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Resolves an SSH integration test flake where devsy-ssh-signature verification succeeded (printed MISSING), but subsequent nested SSH transport teardown returned ExitMissingError ("wait: remote command exited without exit status or exit signal"). In transport.RunManaged, first completion was previously used for both shutdown and return-value selection, causing teardown races to fail successful SSH commands.

This change:

  • Separates first-event lifecycle shutdown and structured logging from final result arbitration.
  • Adds bounded join observation in RunManaged using JoinTimeout (default 5s) with context.WithoutCancel so pending completion results are captured even after cancellation starts.
  • Establishes semantic error precedence in resolveManagedErrors:
    • Handler success is authoritative: successful commands return nil even if transport teardown produces ExitMissingError, EOF, or closed-connection errors.
    • Meaningful user errors (e.g. non-zero command exits) take precedence over secondary cleanup errors.
    • Genuine transport failures are preserved when the handler only fails due to context cancellation or closed network connections.
    • Parent context cancellation is authoritative when triggered.
  • Adds deterministic regression tests in pkg/transport/lifecycle_test.go verifying error precedence, bounded join, and race safety.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved managed connection shutdown to prevent lingering operations.
    • Added bounded cleanup so shutdown completes within a configurable timeout.
    • Improved error reporting by prioritizing genuine transport and handler failures over secondary cleanup errors.
    • SSH connections now attempt a graceful write-side close, with fallback handling when needed.
  • Configuration

    • Added a configurable join timeout, defaulting to five seconds.

Bounded join and semantic result arbitration in RunManaged prevent teardown-only errors from overriding successful commands.
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RunManaged now classifies lifecycle outcomes, performs graceful teardown, joins remaining goroutines with a configurable timeout, and resolves errors by precedence. Tests cover cleanup errors, provider failures, cancellation, timeout behavior, and CloseWrite fallback.

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Managed lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Error classification and resolution
pkg/transport/lifecycle.go, pkg/transport/lifecycle_test.go
RunManagedOptions adds JoinTimeout, with a five-second default. New helpers classify cancellation, EOF, closed-network, and missing SSH exit-status errors. Error resolution applies precedence across parent, handler, and transport outcomes.
Teardown and bounded join
pkg/transport/lifecycle.go, pkg/transport/lifecycle_test.go
RunManaged records the first completing side, calls CloseWrite before Close when supported, joins remaining goroutines with the configured timeout, and tests cleanup-error precedence, bounded shutdown, stress behavior, and close fallback.

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The bounded SSH teardown and error-precedence changes have no substantiated merge-blocking risk in the supplied evidence.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant RunManaged
  participant Transport
  participant Handler
  participant ErrorResolver
  RunManaged->>Transport: wait for transport completion
  RunManaged->>Handler: wait for handler completion
  Transport-->>RunManaged: report outcome
  RunManaged->>Transport: initiate CloseWrite or Close
  RunManaged->>Handler: join remaining goroutine with timeout
  RunManaged->>ErrorResolver: resolve parent, handler, and transport errors
  ErrorResolver-->>RunManaged: return selected error
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…ose fallback

Narrow handler-success precedence so genuine provider failures are not suppressed by later handler nil results.
Fall back to Close() immediately when CloseWrite() fails or is unsupported.
Replace sleep-based ordering in tests with deterministic context synchronization and add regression tests.
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Classify ExitMissingError using errors.As() while retaining fallback text matching.
@skevetter skevetter changed the title fix(transport): arbitrate managed lifecycle results fix(transport): teardown race on ssh session Sep 8, 2026
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pkg/transport/lifecycle.go (1)

205-207: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Error classification depends on error text instead of wrapped sentinel errors. The helpers keep errors.Is as the primary check and then fall back to substring matching. The new test fixture exercises only the substring path, so narrowing the fallback later would break the test rather than the behavior it protects.

  • pkg/transport/lifecycle.go#L205-L207: narrow connection is closed and the related substrings, or restrict the text fallback to the transport side, so a genuine handler error that embeds this text is not classified as teardown noise.
  • pkg/transport/lifecycle_test.go#L468-L468: replace errors.New("read: EOF") with fmt.Errorf("read: %w", io.EOF) so the case exercises the errors.Is path.
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In `@pkg/transport/lifecycle.go` around lines 205 - 207, In the
error-classification helper containing the closed-connection substring checks,
narrow or transport-scope the text fallback so handler errors containing that
wording are not treated as teardown noise, while preserving errors.Is as the
primary check. In pkg/transport/lifecycle.go lines 205-207, update the fallback
accordingly; in pkg/transport/lifecycle_test.go line 468, make the EOF fixture
wrap io.EOF with fmt.Errorf so the test exercises errors.Is.
pkg/transport/lifecycle_test.go (1)

142-150: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Guard closed with a sync.Once as well.

Close checks c.closed with select/default and then closes it. The check and the close are not atomic. Two concurrent Close calls can both take the default branch and close(c.closed) panics. The type already uses triggerOnce for triggerWait, so the same pattern applies here.

No current test calls Close on this double concurrently, so this is a robustness improvement for future tests.

♻️ Proposed change
 type controlledManagedConn struct {
 	net.Conn
 	mu                  sync.Mutex
 	triggerOnce         sync.Once
+	closeOnce           sync.Once
 	waitErr             error
 	triggerWait         chan struct{}
 	waitResultPublished chan struct{}
 	closed              chan struct{}
 }
 func (c *controlledManagedConn) Close() error {
-	select {
-	case <-c.closed:
-	default:
-		close(c.closed)
-		c.triggerOnce.Do(func() { close(c.triggerWait) })
-	}
+	c.closeOnce.Do(func() {
+		close(c.closed)
+		c.triggerOnce.Do(func() { close(c.triggerWait) })
+	})
 	return nil
 }
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In `@pkg/transport/lifecycle_test.go` around lines 142 - 150, Update
controlledManagedConn.Close to guard closing c.closed with a dedicated
sync.Once, just as triggerOnce guards c.triggerWait. Replace the non-atomic
select/default close path with the once-protected operation while preserving the
nil error return and existing trigger behavior.
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Inline comments:
In `@pkg/transport/lifecycle.go`:
- Around line 261-262: Update the SideSSH branch in the lifecycle resolution
logic to classify teardown-noise handler errors the same way as
resolveProviderFirst, suppressing wrapped io.EOF-style errors and returning
transportErr when appropriate. Preserve non-teardown handler errors and use the
existing teardown classification helper.

---

Nitpick comments:
In `@pkg/transport/lifecycle_test.go`:
- Around line 142-150: Update controlledManagedConn.Close to guard closing
c.closed with a dedicated sync.Once, just as triggerOnce guards c.triggerWait.
Replace the non-atomic select/default close path with the once-protected
operation while preserving the nil error return and existing trigger behavior.

In `@pkg/transport/lifecycle.go`:
- Around line 205-207: In the error-classification helper containing the
closed-connection substring checks, narrow or transport-scope the text fallback
so handler errors containing that wording are not treated as teardown noise,
while preserving errors.Is as the primary check. In pkg/transport/lifecycle.go
lines 205-207, update the fallback accordingly; in
pkg/transport/lifecycle_test.go line 468, make the EOF fixture wrap io.EOF with
fmt.Errorf so the test exercises errors.Is.

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skevetter marked this pull request as draft September 8, 2026 03:24
Symmetrically classify teardown-noise handler errors in resolveSSHFirst.
Narrow isClosedNetErr string fallback to 'use of closed network connection'.
Guard c.closed with sync.Once in test double controlledManagedConn.Close.
Wrap io.EOF in test fixture and add uncompleted SideSSH test case.
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