fix(opensearch-operator): bound every call to a cluster's HTTP API - #4341

IvanHunters NOT LGTM. The patch is the right shape, applies clean and builds, but one of the three tests goes green with the bound it pins removed, and "every call" is not every call: the path the report measured is not in the set that got a deadline.

Business context: the operator's calls to a cluster's HTTP API carry no deadline and the controller runs one worker, so one unanswered request stops all reconciliation.

What I ran first, since it decides how much of the rest matters. All four patches applied to a pristine v2.8.0 tree in glob order: clean, zero offsets, zero fuzz. The manager builds and go test ./opensearch-gateway/... ./pkg/reconcilers/... is green (Go 1.27.1 here, builder pins 1.26). The ordering is a real dependency rather than an accident of sorting: the timeout patch alone against pristine upstream dies at the GetAllocationExplain hunk, which skip-unusable-drain-exclusion adds. I also ran the four mutations the description says were checked, plus two more, and all six went red exactly where I predicted before running them.

B1: the stalled-server test passes with ResponseHeaderTimeout removed

patches/timeout-cluster-api-calls.diff:355. The accept loop drops the connection with _ = conn. After that conn is unreachable, and net.netFD carries a finalizer that closes the socket, so one GC cycle turns the server from one that says nothing into one that resets the connection. RoundTrip then returns an error that has nothing to do with the timeout under test.

I replicated the test with ResponseHeaderTimeout dropped from the transport and runtime.GC() running in the background. It returned after 52ms with read: connection reset by peer. Green, with the bound it exists to pin removed. Dropping ResponseHeaderTimeout without forcing GC does fail correctly, past the 10s grace, so it works today by relying on the collector not running during those ten seconds.

Fix: append the accepted connections to a slice declared outside the loop so they stay reachable.

B2: "every call" is 15 of 43

The 30s deadline covers the 15 req.Do sites in os_client.go, which is every call those methods make on their own behalf. The other 28 go through doHTTPGet/Post/Put/Head/Delete with a context handed in by the caller, and nothing on the reconcile path puts a deadline on that context. Grepping context.WithTimeout and context.WithDeadline across main.go, controllers/, pkg/ and opensearch-gateway/ in the patched tree returns one hit, the new requestContext, and MaxConcurrentReconciles appears nowhere, so the worker count is still 1.

For those 28 the transport is the whole bound, and ResponseHeaderTimeout stops counting once the headers arrive. Go says so directly: it "does not include the time to read the response body". I measured it as well. A server that writes HTTP/1.1 200 OK with Content-Length: 100 and then stops, against clusterTransport() with responseHeaderTimeout at 200ms and a caller context with no deadline, was still blocked in io.ReadAll after 5 seconds, with 20 forced GCs to rule out the finalizer from B1.

Thirteen of those sites decode a body. One is readVotingConfigState, reached from IsInVotingConfig and IsVotingConfigExcluded on the bootstrap-retire path, which is where the reported silence starts. So the sharpest instance of the bug is still open while the title and the opening of the description say the class is closed, and both become the merge commit message verbatim.

Fix: bound those calls, or narrow the claim. Bounding them is the shape already in the patch. readVotingConfigState and the security, ISM and snapshot service functions all decode the body before returning, so context.WithTimeout(ctx, requestTimeout) with defer cancel() at the top of each is safe for the same reason requestContext is safe in os_client.go. The calls that really do hand an open body back are a smaller set than the description's paragraph suggests.

B3: the Dockerfile entry has no drop condition

The description says "The Dockerfile comment says to drop the patch on the first release that carries a fix." It does not. The entry ends at "Tracked as #4337; it belongs upstream, and there is no upstream issue for it yet." Grepping the file for "drop" returns lines 14 and 26, both belonging to the other two patches, which name the condition outright ("Drop the patch on the first operator release that includes the change", "drop it on the first release carrying that").

That sentence is what keeps a patch from outliving the bug it works around, and this is the one entry without it. Add it and the description becomes true as written.

Non-blocking

1. requestContext derives from context.Background(), not from the caller, so an operator shutting down still waits out a 30s call it could drop immediately. The 15 methods take no context parameter, so there is nothing to derive from without touching every signature and caller, which is a fair trade for a patch meant to be dropped. Worth a clause in the comment so the next reader takes it as a choice.

2. The values have a rationale but no measurement behind them. 30s looks comfortable for what these calls cost. What would falsify it is a single-node cluster under load, not a healthy one.

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- Around line 182-187: The shared RoundTripper configuration around
responseHeaderTimeout must also enforce a full response-body deadline, covering
opensearch-go’s internal product check and normal requests. Wrap the configured
transport so each response body remains cancellation-bound until Close, and add
a regression test that returns root headers then stalls the body to verify the
request times out.

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IvanHunters NOT LGTM. 43 of the 44 calls are bounded now. Both blockers I could settle mechanically are settled: the stalled-server test fails when the bound it names is removed, and the Dockerfile entry carries its drop condition. The call still left is the product check, and the patch's own new code walks straight into it.

What I ran first, since it decides how much of the rest matters. All four patches applied to a pristine v2.8.0 tree in glob order: clean, zero offsets, zero fuzz. The manager builds, and go test -race ./opensearch-gateway/... ./pkg/reconcilers/... is green on Go 1.27.1 here against the builder's 1.26. Ten mutations, each predicted before it ran, nine matching. The tenth was my fault: dropping DialContext leaves net unimported, so the compiler catches it before any test does.

B1: the product check is unbounded, and every reconcile goes through it

The comment on the response-header timeout treats that timeout as the bound on the product check and stops there. It is not one. ResponseHeaderTimeout stops counting when the headers land, and the check reads a body: line 343 of opensearch.go in opensearch-go v1.1.0 is json.NewDecoder(res.Body).Decode(&info), reading the response of the request the same function builds at line 319 with context.Background(). The claim sits at patches/timeout-cluster-api-calls.diff:187 and again in the Dockerfile entry.

The route into it is the patch's own. NewOsClusterClientFromConfig now wraps pingReq.Do in requestContext(), Do calls Client.Perform, and Perform runs doProductCheck before it touches the request the caller asked for. The check builds its own request, so the 30s never reaches it. productCheckSuccess lives on the client and CreateClientForCluster builds a fresh client inside each reconcile, so this runs on every reconcile rather than once per process.

Measured against the patched tree. A server that answers / with Content-Type: application/json and Content-Length: 57, flushes the headers and then stops: NewOsClusterClient was still running when the test binary was killed at 120s, parked in json.Decoder.Decode under productCheck under PingRequest.Do. Same server with requestTimeout at 500ms, still running after 10s.

Bounding the transport covers it, and covers the other 43 at the same time, because every request the client makes goes through the RoundTripper:

type boundedTransport struct{ http.RoundTripper }

func (t boundedTransport) RoundTrip(req *http.Request) (*http.Response, error) {
	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(req.Context(), requestTimeout)
	res, err := t.RoundTripper.RoundTrip(req.WithContext(ctx))
	if err != nil {
		cancel()
		return nil, err
	}
	res.Body = &deadlineBody{ReadCloser: res.Body, cancel: cancel}
	return res, nil
}

With Transport: boundedTransport{clusterTransport()} in NewOsClusterClient, that same server returned in 504ms with error decoding OpenSearch informations: context deadline exceeded, and the five tests stayed green. CodeRabbit asked for this wrapper at the same line and it holds up.

B2: the series says its own first commit was wrong

The first commit's subject claims more than the commit delivers. cf363873 is titled "bound every call to a cluster's HTTP API", and at that commit performRequest does not exist yet, so 15 of the 43 are bounded. 3d8c436e then opens with "The first pass bounded the 15 calls the client makes on its own behalf and left the 28 that take a context from the caller to the transport. That is not a bound on them."

contributing.md lists review-iteration vocabulary among the review blockers, and this repository lands a PR as a merge commit, so all four messages go onto main as they stand. A reader with only git log gets a commit claiming every call, then a commit saying it did not. Squash the first three and the sentence leaves with them.

Non-blocking

The dial bound is pinned only by DialContext being non-nil. I swapped the dialer for (&net.Dialer{}).DialContext, with no timeout on it, and all five tests stayed green. TestTransportCarriesConnectionTimeouts says as much in its own comment. It is the description's "each of the three transport fields dropped in turn" that reads stronger than what the test does, and that text becomes the merge commit message.

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- Around line 117-121: Update performRequest to handle a successful response
with a nil Body before constructing deadlineBody: cancel the deadline and return
a response containing the status code and headers without wrapping the nil body.
Preserve the existing deadlineBody path for non-nil response bodies.
- Around line 270-273: Update the transport setup around boundedTransport to
apply config.CACert to the underlying nil or *http.Transport before wrapping it,
then clear config.CACert before calling opensearch.NewClient(config). Preserve
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IvanHunters LGTM. The product check is bounded now. I reran my server from last round, the one that answers / with JSON headers and Content-Length: 57 and then stops. On the old head NewOsClusterClient was still running after 130s with requestTimeout at 500ms. On this head it returns in 501ms with error decoding OpenSearch informations: context deadline exceeded, and with the default 30s it returns in 30.002s.

The four patches apply to a clean v2.8.0 tree in glob order with no offsets or fuzz, the manager builds, and go test -race ./opensearch-gateway/... ./pkg/reconcilers/... passes with the seven new tests in it. I ran the seven mutations the PR body lists, naming the red test before each run, and all seven matched. The wrapper dropped from the constructor reddens the product-check test. The deadline dropped from RoundTrip reddens that one and the silent-server test. A defer cancel() in RoundTrip reddens TestBodyOutlivesTheCallThatFetchedIt. The deadline dropped from performRequest reddens the retry test at 0.81s, which is four attempts. GetHealth back on context.Background() reddens TestCallToAClusterThatNeverAnswersGivesUp, and the dialer and handshake timeouts each redden TestTransportCarriesConnectionTimeouts.

The history is fine now. Both messages describe the change as it lands, both are signed off, and I found nothing in them or in the PR body that the diff does not back. The 15 requestContext sites and the 28 doHTTP* callers count out, and four attempts on 503 match defaultMaxRetries = 3 in opensearch-go v1.1.0.

Two small things, not blocking:

1. The comment on TestBodyThatStopsHalfwayIsBounded (line 653 of the patch) still says the transport's ResponseHeaderTimeout stops counting when the headers arrive. The transport has no ResponseHeaderTimeout any more, so the sentence is about a field that is gone.
2. The CodeRabbit summary at the end of the PR body lists a response-header deadline among the bounds, from the same removed field. The body goes into the merge commit, so that block is worth trimming before merge.

IvanHunters I rebased this onto main, and the only conflict was the Dockerfile header after #4333 landed. I kept both patch paragraphs and changed "has to come last" to "has to come after it", since the trace-stalled patch now sorts after this one. The two patches touch different files. All five apply cleanly to v2.8.0, the manager builds, and the tests pass under -race.