fix: non-blocking buyer payout with bounded send_payment waits - #883
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Included review availability: Your plan includes up to 2 reviews per rolling hour; 0 remain after this review. WalkthroughPayout handling now validates buyer data before claiming, limits concurrent dispatches, watches payment status during bounded sends, and refreshes claims before submission. Terminal outcomes finalize normally. Timeout and uncertain outcomes preserve claims for reconciliation. ChangesPayout reconciliation flow
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to The payout flow now dispatches work asynchronously with bounded waits while preserving reconciliation-based recovery, and no actionable merge-blocking risk remains beyond normal checks and review. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant do_payment
participant PayoutSemaphore
participant Database
participant BackgroundPayoutTask
participant LND
do_payment->>PayoutSemaphore: wait for dispatch permit
PayoutSemaphore->>Database: refresh payout claim
Database-->>PayoutSemaphore: claim token or lost ownership
PayoutSemaphore->>BackgroundPayoutTask: start payout dispatch
BackgroundPayoutTask->>LND: watch status and send payment concurrently
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BackgroundPayoutTask->>Database: finalize terminal result or preserve claim
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src/app/bond/payout.rs (1)
667-680: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueConsider draining the status channel concurrently with
send_payment.The bound removes the unbounded wait. The drain-after-send shape stays:
rxis read only at line 733, so a stream that emits more than 100 updates still blockssend_paymentuntil the 75-second timeout. The payment is then recorded asIndeterminateeven when LND resolved it.src/app/release.rsavoids this by starting the watcher before the send and running both concurrently. The same shape here would keep healthy payouts on the deterministic path.A second, smaller point: the bond module imports the timeout from
crate::app::release. MovingPAYOUT_SEND_PAYMENT_TIMEOUTto the shared config/constants module would keep the dependency direction betweenappsubmodules clean.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/app/bond/payout.rs`:
- Around line 667-680: Start draining the status receiver concurrently with
ln_client.send_payment in the bond payout flow, following the
watcher-before-send pattern used by the release payout path, so updates cannot
fill the channel while the payment is running and healthy payouts retain their
resolved outcome. Also relocate PAYOUT_SEND_PAYMENT_TIMEOUT to the shared
configuration/constants module and update both bond and release callers to use
that shared symbol, removing the bond module’s dependency on app::release.
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The core of this change is right and the reasoning in the commit messages is unusually good. Moving everything past the idempotency claim off the event loop, and leaning on the persisted claim + reconcile_inflight_payout as the durable recovery path, is the correct shape for this bug. I verified on the branch head: cargo fmt --check clean, cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings clean, cargo test 1195 passed / 0 failed. I also confirmed do_payment is the last statement in both release_action and admin_settle, so the new dispatched semantics introduce no ordering race with the inline tail of those handlers, and that the bond payout Indeterminate path cannot double-pay (pay_counterparty step 1 reconciles on payout_payment_hash before any re-send).
Four things I'd like addressed before merge, then this is a clear approve.
1. The pre-send duplicate guard this PR's safety argument cites is querying the wrong hash
src/lightning/mod.rs:269:
let payment_hash = invoice.signable_hash();Bolt11Invoice::signable_hash() is "The hash of the RawBolt11Invoice that was signed" - not the BOLT11 payment hash. Everywhere else in the codebase uses invoice.payment_hash().as_ref() (release.rs:655, bond/payout.rs:571, dev_fee.rs:953). So send_payment's pre-send track_payment_v2 check asks LND about a hash LND has never seen, always gets NotFound, and the guard never fires.
This is a pre-existing line, but it is not incidental to this PR - two comments explicitly name it as the backstop for exactly the windows this PR widens:
release.rs:~903- "send_payment's own pre-sendtrack_payment_v2check backstops any race where LND actually still has the payment"bond/payout.rs:~613- "Safe to attempt a fresh send;send_payment's own pre-send check will reject any payment LND does already know about"
The bond path is where it bites concretely: after the new 75s Indeterminate timeout the payment may be genuinely in flight; if a later tick's lookup_payment_status returns Ok(None) (LND restarted or pruned the record), step 1 falls through to a fresh send_payment for the same invoice, and the only thing standing between that and a double payout is this guard. Please fix it here (one line) or open a follow-up and drop the two comments that claim protection that doesn't exist.
2. The bond payout keeps the deadlock this PR fixes for the buyer payout
See inline comment on src/app/bond/payout.rs. The buyer payout got watcher-before-send; the bond payout is left draining rx only after send_payment returns, with SendPaymentRequest not setting no_inflight_updates (so LND streams every attempt update into a channel(100)). Bounding it at 75s turns an infinite hang into a bounded one, which is an improvement, but it leaves the same class of bug half-fixed in the same PR.
3. New fan-out in job_retry_failed_payments
src/scheduler.rs:236:
for payment_failed in payment_failed_list.into_iter() {
if payment_failed.payment_attempts < retries_number {
if let Err(e) = do_payment(&ctx, payment_failed.clone(), None).await { ... }
}
}This loop used to be serialized because do_payment awaited the payment to a terminal state. Now do_payment returns as soon as the claim is persisted, so a tick with a backlog of N failed payouts spawns N concurrent tasks, each holding its own LndConnector::new() (a fresh gRPC/TLS connection) for up to 75s. Correctness is fine - the claim CAS still prevents duplicates - but the resource profile changed materially and silently. A Semaphore around the dispatch, or reusing a single connector for the tick, would keep the fix without the burst.
4. No test covers any of the new behaviour
PAYOUT_SEND_PAYMENT_TIMEOUT appears in zero tests. None of the three new behaviours - do_payment returning Ok(()) before settlement, the timeout keeping the claim marker, watcher-started-before-send - is exercised. The existing do_payment tests only reach pre-claim failures, and I accept that LndConnector being a concrete type (no trait seam, unlike EscrowBackend) makes the buyer path genuinely hard to test today. But the bond timeout branch is testable the same way send_payment_indeterminate_failure_keeps_invoice already is - please add at least that one, asserting the Indeterminate route keeps payout_invoice + payout_payment_hash.
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- Base branch is
payout-state-tracking, notmain- stacked PR, must land after its base. crate::app::release::PAYOUT_SEND_PAYMENT_TIMEOUTis now consumed fromapp::bond::payout. A payment-layer bound living inapp::releaseis odd layering once it has two consumers; consider moving it next tosend_paymentinlightning/.
Everything else - the pre-claim get_buyer_pubkey() move, keeping the marker on timeout rather than re-arming, the inline lookup_payment_status reconciliation on RPC error, spawning the watcher as its own task so it survives the outer future being dropped - reads correct to me.
get_buyer_pubkey() ran after send_payment, so a malformed order (no buyer pubkey) failed only after the payment was already dispatched and the payout claim was set. Compute it before LndConnector::new() and the claim CAS so a bad order fails fast without leaving a payout marker for a payment that was never sent, preserving the no marker without a payment, behind it invariant. Preparatory for dispatching the buyer payout off the event loop: the background task will capture this value instead of computing it after send_payment returns.
…ment The event loop awaited do_payment's send_payment inline, which consumes LND's payment stream until a terminal state. A payout HTLC that never resolves (buyer-supplied hold invoice, or an HTLC stuck at a routing node) kept that await pending forever and froze all message processing for the whole daemon, while spawned tasks kept logging normally. Seen twice in production (orders d4b04bcd and 33423dc5) and reproduced on regtest. Run everything past the idempotency claim in a background task instead. The inline path now only does bounded work (resolve invoice/LNURL, connect to LND, persist the payout claim) and returns dispatched; the persisted claim is what makes this safe — whatever happens to the task, reconcile_inflight_payout can finish or fail the payout by hash, so it is never lost or paid twice. Inside the task: - start the status watcher before send_payment and run them concurrently, so a chatty stream can no longer deadlock on the full status channel with the watcher not yet started - bound send_payment with a 75s timeout (LND stops routing attempts at 60s); on timeout, keep the claim marker and let reconciliation resolve the real outcome — a locked-in HTLC cannot be cancelled by the sender and may still settle, so failing the payout here could double-pay - on an RPC-level send_payment error, keep the existing inline reconciliation (lookup by hash, keep marker or re-arm retry), now running in the task All three do_payment callers (release_action, admin_settle and the scheduler retry job) already ignore or merely log the result, so the new dispatched semantics changes no caller behavior, and all of them stop being able to freeze on a payout.
The bond payout job awaited send_payment unbounded, which consumes LND's payment stream until a terminal state. A payout HTLC that never resolves (hold invoice as the dispute winner's payout invoice, or an HTLC stuck in route) would pin the scheduler task forever, and since the status channel is drained only after send_payment returns, a stream with >100 updates could also deadlock on the full channel. The existing PAYMENT_STATUS_RECV_TIMEOUT only bounds the drain loop, not the send itself. Wrap the call in the same 75s PAYOUT_SEND_PAYMENT_TIMEOUT used by the buyer payout and route the elapsed case through the existing PaymentFailureKind::Indeterminate handling: the invoice + hash are kept for the reconciliation branch to resolve the real outcome on the next tick, so the winner is never re-prompted against a payment that may still settle and no double payout is possible.
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The pre-send guard queried track_payment_v2 with invoice.signable_hash() — the invoice's signature digest, which LND never indexes — so it could never find a prior payment and has never blocked a duplicate dispatch. Key it on invoice.payment_hash() and decide by status instead of existence: only an InFlight or Succeeded payment aborts the send. A Failed/Unknown/absent record proceeds, preserving the retry flow that legitimately re-sends the same invoice after a failure; a lookup transport error also proceeds, since LND itself rejects a duplicate SendPaymentV2 for an in-flight or settled hash and the subsequent send fails anyway if LND is unreachable. Reuses lookup_payment_status, the same primitive the payout and bond reconciliation paths already use.
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src/lightning/mod.rs (1)
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send_paymentcontract.Add
///documentation toLndConnector::send_payment. State that it forwards payment updates throughlistenerand rejects hashes that LND reports asInFlightorSucceeded. This behavior defines caller retry handling.As per coding guidelines: “Document non-obvious public Rust APIs with
///documentation comments.”Proposed documentation
impl LndConnector { + /// Sends a BOLT11 payment and forwards LND payment updates to `listener`. + /// + /// Returns an error when LND reports the invoice payment hash as + /// `InFlight` or `Succeeded`. Callers can retry after terminal failure, + /// an unknown status, or a missing LND payment record. pub async fn send_payment(🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/lightning/mod.rs`:
- Around line 270-300: Add /// documentation to LndConnector::send_payment
describing that it forwards payment updates through listener and rejects payment
hashes reported by LND as InFlight or Succeeded; make clear this contract
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…ment The bond payout drained the status channel only after send_payment returned, so a stream with more than 100 updates filled the channel, blocked the sender, and rode the 75s timeout into Indeterminate for a payment that could have completed. Run the bounded send and the drain concurrently with tokio::join! — the same watcher-before-send pattern do_payment uses, kept on this task because the scheduler job needs a single combined outcome. A terminal verdict from the stream now takes priority over how the send future ended: a Succeeded delivered just before the timeout finalizes the slash immediately instead of deferring to reconciliation. The per-recv PAYMENT_STATUS_RECV_TIMEOUT stays as a second line of defense.
Since do_payment returns right after claiming, the scheduler retry loop can fan a backlog of N failed payouts into N concurrent background tasks, each holding its own LND gRPC connection and payment stream for up to PAYOUT_SEND_PAYMENT_TIMEOUT. Gate the send phase behind a static 8-permit semaphore acquired at the top of the spawned task, so a backlog queues instead of fanning out. A task queued past the reconcile grace window can lose its claim to re-arm-and-redispatch; that is safe: the pre-send duplicate guard (now keyed on the real payment hash) and LND's own duplicate rejection stop the late sender from double-paying
Extract the post-join! verdict logic of pay_counterparty into a pure classify_send_verdict and cover its full matrix: a stream-delivered Succeeded wins over a send timeout, an explicit Failed maps to Terminal, and the three no-verdict cases (send timeout, RPC error, stream EOF/recv-timeout) all classify as Indeterminate with their specific message. The timeout branch was previously unreachable in tests — a dead endpoint fails fast, it never hangs — and the Elapsed value is produced with a zero-duration timeout, no mock needed. Behavior of pay_counterparty is unchanged.
Move PAYOUT_SEND_PAYMENT_TIMEOUT next to send_payment in the lightning layer — the 60s window it must exceed lives there — and derive it as the named LND route-attempt timeout plus a 15s margin instead of a free-standing 75. Raising LND's timeout_seconds now automatically raises the payout bound, removing the silent coupling between the two values, and the bond module stops reaching into app::release for a lightning-layer constant. No behavior change.
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All four points are addressed, plus both non-blocking notes. The branch was also rebased onto 1. Duplicate guard queried the wrong hash → fixed in You're right, and it's worse than a stale comment: 2. Bond payout kept its drain-after-send deadlock → fixed in Agreed (CodeRabbit flagged it too). The bounded send and the status drain now run concurrently via 3. Retry-loop fan-out → fixed in A static 8-permit semaphore is acquired at the top of the spawned task and held (RAII) through send, watcher drain, and RPC-error reconcile, so a backlog queues instead of fanning out into N concurrent connections/streams. One interplay worth noting: a task queued past the reconcile grace window can lose its claim to re-arm-and-redispatch; that is safe precisely because of the point-1 fix — the now-working pre-send guard (plus LND's duplicate rejection) stops the late sender from double-paying. 4. Test coverage → partially already there, rest added in The minimum you asked for already exists: What genuinely lacked coverage was the timeout branch, which is unreachable with a dead endpoint (it fails fast, it never hangs). The new commit extracts the post- The remaining gap is Non-blocking notes → both taken, in |
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Re-review after the five follow-up commits. Three of my earlier points are addressed well: the timeout is now derived from LND_PAYMENT_ROUTE_TIMEOUT_SECS (47ea73c), the bond payout drains concurrently with the send (9883aad), and classify_send_verdict is a genuinely nice refactor with real tests behind it (05a1665). d74c111 is also a good catch on its own — the old track_payment_v2(signable_hash()) guard could never match, so this is the first version of that check that can actually fire.
Blocking on one new issue introduced by bc1e1f9.
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- The dispatch semaphore re-opens a double-payout window: an unbounded wait now sits between the idempotency claim and the send, so reconciliation can re-arm the claim (and prompt the buyer for a fresh invoice) while a task still sits in the permit queue. Neither the new hash-keyed guard nor LND's duplicate rejection covers that case, because the re-armed payout uses a different invoice. Details inline on
src/app/release.rs:687. The claim marker is the whole safety property this PR leans on for backgrounding, so this needs closing before merge.
Should fix
src/app/bond/payout.rs:741—join!keeps awaiting the send future after the drain already sawSucceeded, with nothing draining the channel any more; andPAYMENT_STATUS_RECV_TIMEOUT(120s) is now unreachable behind the 75s send bound.src/lightning/mod.rs:306— the guard'slookup_payment_statusis an unbounded await now on everysend_payment, includingdev_fee::send_dev_fee_payment's 5s budget.- My earlier note on
src/app/release.rs:775is still open with no reply.Ok(Ok(()))does not mean "the stream reached a terminal state" —send_payment'swhile let Ok(Some(..))swallows a mid-stream gRPC error and returnsOk(()), so that branch also covers a stream that died or EOF'd with no terminal update, and the comment tells the next reader the opposite. Either fix the comment or run the samelookup_payment_statusreconcile-now block theOk(Err(_))branch already has.
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cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features and cargo test (1209 passed) are all clean on 47ea73c here — no complaints there. But the riskiest new code has no test at all: the do_payment tests still only cover the pre-claim paths, and nothing exercises the background dispatch, the timeout-keeps-the-claim invariant, or the semaphore queueing. The bond side got classify_send_verdict extracted specifically so it could be unit-tested; the buyer side deserves the same treatment — a small dispatch_payout_task-shaped seam (or at least a test that the claim survives a timed-out send) would have caught the issue above.
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| // silently dropping a claimed payout. The permit is held for the | ||
| // whole task (send, watcher drain, RPC-error reconcile) via RAII. | ||
| let _permit = PAYOUT_DISPATCH_SEMAPHORE.acquire().await; |
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Blocking: a permit-queued task can double-pay the buyer.
The doc on PAYOUT_DISPATCH_SEMAPHORE argues the queue-past-grace case is safe because "the pre-send duplicate guard in send_payment (keyed on the real payment hash) and LND's own duplicate rejection stop the late sender from double-paying". Both of those are keyed on this invoice's hash — and the re-arm path does not reuse this invoice.
The sequence:
- Backlog: the retry job fans more than 8 failed payouts into background tasks, so task Dev yadio quote for market price orders #9 blocks on this
acquire(). Each wave holds its permit for up toPAYOUT_SEND_PAYMENT_TIMEOUT(75s), so the wait is unbounded in principle and ~75s per wave in practice. - The reconciler's grace window is
max(payment_retries_interval, MIN_GRACE_SECS = 30)(scheduler.rs:267) and it ticks every 60s. A task that has queued for more than that is already visible tofind_inflight_payouts— while it has not calledsend_paymenteven once. reconcile_inflight_payoutlooks the hash up in LND. Nothing was sent, so LND has no record →Ok(None)→ theFailed | Unknown | Nonearm atrelease.rs:1019→fail_order_payout+check_failure_retries_or_log. The claim is cleared and the buyer getspayment-failed→add-invoice.- The buyer submits a new invoice.
pay_new_invoiceis no longer blocked (marker gone), a new claim is created under a different payment hash, and a seconddo_paymentdispatches it. - Task Dev yadio quote for market price orders #9 finally gets its permit and sends the old invoice. The guard in
send_paymentlooks up the old hash, LND still has no record of it, so it proceeds. LND has nothing to reject either — two distinct hashes, two distinct payments.
Both invoices settle against one settled escrow. That is precisely what the claim marker exists to prevent; the semaphore re-opens the window by putting an unbounded wait between the claim and the send. Before bc1e1f9 the gap was just the send call itself, which is what the comment at release.rs:652 still promises.
Cheapest fix — re-validate ownership of the claim after acquiring the permit:
let _permit = PAYOUT_DISPATCH_SEMAPHORE.acquire().await;
// Reconciliation may have re-armed this claim while we queued; if it did,
// a newer payout owns the order and this invoice must not be sent.
if !crate::db::payout_claim_is_current(ctx.pool(), order.id, &payout_hash, payout_claimed_at)
.await
.unwrap_or(false)
{
warn!(
"Order {}: payout claim was re-armed while queued; dropping stale dispatch",
order.id
);
return;
}fail_order_payout / clear_order_payout already scope on (order_id, hash, claimed_at), so that predicate is a one-liner over the existing schema and is worth a unit test of its own.
If you'd rather avoid the extra DB round trip, either acquire the permit before claim_order_payout (then the claim is never older than the send by more than the send itself), or bound the queue wait with try_acquire_owned plus a wait strictly shorter than MIN_GRACE_SECS and fail the claim locally if the permit never arrives.
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join! keeps waiting on the send future after the drain already saw Succeeded.
drain_fut breaks out of its loop on PaymentStatus::Succeeded, but rx lives in the enclosing scope and join! holds both futures alive until both complete — so breaking neither closes the channel nor ends the wait. send_payment is still listener.send(msg).await-ing every remaining LND update into a channel nobody drains any more, and the job pays up to the full 75s for a payment it already knows settled.
In practice LND closes the stream right after the terminal update and the 100-slot buffer absorbs the tail, so this is a latency/shape issue rather than a live deadlock — but it is the same "nobody is draining" shape this commit set out to remove, so it is worth closing properly. Moving rx into the drain and dropping it on the way out makes the send future finish immediately (listener.send errors → Ok(Err(..)), which classify_send_verdict already subordinates to succeeded):
let drain_fut = async move { // take ownership of `rx`
let mut succeeded = false;
let mut failure: Option<(PaymentFailureKind, String)> = None;
loop { /* unchanged */ }
// Unblock a send that is still pushing updates into a channel we are
// done reading.
drop(rx);
(succeeded, failure)
};Separately: PAYMENT_STATUS_RECV_TIMEOUT (120s) is now unreachable. The send side is bounded at 75s, and once its future is dropped tx drops and rx.recv() returns None on the spot, so the recv timeout can never fire. The comment calls it "a second line of defense"; in this shape it is dead code. Either drop it below 75s so it can actually fire first, or say plainly that it is vestigial — classify_stream_recv_timeout_is_indeterminate currently tests a branch that production can no longer reach.
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| // settled hash (the hard backstop behind this check), and if LND is | ||
| // truly unreachable the send below fails anyway. | ||
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The guard adds an unbounded RPC to every send_payment, including the 5s dev-fee path.
Keying on payment_hash() instead of signable_hash() is right, and worth stating in the commit body that this is a behavior change rather than a pure bug fix: the old track_payment_v2(signable_hash()) check returned NotFound for every invoice, so send_payment effectively had no duplicate guard. This is the first version that can actually abort a send.
The cost is that lookup_payment_status opens a track_payment_v2 stream and awaits stream.message() with no timeout of its own, and it now runs before every payment. The two payout paths cover it with the new 75s outer bound, but dev_fee::send_dev_fee_payment (src/app/dev_fee.rs:992) wraps send_payment in a 5s timeout that previously only had to cover send_payment_v2 — it now has to cover a full track round trip first. A slow LND turns dev-fee payments into send_payment timeout errors that used to go through.
Worth bounding the lookup itself here (it is the only unbounded await left inside send_payment), so callers get a guard that degrades to "proceed" — which the comment above already says is the safe direction, since LND rejects a genuine duplicate anyway — instead of eating the caller's whole budget.
The dispatch semaphore put an unbounded wait between the idempotency claim and the send, so a task queued past the reconcile grace window could lose its claim to re-arm — and the re-armed payout may use a fresh invoice, whose different payment hash escapes both the pre-send duplicate guard and LND's duplicate rejection: two invoices could settle against one escrow. Close it with touch_order_payout_claim, a single CAS that re-validates claim ownership after the permit AND refreshes payout_claimed_at. A re-armed or replaced claim makes the queued task drop the send; a still-owned claim restarts the reconcile grace clock, so the claim is once again never older than its send by more than the send itself — and a reconciler holding a pre-touch snapshot loses its scoped release CAS. On a DB error the task also drops the send: the kept marker is recoverable by reconciliation, a blind send is not. The watcher and all later releases scope to the refreshed token. Covered by five DB-level tests, including the replacement-claim scenario and the pre-touch reconciler snapshot.
- bond: the drain now owns rx and drops it once it has a terminal verdict, so a send still pushing updates fails its next listener.send and returns immediately instead of riding out the 75s bound for a payment whose outcome is already known. PAYMENT_STATUS_RECV_TIMEOUT is removed outright — behind the 75s send bound it could never fire — and the test that exercised that unreachable branch is replaced by one covering the new shape (a stream-delivered Succeeded wins over the send error caused by dropping rx). - lightning: the duplicate-guard lookup is bounded at 2s at its call site, so this advisory check can never eat a caller's budget (dev_fee wraps send_payment in 5s total). On timeout the guard degrades to proceed — the direction already documented as safe, since LND itself rejects a genuine duplicate for an in-flight or settled hash. - release: the Ok(Ok(())) comment no longer claims the stream reached a terminal state — send_payment's while let Ok(Some(..)) swallows a mid-stream gRPC error, so that branch also covers a dead/EOF'd stream; the behavior was already safe (marker kept, reconciliation resolves by hash), only the comment was wrong.
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Re-reviewed 5b8b4a9 + 49190c4. The blocking issue is properly closed and the other three notes are addressed.
On the double-payout fix (5b8b4a9)
touch_order_payout_claim is the right shape, and the choice to refresh the token rather than merely check it is a better answer than what I suggested — a plain ownership check would still have left reconciliation free to re-arm in the gap between the check and LND registering the payment, and refreshing closes that too. I traced the CAS end to end:
payout_claimed_at IS ?4(null-safe) +payout_payment_hash = ?3+status = 'settled-hold-invoice'matches the scoping inclaim_order_payout/fail_order_payout/clear_order_payout, so ownership, invoice identity and order state are all pinned in one statement.- The refreshed token shadows the outer binding before the watcher closure and the send are constructed (
release.rs:703), soclear_order_payoutin theSucceededpath,fail_order_payoutin both the watcher'sFailedpath and the outerOk(Err(..))path all carry the new token. No path was left on the stale one. - The
Ok(None)andErr(..)branches both drop the send and keep the marker, which is the recoverable direction:find_inflight_payoutsstill sees the row under the old token whose grace has long elapsed, so the reconciler resolves it on the next tick. - The five new
db.rstests cover exactly the sequence I described —test_touch_payout_claim_loses_to_replacement_claimis the double-payout scenario verbatim, andtest_touch_payout_claim_invalidates_pre_touch_snapshotpins the reconciler-snapshot half that I had not asked for.
On 49190c4
drop(rx)at the end of the drain makes theSucceededcase return immediately instead of riding out the 75s bound, andclassify_stream_succeeded_wins_over_send_errorpins the resultingOk(Err(channel closed))not shadowing the settled verdict. RemovingPAYMENT_STATUS_RECV_TIMEOUToutright rather than keeping a bound that could never fire is the honest call: the drain is now bounded transitively and airtight, sincetxonly lives insidesend_payment's frame and the 75stimeoutdrops that frame.DUPLICATE_GUARD_LOOKUP_TIMEOUTbounds the only unbounded await left insend_payment, and degrading to "proceed" on timeout is right given LND's own duplicate rejection is the hard backstop.- The
Ok(Ok(()))comment now says what the branch actually covers.
Verification
On 49190c4: cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features and cargo test (1214 passed, +5) all clean locally.
Non-blocking, for whenever
Two small notes inline (release.rs:42, lightning/mod.rs:333) — both are doc/observability, neither is worth another round.
One last thought rather than a request: the dispatch task itself still has no test at the release.rs level. The db layer is now well covered, and the 20 lines of wiring read correctly, so this is fine to merge — but if the buyer payout ever grows a third failure mode, extracting the task body the way classify_send_verdict was extracted on the bond side would pay for itself.
Good work on the turnaround. LGTM.
| /// `touch_order_payout_claim` right after the permit: a task whose claim was | ||
| /// re-armed or replaced while it queued drops its send. Fixed for now; could | ||
| /// become a settings knob later. | ||
| static PAYOUT_DISPATCH_SEMAPHORE: Semaphore = Semaphore::const_new(8); |
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Non-blocking, doc only: the semaphore does not actually bound LND connections.
LndConnector::new() runs at release.rs:645, before the claim and therefore before the queue — deliberately, so a connect blip never leaves a marker set. So a backlog of N payouts still opens N gRPC connections; each one then sits idle for the whole queue wait and only the sends are capped at 8. What this semaphore bounds is concurrent payment streams, not connections.
The doc says "each holding its own LND gRPC connection and payment stream ... this semaphore makes a backlog queue instead of fanning out", which reads as though both are capped. Worth narrowing to the payment stream, since the connection fan-out is a deliberate trade for the fail-fast-before-claim property and someone tuning the 8 later will want to know which resource it governs.
| "payment already dispatched for this hash".to_string(), | ||
| ))); | ||
| } | ||
| _ => {} |
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Non-blocking: the catch-all silently absorbs the two cases worth knowing about.
Bounding the lookup is right, and proceeding on timeout is the correct default given LND's own duplicate rejection. But _ => {} now covers Err(Elapsed) and Ok(Err(transport)) with no trace, so an LND whose track_payment_v2 consistently exceeds 2s leaves the guard permanently disabled and nothing in the logs says so — the abort path logs, the degraded path does not.
A line on those two arms would make it visible:
Err(_) => info!(
"Duplicate guard lookup for hash {} timed out after {}s; proceeding (LND rejects real duplicates)",
hash,
DUPLICATE_GUARD_LOOKUP_TIMEOUT.as_secs()
),
Ok(Err(e)) => info!("Duplicate guard lookup for hash {} failed ({e}); proceeding", hash),
_ => {}
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Post-merge audit. Reviewed the merged state (2f2b813) rather than the branch, since #883 landed before this pass. The 8 inline notes from the earlier thread were all addressed by 47ea73c / 5b8b4a9 / 49190c4 — nothing below repeats them.
The core design holds up: claim-before-dispatch is the right idempotency anchor, backgrounding is safe because of that claim, and extracting classify_send_verdict was the correct move for a branch that could not otherwise be exercised. The findings are almost entirely about what the dispatch semaphore (bc1e1f9) added on top of it.
Findings
| # | Severity | Where | What |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 🔴 High | release.rs:692 |
A permit-queued task burns the buyer's retry budget for a payout that was never sent |
| 2 | 🟡 Medium | payout.rs:764 |
classify_send_verdict admits a state its only caller can no longer produce |
| 3 | 🟡 Medium | release.rs:806 |
The new dispatch path has no test coverage above the DB layer |
| 4 | 🔵 Low | release.rs:691 |
The permit doc overstates what RAII covers |
| 5 | 🔵 Low | db.rs:1259 |
The claim token is wall-clock, so it is not monotonic |
✅ Verified correct — spot-checked, no action needed
lookup_payment_statususesno_inflight_updates: false(lightning/mod.rs:413), so the 2s-bounded duplicate guard can actually observeInFlight. It does not silently degrade into an always-proceed check, which was my first suspicion when reading the 2s bound.tokio::join!usesmaybe_done, which drops a future once it completes — so the 75sElapsedgenuinely dropssend_payment, closestx, and terminatesdrain_fut. The bond drain'sdrop(rx)is symmetric: it failslistener.send(..)?atlightning/mod.rs:383-387intoOk(Err(LnNodeError)), whichclassify_send_verdictcorrectly subordinates tosucceeded.classify_stream_succeeded_wins_over_send_errorpins exactly that.- Re-keying the duplicate guard onto
payment_hash()is not a regression fordev_fee::send_dev_fee_payment: LND already rejected a duplicateSendPaymentV2for an in-flight/settled hash, so the failure mode is unchanged — only reached sooner and with a clearer error. Durationis still used atpayout.rs:813afterPAYMENT_STATUS_RECV_TIMEOUTwas removed — no dead import left behind.touch_order_payout_claim'spayout_claimed_at IS ?4is the correct SQLite form for theOption<i64>bind, and itsstatus = 'settled-hold-invoice'scoping matchesclaim_order_payoutandfind_inflight_payouts.
Verdict: REQUEST_CHANGES, as follow-up work on the merged state. Finding 1 is a real behavioral regression: touch_order_payout_claim stopped the queue from double-paying, but not from failing payouts that were never dispatched. Findings 2-5 are quality, not correctness.
| // were closed; proceeding unpermitted in that impossible case beats | ||
| // silently dropping a claimed payout. The permit is held for the | ||
| // whole task (send, watcher drain, RPC-error reconcile) via RAII. | ||
| let _permit = PAYOUT_DISPATCH_SEMAPHORE.acquire().await; |
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A permit-queued task burns the buyer's retry budget for a payout that was never sent.
touch_order_payout_claim closes the double-pay window from the earlier review. It does not close the spurious-failure window that the same queue opens, and the doc on PAYOUT_DISPATCH_SEMAPHORE (L33-41) only reasons about the former.
Reachable on stock settings — payment_attempts = 3, payment_retries_interval = 60, so grace_secs = max(60, 30) = 60 and the reconcile tick is 60s:
job_retry_failed_payments(scheduler.rs:233-240) walksfind_failed_paymentsequentially, anddo_paymentnow returns right after claiming. N failed payouts therefore become N spawned tasks in one tight loop.- Eight acquire permits; the rest block here. Wave 1 holds its permits for up to
PAYOUT_SEND_PAYMENT_TIMEOUT(75s) — which is precisely the stuck-payout case this PR exists to survive. So wave 2 queues for more than the 60s grace. - Its claim is now older than
grace_secs, sofind_inflight_payoutsreturns it andreconcile_inflight_payoutlooks the hash up. Nothing was ever sent, so LND has no record →Ok(None)→ theFailed | Unknown | Nonearm →fail_order_payout+check_failure_retries_or_log. check_failure_retries(L79-101) bumpspayment_attempts, and oncepayment_attempts >= retries_numberit enqueuesAction::AddInvoice— asking the buyer for a fresh invoice for a payment that was never attempted. Atpayment_attempts = 3, two such waves exhaust the budget.- The task finally gets its permit,
touchreturnsNone, the send is dropped. Correct — but the damage is already committed, and the payout now depends on the buyer re-submitting.
No funds are at risk; that part touch does fix. But a transient backlog now converts into user-visible payment failures and retry exhaustion, on orders where nothing was ever attempted.
Keeping the claim fresh while queued is the minimal fix, and the token is already refreshable:
let _permit = loop {
tokio::select! {
p = PAYOUT_DISPATCH_SEMAPHORE.acquire() => break p,
// HEARTBEAT must stay below MIN_GRACE_SECS
_ = tokio::time::sleep(HEARTBEAT) => {
match crate::db::touch_order_payout_claim(
ctx.pool(), order.id, &payout_hash, Some(payout_claimed_at),
).await {
Ok(Some(t)) => payout_claimed_at = t,
// lost the claim, or a DB error: drop the dispatch either way
_ => return,
}
}
}
};The alternative already raised in the previous round — acquire the permit before claim_order_payout — also works and needs no heartbeat, at the cost of letting find_failed_payment re-pick the order while it queues.
| "payment stream ended without terminal status".to_string(), | ||
| )); | ||
| on_send_payment_failure(pool, bond, max_retries, claim_window_seconds, kind, &msg).await | ||
| let stream_failure = match stream_failure { |
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classify_send_verdict admits a state its only caller can no longer produce.
49190c4 removed PAYMENT_STATUS_RECV_TIMEOUT, and with it the only producer of an Indeterminate stream failure. drain_fut can now yield exactly two things: None, or Some((Terminal, _)). The signature still takes the wider Option<(PaymentFailureKind, String)>, so:
let stream_failure = match stream_failure {
Some((PaymentFailureKind::Terminal, msg)) => return SendVerdict::Failure(Terminal, msg),
other => other, // provably None from here on
};
// ...
Ok(Ok(())) => stream_failure.unwrap_or((Indeterminate, "payment stream ended…")),Both the rebinding and the unwrap_or at L785 are dead: for every input the caller can construct, stream_failure is None by the time it is read. Some((Indeterminate, _)) is untestable and untested, and the next reader has to go two functions away and re-derive that from the drain body to know it.
The succeeded: bool + Option<…> pair has the same problem from the other direction — it can encode (true, Some(Terminal)), an impossible pairing the function nonetheless has to pick a winner for. Collapsing both into what the drain actually returns removes the guesswork:
enum StreamOutcome { Succeeded, Failed(String), Ended }
fn classify_send_verdict(
send_outcome: Result<Result<(), MostroError>, Elapsed>,
stream: StreamOutcome,
) -> SendVerdictThe six new tests port over almost unchanged, and the matrix they cover becomes total rather than "total over the reachable subset".
| }; | ||
| tokio::spawn(watcher); | ||
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The new dispatch path has no test coverage above the DB layer.
The four do_payment tests (L2126-2260) all assert on pre-claim failures — missing invoice, fee-consumed amount, unreachable LND, LNURL resolve-and-validate. None of them reaches tokio::spawn, so everything this PR added inside the task is covered only indirectly:
- the
touchgate → only through the five DB-level tests atdb.rs:3224-3355. Those are good tests, but they pin the SQL; nothing asserts that the task actually honoursOk(None)by dropping the send. - the semaphore, this 75s
Err(_)branch, and the watcher-before-send ordering → nothing at all.
Worth noting the bond side of this same PR shows the move: classify_send_verdict got extracted into a pure function with six tests precisely because the surrounding I/O could not be exercised. The identical extraction is available here — this match timeout(...) is three branches over Result<Result<(), MostroError>, Elapsed> plus a keep_marker decision, all pure once the lookup result is a parameter. That would put the "timeout must keep the marker" invariant, which is the whole safety argument of the PR, under test instead of under a comment.
| // semaphore is static and never closed, so acquire() only errs if it | ||
| // were closed; proceeding unpermitted in that impossible case beats | ||
| // silently dropping a claimed payout. The permit is held for the | ||
| // whole task (send, watcher drain, RPC-error reconcile) via RAII. |
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The permit doc overstates what RAII covers. (non-blocking, doc only)
The permit is held for the whole task (send, watcher drain, RPC-error reconcile) via RAII.
The watcher is tokio::spawn(watcher) at L804 — a sibling task, not part of the permit-holding one. Its drain is transitively bounded (it ends when tx drops along with the send), but the work it does on the final message — payment_success, update_order_event, the nostr publish, clear_order_payout — runs after this permit has already been released.
That is fine as behavior; the semaphore is meant to bound concurrent payment streams, and it does. But the comments in this module are load-bearing — they are how the next reader reconstructs the safety argument — so it is worth narrowing to "the send and the RPC-error reconcile" rather than implying the watcher is inside the bound.
| payment_hash: &str, | ||
| claimed_at: Option<i64>, | ||
| ) -> Result<Option<i64>, MostroError> { | ||
| let refreshed_at = chrono::Utc::now().timestamp(); |
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The claim token is wall-clock, so it is not monotonic. (non-blocking; pre-existing at claim_order_payout, L1217, but touch now leans on it harder)
touch_order_payout_claim refreshes with chrono::Utc::now().timestamp(). Two consequences — neither exploitable, both worth writing down since the doc at L1232-1252 presents the token as an identity:
- One-second resolution. A claim released and re-claimed inside the same second produces an identical token, so a stale task's
touchcan match a newer claim. This is not a double-pay:touchalso matches onpayout_payment_hash, so a same-token match implies the same invoice, which LND's own duplicate rejection catches. But the CAS is weaker than "the new per-claim token every later release must be scoped to" suggests. - Backward clock step.
find_inflight_payoutsfilters onpayout_claimed_at <= now - grace_secs, so an NTP step backwards makes a just-refreshed claim immediately reconcilable — the same shape as the queue finding above, without needing a backlog to trigger it.
A monotonic counter (or a rowid-style sequence) would make the token an identity rather than a timestamp. The grace window can keep using a separate wall-clock column, since it genuinely wants elapsed time.
… (#893) * fix: heartbeat the payout claim while queued for a send permit touch_order_payout_claim closed the double-payout window the dispatch queue opened, but not the spurious-failure one: a task queued past the reconcile grace window still lost its claim to re-arm, burning the buyer's retry budget — and eventually re-prompting for a fresh invoice — for a payout that was never sent. Reachable on stock settings whenever more than 8 payouts ride out their 75s bound at once, which is precisely the stuck-payout scenario this code exists to survive. Keep the claim younger than grace instead: while waiting for a permit, re-validate and re-stamp it every PAYOUT_QUEUE_HEARTBEAT (derived as 2/3 of the reconciler's MIN_GRACE_SECS, now promoted to a module constant so the relation is structural). The acquire future is pinned outside the select! loop so the task keeps its FIFO position in the semaphore queue across heartbeats. A lost claim or a DB error drops the dispatch — the same safe directions the post-permit touch already uses — and that final touch stays as the gate, since the last heartbeat can be a full cadence old. Also narrows the semaphore/permit docs: the bound covers concurrent payment streams (not LND connections, a deliberate fail-fast-before- claim trade) and the permit spans the send and RPC-error reconcile (the watcher is a sibling task). * fix(lightning): log the duplicate guard's degraded paths The guard's catch-all silently absorbed the two cases worth knowing about: a lookup timeout and a lookup transport error both fell through to proceed with no trace, so an LND whose track_payment_v2 consistently exceeds the 2s bound would leave the guard permanently disabled and nothing in the logs would say so — the abort path logged, the degraded path did not. Give both arms an info! line; the remaining catch-all now covers only Failed/Unknown/no-record, the normal go-ahead. * refactor(bond): collapse the drain result into StreamOutcome Removing PAYMENT_STATUS_RECV_TIMEOUT left classify_send_verdict admitting states its only caller could no longer produce: the drain yields exactly None or Some((Terminal, _)), so the Indeterminate stream-failure arm and its unwrap_or were dead code, and the (succeeded, Option<failure>) pair could still encode the impossible (true, Some(Terminal)) pairing the function had to pick a winner for. Replace the pair with StreamOutcome { Succeeded, Failed(String), Ended } — precisely what the drain observes — and classify over that. The verdict logic is unchanged; the six tests port 1:1 and their matrix is now total over the real input domain instead of total over the reachable subset * test: put the dispatch task's claim decision under test The dispatch path had no coverage above the DB layer: the do_payment tests stop at pre-claim failures, so the timeout-keeps-the-marker invariant — the central safety argument of the background dispatch — lived only in a comment. Apply the same move classify_send_verdict got on the bond side: extract the post-send claim decision into a pure classify_dispatch(send_outcome, lookup) returning StreamEnded / KeepMarker / ReArm, with the LND status lookup as a parameter. Nine tests cover the full matrix: a timed-out send always keeps the claim; an RPC-level failure keeps it when LND reports the payment in flight or settled (or the lookup itself fails), and re-arms retry when LND reports failed/unknown/no record or the hash was unusable. The caller keeps the side effects (scoped fail_order_payout + retry bookkeeping); the warn causes now travel inside the verdict, a minor log reshuffle with no behavior change. * docs(db): document the wall-clock caveats of the payout claim token The docs presented payout_claimed_at as an identity token, but it has 1-second resolution (a same-second collision is harmless: the CAS also pins the hash, and LND rejects duplicate sends) and is vulnerable to backward clock steps (bounded in practice by the queue heartbeat). Name both caveats and record the clean fix — a monotonic per-order sequence — as deliberate future work.
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do_paymentnow performs only bounded work inline — resolve invoice/LNURL,connect to LND, persist the payout claim — and returns once the payout is
dispatched. The payment itself runs in a background task, so the event loop
never waits on payment resolution.
send_paymentand runsconcurrently with it, so a busy status stream can no longer stall the
payment on a full channel.
send_paymentfor the buyer payout and for the bond payout is bounded by ashared 75s timeout (
PAYOUT_SEND_PAYMENT_TIMEOUT). LND stops launching newroute attempts at 60s; past that point the stream is only kept open by an
HTLC that has not resolved yet, which the sender cannot cancel anyway.
marker is kept and the reconciliation job resolves the real outcome by
payment hash (finalize on success, re-arm retry on failure). Bond payout
timeouts route through the existing
Indeterminatehandling for the samereason.
Why
send_paymentconsumes LND's payment stream until a terminal state. Apayment that takes long to resolve therefore pinned its calling task for as
long as the payment stayed unresolved — and for the buyer payout that task is
the event loop, so message processing degraded until resolution.
This builds directly on the payout state tracking work (idempotent claim +
reconciler): the claim persisted before dispatch is what makes backgrounding
safe. Whatever happens to the task — RPC error, timeout, process restart —
the payout can always be finished or failed by hash, never lost and never
paid twice.
Semantics change:
do_paymentreturningOk(())now means dispatched, notsettled. All three callers (
release_action,admin_settle, schedulerretry job) already ignore or merely log the result, so no caller behavior
changes.
Commits
without leaving a marker for a payout that was never dispatched.
send_payment(watcher-first, 75s timeout, timeout keeps the claim).send_paymentwith the same timeout.Testing
cargo test(1195 passed),cargo fmt,cargo clippyclean. The existingdo_paymentunit tests cover the inline (pre-claim) paths, which arepreserved unchanged.
processing messages throughout, the claim is kept, and a warn is logged;
reconciler picks the claim up and defers while the payment is in flight;
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payment-failed→add-invoice), and a fresh invoice completes theorder (
Success,purchase-completed+rate).Summary by CodeRabbit