fix(etcd): re-authenticate when etcd rejects the connection's auth token - #1136
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`etcd-client` authenticates once, inside `Client::connect`, and never again. The token it gets there is the only one that connection will ever carry, so once etcd stops accepting it every later call is refused and only restarting the gateway recovered. Two ordinary events produce it: an etcd whose token store no longer holds the token (authentication re-enabled, a JWT signing key regenerated at startup, a member brought up on an empty data directory), and the token's `--auth-token-ttl` elapsing while the connection is idle — which is the state a gateway with a stable configuration and an idle admin listener is in almost all the time. Recovery is reactive, keyed on the answer rather than on a schedule: `LazyEtcdClient::call` runs one etcd call, and if etcd refuses it with `Unauthenticated`, discards that connection, dials a new one — which re-runs `Authenticate` — and retries the call once. Both clients that can meet a stale token go through it: the configuration provider's range read and watch create, and the admin GET surface's reads. The safety condition is structural, on the gRPC status code, and reuses the classification #1135 introduced. etcd answers a wrong user or password with `InvalidArgument` and a user without the rights with `PermissionDenied`; it reserves `Unauthenticated` for a token it does not recognise. A credential etcd has refused therefore never reaches the retry path and still fails on the first answer, and the retry itself is bounded at one attempt, so nothing can spin here. Also make a boot dial that is still outstanding say so. With `dial_timeout_ms` unset — the shipped default — an endpoint that accepts TCP and then answers nothing leaves `Client::connect` waiting forever; the gateway is stuck before any listener binds and wrote no log at all, so an operator saw a process with no port and no explanation. It now repeats a line every 10s while the dial is outstanding, the same interval and shape as the first-configuration wait in `aisix-server`. No timeout semantics change: unset and `0` still mean unbounded, exactly as #1134 settled. The authenticated short-TTL etcd in CI and the approach of asserting recovery against a real token expiry come from community PR #763.
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 2 included reviews per hour; 0 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe change adds stale-auth-token recovery to the etcd client, routes provider and admin operations through shared timeout handling, adds short-TTL authenticated etcd tests, and exposes periodic logs during hanging dials. Changesetcd recovery flow
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The authentication recovery changes are covered by the stated tests, but a slow etcd container startup can still produce an unrelated etcdctl failure in CI rather than a clear readiness failure. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant EtcdConfigProvider
participant LazyEtcdClient
participant etcd
EtcdConfigProvider->>LazyEtcdClient: load_all or create watch
LazyEtcdClient->>etcd: authenticated request
etcd-->>LazyEtcdClient: Unauthenticated
LazyEtcdClient->>LazyEtcdClient: invalidate cached connection
LazyEtcdClient->>etcd: re-authenticate and retry
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Full details: E2e Test Quality ReviewExplanation The PR has explicit E2E and concurrency problems. The token-recovery tests call Resolution Add a true gateway-level E2E test for token recovery: seed the authenticated real etcd, start the gateway, let the token expire or clear the token store, then use the public admin/configuration flow and assert that the gateway succeeds without restart. Keep the direct provider tests as lower-level coverage. Isolate the short-TTL etcd resources: use a separate cluster for the admin recovery test, or implement an inter-process lock that covers every test using Full details: Security CheckExplanation Finding: Category 1 — CRITICAL. The PR logs configured etcd endpoints verbatim while a dial is pending at Resolution Redact etcd endpoints before logging or formatting. Parse each endpoint and remove userinfo and credential-bearing query values, or log only scheme, host, port, and a non-sensitive path. Use the same redacted representation in ✨ Finishing Touches📝 Generate docstrings
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Pull request overview
This PR improves the reliability of the etcd-backed configuration path by making etcd authentication token expiry/invalidations recoverable without restarting the gateway, and by making “hung” authenticated dials observable via periodic logging.
Changes:
- Add reactive re-authentication + single retry on gRPC
Unauthenticated(invalid auth token) inLazyEtcdClient::call, and plumb it through both the config-provider read path and the admin GET read path. - Add periodic WARN logging while an authenticated
Client::connectis pending (silent TCP accept / no response), without changing timeout semantics. - Add integration/E2E coverage for token recovery and “still connecting” observability, and extend CI to provision a short-TTL authenticated etcd cluster for these tests.
File summaries
| File | Description |
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crates/aisix-etcd/src/client.rs |
Introduces CallError, reactive re-auth + one retry on Unauthenticated, and periodic “still connecting” logging during pending dials. |
crates/aisix-etcd/src/etcd_provider.rs |
Routes range reads and watch creation through LazyEtcdClient::call and attributes failures via CallError. |
crates/aisix-admin/src/etcd_store.rs |
Routes admin GET reads through the shared LazyEtcdClient::call path to gain bounded attempts and token recovery. |
crates/aisix-etcd/src/lib.rs |
Re-exports CallError for downstream use. |
crates/aisix-etcd/tests/auth_token_recovery.rs |
Adds real-etcd integration tests for token expiry and token-store discard recovery behavior. |
crates/aisix-admin/tests/etcd_integration.rs |
Adds integration test coverage for admin reads surviving token expiry. |
tests/e2e/src/harness/app.ts |
Adds awaitListeners override to support testing “no listener bound yet” scenarios. |
tests/e2e/src/cases/etcd-auth-connect-e2e.test.ts |
Adds E2E assertion that an unbounded, hung dial produces periodic “still connecting” output. |
.github/workflows/ci.yml |
Starts an additional authenticated etcd with short --auth-token-ttl and wires ETCD_AUTH_TTL_TEST_* env vars. |
crates/aisix-etcd/Cargo.toml / Cargo.lock |
Adds tracing-subscriber (test-only) for log capture in new unit tests. |
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214-217: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd an explicit readiness failure for each authenticated etcd.
If all 30 checks fail,
etcdctl user addstill runs. The default GitHub Actions shell then fails the step when the endpoint remains unavailable, so this cannot produce CI success with an unusable cluster. Add the gate to report the readiness failure directly instead of the later, less-specific setup error.♻️ Proposed refactor
- for _ in $(seq 30); do - etcdctl endpoint health && break - sleep 1 - done + ready="" + for _ in $(seq 30); do + etcdctl endpoint health && { ready=1; break; } + sleep 1 + done + [ -n "$ready" ] || { echo "::error::$name did not become healthy on port $client"; exit 1; }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@crates/aisix-etcd/tests/auth_token_recovery.rs`:
- Around line 57-61: Update the token TTL configuration parsing in the provider
recovery test setup so an unset ETCD_AUTH_TTL_TEST_SECS returns None, but a
present non-numeric value fails explicitly with a meaningful error message
instead of being converted to None. Preserve the existing optional configuration
behavior for absent values.
In `@tests/e2e/src/cases/etcd-auth-connect-e2e.test.ts`:
- Around line 199-200: Update the assertions following the port checks in the
test to first verify that app.waitForExit() times out, confirming the gateway
remains running; only then interpret closed metrics and proxy ports via
tcpAccepts as the expected pending-dial behavior.
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In @.github/workflows/ci.yml:
- Around line 214-217: Add an explicit failure gate to the etcd readiness loop
after the 30 health checks, ensuring the step exits with a clear readiness error
when no check succeeds and only proceeds to authenticated setup after successful
health validation. Update the loop around etcdctl endpoint health without
changing the subsequent etcdctl user add flow.
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An `Unauthenticated` reaching `provider_error` has already been retried on a connection that authenticated moments earlier, so it is a refusal, not transport trouble: it now surfaces as `ProviderError::Rejected` and gets the line an operator can act on rather than the routine backoff warn they filter out. The dial's own `Unauthenticated` stays retryable — it has nothing to re-authenticate, and a cluster mid-way through having authentication re-enabled answers exactly that and then works. Also from review: - Say what actually invalidates a token. An etcd restart on its own does not: `Authenticate` is a raft entry, so replaying the WAL re-registers the tokens it minted and a connection from before the restart keeps working (verified against 3.5.18). What does is the TTL elapsing, or the token store being cleared — authentication re-enabled, a JWT signing key regenerated at startup, a member on an empty data directory. - The waiting line wraps every dial, the admin store's included, so it no longer claims the configuration is what cannot be read. - `MissedTickBehavior::Delay` on that line's ticker, so a runtime stalled past several ticks wakes to one line rather than a burst, and the elapsed figure comes from the clock rather than from counting ticks. - The admin store's connection is its own, not the config provider's — `aisix-server` builds two deliberately, and the two recover independently. - Two test-isolation fixes on the short-TTL cluster: cleanup runs on a writer created after the sleep, since the original's token expires too; and `discard_every_token` always attempts the re-enable, so a failure cannot leave the shared cluster with authentication off and gut the test below it. - `ETCD_AUTH_TTL_TEST_SECS` is parsed strictly: a typo in the workflow would otherwise turn the whole file into a silent skip, which on a check is the same colour as a pass. The CI step fails by name when a cluster never becomes ready, for the same reason. - The e2e case asserts the gateway is still running, since a process that logged twice and then died would satisfy the closed-port assertions too; and `awaitListeners: false` no longer leaves `exitedEarly` unhandled or accepts a misleading `awaitProxyListener` beside it.
`provider_error` reports an `Unauthenticated` as a refusal because by the time one reaches it the call has already been retried on a freshly authenticated connection. The watch stream is the one call site where that is not true — a poll cannot dial — so it now maps its own errors and keeps `Unauthenticated` retryable, which is what its comment two lines up already said the recovery was. Also drop an overclaim in `classify`'s doc: a wrong password is `InvalidArgument` and so can never reach the retry path, but the implication does not run backwards. `InvalidArgument` covers more than refused credentials, and separating its members would take the message text rather than the status code.
`Unauthenticated` is not the only way etcd says "this token is stale". Under `--auth-token jwt` — what a multi-member cluster runs — any change to the auth store bumps its revision, and every token issued before it is refused from that instant with `InvalidArgument` and `etcdserver: revision of auth store is old`. So one `etcdctl user add` on the cluster left a gateway unable to read its configuration until the process was restarted, and told the operator to go and check a username and password that were fine. Verified against etcd 3.5.18. That answer shares its status code with a wrong password, so the two are told apart by etcd's message. This is the signal rather than a stand-in for one: etcd's own reference client recovers these errors the same way, mapping a gRPC error back to a typed one through a table keyed on the error string, and its retry interceptor then treats exactly `invalid auth token`, `revision of auth store is old` and `user name is empty` as re-authenticate-and-retry while deliberately excluding authentication-failed. This match is that list, matched the way the reference implementation matches it, and the constant says so, so a later reader does not "clean it up" into a code check. `user name is empty` is carried for that parity. No reachable scenario was constructed for it here — it goes in because it fails in the safe direction and because a list that silently drops one of upstream's three arms is the kind of difference nobody finds later. A wrong user or password stays `Rejected` and still fails on the first answer. That property is pinned in both directions: dropping the message match breaks the two new arms, and widening it to all of `InvalidArgument` breaks the wrong-password spec and the status-code table. A token refused on a connection that authenticated moments earlier now reports as `ProviderError::TokenRefused` rather than `Rejected`, with its own supervisor line. etcd issued the token it is refusing, so the credentials an operator would be sent to check are not the cause; the line points at an auth store changing continuously or a clock that disagrees with etcd's. CI's short-lifetime cluster moves from `--auth-token-ttl` to short-lived JWTs, which is the one configuration that reaches both halves: an idle expiry still answers `Unauthenticated`, and an `etcdctl user add` now answers `revision of auth store is old`. The integration test for the second replaces the one built on toggling authentication.
The problem
etcd-clientauthenticates once, insideClient::connect, and never again. The token it gets there is the only one that connection will ever carry, so once etcd stops accepting it, every later call is refused and the only cure was restarting the gateway. Two ordinary events produce that:simpletokens etcd refreshes the TTL on use, so only an idle connection reaches the expiry — precisely the state a gateway with a stable configuration and a quiet admin listener is in almost all the time. It reads fine all day and then cannot read at the moment something changes. Underjwtthe lifetime is absolute and it happens to everyone. AnsweredUnauthenticated,etcdserver: invalid auth token.--auth-token jwt— what a multi-member cluster runs — any change to the auth store bumps its revision, and every token issued before it is refused from that instant. Oneetcdctl user addon the cluster and a gateway can no longer read its configuration. AnsweredInvalidArgument,etcdserver: revision of auth store is old. Verified against etcd 3.5.18.What is not on that list is an etcd restart.
Authenticateis a raft entry, so replaying the WAL on startup re-registers the tokens it minted and a connection from before the restart keeps working — verified against 3.5.18, and worth stating because it is the assumption this started from. A restart only invalidates when the token state genuinely does not survive it: a JWT signing key regenerated at startup, or a member brought up on an empty data directory.The fix
Recovery is reactive, keyed on the answer rather than on a schedule.
LazyEtcdClient::callruns one etcd call; if etcd refuses it withUnauthenticated, it discards that connection, dials a new one — which re-runsAuthenticate— and retries the call once. Nothing runs on a timer, there is no new configuration key, and no client-side mirror of a TTL the gateway cannot observe.Both clients that can meet a stale token go through it, not just one: the configuration provider's range read and watch create (
EtcdConfigProvider), and the admin GET surface's reads (EtcdConfigStore). An established watch stream is the one exception — a poll cannot dial — and it does not need to be: the stream ends, the supervisor re-enters its cycle, andload_allre-authenticates on the way through.The safety condition
A credential etcd has genuinely refused must not be presented over and over, and it cannot be. This reuses the classification #1135 introduced rather than adding a second one —
classifygained a thirdConnectError::Unauthenticatedvariant beside the existingUnreachable/Rejected. What routes there:Unauthenticated— a token etcd does not recognise;InvalidArgumentcarryingetcdserver: revision of auth store is old;InvalidArgumentcarryingetcdserver: user name is empty.And what stays
Rejected, failing on the first answer with the boot still exiting on it exactly as #1135 made it:InvalidArgumentcarryingetcdserver: authentication failed, invalid user ID or password— a wrong user or password;PermissionDenied— a user without the required rights;FailedPrecondition— credentials sent to a cluster with authentication disabled.The last two arms of the first list are matched on etcd's message rather than the status code, because etcd gives them the same code as a wrong password. That is the signal, not a stand-in for one. etcd's own reference client recovers these errors the same way — it maps a gRPC error back to a typed one through a table keyed on the error string, and its retry interceptor then treats exactly these three as "re-authenticate and retry", while deliberately leaving authentication-failed out. This list is that list, matched the way the reference implementation matches it; the constant carries a note saying so, so nobody later "cleans it up" into a code check.
user name is emptyis carried for that parity. No reachable scenario was constructed for it here — it goes in because it fails in the safe direction (one extra re-authentication) and because a list that silently drops one of upstream's three arms is the kind of difference nobody finds later.The retry is additionally bounded at one attempt, so even a token etcd keeps refusing ends the call rather than spinning. And when it does, the report is not the credentials one: a token refused on a connection that authenticated moments earlier is nobody's username and password, so it gets its own
ProviderError::TokenRefusedand its own line, pointing at an auth store changing continuously or a clock that disagrees with etcd's, rather than sending an operator to check a password that is fine.request_timeoutnow bounds each attempt — the dial and the call separately — rather than the pair of them together, so a re-authenticated retry gets the same window the original call had instead of whatever was left of it.Making the boot connect observable
With
dial_timeout_msunset — the shipped default — an endpoint that accepts TCP and then answers nothing leavesClient::connectwaiting forever. The gateway is stuck before any listener binds, and it wrote no log at all: an operator saw a process with no port and no explanation. It now repeats a line every 10s while the dial is outstanding, the same interval and shape as the first-configuration wait already inaisix-server.This changes no timeout semantics. No implicit bound, no default value; unset and
0still mean unbounded, exactly as #1134 settled. It adds logging only.Tests
Each of these fails without its half of the fix (verified by reverting the change and re-running):
crates/aisix-etcd/tests/auth_token_recovery.rs— against a real authenticated etcd issuing short-lived JWTs, which is the one configuration that reaches both halves: a token that expired while idle is replaced without restarting the gateway; a token staled by anetcdctl user addon the cluster likewise; and a user etcd refuses at the read is answered once rather than re-authenticated.crates/aisix-admin/tests/etcd_integration.rs— the same for the admin read path, which is the one that is idle by nature.crates/aisix-etcd/src/client.rs— against a scripted gRPC server, counting connections as well as calls: each of the three stale-token answers is retried on a new connection (that is what re-authenticates; a retry on the same channel would carry the same token), a token that is refused twice stops after one retry, and a refused credential is answered once with no second connection at all. That last one is the safety property and is pinned in both directions — dropping the message match breaks the two new arms, and widening it to all ofInvalidArgumentbreaks it. Plus the periodic waiting line, asserted on a real TCP endpoint that accepts and then goes silent.tests/e2e/src/cases/etcd-auth-connect-e2e.test.ts— a spawned gateway pointed at a silent endpoint with no dial bound reports itself while no listener is up. This needed aawaitListenersopt-out in the harness, since the shape being tested is a gateway that binds nothing.Baseline
Checked against the upstream project this repo uses as its baseline, at its current head. It has no etcd support at all, so there is no direct equivalent; the nearest thing is its own configuration store, a Postgres database plus Redis.
Its only mid-life credential renewal there is proactive and expiry-driven: a background task that mints a new database token shortly before the old one expires, for deployments using a cloud provider's IAM database authentication, and a credential provider that mints a fresh token for each newly established Redis connection. It has no reactive re-authentication. An authentication rejection from Postgres is deliberately excluded from the gate that triggers its reconnect-and-retry, so that path does not retry it at all, while a separate 30-second health watchdog reconnects on it forever with the same unchanged credential and nothing ever marks it as permanently refused. A Redis authentication rejection is not recognised as a distinct condition anywhere. And nothing is logged periodically while an initial connection to the store is still outstanding — startup is a bounded three-attempt backoff that either raises or, optionally, comes up with no database at all.
So this PR diverges from that baseline in both halves, deliberately: reactive rather than scheduled, and with the permanently-refused case separated from the transient one so it cannot become an unbounded retry. The scheduled-refresh alternative — which is what both the upstream project and #763 do — was considered and rejected for this repository.
Credit
The test infrastructure this builds on comes from community PR #763 by @okaybase: the authenticated etcd container in
.github/workflows/ci.ymlwith a short--auth-token-ttl, and the approach of asserting recovery against a real token expiry rather than a simulated one. That PR's own fix was a scheduledrefresh_tokentask on a configurable interval; this takes the reactive route instead, because it keys off what actually happened rather than a predicted schedule — it covers a token store cleared out from under a running gateway, where a scheduled refresh would keep failing until its next tick, and it needs no client-side copy of a server-side TTL. #763'sstart_token_refresh_task, itsauth_token_refresh_secsconfig field and its dependency bump are not carried over.