fix: never cancel a hold invoice the seller just paid - #910
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Preparatory: the cancel paths are about to consult LND before voiding an escrow, and today they have no way to ask. lookup_invoice_state mirrors lookup_payment_status, including its handling of a gRPC NotFound as Ok(None) rather than an error: an invoice LND has no record of (garbage-collected, or a hash we never created) is an answer, not a failure, and callers must be able to tell it apart from a transport problem. Added to the CancelLightning trait as well, so the cancel handler gets the capability through the seam it already uses for cancel_hold_invoice and its test stub can drive both. The stub reports Open — the unpaid escrow every existing cancel test assumes.
Both cancel paths for a waiting-payment order voided the escrow without asking LND about it. If the seller's payment lands in the gap between the caller's read and the cancel RPC, canceling refunds their accepted HTLC — while hold_invoice_paid, running off the invoice subscription, tells the buyer the payment went through and to send fiat. The escrow is gone, the release can no longer settle, and nothing notices: hold_invoice_canceled only alarms past the CLTV deadline. The scheduler path is a free lottery (the timeout boundary is public, a mistimed attempt is just a normal trade) and reconfirm_timeout_eligibility does not close it — the payment lands after the re-read. The cancel_action path is worse: the seller drives both sides, paying and then canceling. classify_escrow_cancel now decides from the invoice state, keyed on status because the two waiting states give the same Accepted opposite meanings: in waiting-payment it means the seller just paid, so skip; in waiting-buyer-invoice they have paid by definition and refunding them is the point. A lookup failure also skips — delaying a cancel is recoverable, refunding a live escrow is not. The scheduler lets the next tick re-evaluate; the handler rejects so the caller retries. Also hoists the status/kind resolution above the escrow cancel: an order whose status cannot be parsed should not lose its hold invoice first and be skipped second.
Eight tests over the two layers of the guard. The classifier: Accepted and Settled skip in waiting-payment, Open / Canceled / no-record proceed, a lookup failure skips, and waiting-buyer-invoice cancels a funded escrow anyway — the asymmetry the rule is keyed on. The handler, through a stub that records whether the hold invoice was canceled, so the assertion is about the escrow and not just the row: a maker cancel and a taker cancel racing the seller's payment are both rejected with the escrow untouched and the order left in waiting-payment, an unreadable escrow state is rejected as an internal error so the caller retries, and the buyer-side timeout still returns the seller's funds. Removing the handler guard fails three of the four handler tests. The fourth is the one that must keep passing: it pins the refund path the guard must not break.
cancel_order_by_maker wrote the order as canceled and only then canceled the hold invoice, so a refused or failed cancel left a canceled order behind a live escrow — still payable at LND for as long as its expiry allows, and cleaned up by nothing: find_held_invoices and the escrow-deadline guardian both ignore canceled orders, so the seller's funds would sit locked until LND voided the invoice near the CLTV horizon. Swap the two, so the `?` returns with the order untouched and the caller retries against a state that still matches the HTLC. This is the ordering the scheduler's timeout path and the taker branch already use, for the reason the scheduler already documents: never persist a state the HTLC does not back.
hold_invoice_paid enqueued BuyerTookOrder / HoldInvoicePaymentAccepted (or AddInvoice) and only then published and wrote the new status — with the write swallowed twice over: dropped a publish failure and dropped the write's. So a lost transition still told the buyer the escrow was funded, and the buyer's next move on that message is to send fiat. Build the messages, persist first, then send. A failed publish or write now logs, skips the notifications, and leaves invoice_held_at at 0 so the order stays eligible for the replay find_held_invoices drives on restart — stamping it would have marked the order processed with nobody told and the HTLC accepted. Order is persist -> notify -> stamp: a failed stamp can cost a duplicate AddInvoice on replay, which is the pre-existing risk, but a notification is never lost for a transition that did happen. This does not make the transition atomic — the guard read and the write are still separate statements (see #855). It removes the case where the buyer is told to send fiat against a write that never landed.
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WalkthroughThe change adds LND invoice-state lookup, idempotent escrow cancellation, authorization-before-lookup checks, timeout retry decisions, and persistence-before-notification ordering. ChangesEscrow cancellation and persistence
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to The change adds an escrow-state guard and reorders cancellation and payment notifications, but the current implementation can mark an order processed before required messages are durably queued, causing users to miss payment instructions after a restart; related failure paths can also duplicate notifications or leave cancellation state inconsistent. The PR is not merge-ready until these bounded risks are fixed or explicitly accepted. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Caller
participant CancelOrder
participant LndConnector
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Caller->>CancelOrder: request cancellation
CancelOrder->>CancelOrder: authorize sender
CancelOrder->>LndConnector: lookup invoice state
LndConnector-->>CancelOrder: invoice state or error
CancelOrder->>LndConnector: cancel hold invoice idempotently
CancelOrder->>OrderPersistence: persist canceled event
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194-215: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy liftPersist notification intent before dispatch.
In the
WaitingBuyerInvoicepath, Lines 194-209 enqueue messages beforeinvoice_held_atis written. Ifnotify_taker_reputationor the write at Lines 212-215 fails, the function returns withStatus::WaitingBuyerInvoiceandinvoice_held_at == 0. A replay then passes Lines 57-61 and queuesAddInvoiceandWaitingBuyerInvoiceagain.Do not only move
invoice_held_atbefore dispatch. That can lose notifications after a process crash. Persist the replay marker and outgoing notification intents in one transaction, then dispatch committed intents idempotently. Add failure tests for reputation notification and replay-marker write failures.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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933-1018: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueConsider sharing
StubEscrowLnClientbetween the two test modules.
src/scheduler.rsdefines an identicalStubEscrowLnClientwith the samereporting,unreachable,refusing_cancel, andescrow_was_canceledmembers. Both stubs must stay in step with theCancelLightningtrait. Move the stub into a shared test fixture module undersrc/app/and import it in both places.As per coding guidelines: "Mirror applicable test fixtures under
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In `@src/app/cancel.rs`:
- Around line 778-803: Resolve and validate the caller role from event.sender
against the order maker and taker before invoking decide_escrow_cancel or any
escrow-state lookup. Then apply the existing guard for both cancellation
branches, routing subsequent logic through the resulting sender_is_maker value
instead of repeating authorization checks; unauthorized callers must receive
InvalidPubkey without triggering the node RPC or revealing escrow status.
- Around line 428-447: Update the cancellation flow around update_order_event to
propagate publish errors instead of silently ignoring them. Replace the
conditional Ok-only handling with error propagation while preserving the
existing database update and MostroInternalErr mapping, so the function does not
report successful cancellation when the order event was not published.
In `@src/scheduler.rs`:
- Around line 524-550: Update invoice_subscribe and its spawned subscription
task to propagate subscription failures instead of dropping them, then add retry
or periodic reconciliation so orders left in waiting-payment after a failure are
reprocessed and accepted escrow recovery can advance. Preserve
find_held_invoices startup reattachment and ensure subsequent scheduler ticks do
not only repeat lookup_invoice_state without retrying the failed subscription.
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In `@src/flow.rs`:
- Around line 194-215: In the WaitingBuyerInvoice flow, replace the current
enqueue-then-update sequence around pending_msgs, notify_taker_reputation, and
update_order_invoice_held_at_time with transactional persistence of the replay
marker and all outgoing notification intents before dispatch; only dispatch
intents after the transaction commits, idempotently. Preserve failure
propagation and add tests covering reputation-notification failure and
replay-marker write failure.
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In `@src/app/cancel.rs`:
- Around line 933-1018: Move StubEscrowLnClient and its reporting, unreachable,
refusing_cancel, and escrow_was_canceled implementations into a shared test
fixture module under src/app/, then remove the duplicate definitions from the
cancel and scheduler test modules and import the shared fixture in both. Keep
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The escrow guard ran ahead of the maker/taker routing, so a sender who is neither party still reached LND: one lookup RPC per message, and for a funded escrow an answer of NotAllowedByStatus instead of InvalidPubkey, which told a stranger the escrow was funded — the transient a seller aiming at this race wants to detect. Resolve the role first and route on it. The duplicate sent_from_maker check and its unreachable else branch go away with it; the guard still covers both branches. The intruder test now runs against a funded escrow, so it fails if the order is ever restored.
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I reviewed the current head and approve this PR.
The changes address the escrow-cancel race conservatively: cancel paths now query LND before voiding a waiting-payment hold invoice, reject/skip funded or unreadable escrows instead of refunding blindly, preserve retryability when cancellation or persistence fails, and delay hold_invoice_paid notifications until the state transition is durably persisted. I also checked the scheduler path and the new lookup_invoice_state seam against the existing hold-invoice replay/reconciliation behavior.
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cargo test hold_invoice_paid -- --nocapture
cargo test scheduler::tests:: -- --nocapture
cargo test
cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warningsResults: focused escrow/cancel/hold-invoice/scheduler tests passed, the full suite passed with 1234 passed / 0 failed / 2 ignored, and clippy passed with -D warnings.
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Checked out and ran it: 1234 tests, clippy clean. The waiting-payment vs waiting-buyer-invoice split in classify_escrow_cancel is the right call, and the guard covers every path that can void a funded escrow — the coop-cancel path doesn't need it, since it only runs from Active/FiatSent/Dispute.
One thing the reorder brushes against. cancel_order_by_maker's persist is still if let Ok(order_updated) = update_order_event(..) with update(pool) inside. Two failures land in the same state — escrow voided, order still live, both parties told Canceled:
- a Nostr publish failure skips the DB write and returns
Ok— pre-existing, unchanged by this PR - a DB write failure returns
Err, and with the reorder the escrow is already gone, where before?returned before it was touched
In waiting-buyer-invoice the seller has paid, so the buyer can still submit an invoice, reach Active and send fiat against nothing. hold_invoice_canceled won't catch it either: is_escrow_backed is only Active | FiatSent | Dispute.
The fix is already in this PR twice — cancel_order_by_taker propagates with map_err(..)?, and hold_invoice_paid now bails on persisted == false.
cancel_order_by_maker guarded its persist with if let Ok(..), so a failure to build the cancel event skipped the DB write, kept going, and told both parties the order was canceled — with the escrow already void one line above. Propagate instead, matching the taker branch and hold_invoice_paid. Hygiene rather than a live hole: for a Canceled transition update_order_event only errors if the event cannot be built at all. Relay rejections, a failed send and a missing Nostr client are all caught inside and queued for republish, so they return Ok. Noted in the comment so the next reader does not mistake this branch for the relay path.
LND reports `already canceled` / `not found` as an error, and every cancel path aborted on it. That made a partial failure unrecoverable: the paths void the escrow before persisting, so an attempt that dies in between leaves the escrow gone and the order live — and the retry meant to finish the job hits the error again. In the handler it dies on `?`; in the scheduler it loops on `continue` every tick, forever. In waiting-buyer-invoice that stall is dangerous: the seller has already paid, so the buyer can still submit an invoice, reach Active and send fiat against an escrow that no longer exists, and hold_invoice_canceled will not flag it (is_escrow_backed covers only Active / FiatSent / Dispute). cancel_escrow_idempotent reuses classify_cancel_error, the classifier the bond module already applies to its own idempotent cancels. Anything it cannot place confidently stays an error, so an unreachable LND still aborts. Applied to all four cancel paths — maker, taker, cooperative and the scheduler timeout. The cooperative path was not in the report, but the reasoning is identical and leaving one path non-convergent is the asymmetry that bites later. With this the half-done state recovers on its own: the caller's retry completes it, and failing that the next timeout tick does.
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- Around line 136-143: Replace raw RPC error interpolation with the established
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I found one blocking issue on the current head.
The escrow-cancel guard itself looks good, and the current CI checks are green, but the hold_invoice_paid no-buyer-invoice path still uses the pre-transition order when notifying reputation. In the real first-delivery state (WaitingPayment + no buyer invoice), that makes the function return NotAllowedByStatus after it has already persisted/sent the waiting-buyer-invoice transition, and before it stamps invoice_held_at. That leaves replay able to enqueue duplicate AddInvoice / WaitingBuyerInvoice messages indefinitely.
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hold_invoice_paid_without_buyer_invoice_requests_oneto start from the realWaitingPaymentstate failed withErr(MostroCantDo(NotAllowedByStatus)); the probe was reverted.
hold_invoice_paid propagated notify_taker_reputation's error, which aborts before invoice_held_at is stamped — with the transition already persisted and AddInvoice / WaitingBuyerInvoice already queued. The order stayed replayable, so a resubscribe would enqueue both prompts again. Best effort instead: log and carry on to the stamp. The notice is an extra message riding alongside a prompt that already went out, and no failure of it is worth a duplicate.
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In `@src/flow.rs`:
- Around line 207-221: Update the no-buyer-invoice flow around
updated_order.update, pending_msgs dispatch, and the invoice_held_at write so
the status transition and idempotency stamp are persisted atomically before any
pending messages are sent. Ensure a failure of the stamp persistence cannot
leave WaitingBuyerInvoice stored with invoice_held_at == 0, and add a regression
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I re-reviewed the current head. The previous reputation-notice blocker is fixed: notify_taker_reputation is now best effort and the new regression test covers that path.
One blocker remains, matching the current CodeRabbit thread on src/flow.rs: pending_msgs are still dispatched before invoice_held_at is written. If updated_order.update(pool) succeeds but update_order_invoice_held_at_time fails, the row is left in WaitingBuyerInvoice with invoice_held_at == 0 after AddInvoice / WaitingBuyerInvoice were already queued. A later Accepted replay will pass the idempotency guard again and duplicate those prompts.
I verified this with a temporary local trigger that fails only the invoice_held_at update after the status write succeeds. The probe leaves exactly that state (WaitingBuyerInvoice, invoice_held_at == 0) with both messages already queued. The probe was reverted before finishing.
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Please persist the transition and idempotency stamp atomically, or otherwise ensure messages are not dispatched until the stamp is durable.
invoice_held_at was a second statement after the status write, so a failed stamp left the transition persisted with the marker at 0 — and the replay find_held_invoices drives on restart would pass the guard and queue AddInvoice and WaitingBuyerInvoice a second time. Stamp the struct before the transition instead: Crud::update writes the whole row, so status, event id and marker land together and the intermediate state stops being representable. Nothing needs ordering between them — the marker means this delivery was processed, and the transition is what processing it produces.
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In `@src/flow.rs`:
- Around line 164-172: The order transition and invoice_held_at marker currently
persist before pending messages are durably recorded, allowing a crash to lose
notifications. Update the transition flow around the order update and
enqueue_order_msg calls so it writes both pending messages to a durable outbox
in the same transaction as the order update, then flushes the outbox only after
commit; add a regression test covering a crash between commit and message
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I re-reviewed the current head and approve this PR.
The previous blockers are resolved on this head:
- The reputation notification can no longer abort before the idempotency marker is written; it is best-effort and covered by a regression test.
- The
invoice_held_atmarker now rides in the same full-row update as the status/event transition, so a failed status write leaves the order replayable and a successful status write no longer leavesWaitingBuyerInvoicewithinvoice_held_at == 0. - The remaining post-commit/in-memory-queue message-loss window is real but pre-existing to this queue design and not a blocker for this focused escrow-safety fix; the current ordering avoids the more likely duplicate/replay and stranded-order failures.
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Current GitHub checks are green: build, test, fmt, clippy, and MSRV build passed.
Canceling a
waiting-paymentorder voids its escrow without asking LND aboutit. If the seller's payment lands first, LND has the HTLC accepted and the
cancel refunds it — while
hold_invoice_paidtells the buyer the payment wentthrough and to send fiat. The escrow is gone,
releasecan no longer settle,and nothing notices. It is reachable from the scheduler timeout and from
cancel_action, and it also happens by accident when a seller pays late.The fix is to ask LND first.
classify_escrow_canceldecides from the invoicestate, keyed on status: in
waiting-paymentan accepted HTLC means the sellerjust paid, so skip; in
waiting-buyer-invoicethey have paid by definition andrefunding them is the point. A lookup failure also skips — delaying a cancel is
recoverable, refunding a live escrow is not.
Two ordering fixes come with it:
cancel_order_by_makernow voids the escrowbefore persisting the cancel, and
hold_invoice_paidnotifies only after thenew status is stored, so the buyer is never told to send fiat against a write
that did not land.
Full suite green (1234 tests), clippy clean. Ten new tests, each guard verified
by removing it.
Still open: the two writers persist full rows with no compare-and-swap, so the
order can end up in the wrong state even though no escrow is lost now — that is
the
See #855already noted in the code, and it deserves its own pass.Heads-up from #855 (escrow cancel guard), which touches the same function.
Two things change for this issue. The money leg is gone: with the guard, the
interleaving can no longer end in a refunded escrow, so what is left here is
state coherence — an order resurrected to Active over a republish, and
contradictory events on relays.
And
hold_invoice_paidis restructured there: messages are built first and sentonly after the persist, gated on a
persistedflag. That flag is the seam forthe CAS — it becomes
rows_affected > 0and nothing else moves. Worth rebasingon it.
One thing to keep in mind: the function publishes the Nostr event before writing,
so a lost CAS leaves a stale event already on relays. #866 has the matching piece
for that (
republish_winning_state_after_cas_miss, including stamping the repaira second later to win the NIP-01 tie-break) — probably a better fit than the bond
example.
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