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/kind bug

What this PR does / why we need it:

When HAMi cannot decode the allocation annotation of a live, bound Pod that is missing from scheduler accounting, it now temporarily excludes that Pod's node from new HAMi allocations.

Failures are tracked by Pod UID. A valid Pod update or deletion removes the failure automatically. If several Pods on the same node have invalid annotations, the node remains unavailable until every failure is cleared.

Malformed updates for Pods with an existing cached allocation continue using the last valid allocation instead of blocking the node.

Live bound Pod
      |
Decode allocation
   /        \
Success     Failure
  |            |
Record usage   Track Pod UID and node
  |            |
Clear failure  Exclude node from Filter
                   |
             Valid update or deletion
                   |
               Restore node

Only Pods whose spec.nodeName matches HAMi's assigned-node annotation can exclude a node.

Which issue(s) this PR fixes:

Fixes #2958

Special notes for your reviewer:

Tests cover:

  • Excluding a node after an uncached bound Pod cannot be decoded.
  • Restoring and accounting the node after a valid update.
  • Keeping the node excluded while another invalid Pod remains.
  • Clearing failures on Pod and node deletion.
  • Ignoring an assignment annotation on an unbound Pod.
  • Preserving a previously cached valid allocation after a malformed resync.
  • Concurrent access under the Go race detector.

No device backend, resource calculation, dependency, configuration, or API behavior is changed.

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Does this PR introduce a user-facing change?:

HAMi now temporarily excludes a node when it cannot reconstruct a live bound Pod's device allocation, and restores the node after a valid update or deletion.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved handling of invalid device-allocation data for scheduled HAMi workloads.
    • Nodes with unresolved allocation failures remain excluded from scheduling to prevent incorrect placement.
    • Allocation failures are cleared when pods become unassigned, terminate, are deleted, recover successfully, or their node is removed.
    • Invalid data from unbound or non-HAMi pods no longer unnecessarily blocks nodes.
    • Valid cached allocations are preserved when resynchronization encounters invalid data.

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Walkthrough

The scheduler tracks allocation decode failures by pod UID and node. Eligible bound HAMi pods with malformed allocations block their node. Valid updates and lifecycle cleanup clear failure records. Tests cover concurrency, filtering, recovery, and cleanup.

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Allocation Decode Failure Handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Failure tracker state
pkg/scheduler/scheduler.go, pkg/scheduler/scheduler_pod_lifecycle_test.go
The scheduler adds a concurrency-safe tracker for pod allocation decode failures and stores it in scheduler state. Tests cover concurrent record and cleanup operations.
Pod and node lifecycle tracking
pkg/scheduler/scheduler.go, pkg/scheduler/scheduler_pod_lifecycle_test.go
Lifecycle handlers record failures only for scheduled, bound HAMi pods. They clear records after valid decoding, assignment removal, termination, pod deletion, or node deletion. Tests cover filtering, recovery, cached allocations, and cleanup.
Node quarantine during selection
pkg/scheduler/scheduler.go, pkg/scheduler/scheduler_pod_lifecycle_test.go
Node usage selection marks nodes with tracked allocation decode failures as unavailable. Tests verify that multiple failures keep a node blocked until all records clear.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to d537f

Malformed live allocations now safely exclude affected nodes, but a party able to alter allocation annotations could cause temporary node unavailability, and the new concurrency test may be flaky. These are bounded risks requiring owner awareness before merge.

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A rabbit records each pod UID
And blocks the node when reads fail
Valid data clears the mark
Deleted pods release the dark
Safe allocations hop onward

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly describes the scheduler fix: fail closed when live Pod allocations cannot be decoded.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #2958. They track decode failures per Pod UID, block affected nodes only for scheduled HAMi Pods bound to the annotated node, preserve cached allocations, and clear failures …
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In `@pkg/scheduler/scheduler.go`:
- Around line 272-274: Update the unassigned-Pod branch in the relevant
scheduler update handler to clear the tracked failure record by removing
newPod.UID before returning when util.AssignedNodeAnnotations is absent. Add a
regression test covering removal of hami.io/vgpu-node and verifying the UID is
cleared.
- Line 239: Update the allocation-decode failure path around
recordAllocationDecodeFailure so it only records a node quarantine when
scheduler-owned evidence confirms the Pod was scheduled through the scheduler’s
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- Line 164: Make the failure-tracker test deterministic by ensuring every UID is
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}()
}
wg.Wait()
assert.Equal(t, len(failures.nodes()), 0)

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Make the final state deterministic.

For each UID, failures.record and failures.clearPod run without an order constraint. If clearPod runs first, record leaves the UID in the tracker. Line 164 can then fail intermittently.

Record all UIDs before starting the clear phase, or otherwise synchronize each UID so that clearPod is the final mutation before this assertion.

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- Line 215: Update onAddPod so allocationDecodeFailures.record is not triggered
solely by PodScheduled or a decoded allocation annotation; require
scheduler-owned immutable evidence, or enforce ownership through admission/RBAC
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}
for _, dev := range device.GetDevices() {
if device.PodRequiresDevice(dev, pod) {
s.allocationDecodeFailures.record(pod.UID, nodeID)

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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major

Denial of Service (CWE-400): Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Reachability: External · Exploitability: Difficult

Do not treat PodScheduled as allocation-annotation provenance.

A workload author can modify the allocation annotation on a legitimately scheduled HAMi Pod. After a scheduler cache rebuild, onAddPod decodes the modified annotation, reaches this record operation, and excludes the node from new HAMi allocations. PodScheduled confirms placement, but it does not make Pod annotations immutable. Protect scheduler-owned allocation annotations with admission or RBAC controls, or use scheduler-owned immutable evidence before quarantining the node. Add a replay test for this path.

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In `@pkg/scheduler/scheduler.go` at line 215, Update onAddPod so
allocationDecodeFailures.record is not triggered solely by PodScheduled or a
decoded allocation annotation; require scheduler-owned immutable evidence, or
enforce ownership through admission/RBAC before quarantining the node. Add a
scheduler cache-rebuild replay test covering a legitimately scheduled HAMi Pod
with a modified allocation annotation and verify the node is not excluded from
new allocations.

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