Bug 109641: fix slice bounds out of range panic in getAvailableCandidates

[vdurgam10]

Summary

Fixes a panic in the InPlaceUpgrader controller that occurs during NodePool in-place upgrades when maxUnavailable is set higher than the number of remaining eligible candidate nodes.

Root Cause: getAvailableCandidates() slices candidateNodes[:capacity] without checking that capacity <= len(candidateNodes), causing a runtime error: slice bounds out of range [:2] with capacity 1 panic.

Fix: Clamp capacity to len(candidateNodes) before slicing, so the function returns all available candidates when fewer exist than the requested capacity.

Bug Details

• Jira: OCPBUGS-109641
• Affected versions: All (main, release-4.20, release-4.22)
• Symptom: NodePool upgrade stalls indefinitely with repeated panic in HCCO logs
• Trigger condition: maxUnavailable > 1 and number of eligible candidate nodes < maxUnavailable (e.g., when most nodes have already upgraded)

Changes

• inplaceupgrader.go: Add bounds check before slicing candidateNodes
• inplaceupgrader_test.go: Add test case covering capacity > len(candidateNodes) scenario

Test Plan

• Unit test TestGetAvailableCandidates/capacity_exceeds_available_candidates_does_not_panic passes
• All existing TestGetAvailableCandidates test cases continue to pass
• Validated on live OCP 4.22.7 cluster with KubeVirt HCP:
  • Reproduced the panic with a NodePool (1 replica, maxUnavailable=2, InPlace strategy)
  • Deployed fixed HCCO image - panic resolved, controller reconciles normally

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved in-place upgrade handling when the requested capacity exceeds the available candidate nodes.
  • Prevented upgrade operations from failing due to invalid candidate selection.

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📝 Walkthrough

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The in-place upgrader now limits requested capacity to the number of available candidate nodes before slicing. A table-driven test verifies that one awaiting node is selected when capacity exceeds the candidate count and completed nodes remain excluded.

Suggested reviewers: poornimasingour

Mergeability Score: ⚪ Minimal · up to afabd

The PR makes a localized bounds-check change that prevents the reported panic and adds coverage for the boundary case; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains, with only minor test-naming cleanup recommended.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 11

✅ Passed checks (11 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the slice-bounds panic and the affected function, matching the main change.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Stable And Deterministic Test Names	✅ Passed	The added test title is the static string "capacity exceeds available candidates does not panic"; it contains no generated or run-dependent value.
Test Structure And Quality	✅ Passed	The added case is a focused pure unit test. It creates no cluster resources, has no waits, and follows nearby table-driven NewWithT patterns; subtest names plus equality output provide failure cont...
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility	✅ Passed	The diff only clamps candidate slicing and adds a unit test; it introduces no affinity, topology spread, node selector, toleration, replica, or PDB scheduling constraint.
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility	✅ Passed	The commit adds a standard Go table-driven unit test, not a Ginkgo e2e test; it adds no IPv4 assumptions or external connectivity requirements.
No-Weak-Crypto	✅ Passed	The diff adds only a candidate-count clamp and a unit test; it introduces no MD5, SHA1, DES, RC4, Blowfish, ECB, custom crypto, or secret comparison.
Container-Privileges	✅ Passed	The PR changes only candidate slicing and its test. The diff adds no privilege settings; existing privileged, hostNetwork, and hostPID settings are unchanged from origin/main.
No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs	✅ Passed	The PR diff adds only a capacity clamp and a unit-test case; it introduces no logging calls or sensitive log fields.

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`@control-plane-operator/hostedclusterconfigoperator/controllers/inplaceupgrader/inplaceupgrader_test.go`:
- Line 536: Rename the test case currently named “capacity exceeds available
candidates does not panic” to follow the required “When ... it should ...”
format while preserving its meaning: insufficient candidate capacity should not
panic.

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use the required test-case naming format.

Rename the case to describe the condition and expected result, for example:

Proposed change

-			name: "capacity exceeds available candidates does not panic",
+			name: "When capacity exceeds available candidates, it should return all eligible candidates without panicking",

As per coding guidelines, **/*_test.go test cases must use the "When ... it should ..." format.

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	name: "capacity exceeds available candidates does not panic",
	name: "When capacity exceeds available candidates, it should return all eligible candidates without panicking",

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In
`@control-plane-operator/hostedclusterconfigoperator/controllers/inplaceupgrader/inplaceupgrader_test.go`
at line 536, Rename the test case currently named “capacity exceeds available
candidates does not panic” to follow the required “When ... it should ...”
format while preserving its meaning: insufficient candidate capacity should not
panic.

Source: Coding guidelines

[muraee]

+1

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