fix(minimald): stop a stalled host wedging every session RPC by norrietaylor · Pull Request #1281 · gominimal/minimal

norrietaylor · 2026-08-25T02:22:57Z

What happened

A daemon in the field went unreachable for fifteen minutes and had to be killed. It was not dead: it served GetVersion in 54 µs and streamed a 1.1 MB diag bundle while it was "hung". What it would not do was answer ListSessions, GetSessionRecord or CreateSession — dispatched, never served, clients timing out at 60 s on repeat.

The split is exact, and it is the whole diagnosis: the RPCs that hang are the ones that make a round trip through the sessions Manager actor. GetVersion (rpc.rs:97) does not. DiagBundleTarZst reads the session records straight off disk (diag.rs:574) and takes the ServerStateHandle mutex on the way (diag.rs:345), which exonerates that mutex; the Store actor's handlers are all synchronous (store.rs:125-164), which exonerates the store. The Manager mainloop is what is left, and it is serial.

Why it wedged

ManagerMessage::List awaited SessionHandle::get_attrs inline on that mainloop, once per running session. The probe crosses two further mailboxes, with no deadline at any hop:

hop	site	await
manager → session	`session.rs:2483`	unbounded `recv.await`
session actor	`session.rs:916`	inline `h.get_attrs().await`
session → host	`session_host.rs:1348`	bounded `send().await`, then `recv.await.expect("host died")`
host mainloop	`session_host.rs:3084`	replies

A host that cannot answer — mid-attach, mid-teardown, or parked in the deliberately unbounded process.wait() on the pty-error path — parks the manager permanently. And the manager is the single entry point for every session operation, so the blast radius is the whole daemon: min ls, min session ..., and Shutdown too (rpc.rs:489 also goes through mngr.shutdown()). minvmd stop inherits that hang for its 120 s guest-quiesce deadline (cmd/stop.rs:99), then SIGTERMs a VMM that ignores SIGTERM, then SIGKILLs — so the only way out leaves the state volume's ext4 journal dirty.

ManagerMessage::GetScreen had the identical shape, and review caught it: it awaited SessionHandle::get_screen inline on the same serial mainloop. It backs GetSessionScreen, which min dash pushes as an effect on every Msg::Tick for the focused session — so the same wedge was reachable through the Preview panel within seconds of opening the dashboard. The first pass of this PR missed it.

The codebase already knew this shape was wrong. The sibling arm two branches down, GetWorkspaceDelta (session.rs:920-940), forwards off-actor with the comment "this actor must stay responsive while they run". GetHostAttrs and GetHostScreen never got that treatment. Manager::hostnames is likewise documented as shared specifically to avoid "routing through the actor mainloop".

The change

Each edit closes one hop.

Session actor (session.rs)

GetHostAttrs and GetHostScreen answer off-actor, in the exact shape GetWorkspaceDelta already uses. The session actor no longer parks behind its host.
Both probes are bounded inside the spawned task, by a new HOST_PROBE_TIMEOUT, through a probe_host helper that collapses a missed deadline and a dead host to the same None. Spawning alone was not enough: dropping a caller's oneshot::Receiver does not cancel a spawned future, so against a host that never answers each poll stranded one task forever — and past HOST_MAILBOX_CAPACITY queued messages the probe blocks in send rather than recv, still forever. With min dash polling on every tick, that leak is unbounded in exactly the case the fix exists for.

Manager (sessions.rs)

List probes under HOST_PROBE_TIMEOUT and fans the probes out with join_all. A session that misses the deadline is listed without its attrs, which is already what a session with no running host reports. The fan-out matters as much as the deadline: serially the mainloop would pay N deadlines on behalf of every queued RPC, not one.
GetScreen resolves its predicate on the mainloop — the store's handlers are synchronous, so that hop cannot park — and then answers the probe from a spawned task under the same deadline. Both halves are load-bearing: bounding alone would still occupy the serial mainloop for the full 2 s on every dash tick, and spawning alone would only move the hang onto a task nothing reaps, leaving the client on an unanswered oneshot.
The manager's deadline aliases the session actor's constant rather than picking its own number, so the two hops cannot drift. They are not redundant: the session actor's bound covers a wedged host, the manager's covers a wedged session actor, which can be parked in an inline EnsureHost/Attach/ConfigureLoadout and never reach the spawn at all.

Host handle (session_host.rs)

HostHandle::get_attrs returns Err(()) for a dropped responder instead of expect("host died"), matching its own get_screen (whose doc comment already claimed they matched). A teardown race is not a reason to panic the daemon.
The mailbox size is named HOST_MAILBOX_CAPACITY rather than a bare 8, since it is now load-bearing to the reasoning above.

SessionInfo ordering is unchanged — join_all preserves input order. Both reads that moved off-actor are snapshot reads with no ordering contract.

Tests

The first pass of this PR shipped without a regression test, on the grounds that the harness's MockLauncher offers no seam for a host mainloop that stalls on demand. That was the right diagnosis of the gap and the wrong conclusion about its cost: the seam is small.

HostHandle::wedged() — a test-only constructor returning a handle plus its mailbox Receiver. The test holds the receiver, so messages are accepted and none is ever answered, which is a faithful model of a loop parked mid-attach or mid-teardown. The mailbox is the production size, so a test can queue past it and exercise the send-blocks case as well as the recv-blocks one.
session::tests::a_probe_of_a_wedged_host_ends_instead_of_stranding_its_task — fires 3 * HOST_MAILBOX_CAPACITY probes at a wedged host and asserts on num_alive_tasks() that every task is gone, not merely abandoned. Runs under start_paused = true against a 600 s backstop, so without the bound it hangs to that backstop rather than passing either way.
sessions::tests::get_screen_answers_whether_or_not_a_session_resolves — covers the rewritten GetScreen arm across all four resolution outcomes, by id and by name, and asserts the mainloop is still serving afterwards. The responder now travels into a spawned task, so a mis-wired arm would leave a caller on a oneshot that is never sent rather than failing loudly. That arm had no test at all before.

minimald's dev-dependency on tokio gains test-util, for #[tokio::test(start_paused = true)]; it is not in tokio's full.

Verification

just test-cross (clippy -D warnings + tests for the Linux-only crates, which is how minimald is covered from a Mac), plus cargo clippy -p minimald --all-targets -- -D warnings and cargo test -p minimald on Linux: clean, 326 passing.

What this PR does not do

Does not touch the remaining inline awaits on the session actor. EnsureHost, Attach, ConfigureLoadout and Finalize still run inline and can legitimately take a long time. That is now survivable — the manager's deadline covers it — but the session actor still serializes behind them. Worth a look, separately.

A wedged daemon in the field served `GetVersion` in 54us and streamed a full diag bundle while `ListSessions`, `GetSessionRecord` and `CreateSession` were dispatched and never answered, for fifteen minutes, until the VM was killed. The split is exact: the RPCs that hang are the ones that make a round trip through the sessions `Manager` actor. `ManagerMessage::List` awaited `SessionHandle::get_attrs` inline on that actor's serial mainloop, once per running session. The probe crosses two further mailboxes -- the session actor, then its host -- with no deadline at any hop: manager mainloop -> SessionHandle::get_attrs unbounded recv -> SessionMessage::GetHostAttrs inline `h.get_attrs().await` -> HostHandle::get_attrs bounded send + unbounded recv -> host mainloop A host that cannot answer -- mid-attach, mid-teardown, or blocked in the unbounded `process.wait()` on the pty-error path -- therefore parks the manager permanently. Because the manager is the single entry point for every session operation, `min ls`, `min session ...` and `Shutdown` all die with it; `minvmd stop` inherits the same hang and then tears the VM down uncleanly, leaving the state volume's ext4 journal dirty. Three changes, each closing one hop: - `GetHostAttrs` and `GetHostScreen` answer off-actor, exactly as the sibling `GetWorkspaceDelta` already does for the same reason. The session actor no longer parks behind its host. - `List` probes under `ATTRS_PROBE_TIMEOUT` and fans the probes out with `join_all`. A session that misses the deadline lists without `attrs` -- which is already what a session with no running host reports -- and the mainloop pays one deadline, not N. - `HostHandle::get_attrs` returns `Err(())` for a dropped responder instead of `expect("host died")`, matching `get_screen`. A teardown race is not a reason to panic the daemon. `SessionInfo` ordering is unchanged: `join_all` preserves input order. No regression test: reproducing the wedge needs a host mainloop stalled on demand, and the test harness's `MockLauncher` offers no seam for that. Adding one is a larger change than the fix and is left as a follow-up.

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Session host attribute and screen queries now run outside the session actor. Host teardown returns an error instead of panicking. Session listing probes attributes concurrently with a two-second timeout.

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Session responsiveness

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Asynchronous host query handling `crates/minimald/src/session.rs`, `crates/minimald/src/session_host.rs`	Session actors spawn host attribute and screen queries. Dropped host responses return `Err(())` instead of panicking.
Bounded session listing `crates/minimald/src/sessions.rs`	Session listing performs concurrent attribute probes with a two-second timeout. Unavailable or timed-out probes return `attrs: None` while records remain listable.

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Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 75ded

The change improves session listing resilience, but screen reads can still block the daemon's session RPCs when a host is delayed, and timed-out attribute probes may continue accumulating in the background. These unresolved availability risks make the PR unsafe to merge until the waits and detached work are bounded.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SessionManager
  participant SessionActor
  participant HostHandle
  participant Host
  SessionManager->>SessionManager: collect session records
  SessionManager->>SessionActor: request attributes concurrently
  SessionActor->>HostHandle: spawn host query
  HostHandle->>Host: request attributes
  Host-->>HostHandle: return attributes or drop response
  HostHandle-->>SessionActor: return attributes or error
  SessionActor-->>SessionManager: return attributes, None, or timeout

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A rabbit sees the host calls fly,
While session actors stay spry.
Two seconds guard each waiting ear,
Dropped hosts cause no panic here.
Lists return safely, bright and clear.

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norrietaylor · 2026-08-25T03:36:43Z

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CI: all five aggregators green — ci-success, ci-linux-native-success, ci-linux-kvm-success, ci-macos-success, ci-shell-installer-success. 28 pass, 4 path-skipped (kani, shellcheck, installer, apparmor — none touched here).

Local just test-cross (aarch64-musl in Docker, which is how minimald is covered from a Mac):

clippy --workspace --exclude minvmd --all-targets -- -D warnings: clean, 0 errors 0 warnings.
minimald --lib: 319 passed, 2 failed.

The two failures are nsenter::tests::a_shim_that_is_no_longer_on_disk_is_named_as_the_failure and nsenter::tests::the_registered_shim_overrides_current_exe_and_yields_to_an_explicit_one — shim-path resolution via current_exe(), which misbehaves under the qemu-user emulation the local cross container runs aarch64 binaries through.

Confirmed pre-existing rather than assumed: re-running those two tests in the same container with this PR's three files reverted to their pre-fix state reproduces both failures identically (2 passed; 2 failed). ci-linux-native runs the same suite on real Linux and is green.

Every session::tests::* and sessions::tests::* case passes, including the host-attached ones that exercise the changed paths (second_shell_takes_over_session_and_closes_the_first, session_delta_rpc_*).

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In `@crates/minimald/src/session.rs`:
- Around line 923-925: Bound the detached task spawned by the session attribute
probe so the await of HostHandle::get_attrs, reached through h.get_attrs(), is
canceled after the configured timeout even when the outer SessionHandle timeout
has expired. Preserve sending the result through r, and add a regression test
that repeatedly triggers timed-out ListSessions probes and verifies detached
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- Around line 953-955: Update the GetScreen handling around Manager::mainloop
and Manager::handle_message so it does not await SessionHandle::get_screen() on
the Manager actor’s message-processing path. Move the screen request and
response send into a detached task, or apply a bounded timeout, while preserving
the existing response behavior and allowing subsequent List, GetRecord,
CreateSession, and Shutdown messages to proceed.

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Verdict COMMENT — COMMENT: policy.actions.request_changes is off; policy.actions.approve is off.

Scope: matches the stated intent exactly — three surgical edits (session.rs, session_host.rs, sessions.rs), each closing one hop the PR body's own hop table names. No unrelated drift.

Clobber: none. git log on the three files shows a clean sequence of prior fixes; nothing here reverts or overwrites recent work.

Correctness: the List fix itself is sound — join_all preserves SessionInfo order as claimed, the 2 s timeout is per-session so one wedged host can't cost the fan-out more than one deadline, and HostHandle::get_attrs's Err(())-on-drop now matches get_screen's existing semantics. But the fix is narrower than its title claims: ManagerMessage::GetScreen (sessions.rs:502-519, not touched by this diff) still awaits a session's host round trip inline in the same serial mainloop with no timeout — the identical shape the PR diagnosed and fixed for List. GetSessionScreen is min dash's Preview-panel RPC, polled on every refresh tick for the focused session, so a host wedged the same way (mid-attach, mid-teardown, stuck process.wait()) still freezes min ls, min session ... and Shutdown daemon-wide — just through a different RPC. The PR's own "what this PR does not do" section discloses the still-inline session-actor awaits (EnsureHost, Attach, ...) but doesn't mention this one, which reads as an oversight rather than a deliberately deferred scope cut.

Separately, the off-actor tokio::spawn in GetHostAttrs/GetHostScreen (mirroring the existing GetWorkspaceDelta pattern) has no cancellation path: the new ATTRS_PROBE_TIMEOUT only drops the caller's receiver, not the spawned task itself, so a session whose host is genuinely (not just slowly) wedged leaks one un-abortable task per poll for as long as min dash keeps refreshing it. Minor next to the GetScreen gap, but worth a look given it's the exact failure condition this PR targets.

Could not verify behavior under actual load (no compile/test run, per review constraints) — analysis is from reading the mainloop and message-dispatch code directly.

What ran

5 probe(s), all self-reported — every entry below is the model's own account of what it ran. None of it is host-attested, so none of it can gate a blocking verdict.

Verification log

1. rg -n 'ManagerMessage::' crates/minimald/src/sessions.rs to enumerate every Manager message handler — exit 0 · self-reported

Found 11 ManagerMessage variants. List (fixed by this PR) and GetScreen (sessions.rs:502-519) are the only two whose handler awaits a per-session host round trip directly in handle_message. GetScreen's inline h.get_screen().await at sessions.rs:514 has no timeout and is untouched by the diff.

2. Read sessions.rs mainloop (line 319-321) to confirm handle_message runs serially with no concurrency — exit 0 · self-reported

while let Some(msg) = self.receiver.recv().await { self.handle_message(msg).await; } - confirmed fully serial; any unbounded await inside one arm blocks every other queued Manager message, matching the PR's own diagnosis of the List bug.

3. Trace GetSessionScreen RPC: rpc.rs serve_get_session_screen -> Manager::get_screen -> ManagerMessage::GetScreen — exit 0 · self-reported

rpc.rs:690-711 confirms GetSessionScreen (min dash's Preview panel, refreshed every tick per app.rs:405 comment) drives this exact path with no RPC-level timeout wrapper either.

4. Read session.rs GetHostAttrs/GetHostScreen new handlers (913-930, 947-960) and SessionHandle::get_attrs/get_screen (2499-2524) for task lifecycle — exit 0 · self-reported

The spawned tokio::spawn task in the session actor is not tracked by a JoinHandle and is never aborted. sessions.rs's new ATTRS_PROBE_TIMEOUT (line 452) wraps the caller-side SessionHandle::get_attrs() future; timing out only drops that oneshot::Receiver, it does not cancel the already-spawned task inside the session actor, which keeps awaiting a genuinely wedged host forever.

5. git log --oneline -10 -- the three changed files, to check for reverted work — exit 0 · self-reported

Clean line of prior fixes, no revert/clobber; this PR is purely additive on top of 8e44591 etc.

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`ManagerMessage::GetScreen` still awaited `SessionHandle::get_screen` inline on the manager's serial mainloop, with no deadline — the same wedge `List` was fixed for, reached through `GetSessionScreen` instead. It is `min dash`'s Preview RPC, pushed as an effect on every `Msg::Tick` for the focused session, so a stalled host kept freezing `List`, `GetRecord`, `CreateSession` and `Shutdown` daemon-wide. It now resolves its predicate on the mainloop — the store's handlers are synchronous, so that hop cannot park — and answers the probe from a spawned task under a deadline. Both halves are needed: spawning alone moves the hang onto a task nothing reaps, leaving the client on an unanswered oneshot, and bounding alone still occupies the serial mainloop for the full deadline on every dash tick. The spawned `GetHostAttrs`/`GetHostScreen` probes were themselves unbounded. Dropping the caller's receiver does not cancel a spawned future, so each poll of a host that never answers stranded one task forever; past `HOST_MAILBOX_CAPACITY` queued messages the probe blocks in `send` rather than `recv`, still forever. Both are now bounded inside the task by `HOST_PROBE_TIMEOUT`, shared with the manager's deadline so the two hops cannot drift. The two bounds are not redundant: this one covers a wedged host, the manager's covers a wedged session actor. Adds `HostHandle::wedged()`, a test-only handle whose mailbox the test holds so nothing is ever answered, and a regression test asserting the probe tasks finish rather than accumulate — it hangs to its own backstop without the bound. Also covers the rewritten `GetScreen` arm across all four resolution outcomes, which had no test at all. `minimald`'s dev-dependency on tokio gains `test-util`, for `#[tokio::test(start_paused = true)]`; it is not in tokio's `full`. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01U4pcVxxJn7ZsmQq8GMJjXf

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Verdict COMMENT — COMMENT: policy.actions.request_changes is off; policy.actions.approve is off.

Scope: matches the PR description exactly — three source edits (session.rs, session_host.rs, sessions.rs) plus a dev-only Cargo.toml tweak for #[tokio::test(start_paused = true)], nothing extraneous.

Clobber: none. git log on the touched files shows this stacks cleanly on the prior fix/session-list-actor-deadlock work; no unrelated hunks or silent reverts.

Correctness: I traced the type chain that looked suspicious at first glance — tokio::time::timeout(...).await.unwrap_or(None) in the new List/GetScreen handlers only type-checks because SessionHandle::get_attrs/get_screen already return Option<T> (not Result), which held up. The two still-unresolved threads in threads.json (sessions.rs:472 unbounded GetScreen, session.rs:972 uncancellable spawned probe) are both already closed by this diff: GetScreen now resolves synchronously (store hop only) and spawns a HOST_PROBE_TIMEOUT-bounded probe, and probe_host bounds the spawned task itself rather than only the caller's receiver — so I did not re-raise either.

I also checked whether List should have been fully detached from the Manager's serial mainloop the same way GetScreen was (its r.handle(...) is awaited inline, so a wedged session still costs the mainloop up to one HOST_PROBE_TIMEOUT per List call). The code's own comment ("which the mainloop pays on behalf of every queued RPC") shows this was a conscious, bounded tradeoff rather than an oversight — a real improvement over the prior unbounded hang — so I'm not reporting it as a finding.

No findings survived to the reportable bar. Nothing I could check without compiling looked wrong.

What ran

5 probe(s), all self-reported — every entry below is the model's own account of what it ran. None of it is host-attested, so none of it can gate a blocking verdict.

Verification log

1. Trace SessionHandle::get_attrs/get_screen return types vs Manager's timeout unwrap_or(None) — exit 0 · self-reported

self.running is BTreeMap<SessionId, SessionHandle>, and SessionHandle::get_attrs/get_screen (session.rs:2542,2562) already return Option, not Result. tokio::time::timeout(...).await.unwrap_or(None) in sessions.rs List/GetScreen therefore type-checks: Result<Option, Elapsed>::unwrap_or(None). No type error.

2. Check whether ManagerMessage::List still blocks the serial Manager mainloop for up to HOST_PROBE_TIMEOUT — exit 0 · self-reported

Manager::mainloop (sessions.rs:323-327) is while let Some(msg) = recv().await { handle_message(msg).await }, strictly serial. List's r.handle(...).await (sessions.rs:442-352) is awaited inline, not spawned, so a wedged session still costs the mainloop up to one HOST_PROBE_TIMEOUT per List call. However the added comment at sessions.rs ("which the mainloop pays on behalf of every queued RPC") shows the author already reasoned about and accepted this bounded (vs the prior unbounded) cost; GetScreen was fully detached instead because List's future borrows &self.running/&self.store (not 'static) so spawning would need an extra clone. Judged as a deliberate, already-documented tradeoff rather than an overlooked defect, so not reported as a finding.

3. Cross-check unresolved threads.json entries (sessions.rs:472 GetScreen unbounded, session.rs:972 spawned-probe cancellation) against the head diff — exit 0 · self-reported

Both are already addressed in this diff: GetScreen now resolves the session synchronously (sync-only store hop) then spawns a HOST_PROBE_TIMEOUT-bounded probe (sessions.rs ManagerMessage::GetScreen); the session-actor-level spawn in session.rs GetHostAttrs/GetHostScreen wraps the future in probe_host, which itself applies HOST_PROBE_TIMEOUT inside the spawned task, closing the cancellation gap the LOW finding described. Not re-raised per instructions.

4. Confirm tokio test-util feature addition is dev-only and Cargo.lock/dependency scope is unchanged — exit 0 · self-reported

The tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["test-util"] } edit is under [dev-dependencies] in crates/minimald/Cargo.toml, alongside the existing libc dev-dependency; the main [dependencies] tokio.workspace = true is untouched. No production dependency surface change.

5. Check for secrets and scope/clobber against recent history — exit 0 · self-reported

rg over the diff for credential-shaped strings found nothing. git log on the three touched source files shows this commit stacked cleanly on the prior fix/session-list-actor-deadlock work with no revert of unrelated changes; all four changed files trace directly to the stated intent.

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twitchyliquid64 · 2026-08-27T00:05:37Z

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+/// Deadline for a read-only probe of a session's host — the terminal


Drop the probe verbaige that makes it sound like we have something called a probe when we dont. Its just a message down the channel to an actor.

twitchyliquid64

General pattern of keep busy code out of the hot path of the session actor SGTM, would probably tighten some of the comments and some of the invented terminology tho, given the actual fixes are just spawning off work and letting the recieve loop continue rather than anything more involved

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`minimal-review` — advisory review

`minimal-review` — advisory review