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WalkthroughController workers now recover panics during restore, restore-destination, restore workflow, and capture processing. Cleanup records restore or capture failures, preserves committed captures, and controls queue completion and requeue behavior. ChangesWorker panic recovery
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Worker as Controller worker
participant Recovery as recoverPanic
participant Cleanup as Panic cleanup helper
participant State as Work order or restore pod
Worker->>Recovery: Recover processing panic
Recovery->>Cleanup: Pass wrapped panic error
Cleanup->>State: Record failure or failed condition
State-->>Worker: Return cleanup result
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Review comments at @agent/internal/controller/controller.go:
- Line 433: Update the panic recovery in processRestoreQueueItem to invoke
failRestorePod when the pod has been fetched, recording a terminal failure while
leaving the worker’s requeue flag false. Ensure any informer enqueue triggered
by that failure observes the terminal condition and does not replay the restore.
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- Around line 65-67: Update failCaptureAfterPanic to retry the panic cleanup or
requeue the work-order key when setSnapshotContentFailed returns an error, so
cleanup is attempted again instead of only logging the failure and completing
the queue item.
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- Line 51: Carry the original PodSnapshotContent UID through the cleanup path
from the worker that records the panic, and update setSnapshotContentFailed to
compare it with the fetched content UID before applying the AgentPanic failure;
skip the update when the UIDs differ.
- Line 82: Update the cleanup flow around applyRestoredCondition to perform a
UID-conditional status update for the supplied pod, preserving the fetched pod’s
UID as a precondition and avoiding Force-based updates that target a replacement
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- Around line 79-82: Update the panic handling flow around markRestoreHandled,
processRestoreQueueItem, and applyRestoredCondition so a failed status write
remains retryable on later enqueue while the restore stays quarantined from
replay. Ensure the handled branch does not remove the finalizer or otherwise
skip failure recording until the restored failure condition has been persisted.
- Around line 55-58: Update the panic-handling flow around isContentTerminal and
setSnapshotContentFailed to attempt recoverCommittedArtifact before recording
AgentPanic. Preserve the committed capture when recovery succeeds, and only mark
the work order failed when no committed result exists; retain the
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The agent is a single process per node serving every capture and every restore on it, and its queue workers run as bare goroutines with no recovery anywhere in the package. One malformed work order therefore takes down every unrelated in-flight operation on the node. Both per-item workers and both dispatch loops now recover. The capture worker records the panic as a terminal failure on the work order rather than leaving it pending until its lease expires; the panic value and a truncated stack go into the condition, while the full trace stays in the agent log, which is operator-scoped. Neither worker requeues after a panic. A panic is deterministic, so redelivering the same key would only reproduce it. Refs #394 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Bar <118804663+danbar2@users.noreply.github.com>
The no-requeue rationale is in the commit that introduced it; the line worth keeping at the call site is the blast radius. Refs #394 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Bar <118804663+danbar2@users.noreply.github.com>
Each block stated its point and then argued it. The argument belongs in the commit that introduced the code, not above every declaration. Trims failCaptureAfterPanic the same way, which carried the same shape and was not flagged only because it sits further down the file. Refs #394 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Bar <118804663+danbar2@users.noreply.github.com>
Refs #632 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Bar <118804663+danbar2@users.noreply.github.com>
The recovery covered processRestoreQueueItem, which has already handed off by the time a restore runs: restorePodContainers starts each destination under sync.WaitGroup.Go, and everything real happens there. Worse than a plain goroutine, since WaitGroup.Go recovers only to re-panic on purpose, so a panic during a restore still killed the agent. The recovery moves into the worker and reports a failed destination, which recordRestoreResults already surfaces on the pod. Removes the recovery from both queue dispatch loops. A recover there returns from the loop, which nothing restarts, so the agent would look healthy while never handling another work order on the node — worse than the crash and restart it replaced. Neither loop does more than Get and start a goroutine. A panicking restore now records a terminal condition. With no handler it left the pod with nothing, and the key came back on every pod update, repeating the panic indefinitely. Drops the stack from the recorded condition. It is readable by anyone who can read the work order and named internal paths; the agent log, which is operator-scoped, already carries it. Retries the status write that records a recovered panic. The queue does not redeliver a panicking key, so a failed write was the only chance. Refs #632 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Bar <118804663+danbar2@users.noreply.github.com>
The stack check ran after an exact-equality assertion on the same string, so it was unreachable. The restore-destination tests asserted a destination and reason the test body had just assigned, and duplicated the production idiom rather than calling it, so they could not catch a regression in it either. What is left is the one property those tests did establish: a panic in a sync.WaitGroup.Go worker is contained by the deferred recover, where without it WaitGroup.Go re-panics by design. Refs #632 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Bar <118804663+danbar2@users.noreply.github.com>
A panic can land after the dump commits but before Ready is written. AgentPanic is terminal and the reconcile returns at isContentTerminal before recovery runs, so recording it discarded a usable checkpoint. Check for a committed artifact first and fail only when there is none. Bound content publishes through PageBroker rather than the shared filesystem, so it has no equivalent check here. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Bar <118804663+danbar2@users.noreply.github.com>
A panic during the restore left the pod marked failed while the placeholder container kept waiting for a restore that was never coming. Recover in runRestore instead, where the operation is in scope, so the panic goes through failRestore: restore-failed sentinel, then kill. Also cover failRestoreAfterPanic, which had no test. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Bar <118804663+danbar2@users.noreply.github.com>
The restore Pod's owner cannot read the agent's logs: the agent runs in the Snapshot namespace. The node name is already in spec.nodeName, and in a vCluster it is not necessarily the host's. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Bar <118804663+danbar2@users.noreply.github.com>
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What this PR does / why we need it
The node agent is one process per node serving every capture and every restore on that node, its queue workers run as bare goroutines, and there is no panic recovery anywhere in
agent/internal. One malformed work order therefore takes down every unrelated in-flight operation on the node.restorePodContainersruns the real restore undersync.WaitGroup.Go, which recovers a panic only to re-panic deliberately, so that is where a restore panic actually kills the agent. The dispatch loops are deliberately not recovered — they only callGetand start a goroutine, and recovering there would return from the loop and silently stop the node serving that queue.panic: <value>; the stack stays in the agent log, which is operator-scoped.AgentPanicis terminal, and a terminal work order never reaches recovery again, so writing it first would discard a usable checkpoint. Bound content publishes through PageBroker rather than the shared filesystem and has no equivalent check here.failRestore, so the restore-failed sentinel is written and the placeholder is killed. Otherwise the pod is marked failed while the container keeps waiting for a restore that is never coming.Which issue(s) this PR addresses
Part of #632
How was this tested?
AgentPanic, the restore failure is recorded on the pod, and a panic mid-restore kills the placeholder.make linux-testpasses across all agent packages;golangci-lintis clean.Special notes for your reviewer
The recovery in the restore worker is registered after the
Donedefer so that it runs first and leavesrequeuefalse — ordering that matters and is easy to undo by accident.This is goal 6 of SNEP-394 (#394). It is unconditional and independent of retry: an agent that dies this easily makes a retry mechanism worse rather than better, since an oversized capture that kills the agent would then be retried.
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make checkpasses locally.make linux-testpasses.AI assistance: authored with Claude Code. Disclosed per CONTRIBUTING.
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