Fix data-transfer timeout deadlock

[abhinavgautam01]

Description

Fix a deadlock that prevents osmo-ctrl from retrying timed-out data transfers.

After killing an inactive subprocess, the watchdog previously exited before receiving the stdout stream's shutdown signal. The stream then blocked indefinitely, preventing RunCommand() from returning its timeout error.

Use a closeable stop channel and wait for the watchdog to finish before reporting exactly one timeout result. Protect the shared progress timestamp with a mutex and reap timed-out subprocesses before returning.

Add regression coverage for timeout completion, retry recovery, progress resetting the timeout, successful commands and nonzero exits.

Validation:

• Confirmed the timeout regression test fails before the fix and passes afterward.
• Passed Bazel data/common tests, including race-enabled runs.
• Passed go vet, gofmt verification and git diff --check.
• Built osmo-ctrl and osmo-user for Linux AMD64 and ARM64.

Closes #1408

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• New or existing tests cover these changes.
• The documentation is up to date with these changes.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved command timeout handling so timed-out processes are fully completed and correctly reported.
  • Prevented inactive output streams from being incorrectly marked successful after exceeding the configured timeout.
  • Added progress-aware timeout behavior, allowing active commands to continue while terminating stalled commands and their child processes.
  • Improved reliability when retrying streaming operations after a timeout.

• Tests

  • Expanded coverage for command success, failures, empty output, timeouts, progress updates, process completion, and stream recovery.

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Walkthrough

The change coordinates command completion, subprocess reaping, and output watchdog timeout handling. Streaming commands can terminate process groups. Tests cover successful execution, failures, timeout recovery, progress resets, process reaping, and retries.

Changes

Data timeout handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Command completion contract src/runtime/pkg/common/common.go, src/runtime/cmd/user/user.go	RunCommand passes a completion channel to stdout callbacks and reaps the subprocess before evaluating timeout status. The user log stream accepts the new channel parameter.
Timeout watchdog and process termination src/runtime/pkg/data/data.go	The watchdog remains active until command completion. Timeout handling can terminate the process group and reports one timeout result.
Timeout behavior validation src/runtime/pkg/data/BUILD, src/runtime/pkg/data/data_runtime_test.go	Tests cover command outcomes, timeout errors, progress resets, process reaping, closed-output retries, and single timeout reporting. The test target adds the required error dependency.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RunCommand
  participant OutputStream
  participant Watchdog
  participant Subprocess
  RunCommand->>OutputStream: Start stdout streaming with commandDone
  OutputStream->>Watchdog: Monitor output inactivity
  Watchdog->>Subprocess: Kill process group on timeout
  RunCommand->>Subprocess: Wait for process reaping
  RunCommand->>OutputStream: Close commandDone
  OutputStream-->>RunCommand: Return timeout status

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 42.86% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 14 functions across 5 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: fixing the data-transfer timeout deadlock.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Issue #1408 requires bounded timeout completion, one preserved timeout result, synchronized progress tracking, subprocess reaping, and normal-command coverage. createOutCommandStream uses `commandDo…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes stay within Issue #1408. The common.go and data.go changes coordinate watchdog shutdown, timeout reporting, process-group cleanup, and subprocess reaping. The user.go signature updat…

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In `@src/runtime/pkg/data/data.go`:
- Line 157: Keep the watchdog active until process completion by moving its
ownership into RunCommand or deferring its shutdown until cmd.Wait() returns; do
not stop it when createOutCommandStream reaches stdout EOF. Add a regression
test using exec.Command with DataTimeout shorter than the command’s sleep and
assert that RunCommand returns a timeout.

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[abhinavgautam01]

The watchdog now remains active until the subprocess is reaped, including when stdout closes early. Timeout handling also terminates the data command’s process group. Added regression coverage for early output closure and retry recovery.