Fix: harden the Buffer release path on the owner and consumer sides - #1850
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release_buffer()during an in-flight SUB submission.The tests verify bookkeeping after submission, but they do not verify buffer protection. Add a test that attempts
release_buffer()while the SUB task is between admission and completion, expects rejection, and then verifies release succeeds after cleanup. This will detect regressions in the required record-before-admission ordering.Also applies to: 125-135
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In `@python/simpler/orchestrator.py`:
- Around line 502-503: Update the group-processing flow around
_record_touched_identities, _reject_remote_sidecar_args, and _reject_device_args
to validate every member first, then record touched identities in a separate
second pass only after the complete group succeeds. Preserve submission behavior
while preventing identities from partially validated groups from being recorded.
In `@python/simpler/worker.py`:
- Around line 10502-10506: Update release_buffer() to treat identities retained
in _abandoned_run_handles as still in use, preventing buffer close/unlink until
the abandoned run is torn down; preserve existing accepted and in-flight
retention checks, and add a regression test covering _publish_abandoned_run()
followed by release_buffer().
In `@tests/ut/py/test_worker/test_release_buffer.py`:
- Around line 89-123: Update the SUB test setup around _fake_require_handle so
submit_sub and submit_sub_group receive valid LOCAL_PYTHON handle metadata
instead of the NEXT_LEVEL/LOCAL_CHIP values currently returned. Either make the
fake honor the requested expected_namespace or explicitly validate it before
returning, while preserving the existing metadata behavior for other dispatch
types.
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In `@tests/ut/py/test_worker/test_release_buffer.py`:
- Around line 89-123: Add a test around the existing SUB submission coverage
that keeps a SUB task in flight, calls release_buffer() for its buffer, and
asserts the release is rejected while submission is active; then complete or
clean up the task and assert release_buffer() succeeds. Reuse the existing _l3,
_fake_orchestrator, _RunResources, and buffer helpers, and ensure the test
exercises record-before-admission ordering rather than only checking
touched_identities.
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@coderabbitai Addressed all three inline findings plus the nitpick; each has a regression test confirmed failing before its fix. Replies are on the threads themselves — summary here for the two that changed behavior:
One note on the merge-risk assessment: this PR rebased onto Full suite: 1490 passed / 6 skipped.
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Releasing a Buffer spans three actors: the owner that unlinks the backing, the consumers holding their own mappings of it, and the in-flight runs that still name it. Each had a defect that surfaces only on a failure path, which is why none of them fails a test today. In-flight retain missed SUB. release_buffer() rejects a release whose identity is still named by an in-flight L3+ NEXT_LEVEL dispatch or by an in-flight L2 direct-chip run, but submit_sub and submit_sub_group never called _record_touched_identities, so a Buffer handed to a sub-worker could be closed and unlinked mid-flight, faulting the child with FileNotFoundError on a segment that no longer has a name. Both now record before admission and dispatch, leaving no window where a task is submitted and its identities unrecorded. The group validates every member in one pass and records in the next, as submit_next_level_group already does: a rejected member dispatches nothing, and identities recorded for it would refuse a release of buffers no task received. A SUB submit happens inside an L3+ run's orchestration callback, so the existing _accepted_run_handles check covers it with no new bookkeeping structure. It also missed abandoned runs. _publish_abandoned_run() sets _cleanup_published and drops the handle from _accepted_run_handles while the run stays in _abandoned_run_handles until native teardown drains it -- so for an abandoned run that flag stops describing whether the device is done with the backing, and the accepted-set scan alone let the release through. Such a buffer now stops being releasable through this API for the Worker's remaining life, which strands nothing: close() reclaims it through _release_all_buffers calling Buffer.close() direct. Owner side: Buffer.close() marked itself closed and dropped its shm before unlinking, so an unlink that raised could never be retried -- the next close() returned at the idempotency check while the name stayed in /dev/shm. The gate refusing to derive a Tensor from a released buffer still shuts on the first call; the two OS actions are now tracked separately and each is retried until it succeeds, which is what _release_all_buffers keeps a failed buffer's registry entry for. Consumer side: ImportRegistry.unregister() dropped its entry before closing the mapping, so a close raising BufferError -- a consumer still holding a derived memoryview -- left a mapping nothing could reach to retry. It now drops the entry only once the mapping is really gone. ImportRegistry.close() aborted its sweep at the first failure, stranding every mapping behind it in iteration order; it now attempts all of them, drops the ones that closed, and raises the first error at the end. _reexport_by_source was in neither release path: not dropped when the owner broadcasts a release, and absent from close()'s cleanup table. A retained forwarding handle keeps answering to_descriptor() after its backing is unlinked, so a later forward of that identity would hand a child a descriptor for a name the owner has removed. ImportRegistry's context argument is now required. Every production site already passes one, and the None default only served tests while making "host endpoint" the silent reading for a site that forgot it. A released identity's materialize() now names the identity and the release rather than raising the OS's bare FileNotFoundError on /psm_xxxx. Every fix has a test that fails without it, plus one covering the submit-to-reject pair end to end. Two tests carry no defect of their own: test_close_does_not_unlink_twice_after_a_failed_close guards the new two-flag structure, and the orchestrator test double now answers per-API handle metadata so a SUB test cannot pass over a NEXT_LEVEL dispatch contract.
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Releasing a
Bufferspans three actors — the owner that unlinks the backing, the consumers holding their own mappings of it, and the in-flight runs that still name it. Six defects, all on failure paths, so none of them fails a test today.In-flight retain missed the SUB path — and abandoned runs
release_buffer()rejects a release whose identity is still named by an in-flight L3+NEXT_LEVELdispatch or by an in-flight L2 direct-chip run, butsubmit_sub/submit_sub_groupnever called_record_touched_identities. A Buffer handed to a sub-worker could therefore be closed and unlinked mid-flight, faulting the child withFileNotFoundError: '/psm_xxxx'.This is not an implementation that drifted from its documentation —
release_buffer()'s docstring named onlyNEXT_LEVEL Tensor argandin-flight L2 direct-chip run. Two of three paths were guarded, and the invariant was accounted for as if all three were.Both entry points now record after the existing
_reject_*validation and before admission and dispatch, so no window exists where a task is already submitted with its identities unrecorded. The group validates every member in one pass and records in the next, the shapesubmit_next_level_groupalready uses — a rejected member dispatches nothing, and identities recorded for it would refuse a release of buffers no task received. No new bookkeeping structure: a SUB submit happens inside an L3+ run's orchestration callback, so_building_run_resourcesis the right container and the existing_accepted_run_handlescheck covers it.The same check also missed abandoned runs (found in review):
_publish_abandoned_runsets_cleanup_publishedand drops the handle from_accepted_run_handles, while the run stays in_abandoned_run_handlesuntil native teardown drains it — so for an abandoned run that flag stops describing whether the device is done with the backing.release_buffer()now scans that list too, in the same lock and deliberately without the_cleanup_publishedtest. Such a buffer stops being releasable through this API for the Worker's remaining life, which strands nothing:close()reclaims it through_release_all_bufferscallingBuffer.close()directly. This one is pre-existing rather than introduced here, and applied to NEXT_LEVEL dispatch as much as to SUB.Owner side —
Buffer.close()could not retry a failed unlinkclose()marked itself closed and dropped itsshmbefore unlinking, so anunlink()that raised could never be retried: the nextclose()returned at the idempotency check while the name stayed in/dev/shm._release_all_bufferskeeps a failed buffer's registry entry specifically so the cleanup journal can retry it — that retry was a no-op success that also dropped the entry.The two OS actions are now tracked separately and each is retried until it succeeds. The gate refusing to derive a
Tensorfrom a released buffer still shuts on the first call, successful release or not.Consumer side — two ways to lose a mapping
ImportRegistry.unregister()dropped its entry before closing the mapping. Aclose()raisingBufferError(a consumer still holding a derivedmemoryview) then left a mapping nothing could reach to retry. The entry is now dropped only once the mapping is really gone.ImportRegistry.close()aborted its sweep at the first failure, stranding every mapping behind it in iteration order — where the sibling_release_all_buffersis per-item best-effort. It now attempts all of them, drops the ones that closed, and raises the first error at the end._reexport_by_sourcewas in neither release pathNot dropped when the owner broadcasts a release, and absent from
close()'s cleanup table (where the sibling_fork_tensor_handlesis). A retained forwarding handle keeps answeringto_descriptor()after its backing is unlinked, so a later forward of that identity would hand a child a descriptor for a name the owner has removed.Two smaller ones
ImportRegistry'scontextargument is now required. All three production sites already pass one; theNonedefault only served tests, and it made "host endpoint" the silent reading for any site that forgot it.FileNotFoundErroron/psm_xxxx.Testing
Every fix has a regression test confirmed to fail without it (9 new tests, verified by stashing the production diff), plus one covering the submit-to-reject pair end to end. Two carry no defect of their own and are called out rather than counted as repros:
test_close_does_not_unlink_twice_after_a_failed_closeguards the new two-flag structure, and the orchestrator test double now answers per-API handle metadata so a SUB test cannot pass over a NEXT_LEVEL dispatch contract.Rebased onto
ad4acaf2, which brought two new upstream tests into the same area (test_release_buffer_keeps_the_entry_when_close_fails,test_release_all_buffers_reports_the_failure_and_keeps_the_entry). Both pass against the reworkedBuffer.close().pytest tests/ut/py— 1490 passed, 6 skipped (rebuilt against this exact commit)test_l3_group.py(itssubmit_subcarries two tensor args, so the retain change is on the real dispatch path) plusexamples/workers/l3/worker_chip_message_queueandworker_chip_orch_comm_stream— 3 passed ona2a3simruff check/ruff format --checkclean; pre-commit hooks all pass (incl. pyright)npu-smi infoon this box fails withdcmi module initialize failed. ret is -8005, soonboard-arch-precheckrefuses.test_l3_dependency.py(the othersubmit_subscene test) andl4_pod(re-export) are onboard-only and collect zero tests in sim, so both depend on the CI onboard jobs.CI history on this PR
2b085235(SUB retain alone)753966b1st-onboard-a5red — 10 device-allocating L3 Worker cases atrc=1ade39318st-onboard-a5green, pytest step ran in full;st-onboard-a2a3red atSet up job—Failed to resolve action download info/The SSL connection could not be established: the runner could not fetch an action, before any repo code rane8367c65(current)st-onboard-a5green again;st-onboard-a2a3red withThe self-hosted runner lost communication with the serveron runnerinfra-gpu-npu-021-2. The pytest step never completed (conclusion: null) and there are no per-test annotations, so no test reported a failureThree pushes, three different failure modes, and no diagnosis for any of them. Being precise about what each one can and cannot implicate:
753966b1one is the only failure with real test results. A retest of essentially the same code is green twice since, so it was not deterministic — but I never diagnosed it and am not claiming it was fixed.Set up jobfailure cannot be caused by this diff: the runner failed to fetch an action before any repository code ran.lost communicationfailure is a runner-process death during the pytest step, with no test-level annotation. A Python-level change can reach that outcome only through an OOM or a hang, and I found no such mechanism: none of these changes retains anything on a success path, and the added scans/loops are all bounded (CleanupJournal.driveis a single pass that defers a failed entry to a laterclose(), not an in-place retry).What I cannot do from my environment: read a job log (the Actions log blob host is proxy-blocked,
403 from proxy after CONNECT) or rerun a job (gh run rerun→Must have admin rights to Repository). So if a maintainer can open the failingst-onboard-a2a3log, that is the fastest way past this. Meanwhilest-onboard-a5,st-pod-onboard-a2a3,ut-a2a3,ut-a5and both sim matrices are green on the current commit.