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Closes #116. Closes #118.

A jailed validator's key never reached the heartbeat peer-type cache, so its node reported klv_node_type=observer and klv_peer_type=observer, and its heartbeat entry disappeared from /node/heartbeatstatus after HideInactiveValidatorIntervalInSec. Root cause: the nodes coordinator computed its leaving list (validators with List == jailed in computeNodesConfigFromList) but then discarded it. EpochStartPrepare never handed it to SetNodes, epochNodesConfig.leavingList was always empty, and the registry did not persist it, so the list was unreachable for the peer-type cache in every scenario (live, epoch start, restart).

What changed

Commit 1 (5cc8f9d, #118): PeerTypeProvider.createNewCache and validatorsProvider.createNewCache are now table-driven ({name, peerType, getter} plus one loop), so adding a list is one data row instead of an error-prone copy-paste. Semantics preserved exactly: the peerTypeProvider keeps fail-fast (any getter error keeps the previous cache, log.Warn with the error), the validatorsProvider keeps its soft-fail overlay. A new subtest pins the soft-fail contract (failing getter keeps trie-based cache and remaining overlays), and the empty epoch-start prepare handler got the same explanatory comment as its sibling (sonar go:S1186).

Commit 2 (49067cc, #116): the coordinator now stores, persists and exposes the leaving list, and the peer-type surface consumes it:

  • SetNodes gained a leaving parameter and stores it on the epoch config; EpochStartPrepare passes newNodesConfig.leavingList (sharding/nodesCoordinator.go).
  • The registry serializes it as leavingValidators and LoadState/the bootstrap path in cmd/node/node.go restore it.
  • New getter GetAllLeavingValidatorsKeys(epoch, ownerKey) on sharding.NodesCoordinator; all implementers updated, and the dead GetAllLeavingValidatorsPublicKeys mock lookalikes (different name and signature, zero callers) were removed.
  • PeerTypeProvider.createNewCache seeds the leaving list first, labeled core.JailedList; working lists win on any overlap (the numToStay promotion keeps the lists a partition in production).
  • New predicate tier isRegisteredValidatorPeerType (node/heartbeat/process/heartbeatMessageInfo.go) drives Cleanup shielding (monitor.go shouldSkipValidator) and klv_node_type self-reporting (sender.go updateMetrics). The gauges are unchanged.

Commit 3 (015b05f): fixes from the first review round: the four GetAllXValidatorsKeys getters were consolidated behind one getAllValidatorsKeys helper (flagged independently by two reviewers; the fourth copy also risked the SonarQube duplicated-lines gate on new code), the ownerKey test leg now uses real validators with distinct owner addresses (the validator mock drops its owner argument, making the old assertion vacuous), a discarded constructor error in a new test is now asserted, the mock parameter includeLeaving was renamed to ownerKey, and a new test pins that a malformed leaving validator in the registry fails LoadState with ErrNilPubKey.

Commit 4 (bd6804b): gate-review nits: the overlay log.Debug now includes the error value (errors are never silently discarded), and the precedence comment in the provider scenario test moved to the assertion that actually proves it.

Commit 5 (abfa934): the SonarQube quality gate failed on go:S3776 for createNodesCoordinator (cognitive complexity 35, limit 15). The complexity is long-standing, but this branch touched the function, so Sonar counts it as new code. It now delegates to three helpers: genesisValidators (initial nodes conversion), registryEpochValidators (one registry epoch entry to validator lists) and seedPreviousEpochFromRegistry (previous-epoch SetNodes seeding behind a small epochNodesSetter interface, since SetNodes is not part of sharding.NodesCoordinator). Complexity of the main function drops to about 13, each helper stays in single digits. One deliberate strictness increase: the current-epoch registry entry now goes through the same helper, so malformed waiting or leaving entries fail node construction instead of surfacing later in LoadState, which rejected the same data anyway. The current epoch still seeds only elected and eligible into the constructor arguments, unchanged.

Commit 6 (2246113): two latent bootstrap bugs surfaced by the review of commit 5, both pre-existing behavior that moved onto the new lines:

  • EpochsConfig is a map[string]*EpochValidators, so a stored registry containing "5": null makes the lookup succeed with a nil pointer and the conversion panicked during node construction. registryEpochValidators now returns an error for a nil entry, covering both call sites, so startup fails cleanly.
  • At epoch 0 the previous-epoch calculation wrapped around to 4294967295, so a registry entry under that key could be restored as the previous epoch. seedPreviousEpochFromRegistry now returns before the subtraction, and the computed epoch is reused for the SetNodes call.

Design decisions

  1. Jailed does not count toward klv_live_validator_nodes: the gauge remains the working set (elected, eligible, waiting).
  2. A jailed validator's node self-reports klv_node_type=validator; the punished state is visible as klv_peer_type=jailed.
  3. Jailed heartbeat entries are shielded from cleanup so operators keep seeing the node; entries are even created from the cache when the node never sent a heartbeat.
  4. The reported label is jailed, not leaving: the coordinator fills the leaving list exclusively from List == jailed, and /validator/statistics already reports jailed from the trie.

The predicate tiers are now: consensus-capable (elected, eligible) inside working validators (plus waiting) inside registered validators (plus jailed), one predicate per tier, with the consumers documented at the definitions.

Compatibility

  • Registry JSON gains leavingValidators. Old snapshot on a new binary: field absent, restores an empty list, converges at the next epoch start (pinned by TestNodesCoordinator_LoadStateWithoutLeavingFieldIsNilSafe). New snapshot on an old binary (rollback): unknown field is ignored. A malformed leaving entry fails the restore with ErrNilPubKey instead of being silently dropped (pinned by TestNodesCoordinator_LoadStateWithMalformedLeavingValidatorFails).
  • The heartbeat wire format is unchanged and peer types are computed node-locally, so mixed-version networks only differ in their own reporting.

Operational notes

  • klv_peer_type gains the value jailed. Dashboards or alerts with an enum assumption (elected/eligible/waiting/observer) should be updated; alerts that used observer as a proxy for "my validator is broken" change meaning for jailed nodes.
  • klv_live_validator_nodes now explicitly excludes jailed (doc comment updated); a live jailed node still counts in klv_connected_nodes.

Tests

  • Coordinator: SetNodes stores the list and the getter returns it (pubkeys and owner addresses, unknown epoch errors), save/load round-trip, legacy registry without the field, malformed leaving entry fails restore, EpochStartPrepare stores the computed list end to end, computeNodesConfigFromList puts jailed in the leaving list and the numToStay promotion moves the promoted key out of it.
  • Providers: scenario tables extended with leaving/jailed rows (fail-fast per getter, partition resolution, keep-previous-cache, precedence on overlap); soft-fail overlay pinned for the validatorsProvider.
  • Heartbeat: predicate table test pins jailed as registered and the raw string leaving as deliberately not registered; jailed is excluded from both gauges; monitor lifecycle tests pin shielded survival across refresh/cleanup rounds, gauge exclusion for an active jailed node, and demotion plus cleanup once the key leaves the lists; sender table rows pin jailed reporting validator and leaving falling back to observer.

Verification

  • go build ./..., go vet ./..., gofmt clean; golangci-lint (module mode) reports zero issues on changed files.
  • All affected packages green, -race clean on node/heartbeat/...; full go test ./...: 247 packages ok. The two failing packages are baseline: data/retriever/txpool/memorytests fails identically on clean develop, and network/p2p/libp2p only timed out under full parallel load while passing standalone on both develop and this branch.
  • SonarQube quality gate passes on this PR: new coverage 85.7% (threshold 80), duplicated lines on new code 0.0%, zero new high-severity issues, all ratings at A. The one gate failure during review (go:S3776) is fixed in commit 5.
  • Review: seven pre-push agent passes (three code-quality, two security, one Go-specific, one metrics) plus two CodeRabbit rounds; every actionable finding was fixed in commits 3, 4 and 6. The final independent full-diff pass reported no findings, and CodeRabbit confirmed both of its findings as addressed.

This PR supersedes #125, which carried the identical change from a fork branch where the secret-dependent CI jobs could not run.

Follow-ups (tracked)

Out of scope, tracked separately: the pre-bootstrap epoch seeding window (#113, applies to jailed exactly as it already did to waiting) and the heartbeat monitor concurrency work (#117, #120).

Summary

  • Persist and restore jailed validators in the coordinator state and registry.
  • Seed jailed validators into the peer-type cache as jailed, with working validator lists taking precedence.
  • Report jailed nodes as klv_node_type=validator and klv_peer_type=jailed.
  • Exclude jailed validators from klv_live_validator_nodes.
  • Retain jailed heartbeat entries during cleanup and restore them from cache without a heartbeat.
  • Consolidate validator-key retrieval and cache-seeding logic.
  • Preserve fail-fast cache updates and soft-fail trie-derived validator cache behavior.
  • Add compatibility handling for legacy registry data and explicit errors for malformed entries.

Impact

  • Consensus and state management: Coordinator leaving-list state now survives epochs and restarts. Restoration errors propagate instead of silently corrupting coordinator state.
  • Networking and monitoring: Peer classification and heartbeat cleanup now identify jailed validators correctly. The existing heartbeat wire format remains unchanged.
  • Node stability and data integrity: The change reduces incorrect observer classification and prevents premature heartbeat removal. Getter failures preserve the previous peer cache or trie-derived data according to the existing error contract.
  • Transaction processing and KVM: No direct changes.
  • Concurrency: No new concurrency behavior is introduced.

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The coordinator now persists and restores leaving validators, exposes their keys, and supplies them to peer caches. Jailed peers receive distinct classification, heartbeat retention, and metric behavior. Mocks, disabled implementations, and tests support the expanded interface.

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Leaving Validator Flow

Layer / File(s) Summary
Coordinator state and key API
sharding/..., cmd/node/node.go, common/mock/..., core/bootstrap/disabled/...
The coordinator stores and restores leaving validators, exposes epoch-aware public-key and owner-key retrieval, and updates all implementations. State compatibility and malformed-state handling are tested.
Peer cache aggregation
core/process/peer/...
Peer caches retrieve four validator lists in order. Leaving keys map to jailed peers, later lists override duplicates, and getter failures preserve valid cache data where applicable.
Heartbeat classification and retention
node/heartbeat/process/..., core/metrics.go
Jailed peers count as registered validators, remain during inactive cleanup, report validator node type, and remain excluded from live-validator metrics. Leaving peers remain observers and are removed after demotion.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 91a4f

The PR adds jailed-validator state to persistence and heartbeat classification. It is mergeable with owner awareness, but several test paths still discard errors and rely on fixed sleeps, which can mask failures or create CI flakiness; these are bounded test-reliability issues rather than a demonstrated production defect.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant NodesCoordinator
  participant PeerTypeProvider
  participant HeartbeatMonitor
  participant HeartbeatSender
  NodesCoordinator->>PeerTypeProvider: provide leaving validator keys
  PeerTypeProvider->>PeerTypeProvider: classify leaving keys as jailed
  PeerTypeProvider->>HeartbeatMonitor: provide jailed peer types
  HeartbeatMonitor->>HeartbeatMonitor: retain inactive registered validators
  HeartbeatSender->>HeartbeatSender: report jailed peers as validator node type
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Title check ⚠️ Warning The title describes the jailed-validator metrics fix, but it does not follow the required [KLC-XXXX] type: description format because it lacks a Jira key. Rename the title to include a valid Jira key and retain the allowed type, for example [KLC-116] fix: report jailed validators in peer-type cache and heartbeat metrics.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 17.50% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 40 functions across 13 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
State Consistency ⚠️ Warning The PR introduces partial coordinator-state updates on failed restore. LoadState sets savedStateKey and currentEpoch before registryToNodesCoordinator completes. The new LeavingValidators co… Stage and validate the complete restored registry before changing savedStateKey, currentEpoch, nodesConfig, or stateReady. Commit those fields only after every epoch conversion and selector creation succeeds. In SetNodes, build a …
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issues [#116] and [#118]. They seed jailed validators into the peer-type cache, align node-type, live-validator, and heartbeat cleanup behavior, persist and restore the leaving lis…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes remain within the linked objectives. Coordinator persistence, registry conversion, interface and mock updates, peer-cache logic, heartbeat behavior, metrics, and related tests directly sup…
Concurrency Safety ✅ Passed No new concurrency failure was introduced. The PR adds no new goroutines, channels, mutexes, or cancellation paths. The validatorsProvider refresh goroutine and ctx.Done() handling are unchanged f…
Error Handling ✅ Passed PASS. The changed error paths check and handle returned errors. Bootstrap conversion errors and previous-epoch SetNodes errors return through createNodesCoordinator; registry loading returns conve…
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The changes satisfy issues [#116] and [#118]. They seed jailed validators into the peer-type cache, align node-type, live-validator, and heartbeat cleanup behavior, persist and restore the leaving list, and deduplicate cache-seeding logic while preserving the required error semantics.

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The changes remain within the linked objectives. Coordinator persistence, registry conversion, interface and mock updates, peer-cache logic, heartbeat behavior, metrics, and related tests directly support jailed-validator handling and getter deduplication.

Full details: Concurrency Safety

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No new concurrency failure was introduced. The PR adds no new goroutines, channels, mutexes, or cancellation paths. The validatorsProvider refresh goroutine and ctx.Done() handling are unchanged from origin/develop; the modified prepare callback is a no-op. The coordinator’s new leavingList write occurs under mutNodesConfig.Lock() and mutNodesMaps.Lock(). The new getter reads it under mutNodesMaps.RLock(), and registry serialization remains protected by mutNodesConfig.RLock(). The getter refactor preserves the prior lock sequence. git diff --check also reports no issues.

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PASS. The changed error paths check and handle returned errors. Bootstrap conversion errors and previous-epoch SetNodes errors return through createNodesCoordinator; registry loading returns conversion and selector errors; provider getter errors are logged with the error value and preserve their documented fail-fast or soft-fail behavior. The final diff adds an explicit nil registry-entry error and adds no panic() calls. Existing panic calls in mocks were not introduced by this pull request.

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The PR introduces partial coordinator-state updates on failed restore. LoadState sets savedStateKey and currentEpoch before registryToNodesCoordinator completes. The new LeavingValidators conversion can now return ErrNilPubKey; the added malformed-leaving test confirms this error path. When it occurs, LoadState returns before replacing nodesConfig, but the key and epoch remain changed. GetSavedStateKey exposes the changed key, and later persistence can use the changed epoch/key. The new SetNodes path also assigns leavingList before createSelector; selector errors return without restoring the prior lists.

Resolution

Stage and validate the complete restored registry before changing savedStateKey, currentEpoch, nodesConfig, or stateReady. Commit those fields only after every epoch conversion and selector creation succeeds. In SetNodes, build a candidate configuration and create its selector before replacing the existing epoch configuration; preserve the old configuration on any error. Make EpochStartPrepare stop or roll back when SetNodes or registry persistence fails, instead of leaving an in-memory configuration that is not persisted.

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- Around line 371-374: Update registryEpochValidators to validate epochsConfig
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nil. Preserve the existing conversion flow for non-nil configurations so
current-epoch construction and previous-epoch restoration fail safely without
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395-398: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add context to registry conversion and restoration errors.

The LeavingValidators conversion returns the raw error. The previous-epoch SetNodes call also returns its raw error. Callers cannot identify whether registry decoding or node restoration failed. Wrap both errors with %w and include the validator list or epoch in the message.

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 	leaving, err = sharding.SerializableValidatorsToValidators(epochsConfig.LeavingValidators)
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, nil, nil, nil, err
+		return nil, nil, nil, nil, fmt.Errorf("convert leaving validators: %w", err)
 	}
 
-	return setter.SetNodes(elected, eligible, waiting, leaving, prevEpoch)
+	if err := setter.SetNodes(elected, eligible, waiting, leaving, prevEpoch); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("restore previous epoch %d: %w", prevEpoch, err)
+	}
+	return nil

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In `@cmd/node/node.go` around lines 395 - 398, Wrap the error returned by
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Replace the copy-pasted getter/log/seed blocks in
PeerTypeProvider.createNewCache and validatorsProvider.createNewCache
with a table of {name, peerType, getter} and one loop, so adding a list
cannot silently pair the wrong peer type with a getter. Semantics are
preserved exactly: the peerTypeProvider keeps fail-fast (any getter
error keeps the previous cache, log.Warn with the error), the
validatorsProvider keeps its soft-fail overlay (log.Debug, trie-based
cache still served). A new test pins the soft-fail contract, and the
empty epoch-start prepare handler gets the same explanatory comment as
the peerTypeProvider sibling (sonar go:S1186).

Refs #118
The nodes coordinator builds a leaving list (validators whose list is
jailed) but discarded it: EpochStartPrepare never passed it to SetNodes
and the registry did not persist it, so the peer-type cache could not
see jailed validators. They reported observer everywhere and dropped
out of /node/heartbeatstatus after the hide interval.

The coordinator now stores the computed leaving list on the epoch
config (SetNodes gained a leaving parameter), persists it in the
registry as leavingValidators (old registries without the field restore
an empty list and converge at the next epoch start), and exposes it
through GetAllLeavingValidatorsKeys on sharding.NodesCoordinator. The
peer-type cache seeds that list first, labeled jailed, so the working
lists win on any overlap; the numToStay promotion keeps the lists a
partition in production.

Consumers follow three explicit predicate tiers: jailed does not count
toward klv_live_validator_nodes (the working set is unchanged), and the
new isRegisteredValidatorPeerType shields jailed entries from heartbeat
Cleanup and makes the node self-report klv_node_type=validator with
klv_peer_type=jailed. The dead GetAllLeavingValidatorsPublicKeys mock
lookalikes are replaced by hooks matching the real getter.

Refs #116
… tests

Addresses the pre-push code review findings on this branch:
- the four GetAllXValidatorsKeys getters in sharding/nodesCoordinator.go
  were verbatim copies differing in one field access; they now share a
  single getAllValidatorsKeys helper so the epoch lookup and the locking
  discipline live in one place (flagged independently by two reviewers,
  and ~21 duplicated new-code lines risked the SonarQube duplication
  gate for new code)
- the ownerKey leg of the SetNodes leaving-list test compared nils
  because the validator mock drops its owner argument; the test now
  builds real validators with distinct owner addresses
- a new heartbeat test discarded the constructor error, against the repo
  convention of asserting setup errors; it now uses require.NoError
- the mock GetAllLeavingValidatorsKeys parameter was misnamed
  includeLeaving (copied from its siblings); renamed to ownerKey to
  match the interface semantics
- the only uncovered changed statement (the error branch restoring a
  malformed leaving validator from the registry) is now pinned by
  TestNodesCoordinator_LoadStateWithMalformedLeavingValidatorFails

Refs #116, #118
Two nits from the pre-push gate review round:
- the validatorsProvider overlay Debug log dropped the error value while
  the equivalent peerTypeProvider log includes it; a failing overlay in
  production was undiagnosable (errors are never silently discarded)
- the seeding-precedence comment in the peerTypeProvider scenario test
  sat above the jailed-only assertion instead of the elected1 assertion
  that actually proves working lists win over the leaving list

Refs #116, #118
…tor complexity

The SonarQube quality gate on the PR flagged go:S3776 on
createNodesCoordinator (cognitive complexity 35, limit 15) because this
branch touched the function; the complexity itself is long-standing.

The function now delegates to three helpers: genesisValidators (initial
nodes conversion), registryEpochValidators (one registry epoch entry to
validator lists) and seedPreviousEpochFromRegistry (previous-epoch
SetNodes seeding behind a small epochNodesSetter interface, since
SetNodes is not part of sharding.NodesCoordinator). Cognitive complexity
of the main function drops to about 13, each helper stays in single
digits.

One deliberate strictness increase: the current-epoch registry entry is
now converted through the same helper, so malformed waiting or leaving
entries fail node construction instead of surfacing later; LoadState
already rejects the same data, the failure just moves earlier. The
current epoch still seeds only elected and eligible into the constructor
arguments, unchanged (the comment points to the LoadState restore).

Refs #116
…e at epoch zero

Two CodeRabbit findings on the helpers extracted in the previous commit,
both pre-existing behavior that moved onto the new lines:

- a registry entry can be present but null in the stored JSON, so the
  map lookup succeeds and the conversion dereferenced nil and panicked
  during bootstrap; registryEpochValidators now returns an error for a
  nil entry, so both current-epoch construction and previous-epoch
  restoration fail safely
- at epoch 0 the previous-epoch calculation wrapped around to
  4294967295, so a registry entry under that key would be restored as
  the previous epoch; seedPreviousEpochFromRegistry now returns before
  the subtraction, and the computed epoch is reused for the SetNodes
  call instead of recomputing it

Refs #116
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node/heartbeat/process/monitor_test.go (1)

379-382: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Replace sleep-based synchronization.

These tests wait for ProcessReceivedMessage goroutines with fixed delays. Slow CI runners can assert stale monitor state. Use a completion condition that proves the expected admission work finished.

  • node/heartbeat/process/monitor_test.go#L379-L382: wait until the transient heartbeat is present.
  • node/heartbeat/process/monitor_test.go#L1183-L1185: wait until the per-origin cap has admitted the expected entries.
  • node/heartbeat/process/monitor_test.go#L1244-L1245: wait until the transient heartbeat is present before advancing the mock timer.
  • node/heartbeat/process/monitor_test.go#L1291-L1293: synchronize all asynchronous admissions before the final cleanup and capacity assertion.

As per path instructions, “No hardcoded sleep for synchronization (use channels or sync primitives).”

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In `@node/heartbeat/process/monitor_test.go` around lines 379 - 382, Replace fixed
sleep synchronization in node/heartbeat/process/monitor_test.go at lines
379-382, 1183-1185, 1244-1245, and 1291-1293 with completion-based
synchronization around ProcessReceivedMessage: wait until the transient
heartbeat or expected per-origin admissions are observable via GetHeartbeats
before asserting, advancing the mock timer, or performing cleanup and capacity
checks. Use channels or synchronization primitives, with no hardcoded sleeps.

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core/process/peer/validatorsProvider_test.go (1)

411-411: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Propagate and assert test errors.

The concurrent GetLatestValidators calls currently discard errors, so a failed refresh can be hidden when the final call succeeds. Capture errors from each goroutine and assert them after wg.Wait(). Apply the same error-checking discipline to the JSON processing, monitor construction, and ProcessReceivedMessage calls in the related heartbeat tests so setup or admission failures cannot become panics or false passes.

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In `@core/process/peer/validatorsProvider_test.go` at line 411, Update the
concurrent GetLatestValidators test to capture each returned error in a buffered
channel instead of discarding it, then close and inspect the channel after
wg.Wait() to assert that no concurrent read failed.

Apply the same fix in `@node/heartbeat/process/monitor_test.go` around lines 347 -
372: Covers the remaining marshal, unmarshal, and asynchronous
message-processing error sites.

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Outside diff comments:
In `@core/process/peer/validatorsProvider_test.go`:
- Line 411: Update the concurrent GetLatestValidators test to capture each
returned error in a buffered channel instead of discarding it, then close and
inspect the channel after wg.Wait() to assert that no concurrent read failed.

Apply the same fix in `@node/heartbeat/process/monitor_test.go` around lines 347 -
372: Covers the remaining marshal, unmarshal, and asynchronous
message-processing error sites.

In `@node/heartbeat/process/monitor_test.go`:
- Around line 379-382: Replace fixed sleep synchronization in
node/heartbeat/process/monitor_test.go at lines 379-382, 1183-1185, 1244-1245,
and 1291-1293 with completion-based synchronization around
ProcessReceivedMessage: wait until the transient heartbeat or expected
per-origin admissions are observable via GetHeartbeats before asserting,
advancing the mock timer, or performing cleanup and capacity checks. Use
channels or synchronization primitives, with no hardcoded sleeps.

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core/process/peer/validatorsProvider.go

[warning] 253-253: A log/format call (log.Print/Printf/Println, the Fatal/Panic variants, fmt.Sprintf, or a structured logger's Info/Warn/Error/Debug method) is given a message built by concatenating a string literal with a non-literal value such as request data. Unsanitized, attacker-controlled input written to logs enables log forging / CRLF injection: an attacker can inject newlines to spoof log entries or break log parsers. Do not concatenate raw input into the log message; pass it as a separate structured field/argument (e.g. 'log.Printf("user: %s", user)' or 'logger.Info("login", "user", user)') and strip or escape newline characters first.
Context: log.Debug("validatorsProvider - "+src.name+" failed", "epoch", epoch, "error", err)
Note: [CWE-117] Improper Output Neutralization for Logs.

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sharding/nodesCoordinator.go (1)

363-369: LGTM!

Also applies to: 394-423, 615-674, 774-774, 812-812, 836-836

sharding/nodesCoordinator_test.go (1)

4-13: LGTM!

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common/mock/nodesCoordinatorMock.go (1)

27-28: LGTM!

Also applies to: 98-108, 297-301

core/process/peer/validatorsProvider.go (1)

94-127: LGTM!

Also applies to: 174-176, 185-188, 202-231, 240-257

core/process/peer/validatorsProvider_test.go (1)

6-7: LGTM!

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node/heartbeat/process/export_test.go (1)

6-6: LGTM!

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