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What this PR does

Confirms informer Deleted events for BaseModel and ClusterBaseModel with a live read from the API server before the model agent cleans up node state. The informer callback only queues the event; a worker started and stopped with the scout does the read, with a 10s deadline per read. The agent ignores the event when the same object (same UID) still exists without a deletion timestamp. If the object is gone (NotFound), was recreated with a new UID, or is being deleted, cleanup proceeds as before. A failed or timed-out read is requeued with per-item exponential backoff (1s up to 5m) instead of being dropped.

Real deletions are not affected: the controller's finalizer means the agent first sees an update that sets the deletion timestamp, and that path is unchanged.

Why we need it

During a server-side apply of the clusterbasemodels.ome.io CRD, a model agent acted on a Deleted event for a ClusterBaseModel that still existed. It removed models.ome.io/clusterbasemodel.<name> node labels across the fleet, and for an agent-owned model the same path can delete the weights on disk.

This implements the first hardening item from the issue (get-before-destroy). Periodic reconciliation of labels and the ConfigMap against disk is left for a follow-up.

Refs #834

How to test

go test ./pkg/modelagent/ -run TestOnModelDeleted_ConfirmsWithLiveRead -v

The new table test uses the fake OME clientset. It covers an object that still exists, one that is gone, one recreated with a new UID, one being deleted, a failing read and a timed-out read (both requeued), for both BaseModel and ClusterBaseModel, plus a retry that later succeeds, queue shutdown, and the read deadline. go test ./pkg/modelagent/ ./cmd/model-agent/ and go vet pass locally.

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  • Tests added/updated (if applicable)
  • Docs updated (if applicable)
  • make test passes locally

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Model deletions are checked against the latest available state before processing, reducing the chance that stale notifications remove models that are still active.
    • Temporary failures when checking model status are retried, helping deletion handling recover when reads time out or fail.
    • Deletion processing stops cleanly during shutdown, including when work is waiting to be handed off.

The model agent acted on every informer Deleted event for a BaseModel
or ClusterBaseModel. During a server-side apply of the CRD, an agent
received a Deleted event for a ClusterBaseModel that still existed. It
removed the model's node labels across the fleet, and for an
agent-owned model the same path can delete the weights on disk.

Before cleaning up on a Deleted event, read the object from the API
server. Ignore the event when the same object (same UID) still exists
without a deletion timestamp, or when the read keeps failing. Real
deletions are unaffected: they reach the agent first as an update
that sets the deletion timestamp, and the live read then returns
NotFound, a new UID, or a deleting object.

Refs ome-projects#834

Signed-off-by: Tianlang (Jackie) Chen <305351710+jackiectl2@users.noreply.github.com>
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Walkthrough

Scout now queues BaseModel and ClusterBaseModel delete events for live API confirmation. Confirmed deletion conditions trigger cleanup tasks. Failed reads are retried with rate-limited backoff, and each read has a 10-second timeout.

Changes: Scout delete-event confirmation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Confirmation queue and event wiring
cmd/model-agent/main.go, pkg/modelagent/scout.go, pkg/modelagent/hf_artifact_interrupted_download_test.go
Scout accepts an OME client and queues valid informer deletion events. The model-agent and test setup pass the client. Run starts and stops the confirmation worker.
Live-read confirmation and cleanup
pkg/modelagent/scout.go, pkg/modelagent/scout_delete_event_test.go
Scout checks live objects and sends cleanup tasks when an object is missing, has a different UID, or has a deletion timestamp. It discards events when the same UID remains without a deletion timestamp. Tests cover read outcomes, retries, timeouts, and shutdown.

Priority: Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Informer
  participant Scout
  participant OMEAPI
  participant GopherChannel
  Informer->>Scout: Enqueue typed delete event
  Scout->>OMEAPI: Read current object with timeout
  OMEAPI-->>Scout: Return object, NotFound, or read error
  Scout->>Scout: Check UID and deletion timestamp
  Scout->>GopherChannel: Send confirmed cleanup task
  Scout->>Scout: Requeue read failures with rate-limited backoff
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Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 22d0c

The change protects live resources from accidental removal without adding permissions. The remaining risk is missed cleanup after a failed confirmation read when no other deletion path has run.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: After live-read retries are exhausted, the Deleted notification is discarded without retaining work for later confirmation. If timestamp-driven handling did not already enqueue cleanup, node metadata and eligible local files can outlive the removed resource. Startup recovery scans objects still present with deletion timestamps, rather than replaying these suppressed notifications. This is an intentional safety-over-cleanup tradeoff with a conditional lifecycle risk, not a demonstrated unauthorized access or deletion path.

Security review details

Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The relevant sinks remain node labels, node-associated ConfigMap entries, and eligible local model files. A cluster-scoped resource can propagate cleanup decisions across multiple subscribing nodes, but the PR adds confirmation rather than additional destructive authority.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — The changed gate narrows the existing path from a stale informer deletion notification to destructive cleanup. Allowing cleanup for a replacement UID preserves a pre-existing decision rather than creating a new destructive capability; the comparison does not establish a newly introduced unauthorized attack path.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The API server becomes an additional authority check before cleanup. The same non-deleting UID contradicts deletion, and unavailable confirmation preserves state. Shipped permissions support these reads; equivalent authorization in custom installations remains unverified.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Existing downstream replacement-UID checks and ConfigMap ownership checks mitigate same-name recreation, but depend on cached observations and do not make all cleanup atomic. These controls and the worker behavior that logs failed tasks without automatic re-enqueueing are unchanged from the PR base.
  • observed — The existing periodic ConfigMap service restores cached records. Its inspected entrypoint does not replay suppressed Deleted callbacks or schedule node-label and disk cleanup, so it is not a recovery handoff for the new read-exhaustion branch.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Consider retaining UID-scoped pending confirmations for later reconciliation after read exhaustion. Recheck live identity before destructive work so cleanup can recover without weakening the new protection for live resources.
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Review comments at @pkg/modelagent/scout.go:
- Around line 537-543: Move the live GET and retry work in the informer callback
to queued confirmation work so a slow read cannot block handling later
notifications. Bound each read with a context deadline while preserving the
existing not-found retry behavior; locate the callback through its
`retry.OnError` block.
- Around line 547-549: Update the Deleted-event confirmation handler so API read
failures requeue the deletion confirmation instead of returning as though the
event is finished; preserve kind and key for the retry so cleanup can proceed
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Comment thread pkg/modelagent/scout.go Resolved
Move the live read that confirms an informer Deleted event out of the
informer callback. The callback now only adds the event to a
rate-limited workqueue. A worker, started and stopped with the scout,
reads the object from the API server with a 10s deadline per read and
then:

- hands the delete to the gopher when the object is gone, has a new
  UID, or is being deleted;
- drops the event when the same object still exists;
- requeues the event with per-item exponential backoff (1s up to 5m)
  when the read fails, instead of giving up on it.

Refs ome-projects#834

Signed-off-by: Tianlang (Jackie) Chen <305351710+jackiectl2@users.noreply.github.com>
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Thanks for the review. I moved the live read out of the informer callback: the delete handler now only puts the event on a rate-limited workqueue, and a worker started and stopped with the scout does the read. Each read has a 10s deadline. NotFound, a new UID, or a deletion timestamp still go ahead with the cleanup, and a live object with the same UID still drops the event. A failed or timed-out read is now requeued with per-item exponential backoff (1s up to 5m) instead of being dropped. The tests cover each case, including a retry that later succeeds and the read deadline.

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- Around line 662-667: Update the confirmation worker and Run shutdown flow so
Run waits for the worker’s completion signal before closing gopherChan. Make the
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Comment thread pkg/modelagent/scout.go Resolved
Stop and join the confirmation worker before closing the gopher channel.
Cancel an in-flight handoff when the scout shuts down, so a stopped gopher
cannot leave the worker blocked. Cover the stopped-gopher case.

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I addressed the shutdown handoff concern. Scout now stops and joins the delete-confirmation worker before closing the gopher task channel, and an in-flight confirmation can abandon its send when shutdown starts. The new regression test covers a stopped gopher with an unbuffered task channel. go test ./pkg/modelagent ./cmd/model-agent -count=1 and go vet pass locally.

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