidate selection agree with the guarded node-copy plan. Add a database-backed scan-to-tick regression with the observation row present. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @crates/l40_api/cluster/controller/server/src/orphaned_sandboxes.rs around lines 1851 - 1859:
Update the candidate-selection NOT EXISTS predicate so a sandbox with an observation from its active node remains eligible for tick’s guarded node-copy handling, while preserving exclusions for unrelated observations. Add a database-backed regression at the scan-to-tick layer with the observation row present and verify the hold clock can start and the 15-minute cap can quarantine the continuously reported copy.
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Review comments at @crates/l30_storage/sandbox/store/src/ingest.rs:
- Line 480: Update both activity-clock `EXISTS` checks so a publish skipped by
the one-minute throttle is retained for later snapshot registration to apply; do
not advance the clock to the snapshot time, which would still allow recovery to
select that snapshot. Establish how the skipped published value is preserved and
applied when a snapshot is registered, since the current `EXISTS` checks cannot
see snapshots registered after publication.
Review comments at @crates/l30_storage/sandbox/store/src/orphan.rs:
- Around line 203-209: Update the query assembly around OrphanQuarantineBasis so
NodeHoldsLocalCopy selects a complete SQL statement at the update site instead
of returning and interpolating a partial AND predicate. Keep the shared
portability and residency fragments, bound values, and result-processing
behavior unchanged.
---
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- Around line 1851-1859: Update the candidate-selection NOT EXISTS predicate so
a sandbox with an observation from its active node remains eligible for tick’s
guarded node-copy handling, while preserving exclusions for unrelated
observations. Add a database-backed regression at the scan-to-tick layer with
the observation row present and verify the hold clock can start and the
15-minute cap can quarantine the continuously reported copy.
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Review comments at @docs/troubleshooting.md:
- Around line 195-197: Update the orphaned-sandbox explanation in the
troubleshooting documentation to say the hold timer starts when the controller
first observes the candidate, and remove the requirement for continuous reports;
clarify that after an in-flight snapshot defers a candidate for 15 minutes, a
node report arriving before a later plan can allow quarantine on that first
report.
- Around line 197-198: Update the orphaned-sandbox troubleshooting text around
`orphan_node_holds_local_copy` to clarify that the reconciler only quarantines a
sandbox in live mode; in dry-run mode it records the planned disposition
instead. Also state that circuit breakers can prevent a live quarantine, so
operators should not assume quarantine will occur whenever the freshness-window
condition is met.
- Around line 220-221: Update the troubleshooting guidance for
orphan_node_holds_local_copy to document a supported operator resolution
procedure, if one exists; otherwise state explicitly that no procedure is
documented yet. Clarify that the existing discard command applies only to
retained-filesystem quarantines.
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- Around line 1399-1400: Pass the sweep’s quarantine permission into
classify_orphan and, after its in-transaction re-plan, return without writing
when permission is false and the disposition is QuarantineNodeHoldsCopy or
QuarantineAmbiguous. Add a reconciler test that changes the census between
planning and classification with a zero quarantine ceiling and verifies that no
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Review comments at @docs/troubleshooting.md:
- Around line 193-194: Update the orphaned-sandbox recovery description to limit
`node_reports_local_copy` deferral to rows where `row.recoverable` is true, and
state that a non-recoverable row may instead be quarantined.
- Around line 194-195: Update the recovery runbook’s description of the census
recheck to clarify that it does not detect a census committed while the recovery
statement is running, and therefore does not guarantee protection against
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Review comments at @docs/troubleshooting.md:
- Around line 101-102: Update the troubleshooting guidance around
interrupted-suspend recovery to distinguish live publication failures from
errors listing staging captures during recovery. Document that a recovery
listing error returns an error rather than quarantining the sandbox, and do not
imply that the live-publication quarantine behavior applies to this recovery
path.
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docs/troubleshooting.md-147-150: 1
147-150: Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
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Require approval before discarding the filesystem.
The command can erase the only copy of a sandbox filesystem. The procedure does not require cluster-administrator approval before that deletion. Add the approval step and require the operator to understand the target, blast radius, rollback, and verification.
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[sbx-mgr, cluster-controller] keep recovery from restoring a snapshot a sandbox has run past
[sbx-mgr, cluster-controller] let an operator discard a retained suspend filesystem and keep recovery off newer copies
Nov 13, 2026
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/cleanup.rs:
- Around line 1128-1133: Update admit_retained_filesystem_discard and its
admission flow to accept the operator’s discard reason and persist it atomically
with the durable delete intent or an outbox entry. Ensure the reason remains
recorded if the request stops before grpc_core.rs logs or emits it.
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Review comments at @crates/l40_api/sbx/mgr/server/src/service/cleanup.rs:
- Around line 1149-1152: Update admit_retained_filesystem_discard to acquire or
try the cleanup fence before acquiring the artifact lock, matching the cleanup
path’s fence-then-artifact-lock order; if the fence is busy, return
DiscardCaptureUnfinished. Keep the artifact-lock guard in place to protect the
backup race, and preserve the existing eligibility checks.
Review comments at @docs/troubleshooting.md:
- Around line 168-173: Update the documentation for this discard command to
require operators to deploy a compatible sandbox-manager before using it, noting
that older versions may treat the request as an ordinary delete and omit
discard-specific checks and reason recording. Keep the requirement scoped to
this command.
- Around line 183-185: Revise the “What releases the pod” section to qualify
that the cleanup receipt covers the generation awaited by the pod only when the
teardown suspend row decodes. Add the recovery procedure for undecodable
teardown rows in that same section, preserving the documented behavior for cases
where no receipt is written.
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Major · Ordinary delete skips the node-local retention check when the pod has no… · teardown.rs:503-509
crates/l40_api/api/src/controllers/substrate/kubernetes/adapter/teardown.rs:503-509 Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift
Ordinary delete skips the node-local retention check when the pod has no runtime IP.
When resolve_pod_ip returns Unavailable or Unschedulable, delete_execution sets pod_ip = None and skips the whole runtime block. That block contains the node-local delete (discard_retained_filesystem_reason: None) that can refuse with RetainedFilesystemOnlyCopy. The code then deletes the tracked pods, forgets pod tracking, and returns Retired. The controller can then remove the sandbox row while a retained filesystem may still exist on a node. The no-execution return at line 468 skips the same check.
A restore pinned to a source node that is now unschedulable is one case where a pod has no IP while retained state exists on that node. The node-local copy is then no longer tied to any row the cluster can reach.
Do not make the fix require node-local admission for every skipped pod unconditionally. The unreachable-pod skip exists so that these pods can be deleted. Requiring admission would reintroduce the blocked teardown. The correction must decide how to handle a retained copy when the pod has no node to ask. The inspected source does not establish that decision, so this comment gives no code change.
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In delete_execution, establish the safe handling policy for retained filesystem copies when resolve_pod_ip yields no node to ask, including the RetainedFilesystemOnlyCopy case, before changing teardown behavior. Preserve the ability to delete unreachable pods; do not require node-local admission unconditionally or bypass the retention safeguard without a confirmed policy.
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- Around line 503-509: In delete_execution, establish the safe handling policy
for retained filesystem copies when resolve_pod_ip yields no node to ask,
including the RetainedFilesystemOnlyCopy case, before changing teardown
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docs/troubleshooting.md-209-211: 1
209-211: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
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Document the additional recovery gates.
An eligible snapshot alone cannot restore the sandbox. Recovery also requires live mode, confirmed pod absence, and a worker response confirming the sandbox is missing. In dry-run mode or while the pod remains Terminating, the sandbox stays quarantined. Document these gates so operators can diagnose the wait. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Require cluster-administrator approval before discard.
This command can erase the only copy of the sandbox state. Require explicit approval before an operator runs it, including review of the target, blast radius, rollback, and verification plan.
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Review comments at @docs/troubleshooting.md:
- Around line 232-233: Update the orphaned-sandbox recovery description to
document the `creating` snapshot exception: when a snapshot is in flight,
recovery defers with `in_flight_snapshot` before checking recoverability, so the
sandbox is not necessarily quarantined or deleted. Preserve the existing
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Summary
A sandbox whose suspend lost its runtime and kept no capture of its own is held on its node under sandbox-manager's shared suspend retention policy, with no supported way to release it. This change gives an operator an explicit way out,
space-sbxmgr delete --discard-retained-filesystem --reason, which refuses while any capture of that sandbox could still finish and releases the Kubernetes pod whose teardown waited on it. A running suspend that fails that way now records the retention policy's failure reason, so an ordinary delete refuses it as it does recovery's. A cluster delete that never reached the node-local delete no longer lets the node's eviction erase such a sandbox either: the eviction refuses it, and the discard is the only way it leaves. Separately, a published activity clock is no longer dropped when a snapshot falls between it and the stored value, and the orphaned-sandbox reconciler no longer reverts a sandbox under a node whose report landed after the sweep listed it.Terms
sandboxes.suspend_attempt_artifact_idandsuspend_attempt_started_atin sandbox-manager's SQLite row, written bybegin_suspendandbegin_teardown_suspend. Recovery adopts only a capture whose metadata names the attempt, and an encrypted attempt's capture can still converge for six hours from its start (SUSPEND_ATTEMPT_RECOVERY_WINDOW).suspend_evidence_requires_retention, true for a quarantined or failed row whose failure reason issuspend_publish_failed_no_artifact_runtime_gone(the runtime is gone and no usable capture of the attempt is kept) orsuspend_capture_unresolved(an encrypted capture's evidence doesn't settle it). Erase safety reads it, and an ordinary delete refuses such a row.sandbox_execution_delete_receipts, the generation up to which a sandbox's executions were deleted. A pod's teardown poll answersDELETED, which lets the shim release the pod, only once the row is gone and a receipt covers the generation the pod waits on.sandboxes.last_access_atandlast_command_atin the control plane, which a node publishes. Started recovery, the orphaned-sandbox revert and the failed-row repair restore a snapshot only if neither clock postdates it (sn.timestamp >= last_command_at).OrphanDisposition::RecoverSuspended): it moves the row tosuspended, unplaced, so the next wake restores its snapshot.The problem
Terminatingtoo: the shim releases a task only on a durable, superseded or deleted answer.suspend_publish_failed_no_artifact_runtime_gone.teardown.rs, the no-execution return and theresolve_pod_ipfallback), skips the node-local delete, the one call that refuses a row the retention policy holds. The control plane then deletes its row, internal-api reports the sandbox deleted on the node's next sync, node-ctl treats a quarantined row as reclaimable, and sandbox-manager's cluster-deleted eviction claims it (claim_quarantined_sandbox_for_eviction, which checks only the state and row version) and runs aDeleteRowcleanup that erases the filesystem.advance_published_activitywrites a published clock only when it is more than a minute past the stored one. A command at T, a suspend at T+10s, a restore, and a command at T+40s leave the stored clock at T, before the snapshot, so every recovery that reads the clocks treats the snapshot as covering the second command.How this fixes it
DeleteRequest.discard_retained_filesystem_reason, sent byspace-sbxmgr delete <uuid> --discard-retained-filesystem --reason <text>, deletes the sandbox and its filesystem. It is accepted only from root or the local operator role, takes one full sandbox UUID and no template filter, and needs a reason (trimmed, at most 512 characters, one line, no invisible formatting, tag or bidirectional characters). Admission refuses any row the retention policy doesn't hold (CleanupAdmissionError::DiscardNotApplicable) and any sandbox not on the node (NotFound), and fails closed: a persistence failure refuses it rather than admitting best-effort cleanup. The CLI checks the same policy before sending. sandbox-manager logs the reason in a warning line before admission, which commits the row'sdeletingstate that startup recovery finishes as a delete after a restart; once admitted it also records it in adelete_requestedevent with operationdiscard_retained_filesystem.CleanupAdmissionError::DiscardCaptureUnfinished): while the row's suspend attempt is inside its six-hour window, while a backup of its artifacts is being admitted (the discard takes the artifact lock without waiting, as eviction does) or its upload is pending, running or cancelling, and while its runtime is live or the fallible liveness probe recovery uses can't read it to be gone. A retained row can't begin another suspend or upload, so the first two don't reopen once they close. Past the window an unresolved receipt doesn't block, since that is the evidence the policy keeps for this recovery.last_observed_execution_generation, which nothing clears), inrecord_cleanup_execution_delete_receipt. A cleanup's quarantine clears the row's route, and sbx-mgr prunes a failed teardown job after ten days, so the high-water mark still names the generation of a teardown that waited longer than that. A teardown operation or a high-water value that doesn't decode is left out of the receipt, which covers the remaining inputs, rather than failing the delete. Inventory's stale-row removal keeps writing the row's own generation only.claim_quarantined_sandbox_for_evictionreads the row in its own transaction, under the cleanup fence the eviction already holds, and refuses a row erase safety ratesRetainedFilesystemOnlyCopy(QuarantinedEvictionClaim::RetainedFilesystemOnlyCopy), writing nothing. The eviction answers with the node-local delete's refusal (retained_filesystem_only_copy_status) and logsrefusing cluster-deleted eviction; node-ctl routes thatFailedPreconditionas a deferral, counts it as deferred and retries after its 30-minute back-off. The row stays quarantined on the node, where the discard delete finds it. The API teardown is unchanged: the copy lives only on the node, and every node path that erases it now refuses it.CaptureEvidence). A failure that keeps no capture of this suspend, and a classification that finds none, recordsuspend_publish_failed_no_artifact_runtime_gonewith the cause kept as the quarantine's message (mark_suspending_quarantined_retaining_only_copy) when the runtime is gone; a failure that may keep a usable capture, or whose live runtime couldn't be rolled back to paused, records the cause, as before. The evidence decides only the reason: every site quarantines exactly when it did, and a classification error or an unsettled encrypted capture still leaves the rowsuspending.advance_published_activityalso writeslast_access_atandlast_command_atwhen a full snapshot's timestamp falls in[stored, published), the readers' own comparison, whatever the gap. Each clock's decision is computed once, in anadvanceCTE, and theSETre-checks only that the clock still moves forward against the row it locks, so a concurrent writer that advanced it further is never moved back.OrphanDeferReason::NodeReportsLocalCopy) while its active node has reported the sandbox (node_observes_sandbox), whatever the age of that node's census, andrecover_orphan_to_suspendedchecks the same condition in its own statement, so a report committed after the plan read still stops the revert. On the next sweep the listing skips the row for as long as the node's observed state exists. Each deferral counts in a newspace.sandbox.api.reconciler.rows_deferred{reason,mode}counter.The suspend attempt, its receipt classification and the no-capture timing are unchanged: recovery still adopts only the attempt's own capture and quarantines on its own schedule. The retention policy's two reasons and its predicate move to
pplx-space-sbx-mgr-protocolunchanged, so the store and the CLI read one definition.Validation
a_discard_delete_releases_the_pod_of_a_quarantined_teardown(sbx-mgr): a Kubernetes teardown lost before any capture is quarantined by startup recovery, by its cleanup's completion (which clears the route), and by that completion with its failed teardown job then pruned; with its attempt's window passed, its teardown poll and an ordinary delete are refused, a discard delete removes the row, and the next teardown poll answersDELETED.a_discard_delete_refuses_while_a_capture_may_still_finish(sbx-mgr): the discard is refused, and the row stays quarantined, while the attempt is inside its window, while a backup upload is pending or a backup holds the artifact lock, while the runtime is live, and while its liveness can't be read.a_discard_delete_refuses_every_other_row_and_caller(sbx-mgr): a discard of a stopped sandbox, of one quarantined for another reason, or of one not on the node is refused and leaves it as it was, as is one from a service peer, with a template filter, or with an empty or multi-line reason.a_discard_delete_needs_its_reason_and_one_full_uuidanda_discard_is_sent_only_for_a_sandbox_held_as_its_only_copy(CLI): the flags' constraints, and the pre-check admitting both retention reasons, quarantined or failed, and nothing else.a_failure_that_keeps_no_capture_holds_the_only_copyanda_classified_missing_capture_holds_the_only_copy(sbx-mgr): a running suspend's failure that keeps no capture, and a plaintext attempt whose classification finds none, quarantine with the only-copy reason and the cause as the message; a failure that may keep a capture records the cause and stays erasable.a_live_runtime_whose_rollback_fails_keeps_its_cause(sbx-mgr): a no-capture failure whose live runtime's rollback fails quarantines under its cause.a_cluster_deleted_eviction_refuses_the_only_copy_and_leaves_it_for_a_discard(sbx-mgr): a quarantined teardown held as the only copy, past the eviction's quiescence window, is refused by the cluster-deleted eviction with the retained-filesystem refusal; no cleanup runs and the row stays quarantined; the discard delete then erases it. With the claim's refusal removed the eviction erases the row and the test fails.evict_cluster_deleted_sandbox_reclaims_retained_restoring_and_quarantined_rowsstill evicts a quarantined row the policy doesn't hold.a_cleanup_delete_survives_a_teardown_operation_that_does_not_decode(sbx-mgr store).a_throttled_clock_still_advances_across_a_snapshot,a_throttled_clock_with_no_snapshot_between_is_still_droppedanda_snapshot_on_either_edge_of_the_throttle_window(sandbox store): a published clock 30 s past the stored one is written when a full snapshot falls between them, dropped when the snapshots fall outside, written for a snapshot at the stored instant and dropped for one at the published instant.classify_missing_pod_defers_while_its_node_reports_the_sandbox(cluster controller): a paused row with a missing pod defers while its active node reports it, with a recent, stale or missing census, and recovers when another node reports it or a census leaves it out.a_publish_landing_between_listing_and_plan_holds_the_revert(cluster controller) drives the real store through a reconciler sweep whose pod probe commits the node's census and observed state, opening the race deterministically: the row stayspausedand the sweep reports one deferral. With the plan's defer and the recovery statement's check both removed, which is main's code, it reverts the row past the node's report.the_recovery_statement_refuses_while_the_node_reports_the_sandboxcovers the statement's check on its own.cargo nextest --all-targets --all-features, in CI's two lanes, on a build devbox, with the two packages CI builds atopt-level = 0built that way. Unprivileged (not group(privileged)): all 12973 passed. Privileged (group(privileged)as root on a NoCoW btrfs): 72 of 78 passed; the six failures are the box's, in crates this change doesn't touch: three fs-verity tests (the box's kernel has none), twocontained_launchertests (the mirrored path's ancestors aren't root-owned) andspaced-guest-worker'sembedding(it needs a private cgroup namespace). Workspace clippy with-D warnings,cargo fmt --checkandcargo archpass. The shim's regeneratedmanager.pb.go(protoc 35.0, protoc-gen-go v1.36.11) builds.Not validated: a Kind run. None of these paths is reachable from a smoke scenario without killing a node process mid-suspend or deleting a pod under a paused sandbox.
Dependencies
None. This merges on its own.
Docs
docs/troubleshooting.mdgains "A sandbox quarantined after an interrupted suspend": the two retention reasons and when each is recorded, how to tell (space-sbxmgr list, the admin debug route's quarantine episode, the events, the shim's failing teardown spans), the counters an alert can fire on, the discard delete, the cluster administrator's approval it needs, and when it refuses, what releases the pod, what happens when the control plane deleted the sandbox first (the eviction's refusal and node-ctl's retries), and how to finish in the control plane, including every condition quarantine recovery checks before it returns the sandbox tosuspended. Its section on the orphan reconciler names the in-flight snapshot deferral that comes before the others.docs/observability.md's note on pods stuckTerminatinglinks to it. A second section, "A sandbox whose pod is gone while its node still holds it", describes both ways the reconciler leaves such a sandbox to its node (the listing's unbounded skip and the defer for a late report) and therows_deferredcounter.Rollout
No migration.
DeleteRequestgains an optional field, which an older sandbox-manager ignores. The CLI checks the sandbox's state and failure reason itself before sending, so against an older sandbox-manager a discard reaches only a sandbox the retention policy holds, which that ordinary delete then refuses; deploy sandbox-manager before using the flag. The cluster-controller and control-plane store parts carry no schema or wire change and roll out independently.Not covered
snapshots.timestampis set when a node registers a backup with the control plane, after the capture, so readers can still treat a snapshot as covering activity between the capture and the registration. The clock fix closes only the throttle's part.failedrow with a retention reason gets no attempt-window refusal from the discard:clear_finished_suspend_attemptclears the attempt when a row becomesfailed. No current writer produces lifecyclefailed(write_state_fromrefuses it as a target and no cleanup completion targets it), so only rows an older sandbox-manager wrote hold it, and none of them is mid-capture. The backup-upload and runtime refusals still apply to such a row.paused: Direct runs no orphan, drain or lost-node loop.Severity and risk
Severity: high. A stranded teardown holds its pod in
Terminatingwith no operator exit, a running suspend's failure can let an ordinary delete erase the only copy, a cluster delete that skips the node-local delete lets the node's eviction erase it, and the clock and orphan paths can restore older bytes than the sandbox last had while the user sees a healthy sandbox.Risk: medium.
Terminatinguntil an operator discards the filesystem.snapshotslookup per clock on publications inside the throttle window.Roll back by reverting this commit.
AI assistance: Claude Code drafted the code, tests and this description, under the author's direction and review.