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Problem and root cause

A lease that is closed on chain can keep running on the provider indefinitely, holding its Kubernetes workload and reserved resources (for GPU leases the GPUs stay locked), while the balance-checker retries withdrawing from the already-settled escrow and logs payment closed ... unknown request every ~10 minutes. Observed on mainnet (dseq 28684233): deployment, group, order, bid and lease all closed on chain with escrow settled to zero, yet the workload kept running. The provider tears a lease down only when it receives EventLeaseClosed on its pubsub bus (cluster/service.go, which also stops the balance-checker via LeaseRemoveFundsMonitor), and that event is fed by the chain-event subscription (pkg.akt.dev/go/util/events) over the CometBFT websocket. When that subscription drops and cannot recover (the ws client reconnects with an uncapped (1 << attempt)-second backoff and, after maxReconnectAttempts, stops entirely), the provider silently stops receiving all chain events, so EventLeaseClosed never arrives. Nothing self-heals while the provider stays up, because the only manager-versus-chain reconcile runs solely at manager creation, which is why a restart is the current workaround.

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The balance-checker already polls every lease it monitors on a timer, and its doEscrowCheck already fetches the deployment and escrow account to compute remaining funds. That same response already tells us the deployment is closed. This change reads it: when the fetched deployment is DeploymentClosed, the balance-checker publishes EventLeaseClosed itself, so the existing teardown path runs exactly as it would for a real chain event (workload teardown plus LeaseRemoveFundsMonitor, which also stops the balance-checker). The cost is zero additional RPC, since it reuses a query the balance-checker already makes, and it lives in the component that was otherwise spinning on the closed lease. It is conservative: it fires only on an explicit DeploymentClosed state, never on a query error or a not-yet-closed deployment, so a lagging RPC backend cannot force a false teardown; and if the publish fails it retries on the next check rather than latching. This supersedes an earlier per-deploymentManager polling approach that issued one extra lease query per lease per interval (O(N) added RPC, more load on the very proxy whose flakiness caused the bug); the piggyback removes that machinery entirely. It is complementary to #432, which handles leases stuck in the on-chain reclaiming state where the chain never emits EventLeaseClosed. Verification: go build ./..., go test ./..., and golangci-lint are green, and a new in-process test (balance_checker_test.go) wires a real balance-checker and pubsub bus to a mocked chain and asserts that a closed deployment produces EventLeaseClosed while an active one does not. Known scope: detection is at deployment granularity, so a single closed lease within a still-active multi-group deployment is not covered by this backstop; that case still relies on the normal event path.

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The balance checker now detects closed deployments during escrow checks and publishes an EventLeaseClosed. Tests cover closed deployments and verify that active deployments do not produce the event.

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Closed-deployment lease handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Detect closed deployments during escrow checks
balance_checker.go
The checker returns a distinct response state when a deployment is closed, before querying leases or calculating escrow balance.
Publish and verify lease-close events
balance_checker.go, balance_checker_test.go
The run loop publishes an unspecified-reason EventLeaseClosed for a closed deployment. If publishing fails, it logs the error and schedules another check in one minute. Tests check publication for closed deployments and no close event for active deployments.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Suggested reviewers: troian

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 1aafa

This change makes the balance checker announce closures for leases whose deployment has already closed on chain. When a periodic check detects such a closure, the resulting cleanup can freeze the balance checker. It would then stop monitoring escrow and withdrawals for every lease on the provider until restart. Removing the timer channel drain before merging should resolve this.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: tearing down leases when the on-chain close event is missed.
Description check ✅ Passed The description is directly related to the changeset. It explains the missed close-event problem, the balance-checker fix, retry behavior, scope, and verification.
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A closed deployment sent its name.
The checker shared a lease-close note,
The bus received the event afloat.
For active leases, no close was sent.

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cluster/manager_reconcile_test.go (1)

53-83: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a run-loop test for the lease-close backstop.

The new tests call checkLeaseClosed directly. They do not exercise deploymentManager.run, so they cannot detect regressions in timer scheduling, asynchronous result delivery, or result handling. Add a focused test with a short LeaseActiveCheckPeriod that runs the manager loop and asserts the closed event.

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In `@cluster/manager_reconcile_test.go` around lines 53 - 83, Add a focused test
that exercises the lease-close backstop through deploymentManager.run instead of
calling checkLeaseClosed directly. Configure a short LeaseActiveCheckPeriod, run
the manager loop, and assert that a closed lease produces EventLeaseClosed,
covering timer scheduling, asynchronous result delivery, and result handling.

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Inline comments:
In `@_run/kube/Makefile`:
- Line 22: Update the `.gateway-api` marker conditional using `GW_MARKER` to
assign `GATEWAY_API` with Make’s override semantics, so the persisted marker
sets it to true even when the command line specifies `GATEWAY_API=false`;
preserve the existing provider-run behavior when the marker is absent.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@cluster/manager_reconcile_test.go`:
- Around line 53-83: Add a focused test that exercises the lease-close backstop
through deploymentManager.run instead of calling checkLeaseClosed directly.
Configure a short LeaseActiveCheckPeriod, run the manager loop, and assert that
a closed lease produces EventLeaseClosed, covering timer scheduling,
asynchronous result delivery, and result handling.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

Beyond the inline Makefile finding, I looked at whether the new checkLeaseClosed backstop in cluster/manager.go could itself fail silently: it returns true (permanently stopping further checks) even if bus.Publish errors, but that only matters if publish itself fails, which does not happen in normal operation, and the underlying closed-lease detection query logic is otherwise correct (query errors/not-found are treated as inconclusive, not closed).

Extended reasoning...

The reviewed diff adds a jittered periodic chain-state poll (cluster/config.go, cluster/manager.go) that republishes EventLeaseClosed when a lease is found Closed on chain but the real event was missed, plus tests in cluster/manager_reconcile_test.go, alongside an unrelated infra/docs cleanup (removal of the minikube/single dev environments, Gateway API auto-detection in _run/kube/Makefile). No injection/auth/crypto surface is touched; the sensitive part is lease-teardown correctness. A confirmed Makefile logic bug (GATEWAY_API and CONFIDENTIAL_COMPUTE combination silently skipping CC setup) is already flagged as an inline finding, so a human look is warranted regardless.

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I reviewed this PR and didn't find any bugs. Because it adds a new async reconciliation path (jittered timer, in-flight goroutine, chain query) into the deployment manager's core teardown select loop, a human look would still be worthwhile.

What was reviewed:

  • Wiring of the jittered lease-check timer and its in-flight guard into deploymentManager.run's select loop.
  • queryLeaseState's error handling — any query error, including not-found, maps to LeaseStateInvalid, so a lagging or erroring RPC backend can't force a false teardown.
  • checkLeaseClosed's Publish-failure handling (logs but doesn't retry) — consistent with the other bus.Publish call sites already in this file.
  • The check goroutine isn't tracked by dm.wg, but its own 30s query timeout plus the buffered result channel bound its lifetime, so it can't leak indefinitely.
Extended reasoning...

The diff adds a chain-query backstop (new Config field, a jittered timer, an async goroutine guarded by an in-flight flag, and a bus.Publish-based teardown trigger) to deploymentManager.run's core select loop in cluster/manager.go, plus two new unit tests in cluster/manager_reconcile_test.go that mock the market query client. It touches no auth/crypto surface but does touch a financially relevant critical path (lease teardown timing) with new concurrency; the whole repo is owned by a single core team per CODEOWNERS. I independently verified the two candidate issues raised by the bug hunter (Publish-error swallowing in checkLeaseClosed, and the untracked check-goroutine) and found both are bounded/consistent with existing patterns (other Publish calls in this file also just log on error; the goroutine is bounded by its own 30s timeout and a buffered channel), so neither blocks approval, but the combination of new concurrency and a critical path argues for a human look rather than an auto-approve.

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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

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🟠 Major · Remove the channel drain for time.AfterFunc timers. · balance_checker.go:290-292

balance_checker.go:290-292
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the channel drain for time.AfterFunc timers.

timerFunc uses time.AfterFunc, whose C is nil. When a timed check reaches respStateLeaseClosed, the new EventLeaseClosed path causes cluster/service.go to publish LeaseRemoveFundsMonitor. Stop() then returns false, and the receive from lsState.tm.C blocks forever. This stops the balance-checker loop for all monitored leases. The shutdown cleanup has the same pre-existing defect.

Suggested fix
-			if lState.tm != nil && !lState.tm.Stop() {
-				<-lState.tm.C
+			if lState.tm != nil {
+				lState.tm.Stop()
 			}

Apply the same change to the LeaseRemoveFundsMonitor cleanup.

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In `@balance_checker.go` around lines 290 - 292, Remove the channel receive after
Stop() in the LeaseRemoveFundsMonitor cleanup in the balance-checker loop, since
time.AfterFunc timers have no channel to drain; stop the timer without waiting.
Apply the same change to the shutdown cleanup.

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In `@balance_checker.go`:
- Around line 290-292: Remove the channel receive after Stop() in the
LeaseRemoveFundsMonitor cleanup in the balance-checker loop, since
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This pull request has been reviewed before and this review found new issues. Where they share a root cause, one fix may close them together.

Comment thread balance_checker.go
Comment on lines +306 to +313
case respStateLeaseClosed:
bc.log.Info("lease closed on chain, removing", "lease", res.lid)
if err := bc.bus.Publish(&mtypes.EventLeaseClosed{ID: res.lid, Reason: mtypes.LeaseClosedReasonUnspecified}); err != nil {
// Retry on the next check rather than latching; on success the lease is
// removed when the resulting LeaseRemoveFundsMonitor comes back.
bc.log.Error("unable to publish lease closed event", "err", err, "lease", res.lid)
lState.tm = bc.timerFunc(ctx, time.Minute, res.lid, false, leaseCheckCh)
}

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🔴 Once an established lease's periodic check finds its deployment closed, the whole balance-checker event loop hangs forever, stalling checks and teardown for every monitored lease. In respStateLeaseClosed (balance_checker.go:306-313), lState.tm is left pointing at the timer that just fired, unlike every other case which reassigns it via bc.timerFunc (line 342). The resulting EventLeaseClosed loops back as LeaseRemoveFundsMonitor; the handler at balance_checker.go:290-292 calls lsState.tm.Stop() (returns false, already expired) then <-lsState.tm.C, but tm.C is always nil for time.AfterFunc timers (line 362), so the receive blocks forever. Fix: clear or replace lState.tm on this path instead of leaving the already-fired timer referenced, so the Stop/drain idiom is never applied to it.

Why this was flagged

Trigger: any lease already scheduled via bc.timerFunc (balance_checker.go:342, i.e. any lease past its first check cycle) whose next doEscrowCheck finds dv1.DeploymentClosed (balance_checker.go:160-163), entering respStateLeaseClosed (306). On successful bus.Publish, lState.tm is left as the AfterFunc timer that already fired instead of being reassigned. cluster/service.go:380 republishes LeaseRemoveFundsMonitor for that EventLeaseClosed; balance_checker.go's handler (284-294) then runs if !lsState.tm.Stop() { <-lsState.tm.C } (290-292). Stop() returns false since the timer already fired, and tm.C is nil because time.AfterFunc (line 362) never populates C, so the receive blocks forever inside run()'s select loop. This deadlocks the single goroutine servicing every lease's balance/withdraw checks and shutdown. On base branch tm is always freshly rescheduled before this drain code ever runs, so it never blocks; the new test only exercises the IsNewLease path (runEscrowCheck, no timer), so it never hits this.

Verification: normal. Deterministic event-loop deadlock introduced by the new respStateLeaseClosed path for any established lease. Timers are created with time.AfterFunc (balance_checker.go:362), whose Timer.C is always nil per Go's contract. In respStateLeaseClosed (306-313), on a successful bus.Publish, lState.tm is NOT reassigned — it stays pointing at the AfterFunc timer that just fired to deliver this…

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Superseded by akash-network/chain-sdk#361: the fix moved to the chain-sdk events service (self-healing block polling instead of a websocket subscription that could silently die). The provider side is just a dependency bump once that releases, no code change.

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