Make BuildKit restart recover from lingering tasks - #1148
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Included review availability: 0 reviews are currently available. Your included PR review attempts over the past 7 days set your current allowance at 4 reviews per hour. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughBuildKit task shutdown now returns errors and registers exit waits before signaling. Cleanup uses namespace-preserving, cancellation-independent contexts. The shutdown path escalates from SIGTERM to SIGKILL, handles wait and signal failures, and ignores not-found deletion errors. Restart and readiness-failure paths now report cleanup failures. New tests cover signal ordering, forced termination, cancellation independence, deletion options, and deletion error propagation. Documentation now describes default HTTP routing to the Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Shutdown cleanup may still leave lingering container tasks when cancellation races with cleanup, while routing documentation may direct users to an unsupported command. Resolve these issues before merge. Comment |
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This draft addresses a real and well-understood bug: a forced server shutdown leaves a lingering BuildKit task behind, which then blocks NewTask on the next miren restart. The fix is directionally correct — stopTaskWithGrace is substantially improved (namespace-clean teardown, pre-registered wait channel to avoid the "fast-exit races past the wait" bug, WithProcessKill on Delete, errdefs.IsNotFound guard), and restartExistingContainer now correctly propagates the stop error so a failed eviction doesn't silently continue. The new buildkitTask interface and the two unit tests in task_test.go are the right shape for this.
Two things deserve attention before this merges.
Stop() ignores the error from stopTask (line 248). stopTask now returns an error, but the Stop() path just calls c.stopTask(ctx, task) and throws it away. That means a task whose Delete call fails during a normal shutdown is silently swallowed — the caller sees nil and assumes everything cleaned up. Given the whole point of this PR is that a failed task cleanup is the bug to catch, this asymmetry is worth closing. I recognize Stop() is a best-effort teardown and may want to log-and-continue rather than return an error, but the current code doesn't even log it; it just calls through as if stopTask still returned nothing.
startTaskAndMonitor also drops the stopTask error (line 563). The waitForReady failure path calls c.stopTask(ctx, task) bare. That's the same issue — a failed cleanup here would go unnoticed. At minimum, log the error so it shows up in diagnostics.
One minor note on the test: the reflect.ValueOf(opt).Pointer() technique for detecting containerd.WithProcessKill (task_test.go line 63) compares function pointers by address. This is not guaranteed by the Go spec — two closures of the same literal may or may not share an address — though for a plain top-level func like WithProcessKill it works in practice. A simpler alternative is to track whether Delete was called with any options at all, or use a more explicit flag.
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stopTask now returns an error, but the Stop() path drops it entirely. If task.Delete fails during a normal shutdown, the caller gets nil and there's no trace of it. Either propagate this error or, at minimum, log it. Silently discarding it undermines the whole point of having stopTask return an error.
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In components/buildkit/buildkit.go at line 248
(inside Stop()), the call `c.stopTask(ctx, task)`
discards the returned error. stopTask now returns
an error, and ignoring it means a task Delete
failure during normal shutdown is completely
silent. Change this to check the error: log it at
Error level (since Stop() likely wants to be
best-effort and still continue to
deleteContainerWithRetry), so at minimum the
failure surfaces in diagnostics. Something like:
if err := c.stopTask(ctx, task); err != nil {
c.Log.Error("failed to stop buildkit task during
shutdown", "error", err) }.
components/buildkit/buildkit.go:563
Same issue: c.stopTask(ctx, task) here in the waitForReady failure cleanup path also drops the error. This is the teardown when the daemon failed to become ready — if the task Delete also fails, it goes completely unnoticed. Log or propagate it.
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In components/buildkit/buildkit.go at line 563
(inside startTaskAndMonitor()), the call
`c.stopTask(ctx, task)` on the waitForReady
failure path drops the returned error. Change it
to capture and log the error: if stopErr :=
c.stopTask(ctx, task); stopErr != nil {
c.Log.Error("failed to stop buildkit task after
readiness check failure", "error", stopErr) }.
Then continue to return the original waitForReady
error as before.
components/buildkit/task_test.go:63
Comparing reflect.ValueOf(opt).Pointer() to reflect.ValueOf(containerd.WithProcessKill).Pointer() works for a top-level package-level function today, but Go doesn't guarantee two references to the same function share an address. A more robust approach: instead of tracking whether the option is WithProcessKill, just track whether Delete was called with at least one option (or introduce an explicit deleteOpts []containerd.ProcessDeleteOpts field and assert on it). Worth revisiting before merge.
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In components/buildkit/task_test.go around line
63, the Delete method uses
reflect.ValueOf(opt).Pointer() ==
reflect.ValueOf(containerd.WithProcessKill).Pointer()
to detect whether WithProcessKill was passed. This
function-pointer comparison is not guaranteed by
the Go spec. Replace the forceDelete detection
with a simpler approach: add a deleteOptCount int
field to forcedStopTask, increment it inside
Delete for each option received, and in the test
assert deleteOptCount > 0 (or store the number of
options and assert == 1). Remove the reflect
import if it is no longer needed.
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🍪 biscuit: ✅ ready to merge — auto-review, non-blocking
All three issues from my last review are addressed. Here's what I see now:
Stop() error handling (was my top concern): Lines 248–250 now check the return value from stopTask and log it at Error level. It deliberately continues rather than returning the error — that's the right call for a best-effort shutdown path, and the log ensures it won't go unnoticed.
startTaskAndMonitor error handling: Lines 565–567 do the same: capture stopErr, log it if non-nil, then return the original readiness failure. Clean.
Test robustness: The reflect.ValueOf(...).Pointer() approach is gone. The mock now tracks deleteOptCount (line 72 in task_test.go), and the assertion checks require.Equal(t, 1, task.deleteOptCount) — exactly the "track whether Delete was called with at least one option" approach I suggested. That's solid.
The stopTaskWithGrace implementation itself is well-structured: it uses context.WithoutCancel to detach from caller cancellation so cleanup can't be skipped by an already-cancelled context, registers the wait channel before sending SIGTERM to avoid the fast-exit race, escalates to SIGKILL after the grace period, and guards the final Delete with errdefs.IsNotFound so a task that was already cleaned up doesn't produce a spurious error. The buildkitTask interface makes the unit tests clean and avoids needing a live containerd daemon.
This is ready to graduate from draft to human review.
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255-255: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftDetach container deletion from shutdown cancellation and return its failure.
deleteContainerWithRetryderives every delete context fromctx. A cancelledStopcontext makes all retries fail immediately.Stopthen clearsc.container, setsc.runningto false, and returns nil while the BuildKit container can remain registered.Use a namespace-preserving
context.WithoutCancel(ctx)for container cleanup. MakedeleteContainerWithRetryreturn its final error. Retain state and return that error unless container deletion succeeds.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@components/buildkit/buildkit.go`:
- Line 255: Update Stop and deleteContainerWithRetry so cleanup uses
context.WithoutCancel(ctx), allowing deletion retries to continue after shutdown
cancellation. Change deleteContainerWithRetry to return its final error, and
have Stop preserve the container state and return that error when deletion
fails; only clear c.container and set c.running false after successful deletion.
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A forced server shutdown can leave buildkitd's containerd task behind. The restart path attempted a plain task delete after SIGKILL and ignored its error, so it could race directly into NewTask while the stale task still existed. Register waits before signaling, detach cleanup from caller cancellation, and use WithProcessKill. Restart now treats successful eviction as a precondition and surfaces deletion errors instead of creating a new task against uncertain state.
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322-322: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winUse the supported
route setsyntax. The command requires positional arguments, so change the example tomiren route set myapp.example.com myapp;route add --appis not the declared CLI syntax.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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The Depot POP canary exposed the ugly side of the short dev-server shutdown budget: Miren can be killed while BuildKit is still stopping, leaving containerd’s task behind for the next boot. We already try to evict that stale task, but the forced path sent SIGKILL without waiting for exit and then attempted a non-forced delete. If deletion lost that race, startup walked straight into
task miren-buildkit: already exists.Make eviction a real restart precondition. Task cleanup now registers waits before signaling, uses contexts independent of shutdown cancellation, force-deletes lingering processes, and returns deletion errors instead of attempting
NewTaskagainst uncertain state. Focused forced-stop coverage and the existing real-containerd restart suite pass.Validated by the Depot POP canary in #1147. Closes MIR-1755.