fix(backups): delete a MariaDB dump from S3 when its Backup is deleted - #5233

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @internal/backupcontroller/mariadb-backup-cleanup.sh:
- Around line 87-89: The DELETE path builds object from an unencoded S3_PREFIX,
so URL-reserved characters can alter the target key. Update the object
construction in the cleanup script to percent-encode S3_PREFIX before appending
the encoded match name, preserving the existing match-name encoding and ensuring
characters such as # remain part of the intended key.
- Around line 47-55: Validate each successful S3 response in the listing loop
before processing its fields; require an IsTruncated field with a true or false
value, and exit nonzero with an error if it is absent or invalid. Preserve the
existing key extraction and pagination behavior for valid responses.
- Around line 68-78: Update the zero-match branch in the count case so it emits
a Warning through the same mechanism used by the other release paths before
exiting, while preserving the existing no-match message and successful exit.
- Around line 67-74: Update the dump-selection and deletion flow around the awk
timestamp match and `count` check so cleanup deletes a dump only when it can
reliably establish that the current Backup owns it; a single timestamp-window
match is not sufficient. Use an ownership signal that remains available after
retention removes other matches, and preserve the existing behavior of exiting
without deletion when ownership is ambiguous or cannot be established.

Review comments at @internal/backupcontroller/mariadbstrategy_cleanup.go:
- Around line 120-123: Update the ProjectBackupCredentials error handling in the
MariaDB cleanup flow to return transient errors for retry without releasing the
Backup; preserve the existing release behavior for non-transient errors.
- Around line 120-123: Update the cleanup flow around ProjectBackupCredentials
so platform Secret projection is not a prerequisite for creating the cleanup
Job. Use the operator Backup’s S3 Secret references to create the Job, and
project the platform Secret only when one of those references points to it;
preserve appropriate failure handling when that projection is required.
- Around line 105-107: Update the cleanup Job creation and lookup around `r.Get`
to label each Job with its operator Backup UID and verify the fetched Job’s
label matches `backup.UID` before trusting it. If the UID does not match, delete
the stale Job and requeue without treating it as this Backup’s result.
- Around line 67-72: Update the skip-annotation branch around
deleteMariaDBCleanupJob to delete the cleanup Job with foreground propagation
and keep reconciling until the Job object is gone. Do not return success to
Reconcile, which releases the Backup finalizer, while the Job or its pods may
still be running.

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• cmd/backupstrategy-controller/main.go
• hack/mariadb-backup-cleanup-script.bats
• hack/testdata/mariadb-backup-cleanup/seaweedfs-list.xml
• internal/backupcontroller/backup_controller.go
• internal/backupcontroller/backup_controller_test.go
• internal/backupcontroller/mariadb-backup-cleanup.sh
• internal/backupcontroller/mariadbstrategy_cleanup.go
• internal/backupcontroller/mariadbstrategy_cleanup_test.go
• packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/Makefile
• packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/images/backup-http-client/Dockerfile
• packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/templates/deployment.yaml
• packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/templates/rbac.yaml
• packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/tests/mariadb_cleanup_test.yaml
• packages/system/backupstrategy-controller/values.yaml

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scooby87 NOT LGTM. Deletion needs proof that the dump belongs to this Backup. If two backups overlap and retention removes the older dump, the newer dump is the only match in the older Backup's window; I reproduced its DELETE with a stubbed listing. Please record the exact key before enabling deletion and leave legacy dumps alone when ownership is unknown.

I also reproduced a wrong-object DELETE with a prefix containing #: an isolated HTTP server received /bkt/tenant-a/db instead of the dump path. Please encode the prefix, validate listing responses, check cleanup Job ownership, retry transient credential errors, and wait for the cleanup Job to stop before releasing a skipped Backup. These confirm the existing inline comments; I can provide the isolated reproductions.

Verdict: NOT LGTM

The dump cleanup is identified by a timestamp window, and two of its paths can lose a backup that is not this one.

[CRITICAL] count=0 silently deletes the window record, and clock skew makes that a real orphan

mariadb-backup-cleanup.sh returns exit 0 when no dump falls in the window, and the controller treats that as success: mariadbstrategy_cleanup.go (JobComplete branch) deletes the operator k8s.mariadb.com/Backup and releases the Cozystack Backup with no Warning. The window is [op.CreationTimestamp (apiserver clock), Complete.LastTransitionTime (operator pod clock)], while the dump name comes from date -u on the backup pod's node, a third clock. When that node lags the apiserver by more than the create-to-pod-start gap (7-13s on your own test cluster), this backup's own dump falls before WINDOW_START: count=0, the dump is orphaned, and the only record of the window (the operator Backup) is deleted, indistinguishable from the legitimate "maxRetention already pruned it" case. The >1 path deliberately keeps the operator Backup "so the window stays on record"; the 0 path must do the same.

[CRITICAL] count=1 under skew + overlap deletes another run's dump

If this backup's dump fell out of the window and a concurrent run's dump fell in, count=1 and the cleanup deletes the other run's dump. Overlap is reachable by design: plan_controller creates BackupJobs strictly by cron with no "previous still running" guard, there is no per-application serialization, a manual BackupJob alongside the schedule is allowed, and the prefix is shared per application. The exit 3 ambiguity valve only fires when both dumps are inside the window, so it does not cover this case.

[MAJOR] pinned endpoint collides with #5230 rotation

Cleanup takes endpoint/TLS/CA from the operator Backup recorded at backup time, while the Redis/Rabbitmq siblings re-render the current strategy. After a publishing.host change (#5230), deleting any pre-rotation MariaDB Backup hits the dead host, exits 1, and retries forever with a Warning, orphaning the dump anyway. Record bucket+prefix from the operator Backup, but take endpoint/TLS from the current strategy or projected credentials.

Suggested direction

Window matching does not need to wait for #5227, but it needs: use LastModified from the ListObjectsV2 response as a second clock (the script currently discards it); exclude candidates inside any neighbouring operator Backup's window; and on count=0 release with a Warning and keep the operator Backup, symmetric with the >1 path. These three bring it to the robustness #5227 reaches and make it a safe fallback until dump-file lands.

Credit: the one-shot cleanup Job shape matches the Redis/Rabbitmq cleanups correctly, and the podFailurePolicy exit-3 valve is a good addition.

Verdict

LGTM with non-blocking notes

No defect introduced by the diff blocks merge; the attribution, ordering and release paths fail safe, and every guard I mutated (16) turns the suite red.

Findings

• [MINOR] internal/backupcontroller/mariadb_artifact_size.go:229, One never-completed operator Backup pins every later dump on its prefix

• [MINOR] internal/backupcontroller/mariadbstrategy_cleanup.go:77, Namespace teardown leaves platform-bucket dumps behind

• [MINOR] internal/backupcontroller/backup_controller.go:140, Comment assumes tenants delete Backups

Claim mismatches

[PARTIAL] "only the last three commits belong here": there are four commits after the merge base (55f1fd33a..0972690f0).

Caveats

• E2E was still pending on this head. hack/e2e-chainsaw/mariadb runs examples/backups/mariadb/cleanup.sh, whose kubectl delete of the Backups now waits for the controller to reach https://seaweedfs-s3.tenant-root:8333. I could not check that the controller pod can reach it; if it cannot, the step hangs until its 8m timeout.
• Behaviour change on upgrade: deleting an existing MariaDB Backup now deletes its dump, tenant-owned buckets included, and can keep it Terminating indefinitely (30s retries, Warning, skip annotation) where it used to finish at once. Same as the Redis/Rabbitmq cleanups.
• restorejob_controller.go does not refuse a Terminating Backup, so a RestoreJob created between activeRestoreOf and RemoveObject races the delete. The window is narrow.
• minio-go v7.0.98 treats any DELETE response other than 204 as an error (api-remove.go:201). SeaweedFS 4.45 answers 204 (checked). I did not check other S3-compatible backends.
• The Backup controller runs one worker. Each cleanup attempt against an unreachable endpoint holds it for up to mariadbDumpCleanupTimeout (10s) and requeues every 30s, so three or more MariaDB Backups stuck on a dead endpoint keep the worker busy and delay every other Backup's finalizer work, other drivers' deletes included. The skip annotation is the way out; a per-Backup backoff instead of a fixed 30s would bound it.

Verdict

Comment

The dangerous part is sound. The only call that removes bytes is RemoveObject(s3ctx, bucket, prefix+name), the key is always one concrete per-Backup object (the recorded name passes parseMariaDBLogicalBackupFile, the legacy name comes from a listing), there is no list-then-delete-prefix shape, and a dump is deleted only when proven this Backup's: on any doubt the finalizer is released with a Warning and nothing is deleted. The finalizer is held on a transient S3 error and dropped only after a clean delete; I reverted the NotFound-swallow on the operator Backup and a test went red, so that split is pinned. No wrong-delete, no data loss, and before this change the branch was a no-op so there is nothing to regress.

So this is not a block. It is a set of notes on cases where the fix fails safe but does not finish the job, and one comment that claims more than the code does.

The notes worth acting on

The heaviest one: namespace teardown can leave the dump behind. The comment at backup_controller.go:141 lists teardown as a deletion path, but when the whole namespace goes, the operator Backup that holds the S3 coordinates can be reaped before this finalizer runs (GVR deletion order is not ordered). The reconcile then hits the "is gone" branch (mariadbstrategy_cleanup.go:78) and releases without deleting, so the dump is orphaned on the platform bucket, which outlives the namespace. It fails safe, but deleting a tenant is the common trigger and the comment says it is handled.

The rest are smaller and all fail safe, listed inline. The one I would not skip is the untested timeout: the test named for bounding an unreachable endpoint passes before it ever reaches the delete, so the delete's own context bound is unheld.

What's correct

• Delete key is per-Backup and single-object; tenants cannot write driverMetadata, so they cannot retarget it.
• Finalizer symmetry and the transient-vs-NotFound split hold under mutation; 29 of the cleanup mutations redden a test.
• go build/go vet/go test green on the head and after merging current main; the RBAC diff adds exactly one scoped delete verb, pinned by the unittest.

Findings

• [MINOR] internal/backupcontroller/mariadbstrategy_cleanup.go:78, namespace teardown can orphan the dump the comment says it deletes

• [MINOR] internal/backupcontroller/mariadbstrategy_cleanup.go:154, the delete's timeout context is not held by any test

• [MINOR] internal/backupcontroller/backup_controller.go:296, single reconcile worker lets a few stuck Backups delay every finalizer

• [MINOR] internal/backupcontroller/mariadbstrategy_cleanup.go:256, a transient read of the platform credentials falls back instead of retrying

• [MINOR] internal/backupcontroller/mariadbstrategy_cleanup.go:62, an unfinished RestoreJob blocks admin deletion unbounded

• [NIT] internal/backupcontroller/artifact_size.go:185, delete-is-idempotent assumes a 204-only backend

Findings not anchored to changed lines

These reference code outside this PR's diff (unchanged files, or lines outside a hunk), so GitHub cannot render them inline.

[MINOR] internal/backupcontroller/backup_controller.go:296 single reconcile worker lets a few stuck Backups delay every finalizer

SetupWithManager registers with For(...).Complete(r) and no MaxConcurrentReconciles, so there is one worker. A Backup whose S3 endpoint is unreachable is held by RequeueAfter and costs up to the S3 timeout on every pass; a handful of them (a tenant deleted its bucket, a moved endpoint) serialise through the one worker and add latency to the finalizer of every other Backup in the cluster. The comment at lines 32-35 acknowledges the risk without bounding it. A MaxConcurrentReconciles above 1 would contain it.

Verdict

LGTM

Second round, against the six notes I left last time. Five are closed and the sixth is a non-blocking one, so this is good to go from my side.

Closed since my last round

• Namespace teardown orphaning the dump: the comment now says plainly that teardown can remove the operator Backup first and leave the dump behind with a Warning, which was one of the two fixes I asked for. The restore side also reads the Backup uncached now and refuses to start against one that is being deleted or already gone, so a late restore cannot run off a dump that is on its way out.
• The delete's timeout context: there is a test for it now, and reverting s3ctx to the plain ctx reddens it, so the bound on the actual delete is held.
• Transient platform-credential read: a ReasonAPIError now returns the error and retries instead of falling back to the recorded endpoint, so a moved endpoint is no longer reported deleted on a transient blip.
• Unfinished restore holding a delete: activeRestoreOf now also tracks the operator Restore, not just the RestoreJob, and handles the operator CRDs being gone; with the restore-side DeletionTimestamp refusal above, this is covered.
• The 204-only delete assumption is documented at the interface.

The uncached APIReader for the restore-cache race and the honest ArtifactAlreadyAbsent event are both improvements beyond what I raised. Build, vet and the package tests are green on this head.

Still open (non-blocking)

One note from last round remains, and it does not block. Details inline.

Findings

• [MINOR] internal/backupcontroller/backup_controller.go:304, single reconcile worker lets a few stuck Backups delay every finalizer

scooby87 Please get E2E green before requesting another review. The current run failed because the postgres cleanup guard still found a pod after its 300-second deadline. I haven't established whether this PR caused that failure. I stopped before reviewing the new source changes.

scooby87 E2E is red again, but this failure does not point at this PR. In the current run only monitoring-oidc failed: the monitoring HelmRelease could not reach the keycloak-operator webhook, so the KeycloakRealmGroup objects were never created. At 17:21:59 UTC the API server stopped answering and many controllers lost their leader leases at once. keycloak-operator was one of them, so its webhook was down while the release installed. The MariaDB tests passed in the same run.

Please rerun E2E. I'll review the new commit once it is green.

scooby87 LGTM. Everything from my November 4 review is closed at this head, and since the delete now runs in the controller rather than in a Job, the two Job points no longer apply.