fix(bug-hunter): round 6 - cluster health/learner gate, preauth timeout, route rename, sink cleanup, CI exit codes

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Bug Hunter round 6 — librtmp2-server

Full-coverage adversarial scan (Hunter → Skeptic → Referee) of all 44 scannable files across 4 chunks (cluster control plane + Raft, cluster media plane + db/state, core wire/API/server/media-output, infra/scripts), followed by auto-fix of every Referee-confirmed bug that passed the ≥75-confidence auto-fix gate with a surgical patch.

Confirmed & fixed (7)

ID	Sev	File	Fix
S4-1	Medium	scripts/docker_ci_fix.py	cargo check pipeline exit status was masked by tail; now captures ${PIPESTATUS[0]} and exits with it.
S4-2	Low	scripts/docker_cluster_ha.py	cargo test exit status is now captured and propagated via exit $EXIT.
S1-1	Medium	src/cluster/manager.rs	remove_peer now removes the node from the HealthTracker too — no more phantom node in /api/v1/cluster/nodes, inflated peer_count, stale status totals.
S1-2	Medium	src/cluster/manager.rs	JoinReseedAction::ResumeExisting sets local health Ready only when the node is a voter in the persisted membership; an unpromoted learner stays publish-gated after restart.
S2-1	Medium	src/cluster/media/peer.rs	Post-auth Hello read is bounded by AUTH_TIMEOUT; a stalled authenticated peer can no longer pin the accept task and its PreauthMediaGuard slot forever.
S3-2	Medium	src/server.rs	Same-connection publish rename A→B now ends route A immediately (RouteEnded) instead of holding other shards' inject claim until the 120s stale timeout.
S3-4	Low	src/media_output.rs	SinkSender::stop timeout branch sets the failed flag, so the monitor kills the stalled FFmpeg child and the worker/monitor threads exit instead of leaking.

Skeptic: 10/10 ACCEPT. Referee: 10/10 REAL_BUG.

Manual-review findings (not auto-fixed, by design)

ID	Sev	Conf.	File	Why not fixed
S3-1	Medium	76	src/server.rs / src/rtmp_bridge.rs	Poll-loop teardown can deactivate a worker-installed replacement role. Fix requires identity/generation-aware teardown across two files — classified larger-refactor (not safely auto-patchable).
S4-3	Low	80	src/auth_worker.rs	Failed group commit closes the whole connection, dropping an untouched live role. Fix rewrites auth-failure rollback semantics — classified larger-refactor.
S3-3	Low	70	src/rtmp_bridge.rs	Delete-finalize window during cluster ownership acquire (below the 75 auto-fix gate).

Verification (all on the fix branch)

• Baseline before fixes: cargo test --features test-support -- --test-threads=1 298 passed / 0 failed @ 67ec6c3
• After fixes: 298 passed / 0 failed; cluster lib suite --lib --features cluster,test-support: 475 passed / 0 failed
• cargo fmt --check: clean
• cargo clippy --all-targets --features test-support -- -D warnings: clean
• cargo check --all-targets --features test-support: OK
• Post-fix diff-scoped re-scan (MEDIUM+ floor): see fix report

Commits: 08483f0 (S4-1), 2ecab91 (S4-2), 22d36b7 (S1-1/S1-2), f56eb5f+a5be5a6 (S2-1), baace49 (S3-2), 85125ce (S3-4), 52b2af5 (docs: clustering.md CLUSTER_SECRET rule, CodeRabbit review finding on openrtmp.org#37).

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Cluster nodes now report health according to their voter or learner status when resuming, and removed nodes are cleared from local health tracking.
  • Media connections time out if the expected greeting does not arrive, and stalled output workers are marked failed so they can be stopped.
  • Route updates and publisher shutdowns now send more accurate route-end notices, including when routes change or are reclaimed quickly.

• Documentation

  • Clarified that cluster secrets must be 32–256 characters and use only ASCII letters, digits, hyphens, or underscores.

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🟠 A rapid return to a route ends its new export · src/server.rs:315-316

Data flow · src/server.rs:315-316 · in RTMP ＆ RTMPS Server
If a publisher switches A→B→A in one relay batch, other shards receive RouteEnded(A) after A’s frames and release the active route, interrupting viewers until a later frame restores it.
Fix: In relay_to_other_shards, filter ended routes against the final routes map before queuing RouteEnded messages.

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1. [medium, data flow] src/server.rs lines 315-316
   Problem: A rapid return to a route ends its new export. If a publisher switches A→B→A in one relay batch, other shards receive `RouteEnded(A)` after A's frames and release the active route, interrupting viewers until a later frame restores it.
   Fix: In `relay_to_other_shards`, filter ended routes against the final `routes` map before queuing `RouteEnded` messages.

Architecture

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Component view — Cluster Lifecycle & Mesh

Resumption health gating, node cleanup, and media peer handshake timeouts.

Component view — RTMP Routing & Media Outputs

Cross-shard route eviction on stream rename and child process shutdown handling.

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The other flows — 1 sequence

Gating learner nodes on cluster resume

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Walkthrough

The changes update cluster membership health handling, bound the media authentication read, signal stalled media workers, track and relay ended publisher routes, preserve CI command exit statuses, and revise the documented CLUSTER_SECRET constraints.

Changes

Cluster membership health

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Restore and remove peer health src/cluster/manager.rs	On resume, local health is Ready only if persisted membership lists the node as a voter; otherwise it is Learner. Peer removal also clears the node from the local health tracker.

Media authentication timeout

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Bound the inbound Hello read src/cluster/media/peer.rs	accept_auth_negotiated applies AUTH_TIMEOUT to the inbound Hello read and returns a timed-out I/O error if the deadline expires.

Media worker shutdown

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Signal a stalled sink worker src/media_output.rs	If the worker remains active after the five-second shutdown wait, SinkSender::stop marks the sink failed. The FFmpeg monitor uses that flag to terminate a stalled child.

Cross-shard route-end notices

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Track route changes and ended routes src/server.rs	ExportedRoutes tracks each publisher connection’s route, reports ended routes, repairs route ownership, and filters routes reclaimed within the same batch. take_ended prunes stale connection entries. Tests cover these route cases.
Relay route-end notices src/server.rs	relay_to_other_shards queues end notices returned by record and routes detected by take_ended.

CI script exit status

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Preserve command exit status scripts/docker_ci_fix.py, scripts/docker_cluster_ha.py	Both scripts save the cargo check or cargo test status before logging or displaying output, then exit with the saved status.

Cluster secret documentation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Document secret constraints docs/clustering.md	The documented CLUSTER_SECRET requirement changes to 32–256 ASCII letters, digits, hyphens, or underscores.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f001f

Publisher renames can now notify other shards incorrectly. A route that another publisher reclaims in the same batch can be announced as ended while that publisher is still live. A rename that sends no new frames can also leave the old route claimed until it times out. Both issues should be fixed before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to f001f

The changes strengthen several lifecycle controls, but route-rename cleanup can remove a route already reassigned to another publisher and propagate an incorrect end notice across receiving shards. The ownership failure is supported by the code; its runtime reachability and downstream impact remain partly unresolved.

Retained concerns

• Medium · architecture · inferred: Rename cleanup uses per-connection history to remove the previous route unconditionally. If another connection has already reclaimed that route, the old connection's rename erases the newer ownership mapping and produces an end notice for all receiving shards. The final-batch filter does not prevent this ordering. This is an introduced ownership and failure-containment concern; runtime interleaving and downstream release effects remain uncertain.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

• inferred — An incorrect rename-generated end can propagate for the affected route to every other shard in the same server process, at most 31 receiving shards. This establishes cross-shard failure scope, not cross-service or cross-tenant compromise; downstream route-release effects remain unresolved.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

• inferred — A conditional disruption path requires local publishing activity and stale route history: connection 1 previously exported A, connection 2 becomes A's recorded owner, and connection 1 then exports B before stale history is pruned. Cleanup removes A and emits its end. Publisher authorization remains present, and the evidence does not establish an unauthenticated exploit, authorization bypass, or ability to target arbitrary streams.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

• observed — Media authentication still checks the secret-derived response, configured TLS node identity, Hello identity, supported protocol version, and cluster membership before admitting a session. The timeout does not replace these controls. Cross-shard export also continues to exclude externally injected publisher IDs.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

• observed — Peer removal commits voter removal before ownership release, queues failed ownership cleanup for retry, and disconnects media before clearing local caches. The added health removal also clears failure-tracking entries; pending ownership cleanup remains separately tracked and retried.

Hardening Proposals

• proposed — Condition rename cleanup on the previous route still belonging to the initiating connection. For delayed cross-shard cleanup, consider carrying and validating publisher identity or generation so an old end cannot release a newer session's claim.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 61.54% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 13 functions across 6 files. (1 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

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Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the pull request’s main fixes, including cluster health, timeouts, route changes, sink cleanup, and CI exit codes. It is long, but remains specific and relevant.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Review follow-up summary (no new review runs triggered): the Codex P2 finding and the PR-Lens medium data-flow finding both described route ends for a route re-claimed within the same relay batch (A→B→A). Fixed in \001f99: \ExportedRoutes::record()\ now reconciles \ended\ against the final route map (\ended.retain(|key| !self.routes.contains_key(key))), plus a regression test for the in-batch re-claim. Full suite 300 passed; fmt/clippy clean.

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Review comments at @src/server.rs:
- Line 302: Update Publishing state handling around RelayFrame::record to detect
route changes from the connection’s publish state rather than waiting for a
frame on the new route. End the previous route immediately when the published
route changes, so take_ended releases its claim even if no frame arrives on the
new route.
- Around line 323-324: In the route-reassignment logic around
`self.routes.remove(&previous)`, remove the previous route and queue its end
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