[KLC-2516] [KLR-13] Nondeterministic contract deployment outcome timeout boundary - #83
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WalkthroughThe change adds a deterministic execution wait helper. Smart-contract creation and call paths use it. Tests cover completion, timeout, error propagation, hook cancellation, and completion precedence during simultaneous signals. ChangesTimeout determinism
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to At the timeout boundary, executions may still report success or failure depending on scheduler timing, creating inconsistent contract deployment outcomes; the exported mock change may also affect downstream unkeyed literals, while the test does not fully establish the required ordering. These issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. Suggested labels: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 6 | ❌ 2❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)
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Full details: Concurrency SafetyExplanation PASS — The changed wait helper uses read-only channel receives and adds no goroutine or shared mutable state. Each execution path still closes its Full details: Error HandlingExplanation PASS — The pull-request diff introduces no unchecked error return or bare panic. The new wait helper returns nil only for completion and propagates Full details: State ConsistencyExplanation PASS: The pull request adds only timeout-wait selection and a test callback. It adds no account, balance, storage, transfer, commit, or rollback mutation. When execution remains in flight, the timeout path calls
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Pull request overview
This PR addresses consensus-relevant nondeterminism at the VM execution timeout boundary by making timeout vs. completion arbitration deterministic (timeout wins on a tie), and adds regression tests at both the VM hostCore and transaction-processing layers.
Changes:
- Add
waitExecutionWithDeterministicTimeoutand use it inRunSmartContractCreate/RunSmartContractCallto deterministically resolve timeout vs. completion. - Add hostCore unit tests covering done-only, timeout-only, and tie-breaker behavior.
- Add a transaction-level regression test intended to validate deterministic SC deploy timeout outcomes.
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kvm/vmhost/hostCore/host.go |
Introduces deterministic timeout tie-breaker and applies it to SC create/call execution flow. |
kvm/vmhost/hostCore/timeout_tiebreaker_test.go |
Adds unit coverage for deterministic timeout arbitration in hostCore. |
core/process/transaction/txProcessSmartContract_test.go |
Adds an integration-style regression test for deterministic deploy timeout handling (currently with setup issues). |
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In `@core/process/transaction/txProcessSmartContract_test.go`:
- Around line 58-71: Restore the missing loop declaration in the busy-init WAT
body by replacing the stray `p` between `local.set $limit` and `local.get $i`
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kvm/vmhost/hostCore/host.go (2)
550-553: LGTM!Also applies to: 631-635
467-486: 🩺 Stability & AvailabilityPost-completion timeout path needs a lifecycle check
waitExecutionWithDeterministicTimeout()can still route intohandleTimeout()afterdoneis closed. IfFailExecution()orSetBreakpointValue()assume the instance is still active afterEndExecution()/CleanInstance(), this can panic on the caller goroutine. Confirm that timeout handling is safe after completion, or skip re-driving it oncedonewins.kvm/vmhost/hostCore/timeout_tiebreaker_test.go (1)
61-86: 🩺 Stability & AvailabilityAdd a lifecycle-aware tie-breaker test. The current mock only records
FailExecution, so it does not exercise the finalized-instance path wheredoneis already closed afterEndExecution/CleanInstance. Use a runtime that tracks instance finalization and assertFailExecutionis not called once the worker has already cleaned up.core/process/transaction/txProcessSmartContract_test.go (3)
476-502: 🎯 Functional Correctness | ⚡ Quick winVerify the divergent
EconomicsFeewiring between the TXProcessor and the SC processor.
args.EconomicsFeeis set tofeeHandlerwith a customComputeGasCalledthat returns the full gas limit (Lines 476-479), but the SC processor is constructed with a fresh, unconfiguredfreeFeeHandlerMock()(Line 494). If the SC processor relies on its ownEconomicsFeefor gas accounting during deploy, the busy-init loop may receive a different gas budget than intended, which can indirectly affect whether/when the timeout is hit. Confirm this asymmetry is deliberate; if not, passfeeHandlerhere too.
49-49: 📐 Maintainability & Code QualityPotential duplicate
common/mockimportThe same package appears to be imported under two aliases. If both imports are still present in
core/process/transaction/txProcessSmartContract_test.go, consolidate to one alias and update the references.
321-343: 🩺 Stability & AvailabilityTimeout margin may be too tight for the configured tolerance. The 10% bump on
timeoutLoopCountcan still fall inside the 15% execution tolerance, so these 12 runs may complete without timing out. Increase the margin above the effective deadline, or lower the tolerance, to make this test deterministic.
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313-321: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winAssert rollback state directly, not through
codeLenalone
require.False(t, outcome.deployed)andrequire.Zero(t, outcome.codeLen)still pass whenGetExistingUserfails or no contract address is recorded. Check the account lookup error separately, and assert the expected address/account absence so a failed state lookup can’t look like a clean rollback.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@core/process/transaction/txProcessSmartContract_test.go` around lines 313 - 321, Strengthen the rollback assertions in the outcomes loop by validating the account lookup error separately rather than relying on deployed and codeLen. Assert that the expected contract address is absent and that GetExistingUser succeeds with no account, preserving the existing timeout and VM error checks.Source: Coding guidelines
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In `@core/process/transaction/txProcessSmartContract_test.go`:
- Around line 313-321: Strengthen the rollback assertions in the outcomes loop
by validating the account lookup error separately rather than relying on
deployed and codeLen. Assert that the expected contract address is absent and
that GetExistingUser succeeds with no account, preserving the existing timeout
and VM error checks.
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49-52: LGTM!Also applies to: 325-331, 443-463
297-305: 🩺 Stability & AvailabilityWiden the timeout margin or re-calibrate per attempt. The loop count is calibrated once and then reused for 12 fresh runs, so a 10% bump is still close to the 500 ms boundary and can flip a timeout into a success under scheduler, GC, or race-instrumented jitter.
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core/process/transaction/txProcessSmartContract_test.go:505
- This constant should use the existing proto alias (github.com/klever-io/klever-go/data/transaction) instead of the duplicate dataTransaction alias.
tx.ResultCode == dataTransaction.Transaction_Ok &&
core/process/transaction/txProcessSmartContract_test.go:58
- This reference still uses the removed/duplicate dataTransaction import alias; after dropping the extra import, this should use the existing proto alias for github.com/klever-io/klever-go/data/transaction.
resultCode dataTransaction.Transaction_TXResultCode
core/process/transaction/txProcessSmartContract_test.go:444
- This closure parameter type uses the duplicate dataTransaction import alias; switch it to the existing proto alias so the file compiles with a single import of github.com/klever-io/klever-go/data/transaction.
feeHandler.ComputeGasCalled = func(tx *dataTransaction.Transaction, _ *dataTransaction.CostResponse) (uint64, uint64, error) {
core/process/transaction/txProcessSmartContract_test.go:480
- These transaction types/constants should use the existing proto alias (github.com/klever-io/klever-go/data/transaction). Right now they reference dataTransaction, which becomes invalid once the duplicate import is removed.
scContract := dataTransaction.SmartContract{
Type: dataTransaction.SmartContract_SCDeploy,
}
tx, err := createTransactionMock(&scContract,
dataTransaction.TXContract_SmartContractType, testOwnerAddress, 0)
kvm/vmhost/hostCore/timeout_tiebreaker_test.go:23
- In this test, cancelHook is not called on the successful (done-only) path. Adding a defer helps avoid leaking contexts in tests and keeps cleanup symmetric with the timeout cases.
hookCtx, cancelHook := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
done := make(chan struct{})
close(done)
| return host.handleTimeout(cancelHook, done) | ||
| case <-done: | ||
| // Deterministic tie-breaker: if timeout is also ready, timeout wins. | ||
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nit: this inner select is if ctx.Err() != nil. The whole function collapses to one select on done/ctx, then if ctx.Err() == nil { return nil } before falling through to return host.handleTimeout(cancelHook, done).
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That held for timeout-wins, but the flip inverted it — the inner check is on done now, and a channel has no ctx.Err() equivalent, so select/default is the only way to poll it. Left as is.
| // If both completion and timeout are observable at the same boundary, timeout wins. | ||
| func (host *vmHost) waitExecutionWithDeterministicTimeout( | ||
| ctx context.Context, | ||
| cancelHook context.CancelFunc, |
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nit: this isn't a hook cancel. Both call sites pass the full cleanup closure from setupExecutionContext, which also cancels the main timeout ctx and nils host.executionContext, so "now safe to cancel hook context" in handleTimeout understates it a lot. Worth renaming the param to cleanup while we're in here.
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Fair, it is the full cleanup closure today. Leaving it as a nit though — the name goes back to being accurate once the teardown issue is sorted out separately.
| return | ||
| case <-ctx.Done(): | ||
| err = host.handleTimeout(cancel, done) | ||
| timeoutErr := host.waitExecutionWithDeterministicTimeout(ctx, cancel, done) |
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The cancel we pass here is the cleanup closure, and it nils host.executionContext in the same call. Hooks resolve their context through exactly that field (timeoutWrapper.go:29-42), so from the moment handleTimeout runs they see nil, skip the panic pre-check and drop into the untimed rp := <-done at line 91, while we sit parked on <-done. That makes the "hooks detect ctxHook.Done() and panic" flow the comments describe about a nanosecond wide and effectively unreachable, the WASM breakpoint is doing all the work. The write is unsynchronised too, plain field, mutExecution only held RLock, read by the still-running execution goroutine. Could setupExecutionContext return cancelHook separately so handleTimeout only cancels the hook ctx and the teardown stays with the deferred cleanup?
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Good analysis, agreed. Tracked as KLC-2608 rather than folded in here: the fix shifts unwind behaviour on the deploy path, so it wants its own review and validation rather than riding along on this one.
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In `@kvm/vmhost/hostCore/host.go`:
- Around line 487-493: Make the ctx.Done branch in the host execution wait logic
treat timeout selection as final, so a later close of done cannot return success
after the deadline branch was chosen. Coordinate completion timestamp/state with
the execution deadline, or otherwise preserve the first-event ordering, and add
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In `@kvm/vmhost/hostCore/timeout_tiebreaker_test.go`:
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50-55: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winMake the timeout-wait assertion deterministic.
The goroutine closes
doneimmediately afterFailExecutionCalledfires. If the<-donewait is removed, the helper can return before the goroutine closesdone, and the final non-blocking check can pass or fail based on scheduler timing. Run the helper in a goroutine, assert that it has not returned aftertimeoutStarted, then closedoneand join the helper.As per path instructions, “Adequate coverage of edge cases and error paths.”
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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rg -n -U 'RuntimeContextMock\s*\{\s*(?:(?:\([^{}]*\)|\[[^{}]*\]|"[^"]*"|`[^`]*`|[^{}])[^{}]*)\}' --glob '*.go' kvm || true
printf '%s\n' '--- repository state for the reviewed file ---'
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In the Go programming language, using unkeyed struct composite literals for types defined in an external package is strongly discouraged and considered a compatibility risk [1][2][3]. While the Go language specification permits unkeyed composite literals [4], adding a field to a struct type defined in an external package will break any existing code in other packages that initializes that struct using an unkeyed literal [1][3]. Because the unkeyed syntax relies on the specific order and number of fields, adding a new field changes the expected structure, causing compilation errors in consuming code [5][3]. To maintain backward compatibility when an API evolves, it is a standard Go practice to use keyed composite literals [1][3]. Keyed literals specify the field names (e.g., T{Field: value}), which decouples the initialization from the exact field order and number [3]. This ensures that adding a new field—which will simply default to its zero value if omitted in the literal—does not break existing client code [5][3]. The Go toolchain includes the 'go vet' command (specifically the 'composite' pass), which is designed to identify and warn against the use of unkeyed composite literals for types defined in external packages [2][6][7]. The tool exempts locally defined types from this check because developers can simultaneously update both the struct definition and its usages within the same package, mitigating the risk of breaking changes [2][7].
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- 1: cmd/compile: clearer error message for unkeyed composite literal with unexported field golang/go#28053
- 2: cmd/vet: behavioral difference on unkeyed field detection golang/go#25453
- 3: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-nuts/c/oAjxpH-Qq2Y
- 4: https://go.dev/ref/spec
- 5: proposal: Go 2: require field name for struct composite literal when the struct reference is with a selector golang/go#27423
- 6: https://go.dev/src/cmd/vendor/golang.org/x/tools/go/analysis/passes/composite/composite.go
- 7: cmd/vet: Vet incorrectly reports composite literal uses unkeyed fields on user defined types golang/go#6820
Preserve RuntimeContextMock positional compatibility.
RuntimeContextMock is exported. Adding FailExecutionCalled makes downstream unkeyed literals fail to compile. Keep this hook outside the exported struct or use a compatible API.
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In `@kvm/mock/context/runtimeContextMock.go` at line 45, Remove
FailExecutionCalled from the exported RuntimeContextMock struct to preserve
downstream unkeyed-literal compatibility, and provide the hook through a
compatible API or non-struct storage instead.
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Every RuntimeContextMock literal in the repo is keyed, and the module builds and tests clean with the field added — an unkeyed one would have failed to compile. Keeping it, since the Called-hook pattern is what the other mocks here use.
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@RomuloSiebra, keyed literals and successful local tests confirm that this change does not break in-repository callers.
The compatibility concern applies to external consumers of the exported RuntimeContextMock type. An external unkeyed literal will fail to compile after this field is added. The existing Called-hook convention supports the pattern, but it does not remove that public API risk.
I will keep this finding open unless kvm/mock/context is explicitly exempt from backward-compatibility requirements.
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Separate from the tie-break, on the genuine timeout path where the goroutine is still running: |
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…y timeout boundary test
When both the completion signal and the execution deadline are observable at the same boundary, prefer completion: a closed done channel shows execution finished within budget, while an expired context also reflects how long the waiting goroutine was descheduled. Align the hostCore tie-breaker tests with the new precedence and add coverage for a timeout raised while execution is still in flight. Remove the transaction-level timeout regression test: it calibrated a busy loop against wall-clock time, never reached the tie-break branch, and was unstable under parallel test load.
Replace the sleep-based handoff with a FailExecution hook on the runtime mock, so the done channel closes only once the timeout path has actually started. Removes the timing assumption that let the case degrade into a completion tie under load.
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Went through all three files. Verified:
- The refactor is behaviour-preserving at both call sites —
handleTimeoutalways returns non-nil, soif timeoutErr != nil { err = timeoutErr }is the old unconditional assignment. - No new race on the named returns: every write from the execution goroutine is ordered by
close(done), and the waiter only writes after observing it (or afterhandleTimeout's<-done). - Tie direction matches the existing validator bias in
getEffectiveTimeout. _TieBreakerCompletionWinsgenuinely discriminates — it fails ~50/100 with the inner select removed — and the timeout test now synchronises onFailExecutionCalledinstead of sleeping.
Happy to approve once @nickgs1337's open points are dealt with:
- host.go:489 — inner select collapses to
if ctx.Err() == nil { return nil }; andcancelHookis really the full cleanup closure, worth renaming tocleanup. cleanupnilshost.executionContextunsynchronised, so hooks resolve a nil context and the hook-panic path is effectively unreachable.handleTimeoutrewriting a VMOutput that already went through the success path. One correction on that thread: inverting the tie-break narrows this to the nanoseconds between thedefault:poll and<-done, it doesn't close it — a completion landing in that window still yieldsVMExecutionFailedcarrying success-pathGasRemaining.
Summary
Makes smart contract execution resolve deterministically when completion and the execution deadline are observable at the same boundary, and adds unit coverage for that precedence in hostCore.
Problem
At the execution timeout boundary, the completion signal and the expired deadline can both be ready when the waiting goroutine evaluates them. Go's
selectthen picks at random, so the same execution could resolve either way between runs.Solution
The wait now resolves that case explicitly, in favour of completion. A closed
donechannel shows execution finished within its budget, whereas an expired context also reflects how long the waiting goroutine waited to be scheduled. Preferring the completion signal keeps a node whose scheduler stalled from reporting failure for work that did finish in budget — the same direction as the existing validator tolerance ingetEffectiveTimeoutand the import-db replay timeout.Key Changes
Updated:
kvm/vmhost/hostCore/host.go— deterministic completion precedence at the boundarykvm/vmhost/hostCore/timeout_tiebreaker_test.go— unit coverage for the precedence, including a timeout raised while execution is still in flightkvm/mock/context/runtimeContextMock.go—FailExecutionCalledhook, so the test synchronises on the timeout path instead of sleepingScope
This addresses the nondeterministic branch selection at the boundary. Broader work on the execution timeout mechanism is tracked separately.
Testing
make tests)Notes
The transaction-level regression test added earlier in this branch was removed. It calibrated a busy loop against wall-clock time, did not reach the branch being changed, and was unstable under parallel test load; the hostCore unit tests cover the precedence deterministically and without wall-clock calibration.
Configuration Changes
None.
Breaking Changes
None.
Related Issues
Related to KLR-13.
Checklist
make goimports)Summary
FailExecutionCalledsynchronization support toRuntimeContextMock.selectnondeterminism at the timeout boundary and improves deterministic transaction processing.