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#674 has the long version. The short story:

cleanConfigs() cleans up whatever AuthConfig is sitting in the index right now. When translateAuthConfig() fails we return before addToIndex() — so the instance we just cleaned up is still the one in the index. The requeue comes back ~5ms later and cleans that exact same instance again, worker.Stop() closes an already-closed channel, and because it happens in a goroutine AuthConfig.Clean() spawned there's nothing to recover it. Pod gone, every replica at once.

Four small changes:

  • Stop() is idempotent now (and takes the mutex, since Start() calls it too)
  • each cleanup goroutine recovers, so no cleaner can ever take the process with it again
  • the index prunes its id -> keys map, so FindKeys() stops handing back hosts a resource has released — otherwise cleanConfigs() happily resolves to whichever AuthConfig owns that host now and cleans someone else's evaluators
  • a failed translation cleans up what it already built, instead of leaking a refresher worker on every requeue (it was ~1 per attempt, each still polling the discovery endpoint forever)

Every test fails on the unfixed code — revert any one of the four and run it if you want to watch it go.

Fixes #674

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented background refresh workers from leaking when authentication configuration processing fails.
    • Preserved the last valid configuration during failed replacement attempts.
    • Improved index tracking so deleted or reassigned entries are no longer reported incorrectly.
    • Prevented cleanup errors from crashing the process.
    • Ensured startup and cleanup failures, including unexpected evaluator errors, are reported safely.
  • Reliability

    • Made worker shutdown safe to repeat and enabled workers to restart after stopping.
    • Improved background refresh start-up and lifecycle handling during configuration changes.
    • Prevented duplicate background refresh workers from starting concurrently.

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The change defers evaluator refreshers until validated configurations are indexed, preserves the last known good configuration after translation failure, makes cleanup and worker stopping repeatable, and removes stale index keys. Tests cover reconciliation failures, refresher state, worker reuse, and key ownership.

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AuthConfig reconciliation safety

Layer / File(s) Summary
Deferred evaluator startup
pkg/auth/auth.go, pkg/evaluators/config.go, pkg/evaluators/identity.go, pkg/evaluators/identity/jwt.go, pkg/evaluators/authorization.go, pkg/evaluators/authorization/opa.go, pkg/evaluators/identity/*_test.go, pkg/evaluators/authorization/*_test.go
AuthConfigStarter starts evaluators after validation. OPA and OIDC refreshers no longer start in constructors. Startup prevents duplicate refreshers.
Translation-first reconciliation
controllers/auth_config_controller.go, controllers/auth_config_controller_test.go
Reconcile cleans the previous configuration only after replacement translation succeeds. It starts workers only after indexing and host linkage. Tests cover repeated failures, host collisions, and preservation of the active refresher.
Worker and evaluator cleanup safety
pkg/workers/worker.go, pkg/workers/worker_test.go, pkg/evaluators/config.go, pkg/evaluators/authorization/opa.go, pkg/evaluators/identity/jwt.go, pkg/evaluators/config_test.go
Worker state uses locking. Stop is safe before start and after previous stops. Workers can restart. Cleanup and startup recover evaluator panics and aggregate cleanup errors.
Index key ownership maintenance
pkg/index/index.go, pkg/index/index_test.go
Index keys are not duplicated. Key records are removed when keys or IDs are deleted. Tests cover pruning, repeated reconciliation, and host reassignment.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d41a1

The PR improves cleanup safety and prevents repeated worker shutdowns from crashing the process, but cleanup failures can leave old refreshers running without ownership and startup failures can still produce a Reconciled status despite incomplete authorization or identity readiness. These failure states can hide stale policy refresh or partial security behavior, so merge should wait for explicit handling or owner acceptance.

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  participant Reconcile
  participant translateAuthConfig
  participant Index
  participant AuthConfig
  participant Refreshers
  Reconcile->>translateAuthConfig: Translate configuration
  translateAuthConfig-->>Reconcile: Return configuration or error
  Reconcile->>Index: Index successful configuration
  Reconcile->>AuthConfig: Clean previous configuration
  AuthConfig->>Refreshers: Start evaluators after validation
  Refreshers-->>Reconcile: Return startup errors or success
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Keeps good configuration active.
Workers stop without a panic,
Stale keys leave the index,
Clean retries preserve state.

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cleanConfigs() cleans up whatever AuthConfig is currently in the index. When
translateAuthConfig() fails, Reconcile() returns before addToIndex(), so the
instance it just cleaned up is still the one in the index; the requeue cleans
that same instance again and worker.Stop() closes an already-closed channel.
The panic is raised in a goroutine spawned by AuthConfig.Clean(), so nothing
can recover from it and the whole process goes down.

- workers: Stop() is idempotent and guarded by a mutex
- evaluators: recover() around each per-evaluator cleanup goroutine
- index: keep the id -> keys map in sync with the tree, so FindKeys() no longer
  reports hosts a resource has released and cleanConfigs() cannot resolve to
  whichever AuthConfig owns that host now
- controllers: clean up the partially translated config when translation fails,
  which was leaking a refresher worker on every requeue

Fixes Kuadrant#674

Signed-off-by: Aman_Cool <aman017102007@gmail.com>
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pkg/workers/worker.go (1)

50-75: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Make Start stop and replace the worker under one lock.

If concurrent Start calls overlap, both Stop calls can return before either publishes w.done. The later call can stop the first ticker and replace w.done, while the first goroutine still waits on its private done channel. That goroutine remains until w.ctx is cancelled. Use a stopLocked helper from Start and Stop, and test concurrent replacements.

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In `@pkg/workers/worker.go` around lines 50 - 75, Update Start and Stop to use a
shared stopLocked helper while holding w.mu, ensuring an existing worker is
fully stopped before Start creates and publishes its replacement. Preserve the
worker’s cancellation behavior and add coverage for concurrent Start
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In `@controllers/auth_config_controller_test.go`:
- Around line 478-485: The test setup in
TestReconcileDoesNotLeakRefreshersWhenTranslationFails currently places the
invalid oauth2 configuration in Authentication, which may fail before the OIDC
refresher is created. Move the invalid configuration to a later translation
stage, such as metadata referencing a missing UMA Secret, so authentication
creates the refresher before translateAuthConfig fails.
- Around line 492-515: The controller reconciliation tests around
TestReconcileCleansTheSameIndexedConfigTwiceWithoutPanicking and the related
tests must use the repository’s envtest harness instead of newTestK8sClient’s
fake client. Update setup and teardown to start envtest with the configured
KUBEBUILDER_ASSETS, create the required resources through the API server, and
run reconciliation against that client while preserving the existing assertions.

In `@pkg/evaluators/config.go`:
- Around line 61-64: Update the panic recovery logging in the evaluator cleanup
defer block to avoid exposing recovered panic values or evaluator
representations at error level. Redact r and e, or log only their non-sensitive
type information at V(1), while preserving the recovery behavior and contextual
cleanup message.

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In `@pkg/workers/worker.go`:
- Around line 50-75: Update Start and Stop to use a shared stopLocked helper
while holding w.mu, ensuring an existing worker is fully stopped before Start
creates and publishes its replacement. Preserve the worker’s cancellation
behavior and add coverage for concurrent Start replacements so no superseded
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Comment thread controllers/auth_config_controller_test.go Outdated
Comment on lines +492 to +515
func TestReconcileCleansTheSameIndexedConfigTwiceWithoutPanicking(t *testing.T) {
authConfigIndex := index.NewIndex()
authConfig := newTestAuthConfigWithRefresher()
k8sClient := newTestK8sClient(&authConfig)
reconciler := newTestAuthConfigReconciler(k8sClient, authConfigIndex)
name := types.NamespacedName{Name: authConfig.Name, Namespace: authConfig.Namespace}
req := reconcile.Request{NamespacedName: name}

_, err := reconciler.Reconcile(context.Background(), req)
assert.NilError(t, err)
assert.Check(t, authConfigIndex.Get("echo-api") != nil)

breakTranslation(t, k8sClient, name)

// reconcile #1: cleans up the indexed config, fails to translate, requeues
_, err = reconciler.Reconcile(context.Background(), req)
assert.ErrorContains(t, err, "no-such-secret")
assert.Check(t, authConfigIndex.Get("echo-api") != nil, "the last known good config should stay in the index")

// reconcile #2: the requeue, cleaning up that same instance all over again
_, err = reconciler.Reconcile(context.Background(), req)
assert.ErrorContains(t, err, "no-such-secret")
assert.Check(t, authConfigIndex.Get("echo-api") != nil)
}

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Run these controller reconciliation tests with envtest.

Replace the fake-client setup with the repository envtest harness. Run the tests with the configured KUBEBUILDER_ASSETS. The fake client does not validate API-server and controller-runtime reconciliation behaviour.

As per coding guidelines, **/*_test.go must “Use envtest for controller tests and run tests with the repository's configured envtest binaries via KUBEBUILDER_ASSETS”.

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In `@controllers/auth_config_controller_test.go` around lines 492 - 515, The
controller reconciliation tests around
TestReconcileCleansTheSameIndexedConfigTwiceWithoutPanicking and the related
tests must use the repository’s envtest harness instead of newTestK8sClient’s
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Comment thread pkg/evaluators/config.go
Comment on lines +61 to +64
defer func() {
if r := recover(); r != nil {
log.FromContext(ctx).Error(fmt.Errorf("%v", r), "recovered from panic while cleaning up evaluator", "evaluator", e)
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Redact recovered panic data before logging it.

Do not log r or e directly at error level. Either redact these values or emit only non-sensitive type information at V(1). A panic value or evaluator representation can contain credential or configuration data.

As per coding guidelines, **/*.go must “redact sensitive data or log it only at debug level (V(1))”.

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Comment thread controllers/auth_config_controller.go Outdated
// fails halfway through, whatever was built so far is discarded and never reaches the index,
// so nothing would ever clean it up - and a persistently failing reconcile is requeued over
// and over, leaking a worker each time
defer func() {

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Interesting. When I first read #674 – literally a few minutes ago –, I thought only a check on whether the channel had been closed before would suffice. I now realise this case of workers that started prematurely before a mid-process reconciliation error also matters.

I wonder if cleaning the workers when a reconciliation error is detected isn't treating the symptom rather than the (well spotted) design gap. Perhaps a two-phase approach — build everything first, start workers only after translation succeeds – would be cleaner.

  1. It eliminates the problem class entirely. The defer cleanup in translateAuthConfig is reactive: it creates orphaned workers, then tears them down. With deferred start, orphaned workers never exist in the first place. No cleanup path means no cleanup bugs.
  2. It makes the "last known good" story more honest. Right now, cleanConfigs() stops the old config's workers before we know the new config is valid. If translation then fails, the old config stays indexed but its refresher is dead — so the "last known good config should stay in the index" assertion in the test is true structurally, but that config is degraded (stale JWKS, no refresh). Ideally, the old config would keep running until the new one is fully ready, a proper swap-on-success.
  3. It poses a simpler invariant. "Workers only run for configs that are in the index" is easier to reason about than "workers run for partially-built configs too, but we clean those up on error."

I understand this would require some refactoring of oidcProviderVerifier and OPAExternalSource (to return signals the reconciler can call on to start the workers), almost extending the scope of this PR whose number 1 issue IIUC was the non-idempotent Stop().

Interested in your thought, @Aman-Cool.

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I went looking for a hole in this and mostly came up empty.., you're right, and the reorder is the better fix.

Two things did fall out of the search though. First, a small correction: the stale JWKS bit isn't quite right. The ttl refresher only re-fetches the discovery document; JWKs get pulled again by go-oidc whenever a token's kid misses the cache, worker or not (rotation strategy straight from the spec, and our own godoc on ttl says as much). So a dead refresher doesn't break key rotation. What actually goes stale is discovery metadata and the external OPA policy. Still degraded, just a slower burn than it sounds.

The second is more a hole in my patch than in your argument. Chasing "no cleanup path means no cleanup bugs", I went looking for a case where translation succeeds and the config still never lands in the index; and there is one: all hosts taken by another AuthConfig. addToIndex() hands back linkedHosts=[], looseHosts=[...] and a nil error, we return, no requeue, and the workers are already running. +20 goroutines over 20 collision reconciles, same on main as on this branch. My defer never fires because translation succeeded, and a deferred start wouldn't catch it either unless it hangs off linkedHosts rather than "translate returned nil".

So the invariant is the right one, it just wants anchoring a step later. Which makes the two-phase version worth more than my patch, not less. Offer stands.., keep this PR to the crash and do the refactor properly next, or extend it here, your call.

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I'd say do the work in this PR. We've been leaving with a non ideal worker.Stop() for a while now. We can wait a little longer to land the best fix we can deliver with all the information we have now.

Thanks cracking this one @Aman-Cool!

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Done..,two-phase it is.

Refreshers don't start in the constructors any more; there's an auth.AuthConfigStarter mirroring the cleaner, called once the config is translated and indexed. Translation now runs before the clean, so a failed one leaves the old config indexed and still refreshing; your (2) properly rather than structurally. Start is gated on linkedHosts, and the defer cleanup is gone.

Heads up that TestOIDCProviderVerifierRefresh and TestOPAExternalUrlWithTTL both moved.., they asserted the refresher existed right after the constructor, now they assert it doesn't until Start().

Ready for another look.

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Evaluators keep credentials in exported fields (OAuth2.ClientSecret,
OPAExternalSource.SharedSecret), so logging the evaluator itself at error
level would write those out. Log only the name of the config instead.

Also makes the leaked refresher test deterministic. Authentication is a map,
so the oauth2 config could be translated before the jwt one and the refresher
was not always built before the failure. Failing in the metadata phase, which
is always translated after identity, exercises the path on every run.

Signed-off-by: Aman_Cool <aman017102007@gmail.com>
…ndexed

Evaluators used to kick off their background refreshers from their constructors,
which meant a config could be running workers it never got to own. A translation
that fails halfway leaves them orphaned, and so does an authconfig whose hosts
are all taken by another one, since neither ever reaches the index for
cleanConfigs() to find again.

Adds the setup half of the evaluator lifecycle, auth.AuthConfigStarter, as the
mirror of AuthConfigCleaner. Constructors keep doing the work that validates the
config, openid connect discovery and the external policy download, so a broken
issuer or an unreachable registry still fails the translation. Only the periodic
refresh moves to Start(), which the reconciler calls once the config has been
indexed with at least one linked host.

Reconcile now translates before it cleans, so a failed translation leaves the
config in the index untouched and still refreshing, rather than tearing it down
before its replacement is known to be good.

Clean() clears the refresher it stops, so a verifier reports its lifecycle
honestly and can be started again.

Drops the deferred cleanup of partially translated configs added earlier in this
PR: with no workers started before the config is indexed, there is nothing left
to orphan.

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236-279: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Minor: startConfigs failure is not reflected in the status report.

When authConfig.Start(ctx) fails (Line 271), the reconciler only logs the error and records it on the span (Lines 242-243). reportReconciled stays true, so r.StatusReport.Set(resourceId, api.StatusReasonReconciled, ...) still runs at Line 259. A user observing the AuthConfig status sees "Reconciled" even though a background refresher (OPA external policy or OIDC discovery) failed to start and stays permanently stopped until a future successful reconcile.

Set a distinct status reason, or include the failure detail in the reconciled status, so operators can detect this degraded state without inspecting traces or logs.

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 		if len(linkedHosts) > 0 {
 			if err := r.startConfigs(ctx, translatedAuthConfig); err != nil {
 				logger.Error(err, failedToStartConfig)
 				span.RecordError(err)
+				r.StatusReport.Set(resourceId, api.StatusReasonCachingError, err.Error(), linkedHosts)
+				reportReconciled = false
 			}
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In `@controllers/auth_config_controller.go` around lines 236 - 279, Update the
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AuthConfig is reflected in the status report instead of reporting
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In `@pkg/evaluators/authorization/opa.go`:
- Around line 92-107: Hold opa.mu across both the refresher-existence check and
setupRefresher call in OPA.Start, and hold v.mu across the equivalent check and
setup call in oidcProviderVerifier.Start in pkg/evaluators/identity/jwt.go
(lines 130-142), preventing concurrent startup and races with cleanup or status
checks.

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In `@controllers/auth_config_controller.go`:
- Around line 236-279: Update the reconciliation flow around startConfigs so a
failure to start the translated AuthConfig is reflected in the status report
instead of reporting api.StatusReasonReconciled. Set reportReconciled to false
or use the established degraded/error status reason when startConfigs returns an
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Comment thread pkg/evaluators/authorization/opa.go

stillIndexed := authConfigIndex.Get("echo-api")
assert.Check(t, stillIndexed != nil, "the last known good config should stay in the index")
assert.Check(t, refresherRunning(stillIndexed), "and it should still be refreshing, not left degraded")

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This test verifies the worker is still running after a failed attempt to reconcile, which is good. However, it builds on the known fact that the failed reconciliation didn't result in the AuthConfig being re-indexed. We should assert stillIndexed is the same AuthConfig previously stored as indexed and not the newer failed version of the resource. One easy way to do that is, somewhere along with breakTranslation, removing from the AuthConfig the identity evaluator. By only having a broken metadata rule, there's no other option but the leftover running worker being from the previous, last-known-good config.

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Good catch, and you're right😅 the test was leaning on "a failed translation doesn't re-index" without ever checking it. Passing for a reason it doesn't assert.

Tried your suggestion: dropping the identity from the AuthConfig along with breakTranslation works nicely. The broken version has no jwt at all, so a running refresher can only have come from the previous config; nothing left to coincidence. Still fails if I put the clean back before the translate, so it keeps the coverage it had.

Will push that shortly.

…onfig

The test asserted that a refresher was running on whatever the index held after a
failed reconcile, but never established which config that was. It relied on a
failed translation not re-indexing, which is the very thing it should be pinning
down rather than assuming.

Takes the identity away from the resource along with breaking its translation, so
the version of the config that fails to translate has no jwt evaluator of its own
and a refresher still running afterwards can only be the one from the previously
indexed config.

Kept apart from breakTranslation deliberately: the tests that check nothing gets
orphaned need an identity in the failing config, or there is no refresher to
orphan and they pass for free.

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Comment thread pkg/evaluators/config.go Outdated

for _, evaluator := range config.allEvaluators() {
if starter, ok := evaluator.(auth.AuthConfigStarter); ok {
if err := starter.Start(ctx); err != nil {

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An individual starter could still panic, right? While Clean dispatches wrapped in recover(), Start() does not, propagating through startConfigs and ultimately yielding a reconciliation error while there's already no rolling back of started evaluators before that.

Wondering if there's a way to surface the startup error without leaving garbage that a cleanup (or no cleanup at all) would fail to clean. WDYT?

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Yes, and it's the same class this PR is about, so it should be covered. One difference from Clean: Start() runs sequentially in the reconcile goroutine, so a single recover() in AuthConfig.Start covers every starter, rather than one per goroutine.

Small correction on the propagation — startConfigs errors are logged today, not returned, so a failed start doesn't fail the reconcile. A panic would though, and controller-runtime re-panics by default (RecoverPanic is a *bool we never set), so that's the actual hole.

On the garbage, I think the ordering already covers it: startConfigs only runs once the config is indexed, so a partial start leaves it degraded but never unreachable. The next cleanConfigs() finds it through the index and stops whatever did start, and Clean on an evaluator that never started is a no-op. That was rather the point of moving the start after addToIndex.

Which leaves surfacing the error. I'd keep it off the reconcile return — a requeue would re-translate, re-clean and re-start the lot, and today StartWorker only errors when ttl <= 0, i.e. no refresher configured. Happy to put it on the status report instead if you'd rather it were visible.

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stillIndexed := authConfigIndex.Get("echo-api")
assert.Check(t, stillIndexed != nil, "the last known good config should stay in the index")
assert.Check(t, refresherRunning(stillIndexed), "the refresher can only be the one from the previously indexed config, and it should still be running")

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Stop after a missing indexed configuration.

If stillIndexed is nil, assert.Check records the failure and continues. refresherRunning(stillIndexed) then dereferences authConfig.IdentityConfigs and can panic. Use assert.Assert for this non-nil invariant so the test reports the index failure directly.

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Comment thread pkg/evaluators/identity/jwt.go Outdated
Comment on lines +132 to +134
v.mu.Lock()
alreadyRunning := v.refresher != nil
v.mu.Unlock()

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Using the RW mutex to read the refresher here. Should it be RLock and RUnlock?

Also, it's a preexisting issue, but should v.setupOpenIdProviderRefresh also use the lock before setting the refresher?

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Right on both, though I think the first one goes the other way: RLock would make it worse. The check and the set need to be atomic and currently aren't; the lock is released before setupOpenIdProviderRefresh writes, so two Starts could both see nil and both spawn a worker, and one of them leaks. Holding the write lock across both is the fix, which answers your second question too: the refresher gets set under that same lock.

And yes, the unguarded write is pre-existing. It isn't actually racing today, since Start and Clean both run from the reconcile goroutine and controller-runtime won't reconcile one key concurrently, but Clean reads and clears the refresher under the lock now, so leaving the write outside makes the contract inconsistent. Will tidy it.

Comment thread pkg/evaluators/authorization/opa.go Outdated
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opa.mu.Lock()
alreadyRunning := opa.ExternalSource.refresher != nil
opa.mu.Unlock()

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Same as #675 (comment)

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Same fix, with one OPA-specific wrinkle worth flagging: refresher lives on OPAExternalSource, but I guarded it with opa.mu; which Call() read-locks on every request. Taking the write lock to start a refresher would briefly block policy evaluation for that config, and it's a lock guarding a field it doesn't own.

So rather than widening opa.mu, I'd give OPAExternalSource its own mutex for its refresher: same atomic check-and-set as the jwt one, and the request path stays out of it entirely. Shout if you'd rather keep it on the single lock.

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}()
if cleaner, ok := e.(auth.AuthConfigCleaner); ok {
if err := cleaner.Clean(ctx); err != nil {
errors = multierror.Append(errors, err)

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Another preexisting bug – errors comes from the closure, yet handled without a mutex. Two simultaneous non-nil Clean errors race the read-modify-write and can drop an error.

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Yes.., read-modify-write from every cleanup goroutine, so it can drop errors, and -race would flag it the moment two cleaners failed at once.

Full disclosure: I spotted this when I added the recover() and left it alone as unrelated to the crash. Since we're in here anyway, I'll fix it.

Rather than a mutex I'd give each goroutine its own slot; errs := make([]error, len(evaluators)), each writes errs[i], merged after Wait(). Distinct elements, so there's no shared write left to guard at all.

…starts

Four things from review, all on the lifecycle added in this PR or in the code it
touches:

Start() recovers. It runs sequentially in the reconcile goroutine, where an
unrecovered panic takes the whole process down, which is the very thing this PR
is about. A single recover in AuthConfig.Start covers every starter, unlike
Clean where it has to be per goroutine.

The starters check and set atomically. Both oidcProviderVerifier.Start and
OPA.Start released the lock between testing for an existing refresher and
assigning a new one, so two callers could each start one and leak whichever lost
the race. setupOpenIdProviderRefresh and setupRefresher now document that they
assign under the caller's lock.

The OPA refresher gets its own mutex, on OPAExternalSource where it actually
lives, rather than borrowing opa.mu. That one is read-locked by Call() on every
request and has no business being taken to start a refresher.

Clean() collects errors into one slot per evaluator instead of appending to a
shared variable from every goroutine, which raced and could drop an error. A
recovered panic is now reported as one of those errors rather than only logged.

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