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Two independent CSI-facing defects reported from a Cozystack stand running the blockstor backend.

Clone rejected every request golinstor sends

The endpoint declared five fields and decodes with DisallowUnknownFields, so layer_list, which linstor-csi defaults to [DRBD, STORAGE] and never omits, was a 400 before any of the handler ran. Every clone-from-volume failed whatever the StorageClass said, and on Cozystack the platform-wide cloneStrategyOverride: csi-clone routes every disk clone through here, so a VMDisk with a source.disk sat in CSICloneInProgress indefinitely. resource_group was the next 400 waiting behind it, and delete_namespaces the one after that. It rides with override_props and delete_props on every props-modify body upstream sends, so declaring its two neighbours and not it left a clone body carrying it on the same refusal. The triple is now embedded from golinstor rather than respelled, since respelling is how it went missing.

The two fields that carry meaning are honoured on both clone paths: the volume-less shortcut and the snapshot-restore path CSI actually takes. The stack is validated the way rg modify validates its own, asked for the LUKS prerequisite like every other writer of a layer stack, and the resource group is checked to exist: it lands on the target on both paths and went past no validator, so a typo produced a clone whose parent group does not exist. It lists fine and places badly, because the placer's Controller→RG→RD prop walk drops the RG tier without a word.

external_name and volume_passphrases are refused rather than accepted and dropped. Ignoring the first returns a definition under a name the caller did not ask for; ignoring the second materialises volumes with keys the caller does not hold. That is the failure mode src_snap_name is already refused for on this endpoint.

layer_list is honoured with one refusal, and it is the reason to read this section twice: on a source that has volumes, the requested stack must be the source's, compared as a set, since order is the stack's own and case folds. The clone data plane restores the source's bytes and brings the layer stack up over them, in that order, and every layer's bring-up writes to the device it is handed: luks.Format treats a device with no LUKS header as one to format, and create-md runs with --force over meta-disk internal, stamping metadata across the tail of the same bytes. So a layer added here lands on the data the clone just restored and the clone reports COMPLETE over it, and a layer dropped leaves the target reading data the missing layer wrote. A source with no recorded stack means the upstream default [DRBD, STORAGE], resolved the way every other reader resolves it, because reading it as "no layers" would make linstor-csi's own request look like adding both and refuse every clone-from-volume. A volume-less source has no bytes to lose and still takes any stack.

Snapshot restore was not idempotent

CSI requires CreateVolume to be idempotent, and external-provisioner has no other way to make progress after a partial failure. A restore that created the ResourceDefinition and then failed left it behind, so every retry answered object already exists, so the first partial failure was terminal for that volume name, the PVC stayed Pending, and the leftover had to be deleted by hand.

A repeat now resumes when the definition under that name carries this restore's own marker. The marker is stamped with the definition, before the volumes are hydrated and the replicas placed, so it says the restore STARTED and not that it finished, and answering success on it would trade a terminal failure for a silent incomplete one, with CSI seeing a ready volume nothing ever finishes. The clone path now draws the same split: it used to answer 201 "already cloned" on the marker alone, so the claim that it already did was wrong, and this PR is where it becomes true.

Three things stay refusals on both paths: a definition under that name this operation did not create; its own leftover carrying the DELETE flag, since finishing that one races the tear-down reaping what it writes; and a retry asking for a different shape than the attempt that created the leftover, because resuming keeps that leftover and the request's resource_group would be validated and then dropped. A leftover internal snapshot that has fallen behind the source (a volume added, or resized) is refused rather than cloned from, since resuming over it materialises the clone at the old shape and reports it complete. And the marker comparison is the equality LINSTOR itself uses, in one place, on both doors: LINSTOR folds name case, so a retry arriving as --from-snapshot SNAP over a marker written snap, or under an uppercase clone target, read as somebody else's definition and was refused, which is the terminal-on-first-failure behaviour the resume path exists to end.

A restore into a definition carrying the DELETE flag is refused on the volume-definition endpoint too, which fetched the target and threw it away.

This does not address whatever failed the first attempt, which the report could not pin down either. It makes that failure recoverable instead of terminal.

Testing

Every behavioural change here is pinned by a test that was checked by reverting the change and confirming the named test goes red, including the two directions of the LUKS refusal, the resumed clone (whose status is 201 either way, so only the volumes tell a resumed clone from one that merely agreed it had happened), the DELETE-flagged leftover on both paths, the case-folded retry, and the unknown resource group on both clone paths. The refusal tests carry positive controls, because a refusal test that passes for the wrong reason is the failure mode two of the earlier tests on this endpoint had.

The case-folding test needs a store that folds names the way the Kubernetes one does, which the in-memory store does not, so it runs through a decorator that models exactly that.

docs/cli-parity-known-deltas.md gains rows 86 and 87 for the refusals and the retry semantics.

golangci-lint is clean on the touched files; the pkg/rest suite passes apart from a pre-existing server did not stop within 2s after cancel flake that reproduces unchanged on the merge base.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Clone requests support layer-stack and resource-group options, with property and namespace overrides applied during restoration.
    • Incomplete clones and snapshot restores can resume under the same target name.
    • Completed clones can be safely retried as point-in-time copies.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Added validation for incompatible layers, stale snapshots, unknown resource groups, and unsafe targets.
    • Unsupported external names and volume passphrases return clear not-supported responses.
    • Retries handle case differences and avoid overwriting unrelated resources.
  • Documentation

    • Documented clone and snapshot-restore retry behavior and parity limitations.

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The REST clone and snapshot-restore paths now accept clone shape fields, validate target state, resume compatible operations, preserve completed point-in-time clones, and apply namespace property deletion. CLI and harness tests cover these behaviors.

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Clone and restore compatibility

Layer / File(s) Summary
Clone request validation and retry state
pkg/rest/rd_clone.go, pkg/rest/rd_clone_review2_test.go, pkg/rest/rd_clone_review5_test.go
Clone requests validate layer stacks and resource groups. Completed clones replay from their snapshot. Incomplete, stale, mismatched, deleting, and partially placed targets receive distinct handling.
Snapshot restore state and materialization
pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go, pkg/rest/snapshot_restore_idempotency_test.go, internal/cli/snapshot.go
Snapshot restore resumes matching marked targets, rejects foreign or deleting targets, uses stored object names for markers, and validates existing volume sizes.
Clone shape overrides and namespace properties
pkg/rest/resource_definitions.go, pkg/rest/resource_groups.go, pkg/rest/props_modify.go, pkg/rest/volume_definitions.go, pkg/rest/rd_clone_golinstor_shape_test.go, pkg/rest/rd_clone_layer_stack_test.go
Clone paths apply requested layer stacks, resource groups, and namespace deletions. Property modification paths share namespace deletion behavior.
CLI parity and test-harness coverage
docs/cli-parity-known-deltas.md, tests/e2e/..., tests/operator-harness/...
Parity coverage verifies replay after source growth and namespace deletion. Harnesses support explicit worker and storage-pool overrides and satellite-based worker discovery.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: High

Suggested reviewers: ivanhunters

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Client
  participant CloneEndpoint
  participant SnapshotRestore
  participant ResourceDefinitions
  participant VolumeDefinitions
  Client->>CloneEndpoint: Submit clone with shape and property fields
  CloneEndpoint->>SnapshotRestore: Materialize or resume data-bearing clone
  SnapshotRestore->>ResourceDefinitions: Create or resume marked target
  SnapshotRestore->>VolumeDefinitions: Create or reuse volume definitions
  VolumeDefinitions-->>SnapshotRestore: Return restored volume state
  SnapshotRestore-->>CloneEndpoint: Return clone result
  CloneEndpoint-->>Client: Return clone response
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In `@pkg/rest/rd_clone_golinstor_shape_test.go`:
- Around line 36-42: Update the clone response assertion in the test to require
http.StatusCreated rather than only rejecting http.StatusBadRequest, so all
non-success statuses fail. Preserve the existing response-body decoding and
verification after confirming the successful created response.

In `@pkg/rest/rd_clone.go`:
- Around line 94-97: Update pkg/rest/rd_clone.go lines 94-97 so rdCloneRequest
uses a single clone-boundary adapter for shared
client.ResourceDefinitionCloneRequest wire fields, while retaining blockstor’s
src_snap_name and converting []devicelayerkind.DeviceLayerKind to internal
[]string. Update pkg/rest/rd_clone_golinstor_shape_test.go lines 29-31, 61-65,
91-92, and 131-136 to use recorded golinstor request/response fixtures with
byte-difference assertions covering both directions.

In `@pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go`:
- Around line 357-363: Update the restore flow around the existing restore
marker check so it is not treated as completion evidence while
hydrateVolumesFromSnapshot or placeRestoredResources may still be pending or
have failed. Persist the marker only after both restore steps complete
successfully, or reconcile missing target volumes and resources before returning
the existing idempotent success response.
- Line 316: The restore flow around restoreTargetPreexists and
ResourceDefinitions().Create must handle concurrent creation retries
idempotently: when creation reports an already-exists conflict, re-read the
target and return success only if restoreFromSnapshotKey matches the requested
source and snapshot; otherwise preserve the conflict/error behavior. Add a test
covering two concurrent restores.

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Comment thread pkg/rest/rd_clone_golinstor_shape_test.go Outdated
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The clone endpoint declared five fields and decodes with
DisallowUnknownFields, so `layer_list` — which linstor-csi defaults to
[DRBD, STORAGE] and never omits — was a 400 before any of the handler
ran. Every CSI clone-from-volume failed, whatever the StorageClass said,
and on Cozystack the platform-wide csi-clone override routes every disk
clone through here. `resource_group` was the next 400 waiting behind it.

Declare the rest of the golinstor shape and honour what can be honoured:
`layer_list` and `resource_group` are the caller's choice, applied on
both the volume-less shortcut and the snapshot-restore path CSI takes.
The stack is validated the way rg-modify validates its own, and asked
for the LUKS prerequisite like every other writer of a layer stack.

`external_name` and `volume_passphrases` are refused rather than
accepted and dropped. Silently ignoring the first returns a definition
under a name the caller did not ask for; ignoring the second
materialises volumes with keys the caller does not hold. That is the
failure mode src_snap_name is already refused for on this endpoint.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Andrei Kvapil <kvapss@gmail.com>
CSI requires CreateVolume to be idempotent: a repeat with the same name
and the same parameters has to succeed and return the volume that
already exists. external-provisioner has no other way to make progress
after a partial failure.

A restore that created the ResourceDefinition and then failed left that
definition behind, so every retry hit ErrAlreadyExists and answered
"object already exists". The first partial failure was terminal for that
volume name: the PVC stayed Pending, the provisioner kept calling, and
the leftover had to be deleted by hand.

A repeat now succeeds when the definition under that name carries this
restore's own marker. Anything else keeps the collision refusal — a name
holding somebody else's definition must not come back as a restore that
never happened. Same split the clone path already draws.

This does not address whatever failed the first attempt, which the
report could not pin down either; it makes the failure recoverable
instead of terminal.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Andrei Kvapil <kvapss@gmail.com>
The idempotency fix read the restore marker as evidence that a restore
finished. It is not: materializeRestoredRD stamps the marker with the
definition and hydrates the volumes and places the replicas afterwards,
so a failure in either leaves the marker on an empty shell.

A retry then answered 201 over a definition with no volumes, which turns
the terminal failure this endpoint used to have into a silent incomplete
one — CSI sees the volume as ready and nothing ever finishes it. That is
worse in the direction that matters: the old behaviour was loud and
fixable by hand, this one is neither.

A leftover carrying the marker is resumed now. The restore steps tolerate
objects a previous attempt already created — the volumes are exactly the
ones the snapshot records, and a replica is keyed (rd, node), so an
existing one under that key is the same object — so re-running them
completes what is missing and leaves what is there.

The definition Create tolerates AlreadyExists on the same terms, which
also closes the race between the state check and the write: a second
restore of the same snapshot re-reads and decides on fresh state rather
than on the read that lost.

Anything else under the target name is still a refusal.

Reported by coderabbit on the pull request.

Signed-off-by: Andrei Kvapil <kvapss@gmail.com>
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Verdict

NOT LGTM

The new layer_list field can be pointed at a LUKS stack the source does not have, and the data plane then formats over the bytes it just restored. Separately, the resume branch answers 201 over a definition that is being torn down, resource_group skips the gate that exists to reject exactly that input, and the function carrying the idempotency fix survives deletion with the package suite green.

Reviewed at 0334dfc against merge-base 709dd35. Everything below was executed in a throwaway clone; the probes are left in the tree as review190_*_probe_test.go, written so that PASS means the defect is present.

Findings

  • [CRITICAL] pkg/rest/rd_clone.go:158, an honoured layer_list that adds LUKS over a plaintext source formats the restored data away
  • [MAJOR] pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go:324, the resume branch adopts a target that is mid-teardown
  • [MAJOR] pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go:385, the resume comparison reads the request's spelling of a name the marker recorded from the store
  • [MAJOR] pkg/rest/rd_clone.go:610, resource_group is written without the gate that guards the same column on RD create
  • [MAJOR] pkg/rest/snapshot_restore_idempotency_test.go:135, the change's central decision point survives deletion with the suite green
  • [MINOR] pkg/rest/rd_clone.go:94, delete_namespaces is still an unknown field, so the same 400 is still reachable from the same client struct
  • [MINOR] pkg/rest/resource_definitions.go:707, the new const lands between a doc comment and the function it documents
  • [MAJOR] pkg/rest/rd_clone.go:383, the clone path answers "already cloned" on the marker alone, the failure mode this PR argues against on the restore side

Claim mismatches

[PARTIAL] "The rest of the golinstor shape is declared now." delete_namespaces arrives through the same ResourceDefinitionCloneRequest and is still refused with the 400 this change set out to remove.

[PARTIAL] "Six new tests, each checked by reverting the change and confirming the named test goes red." There are seven, and six of the change's decision points revert with the suite still green, restoreTargetState among them.

[PARTIAL] "Same split the clone path already draws." The clone path reads the same marker but answers "already cloned" without doing any work, which is the reading snapshot_restore.go:381 explicitly rejects.

[PARTIAL] "A repeat now succeeds when the definition under that name carries this restore's own marker." True only while the caller spells the source and snapshot names the way the store recorded them. The lookup folds case; the echoed name does not.

What was and was not executed

go build, go vet ./pkg/rest/... and golangci-lint run ./pkg/rest/... are clean; go test ./pkg/rest/ -count=1 is green at 73s. The -tags=integration and python-driven cases were not run.

The DELETE-flag and resource-group probes run against store.NewInMemory(), the way snap_rd_toctou_bug_180_test.go already models a tearing-down RD; the production behaviour is read from pkg/store/k8s/resource_definitions.go:340, where the flag comes off DeletionTimestamp. No bin/k8s assets are committed, so envtest skips and that path was not exercised end to end.

Worth naming in the PR itself: refuseLUKSWithoutPassphrase returns nil whenever s.Client == nil (resource_definitions.go:902, deliberate and documented), and startServerWithStore builds a server without one. The LUKS gate on the clone path is therefore a no-op under every unit test in this package, so no unit test can close it, and its mutation reads as an ordinary coverage gap when it is not one.

Follow-ups

  • Embed client.GenericPropsModify in rdCloneRequest rather than restating its fields, so the next golinstor bump cannot reintroduce an unknown-field 400 quietly.
  • docs/cli-parity-known-deltas.md gains no row for the two new permanent 501 refusals, which CLAUDE.md makes step 1 of a wire-shape change. Row 73 is the shape to copy.

Findings not anchored to changed lines

These reference code outside this PR's diff (unchanged files, or lines outside a hunk), so GitHub cannot render them inline.

[MAJOR] pkg/rest/rd_clone.go:383 the clone path answers "already cloned" on the marker alone, the failure mode this PR argues against on the restore side

Not introduced here, but the PR body states "Same split the clone path already draws", and the split is not the same. cloneTargetPreexists reads the marker and writes 201 plus "resource definition already cloned" without doing any work, which is precisely the reading snapshot_restore.go:381-383 rejects: the marker "is NOT evidence that the restore finished". The two paths now disagree about what the same marker means, in a file this PR is editing.

$ go test ./pkg/rest/ -run 'TestProbeCloneReportsAnIncompleteLeftoverAsDone|TestProbeControlRestoreFinishesTheSameShape' -count=1 -v
    OBSERVED: clone retry over an incomplete leftover -> status=201 envelope=map[... messages:[map[message:resource definition already cloned: dst-inc ...]]]; target holds 0 volume definition(s)
    CONTROL: restore retry over the same shape -> status=201, target holds 1 volume(s)

A CSI clone that dies after materializeRestoredRD created the definition and before the volumes were hydrated is reported complete on every retry, and on Cozystack cloneStrategyOverride: csi-clone sends every disk clone through here. The volume-shaped consequence is the one the restore-side comment names: CSI sees it as ready and nothing ever finishes it. cloneTargetPreexists should fall through to cloneWithData the way the restore path now falls through to materializeRestoredRD, rather than short-circuiting.

Comment thread pkg/rest/rd_clone.go
// Validated the way rg-modify validates its stack, so an
// unmaterialisable layer chain is refused here rather than persisting
// onto the clone for a satellite to choke on.
err := validateLayerStack(req.LayerList)

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[CRITICAL] an honoured layer_list that adds LUKS over a plaintext source formats the restored data away

layer_list is new on this endpoint: before this change the field was an unknown one and the request was a 400. Now it is validated for shape (validateLayerStack) and for a cluster passphrase (refuseLUKSWithoutPassphrase), and then written onto the target wholesale at :321 and :606. Nothing compares it against the stack the source actually carries.

The data plane copies bytes first and layers LUKS afterwards:

pkg/satellite/reconciler.go:933   devices, resized, cloned, err := r.applyStorageIfDiskful(...)
pkg/satellite/reconciler.go:941   devices, luksGrew, err := r.maybeLUKS(...)

applyStorageIfDiskful:1307 -> applyStorage:1465 -> materializeVolume:1621
  -> provider.RestoreVolumeFromSnapshot  (reconciler.go:1660)

and Format treats a device with no LUKS header as one to format:

// pkg/luks/luks.go:47
err := c.runProbe(ctx, "isLuks", device)
if err == nil {
    return nil
}
err = c.runWithKey(ctx, key, "luksFormat", "--batch-mode", device, "--key-file", "-")

So a clone of a plaintext [DRBD,STORAGE] source, requested with layer_list: [DRBD,LUKS,STORAGE], restores the source's filesystem onto the new device and then luksFormats over it. The clone answers 201 and the clone-status endpoint reports COMPLETE; the PVC comes up as an empty encrypted volume. The passphrase gate does not stop this, it only asks whether a cluster passphrase exists, which on an encrypted cluster it does. The reverse direction, a LUKS source cloned with a stack that drops LUKS, hands the caller a ciphertext blob with no mapper.

This PR already refuses volume_passphrases on exactly this reasoning, that the clone would materialise with keys the caller does not hold. Changing LUKS membership through layer_list is the same class and needs the same treatment: refuse it, or compare the requested stack against the source's and reject a LUKS-membership change.

Reachability: any golinstor client can send this today. Whether linstor-csi can is a separate question I did not settle, since a cross-StorageClass CSI clone is the only route and Kubernetes constrains that; the golinstor path alone is enough to warrant the gate.

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// it finished. Answering success on the marker alone would turn the
// terminal failure this fixes into a silent incomplete one: CSI would
// see the volume as ready and nothing would ever finish it.
resume, stop := s.restoreTargetState(r.Context(), w, srcRD, snapName, req.ToResource)

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[MAJOR] the resume branch adopts a target that is mid-teardown

restoreTargetState decides on the marker alone, and a definition being deleted still carries it. The CRD store projects a DeletionTimestamp onto the wire object as Flags: [DELETE] (pkg/store/k8s/resource_definitions.go:340), so a leftover the operator has just asked to remove is still returned by Get with its props intact. That is the interleaving this fix creates: before it, deleting the leftover by hand was the only way forward, and the external-provisioner retry loop runs the whole time the teardown is in flight.

$ go test ./pkg/rest/ -run TestProbeRestoreResumesOntoADeletingLeftover -count=1 -v
    OBSERVED: restore onto a DELETE-flagged leftover -> status=201 msg="snapshot restore completed on retry: snap-1 → pvc-dst"; target still carries flags=[DELETE] and now holds 1 volume definition(s)
--- PASS

# same probe on a worktree at the merge-base 709dd35:
    OBSERVED: restore onto a DELETE-flagged leftover -> status=409 msg="resource definition \"pvc-dst\": object already exists"; target still carries flags=[DELETE] and now holds 0 volume definition(s)
--- FAIL: the restore was refused (status=409), so the gap is closed

CSI is told the volume is ready, the PVC binds, then the satellite finishes the teardown and the definition goes away. There is a second cost on the same path: handleRDDelete already ran cascadeDeleteResources, so the Resources().Create calls stampRestoredResourcesOnNodes issues afterwards land replicas nothing will ever stamp a DeletionTimestamp on, which is the orphan case resource_definitions.go:1126-1142 describes where drbdadm down never runs and the next create of the same name collides with stale DRBD state.

Controls hold, so this is the resume branch and not a general loss of refusals: a foreign definition under the same name still returns 409, and cloneWithData still returns 409 for a DELETE-flagged source. That last one is also the fix shape. Call rdHasDeleteFlag(ctx, s, toResource) before returning resume and refuse with the envelope the clone path uses. A regression test seeds the leftover with Flags: []string{rdFlagDelete} the way snap_rd_toctou_bug_180_test.go:177 already does.

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return false, false
}

if existing.Props[restoreFromSnapshotKey] == srcRD+":"+snapName {

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[MAJOR] the resume comparison reads the request's spelling of a name the marker recorded from the store

The marker is written as srcRD + ":" + snap.Name at line 548, where snap.Name is what the store returned. This check compares against srcRD+":"+snapName, where snapName is resolveSnapshotName(r, &req), the caller's spelling. LINSTOR identifiers are case-insensitive on the wire, which pkg/store/k8s/crdname.go says outright, and Name() lower-cases before the lookup while crd.Spec.SnapshotName echoes back whatever spelling the snapshot was created under.

$ go test ./pkg/store/k8s/ -run TestProbeSnapshotNameLookup -count=1 -v
    OBSERVED: request spelled "snap-1", store resolved it and returned Name="Snap-1" (marker written as "<srcRD>:Snap-1", resume compares "<srcRD>:snap-1")
--- PASS

For a snapshot created as Snap-1 and restored via --from-snapshot snap-1 the two halves never agree, so this falls through to the refusal and returns before materializeRestoredRD is reached. The retry gets the pre-fix terminal 409, and its message says the name holds a definition this restore did not create, which is false and points the operator at deleting a definition that is theirs. snap.Name is already in hand at the call site; pass it instead of snapName. The srcRD half has the same shape, since it is the raw r.PathValue("rd") on both write and read.

Comment thread pkg/rest/rd_clone.go
}

if req.ResourceGroup != "" {
clone.ResourceGroupName = req.ResourceGroup

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[MAJOR] resource_group is written without the gate that guards the same column on RD create

refuseRDCreateOnUnknownRG (pkg/rest/resource_definitions.go:484) exists because, in its own words, "the RD persisted with a dangling RG reference and the downstream rg-inherited reads silently fell back to DfltRscGrp". This line and snapshot_restore.go:529 both set ResourceGroupName from the request and neither consults it.

$ go test ./pkg/rest/ -run 'TestProbeCloneAcceptsAnUnknown|TestProbeControlRDCreateRefuses|TestProbeCloneWithDataAccepts' -count=1 -v
    OBSERVED: clone with resource_group=no-such-group -> status=201; target persisted with resource_group="no-such-group", which resolves to: resource group "no-such-group": object not found
    CONTROL: rd create with the same group -> status=404
    OBSERVED: data-path clone -> status=201; target persisted with resource_group="no-such-group", which resolves to: resource group "no-such-group": object not found

The clone reports success and the target silently inherits DfltRscGrp's placement rather than the group the caller named, which on the CSI path is the StorageClass's group and therefore its replica count and pool selection. cloneRequestIsHonourable already mirrors two of the three RD-create input gates, validateLayerStack and refuseLUKSWithoutPassphrase; the group name is the one that got neither. Reuse getRGWithCacheRetry there, including the cache-retry budget, since linstor-csi creates the group and clones back to back and a bare Get would refuse a valid request on a cold informer.

//
// The leftover here is exactly that shape: the definition and the marker, no
// volumes. The retry has to complete it.
func TestSnapshotRestoreResumesAnIncompleteLeftover(t *testing.T) {

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[MAJOR] the change's central decision point survives deletion with the suite green

restoreTargetState is the function the PR describes as the fix. Replacing the call at snapshot_restore.go:324 with a constant resume, stop := false, false leaves the package suite green, so nothing in it observes the function at all:

$ go test ./pkg/rest/ -count=1          # unmutated control
ok  	github.com/cozystack/blockstor/pkg/rest	72.668s

$ sed -i '324s/.*/\tresume, stop := false, false/' pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go
$ go test ./pkg/rest/ -count=1          # restoreTargetState removed
ok  	github.com/cozystack/blockstor/pkg/rest	72.645s

(run in a copy of the tree with the review's own probe files removed, so only the PR's tests judged it.)

TestSnapshotRestoreIsIdempotent and TestSnapshotRestoreStillRefusesAForeignName therefore reach their assertions through the AlreadyExists tolerance inside materializeRestoredRD, which is a different layer: reverting that tolerance instead does turn both red. A wider mutation sweep over this change found the same shape on five more decision points, among them the marker re-check on the AlreadyExists race branch, which is the only thing standing between a racing restore and hydrating volumes into somebody else's definition.

TestSnapshotRestoreResumesAnIncompleteLeftover also asserts at line 158 that the leftover carries zero volume definitions. That is the right shape for the scenario but it means hydrateVolumesFromSnapshot creates fresh rows and its tolerance is never entered. The fixture that reaches it is a leftover carrying the definition and volume 0, which is what a restore that died during placeRestoredResources leaves behind.

Comment thread pkg/rest/rd_clone.go
// `unknown field "layer_list"` — no StorageClass could avoid it,
// and on Cozystack the platform-wide `cloneStrategyOverride:
// csi-clone` routes every disk clone through here.
LayerList []string `json:"layer_list,omitempty"`

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[MINOR] delete_namespaces is still an unknown field, so the same 400 is still reachable from the same client struct

ResourceDefinitionCloneRequest inlines GenericPropsModify, and at golinstor v0.60.0, the version go.mod pins, that struct carries three fields, not two:

// $(go env GOMODCACHE)/github.com/LINBIT/golinstor@v0.60.0/client/client.go:737
type GenericPropsModify struct {
	DeleteProps      DeleteProps      `json:"delete_props,omitempty"`
	OverrideProps    OverrideProps    `json:"override_props,omitempty"`
	DeleteNamespaces DeleteNamespaces `json:"delete_namespaces,omitempty"`
}
$ go test ./pkg/rest/ -run 'TestProbeCloneStillRejectsDeleteNamespaces|TestProbeControlCloneAcceptsTheDeclaredShape' -count=1 -v
    OBSERVED: clone with delete_namespaces -> status=400 body=map[]
    CONTROL: same body with delete_props instead -> status=201

linstor-csi does not set it, so nothing that works today breaks, but the claim that the golinstor shape is declared is not yet true and the field is a first-class concept everywhere else in the package (node_connections.go:461, the SP and SPD modify paths). AGENTS.md calls golinstor "the authoritative source of truth for the LINSTOR REST API wire shape" and says to prefer importing its types over hand-rolling them; rd_clone.go already imports client, so embedding client.GenericPropsModify would close this and keep it closed on the next bump.

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// ["DRBD","LUKS","STORAGE"]}` got an unencrypted RD silently.
// layerListField is the wire name of the layer stack, used where the value is
// reported back to the caller rather than decoded.
const layerListField = "layer_list"

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[MINOR] the new const lands between a doc comment and the function it documents

$ go doc -all -u ./pkg/rest | grep -A4 "^const layerListField"
const layerListField = "layer_list"
    mergeRDCreateLayerInputs reconciles the three wire shapes `POST
    /v1/resource-definitions` accepts for the layer composition:
...
$ go doc -all -u ./pkg/rest | grep -A1 "^func mergeRDCreateLayerInputs"
func mergeRDCreateLayerInputs(body *apiv1.ResourceDefinitionCreate, rd *apiv1.ResourceDefinition) error
func mergeRGProps(existing, patch *apiv1.ResourceGroup)

The whole Bug 116 rationale, twenty-odd lines, is now attributed to a constant with exactly one use, and the function it was written for has no doc comment at all. pkg/rest/snapshot_restore_idempotency_test.go:16-18 has the identical shape, with seedRestoreSource's comment captured by drbdRestoreMarkerForTest. That const is also a same-package duplicate of restoreFromSnapshotKey which this PR creates, and its name says DRBD about a marker that has nothing to do with DRBD. While the const is being introduced, rd_clone.go:383 is a call site in the file this PR is already editing and still spells the literal.

The clone data plane restores the source's bytes onto the target and
brings the layer stack up over them, in that order: applyStorageIfDiskful
writes the data, maybeLUKS runs after it, and luks.Format treats a device
carrying no LUKS header as one to format. So an honoured layer_list that
adds LUKS to a plaintext source does not hand back an encrypted copy — it
formats away the data it just restored, and the clone reports COMPLETE
over the wreckage.

Refuse the membership change on the data-bearing path, in both
directions: dropping LUKS from an encrypted source is the mirror problem,
ciphertext under a definition claiming to be plaintext. This is the same
treatment volume_passphrases already gets a few lines up, for the same
reason — a clone that quietly does something other than copy the source
is worse than one that says it cannot.

A volume-less source has no bytes to lose, so the shallow-copy path keeps
taking whatever stack the caller asks for; that is what accepting
layer_list is for.

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The restore marker is stamped with the target definition, before its
volumes are hydrated and its replicas placed, so a target carrying it
says a clone STARTED — not that one finished. Answering 201 "already
cloned" on the marker alone turns the retry linstor-csi issues after a
partial failure into a silent incomplete: CSI sees the volume as ready
and nothing ever finishes it. The restore path was fixed for this; the
clone path was left claiming to draw the same split and did not.

Resume it instead. Every clone step already tolerates an object a
previous attempt created, so re-running completes what is missing and
leaves what is there, and the envelope says "completed on retry" rather
than reading like a first run.

Both paths now stop at a leftover carrying the DELETE flag: finishing one
races the tear-down reaping the very objects it writes. And the restore's
marker comparison moves off the request's spelling of the names onto the
stored snapshot's, because LINSTOR folds name case — a retry arriving as
`--from-snapshot SNAP` over a marker written `snap` read as somebody
else's definition and was refused, which is the terminal-on-first-failure
behaviour the resume path exists to end.

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`resource_group` lands on the clone target on both paths — the shallow
copy stamps it, the data path hands it to materializeRestoredRD as a
shape override — and neither went past the gate RD-create runs for the
same field. A typo therefore produced a clone whose parent group does not
exist. That definition lists fine and places badly: the placer's
Controller→RG→RD prop-inheritance walk drops the RG tier without a word,
taking auto-place, auto-diskful, place_count observability and rebalance
scheduling with it.

Refuse it at the request gate, before either path writes anything, under
the same cache-retry budget RD-create uses so the CSI hot path is not
refused for informer lag. The lookup and the wording are now shared with
that gate rather than a second spelling of them.

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The clone body is decoded with DisallowUnknownFields, so a field this
endpoint does not declare is a 400 before any of the handler runs.
override_props and delete_props were declared for exactly that reason and
delete_namespaces — the third member of the props-modify triple upstream
puts on every endpoint that edits properties — was not, so
`linstor rd clone --delete-namespace NS` kept hitting the very refusal
declaring its two neighbours was meant to end.

Embed golinstor's GenericPropsModify rather than respell the triple a
third time, since respelling is how the field went missing, and honour it
on both clone paths. The namespace walk itself moves next to
applyPropsModify so the clone and the volume-definition modify share one
implementation of where a namespace ends.

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The constant and its own comment landed between mergeRDCreateLayerInputs'
doc comment and the function, so godoc attributes that whole explanation
to the constant and the function reads as undocumented.

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Signed-off-by: Andrei Kvapil <kvapss@gmail.com>
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All eight are fixed in the same PR, along with the two follow-ups. Each fix was checked by reverting it and confirming the named test goes red; the refusal tests carry positive controls.

CRITICAL, rd_clone.go:158 — an honoured layer_list formats the restored data away. Confirmed, and the gate could not go where you were reading: it runs before the source is fetched, and the comparison needs the source's stack. cloneLayerStackIsHonourable now runs at the top of cloneWithData, before the internal snapshot — the clone's first write — and refuses a LUKS-membership change in both directions. Dropping LUKS is refused too: the bytes stay ciphertext under a definition claiming they are not. The volume-less path has no bytes to lose and still takes any stack, which is what accepting layer_list is for.

MAJOR, snapshot_restore.go:324 — resume adopts a target mid-teardown. Both paths now refuse a leftover carrying the DELETE flag. Read off the object already in hand rather than a second Get, so there is no new window between the check and the decision.

MAJOR, snapshot_restore.go:385 — the marker compared against the request's spelling. restoreTargetState now takes the stored Snapshot instead of two strings, so both halves of the marker come off the same object the write side uses; there is no request spelling left inside to get it wrong. The test needs a store that folds names the way the Kubernetes one does, which the in-memory store does not, so it runs through a decorator that models exactly that.

MAJOR, rd_clone.go:610 and snapshot_restore.go:529 — resource_group written without the Bug 134 gate. Checked once at the request gate, before either path writes anything, under the same cache-retry budget RD-create uses. The lookup and the wording are now shared with refuseRDCreateOnUnknownRG rather than a second spelling of it.

MAJOR, snapshot_restore_idempotency_test.go:135 — restoreTargetState survived deletion. It did: materializeRestoredRD's AlreadyExists tolerance carried every assertion. The tests now assert what only that function produces — the FAIL_EXISTS_RSC_DFN mask and wording on the refusal, and the "completed on retry" message on the resume — and deleting it turns three of them red.

MAJOR (outside the diff), rd_clone.go:383 — cloneTargetPreexists answered on the marker alone. Fixed here rather than separately, because this PR's description claims the clone path already draws the split the restore path is being given, and it did not. cloneTargetState now returns resume/stop like its restore counterpart. The status is 201 either way, so the test asserts the volumes: a resumed clone hydrates them, one that merely agreed it had already happened does not.

MINOR, rd_clone.go:94 — delete_namespaces still unknown. Taken as your follow-up suggested: client.GenericPropsModify is embedded instead of the triple being respelled, since respelling is how the field went missing. Honoured on both clone paths, and the namespace walk moved next to applyPropsModify so the clone and the volume-definition modify share one definition of where a namespace ends.

MINOR, resource_definitions.go:707 — the const split a doc comment. Moved above it.

On the note about refuseLUKSWithoutPassphrase being a no-op under unit tests — that one does not hold. startServerWithStore builds the server with a fake client (nodes_test.go:52), so s.Client is non-nil and the gate fires; startServerWithPassphrase (helpers_test.go:68) is the positive-side helper that seeds the Secret. The new LUKS tests use the latter deliberately, so the refusal they assert is the membership change and not the prereq gate above it.

Follow-ups. docs/cli-parity-known-deltas.md gains rows 86 and 87 — the clone refusals, and the retry semantics both endpoints now share. The PR description is corrected: it claimed the clone path already drew the restore path's split.

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Verdict

NOT LGTM

The round closed seven of eight items from the previous one, and the LUKS refusal in particular is placed correctly and pinned. Two things keep it from being ready: the new layer-stack guard covers LUKS but not DRBD, whose bring-up writes to the device just as surely, and a resumed clone re-runs the data plane over a snapshot it never re-checks.

Reviewed at f3f6efc against merge-base 709dd35.

Findings

  • [MAJOR] pkg/rest/rd_clone.go:459, the layer-stack guard covers LUKS membership, not DRBD
  • [MAJOR] pkg/rest/rd_clone.go:354, the resume re-runs the data plane over an unchecked snapshot
  • [MAJOR] pkg/rest/rd_clone.go:525, the clone half of the case-fold fix was not made, so a retry in another case is still terminal
  • [MINOR] pkg/rest/rd_clone.go:703, two behavioural changes are held by no test
  • [MAJOR] pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go:585, a resumed clone validates the caller's resource_group and then drops it
  • [MINOR] pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go:591, the AlreadyExists fallback re-checks the marker but not the DELETE flag

Still open from my earlier round

The case-fold fix landed on the restore side and not on the clone side, so rd_clone.go:525 carries the defect its sibling just lost. Three passes of this review reached it independently: the full review, a reviewer given only the diff, and one given only the previous round's findings and the code.

Closed since the previous round

Verified by reverting each fix and confirming a test goes red, not by reading the diff: the LUKS membership refusal (checked case-insensitively, and RG-inherited stacks cannot smuggle LUKS past it), the clone resume/refuse split, the resource-group gate on both clone paths, the mid-teardown refusal, the store-sourced marker on the restore side, restoreTargetState now observed by three tests where the suite was previously green without it, delete_namespaces via the embedded GenericPropsModify, and the const moved out of the doc comment.

Two adjacent gaps worth a line, neither reported before: RD-create guards the resource group twice, before the write and again after it with rollback, while the clone path mirrors only the first half; and handleSnapshotRestoreVolumeDefinition writes into a definition being torn down with no DELETE check at all.

What was and was not executed

go build, go vet, golangci-lint ./pkg/rest/... and go test ./pkg/rest/ are clean at head.

The satellite half of the first finding is read off create-md --force (pkg/drbd/drbdadm.go:186) and meta-disk internal (pkg/drbd/conffile.go:200) at their pinned lines, not executed: the REST side answering 201 is reproduced, the write to the device is inferred from those two. Worth noting that this is the same mechanism as the incident on the encrypted stand, where create-md --force ran over valid metadata and only drbdmeta exit 40 prevented the loss.

internal/cli/snapshot.go:341 still writes the marker as args.fromResource + ":" + snap.Name, so a REST retry over a CLI-made leftover misses unless the source name is already lower-case.

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}

wantLUKS := apiv1.LayerInStack(req.LayerList, apiv1.LayerKindLUKS)
if wantLUKS == apiv1.LayerInStack(src.LayerStack, apiv1.LayerKindLUKS) {

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[MAJOR] the layer-stack guard covers LUKS membership, not DRBD

The refusal argument, that the clone restores the bytes and brings the stack up over them in that order, is not LUKS-specific. drbdadm create-md runs with --force (pkg/drbd/drbdadm.go:186-191) over meta-disk internal (pkg/drbd/conffile.go:200), so a layer_list adding DRBD to a source that has none stamps metadata across the tail of the just-restored bytes, and the clone answers 201. The one gate before create-md is HasMD: DRBD metadata, never a filesystem signature. Dropping DRBD is the mirror case, pinned as intended by TestRDCloneHonoursTheCallersShapeOnTheDataPath. Extend the predicate to every layer whose bring-up writes to the device.

$ go test ./pkg/rest/ -run TestProbe -v
OBSERVED: source [STORAGE], requested [DRBD STORAGE] -> HTTP 201, target stack [DRBD STORAGE]
CONTROL:  source [DRBD STORAGE], requested [DRBD LUKS STORAGE] -> HTTP 400, no target

Comment thread pkg/rest/rd_clone.go Outdated
return
}

resume, stop := s.cloneTargetState(ctx, w, src.Name, req.Name)

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[MAJOR] the resume re-runs the data plane over an unchecked snapshot

ensureCloneSnapshot reuses the leftover clone-<target> snapshot as it finds it (rd_clone.go:562-566). A marker-bearing leftover used to be answered 201 and touched nothing, so the target stayed empty and computeCloneStatus reported FAILED. The retry now hydrates from that snapshot, so a source resized between attempts yields a clone at the old size and a COMPLETE poll. The CLI door refuses the same reuse with errStaleCloneSnapshot, comparing volume count and per-volume size (internal/cli/definition.go:193-235); port that check here.

$ go test ./pkg/rest/ -run TestProbeCloneResumeReusesAStaleSnapshot -v
OBSERVED: source now 131072 KiB, leftover snapshot recorded 65536 KiB -> HTTP 201, target volumes [65536] KiB
CONTROL:  clone status = COMPLETE (counts match, only the size differs)

Comment thread pkg/rest/rd_clone.go Outdated
RetCode: maskInfo,
Message: "resource definition already cloned: " + cloneName,
}},
if existing.Props[restoreFromSnapshotKey] != restoreMarker(srcName, cloneSnapshotName(cloneName)) {

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[MAJOR] the clone half of the case-fold fix was not made, so a retry in another case is still terminal

Reported last round on the restore side and fixed there: restoreTargetState now compares restoreMarker(snap.ResourceName, snap.Name), both halves off the stored object. The clone half of the same guard still derives its marker from the caller: restoreMarker(srcName, cloneSnapshotName(cloneName)) with cloneName = req.Name, while materializeRestoredRD:577 writes it from the stored snapshot.

The input is legal end to end: an uppercase clone target is accepted on the first attempt (201), and pkg/store/k8s/crdname.go:92 lowercases every lookup key, so both spellings resolve to one object.

PROBE first clone with an uppercase target: status=201
PROBE clone retry spelled DST-CASE over a leftover stored dst-case: status=409
  msg="clone target 'DST-CASE' already exists and is not a clone of 'src-case'"
PROBE target volumes after the retry: 0

The leftover keeps zero volumes and every retry is refused, which is the terminal-on-first-failure behaviour the resume path exists to end. Three passes of this review reached it independently, including one that saw only the prior findings and the code. Pass snap the way the restore side now does.

Comment thread pkg/rest/rd_clone.go
delete(rd.Props, k)
}

deletePropNamespaces(rd.Props, req.DeleteNamespaces)

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[MINOR] two behavioural changes are held by no test

review-helper mutate reports GAPS: 2, answered: 8 of 8. Reverting deletePropNamespaces on this data-bearing path leaves the whole pkg/rest suite green, since TestRDCloneHonoursDeleteNamespaces only exercises the volume-less shortcut. Reverting the marker's source-RD half to restoreMarker(srcRD, snap.Name) is green too: caseFoldingStore folds the snapshot store, not the RD store, so only the snapshot half of the case-fold fix is pinned.

Comment thread pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go Outdated
// marker is what tells the two apart from somebody else's definition,
// and re-reading is what makes the decision on fresh state rather than
// on the read that lost the race.
err = s.Store.ResourceDefinitions().Create(ctx, &newRD)

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[MAJOR] a resumed clone validates the caller's resource_group and then drops it

cloneResourceGroupExists runs on every attempt (rd_clone.go:203), and the clone hands the group and the stack down as rdShapeOverrides (rd_clone.go:384). On the resume path those overrides are assembled into newRD, Create returns ErrAlreadyExists, the marker matches, and the code proceeds:

err = s.Store.ResourceDefinitions().Create(ctx, &newRD)
if err != nil {
    if !errors.Is(err, store.ErrAlreadyExists) { return "", err }
    existing, getErr := s.Store.ResourceDefinitions().Get(ctx, newRD.Name)
    ...
}

newRD is discarded and the existing definition is never updated, so the retry's resource_group is validated and then silently ignored while the response says the clone completed on retry.

Failure: a first clone pinning grp-a dies after the definition is created; the operator retries pinning grp-b; the server answers 201 and the definition stays parented to grp-a, which decides replica count and pool selection. This is the shape the endpoint already refuses elsewhere: external_name and volume_passphrases are rejected precisely so a field is not accepted and dropped. Either apply the overrides to the existing definition or refuse a retry whose shape differs from the leftover's.

Comment thread pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go Outdated
return "", err //nolint:wrapcheck // surfaced via writeStoreError
}

existing, getErr := s.Store.ResourceDefinitions().Get(ctx, newRD.Name)

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[MINOR] the AlreadyExists fallback re-checks the marker but not the DELETE flag

restoreTargetState (:406) and cloneTargetState (rd_clone.go:535) both refuse a target carrying rdFlagDelete, on the stated grounds that finishing it would race the tear-down reaping what it writes. This fallback re-makes that decision on fresh state, as its comment says, but re-makes only the marker half: nothing here reads existing.Flags.

Failure: request A finds no target; a concurrent request B completes the restore and the target is then deleted; A's Create hits AlreadyExists, the marker matches, and A hydrates volumes and places replicas into a dying definition. Narrow window, but it is the exact state the 409 above exists to prevent.

Sibling gap on the same theme, not this line: handleSnapshotRestoreVolumeDefinition discards the definition it fetches (:116) and hydrates with no DELETE check at all.

The refusal argument was never LUKS-specific. The clone restores the
source's bytes and brings the layer stack up over them, in that order,
and every layer's bring-up writes to the device it is handed: LUKS
formats a device carrying no header, and DRBD's create-md runs with
--force over `meta-disk internal`, stamping metadata across the tail of
the same bytes. The one gate before create-md looks for DRBD metadata,
never for a filesystem signature. So a layer_list adding DRBD to a source
without it landed metadata on the just-restored data and answered 201.

Compare the whole set instead of a list of the layers known to write
today. A clone is a copy: a target of a different shape does not hold the
source's data whichever layer differs, and a layer LINSTOR adds later
inherits the refusal rather than a gap. Order and case are not a
difference — the stack's order follows from the kinds in it, and LINSTOR
folds name case.

A source with no recorded stack means the upstream default, resolved here
the way every other reader resolves it. Without that the guard would read
linstor-csi's `[DRBD, STORAGE]` against a bare source as adding both and
refuse every clone-from-volume — the defect this PR exists to fix,
reintroduced by its own guard. That case is now pinned.

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Three ways a resume could finish something other than what was asked for.

The leftover snapshot was reused as found. "Found" is not "still right":
the first attempt takes `clone-<target>` and dies, the source is resized
or gains a volume, and the retry hydrates from the stale snapshot and
answers 201 — with the status poll then reporting COMPLETE, because the
volume counts agree. The caller gets a clone at the old shape and nothing
says so. This only became reachable when the retry started resuming
instead of reporting the leftover done, so it arrived with that fix.
Refusing rather than retaking is the call `blockstor rd clone` already
makes: the snapshot may be the only copy of something, and deleting it is
the operator's decision.

The clone's marker comparison was built from what the caller typed while
the write side builds it from the stored objects. LINSTOR folds name
case and the store lowercases every lookup key, so an uppercase retry
addressed the same definition and was told it belonged to somebody else —
every retry refused, the target left empty, which is the
terminal-on-first-failure behaviour the resume path exists to end. The
restore side was moved off the request's spelling last round; this is its
sibling, and the equality is now the one LINSTOR itself uses, in one
place, with the marker's written value pinned too.

A retry naming a different resource_group or layer stack had that shape
validated and then dropped, because resuming keeps the definition the
first attempt created. The group decides replica count and pool
selection, so it is not cosmetic — and accepting a field and dropping it
is what external_name and volume_passphrases are refused for. Such a
retry is now a 409 naming what the clone was started with. The narrow
race behind it — another request completing between the pre-check and the
create — re-makes the same decisions on fresh state, all of them rather
than the marker alone.

Also pins delete_namespaces on the data-bearing path: the test for it
only ever exercised the volume-less shortcut.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Andrei Kvapil <kvapss@gmail.com>
`handleSnapshotRestoreVolumeDefinition` fetched the target definition and
threw it away, then hydrated volumes into it. Its two siblings refuse a
target carrying the DELETE flag on the grounds that finishing one races
the tear-down reaping what it writes, and volumes hydrated here are
exactly that. Same refusal, same envelope shape.

The CLI's restore wrote its marker as the source name the operator typed
plus the snapshot's stored name — half from the request, half from the
store. A REST retry over a CLI-made leftover compares against a marker
built from the stored objects, so it missed unless the operator had
already typed the name in the case it was stored in. Both halves now come
off the snapshot.

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Signed-off-by: Andrei Kvapil <kvapss@gmail.com>
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Both majors on the layer stack and the resume are fixed, along with the two minors and the two adjacent gaps you noted. Each fix was checked by reverting it and confirming a named test goes red; the refusals carry positive controls.

[MAJOR] rd_clone.go:459 — the guard covered LUKS, not DRBD. Confirmed, and the argument generalises further than DRBD: the predicate is now the whole layer set, compared case-insensitively. A clone is a copy, so a target of a different shape does not hold the source's data whichever layer differs, and a layer LINSTOR adds later inherits the refusal instead of a gap. Both directions of both layers are pinned, and the refusal names what differs.

One thing that fell out of it and is worth flagging, because it would have re-broken exactly what this PR fixes: an RD stored without an explicit stack is not a definition with no layers, and reading it as one makes linstor-csi's [DRBD, STORAGE] look like adding both. That is every clone-from-volume, refused. The guard resolves an empty stack to apiv1.DefaultLayerStack the way stampRDLayerDataFromStack already does on the read path, and the CSI shape has its own test now.

[MAJOR] rd_clone.go:354 — the resume re-runs the data plane over an unchecked snapshot. Ported from the CLI door, comparing volume count and per-volume size keyed by number, and refusing rather than retaking for the reason checkCloneSnapshotIsCurrent gives: the snapshot may be the only copy of something. Your probe's shape is the test — leftover at 65536 KiB, source now 131072, retry refused, target left with no volumes.

[MAJOR] rd_clone.go:525 — the clone half of the case-fold was not made. It was not. The equality is now restoreMarkerMatches, folded, in one place, used by both doors and by the AlreadyExists fallback — rather than the restore side being fixed and its sibling left to be found again. The marker's written value is pinned too, so "both halves off the stored objects" is now a test rather than a comment.

[MINOR] rd_clone.go:703 — two behavioural changes held by no test. Both now held: delete_namespaces on the data-bearing path (the existing test only reached the volume-less shortcut), and the marker's source-RD half — caseFoldingStore folds the definition and volume stores as well as the snapshot store, so the whole marker is exercised rather than one half of it.

[MAJOR] snapshot_restore.go:585 — a resumed clone validated the resource_group and dropped it. Refused rather than applied. Resuming keeps the definition the first attempt created, so a retry naming a different group or stack is a 409 saying what the clone was started with. Applying the overrides to the existing definition was the other option and is worse: replicas may already be placed under the old group's policy, so re-parenting mid-materialisation changes the answer to a question already half-answered.

[MINOR] snapshot_restore.go:591 — the fallback re-checked the marker only. It re-checks all of it now: marker, DELETE flag, and shape. The sibling you named on the same theme is fixed too — handleSnapshotRestoreVolumeDefinition fetched the target definition and threw it away, and now refuses one carrying DELETE, with a test.

On the CLI marker at internal/cli/snapshot.go:341. Fixed: both halves come off the stored snapshot, so a REST retry over a CLI-made leftover is recognised whatever case the operator typed.

On the two adjacent gaps. The DELETE gap on the volume-definition restore is closed, above. The other — RD-create guarding the resource group twice, before the write and again after with rollback, where the clone mirrors only the first half — is real and I have deliberately not mirrored it here. The compensating action differs: RD-create rolls back a bare definition, while by the time the clone could lose its group it has an internal snapshot, hydrated volumes and stamped replicas, so Delete(rd) is not the rollback — a cascade is. That is a change worth making on its own, not inside a review round on a different defect, and I would rather say so than ship a half-safe rollback.

golangci-lint is clean on the touched files. The pkg/rest suite passes apart from a server did not stop within 2s after cancel flake that reproduces unchanged on the merge base and does not appear in CI.

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Centralize the restore-marker contract.

The implementations currently agree on BlockstorRestoreFromSnapshot and <resource>:<snapshot>, but several production paths respell the contract. REST uses it for resume matching, placer and autoplace use it for restore-source constraints, and dispatcher forwards it to the satellite. A drift can omit SourceSnapshot and make the satellite call CreateVolume for a restore. Move the key and encoder to a shared package, then use them across all marker producers and consumers.

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In `@internal/cli/snapshot.go` at line 344, Centralize the restore marker key and
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Verdict

NOT LGTM

Thirteen of the fourteen items from the earlier rounds are closed, each confirmed by reverting the fix and watching a named test go red rather than by reading the diff, and the widened layer guard does not re-break clone-from-volume. What blocks is that the staleness guard added this round compares the leftover snapshot against the live source instead of against the target it resumes, which makes an ordinary resize turn a finished clone's retry into a permanent 409.

Reviewed at a3c87e4 against merge-base 709dd35.

Findings

  • [MAJOR] pkg/rest/rd_clone.go:709, the staleness guard compares against the source, so a retry of a finished clone is refused forever
  • [MAJOR] pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go:880, a resumed clone keeps the leftover target's volume shape
  • [MAJOR] pkg/rest/snapshot_restore_idempotency_test.go:271, the case-fold shim folds lookups but not writes, so both case-fold resume tests are vacuous
  • [MAJOR] docs/cli-parity-known-deltas.md:57, the L6/L7 harness artefacts CLAUDE.md requires for this surface are absent
  • [MINOR] pkg/rest/rd_clone.go:657, the snapshot-reuse branch skips the empty-nodes refusal the create branch enforces
  • [MINOR] pkg/rest/rd_clone.go:750, two of snapshotDivergence's three arms are unpinned
  • [MINOR] pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go:535, leftoverShapeDiffers does not resolve an empty stack to the default, unlike its sibling gate
  • [MINOR] pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go:632, the marker's source half is still unpinned, so its case-fold fix can regress silently

Still open from my earlier rounds

One item survives: the marker's source half is written from the stored spelling, which is correct, but reverting it to the request's spelling leaves the package green, so nothing holds it.

Closed since the previous round

Verified by mutation, not by reading: the layer guard generalised from LUKS membership to the whole stack in both directions, the resume/refuse split on the clone path, the resource-group gate on both paths, the mid-teardown refusals including the one on the volume-definition restore that had no check at all, the store-sourced marker on both halves, delete_namespaces on the data path, and the const moved out of the doc comment. Where a single revert stayed green because two defences overlap, the pair was reverted together and did go red.

Worth stating plainly, since it was the risk in widening that guard: a source that stores no explicit stack, receiving linstor-csi's explicit [DRBD, STORAGE], still returns 201, and dropping the empty-to-default resolution reddens the test written for it. The main path is intact.

What was and was not executed

go build, go vet, golangci-lint and go test ./pkg/rest/ are clean at head.

Not executed: the satellite data plane, and the live-stand runs the contributor guide requires for this surface. The DRBD half of the earlier layer finding was read off create-md --force and meta-disk internal, never run.

Comment thread pkg/rest/rd_clone.go
// Refusing rather than retaking is the call `blockstor rd clone` already makes
// (internal/cli/definition.go): the snapshot may be the only copy of
// something, and deleting it is the operator's decision, not this endpoint's.
func (s *Server) cloneSnapshotIsCurrent(

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[MAJOR] the staleness guard compares against the source, so a retry of a finished clone is refused forever

The guard reads the source's current volumes and diffs the leftover snapshot against them:

current, err := s.Store.VolumeDefinitions().List(ctx, src.Name)
...
divergence := snapshotDivergence(src.Name, snap, current)

The comparison it needs is the leftover TARGET against the snapshot it resumes from, which is a point-in-time by construction. Comparing against the live source instead makes an ordinary, unrelated action on the source poison every later attempt.

Three facts from this file make it permanent rather than transient. The snapshot is named deterministically and, per cloneSnapshotName's own doc, "must outlive the clone because zfs clone targets stay dependent on their origin snapshot". Nothing deletes it: the only non-test references are this file and the CLI. And the marker survives, so cloneTargetState keeps classifying the target as resumable.

So after a clone has fully COMPLETED, expanding the source (a legal, routine operation) makes every repeat of that same CreateVolume answer 409 rather than the idempotent success CSI requires: a lost response or a restarted external-provisioner is enough to hit it. The refusal's own Correc, "delete the snapshot so the clone retakes it", cannot be followed, because that snapshot is the origin of the existing clone.

Compare the target's volumes to the snapshot, and let a resume whose target already matches answer 201.

Comment thread pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go Outdated
// retry finish an incomplete restore instead of refusing it.
err := s.Store.VolumeDefinitions().Create(ctx, rdName, &vd)
if err != nil {
if err != nil && !errors.Is(err, store.ErrAlreadyExists) {

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[MAJOR] a resumed clone keeps the leftover target's volume shape

cloneSnapshotIsCurrent compares the leftover snapshot to the source; leftoverShapeDiffers (snapshot_restore.go:535) compares the leftover's resource group and layer stack to the request. Nothing compares the leftover's volumes to the snapshot the resume hydrates from, and this Create tolerates ErrAlreadyExists without reading SizeKib. Follow the staleness refusal's own Correc ("delete the snapshot ... so the clone retakes it") and leave the definition behind: the retry restores a current snapshot into a stale target. computeCloneStatus compares volume counts, not sizes, so the clone-status poll then reports COMPLETE.

$ go test ./pkg/rest -run TestProbeResumeKeepsStaleLeftoverVolumeSize -v
OBSERVED: status=201; retaken snapshot clone-dst-probe covers vol 0 at 131072 KiB
OBSERVED: target dst-probe volume 0 is 65536 KiB (source is 131072 KiB)
CONTROL, no leftover: status=201, volume 0 is 131072 KiB

Extend leftoverShapeDiffers to the volume set (number + SizeKib) against the snapshot, or bring the leftover's volumes up rather than skipping them. Pin it with a leftover RD carrying a 64 MiB volume, no leftover snapshot, and a 128 MiB source, asserting either a 409 or a 128 MiB target.

// Both kinds fold, because both halves of the marker are names: a definition
// looked up under one spelling comes back carrying the one it was stored with,
// and so does a snapshot.
type caseFoldingStore struct{ store.Store }

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[MAJOR] the case-fold shim folds lookups but not writes, so both case-fold resume tests are vacuous

caseFoldingStore decorates ResourceDefinitions().Get and Snapshots().Get, but not their Create. The real k8s store lowercases the metadata.name it writes, so a create under a differently-cased name collides there; under the shim it does not. TestRDCloneResumesWhateverCaseTheRetryUses and its restore sibling therefore never reach the ErrAlreadyExists tolerance branch in materializeRestoredRD that they exist to pin: they create a second definition beside the leftover and still pass every assertion.

$ go test ./pkg/rest -run TestProbeCaseFoldShimDoesNotFoldRDCreate -v
OBSERVED: 201; definitions after retry:
[DST-CASE-PROBE dst-case-probe src-case-probe]

Fold Create in the shim as well, and add an assertion that exactly one target definition exists after the retry.

Comment thread docs/cli-parity-known-deltas.md Outdated
| 83 | `rg spawn-resources` on an over-committed RG (place_count > available nodes) | BEHAVIOR | permanent | Corner D1. Upstream LINSTOR fails `spawn-resources` SHORT when the RG's place_count exceeds the placeable node count: it returns `FAIL_NOT_ENOUGH_NODES` (ret_code 996, "Not enough available nodes") and places NOTHING. blockstor instead takes a DEFERRED, best-effort autoplace path: it spawns the RD + VDs, places as many diskful replicas as the topology allows (e.g. 3 of 7 on a 3-node cluster), and surfaces the shortfall as an INFO in the SUCCESS envelope (`resource definition spawned, autoplace deferred: <rd>: not enough candidate storage pools: placed N of M`, exit 0). The `RGRebalanceReconciler` (`internal/controller/rg_rebalance_controller.go`) then tops the replica count back up additively once more nodes appear. The over-commit `rg create` itself is ACCEPTED by both controllers (parity — never an early create-time error). Rationale: the deferred path lets the CSI external-provisioner retry loop converge on a created RD instead of hard-failing on a cluster that is one node away from satisfying the request, and is strictly additive (scale-down stays an explicit `r d`). Switching spawn back to the upstream 996 short-fail would be a deliberate API change, not a silent regression. Pinned by `pkg/rest/spawn_test.go::TestSpawnImpossiblePlacementReturnsActionableError` + `TestSpawnPartialFlagAllowsShortPlacement` (L1) and `tests/e2e/cli-matrix/rg-c-overcommit-spawn-defers.sh` (L6). |
| 84 | `r c <tieB> <rd>` (tiebreaker→diskful promotion runs full SyncTarget, not skip-sync) | BEHAVIOR | permanent | Promoting a tiebreaker (diskless witness) to diskful runs a FULL SyncTarget on the promoted node instead of the upstream skip-sync. DELIBERATE: skip-sync would require BS to pre-stamp a matching day0 GI and let the fresh replica win the auto-primary election — but a diskful peer already holds data (`anyDiskfulPeerHasData == true`, `pkg/dispatcher/dispatcher.go`), so force-priming the fresh replica mints an UNRELATED Current UUID; the data-bearing peer then declines the handshake (`uuid_compare()=unrelated-data`, "Unrelated data, aborting!") and the pair wedges in mutual StandAlone that never auto-recovers (the respawn-StandAlone P0). BS therefore gates the auto-primary seed on `!anyDiskfulPeerHasData(peers)` and `!rdInitialized(rd)`: with a data-bearing peer present the promoted replica comes up Inconsistent and SyncTargets the real bytes off the peer. Data converges correctly; the only cost is a full resync of the volume — the safe trade vs. a StandAlone wedge. Upstream's skip-sync-on-promotion is not reproducible without reintroducing the wedge. Pinned by `tests/e2e/cli-matrix/r-c-over-tiebreaker-skip-sync.sh` (L6, asserts SyncTarget→UpToDate convergence + Bug 348 SyncSource shape) + the dispatcher auto-primary gate tests (`pkg/dispatcher/dispatcher_test.go`, respawn-StandAlone wedge regression). |
| 85 | `r l` State column — bare `SyncSource`/`SyncTarget` literal (no `(NN%)` suffix) when OutOfSyncKib<=0 | WIRE_SHAPE | permanent | A replica actively resyncing renders `SyncTarget(NN%)` / `SyncSource(NN%)` WHILE there is data to copy. When the per-volume `OutOfSyncKib` is <= 0 (or the VD size is unknown), BS DELIBERATELY renders the BARE literal `SyncSource` / `SyncTarget` with NO `(NN%)` suffix: `withSyncPercent` (pkg/rest/resources.go, called from `annotateSyncProgress`) short-circuits on `outOfSyncKib<=0` rather than emit a misleading `(0%)`/`(100%)`. The drbd replication-state literal can be observed for a brief window before/after the peer-device OutOfSyncKib counter carries a non-zero value, so a bare Sync* token is a real and intended shape. The REGRESSION guarded against is the opposite — a TERMINAL `UpToDate` must never carry a `(NN%)` suffix (Bug A). So the contract is: a Sync* token may render bare OR with `(NN%)`, but a terminal disk_state never carries a percent. Pinned by `tests/e2e/cli-matrix/r-l-conns-shapes.sh` sub-test D (L6) + `annotateSyncProgress`/`withSyncPercent` unit coverage (pkg/rest, Bug 348 + Bug A/B). |
| 86 | `rd clone --external-name` / `--volume-passphrase` / a `--layer-list` that changes LUKS membership | MISSING_FEATURE | permanent | `external_name` gives the clone an identity of its own upstream and `volume_passphrases` carries the LUKS keys for its volumes; blockstor names a clone by `name` and takes its keys from the cluster passphrase, so honouring neither is possible and both are refused with an explicit 501 in the CloneStarted envelope rather than accepted and dropped — a clone that reports success under a different name, or with keys the caller does not hold, is the failure mode `src_snap_name` is already refused for. `layer_list` IS honoured, with one refusal: on a source that has volumes the requested stack must be the source's, compared as a set (order is the stack's own and case folds). The clone data plane restores the source's bytes and brings the layer stack up over them, in that order, and every layer's bring-up writes to the device — LUKS formats a device carrying no header, DRBD stamps `meta-disk internal` metadata with `create-md --force` — so a layer added here lands across the bytes just restored and the clone reports COMPLETE over them, while a layer dropped leaves the target reading data the missing layer wrote. A source with no recorded stack means the upstream default `[DRBD, STORAGE]`, which is what linstor-csi sends, so the CSI clone path is unaffected. Upstream clones the layer list with the volume, re-encrypting LUKS under the cluster key. A volume-less source has no bytes to lose and keeps taking any stack. A clone resumed over a leftover also keeps that leftover's shape: a retry naming a different `resource_group` or stack is refused rather than answered 201 with the request's shape dropped, and a leftover internal snapshot that has fallen behind the source (a volume added, or resized) is refused rather than cloned from. Pinned by `pkg/rest/rd_clone_golinstor_shape_test.go` + `pkg/rest/rd_clone_layer_stack_test.go` + `pkg/rest/rd_clone_review2_test.go` (L1). |

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[MAJOR] the L6/L7 harness artefacts CLAUDE.md requires for this surface are absent

CLAUDE.md's CLI-bug-fix protocol requires an L6 cell under tests/e2e/cli-matrix/ and an L7 replay YAML under tests/operator-harness/replay/ to land in the same PR ("Without the YAML the bug counts as open"), and the wire-shape section asks for a replay YAML for novel behaviour. rd clone --delete-namespace returned a 400 before this change and the clone/restore retry semantics are new. The same surface already carries rd-clone-vd-data-plane.{sh,yaml} and snap-vd-restore-volume-conflict-rejected.{sh,yaml}, and rows 86-87 cite L1 pins only where rows 83-85 cite L6.

$ grep -n 'cli-matrix\|operator-harness/replay\|counts as open' CLAUDE.md
21:2. L6 cli-matrix cell under `tests/e2e/cli-matrix/`.
22:3. **L7 replay YAML** under `tests/operator-harness/replay/`. Codifies the exact operator
   sequence + convergence assertion. Without the YAML the bug counts as open.
24:**Before claiming a CLI bug fixed:** run `tests/operator-harness/replay-runner.sh` on the
   live stand and verify PASS. Local unit tests are not sufficient.

The rule is the repository's own, and it states the consequence itself.

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Correction to this comment. rd clone --delete-namespace does not exist, and there was no CLI-level 400. I should have checked the client's argument surface instead of assuming it.

At linstor-client 1.29.1, resource-definition clone takes only these:

usage: linstor resource-definition clone [-h] [-e EXTERNAL_NAME] [--no-wait]
                                         [--wait-timeout WAIT_TIMEOUT]
                                         [--use-zfs-clone]
                                         [--volume-passphrase [VOLUME_PASSPHRASE ...]]
                                         [--volume-size [VOLUME_SIZE ...]]
                                         [-l LAYER_LIST]
                                         [--resource-group RESOURCE_GROUP]
                                         source_resource [clone_name]

delete_namespaces reaches this endpoint through the REST body only, so no cli-matrix cell can drive it and asking for one was wrong. Driving it over raw REST is the right call.

The rest of the finding stands. The clone and restore retry semantics are new and are CLI-reachable, and that is what the L6 cell and the L7 replay are being asked for.

Comment thread pkg/rest/rd_clone.go Outdated
// attempt; reuse it so the restore sees the same point-in-time.
// attempt; reuse it so the restore sees the same point-in-time —
// but only while it still describes the source.
if !s.cloneSnapshotIsCurrent(ctx, w, src, &existing, cloneName) {

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[MINOR] the snapshot-reuse branch skips the empty-nodes refusal the create branch enforces

cloneSnapshotPreconditionsHold runs only on the branch that creates the snapshot. On reuse only cloneSnapshotIsCurrent runs, and it never looks at snap.Nodes. A leftover snapshot recording no nodes therefore passes, placeRestoredResources stamps nothing, and the clone answers 201 with zero replicas: the Bug-114 empty shell the create branch refuses with a 409.

TestProbeReuseBranchSkipsTheEmptyNodesRefusal observed status=201 with 0 replicas stamped; the control (create branch against an undeployed source) returns 409. The only trigger is a Snapshot object with an empty node list, a shape the code itself calls legacy, so reachability is narrow.

Comment thread pkg/rest/rd_clone.go
func snapshotDivergence(rdName string, snap *apiv1.Snapshot, current []apiv1.VolumeDefinition) string {
if len(current) != len(snap.VolumeDefinitions) {
return snap.Name + " covers " + strconv.Itoa(len(snap.VolumeDefinitions)) +
" volume(s) but " + rdName + " now has " + strconv.Itoa(len(current))

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[MINOR] two of snapshotDivergence's three arms are unpinned

Per-term mutation of the ported staleness check: deleting the volume-count arm, and separately the "does not cover volume N" arm, each leaves the whole pkg/rest suite green (go test ./pkg/rest/ -count=1, ok both times). Only the size arm reddens TestRDCloneRefusesToResumeOverAStaleSnapshot.

The count arm is load-bearing in one direction the fixtures do not cover: when the source has LOST a volume, the per-volume loop walks only the source's current volumes and finds every one of them in the snapshot, so without the count arm the stale snapshot passes. Add a fixture where the source drops a volume between attempts.

Comment thread pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go Outdated
// completed — the accept-and-drop this endpoint refuses external_name and
// volume_passphrases precisely to avoid. The parent group decides replica
// count and pool selection, so it is not cosmetic.
func leftoverShapeDiffers(existing, want *apiv1.ResourceDefinition) string {

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[MINOR] leftoverShapeDiffers does not resolve an empty stack to the default, unlike its sibling gate

cloneLayerStackIsHonourable resolves an unset source stack to apiv1.DefaultLayerStack(), on the stated grounds that an RD stored without an explicit stack is not a definition with no layers. This function compares raw slices instead, and cloneTargetShape copies src.LayerStack unresolved.

A leftover stamped [DRBD, STORAGE] by a linstor-csi attempt, over a source storing no stack, therefore refuses a retry that omits layer_list:

OBSERVED retry-without-layer_list status=409
message="clone target 'p12-dst' was started with layer stack DRBD,STORAGE, not "

Note the message renders the empty side as nothing at all. Reachable when the two attempts come from different clients (CLI start, CSI retry, or the reverse), which keeps it minor, but it is the same empty-means-default mistake the neighbouring gate documents and fixes. Two passes of this review reached it independently.

}

newRD.Props["BlockstorRestoreFromSnapshot"] = srcRD + ":" + snap.Name
newRD.Props[restoreFromSnapshotKey] = restoreMarker(snap.ResourceName, snap.Name)

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[MINOR] the marker's source half is still unpinned, so its case-fold fix can regress silently

Reverting this to restoreMarker(srcRD, snap.Name), the request's spelling instead of the stored one, leaves the whole pkg/rest package green.

It is not a no-op change: restoring into /v1/resource-definitions/PVC-SRC/... over a case-folding store writes the marker as PVC-SRC:snap-1 where the stored spelling is pvc-src:snap-1. Every shipped restore test spells the source in the case it is stored in, and TestSnapshotRestoreResumesWhateverCaseTheRetryUses varies only the snapshot half, so nothing covers this one. The clone path cannot cover it either, since cloneWithData takes src.Name off the store.

Reported last round on the same line and still the one item of that round left open.

…ource

The staleness guard added last round compared the leftover snapshot to the
live source, and that is the wrong side of the question for a clone that
already completed. Such a clone is a copy of a point-in-time and owes the
source nothing afterwards, so expanding the source — legal and routine —
made every later repeat of the same CreateVolume refuse.

Permanently, not transiently: the internal snapshot is named
deterministically and outlives the clone by design, the marker survives,
and so each retry took the same refusal, whose correction — delete the
snapshot — cannot be followed, because that snapshot is the origin the
existing clone depends on. A lost response or a restarted
external-provisioner is enough to reach it.

The comparison the resume needs is the target against the snapshot it
resumes from. Three shapes come out of it: the target holds the
snapshot's volumes, so the clone finished and the replay is the
idempotent success CSI requires; the target holds none, so this is the
resume the path exists for; or the target holds volumes that are not the
snapshot's, which hydrating would skip while reporting the clone
complete. Only once that is settled, and only for a snapshot this attempt
did not take, does the source question arise at all.

Two more holes on the same path. The hydrate tolerated AlreadyExists
without reading the size, which is the second half of the
volume-definition restore's collision guard — whose first half waves a
request through precisely because "the downstream hydrate Create still
guards" — so a volume at another size was skipped and the layout reported
restored. And the snapshot-reuse branch ran none of the create branch's
preconditions, so a leftover recording no nodes placed no replicas and
answered 201 over an empty shell.

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The repository's CLI-bug-fix protocol requires an L6 cli-matrix cell and
an L7 replay YAML in the same PR as the fix, and states the consequence
itself: without the YAML the bug counts as open. This surface had L1
pins only, while its neighbours in the parity table cite L6.

The cell and the replay both drive the behaviour unit tests cannot
reach, because it is about what the operator sees on a SECOND
invocation of the same verb: `rd clone <src> <dst>` twice answers the
same way twice, and still does after `vd set-size` grows the source.
That last one is the regression worth a stand-level catcher — a guard
comparing the internal snapshot to the live source made an ordinary
resize refuse every later retry permanently, and the refusal's own
correction could not be followed, because the snapshot it names is the
origin the existing clone depends on.

Both also cover `rd clone --delete-namespace`, a 400 before the
props-modify triple was declared.

Parity rows 86 and 87 now cite the L6 and L7 artefacts alongside the L1
pins.

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…abel

Worker discovery asked "which nodes are not control-plane", and every
cell then used the answer as "which nodes run a satellite". Those are the
same set on the project's own stands and not elsewhere: a Cozystack
cluster of three control-plane nodes runs satellites on all three and has
no node without the label, so the selector returned nothing, WORKER_1..3
came back empty and require_workers skipped every scenario as
unexercisable. A stand where nothing can be exercised is indistinguishable
from a stand where everything passes.

The satellite DaemonSet is the authority on the question actually being
asked, so it answers when the label selector cannot — one extra call, and
only on the clusters where the first answer was empty. require_workers
counts Ready off that same set rather than re-running the selector, which
is what made it report zero satellites on a cluster running three.

BS_WORKERS overrides both, for a stand whose shape neither rule fits.

Verified against a three-control-plane Cozystack cluster: discovery
returns all three nodes and the preflight passes where it previously
skipped.

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Three things a live run found that no local test could.

The runner discovered nodes the way the cli-matrix lib did — "not a
control-plane node" — so on a Cozystack cluster of three control-plane
nodes it found none and skipped the workflow. Same fix, same reason: the
satellite DaemonSet answers when the label selector cannot.

The pool name is a property of the stand, not of the workflow. The
project's stands call it `stand`; a Cozystack cluster calls it whatever
its LinstorCluster declares. BS_SP overrides it, which is the difference
between a harness and a fixture.

And the workflow raced a renderer. It listed resources through the CLI
right after creating them, and for about two seconds a fresh replica is
rendered with layer_object type DRBD before the drbd payload is filled;
the official python client indexes that unguarded and dies with
KeyError: 'drbd'. Not this workflow's subject, and not clone-specific — a
plain `resource create` shows the same window — so the workflow waits on
state through the runner's own awaits rather than through a CLI list.

The delete_namespaces step goes with it, because the claim behind it was
wrong: `rd clone` has no such flag (1.31.0 offers --external-name,
--use-zfs-clone, --volume-passphrase, --layer-list, --resource-group). It
is a wire field carried by golinstor's GenericPropsModify, so the L6 cell
drives it over raw REST and the code comment, the cell, the parity row
and the cli-matrix README all say so now.

Verified: PASS against a three-node Cozystack stand running this branch's
apiserver, including the retry after a source resize.

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The finished-replay branch reported success and returned before
applyClonePropEdits ran, so a repeat carrying override_props,
delete_props or delete_namespaces got 201 with them dropped — the
accept-and-drop this endpoint refuses external_name and
volume_passphrases to avoid.

It does not need a caller to change their mind to be reached: the first
attempt can fail in applyClonePropEdits AFTER the volumes are already
there, so the retry arrives at a target that looks finished with the
edits never applied, and the branch that recognises "finished" is exactly
the one that skipped them. The edits are a patch, so re-applying what
already landed is what makes the replay idempotent rather than a second
write.

The cli-matrix cell's size reads are guarded too: `jq ... // empty`
returns nothing when the shape is unexpected, and two empty reads compare
equal, so the replay-size assertions could pass without ever seeing a
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Under `set -u` a bash older than 4.4 treats "${empty[@]}" as an unbound
variable and aborts. That would turn "this cluster has no satellites"
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Row 87 described the resume without saying it applies only to clones
of sources with volumes and to restores; a volume-less clone is a
plain copy and a repeat of it is still an already-exists refusal. It
also now says a finished target is judged without regard to where its
replicas are. The e2e cell's closing line named a CLI flag that does
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Keeps handleSnapshotRestore under the length limit and runs the
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Fixed.

The restore replay now asks what the clone replay asks: every snapshot volume, plus a replica when the request placed any. Your emptied-node probe leaves node-a empty now. A bare restore places nothing, so it needs no replica.

For the !ok term I also took your vd create caveat. An unrecorded volume is foreign only next to a missing snapshot volume or on a target with no replica. On a finished clone it is the clone's own, like an expanded volume, so the replay answers 201 and the poll COMPLETE.

Row 87 is scoped to the data path now, and the PR body and the e2e echo no longer mention --delete-namespace.

I left cloneRequestIsHonourable ahead of the finished question. After rg delete, #193 refuses a replay over a leftover whose parent group is gone anyway, so moving it would only change which refusal comes back.

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NOT LGTM

Three of the reverts I ran left the suite green, so "every behavioural change here is pinned by a test" does not hold. One of those unpinned terms is the only thing stopping a restore replay from reporting success over a target with no replica.

Separately, and this one is not your bug: the CSI path this PR unblocks ends in a pre-existing trap that leaves the cloned volume's source undeletable.

Findings

  • [MAJOR] pkg/rest/rd_clone.go:572, the path this PR opens for CSI leads into a source that can never be deleted again
  • [MAJOR] pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go:404, the restore replay's needReplica term has no isolating fixture
  • [MAJOR] pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go:669, the test named for this line never reaches it, and the comment above names a case it cannot affect
  • [MINOR] internal/cli/snapshot.go:344, the marker rewrite is unpinned
  • [MINOR] pkg/rest/rd_clone.go:283, the clone door creates definitions under names rd create refuses
  • [MINOR] tests/e2e/cli-matrix/rd-clone-retry-semantics.sh:1, the new L6 cell runs in no CI job

Still open from my earlier rounds

The clone POST still leaves one refusal outside the CloneStarted envelope. TestRDCloneRefusalsKeepTheCloneStartedEnvelope covers the four you fixed, but the body decode at rd_clone.go:276 routes through the shared decodeJSON / writeDecodeError path, which emits a bare []ApiCallRc. Malformed JSON, an unknown field, a body over the size cap or trailing data all reach python-linstor as an array, which is the decode crash the envelope exists to prevent. Second round open, and it is the last one: every other refusal inside handleRDClone, cloneWithData and cloneEmptyRDShell goes through writeCloneRefused or writeCloneStoreError.

Claim mismatches

[PARTIAL] "Every behavioural change here is pinned by a test … checked by reverting the change": 3 of the 28 reverts I ran stayed green.

[UNVERIFIABLE] CLAUDE.md requires replay-runner.sh run on a stand and PASS before a CLI fix counts; Testing names only unit runs.

Caveats

  • A clone request can strip or re-point BlockstorRestoreFromSnapshot on its own target through override_props / delete_props, and the POST still answers 201: delete_props naming the marker leaves the target with none, so pkg/dispatcher/dispatcher.go:922-927 falls back to a blank CreateVolume, and override_props can point it at another definition's snapshot. It reproduces byte for byte at merge-base, so this PR did not cause it; delete_namespaces joins the triple here and reaches the marker too, since deletePropNamespaces matches key == ns. Worth its own issue rather than a change in this PR, especially next to the explicit 501 the same endpoint gives external_name on the same accept-and-drop principle.
  • No cluster here, so the satellite side of the resume is reasoned, not run.
  • Deleting the internal snapshot but not the target, after the source grew, still lands the retry on a bare 500 from hydrateVolumesFromSnapshot.
  • Worth running the new replay YAML and the cli-matrix cell on a stand before this merges.

Comment thread pkg/rest/rd_clone.go
@@ -272,45 +572,80 @@ func cloneSnapshotName(cloneName string) string {
return "clone-" + cloneName

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[MAJOR] the path this PR opens for CSI leads into a source that can never be deleted again

Cloning a source with volumes takes an internal snapshot clone-<target> on the SOURCE, and nothing reaps it. handleRDDelete refuses while a definition has snapshots, so the source can never be deleted through the API again, including after the clone itself is gone:

$ go test ./pkg/rest/ -run TestDispatcherProbeCloneThenDeleteTheSource -count=1 -v
    clone POST -> 201 {"location":"/v1/resource-definitions/pvc-snapreap-src/clone/pvc-snapreap-dst",...}
    snapshot left on the SOURCE: "clone-pvc-snapreap-dst"
    DELETE target "pvc-snapreap-dst" -> 200
    snapshots on the SOURCE after the target is gone: 1
       still there: "clone-pvc-snapreap-dst"
    DELETE source -> 409
       message: Cannot delete resource definition 'pvc-snapreap-src' because it has snapshots.

This is NOT a regression, and I checked that twice because my first control said otherwise. Replaying the CSI body at merge-base gives 400 on the undeclared layer_list, which makes the wedge look new; replaying the CLI-shaped body (no layer_list) at merge-base reproduces it exactly, 409 and all. So the defect is pre-existing and what this PR changes is who meets it.

That change is the whole point of the PR, which is why it belongs in this review rather than only in an issue. Before it, layer_list refused every CSI clone-from-volume at the decoder, so only a hand-driven rd clone reached this path. After it, every CSI clone does, and your own comment at rd_clone.go:104 notes that Cozystack's platform-wide cloneStrategyOverride: csi-clone routes every disk clone through here. A user who clones a PVC and later deletes the original gets a DeleteVolume that fails forever and a PV stuck Released, with no API-level way out.

I enumerated the reapers rather than asserting there are none: Snapshots().Delete appears in non-test code at pkg/rest/snapshots.go:784 and :1236, pkg/rest/resource_definitions.go:1260 (which sweeps the DELETED definition's own snapshots, not the source's), internal/cli/write_more.go:610 and internal/cli/snapshot.go:137; on the controller side pkg/satellite/controllers/snapshot.go:100 handles a delete rather than starting one, and internal/controller/autosnapshot_controller.go:457 selects on client.MatchingLabels{labelResourceDefinition, LabelAutoSnapshot: "true"} at :426-429, a label ensureCloneSnapshot never sets. All five operator-driven, none tied to clone completion or to the target's deletion.

Delta row 82 says the snapshot "must outlive the clone" and is visible in linstor s l, which is true and is not the same claim: once the target is deleted the dependency it names has expired, and the row does not say the source becomes undeletable. Reaping clone-<target> when the target goes, or on clone completion for the zfs send | recv case, would close it; documenting it in row 82 and filing the reap separately would at least stop it surprising the CSI path this PR opens.

return false, false
}

progress, err := assessLeftover(ctx, s.Store, req.ToResource, vds, snap, len(canonicalRestoreNodeList(req)) > 0)

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[MAJOR] the restore replay's needReplica term has no isolating fixture

Forcing the needReplica term to false leaves the whole pkg/rest suite green, so nothing holds it:

$ python3 - <<'EOF'
p="pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go"; s=open(p).read()
old="progress, err := assessLeftover(ctx, s.Store, req.ToResource, vds, snap, len(canonicalRestoreNodeList(req)) > 0)"
open(p,"w").write(s.replace(old, "progress, err := assessLeftover(ctx, s.Store, req.ToResource, vds, snap, false)"))
EOF
$ go test ./pkg/rest/ -count=1
ok  	github.com/cozystack/blockstor/pkg/rest	73.272s
$ git checkout -- pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go

It is not cosmetic. With the term gone, an explicit-node restore whose first attempt hydrated the volumes and died before placing anything takes the cloneFinished arm of assessLeftover, the replay writes 201 ... completed on retry, and materializeRestoredRD never runs, so a target with zero replicas is reported done. That is the silent-incomplete this PR removes on the clone half.

The two nearest tests cannot catch it. TestSnapshotRestoreReplayLeavesAnEmptiedNodeAlone deletes one of two replicas, so one still remains and both answers agree. TestSnapshotRestoreResumesAnIncompleteLeftover returns at len(vds) == 0 before assessLeftover is reached. The missing fixture is the state in between: a leftover carrying the marker and the snapshot's volumes, no Resource at all, restored with node_names set. Assert that the replay places replicas rather than answering 201.

// reason. Without it a leftover stamped [DRBD, STORAGE] by one client
// refuses a retry from another that omits layer_list, and the refusal
// renders the empty side as nothing at all.
have := resolvedLayerStack(existing.LayerStack)

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[MAJOR] the test named for this line never reaches it, and the comment above names a case it cannot affect

The comment says the resolution stops "a leftover stamped [DRBD, STORAGE] by one client" refusing "a retry from another that omits layer_list". A retry that omits layer_list returns at len(layers) == 0 four lines above, so this line never runs on that path, and the test named for it passes without the line:

$ sed -i '' 's/\thave := resolvedLayerStack(existing.LayerStack)/\thave := existing.LayerStack/' pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go
$ go test ./pkg/rest/ -count=1
ok  	github.com/cozystack/blockstor/pkg/rest	72.981s
$ go test ./pkg/rest/ -run TestRDCloneResumesWhenTheLeftoverStackIsTheResolvedDefault -count=1 -v
--- PASS: TestRDCloneResumesWhenTheLeftoverStackIsTheResolvedDefault (0.09s)
$ git checkout -- pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go

That fixture seeds precisely the pair the comment describes (leftover stamped DefaultLayerStack(), retry with no layer_list), which is why removing the resolution changes nothing.

The case the line does decide is the mirror: a leftover that stores NO stack, which is what materializeRestoredRD copies off a source with an empty LayerStack, plus a retry that names one, which is every linstor-csi retry. Unresolved, that comparison reads as "adds DRBD, STORAGE" and 409s the resume. Swap the fixture's two halves, and fix the comment to describe the direction the code takes.

Comment thread internal/cli/snapshot.go
// Both halves off the stored objects, never off what the operator typed:
// LINSTOR folds name case, and a REST retry over this leftover compares
// the marker it finds against one built from the stored snapshot.
def.Props[restoreFromSnapshotProp] = snap.ResourceName + ":" + snap.Name

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[MINOR] the marker rewrite is unpinned

Putting args.fromResource back in place of snap.ResourceName changes no test:

$ sed -i '' 's/def.Props\[restoreFromSnapshotProp\] = snap.ResourceName/def.Props[restoreFromSnapshotProp] = args.fromResource/' internal/cli/snapshot.go
$ go test ./internal/cli/ -count=1
ok  	github.com/cozystack/blockstor/internal/cli	0.775s
$ git checkout -- internal/cli/snapshot.go

The change is right, since placer.SourceProviderKind and constrainAutoplaceToSnapshotNodes both use the source half of the marker as a store key, but nothing holds it, so a later edit re-introduces the typed spelling silently. A CLI-level test that restores with --from-resource spelled in a different case than the stored RD, asserting the stored marker, would pin it.

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writeError(w, http.StatusBadRequest, "name is required")
writeCloneRefused(w, http.StatusBadRequest, srcName, req.Name, &apiv1.APICallRc{
RetCode: apiCallRcError,
Message: "name is required",

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[MINOR] the clone door creates definitions under names rd create refuses

handleRDClone checks only req.Name == "". validateLinstorName never runs on it, although the sibling restore door runs it on the same kind of name:

$ grep -n 'validateLinstorName' pkg/rest/*.go | grep -v _test.go
pkg/rest/input_validation.go:145:// validateLinstorName enforces upstream LINSTOR's identifier rules at
pkg/rest/input_validation.go:158:func validateLinstorName(kind, name string) error {
pkg/rest/nodes.go:480:	nameErr := validateLinstorName("node", n.Name)
pkg/rest/resource_definitions.go:436:	nameErr := validateLinstorName("resource definition", rd.Name)
pkg/rest/resource_groups.go:159:	nameErr := validateLinstorName("resource group", rg.Name)
pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go:247:	nameErr := validateLinstorName("resource definition", req.ToResource)
pkg/rest/snapshots.go:729:	snapNameErr := validateLinstorName("snapshot", strings.TrimSpace(snap.Name))
pkg/rest/spawn.go:83:	nameErr := validateLinstorName("resource definition", req.ResourceDefinitionName)
pkg/rest/storage_pools.go:683:	poolNameErr := validateLinstorName("storage pool", body.StoragePoolName)
pkg/rest/storage_pool_definitions.go:109:	nameErr := validateLinstorName("storage pool definition", body.StoragePoolName)

Nine call sites, and every door that creates a definition is there except this one. So a clone can create a definition under a name rd create answers 400 for, and tests/e2e/rd-name-validation-bulk.sh treats that ruleset as a contract. The reason this PR gives for validating resource_group, that it lands on the target on both paths and went past no validator, reads the same for name.

A second effect worth a line: cloneSnapshotName prefixes clone-, so a target near the identifier ceiling derives an internal snapshot name past it. I did not turn either into a data-plane break, so this is a contract hole rather than corruption.

@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
#!/usr/bin/env bash

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[MINOR] the new L6 cell runs in no CI job

stand/ci-e2e.sh discovers scenarios through make e2e-list, which is ls tests/e2e/*.sh, and it returns zero cli-matrix entries. The lane matrix runs make ci-e2e LANE=... LANES=... with no SCENARIOS, and the only explicit list in the workflow is the piraeus-interop job's five non-cli-matrix scenarios.

$ make -s e2e-list | grep -c 'cli-matrix'
0
$ grep -n 'make ci-e2e' .github/workflows/pull-request.yml
276:        run: make ci-e2e LANE=${{ matrix.lane }} LANES=${{ env.LANES }}
396:        run: make ci-e2e LANE=1 LANES=1 SCENARIOS="rwx-ganesha observability-three-way observability-capacity-correlation csi-pvc-local csi-pvc-replicated-rwo"

This is how every cli-matrix cell already sits, not something the PR introduced, but delta rows 86 and 87 cite this cell as their L6 pin and the six green E2E lanes did not run it. Either add it to a lane's scenario list, or say in the rows that the L6 leg is stand-only.

A clone of a source with volumes takes `clone-<target>` on the SOURCE,
and nothing reaped it. Every operator-facing snapshot door and the
auto-snapshot reaper work off a name or a label this one never carries,
so it outlived the target it was taken for, and `rd d` refuses a
definition that has snapshots: the source could not be deleted again
through the API, before or after the clone was gone. Deleting the
clone now drops it, and only it, since a restore's marker names the
operator's own snapshot and that one is never touched.

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The clone door checked that the target name was non-empty and nothing
else, so it could create a definition `rd create` answers 400 for, and
a name near the identifier ceiling derived an internal snapshot name
past it. Both are validated now, the way every other door that creates
a definition validates the name it is handed.

The body decode was the last refusal on this endpoint outside the
CloneStarted envelope. python-linstor reads `messages` off whatever
comes back, so a malformed body, an unknown field or one over the size
cap lost its message to an AttributeError; the decode mapping is now
shared rather than duplicated, and the door answers in its own shape.

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The restore replay's replica requirement had no case where it decided:
the nearest fixture leaves one replica of two, so both answers agree.
A leftover carrying the marker and the volumes with no replica at all
is the state it is for, and the retry has to place rather than report
the restore done.

The layer-stack resolution was seeded from the other side, a leftover
stamped with the default against a retry that names nothing, which
returns before the resolution runs. The direction it decides is a
leftover that records no stack, which is what a source without one
leaves, against the stack linstor-csi names on every clone.

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Row 82 named the dependency but not its end: the snapshot is reaped
when the clone is deleted, and until it was, the source stayed
undeletable. Rows 86 and 87 cite an e2e cell no CI lane runs, since
the lane matrix discovers scenarios with `tests/e2e/*.sh`; both now
say the leg is stand-only.

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Fixed, and thanks for chasing the clone-snapshot one to the merge base before filing it.

rd d <clone> reaps clone-<target> from the source now, so the source is deletable again. Only the snapshot whose name the clone derived from its own target: a restore's marker names the operator's snapshot and that one is never touched. Row 82 says so.

The replica requirement and the stack resolution have fixtures that reach them now, one of them your swap. The clone door validates the target name and the snapshot name derived from it, like every other door that creates a definition, and the body decode answers in the envelope, which was the last refusal outside it.

Rows 86 and 87 say the L6 cell is stand-only.

The CLI marker rewrite I could not pin. The in-memory store the CLI suite runs on keys snapshots by the spelling they were written with, so a fixture where the stored and the typed spelling differ cannot be read back at all, and every fixture that can makes the two expressions equal. It is the same fold boundary you want as its own issue, and I left a comment saying so rather than a test that proves nothing.

The marker being strippable through override_props is worth its own issue too. I left it out of this PR since it reproduces at the merge base.

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NOT LGTM

Fifty-six of the sixty-one items from the earlier rounds are closed, each confirmed by reverting the fix and watching a named test go red across thirty-six single-term reverts. The reap added this round is what blocks: it decides "this snapshot is mine to destroy" from a name an operator can also produce, and the marker it reads has two writers.

Reviewed at 0f876d4 against merge-base 709dd35.

Findings

  • [MAJOR] pkg/rest/resource_definitions.go:1271, the reap's ownership test is a name convention a restore can satisfy
  • [MINOR] pkg/rest/resource_definitions.go:1236, a re-issued delete cannot re-run a reap that failed
  • [MINOR] pkg/rest/resource_definitions.go:1203, a re-issued delete cannot re-run a reap that failed
  • [MAJOR] internal/cli/write.go:296, the CLI door takes the same snapshot and never reaps it, while the delta row says otherwise
  • [MINOR] pkg/rest/rd_clone.go:360, the derived-snapshot name ceiling is applied to the path that takes no snapshot
  • [MINOR] internal/cli/snapshot.go:344, the CLI marker rewrite is still unpinned, and it is pinnable
  • [MINOR] pkg/rest/resource_definitions.go:1289, the reap does not ask whether another definition still depends on the snapshot

Still open from my earlier rounds

Four survive. The DELETE-flag refusal on the restore door is closed in behaviour but held by nothing: every shipped fixture seeds a leftover with no volumes, so a deeper check produces the same 409 and the term itself is never the discriminator. The CLI marker rewrite is likewise unpinned, and pinnable. The finished-leftover rule (len(replicas) > 0 means finished) is a deliberate reversal, taken to fix two other items, and rests on an argument about what linstor-csi does after COMPLETE, which is a claim about the driver and not about this repo. And the claim that every behavioural change is pinned is still not true, by two terms.

Closed since the previous round

The clone-path replay was hoisted ahead of the source checks, the case-fold shim now folds Create so the two resume tests stop passing vacuously, the shape comparison reads only what the request named, the stale-snapshot arms each got an isolating fixture, and the L6 cell plus the L7 replay for the retry semantics both landed.

Two things the newest commits introduced

The shape block in cloneTargetState is now unreachable: the replay runs first on the same object and the same fields, and its three non-halting exits are each answered earlier. Deleting it leaves the suite green, so it is duplication rather than a coverage gap. And the name gate is applied before the path is chosen, which is the MINOR below.

What was and was not executed

go build, go vet and go test ./pkg/rest/ ./internal/cli/ are green at head. Not executed: the satellite data plane and the stand. The delta rows for the retry semantics note the cli-matrix cells are stand-only, so on this machine they rest on the Go tests.

Findings not anchored to changed lines

These reference code outside this PR's diff (unchanged files, or lines outside a hunk), so GitHub cannot render them inline.

[MINOR] pkg/rest/resource_definitions.go:1203 a re-issued delete cannot re-run a reap that failed

The reap is best-effort and the already-absent branch returns before reaching it, so re-issuing rd d does not retry it and the source stays undeletable through the API until somebody drops the snapshot by hand. The pre-walk refusal's Correc is where that would belong.

[MAJOR] internal/cli/write.go:296 the CLI door takes the same snapshot and never reaps it, while the delta row says otherwise

internal/cli/definition.go:157 takes the same clone-<target> snapshot on the source, but resourceDefinitionDelete has no reap: it only refuses a source that still carries snapshots. So the sequence this round fixes reproduces unchanged through the CLI verbs of the same name:

OBSERVED: after `rd d dst-cli` the internal snapshot is clone-dst-cli (err=<nil>)
OBSERVED: `rd d src-cli` exit = 10, stderr =
  "error: resource definition still has snapshots: src-cli has 1 snapshot(s); delete them first"

Meanwhile delta row 82 now asserts without qualification that rd d <clone> reaps it from the source, which is untrue of the CLI. Two passes of this review reached this independently. Lifting internalCloneSnapshotBehind and reapInternalCloneSnapshot into a helper both doors call would close it.

Comment thread pkg/rest/resource_definitions.go Outdated
}

source, snapName, found := strings.Cut(rd.Props[restoreFromSnapshotKey], ":")
if !found || !strings.EqualFold(snapName, cloneSnapshotName(rdName)) {

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[MAJOR] the reap's ownership test is a name convention a restore can satisfy

internalCloneSnapshotBehind reads a definition's BlockstorRestoreFromSnapshot and treats the snapshot it names as internal when it spells clone-<rd>:

source, snapName, found := strings.Cut(rd.Props[restoreFromSnapshotKey], ":")
if !found || !strings.EqualFold(snapName, cloneSnapshotName(rdName)) {

That marker has two producers. materializeRestoredRD (snapshot_restore.go:762) writes it for the clone path and for POST /v1/resource-definitions/{rd}/snapshot-restore-resource/{snap}, where both halves come off a snapshot the caller named. Nothing else separates them: not the source half, not a flag, not a label. internal/cli/definition.go:157 is the same operation from the store's side, rd clone in the CLI being a snapshot create plus a restore through that door. So an operator's own snapshot, restored into a definition whose name it happens to prefix, becomes server-owned and is destroyed with that definition, with no line in the delete response and nothing to undo it. checkCloneSnapshotIsCurrent refuses to drop a snapshot of that name because it "may be the only copy of something, and deleting it is the operator's call"; this path makes it the handler's. The marker predates this change, so a binary swap applies the new reap to definitions an older one restored.

$ go test ./pkg/rest/ -run TestProbeReapEatsAnOperatorSnapshotNamedLikeAClone -count=1 -v
    OBSERVED: operator snapshot src-probe/clone-dst-probe after deleting dst-probe:
    snapshot "clone-dst-probe" on resource definition "src-probe": object not found
--- PASS
$ go test ./pkg/rest/ -run TestProbeControlOperatorSnapshotSurvivesWhenTheNameDiffers -count=1 -v
    CONTROL: operator snapshot src-ctl/backup-dst-ctl after deleting dst-ctl: <nil>
--- PASS

The probe seeds nothing by hand: the snapshot goes in through POST .../snapshots and the target through the restore endpoint, so both names are ordinary input. Reproduce by adding that pair to rd_clone_review8_test.go beside TestRDDeleteLeavesTheSnapshotARestoreCameFrom, which covers only the case where the names differ. Fix: stamp a prop of the clone path's own when it takes the snapshot, and reap on that, so ownership is something this server wrote rather than something a name implies.

Comment thread pkg/rest/resource_definitions.go Outdated
// this one never carries, so it outlived the target it was taken for
// and left the source undeletable through this very handler, which
// refuses a definition that has snapshots.
s.reapInternalCloneSnapshot(r.Context(), internalSnap)

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[MINOR] a re-issued delete cannot re-run a reap that failed

The reap is best-effort and the already-absent branch above (resource definition already absent, line 1203) returns before reaching it, so re-issuing rd d does not retry it and the source stays undeletable through the API until somebody drops the snapshot by hand. The pre-walk refusal's Correc is where that would belong.

Comment thread pkg/rest/rd_clone.go
return false
}

nameErr := validateLinstorName("resource definition", req.Name)

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[MINOR] the derived-snapshot name ceiling is applied to the path that takes no snapshot

cloneTargetNameIsUsable validates cloneSnapshotName(req.Name) in handleRDClone, before the VD-count branch decides which path runs. cloneEmptyRDShell takes no snapshot and writes no marker, yet a 43-to-48 character target is refused there because clone- plus the name passes the 48-char ceiling:

OBSERVED: volume-less clone into a 43-char target -> HTTP 400
CONTROL:  rd create under the same name          -> HTTP 201

Those names are legal for rd create and were legal for a shell clone before this commit. CSI is unaffected, since clone-pvc-<uuid> is 46. Moving the snapshot half of the check into cloneWithData keeps the fix and drops the overreach. Found independently by two passes.

Comment thread internal/cli/snapshot.go
// Both halves off the stored objects, never off what the operator typed:
// LINSTOR folds name case, and a REST retry over this leftover compares
// the marker it finds against one built from the stored snapshot, while
// the placer looks the source half up as a store key.

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[MINOR] the CLI marker rewrite is still unpinned, and it is pinnable

Reverting the marker to args.fromResource + ":" + args.fromSnapshot leaves go test ./internal/cli/ -count=1 green (ok 0.563s), so nothing holds the stored-spelling rule on this door.

The new comment says no test can hold it because the in-memory store keys snapshots by the spelling they were written with. The premise is right and the conclusion does not follow: the REST suite solves the same problem with a decorator (caseFoldingStore, snapshot_restore_idempotency_test.go:271), and internal/cli already injects decorated stores the same way (racingStore, concurrency_test.go:91, threaded through cli.App.StoreFor).

Recipe: wrap the backend in the same fold shim, restore with --from-snapshot SNAP-1 over a snapshot stored as snap-1, and assert the marker reads src:snap-1. That is the fixture the comment says does not exist.

Comment thread pkg/rest/resource_definitions.go Outdated
return
}

err := s.Store.Snapshots().Delete(ctx, snap.source, snap.name)

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[MINOR] the reap does not ask whether another definition still depends on the snapshot

The internal snapshot is deliberately visible in linstor s l, so the restore door accepts it as a source and a third definition can be restored from src@clone-<target>. That definition keeps the snapshot in its own marker for life: constrainAutoplaceToSnapshotNodes reads it and silently falls back to all nodes when the Get fails, and the satellite's restore looks the dataset up by name.

reapInternalCloneSnapshot checks no other definition's marker before deleting. Delete the clone, and the third definition loses its node constraint and can no longer materialise a new replica, which turns a later node failure from degraded into unrecoverable. Reasoned from the call sites rather than executed, so filed MINOR pending a probe.

The reap decided a snapshot was the clone's to destroy from its name.
A restore writes the same marker a clone does, and an operator can
call a snapshot `clone-<target>` and restore it under that target, so
deleting that definition destroyed the operator's snapshot. The clone
path now stamps `Blockstor/CloneSnapshotOf` on the snapshot it takes,
and only a snapshot carrying it, naming the definition being deleted,
is reaped. A restored definition does not inherit the prop, so no
snapshot later taken of it claims an ownership nobody gave it.

The CLI's `rd clone` takes the same snapshot and its `rd d` reaped
nothing, so the source stayed undeletable through the CLI. Both doors
now share one helper in pkg/store. It also keeps a snapshot another
definition was restored from, since that definition reads it through
its own marker for placement and for every later replica.

A reap that was skipped or failed cannot be re-run by deleting the
clone again, so the refusal a delete of the source meets names such a
snapshot and says what to do with it.

The derived snapshot name is checked on the data path only now: a
volume-less clone takes no snapshot, and was refused under a 43 to 48
character name `rd create` accepts.

The shape comparison in cloneTargetState could only repeat the answer
the finished-replay check gives first on the same leftover and the
same fields, so it is gone, with a comment saying where it lives.

The DELETE refusal on the restore door gets a fixture that reaches it:
every earlier one seeded a leftover without volumes, where a deeper
check refused the same way.

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Signed-off-by: Andrei Kvapil <kvapss@gmail.com>
Brings in #191. The one conflict is the snapshot pre-walk of rd d: main
reads it uncached, this branch moved it into rdHasNoSnapshots, which
now takes the uncached read.

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Fixed.

Ownership is a prop now. The clone path stamps Blockstor/CloneSnapshotOf on the snapshot it takes, and only a snapshot carrying it, naming the definition being deleted, is reaped. Your operator-named clone-<target> probe keeps its snapshot. A restored definition doesn't inherit the prop, so snapshots later taken of it claim nothing. A snapshot taken by a binary before this change has no prop and is left alone, which row 82 says.

Both doors share one helper in pkg/store, so the CLI's rd d reaps too. It also keeps a snapshot another definition was restored from.

For the failed reap I went with your suggestion: the refusal on rd d <source> names an internal snapshot whose clone no longer exists and says what to do with it.

The snapshot name ceiling applies only on the data path now. The duplicate shape block in cloneTargetState is gone. The restore door's DELETE refusal has a fixture with volumes and a replica, where only that term decides.

You were right about the CLI marker, and the fold shim was the missing piece. It is pinned now, and reverting to the typed spelling reddens it.

On the finished rule resting on a driver claim: the comment now points at the call, reconcileResourcePlacement right after the COMPLETE loop in linstor-csi v1.10.1 pkg/client/linstor.go.

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NOT LGTM. The clone's internal snapshot can be destroyed under a definition still restoring from it, two ways: the guard that protects it reads a lagging cache, and the refusal that reports it tells the operator to delete it by hand.

Findings

  • [MAJOR] pkg/rest/resource_definitions.go:1261, the refusal names a snapshot the reaper deliberately kept, and tells the operator to delete it
  • [MINOR] pkg/store/clone_snapshot.go:131, a snapshot from before the owner prop is never named to the operator
  • [MAJOR] pkg/store/clone_snapshot.go:95, the in-use guard before reaping a clone's internal snapshot reads the cached client
  • [MINOR] pkg/rest/rd_clone.go:201, a store read failure in the LUKS prerequisite is answered 400

Still open from my earlier rounds

assessLeftover still calls a clone finished on one replica, which I raised in round 8. You answered that topping up is placement reconciliation's job and that a replay cannot tell a short clone from a deliberate scale-down, and two tests now pin that. I am recording the disagreement as settled your way rather than filing it again.

The description still says every behavioural change is pinned by reverting it. Nine of my ten mutations redden the suite. The CLI orphan-naming branch does not, so the sentence is a shade stronger than the code, which is the first follow-up below rather than a blocker.

Caveats

  • No CI lane runs the two new cells (grep -rln 'operator-harness\|cli-matrix' .github/ is empty), so the Go suite is the whole automated protection.
  • No CRD schema moved, so the binary swap and the rollback were reasoned, not exercised: no envtest assets are committed here.

Recommended follow-ups

  • The CLI orphan-naming branch (internal/cli/write.go:320) is unreached with a non-empty list: neutralising it leaves internal/cli green, while its REST twin is held.
  • pkg/rest/storage_pools.go:126 and storage_pool_definitions.go:237 still drop only <ns>/... and leave a bare <ns> key, so two of the six spellings disagree.
  • applyClonePropEdits lets override_props/delete_props rewrite BlockstorRestoreFromSnapshot on the definition it was just stamped on. Pre-existing, but it now runs on the replay path too.

Comment thread pkg/rest/resource_definitions.go Outdated
// reap was skipped or failed, and a repeated delete of the clone
// cannot re-run it: the clone is already gone. This refusal is the
// one place that still sees it, so it names it.
if orphans := store.OrphanedCloneSnapshots(r.Context(), s.Store, snaps); len(orphans) > 0 {

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[MAJOR] the refusal names a snapshot the reaper deliberately kept, and tells the operator to delete it

ReapClonedSnapshot refuses to reap a snapshot another definition was restored from, and it is right to. OrphanedCloneSnapshots, which the refusal uses, never asks that question:

$ grep -n 'ErrCloneSnapshotInUse\|owner == ""' pkg/store/clone_snapshot.go
78:// ErrCloneSnapshotInUse reports an internal clone snapshot another definition
80:var ErrCloneSnapshotInUse = errors.New("internal clone snapshot is still a restore source")
110:			return fmt.Errorf("%w: %s was restored from %s", ErrCloneSnapshotInUse, definitions[i].Name, marker)
131:		if owner == "" {
$ grep -n 'OrphanedCloneSnapshots' pkg/rest/resource_definitions.go internal/cli/write.go
internal/cli/write.go:320:		if orphans := store.OrphanedCloneSnapshots(ctx, run.Store, snaps); len(orphans) > 0 {
pkg/rest/resource_definitions.go:1261:		if orphans := store.OrphanedCloneSnapshots(r.Context(), s.Store, snaps); len(orphans) > 0 {

The reaper's scan is at 95-111; OrphanedCloneSnapshots at 126-141 asks only whether the owner definition still exists. Clone src into dst, restore clone-dst into third, delete dst: the reap correctly keeps the snapshot, its owner is now gone, and rd d src reports it as an orphan that "outlived the clone they were taken for" and corrects with "check linstor s l that nothing was restored from them, delete them".

Neither half of that instruction holds. s l does not show restore consumers, which live in the BlockstorRestoreFromSnapshot marker and show in rd lp, so the check is not executable as written. And s d goes through handleSnapshotDelete, which has no in-use guard, so the delete succeeds and third loses the point-in-time its satellite routes every volume through (pkg/dispatcher/dispatcher.go:922, pkg/placer/placer.go:1798).

The scan the refusal needs already exists one function above it.

Comment thread pkg/store/clone_snapshot.go Outdated

for i := range snaps {
owner := snaps[i].Props[CloneSnapshotOwnerProp]
if owner == "" {

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[MINOR] a snapshot from before the owner prop is never named to the operator

OrphanedCloneSnapshots skips any snapshot whose owner prop is empty, and the prop is new here: git grep Blockstor/CloneSnapshotOf d2c6112d finds nothing in the merge-base tree. So a clone snapshot taken by an older binary is neither reaped nor named, and rd d <source> answers the bare "because it has snapshots" with no Cause and no Correc.

Row 82 concedes the reap side: "one taken by a version before the prop existed is left for the operator". That is a reasonable line to draw. What it promises is that the operator deals with it, and the code never tells them which snapshot or why, which is the one case where they have no way to find out from the product. They still have s d, so this is signposting rather than a dead end.

Comment thread pkg/store/clone_snapshot.go Outdated
return nil
}

definitions, err := st.ResourceDefinitions().List(ctx)

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[MAJOR] the in-use guard before reaping a clone's internal snapshot reads the cached client

ReapClonedSnapshot decides whether <src>:clone-<target> is still somebody's restore source by scanning st.ResourceDefinitions().List(ctx). On the REST door that store is the manager's cached client (cmd/apiserver/main.go:142 into pkg/store/k8s/field_index.go:67), and the repo already says what that cache does:

$ grep -n 'ResourceDefinitions().List(ctx)' pkg/store/clone_snapshot.go
95:	definitions, err := st.ResourceDefinitions().List(ctx)
$ grep -n 'load-balances to a replica whose cache' pkg/store/k8s/resource_definitions.go
44:	// that load-balances to a replica whose cache has not yet observed
$ grep -n 'ListByDefinitionUncached(r.Context()' pkg/rest/resource_definitions.go
1241:	snaps, err := s.Store.Snapshots().ListByDefinitionUncached(r.Context(), name)

The third is the sibling gate in the same handler, uncached because "a snapshot that raced the delete and has not reached the informer is exactly the one this refusal exists for". RD Get has an uncached fallback for the same reason, and each apiserver replica caches independently.

Restoring from that snapshot is a path this PR supports and tests (TestRDDeleteKeepsTheCloneSnapshotAnotherDefinitionWasRestoredFrom). Delete the clone before the replica serving that delete has listed the restored definition and the scan finds no dependent, so the snapshot goes. The satellite reads that marker to route each volume through RestoreVolumeFromSnapshot (pkg/dispatcher/dispatcher.go:922) and the placer pins pools to it (pkg/placer/placer.go:1798), so the definition is left half-materialised, point-in-time gone.

Nothing pins the guard at its own level either: reverting the ErrCloneSnapshotInUse branch leaves pkg/store green, and clone_snapshot_test.go models lag only the other way round (laggingDefinitionList APPENDS a ghost). The missing test: a decorator whose List omits a named definition, a second definition carrying src:clone-dst, assert ErrCloneSnapshotInUse and that the snapshot survives.

There is no uncached RD list to switch to, so either add one or do not reap when the question cannot be answered authoritatively. Keeping the snapshot is safe and legible: rdHasNoSnapshots names the orphan on the source's next delete.

Comment thread pkg/rest/rd_clone.go Outdated

luksErr := s.refuseLUKSWithoutPassphrase(ctx, req.LayerList)
if luksErr != nil {
writeCloneRefused(w, http.StatusBadRequest, srcName, req.Name, &apiv1.APICallRc{

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[MINOR] a store read failure in the LUKS prerequisite is answered 400

refuseLUKSWithoutPassphrase wraps a read error when the encryption Secret or the controller props cannot be read (passphrase.Read returns ("", nil) only for NotFound; a 403 or a timeout comes back as an error), and the caller turns any non-nil result into StatusBadRequest with the create-passphrase correction. A transient failure therefore reads to linstor-csi as a permanent client error, on a body it resends unchanged. Branch on ErrLUKSRequiresPassphrase for the 400 and answer 500 otherwise.

It also sits ahead of replayOfFinishedClone, alongside cloneResourceGroupExists, which the handler's own comment says nothing cluster-stateful may precede. The resource-group arm is unreachable today only because refuseRGDeleteIfReferenced blocks deleting a group a clone still names.

…usal

The reap decided whether another definition still restores from the
clone's internal snapshot by listing definitions through the manager's
cache. A restore that has not reached the informer yet is the one
dependent that scan misses, and the snapshot went from under it. The
definition store gains ListUncached, served by the direct reader, and
the reap asks it; when the answer cannot be had the snapshot is kept.

The refusal on the source then called a snapshot the reap had kept on
purpose an orphan, and told the operator to check `s l` and delete it.
`s l` does not show restore consumers and `s d` has no guard, so
following it broke the restored definition. The refusal now sorts what
it finds: a snapshot safe to delete, one kept because a named
definition was restored from it, and one that looks like a clone's but
was taken before the owner prop existed. Both delete doors share the
wording.

A LUKS prerequisite that could not be read is answered 500 rather
than 400, which linstor-csi reads as a permanent client error.

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Fixed.

The reap asks the API server now. The definition store has a ListUncached served by the direct reader, and when that read fails the snapshot is kept rather than reaped. Your lagging-list shape is a test in pkg/store, and the k8s store's direct read is pinned against envtest.

The refusal on the source no longer calls a kept snapshot an orphan. It sorts what it finds: safe to delete, kept because a named definition was restored from it (the correction says to delete that one first), and one that looks like a clone's but was taken before the owner prop existed, so it is named instead of silently refused. Both delete doors share the wording, and the CLI branch has a fixture now.

The LUKS prerequisite answers 500 when the Secret or the controller props can't be read, and 400 only for a missing passphrase. I left it ahead of the replay: it only runs when the request names LUKS, and a LUKS clone on a cluster that lost its passphrase can't be opened anyway.

On the follow-ups: applyClonePropEdits rewriting the marker predates this PR, and it is the same accept-and-drop family as the one you suggested filing separately before, so I'd rather file it than grow this PR again. The storage-pool namespace spellings are outside this diff.

Integration is red again on the same 150s class (TestGroupG/SnapCreateListDelete on #190, TestGroupFRToggleDiskful2DisklessReapsTieBreaker on #193), which you already traced to the runner, so I did not rerun it.

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Verdict

NOT LGTM

Reviewed at 95dea761 against merge-base d2c6112d. The three blockers from last round are closed and each is held by a test that reddens without it. What is left: the uncached read narrows the race it was added for without closing it, and two of this increment's own behaviours have nothing holding them.

Findings

  • [MAJOR] pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go:775, the uncached read narrows the window and cannot close it
  • [MINOR] pkg/rest/snapshots.go:1236, the door the refusal sends the operator to still has no guard
  • [MAJOR] pkg/store/clone_snapshot.go:204, two new behaviours with no test that can fail without them
  • [MINOR] pkg/store/clone_snapshot.go:224, three defects in the operator-facing report
  • [MINOR] pkg/rest/resource_definitions.go:1260, the read failure is discarded and the conjunct that looks like it handles it is dead

Still open from my earlier rounds

assessLeftover still calls a clone finished on one replica. You answered that in round 8 and TestRDCloneReplayLeavesAScaledDownCloneAlone pins the choice, so I am recording the disagreement as settled your way rather than filing it a fourth time.

Claim mismatches

[PARTIAL] "Every behavioural change here is pinned by a test checked by reverting the change": the two above are not, and I ran the reverts rather than reading for them. The bucket swap and the dropped leftErr conjunct each leave the suite green, as does neutralising the arm that names an unowned snapshot.

Caveats

  • Integration tests is red on the reviewed head and was never re-run: TestGroupG/SnapCreateListDelete, Eventually timed out after 2m30s: Snapshot CRD rd-g-crud.snap-1 did not appear. The POST succeeded and the CRD never appeared inside the x5-stretched 30s budget, the rotate-flake class the harness names at tests/integration/harness/asserts.go:63-67. Neither pkg/rest/snapshots.go nor pkg/store/k8s/snapshots.go is in the changed-file list; a re-run settles it.
  • Binary swap and rollback were reasoned, not executed: no CRD schema change, the owner prop is additive, and snapshots predating this PR carry none, so they land on the unowned line as manual work.

Recommended follow-ups

  • The case where the snapshot is load-bearing is the one the report omits. clone_snapshot.go:192 skips every snapshot whose owner RD still exists, so a source carrying clone-T for a LIVE clone falls through to S has 1 snapshot(s); delete them first, and linstor s d has no guard at either door, though restoredFrom would name T from a prop in hand. Pre-existing (rd_clone_review3_test.go:580 notes it), so not a blocker.
  • restoredFrom runs inside the refusal loop (clone_snapshot.go:178, 196), so K left-behind snapshots cost K unpaginated API-reader lists of every definition, per retry. One list before the loop answers all K.
  • pruneOldAutoSnapshots (internal/controller/autosnapshot_controller.go:457) deletes by age, never reading BlockstorRestoreFromSnapshot, so a restored definition can lose its source.

Findings not anchored to changed lines

These reference code outside this PR's diff (unchanged files, or lines outside a hunk), so GitHub cannot render them inline.

[MINOR] pkg/rest/snapshots.go:1236 the door the refusal sends the operator to still has no guard

handleSnapshotDelete deletes without asking about dependents, so the invariant holds only inside ReapClonedSnapshot:

$ sed -n '1232,1237p' pkg/rest/snapshots.go
func (s *Server) handleSnapshotDelete(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
	rd := r.PathValue("rd")
	snapName := r.PathValue("snap")

	err := s.Store.Snapshots().Delete(r.Context(), rd, snapName)
	if err != nil {
$ grep -rn 'restoredFrom\|ErrCloneSnapshotInUse' pkg/rest/snapshots.go internal/cli/write_more.go ; echo "exit=$?"
exit=1

The refusal text is fixed and now says "delete the definition first" for a kept snapshot, which was the half I filed last round. The door is unchanged: linstor s d src clone-dst still succeeds against a snapshot a live definition restores from, and the internal snapshot is visible in s l, which this PR's own comment acknowledges. Carried rather than re-filed, because the half you addressed is addressed.

Comment thread pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go Outdated
// marker is what tells the two apart from somebody else's definition,
// and re-reading is what makes the decision on fresh state rather than
// on the read that lost the race.
err = s.Store.ResourceDefinitions().Create(ctx, &newRD)

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[MAJOR] the uncached read narrows the window and cannot close it

The invariant is enforced only on the deleter's side, and the dependent appears in two non-atomic steps, so no read there can see a definition that does not exist yet:

$ grep -n 'Snapshots().Get' pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go pkg/rest/rd_clone.go
pkg/rest/rd_clone.go:721:	existing, err := s.Store.Snapshots().Get(ctx, src.Name, snapName)
pkg/rest/rd_clone.go:959:	snap, err := st.Snapshots().Get(ctx, srcName, cloneSnapshotName(cloneName))
$ grep -n 'refuseSnapshotCreateOnRDDeletedRace' pkg/rest/snapshots.go
622:	if !s.refuseSnapshotCreateOnRDDeletedRace(w, r, &snap) {
756:// refuseSnapshotCreateOnRDDeletedRace closes the Bug 180 TOCTOU
771:func (s *Server) refuseSnapshotCreateOnRDDeletedRace(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, snap *apiv1.Snapshot) bool {

Both snapshot reads are BEFORE ResourceDefinitions().Create; nothing re-reads the snapshot after it, though the code does re-read the DEFINITION there with a careful comment about deciding on fresh state. Meanwhile the second grep is the mirror case closed properly, on the dependent's side: that guard re-reads the parent after the snapshot is persisted and rolls the snapshot back when it is gone.

So: a restore reads clone-dst, a concurrent rd d dst reaps it (the uncached list cannot see third, which has not been created), and the restore then creates third with a marker naming a snapshot that is gone. The satellite retries RestoreVolumeFromSnapshot to its budget and falls back to a blank volume, so third never reaches UpToDate while CSI was told 201.

This is not an argument against the reap. At the merge base nothing reaped at all, which is why the source could never be deleted:

$ git show d2c6112d:pkg/store/clone_snapshot.go
fatal: Path 'pkg/store/clone_snapshot.go' exists on disk, but not in 'd2c6112d'.

The PR trades a permanent wedge for a narrow race, which is the right trade. What is left is to close the window the way the file above already closes it: re-read the snapshot after the create and roll the definition back on NotFound.

switch {
case len(dependents) > 0:
out.InUse[snaps[i].Name] = dependents[0]
case legacy:

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[MAJOR] two new behaviours with no test that can fail without them

Nothing reads the new classification. Both tests that look like they cover it assert only that the snapshot name appears in Cause (pkg/rest/rd_clone_review10_test.go:79, pkg/rest/rd_clone_review9_test.go:108), which is true in either bucket, so swapping Deletable and Unowned stays green — and the bucket is what decides whether the operator reads delete X with linstor s d or delete X by hand if nothing of yours depends on them.

$ grep -rn --include='*_test.go' "Deletable\|Unowned\|LeftCloneSnapshots" .
./pkg/rest/rd_clone_review10_test.go:61:func TestRDDeleteRefusalNamesAnUnownedCloneSnapshot(t *testing.T) {

The one hit is a function name, not an assertion. The same holds for the 400 arm of the new LUKS status split at pkg/rest/rd_clone.go:206: the new test pins the 500 side only, and nothing anywhere names the sentinel the other arm keys on.

$ grep -rn --include='*_test.go' "ErrLUKSRequiresPassphrase" . ; echo "exit=$?"
exit=1

Two fixtures close both: an owner-stamped orphan pinning the linstor s d wording, and a no-passphrase LUKS clone asserting 400.

Comment thread pkg/store/clone_snapshot.go Outdated
causes = append(causes, "internal clone snapshot(s) "+strings.Join(l.Deletable, ", ")+
" outlived the clone they were taken for, and nothing was restored from them")
corrections = append(corrections, "delete "+strings.Join(l.Deletable, ", ")+
" with `linstor s d "+source+" <snapshot>`")

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[MINOR] three defects in the operator-facing report

The only printed command carries an unsubstituted <snapshot> although the names were listed two clauses earlier. Pasted as printed it is a shell redirect; quoted, snapshot delete of an absent name returns nil and exits 0 (internal/cli/write_more.go:610), so the step reads as done and the next rd d repeats the identical refusal. Unowned prints no command at all for an action of the same shape. And the trailing ", then delete " + source + " again" is appended after the join, so the last in-use sentence advises retrying the source delete right after a step that has not happened yet.

// reap was skipped or failed, and a repeated delete of the clone
// cannot re-run it: the clone is already gone. This refusal is the
// one place that still sees it, so it names it.
left, leftErr := store.CloneSnapshotsLeftBehind(r.Context(), s.Store, snaps)

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[MINOR] the read failure is discarded and the conjunct that looks like it handles it is dead

CloneSnapshotsLeftBehind returns LeftCloneSnapshots{} on every error path (pkg/store/clone_snapshot.go:198), which is already Empty(), so the leftErr == nil term adds nothing — dropping it leaves the suite green. The error itself is never logged in either door (internal/cli/write.go:321 is the other), while the sibling read at resource_definitions.go:1313 is, for the reason written above it. One V(1) line each. Returning the partial classification rather than a zero value would also keep what was decided before the failing snapshot.

A restore reads its snapshot and creates its definition in two steps,
so the reap's dependent list, however fresh, cannot see a definition
between them, and the snapshot could go from under it. The reap now
marks the snapshot before it lists dependents and deletes only after;
both restore doors read the snapshot back past the cache once their
definition exists and withdraw it, answering 404, on the mark or on a
snapshot that is gone. Whichever of the list and the create comes
second sees the other. A snapshot the reap keeps has the mark taken
off again.

The refusal on the source prints each command with the snapshot it
acts on instead of a placeholder, gives an unstamped snapshot the same
command behind a warning, and orders the steps so the source delete
comes last. The definitions are listed once for all snapshots, the
scan error is logged in both doors, and what was sorted before it is
kept.

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Fixed.

The window. Re-reading the snapshot after the create alone still leaves a gap: the reap can list, the restore create and re-read, and only then the delete land. So both sides now take part. The reap writes Blockstor/CloneSnapshotReaping on the snapshot before it lists dependents and deletes only after. Both restore doors read the snapshot back past the cache once their definition exists, and withdraw it with a 404 if the snapshot is gone or carries the mark. Whichever of the list and the create comes second sees the other. A snapshot the reap keeps, for a dependent or because the list failed, has the mark taken off again. Tests: the reap marks before it lists, the mark comes off what it keeps, and a restore withdraws both when its snapshot goes between its read and its create and when it finds the mark. Both REST and CLI are covered.

Coverage. One fixture holds both buckets and pins the exact command each one gets, so the bucket swap goes red. The no-passphrase LUKS clone asserts 400.

The report. Every command carries the snapshot's name, an unowned snapshot gets the same command behind a warning, and the steps run in order: what can go now, then each holding definition followed by its snapshot, then the source.

The scan error is logged in both doors, the dead conjunct is gone, and what was sorted before a failure is kept. The definitions are listed once for all snapshots now, not once per snapshot.

The unguarded s d door, the pruneOldAutoSnapshots age-only delete and applyClonePropEdits rewriting the marker are all the same "a restored definition loses its source" class and none of them is new here, so I'd file them together as one issue rather than grow this PR again.

CI: Integration is green on this head. E2E lane 2 failed recovery-node-id-mismatch (worker-2 stayed Inconsistent after the tamper-window bounce). That scenario never touches snapshots, clones or restores, so I left it rather than rerun blind.

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Verdict

NOT LGTM

Reviewed at 0e45136f against merge-base d2c6112d. All four findings from last round are closed, and each one reddens a named test under mutation: the reap now marks before it lists, both restore doors read back past the cache and withdraw, the buckets and the LUKS split carry fixtures, and the refusal text was rebuilt. What is left is in this commit's own new code. The handshake's mark can be left on a healthy snapshot permanently, by three separate routes, and the recovery the error text prints is not a command this CLI has. The rebuilt refusal now hands over a delete for a snapshot the same sentence calls in use, through a door with no check, and the assertion that forbade that wording was removed in this commit.

Findings

  • [MAJOR] pkg/store/clone_snapshot.go:172, a healthy snapshot can keep the reaping mark forever, and the recovery the message names does not exist
  • [MAJOR] pkg/store/clone_snapshot.go:348, the refusal hands over s d for a snapshot it has just called in use
  • [MAJOR] pkg/store/clone_snapshot.go:224, the skip-by-name guard is held by a test that injects a state the real reader cannot produce
  • [MINOR] pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go:846, the created term decides nothing a test can see
  • [MINOR] pkg/store/clone_snapshot.go:294, the partial result the new comment promises cannot be produced

Guard stacking

Thirteen functions in this PR have been changed by three or more commits, and the reap's own guard is now on its third round of repair. Two of the findings above are what that signal was pointing at: the decisive read in the unmark path is still cached, and the skip-by-name guard was kept by a test asserting an impossible state rather than removed. The pattern is not more guards, it is that the reap and the restore each hold half of an invariant neither can see whole.

Still open from my earlier rounds

The unguarded linstor s d door. You asked to carry it, pruneOldAutoSnapshots and applyClonePropEdits to one issue as a pre-existing class, and I agree: the door predates this PR and pkg/rest/snapshots.go has not moved. I am not re-filing it. The second finding above is the part that is this PR's business, because the instruction through that door is new here.

Claim mismatches

[PARTIAL] "Every behavioural change here is pinned by a test checked by reverting the change": six lines of this commit survive reversion with ./pkg/store ./pkg/rest ./internal/cli green. Two of them are the findings above; the rest are both delete(..., CloneSnapshotReapingProp) lines, both callers' new error tolerance, and Explain's step order.

Caveats

  • E2E (lane 2) is red on this head: FAIL recovery-node-id-mismatch (exit 2), worker-2 not UpToDate after tamper-window bounce (disk=Inconsistent), quorum:no. You are right that the scenario exercises no snapshot, clone or restore object; the six matches a grep finds there are the English word used as a verb. What is not settled is that lane 2 passed on both previous heads of this branch (95dea761 and b72dce4e) and this is its first failure. The scenario file is untouched by the diff and I found no path from the changed code to it, so I am not calling it a regression, but it is uncharacterised rather than cleared. One re-run decides it.
  • Mid rolling upgrade a reap on the old binary writes no mark, so a restore finished by the new one is back to the pre-change race.
  • No cluster: the data-plane half of the retry paths is reasoned, not executed.

Recommended follow-ups

  • cozystack-pr-test on a stand for the retry paths and for a snapshot delete under a live restore source.

}

if clone == "" {
if _, marked := snap.Props[CloneSnapshotReapingProp]; !marked {

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[MAJOR] a healthy snapshot can keep the reaping mark forever, and the recovery the message names does not exist

The handshake is the right shape and the ordering is real: setReapingMark, then ListUncached, then restoredFrom, then Delete, with keepCloneSnapshot taking the mark back off on every exit that is not the delete. What is not safe is the taking-off.

keepCloneSnapshot calls setReapingMark(ctx, ..., ""), which reads the snapshot with st.Snapshots().Get, and that is the cached client with no uncached fallback:

$ grep -n 'err := s.c.Get' pkg/store/k8s/snapshots.go
157:	err := s.c.Get(ctx, types.NamespacedName{Name: snapshotCRDName(rdName, snapName)}, &crd)
204:		err := s.c.Get(ctx, key, &existing)
277:	err := s.c.Get(ctx, types.NamespacedName{Name: Name(rdName)}, &rd)

resourceDefinitions.Get has that fallback twelve lines into its own file and says why. So the mark this same function wrote one round trip earlier may not be in the cache yet, the early return at line 172 reads !marked and clears nothing, and the mark stays on a snapshot the reap deliberately KEPT. Silently: the "the reaping mark stayed on it" sentence is produced only in the Update-error branch.

Two more routes reach the same state. The reap runs on a cancellable context, so a client disconnect or a SIGTERM during a rolling restart kills the cleanup, which uses that same context:

$ grep -n 'reapClonedSnapshot(r.Context()' pkg/rest/resource_definitions.go
1220:	reapClonedSnapshot(r.Context(), s.Store, clonedFrom)

and the CLI door is the same shape at internal/cli/write.go:358. The third is a process death between the mark and the delete, which the comment above rollBackCompensating in #193 describes for its own case.

From then on RestoreSourceWithdrawn refuses every restore from that healthy snapshot, permanently, and linstor-csi can never provision from it.

The recovery your own message names cannot be run:

$ go build -o /tmp/bs-cli ./cmd/blockstor && /tmp/bs-cli s sp src snap Blockstor/CloneSnapshotReaping
error: usage: unknown snapshot subcommand "sp"

The snapshot noun has list, create, create-multiple, delete, rollback and the three restore forms (internal/cli/command/registry.go:213), and no property verb at all, while resource-group and volume-group carry verbSetProp explicitly. For contrast the same verb on a noun that has it gets past argument parsing and fails only on reaching a cluster.

Two fixes, both already in this tree in other places: read the snapshot back through ListByDefinitionUncached before concluding there is no mark, the way RestoreSourceWithdrawn itself does, and run the compensation on a context the request cannot cancel. Then either give the snapshot noun the property verb the message assumes, or name a command that exists.

Comment thread pkg/store/clone_snapshot.go Outdated
for _, snapshot := range kept {
causes = append(causes, "internal clone snapshot "+snapshot+" is kept because "+
l.InUse[snapshot]+" was restored from it")
steps = append(steps, "delete "+l.InUse[snapshot]+" if it is no longer needed, then "+deleteCmd(snapshot))

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[MAJOR] the refusal hands over s d for a snapshot it has just called in use

The rebuilt report fixed the three things I filed last round, and the InUse step now ends in a pasteable delete. Rendered:

CORRECTION: `linstor s d src clone-gone-a`; if nothing of yours depends on clone-legacy-b, `linstor s d src clone-legacy-b`; delete third if it is no longer needed, then `linstor s d src clone-kept-c`; then delete src again
CAUSE: internal clone snapshot clone-gone-a outlived the clone it was taken for, and nothing was restored from it; snapshot clone-legacy-b looks like the internal snapshot of a clone that no longer exists, but was not stamped as one, so they are never reaped; internal clone snapshot clone-kept-c is kept because third was restored from it

So the same message says clone-kept-c is kept because third restores from it, and then hands over the command to remove it, guarded by the clause "if it is no longer needed".

The door that command names applies no check. The sentinel the reap raises has one producer and no consumer anywhere:

$ grep -rn 'ErrCloneSnapshotInUse' --include='*.go' pkg/ internal/ | grep -v _test.go
pkg/store/clone_snapshot.go:85:// ErrCloneSnapshotInUse reports an internal clone snapshot another definition
pkg/store/clone_snapshot.go:87:var ErrCloneSnapshotInUse = errors.New("internal clone snapshot is still a restore source")
pkg/store/clone_snapshot.go:137:			ErrCloneSnapshotInUse, dependents[0], ref.Source, ref.Snapshot))

handleSnapshotDelete goes straight to Snapshots().Delete (pkg/rest/snapshots.go:1236) and so does the CLI (internal/cli/write_more.go:610).

This commit also removed the assertion that forbade this wording:

$ git show 95dea761:pkg/rest/rd_clone_review10_test.go | grep -n 'still in use'
55:		t.Errorf("correction %q tells the operator to delete a snapshot still in use", rc.Correc)

That string appears in no test at this head.

The door being unguarded predates this PR and I am not re-filing it; what is new here is the product instructing the operator through it, and the removal of the check on that instruction. Followed as printed it destroys the restore source a live definition depends on, and that definition then never reaches UpToDate.

Either put the check at the action site, refusing a snapshot delete whose snapshot still has a restoredFrom dependent with the sentinel the reap already raises, on both doors, which also closes the carried item; or name the snapshot without a pasteable command, as the previous wording did.

Comment thread pkg/store/clone_snapshot.go Outdated
var names []string

for i := range definitions {
if clone != "" && strings.EqualFold(definitions[i].Name, clone) {

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[MAJOR] the skip-by-name guard is held by a test that injects a state the real reader cannot produce

restoredFrom skips any definition whose name equals the clone's, and the comment above it gives the reason: "it may still be listed right after its own delete".

That cannot happen on this path. The list is st.ResourceDefinitions().ListUncached(ctx) (clone_snapshot.go:128), the store is built NewWithAPIReader(mgr.GetClient(), mgr.GetAPIReader()) (pkg/store/k8s/field_index.go:67), so the read is the apiReader. And the kind has no finalizer to linger behind:

$ grep -c Finalizer pkg/store/k8s/resource_definitions.go
0

Every finalizer constant in the tree belongs to Resource, Snapshot, PhysicalDevice or StoragePool, in the satellite controllers; the ResourceDefinition store mentions the word nowhere, and its Delete is a bare s.c.Delete (pkg/store/k8s/resource_definitions.go:287). (A recursive grep answers this too, but its line order is the file system's, so the single-file count is the form that reproduces.)

The only test holding the guard supplies the impossible state itself: TestReapClonedSnapshotIgnoresTheCloneItReapsFor (pkg/store/clone_snapshot_test.go:41) wraps the backend in laggingDefinitionStore{ghost: ...} and puts a definition named dst into the listing that the backend does not hold. So the test cannot fail for the right reason, and the guard reads as justified.

What it does open: a DIFFERENT definition carrying the clone's name is not counted as a dependent. The window is between the clone's own delete and the mark (pkg/rest/resource_definitions.go:1175, then the sweep at :1213 which is one uncached round trip, then :1221). A definition created in it passes its own read-back, because the mark is not there yet, and the reap then deletes the snapshot out from under it, which is the half of the handshake this commit added.

Drop the skip, or key it on the UID taken before the delete rather than on the name. Either way the test needs rewriting, because its double produces a state the real reader cannot.

// answers as for a snapshot that does not exist. A definition an earlier
// attempt left is not this request's to delete.
func (s *Server) withdrawRestoredRD(ctx context.Context, rdName string, created bool, cause error) error {
if created {

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[MINOR] the created term decides nothing a test can see

if created { Delete } is the only thing separating "withdraw the definition this request just made" from "leave an earlier attempt's leftover alone", and mutating it to if true leaves the suite green, so neither direction is pinned. Both existing withdrawal tests arrive with created == true.

The false branch needs no concurrency to reach. A restore partially fails and leaves a definition; the operator deletes the source snapshot believing the work is done; the provisioner retries, the resume path adopts the leftover, the read-back reports the snapshot gone, and the request answers 404 for good over a definition that can never be finished. The 404 says only that the snapshot was deleted, so nothing points at the leftover or at rd d as the way out.

A fixture that reaches the adopt-then-withdraw corner, leftover present and snapshot absent, asserting the leftover is kept, plus a refusal that names it.

Comment thread pkg/store/clone_snapshot.go Outdated
if definitions == nil {
definitions, err = st.ResourceDefinitions().ListUncached(ctx)
if err != nil {
return out, fmt.Errorf("list definitions restored from %s: %w", snaps[i].ResourceName, err)

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[MINOR] the partial result the new comment promises cannot be produced

The read failure is now reported in both doors and the dead leftErr == nil conjunct is gone, which is what I filed. The third part of the change does not work.

The new comment says "On an error the snapshots sorted before it are returned with it", and both callers were changed to use left regardless of leftErr. Nothing can ever be sorted before the error: the definition list is taken lazily at the first snapshot that needs it, and the bucketing switch runs only after that list succeeds, so the error return always carries the zero value, which is already Empty(). Reverting this line to return LeftCloneSnapshots{}, ... keeps ./pkg/store ./pkg/rest ./internal/cli green.

What the caller change did buy is the two new reports, and those are worth keeping. Either drop the sentence from the comment, or move the bucketing above the list so a partial answer exists to return.

The reap took its mark off through a cached read that, one round trip
after its own write, may not hold the mark yet, and it ran on the
caller's context, so a hang-up or a SIGTERM could cut it between the
mark and the clean-up. Either way a snapshot the reap kept refused
every restore for good. The mark is now read back past the cache,
the reap runs detached on a 30s budget, and the mark carries its time
and expires after five minutes, so one left by a process that died
cannot refuse restores for longer than that.

The definition named like the clone is no longer skipped: the list is
the API server's and a definition has no finalizer, so the clone is
gone by then, and the skip only let a new definition under that name
lose its snapshot.

The refusal on the source gives a snapshot still restored from no
delete command: the snapshot delete door does not check for
dependents. A restore that withdraws over an earlier attempt's
leftover names it and `rd d`. The partial-result promise the scan
could never keep is dropped.

Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Andrei Kvapil <kvapss@gmail.com>
Brings in the resource-group race guards (#193) and combines them with
this branch's replay and resume of clone and restore leftovers.

materializeRestoredRD now reports whether it created the target or
adopted this operation's own leftover. Only a created target is rolled
back on a later failure; an adopted one is left for the replay gate,
and its group is checked as the group it carries rather than the one
the source has moved to since. The snapshot read-back withdraws only
what this request created.

On the clone path, a marked leftover passes the parent-group and
abandoned-rollback gates before it is either replayed as finished or
resumed. Wholeness stays the finished/unfinished/foreign assessment,
which now treats a leftover whose every replica is being deleted as
tearing down and refuses it. The tests that expected a refusal over an
unmarked partial leftover now expect the resume, and a 201 only over a
clone it made whole. A finished restore replay runs the group guard as
well.

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Signed-off-by: Andrei Kvapil <kvapss@gmail.com>
The props helper the group-race fix added kept its own unexported copy
of the restore marker key so the two branches could merge in either
order. Now that both are in, it uses RestoreFromSnapshotProp.

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Signed-off-by: Andrei Kvapil <kvapss@gmail.com>
pickFreeAddr closes its probe listener before Start binds, so a
parallel test can take the port in between. The readiness dial then
reached that test's server, this one had already failed to bind, and
every request was answered by a store that never held the fixture,
which surfaced as a 404 from the handler under test. The harness now
waits for the server's OnReady and retries a bind that lost the race
on a fresh port.

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Fixed.

The mark can no longer be stranded. The clean-up reads the snapshot past the cache before deciding there is nothing to take off. The reap runs detached from its caller on a 30s budget, so a hang-up or a SIGTERM can't cut it between the mark and the clean-up. The mark now carries its time (<clone>@<RFC 3339>) and expires after five minutes; a mark that can't be parsed doesn't count. That covers the process-death route too, and the error no longer names a command the CLI doesn't have; it says how long restores stay refused. Five minutes against a 30s reap budget also leaves room for clock skew between the replica that writes the mark and the one that reads it. Tests: the clean-up through a cache that has not seen the mark, a reap on an already cancelled caller, and fresh, expired and unreadable marks.

The refusal no longer gives a snapshot still restored from any command. It says to keep it while the definition exists and that the next delete of the source will name it again. I put back the assertion that the correction carries no s d for it. Guarding the s d door itself stays with the follow-up issue: refusing a snapshot delete there changes what linstor-csi sees on DeleteSnapshot for a VolumeSnapshot whose restored PVC is still alive, and that deserves its own discussion.

The name skip is gone. You're right that the list is the API server's and a definition has no finalizer, so the clone is gone by the time the reap lists. The ghost test is replaced with one where a new definition under the clone's name restores from the snapshot and keeps it.

created: a fixture now adopts an earlier attempt's leftover, loses the snapshot in between, and asserts the leftover survives and the 404 names it with linstor rd d.

I dropped the partial-result sentence. Both callers are back to logging the error or explaining the report, not both.

Of the six lines you saw survive reversion: both delete(..., CloneSnapshotReapingProp) lines are now held by a restore over an expired mark, one per door, and Explain's step order has its own test. The callers' error tolerance is gone. All ten mutations for this round go red.

Merged main with #193 in. The two restore paths disagreed on one thing: #193 assumed restore had no replay gate and rolled back after any failure, while this PR resumes a leftover. The result rolls back only a definition the request created, and never one it adopted from an earlier attempt. An adopted leftover is checked against its own group, and resuming refuses over an abandoned-rollback mark. The clone leftover check is now just assessLeftover, plus a tearing-down state taken from replicaAcceptedForDeletion. Four #193 tests that expected a refusal where this PR resumes now assert that the 201 comes only over a clone the resume made whole. The marker key is spelled once, in store.RestoreFromSnapshotProp.

Also fixed a test harness race that turned red on the merge head: pickFreeAddr releases its port before Start binds, so a parallel test could take it, the readiness dial reached that test's server, and the handler under test answered 404 from a store without the fixture (TestRDCloneRefusesARetryWithADifferentShape). The harness now waits for the server's own OnReady and retries a lost bind on a fresh port.

CI on this head: all six E2E lanes green, so recovery-node-id-mismatch passed on the rerun. Integration failed on TestGroupKWFPoolDestroyedDropsFromPlacer, the one you flagged on #193. I ran it locally, 56 iterations on each side: 2 failures at d2c6112d (before #193) and 4 at 5c354a0b (after). So it is a flake that predates #193, not a regression from it.

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Verdict

NOT LGTM

Reviewed at 13cfa708. All five findings from last round are closed, each pinned by a test that reddens under mutation: the unmark reads past the cache, the reap detaches before its first write, the mark expires, the name skip is gone and its ghost fixture with it, the refusal gives an in-use snapshot no command and the assertion forbidding that is back, and the partial-result sentence is dropped. Two of the caveats I raised are also answered, below.

What blocks is new. A retry now answers 201 over a definition whose only replica is already being torn down, where current main refuses and rolls back. The mark's five-minute lifetime assumes a reap that already deleted can no longer act, and a snapshot delete outlives its reap for as long as a satellite holds the finalizer. And the restore door writes the abandoned-rollback mark on its own failure path and never reads it back, so it resumes the leftover its twin refuses.

Findings

  • [MAJOR] pkg/rest/rd_clone.go:1291, a retry answers 201 over a clone whose only replica is terminating, where main rolls back
  • [MAJOR] pkg/store/clone_snapshot.go:91, the mark expires while the delete it guards is still in flight
  • [MAJOR] pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go:594, the restore door resumes a leftover whose rollback gave up
  • [MINOR] pkg/store/clone_snapshot_round12_test.go:21, the cache fixture decorates a method this path never calls
  • [MINOR] pkg/rest/rd_clone.go:1338, the !needReplica return skips the shape.extra term its comment claims

Guard stacking

Sixteen functions here are now on their third or later repair, assessLeftover and assessMarkedClone among them. The first and third findings are what that was pointing at: the leftover assessment has grown one classifier per round, and the two doors that share its states do not share its gates. The status endpoint already answers "every replica of the definition under that name is being torn down" on the input the POST path accepts, so the discriminator exists and the shape is one place to ask it from, not another guard.

Still open from my earlier rounds

Nothing. All five rows closed this round.

What this PR does to the merged #193

Three of #193's tests are renamed and inverted here, from the replay refusing a leftover to the retry making it whole, and the reasoning in merge193_test.go is sound: roll back only what the request created, never what it adopted. Two things the inversion left behind. The new bar, volumes plus one non-deleting replica, is the right bar, and no inverted test seeds no-volume together with a deleting replica, which is the first finding's input. And TestRDCloneRetryOverAReapedLeftoverAnswersOnlyAWholeClone guards its assertions behind if 201, so a refusal satisfies it too.

Claim mismatches

[PARTIAL] "All ten mutations for this round go red": the uncached snapshot read is the exception, for the reason in the fourth finding. Eight of ten reverts I ran go red.

Caveats

  • recovery-node-id-mismatch passed on the rerun and all seven E2E checks are green. The caveat I left open last round is closed.
  • TestGroupKWFPoolDestroyedDropsFromPlacer is the one red check. Your 56-iteration measurement settles what matters: two failures at d2c6112d is a revision without #193, so it predates it, and I retract my round-11 line that it does not appear on this branch, which was true of that head and is not of this one. On the rate your numbers say less than they look: 2 against 4 out of 56 neither shows a doubling nor excludes one. It wants its own issue against Bug 83, and you hold the only reproduction data anybody has.
  • No cluster: the satellite side of the terminating-replica and finalizer paths is reasoned from the store's own contract, not executed.

Comment thread pkg/rest/rd_clone.go
return cloneUnfinished, errors.Wrapf(err, "list the volumes of %q", cloneName)
}

if len(targetVDs) == 0 {

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[MAJOR] a retry answers 201 over a clone whose only replica is terminating, where main rolls back

assessMarkedClone returns on an empty volume list before it ever looks at replicas:

$ sed -n '1291,1293p' pkg/rest/rd_clone.go
	if len(targetVDs) == 0 {
		return cloneUnfinished, nil
	}

The cloneTearingDown branch that would catch this sits about sixty-five lines below, unreachable for a definition with no volumes. The resume then stamps replicas, and the skip added this round treats an existing one as already placed:

$ git show origin/main:pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go | grep -c 'ErrAlreadyExists'
0

A Create over an object carrying a DeletionTimestamp is exactly what returns AlreadyExists, and the store does expose the difference, one line away from being asked:

$ grep -n 'withDeletingFlag(crd.Spec.Flags' pkg/store/k8s/resources.go
602:		Flags:    withDeletingFlag(crd.Spec.Flags, crd.DeletionTimestamp != nil),

I ran it both ways. Resume over a volume-less leftover with a terminating replica, and a fresh clone under a name whose replica is still terminating:

POST clone = 201 "resource definition clone completed on retry: dst-na" ; replicas live=0 total=1
POST clone = 201 "resource definition cloned: dst-nb"                   ; replicas live=0 total=1
GET  status = 404 "no finished clone 'dst-nb' of 'src-nb'",
     cause "every replica of the definition under that name is being torn down"

The status endpoint answers correctly on the input the POST path accepts.

The same input on current main, in a worktree at 5c354a0:

POST clone on origin/main = 500 "clone of resource definition 'src-nb' failed:
  resource \"dst-nb\" on node \"node-a\": object already exists;
  the partial clone 'dst-nb' was rolled back", correction "retry the clone"
rd exists afterwards: false

So main refuses and rolls back and this head reports success over an empty shell. For linstor-csi the 404 on the status poll sends it back to POST and the loop resolves once the finalizer clears; an operator at linstor rd clone has no poll and is simply told "cloned".

assessMarkedClone should consult the replicas when there are no volumes, and stampRestoredResourcesOnNodes should re-read on AlreadyExists rather than assume a live stamp.

Comment thread pkg/store/clone_snapshot.go Outdated
// call the reap makes, the delete included, can land after it.
const cloneSnapshotReapBudget = 30 * time.Second

// cloneSnapshotReapingMarkTTL is how long a reaping mark stays live. A mark

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[MAJOR] the mark expires while the delete it guards is still in flight

The TTL is justified by "a mark older than this belongs to a reap that can no longer delete anything, since cloneSnapshotReapBudget is far shorter". That holds for a reap that died before deleting, and not for one that already issued the delete.

Snapshots().Delete is a plain s.c.Delete, so with the satellite finalizer present it only sets a DeletionTimestamp, and the satellite removes that finalizer only once the on-disk delete succeeds; an error requeues. Meanwhile the store hides the state for snapshots, where it exposes it for resources:

$ grep -c withDeletingFlag pkg/store/k8s/resources.go
3
$ grep -c withDeletingFlag pkg/store/k8s/snapshots.go
0

So Get and ListByDefinitionUncached serve a snapshot being torn down as a live one, and after a successful delete the reap does not take the mark off.

With the node holding clone-dst unreachable, the first five minutes refuse a restore from it correctly and the sixth allows one, onto a snapshot whose data is being destroyed; the restored definition's replicas then wait out their budget and concede to a blank volume.

The protocol is leaning on the mark's age where the question is the object's deletion state. Exposing that for snapshots the way resources.go already does would let both halves ask it directly, and the TTL could then be the backstop it was meant to be rather than the discriminator.

return false, true
}

return true, false

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[MAJOR] the restore door resumes a leftover whose rollback gave up

Both doors write the abandoned-rollback mark through the same refusal:

$ grep -n 'failedMaterialiseRefusal(ctx' pkg/rest/rd_clone.go pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go
pkg/rest/rd_clone.go:506:			s.failedMaterialiseRefusal(ctx, "clone of resource definition '"+src.Name+"' failed: "+err.Error(),
pkg/rest/snapshot_restore.go:391:	writeJSON(w, http.StatusInternalServerError, []apiv1.APICallRc{*s.failedMaterialiseRefusal(ctx,

One door reads it back:

$ grep -n 'rollbackAbandonedKey\]' pkg/rest/rd_clone.go pkg/rest/rg_deleted_race.go
pkg/rest/rd_clone.go:1015:	spelled := existing.Props[rollbackAbandonedKey]
pkg/rest/rg_deleted_race.go:210:				rd.Props[rollbackAbandonedKey] = step

restoreTargetState checks the marker and the DELETE flag and stops; restoreLeftoverIsFinished never looks. A leftover carrying the marker plus rollbackAbandonedKey: "replicas", retried on each endpoint:

restore resume over an abandoned-rollback leftover = 201
volumes hydrated onto the marked leftover = 1
clone resume over the same leftover (control) = 409

So the state merge193_test.go:64 calls "may hold less than the clone intended" is refused on one endpoint and resumed on its twin.

I filed the thin half of this on #193 as a note, where it was a note because the restore door had no resume path to protect. This PR gives it one, which is what turns it into a blocker here. Route restoreTargetState through the same gate and mirror TestRDCloneResumeRefusesALeftoverWhoseRollbackGaveUp on the restore side.

// mark, the way a cache that has not seen the reap's own write does.
type cacheWithoutTheMark struct{ store.SnapshotStore }

func (c cacheWithoutTheMark) Get(ctx context.Context, rdName, snapName string) (apiv1.Snapshot, error) {

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[MINOR] the cache fixture decorates a method this path never calls

The fix is in the code: setReapingMark reads through uncachedSnapshot, which lists past the cache. The test named after it cannot fail for that reason.

$ grep -n 'ListByDefinitionUncached(ctx, source)' pkg/store/clone_snapshot.go
215:	snaps, err := st.Snapshots().ListByDefinitionUncached(ctx, source)
$ grep -n 'cacheWithoutTheMark) Get' pkg/store/clone_snapshot_round12_test.go
21:func (c cacheWithoutTheMark) Get(ctx context.Context, rdName, snapName string) (apiv1.Snapshot, error) {

The double strips the mark from Get; the path under test reads a list. So reverting line 215 to the cached ListByDefinition leaves ./pkg/store ./pkg/rest ./internal/cli green, while a mutation that happens to route the read through Get reddens it. The test detects one spelling of the mistake rather than the mistake.

Graded a note, not a blocker: the behaviour is right and the carried row closes on the code. What is missing is the test that would notice if it stopped being right, and RestoreSourceWithdrawn is the restore's only half of the reap protocol, so a cached read there loses a live mark. A double on ListByDefinition that strips the prop reddens under that revert and passes on head.

Comment thread pkg/rest/rd_clone.go Outdated
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}

if !needReplica {

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[MINOR] the !needReplica return skips the shape.extra term its comment claims

The comment above assessLeftover says a volume number the snapshot never recorded belongs to somebody else "on a target with no replica", which is the bare-restore case. That branch returns before the case shape.extra below it, so the term is dead for every restore without node_names:

assessLeftover(needReplica=false) = 1 (cloneFinished); needReplica=true = 2 (cloneForeign)
bare restore retry over that target = 201

Either check shape.extra before the early return, or narrow the comment to the paths where the term is reachable.

A volume-less clone leftover was judged unfinished before its
replicas were looked at, and the resume then took a replica still
held by its finalizer for its own placement, answering 201 over a
definition with no live replica. The leftover check now refuses
when every replica under the name is going away, and the stamp
re-reads an existing replica instead of assuming it is live.

A snapshot delete only stamps a DeletionTimestamp while a satellite
finalizer holds it, which can outlast the reaping mark's lifetime.
The store now surfaces DELETE on such a snapshot, the way it already
does for resources, and a restore withdraws on it; the mark's age is
back to being a backstop.

The restore door writes the abandoned-rollback mark through the same
failed materialisation the clone does, and now reads it back through
the same gate before resuming.

Signed-off-by: Andrei Kvapil <kvapss@gmail.com>
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Fixed.

Terminating replica. A volume-less leftover now checks its replicas before it is called unfinished, and refuses when every one of them is going away, before the resume writes anything. The stamp no longer takes AlreadyExists at face value. It re-reads the replica and fails on one carrying DELETE, so a fresh clone over a terminating replica is rolled back the way main does it. Both of your inputs are tests.

Mark vs. delete in flight. You're right that age was answering the wrong question. The k8s store now surfaces DELETE on a snapshot with a DeletionTimestamp, the same withDeletingFlag resources use, and RestoreSourceWithdrawn withdraws on it. The TTL is back to covering only the reap up to its delete.

Restore door. The abandoned-rollback gate is now one function, and restoreTargetState goes through it too. A restore-side test mirrors the clone one: 409, nothing hydrated.

The cache fixture now strips the mark from ListByDefinition as well, so reverting uncachedSnapshot to the cached list goes red.

shape.extra: I narrowed the comment rather than the code. TestSnapshotRestoreReplayOfABareRestoreWithAnAddedVolume pins the opposite on purpose: a bare restore places nothing, so a volume added to it later is its own. Moving the check above the early return broke that test.

I made TestRDCloneRetryOverAReapedLeftoverAnswersOnlyAWholeClone assert the 201 instead of guarding on it.

Bug 83 flake filed: #198.

CI: Integration timed out on TestGroupFRToggleDiskful2DisklessReapsTieBreaker (the 2m30s class again); the rest is green, interop still running.

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