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Description

Unchanged policy updates refresh LastUpdated, write to storage, refresh detection state, and broadcast policies to Sensors.

Skip upserts whose validated content matches the stored policy, ignoring timestamps and computed sort fields and treating absent and empty evaluation filters as equivalent.

Keep failed propagation retryable without rewriting the policy or changing LastUpdated. Concurrent attempt markers track incomplete work without serializing requests; completing one attempt cannot erase another attempt's failure. Assign new policy IDs before persistence so retries can observe pending propagation.

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Unit tests cover unchanged policies and timestamp preservation, metadata-only differences, nil versus empty evaluation filters, genuine filter changes, content changes, creation, missing policies, lookup errors, and repeated downstream failures followed by identical retry recovery, and concurrent updates and retries while propagation is blocked, overlapping attempt failures, and storage-write error cleanup.

  • Passed: GOCACHE=/private/tmp/stackrox-go-build go test ./central/policy/service -count=1.
  • Passed: go test -race ./central/policy/service -run 'TestPolicyService/(TestPutPolicyDoesNotBlockOtherPolicies|TestPolicyRetriesDoNotWaitForPropagation|TestPutPolicyWriteErrorPreservesPendingState)' -count=10.
  • Passed: git diff --check.
  • Passed: .gotools/bin/golangci-lint run --enable=unused ./central/policy/service (0 issues).
  • Full make style was not completed. The Python style check (CI=1 make -C .openshift-ci style) is blocked by missing pycodestyle.

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fix(policy): skip unchanged policy updates
1eafccb
Make equivalent policy upserts a no-op, preserving LastUpdated and avoiding
storage writes, detection refreshes, and Sensor broadcasts. Compare validated
policies while ignoring timestamps and computed sort fields.

An additional policy read avoids the more expensive update path. Unit tests
cover unchanged policies, content changes, creation, and lookup errors.

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Summary

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  • New Features
    • Newly created policies are assigned an ID automatically.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Policy updates with no effective changes no longer trigger unnecessary writes.
    • Changes to evaluation filters are recognized and applied.
    • Failed policy activation or synchronization can be retried, including when an update has no effective changes.
    • Policy creation and updates handle missing policies, lookup failures, and invalid submissions appropriately.

Policy upserts compare requests with stored policies after normalizing server-managed fields and evaluation filters. The service skips persistence for equivalent policies and tracks pending downstream updates until active-policy registration and sensor synchronization succeed.

Changes: Policy Upsert

Layer / File(s) Summary
Upsert and propagation flow
central/policy/service/service_impl.go
The service assigns UUIDs to creates and compares updates with stored policies. It skips persistence for equivalent policies when no propagation is pending. Attempt tokens track pending propagation and persistence failures.
Upsert behavior tests
central/policy/service/service_impl_test.go
Tests cover policy comparisons, changed fields, persistence and propagation failures, retries, concurrency, creation, lookup errors, and invalid input.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: dashrews78, c-du

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 4cbe3

Two concurrent updates to the same policy can leave detection enforcing an older version than the stored policy, and retrying the update does not repair it. The trigger needs overlapping updates to one policy, so it is uncommon, but it should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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Title check Passed The title "fix(policy): skip unchanged policy updates" names the main change: policy updates whose content matches the stored policy are no longer written or broadcast. The raw summary and PR objectiv…
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Description check Passed The description covers the core change: skipping unchanged policy upserts, keeping failed propagation retryable, and assigning IDs before persistence. It also lists tests and validation commands. Howe…
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The title "fix(policy): skip unchanged policy updates" names the main change: policy updates whose content matches the stored policy are no longer written or broadcast. The raw summary and PR objectives both center on this behavior. The title is concise, uses a conventional commit prefix, and does not list files. It omits the retry and propagation tracking that the change also adds, but the description does not require the title to cover every detail.

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Review comments at @central/policy/service/service_impl.go:
- Around line 246-247: Update the identical-policy early return in UpdatePolicy
so it skips downstream work only when the prior update completed addActivePolicy
and syncPoliciesWithSensors; if either failed, allow an identical retry to rerun
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Comment thread central/policy/service/service_impl.go Resolved

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❌ Patch coverage is 97.56098% with 1 line in your changes missing coverage. Please review.
✅ Project coverage is 52.87%. Comparing base (34e955b) to head (4cbe398).
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ajheflin added 3 commits November 12, 2026 10:20
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fix(policy): retry incomplete policy propagation
e69c619
Identical retries must repair downstream state after a policy was persisted
but active-policy registration or Sensor synchronization failed. Track pending
updates until both steps succeed and retry propagation without rewriting the
policy or refreshing LastUpdated.

Serialize add/update requests to keep pending state and propagation ordered.

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fix(policy): equate absent and empty evaluation filters
0262470
Nil and empty evaluation filters both leave policy evaluation unfiltered, but
protobuf equality distinguishes them. Align their presence on the comparison
copy to avoid unnecessary policy updates without changing stored content.

Cover both directions, empty lists, and genuine filter additions, removals,
and value changes in service tests.

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fix(policy): coordinate updates per policy ID
a0b32df
Keep persistence and propagation ordered for each policy while allowing
unrelated policies to proceed independently. Hold the shared registry lock
only for state lookup and lifetime tracking; retain failed propagation state
and remove idle successful entries.

Assign new policy IDs before persistence so creation and identical retries
share coordination. Cover independent updates, blocked broadcasts, and retries
of existing and newly created policies with concurrency tests.

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Prompt to fix all issues
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Review comments at @central/policy/service/service_impl.go:
- Line 276: Serialize the full-policy snapshot read and broadcast as one ordered
operation across updates to all policy IDs, including the path through
PreparePoliciesAndBroadcast, while keeping unrelated policy persistence
concurrent. Update the concurrency test to inspect the delivered policy contents
and verify that an older snapshot cannot be broadcast after a newer one.

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Comment thread central/policy/service/service_impl.go Outdated
if create {
request.Id = uuid.NewV4().String()
}
state := s.acquirePolicyUpdate(request.GetId())

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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift

Keep snapshot reads and broadcasts ordered across policy IDs.

Removing the global lock lets two updates to different policies read and broadcast full policy snapshots at the same time. PreparePoliciesAndBroadcast holds only a read lock, so broadcasts are not serialized either. An update that reads its snapshot early can send an older policy list after a newer update has already sent its list.

Sensor admission control replaces its policy lists from each sync message. A stale list can therefore restore an older policy version until the next policy sync. The retry for the newer update returns early because its pending flag is already cleared, so it does not send a corrective sync.

The fix must keep the snapshot read and the broadcast in the same order for all policies. It should not serialize unrelated policy persistence. The current concurrency test also accepts any broadcast argument, so it cannot detect a stale snapshot. Extend it to check the delivered policy contents.

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Serialize the full-policy snapshot read and broadcast as one ordered operation across updates to all policy IDs, including the path through PreparePoliciesAndBroadcast, while keeping unrelated policy persistence concurrent. Update the concurrency test to inspect the delivered policy contents and verify that an older snapshot cannot be broadcast after a newer one.

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refactor(policy): remove policy update serialization
4cbe398
Allow policy upserts and identical retries to overlap without per-policy
mutexes or a shared lock registry. Track unfinished attempts with sync.Map
and clear only matching attempt markers, preserving failures when another
attempt completes concurrently.

Restore prior pending state on storage errors and cover overlapping successes
and failures in retry tests.

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Prompt to fix all issues
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only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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Review comments at @central/policy/service/service_impl.go:
- Line 275: Coordinate updates keyed by request.GetId() so persistence and
active-policy registration cannot leave an older version registered after a
newer one; alternatively, prevent addActivePolicy/registerPolicy from replacing
a newer registered version with an older one. Preserve the identical-retry
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// Each attempt owns its marker so completion cannot clear another attempt's failure.
attempt := new(byte)
previous, wasPending := s.pendingPolicyUpdates.Swap(request.GetId(), attempt)

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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Heavy lift

Concurrent updates to one policy can leave detection on an older version.

pendingPolicyUpdates.Swap does not serialize writes. Two updates to the same ID can interleave in this order:

  1. Attempt A persists version 1 and pauses before addActivePolicy.
  2. Attempt B persists version 2, registers version 2, and clears its own marker.
  3. Attempt A resumes and calls addActivePolicy with version 1. registerPolicy overwrites the detector entry with version 1.

Storage now holds version 2, but detection holds version 1. A retry of version 2 matches the stored policy and has no pending marker, so it returns at line 265 without re-registering. The stale detection state remains until the next update to this policy.

Order persistence and active-policy registration per policy ID. Alternatively, reject registration of a version older than the one already registered. Either change must keep the identical-retry recovery path intact.

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Review comment at @central/policy/service/service_impl.go at line 275:
Coordinate updates keyed by request.GetId() so persistence and active-policy registration cannot leave an older version registered after a newer one; alternatively, prevent addActivePolicy/registerPolicy from replacing a newer registered version with an older one. Preserve the identical-retry recovery path.

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