fix(storage): blocking pops stop creating the key they miss on - #560
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BLPOP, BRPOP, BLMOVE (source), BRPOPLPUSH (source), BZPOPMIN, BZPOPMAX and BZMPOP reached their value through the blocking-hook helpers `Database::list_pop_front` / `list_pop_back` / `zset_pop_min` / `zset_pop_max`, each of which opened with `get_or_create_list` / `get_or_create_sorted_set`. On a MISSING key that inserted an empty container first and only then discovered there was nothing to pop, early-returning through `?` and leaving the fabricated entry behind forever. The consequences were all keyspace-visible: - EXISTS / TYPE / DBSIZE / KEYS / SCAN reported a key the client never created (#523: `BLPOP ghost 0.05` -> `EXISTS ghost` = 1, `TYPE` = list). - The ordinary redis idiom of blocking on a key a producer is about to create broke: the producer's RPUSH answered WRONGTYPE because the consumer's miss had already claimed the key as a zset (#539). - Unbounded growth on the most ordinary blocking-queue workload there is — a worker looping `BLPOP job:<id> 1` over rotating ids leaked one empty list per timed-out poll and nothing ever removed them. - Later replies for the same key silently changed shape: `LPOP k 2` on a truly absent key is a null array, but after a `BLPOP k` miss it answered an empty array. - An empty list/zset is not a representable redis value, so the phantoms were also leaking into RDB, AOF rewrite and replication. Fix: add `Database::get_mut_if_present::<K>` — `get_or_create::<K>` with the fabrication step removed — and take it from the four pop helpers. Everything else about the access shape is preserved exactly: expired keys are still dropped through `remove_hot`, a cold-spilled value is still promoted back to hot RAM before it is handed out, the kind's compact encoding is still upgraded in place, a type mismatch is still Err(WRONGTYPE) (which the pops still swallow into None — blocking-on-wrongtype semantics deliberately unchanged), `credit_memory` on the found-key path is untouched, and a collection that empties still removes its key. A missing key now leaves both the keyspace and `used_memory` byte-identical. BLMPOP was already correct — it length-checks through the read-only `get_list` — and is untouched. `zset_restore` (the wakeup undo path) keeps `get_or_create_sorted_set`: re-inserting a member is a genuine create. At `--shards >= 2` the phantom only appeared for client-local keys (~1/N of them, since the fast path runs against the local shard slice), which is why smoke tests read it as a flake. Tests (red against the pre-fix helpers, green after — 7 of 8 failed before): `test_list_pop_front_missing_key_creates_no_phantom`, `test_list_pop_back_missing_key_creates_no_phantom`, `test_zset_pop_min_missing_key_creates_no_phantom`, `test_zset_pop_max_missing_key_creates_no_phantom`, `test_push_after_missed_pop_is_not_wrongtype`, `test_list_pop_removes_key_only_when_it_empties`, `test_zset_pop_removes_key_only_when_it_empties`, plus `test_pop_on_wrong_type_leaves_value_intact` and `test_list_pop_front_promotes_a_cold_spilled_list` as no-change guards. End-to-end at `--shards 1` and `--shards 4`: all eight blocking commands miss with TYPE=none / EXISTS=0 / DBSIZE=0, a blocked BZPOPMIN no longer blocks a producer's RPUSH, and `LPOP k 2` after a miss is the null array again. Fixes #523 Fixes #539 author: Tin Dang
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughBlocking list and sorted-set pops now use a non-creating mutable accessor. Missing keys remain absent, while expiry handling, cold-value promotion, encoding upgrades, type checks, and cleanup remain supported. Regression tests cover key state and successful pop behavior. ChangesBlocking pop key integrity
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In `@src/storage/db/mod.rs`:
- Around line 1917-2069: Move the blocking-pop regression test group, including
assert_keyspace_untouched and the related list/zset pop tests, out of mod.rs
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| // ── moon#523 / moon#539: blocking pops must never create their key ── | ||
| // | ||
| // `list_pop_front`/`list_pop_back`/`zset_pop_min`/`zset_pop_max` back the | ||
| // blocking fast path (`try_immediate_pop`) for BLPOP/BRPOP/BLMOVE/ | ||
| // BRPOPLPUSH/BZPOPMIN/BZPOPMAX/BZMPOP. A miss on an absent key used to | ||
| // reach the value through `get_or_create_*`, materialising an empty | ||
| // list/zset that EXISTS/TYPE/DBSIZE then reported and that later RPUSHes | ||
| // tripped over with WRONGTYPE. A miss must leave the keyspace — and the | ||
| // memory estimate — byte-identical. | ||
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| /// Assert that `db` holds no trace of `key` on any plane. | ||
| fn assert_keyspace_untouched(db: &Database, key: &[u8], used_before: usize) { | ||
| assert_eq!(db.data().len(), 0, "hot plane must stay empty"); | ||
| assert_eq!(db.logical_len(), 0, "DBSIZE must stay 0"); | ||
| assert!(!db.is_hot(key), "no phantom entry for the polled key"); | ||
| assert!( | ||
| !db.exists_if_alive(key, current_time_ms()), | ||
| "EXISTS must still answer 0" | ||
| ); | ||
| assert_eq!( | ||
| db.resident_bytes(), | ||
| used_before, | ||
| "a miss must not charge memory" | ||
| ); | ||
| } | ||
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| #[test] | ||
| fn test_list_pop_front_missing_key_creates_no_phantom() { | ||
| let mut db = Database::new(); | ||
| let used_before = db.resident_bytes(); | ||
| assert!(db.list_pop_front(b"ghost").is_none()); | ||
| assert_keyspace_untouched(&db, b"ghost", used_before); | ||
| } | ||
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| #[test] | ||
| fn test_list_pop_back_missing_key_creates_no_phantom() { | ||
| let mut db = Database::new(); | ||
| let used_before = db.resident_bytes(); | ||
| assert!(db.list_pop_back(b"ghost").is_none()); | ||
| assert_keyspace_untouched(&db, b"ghost", used_before); | ||
| } | ||
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| #[test] | ||
| fn test_zset_pop_min_missing_key_creates_no_phantom() { | ||
| let mut db = Database::new(); | ||
| let used_before = db.resident_bytes(); | ||
| assert!(db.zset_pop_min(b"ghost").is_none()); | ||
| assert_keyspace_untouched(&db, b"ghost", used_before); | ||
| } | ||
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| #[test] | ||
| fn test_zset_pop_max_missing_key_creates_no_phantom() { | ||
| let mut db = Database::new(); | ||
| let used_before = db.resident_bytes(); | ||
| assert!(db.zset_pop_max(b"ghost").is_none()); | ||
| assert_keyspace_untouched(&db, b"ghost", used_before); | ||
| } | ||
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| /// The #539 headline symptom: after a blocking pop misses, a producer | ||
| /// must still be able to create the key with its own type. | ||
| #[test] | ||
| fn test_push_after_missed_pop_is_not_wrongtype() { | ||
| let mut db = Database::new(); | ||
| assert!(db.zset_pop_min(b"q").is_none()); | ||
| // A list push on the same key must succeed — pre-fix the miss left a | ||
| // zset behind and `get_or_create_list` answered WRONGTYPE. | ||
| db.list_push_back(b"q", Bytes::from_static(b"job")); | ||
| assert_eq!( | ||
| db.get_list(b"q").unwrap().map(|l| l.len()), | ||
| Some(1), | ||
| "producer must own the key's type after a consumer's miss" | ||
| ); | ||
| } | ||
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| /// Wrong-type behaviour is unchanged: the pop reports "nothing" and | ||
| /// leaves the existing value alone (no clobber, no removal). | ||
| #[test] | ||
| fn test_pop_on_wrong_type_leaves_value_intact() { | ||
| let mut db = Database::new(); | ||
| db.set( | ||
| Bytes::from_static(b"s"), | ||
| Entry::new_string(Bytes::from_static(b"v")), | ||
| ); | ||
| assert!(db.list_pop_front(b"s").is_none()); | ||
| assert!(db.zset_pop_min(b"s").is_none()); | ||
| assert_eq!(db.logical_len(), 1); | ||
| match db.get(b"s").map(|e| e.value.as_redis_value()) { | ||
| Some(RedisValueRef::String(v)) => assert_eq!(v, b"v"), | ||
| _ => panic!("string must survive a wrong-type pop"), | ||
| } | ||
| } | ||
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| /// Regression guard for the found-key path: the last pop still removes | ||
| /// the key, and a non-final pop still leaves it in place. | ||
| #[test] | ||
| fn test_list_pop_removes_key_only_when_it_empties() { | ||
| let mut db = Database::new(); | ||
| db.list_push_back(b"l", Bytes::from_static(b"a")); | ||
| db.list_push_back(b"l", Bytes::from_static(b"b")); | ||
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| assert_eq!(db.list_pop_front(b"l"), Some(Bytes::from_static(b"a"))); | ||
| assert_eq!(db.logical_len(), 1, "one element left, key stays"); | ||
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| assert_eq!(db.list_pop_back(b"l"), Some(Bytes::from_static(b"b"))); | ||
| assert_eq!(db.logical_len(), 0, "emptied list must be removed"); | ||
| assert!(db.list_pop_front(b"l").is_none()); | ||
| assert_eq!(db.logical_len(), 0, "and the re-poll must not resurrect it"); | ||
| } | ||
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| /// The non-creating lookup must still reach the COLD tier: a list that | ||
| /// eviction spilled to disk is a real key, and popping it has to promote | ||
| /// it back rather than answer "missing". (Guards the one behaviour the | ||
| /// #523/#539 fix could have silently dropped along with the fabrication.) | ||
| #[test] | ||
| fn test_list_pop_front_promotes_a_cold_spilled_list() { | ||
| let tmp = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap(); | ||
| let mut list = VecDeque::new(); | ||
| list.push_back(Bytes::from_static(b"first")); | ||
| list.push_back(Bytes::from_static(b"second")); | ||
| let mut db = db_with_spilled_value(tmp.path(), b"coldlist", TestRedisValue::List(list)); | ||
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| assert_eq!( | ||
| db.list_pop_front(b"coldlist"), | ||
| Some(Bytes::from_static(b"first")), | ||
| "a cold-spilled list must be promoted and popped, not treated as missing" | ||
| ); | ||
| assert_eq!( | ||
| db.get_list(b"coldlist").unwrap().map(|l| l.len()), | ||
| Some(1), | ||
| "the promoted remainder stays in hot RAM" | ||
| ); | ||
| } | ||
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| /// Same guard on the sorted-set side. | ||
| #[test] | ||
| fn test_zset_pop_removes_key_only_when_it_empties() { | ||
| let mut db = Database::new(); | ||
| { | ||
| let (members, tree) = db.get_or_create_sorted_set(b"z").unwrap(); | ||
| members.insert(Bytes::from_static(b"a"), 1.0); | ||
| tree.insert(OrderedFloat(1.0), Bytes::from_static(b"a")); | ||
| members.insert(Bytes::from_static(b"b"), 2.0); | ||
| tree.insert(OrderedFloat(2.0), Bytes::from_static(b"b")); | ||
| } | ||
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| assert_eq!(db.zset_pop_min(b"z"), Some((Bytes::from_static(b"a"), 1.0))); | ||
| assert_eq!(db.logical_len(), 1, "one member left, key stays"); | ||
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| assert_eq!(db.zset_pop_max(b"z"), Some((Bytes::from_static(b"b"), 2.0))); | ||
| assert_eq!(db.logical_len(), 0, "emptied zset must be removed"); | ||
| assert!(db.zset_pop_max(b"z").is_none()); | ||
| assert_eq!(db.logical_len(), 0, "and the re-poll must not resurrect it"); | ||
| } |
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Split the blocking-pop tests from src/storage/db/mod.rs.
This file now has at least 2,070 lines. It exceeds the 1,500-line limit. Move this test group into a dedicated src/storage/db test module.
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In `@src/storage/db/mod.rs` around lines 1917 - 2069, Move the blocking-pop
regression test group, including assert_keyspace_untouched and the related
list/zset pop tests, out of mod.rs into a dedicated test module under
src/storage/db. Wire the new module into the existing test configuration and
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…instead of blocking (#556) `SET s v` followed by `BLPOP s 0` blocked forever where redis-server answers `-WRONGTYPE` immediately. The pop helpers reach the store through `get_mut_if_present(..).ok()??`, which collapses `Err(WRONGTYPE)` into `None` — indistinguishable from "empty" — so `try_immediate_pop` reported "nothing here" and the connection registered a waiter on a key that can never serve it. The client then read the eventual null as "queue empty". The in-MULTI path has had the correct gate since #524; this brings the live path to parity with it. The pre-registration scan is now one shared helper, `blocking::immediate_scan`, called by both runtimes' `handle_blocking_command*` so they cannot drift. It walks the keys in argument order and, for each, runs a read-only type gate (`get_list` / `get_sorted_set`, chosen by the command's `WaitFamily`) BEFORE the pop attempt and before any registration. The first key that errors or serves decides the reply — Redis's order, where an existing wrong-typed key wins over a later key that could have served. Nothing here mutates the keyspace, so #560's value-intact guarantee (`test_pop_on_wrong_type_leaves_value_intact`) is untouched and its assertions still hold. Keys the connection's own shard does not own cannot be inspected locally, so their OWNING shard runs the same check when the registration lands (`ShardMessage::BlockRegister`) and answers the error on the waiter's reply channel instead of registering. That path is gated on a new `BlockRegisterPayload::sole_key`: for a multi-key waiter the sibling keys are registered on other shards and may be serving concurrently, and an error raised there would race a real wake-up whose element has already left the keyspace. Multi-key remote keys therefore keep their pre-#556 behaviour. BLMOVE/BRPOPLPUSH additionally check the DESTINATION's type, but only once the move is actually about to happen — the order `lmoveGenericCommand` uses and that moon's own non-blocking LMOVE already follows (an absent source blocks and never looks at the destination). This closes a silent data loss on both the immediate and the wake path: the element was popped from the source and then swallowed by `list_push_*`'s `if let Ok(list)`, so the client received a value that no longer existed anywhere in the keyspace. Tests (red first, each failing for the stated reason before the fix): * src/server/conn/blocking_tests.rs — 6 unit tests over the scan, in a module deliberately outside `conn::tests` (which is monoio-only, so the tokio CI leg would never have run them). * src/blocking/wakeup.rs::woken_blmove_with_wrongtype_destination_keeps_the_element * tests/blocking_wrongtype_immediate.rs — 4 end-to-end tests at --shards 4 (12 key placements each, so both the local and the remote path are exercised) plus the BLMOVE destination case at --shards 1. Pre-fix: 12/12 wrong, the timings showing both failure modes — ~2.00s (local: blocked to its timeout) and ~200us (remote: an instant null from the waker that found nothing to pop). Residual, documented in the test module: a BLMOVE whose DESTINATION is owned by another shard is still not type-checked (the immediate path cannot see it, and the remote registration only carries the source). Refs #556 author: Tin Dang
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…d owns (#557) `immediate_scan` (the pre-registration scan of a blocking pop) runs against the connection's own `ShardSlice`, but it walked EVERY key regardless of ownership. A key owned by another shard does not live in that slice, so at `--shards N` the fast path missed on (N-1)/N of keys and each of them degraded to block-and-register. Post-#560 that miss was harmless to the keyspace, but the scan can only ever produce a wrong answer for a key it does not own: a stale local look-alike would be popped from the wrong shard's `Database`, and since #556 the type gate could invent a `-WRONGTYPE` from it for a key whose real owner holds the right type. The scan now skips a key when `key_to_shard(key, num_shards) != shard_id` — the same routing the slotted dispatch uses — and lets the registration carry it to its owner. Nothing is lost by skipping: the owning shard's `BlockRegister` handler serves the waiter on the spot when data is already there, which is how a remote blocking pop has always been answered. Multi-key pops still scan past a remote key to a local one. Tests (red first): * src/server/conn/blocking_tests.rs::immediate_scan_ignores_keys_this_shard_does_not_own — pre-gate it popped `stale` out of a key that hashes to another shard (`Some([k0, stale])` where `None` is required), and the WRONGTYPE half proves the #556 gate is ownership-aware too. * src/server/conn/blocking_tests.rs::immediate_scan_still_serves_keys_this_shard_owns — the positive control, including the scan-past-a-remote-key case. * tests/blocking_wrongtype_immediate.rs::bwt5_a_populated_key_is_served_wherever_it_lives — end-to-end at --shards 4 (12 key placements, so ~9 remote): a populated list and zset each come back in under 500ms with exactly one element consumed and no second client pushing. Refs #557 author: Tin Dang
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…instead of blocking (#556) `SET s v` followed by `BLPOP s 0` blocked forever where redis-server answers `-WRONGTYPE` immediately. The pop helpers reach the store through `get_mut_if_present(..).ok()??`, which collapses `Err(WRONGTYPE)` into `None` — indistinguishable from "empty" — so `try_immediate_pop` reported "nothing here" and the connection registered a waiter on a key that can never serve it. The client then read the eventual null as "queue empty". The in-MULTI path has had the correct gate since #524; this brings the live path to parity with it. The pre-registration scan is now one shared helper, `blocking::immediate_scan`, called by both runtimes' `handle_blocking_command*` so they cannot drift. It walks the keys in argument order and, for each, runs a read-only type gate (`get_list` / `get_sorted_set`, chosen by the command's `WaitFamily`) BEFORE the pop attempt and before any registration. The first key that errors or serves decides the reply — Redis's order, where an existing wrong-typed key wins over a later key that could have served. Nothing here mutates the keyspace, so #560's value-intact guarantee (`test_pop_on_wrong_type_leaves_value_intact`) is untouched and its assertions still hold. Keys the connection's own shard does not own cannot be inspected locally, so their OWNING shard runs the same check when the registration lands (`ShardMessage::BlockRegister`) and answers the error on the waiter's reply channel instead of registering. That path is gated on a new `BlockRegisterPayload::sole_key`: for a multi-key waiter the sibling keys are registered on other shards and may be serving concurrently, and an error raised there would race a real wake-up whose element has already left the keyspace. Multi-key remote keys therefore keep their pre-#556 behaviour. BLMOVE/BRPOPLPUSH additionally check the DESTINATION's type, but only once the move is actually about to happen — the order `lmoveGenericCommand` uses and that moon's own non-blocking LMOVE already follows (an absent source blocks and never looks at the destination). This closes a silent data loss on both the immediate and the wake path: the element was popped from the source and then swallowed by `list_push_*`'s `if let Ok(list)`, so the client received a value that no longer existed anywhere in the keyspace. Tests (red first, each failing for the stated reason before the fix): * src/server/conn/blocking_tests.rs — 6 unit tests over the scan, in a module deliberately outside `conn::tests` (which is monoio-only, so the tokio CI leg would never have run them). * src/blocking/wakeup.rs::woken_blmove_with_wrongtype_destination_keeps_the_element * tests/blocking_wrongtype_immediate.rs — 4 end-to-end tests at --shards 4 (12 key placements each, so both the local and the remote path are exercised) plus the BLMOVE destination case at --shards 1. Pre-fix: 12/12 wrong, the timings showing both failure modes — ~2.00s (local: blocked to its timeout) and ~200us (remote: an instant null from the waker that found nothing to pop). Residual, documented in the test module: a BLMOVE whose DESTINATION is owned by another shard is still not type-checked (the immediate path cannot see it, and the remote registration only carries the source). Refs #556 author: Tin Dang
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…d owns (#557) `immediate_scan` (the pre-registration scan of a blocking pop) runs against the connection's own `ShardSlice`, but it walked EVERY key regardless of ownership. A key owned by another shard does not live in that slice, so at `--shards N` the fast path missed on (N-1)/N of keys and each of them degraded to block-and-register. Post-#560 that miss was harmless to the keyspace, but the scan can only ever produce a wrong answer for a key it does not own: a stale local look-alike would be popped from the wrong shard's `Database`, and since #556 the type gate could invent a `-WRONGTYPE` from it for a key whose real owner holds the right type. The scan now skips a key when `key_to_shard(key, num_shards) != shard_id` — the same routing the slotted dispatch uses — and lets the registration carry it to its owner. Nothing is lost by skipping: the owning shard's `BlockRegister` handler serves the waiter on the spot when data is already there, which is how a remote blocking pop has always been answered. Multi-key pops still scan past a remote key to a local one. Tests (red first): * src/server/conn/blocking_tests.rs::immediate_scan_ignores_keys_this_shard_does_not_own — pre-gate it popped `stale` out of a key that hashes to another shard (`Some([k0, stale])` where `None` is required), and the WRONGTYPE half proves the #556 gate is ownership-aware too. * src/server/conn/blocking_tests.rs::immediate_scan_still_serves_keys_this_shard_owns — the positive control, including the scan-past-a-remote-key case. * tests/blocking_wrongtype_immediate.rs::bwt5_a_populated_key_is_served_wherever_it_lives — end-to-end at --shards 4 (12 key placements, so ~9 remote): a populated list and zset each come back in under 500ms with exactly one element consumed and no second client pushing. Refs #557 author: Tin Dang
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…pop (#556, #557) (#572) * fix(blocking): a blocking pop on a wrong-type key replies -WRONGTYPE instead of blocking (#556) `SET s v` followed by `BLPOP s 0` blocked forever where redis-server answers `-WRONGTYPE` immediately. The pop helpers reach the store through `get_mut_if_present(..).ok()??`, which collapses `Err(WRONGTYPE)` into `None` — indistinguishable from "empty" — so `try_immediate_pop` reported "nothing here" and the connection registered a waiter on a key that can never serve it. The client then read the eventual null as "queue empty". The in-MULTI path has had the correct gate since #524; this brings the live path to parity with it. The pre-registration scan is now one shared helper, `blocking::immediate_scan`, called by both runtimes' `handle_blocking_command*` so they cannot drift. It walks the keys in argument order and, for each, runs a read-only type gate (`get_list` / `get_sorted_set`, chosen by the command's `WaitFamily`) BEFORE the pop attempt and before any registration. The first key that errors or serves decides the reply — Redis's order, where an existing wrong-typed key wins over a later key that could have served. Nothing here mutates the keyspace, so #560's value-intact guarantee (`test_pop_on_wrong_type_leaves_value_intact`) is untouched and its assertions still hold. Keys the connection's own shard does not own cannot be inspected locally, so their OWNING shard runs the same check when the registration lands (`ShardMessage::BlockRegister`) and answers the error on the waiter's reply channel instead of registering. That path is gated on a new `BlockRegisterPayload::sole_key`: for a multi-key waiter the sibling keys are registered on other shards and may be serving concurrently, and an error raised there would race a real wake-up whose element has already left the keyspace. Multi-key remote keys therefore keep their pre-#556 behaviour. BLMOVE/BRPOPLPUSH additionally check the DESTINATION's type, but only once the move is actually about to happen — the order `lmoveGenericCommand` uses and that moon's own non-blocking LMOVE already follows (an absent source blocks and never looks at the destination). This closes a silent data loss on both the immediate and the wake path: the element was popped from the source and then swallowed by `list_push_*`'s `if let Ok(list)`, so the client received a value that no longer existed anywhere in the keyspace. Tests (red first, each failing for the stated reason before the fix): * src/server/conn/blocking_tests.rs — 6 unit tests over the scan, in a module deliberately outside `conn::tests` (which is monoio-only, so the tokio CI leg would never have run them). * src/blocking/wakeup.rs::woken_blmove_with_wrongtype_destination_keeps_the_element * tests/blocking_wrongtype_immediate.rs — 4 end-to-end tests at --shards 4 (12 key placements each, so both the local and the remote path are exercised) plus the BLMOVE destination case at --shards 1. Pre-fix: 12/12 wrong, the timings showing both failure modes — ~2.00s (local: blocked to its timeout) and ~200us (remote: an instant null from the waker that found nothing to pop). Residual, documented in the test module: a BLMOVE whose DESTINATION is owned by another shard is still not type-checked (the immediate path cannot see it, and the remote registration only carries the source). Refs #556 author: Tin Dang * fix(blocking): the immediate pop path only consults keys its own shard owns (#557) `immediate_scan` (the pre-registration scan of a blocking pop) runs against the connection's own `ShardSlice`, but it walked EVERY key regardless of ownership. A key owned by another shard does not live in that slice, so at `--shards N` the fast path missed on (N-1)/N of keys and each of them degraded to block-and-register. Post-#560 that miss was harmless to the keyspace, but the scan can only ever produce a wrong answer for a key it does not own: a stale local look-alike would be popped from the wrong shard's `Database`, and since #556 the type gate could invent a `-WRONGTYPE` from it for a key whose real owner holds the right type. The scan now skips a key when `key_to_shard(key, num_shards) != shard_id` — the same routing the slotted dispatch uses — and lets the registration carry it to its owner. Nothing is lost by skipping: the owning shard's `BlockRegister` handler serves the waiter on the spot when data is already there, which is how a remote blocking pop has always been answered. Multi-key pops still scan past a remote key to a local one. Tests (red first): * src/server/conn/blocking_tests.rs::immediate_scan_ignores_keys_this_shard_does_not_own — pre-gate it popped `stale` out of a key that hashes to another shard (`Some([k0, stale])` where `None` is required), and the WRONGTYPE half proves the #556 gate is ownership-aware too. * src/server/conn/blocking_tests.rs::immediate_scan_still_serves_keys_this_shard_owns — the positive control, including the scan-past-a-remote-key case. * tests/blocking_wrongtype_immediate.rs::bwt5_a_populated_key_is_served_wherever_it_lives — end-to-end at --shards 4 (12 key placements, so ~9 remote): a populated list and zset each come back in under 500ms with exactly one element consumed and no second client pushing. Refs #557 author: Tin Dang * test(blocking): annotate two test-helper expects for the unwrap ratchet `scripts/audit-unwrap.sh` flagged two `.expect()` calls in the new `src/server/conn/blocking_tests.rs` shard-key helpers: the audit special-cases only files named exactly `tests.rs`, so a `#[cfg(test)] mod blocking_tests` split file has its test-helper expects counted against the hot-path baseline (0). Both expects are safe by construction — one of 1000 distinct keys is guaranteed to hash onto / off any given shard for shards >= 2, and a miss means a degenerate hash the test SHOULD fail on. Annotated each helper with `#[allow(clippy::expect_used)]` + a one-line justification, the sanctioned escape per CLAUDE.md. author: Tin Dang
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BLPOP, BRPOP, BLMOVE (source), BRPOPLPUSH (source), BZPOPMIN, BZPOPMAX and
BZMPOP reached their value through the blocking-hook helpers
Database::list_pop_front/list_pop_back/zset_pop_min/zset_pop_max,each of which opened with
get_or_create_list/get_or_create_sorted_set.On a MISSING key that inserted an empty container first and only then
discovered there was nothing to pop, early-returning through
?and leavingthe fabricated entry behind forever.
The consequences were all keyspace-visible:
created (Timed-out BLPOP/BLMOVE on a missing key leaves a phantom empty list (EXISTS/TYPE/DBSIZE lie; unbounded growth) #523:
BLPOP ghost 0.05->EXISTS ghost= 1,TYPE= list).broke: the producer's RPUSH answered WRONGTYPE because the consumer's miss
had already claimed the key as a zset (Blocking pops CREATE the key they block on (BLPOP/BRPOP/BZPOPMIN/BZPOPMAX/BZMPOP leave a phantom empty collection) #539).
worker looping
BLPOP job:<id> 1over rotating ids leaked one empty listper timed-out poll and nothing ever removed them.
LPOP k 2on atruly absent key is a null array, but after a
BLPOP kmiss it answered anempty array.
also leaking into RDB, AOF rewrite and replication.
Fix: add
Database::get_mut_if_present::<K>—get_or_create::<K>with thefabrication step removed — and take it from the four pop helpers. Everything
else about the access shape is preserved exactly: expired keys are still
dropped through
remove_hot, a cold-spilled value is still promoted back tohot RAM before it is handed out, the kind's compact encoding is still upgraded
in place, a type mismatch is still Err(WRONGTYPE) (which the pops still
swallow into None — blocking-on-wrongtype semantics deliberately unchanged),
credit_memoryon the found-key path is untouched, and a collection thatempties still removes its key. A missing key now leaves both the keyspace and
used_memorybyte-identical.BLMPOP was already correct — it length-checks through the read-only
get_list— and is untouched.zset_restore(the wakeup undo path) keepsget_or_create_sorted_set: re-inserting a member is a genuine create.At
--shards >= 2the phantom only appeared for client-local keys (~1/N ofthem, since the fast path runs against the local shard slice), which is why
smoke tests read it as a flake.
Tests (red against the pre-fix helpers, green after — 7 of 8 failed before):
test_list_pop_front_missing_key_creates_no_phantom,test_list_pop_back_missing_key_creates_no_phantom,test_zset_pop_min_missing_key_creates_no_phantom,test_zset_pop_max_missing_key_creates_no_phantom,test_push_after_missed_pop_is_not_wrongtype,test_list_pop_removes_key_only_when_it_empties,test_zset_pop_removes_key_only_when_it_empties, plustest_pop_on_wrong_type_leaves_value_intactandtest_list_pop_front_promotes_a_cold_spilled_listas no-change guards.End-to-end at
--shards 1and--shards 4: all eight blocking commands misswith TYPE=none / EXISTS=0 / DBSIZE=0, a blocked BZPOPMIN no longer blocks a
producer's RPUSH, and
LPOP k 2after a miss is the null array again.Fixes #523
Fixes #539
author: Tin Dang
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