Deflake EXEC keyless redirect test by waiting for roles to converge before failover

[kakiuwang-ui]

Fixes #3842.

Summary

EXEC with all-keyless commands is redirected after failover with redirect capa in tests/unit/cluster/replica-redirect.tcl has failed 8 times across 7 CI environments with Failover did not happen.

The test is the second manual failover in the file and starts only a few milliseconds after the first one. In the 2026-09-05 test-sanitizer-address-gcc failure, the server logs show the cause:

• The replica (old primary) accepts CLUSTER FAILOVER and sends MFSTART.
• The primary (the node that won the first failover) logs Ignoring MFSTART message from node ... (R0) that is not my replica. and 29 ms later Node ... (R0) is now a replica of node ... (R1): gossip about the first failover had not been processed yet.
• The replica logs Manual failover timed out. 5 seconds later and never retries, so the 50 s wait fails.

The MFSTART handler in cluster_legacy.c only accepts the message when sender->replicaof == myself, so the test has to wait for that view before issuing the failover.

Change

Before CLUSTER FAILOVER, wait until:

1. the primary's CLUSTER NODES shows the other node as its replica (the exact check the MFSTART handler does), and
2. the replica's link to its primary is connected (otherwise CLUSTER FAILOVER is rejected with Master is down or failed).

Test-only change.

Test

The race does not hit naturally on my machine (at the point of CLUSTER FAILOVER the primary's view was already converged in 5/5 probes), so I made it deterministic with a scratch-only patch (not included): for 300 ms after clusterFailoverReplaceYourPrimary(), the new primary drops incoming PING/PONG, delaying its view of the old primary's role change.

• Without this change, with the injected delay: 3/3 runs fail with Failover did not happen, and the log shows the same Ignoring MFSTART ... not my replica line as CI.
• With only condition 1, with the injected delay: some runs fail with Master is down or failed. That is because dropping PINGs without replying makes the replica free its link. Condition 2 covers this.
• With this change, with the injected delay: 8/8 pass.
• With this change, unmodified server: ./runtest --single tests/unit/cluster/replica-redirect.tcl --loops 10 passes.

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Changes

Replica failover test

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Replica readiness validation tests/unit/cluster/replica-redirect.tcl	The test resolves the primary and replica IDs. It waits for the primary to recognize the replica and for the replica link to become connected before manual failover. It reports Primary and replica do not agree on their roles when readiness is not reached.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to fd1c6

The targeted failover test can still fail immediately during the role transition instead of waiting for readiness, so the flaky CI failure is not fully resolved.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the test deflake and the specific fix: waiting for role convergence before failover.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the flaky test, failure cause, synchronization conditions, test-only change, and validation results.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #3842 identifies intermittent Failover did not happen failures in tests/unit/cluster/replica-redirect.tcl. The change adds a bounded wait_for_condition before the second CLUSTER FAILOVER…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The diff changes only tests/unit/cluster/replica-redirect.tcl. The added synchronization directly supports the failing test in issue #3842. No unrelated production or test changes are present.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…

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In `@tests/unit/cluster/replica-redirect.tcl`:
- Around line 187-190: Update the wait condition around
cluster_node_is_replica_of to safely handle an empty result from
cluster_get_myself_primary: capture the linkstate lookup with catch, require it
to succeed, and only accept the condition when the captured linkstate is
connected.

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