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In COPY mode, stash_calculation writes to target_base/uuid[:2]/uuid[2:4]/uuid[4:], but on a StashingError it cleaned up with

await transport.rmtree_async(target_base / uuid[:2])

which removes the whole two-character shard, i.e. every previously stashed calculation whose UUID shares that prefix (~1/256 of the stash area). Introduced in ae49af6, shipped since v2.7.0.

This PR removes only the failed calculation's own target_basepath, and generalizes the regression coverage into the parametrized test_stashing: a failed stash must leave pre-existing destination content untouched in every stash mode (a sibling directory in the same shard for COPY, a sibling archive for the compress modes).

Compress modes are unaffected by the rmtree bug itself (single tarball, no rmtree cleanup).

Remaining sharp edge, deliberately out of scope: for core.stash jobs the target path is keyed by the source node's UUID, so two stash jobs of the same node share it, and a failed one can still remove its sibling's completed stash. #7564 closes that by making the target unique per stash job; this PR stays minimal because it has to go to the patch releases: 2.7.x, 2.8.x, 2.9.x.

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Copy failures now remove only the current calculation stash directory. Tests cover copy and compressed modes and confirm that another stash in the same shard remains intact.

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The PR narrows cleanup from an entire shard to a directory that can still be shared by multiple calculations. A failed COPY could delete another calculation’s completed stash, so merging should be blocked until cleanup is calculation-unique or ownership-checked.

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In `@src/aiida/engine/daemon/execmanager.py`:
- Around line 536-540: Change the failed COPY cleanup in the stash flow so it
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Comment thread src/aiida/engine/daemon/execmanager.py Outdated
Comment on lines +536 to +540
# Only remove this calculation's stash: ``target_base / uuid[:2]`` is a shard shared with other stashes.
await transport.rmtree_async(target_basepath)
raise exception
else:
EXEC_LOGGER.debug(f'All files succesfully {source_list} stashed to {target_base / uuid[:2]}')
EXEC_LOGGER.debug(f'All files succesfully {source_list} stashed to {target_basepath}')

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Guard target_basepath cleanup against reused stash paths.

core.stash derives target_basepath from remote_node.uuid, not the calculation UUID. Calculations with the same source_node and target_base therefore share the directory. A failed COPY can delete another calculation’s completed stash through rmtree_async(target_basepath). Use a calculation-unique staging directory or verify ownership before deletion.

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In `@src/aiida/engine/daemon/execmanager.py` around lines 536 - 540, Change the
failed COPY cleanup in the stash flow so it cannot remove a shared
target_basepath derived from the remote node UUID. Use a calculation-unique
staging directory, or verify that the path belongs to the current calculation
before calling transport.rmtree_async; preserve cleanup of the current
calculation’s own partial stash.

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I'll address this in a separate PR

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Sounds we want this fix for this also in the patch release

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Valid finding, deliberately out of scope for this PR, which stays minimal for the patch releases — the narrowed rmtree is still a strict improvement (a failed cleanup can at most affect the shared source-keyed directory, no longer the whole shard). The complete fix lands in #7564: the core.stash target is now suffixed with the stash job's own UUID (.../<rest-of-source-uuid>_<calc_uuid>), so the cleanup can only ever touch the failed job's own directory. See also the PR description, which now spells out this split.

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Looks reasonable. Couldn't find really wrong reasoning why this bug happened. I just noticed that the directory creation was heavily split up into creating directories for the individual splits (see 6f5c35e) for, it seems, error handling. I guess that logic was confusing enough to let something like this slip into. Now the directory creation is much simpler and the bug seems obvious.

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Comment on lines +536 to +540
# Only remove this calculation's stash: ``target_base / uuid[:2]`` is a shard shared with other stashes.
await transport.rmtree_async(target_basepath)
raise exception
else:
EXEC_LOGGER.debug(f'All files succesfully {source_list} stashed to {target_base / uuid[:2]}')
EXEC_LOGGER.debug(f'All files succesfully {source_list} stashed to {target_basepath}')

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Sounds we want this fix for this also in the patch release

Comment thread src/aiida/engine/daemon/execmanager.py Outdated
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Some comments from Claude that might be useful:

  • The warning at line 485 still has no extra=logger_extra, so a failed stash still never appears in the node's DB log — only in.aiida/daemon/log/aiida-main.log.

  • RemoteStashFolderDatais still created unconditionally after the copy loop, so a calculation whose stash failed still finishes withexit_status 0and aremote_stashoutput pointing at a path holding no file.

So after patching, a stash failure stops being catastrophic but remains silent. With clean_workdir=True, that still means the workdir is deleted and the archive is gone with nothing flagging it

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thanks @npaulish
points addressed on #7572

Comment thread tests/engine/daemon/test_execmanager.py Outdated


@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_stashing_copy_failure_keeps_other_stashes(generate_calcjob_node, tmp_path, monkeypatch):

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Do you need this test? It seems to me you can integrate it to test above. Its just an odd test, you could also verify that you did not delete by accident the user home folder

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I mean this is literally the very bug, this PR address!
This issue went unnoticed because we didn't have this test in place.

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@agoscinski ok, I merged the tests.
But it has to remain, it has a very legitimate reason.

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it has a very legitimate reason.

Yes that stashing doesn't delete the home folders has also legitimate reasons for testing. You can see that if I use the way you test, I can test infinitely many cases. You can monkeypatch os.remove and check with that what paths it was called and verify that list, rather than checking if some other folder still exists

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# A failed stash must leave pre-existing content in the destination untouched, for all modes.
if stash_mode == StashMode.COPY.value:
other_stash = dest_path_error / uuid[:2] / 'ab' / 'other-calculation'

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With

other_stash = dest_path_error / uuid[:2] / 'ab' / 'other-calculation

you are leaking the actual reason for the test. Why uuid[:2] and the rest is random strings? Because there was a bug. Nobody will know this anymore. Please use a real folder structure

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Done: the sibling is now a real stash, <uuid[:2]>/<uuid[2:4]>/<rest> for a UUID that shares the first four characters, and the assertion diffs the whole tmp_path tree around the failing call instead of checking one hardcoded folder.

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Comment thread tests/engine/daemon/test_execmanager.py Outdated
Comment thread tests/engine/daemon/test_execmanager.py Outdated
On a `StashingError` in `COPY` mode, `stash_calculation` cleaned up with
`rmtree(target_base / uuid[:2])`, wiping the whole two-character shard
and with it every other stash whose UUID shares that prefix. Remove only
the failed calculation's own `target_basepath`.
Merge `test_stashing_copy_failure_keeps_other_stashes` into the
parametrized `test_stashing`: a failed stash must leave pre-existing
content in the destination untouched, in every stash mode. Also assert
that an existing stash target is never overwritten (compress modes
only, since `COPY` has no overwrite guard; see aiidateam#7564).
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khsrali force-pushed the fix/stash-copy-cleanup-shard branch from 86dd05e to aeee3a1 Compare August 25, 2026 12:25
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Thanks, @khsrali! LGTM

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khsrali merged commit c22a06d into aiidateam:main Aug 25, 2026
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On a `StashingError` in `COPY` mode, `stash_calculation` cleaned up with
`rmtree(target_base / uuid[:2])`, wiping the whole two-character shard
and with it every other stash whose UUID shares that prefix. Remove only
the failed calculation's own `target_basepath`.

(cherry picked from commit c22a06d)

Removed the logging change because it is not present in 2.7.x.
agoscinski added a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 27, 2026
On a `StashingError` in `COPY` mode, `stash_calculation` cleaned up with
`rmtree(target_base / uuid[:2])`, wiping the whole two-character shard
and with it every other stash whose UUID shares that prefix. Remove only
the failed calculation's own `target_basepath`.

(cherry picked from commit c22a06d)

Removed the logging change because it is not present in 2.7.x.
agoscinski pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 27, 2026
On a `StashingError` in `COPY` mode, `stash_calculation` cleaned up with
`rmtree(target_base / uuid[:2])`, wiping the whole two-character shard
and with it every other stash whose UUID shares that prefix. Remove only
the failed calculation's own `target_basepath`.

(cherry picked from commit c22a06d)
agoscinski pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Aug 27, 2026
On a `StashingError` in `COPY` mode, `stash_calculation` cleaned up with
`rmtree(target_base / uuid[:2])`, wiping the whole two-character shard
and with it every other stash whose UUID shares that prefix. Remove only
the failed calculation's own `target_basepath`.

(cherry picked from commit c22a06d)
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