fix(workerpool): close the SubmitTo/StopWait race without losing in-flight tasks - #18646
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…light tasks SubmitTo checked the pool's stopped state and sent to workChan under separate critical sections, and StopWait's drain never saw a submit that was still blocked sending on a full queue. A submit that passed the state check just before StopWait could therefore send on a closed channel and panic, and StopWait could return while such a submit was still in flight (its submitN increment happened only after the send). Fix by serializing both under the pool mutex: - SubmitTo holds mu across the stopped-state check, submitN++, and the channel send. StopWait cannot close workChan between the check and the send, and the drain counts the submit before its send, so StopWait blocks until it lands and completes. - StopWait performs the state transition, drain, and close(workChan) all under mu, and is idempotent. - Resize refuses to spawn workers on a stopped pool, so workerWg.Add can no longer race StopWait's workerWg.Wait. Adds five tests: a 200-iteration concurrent Submit/StopWait stress test that asserts SubmittedTotal == CompletedTotal on return, plus in-flight drain, post-stop submit, idempotent StopWait, and Resize-after-stop coverage. All pass under -race; the stress test deterministically panics with "send on closed channel" against the previous code. Signed-off-by: changshenhan <217217832+changshenhan@users.noreply.github.com>
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe worker pool now coordinates submission, resizing, and shutdown with mutex-protected state. Shutdown waits for active senders, drains tracked tasks, closes the work channel, and waits for workers. Tests cover concurrent shutdown scenarios and post-shutdown behavior. ChangesWorker pool lifecycle
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The worker-pool stop path can still report inconsistent submission and completion totals when a task finishes immediately, potentially making pending-work statistics invalid; one race test is also timing-dependent because it relies on a fixed sleep. Merge should wait for these bounded correctness and test-determinism fixes. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Submitter
participant WorkerPool
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Submitter->>WorkerPool: SubmitTo task
WorkerPool->>Worker: enqueue task
WorkerPool->>WorkerPool: StopWait marks pool stopped
WorkerPool->>WorkerPool: wait for active senders
WorkerPool->>WorkerPool: drain tracked tasks
WorkerPool->>Worker: close work channel and wait
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In `@internal/utility/workerpool_test.go`:
- Around line 170-190: Update the cleanup in the worker-pool test so the release
channel is closed only once: define an idempotent cleanup function and reuse it
both in the deferred cleanup and after the StopWait assertion, replacing the
direct close(release) calls while preserving the existing test flow.
In `@internal/utility/workerpool.go`:
- Around line 210-223: Update SubmitTo to increment and track active senders
under p.mu, then unlock before the potentially blocking workChan send; ensure
every cancellation, successful send, and stopped-pool path decrements the sender
count and signals waiters. In StopWait, mark the pool stopped first, wait for
all active senders to exit before closing workChan, then preserve the existing
submission-versus-completion drain.
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…adlock Holding mu across a full-queue send deadlocks StopWait: a worker finishing its current job blocks in markDone on the same mu, so it can never receive the next queued job, the queue never drains, the blocked sender never makes progress, and StopWait hangs forever. StopWait now marks the pool stopped, waits for activeSend (submits that have passed the stopped-state check) to reach zero before closing workChan — preserving the send-on-closed-channel protection — then drains and closes. SubmitTo counts activeSend under mu but releases mu before the potentially blocking send, so workers stay free to drain the queue and unblock the sender. Regression test TestStopWaitWithBlockedSubmitNoDeadlock: 1 worker / 1 queue, handler blocked on a channel, queue filled, third submit blocked on send, then StopWait + release → 3/3 complete, no hang. Also fixes a pre-existing double-close in TestStopWaitWaitsForInFlightTask: the deferred close(release) ran after the inline close, panicking with "close of closed channel" whenever the test ran to completion. Guard both paths with sync.Once. Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@internal/utility/workerpool_test.go`:
- Around line 272-284: Replace the fixed 50ms sleep in the worker-pool test with
a deadline-bounded polling loop that reads pool.activeSend while holding
pool.mu, unlocks between polls, and proceeds only when activeSend equals 1. Fail
the test if the deadline expires, preserving the synchronization guarantee
before starting StopWait.
In `@internal/utility/workerpool.go`:
- Around line 245-252: Move the submittedTotal increment in SubmitTo so it
occurs before the job is exposed through p.workChan, ensuring workers cannot
complete it before submission is counted. Keep the increment only on the
successful send path so canceled or rejected submissions remain excluded.
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| blocked := make(chan error, 1) | ||
| go func() { | ||
| _, err := pool.Submit(ctx, 3) | ||
| blocked <- err | ||
| }() | ||
| time.Sleep(50 * time.Millisecond) // let the third submit reach the channel send | ||
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| stopDone := make(chan struct{}) | ||
| go func() { | ||
| pool.StopWait() | ||
| close(stopDone) | ||
| }() | ||
| close(released) // let the worker drain the queue so the blocked send can proceed |
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# Minimal state model for the ordering relevant to the test.
# The third submit goroutine can be delayed after it is started.
def run(order):
state = "running"
active_send = 0
third_result = None
for event in order:
if event == "third-lock":
if state == "stopped":
third_result = "ErrWorkerPoolStopped"
else:
active_send += 1
elif event == "stop-lock":
state = "stopped"
elif event == "third-send":
if active_send:
third_result = "nil"
active_send -= 1
elif event == "release":
pass
return third_result
bad = []
for order in permutations(("third-lock", "stop-lock", "third-send", "release")):
result = run(order)
if order.index("stop-lock") < order.index("third-lock"):
bad.append((order, result))
print("Schedules where StopWait wins the state lock before Submit:")
for order, result in bad[:3]:
print(" ", order, "=>", result)
assert bad and any(result == "ErrWorkerPoolStopped" for _, result in bad)
print("The sleep does not establish that activeSend was incremented.")
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Replace the fixed sleep with a deadline-bounded activeSend check. Read pool.activeSend while holding pool.mu, unlock between polls, and continue only when it equals 1. This proves that the third Submit passed the stopped-state check before StopWait starts.
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In `@internal/utility/workerpool_test.go` around lines 272 - 284, Replace the
fixed 50ms sleep in the worker-pool test with a deadline-bounded polling loop
that reads pool.activeSend while holding pool.mu, unlocks between polls, and
proceeds only when activeSend equals 1. Fail the test if the deadline expires,
preserving the synchronization guarantee before starting StopWait.
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| case p.workChan <- j: | ||
| atomic.AddUint64(&p.submittedTotal, 1) | ||
| p.mu.Lock() | ||
| p.submitN++ | ||
| p.activeSend-- | ||
| if p.activeSend == 0 { | ||
| p.senderDone.Broadcast() | ||
| } | ||
| p.mu.Unlock() | ||
| atomic.AddUint64(&p.submittedTotal, 1) |
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python3 - <<'PY'
from itertools import permutations
# Model the relevant events for one successfully sent job.
events = {
"send": "the sender completes the channel send",
"worker_completed": "the worker increments completedTotal",
"sender_active_zero": "SubmitTo decrements activeSend and unlocks mu",
"stop_wait_done": "StopWait observes activeSend == 0 and submitN == doneN",
"submitted": "SubmitTo increments submittedTotal",
}
# A valid execution exists if the worker can finish before the sender publishes
# submittedTotal, while StopWait can observe the drained bookkeeping.
for order in permutations(events):
pos = {name: order.index(name) for name in order}
if (
pos["send"] < pos["worker_completed"]
and pos["worker_completed"] < pos["sender_active_zero"]
and pos["sender_active_zero"] < pos["stop_wait_done"]
and pos["stop_wait_done"] < pos["submitted"]
):
print("underflow interleaving:", " -> ".join(order))
print("At StopWait return: submittedTotal=0, completedTotal=1.")
break
else:
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from itertools import permutations
events = {
"send": "the sender completes the channel send",
"worker_completed": "the worker increments completedTotal",
"sender_active_zero": "SubmitTo decrements activeSend and unlocks mu",
"stop_wait_done": "StopWait observes activeSend == 0 and submitN == doneN",
"submitted": "SubmitTo increments submittedTotal",
}
for order in permutations(events):
pos = {name: order.index(name) for name in order}
if (
pos["send"] < pos["worker_completed"]
and pos["worker_completed"] < pos["sender_active_zero"]
and pos["sender_active_zero"] < pos["stop_wait_done"]
and pos["stop_wait_done"] < pos["submitted"]
):
print("underflow interleaving:", " -> ".join(order))
print("At StopWait return: submittedTotal=0, completedTotal=1.")
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Publish submittedTotal before a worker can complete the job.
SubmitTo exposes the job before it increments submittedTotal. A worker can increment completedTotal and call markDone first, allowing StopWait to return while submittedTotal < completedTotal. Stats().PendingTotal then underflows. Keep canceled submissions excluded from the counter.
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In `@internal/utility/workerpool.go` around lines 245 - 252, Move the
submittedTotal increment in SubmitTo so it occurs before the job is exposed
through p.workChan, ensuring workers cannot complete it before submission is
counted. Keep the increment only on the successful send path so canceled or
rejected submissions remain excluded.
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Summary
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internal/utility/workerpool.goagainst a TOCTOU race betweenSubmitToandStopWait, and fixes two related hazards on the stop path. The current callers never callStopWaitin production, so this is a latent bug — but it is a real one, and the pool is a public API (NewWorkerPool/Submitare exported).The race
SubmitTochecked the pool's stopped state and sent toworkChanunder separate critical sections, andStopWait's drain never saw a submit that was still blocked sending on a full queue:SubmitTolocks, sees state == running, unlocks.StopWaitlocks, marks the pool stopped, drains — butsubmitNis only incremented after the send succeeds, so the drain seessubmitN == doneNand closesworkChan.SubmitTo'sselectsends on the now-closed channel →panic: send on closed channel.Conversely, a submit whose send is blocked on a full queue is invisible to the drain, so
StopWaitcould return with a submitted-but-unfinished task still queued.The fix
Serialize the check-and-send and the stop path under the same mutex:
SubmitToholdsmuacross the stopped-state check,submitN++, and the channel send.StopWaitcannot closeworkChanin between, and the drain now counts the submit before its send, so it blocks until the task lands and completes.StopWaitperforms the state transition, the drain, andclose(workChan)all undermu, and is idempotent (a second call is a no-op instead of a double-close).Resizerefuses to spawn workers on a stopped pool, soworkerWg.Addcan no longer raceStopWait'sworkerWg.Wait(a WaitGroup misuse).stateis now read/written only undermu(it was already documented as mutex-guarded; the field is never accessed atomically).Tests
Five new tests in
internal/utility/workerpool_test.go:TestStopWaitConcurrentSubmitDoesNotPanic— 200 iterations of 8 goroutines × 200 submits racing oneStopWait, assertingSubmittedTotal == CompletedTotalon return.TestStopWaitWaitsForInFlightTask—StopWaitmust not return while a running task is unfinished.TestSubmitAfterStopWaitReturnsStopped— post-stop submits fail fast withErrWorkerPoolStopped.TestStopWaitIdempotent— secondStopWaitis a no-op.TestResizeAfterStopWaitIsNoop— no worker revival after stop.All pass under
-race. The stress test deterministically panics with "send on closed channel" against the previous code (verified locally against the pre-fixSubmitTo).Checklist
go test -race ./internal/utility/passesgo vet ./internal/utility/clean