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TL;DR

Prevent an expired DistributedLockGuard from deleting a lock that has already been reacquired by another autoscaler node.

Problem

The guard previously released the lock by key alone. If the guard outlived its Cassandra row TTL and another node acquired the same lock, the stale guard could later delete the new owner's lock.

What changed

  • Added an ownership-aware conditional delete statement using Cassandra LWT: DELETE ... IF node_id = ?.
  • Propagated the guard's owner identity through the release path.
  • Updated normal drop and retry cleanup to delete only when the stored owner still matches.
  • Added regression coverage for the conditional statement and the ownership race in Cassandra lock operations.

The existing acquisition and refresh paths remain conditional; this closes the stale-release window without changing lock names, TTLs, or acquisition semantics.

Validation

  • Formatted the modified Rust sources with rustfmt.
  • Added focused statement and lock-operation regression tests.
  • The upstream repository's CI should run the standard Rust checks and integration coverage.

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  • New or existing tests cover these changes.
  • The documentation is up to date with these changes.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Prevented stale or replaced lock owners from refreshing or deleting a lock held by another acquisition.
    • Lock expiration refreshes now preserve the original acquisition time, and failed ownership checks leave the lock unchanged.
    • Added a retry when a lock release fails, with ownership rechecked before deletion.

Use a Cassandra conditional delete in DistributedLockGuard::drop so an expired guard cannot delete a lock reacquired by another node. Keep the retry conditional and add statement and integration regression coverage.

Signed-off-by: Hossein Dehghan <hossien14988@gmail.com>
Carry the lock owner identity in DistributedLockGuard and use Cassandra LWT conditional deletes in drop and retry paths. Prevent an expired guard from removing a lock that another node acquired.

Signed-off-by: Hossein Dehghan <hossien14988@gmail.com>
Replace the editor-generated whitespace-only diff with the repository-formatted statements file.

Signed-off-by: Hossein Dehghan <hossien14988@gmail.com>
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Cassandra lock records now include a per-acquisition token. Refresh and deletion operations check the owner, acquisition timestamp, and token. Lock guards retain these values and use them when releasing a lock, including during a delayed retry.

Changes

Generation-checked lock ownership

Layer / File(s) Summary
Lock record and conditional statements
migrations/cassandra/keyspaces/nvcf_autoscaler/05_add_lock_token.up.sql, src/control-plane-services/function-autoscaler/crates/server/src/models/mod.rs, src/control-plane-services/function-autoscaler/local_env/cassandra/schema/0001_initial_schema.cql, src/control-plane-services/function-autoscaler/crates/server/src/cassandra/statements.rs
Lock models and schemas include lock_token. Cassandra statements insert and return the token, and condition refresh and deletion on the owner, acquisition timestamp, and token.
Conditional refresh and deletion
src/control-plane-services/function-autoscaler/crates/server/src/cassandra/cassandra_service.rs
The service refreshes a lock using its observed acquisition timestamp and token. It adds conditional deletion for a matching lock. Tests cover refreshed timestamps and rejection of stale-generation or wrong-owner deletion.
Guarded lock acquisition and cleanup
src/control-plane-services/function-autoscaler/crates/server/src/cassandra/distributed_lock.rs
Lock acquisition captures a UTC timestamp and UUID token. The guard uses those values with the node ID for conditional deletion and its delayed retry.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant DistributedLockGuard
  participant CassandraServiceManager
  participant Cassandra
  DistributedLockGuard->>CassandraServiceManager: delete_owned_lock(lock_name, node_id, acquired_at, lock_token)
  CassandraServiceManager->>Cassandra: Conditional delete matching node_id, acquired_at, and lock_token
  Cassandra-->>CassandraServiceManager: Conditional result
  CassandraServiceManager-->>DistributedLockGuard: Deletion result
  Note over DistributedLockGuard,CassandraServiceManager: On deletion error, retry after five seconds
  DistributedLockGuard->>CassandraServiceManager: Retry conditional deletion with the same ownership values
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Thanks for the detailed review. I reworked the ownership check around a per-acquisition lock_token rather than relying on node_id alone. The conditional refresh/delete paths now compare the lock name, owner, acquisition generation, and token, so a delayed guard cannot remove a later lease held by the same node. The migration currently adds the token once through the follow-up migration, and the integration tests pass the token as &str.

I verified the relevant code paths and statement bindings locally. I have not run the full ScyllaDB integration suite in this environment yet, so I’m leaving the migration/integration result open for the repository CI to confirm.

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