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fix(containerwatcher): account for events dropped by a full ordered queue - #1038
When the ordered event queue was full, AddEventDirect released the event and signalled the alert channel without accounting for the dropped event. This caused node_agent.ebpf.events_dropped.total to undercount drops and could leave an affected container profile marked as Complete.
This change records dropped events by event type and container ID under the queue mutex, then accounts for them in the existing processing loop. The metric is updated with reason="ordered_queue_full", and ReportDroppedEvent is called once per affected container per drain. Events without a container ID are counted in the metric but are not reported to the profile manager.
Overview
Add drop accounting for ordered queue overflow.
Drain recorded drops through the existing processing loop.
Update the dropped-events metric with the appropriate event type and reason.
Ensure affected container profiles are marked Partial through the existing reporting path.
Keep metric and profile operations out of the eBPF callback.
Add regression tests for drop counts, concurrent overflow, repeated drains, and profile completeness.
How to Test
Run focused ordered queue and drop-accounting tests.
Run the full watcher package tests with StandaloneDoesNotAcquirePodData skipped.
Run go vet for the affected packages.
Run gofmt checks on modified files.
Run git diff --check.
Run race-enabled tests on Linux with Go 1.27 and CGO enabled.
Run the full watcher package tests on the rebased commit without skipping tests.
Verify the remaining checks through upstream CI.
Additional Information
Drop counts are recorded under the queue mutex and processed outside the eBPF callback.
The existing queue alerting, event release, and ordering behavior are preserved.
The StandaloneDoesNotAcquirePodData failure remains under investigation; it has not been verified against a clean upstream baseline.
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Bug Fixes
Events dropped when the processing queue is full are now included in dropped-event metrics, including events without an associated container.
Profiles for containers affected by dropped events are marked as partial, even when drops are reported before registration. Unaffected containers retain their completion status.
Pending dropped events are accounted for during shutdown and are not counted twice.
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The ordered event queue records overflow drops by event type and container ID. The watcher accounts for drops during processing and shutdown. The profile manager applies drops to registered containers and retains bounded markers for containers registered later.
Changes: Queue drop accounting
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Summary
Record and drain queue overflows pkg/containerwatcher/v2/ordered_event_queue.go, pkg/containerwatcher/v2/ordered_event_queue_test.go
The queue aggregates dropped events by event type and container ID. DrainDropped returns and resets those counts. Tests cover grouping, draining, and concurrent overflow accounting.
Account for drops during processing and shutdown pkg/containerwatcher/v2/container_watcher.go, pkg/containerwatcher/v2/container_watcher_queue_drop_test.go
The watcher accounts for drained drops before processing a batch and after the processing loop exits. It updates metrics and reports each nonempty container ID once per drain. Tests cover overflow, no overflow, and shutdown accounting.
Apply drops across container registration pkg/containerprofilemanager/v1/containerprofile_manager.go, pkg/containerprofilemanager/v1/container_operations.go, pkg/containerprofilemanager/v1/event_reporting.go, pkg/containerprofilemanager/v1/pending_drop_test.go, pkg/containerprofilemanager/v1/dropped_event_profile_test.go
The profile manager stores bounded pending markers for unregistered containers, applies matching markers during registration, and preserves drop state across abandoned entries. Tests cover registration races, marker limits, overflow fallback, and saved profile completion annotations.
kubescape/node-agent#1058: This change accounts for drops that can include fork or exec events, but it does not restore dropped events or address PID-reuse state.
Suggested reviewers:matthyx
Merge Risk: Minimal · up to b1428
The change records events dropped by a full ordered queue and carries that signal into container profiles. No merge-blocking risk was found.
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Review comments at @pkg/containerwatcher/v2/container_watcher.go:
- Line 538: Update the shutdown flow around eventProcessingLoop to stop
producers, wait for the processing loop to exit, then call accountQueueDrops()
before shutdown completes. This ensures drops still pending when cancellation
ends the loop are reported.
- Line 531: Update ContainerProfileManager.ReportDroppedEvent to retain a
pending dropped-event marker when the container ID is not registered, then apply
and clear that marker when addContainerEntryIfAbsent inserts the profile entry
so the profile is saved as partial.
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- Around line 153-156: Update the capacity-overflow branch in
`ReportDroppedEvent` so discarding a new pending marker does not signal that the
drop was retained; preserve an incomplete-profile signal for a container that
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Request changes for one confirmed P2 correctness defect; the fix is needed and its general producer/consumer design is sound.
Reviewed 0e61b954b493488865e153a44889d6090aa4beef against main at 02f0bf7b21fd98da0d6f6935d3c49503d6978738 (nine files). On that target, AddEventDirect releases a full-queue event without metric/profile accounting. Existing worker-channel overflow handling establishes the intended count-and-mark-partial behavior; increasing queue capacity would only postpone the problem.
The inline finding describes a registration/abandonment interleaving that defeats the new pending-marker guarantee and can leave an affected profile Full. Both independent correctness and architecture reviews identified it. Ordinary aggregation, empty-container handling, mutex-protected draining and deduplication look consistent; no new dependencies, configuration or persisted formats are introduced. Shutdown accounting remains explicitly best-effort for in-flight tracer callbacks, and terminal profile snapshots retain the pre-existing asynchronous-finalization limitation; these are not additional change-related blockers.
History: #219 and #327 established drop handling; #818 added the OTEL counter. #762 includes a maintainer request to retain dropped-event checks and was ultimately approved/merged. #924 fixes syscall fetch/termination loss, while #918 explicitly excludes ordered-queue overflow from its reproduction. Neither supersedes this fix. Closed #525 was explicitly superseded by #533 after worker-pool discussion, not rejected; this PR preserves that callback architecture. Closed #603 questions whether batch removal is still needed, with no explicit rejection decision; this PR does not remove batching. Closed #100 records memory/pool experiments, not rejection of drop accounting.
All-state indexed PR/issue searches used ordered queue, ordered_event_queue, ReportDroppedEvent, events_dropped, dropped events, queue full and partial profile, plus closed/unmerged dropped/queue searches, capped at 100 results per query. No duplicate/superseding fix found; indexed text searches do not cover every diff or unlinked effort.
Validation: gofmt -l was clean for all nine files. In a network-isolated bubblewrap environment without credentials/host home, go test -v -count=1 ./... on a minimal extracted-routine harness fails the controlled missing→insert→abandon→retry regression and passes an ordinary pending-drop control. The harness retains the relevant PR routines, stubs logging/data types and adds scheduling hooks; this is an algorithm reproduction, not a full-package test. Full package tests, race detection, vet/build and the author's reported standalone-test failure were not independently verified: preparing the credential-free Go 1.27 Docker environment failed with Docker storage no space left on device. DCO, GitGuardian and CodeRabbit passed; test CI, component tests and benchmarks await approval. CI availability is not the reason for this verdict. Earlier bot findings are addressed in current code apart from the newly identified retry gap.
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[P2] Preserve the drop if registration disappears before the retry
A valid interleaving loses the only marker: (1) the initial lookup finds no entry; (2) registration inserts clean entry A; (3) recordDropForUnregisteredContainer sees A and returns false; (4) registration fails and abandonEntry removes A before this lookup; (5) this lookup returns ErrContainerNotFound and returns without recording anything. Since A never received the drop, abandonment carries nothing forward. A replayed registration can then create clean entry B and save a Full profile despite the reported loss.
A deterministic extracted-routine test reproduces this; the existing two-actor tests cover registration and abandonment separately. Retry the mark-or-record operation until the drop is applied or retained, or synchronize it with entry removal. Add a controlled regression covering insertion and abandonment between the lookups.
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Re-reviewed 58f81052751323d9ff5855e23a512b63634288fc against main at 395a222540f18977b5b584906839439cc1b381bd. Request changes for one new P2 test failure.
The original registration/abandonment race is resolved: the loop retries until the drop is applied or retained, and my controlled extracted-routine reproduction now passes. The new regression then dereferences the abandoned entry's cleared data and panics before verifying the pending marker and replacement Partial profile; details and a focused remedy are inline. Both independent review lanes confirmed this. No other new blockers found; the retry/test seam introduces no lock-order concern.
The ordered-queue accounting remains needed and unchanged. I inspected target movement, including the separate io_uring fix and cache/CI changes; those do not supersede the overflow fix. Refreshed all-state ordered queue and ReportDroppedEvent searches (100-result caps) found no superseding PR. Related decisions and bounded-search limitations remain in the original review: #219/#327/#818 establish drop handling/metrics, #924 addresses a separate syscall-loss path, #525 was superseded rather than rejected, and closed #603 supplies no explicit rejection. Earlier bot concerns remain addressed; existing finalization/shutdown limitations are not new blockers.
Fresh validation: formatting is clean for all nine changed Go files. go test -v -count=1 ./... in a credential-free, network-isolated bubblewrap harness using extracted latest PR routines passes the production retry scenario and reproduces the new test's nil-pointer panic. This stubs logging/data types and is not execution of the complete repository test. Full package/race tests, build and vet were not run this turn. DCO, GitGuardian and CodeRabbit passed; Go CI, component tests and benchmarks await approval. Missing CI is not the reason for requesting changes.
Immediately before submission, confirmed unchanged head/base, open/non-draft/mergeable state and no duplicate/new findings.
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[P2] Avoid reading the abandoned entry's cleared data
The new regression deterministically panics here. Its hook calls abandonEntry("c1", entryA) at line 301, which sets entryA.data = nil (container_operations.go:218). dropped(entryA) then dereferences e.data.droppedEvents in the helper at line 30. Consequently this test cannot reach the pending-marker and replacement-profile assertions.
Replace this assertion with require.Nil(t, entryA.data). If checking that A never received the drop is useful, assert require.False(t, dropped(entryA)) immediately before the hook abandons A. Keep the later marker/Partial assertions and rerun this regression. The production retry fix itself resolves the previously reported race.
@vanshika2720 friendly ping! This PR is still relevant and the production fix looks ready — once the nil-pointer assertion in TestReportDroppedEvent_EntryInsertedThenAbandonedBetweenLookups (pkg/containerprofilemanager/v1/pending_drop_test.go) is updated, we can run CI and get this merged. Let us know if you'd like any help wrapping it up!
…ueue
When the ordered event queue was full, AddEventDirect released the event
and signalled the alert channel but never counted the drop. The
node_agent.ebpf.events_dropped.total metric was undercounted and the
affected container profile could still be reported as Complete.
Record the drop (event type and container ID) under the queue mutex that
the callback already holds, and apply it from the existing processing
loop: add the count to the dropped-events metric with
reason="ordered_queue_full" and call ReportDroppedEvent once per affected
container. Events without a container ID are only counted in the metric.
No per-container lock, metric or profile work happens in the eBPF
callback.
Signed-off-by: Vanshika <pahalvanshikaa@gmail.com>
… drain on shutdown
A drop reported for a container whose profile entry was not registered
yet was discarded, so the profile could later be saved as Complete.
ReportDroppedEvent now keeps a bounded, expiring pending marker for
such a container and addContainerEntryIfAbsent applies it when the
entry is inserted, atomically under containersMu.
Stop() could also return before the last ordered-queue drops were
accounted for. The event-processing loop now signals when it exits,
and Stop() waits for it, after the tracers are stopped, before a final
accountQueueDrops(). Drops already drained are not counted again.
Signed-off-by: Vanshika <pahalvanshikaa@gmail.com>
…oned registrations
A drop recorded on a container entry that was later abandoned was lost
with it, so a replayed registration started from a clean entry and its
profile could be saved as Complete. abandonEntry now re-records the drop
for the container when it removes the entry, and clears the entry's data
under its lock so a concurrent report falls through to the not-found
path instead of being applied to the discarded entry.
ReportDroppedEvent also ignores an empty container ID instead of storing
a pending marker for it; callers still count such drops in the
dropped-events metric.
Correct the shutdown comments: tracer Stop only cancels the gadget
context and does not wait for in-flight callbacks, so drops recorded
after the final drain are not accounted.
Signed-off-by: Vanshika <pahalvanshikaa@gmail.com>
… drop markers overflow
When pendingDrops is full, the marker for a new container was logged and
discarded, so that container could later register and be saved as
Complete. Record when the overflow happened and mark any container
registered within MaxWaitForSharedContainerData of it as partial. The
pending set stays bounded, and the fallback expires on its own because
an unregistered container cannot register after that window.
Signed-off-by: Vanshika <pahalvanshikaa@gmail.com>
…gistration is abandoned mid-report
ReportDroppedEvent returned on ErrContainerNotFound after the pending-marker check had declined because an entry existed. If that registration was abandoned before the next lookup, the drop was neither applied nor retained and a replayed registration could be saved as Full. Loop back to the record step so the drop is always applied to a live entry or kept as a pending marker, and cover the interleaving with a deterministic test.
Signed-off-by: Vanshika <pahalvanshikaa@gmail.com>
… drop test
The hook in TestReportDroppedEvent_EntryInsertedThenAbandonedBetweenLookups
abandons entry A, which clears A's data. The later dropped(entryA) call
dereferenced the nil data and panicked. Assert before abandonment that the
declined record step did not apply the drop to A, and assert afterwards that
A's data was discarded.
Signed-off-by: Vanshika <pahalvanshikaa@gmail.com>
@vanshika2720 friendly ping! This PR is still relevant and the production fix looks ready — once the nil-pointer assertion in TestReportDroppedEvent_EntryInsertedThenAbandonedBetweenLookups (pkg/containerprofilemanager/v1/pending_drop_test.go) is updated, we can run CI and get this merged. Let us know if you'd like any help wrapping it up!
@matthyx I've fixed the nil-pointer assertion and rebased the branch on the latest upstream/main.
309-309: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Low value
Read entryA.data under entryA.mu.
This is the nil assertion the maintainer asked to update. require.Nil handles a typed nil *containerData, so the assertion itself is valid. However, the line reads entryA.data without the entry lock. The dropped helper always locks e.mu.
The hook runs on the test goroutine, so no race exists today. Reading under the lock stays correct if abandonEntry ever changes to run asynchronously. A helper also keeps this check consistent with Line 147.
Proposed change
- require.Nil(t, entryA.data, "the abandoned entry was discarded without receiving the drop")+ entryA.mu.Lock()+ abandonedData := entryA.data+ entryA.mu.Unlock()+ require.Nil(t, abandonedData, "the abandoned entry was discarded without receiving the drop")
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Review comment at @pkg/containerprofilemanager/v1/pending_drop_test.go at line
309:
Protect the entryA.data read in the nil assertion with entryA.mu: acquire the
lock, copy the field, release the lock, then assert the copied value is nil.
Keep the existing assertion message and behavior.
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Review comments at @pkg/containerprofilemanager/v1/pending_drop_test.go:
- Line 309: Protect the entryA.data read in the nil assertion with entryA.mu:
acquire the lock, copy the field, release the lock, then assert the copied value
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Approved at b142802aea5b8ac99d60526141e196998b35aaca against main at 4c715057ee41b3538e1bf57f3d07407be0b79a03. The ordered-queue drop accounting remains needed; the previously reported registration race is fixed, and the regression test now checks the entry before abandonment and asserts nil afterward. No remaining blockers found.
The earlier review documents related PRs, rejected/superseded approaches and search limits. A refreshed search found no superseding ordered-queue fix; #1041 addresses different capture and CI problems. The CodeRabbit locking suggestion is nonblocking because the test hook runs synchronously.
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When the ordered event queue was full,
AddEventDirectreleased the event and signalled the alert channel without accounting for the dropped event. This causednode_agent.ebpf.events_dropped.totalto undercount drops and could leave an affected container profile marked asComplete.This change records dropped events by event type and container ID under the queue mutex, then accounts for them in the existing processing loop. The metric is updated with
reason="ordered_queue_full", andReportDroppedEventis called once per affected container per drain. Events without a container ID are counted in the metric but are not reported to the profile manager.Overview
Partialthrough the existing reporting path.How to Test
StandaloneDoesNotAcquirePodDataskipped.go vetfor the affected packages.gofmtchecks on modified files.git diff --check.Additional Information
StandaloneDoesNotAcquirePodDatafailure remains under investigation; it has not been verified against a clean upstream baseline.Related issues/PRs
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