fix(epoll): never park the loop on a running async handler, and leave the live set to the loop on an async hijack (celeris#669, celeris#668) by FumingPower3925 · Pull Request #698 · goceleris/celeris

FumingPower3925 · 2026-09-26T12:29:08Z

Summary

Two epoll AsyncHandlers ownership defects (plan §4.3, Lane C).

celeris#669. The dispatch goroutine holds cs.detachMu for the whole of ProcessH1, which means for the whole user handler. Four loop-thread sites took that mutex with a blocking Lock. So one slow handler parked the loop thread, and every connection on it, until the handler returned: no epoll_wait, no accept, no flush.
celeris#668. An async Hijack runs hijackConn on the dispatch goroutine. That function mutated liveConns and connCount, both loop-thread-only, and since fix(engine): sweep the connections a switch leaves behind, instead of waiting for each to send again (celeris#657) #687 also the sweep's dormancy fields.

Closes #669
Closes #668
Refs #704

celeris#669: what changed

The fix takes #604's TryLock-and-skip shape and applies it to every loop-thread site that could wait on a handler:

Site	Reached by	When the lock is held across a handler
`closeConn`	timeout reap, EPOLLRDHUP, EPOLLHUP/ERR, every error close	The close is left to the dispatch goroutine (`closeOwed`). The goroutine exits at its next check and hands `cs` back through the detach queue, and the queue's `asyncClosed` branch runs `closeConn` again with the lock free. Until then the conn stays whole, because the handler is still writing its response into it.
`drainRead` EOF / read error (`closeOnReadEnd`)	a client that gives up and disconnects mid-handler	The flush and the `OnError` it owed are carried on that close (`closeErr`) and delivered under the lock when the close runs.
dirty pass (`flushDirty`)	a partial flush, then a pipelined slow request	The conn is given up until the goroutine hands it back at its next park, after its own flush (`relinkOwed`). The loop then puts it on the dirty list again. No spin.
EPOLLOUT resume (`handleWritable`)	the same, on EPOLLOUT	Same as the dirty pass, and the EPOLLOUT interest is dropped. It is edge-triggered (`armEpollOut` registers `EPOLLIN\|EPOLLET\|EPOLLOUT`), this event spent its edge, and if the handler's own flush drains the socket no other comes; the hand-back brings the conn back instead.

How a site tells a handler from a bounded holder: dispatchBusy reads asyncRun && !asyncParked && !asyncDetachUnlocked under asyncInMu.

The goroutine holds the lock across a handler only while it is running and before any Detach.
Every other holder is a guarded writeFn in one write, or the goroutine's own asyncClosed re-check. For those, each site still waits exactly as before.
A handler that keeps streaming inline after Detach counts as a bounded holder. Its lock is only ever held by guarded writes, and leaving the close to it would wait for a handler that is itself waiting for that close's OnDetachClose.

Guards that come with this:

An owed close is never transplanted (tryTransplant).
A deferred transplant finishes only after its dispatch goroutine has exited, and never pools its connState (round 2, drainDetachQueue and finishTransplantHandoff). Once tryTransplant asks a parked goroutine to quiesce, every queue entry naming the conn reaches the transplant branch, including one the goroutine made before it parked: the remainder of its own partial flush, or a relink hand-back. Finishing on such an entry pooled cs while the goroutine was still waking to exit.
- An entry drained while the goroutine lives (asyncRun, read under asyncInMu) now does nothing. The quiesce exit always enqueues, so the first entry drained after the exit finishes the hand-off.
- The loop cannot tell whether a later entry still names cs, so the hand-off no longer pools it, and transplanted makes every later entry a no-op. That costs one allocation per conn moved, once per engine switch.
- Why the exit always enqueues: nothing can set asyncClosed on a conn that is out of the table and the live set. closeConn bails on a nil slot, and the reap, the sweep and shutdown walk liveConns. So a quiescing goroutine leaves by the quiesce branch.
A conn given up mid-handler is not offered to a transplant until an entry has put it back on the dirty list (relinkPending in flushedAtBoundary). The goroutine's own partial-flush entry may be the one that does it. That is harmless now, because memory safety no longer rests on relinkPending.
The EPOLLRDHUP branch leaves a closing conn alone. Its csWritePending would otherwise read the buffers the handler is writing.

celeris#668: what changed (option (b), made safe)

The hijack enqueues at once. Off-thread, hijackConn touches only what is serialized against the loop: EPOLL_CTL_DEL, the slot under driverMu, the atomics, and hijacked (now atomic). It then enqueues cs immediately. drainDetachQueue settles the conn at its next iteration, exactly once (hijackSettled): it removes the conn from the live set, decrements connCount, and clears the dirty list and the ask.
- It does not wait for the goroutine to exit. For a handler that serves the hijacked conn itself, the exit is the end of that session, and for Detach-then-Hijack there is none.
A hijacked connState is never pooled. Queue entries made before or after the hijack may still name it. On main, the second of two entries (a partial pipelined flush, then ErrHijacked) ended in markDirty on a pooled connState.
- Not pooling leaves no sendfile dup open. initProtocol installs the sendfile hook in sync mode only (loop.go:1726-1732, the only SetSendFileFn call), and only an async conn is hijacked off-thread, so cs.sendfile is always nil there.
liveConns holds *connState, not fd numbers. Between the hijack and the settle, the descriptor is closed and its number can go to the next accept on the same loop. Keyed by number, the two entries alias: swap-remove fixes up the wrong conn's liveIdx, and the stale entry is never found again (shutdown would then close that number twice). The walkers (reap, sweep, shutdown) skip a hijacked entry, and so does the dirty pass, which on main could write a hijacked conn's queued bytes to the reissued number.
Accept and adopt install their slot under driverMu. That orders the install after the hijack's clear of the same slot. It costs one uncontended lock per accepted conn.

Deadlock check (RULE TEN)

Locks: cs.detachMu (D), cs.asyncInMu (A), l.detachQMu (Q), l.driverMu (R), l.xferAskMu (X), wakefd.mu (W). Edges added or kept:

D→A: hijackConn, and OnDetach publishing asyncDetachUnlocked.
D→R: hijackConn, and the ownership re-check in closeConn.
D→Q and D→W: the hijack notice.
A→Q and A→W: the park-time relink hand-back.
A→X→W: askAtPark, unchanged.

Nothing acquires D while holding A, Q, R, X or W. The loop takes A only after TryLock(D) failed, and releases it before any fallback Lock(D). The graph is acyclic.

Round 2 adds no edge. drainDetachQueue's transplant branch takes A alone: it has released Q after the swap, and holds no D, R or X.

The loop still does a blocking Lock(D) in these places:

where dispatchBusy is false (bounded holders);
notifyDetachedPeerClosed (detached conns only);
the H2C inline path (the goroutine exits after its upgrade flush);
shutdown (which waits for the goroutines anyway).

Evidence

Every number below comes from a log in the lane's evidence directory, evidence/celeris-669-668/lane-20260926/, and was produced by a saved script. README.md there lists round 1's scripts, and round2/MANIFEST.txt lists this round's:

round2/tools/ci_final.sh for CI;
round2/tools/drive_r2.sh, which runs run_suite_r2.sh, for the local runs;
round2/tools/make_mutants.py and compile_mutants.sh for the mutants;
round2/tools/tally.sh and compare_full.py for the tallies.

Tallies count only anchored --- PASS:, --- FAIL: and --- SKIP: lines (^[[:space:]]*--- ), subtests included. A SKIP is reported as a SKIP. The anchor is new this round: round 1's unanchored count of the Adaptive job also took the workflow's own echoed script lines as results (see the correction below).

Failing-first, on 9f4d89b's code (the test commit 17b8038):

CI x86, run 36242060999: the epoll package FAILs, with 9 FAIL lines and 51 data-race reports.
The issue's rig: an 800 ms async handler, plus a fast keep-alive conn pinned to the same loop by its worker id. The budget for a fast request is 300 ms.
- Peer half-close trigger: a fast request took 751 ms (x86) and 768 ms (arm64).
- ReadTimeout 100 ms trigger: the fast conn was reaped as collateral on both arches. The parked loop resumed its sweep and found it idle.
Accept churn plus async hijacks, then PauseAccept: 0/2 loops reached SUSPENDED, on both arches.
arm64 locally: 11 FAIL, 11 PASS, 0 SKIP, 51 data races. Two tests of this PR, copied onto the unfixed code, show two pre-existing defects there:
- the second of two queue entries for a hijacked conn called markDirty on a pooled connState;
- the dirty pass wrote a hijacked conn's queued bytes to its old descriptor number, which another file already owned.

Failing-first for review round 1's major, on e038a40's code (the test commit df2bcb7): TestADeferredTransplantFinishesOnlyAfterItsGoroutineExits FAILs on arm64 (round2/local/suite-ae35481/ff-new-race.log): 4 FAIL lines, the test and its 3 subtests, rc=1. Each subtest's message names its defect:

entry drained while the goroutine lives: the hand-off finished anyway (adopted=1) and released the connState the goroutine was about to wake on;
entry and exit in one batch: the exit's entry then put the pooled connState on the dirty list (dirty=true), and the connState had been pooled (detachMu=nil fd=0);
the review's interleaving (the partial-flush entry clears relinkPending before the relink hand-back is queued): the hand-off finished on the relink hand-back with the goroutine alive.

This head, ae35481:

CI x86, run 36280312424, with every job log read (round2/ci/ci-final-ae35481/TALLY.txt):
- All 9 jobs succeeded on the first attempt. CodeQL is green too.
- Unit: 84 packages ok, 0 FAIL, 0 data races. The epoll package is ok. Main's Unit job at 9f4d89b (run 35504173390) has the same 84 ok.
- Adaptive job (-v) against main's: 103 PASS lines over 101 test names, 0 FAIL, 0 SKIP and 0 data races on both. There are 0 outcome differences.
arm64 (go1.27.1, laptop Docker, -race):
- Whole ./engine/epoll package, main 9f4d89b against this head (the main log is round 1's local/suite-e038a40/base-full-race.log, same commit and container shape):
  
  PASS FAIL SKIP Data races
  
  main 9f4d89b 95 0 6 0
  
  this head 124 0 6 0
  - The two runs share 101 test names, with 0 outcome differences.
  - The 29 names only on the branch are this PR's tests and subtests, all PASS.
  - The 6 SKIPs are the same in both runs: sendfile e2e (4), the io_uring subtest of TestDetachInlineNoDoubleUnlock, and the opt-in backpressure test.
- Lane tests x10: 380 PASS, 0 FAIL, 0 SKIP, 0 data races.
- Fast-request max over those 20 end-to-end runs: 0.3–3.1 ms, against 751 and 768 ms before.
- Accept-churn witness: hijacked=64 suspended=2/2 in 10/10 runs.

Correction to round 1 (head e038a40, CI run 36245610547). This body said the Adaptive job gave "106 PASS, 0 FAIL, 2 SKIP on both". The count was unanchored, so it also took three lines of the workflow's echoed shell script as PASS and two as SKIP. The anchored recount of the same saved logs (round2/tools/recount_r1_adaptive.sh, output round2/ci/r1-adaptive-recount.txt) is 103 PASS, 0 FAIL, 0 SKIP and 0 data races on main and on both attempts. That is 101 names, with 0 outcome differences. The conclusion, no regression, is unchanged. The issue comments on #669 and #668 are corrected too.

Mutants (RULE FIVE). Each mutant reintroduces one defect through go test -overlay, so the source is never edited: the sha256 of loop.go and transplant.go is the same before and after the run. Every mutant is built first (compile_mutants.sh, 21/21 BUILD-OK), so a build failure cannot count as a kill. The manifest is round2/tools/mutants-manifest.tsv, regenerated at ae35481. 21/21 are killed at ae35481, each on its own target test:

Mutant	Reintroduces
M1	`closeConn` waits again
M2	no hand-back at exit
M3	EOF branch waits
M4	`closeErr` dropped
M5	dirty pass waits
M6	EPOLLOUT resume waits
M7	the guard stops waiting for a bounded holder (the control for `TestCloseStillWaitsForABoundedHolder`)
M8	`hijackConn` mutates off-thread again (23 data races)
M9	the reap reads a stale entry
M10	unlocked accept install (a data race)
M12	owed close transplanted
M13	the EPOLLRDHUP branch reads a running handler's buffers (a data race)
M14	busy after Detach
M15	no relink at park
M16	transplant during a relink (the no-goroutine path, which pools at once)
M17	dirty pass writes a hijacked conn's fd
M18	no hijack notice
M19	settles twice
M20	a deferred transplant finishes on an entry drained while the goroutine lives (2 subtests fail)
M21	an entry drained after the hand-off acts on the handed-over `connState` (the one-batch subtest fails)
M22	the hand-off pools its `connState` again (all 3 subtests fail)

Not fixed here: the io_uring twins

Tracked as #704 (the four blocking cs.detachMu.Lock() sites in engine/iouring/worker.go). worker.go is #674's file, so this PR leaves io_uring alone.

Hot-path cost

The uncontended paths are instruction-equivalent:

TryLock and Lock. Uncontended, TryLock is the same single CAS as Lock's fast path. This covers closeConn, the dirty pass and the EPOLLOUT resume.
Dirty pass. It adds one atomic load for async conns only (hijacked).
runAsyncHandler. It adds one bool test inside the asyncInMu section it already takes at each loop top.
Walkers. The reap, sweep and shutdown read cs.hijacked where they read l.conns[fd] before. removeLiveConn loses a dependent load.
Accept path. Accept gains one uncontended driverMu lock/unlock per connection.
Deferred transplant. It takes asyncInMu once per queue entry of a conn being moved, and loses the pool put: one allocation per conn moved, once per engine switch. No steady-state path is touched.

Judged by the post-merge cluster checkpoint:

epoll-h1-async and epoll-auto+upg-async columns:
- the keep-alive rows (get-simple, get-json, get-json-1k, post-4k, get-simple-{1,128,256,512,1024}c);
- churn-close, for the accept lock and closeConn.
epoll-h1-sync churn-close, for the accept lock.
adaptive-*, before promotion.

The detectable single-cell floor is about 1.5% on churn and about 2.7% on static rows (PERF-CHECKPOINT §2.2). No local timing was taken, because the laptop's timing lock is reserved for #674's B1.

Test Plan

Unit tests added/updated (failing-first on 9f4d89b's code, and on e038a40's for review round 1's major; mutants)
CI green
Tested on Linux (engine changes)

Tested on: [ ] std [x] epoll [ ] io_uring — [x] amd64 (GitHub CI) [x] arm64 (laptop Docker)

Release notes

Breaking change? (label breaking)
Labeled for release notes (bug)

…haviour change) Pure code motion, so a unit test can drive the pass the run loop runs once per iteration (celeris#669). The body is byte-identical after the one-tab de-indent.

celeris#669 (async_handler_stall_linux_test.go): with AsyncHandlers the dispatch goroutine holds cs.detachMu for the whole handler, and four loop-thread sites take it with a blocking Lock -- closeConn (the timeout reap, EPOLLRDHUP, EPOLLHUP), drainRead's EOF/error branches, the dirty pass and the EPOLLOUT resume. Each unit arm holds the lock as a running handler does and requires the site to return; the negative control (a parked goroutine, i.e. a bounded holder) requires closeConn to keep waiting. The two end-to-end arms are the issue's measurement: an 800 ms async handler and a fast keep-alive conn pinned to the same loop, with the reap (ReadTimeout 100 ms) or a client half-close as the trigger. celeris#668 (hijack_offthread_linux_test.go): an off-thread hijack while the reap or the post-switch sweep walks liveConns (a data race under -race, an ownership failure without it), a guard for the fd-reuse aliasing a deferred live-set removal must survive, and the issue's counter-level witness: async hijacks under accept churn, then every loop must reach SUSPENDED with connCount 0.

… the live set to the loop on an async hijack (celeris#669, celeris#668) celeris#669. With AsyncHandlers the dispatch goroutine holds cs.detachMu for the whole handler, and four loop-thread sites took it with a blocking Lock, so one slow handler parked every connection on its loop (no epoll_wait, accept or flush) until it returned. Each now TryLocks, and when the lock is held while the conn's dispatch goroutine is running (dispatchBusy: asyncRun && !asyncParked under asyncInMu) it does not wait: - closeConn leaves the close to the goroutine (closeOwed). asyncClosed is already set, so the goroutine exits at its next check, and its exit hands cs back through the detach queue, whose asyncClosed branch runs closeConn again with the lock free. The conn stays whole meanwhile. This covers the timeout reap, EPOLLRDHUP, EPOLLHUP and error closes. - drainRead's read-error and EOF branches (a client that gives up on a slow handler) leave their flush and OnError to that close (closeErr), which delivers them under the lock. - the dirty pass takes the conn off the list and the EPOLLOUT resume drops the level-triggered interest: the holder flushes writeBuf itself and hands a remainder back. A deferred peer close keeps its place. A parked or absent goroutine means the holder is a guarded writeFn in one write, so those sites still wait for it, as before. celeris#668. hijackConn on the dispatch goroutine no longer touches liveConns or connCount (nor, through removeLiveConn, the sweep's dormancy fields); drainDetachQueue's hijacked branch does both on the loop once the goroutine has exited. Because the descriptor is closed at the hijack and its number can be reissued before that, liveConns now holds connStates rather than descriptor numbers, walkers skip a hijacked entry (hijacked is now atomic, stored before the descriptor is released), and accept/adopt install their slot under driverMu so the install is ordered after the hijack's clear. Also: an owed close blocks a new dispatch goroutine, a transplant, and the EPOLLRDHUP branch's unlocked look at the buffers the handler writes. The celeris#654 tests reach closeConn's wait with a parked goroutine now; the production shape (close left to a handler that then hijacks) has its own test.

…t guard (celeris#668, celeris#669) TestAcceptOfANumberAHijackReleasedIsOrderedAfterTheHijack: the loop learns that a hijacked descriptor number is free from the kernel alone, as accept4 does, so under -race only driverMu can order accept's slot install after the hijack's clear. TestAnOwedCloseIsNeverTransplanted: between the dispatch goroutine's exit and the drain of its hand-back the conn must not be handed to the other engine. Drops the dispatch-spawn guard on asyncClosed added with the fix: a goroutine started on a conn whose close is owed exits at its first check and owes nothing, so the guard changed no outcome a test could pin.

…ranch, which no longer waits (celeris#669)

… an async hijack at once, and never pool its connState (celeris#669, celeris#668) Review of the first fix found five holes; each now has a test and a mutant it kills. - A conn the dirty pass or the EPOLLOUT resume gave up mid-handler was only re-examined if the holder left a remainder. A deferred peer close (peerClosed) set after that, or a flush that completed, was lost. The pass now records relinkOwed, and the dispatch goroutine hands the conn back at its next park, after its own flush; the loop puts it on the dirty list again. That also removes the spin the peerClosed exception had. relinkPending keeps tryTransplant off the conn until then, since the hand-back is a queue entry and a transplant pools cs. - dispatchBusy now excludes a goroutine that released detachMu at Detach: it never holds the lock across a handler again, so the loop waits out a guarded writeFn as before, instead of leaving a close to a goroutine whose inline post-Detach handler waits for that close. - An off-thread hijack settled the loop's state only when the dispatch goroutine exited, i.e. after an in-handler hijacked session, and never after Detach then Hijack. hijackConn now enqueues cs at once; the drain settles it (live set, connCount, dirty list, ask) exactly once. - Such a connState is no longer returned to the pool: queue entries made before the hijack (a partial pipelined flush) could otherwise name reissued memory, and the second of two entries ended in markDirty on a pooled connState. - The dirty pass skips a hijacked conn, whose descriptor number may already be another file's. Also: one dispatchBusy(cs, owe) replaces the two helpers, the six inline detach-queue enqueues in runAsyncHandler use enqueueDetach, and the askAtPark comment no longer calls hijacked loop-thread state.

…(celeris#668) Only a conn with a detachMu is ever hijacked off-thread.

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The epoll loop now tracks live connections by *connState and synchronizes descriptor-slot changes with hijack cleanup. Async close, write-flush, relink, hijack, and transplant work uses detach-queue hand-backs when dispatch handlers are active. Linux tests cover these interleavings and loop progress.

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epoll async connection lifecycle

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Live connection ownership `engine/epoll/loop.go`, `engine/epoll/adopt.go`, `engine/epoll/sweep.go`, `engine/epoll/ask.go`, `engine/epoll/livecs_linux_test.go`, `engine/epoll/*_test.go`	The live set stores `*connState` entries. Timeout, sweep, and shutdown walkers use these entries and skip hijacked states. Accept and adoption serialize descriptor-slot updates with hijack clearing.
Async close and relink `engine/epoll/loop.go`, `engine/epoll/conn.go`, `engine/epoll/async_handler_stall_linux_test.go`, `engine/epoll/epollout_bench_linux_test.go`	Read-end, timeout, half-close, dirty-flush, and writable paths defer work instead of waiting on a running handler. Dispatch exits queue close and relink hand-backs. Tests cover lock interleavings and colocated request latency.
Hijack and transplant settlement `engine/epoll/loop.go`, `engine/epoll/conn.go`, `engine/epoll/transplant.go`, `engine/epoll/hijack_*_linux_test.go`, `engine/epoll/review_v150_test.go`	Off-thread hijacks defer live-set and connection-count updates until queue draining. Transplant hand-offs wait for dispatch exit and pending close or relink work. Tests cover descriptor reuse, duplicate queue entries, and hand-back accounting.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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The changes appear to reduce the risk that one slow handler stalls other connections or that a reused descriptor is handled as the old connection. One shutdown cleanup path remains uncertain; no new externally reachable security weakness was established.

Retained concerns

Low · reliability · inferred: A pending off-thread hijack notice may remain unsettled when shutdown skips hijacked states and clears the live set. The observed effect is incomplete terminal ownership accounting; a continuing security or service impact is not established.

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Security Blast Radius

inferred — A peer can affect its existing connection's read and handler path, while the changed ownership handbacks aim to keep that handler from parking the shared epoll loop. No new production entrypoint was identified in the examined change.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

observed — The hijack transfers the connection to its caller; atomic hijack marking, serialized slot removal, and loop-thread settlement protect the old state from acting on a reused descriptor.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

inferred — Skipping hijacked states during shutdown avoids closing a descriptor number that may have a new owner, but does not itself complete a queued hijack's local settlement.

Hardening Proposals

proposed — Define and exercise the terminal contract for pending hijack notices during shutdown, including whether local queue references and connection accounting must be settled.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title uses the required Conventional Commit format, accurately describes the epoll fixes, and ends with both issue references.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains both epoll ownership defects, the implementation, tests, scope, and known io_uring follow-up.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	`#669`: `engine/epoll/loop.go` uses `TryLock` and `dispatchBusy` for read-end handling, dirty flushing, writable events, timeout handling, and close paths. These paths defer work through the detach queu…
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…nnState (celeris#668)

… of skipping when pipe2 already took it (celeris#668) TestDirtyPassSkipsAHijackedConn skipped on every run: pipe2 takes the lowest free numbers, so it usually lands on the number the hijack just released, which the F_GETFD check read as 'in use'. A skip is absent, not a pass.

…eris#669) The guard's only witness was the peer-close end-to-end test under -race, and its mutant survived a run of it: the unlocked read it prevents did not always meet the handler's write in the detector's history. The branch moves, unchanged, into Loop.onPeerHalfClose, and a unit test drives it with the close owed and the handler still writing: the 'pending' arm fails the mutant functionally, the 'race' arm under -race.

…an entry made before the quiesce (celeris#669) Review finding (round 1, major): once tryTransplant asks a parked dispatch goroutine to quiesce, drainDetachQueue's transplant branch finishes the hand-off on the FIRST entry naming the conn. An entry the goroutine made before its park (the remainder of a partial flush, or a relink hand-back) is one, so the connState was released while the goroutine was still waking to exit, and a later entry then acted on the released connState. Three arms: an earlier entry drained while the goroutine lives; the earlier entry and the exit in one batch; the review's interleaving, where the partial-flush entry clears relinkPending before the relink hand-back is queued. All three fail at e038a40.

…utine exits, and never pool its connState (celeris#669) Once tryTransplant has asked a parked dispatch goroutine to quiesce, every detach-queue entry naming the conn reaches drainDetachQueue's transplant branch. An entry the goroutine made before its park (the remainder of its own partial flush, or a relink hand-back) finished the hand-off and pooled the connState while the goroutine was still waking to exit: it could then park again on a pooled connState (shutdown's asyncWG.Wait hangs), or a later entry marked a pooled connState dirty. The branch now does nothing while the goroutine lives (asyncRun, read under asyncInMu; the quiesce exit always enqueues), and finishTransplantHandoff no longer pools cs: the loop cannot tell whether a later entry still names it. transplanted makes every later entry a no-op. This makes relinkPending's early clear by a partial-flush entry harmless, so relinkPending now only keeps a conn the loop has not re-examined from being offered. Review nits in the same pass: armEpollOut registers EPOLLIN|EPOLLET|EPOLLOUT, so a conn's EPOLLOUT is edge-triggered and the comments that called it level-triggered are corrected (the driver's EPOLLOUT, registered without EPOLLET, is the level-triggered one); the suspend-gate note covers entries for a conn the loop has let go of; checkOffThreadHandBack's wording matches the notice-time settle; and hijackConn says why no sendfile dup can be left open off-thread.

FumingPower3925 · 2026-09-26T23:49:43Z

Review round 1: fixes, disputes and proof. New head ae35481: df2bcb7 is the failing-first test on e038a40, and ae35481 is the fix. Evidence is in evidence/celeris-669-668/lane-20260926/round2/ (MANIFEST.txt lists every script and log).

#	Finding	Outcome	Proof
1	major: a deferred transplant can finish on a non-exit queue entry (the `relinkPending` early clear, or a partial-flush entry followed by an EPOLLOUT completion). It then pools `cs` while the dispatch goroutine lives.	Fixed at the root, with a failing-first test. `drainDetachQueue`'s transplant branch now does nothing while the goroutine lives (`asyncRun`, read under `asyncInMu`; the quiesce exit always enqueues). `finishTransplantHandoff` no longer pools `cs`, and `transplanted` makes every later entry a no-op. That second part is needed because the loop cannot tell whether a later entry still names `cs`: with a partial-flush entry and the exit in one batch, finishing only "after the exit" would still pool `cs` under the exit's entry. The `relinkPending` early clear is kept. The partial-flush entry puts the conn back on the dirty list, which is all `relinkPending` now waits for, and memory safety no longer rests on it.	`TestADeferredTransplantFinishesOnlyAfterItsGoroutineExits` has 3 arms: an entry drained while the goroutine lives; the entry and the exit in one batch; the review's own interleaving. At `df2bcb7`: FAIL 4/4 (`ff-new-race.log`), each arm failing on its named defect (`adopted=1, connState released=true`; `dirty=true`, `detachMu=nil fd=0`). At `ae35481`: PASS, and x10 gives 380/0/0/0. Mutants M20 (drop the liveness check), M21 (drop the `transplanted` skip) and M22 (pool again) are all KILLED, and `loop.go` and `transplant.go` have the same sha256 before and after. Lock order: no new edge; the branch takes `asyncInMu` alone (see RULE TEN in the body).
2	minor: the Adaptive tally counted echoed script lines	Fixed. The patterns are anchored (`^[[:space:]]*---` ) in `round2/tools/{ci_final.sh,tally.sh,compare_full.py}`. The PR body and both issue comments now say 103/0/0.	`round2/ci/r1-adaptive-recount.txt` recounts round 1's saved logs: unanchored 106 PASS / 2 SKIP, anchored 103 PASS / 0 FAIL / 0 SKIP / 0 races on main, attempt 1 and attempt 2, over 101 names with 0 differences. It also lists the 5 script lines (249, 250, 263, 264, 6908).
3	minor: an off-thread hijack no longer closes a pending sendfile dup	Disputed, unreachable. In async mode `cs.sendfile` is never set. `initProtocol` installs the sendfile hook only under `if !l.async` (`loop.go:1726-1732`, the only `SetSendFileFn` call), and an off-thread hijack needs `asyncRun`, which is set only on the `l.async` dispatch paths (`loop.go:1240/1257`, `1297/1322`).	A comment at the hijack's no-pool note now records this, in place of the deleted one.
4	minor: the io_uring twins are tracked only in the PR body	Fixed. They are now celeris#704 (v1.6.0). The PR-body section is replaced by `Refs #704`, and the #669 issue comment points there too. io_uring is untouched here.	—
5	nit: `:4242` is the wrong line	Fixed by removal. The section now points to #704 and cites no line.	—
6	nit: stale wording	Fixed. `checkOffThreadHandBack` (doc and Fatalf) now says "until the loop drains the hijack's notice". The suspend-gate note covers the no-op entries for a conn the loop let go of (closed, hijack-settled, handed over). Every conn-level "level-triggered EPOLLOUT" is corrected to edge-triggered (`EPOLLIN\|EPOLLET\|EPOLLOUT`), including `armEpollOut`'s own doc and `TestEPOLLOUTResumeDoesNotWaitForARunningAsyncHandler`. The driver's EPOLLOUT, registered without `EPOLLET`, is correctly level-triggered and is left as is.	`git show ae35481`
7	nit: no milestone	Fixed. The milestone is now v1.6.0.	—

RULE 21 at ae35481 (arm64 go1.27.1, -race -v, round2/local/suite-ae35481/TALLY.txt): the whole ./engine/epoll package gives 124 PASS / 0 FAIL / 6 SKIP / 0 races (main 9f4d89b: 95/0/6/0). The two share 101 names with 0 differences; the 29 branch-only names are this PR's tests, and the 6 SKIPs are the same pre-existing ones. Lane tests x10: 380/0/0/0; fast-request max 0.3–3.1 ms; suspended=2/2 in 10/10. Mutants: 21/21 KILLED (21/21 build first). Also: GOOS=linux vet on amd64 and arm64, cross-build, and golangci-lint 0 issues.

CI at ae35481, run 36280312424 (every job log read, round2/ci/ci-final-ae35481/TALLY.txt): 9/9 jobs green on the first attempt. Unit has 84 ok and 0 FAIL, and epoll is ok. Adaptive has 103 PASS / 0 FAIL / 0 SKIP over 101 names, identical to main's. CodeQL is green. CodeRabbit has posted only its draft notice, so there are no inline threads to handle.

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