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Summary

Improves three misleading error messages in the prow-job-dispatcher control plane when users try to manage blocked clusters via tp-dispatch.

Problem

When a cluster has blocked: true in _clusters.yaml, users hitting tp-dispatch get confusing errors that don't distinguish "cluster is blocked" from "cluster doesn't exist":

  1. tp-dispatch status build04 → "unknown or inactive cluster" (doesn't say it's blocked)
  2. tp-dispatch plan capacity build04 1 --for 24h → "override has no affected workloads" (doesn't say WHY)
  3. tp-dispatch plan drain build04 --for 48h → "override TTL must be no more than 24h" (misleading — the actual drain limit is 2h, but the general limit is checked first)

Changes (all in pkg/dispatcher/control.go)

  • Status(): Check snapshot.Blocked before returning "unknown or inactive cluster" — returns "cluster X is blocked in static configuration" instead
  • Plan(): When AffectedJobs == 0, check if the target cluster is blocked — returns "cluster X is blocked in static configuration — override would have no effect" instead of the generic message
  • validatePlanRequest(): For drain requests, check the drain-specific TTL limit before the general TTL limit, so users see the correct 2h limit immediately instead of the misleading 24h limit

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The prow-job-dispatcher control plane gives CI operators clearer feedback when they manage blocked clusters through tp-dispatch.

  • Status() identifies clusters blocked in static configuration instead of reporting them as unknown or inactive.
  • Plan() reports when an override for a blocked cluster would affect no workloads.
  • Drain requests use the MaxDrainTTL limit before general override TTL validation. The configuration requires MaxDrainTTL to be no greater than MaxTTL.
  • The default maximum TTL is 48 hours for runtime overrides and drains.

1. Status() now returns "cluster X is blocked in static configuration"
   when queried for a blocked cluster, instead of "unknown or inactive cluster".
2. Plan() returns a blocked-specific message when AffectedJobs==0 and
   the cluster is in the blocked list.
3. validatePlanRequest() checks the drain TTL limit before the general
   TTL limit for drain requests, so users see the correct maximum
   immediately instead of being misled by the higher general limit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Walkthrough

The dispatcher bounds drain TTLs before duration conversion and checks stored drain overrides against the drain-specific limit first. Default maximum TTLs for runtime overrides and drains are 48 hours. Tests cover drain TTL errors and blocked-cluster responses.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Drain TTL validation and defaults
pkg/dispatcher/control.go, cmd/prow-job-dispatcher/main.go, pkg/dispatcher/control_test.go
Drain requests are bounded by MaxDrainTTL before duration conversion. Stored drain overrides are checked against MaxDrainTTL before general TTL validation. The default maximum TTLs for runtime overrides and drains are 48 hours. A test checks that an oversized drain TTL returns a drain-specific error.
Blocked-cluster response tests
pkg/dispatcher/control_test.go
Tests check blocked-configuration errors for planning and status requests for a statically blocked cluster. A status request for an unblocked unknown cluster returns an unknown-or-inactive error.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: jmguzik

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 2599b

No actionable merge-blocking issue is established; the change is mergeable after normal checks.

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 5 functions across 3 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Test Coverage For New Features ⚠️ Warning The PR adds regression tests for the new Plan() and Status() blocked-cluster messages and for drain TTL error precedence. However, it also changes drain TTL validation for stored overrides and cla… Add focused, preferably table-driven tests for oversized drain DurationSeconds values at the duration-conversion boundary, with assertions that validation rejects them safely and reports the drain limit. Add a stored-override reconciliati…
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main changes: improved blocked-cluster error messages and drain TTL validation.
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Go Error Handling ✅ Passed The changed code does not introduce ignored errors, panic calls, or unsafe nil dereferences. New validation and blocked-cluster errors are intentionally created user-facing errors. Existing direct err…
Stable And Deterministic Test Names ✅ Passed The pull request adds three standard Go test functions with static names: TestControlPlaneDrainTTLBeforeGeneralTTL, TestControlPlanePlanBlockedClusterError, and `TestControlPlaneStatusBlockedClust…
Test Structure And Quality ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request adds standard Go tests in pkg/dispatcher/control_test.go, not Ginkgo tests. The tests use testing.T, in-memory control-plane fixtures, and direct method calls. They add no c…
Microshift Test Compatibility ✅ Passed The pull request adds only standard Go unit tests in pkg/dispatcher/control_test.go. The changed tests use Test... functions and do not add Ginkgo constructs, MicroShift-incompatible OpenShift APIs, n…
Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility ✅ Passed The pull request adds only Go unit tests in pkg/dispatcher/control_test.go. The added tests use testing.T and local dispatcher fixtures. No new Ginkgo e2e tests (It, Describe, Context, or `W…
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility ✅ Passed The pull request changes only dispatcher TTL/error handling, defaults, and tests in three Go files. The authoritative diff adds no deployment manifests, operator/controller scheduling logic, replicas,…
Ote Binary Stdout Contract ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request does not introduce any OTE stdout writes. The changed lines only update TTL defaults, validation, blocked-cluster errors, and tests. The dispatcher main() uses `logrusutil.Ini…
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request adds standard Go testing unit tests in pkg/dispatcher/control_test.go (func Test...), not new Ginkgo e2e tests. The added tests use in-memory control-plane fixtures and no…
No-Weak-Crypto ✅ Passed The pull request does not introduce weak cryptography or custom cryptographic code. Added code changes TTL validation, blocked-cluster errors, defaults, and tests. The existing SHA-256 stable ID gener…
Container-Privileges ✅ Passed The pull request changes only three Go files. The authoritative diff adds no container or Kubernetes manifests and no privilege-related settings such as privileged, hostPID, hostNetwork, hostIPC, SYS_…
No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs ✅ Passed The pull request adds no logging calls and does not add sensitive fields to existing logs. The changed production code only returns validation errors and HTTP error bodies. The new blocked-cluster mes…
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Explanation

The PR adds regression tests for the new Plan() and Status() blocked-cluster messages and for drain TTL error precedence. However, it also changes drain TTL validation for stored overrides and claims an integer-overflow fix in validatePlanRequest() without adding tests for either behavior. TestControlPlaneDrainTTLBeforeGeneralTTL uses 12 hours, so it verifies error precedence only; it does not exercise an oversized value or the conversion-overflow boundary. Existing stored-override tests cover unknown-cluster and feature-gate failures, not the changed drain exceeds its TTL precedence.

Resolution

Add focused, preferably table-driven tests for oversized drain DurationSeconds values at the duration-conversion boundary, with assertions that validation rejects them safely and reports the drain limit. Add a stored-override reconciliation test whose drain TTL exceeds MaxDrainTTL but is within MaxTTL, and assert that the stored override is quarantined with the drain-specific error. Ensure each test fails against the pre-change implementation.

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Inline comments:
In @pkg/dispatcher/control.go:
- Line 396: Update the drain-duration validation around request.DurationSeconds
to compare it with c.options.MaxDrainTTL divided by time.Second before
converting to time.Duration. Preserve the nonpositive-duration rejection and
only convert after the seconds-based bounds check passes, preventing overflow
from bypassing the maximum.
- Around line 395-400: Align drain TTL validation in the request path keyed by
request.Kind with validateStoredOverride so both apply the same configured
limit; ensure a drain accepted at request time is not later rejected when
stored.

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redhat-chai-bot and others added 2 commits September 26, 2026 19:52
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Change the default values for --max-runtime-override-ttl (24h → 48h)
and --max-runtime-drain-ttl (2h → 48h) so operators have a uniform
two-day window for both capacity overrides and drain operations.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fix two CodeRabbit review findings:

1. validatePlanRequest: use seconds-based comparison for drain TTL
   (int64(MaxDrainTTL/time.Second)) instead of converting DurationSeconds
   to time.Duration first. A sufficiently large DurationSeconds could
   overflow time.Duration (int64 nanoseconds), producing a negative value
   that would pass the upper-bound check.

2. validateStoredOverride: reorder drain-specific TTL check before the
   general TTL check so drain overrides get the more specific error
   message. Add a comment documenting the MaxDrainTTL <= MaxTTL invariant
   enforced by ControlOptions.Validate.

Add unit tests for:
- Drain request above MaxDrainTTL gets drain-specific error
- Plan for statically blocked cluster gets blocked-specific error
- Status for statically blocked cluster gets blocked-specific error

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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