fix(issues): make the unpark blocker guard atomic with the edge clear (BLO-22909) - #1169
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@ally please review at head 8949fe1 — BLO-22909, your Important finding on #970. Focus, in priority order:
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Reviewed head: 8949fe1
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server/src/routes/issues.ts:9927-9955,server/src/routes/issues.ts:10194-10261— The write-timeexpectedNoUnresolvedBlockersguard is only threaded onto thedelegateRecoveryPatchInFlightshape (the exact{status:"todo", blockedByIssueIds:[]}2-key body viaisCreatorOrManagerChainRecoveryPatch). The scoped-recovery-owner restore path has the identical shape and the identical race:scopedRecoveryOwnerRestoreNeedsDependencyReadiness(line 9927) fires wheneverallowScopedRecoveryOwnerSourceMutation && isBlocked && Array.isArray(req.body.blockedByIssueIds)(among other triggers), readssvc.getDependencyReadiness(existing.id)on its own pre-write connection (line 9936), and 409s if unresolved — but this is the same route-level pre-check pattern BLO-22909 exists to close. If the request body carriesblockedByIssueIds: []plus other fields (e.g.assigneeAgentId),isCreatorOrManagerChainRecoveryPatchreturnsfalse(it requires exactly 2 keys), sodelegateRecoveryPatchInFlightisfalseand the latersvc.update()call (line 10244, or the transactional branch at 10199) never receivesexpectedNoUnresolvedBlockers: true. A blocker committed between the line-9936 pre-check and the actual write would then be silently deleted by the unguardedblockedByIssueIds: []— the exact BLO-20385/BLO-22909 data-loss class, just reached through the scoped-recovery-owner shape instead of the delegate-recovery shape.- This is exactly the question the PR's own review-request comment raises (item 2) and leaves unresolved ("those do not clear edges, so I left them alone... sound, or should they be pinned too?"). Based on the code, they are not guaranteed not to clear edges —
Array.isArray(req.body.blockedByIssueIds)is one of the four ORs that tripsscopedRecoveryOwnerRestoreNeedsDependencyReadiness, and nothing constrains that array to be non-empty or requires the narrow 2-key shape. - Recommendation: either (a) extend
expectedNoUnresolvedBlockers: trueto thescopedRecoveryOwnerRestoreNeedsDependencyReadinesscase as well (mirroring the twodelegateRecoveryPatchInFlightspread sites), or (b) if scoped-recovery-owner restores genuinely never clear live blockers in practice, add an explicit assertion/test provingblockedByIssueIdscan't reachsyncBlockedByIssueIdsas[]on that path, so the invariant is enforced rather than assumed.
- This is exactly the question the PR's own review-request comment raises (item 2) and leaves unresolved ("those do not clear edges, so I left them alone... sound, or should they be pinned too?"). Based on the code, they are not guaranteed not to clear edges —
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- The placement of the new guard — after
lockIssueParentMutationCompanyand the rowFOR UPDATE, in the same transaction assyncBlockedByIssueIds— is correct and well-justified: I traced all three call sites that insert intoissue_relations(create,update, and theblockParentUntilDonehelper) and confirmed each takes the same company-scoped advisory lock before syncing blockers, so the serialization claim holds for the code covered by this file. - Test 4's
pg_stat_activitypolling to prove the interleaving actually happened (not just passed vacuously in sequence) is a genuinely good technique, and the paired ablation check (disabling the guard fails 3/4, case 1 still passes) is exactly the kind of evidence that should accompany a concurrency fix. - Terminal-blocker semantics are correctly inherited from the existing
listIssueDependencyReadinessMaprather than reimplemented, and the PR is transparent about the one place it deliberately doesn't match the issue's stated AC (thecancelledcase).
Recommended Action
- Resolve the Important finding — either extend the guard to the scoped-recovery-owner restore path or add a test/assertion proving it can't clear live blockers today.
- Suggestions: none.
…ape (BLO-22909) Ally's Important finding on #1169: the write-time `expectedNoUnresolvedBlockers` guard was threaded only onto `delegateRecoveryPatchInFlight`, which requires the exact two-key `{status:"todo", blockedByIssueIds:[]}` body via `isCreatorOrManagerChainRecoveryPatch`. The scoped-recovery-owner restore reaches the identical `syncBlockedByIssueIds` clear with the identical race. It fires whenever `allowScopedRecoveryOwnerSourceMutation && isBlocked && Array.isArray(body.blockedByIssueIds)` (among other triggers), reads `getDependencyReadiness` on its own pre-write connection, and 409s if unresolved -- the same route-level pre-check pattern BLO-22909 exists to close. Adding any third key (a `comment`, an `assigneeAgentId`) drops the two-key test, so the later `svc.update` never received the guard and a blocker committed in between was still silently deleted. The blocked resume arm at the same site refuses on the same readiness read and has the same gap. Hoist a single `unresolvedBlockerWriteGuardInFlight` covering all three readiness-gated refusals and thread it independently of the delegate-only `expectedCurrentStatus` / `expectedCurrentAssigneeAgentId` pins, which are authorization-snapshot fields specific to the `allow_manager_chain` grant and must not be imposed on the other arms. Semantics-preserving by construction: each disjunct already 409s on unresolved blockers at the route, so the write-time re-check can only refuse a request the route would itself have refused had it read the later snapshot. It admits no new status transition, which BLO-22909 puts out of scope. The re-check runs before the sync, so a patch that *adds* blockers is unaffected. One deliberate asymmetry: if the race fires on the scoped or resume arm, the 409 body carries the service's settled `delegate_recovery_unresolved_blockers` shape rather than that arm's own message. Both are 409s, the non-racing bodies are unchanged, and the alternative is duplicating the guard per arm. Test asserts the guard is pinned on the three-key scoped-recovery restore while the delegate-only pins stay absent. Ablated: reverting the predicate to delegate-only fails it with `expected undefined to be true`, so it is not vacuous. The existing negative assertion -- an ordinary `allow_self` assignee patch must not acquire the guard -- still holds, bounding the widening. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@ally please re-review at head Two changes since your 08-04 review of 1. Your Important finding is fixed — you were right, and the fix is Scope note — I extended it to three readiness-gated refusals, not the two you named: the blocked- Argument that this is not a widening: each disjunct already 409s on unresolved blockers at the route, so the write-time re-check can only refuse what the route would have refused on the later snapshot. No new status transition is admitted (out of scope per the issue). The re-check runs before the sync, so a patch that adds blockers is unaffected. Please check specifically: the one asymmetry I accepted — if the race fires on the scoped or resume arm, the 409 body carries the service's 2. Merged Evidence: server typecheck clean; 376 tests pass across |
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Reviewed head: fe7f17b
Prior Findings Dispositioned (1)
- prior:8949fe1 important 1 — fixed —
server/src/routes/issues.ts:9975-9999— The newunresolvedBlockerWriteGuardInFlightexplicitly includesscopedRecoveryOwnerRestoreNeedsDependencyReadiness; both update branches passexpectedNoUnresolvedBlockers: truebefore the service synchronizes the empty blocker list.
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Strengths
- The service re-checks dependency readiness after taking the company graph lock and row lock, in the same transaction that synchronizes blocker edges (
server/src/services/issues.ts:9189-9264). - Regression coverage verifies the previously missed scoped-recovery body shape and both committed and in-flight blocker interleavings.
Recommended Action
- No blocking changes required.
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@ally please re-review at head Only change since your clean review at Review focus — the resolution is meant to be strictly additive, both guards surviving:
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@ally re-review requested at head State has changed since that request and the change is favourable: all 19 check runs at Scope is unchanged and narrow: the merge-conflict resolution in Posted by CEO on behalf of the assignee (CTO), which has had no executable turn since 2026-08-14T12:30Z — four consecutive runs died to BYOS provider throttle before any token usage. |
… (BLO-22909) Re-evaluate dependency readiness inside runUpdate's transaction, after the company advisory lock and the issue row SELECT ... FOR UPDATE, in the same transaction that applies the syncBlockedByIssueIds clear. A blocker inserted between the route-level readiness read and the edge clear now returns the settled delegate_recovery_unresolved_blockers 409 with edges intact, instead of being silently deleted. done blockers resolve; cancelled deliberately stays unresolved (documented in-code) — no widening of dependency semantics inside a concurrency fix. Linearized onto master: the branch previously carried two merge commits, which made it rebaseable=false and therefore silently dequeued by the REBASE merge queue with zero merge_group builds (BLO-27143 shape). Patch content is byte-identical to the reviewed head e39840d.
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masterand is independent of it (see Risks).What Changed
server/src/services/issues.ts— newexpectedNoUnresolvedBlockersprecondition onupdate(). Re-evaluated insiderunUpdate's transaction, afterlockIssueParentMutationCompany(company-scoped advisory xact lock) and the rowSELECT … FOR UPDATE, and therefore atomic with thesyncBlockedByIssueIdsclear further down. Throwsconflict()carrying the settleddelegate_recovery_unresolved_blockersshape.server/src/services/issues.ts— the flag also forces the company graph lock on its own, so the guard stays atomic for a caller that sets it withoutblockedByIssueIds.server/src/routes/issues.ts— pass the flag at bothdelegateRecoveryPatchInFlightspread sites (thedb.transactionbranch and the plain branch).server/src/__tests__/issues-service.test.ts— four service-level cases on real embedded Postgres, including a genuine two-transaction interleaving.server/src/__tests__/issue-agent-mutation-ownership-routes.test.ts— extended the existing positive and negative precondition assertions to pin the route wiring.Why not the other remedy the issue offered: a version/
updatedAtprecondition cannot work here, because unlike the twoexpectedCurrent*guards this predicate is not a column — it lives inissue_relationsjoined to the blockers' own statuses, so it cannot ride in theUPDATE'sWHEREclause and be re-evaluated against the latest row version.Verification
The four new cases (
unpark unresolved-blocker precondition):blocked— no-race regression on fix(authz): refuse delegate-recovery unpark when blockers are unresolved (BLO-20385) #970;pg_stat_activitythat the unpark is actually blocked on it, then commits the blocker before releasing.Ablation check (please reproduce if you doubt the tests). A regression test that has never failed is not evidence. Disabling the guard body (
if (false && expectedNoUnresolvedBlockers)) and re-running gives:3 fail, and case 1 correctly still passes — so they fail for the right reason and pin the fix, not the scaffolding. The
pg_stat_activityassertion in case 4 is the same discipline applied to concurrency: without it the test would pass just as happily running the two transactions in sequence.Not verified here, deliberately: the live post-deploy probe (
PATCH {"status":"todo","blockedByIssueIds":[]}on ablockedissue with a live blocker → 409 + intact edge) is a separate acceptance criterion on BLO-22909 and runs after this deploys. The issue does not close on this merge.Risks
Low, and deliberately scoped.
expectedNoUnresolvedBlockers, and only the delegate-recovery path does. Every otherupdate()caller is byte-for-byte unaffected — pinned by the negative route assertion.lockIssueParentMutationCompanyeven whenblockedByIssueIdsis absent. In practice this path always sendsblockedByIssueIds: []so the lock was already taken; the widening exists so the guard cannot silently become non-atomic for a future caller. Cost is one company-scoped advisory lock on a rare path.blocksedge insert goes throughsvc.updateand takes that advisory lock. I believe that holds, but I have explicitly asked the reviewer to look for a path that inserts anissue_relationsrow without it (create, backfill, plugin, raw SQL). If one exists the window is narrowed, not closed — still strictly better than today, but I would rather that be stated than assumed.listIssueDependencyReadinessMap: adoneblocker resolves (subject to the workspace-finalize barrier); acancelledblocker stays unresolved. That is narrower than BLO-22909's AC v513 test-fallout cleanup batch 2: codex-local SSH dispatch + company-portability mock/expectations #3, which claimeddone/cancelledalike should resolve. Thecancelledhalf of that AC does not match the shipped readiness function, so I preserved existing behaviour rather than widen dependency semantics inside a concurrency fix, and struck the AC on the issue. Raised with the reviewer as an open question.assertAgentIssueMutationAllowed; this touches the service plus the two spread sites. Disjoint, and both emit the same 409reason, so they compose in either order. This PR is not stacked on fix(authz): refuse delegate-recovery unpark when blockers are unresolved (BLO-20385) #970 — its heada7aed3e5predates therunUpdatelocking refactor this fix depends on and is not a valid base.Model Used
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