fix(net): a subscriber hands its cursors off to a park's cache

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Problem

A cluster relay redirected by GOAWAY from upstream A to sibling B while group 1 is half read hands group 1 to the reader twice on moq-lite-05/06/07-wip: it drains 1/a 1/b 1/c <end>, then recv_group yields group 1 again in full before group 2. Reproduced with goaway_mid_group.rs from kidq330/moq@afc2e8240 (a_goaway_mid_group_keeps_every_frame_before_moving_on).

The cause is #4655's mid-group takeover. To keep the open group's head for later readers, TrackIo::retire parks a warm cache of the outgoing copy (resume::Producer::park), which replaces every segment with one unbounded cache segment. A resume::Subscriber already reading took the cache as one more segment: it opened a second cursor over content its old cursors had already delivered, and the cache's copy of group 1 starts at frame 0, so it surfaced as a new group. It only hit when the takeover landed mid-group (the publisher had not moved on), which is why the other cases passed.

Fix

resume::Subscriber treats a park as a handoff. When a snapshot brings a cache segment it hasn't seen, the cursors on the segments it replaced are dropped, and the cache's cursor starts past the newest group this reader was already handed:

• A reader mid-group keeps its group (it reads across routes on its own) and is never handed it again.
• A reader that has nothing yet, such as one that joined during the outage, reads the whole cache, head included.
• Groups held back at the reader's cap are in the cache too, so they park again from there and come out once.
• Parking stays an unbounded cache segment, so a newcomer still gets the head of an open group (a catalog taking deltas) however many takeovers have pruned the segments that started at it.

The same handoff applies to the idle-track park, for a subscriber that outlives it.

Tests

• a_takeover_keeps_the_open_group_head_for_later_readers (origin, paused clock): the reader mid-group is not handed group 0 again (fails on main), and a reader joining during the outage still gets the whole group.
• repeated_parks_mid_group_hand_the_head_out_once (resume): MAX_SEGMENTS + 1 mid-group parks of one open group; the reader never gets it twice, and a newcomer gets every frame from the head.
• a_park_reoffers_a_group_held_at_the_cap_once (resume): a group parked at the cap comes out once after the park.
• cluster_continues_a_group_split_by_goaway (relay, real TCP): the end-to-end repro, trimmed to wait on B's route instead of sleeping. About 1 s; uses the default version (lite-06). The fork's full repro passes on lite-05, -06 and -07-wip.

Each fails with the handoff removed.

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ITERATE — in-place retire correctly fixes the #4655 mid-group duplicate; one re-subscribe hole can still strand a reader that had already attached to the dying source.

Reviewed head: 44d1be6fe7bd3b9c93084bd9cd49476e1a188896

Blocking

1. apply only re-subscribes Done(Err) onto the retired cache — Pending (and Active that dies after the flag latches) stay stuck (rs/moq-net/src/model/resume.rs ~1837–1850)

   On segment.cache && !existing.cache the code sets existing.cache = true and re-subscribes only when matches!(existing.sub, SubState::Done(Err(_))).

   Failure scenario (the joining-during-outage case this PR itself adds):

   1. Reader reconciles while the segment still points at the dying source → SegmentSub created with SubState::Pending(source.subscribe(…)) (or briefly Active).
   2. Producer::retire bumps the epoch; apply runs with cache=true.
   3. Sub is still Pending (or still Active) → flag latches, no re-subscribe.
   4. Next poll_activate / poll_recv_group turns that cursor into Done(Err(_)) (session tear-down / Consumer drop clears unfinished groups).
   5. cache is already true, so the transition arm never runs again → reader never sees the warm cache and hangs waiting for a group that only the cache still holds.

   The new test covers the scheduling where the cursor is already Done(Err) at step 2; it does not cover Pending spanning the retire, which is a normal interleaving when recv_group parked on poll_activate and the front runs Splice before the next poll.

   Suggested fix: re-subscribe whenever the cursor is not a still-live source read you intentionally keep — at minimum treat Pending like Done(Err):

   if segment.cache && !existing.cache {
       existing.cache = true;
       let dead = matches!(
           existing.sub,
           SubState::Done(Err(_)) | SubState::Pending(_)
       );
       if dead {
           existing.sub = SubState::Pending(segment.track.subscribe(slice(
               &self.last_prefs,
               segment.ask,
               segment.end,
           )));
           existing.terminal = None;
           existing.floor = self.next_sequence;
       }
   }

   Safer still: always switch to the cache with floor = self.next_sequence (including Active). After retire, Action::Splice drops the outgoing Consumer; the source no longer reliably “holds whatever it owes,” and the cache is the snapshot #4655 needs. Keeping Active on the old track is what creates the post-latch Done(Err) hole. Extend the test to park the joining subscribe on Pending across the retire (e.g. hold the front’s Splice until subscribe has created the SegmentSub but before poll_activate resolves).

Non-blocking

2. CI not green on this head yet — Android passed; Check / Test / WASM / macOS / Windows still queued or in progress at review time. Worth waiting before merge given this is resume hot path.

3. dies_first=false does not exercise the mid-outage joiner / re-subscribe path — only the duplicate-group assert runs for preempt. Fine if you adopt “always switch to cache”; if you keep the Done(Err)-only arm, a preempt-specific join would help.

4. Relay repro not landed — acknowledged in the PR body; moq-net coverage of the cause is the right layer. Separate moq-transport-14 <transport: closed> note from the fork is out of scope here.

Verdict

ITERATE — land the Pending (or always-switch) re-subscribe fix, then this is a clear MERGE for the #4655 park-induced duplicate.

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Reviewed head: 44d1be6fe7bd3b9c93084bd9cd49476e1a188896

Direction is right: retaining the segment's identity and range avoids abusing the idle-only park operation, while preserving the cached head for newcomers.

[P2] Independently confirmed the existing late-failure recovery finding at resume.rs:1837–1850. An active reader can be waiting before group 0 arrives, then remain unpolled while another reader receives its head and the source dies. Retirement marks that reader's cache flag but does not replace its Active cursor. Its next read discovers the error and becomes Done; the one-time transition no longer retries the cache. Because source teardown removes unfinished groups and the replacement starts inside group 0, that reader cannot obtain its head and can stall indefinitely on an open catalog/log group.

Recover when the old cursor subsequently becomes terminal, retaining the handed-out-group floor. Extend the regression to this ordering: initialize a waiting reader before the first group, deliver the head, retire the failed source, then resume that reader. The existing outage test exercises a cursor already Done before retirement. No duplicate inline comment added.

Verification: traced retirement, source teardown, cursor activation/read paths, and the changed tests. No tests run here (Rust toolchain unavailable); the author's relay reproduction was not independently executed, and CI was still pending.

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Walkthrough

Warm-cache cursor updates track a sequence floor and remove pruned cursors when a warm segment is added. Tests cover group delivery across repeated parks, capped groups, and route outages. A real-TCP integration test checks continuation of an open group after a GOAWAY redirect to a sibling route.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 1b464

The fix prevents the duplicate group after a GOAWAY redirect, but the new handoff can make an existing reader miss data in two cases. A reader can lose the rest of an older group that was still in transfer when a newer group opened. It can also skip a group that arrived out of order. Resolve both before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 1b464

The change fixes duplicate delivery during route changes, but can skip unread data when groups arrive out of order. This weakens recovery guarantees for existing readers. No new access or privilege path was established.

Retained concerns

• Medium · reliability · inferred: The replacement-cache floor treats the highest returned group sequence as proof that every lower group was delivered. For an arrival-order reader that receives group 5 while eligible group 3 remains unread, next_sequence becomes 6. A park removes the old cursor and floors the replacement at 6, excluding group 3 even if the cache contains it. Compared with retaining old cursors to drain, this introduces a silent-loss path during recovery and breaks ownership transfer for unread data.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — The evidenced loss mechanism affects existing readers of a logical track undergoing cache handoff. It can recur across tracks using this recovery path, but tenant-wide impact, cross-service propagation, and privilege expansion were not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — The supported failure path is reordered group input, delivery of a higher sequence, cache handoff, and exclusion of unread lower sequences. This is a recovery-integrity concern, not a verified security exploit: an untrusted peer’s ability to force the required handoff or affect another publisher’s track was not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Cache publication remains producer-owned: origin retirement invokes the crate-private park operation, while private subscriber snapshot processing updates each reader’s cursors. The inspected changes do not create a new public authority entrypoint.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• inferred — Discarding the old cursor before proving that every unread eligible group remains reachable weakens failure containment during recovery. Transition serialization prevents boundary races, but does not establish completeness of the ownership transfer.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Reconcile arrival-order readers using delivered group identities, or preserve ownership of unread eligible groups until replacement-cache coverage is confirmed, rather than treating the maximum returned sequence as a complete delivery watermark.

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Description check	✅ Passed	The description clearly explains the duplicate-group problem, the cursor handoff fix, affected behavior, tests, and impact. It is directly related to the changeset.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main implementation change: handing subscriber cursors to a park cache. It matches the described fix and remains concise.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 83.33% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 12 functions across 3 files.
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- Line 521: Update `ResumeState::prune` and the cache-retirement path so a
rebuilt cache retains a range that lets `hand_out` serve the group head after
repeated takeovers. Preserve the group-head access when segments are retired or
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- Around line 1843-1847: Update the resubscription logic that assigns
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ITERATE — re-review after push 44d1be6 → 3132677. Production resume path unchanged; the new relay e2e locks in the duplicate-group regression, and the prior Pending re-subscribe hole is still open.

Reviewed head: 3132677dad7c1041af9d61809fa61c83558b42dd

What changed

• rs/moq-relay/tests/goaway_cluster.rs only (+96): adds cluster_continues_a_group_split_by_goaway — mid-group GOAWAY from A→B, continue frames on the open group, then assert the next recv_group is sequence 1 (not group 0 again). Matches the PR body's claimed end-to-end repro.

Earlier findings

Finding	Status
Blocking: apply only re-subscribes Done(Err) onto the retired cache — Pending / post-latch Active→Done(Err) stay stuck (resume.rs ~1837–1850)	Still open — no resume.rs delta in this push
NB: CI not green on prior head	Still pending on this head (Android / Check / Test / WASM / Platform queued or in progress)
NB: dies_first=false skips mid-outage joiner path	Still open (moq-net unit coverage)
NB: relay repro not landed	Fixed by this push

Blocking (unchanged)

1. apply only re-subscribes Done(Err) — Pending (and Active that dies after the flag latches) stay stuck (rs/moq-net/src/model/resume.rs ~1837–1850)

   Same failure scenario as the prior review: joiner reconciles onto the dying source → Pending/Active → retire latches cache=true without re-subscribe → cursor later becomes Done(Err) with the flag already set → never picks up the warm cache.

   Suggested fix unchanged: treat Pending like Done(Err), or always switch to the cache with floor = self.next_sequence (including Active). The new relay test covers the mid-group reader that keeps its live cursor; it does not cover this interleaving.

Non-blocking

2. CI not settled on this head yet — all substantive checks still pending at review time.

3. Announce gate may exit on the pre-swap route — consumer.announced() is taken before GOAWAY, then the wait breaks on the first active && cost != DRAIN. If announced() replays the current A route (or a non-DRAIN update arrives before B is the serving path), the test can proceed without positively gating on B. Sibling accept is already waited on, and the sequence assert is still the real regression check — consider waiting until the active non-DRAIN update's route names B (or mirror cluster_migrates' metadata-only announce watch) if this flakes.

Verdict

ITERATE — great e2e coverage for the #4655 duplicate; still need the Pending/always-switch re-subscribe fix in resume.rs before MERGE.

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Reviewed commit: 3132677dad7c1041af9d61809fa61c83558b42dd (delta from 44d1be6fe7bd3b9c93084bd9cd49476e1a188896).

The new TCP regression in goaway_cluster.rs:121–214 adds useful coverage of the original mid-group duplicate: it checks the held group's remainder and requires the next delivered group to advance. Keeping the segment identity remains the right direction, with no public API or wire change. No new actionable bugs found in this test-only delta.

The previous P2 recovery finding remains unresolved: resume.rs:1837–1850 still latches cache while an Active/Pending cursor can subsequently fail, preventing that reader from picking up the cached head. Recover on that later terminal transition while retaining the delivery floor, and cover a reader first polled after retirement. The new test holds an already-delivered group and does not exercise this ordering. This is unchanged status, not a duplicate inline finding.

Verification: inspected the exact commit, surrounding announcement/reconnect code, and the unchanged recovery state transitions. Rust/Nix/just are unavailable here, so I did not run the regression, reproduce its reported failure on main, or run repository checks. Exact-head CI was still running.

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MERGE — re-review after push 3132677 → f52a63f. The in-place retire/cache path is gone; park is a cursor handoff, which closes the prior Pending re-subscribe hole.

Reviewed head: f52a63f831118a99193ca082f91eff2136bc867a

What changed

• resume.rs: removed Producer::retire and the cache flag on Segment / SegmentSub. On apply, a new warm segment the reader has not seen drops the pruned (replaced) cursors and attaches the cache with floor = next_sequence so already-handed groups are not re-delivered. Cap-held groups ride the cache and re-park from there.
• origin.rs: TrackIo::retire now calls resume.park (doc wording only otherwise).
• Tests: repeated_parks_mid_group_hand_the_head_out_once (MAX_SEGMENTS + 1 mid-group parks; mid-reader once, newcomer gets the head) and a_park_reoffers_a_group_held_at_the_cap_once.

Earlier findings

Finding	Status
Blocking: apply only re-subscribed Done(Err) onto the retired cache — Pending / post-latch Active→Done(Err) stayed stuck	Fixed — that arm is deleted; park drops replaced cursors (including Pending/Active) and opens a new cache cursor past next_sequence
NB: CI not green	Still pending on this head
NB: dies_first=false skipped mid-outage joiner	Superseded — joiner with next_sequence == 0 gets the full cache; no Done(Err)-only path left
NB: announce-gate flake risk in relay e2e	Unchanged this push (relay test not in the delta)

Blocking

None.

Non-blocking

1. CI not settled on this head yet — Android / Check / Test / WASM / Platform still pending at review time. Worth waiting before merge; this is resume hot path plus the relay e2e from the prior commit.

Verdict

MERGE — park-as-handoff is the right fix for #4655 and removes the re-subscribe hole cleanly; land once CI is green.

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Reviewed commit: 1b4641e11d814d8ef1a9334743fbbcbf6de441a9 (delta from 3132677dad7c1041af9d61809fa61c83558b42dd; base unchanged).

[P2] Preserve older parked groups that the new cache does not contain. resume.rs:1805–1809 drops every replaced cursor and its parked groups, but warm_copy copies only the outgoing source plus the saved edge, not every earlier segment.

For example, with a replay budget and no time advance: park completed group 0 from A behind end_at(..0); take over onto B at group 1 and poll the still-capped reader so A's boundary is recorded; let B produce open group 1, then take over onto C. A's finished group bypassed warming at origin.rs:2470–2472, so this cache contains B's group 1 but no group 0. The new retain removes A's parked copy, and raising the cap to 2 silently skips group 0. Previously that capped cursor could drain. Preserve older ranges/parked groups absent from the replacement cache, or include them in the cache before dropping their cursors. Extend the cap regression across these two takeovers; its current cache explicitly contains every parked group.

The earlier late-failure recovery issue is addressed: removing the one-time cache flag prevents an Active/Pending cursor from remaining attached after handoff. Reusing the park path simplifies the design, provided it preserves unread content across all replaced ranges. The latest relay-test change also consumes A's replay before waiting for B. No public API or wire change identified.

Verification: static trace of both revisions, cache construction, cursor retention and finished-group ownership; Rust/Nix/just are unavailable, so no regression or repository tests were run. Exact-head CI remains pending.

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MERGE — re-review after test push f52a63f → 1b4641e. Production resume path unchanged; the announce gate now drains A's replay before waiting on a non-DRAIN route, and earlier park-handoff findings stay resolved.

Reviewed head: 1b4641e11d814d8ef1a9334743fbbcbf6de441a9

What changed

• rs/moq-relay/tests/goaway_cluster.rs only (+3): before GOAWAY, wait for one announced() update (A's current route replay), then send the redirect and wait for the next active non-DRAIN update. Matches the commit title (gate on B's route, not A's replay).

Earlier findings

Finding	Status
Blocking (pre-f52a63f): apply only re-subscribed Done(Err) onto a retired cache — Pending / post-latch stuck	Still fixed — park handoff at f52a63f remains; no resume/prod delta in this push
NB: announce-gate could exit on A's replayed non-DRAIN route	Addressed — initial announced.next() consumes the replay before GOAWAY, so the loop only sees post-redirect updates
NB: CI not green on prior heads	Green on this head — Check / Test / Android / WASM / macOS / Windows SUCCESS

Blocking

None.

Non-blocking

1. Loop still keys on “active ∧ cost ≠ DRAIN”, not “route is B” (goaway_cluster.rs ~189–195)

   After draining A's replay this is much safer. A residual flake would need a post-GOAWAY update that is still A and non-DRAIN before A reprices. The sibling accept wait + sequence assert remain the real regression check; asserting the non-DRAIN update’s endpoint is B would make the gate airtight if this ever flakes again.

Verdict

MERGE — test-only push that closes the prior announce-gate NB; park-as-handoff fix for #4655 is unchanged and CI is green.

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Merging at 1b4641e11d814d8ef1a9334743fbbcbf6de441a9 (CI green) on the maintainer's call: moq.pro's fleet needs #4655's catalog-head fix, and pinning it without this PR re-hands an open group to readers already mid-group across a takeover.

Left open as a follow-up, not addressed here: the latest Codex P2 and CodeRabbit's two comments on resume.rs. A capped reader across two takeovers in a row can drop a parked group that the new cache doesn't hold, and the arrival-order floor can skip a lower group that arrives late. Both lose a group rather than duplicating one.

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