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concurrent map panic in cachemulti.Store - traceContext shared by reference across goroutines #25841

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Summary

cachemulti.Store passes traceContext map by reference in newCacheMultiStoreFromCMS(), causing fatal error: concurrent map iteration and map write when multiple goroutines concurrently create and configure cache stores with tracing enabled.

This is the same class of bug that was fixed for rootmulti.Store in #11114 / #11117, but the fix was not applied to cachemulti.Store.

Stack Trace

fatal error: concurrent map iteration and map write

goroutine X [running]:
internal/runtime/maps.(*Iter).Next(...)
maps.Copy[...](...)
cosmossdk.io/store/types.TraceContext.Clone(...)
    cosmossdk.io/store/types/store.go:464
cosmossdk.io/store/cachemulti.NewFromKVStore(...)
    cosmossdk.io/store/cachemulti/store.go:55
cosmossdk.io/store/cachemulti.newCacheMultiStoreFromCMS(...)
    cosmossdk.io/store/cachemulti/store.go:82
cosmossdk.io/store/cachemulti.Store.CacheMultiStore(...)
    cosmossdk.io/store/cachemulti/store.go:141

Root Cause

PR #11117 added traceContextMutex to rootmulti.Store and introduced getTracingContext() which returns a copy of the trace context. This fixed the race at the rootmulti level.

However, cachemulti.Store was not updated with the same protection. Specifically, newCacheMultiStoreFromCMS() passes cms.traceContext by reference to NewFromKVStore():

// store/cachemulti/store.go:76-83
func newCacheMultiStoreFromCMS(cms Store) Store {
    stores := make(map[types.StoreKey]types.CacheWrapper)
    for k, v := range cms.stores {
        stores[k] = v
    }
    return NewFromKVStore(cms.db, stores, nil, cms.traceWriter, cms.traceContext)
    //                                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
    //                                                          shared reference, not a copy
}

When multiple goroutines share a parent CacheMultiStore:

  1. Read path: CacheMultiStore()NewFromKVStore()Clone()maps.Copy(ret, tc) iterates the shared map
  2. Write path: SetTracingContext()maps.Copy(cms.traceContext, tc) writes to the same shared map

Concurrent execution of these two paths triggers Go's fatal concurrent map access detection.

rootmulti.Store
  │
  │  getTracingContext() → creates copy A (with mutex, safe)
  │
  ▼
cachemulti.Store (parent)
  │  traceContext = copy A
  │
  │  Multiple goroutines call CacheMultiStore() on the SAME parent:
  │
  │  goroutine 1: newCacheMultiStoreFromCMS()
  │                → NewFromKVStore(..., copy A)     ← passes reference directly
  │                  → copy A.Clone()                ← READ (maps.Copy iterates copy A)
  │
  │  goroutine 2: newCacheMultiStoreFromCMS()
  │                → NewFromKVStore(..., copy A)     ← same reference
  │                  → copy A.Clone()                ← READ
  │
  │  goroutine 3: SetTracingContext({"txHash":...})
  │                → maps.Copy(copy A, tc)           ← WRITE to the same map
  │
  │  goroutine 1 READ + goroutine 3 WRITE = concurrent map iteration and map write
  │
  ▼
  FATAL PANIC

Reproduction

func TestConcurrentCacheMultiStoreTraceContext(t *testing.T) {
    db := dbm.NewMemDB()
    stores := map[types.StoreKey]types.CacheWrapper{
        types.NewKVStoreKey("store1"): dbadapter.Store{DB: dbm.NewMemDB()},
    }
    store := NewStore(db, stores, nil, &bytes.Buffer{}, types.TraceContext{"initial": "context"})

    var wg sync.WaitGroup
    for i := 0; i < 100; i++ {
        wg.Add(1)
        go func(i int) {
            defer wg.Done()
            child := store.CacheMultiStore()
            child.SetTracingContext(types.TraceContext{
                "txHash": fmt.Sprintf("TX_%d", i),
            })
        }(i)
    }
    wg.Wait()
}

Run from store/ directory:

cd store && go test ./cachemulti/... -run TestConcurrentCacheMultiStoreTraceContext

This reliably reproduces fatal error: concurrent map iteration and map write.

Suggested Fix

Copy traceContext in newCacheMultiStoreFromCMS before passing it to NewFromKVStore, consistent with the pattern established in rootmulti.Store.getTracingContext() by #11117:

func newCacheMultiStoreFromCMS(cms Store) Store {
    stores := make(map[types.StoreKey]types.CacheWrapper)
    for k, v := range cms.stores {
        stores[k] = v
    }
    // Clone traceContext to prevent concurrent map access
    var tc types.TraceContext
    if cms.traceContext != nil {
        tc = cms.traceContext.Clone()
    }
    return NewFromKVStore(cms.db, stores, nil, cms.traceWriter, tc)
}

Version

cosmossdk.io/store v1.1.2

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