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On systems running Crowdstrike Falcon (e.g. Red Hat CSB systems), there is a race condition exposed while connecting to the informer.

10:54:28.064046  Caches populated for *v1beta1.AzureASOManagedCluster
10:54:28.093364  ERROR: failed waiting for *v1api20231001.ManagedCluster Informer to sync (Timeout)
10:54:28.093389  ERROR: failed waiting for *v1beta1.AzureASOManagedCluster Informer to sync (Timeout)

This causes the installer to fail with an internal error:

level=error msg=failed to fetch Cluster: failed to generate asset "Cluster": failed to create cluster: failed to create infrastructure manifest: Internal error occurred: failed calling webhook "validation.azureclusteridentity.infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io": failed to call webhook: Post "https://127.0.0.1:58581/validate-infrastructure-cluster-x-k8s-io-v1beta1-azureclusteridentity?timeout=10s": dial tcp 127.0.0.1:58581: connect: connection refused

Fixes: #10873

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  • New Features
    • Azure deployments can now use the Standard Ebdsv5 and Ebsv5 VM families.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Controller startup warnings now report the number of retries remaining after a failed start attempt.
    • Health checks stop promptly when startup is canceled or the process fails to start.
    • Blob storage requests using token authentication retry selected timeout, throttling, server, gateway, and forbidden responses.

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The changes update controller startup retries and health-check polling, agent install-invoker configuration, Azure VM family validation, and Azure blob client retry options.

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Controller startup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Startup retries and health polling
pkg/clusterapi/system.go, pkg/clusterapi/internal/process/process.go
runController retries failed starts up to three times with backoff and fresh process state. Health-check polling uses context-bound requests and exits when the context or stop signal is canceled.

Agent install invoker

Layer / File(s) Summary
Render the install-invoker suffix
pkg/asset/agent/image/ignition.go, pkg/asset/agent/image/unconfigured_ignition.go, data/data/agent/files/usr/local/share/assisted-service/assisted-service.env.template
Template data includes InstallInvokerSuffix. Unconfigured ignition sets it to -postconfig, and the environment template appends it to agent-installer.

Azure VM family validation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Validate Azure VM families
pkg/asset/installconfig/azure/validation.go, pkg/asset/installconfig/azure/validation_test.go
Validation allows Ebdsv5 and Ebsv5 families. Tests cover isolated and shared SKUs and confirm that NVSv4 remains Windows-only.

Azure blob client options

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configure blob client retries
pkg/infrastructure/azure/storage.go, pkg/infrastructure/azure/storage_test.go
Both authentication paths use shared client options. Token-authenticated clients configure retries for the listed HTTP status codes; shared-key clients leave the retry status-code list unset. Tests check both cases.

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Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

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Title check ✅ Passed The title accurately identifies the primary objective: fixing a macOS race condition associated with Crowdstrike Falcon. This matches the PR objectives and the process synchronization changes.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes in pkg/clusterapi/system.go retry failed controller starts and report the remaining attempts. The changes in pkg/clusterapi/internal/process/process.go stop health polling when startup…
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for attempt := 1; attempt <= maxRetries; attempt++ {
logrus.Infof("Running process: %s with args %v (attempt %d/%d)", ct.Name, ct.Args, attempt, maxRetries)
if err := pr.Start(ctx, c.logWriter, c.logWriter); err == nil {

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Stop the health-check poller when Cmd.Start fails.

When State.Start has a HealthCheck, it launches pollURLUntilOK before ps.Cmd.Start(). If Cmd.Start() returns an error, State.Start returns without closing pollerStopCh. The poller then remains active while runController retries with a new process.State, or after the retry loop returns. It can repeat requests and sleeps indefinitely. If it receives HTTP 200, it blocks on the unbuffered ready channel because State.Start has already returned.

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The retry loop changes logging behavior. It logs ct.Args on every attempt, whereas the base revision logged them once. Those arguments can include user-provided AWS, IBM Cloud, or PowerVS service-endpoint URLs. Such URLs may contain internal hostnames or customer-specific data. The new Warnf logs only the controller name, attempt numbers, and the process-start error; the process implementation returns generic path or timeout errors, and credentials remain in ct.Env. The repeated raw-argument logging is sufficient to match the custom check.

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🟠 Major · Allow three retries after the initial controller start.

pkg/clusterapi/system.go:728-770
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Allow three retries after the initial controller start.

maxRetries = 3 currently limits the loop to three total pr.Start calls. If the first three calls fail and the controller succeeds on the third retry, the fourth call is never made. runController returns the third lastErr instead. Allow four total attempts, while preserving the cancellation-aware backoff and final error wrapping.

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c3d and others added 2 commits September 21, 2026 14:28
On systems running Crowdstrike Falcon (e.g. Red Hat CSB systems),
there is a race condition exposed while connecting to the informer.

```
10:54:28.064046  Caches populated for *v1beta1.AzureASOManagedCluster
10:54:28.093364  ERROR: failed waiting for *v1api20231001.ManagedCluster Informer to sync (Timeout)
10:54:28.093389  ERROR: failed waiting for *v1beta1.AzureASOManagedCluster Informer to sync (Timeout)
```

This causes the installer to fail with an internal error:

```
level=error msg=failed to fetch Cluster: failed to generate asset "Cluster": failed to create cluster: failed to create infrastructure manifest: Internal error occurred: failed calling webhook "validation.azureclusteridentity.infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io": failed to call webhook: Post "https://127.0.0.1:58581/validate-infrastructure-cluster-x-k8s-io-v1beta1-azureclusteridentity?timeout=10s": dial tcp 127.0.0.1:58581: connect: connection refused
```

Fixes: openshift#10873

Signed-off-by: Christophe de Dinechin <christophe@dinechin.org>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The retry loop logging was exposing ct.Args which can contain user-provided
AWS, IBM Cloud, or PowerVS service endpoint URLs. This is a security issue.

Remove the args from the log message and only log the controller name and
retry attempt counters. The actual process error messages remain sanitized.

Fixes: openshift#10873

Signed-off-by: Christophe de Dinechin <christophe@dinechin.org>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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c3d force-pushed the bug/10873-race-condition branch from 3b933e0 to f977ea5 Compare September 21, 2026 12:28
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Token-credential uploads can briefly receive data-plane authorization
errors while access to a newly created storage account propagates. Retry
only those responses for a bounded interval while preserving immediate
failure for shared-key and unrelated errors.

Related: OCPBUGS-99762
Use exponential delays to give Azure storage authorization more time
to propagate while retaining the existing bounded retry count.

Related: OCPBUGS-99762
Configure the token-credential blob client to retry the SDK default
transient statuses plus 403 for storage authorization propagation.
Remove the custom retry loop and its loop-specific tests.

Related: OCPBUGS-99762
The INSTALL_INVOKER environment variable in assisted-service is now set
to agent-installer-postconfig when the agent unconfigured-ignition
workflow is used, distinguishing it from the regular agent-installer
workflow.

This will show up in installations using the appliance or the OVE
installer.

Assisted-by: Claude Code
Azure IPI now provisions via CAPI, and gallery images advertise NVMe
disk controllers. The Terraform-era hard-fail of
standardEIBDSv5Family/standardEIBSv5Family is stale and contradicts
the tested instance types doc.

Fixes OCPBUGS-126706

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
When HealthCheck is configured, pollURLUntilOK starts before
Cmd.Start(). If Cmd.Start() fails, pollerStopCh was never closed,
leaving the goroutine running indefinitely.

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Comment thread pkg/clusterapi/internal/process/process.go
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if !allowSharedKeyAccess {
options.Retry.StatusCodes = []int{
http.StatusRequestTimeout,
http.StatusTooManyRequests,
http.StatusInternalServerError,
http.StatusBadGateway,
http.StatusServiceUnavailable,
http.StatusGatewayTimeout,
// Include 403 to retry the observed storage authorization-propagation error.
http.StatusForbidden,
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Allow enough time for authorization to propagate.

When a new storage role still returns 403 after the SDK’s three default retries, Upload fails and Azure ignition provisioning stops. These retries span roughly 7–11 seconds; Azure says a role assignment can take up to 10 minutes to take effect. Use a context-bound retry window for the authorization-propagation error instead of relying on the SDK default retry count. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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pollURLUntilOK had two issues when stopCh was closed after a failed
Cmd.Start:
- client.Get had no cancellation, so an in-flight request could block
  indefinitely even after pollerStopCh was closed
- The ready<-true send was blocking with no escape, leaking the goroutine
  if nobody reads after Start has already returned

Thread ctx through pollURLUntilOK so requests use NewRequestWithContext
and both the sleep and ready-send selects exit on ctx.Done or stopCh.

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Log now says "Retrying N more time(s)" so the remaining attempt
count is unambiguous.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Two issues flagged by CI golint:
- revive indent-error-flow: drop else after return in runController
- gosec G704: annotate client.Do as a locally-controlled health check URL

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Comment thread pkg/clusterapi/system.go
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// Create fresh process state for next attempt
pr = &process.State{

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Could we ensure the previous process has terminated before replacing pr and retrying?

When Start() times out, it only sends SIGTERM and returns without waiting for the process to exit. The 100 ms backoff can therefore expire while the old controller still owns the health-check and webhook ports and the next attempt can fail to bind those ports or incorrectly pass its health check against the old process.

I suggest stopping and reaping each failed attempt before creating the next process state, with a bounded graceful shutdown and a kill-and-wait fallback. A focused test with a controller that delays handling SIGTERM reproduced this overlap.

The smallest safe fix is to call pr.Stop() after every failed start, before the backoff or replacement of pr

lastErr = err

// Ensure the previous attempt has exited before reusing its ports.
// Clean up the final failed attempt as well.
if stopErr := pr.Stop(); stopErr != nil {
	return fmt.Errorf(
		"failed to stop controller %q after startup failure (%v): %w",
		ct.Name, lastErr, stopErr,
	)
}

if attempt < maxRetries {

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err := pr.Start(ctx, c.logWriter, c.logWriter)
if err == nil {
ct.state = pr
return nil
}

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Could you add a regression test showing that the reported informer-sync failure causes Start() to return an error and triggers another attempt? CAPZ’s /healthz can succeed before informer synchronization finishes, so I’m concerned the process could fail after this loop has already returned successfully. If the reproducer confirms that the failure happens before Start() returns, the current retry approach should cover it.

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Testing update: fixes necessary but not sufficient for Azure IPI on macOS/CrowdStrike

I cherry-picked commits d198565 and f0213d7 from this PR onto release-4.21 (branch bug/10873-race-condition-4.21) and ran multiple Azure IPI installs against it. The webhook connection-refused error (the original issue) no longer appears, confirming that the health-check poller and controller retry fixes work as intended.

However, CrowdStrike's impact on the installer turns out to be broader than this race condition alone. Even with these fixes applied, the CAPI machine provisioning phase still fails consistently, with two different failure modes observed across multiple attempts:

Failure mode 1 (most common): failed to provision control-plane machines within 20m0s
The local envtest kubeapiserver used by CAPI controllers becomes unresponsive under CrowdStrike's syscall overhead. CAPI cannot update machine status within the 20-minute deadline, so it gives up — even though the Azure VMs are created and healthy.

Failure mode 2 (seen in some attempts): rate: Wait(n=1) would exceed context deadline
The Kubernetes client rate limiter inside the CAPI controllers exhausts its budget before the context deadline, again because the local kubeapiserver is too slow to process requests under CrowdStrike load.

Neither of these is the webhook connection-refused race this PR addresses, so the PR's fixes don't help with them. The conclusion is that Azure IPI installs are fundamentally unreliable on macOS with CrowdStrike Falcon active — the workaround is to run openshift-install from a Linux host where the local envtest kubeapiserver is not affected.

This doesn't diminish the value of this PR — the webhook race is a real bug and the retry/poller fixes are correct. But users on macOS/CrowdStrike should be aware that there are additional failure modes beyond what this PR addresses.

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Validation run with CrowdStrike Falcon disabled — CAPI phase now succeeds

Follow-up to my earlier analysis on this PR. We disabled Falcon on the macOS host (sudo falconctl unload) and relaunched two Azure IPI installs simultaneously.

  • 4.22 cluster: CAPI provisioning completed within the 20-minute window. Bootstrap + 3 masters all provisioned. Script is now in the bootstrap gate phase with DNS resolving correctly. This is the first successful CAPI completion we have seen across ~6 install attempts on this machine.
  • 4.21 cluster: Same story — all machines created, CAPI window proceeding normally, no rate limiter errors.

This confirms that the commits in this PR (d198565 + f0213d7) fix the goroutine leak in the health-check poller but do not fully mitigate the CrowdStrike problem. The dominant failure mode — envtest kubeapiserver becoming unresponsive under Falcon's syscall overhead, causing rate limiter exhaustion — persists even with these commits applied.

The practical conclusion for macOS developers affected by this: the only reliable workaround is to run openshift-install on a Linux host. These commits are still worth merging as they reduce the severity of the race condition in general, but they should not be advertised as a CrowdStrike fix.

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Internal error in macOS IPI install on Azure, connection refused on localhost:58581

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