tests: harden three flaky probes ahead of the telemetry series (1/7) by bryan-minimal · Pull Request #1993 · gominimal/minimal

bryan-minimal · 2026-10-05T20:51:54Z

tests: harden three flaky probes ahead of the telemetry series (1/7)

Stack: spec #1988 → this → mlog export → CLI+daemon → minvmd+guest → diag → requirement tests → guest telemetry over vsock (7/7). Base main 03f2cf1.

Test-only (3 files, +173/−58), no product code change. Four small changes the telemetry series' per-commit CI relies on, kept separate so they can land on their own:

the listener-range test binds a loopback range instead of a fixed port (a_loopback_bound_listener_is_not_published raced on the port when the whole workspace ran at once);
the walked-publication probe waits for the publication to settle;
bep_stub tolerates EPIPE when the client hangs up first;
the fresh-streak test waits for the streak counter to advance.

Found while gating the series in the regression lab (one flaky cell in 2006 test runs); commits 2–6 of the stack were gated with this in place.

Plan: #1992 (the spec's plan comment). Plan tasks in this PR: none — a test-only prerequisite outside the spec.

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Documentation
- Added a reference guide to opt-in telemetry, including configuration, privacy, troubleshooting, and diagnostic bundles.
- Added specifications for telemetry collection, export, local storage, and guest-to-host forwarding.
Tests
- Improved coverage of network listener behavior and retry handling after a listener closes.
- Made publication checks less sensitive to port availability.
- Expanded refusal handling checks for connections closed before a response is received.

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The changes add telemetry specifications and reference material, update network-related tests and refusal handling, and revise the accepted vocabulary.

Changes: Telemetry documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Telemetry requirements and operating bounds `docs/specs/25-spec-telemetry/25-spec-telemetry.md`	Spec 25 defines telemetry switches, export and spool behavior, propagation, guest telemetry, shutdown bounds, privacy, security, and verification details.
Telemetry architecture and process boundaries `docs/specs/25-spec-telemetry/architecture.md`	The architecture document describes trace relationships and propagation, environment settings, process boundaries, and spool handling.
Guest telemetry forwarding design `docs/specs/25-spec-telemetry/guest-vsock.md`	The design note specifies guest-to-host vsock forwarding, input and queue limits, host forwarding, boot settings, shutdown timing, and failure behavior.
Telemetry reference and documentation links `docs/reference/telemetry.md`, `docs/reference/manifest.json`, `docs/specs/10-spec-diagnostics/10-spec-diagnostics.md`	The reference page documents telemetry configuration and behavior. The manifest includes the page, and the diagnostics specification links to Spec 25.

Network test updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Listener fixtures and port-range policy `crates/minimald/src/net/listeners.rs`	Listener tests add an adjacent any-address listener helper and an inclusive port-range policy helper.
Listener backoff test `crates/minimald/src/net/listeners.rs`	The test uses a witness listener withdrawal to establish that polling observed both listeners close before checking retry behavior.
Publication test port probes `crates/minimald/src/server.rs`	The proxy and answerer tests probe for ports after setting up test state and immediately before driver execution.
Broken-pipe response `crates/minvmd/src/net/bep_stub.rs`	`present` returns an empty response when its write fails with `BrokenPipe`. Other write errors still panic.

Accepted vocabulary

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Vocabulary entries `styles/config/vocabularies/Minimal/accept.txt`	The accepted vocabulary adds `autospawning`, `denylist`, and `userinfo`, and reorders two pairs of existing entries.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: norrietaylor, evanspearman

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f4343

The telemetry documents still disagree about when guest records may be retained and how configured header values are removed from diagnostic bundles. Resolve those privacy-related requirements before merging; the remaining wording and estimate corrections are localized.

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Review of the test hardening (1/7). Ready to merge.

What I checked:

adjacent_listeners: the permit range now covers only the two ports that the test holds. The second bind fails while another listener that a forward can reach holds that port. This removes the race with sibling test processes. The watcher reads /proc, so the Linux bind rules apply.
a_backed_off_port_that_closes_starts_a_fresh_streak: the fixed 700 ms wait is replaced by a witness port. Its withdrawal line proves that the poll read the new table. This is a correct proof, not a longer wait.
server.rs: the free-port probe now runs after the state construction, so the window between the probe and the bind is short.
bep_stub.rs: a refusal at accept can close the socket before the write. A broken pipe on a Unix socket now reads as "nothing answered". This agrees with the read path.

No changes to production code. No findings.

mitodrummer · 2026-10-07T18:38:57Z

Review pass (read-only, head bed0787b): looks good to approve.

The three flakes are fixed at the root, not by widening timeouts: adjacent_listeners holds both ports of the permit range, the backed-off-port test now waits on the unexpose and its "withdrew" line instead of sleeping 700 ms (the ordering holds under the current-thread runtime), and the BEP stub treats EPIPE as the refusal it is while still asserting the refusal audit.
Nit, already acknowledged in the code: the probe-and-release port pattern in server.rs (~3957, ~5200) narrows the TOCTOU window but cannot close it.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @docs/reference/telemetry.md:
- Line 246: Update the “One command” row in the telemetry reference table to say
that setting DO_NOT_TRACK to any non-empty value turns telemetry off; keep the
other opt-out conditions unchanged.

Review comments at @docs/specs/25-spec-telemetry/25-spec-telemetry.md:
- Line 720: Update the TEL-044 bundle-scrubbing specification to define how
configured exporter-header values of 1–7 bytes are removed from OTLP attributes
and log bodies, or narrow its guarantee to match the scrub rule’s actual
coverage.
- Around line 545-546: Update the guest telemetry requirements so host spool
opt-out prevents guest records from being written to the host spool, and an
exporter set to `none` prevents both spooling and forwarding. Preserve spooling
for no-endpoint and plain headers-refusal cases when host spooling is enabled,
and specify that guest spool processors are installed only when
`MINIMAL_OTEL_SPOOL` is enabled. In
`docs/specs/25-spec-telemetry/25-spec-telemetry.md` lines 545–546, update the
TEL-034 requirement; in `docs/specs/25-spec-telemetry/guest-vsock.md` lines
105–109, update the append behavior; lines 121–124, distinguish host spool-off,
exporter `none`, and no-endpoint or headers-refusal outcomes; and lines 146–147,
update guest processor installation conditions.

Review comments at @docs/specs/25-spec-telemetry/architecture.md:
- Around line 62-68: Clarify the paragraph beginning “A `min` whose telemetry
decision is off” to limit its explicit opt-out and no-`TRACEPARENT` rule to the
host CLI. Preserve the inherited `TRACEPARENT` behavior for an in-box `min`
without its own opt-in, consistent with the distinction in 25-spec-telemetry.md.

Review comments at @docs/specs/25-spec-telemetry/guest-vsock.md:
- Around line 146-148: Update the `MINIMAL_OTEL_FORWARD` behavior so it installs
a tracer and traces `guest.ready` only when the trace signal is enabled,
including honoring `MINIMAL_OTEL_TRACES_EXPORTER=none`; keep log forwarding
active independently of the trace signal.
- Around line 115-116: Clarify the valid range of the shared-spool estimate: it
applies only for 1 ≤ N ≤ 12. State that for N ≥ 13, the 4 MiB-per-VM bursts
alone exceed the 50 MiB spool assumption, so the estimate is invalid.

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Three small test-only changes that the telemetry series relies on, kept separate so they can land on their own: - the walked-publication probe waits for the publication to settle - bep_stub tolerates EPIPE when the client hangs up first - the fresh-streak test waits for the streak counter to advance No product code changes.

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fix(otel): the nineteen review follow-ups deferred from the telemetry stack (#2202) #2207

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