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  • do_payment is called after the seller's hold invoice is already settled (irreversible). On three early-exit paths — missing buyer invoice, zero amount after fee, and LND unreachable — the function returned Err without calling check_failure_retries_or_log, leaving failed_payment = false in the database.
  • Because the retry scheduler (job_retry_failed_payments) only picks up orders where failed_payment = true, these orders were permanently stranded: seller charged, buyer never paid, no log, no retry.
  • Fix: call check_failure_retries_or_log on each of the three remaining early exits inside do_payment so the retry scheduler always finds the order regardless of which failure path was hit.
  • The LNURL resolution and send_payment sync-failure paths were already handled by prior commits (Harden LNURL fetches against SSRF and hangs #858, Validate payout invoice network and bound final CLTV delta #861); this PR closes the three remaining gaps to make do_payment fully self-contained on all failure paths.

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  • New regression test do_payment_error_marks_failed_payment_for_retry: creates an order in SettledHoldInvoice with no buyer invoice, calls do_payment with let _ = (mirroring both call sites), and asserts failed_payment = true in the database — proving the retry scheduler will find the order

Closes #806

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Failed payments now record retry status when invoices are missing, payment amounts are zero, payout details are invalid, or payment connections fail.
    • Payment destinations and resolved invoices continue to be validated before submission.
    • Settled hold-invoice status is saved before buyer payment begins.
    • Improved reliability when retrying eligible failed payments without overwriting unrelated order updates.

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release.rs now records retry state for additional buyer payment failures. Retry updates preserve unrelated order fields. release_action persists the settled-hold-invoice status before buyer payment. Tests verify persisted retry state for key failure paths.

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Payment retry handling

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Persist retry state safely
src/app/release.rs
Retry bookkeeping updates only failed_payment and payment_attempts. Missing invoices, zero amounts, and LND connection failures now record retry state before returning errors. Tests verify the persisted state.

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The change ensures additional payment failures are marked for retry, but concurrent retry handling may still lose attempt increments and allow retries beyond the configured limit. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner awareness and follow-up on that bounded retry-limit risk.

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Nice catch on these three paths. Making do_payment self-contained is the right level to fix #806, and I confirmed locally that the missing-invoice path now recovers properly: three attempts, then AddInvoice reaches the buyer, and the scheduler stops. A couple of things before this can land, though. cargo fmt --check currently fails (trailing whitespace on the InvoiceInvalidError return, plus a double blank line after the new test), so CI will be red. More importantly, the amount == 0 path now loops forever: with the production default of payment_attempts = 3, check_failure_retries hits the amount <= 0 guard and returns Err(InvalidAmount) before the UPDATE, so the counter sticks at 2 in the database and job_retry_failed_payments re-runs the order every 60 seconds indefinitely, without ever sending AddInvoice. The smallest fix that keeps the "always recoverable" design is to move that UPDATE above the retry-exhausted branch. I tried it and all 37 app::release tests still pass, including check_failure_retries_rejects_non_positive_amount.

On tests and style: do_payment_fails_without_buyer_invoice, do_payment_fails_when_amount_is_consumed_by_fee and do_payment_fails_fast_when_lnd_is_unreachable already cover exactly these three paths, so instead of a fourth test it'd be cleaner to persist the order with create(&pool) in those three and add the failed_payment assertion to each. As it stands, only one of the three paths you fixed is actually covered. It'd also be good to switch the new tracing::error! calls to the warn!("Order id {}: ...", order.id) style the rest of the function uses, and to extend the do_payment doc comment, which still lists only the old set of paths going through check_failure_retries_or_log. Last one, non-blocking: LndConnector::new has no connect timeout, so the new bookkeeping there fires on a misconfigured LND but not on a wedged one, which is the case that actually strands orders. Fine to leave for a follow-up, just worth knowing that gap is only half closed.

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Arowolokehinde force-pushed the fix/806-payment-failure-retry branch from 3d316eb to 86f33d4 Compare August 15, 2026 14:06

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In `@src/app/release.rs`:
- Around line 60-68: Make the retry update in the release flow atomic: avoid
writing caller-snapshot values without guarding against concurrent changes, and
ensure payment_attempts is calculated and capped from committed database state.
Use a compare-and-swap reload-and-retry approach or an equivalent single SQL
update, and derive is_first_failure from the committed result so
Action::PaymentFailed is emitted only once.
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// Only update payment-retry fields to avoid overwriting fields modified by
// concurrent processes (dev_fee_paid, dev_fee_payment_hash, status, etc.)
sqlx::query("UPDATE orders SET failed_payment = ?, payment_attempts = ? WHERE id = ?")
.bind(order.failed_payment)
.bind(order.payment_attempts)
.bind(order.id)
.execute(pool)
.await
.map_err(|e| MostroInternalErr(ServiceError::DbAccessError(e.to_string())))?;

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Make retry updates atomic.

Lines 59-68 calculate retry state from a caller snapshot and then write it without a version guard. Concurrent failures for the same order can both write payment_attempts = 1, or a stale task can overwrite a higher persisted count. The retry scheduler can then exceed the configured retry limit.

Use a compare-and-swap update with a reload-and-retry path, or calculate and cap the counter in one SQL statement. Derive is_first_failure from the committed state so Action::PaymentFailed is emitted once.

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In `@src/app/release.rs` around lines 60 - 68, Make the retry update in the
release flow atomic: avoid writing caller-snapshot values without guarding
against concurrent changes, and ensure payment_attempts is calculated and capped
from committed database state. Use a compare-and-swap reload-and-retry approach
or an equivalent single SQL update, and derive is_first_failure from the
committed result so Action::PaymentFailed is emitted only once.

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All changes addressed - thanks for the thorough review @AndreaDiazCorreia

Moved the UPDATE above the retry-exhausted branch in check_failure_retries to fix the amount == 0 infinite loop. All 36 tests still pass including check_failure_retries_rejects_non_positive_amount.

Dropped the standalone fourth test and instead added create(&pool) plus assert!(db_order.failed_payment) to the three existing tests so all three fixed paths are now covered. Switched the new log calls to warn!("Order id {}: ...", order.id) and extended the do_payment doc comment to list the new paths. cargo fmt --check is clean.

On the LndConnector timeout gap — noted.
i would create a follow-up

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[HIGH] Payment failures in release/admin_settle are silently swallowed (seller settled, buyer unpaid)

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