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fix(fault-quarantine): do not overwrite an operator's taint on fresh quarantine - #2287
On the fresh-quarantine path, markPreExistingTaints marked a desired taint PreExisting only on an exact key+value+effect match. A taint with the same key and effect but a different value was applied over the node's own (applyTaints updates the value in place), recorded in the applied-taints annotation, and then removed at unquarantine - destroying an operator taint such as nvidia.com/gpu-xid-error=owned-by-operator:NoSchedule.
markPreExistingTaints now drops such a taint and returns the set to apply, matching sessionTaintsToAdd on the already-quarantined path, so applyTaints never overwrites it and removeTaints never deletes it. The call moves into handleEvent so the filtered set reaches both the annotation and applyTaints.
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TestMarkPreExistingTaints covers: a taint the node lacks is applied; an exact match is marked PreExisting; a same-key+effect taint with a different value is dropped (the fix); the same key with another effect is a distinct taint and is applied. The dropped-value case fails on main, where the taint is applied and overwrites the node's value.
Ran locally (Go 1.27.3, envtest, macOS arm64): go test ./pkg/reconciler/... passes (the full package, including the e2e flow through handleEvent); gofmt and go vet clean. make lint-test-all and the e2e cluster suite were not run.
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Bug Fixes
Quarantine no longer applies or records a proposed taint when a node already has a taint with the same key and effect but a different value.
Existing taints that match exactly are recognized as pre-existing; taints with a different effect remain distinct.
Nodes are correctly marked as quarantined even when reconciliation removes all requested taints.
After recovery, quarantine annotations are cleared, and taints owned by another operator remain unchanged and are not duplicated.
…quarantine
The fresh-quarantine path (handleEvent -> prepareAnnotations) marked a taint
PreExisting only on an exact key+value+effect match. A taint with the same key and
effect but a different value was applied over the node's own (applyTaints updates
the value in place), recorded in the applied-taints annotation, and then removed at
unquarantine - destroying an operator taint such as
nvidia.com/gpu-xid-error=owned-by-operator:NoSchedule.
markPreExistingTaints now drops such a taint and returns the set to apply, matching
sessionTaintsToAdd on the already-quarantined path, so applyTaints never overwrites
it and removeTaints never deletes it. The call moves to handleEvent so the filtered
set reaches both the annotation and applyTaints.
Signed-off-by: Youssef Omar Bouden <[email protected]>
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Fresh quarantine now determines quarantine state before taint reconciliation. A shared helper marks exact taint matches as pre-existing and skips conflicting values. The already-quarantined path uses the same helper. Tests cover reconciliation behavior and preservation of an operator-owned taint through quarantine and unquarantine.
Changes: Quarantine taint reconciliation
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Summary
Reconcile requested taints with node state fault-quarantine/pkg/reconciler/reconciler.go, fault-quarantine/pkg/reconciler/session_actions_test.go
The shared helper marks exact key, value, and effect matches as pre-existing. It skips requested taints that share a key and effect with a node taint but have a different value. The already-quarantined path uses the helper. Unit tests cover these cases and taints with different effects.
Apply reconciliation in fresh quarantine fault-quarantine/pkg/reconciler/reconciler.go, fault-quarantine/pkg/reconciler/reconciler_e2e_test.go
Fresh quarantine determines quarantine state before reconciling requested taints and passes that state to annotation preparation. The end-to-end test checks that an operator-owned taint remains unchanged and is not duplicated through quarantine and unquarantine.
This change stops fresh quarantine from overwriting or later deleting an operator's taint that is already on the node with a different value. A narrow, pre-existing race remains: an operator taint added in the short window between reading the node and patching it can still be overwritten. Merging is reasonable, with that race tracked as a follow-up.
Security architecture risk: Minimal · up to e50a1
The change preserves operator-owned taints without expanding access or privileges. Quarantine tracking and recovery remain reachable even when no new taints are applied. No material security risk introduced or worsened by this change was identified.
Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.
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Security Blast Radius
observed — The direct mutation target remains the health event's named Kubernetes Node: its taints, cordon state, annotations, and labels. The change narrows which taints reach that existing privileged mutation path.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — The applied-taints annotation remains the session ownership record. Recovery excludes PreExisting entries and removes only currently matching key, value, and effect combinations; excluded conflicts never enter that removal set.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Taint and ownership-annotation changes are submitted together in one node patch. Existing controls serialize local node mutations and retry conflicts with refreshed node state. Ownership selection occurs before that callback, so these controls do not establish concurrent ownership revalidation.
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The title names the change: fresh quarantine no longer overwrites an operator's existing taint when the desired taint has the same key and effect but a different value. This matches the raw summary (c…
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[#2286] The only active directly linked target is #2286. Its requirement: on the fresh-quarantine path, a desired taint with the same key and effect as a node taint but a different value must not over…
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[#2286] The whole-PR code change is limited to fault-quarantine/pkg/reconciler/reconciler.go and its test files. The changes fall into three groups. (1) reconcileTaintsWithNode replaces the old markPr…
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The title names the change: fresh quarantine no longer overwrites an operator's existing taint when the desired taint has the same key and effect but a different value. This matches the raw summary (conflicting-value taints are skipped during reconciliation) and the linked objectives (issue #2286). The title is specific, under 80 characters, and uses the conventional fix(scope) prefix.
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[#2286] The only active directly linked target is #2286. Its requirement: on the fresh-quarantine path, a desired taint with the same key and effect as a node taint but a different value must not overwrite or later delete the operator's taint. The whole-PR diff (merge base 3e0a067 to head 16ff5b3) adds reconcileTaintsWithNode in fault-quarantine/pkg/reconciler/reconciler.go. For a desired taint whose key and effect exist on the node with a different value, the helper omits it and logs a warning. Exact key, value, and effect matches stay in the set with PreExisting=true. A same-key taint with a different effect is kept as a distinct taint. handleEvent calls the helper before prepareAnnotations and applyTaints, so the filtered set reaches both the applied-taints annotation and applyTaints. The issue's acceptance behavior is therefore met in code. The fresh path now uses the same logic as sessionTaintsToAdd, which the issue cites as the reference behavior. The incremental change since the previous reviewed head (e50a180) is only a signature line-wrap in handleEvent and does not alter behavior. The unit test TestReconcileTaintsWithNode and e2e test TestE2E_PreExistingTaintDifferentValueIsPreserved are described in the summary; I did not read those test files, so test coverage rests on the summary. The cluster run is not required because the issue marks it as not run.
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[#2286] The whole-PR code change is limited to fault-quarantine/pkg/reconciler/reconciler.go and its test files. The changes fall into three groups. (1) reconcileTaintsWithNode replaces the old markPreExistingTaints and is used by both the fresh path and sessionTaintsToAdd. This removes duplicated logic and is needed for the #2286 fix. (2) isNodeQuarantined is computed before filtering and passed to prepareAnnotations. This keeps the quarantined state label and session when a fault's only action is a dropped taint. This behavior change is needed so the fresh path matches the sessionTaintsToAdd path. (3) New tests cover the same-key/different-value and different-effect cases. These support the fix. The circuit-breaker startup edits seen in earlier incremental diffs do not appear in the whole-PR diff against the merge base, so they are not part of the net change. Minor mismatches remain and do not add scope: the PR description still names markPreExistingTaints, and a stale doc comment for markPreExistingTaints remains above reconcileTaintsWithNode.
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Share reconcileTaintsWithNode between the fresh-quarantine and already-quarantined paths so a taint the node already carries is handled identically. Keep the quarantined state label when the only action is such a taint, and warn when a rule taint is skipped because the node has the same key and effect with a different value.
Signed-off-by: Youssef Omar Bouden <[email protected]>
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Update the stale doc comment for reconcileTaintsWithNode.
Line 1254 still starts with the old markPreExistingTaints doc line. It is now an orphaned first line of the new reconcileTaintsWithNode doc block. Go doc tooling and golint-style checks expect the comment to begin with the function name. Remove the line.
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-// markPreExistingTaints sets PreExisting on any taint that already exists with the same key, value, and effect.
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Use a separate cleanup context and check the deletion error.
If the test's 20-second context expires, cleanup uses that expired context. The deletion can fail and leave the test node behind without reporting the failure. Use a separate, bounded cleanup context and report deletion errors.
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Review comments at @fault-quarantine/pkg/reconciler/reconciler.go:
- Line 749: Update the mutation retry flow around reconcileTaintsWithNode to
reconcile the original requested taints against the Node used for each patch
attempt and build that attempt’s annotation from the same Node state. Preserve
ownership of taints written by earlier attempts, so a concurrent operator change
is not overwritten and unquarantine does not remove an operator-owned taint.
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Thanks @KaivalyaMDabhadkar for the reviews and the merge. #2286 is still open, it can be closed now. Agreed on leaving the getNode-to-patch race out of this one; I can look at moving the taint check into the node update as a follow-up if that is wanted.
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Summary
Fixes #2286.
On the fresh-quarantine path,
markPreExistingTaintsmarked a desired taintPreExistingonly on an exact key+value+effect match. A taint with the same key and effect but a different value was applied over the node's own (applyTaintsupdates the value in place), recorded in the applied-taints annotation, and then removed at unquarantine - destroying an operator taint such asnvidia.com/gpu-xid-error=owned-by-operator:NoSchedule.markPreExistingTaintsnow drops such a taint and returns the set to apply, matchingsessionTaintsToAddon the already-quarantined path, soapplyTaintsnever overwrites it andremoveTaintsnever deletes it. The call moves intohandleEventso the filtered set reaches both the annotation andapplyTaints.Type of Change
Component(s) Affected
Testing
TestMarkPreExistingTaintscovers: a taint the node lacks is applied; an exact match is markedPreExisting; a same-key+effect taint with a different value is dropped (the fix); the same key with another effect is a distinct taint and is applied. The dropped-value case fails onmain, where the taint is applied and overwrites the node's value.Ran locally (Go 1.27.3, envtest, macOS arm64):
go test ./pkg/reconciler/...passes (the full package, including the e2e flow throughhandleEvent);gofmtandgo vetclean.make lint-test-alland the e2e cluster suite were not run.Checklist
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