OCPBUGS-86040: Fix premature certificate revocation in control-plane-pki-operator - #8582
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Add explicit validation for the current signer certificate key PEM data in ensureOldSignerCertificateRevoked. Without this, a missing private key causes a cryptic TLS handshake failure during the cross-check, leading to indefinite retries with no clear diagnostic. This brings the validation in line with ensureNewSignerCertificatePropagated, which already validates both cert and key. Add per-pod logging to verifyCertificateAgainstAllKASPods so operators can trace which KAS pods passed or failed certificate verification, making it easier to diagnose intermittent race conditions during CA bundle reloads. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add unit tests covering edge cases in the per-pod KAS certificate verification logic: - Multi-pod early exit: verify that when the second of three pods fails verification, the function returns false and does not call the third pod, validating the short-circuit behavior. - Partial revocation: verify that when some KAS pods still accept the old signer certificate, the controller correctly requeues rather than prematurely marking the revocation as complete. - Missing signer key: verify that when the current signer secret is missing its private key, the controller returns a descriptive error rather than a cryptic TLS failure. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…nges - Differentiate error messages: "current signer certificate" vs "previous signer certificate" to aid operator debugging - Extract shared newTestController helper from identical newPropagatedController/newRevokedController functions - Add readyKASPod helper to reduce pod boilerplate in tests - Add test for missing tls.crt in current signer secret - Replace dead code branch with t.Fatal in "some KAS pods" test Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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1018-1029:⚠️ Potential issue | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winCurrent-signer
tls.crtvalidation is bypassed by call order.At Line 1018,
loadCertificateSecret(...)already fails whentls.crtis missing/empty, so the explicitcurrent signer certificate ... had no data for tls.crtcheck at Line 1026 is never reached. This keeps the old generic error path for that case.💡 Suggested fix
- signerSecret, _, err := c.loadCertificateSecret(signer.Namespace, signer.Name) - if err != nil { - return true, nil, false, err - } - if signerSecret == nil { - return true, nil, false, nil - } + signerSecret, err := c.getSecret(signer.Namespace, signer.Name) + if apierrors.IsNotFound(err) { + return true, nil, false, nil + } + if err != nil { + return true, nil, false, fmt.Errorf("could not fetch client cert secret %s/%s: %w", signer.Namespace, signer.Name, err) + }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
Verify each finding against current code. Fix only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes minimal, and validate. In `@control-plane-pki-operator/certificaterevocationcontroller/certificaterevocationcontroller.go` around lines 1018 - 1029, The explicit check for tls.crt is never reached because loadCertificateSecret(...) currently fails when tls.crt is missing; modify loadCertificateSecret to stop validating/returning an error for missing/empty corev1.TLSCertKey (or add a flag parameter to opt out of validation) so the caller (in certificaterevocationcontroller.go) receives the secret and the existing explicit check that constructs the detailed error ("current signer certificate ... had no data for tls.crt") can run; ensure callers that relied on the old behavior are updated or the new optional flag is used to preserve behavior where needed.
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- Around line 1018-1029: The explicit check for tls.crt is never reached because
loadCertificateSecret(...) currently fails when tls.crt is missing; modify
loadCertificateSecret to stop validating/returning an error for missing/empty
corev1.TLSCertKey (or add a flag parameter to opt out of validation) so the
caller (in certificaterevocationcontroller.go) receives the secret and the
existing explicit check that constructs the detailed error ("current signer
certificate ... had no data for tls.crt") can run; ensure callers that relied on
the old behavior are updated or the new optional flag is used to preserve
behavior where needed.
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Re: #8582 (review) Thanks for the analysis. The observation is technically correct — However, this is an intentional defensive pattern. The The suggested fix of switching to AI-assisted response via Claude Code |
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The core fix — adding tls.key validation in ensureOldSignerCertificateRevoked — is correct and addresses a real bug where a missing private key would silently produce cryptic TLS handshake failures. The test refactoring (shared helpers, short-circuit test) is clean. Two issues need fixing before merge.
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[blocking] Dead code: tls.crt check after loadCertificateSecret is unreachable
loadCertificateSecret (called on line 1013) already validates tls.crt internally and returns fmt.Errorf("found no certificate in secret ...") when it is missing. So this new check can never trigger — loadCertificateSecret will error first.
The tls.key check below this IS reachable and IS the core fix (since loadCertificateSecret does NOT validate tls.key).
Two options:
- (preferred) Switch from
loadCertificateSecrettogetSecretfor the current signer, making bothtls.crtandtls.keychecks reachable with clear, differentiated error messages. Note thatloadCertificateSecretreturns parsed certs that are captured in_at line 1013, so you are not using its parsing anyway. - Remove the redundant
tls.crtcheck and keep only thetls.keycheck.
The same dead-code pattern exists in ensureNewSignerCertificatePropagated (line 701), but that is pre-existing — at minimum this PR should not introduce new instances.
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Done. Switched from loadCertificateSecret to getSecret (option 1) — both tls.crt and tls.key checks are now reachable with clear, differentiated error messages. Also hoisted the condition checks in generateNewSignerCertificate and ensureNewSignerCertificatePropagated so that completed steps skip secret loading entirely, which is consistent with how ensureOldSignerCertificateRevoked already checks its condition first.
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Done. Switched to getSecret in ensureOldSignerCertificateRevoked — both tls.crt and tls.key checks are now reachable with clear, differentiated error messages.
Additionally moved the condition checks to the top of generateNewSignerCertificate and ensureNewSignerCertificatePropagated so completed phases pass through without loading/validating secrets unnecessarily. This ensures tests (and production flows) correctly reach ensureOldSignerCertificateRevoked for validation instead of erroring in an already-completed earlier phase.
Also fixed the error wording from "current signer certificate" → "current signer secret" per non-blocking feedback, and the signerSecert typo.
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[blocking] This test asserts the wrong error path
This asserts ContainSubstring("found no certificate in secret"), which is the error message from loadCertificateSecret — not the new validation added by this PR ("current signer certificate %s/%s had no data for %s").
The test name says "When current signer cert is missing it should return an error" implying it tests the new validation, but it actually tests pre-existing behavior in loadCertificateSecret. The test above for tls.key correctly asserts ContainSubstring("current signer certificate").
If you switch to getSecret (as suggested in the other comment), this test should assert ContainSubstring("current signer certificate") to match the new validation. If you keep loadCertificateSecret, this test should be removed since it only validates pre-existing behavior.
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Done. Test now asserts ContainSubstring("current signer secret") to match the new validation in ensureOldSignerCertificateRevoked. The hoisted condition checks in earlier steps (see other thread) ensure the test reaches the correct code path.
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Done. The test now asserts ContainSubstring("current signer secret") and ContainSubstring("had no data for"), matching the new validation path through ensureOldSignerCertificateRevoked (via getSecret).
To make this work correctly, moved the condition checks in generateNewSignerCertificate and ensureNewSignerCertificatePropagated to the top of each function so completed phases pass through without loading the signer secret. This ensures the test flow actually reaches ensureOldSignerCertificateRevoked where the validation lives.
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Additional suggestions (non-blocking)Pre-existing typo: Error wording nit: Logging style: The new Praise:
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- Switch from loadCertificateSecret to getSecret in ensureOldSignerCertificateRevoked for the current signer, making both tls.crt and tls.key validation checks reachable with clear error messages. The parsed certs from loadCertificateSecret were unused (captured in _), so getSecret is the appropriate call. - Move condition checks to the top of generateNewSignerCertificate and ensureNewSignerCertificatePropagated so completed phases pass through without loading/validating secrets unnecessarily. This prevents validation errors in completed phases from blocking later pipeline phases. - Fix error wording: "current signer certificate" → "current signer secret" since it is the secret that is missing data, not the certificate itself. - Fix pre-existing signerSecert typo → signerSecret in ensureNewSignerCertificatePropagated. - Update test assertions for missing tls.crt to match the new validation path through ensureOldSignerCertificateRevoked. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Re: #8582 (comment) Thanks for the thorough review! All suggestions addressed:
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Re: #8582 (review) Thanks @bryan-cox — both blocking issues are now fixed:
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Re: #8582 (review) Thanks for the thorough review @bryan-cox! Both blocking issues are addressed in the latest commit:
As a supporting change, moved condition checks to the top of All non-blocking suggestions also addressed — see below. AI-assisted response via Claude Code |
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Re: #8582 (comment) Thanks for the suggestions @bryan-cox, all addressed:
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What this PR does / why we need it:
The control-plane-pki-operator could mark a certificate as revoked before all KAS pods had stopped accepting it. This happened because
ensureOldSignerCertificateRevokedlacked proper validation of the current signer secret's private key — a missing key caused cryptic TLS handshake failures during per-pod verification, leading to indefinite retries with no diagnostic output. Additionally, there was no per-pod logging to help operators trace which KAS pods passed or failed certificate verification during CA bundle reloads.This PR:
ensureOldSignerCertificateRevoked, matching the validation already present inensureNewSignerCertificatePropagated. Without this, a missing private key causes an opaque TLS error instead of a clear message.verifyCertificateAgainstAllKASPodsso operators can trace which KAS pods passed or failed certificate verification, making intermittent race conditions during CA bundle reloads easier to diagnose.newTestController,readyKASPod) to reduce boilerplate across propagation and revocation test suites.Which issue(s) this PR fixes:
Fixes https://redhat.atlassian.net/browse/OCPBUGS-86040
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The core fix is in
ensureOldSignerCertificateRevokedwherecurrentCertPEMandcurrentKeyPEMwere previously read without validation — now they use the same!ok || len(...) == 0pattern asensureNewSignerCertificatePropagated. The logging changes are at V(4) for per-pod detail and V(2) for the summary, consistent with existing controller log levels.Checklist:
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