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As part of introducing tenant-managed SitePrefix resources, Admin force-delete must finish cleaning up an Instance before its network resources can be reused. That only works if an update that began earlier cannot save new configuration after the Instance has been marked for deletion.

Before this change, update_config and update_os checked only the configuration version they originally read. set_primary_interface also updated the interface, Machine network configuration, Instance network configuration, and desired boot target without first making sure the assigned Instance was still live. That left a small window for those changes to be saved after deletion had begun.

So, this change makes update_config and update_os update only a live Instance. If the Instance has been deleted, they now return DatabaseError::FailedPrecondition; if it is still live but another request changed its version, they preserve the existing version conflict behavior. set_primary_interface now verifies that the assigned Instance is still live before making its related changes and prevents deletion from proceeding until those changes finish.

This gives force-delete and configuration updates one clear order: when force-delete records the deletion first, the configuration request changes nothing; when a configuration request is already saving changes, force-delete waits and then cleans up the saved state.

The force-delete cleanup steps themselves stay the same, and this PR does not add external cleanup or change SitePrefix or routing admission behavior.

Related issues

This supports #5123.

This is a prerequisite for #5112 and part of #3883.

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Database tests cover configuration and OS updates for deleted Instance records, live Instance records changed by another request, and the ordering between set_primary_interface and deletion. The API integration test verifies that set_primary_interface rejects both a normal request and a request with force_reconcile enabled for a deleted Instance, without saving any related change.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented configuration, OS, and primary-interface updates for deleted instances.
    • Failed operations now roll back cleanly without altering persisted instance or interface state.
    • Added safeguards to verify an instance remains live before committing host-related changes.
  • Reliability

    • Improved handling of stale updates and deletion races with clear precondition failures.
    • Preserved data consistency when concurrent deletion or update operations occur.

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The change adds live-instance locking and deletion checks to configuration, OS, and primary-interface writes. Deleted instances return FailedPrecondition. Tests verify rollback and persistence-state preservation.

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Instance deletion write fence

Layer / File(s) Summary
Database write fence
crates/api-db/src/instance.rs
Configuration and OS updates now target only live instances. A locking fence distinguishes deleted or missing instances from live rows with version conflicts.
Managed-host transaction fence
crates/api-core/src/handlers/managed_host.rs
Primary-interface transactions now lock and validate the assigned live Instance before related writes.
Deletion-race regression coverage
crates/api-core/src/tests/set_primary_interface.rs, crates/api-db/src/instance.rs
Tests verify deletion errors, rollback behavior, unchanged persistence state, version preservation, unassigned lookups, and row locking.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to a0a94

The change prevents configuration and network writes after instance deletion and serializes primary-interface updates with deletion. Merge risk is low, but the set-primary-interface test helper may fail to decode allocation_type and mask the intended state assertion, so owner follow-up is warranted.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ManagedHostHandler
  participant DatabaseTransaction
  participant Instance
  ManagedHostHandler->>DatabaseTransaction: perform primary-interface writes
  DatabaseTransaction->>Instance: lock and verify live state
  Instance-->>DatabaseTransaction: live state or FailedPrecondition
  DatabaseTransaction-->>ManagedHostHandler: commit writes or roll back transaction
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #5123 by fencing configuration and OS writes, gating set-primary updates, preserving live behavior, and adding focused tests.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain within issue #5123 scope and do not modify force-delete sequencing, cleanup, routing locks, or routing policy.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the primary fix: preventing configuration writes after an Instance is deleted.
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crates/api-core/src/tests/set_primary_interface.rs (1)

49-96: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Extend the snapshot to cover the reconciliation queue.

The rollback contract has one observable effect that the snapshot does not capture: enqueue_boot_interface_reconciliation runs after txn.commit() in set_primary_interface_core. A rejected request must leave machine_state_controller_queued_objects untouched. The existing test at Lines 597-607 already reads that table, so the pattern is established.

Add the queue state to SetPrimaryPersistenceState so the equality assertion at Line 539 also proves that no reconciliation was enqueued.

♻️ Proposed addition
 struct SetPrimaryPersistenceState {
     interface_primaries: Vec<(String, bool)>,
     interface_addresses: Vec<(String, String, String)>,
     machine_network_configs: Vec<(String, String, String)>,
     instance_network_config: (String, String),
     desired_boot_interface: Option<(Option<String>, Option<String>, Option<String>)>,
+    queued_for_reconciliation: bool,
 }
         .bind(host_id)
         .fetch_optional(pool)
         .await?,
+        queued_for_reconciliation: sqlx::query_scalar(
+            "SELECT EXISTS (
+                SELECT 1 FROM machine_state_controller_queued_objects
+                WHERE object_id = $1
+            )",
+        )
+        .bind(host_id.to_string())
+        .fetch_one(pool)
+        .await?,
     })
 }

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In `@crates/api-core/src/tests/set_primary_interface.rs` around lines 49 - 96,
Extend SetPrimaryPersistenceState and load_set_primary_persistence_state to
capture the relevant machine_state_controller_queued_objects rows, using the
same query and ordering pattern as the existing test coverage. Ensure the
equality assertion compares this queue snapshot so rejected
set_primary_interface requests verify that no reconciliation objects were
enqueued.
crates/api-db/src/instance.rs (1)

598-608: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Extract the shared deletion-versus-conflict mapping.

The match query_result block in update_config (Lines 598-608) and update_os (Lines 657-666) is identical. Both encode the same contract: deletion outcompetes an optimistic-version conflict. If one arm changes and the other does not, the two write paths report different errors for the same race.

Extract a single private helper so the precedence rule exists once.

♻️ Proposed extraction

Add a private helper near ensure_live_for_config_update:

/// Resolves a no-row optimistic update: deletion outranks a version conflict.
async fn classify_failed_config_update(
    txn: &mut PgConnection,
    instance_id: InstanceId,
    expected_version: ConfigVersion,
) -> DatabaseError {
    if let Err(error) = ensure_live_for_config_update(txn, instance_id).await {
        return error;
    }
    DatabaseError::ConcurrentModificationError("instance", expected_version.to_string())
}

Then both call sites collapse to:

     match query_result {
         Ok((_instance_id,)) => Ok(()),
-        Err(sqlx::Error::RowNotFound) => {
-            ensure_live_for_config_update(txn, instance_id).await?;
-            Err(DatabaseError::ConcurrentModificationError(
-                "instance",
-                expected_version.to_string(),
-            ))
-        }
+        Err(sqlx::Error::RowNotFound) => Err(classify_failed_config_update(
+            txn,
+            instance_id,
+            expected_version,
+        )
+        .await),
         Err(error) => Err(DatabaseError::query(query, error)),
     }

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In `@crates/api-db/src/instance.rs` around lines 598 - 608, Extract the shared
no-row conflict handling from update_config and update_os into one private
helper near ensure_live_for_config_update, preserving the rule that deletion
errors take precedence over ConcurrentModificationError. Update both
query_result match blocks to call the helper for RowNotFound while retaining
successful updates and other database errors unchanged.
crates/api-core/src/handlers/managed_host.rs (1)

118-122: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Narrow the Instance lock-order wording.

On !primary_is_unchanged, db::instance::update_network_config already locks instances; ensure_live_for_config_update is only the final live-instance fence. Describe the fence instead of claiming that the row is always locked last. No lock-order inversion exists in the release or teardown paths.

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In `@crates/api-core/src/handlers/managed_host.rs` around lines 118 - 122, The
transaction documentation incorrectly claims the live Instance row is always
locked last. Update the comment near ensure_live_for_config_update to describe
it specifically as the final live-instance fence, while preserving the existing
explanation of tenant release and post-commit machine-controller ownership.
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In `@crates/api-core/src/handlers/managed_host.rs`:
- Around line 118-122: The transaction documentation incorrectly claims the live
Instance row is always locked last. Update the comment near
ensure_live_for_config_update to describe it specifically as the final
live-instance fence, while preserving the existing explanation of tenant release
and post-commit machine-controller ownership.

In `@crates/api-core/src/tests/set_primary_interface.rs`:
- Around line 49-96: Extend SetPrimaryPersistenceState and
load_set_primary_persistence_state to capture the relevant
machine_state_controller_queued_objects rows, using the same query and ordering
pattern as the existing test coverage. Ensure the equality assertion compares
this queue snapshot so rejected set_primary_interface requests verify that no
reconciliation objects were enqueued.

In `@crates/api-db/src/instance.rs`:
- Around line 598-608: Extract the shared no-row conflict handling from
update_config and update_os into one private helper near
ensure_live_for_config_update, preserving the rule that deletion errors take
precedence over ConcurrentModificationError. Update both query_result match
blocks to call the helper for RowNotFound while retaining successful updates and
other database errors unchanged.

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In `@crates/api-db/src/instance.rs`:
- Around line 1355-1437: Extend
stale_config_writers_lose_after_instance_deletion with table-driven
live-instance cases using an outdated expected_version for both update_config
and update_os. Keep the existing deleted-instance cases, invoke each update path
against a live seeded instance, and assert the result is
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// This terminal fence makes a deletion that already won roll back every
// earlier write together; otherwise deletion waits for this transaction
// to commit.
db::instance::ensure_live_for_config_update(&mut txn, instance.id).await?;

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Instead of having a separate "for update" that we have to remember to call and then fail the request if there's a simultaneous write, why not do a FOR UPDATE when fetching the instance in the first place? ie. write a separate db::instance::find_by_instance_id_for_update and put the FOR UPDATE in there?

Or for that matter, we could add a WHERE deleted IS NULL to update_network_config so that that call fails if it got deleted. Wouldn't that accomplish the same thing? Because then there'd be only two scenarios:

  • The deletion wins by updating the row in its transaction, blocking our update_network_config from proceeding until the deletion finishes (and we then see deleted is non-null and our update fails)

or:

  • This call wins by updating the row while it's still not-deleted, locking the row, and the deletion call will have to block until we're finished, at which point it deletes successfully-but-authoritatively.

/// machine in the same order as Site Explorer. Once it commits, the machine
/// controller owns the Redfish write and any reboot needed to converge it.
/// The transaction locks the related admin segments, host interfaces, and host
/// machine, then ends with a live-Instance fence. The primary-move path may

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I don't know what a "live-Instance fence" means... this seems like one of those phrases an LLM made up and then uses as if everyone understands it. Maybe just say "Locks the instance row to avoid conflicts with deletion requests"?

Require configuration and OS writes to target non-deleted Instances while preserving version-conflict errors for live rows.

Lock and reload an assigned Instance before set-primary changes persistent state, so deletion either wins first or waits for that transaction.

This supports NVIDIA#5123

Signed-off-by: Chet Nichols III <chetn@nvidia.com>
@chet chet changed the title fix(instance): fence configuration writes after deletion fix(instance): stop configuration writes after deletion Aug 19, 2026
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