OCPBUGS-115406: escalate stalled BMH delete by restarting baremetal-operator - #31601
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…perator The TNF node-replacement e2e test's deleteOcResourceWithRetry function re-issues DELETE every 30s for 21 minutes when deleting a BareMetalHost. Once deletionTimestamp is set, re-issuing DELETE is a no-op — it cannot nudge a stalled BMO whose watch/informer has stopped delivering events. Add an escalation path for BMH resources: after the BMH has had deletionTimestamp set for ~4 minutes with no change in provisioning state, restart the baremetal-operator pod once. A fresh BMO does a full LIST on informer startup and will see the pending deletion. The escalation is: - BMH-only (not applied to Machine deletes) - One-shot (only restarts BMO once per delete attempt) - Non-fatal (if BMO pod cannot be found or restarted, the existing retry loop continues) - Timer-aware (resets if provisioning state changes, avoiding restart during normal Ironic deprovision) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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WalkthroughThe test adds BMH deletion stall detection. After the configured delay, it restarts BMO once, waits for readiness without failing, and continues deletion polling. ChangesBMH deletion escalation
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change adds BMO restart escalation for stalled BareMetalHost deletion. Merge is reasonable with owner awareness that malformed provisioning-state fields may lead to an incorrect escalation decision and that the readiness wait can exceed the deletion deadline. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant DeletionLoop as deleteOcResourceWithRetry
participant BMH
participant BMO
DeletionLoop->>BMH: Poll deletion and provisioning state
BMH-->>DeletionLoop: Return deletion progress
DeletionLoop->>BMO: Restart once after stalled interval
BMO-->>DeletionLoop: Report deployment readiness
DeletionLoop->>BMH: Continue deletion polling
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Full details: Stable And Deterministic Test NamesExplanation The pull request adds constants and helper logic only. The diff introduces no Full details: Test Structure And QualityExplanation PASS — the pull request introduces no explicit test-structure or quality failure. The diff adds no new It block, assertion, resource creation, Eventually, or Consistently call. The new cluster calls use bounded contexts: pod List/Delete use shortK8sClientTimeout, and deployment/BMH Get calls use finite timeouts. The readiness wait uses core.PollUntil with bmhDeleteEscalationBMOReadyTimeout and a 10-second poll interval. The BMO pod deletion is an intentional restart of an existing Deployment-managed pod, and the code waits for readiness when deletion succeeds. Existing Background-context deletion and existing assertions are unchanged. Formatting and git diff checks are clean. Full details: Microshift Test CompatibilityExplanation PASS: The pull request adds no new Ginkgo test declarations. The diff adds constants and helper logic only. The existing TNF test is wrapped in a Full details: Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test CompatibilityExplanation PASS: The pull request adds no new Ginkgo e2e tests. The commit changes only two helper/constant files, with 129 insertions and no changes to the existing Full details: Topology-Aware Scheduling CompatibilityExplanation PASS. The PR changes only test helpers and constants in Full details: Ote Binary Stdout ContractExplanation PASS. The pull request adds only constants and runtime helper logic. Its new diagnostic calls use Full details: Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test CompatibilityExplanation PASS. The pull request changes only existing deletion helpers and constants. The exact diff adds no Ginkgo declarations such as Full details: No-Weak-CryptoExplanation PASS: The pull request adds timeouts, BMO pod restart logic, deployment readiness polling, and BMH deletion-state tracking. The added code uses Kubernetes APIs and ordinary string/state checks only. The changed imports and added lines contain no MD5, SHA1, DES, 3DES, RC4, Blowfish, ECB, custom cryptography, or secret/token comparisons. Full details: Container-PrivilegesExplanation PASS: The commit changes only two Go test files. The new code deletes and polls existing Kubernetes resources through the admin client, but it does not add or modify a container/Kubernetes manifest. No introduced lines set privileged, hostPID, hostNetwork, hostIPC, SYS_ADMIN, allowPrivilegeEscalation, or root execution settings. Full details: No-Sensitive-Data-In-LogsExplanation PASS: The pull request adds only operational logs for fixed namespaces, deployment selectors, pod/resource names, deletion timestamps, provisioning state, replica counts, durations, and API errors. It does not log passwords, tokens, API keys, PII, session IDs, customer data, or node hostnames. The BMH name was already logged by the existing delete retry loop, and the new code does not log pod node names or secret contents. ✨ Finishing Touches🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)
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In `@test/extended/edge_topologies/tnf_node_replacement_finish.go`:
- Around line 476-477: Handle and log errors returned by the NestedString calls
for deletionTimestamp and provisioning state before making the escalation
decision; when either lookup fails, skip escalation and restart processing for
that poll iteration rather than using empty or invalid values.
- Line 503: Update the readiness wait around
waitForBaremetalOperatorDeploymentReadyNonFatal to use the remaining deletion
budget, time.Until(deadline), as its maximum timeout instead of the full
bmhDeleteEscalationBMOReadyTimeout; skip the wait when no time remains, and
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| dt, _, _ := unstructured.NestedString(u.Object, "metadata", "deletionTimestamp") | ||
| provState, _, _ := unstructured.NestedString(u.Object, "status", "provisioning", "state") |
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For k8s.io/apimachinery v0.36.2, under which conditions does unstructured.NestedString return an error for a present field?
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For k8s.io/apimachinery v0.36.2, the function unstructured.NestedString returns an error when the specified field exists in the map but its underlying type is not a string [1][2]. Specifically, the function implementation first calls NestedFieldNoCopy to locate the field [1][2]. If the field is found (found is true) and no error occurred during traversal, the function proceeds to perform a type assertion: s, ok:= val.(string) If this type assertion fails (ok is false), the function returns an error formatted as: "%v accessor error: %v is of the type %T, expected string", where %v provides the JSON path, and %T reveals the actual type of the value held in the map [1][3][2]. In summary, the condition for returning an error when a field is present is a type mismatch where the field's value is not a string [1][2].
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- 1: https://github.com/kubernetes/apimachinery/blob/v0.35.3/pkg/apis/meta/v1/unstructured/helpers.go
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The NestedString function is a utility within the k8s.io/apimachinery package, specifically located in the pkg/apis/meta/v1/unstructured/helpers.go file [1][2]. It is used to retrieve a string value from a nested field within an unstructured Kubernetes object, which is represented as a map[string]interface{} [1][3]. The function signature is: func NestedString(obj map[string]interface{}, fields...string) (string, bool, error) It works by first calling NestedFieldNoCopy to locate the nested value using the provided field path [1][3]. If the field is found and the value retrieved is a string, it returns the string, true, and nil [1][3]. If the field is not found or an error occurs during the lookup, it returns an empty string, the found status, and the error [1][3]. If the field is found but the value is not of type string, it returns an error indicating a type mismatch [1][3]. The source code for this function is maintained within the kubernetes/apimachinery repository [1][4]. It is a core part of the Kubernetes API machinery used for handling dynamic or unstructured API objects [4].
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Handle unstructured.NestedString errors.
A non-string field returns an error and an empty value. Ignoring these errors can skip escalation or restart BMO using an invalid provisioning state. Check and log errors, then skip the escalation decision for that poll iteration.
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In `@test/extended/edge_topologies/tnf_node_replacement_finish.go` around lines
476 - 477, Handle and log errors returned by the NestedString calls for
deletionTimestamp and provisioning state before making the escalation decision;
when either lookup fails, skip escalation and restart processing for that poll
iteration rather than using empty or invalid values.
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| bmhEscalationDone = true | ||
| if restartBaremetalOperatorPod(oc) { | ||
| e2e.Logf("[BMH delete escalation] waiting for BMO deployment to become ready after restart (timeout: %v)", bmhDeleteEscalationBMOReadyTimeout) | ||
| if waitErr := waitForBaremetalOperatorDeploymentReadyNonFatal(oc, bmhDeleteEscalationBMOReadyTimeout); waitErr != nil { |
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Yes, core.PollUntil in github.com/openshift/library-go blocks until its supplied timeout expires if the condition function repeatedly returns false, nil [1][2]. In the implementation of PollUntil, the supplied condition function is wrapped and passed to RetryWithOptions [1]. The logic dictates that when the condition returns (false, nil), the operation returns an error to signal that the condition has not yet been met, which triggers another retry attempt [1]. This cycle continues until either: 1. The condition returns true (signaling completion, causing the function to exit with nil) [1]. 2. An error is returned by the condition (other than the "condition not yet met" signal) [1]. 3. The specified timeout is reached, at which point it returns an error indicating the condition was not met within the timeout [1]. Therefore, if the condition consistently returns (false, nil), the function will continue to poll at the specified interval and block execution until the configured timeout duration is exhausted [1].
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Bound the BMO readiness wait by the deletion deadline.
If escalation starts near deadline, local core.PollUntil can retry for the full bmhDeleteEscalationBMOReadyTimeout because its checker returns (false, nil). The following unconditional 30-second sleep can extend the deletion operation further. Cap the readiness wait at time.Until(deadline) and skip it when no time remains.
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In `@test/extended/edge_topologies/tnf_node_replacement_finish.go` at line 503,
Update the readiness wait around waitForBaremetalOperatorDeploymentReadyNonFatal
to use the remaining deletion budget, time.Until(deadline), as its maximum
timeout instead of the full bmhDeleteEscalationBMOReadyTimeout; skip the wait
when no time remains, and preserve the existing error handling for a bounded
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Summary
Fixes OCPBUGS-115406: deleteOcResourceWithRetry re-issues DELETE every 30s for 21 minutes when deleting a BareMetalHost. Once deletionTimestamp is set, re-issuing DELETE is a no-op — it cannot nudge a stalled BMO whose watch/informer has stopped delivering events.
Changes
tnf_node_replacement_const.go
tnf_node_replacement_finish.go
Fixes: https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-115406
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