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Makes iOS Iroh dialing bounded and resilient (W2-A of the control-plane redesign). Evidence: the 43 s trace in #9724 (a dial hung 16.2 s with no bound), the 15+ min silent redial hang in #8531, and the zero-route dial-plan churn in #10375.

Mechanisms

1. Bounded dials. CmxIrohClientSession already bounded the public and private connect phases at 5 s, but the admission barrier after QUIC connect (open control stream, admission frames, NAT-traversal authorize, server-ready) was unbounded. A half-ready Mac that accepts the connection and never answers admission is exactly the #9724 hang. The barrier now runs under the same generalized boundedByDialPhase race (injected ContinuousClock deadline, task-group cancellation, typed dialTimedOut), so one dial attempt is bounded by at most three phases. A timed-out attempt closes its connection (admission_failed), clears the session's coalesced connect task, and the next attempt redials; the peer-session redial machinery already retires wedged dials at a 10 s settle bound, giving defense in depth against a non-cooperative loser. The timeout is injected end to end: CmxIrohClientRuntimeConfiguration.dialPhaseTimeout (default 5 s) -> CmxConnectivityEngine -> every CmxIrohClientSession, so tests shrink it through the configuration object.

2. Hint refresh between attempts. A failed or timed-out dial already marks the peer's discovery stale, and the next attempt refetches the address-hint catalog from the broker. What was missing: when that forced refetch itself failed (broker outage, cooldown), the dial threw and nothing was dialed at all. CmxIrohRegistryContextProvider.context(for:) now falls back to the last verified in-memory snapshot (authoritativeDiscovery) and dials its hints; the staleness mark survives, so a later attempt still refetches once the broker recovers. The offline signed-policy cache remains the second fallback, and the broker cooldown still propagates unchanged when no last-good snapshot exists (the existing no-fetch-storm test is preserved).

Path preference is left alone: the public dial leg already hands relay and direct hints together to one native endpoint.connect, where iroh races them internally, so relay+direct racing exists today and a reordering would change native behavior for no measured gain.

3. Fail-open credential refresh (#10375). Two seams:

  • CmxIrohRelayPolicyService.restore (the failed-refresh fallback path used by the iOS composition) previously published a zero-route managedUnavailable profile the moment the cached signed policy was past exp, which with 300 s policy TTLs was almost always. It now grants a bounded expired-policy reuse grace (defaultExpiredPolicyReuseGrace = 6 h, injectable): CmxIrohRelayPolicyCache.load re-verifies the record at its final valid instant, so signature, rollback, and claim checks run unweakened and only the expiry gate is graced. The graced state keeps the catalog and routes and is reported as .policyExpired in diagnostics. Beyond the grace, or on any signature/rollback rejection, restore still fails closed. Raise relay token and policy TTL from 300s to 3600s #10731 (token+policy TTL 300 s -> 3600 s) makes this reuse window rarely needed but the grace fixes the zero-route failure mode independently.
  • CmxIrohRelayCredentialCoordinator.refreshIfNeeded (the foreground pre-dial catch-up) no longer throws on a failed mint while a last-good credential is installed on the endpoint; it schedules the existing bounded-backoff retry loop and returns. The relay stays the authority on token validity: nothing here ever un-installs a credential, and a relay rejection surfaces as a connection failure that drives redial plus background refresh.

Known-red CI gate on main. swift-package-tests has been red on main since at least Aug 19 (run 32212616081): CmxConnectivityPeerSessionTests.onePeerTraceUsesOneAliasAndOneEstablishedSessionEvent awaits a GatedConnectivitySessionBuilder dial that no line ever releases, so the suite deadlocks into the 300 s per-suite timeout twice per run. The fix is split into #10741 so a revert of this feature PR cannot un-fix the gate; this PR's swift-package-tests job stays red on that inherited hang until #10741 merges. Locally, the full package (68 suites, 639 tests) passes with that fix applied on top of this branch.

Principled or hacky

Changes 1 and 2 are principled: they extend existing bounded-race and staleness seams without new state machines. Change 3 is principled in mechanism (grace is time-bounded, verification is not weakened, diagnostics stay truthful) but the 6 h default is a judgment call; it trades bounded catalog staleness (worst case: dialing a decommissioned relay URL, which fails fast and falls to other paths) against launch-to-ready minutes lost to zero-route churn.

Residual risks

  • The bounded races rely on cooperative cancellation of the FFI dial and stream reads (same contract the existing connect bound relies on); a non-cooperative loser is contained by the peer session's 10 s retired-dial settle bound rather than fixed here.
  • The service-level grace also applies to the Mac host's restore path (shared service); that is consistent with keeping last-good relays during broker outages but widens the change beyond iOS.
  • The engine dialPhaseTimeout plumb is compile-verified and behavior-tested at the session level; there is no engine-level timeout test (pass-through only).

Tests

Two-commit regression pattern: commit 1 adds the failing tests, commit 2 the fixes.

  • CmxIrohClientSessionDialBoundTests: admission barrier that never answers fails at the dial bound; a timed-out admission is superseded by the next connect attempt.
  • CmxIrohRegistryContextProviderStalenessTests.refreshFailureAfterStalenessFallsBackToLastVerifiedSnapshot.
  • CmxIrohRelayPolicyServiceTests: restoreKeepsRecentlyExpiredLastGoodPolicyRoutesForDialing, restoreFailsClosedBeyondTheExpiredPolicyReuseGrace, expiredPolicyGraceNeverBypassesSignatureVerification; cacheRestoresUntilSignedExpiryAndSupportsStagedKeyRotation updated to the graced expectation.
  • CmxIrohRelayCredentialCoordinatorTests.refreshFailureKeepsLastGoodCredentialWithoutThrowing.

Revert

git revert <fix-sha> <test-sha> (no migrations, no persisted-format changes). Config-default changes to note: CmxIrohClientRuntimeConfiguration.dialPhaseTimeout (new, default 5 s, previously an unwired per-session default) and CmxIrohRelayPolicyService.expiredPolicyReuseGrace (new, default 6 h, previously effectively 0). Reverting restores strict-expiry restore behavior and the unbounded admission barrier.

Dictionary: admission barrier = the authenticated frame exchange after the QUIC connection that both peers must finish before application streams open; dial phase = one bounded leg of a dial attempt (public paths, private fallback, or admission); relay policy = the broker-signed catalog of managed relay URLs a build may use; relay token = the short-lived credential that authenticates this endpoint to those relays; grace = a bounded window after signed expiry in which the last verified value is still used.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added configurable timeouts for peer connection and admission phases, defaulting to five seconds.
    • Added limited reuse of recently expired relay policies, while retaining signature and validation checks.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved connection recovery after timed-out or failed admission attempts.
    • Preserved working credentials during transient refresh failures.
    • Used the last verified discovery data when fresh broker discovery is temporarily unavailable.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for connection timeouts, recovery, stale discovery fallback, credential retention, and policy expiry handling.

…fallbacks

Behavior the client transport must have but does not yet (red on this
commit, fixed in the next):

- CmxIrohClientSession: an admission barrier that never answers must
  fail at the dial bound and be superseded by the next attempt
  (cmux#9724 16.2s dial, cmux#8531 silent redial hang).
- CmxIrohRegistryContextProvider: when the staleness-forced discovery
  refresh fails, dial with the last verified snapshot instead of
  refusing to dial.
- CmxIrohRelayPolicyService.restore: a recently-expired last-good
  policy must keep its routes dialable instead of publishing a
  zero-route managed profile (cmux#10375).
- CmxIrohRelayCredentialCoordinator.refreshIfNeeded: a failed mint with
  a last-good installed credential must not throw; the bounded retry
  loop continues in the background (cmux#10375).
…failure, fail open on credential refresh

Three client-transport behavior changes for iOS dialing (cmux#9724,
cmux#8531, cmux#10375):

1. Bounded dials. The admission barrier after QUIC connect (control
   stream open, admission frames, NAT-traversal authorize, server
   ready) was unbounded; a half-ready Mac that accepts the connection
   and never answers admission produced the 16.2s hang in the #9724
   trace. The barrier now runs under the same bounded race as the
   connect phases and fails typed as dialTimedOut, so the redial
   machinery supersedes it. The per-phase deadline is injected end to
   end: CmxIrohClientRuntimeConfiguration.dialPhaseTimeout (default
   5s) -> CmxConnectivityEngine -> every CmxIrohClientSession.

2. Hint refresh fallback. A failed or timed-out dial already marks the
   peer's discovery stale and forces a broker refetch on the next
   attempt. When that refetch itself fails, the provider now dials the
   last verified snapshot's hints instead of refusing to dial; the
   staleness mark survives so a later attempt still refetches. Broker
   cooldowns still propagate unchanged when no last-good snapshot
   exists.

3. Fail-open credential refresh. CmxIrohRelayPolicyService.restore
   grants a bounded expired-policy reuse grace (default 6h,
   injectable): the cache re-verifies the record at its final valid
   instant, so signature, rollback, and claim checks run unweakened
   and only the expiry gate is graced; the graced state reports
   .policyExpired without zeroing routes. Beyond the grace or on any
   verification rejection, restore still fails closed.
   CmxIrohRelayCredentialCoordinator.refreshIfNeeded no longer throws
   on a failed mint while a last-good credential is installed; the
   bounded backoff retry loop keeps refreshing in the background and
   the relay stays the authority on token validity.
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The transport adds configurable dial-phase timeouts, bounds admission exchanges, and preserves verified discovery, credentials, and recently expired relay policies during selected refresh failures. Tests cover timeout cleanup, stale discovery recovery, credential retention, and policy verification.

Changes

Transport resilience

Layer / File(s) Summary
Dial timeout configuration and wiring
Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohClientRuntimeConfiguration.swift, Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxConnectivityEngine.swift, Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohClientRuntime.swift
Adds a configurable five-second dialPhaseTimeout and passes it from runtime configuration into peer sessions.
Bounded connection admission
Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohClientSession.swift, Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Tests/CmuxIrohTransportTests/CmxIrohClientSessionDialBoundTests.swift
Bounds admission exchanges, closes timed-out connections, retires failed attempts, and validates successful and superseded attempts.
Verified discovery and credential recovery
Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohRegistryContextProvider.swift, Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohRelayCredentialCoordinator.swift, Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Tests/CmuxIrohTransportTests/CmxIrohRegistryContextProviderStalenessTests.swift, Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Tests/CmuxIrohTransportTests/CmxIrohRelayCredentialCoordinatorTests.swift
Uses the last verified discovery snapshot after refresh failure and retains an installed relay credential after non-cancellation refresh failure.
Expired relay-policy reuse
Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohRelayPolicyCache.swift, Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohRelayPolicyService.swift, Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Tests/CmuxIrohTransportTests/CmxIrohRelayPolicyServiceTests.swift
Adds a six-hour configurable reuse grace for recently expired policies while preserving signature and claim validation and reporting .policyExpired.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to d5ad1

This PR bounds stalled dials and improves recovery during discovery, credential, and relay-policy failures, but the current implementation can still remove working relay connectivity before replacement credentials are available, while key timing tests remain dependent on fixed sleeps and two configuration/fallback concerns are unresolved. Merge should wait for these issues to be fixed or explicitly accepted.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RuntimeConfiguration
  participant CmxIrohClientRuntime
  participant CmxConnectivityEngine
  participant CmxIrohClientSession
  RuntimeConfiguration->>CmxIrohClientRuntime: provide dialPhaseTimeout
  CmxIrohClientRuntime->>CmxConnectivityEngine: configure timeout
  CmxConnectivityEngine->>CmxIrohClientSession: create peer session
  CmxIrohClientSession->>CmxIrohClientSession: bound connect and admission phases
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Cmux Swift Actor Isolation ✅ Passed PASS. The production diff adds state and behavior only to actor-isolated types: CmxConnectivityEngine, CmxIrohClientRuntime, CmxIrohClientSession, CmxIrohRegistryContextProvider, `CmxIrohRelay…
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Cmux Cache Substitution Correctness ✅ Passed No custom-check failure is introduced. The discovery change uses authoritativeDiscovery only after sharedDiscover fails; it preserves the staleness mark so the next attempt performs a fresh broker…
Cmux No Hacky Sleeps ✅ Passed PASS: The custom check applies only to TypeScript, JavaScript, shell, and non-Swift build/runtime scripts. The pull-request range changes 12 files, and every changed path is a Swift source or test fil…
Cmux Algorithmic Complexity ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request changes only Swift transport/runtime code and adds no nested scalable-collection scans, per-target batch rescans, sorting, or filtering in the changed executable lines. The new …
Cmux Swift Concurrency ✅ Passed PASS. The source diff adds structured async/await and a withThrowingTaskGroup timeout race in CmxIrohClientSession; it does not add DispatchQueue, DispatchGroup, Combine state, completion-hand…
Cmux Swift @Concurrent ✅ Passed PASS. The PR introduces no nonisolated async declarations and no @concurrent changes. The new async helpers are actor-isolated methods on CmxIrohClientSession, while the other changed async work…
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PASS. The production diff adds state and behavior only to actor-isolated types: CmxConnectivityEngine, CmxIrohClientRuntime, CmxIrohClientSession, CmxIrohRegistryContextProvider, CmxIrohRelayCredentialCoordinator, CmxIrohRelayPolicyCache, and CmxIrohRelayPolicyService. The new runtime configuration field remains a value type that conforms to Sendable, and its new Duration field is Sendable. The generalized dial closure is explicitly @Sendable and captures an actor or Sendable connection. No shared mutable Sendable reference type, UI-bound store, @MainActor declaration, or service protocol change appears in the production diff. The touched package uses Swift 6 but has no default-MainActor build setting. Existing async service protocols and value-model isolation debt are unchanged.

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Resolution

Remove the direct production ContinuousClock().sleep timeout task from the admission path. Use a cancellation-aware timer/deadline abstraction, async sequence, callback, or explicit transport completion signal that can cancel the endpoint or admission operation when the phase deadline expires. Keep the operation’s real stream/connection events as the normal completion signal and preserve typed timeout handling.

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No custom-check failure is introduced. The discovery change uses authoritativeDiscovery only after sharedDiscover fails; it preserves the staleness mark so the next attempt performs a fresh broker read, handles a cold snapshot by falling through to the existing offline/error path, and documents the graceful-degradation reason at the call site. The relay-policy change is an explicit, bounded restore grace, not an unguarded cache substitution: CmxIrohRelayPolicyCache.load re-verifies the signed policy, enforces rollback and metadata checks, and rejects missing or out-of-window records. The restore path handles an empty cache and documents why the bounded stale policy remains dialable. The credential change uses an installed in-memory credential with bounded background retries and is not a persistence, history, undo, or snapshot consumer.

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PASS. The pull request changes only Swift transport/runtime code and adds no nested scalable-collection scans, per-target batch rescans, sorting, or filtering in the changed executable lines. The new admission loop reads a fixed 8-byte frame (CmxIrohAdmissionAckCodec.frameByteCount = 8). The discovery fallback reuses the existing linear resolveContext implementation; it does not introduce a new scan or worsen its algorithm. The remaining collection operations identified in the changed files are pre-existing code or test-only code.

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PASS. The source diff adds structured async/await and a withThrowingTaskGroup timeout race in CmxIrohClientSession; it does not add DispatchQueue, DispatchGroup, Combine state, completion-handler APIs, or fire-and-forget Task { ... } work. The existing stored connectionTask remains in place. The only new test sleep is controlled test timing, which the rule allows.

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PASS. The PR introduces no nonisolated async declarations and no @concurrent changes. The new async helpers are actor-isolated methods on CmxIrohClientSession, while the other changed async work remains on dedicated transport, registry, credential, or policy actors. The bounded dial operation uses task-group child tasks and delegates native connection operations through existing actor/concurrent boundaries. No changed call site invokes network-heavy work from @MainActor isolation.

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The PR bounds Iroh connection and admission phases and adds last-good fallbacks for discovery, relay policy, and credential refresh.

  • Plumbs a configurable per-phase dial timeout from the client runtime into peer sessions.
  • Reuses verified discovery and recently expired relay policy state when refreshes fail.
  • Keeps installed relay credentials during mint failures and schedules background retries.
  • Adds regression coverage for timeout, fallback, and grace-window behavior.

Confidence Score: 4/5

The PR is not yet safe to merge because foreground credential refresh can still report success after replacement fails while the installed credential is already expired.

The previously reported credential-refresh defect remains: the new branch tests only for a non-nil installed credential, so expired credentials suppress permanent mint failures and allow activation to continue with relay credentials that cannot establish connectivity.

Files Needing Attention: Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohRelayCredentialCoordinator.swift

Important Files Changed

Filename Overview
Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohClientSession.swift Generalizes the existing dial timeout race to cover the post-connect admission barrier and closes failed connections.
Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohRegistryContextProvider.swift Falls back to the last verified discovery snapshot when a forced broker refresh fails.
Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohRelayPolicyCache.swift Adds bounded expired-policy loading while preserving signature, claim, and rollback verification.
Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohRelayPolicyService.swift Restores recently expired managed relay routes during the configured grace period and reports policy expiry diagnostically.
Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohRelayCredentialCoordinator.swift Fails open on replacement-mint errors whenever any credential remains installed, including when that credential has already expired.

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flowchart TD
  A[Foreground activation] --> B[Credential refresh needed]
  B --> C[Request replacement credential]
  C -->|Success| D[Install replacement]
  C -->|Mint failure| E{Installed credential exists?}
  E -->|Yes| F[Schedule retry and return success]
  E -->|No| G[Propagate error]
  F --> H[Continue activation and dialing]
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P1 Expired credential errors are suppressed

When foreground activation finds an expired installed credential and minting its replacement fails permanently, this branch returns success solely because installedCredential is non-nil. Dialing then proceeds with an unusable credential that the relay rejects, while the background loop repeatedly retries an error that requires an authentication or authorization state change.

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Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohClientRuntimeConfiguration.swift (1)

83-98: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject non-positive dialPhaseTimeout values.

CmxIrohClientRuntimeConfiguration stores .zero and forwards it to boundedByDialPhase, which races the dial or admission operation against ContinuousClock().sleep(for: bound). With .zero, the timeout task may win immediately and throw CmxIrohClientSessionError.dialTimedOut. Enforce a strictly positive deadline at this configuration boundary and add a .zero test.

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In
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around lines 83 - 98, Update the CmxIrohClientRuntimeConfiguration initializer
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- Around line 525-541: Inject a clock or scheduler into boundedByDialPhase and
use it for both dialing and admission timeouts instead of constructing
ContinuousClock directly. In CmxIrohClientSessionDialBoundTests.swift lines
105-109 and 145-147, advance the injected clock explicitly and replace the
2-second watchdog and cancellable one-hour sleeps with completion signals,
preserving deterministic timeout and hanging-operation coverage.

In
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- Around line 203-216: Update the fallback resolution error handling around
resolveContext in CmxIrohRegistryContextProvider so retry-directive errors,
including rateLimited, propagate to the reconnect owner instead of being
swallowed. Continue suppressing only errors indicating that the lastGood
snapshot cannot authorize the peer, while preserving cancellation propagation
and offline-cache fallback for authorization failures.

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- Around line 83-98: Update the CmxIrohClientRuntimeConfiguration initializer to
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Comment on lines +525 to +541
private func boundedByDialPhase<Value: Sendable>(
_ operation: @escaping @Sendable () async throws -> Value
) async throws -> Value {
let bound = dialPhaseTimeout
return try await withThrowingTaskGroup(
of: (any CmxIrohConnection)?.self
) { group in
return try await withThrowingTaskGroup(of: Value?.self) { group in
group.addTask {
try await endpoint.connect(to: address, alpn: alpn)
try await operation()
}
group.addTask {
try await ContinuousClock().sleep(for: bound)
return nil
}
defer { group.cancelAll() }
guard let first = try await group.next(), let connection = first else {
guard let first = try await group.next(), let value = first else {
throw CmxIrohClientSessionError.dialTimedOut
}
return connection
return value

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Inject the dial-phase clock and remove fixed-time test gates.

boundedByDialPhase uses ContinuousClock for both endpoint dialing and admission. The tests therefore depend on a 40-millisecond timeout, a 2-second watchdog, and cancellable 1-hour sleeps in the hanging endpoint and receive-stream stubs. Inject a clock or scheduler, advance it in the tests, and replace the watchdog and long sleeps with completion signals.

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In
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around lines 525 - 541, Inject a clock or scheduler into boundedByDialPhase and
use it for both dialing and admission timeouts instead of constructing
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Comment on lines +203 to +216
do {
return try await resolveContext(
for: request,
targetIdentity: targetIdentity,
routeHints: routeHints,
discovery: lastGood,
at: clock
)
} catch is CancellationError {
throw CancellationError()
} catch {
// The last-good snapshot no longer authorizes this
// peer; fall through to the offline cache.
}

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Preserve retry directives from fallback resolution.

Lines 203-216 suppress every non-cancellation error from resolveContext. If discovery fails with connectivity and pair-grant issuance from lastGood returns rateLimited, this branch discards the retry floor. The outer branch then returns the discovery connectivity error or an offline result. The reconnect owner cannot honor the broker retry delay and can reissue discovery on each foreground dial.

Propagate retry-directive errors from resolveContext. Suppress only errors that show that lastGood cannot authorize this peer.

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In
`@Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohRegistryContextProvider.swift`
around lines 203 - 216, Update the fallback resolution error handling around
resolveContext in CmxIrohRegistryContextProvider so retry-directive errors,
including rateLimited, propagate to the reconnect owner instead of being
swallowed. Continue suppressing only errors indicating that the lastGood
snapshot cannot authorize the peer, while preserving cancellation propagation
and offline-cache fallback for authorization failures.

…rsession spares established sessions

Field dogfood on tag ibdl reported established-then-cancelled sessions
(~250-300ms after establishment, ~5s after dial start) and suspected a
dial-phase deadline that stays armed after its phase completes. These
two behavior tests pin the required semantics and PASS against the
current bounded-dial implementation, refuting that hypothesis at the
client-session layer:

- establishment just inside the deadline survives past the deadline
  (the timeout child is cancelled when the phase completes)
- a superseded timed-out attempt cannot kill the next established
  session

They stay as regression coverage while the field investigation moves to
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- Line 199: Remove the fixed ContinuousClock sleeps from the affected
CmuxIrohClientSession dial-bound tests. Inject a controllable dial clock or
deterministic admission-completion signal, explicitly advance or await it before
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// Cross the original deadline (and a margin) while established. A
// deadline that was not disarmed on success fires in this window and
// closes the admitted connection.
try await ContinuousClock().sleep(for: .milliseconds(400))

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Remove real-time synchronization from these tests.

The fixed sleeps make the expected ordering depend on CI scheduling. A delayed executor can move the delayed admission past its intended dial deadline. The fixed post-connect waits can also fail to prove the required lifecycle ordering.

Inject a controllable dial clock or a deterministic admission-completion signal. Advance that clock or signal explicitly before each assertion.

As per coding guidelines, “Test code must avoid real wall-clock dependencies” and must use an injected virtual clock or a real completion signal.

Also applies to: 253-253, 281-281

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In
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at line 199, Remove the fixed ContinuousClock sleeps from the affected
CmuxIrohClientSession dial-bound tests. Inject a controllable dial clock or
deterministic admission-completion signal, explicitly advance or await it before
each assertion, and preserve the intended dial-deadline and lifecycle-ordering
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<file name="Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohRegistryContextProvider.swift">

<violation number="1" location="Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohRegistryContextProvider.swift:202">
P2: The new lastGood fallback runs for every error thrown by sharedDiscover, while the two fallbacks just below it are gated on `Self.isConnectivity` (and broker cooldown). For a hard, non-connectivity failure (incompatibleContract, relayFleetMismatch, or a discovery that fails the resolver's verification), the provider now silently fails open to a stale lastGood snapshot and drops the resolver error instead of surfacing it, masking broker-declared contract or authorization changes.</violation>

<violation number="2" location="Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohRegistryContextProvider.swift:208">
P2: The lastGood fallback reads `authoritativeDiscovery` with no age check, bypassing the 30s reuse bound enforced by `takeVerifiedDiscovery` (maximumVerifiedDiscoveryReuseAge = 30). Once a healthy-plan dial's 30s window has expired and the fresh fetch fails, the provider dials with an arbitrarily-old snapshot, weakening the documented bounded-reuse/revocation-visibility guarantee.</violation>

<violation number="3" location="Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohRegistryContextProvider.swift:213">
P1: When the authority sync returns a reset or inconsistent revision, `sharedDiscover` throws `.invalidResponse`, but this catch falls back to `authoritativeDiscovery` anyway. That can keep dialing with pre-reset bindings and cached grants; restrict this fallback to connectivity or broker-cooldown errors and propagate authority-validation failures.</violation>
</file>

<file name="Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohClientSession.swift">

<violation number="1" location="Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohClientSession.swift:438">
P2: The admission bound only fires if the underlying operation terminates when its task is cancelled. `boundedByDialPhase` uses `withThrowingTaskGroup`, which on timeout calls `cancelAll()` and then blocks at scope exit until every child task actually completes, so a non-cooperative `RecvStream.read` (IrohLib `CmxIrohLibReceiveStream.receive` → `driver.read(sizeLimit:)`) would keep the whole phase hung — the same unbounded-admission hang this PR is meant to fix. The dial path already relied on this pattern, but extending it to the admission barrier is a new dependence on `RecvStream.read` honoring Swift task cancellation. The new tests cannot catch this: `TestHangingIrohReceiveStream`/`SlowIrohReceiveStream` hang on `Task.sleep`, which is trivially cancellable, unlike the real FFI stream. Consider verifying that IrohLib's `RecvStream.read` aborts on task cancellation (or wrapping it in a `withTaskCancellationHandler`/`try Task.checkCancellation()`-aware guard) before relying on this bound in production.</violation>

<violation number="2" location="Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohClientSession.swift:529">
P1: When the native admission read does not cooperatively cancel, this timeout does not bound the dial: structured task-group teardown waits for `performAdmissionBarrier` after `group.cancelAll()`, so the connection is never closed and recovery cannot start. Cancel or close the underlying connection/receive stream on the timeout path rather than relying only on task cancellation.</violation>
</file>

<file name="Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Tests/CmuxIrohTransportTests/CmxIrohRegistryContextProviderStalenessTests.swift">

<violation number="1" location="Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Tests/CmuxIrohTransportTests/CmxIrohRegistryContextProviderStalenessTests.swift:416">
P3: The test comment asserts the staleness mark survives so a later attempt refetches once the broker recovers, but the test never verifies it. After the fallback assertion, clear the broker error, call context(for:) again, and assert discoveryRequestCount == 2 and publicPaths == [relay]. Without it the test cannot catch the opposite regression where the provider keeps reusing the stale snapshot and never refetches on recovery.</violation>
</file>

<file name="Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohRelayPolicyCache.swift">

<violation number="1" location="Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohRelayPolicyCache.swift:126">
P2: When `expiredPolicyReuseGrace` is `.infinity`, this guard accepts every future expiry time and reuses the cached policy forever. Reject non-finite grace values before applying the fail-open path.</violation>
</file>

<file name="Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Tests/CmuxIrohTransportTests/CmxIrohClientSessionDialBoundTests.swift">

<violation number="1" location="Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Tests/CmuxIrohTransportTests/CmxIrohClientSessionDialBoundTests.swift:189">
P2: The deadline tests rely on tight real-time margins (e.g. 250ms bound vs 180ms delay, 100ms bound vs 60ms delay). On a loaded CI, Task.sleep overrun or inter-await scheduling in performAdmissionBarrier can push admission completion past the bound, so `session.connect()` throws `.dialTimedOut` and the test flakes instead of passing. Consider widening the gap (larger bound, smaller delay) or making the delay configuration derive from the bound to keep the assertions meaningful but robust.</violation>
</file>

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P1: When the authority sync returns a reset or inconsistent revision, sharedDiscover throws .invalidResponse, but this catch falls back to authoritativeDiscovery anyway. That can keep dialing with pre-reset bindings and cached grants; restrict this fallback to connectivity or broker-cooldown errors and propagate authority-validation failures.

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<comment>When the authority sync returns a reset or inconsistent revision, `sharedDiscover` throws `.invalidResponse`, but this catch falls back to `authoritativeDiscovery` anyway. That can keep dialing with pre-reset bindings and cached grants; restrict this fallback to connectivity or broker-cooldown errors and propagate authority-validation failures.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -193,6 +193,28 @@ public actor CmxIrohRegistryContextProvider: CmxIrohClientContextProvider {
+                        )
+                    } catch is CancellationError {
+                        throw CancellationError()
+                    } catch {
+                        // The last-good snapshot no longer authorizes this
+                        // peer; fall through to the offline cache.
</file context>
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} catch {
} catch let error where Self.isConnectivity(error) || CmxIrohBrokerCooldown.directiveSeconds(for: error) != nil {

return try await withThrowingTaskGroup(
of: (any CmxIrohConnection)?.self
) { group in
return try await withThrowingTaskGroup(of: Value?.self) { group in

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P1: When the native admission read does not cooperatively cancel, this timeout does not bound the dial: structured task-group teardown waits for performAdmissionBarrier after group.cancelAll(), so the connection is never closed and recovery cannot start. Cancel or close the underlying connection/receive stream on the timeout path rather than relying only on task cancellation.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohClientSession.swift, line 529:

<comment>When the native admission read does not cooperatively cancel, this timeout does not bound the dial: structured task-group teardown waits for `performAdmissionBarrier` after `group.cancelAll()`, so the connection is never closed and recovery cannot start. Cancel or close the underlying connection/receive stream on the timeout path rather than relying only on task cancellation.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -498,22 +513,32 @@ public actor CmxIrohClientSession {
-        return try await withThrowingTaskGroup(
-            of: (any CmxIrohConnection)?.self
-        ) { group in
+        return try await withThrowingTaskGroup(of: Value?.self) { group in
             group.addTask {
-                try await endpoint.connect(to: address, alpn: alpn)
</file context>

// serve the admission frames. Bound the whole barrier like a dial
// phase so a silent peer hands control back to recovery instead
// of holding the redial owner open-endedly (cmux#9724).
return try await boundedByDialPhase { [weak self] in

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P2: The admission bound only fires if the underlying operation terminates when its task is cancelled. boundedByDialPhase uses withThrowingTaskGroup, which on timeout calls cancelAll() and then blocks at scope exit until every child task actually completes, so a non-cooperative RecvStream.read (IrohLib CmxIrohLibReceiveStream.receive → driver.read(sizeLimit:)) would keep the whole phase hung — the same unbounded-admission hang this PR is meant to fix. The dial path already relied on this pattern, but extending it to the admission barrier is a new dependence on RecvStream.read honoring Swift task cancellation. The new tests cannot catch this: TestHangingIrohReceiveStream/SlowIrohReceiveStream hang on Task.sleep, which is trivially cancellable, unlike the real FFI stream. Consider verifying that IrohLib's RecvStream.read aborts on task cancellation (or wrapping it in a withTaskCancellationHandler/try Task.checkCancellation()-aware guard) before relying on this bound in production.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohClientSession.swift, line 438:

<comment>The admission bound only fires if the underlying operation terminates when its task is cancelled. `boundedByDialPhase` uses `withThrowingTaskGroup`, which on timeout calls `cancelAll()` and then blocks at scope exit until every child task actually completes, so a non-cooperative `RecvStream.read` (IrohLib `CmxIrohLibReceiveStream.receive` → `driver.read(sizeLimit:)`) would keep the whole phase hung — the same unbounded-admission hang this PR is meant to fix. The dial path already relied on this pattern, but extending it to the admission barrier is a new dependence on `RecvStream.read` honoring Swift task cancellation. The new tests cannot catch this: `TestHangingIrohReceiveStream`/`SlowIrohReceiveStream` hang on `Task.sleep`, which is trivially cancellable, unlike the real FFI stream. Consider verifying that IrohLib's `RecvStream.read` aborts on task cancellation (or wrapping it in a `withTaskCancellationHandler`/`try Task.checkCancellation()`-aware guard) before relying on this bound in production.</comment>

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@@ -431,56 +431,71 @@ public actor CmxIrohClientSession {
+            // serve the admission frames. Bound the whole barrier like a dial
+            // phase so a silent peer hands control back to recovery instead
+            // of holding the redial owner open-endedly (cmux#9724).
+            return try await boundedByDialPhase { [weak self] in
+                guard let self else { throw CancellationError() }
+                return try await self.performAdmissionBarrier(
</file context>

// The recorded expiry is cross-checked against the signed claims
// below; a record that overstates it re-fails as expired here or
// as rollback below.
guard expiredPolicyReuseGrace > 0,

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P2: When expiredPolicyReuseGrace is .infinity, this guard accepts every future expiry time and reuses the cached policy forever. Reject non-finite grace values before applying the fail-open path.

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<comment>When `expiredPolicyReuseGrace` is `.infinity`, this guard accepts every future expiry time and reuses the cached policy forever. Reject non-finite grace values before applying the fail-open path.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -97,16 +97,47 @@ public actor CmxIrohRelayPolicyCache {
+            // The recorded expiry is cross-checked against the signed claims
+            // below; a record that overstates it re-fails as expired here or
+            // as rollback below.
+            guard expiredPolicyReuseGrace > 0,
+                  let recordedExpiry = record.expiresAt,
+                  now.timeIntervalSince1970
</file context>
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guard expiredPolicyReuseGrace > 0,
guard expiredPolicyReuseGrace.isFinite,
expiredPolicyReuseGrace > 0,

targetIdentity: remoteIdentity,
dialPlan: try testIrohDialPlan(publicPaths: [try publicRelayHint()]),
credential: credential,
dialPhaseTimeout: .milliseconds(250)

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P2: The deadline tests rely on tight real-time margins (e.g. 250ms bound vs 180ms delay, 100ms bound vs 60ms delay). On a loaded CI, Task.sleep overrun or inter-await scheduling in performAdmissionBarrier can push admission completion past the bound, so session.connect() throws .dialTimedOut and the test flakes instead of passing. Consider widening the gap (larger bound, smaller delay) or making the delay configuration derive from the bound to keep the assertions meaningful but robust.

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<comment>The deadline tests rely on tight real-time margins (e.g. 250ms bound vs 180ms delay, 100ms bound vs 60ms delay). On a loaded CI, Task.sleep overrun or inter-await scheduling in performAdmissionBarrier can push admission completion past the bound, so `session.connect()` throws `.dialTimedOut` and the test flakes instead of passing. Consider widening the gap (larger bound, smaller delay) or making the delay configuration derive from the bound to keep the assertions meaningful but robust.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -0,0 +1,293 @@
+            targetIdentity: remoteIdentity,
+            dialPlan: try testIrohDialPlan(publicPaths: [try publicRelayHint()]),
+            credential: credential,
+            dialPhaseTimeout: .milliseconds(250)
+        )
+
</file context>

for: request,
targetIdentity: targetIdentity,
routeHints: routeHints,
discovery: lastGood,

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P2: The lastGood fallback reads authoritativeDiscovery with no age check, bypassing the 30s reuse bound enforced by takeVerifiedDiscovery (maximumVerifiedDiscoveryReuseAge = 30). Once a healthy-plan dial's 30s window has expired and the fresh fetch fails, the provider dials with an arbitrarily-old snapshot, weakening the documented bounded-reuse/revocation-visibility guarantee.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohRegistryContextProvider.swift, line 208:

<comment>The lastGood fallback reads `authoritativeDiscovery` with no age check, bypassing the 30s reuse bound enforced by `takeVerifiedDiscovery` (maximumVerifiedDiscoveryReuseAge = 30). Once a healthy-plan dial's 30s window has expired and the fresh fetch fails, the provider dials with an arbitrarily-old snapshot, weakening the documented bounded-reuse/revocation-visibility guarantee.</comment>

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@@ -193,6 +193,28 @@ public actor CmxIrohRegistryContextProvider: CmxIrohClientContextProvider {
+                            for: request,
+                            targetIdentity: targetIdentity,
+                            routeHints: routeHints,
+                            discovery: lastGood,
+                            at: clock
+                        )
</file context>

// survives, so the next attempt still refetches once the
// broker recovers. Verification is not weakened; this
// snapshot passed the same checks when it was fetched.
if let lastGood = authoritativeDiscovery {

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P2: The new lastGood fallback runs for every error thrown by sharedDiscover, while the two fallbacks just below it are gated on Self.isConnectivity (and broker cooldown). For a hard, non-connectivity failure (incompatibleContract, relayFleetMismatch, or a discovery that fails the resolver's verification), the provider now silently fails open to a stale lastGood snapshot and drops the resolver error instead of surfacing it, masking broker-declared contract or authorization changes.

Prompt for AI agents
Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Sources/CmuxIrohTransport/CmxIrohRegistryContextProvider.swift, line 202:

<comment>The new lastGood fallback runs for every error thrown by sharedDiscover, while the two fallbacks just below it are gated on `Self.isConnectivity` (and broker cooldown). For a hard, non-connectivity failure (incompatibleContract, relayFleetMismatch, or a discovery that fails the resolver's verification), the provider now silently fails open to a stale lastGood snapshot and drops the resolver error instead of surfacing it, masking broker-declared contract or authorization changes.</comment>

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@@ -193,6 +193,28 @@ public actor CmxIrohRegistryContextProvider: CmxIrohClientContextProvider {
+                // survives, so the next attempt still refetches once the
+                // broker recovers. Verification is not weakened; this
+                // snapshot passed the same checks when it was fetched.
+                if let lastGood = authoritativeDiscovery {
+                    do {
+                        return try await resolveContext(
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if let lastGood = authoritativeDiscovery {
if let lastGood = authoritativeDiscovery,
Self.isConnectivity(error) || CmxIrohBrokerCooldown.directiveSeconds(for: error) != nil {

Comment on lines +416 to +418
#expect(await broker.discoveryRequestCount() == 1)
#expect(context.dialPlan.publicPaths == [relay])
}

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P3: The test comment asserts the staleness mark survives so a later attempt refetches once the broker recovers, but the test never verifies it. After the fallback assertion, clear the broker error, call context(for:) again, and assert discoveryRequestCount == 2 and publicPaths == [relay]. Without it the test cannot catch the opposite regression where the provider keeps reusing the stale snapshot and never refetches on recovery.

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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At Packages/Shared/CmuxIrohTransport/Tests/CmuxIrohTransportTests/CmxIrohRegistryContextProviderStalenessTests.swift, line 416:

<comment>The test comment asserts the staleness mark survives so a later attempt refetches once the broker recovers, but the test never verifies it. After the fallback assertion, clear the broker error, call context(for:) again, and assert discoveryRequestCount == 2 and publicPaths == [relay]. Without it the test cannot catch the opposite regression where the provider keeps reusing the stale snapshot and never refetches on recovery.</comment>

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@@ -383,6 +383,40 @@ struct CmxIrohRegistryContextProviderStalenessTests {
+        // so a later attempt still refetches once the broker recovers.
+        let context = try await provider.context(for: fixture.request(hints: []))
+
+        #expect(await broker.discoveryRequestCount() == 1)
+        #expect(context.dialPlan.publicPaths == [relay])
+    }
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#expect(await broker.discoveryRequestCount() == 1)
#expect(context.dialPlan.publicPaths == [relay])
}
#expect(await broker.discoveryRequestCount() == 1)
#expect(context.dialPlan.publicPaths == [relay])
// The staleness mark survives the fallback: once the broker recovers,
// the next attempt refetches instead of reusing the snapshot forever.
await broker.setDiscoverError(nil)
let recovered = try await provider.context(for: fixture.request(hints: []))
#expect(await broker.discoveryRequestCount() == 2)
#expect(recovered.dialPlan.publicPaths == [relay])
}

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Superseded by #10759, which carries the bounded-dial and cached-hint refresh work.

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