feat(grpc-proxy): record the transport cause of worker tunnel closes - #978
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The eviction log line says which side tore a tunnel down but not what the transport reported while doing it. That leaves the interesting cases indistinguishable: a peer sending a deliberate close with an error code, an idle timer expiring somewhere on the path, a stream reset, and a flow being dropped all look identical. Answering that has meant capturing packets on a worker while a failure reproduces, which only works while someone is watching. The information was already there and being discarded. quicconn string-matched one error text and swallowed it, and CloseFuncConn.onClose took no error, so nothing downstream could see a cause. Captures the first transport error on Read and Write rather than in Close, because by the time Close runs the cause has usually gone, and reports it on the existing eviction log line, span and a new metric: close_code bounded classification, safe as a metric label close_detail peer-supplied reason and numeric code, logs and spans only closed_by_peer present only for QUIC, which states it explicitly opened_at explicit, since the eviction callback can lag the close closed_at likewise, so the line can be correlated across components local_timeout which of this service's own timers fired, where one did Ordering in the classifier matters: a QUIC application error also satisfies net.Error, so specific types are checked first, otherwise the code and reason this exists to capture collapse into a bare "timeout". local_timeout is deliberately conservative. It names the worker connection cache TTL, the transport idle timers and the QUIC idle timer, and returns empty for anything else. Timers owned by other components cannot be identified from here, and naming one wrongly would send a reader into the wrong codebase; close_code still characterises those cases. Close codes are bounded and pre-initialised so the metric appears on the first scrape, and a test asserts the classifier and the pre-initialised list cannot drift apart in either direction. Not addressed, and recorded in the issue: the proxy cannot attribute a close to a specific hop on the worker leg. A reverse proxy sits in that path, so when a tunnel dies this service sees its own connection to that hop go away and has no visibility into which side originated it. That needs the reverse proxy's access logs correlated by request id. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe proxy now classifies worker transport closures, records the first transport error and actual close time, and reports bounded close data in eviction metrics, logs, and traces. Tests cover protocol-specific classification, timeout attribution, sanitization, and first-error behavior. ChangesTransport close diagnostics
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change adds transport-close diagnostics to worker eviction logs, spans, and metrics, but the current implementation can still report missing, inaccurate, or misleading close causes and tunnel lifetimes, with some detail paths not enforcing the intended bounds. Merge should wait for fixes or explicit owner acceptance because this could impair production troubleshooting. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant WorkerTransport
participant CloseFuncConn
participant WorkerConnection
participant Director
participant Metrics
participant LogsAndTracing
WorkerTransport->>CloseFuncConn: return transport error
CloseFuncConn->>WorkerConnection: record first error and close time
WorkerConnection->>Director: provide eviction data
Director->>Director: classify close and local timeout
Director->>Metrics: increment close-code counter
Director->>LogsAndTracing: emit close diagnostics
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217-227: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winAdd
opened_atand conditionalclosed_by_peerto the eviction span.The log includes both fields, but the span records only
closed_at. This makes trace data incomplete for the new close-observability contract.Add
opened_at. Appendclosed_by_peeronly whencloseInfo.Remoteis not nil.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/invocation-plane-services/grpc-proxy/proxy/worker/closecode_test.go`:
- Around line 166-190: The CloseFuncConn tests cover first-error capture for
Read but not Write. Add a failing Write test using the existing stubConn and
CloseFuncConn symbols, invoke Write with an error-producing connection, and
assert that FirstError returns the original Write error, preserving first-error
semantics.
In `@src/invocation-plane-services/grpc-proxy/proxy/worker/closecode.go`:
- Around line 83-86: Update the CloseInfo construction in the close-code
handling paths, including the ApplicationError and GoAwayError branches, so
CloseInfo.Detail contains only bounded protocol codes and no peer-provided
ErrorMessage or DebugData text. Preserve the existing code values while
redacting or omitting arbitrary remote reason and debug strings before they
reach logs or spans.
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In `@src/invocation-plane-services/grpc-proxy/proxy/director.go`:
- Around line 217-227: Update the eviction span attributes in the surrounding
director logic to include the request’s opened_at timestamp alongside closed_at,
and append closed_by_peer only when closeInfo.Remote is non-nil. Reuse the
existing timestamp formatting and peer-close value used by the corresponding log
fields.
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…adowed conn Self-review found one functional gap and one readability trap. The client-close path recorded the origin but never stamped the close time. client_closed is the common case by a wide margin, so the accurate closed_at would have been absent from most evictions and held_for would have fallen back to whenever the cache callback ran. That is the case the new fields exist to serve, so it was the one place that most needed the stamp. SetConnection shadowed conn with the wrapper immediately after constructing it. The behaviour was correct, since the wrapper captured the original before the shadow, but a reader could reasonably conclude the raw conn was still being handed to the transport. Uses the wrapper by name instead. Adds first-writer-wins tests for MarkClosed and SetCloseError, including that a nil error must not occupy the slot and lose the real cause that follows. Also documents that held_for is now measured to the close rather than to the eviction callback. The callback can lag the close, so the previous value was the tunnel lifetime plus an unknown amount of cache latency, which is exactly the error that makes correlation across components hard. Where no close is stamped the fallback reproduces the old behaviour exactly. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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Self-review turned up two things, both now fixed in dd46c00. One functional gap. The client-close path recorded the origin but never One readability trap. Behaviour change worth calling out explicitly, since it affects a field Also added first-writer-wins tests for Verified: |
Addresses review feedback on peer-provided text reaching logs and spans. QUIC reason phrases and HTTP/2 debug data are written by the remote end and neither protocol bounds them. They now pass through sanitizePeerText before reaching Detail: truncated to 256 bytes and stripped of control characters, so a peer cannot push unbounded text into the log stream or use newlines to forge a log line. Structured encoding already escapes these, so this is defence in depth rather than the only guard. The reason phrase is kept rather than dropped. It is where a peer states why it closed, which is the question these fields exist to answer; removing it would leave the numeric code with no explanation and defeat the change. Bounding it addresses the exposure without that cost. Truncation happens on a byte offset, which can split a multi-byte rune, so the sanitizer drops decoding failures and a test asserts the output stays valid UTF-8. Also adds the missing Write-error coverage: first-error capture was tested for Read but not Write, and there was no test that first-writer-wins holds across both directions. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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Both review comments addressed in e33eed0. Write-error test coverage — valid, and a real gap. First-error capture was Peer-supplied text in logs — the exposure is real, but I have not taken the The reason phrase is where a peer states why it closed. It is the single most Instead the text is bounded. Worth noting on threat model: the peer on this path is an NVCF worker, not an One thing the review did not raise that the fix needed: truncation happens at a Verified: |
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257-300: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftCapture the transport error before publishing closure.
CloseFuncConn.ClosecallsonClosebeforeConn.Close. A concurrentReadorWritecan therefore record its transport error afterWorkerConnection.CloseError()is sampled, causing eviction to reportCloseCodeNone. Publish the error fromReadandWrite, or wait for in-flight I/O before samplingFirstError(). Add a concurrent close test. Update the relevant sequence diagram if the close sequence changes.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/invocation-plane-services/grpc-proxy/proxy/worker/connections.go`:
- Around line 155-161: The eviction path currently records closedAt before the
wrapped transport actually closes, so update WorkerConnection.Close and its
transport-close callback to capture the timestamp at actual transport closure
while preserving the client-close origin. Remove or relocate the earlier
MarkClosed call in the onInactive path, then add a client-close integration test
with delayed eviction verifying closed_at and held_for reflect transport closure
time.
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In `@src/invocation-plane-services/grpc-proxy/proxy/worker/worker.go`:
- Around line 257-300: Update CloseFuncConn.Close and its closure-reporting flow
so any in-flight Read or Write transport error is recorded before
WorkerConnection.CloseError() samples FirstError(), preventing eviction from
reporting CloseCodeNone; preserve first-error-wins semantics. Add a concurrent
close test covering this race and update the relevant sequence diagram if the
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190-197: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winBound generic error details before they reach logs and spans.
CloseCodeTimeoutandCloseCodeUnknowncopy rawerr.Error()intoCloseInfo.Detail. A customnet.Erroror unknown error can carry control characters, secrets, or an unbounded message. Apply one bounded sanitization helper to error-derived details. Omit arbitrary text for unknown errors when the source is not a known protocol field. Add tests for long and control-containing errors.As per coding guidelines: "Do not log secrets, tokens, credentials, or full request bodies containing user data. Redact or omit them."
As per PR objectives: "Include sanitized peer-supplied transport details where available."
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In `@src/invocation-plane-services/grpc-proxy/proxy/worker/closecode_test.go`:
- Around line 307-314: Update sanitizePeerText and TestSanitizePeerTextTruncates
so the complete returned string, including the "[truncated]" suffix, is no
longer than maxDetailLen; reserve suffix space when truncating, and assert
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In `@src/invocation-plane-services/grpc-proxy/proxy/worker/closecode.go`:
- Around line 123-126: Update the CloseInfo detail construction for the QUIC
application, handshake, and transport error paths to omit reason or debug fields
when their sanitized ErrorMessage or DebugData is empty; retain each field when
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In `@src/invocation-plane-services/grpc-proxy/proxy/worker/closecode.go`:
- Around line 190-197: Update the timeout and unknown-error branches in the
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…eer fields Second round of review feedback. sanitizePeerText advertised a 256-byte bound but could return 267, because the truncation marker was appended after the cut rather than reserved out of it. The marker's length now comes out of the budget, and the test asserts the advertised bound directly instead of asserting the pre-marker length. Detail strings emitted reason="" and debug="" when the peer sent no such field, which reads as though the peer said nothing when in fact it sent nothing. Optional peer-supplied fields are now appended only when the sanitized text is non-empty, which also means a reason consisting entirely of control characters is dropped rather than surfacing as an empty field. Corrects the documentation on closedAt. It said "when the transport actually went away", which is accurate for the worker path but not the client path, where the stamp is taken when the client connection is observed to go away. The field is now described as what it is: when the proxy observed the tunnel stop carrying traffic, recorded by whichever side noticed first. Teardown completion is deliberately not used, because teardown is our own cleanup and can lag arbitrarily, and folding that lag into held_for is the measurement error this field exists to remove. Adds a test asserting held_for reflects the session rather than the session plus teardown latency, and tests covering empty and non-empty peer fields. Co-Authored-By: Balaji Ganesan <bganesan@nvidia.com>
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Second round addressed in ba9cfec. Three of the four, plus one I am pushing Sanitized detail exceeding Empty optional diagnostics — valid, and it contradicted the PR's own stated Write-error test — already added in e33eed0, before this round. The comment
The doc said "when the transport actually went away". That is true on the On the behaviour, the finding says a delayed eviction makes Added Happy to be overruled by a human reviewer if the intended semantic is
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Do not append a truncation marker after sanitization removes all text.
If a peer sends more than 256 control bytes, sanitization removes the truncated prefix and Line 96 returns "[truncated]". appendPeerText then emits reason="[truncated]" or debug="[truncated]" although no usable peer field remains. Append the marker only when the sanitized text is nonempty. Add long control-only cases for both field types.
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In `@src/invocation-plane-services/grpc-proxy/proxy/worker/closecode.go` around
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Why
The worker tunnel eviction log line reports which side tore a tunnel down, but
not what the transport reported while doing it. That leaves the interesting
cases indistinguishable from one another:
Telling those apart currently means capturing packets on a worker while a
failure reproduces, which is expensive and only works while someone is
watching. When a tunnel repeatedly closes at a suspiciously consistent
duration, that is exactly the question being asked.
The information already exists at close time and was being thrown away.
quicconnstring-matched one error text and swallowed it, andCloseFuncConn.onClosewasfunc()with no error parameter, so nothingdownstream could see a cause.
What changed
The first transport error is captured on
ReadandWriterather than inClose, because by the timeCloseruns the underlying cause has usually beendiscarded. First writer wins, so the original fault survives the cascade that
follows it.
It is then classified and reported on the existing eviction log line, the
existing span, and one new counter:
close_codeclose_detailclosed_by_peeropened_atclosed_atlocal_timeoutNew metric
nvcf_grpc_proxy_worker_connection_close_code_total{code}.It complements
worker_connection_closed_total{reason}: that one reports whichside, this one reports what the transport said.
Classifier ordering is load-bearing. A QUIC application error also satisfies
net.Error, so the specific types are checked first; otherwise the code andreason this exists to capture collapse into a bare
timeout.local_timeoutis deliberately conservative. It names the worker connectioncache TTL, the transport idle timers, and the QUIC idle timer, and returns
empty for everything else. Timers owned by other components cannot be
identified from here, and naming one wrongly would send whoever reads the line
into the wrong codebase.
close_codestill characterises those cases.Not addressed
The proxy cannot attribute a close to a specific hop on the worker leg. A
reverse proxy sits in that path, so when a tunnel dies this service observes
its own connection to that hop going away and has no visibility into which side
originated the close. Attributing that requires correlating the reverse proxy's
access logs by request id. Called out in the issue so it is not expected from
these fields.
Customer Release Notes
Not customer visible.
Plan Summary
Not applicable.
Usage
The new fields appear on the existing log line, so existing searches keep
working:
Testing
bazel test //src/invocation-plane-services/grpc-proxy/proxy/worker:worker_testpasses.
go build ./...andgo vet ./proxy/...are clean.New tests cover classification of QUIC application, transport, stream reset,
idle timeout, handshake timeout and stateless reset errors; HTTP/2 GOAWAY,
stream and connection errors; EOF,
ECONNRESET,EPIPE, closed connection,context cancellation and net timeout; wrapped errors, including that a wrapped
QUIC error keeps its code rather than degrading to
timeout. Two further testsassert that first-writer-wins error capture holds, and that the classifier and
the pre-initialised metric label list cannot drift apart in either direction.
localTimeoutForhas its own table test asserting it names only this service'stimers and stays silent otherwise.
Pre-existing failures in
proxy/ratelimitandTestUnauthenticatedErrorareloopback networking restrictions in this sandbox. Both reproduce identically on
a clean tree with the change stashed.
Notes
Close codes are pre-initialised so the metric appears on the first scrape
rather than only once each case first occurs, per the observability guidance in
AGENTS.md.
Issues
Closes #971
References
None.
Related Pull Requests
Follows #597, which added the eviction reason, duration and CONNECT outcome
fields this builds on.
Dependencies
None.
quic-goandgolang.org/x/net/http2were already direct dependencies.Summary by CodeRabbit
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