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Aleksei Sviridkin 7d1137a889 fix(e2e): bound the dataplane capture's reads and name why one failed
Six `kubectl get` calls ran with no bound of their own, while all 27
`kubectl exec` calls in the same script went through one. Against an
apiserver that hangs rather than refuses, the first of them -- the
cluster-wide pod list -- held the script until the caller's backstop
killed it, so the capture wrote nothing at all. From the Chainsaw catch
that is worse than empty: the run is cut off by the outer `timeout -k`
and the script says nothing about having been cut short, so a truncated
capture reads exactly like a complete one that found no affected pods.

Measured against a kubectl stub that never returns: before, the script
was still blocked on its first call when a 60s backstop killed it;
after, it reaches its own end and says which read was cut off and what
that leaves missing. Roughly 4s at a 1s bound, 40s at the 20s default.

A per-read bound buys forward progress, not a smaller total. The sum of
the bounds here is far past any caller's envelope and deliberately so,
because the MAX_PODS and MAX_LBS caps bound work while the outer
`timeout -k` bounds wall clock. What changes is that no single hung read
can consume that envelope before anything is written.

The reporting around them is built to survive being read by someone who
was not there. Only 124 and 137 may name a timeout, since those are the
only statuses a bound produces and every other one is kubectl answering
-- refused, denied, a kind the cluster does not serve -- so the reads
keep their stderr instead of discarding it and quote it back. 137 is
described as what it is, a SIGKILL that cannot be told apart from the
bound's own kill grace. Notes print through `printf` rather than `echo`,
because under /bin/sh echo expands backslash escapes and kubectl's
stderr now flows through the logger: a message holding a literal \n
would otherwise split the note and forge a second "[capture-dataplane]"
line that reads as this script's own verdict, which needs no malice
given the jsonpath in these reads contains {"\n"} and kubectl quotes the
expression back when it fails to parse it.

The per-node lookups ask with `{.items[*].metadata.name}` rather than
`{.items[0]...}`. client-go's evalArray has no allowMissingKeys escape
the way evalField does, so indexing into an empty list is a hard error
and kubectl exits 1 -- which meant nothing while the status was
discarded, and would report "there is no cilium-agent on this node", the
ordinary answer, as a read that failed.

The tests drive the script as a subprocess against a stub kubectl that
hangs, fails instantly, or returns a forged line, and read what it
wrote. The stub that proves forward progress answers the pod list and
hangs afterwards, so the walk over affected pods is actually entered.

Assisted-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Aleksei Sviridkin <f@lex.la>
2026-08-08 09:11:51 +03:00
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