Split regular and handler results into their own queues (#69498)

When mixed with the free strategy (or any custom strategy that does not behave in
a lock-step manner), the linear methodology of _wait_on_handler_results may cause
race conditions with regular task result processing if the strategy uses
_process_pending_results directly. This patch addresses that by splitting the queues
used for results and adding a flag to _process_pending_results to determine which
queue to check.

Fixes #69457

changelogs/fragments/69457-free-strategy-handler-race.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+bugfixes:
+- Prevent a race condition when running handlers using a combination of the free strategy and include_role.
+minor_changes:
+- The results queue and counter for results are now split for standard / handler results. This allows the governing strategy to be truly independent from the handler strategy, which basically follows the linear methodology.

lib/ansible/plugins/strategy/__init__.py

@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ from ansible.module_utils.six.moves import queue as Queue
 from ansible.module_utils.six import iteritems, itervalues, string_types
 from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
 from ansible.module_utils.connection import Connection, ConnectionError
+from ansible.playbook.handler import Handler
 from ansible.playbook.helpers import load_list_of_blocks
 from ansible.playbook.included_file import IncludedFile
 from ansible.playbook.task_include import TaskInclude
@@ -85,7 +86,13 @@ def results_thread_main(strategy):
                 break
             else:
                 strategy._results_lock.acquire()
-                strategy._results.append(result)
+                # only handlers have the listen attr, so this must be a handler
+                # we split up the results into two queues here to make sure
+                # handler and regular result processing don't cross wires
+                if 'listen' in result._task_fields:
+                    strategy._handler_results.append(result)
+                else:
+                    strategy._results.append(result)
                 strategy._results_lock.release()
         except (IOError, EOFError):
             break
@@ -96,7 +103,7 @@ def results_thread_main(strategy):
 def debug_closure(func):
     """Closure to wrap ``StrategyBase._process_pending_results`` and invoke the task debugger"""
     @functools.wraps(func)
-    def inner(self, iterator, one_pass=False, max_passes=None):
+    def inner(self, iterator, one_pass=False, max_passes=None, do_handlers=False):
         status_to_stats_map = (
             ('is_failed', 'failures'),
             ('is_unreachable', 'dark'),
@@ -107,7 +114,7 @@ def debug_closure(func):
         # We don't know the host yet, copy the previous states, for lookup after we process new results
         prev_host_states = iterator._host_states.copy()
 
-        results = func(self, iterator, one_pass=one_pass, max_passes=max_passes)
+        results = func(self, iterator, one_pass=one_pass, max_passes=max_passes, do_handlers=do_handlers)
         _processed_results = []
 
         for result in results:
@@ -187,6 +194,7 @@ class StrategyBase:
 
         # internal counters
         self._pending_results = 0
+        self._pending_handler_results = 0
         self._cur_worker = 0
 
         # this dictionary is used to keep track of hosts that have
@@ -198,6 +206,7 @@ class StrategyBase:
         self._flushed_hosts = dict()
 
         self._results = deque()
+        self._handler_results = deque()
         self._results_lock = threading.Condition(threading.Lock())
 
         # create the result processing thread for reading results in the background
@@ -377,7 +386,10 @@ class StrategyBase:
                 elif self._cur_worker == starting_worker:
                     time.sleep(0.0001)
 
-            self._pending_results += 1
+            if isinstance(task, Handler):
+                self._pending_handler_results += 1
+            else:
+                self._pending_results += 1
         except (EOFError, IOError, AssertionError) as e:
             # most likely an abort
             display.debug("got an error while queuing: %s" % e)
@@ -424,7 +436,7 @@ class StrategyBase:
                 _set_host_facts(target_host, always_facts)
 
     @debug_closure
-    def _process_pending_results(self, iterator, one_pass=False, max_passes=None):
+    def _process_pending_results(self, iterator, one_pass=False, max_passes=None, do_handlers=False):
         '''
         Reads results off the final queue and takes appropriate action
         based on the result (executing callbacks, updating state, etc.).
@@ -480,7 +492,10 @@ class StrategyBase:
         while True:
             try:
                 self._results_lock.acquire()
-                task_result = self._results.popleft()
+                if do_handlers:
+                    task_result = self._handler_results.popleft()
+                else:
+                    task_result = self._results.popleft()
             except IndexError:
                 break
             finally:
@@ -699,7 +714,10 @@ class StrategyBase:
                 # finally, send the ok for this task
                 self._tqm.send_callback('v2_runner_on_ok', task_result)
 
-            self._pending_results -= 1
+            if do_handlers:
+                self._pending_handler_results -= 1
+            else:
+                self._pending_results -= 1
             if original_host.name in self._blocked_hosts:
                 del self._blocked_hosts[original_host.name]
 
@@ -731,19 +749,19 @@ class StrategyBase:
         handler_results = 0
 
         display.debug("waiting for handler results...")
-        while (self._pending_results > 0 and
+        while (self._pending_handler_results > 0 and
                handler_results < len(notified_hosts) and
                not self._tqm._terminated):
 
             if self._tqm.has_dead_workers():
                 raise AnsibleError("A worker was found in a dead state")
 
-            results = self._process_pending_results(iterator)
+            results = self._process_pending_results(iterator, do_handlers=True)
             ret_results.extend(results)
             handler_results += len([
                 r._host for r in results if r._host in notified_hosts and
                 r.task_name == handler.name])
-            if self._pending_results > 0:
+            if self._pending_handler_results > 0:
                 time.sleep(C.DEFAULT_INTERNAL_POLL_INTERVAL)
 
         display.debug("no more pending handlers, returning what we have")

test/integration/targets/handler_race/aliases

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+shippable/posix/group5
+handler_race
+skip/aix

test/integration/targets/handler_race/inventory

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+host001 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host002 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host003 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host004 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host005 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host006 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host007 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host008 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host009 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host010 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host011 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host012 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host013 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host014 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host015 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host016 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host017 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host018 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host019 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host020 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host021 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host022 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host023 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host024 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host025 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host026 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host027 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host028 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host029 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"
+host030 ansible_connection=local ansible_python_interpreter="{{ ansible_playbook_python }}"

test/integration/targets/handler_race/roles/do_handlers/handlers/main.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+# handlers file for do_handlers
+- name: My Handler
+  shell: sleep 5

test/integration/targets/handler_race/roles/do_handlers/tasks/main.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+---
+# tasks file for do_handlers
+- name: Invoke handler
+  shell: sleep 1
+  notify:
+    - My Handler
+
+- name: Flush handlers
+  meta: flush_handlers

test/integration/targets/handler_race/roles/more_sleep/tasks/main.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+---
+# tasks file for more_sleep
+- name: Random more sleep
+  set_fact:
+    more_sleep_time: "{{ 5 | random }}"
+
+- name: Moar sleep
+  shell: sleep "{{ more_sleep_time }}"

test/integration/targets/handler_race/roles/random_sleep/tasks/main.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+---
+# tasks file for random_sleep
+- name: Generate sleep time
+  set_fact:
+    sleep_time: "{{ 60 | random }}"
+
+- name: Do random sleep
+  shell: sleep "{{ sleep_time }}"

test/integration/targets/handler_race/runme.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -eux
+
+ansible-playbook test_handler_race.yml -i inventory -v "$@"
+

test/integration/targets/handler_race/test_handler_race.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+- hosts: all
+  gather_facts: no
+  strategy: free
+  tasks:
+    - include_role:
+        name: random_sleep
+    - include_role:
+        name: do_handlers
+    - include_role:
+        name: more_sleep