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Fix stale slot migration state after full sync - #4735

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fixes #998

this adds a deterministic regression for the full-sync race where a replica inherits an importing state, misses the final CLUSTER SETSLOT ... NODE while offline, and stays stuck after sync.

the cluster cron now reconciles legacy importing/migrating markers against the authoritative slot owner. an importing marker is cleared once the replica's shard already owns the slot, and a migrating marker is cleared once its shard no longer owns it.

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  • reproduced the stale importing state on current unstable before the fix
  • make -j1 BUILD_TLS=no MALLOC=libc OPT=-O0
  • ./runtest --single unit/cluster/slot-migration --clients 1: 33 passed, 0 failed
  • clang-format-18 on the touched c source
  • git diff --check

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The cluster cron now clears stale importing and migrating slot markers based on current ownership. A full-sync test verifies that importing state clears after synchronization.

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Slot migration state cleanup

Layer / File(s) Summary
State reconciliation
src/cluster_legacy.c
Adds cleanup for obsolete importing and migrating entries. Each removal logs the change and schedules configuration and state updates without forcing fsync.
Cron integration and full-sync validation
src/cluster_legacy.c, tests/unit/cluster/slot-migration.tcl
Runs cleanup after clusterSlotMigrationCron() and tests replica behavior during full sync and slot finalization.

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Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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The production cleanup behavior is not shown to be broken, but the regression test may miss a recurrence of the full-sync race; merge risk is low and bounded to test confidence.

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 66.67% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 3 functions across 1 files. (1 skipped: 1… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly describes the main change: fixing stale slot migration state after full synchronization.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the full-sync race, the reconciliation logic, the regression test, and validation results. It is relevant to the changeset.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed For #998, clusterClearStaleSlotMigrationStates reconciles migration markers with the authoritative slot owner during clusterCron. It removes stale importing markers when the local primary owns the…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The source change directly addresses the stale importing and migrating states described in #998. The test changes reproduce and verify the concurrent full-sync race. No unrelated changes appear in the…
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In `@tests/unit/cluster/slot-migration.tcl`:
- Around line 433-434: Make the full-sync interleaving deterministic by pausing
R2 after the existing master_sync_in_progress check and keeping it paused
through the operations ending at line 439, then resume it afterward. Use the
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cannot reach REPL_STATE_CONNECTED or process the slot command before
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dictReleaseIterator(di);

if (changed) {
clusterDoBeforeSleep(CLUSTER_TODO_SAVE_CONFIG | CLUSTER_TODO_UPDATE_STATE | CLUSTER_TODO_FSYNC_CONFIG);

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This makes a stale open-slot marker force a synchronous nodes.conf fsync from clusterCron, even though no ownership or epoch changed. That state came from the replication-only RDB aux field (clusterEncodeOpenSlotsAuxField explicitly does not persist it to ordinary RDBs), and normal CLUSTER SETSLOT cleanup at src/cluster_legacy.c:8661 only requests SAVE_CONFIG | UPDATE_STATE. Drop CLUSTER_TODO_FSYNC_CONFIG here too; otherwise a replica completing this recovery can add disk latency to the main thread for bookkeeping that does not need crash durability.

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fixed in f0c3bd3. the cron repair now matches normal setslot cleanup and requests save_config + update_state without fsync.

migrate_slot 1 0 9000
wait_for_slot_state 2 "\[9000-<-$R1_id\]"

R 0 CONFIG SET repl-backlog-size 1024

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These four settings are runtime-only, but the replica is the process restarted below. In particular, rdb-key-save-delay is read by the primary's RDB child (src/rdb.c:1345), so setting it on R0 does not make R2's restart retain any delay and the snapshot has no pre-existing keys to slow down. The test therefore has no deterministic window between restoring the aux field and applying the buffered SETSLOT NODE; it can pass without exercising the cron repair. Persist the relevant setting on R2 before restarting (or use a replica-side load delay/debug synchronization), and assert that the stale marker is present before waiting for it to clear.

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fixed in f0c3bd3. the regression now persists a replica-side load delay, proves the stale importing marker is still present while full sync is active after finalization, then waits for cron repair. the full slot-migration file is 33/33 green.

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426-436: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add coverage for stale migrating-marker cleanup. clusterCron calls clusterClearStaleSlotMigrationStates, but the regression test asserts only stale IMPORTING cleanup. No test leaves a stale MIGRATING marker and asserts that the marker is deleted after ownership changes. Add a focused migrating-state scenario with an assertion that the -> entry is absent. This branch is an intended part of the helper's stale IMPORTING/MIGRATING cleanup behavior.

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In `@src/cluster_legacy.c` around lines 426 - 436, Extend the cluster stale-state
regression coverage with a focused scenario that creates a stale MIGRATING
marker, changes slot ownership, runs clusterCron through
clusterClearStaleSlotMigrationStates, and asserts the slot’s migrating-to entry
is absent. Keep the existing stale IMPORTING assertions unchanged.

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In `@src/cluster_legacy.c`:
- Around line 426-436: Extend the cluster stale-state regression coverage with a
focused scenario that creates a stale MIGRATING marker, changes slot ownership,
runs clusterCron through clusterClearStaleSlotMigrationStates, and asserts the
slot’s migrating-to entry is absent. Keep the existing stale IMPORTING
assertions unchanged.

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[BUG] slot stuck in importing state on replica after scale-up and rebalance

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