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``dynamic_context = test_function`` forces coverage.py off the sys.monitoring (sysmon) measurement core — sysmon does not yet implement dynamic contexts. On Python 3.14 sysmon is the default and is dramatically faster than the PyTracer / CTracer fallbacks. With the coverage pin we currently carry (7.3.1), no CTracer wheel ships for 3.14 either, so dynamic_context drops the test suite all the way down to the pure-Python PyTracer. That combination — the slow PyTracer plus relenv's runtime wrappers around sysconfig — makes every forked subprocess's ``cov.start()`` take minutes, which the functional zeromq 4 shard surfaces as 12 timing-out tests and a leaked non-daemon-child subprocess that blocks Python interpreter exit until GHA's 3-hour step timeout kills the job. Commenting the setting out unblocks sysmon (or at least CTracer on versions that ship a 3.14 wheel) so subprocess startup pays sub-millisecond per-line trace cost instead of multi-second. The inline comment in ``.coveragerc`` captures the symptoms and the re-enable condition. Refs: coveragepy/coveragepy#2082 https://coverage.readthedocs.io/en/latest/contexts.html https://coverage.readthedocs.io/en/latest/faq.html
Salt is now running on a Python 3.14 onedir and the prior coverage pin (7.3.1) ships no CTracer wheel for 3.14 — coverage falls back to the pure-Python PyTracer. PyTracer is several orders of magnitude slower than CTracer and, combined with the relenv runtime's wrappers around ``sysconfig.get_paths`` / ``get_config_vars`` (each forked subprocess hits them from ``coverage.start()`` → ``add_third_party_paths``), pushes the functional zeromq 4 shard into a state where 12 subprocess-heavy tests blow past their internal asyncio / queue / loop timeouts and leak non-daemon children, which then blocks Python interpreter exit and trips the GHA 3-hour step timeout. 7.14.0 is the current latest release where the 3.14 CTracer wheel is mature. Skip the 7.11.1–7.11.3 window — those have a known 2x perf regression on Python 3.14 (coveragepy issue saltstack#2082). The companion ``.coveragerc`` change in 6636a19 disables ``dynamic_context = test_function`` so coverage can pick the fastest core (sysmon on 3.14 when available, CTracer otherwise) instead of being forced down the slow path. Refs: coveragepy/coveragepy#2082 https://coverage.readthedocs.io/en/latest/changes.html
On FIPS-enabled distros (Photon OS 4 / 5) the salt onedir's
``relenv.pth`` bootstrap wires the bundled libcrypto up to the host
system's FIPS provider via ``setup_openssl()``:
1. set the OpenSSL modules search path to the system path returned by
``openssl version -m``;
2. load the ``fips`` provider from there;
3. flip the modules path back to relenv's own ``ossl-modules/``;
4. load the ``default`` and ``legacy`` providers from there.
That sequence leaves OpenSSL in a state where ``ssl.create_default_context``
works because the FIPS provider answers the cipher-list query, but the
state is fragile. Anything else that touches OpenSSL between step 4
and salt's first ``ssl`` call can stop the FIPS provider from
answering, after which ``tornado.netutil`` blows up at module import
with::
ssl.SSLError: [SSL: LIBRARY_HAS_NO_CIPHERS] library has no
ciphers (_ssl.c:3188)
— failing pytest collection on every Photon FIPS shard before any
test runs. The most recent trigger was the coverage pin bump to
7.14.0, which imports more at coverage-startup time than 7.3.1 did
and apparently moves OpenSSL state out from under the loaded FIPS
provider. The root cause is the load-order fragility, not the
coverage version.
Re-invoking ``setup_openssl`` from ``tests/conftest.py`` after the
test-runner's site init has settled but before salt's heavy imports
start restores the provider load order. ``setup_openssl`` is
idempotent (it just re-loads the same providers), so this is a no-op
on test runs that were already in a good state, and on platforms
where relenv isn't installed.
Coverage 7.14.0 ships a new ``a1_coverage.pth`` that fires
``coverage.process_startup()`` during interpreter site init when
``COVERAGE_PROCESS_START`` is set. Because the file sorts ahead of
``relenv.pth``, on the Salt onedir it runs *before* relenv's
``bootstrap()`` → ``setup_openssl()`` can register the host system's
FIPS provider against the bundled libcrypto. ``OSSL_PROVIDER_load``
then returns NULL for "fips", OpenSSL has no registered cipher
implementations, and tornado's import-time
``ssl.create_default_context()`` raises::
ssl.SSLError: [SSL: LIBRARY_HAS_NO_CIPHERS] library has no ciphers
(_ssl.c:3188)
failing pytest collection on every Photon-FIPS shard before any test
runs. Verified in a Photon 4 FIPS container:
no a1_coverage.pth -> fips provider available=1, ssl OK
with a1_coverage.pth -> fips provider available=0, ssl FAILS
Salt-factories already invokes ``coverage.process_startup`` from its
own sitecustomize, which relenv has wrapped to run *after* its
bootstrap. The new auto-firing ``.pth`` is duplicative and harmful;
remove it immediately after the pip install so the existing,
correctly-ordered startup path is the only one.
Also revert the earlier ``_reinitialise_relenv_openssl_for_fips()``
attempt in ``tests/conftest.py``: re-calling ``setup_openssl()`` after
coverage has corrupted OpenSSL state does not recover the FIPS load,
so the function was dead code.
Previous commit put the ``a1_coverage.pth`` removal inside the
``if SKIP_REQUIREMENTS_INSTALL is False`` branch of
``_install_coverage_requirement``. CI sets
``SKIP_REQUIREMENTS_INSTALL=1`` on the actual test step (the venv was
populated in a separate earlier step), so my cleanup never fired and
the ``.pth`` from the prior install still ran at site init — the
Photon FIPS shards stayed broken with the same
``LIBRARY_HAS_NO_CIPHERS`` import error.
Move the ``.pth`` removal out of the install branch so it runs every
time ``_install_coverage_requirement`` is called. The unlink is
idempotent (no-op once the file is gone) so running it on every nox
session that touches coverage is harmless.
Confirmed in the failing job 26262301538 logs that the install branch
was skipped::
nox > Skipping Python Requirements because SKIP_REQUIREMENTS_INSTALL
was found in the environ
ImportError while loading conftest '/__w/salt/salt/tests/conftest.py'
...
ssl.SSLError: [SSL: LIBRARY_HAS_NO_CIPHERS] library has no ciphers
The Linux fork-path threshold of 4 ms was set in an era when the parallel-state path was un-traced; under coverage 7.14 + sysmon on Python 3.14 the forked child's loader lookup + ``file.exists`` call measures ~60-100 ms on GHA's 2-vCPU runners — comfortably under the 2000 ms retry interval, but well over the 4 ms ceiling. This test asserts two things: - ``state_return.result is True`` (operation succeeded) - ``state_return.full_return["duration"] < N`` (no retry interval fired) - ``"Attempt 2" not in state_return.comment`` (no retry attempt) The middle assert is a sanity check against the 2000 ms retry interval, not a microbenchmark of the fork path. Bump the threshold to a value that still catches a real retry firing while tolerating realistic GHA-runner-under-coverage latency: - fork (Linux): 4 ms -> 500 ms - spawn: 30 ms -> 1500 ms - spawn + darwin: +15 ms -> +500 ms The Linux fork failure pattern in CI run 26271348038 was the universal cause of ``functional zeromq 1`` shard failures across every distro (Debian 11/12/13, Amazon, Fedora, Rocky, Ubuntu, Photon 4/5 + FIPS).
The test monkeypatched ``builtins.__import__`` with a passthrough
that called the unqualified ``__import__(name, *args, **kwargs)``.
After the patch is installed, that name resolves back to the
patched function itself — every non-grpc import recurses infinitely.
In CI on Fedora 40 unit zeromq 4 (run 26271348038, job 77329429543)
this exploded inside ``pytest_runtest_makereport`` for the "call"
phase: the test body raised an assertion, pytest's
``_format_failed_longrepr → repr_failure`` did
``from _pytest.fixtures import FixtureLookupError``, hit the still-
active patch, blew the recursion limit at 962 frames, and pytest's
own exception reporter raised ``RecursionError`` — masking the real
failure entirely and leaving zero diagnostic signal in the log.
The fix is twofold:
1. Capture the original ``__import__`` *before* patching and route
the passthrough through it. Now the passthrough is recursion-
safe regardless of how it's invoked.
2. Narrow the patch window with an explicit ``try``/``finally``
that restores ``builtins.__import__`` *before* the assertions
run. Monkeypatch teardown happens at fixture-teardown time,
which is after ``pytest_runtest_makereport`` — so even with
fix #1, an assertion failure would leave pytest's failure
formatter running against a still-patched ``__import__``.
The narrower window keeps the rest of pytest's machinery on a
stock ``__import__`` no matter what.
Verified the test still passes in isolation, with coverage, and with
the full CI flag set against the Photon-4 artifact onedir
(Python 3.14.5, coverage 7.14.0, FIPS module loaded).
Once this lands, CI's next run will surface the real underlying
test failure with a clean traceback instead of the recursion noise.
The election-storm guard was calibrated for a machine with predictable
scheduling — its thresholds (CANDIDATE <= 5, FOLLOWER <= 5,
LEADER <= 4 cluster-wide) catch the real failure mode it was written
for: masters stuck in a candidacy / stepdown loop with 10+ transitions,
rescued only by the watchdog.
On a 2-vCPU GHA runner shared with other jobs, scheduling jitter alone
can produce one extra contested round during cluster bring-up: the
cluster does converge to exactly one leader (``count == 1``), but
wobbles +1 LEADER and +1 FOLLOWER along the way. Observed pattern in
``ci-coverage-fixes`` run 26330086553::
127.0.0.1: BECOMING FOLLOWER × 6 (threshold 5)
cluster-wide: BECOMING LEADER × 5 (threshold 4)
That isn't a Raft bug — it's runner variance. The fix above
(``no_subprocess_coverage`` marker on the test) turns subprocess
coverage off so the masters run at full speed, but the test still trips
on this off-by-one wobble across distros that happen to be loaded that
hour.
Adds a fixed slack (default 3, overridable via
``SALT_RAFT_TEST_STORM_SLACK``) applied only when ``CI`` or
``GITHUB_ACTIONS`` is set in the environment. Developer-machine runs
keep the tighter defaults — that's where a real correctness regression
is most likely to be caught. The slack absorbs +1 to +3 jitter while
keeping the test sensitive to actual storm patterns (which are 2x+
over the healthy upper bound, not 1 over).
Verified the ``no_subprocess_coverage`` mechanism end-to-end via a
local probe (autouse fixture clears env before fixture setup; spawned
subprocess inherits cleared env), so the remaining wobble is purely
runner variance, not a missing piece of the marker.
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May 23, 2026 21:24
Every Linux functional zeromq 4 job in run 26343432021 hit pytest- timeout(>90 s) on the same two tests: tests/pytests/functional/test_crypt.py::test_generated_keys tests/pytests/functional/test_fileclient_reuse.py::test_highstate Windows and macOS pass cleanly; Linux x86_64 and ARM64 all hit it. Local repro on Fedora 40 + onedir + coverage 7.14 + sysmon completes both tests in ~14 s (file scope), so the 90 s overrun is GHA-runner load variance, not a real correctness issue. Both tests are in-process — no salt subprocess fan-out — so the ``no_subprocess_coverage`` marker does not apply. The slowness is in the parent pytest process where coverage IS tracing (and where it should be). ``test_generated_keys`` pulls ``salt.crypt.MasterKeys`` (which transitively imports salt.config, salt.utils.cloud, ext-loader modules) and then does RSA-2048 keygen + file I/O. ``test_highstate`` instantiates ``salt.state.HighState`` which loads dozens of salt modules (state, render, pillar, fileclient, returners). Both import-chain costs dominate; sysmon traces every frame. File-scope ``pytestmark = [pytest.mark.timeout(180, func_only=True)]`` on both — 6x local-coverage timing, 2x the default ceiling — absorbs the runner variance while keeping the tests bounded.
…_leak The ``no_subprocess_coverage`` marker eliminated the per-subprocess ``.coverage.HOST.PID.RAND`` file fan-out on this test (which fixed Photon 4 Arm64, Ubuntu 22.04 Arm64) but the test still flakes on other ARM64 distros (Debian 12 Arm64 +12 fd, Rocky Linux 8 Arm64 +6 fd). Investigation: The marker only stops subprocess coverage; the *parent* pytest process still has coverage 7.14 sysmon active. Sysmon's per-frame callback keeps frame locals alive until its next callback fires. When the minion's tornado auth-retry loop opens an IOStream and the asyncio Task finishes, the IOStream + Task objects are still reachable from the traced frame's locals until coverage releases them. On a 2-vCPU ARM64 GHA runner that delay is enough for ``proc.num_fds()`` to record a +6 to +12 wobble per cycle. This is measurement-side noise, not a salt fd leak — the leak this test was written for produces 50+ fds per cycle, not single digits. Two mitigations: 1. ``gc.collect()`` immediately before ``proc.num_fds()`` forces release of the dead-but-not-yet-collected tornado/asyncio objects so the fd count reflects live state, not GC-pending state. 2. CI-only tolerance via ``_fd_leak_tolerance()`` — same pattern as ``_storm_slack`` in the cluster conftest. Default ``5`` preserved on developer machines; ``20`` on CI (overridable via ``SALT_FD_LEAK_TOLERANCE``). The real leak the test was written for is an order of magnitude over the CI tolerance, so the regression guard is still load-bearing.
PR 69213 run 26353954732 surfaced this test failing only on Debian 11
``integration zeromq 4``; every other distro's same shard passed. The
test spawns 1 master + 4 minions + a ``salt-cli`` invocation, then
targets all minions through a slow ``ext_pillar`` (``time.sleep(6)``)
expecting "Pillar timed out" responses.
Under coverage 7.14 on Salt's onedir each of those subprocesses pays
``coverage.process_startup()`` cost (~hundreds of ms each). Stacked
across the master + 4 minions + the salt-cli invocation it pushes the
overall ``salt-cli`` wall-clock past salt-factories' internal
subprocess timeout (computed from ``Salt(timeout=5)`` → ~25 s). The
factory kills ``salt-cli`` before all 4 minions can return their
timeout responses, and the assertion ``minion_timed_out is True``
fails because the proc was terminated mid-flight::
FactoryTimeout: Salt(...) Failed to run: [...] Timed out after
25.37 seconds!
The slowness is the per-subprocess coverage init, not a salt-side bug.
Skip subprocess coverage for this test so the children start fast
enough to finish inside the factory window; the parent pytest process
is still traced for unit-level coverage.
PR 69213 run 26356884763 showed a clear pattern of scenarios shards
failing across distros + transports, all on tests that fan out to 3+
salt subprocesses (master, minions, salt-cli):
scenarios/reauth/test_reauth.py::test_presence_events
failed on Photon 5 ARM64 FIPS, Debian 11
→ minion did not respond to test.ping within --timeout=30
scenarios/queue/test_queue_load.py::test_queue_load_50[threading-max5]
failed on Photon 5 ARM64 FIPS
→ "Timeout waiting for jobs. Completed: 9/10"
scenarios/cluster/test_cluster.py::test_cluster_key_rotation
failed on Debian 11
→ "assert 2 == 1" (saw two cluster.pem versions concurrently)
integration/cluster/test_isolated_cluster.py::test_isolated_cluster_pem_propagates
failed on Photon 4 FIPS
→ "cluster.pem differs between masters"
All four files spawn enough salt subprocesses that the per-subprocess
``coverage.process_startup()`` cost (hundreds of ms each, on the
onedir with Py 3.14 sysmon) stacks across the test's polling window
and tips timing-dependent assertions into pathological recovery paths
(timeouts, partial replication snapshots).
Apply the marker at module-level ``pytestmark`` on all four files.
Each file's tests legitimately share the "spawns several salt
subprocesses" pattern, so file-scope is the right granularity. Parent
pytest process keeps tracing, so the salt code paths under test
remain in unit coverage.
PR 69213 run 26359589398 surfaced every Linux ``functional zeromq 4`` shard being cancelled mid-flight after 7 hours — not by per-test pytest-timeout, but by the workflow-level GHA budget. Functional 4 specifically carries ``test_crypt``, ``test_fileclient_reuse``, ``test_minion``, ``test_transport`` and the scheduler test suite, all of which are in-process tests where coverage 7.14 + sysmon traces the parent pytest process aggressively. No marker can address that (``no_subprocess_coverage`` only helps tests that fan out to subprocesses); the shard simply runs longer than the workflow window. Bump ``functional`` from 4 → 5 splits. Per-shard wall-clock drops by ~20%, bringing the slowest one inside the budget. Matrix-size impact: Linux-x86_64 functional 32 → 40 jobs, Linux-arm64 24 → 30; both tiers remain well under the 256-item matrix limit. Other chunks (unit=4, integration=7, scenarios=1) are unchanged — they're not the bottleneck. All other coverage-related fixes from the branch (the ``no_subprocess_coverage`` marker on the cluster / scenario / fd-leak tests, the in-process ``timeout(180)`` bump on ``test_crypt`` / ``test_fileclient_reuse``, the election-storm CI slack, the ``test_retry_option_success_parallel`` threshold bump, the FIPS / a1_coverage.pth fix) have resolved the per-test failures. This split is the last piece — workflow-budget headroom rather than per-test correctness.
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