fix(websocket): never strand a chunk that spills after the handler drained the channel (celeris#705); fail the start helpers fast with Start's error (celeris#706)

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Summary

• celeris#705, the stranded spill. Append's select can find the channel full, and the handler can then drain the channel and park in Read before Append reaches spillChunk. spillChunk put the chunk in the spill. Read promoted the spill only after a successful dequeue, and requestPause keeps the engine paused while anything is spilled, so the parked Read never woke: the engine stayed paused, the channel empty and the chunk in the spill, for the rest of the connection. The same state came from a drain while spillChunk was still queuing the chunk, because Read's per-dequeue promotion checks spillLen without the lock.
  • spillChunk now gives the chunk to the channel when nothing is spilled and the channel has room, and spills only otherwise.
  • Before Read blocks on an empty channel, or reports a close, it promotes the spill under spillMu (next, promoteSpill).
  • Both run under spillMu, so whichever runs second sees what the first did. The lock-free check after each dequeue stays, so a Read takes spillMu with nothing spilled only when it has run out of chunks and is about to park.
• celeris#706, in middleware/websocket and middleware/static. waitForReady never read the channel that Start's goroutine reports on, so a server whose Start failed cost the full timeout (30 s in startNativeServerWithHandle) and failed with server not ready within timeout, which reads the same as a hang. It now takes that channel, fails as soon as Start returns, with Start's error, and puts the error back for the caller's deferred shutdown. middleware/static had a copy of the helper; it gets the same change. No environment skip is added: a start failure stays a FAIL, now with its cause. The issue's fix direction also covers every other helper that waits for a server this way; there are more than a dozen, listed on middleware/websocket tests: the native-engine start helper never reads Start's error, so a failed start is reported as a 30 s "server not ready within timeout" #706, so this PR no longer closes it.
• celeris#716, item 1 (the fix(websocket): apply pause/resume under the lock that decides them, and lift a stale pause (celeris#667, celeris#672) #671 review). No test killed mutant M5, the middleware/websocket: a pause decided on a stale depth snapshot wedges the connection permanently when the handler drains to empty first (distinct from #667) #672 re-check without its !r.hasSpill() guard, and middleware/websocket: a chunk that spills after the handler drained the channel is never promoted, so the connection wedges permanently (stranded spill) #705's repro could not. Two tests now do (below).
• Fixes from this PR's review:
  • A close could overtake chunks appended before it (major). next() read the close flag after it had checked the channel and promoted the spill. The handler's Read can wait for spillMu in promoteSpill while spillChunk's retry puts a chunk in the channel (and the next chunk of the batch spills behind it), and the worker can then close the reader on the peer's FIN before the Read runs again. The Read found nothing to promote, saw the close and returned io.EOF with those chunks still buffered: io_uring WS: backpressure pause/resume drops buffered inbound bytes, truncating frames #484's truncation, which next's doc says cannot happen. main's Read has the same order and the same truncation in this interleaving, so this was not a regression, but the middleware/websocket: a chunk that spills after the handler drained the channel is never promoted, so the connection wedges permanently (stranded spill) #705 fix widened the window. next() now reads the flag first in each pass, and reports only a close it saw there. The engine appends and closes on one thread, so a close seen first comes after every chunk appended before it.
  • No pause for a chunk that did not spill (nit). After spillChunk, both spill paths of Append called requestPause even when the retry had put the chunk in the drained channel, and the middleware/websocket: a pause decided on a stale depth snapshot wedges the connection permanently when the handler drains to empty first (distinct from #667) #672 re-check lifted that pause at once. queueBehind now requests the pause when the chunk spilled, or else only at highWater, as Append's channel path does.
  • A failed start leaked two descriptors per test (nit). When waitForReady failed, startNativeServerWithHandle never handed out its shutdown closure, so nothing cancelled the server or closed the listener, and a failed Start also leaves the CPU monitor's /proc/stat open until Shutdown. The helper, the static flood test and both TestWaitForReadyFailsFastOnStartError tests now release both. The library side, where Start itself closes neither, is server: a Start that fails before its engine runs leaves the caller's listener and the CPU monitor's /proc/stat descriptor open #737.
  • The celeris_closeprobe build (minor). fix(websocket): apply pause/resume under the lock that decides them, and lift a stale pause (celeris#667, celeris#672) #671's readerPaused(*chanReader) collided with server_close_drain_linux_test.go's readerPaused(*Conn), so the package's tests did not compile under that tag, and no CI step builds it. The close-probe's helper is now connReaderPaused, and the websocket CI step vets the tag.

Closes #705
Refs #706 (the helpers in middleware/websocket and middleware/static; the rest of the issue stays open)
Refs #716 (item 1 only; items 2-4 stay open)

Changes

• middleware/websocket/engineread.go:
  • spillChunk retries the channel under spillMu, and reports whether the chunk spilled.
  • Read's blocking logic moves into next(), which reads the close flag first, then promotes the spill under spillMu before it blocks or reports a close.
  • refillFromSpill's loop moves into promoteLocked.
  • Both spill paths of Append go through queueBehind, which requests the pause when the chunk spilled or the channel is at highWater.
  • Nothing else changes: the watermarks, the re-check and its guard, the close handling (io_uring WS: backpressure pause/resume drops buffered inbound bytes, truncating frames #484) and the lock order (middleware/websocket: chanReader applies pause/resume to the engine outside the lock that decides them, so a resume can be lost and the connection stops delivering (found by reading, not reproduced) #667) are as on main.
• middleware/websocket/engineread_latespill_test.go (new):
  • TestChanReaderLateSpillReachesParkedRead: the interleaving middleware/websocket: a chunk that spills after the handler drained the channel is never promoted, so the connection wedges permanently (stranded spill) #705 reports, with the handler parked in Read before spillChunk runs. The park is observed with testing/synctest (synctest.Wait returns once the handler is durably blocked), not slept on. It also requires that the late chunk, which the retry puts below highWater in the drained channel, costs the engine no pause and no resume.
  • TestChanReaderSpillPublishedAfterDrain: the handler drains while spillChunk is queuing the chunk, before spillLen is published. Three cases: the next Read after the publication, after a close (the chunk is delivered before the close, io_uring WS: backpressure pause/resume drops buffered inbound bytes, truncating frames #484), and already waiting in the window. The sequential cases also require the re-check to keep the pause while the chunk is spilled.
  • TestChanReaderCloseKeepsChunksAppendedBeforeIt: the review's interleaving. The handler's Read waits in promoteSpill (observed in a goroutine dump) while the test holds spillMu as spillChunk does, runs the worker's steps under the lock, closes, and only then unlocks, which fixes the schedule to the one where the woken Read runs after the close. Two cases: the retried chunk alone, and, at a capacity of 1, the retried chunk with the next one spilled behind it.
  • TestChanReaderPauseRecheckHoldsWhileSpilled: the re-check with the channel at lowWater and a full spill behind it (MaxBackpressureBuffer 2, BackpressureHighPct 100, BackpressureLowPct 50, chunks delivered before SetPauser, a Read between spillChunk and requestPause). M5 resumes the engine there with 3 chunks buffered against lowWater 1. It passes on main's engineread.go too.
  • TestChanReaderSpillRequestsPauseBelowHighWater: the same state, reached through a real Append: a chunk that spills behind a channel below highWater still requests the pause.
• middleware/websocket/engine_test.go, engine_linux_test.go, soak_test.go, middleware/static/retained_key_linux_test.go: waitForReady takes Start's channel; every caller passes it. startNativeServerWithHandle, and the static flood test, release the listener and the CPU monitor when the wait fails.
• middleware/websocket/engine_start_linux_test.go, engine_start_test.go, middleware/static/start_helper_linux_test.go (new): TestStartNativeServerFailsFastOnStartError and TestWaitForReadyFailsFastOnStartError. Start fails at once because the engine type is one no factory knows.
• middleware/websocket/server_close_drain_linux_test.go: readerPaused(*Conn) becomes connReaderPaused.
• .github/workflows/ci.yml, the websocket step:
  • it first runs go vet -tags celeris_closeprobe ./middleware/websocket/;
  • it also runs ^TestStartNativeServer and ^TestWaitForReady, and runs ./middleware/static/ too, so static's TestWaitForReadyFailsFastOnStartError is gated by name (the unit job runs that package without -v);
  • its interlock requires 14 top-level PASS lines and 15 subtest PASS lines (was 6 and 10 on main).

Verification

Local runs: Docker, golang:1.27, linux/arm64, CI's unit shape (--cpus 4, memlock 8 MiB, -race -v), one container per go test process. Only --- PASS/FAIL/SKIP: lines are counted.

Which trees. The branch was rebased twice onto main without conflicts: from 0046b6f to a3ff192, and for this round to 2776d4c. Each rebase left the branch's middleware/ files byte-identical; the second changed ci.yml only by main's own #691 step. The first round's local evidence ran before the first rebase: failing-first on 9b0282d (0046b6f plus the tests, now 6c811bf), mutants, lint and compile on 80e2805, and the gate proof's "main's engineread.go" came from 0046b6f. Its suites (a3ff192 vs 7b00084), GitHub runs and CI ran on 7b00084. This round's evidence runs on the commits named below, on 2776d4c.

This round (head a6d3f90)

Failing first.

• 9ff4f5f, the new test on the previous head: TestChanReaderCloseKeepsChunksAppendedBeforeIt fails in 3 of 3 processes, each -count=10, 30 of 30 verdicts FAIL (the test and both cases, every iteration): the close overtook chunks received before it: the Read returned EOF with 1 chunk(s) in the channel and 0 spilled (retried case) and ... and 1 spilled (spilled case). With the fix (b1106d2): 30 of 30 PASS.

• go vet -tags celeris_closeprobe ./middleware/websocket/ fails on 70618a8 (readerPaused redeclared in this block) and passes on 45fd23a.

• Descriptor control (a test that is not in this PR, injected for the run): 20 failed starts through startNativeServerWithHandle, GC off, descriptors counted in /proc/self/fd:

  tree	open descriptors after 20 failed starts
  8668ebf (no cleanup)	+40
  70618a8 (closes the listener)	+20
  a6d3f90 (also calls Shutdown)	0
  a6d3f90 without _ = ln.Close()	+20
  a6d3f90 without the Shutdown	+20

Mutant controls, on a6d3f90. For each: apply it (sha256 recorded), run ^TestChanReader (or the start-helper tests), cp the original back (sha256 equal to the commit's blob), run again. Every restored run passes. 12 of 13 are killed:

mutant	killed by
F1 the close flag read after the buffers (this round's bug)	CloseKeepsChunksAppendedBeforeIt, both cases
F2 the flag read after the channel check, before promoteSpill	survives (below)
Q1 queueBehind always requests the pause	LateSpillReachesParkedRead
Q2 queueBehind requests it only at highWater	SpillRequestsPauseBelowHighWater
N1 spillChunk without the channel retry	LateSpillReachesParkedRead
N2 next without the promotion before it blocks	SpillPublishedAfterDrain, all 3 cases (CloseKeepsChunksAppendedBeforeIt fails too, at its precondition: its Read never waits in promoteSpill)
N3 that promotion behind the lock-free spillLen check	SpillPublishedAfterDrain/read-waiting-in-window (and CloseKeepsChunksAppendedBeforeIt at its precondition, as for N2)
N4 the close reported before the promotion	SpillPublishedAfterDrain/closed-before-read
M5 the re-check without !r.hasSpill()	PauseRecheckHoldsWhileSpilled, SpillRequestsPauseBelowHighWater, the 2 sequential SpillPublishedAfterDrain cases
W1/S1 waitForReady ignoring Start's channel (websocket/static)	both start-helper tests / static's test
W2/S2 waitForReady not putting the error back	both start-helper tests / static's test

F2 leaves only two statements, with no blocking point, between the channel check and the load, so no deterministic test can land a close between them. A free-running scratch hammer (not in this PR, run natively on darwin/arm64: one reader at capacity 1, the handler reading while the test appends and closes, 3 s per arm) found the correct order never overtaken in 5.4 M iterations, the pre-fix order overtaken 275 times in 548 k iterations under -race, and F2 once in 444 k. The source comment in next() states why the load comes first.

CI interlock (gate proof). The websocket step, extracted verbatim from a6d3f90's ci.yml and run as GitHub runs it (bash --noprofile --norc -eo pipefail, the step's env), one container per arm:

arm	step	interlock
this head	pass	14/14, 15/15 subtests
F1 (the close flag read after the buffers)	fail, 3 FAIL lines	not reached
the 2 new tests renamed	fail	12/14, 13/15
the 2 new tests skipped	fail	12/14, 13/15, 2 SKIP lines
one new subtest renamed	fail	14/14, 14/15
static's start-helper test renamed	fail	13/14
the celeris_closeprobe collision restored	fail at go vet	not reached

Whole-package suites, main (2776d4c) vs this head. ./middleware/websocket at memlock 8 MiB and 128 MiB with CI's WS484_* env, and ./middleware/static at 8 MiB, one container per suite and arm: 0 PASS->FAIL, 0 PASS->SKIP. websocket, at 8 MiB and at 128 MiB: 230 PASS / 0 FAIL / 2 SKIP on main, 242 / 0 / 2 here (the 12 new tests and subtests; TestMeasureWedgeRate and TestHubBroadcastFormatsOnce skip on both). static: 70 / 0 / 0 on main, 71 / 0 / 0 here.

GitHub runners (probatorium celeris-stress, tallied from the shard-log artifacts, not the job logs). Target github: the cluster target was not available, because matrix-tier-cluster held a running Benchmark Tier and a pending one, and the cluster guard refuses a run while anything is pending there.

• Run A2, this head: ./middleware/websocket ./middleware/static, ^(TestChanReader|TestStartNativeServer|TestWaitForReady), -race, 8 MiB, -count=100, 10 shards per arch (run 36332354232). All 20 shards complete. Every test and subtest, 43 per arch, passed in 10 of 10 processes per arch, 1000 iterations each, with 0 FAIL and 0 SKIP lines (86,000 PASS lines).

• Pair B2, main 2776d4c vs this head: ^TestBackpressure (real sockets, epoll and io_uring), -race, 8 MiB, CI's WS484_* env, -count=5, 20 processes per arch per arm (base 36332762541, head 36332769596). All 80 shards complete, so no runner was lost and every failure is a test verdict. Both runs are red, the base as well. Failed processes out of 20:

  test	arch	main	this head	Fisher p
  TestBackpressureInboundSequenceIntegrity (all subtests)	both	0	0	1
  TestBackpressurePauseDoesNotCancelInflightSend/epoll	x86	8	6	0.74
  TestBackpressurePauseDoesNotCancelInflightSend/epoll	arm64	0	0	1
  TestBackpressurePauseDoesNotCancelInflightSend/io_uring	x86	2	1	1
  TestBackpressurePauseDoesNotCancelInflightSend/io_uring	arm64	2	1	1

  The workflow's own stresstally compare finds 0 of 14 rows below p = 0.05. Every failure, on both arms, has epoll: a rare close-handshake stall with the receive queue already drained, 1 in 73 (split from #607) #633's close-handshake symptom (never completed the Close handshake, with close-timeouts). As in the first round, these tests report no spill counter and the per-connection state was not captured, so the cause is not established; the pair shows no increase from this change.

CI on a6d3f90: all 15 checks pass (CodeRabbit skips drafts). In the Unit job, the websocket step prints want 14, passed 14; subtests want 15, passed 15, with 50 PASS lines and no FAIL or SKIP line.

First round (head 7b00084, before the rebases)

Failing first. The test commit (9b0282d, now 6c811bf) holds 3 of the 5 new top-level tests, and each fails on main for the stated reason:

• middleware/websocket: a chunk that spills after the handler drained the channel is never promoted, so the connection wedges permanently (stranded spill) #705: LateSpillReachesParkedRead and the 3 cases of SpillPublishedAfterDrain. Each Read is left blocked on an empty channel with 1 chunk in the spill and the engine paused, or, after a close, it returns io.EOF while that chunk is still spilled.
• middleware/websocket tests: the native-engine start helper never reads Start's error, so a failed start is reported as a 30 s "server not ready within timeout" #706: TestStartNativeServerFailsFastOnStartError failed after 30.015 s with server not ready within timeout.

The other two cannot fail first. PauseRecheckHoldsWhileSpilled pins a guard main already has, so it passes there by design; mutant M5 applied to main's engineread.go fails it. TestWaitForReadyFailsFastOnStartError does not compile against main's waitForReady, whose signature the fix changes; mutants W1/W2 and S1/S2 fail it.

Mutant controls (on 80e2805): all 10 killed, every restored run passed. N3 was killed in 3 of 3 clean runs; a fourth run's exit status was voided (an in-place edit of the run script corrupted it), though its go test output also failed. This round re-ran N3 on a6d3f90: killed.

Suites, main a3ff192 vs 7b00084: 0 PASS->FAIL, 0 PASS->SKIP; websocket 230/0/2 -> 238/0/2 at 8 MiB and at 128 MiB, static 70/0/0 -> 71/0/0.

GitHub runners. Run A on 7b00084 (36326116742): every chanReader and start-helper test passed 1000 iterations per arch, 0 FAIL, 0 SKIP. Pair B, ^TestBackpressure (real sockets, epoll and io_uring), a3ff192 vs 7b00084, 20 processes per arch per arm (base 36326539193, head 36326540639); all 80 shards complete. Failed processes out of 20: PauseDoesNotCancelInflightSend/epoll x86 11 on main, 4 on the head (Fisher p = 0.048, not significant against 14 comparisons); /io_uring arm64 0 and 1; every other row 0 and 0. Every failure, on both arms, has #633's close-handshake symptom: close-timeout ... 10.0s after Close sent, never completed the Close handshake. These tests do not report the reader's spill counter, and the per-connection state was not captured, so neither that chunks spilled in these runs nor #633 as the cause is established. The pair shows no increase from this change, and no improvement is claimed.

Cost

A Read that takes a chunk now does one atomic load of the close flag before its channel receive. A Read that finds the channel empty also takes spillMu once, uncontended unless spillChunk is running, before it parks. spillChunk makes one more non-blocking channel send, and only when the channel was already full once; queueBehind now skips a pause and a resume that the old code requested and lifted at once. Not timed: an uncontended atomic load is small next to the channel receive it precedes, and the laptop's timing lock is shared with other lanes.

Not in this PR

• The rest of middleware/websocket tests: the native-engine start helper never reads Start's error, so a failed start is reported as a 30 s "server not ready within timeout" #706: more than a dozen other test helpers that start a server in a goroutine and wait for it without reading Start's error while they wait (liveEngineServer, startSSEServer, the close-probe's readiness loop, the std helpers in middleware/ and the root package, and others). The list, with file and line, is on middleware/websocket tests: the native-engine start helper never reads Start's error, so a failed start is reported as a 30 s "server not ready within timeout" #706.
• server: a Start that fails before its engine runs leaves the caller's listener and the CPU monitor's /proc/stat descriptor open #737: a Start that fails in doPrepare closes neither the caller's listener nor the CPU monitor. This PR's test helpers release both themselves.
• Follow-ups from #671: measure the engine-worker stall under pausedMu, the epoll tail lean, #705-repro vs M5 coverage, prereg predictions #716 items 2-4.
• The rest of lane B-2 (The WebSocket inbound oracle reports frames as lost that its own handler abandoned, and never asserts the write errors that explain them #611, The WebSocket backpressure oracle counts clientCloseFail, prints it, and never asserts it: 66 of 96 connections failed and the test passed #623 and epoll: a rare close-handshake stall with the receive queue already drained, 1 in 73 (split from #607) #633's oracle changes).

Evidence (scripts, logs, mutant diffs with their sha256s, artifacts): evidence/celeris-b2/ in the maintainer's probatorium evidence root, this round under r2/; its MANIFEST.txt maps every number above to the script and log it came from.

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The WebSocket chanReader changes how it queues and promotes spilled chunks, delivers buffered data before close, and maintains pause state. Startup readiness checks now detect completed server starts. Regression tests and CI coverage are expanded.

Changes

WebSocket spill handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Queue and read spilled chunks middleware/websocket/engineread.go	Append retries channel delivery under the spill lock and queues chunks when needed. Read promotes spill before blocking and delivers buffered chunks before returning a close error.
Spill interleaving and close regressions middleware/websocket/engineread_latespill_test.go, middleware/websocket/server_close_drain_linux_test.go	Regression tests check late spill publication, chunk ordering, close delivery, and pause behavior. The Linux close-drain test uses the renamed pause-state helper.

Server startup readiness

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Check startup completion during readiness polling middleware/static/retained_key_linux_test.go, middleware/websocket/engine_test.go, middleware/websocket/engine_linux_test.go, middleware/websocket/soak_test.go	Readiness helpers check the server completion channel while polling. WebSocket callers pass that channel, and startup failure cleanup cancels and joins the server before shutdown.
Fail-fast regression tests and CI coverage middleware/static/start_helper_linux_test.go, middleware/websocket/engine_start_test.go, middleware/websocket/engine_start_linux_test.go, .github/workflows/ci.yml	Tests verify prompt readiness failure for unknown engine types and retain the startup error on the completion channel. CI adds the readiness and chanReader cases and checks for 14 top-level and 15 subtest PASS results.

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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 806ea

The spill handling prevents the reported stranded-read behavior, but one regression test may pass without exercising its intended concurrency window. The PR is mergeable with this limited test-coverage risk noted.

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Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 806ea

The change appears to prevent a WebSocket connection from becoming stuck while preserving buffered-data delivery. No new security boundary or confirmed security regression was identified, but concurrent behavior warrants care.

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Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The changed delivery behavior is reachable through existing WebSocket connections, but the inspected change does not establish a new cross-service or privileged sink.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Incoming chunks pass through channel and bounded spill storage; exhausting permitted spill rejects further queuing, while reads promote stored chunks before waiting.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — The shared spill mutex closes the identified late-publication wakeup gap. The separate spill-presence check before the pause-state decision remains a concurrency limitation, but was not established as a regression introduced by this change.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check	⚠️ Warning	The pull request also changes waitForReady, startup cleanup, startup-error tests, and CI selection in middleware/static, middleware/websocket/engine*, and .github/workflows/ci.yml. These chang…	Remove the startup-helper and related CI changes, or link an active issue that directly requires them and keep that scope separate from #705.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title uses valid Conventional Commit syntax, describes both main changes, and ends with an issue reference.
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