Kill child process on CommandTimeout to prevent stale-result mix-ups

[mmalkhatib]

Summary

Fixes an un-correlated-TaskCompletionSource hazard, root-caused today against a live production hang.

taskCompletionSource / its reflection helpers / invocationTimeoutTimer are single mutable fields on ServerlessService, reused across sequential commands invoked on the same child process (e.g. a create-shipment command followed by a log-fetch command, chained in a finally). If a command times out, the old code only faulted the caller's Task — it never stops the underlying process. That process can then:

• emit its late result after a subsequent invocation has already overwritten taskCompletionSource, silently resolving the wrong invocation with stale data, or
• never emit anything at all (deadlock/hang), leaving the next invocation's own timer as the only thing that can ever unblock the caller — and if that one also doesn't fire cleanly for whatever reason, the caller hangs with no logged error at all.

Production evidence

A consumer invocation for a create-shipment call sat unacknowledged in its message queue for 11+ minutes, well past both the 30s CommandTimeout and the 300s IdleTimeout, with zero log lines anywhere in the call chain. A manual retry through a separate code path (fresh invocation, unaffected by the wedged one) succeeded immediately and, interestingly, appears to have also resolved the original stuck message — consistent with a stale/orphaned completion rather than a genuine downstream failure.

Fix

On CommandTimeout, kill the child process immediately (best-effort, logged on failure) in addition to faulting the current TCS. This guarantees:

• no further output can ever arrive to mis-resolve a later invocation on the same instance, and
• the next InvokeAsync on this instance fails fast via the existing "Process not started or terminated." guard instead of hanging or silently resolving to stale data.

Test plan

• dotnet build SW.Serverless.sln -c Release — 0 errors, no new warnings.
• dotnet test SW.Serverless.UnitTests — same 7/7 pre-existing failures with and without this change (missing Azure CloudFiles test config, unrelated to this fix — confirmed via git stash/git stash pop comparison).
• Touches only ServerlessService.cs.

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What changed

• InvocationTimeoutTimerCallback now terminates a still-running adapter process after CommandTimeout.
• Termination failures are caught and logged as warnings.
• The existing "Process not started or terminated." guard remains in place.
• This prevents late process output from affecting later invocations and prevents callers from hanging.

Risk

risk:low

The change affects timeout handling and child-process lifecycle management. It adds process termination but does not change public APIs.

Security-sensitive areas

No security-sensitive code was modified. The change affects process termination and warning logging only.

Test coverage impact

• Release build completed with 0 errors and no new warnings.
• Unit tests retain 7 pre-existing failures caused by missing Azure CloudFiles test configuration.
• No new tests were reported for process termination or termination-failure logging.

Deployment and operational concerns

• A timed-out command now terminates its child process immediately.
• Review warning logs if process termination fails.
• No migration is required.
• Rollback requires reverting the ServerlessService.cs change.

Walkthrough

The timeout callback now terminates a still-running adapter process after reporting a TimeoutException. It catches termination failures and logs warnings.

Changes

Timeout cleanup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Terminate adapter after timeout SW.Serverless/Services/ServerlessService.cs	After completing the timeout task, the callback checks the adapter process. It terminates the process when it is still running and logs a warning if termination fails.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 0b830

After a command timeout, the current cleanup order can let a new invocation reuse the child process before it is terminated, allowing stale output to complete the wrong request; termination failures can also leave the process reusable and cause hangs. This creates a high-impact correctness and availability risk, so the PR is not ready to merge until timeout cleanup is made atomic.

Suggested labels: risk:medium

Suggested reviewers: samerzughul

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❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly states the primary change: terminate the child process on command timeout to prevent stale results.
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Inline comments:
In `@SW.Serverless/Services/ServerlessService.cs`:
- Around line 177-194: Update InvocationTimeoutTimerCallback and InvokeAsync so
timeout cleanup atomically marks the service non-reusable and synchronizes that
state transition with invocation startup before completing the shared
taskCompletionSource; ensure process termination is attempted and processStarted
is cleared even when process.Kill() throws, allowing Dispose() to always dispose
the process. Add regression coverage for startup racing timeout completion and
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