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[release-4.17] OCPBUGS-64856: Fix stale EIP assignments during failover and controller restart#2850

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Manual cherry-pick of 4.18 commits 7b12cc6, 75f0b7e, 6cd0f09 and 3a524b5 from PR #2849.

The commits 87005cd, b7d8695 and 947941b aren't needed for 4.16 because it already handles stale LRP nexthops and its logging in the sync function. So adding only unit test commit 7b12cc6 to validate it.

The other commits had major conflict with 4.17 due to much code difference in EIP controller and test files. so manually resolved the conflicts.

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@pperiyasamy pperiyasamy changed the title [release-4.17] Fix stale EIP assignments during failover and controller restart [release-4.17] OCPBUGS-64856: Fix stale EIP assignments during failover and controller restart Nov 10, 2025
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@pperiyasamy: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-64856, which is invalid:

  • expected dependent Jira Issue OCPBUGS-64855 to be in one of the following states: VERIFIED, RELEASE PENDING, CLOSED (ERRATA), CLOSED (CURRENT RELEASE), CLOSED (DONE), CLOSED (DONE-ERRATA), but it is New instead

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Manual cherry-pick of 4.18 commits 7b12cc6, 75f0b7e, 6cd0f09 and 3a524b5 from PR #2849.

The commits 87005cd, b7d8695 and 947941b aren't needed for 4.16 because it already handles stale LRP nexthops and its logging in the sync function. So adding only unit test commit 7b12cc6 to validate it.

The other commits had major conflict with 4.17 due to much code difference in EIP controller and test files. so manually resolved the conflicts.

The extra commit c7418d1 is needed to fix errors in egressip_test.go file, these unresolved errors happened from previous 4.17 backported commits.

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/payload 4.17 ci blocking
/payload 4.17 nightly blocking

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@pperiyasamy: trigger 4 job(s) of type blocking for the ci release of OCP 4.17

  • periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.17-upgrade-from-stable-4.16-e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade
  • periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.17-upgrade-from-stable-4.16-e2e-azure-ovn-upgrade
  • periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.17-e2e-gcp-ovn-upgrade
  • periodic-ci-openshift-hypershift-release-4.17-periodics-e2e-aws-ovn

See details on https://pr-payload-tests.ci.openshift.org/runs/ci/55f0b830-bf0b-11f0-91e2-218f3052739c-0

trigger 8 job(s) of type blocking for the nightly release of OCP 4.17

  • periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-nightly-4.17-e2e-aws-ovn-serial
  • periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.17-e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade
  • periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.17-e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade
  • periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.17-e2e-azure-ovn-upgrade
  • periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.17-upgrade-from-stable-4.16-e2e-gcp-ovn-rt-upgrade
  • periodic-ci-openshift-hypershift-release-4.17-periodics-e2e-aws-ovn-conformance
  • periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-nightly-4.17-e2e-metal-ipi-ovn-bm
  • periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-nightly-4.17-e2e-metal-ipi-ovn-ipv6

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/test e2e-azure-ovn-upgrade

martinkennelly and others added 4 commits November 11, 2025 15:40
Signed-off-by: Martin Kennelly <mkennell@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 2735d6b)
(cherry picked from commit 562c749)
(cherry picked from commit 8049fdf)
(cherry picked from commit 7b12cc6)
Scenario:
- Nodes: node-1, node-2, node-3
- Egress IPs: EIP-1
- Pods: pod1 on node-1, pod2 on node-3 (pods are created via deployment replicas)
- Egress-assignable nodes: node-1, node-2
- EIP-1 assigned to node-1

During a simultaneous reboot of node-1 and node-2, EIP-1 failed over to node-2 and
ovnkube-controller restarted at nearly the same time:

1) EIP-1 was reassigned to node-2 by the cluster manager.
2) The sync EIP happened for EIP1 with stale status, though it cleaned SNATs/LRPs
   referring to node-1 due to outdated pod IPs (this is because pods will be
   recreated due to node reboots).
3) pod1/pod2 Add events arrived while the informer cache still had the
   old EIP status, so new SNATs/LRPs were created pointing to node-1.
4) The EIP-1 Add event arrived with the new status; entries for node-2
   were added/updated.
5) Result: stale SNATs and LRPs with stale nexthops for node-1 remained.

Fix:
- Populate pod EIP status during EgressIP sync so podAssignment has
  accurate egressStatuses.
- Reconcile stale assignments using podAssignment (egressStatuses) when
  the informer cache is not up to date, ensuring SNAT/LRP for the
  previously assigned node are corrected.
- Remove stale EIP SNAT entries for remote-zone pods accordingly.
- Add coverage for simultaneous EIP failover and controller restart.

Signed-off-by: Periyasamy Palanisamy <pepalani@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 1667a51)
(cherry picked from commit 7060af6)
(cherry picked from commit 0a3e1b9)
(cherry picked from commit 75f0b7e)
Signed-off-by: Periyasamy Palanisamy <pepalani@redhat.com>
During an ovnkube-controller restart, pod add/remove events
for EgressIP-served pods may occur before the factory.egressIPPod
handler is registered in the watch factory. As a result, the EIP
controller never able to handle pod delete, leading to stale
logical router policy (LRP) entry.

Scenario:

ovnkube-controller starts.

The EIP controller processes the namespace add event (oc.WatchEgressIPNamespaces)
and creates an LRP entry for the served pod.

The pod is deleted.

The factory.egressIPPod handler registration happens afterward via oc.WatchEgressIPPods.

The pod delete event is never processed by the EIP controller.

Fix:

1. Start oc.WatchEgressIPPods followed by oc.WatchEgressIPNamespaces.
2. Sync EgressIPs before registering factory.egressIPPod event handler.
3. Removal of Sync EgressIPs for factory.EgressIPNamespaceType which is no longer needed.

Signed-off-by: Periyasamy Palanisamy <pepalani@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 8975b00)
(cherry picked from commit b8303a2)
(cherry picked from commit 3f391e7)
(cherry picked from commit 6cd0f09)
Signed-off-by: Periyasamy Palanisamy <pepalani@redhat.com>
When the EIP controller cleans up a stale EIP assignment for a pod,
it also removes the pod object from the podAssignment cache.
This is incorrect, as it prevents the EIP controller from processing
the subsequent pod delete event.

Scenario:

1. pod-1 is served by eip-1, both hosted on node1.
2. node1’s ovnkube-controller restarts.
3. Pod add event is received by the EIP controller — no changes.
4. eip-1 moves from node1 to node0.
5. The EIP controller receives the eip-1 add event.
6. eip-1 cleans up pod-1’s stale assignment (SNAT and LRP) for node1,
   but removes the pod object from the podAssignment cache when no other
   assignments found.
7. The EIP controller programs the LRP entry with node0’s transit IP as
   the next hop, but the pod assignment cache is not updated with new
   podAssignmentState.
8. The pod delete event is received by the EIP controller but ignored,
   since the pod object is missing from the assignment cache.

So this commit fixes the issue by adding podAssignmentState back into
podAssignment cache at step 7.

Signed-off-by: Periyasamy Palanisamy <pepalani@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from commit 16dedd1)
(cherry picked from commit f4e2c17)
(cherry picked from commit be0f3b8)
(cherry picked from commit 3a524b5)
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/payload 4.17 ci blocking
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@pperiyasamy: trigger 4 job(s) of type blocking for the ci release of OCP 4.17

  • periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.17-upgrade-from-stable-4.16-e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade
  • periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.17-upgrade-from-stable-4.16-e2e-azure-ovn-upgrade
  • periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.17-e2e-gcp-ovn-upgrade
  • periodic-ci-openshift-hypershift-release-4.17-periodics-e2e-aws-ovn

See details on https://pr-payload-tests.ci.openshift.org/runs/ci/4b1ea9f0-bf13-11f0-9e7a-97f5f5553708-0

trigger 8 job(s) of type blocking for the nightly release of OCP 4.17

  • periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-nightly-4.17-e2e-aws-ovn-serial
  • periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.17-e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade
  • periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.17-e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade
  • periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.17-e2e-azure-ovn-upgrade
  • periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.17-upgrade-from-stable-4.16-e2e-gcp-ovn-rt-upgrade
  • periodic-ci-openshift-hypershift-release-4.17-periodics-e2e-aws-ovn-conformance
  • periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-nightly-4.17-e2e-metal-ipi-ovn-bm
  • periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-nightly-4.17-e2e-metal-ipi-ovn-ipv6

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/payload-job periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.17-e2e-gcp-ovn-upgrade
/payload-job periodic-ci-openshift-hypershift-release-4.17-periodics-e2e-aws-ovn
/payload-job periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.17-e2e-azure-ovn-upgrade
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@pperiyasamy: trigger 4 job(s) for the /payload-(with-prs|job|aggregate|job-with-prs|aggregate-with-prs) command

  • periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.17-e2e-gcp-ovn-upgrade
  • periodic-ci-openshift-hypershift-release-4.17-periodics-e2e-aws-ovn
  • periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-ci-4.17-e2e-azure-ovn-upgrade
  • periodic-ci-openshift-release-master-nightly-4.17-e2e-metal-ipi-ovn-ipv6

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Why is egressIPToAssignedNodes cache not needed?

Are you actually ryunning the unti tests? Please note they might not be running as part of the ci/prow/unit job.

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Why is egressIPToAssignedNodes cache not needed?

The egressIPs map from egressIPCacheEntry contains same data, so sync function didn't need an extra map to populate podState.egressStatuses.statusMap.

Are you actually ryunning the unti tests? Please note they might not be running as part of the ci/prow/unit job.

yes, validated EIP unit tests locally with command go test -race -mod=vendor -v ./pkg/ovn -ginkgo.v -ginkgo.focus="OVN master EgressIP Operations"

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/lgtm
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@pperiyasamy: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-64856, which is valid. The bug has been moved to the POST state.

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  • bug target version (4.17.z) matches configured target version for branch (4.17.z)
  • bug is in the state New, which is one of the valid states (NEW, ASSIGNED, POST)
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  • dependent bug Jira Issue OCPBUGS-64855 is in the state Verified, which is one of the valid states (VERIFIED, RELEASE PENDING, CLOSED (ERRATA), CLOSED (CURRENT RELEASE), CLOSED (DONE), CLOSED (DONE-ERRATA))
  • dependent Jira Issue OCPBUGS-64855 targets the "4.18.z" version, which is one of the valid target versions: 4.18.0, 4.18.z
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Jira Issue OCPBUGS-64856 has been moved to the MODIFIED state and will move to the VERIFIED state when the change is available in an accepted nightly payload. 🕓

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Manual cherry-pick of 4.18 commits 7b12cc6, 75f0b7e, 6cd0f09 and 3a524b5 from PR #2849.

The commits 87005cd, b7d8695 and 947941b aren't needed for 4.16 because it already handles stale LRP nexthops and its logging in the sync function. So adding only unit test commit 7b12cc6 to validate it.

The other commits had major conflict with 4.17 due to much code difference in EIP controller and test files. so manually resolved the conflicts.

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