fix(net): a lite subscribe that timed out leaves nothing behind

[Dryvnt]

Problem

On lite-05+, #runSubscribe wraps the setup in the 10 s deadline. When the deadline fires, the request is rejected and its #subscribes entry deleted, but #openSubscribe keeps running:

• Its TRACK stream stays open, holding a stream slot, until the peer answers TRACK_INFO or the session closes. A peer that never answers keeps one per attempt.
• If TRACK_INFO does arrive late, the setup calls request.accept on the rejected request, registers the entry again (nothing removes it, so a later GROUP for that id is still read), and opens and writes a SUBSCRIBE stream that is then aborted.
• A SUBSCRIBE stream still waiting for a slot at the deadline gets its SUBSCRIBE written as soon as it opens, before the late-setup handler resets it.

Found while addressing review on #4999, which re-subscribes after such a timeout and so would repeat both once per attempt.

Approach

• The setup carries an AbortController. The timeout path aborts it with the timeout error before rejecting the request.
• #exchange takes an optional signal next to Subscriber.close()'s, so the abort resets a TRACK stream waiting on TRACK_INFO at once, and resets one that opens after the deadline as soon as it opens.
• The setup checks the signal after TRACK_INFO (before accepting, registering or opening the SUBSCRIBE stream) and again once the SUBSCRIBE stream opens (before writing to it). The rejection lands in the existing late-setup handler, which resets the stream.
• The IETF subscriber already does the equivalent (state.cancelled, checked before and while sending and before acceptance), so it is unchanged. Older lite drafts register before the deadline can fire.
• Regression test in lite/subscriber.test.ts, with fake timers, on lite-05, -06 and -07: the deadline fires while TRACK_INFO is pending, the TRACK stream is reset, no SUBSCRIBE stream is opened, and a GROUP for that id is ignored without touching its stream. These fail without the fix. A second test fires the deadline while the SUBSCRIBE stream waits for a slot and checks nothing is written on it. A fourth case, a TRACK open still waiting for a slot at the deadline, already passes today through Stream.open's own open deadline; it pins the reset for when quest: plan JS requests waiting for a stream slot without timing out #5001 removes that deadline.

Impact

• No public API change. SUBSCRIBE_SETUP_TIMEOUT_MS is now exported from the internal lite/subscriber.ts module for the test.
• No wire change; a timed-out lite subscribe resets its TRACK stream and sends no SUBSCRIBE after its deadline.

Alternatives

• Deleting the entry again once the late setup settles. Rejected: it would still open and abort a SUBSCRIBE stream, and leave the TRACK stream to the peer.

Follow-ups

• quest: plan JS requests waiting for a stream slot without timing out #5001 plans to move the setup deadline off the stream-open wait (quest/m1/js-stream-slot-wait.md), which reworks this path; this fix stays minimal so it doesn't pre-empt that.

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Walkthrough

Subscription setup now stores an AbortController and aborts its signal when setup times out or fails. The signal is passed to the TRACK_INFO exchange, which also responds to subscriber closure. Setup checks for cancellation after TRACK_INFO and after opening the SUBSCRIBE stream. Tests cover stalled setup and verify that late-opened streams are aborted without sending SUBSCRIBE bytes.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to de87d

Timed-out subscriptions do not remain active or send a late SUBSCRIBE request. No outstanding issue prevents merging after normal checks.

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Automated review: fix(net): a lite subscribe that timed out stays unregistered

Reviewed head: 5bf7e0b8. CI: Check, Test, Replay and Release JS Packages all pass.

The fix is right and as small as it should be. Before it, a lite-05+ subscribe whose 10 s deadline fired while TRACK_INFO was pending still accepted the request once TRACK_INFO showed up late. Request.accept on a rejected request also re-binds the closed producer through bindProducer. Then it re-registered the id in #subscribes with nothing left to delete it, and sent a SUBSCRIBE that was immediately aborted. The state.cancelled check at subscriber.ts:659 sits at the only await where that can happen. I also walked the other window: if the deadline fires after registration, while Stream.open is waiting, the timeout path's #subscribes.delete(id) runs after the set, and request.reject closes the already-accepted producer. So that window leaves no entry behind, as the description says. The thrown "cancelled" error lands in the existing setup.then(_, () => state.stream?.abort(e)) handler, so it can't become an unhandled rejection.

Findings

1. Medium (pre-existing, made worse by fix(watch): re-subscribe a track after a setup timeout or an upstream reset #4999): the TRACK stream itself isn't reset at the deadline. subscriber.ts:656 awaits #trackInfo, which runs inside #exchange (:716). That exchange is only aborted by Subscriber.close(). When the deadline fires, this PR stops what happens after TRACK_INFO, but the TRACK stream stays open, holding a bidi stream slot, until the peer answers or the session closes. If a peer never answers TRACK_INFO (stuck publisher, or a relay waiting upstream), every fix(watch): re-subscribe a track after a setup timeout or an upstream reset #4999 re-subscribe leaves another hung TRACK stream behind, and they pile up until stream credit runs out. Running out of credit is exactly what the timeout message (browser stream limit reached?) blames. A TRACK open that's still waiting for a slot at the deadline will also open later and send its TRACK request for a subscribe that's already dead.
   Fix: give #exchange an optional AbortSignal, put an AbortController in state, and abort it in the timeout path next to state.cancelled = true. That resets a pending TRACK stream at once, and one that opens later gets reset right away, the same way close() already handles it. The quest: plan JS requests waiting for a stream slot without timing out #5001 quest notes that "both opens wait, and only the answer is under the deadline", but it doesn't cover an answer that never comes, so this is worth fixing here or adding to that quest explicitly.

2. Nit: the GROUP assertion in the test is indirect. The fake reader only records stop(). Without the fix, the test fails because runGroup reaches some other Reader method on the stub and throws, not because read flips. A stub that records any property access (a Proxy), with an assertion that nothing was touched, would state "ignored" directly and wouldn't break if runGroup changes how it reads.

3. Nit: the test hard-codes 10_000 for SUBSCRIBE_SETUP_TIMEOUT_MS and only covers DRAFT_05. lite-06/07 take the same supportsTrackStream branch, so a test.each over the TRACK-stream versions (like the neighbouring tests) would be cheap insurance for the quest: plan JS requests waiting for a stream slot without timing out #5001 rework.

Verdict

MERGE at 5bf7e0b8. It's a correct, minimal fix with a regression test and green CI. Finding 1 is pre-existing and can be a follow-up, but it should land before or with #4999's retry loop.

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Addressed the automated review in 40b5664:

1. The TRACK stream is now reset at the deadline. The setup carries an AbortController that the timeout path aborts; #exchange takes it as an optional signal next to Subscriber.close()'s, so a TRACK stream waiting on TRACK_INFO is reset at once and one that opens later is reset as soon as it opens. The post-TRACK_INFO check now reads the same signal. Fixed here rather than deferred, since fix(watch): re-subscribe a track after a setup timeout or an upstream reset #4999 retries on this timeout.
2. The GROUP check uses a Proxy reader and asserts nothing was touched.
3. The test runs on lite-05, -06 and -07 and uses the exported SUBSCRIBE_SETUP_TIMEOUT_MS. A fourth case covers a TRACK open still waiting for a slot at the deadline; it already passes today through Stream.open's own deadline, and pins the reset for when quest: plan JS requests waiting for a stream slot without timing out #5001 removes that.

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- Line 660: In #openSubscribe, check state.cancel.signal for abortion
immediately after Stream.open resolves and before writing StreamId.Subscribe, so
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Reviewed commit: de87d03

No new actionable correctness findings. Direction looks sound: js/net/src/lite/subscriber.ts:557–571 cancels TRACK setup before rejecting/removing the request; :655–661 prevents late acceptance/registration; :687–690 prevents writes on a SUBSCRIBE stream released after the deadline. The latter addresses the existing review finding, with a targeted no-writes regression. Keep that guard when reconciling the overlapping net changes in #4999.

Verification: both changed files, surrounding setup/exchange cleanup, stream-open behavior, and existing discussion inspected via GitHub; tests were not run locally. Returned exact-head Check, Release JS, and Audio quality workflow runs succeeded. Parked transport-open queue bounding remains the separately documented #5001 scope.

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The maintainer selected merge for this PR. The scope remains cleanup of timed-out lite subscription setup: cancel the pending TRACK exchange, reject the subscription, and prevent late registration or SUBSCRIBE writes. No automatic retries are added, and there is no public API or wire-format change.

Verified head de87d03: Check and Test passed, the final-head OpenAI review reports no actionable findings, and the earlier cancellation-before-write finding is fixed and resolved with a regression test. The separate stream-slot waiting plan and watch recovery changes remain separate decisions.

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