fix(transaction): recover expired async commit locks

[ariesdevil]

Recover expired async-commit locks by checking all secondary locks before resolving, instead of retrying CheckTxnStatus forever (#528).

Also bundled:

• cleanup_locks: take max with the primary lock's min_commit_ts when computing the commit version from secondaries
• CheckSecondaryLocks merge: return an error instead of panicking on conflicting commit TS across regions

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved recovery of expired asynchronous transaction locks, allowing reads to proceed after interrupted commits.
  • Improved handling of stale, missing, conflicting, or invalid locks across regions.
  • Improved rollback behavior for transactions with mismatched primary locks.
  • Added clearer errors for invalid transaction responses.
  • Prevented incomplete or unresolved transaction states from being incorrectly cached.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for asynchronous commit recovery, rollback scenarios, multi-region transactions, lock validation, and transaction status resolution.

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Expired async-commit locks now recover through validated secondary-lock checks. Lock resolution handles rollback, 2PC fallback, region reshaping, and stale pessimistic locks. Tests cover protocol validation, commit-version resolution, cacheability, cleanup isolation, and end-to-end read recovery.

Changes: Async-commit recovery

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Secondary-lock status validation src/common/errors.rs, src/transaction/requests.rs	Adds Error::ProtocolViolation. Secondary-lock responses validate requested keys and commit timestamps. SecondaryLocksStatus resolves commit versions. Only final transaction statuses remain cacheable.
Expired transaction lock recovery src/transaction/lock.rs	Lock resolution checks secondary locks, derives commit or rollback status, supports 2PC fallback, resolves keys across regions, and handles stale pessimistic-lock mismatches.
End-to-end recovery validation tests/failpoint_tests.rs	Updates lock-count assertions to use transaction timestamps, cleans residual locks, and verifies expired async-commit recovery during an optimistic read.

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Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant OptimisticReader
  participant resolve_locks
  participant check_txn_status
  participant check_all_secondaries
  OptimisticReader->>resolve_locks: resolve expired transaction locks
  resolve_locks->>check_txn_status: read primary transaction status
  resolve_locks->>check_all_secondaries: check secondary locks by shard
  check_all_secondaries-->>resolve_locks: return validated secondary status
  resolve_locks-->>OptimisticReader: resolve recovered keys

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[ariesdevil]

NOTE: This is the initial impl, subsequent PRs will align the impl of client-go.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

src/transaction/requests.rs (1)

816-838: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Consider a set for the requested-key membership check.

requested_keys.contains(&lock.key) scans the vector for every returned lock. A single region can hold many secondary keys of one transaction, so validation becomes quadratic in the shard size. Build one HashSet of the requested keys per response and reuse it. The duplicate check can then reuse the same lookup structure.

♻️ Proposed refactor

-            let mut seen_keys = HashSet::with_capacity(resp.locks.len());
+            let requested: HashSet<&Vec<u8>> = requested_keys.iter().collect();
+            let mut seen_keys = HashSet::with_capacity(resp.locks.len());
             for lock in &resp.locks {
-                if !requested_keys.contains(&lock.key) {
+                if !requested.contains(&lock.key) {

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In `@src/transaction/requests.rs` around lines 816 - 838, Build a HashSet of
requested keys once per response in the surrounding request-processing flow,
then use it for membership validation of each returned lock instead of scanning
requested_keys; reuse the set alongside seen_keys while preserving the existing
unknown-key and duplicate-key protocol violations.

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Inline comments:
In `@src/transaction/lock.rs`:
- Around line 139-149: The primary-mismatch branch around ensure_region_resolved
must roll back only the mismatched lock instead of issuing a keyless region-wide
ResolveLock with commit_version 0. Replace this path with a
new_pessimistic_rollback_request targeting the specific lock key, or otherwise
prevent clean_regions bookkeeping from suppressing later locks and document the
region-wide behavior.

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Nitpick comments:
In `@src/transaction/requests.rs`:
- Around line 816-838: Build a HashSet of requested keys once per response in
the surrounding request-processing flow, then use it for membership validation
of each returned lock instead of scanning requested_keys; reuse the set
alongside seen_keys while preserving the existing unknown-key and duplicate-key
protocol violations.

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[ariesdevil]

Hi @ekexium, if you have time, please take a look at this PR.

[ekexium]

Async-commit protocol is error-prone, is this implementation ported from client-go? AI review finds a subtle issue:

One potential issue in the pessimistic-lock path: LockNotExistDoNothing is mapped to RolledBack, leading to a region-wide rollback that could remove valid locks after a primary switch. client-go excludes this action from final rollback and uses pessimistic rollback.
Could you check this case?

[ariesdevil]

Nice catch; confirmed and fixed, thanks, PTAL again.

TransactionStatusKind ignored action, so LockNotExistDoNothing / TtlExpirePessimisticRollback became RolledBack and triggered a region-wide ResolveLock. Worse, that status was also cached, so a later prewrite lock of the same txn in the same call would be swept too.

Fix mirrors client-go: a pessimistic lock whose txn is no longer Locked now gets a single-key PessimisticRollback only (skipped when the lock is its own primary), and is_cacheable now requires a determined status (NoAction / LockNotExistRollback / TtlExpireRollback), like IsStatusDetermined. The GC path keeps rolling those back, matching BatchResolveLocks.

And added tests for all four reply kinds, the primary-key skip, and the cache case; they fail on the old code.

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• 2026-09-21 03:50:11.766562529 +0000 UTC m=+609057.704220113: ☑️ agreed by ekexium.

[ariesdevil]

Hi @pingyu, if you have time, PTAL as well.

[ariesdevil]

Hi @pingyu, if you have time, PTAL as well.

ping again

[ariesdevil]

@disksing if you have time, PTAL, thx.