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Summary

Make the upgrade acknowledgement check recognize a fresh, target-matched CVO payload-retrieval signal instead of waiting only for status.observedGeneration. The change captures pre-request state so stale or unrelated conditions/events cannot satisfy the acknowledgement, and treats event access as optional so an event API failure does not itself fail the check. Failed payload retrieval conditions are not accepted as acknowledgement.

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  • gofmt and git diff --check

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A dedicated adversarial review panel was run before push. Two blocking findings were reproduced and fixed: event API failures no longer gate canonical acknowledgement, and failed ReleaseAccepted retrieval conditions are not treated as successful retrieval. The final review reported no unresolved blockers.

Tracked by OCPBUGS-115163.


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    • Improved upgrade monitoring to reliably detect when an update request has been acknowledged.
    • Prevented stale, unrelated, or failed cluster events from being mistaken for update acknowledgement.
    • Improved handling of version-only upgrade requests and requests that specify an image.
  • Tests

    • Added comprehensive coverage for update acknowledgement scenarios, including event and condition changes.
    • Added validation for baseline tracking and upgrade flow behavior.

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Summary

Make the upgrade acknowledgement check recognize a fresh, target-matched CVO payload-retrieval signal instead of waiting only for status.observedGeneration. The change captures pre-request state so stale or unrelated conditions/events cannot satisfy the acknowledgement, and treats event access as optional so an event API failure does not itself fail the check. Failed payload retrieval conditions are not accepted as acknowledgement.

Validation

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  • go vet ./...
  • go test ./pkg/...
  • make verify
  • make openshift-tests
  • gofmt and git diff --check

Review

A dedicated adversarial review panel was run before push. Two blocking findings were reproduced and fixed: event API failures no longer gate canonical acknowledgement, and failed ReleaseAccepted retrieval conditions are not treated as successful retrieval. The final review reported no unresolved blockers.

Tracked by OCPBUGS-115163.


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Walkthrough

The upgrade flow captures CVO events before requesting an update. It detects acknowledgement through observed generation, ReleaseAccepted condition changes, or new matching RetrievePayload events. Tests cover baseline creation and acknowledgement scenarios.

Changes

CVO acknowledgement monitoring

Layer / File(s) Summary
Acknowledgement detection and validation
test/e2e/upgrade/monitor.go, test/e2e/upgrade/monitor_test.go
The monitor records a CVO acknowledgement baseline, lists filtered events, and detects acknowledgement from generation, condition, or event changes. Tests cover version-only updates, matching and mismatching payload identifiers, baseline handling, and error cases.
Upgrade polling integration
test/e2e/upgrade/upgrade.go
The upgrade flow records the event baseline before the update, uses the acknowledgement helper during polling, retries after event-list errors, and reuses CVO constants when recording events.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

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The change is merge-ready after normal checks and review; no actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant UpgradeFlow
  participant ClusterVersion
  participant CVOEventAPI
  participant AcknowledgementMonitor
  UpgradeFlow->>CVOEventAPI: list existing CVO events
  UpgradeFlow->>AcknowledgementMonitor: create acknowledgement baseline
  UpgradeFlow->>ClusterVersion: request desired update
  UpgradeFlow->>ClusterVersion: poll current status
  UpgradeFlow->>CVOEventAPI: list current CVO events
  UpgradeFlow->>AcknowledgementMonitor: evaluate acknowledgement
  AcknowledgementMonitor-->>UpgradeFlow: return acknowledgement result
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No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs ❌ Error The PR adds two framework.Logf calls that interpolate raw errors from listCVOEvents (upgrade.go:491 and upgrade.go:537). The event client uses client-go REST requests, and the vendored retry i… Do not log the raw event-list error. Log a fixed message with no error text, or sanitize the error to an approved non-sensitive category such as the API error reason/status before passing it to framework.Logf. Apply this to both new CVO e…
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 12.50% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 8 functions across 3 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: preventing false upgrade acknowledgement timeouts during payload retrieval. It is specific and directly matches the PR objectives.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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Stable And Deterministic Test Names ✅ Passed PASS. The pull request adds only static Go test names. TestCVOAcknowledgedUpdate, TestNewCVOAcknowledgementBaseline, and all t.Run(test.name, ...) case names use fixed descriptive literals. No t…
Test Structure And Quality ✅ Passed PASS. The added tests are standard Go unit tests, not Ginkgo specs. They use in-memory fixtures and create no cluster resources, so BeforeEach/AfterEach cleanup is not required. They contain no Eventu…
Microshift Test Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS — The pull request adds no new Ginkgo e2e declarations. monitor_test.go contains standard Go testing unit tests that construct ClusterVersion objects; they do not access a MicroShift cluste…
Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request adds standard Go unit tests (TestCVOAcknowledgedUpdate and TestNewCVOAcknowledgementBaseline), not new Ginkgo e2e tests. The changed upgrade flow only updates CVO acknowledg…
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS — The pull request changes only test/e2e/upgrade/monitor.go, monitor_test.go, and upgrade.go. The changes add CVO acknowledgement and event handling logic and tests. They do not add or modi…
Ote Binary Stdout Contract ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request adds no stdout writes in process-level code. The changed production code only adds event/condition logic and framework.Logf calls inside the g.It upgrade callback. New const…
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request adds standard Go unit tests (TestCVOAcknowledgedUpdate and TestNewCVOAcknowledgementBaseline), not new Ginkgo e2e tests. The changed logic only reads cluster API events in t…
No-Weak-Crypto ✅ Passed The pull request adds no MD5, SHA1, DES, RC4, 3DES, Blowfish, or ECB usage. The only digest text is a sha256 image fixture, not cryptographic implementation or weak-crypto usage. The added `reflect.…
Container-Privileges ✅ Passed PASS: The pull request changes only Go source and test files: test/e2e/upgrade/monitor.go, monitor_test.go, and upgrade.go. The diff adds no container or Kubernetes manifest and contains no `pri…
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PASS. The pull request adds only static Go test names. TestCVOAcknowledgedUpdate, TestNewCVOAcknowledgementBaseline, and all t.Run(test.name, ...) case names use fixed descriptive literals. No test title contains a pod name, timestamp, UUID, node name, namespace, IP address, or other run-dependent value. The existing Ginkgo titles in upgrade.go are also static and unchanged.

Full details: Test Structure And Quality

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PASS. The added tests are standard Go unit tests, not Ginkgo specs. They use in-memory fixtures and create no cluster resources, so BeforeEach/AfterEach cleanup is not required. They contain no Eventually, Consistently, or indefinite wait. Assertions include function names and actual versus expected values. The changed upgrade path uses bounded polling, and CVO event listing uses a 10-second context timeout. The test structure also matches nearby table-driven unit tests.

Full details: Microshift Test Compatibility

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PASS — The pull request adds no new Ginkgo e2e declarations. monitor_test.go contains standard Go testing unit tests that construct ClusterVersion objects; they do not access a MicroShift cluster. The existing Ginkgo upgrade suite already used ClusterVersion and the upgrade workflow before this pull request. The changed code only alters that existing flow, so the unavailable API and upgrade-workflow conditions are not newly introduced by a new Ginkgo test.

Full details: Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility

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PASS: The pull request adds standard Go unit tests (TestCVOAcknowledgedUpdate and TestNewCVOAcknowledgementBaseline), not new Ginkgo e2e tests. The changed upgrade flow only updates CVO acknowledgement and event handling. The patch adds no multi-node, HA, scheduling, node-scaling, failover, or topology assumptions. Existing Ginkgo tests were not added or changed in a way that introduces an SNO-specific assumption.

Full details: Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility

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PASS — The pull request changes only test/e2e/upgrade/monitor.go, monitor_test.go, and upgrade.go. The changes add CVO acknowledgement and event handling logic and tests. They do not add or modify deployment manifests, controllers, replicas, affinity, topology spread constraints, node selectors, tolerations, or PDBs. The existing master-node lookup is unchanged. The topology-aware scheduling check is therefore not applicable.

Full details: Ote Binary Stdout Contract

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PASS: The pull request adds no stdout writes in process-level code. The changed production code only adds event/condition logic and framework.Logf calls inside the g.It upgrade callback. New constants and helper functions have no output side effects. The existing fmt.Fprintf calls explicitly target os.Stderr, and the existing klog.Errorf call is unchanged. The new tests use testing assertions only.

Full details: Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility

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PASS: The pull request adds standard Go unit tests (TestCVOAcknowledgedUpdate and TestNewCVOAcknowledgementBaseline), not new Ginkgo e2e tests. The changed logic only reads cluster API events in the internal openshift-cluster-version namespace. It adds no IPv4 literals, IPv4-only parsing, URL construction, or external connectivity. The quay.io string appears only as test fixture data and is not pulled or contacted.

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The pull request adds no MD5, SHA1, DES, RC4, 3DES, Blowfish, or ECB usage. The only digest text is a sha256 image fixture, not cryptographic implementation or weak-crypto usage. The added reflect.DeepEqual calls compare ClusterVersion conditions and update metadata, not secrets or tokens. No custom crypto implementation is present in the changed files.

Full details: Container-Privileges

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PASS: The pull request changes only Go source and test files: test/e2e/upgrade/monitor.go, monitor_test.go, and upgrade.go. The diff adds no container or Kubernetes manifest and contains no privileged, hostPID, hostNetwork, hostIPC, SYS_ADMIN, allowPrivilegeEscalation, or root security settings. The changes only inspect and record ClusterVersion events.

Full details: No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs

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The PR adds two framework.Logf calls that interpolate raw errors from listCVOEvents (upgrade.go:491 and upgrade.go:537). The event client uses client-go REST requests, and the vendored retry implementation documents errors containing the full request URL, including the host. A transport failure can therefore place the cluster API server's internal hostname in test logs. The raw error can also contain server-provided error text.

Resolution

Do not log the raw event-list error. Log a fixed message with no error text, or sanitize the error to an approved non-sensitive category such as the API error reason/status before passing it to framework.Logf. Apply this to both new CVO event error logs.

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Summary

Make the upgrade acknowledgement check recognize a fresh, target-matched CVO payload-retrieval signal instead of waiting only for status.observedGeneration. The change captures pre-request state so stale or unrelated conditions/events cannot satisfy the acknowledgement, and treats event access as optional so an event API failure does not itself fail the check. Failed payload retrieval conditions are not accepted as acknowledgement.

Validation

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  • go vet ./...
  • go test ./pkg/...
  • make verify
  • make openshift-tests
  • gofmt and git diff --check

Review

A dedicated adversarial review panel was run before push. Two blocking findings were reproduced and fixed: event API failures no longer gate canonical acknowledgement, and failed ReleaseAccepted retrieval conditions are not treated as successful retrieval. The final review reported no unresolved blockers.

Tracked by OCPBUGS-115163.


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  • Improved upgrade monitoring to reliably detect when an update request has been acknowledged.

  • Prevented stale, unrelated, or failed cluster events from being mistaken for update acknowledgement.

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  • Added comprehensive coverage for update acknowledgement scenarios, including event and condition changes.

  • Added validation for baseline tracking and upgrade flow behavior.

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As a former CVO engineer, the proposed change does not seem correct to me. "acknowledging upgrade" check meant to validate that the CVO is able to actually start the actual cluster updating process, and downloading (and then validating) the payload is a precondition to that.

Lets assume this test is not the right place for a "cluster actually starts updating" check. If not this test, then what timeout do we depend on? Where do we actually run into a failure if the payload actually fails to download and/or fails to be validated?

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/override-sticky ci/prow/e2e-vsphere-ovn-upi

Automated triage: This failure appears unrelated to the PR changes.

Job classification: Eligible long-running presubmit end-to-end job: e2e-vsphere-ovn-upi, using the vsphere-elastic cluster profile. The run took 3h28m42s and executed the e2e test phase for 2h06m35s.

Revision check: run 56c6509e62965c0051d7fbbb0a2417f646c5a161; current PR HEAD 56c6509e62965c0051d7fbbb0a2417f646c5a161; match.

Execution status: Tests executed. The run installed the vSphere UPI cluster, invoked openshift-tests run openshift/conformance/parallel --retry-strategy=aggressive --provider vsphere, and completed with 2338 passing tests and one blocking failure.

Completed supporting jobs: ci/prow/e2e-vsphere-ovn passed; ci/prow/e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade-rollback passed; ci/prow/unit, ci/prow/verify, ci/prow/verify-deps, ci/prow/go-verify-deps, ci/prow/images, ci/prow/lint, ci/prow/agentic-images, and ci/prow/okd-scos-images passed. Pending and not used as positive signal: ci/prow/e2e-metal-ipi-ovn-ipv6 and tide.

Overlap assessment: The PR changes only upgrade acknowledgement monitoring and its unit tests in test/e2e/upgrade/monitor.go, test/e2e/upgrade/monitor_test.go, and test/e2e/upgrade/upgrade.go. The blocking failure is a RouteExternalCertificate router reachability test in the networking surface. There is no plausible direct or indirect overlap through the changed files or logic.

Missing-coverage risk: Low for this decision. The job executed its broad conformance suite; the isolated failure is in an unrelated networking test, while the PR's upgrade-monitoring changes are covered by the completed unit and upgrade-related checks. The pending checks remain unresolved and were not treated as supporting signal.

Rationale: The exact RouteExternalCertificate test has a widespread, sustained failure pattern across more than 30 jobs, platforms, architectures, releases, and PRs, including independent failures of this job. This is credible known-flake evidence rather than symptom-based inference.

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Job classification: Eligible long-running presubmit end-to-end job: e2e-vsphere-ovn-upi, using the vsphere-elastic cluster profile. The run took 3h28m42s and executed the e2e test phase for 2h06m35s.

Revision check: run 56c6509e62965c0051d7fbbb0a2417f646c5a161; current PR HEAD 56c6509e62965c0051d7fbbb0a2417f646c5a161; match.

Execution status: Tests executed. The run installed the vSphere UPI cluster, invoked openshift-tests run openshift/conformance/parallel --retry-strategy=aggressive --provider vsphere, and completed with 2338 passing tests and one blocking failure.

Completed supporting jobs: ci/prow/e2e-vsphere-ovn passed; ci/prow/e2e-aws-ovn-upgrade-rollback passed; ci/prow/unit, ci/prow/verify, ci/prow/verify-deps, ci/prow/go-verify-deps, ci/prow/images, ci/prow/lint, ci/prow/agentic-images, and ci/prow/okd-scos-images passed. Pending and not used as positive signal: ci/prow/e2e-metal-ipi-ovn-ipv6 and tide.

Overlap assessment: The PR changes only upgrade acknowledgement monitoring and its unit tests in test/e2e/upgrade/monitor.go, test/e2e/upgrade/monitor_test.go, and test/e2e/upgrade/upgrade.go. The blocking failure is a RouteExternalCertificate router reachability test in the networking surface. There is no plausible direct or indirect overlap through the changed files or logic.

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Thanks for the review — I agree that the current PR’s early acknowledgement is incorrect. I verified that CVO emits the normal RetrievePayload event before invoking retrieval, reports ReleaseAccepted=True only after PayloadLoaded, and reports retrieval failures with ReleaseAccepted=False. Counting the in-progress RetrievePayload signal could therefore let the test pass before payload download/validation and hide a later failure.

The latency issue is already addressed upstream by cluster-version-operator#1361, which fixed the watcher/ListOptions path. The corresponding origin#30919 discussion records that the fix reached the release nightlies and the temporary 10-minute acknowledgement timeout could be returned to 2 minutes.

So the existing 2-minute acknowledgement budget remains the appropriate fail-fast test boundary after the upstream fix; a real retrieval or validation failure remains visible through CVO’s failed payload status and the upgrade test’s unacknowledged/failure path. I will close this PR as superseded by the upstream fix rather than merge an early-ack workaround.


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@redhat-chai-bot: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-115163. The bug has been updated to no longer refer to the pull request using the external bug tracker. All external bug links have been closed. The bug has been moved to the NEW state.

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Summary

Make the upgrade acknowledgement check recognize a fresh, target-matched CVO payload-retrieval signal instead of waiting only for status.observedGeneration. The change captures pre-request state so stale or unrelated conditions/events cannot satisfy the acknowledgement, and treats event access as optional so an event API failure does not itself fail the check. Failed payload retrieval conditions are not accepted as acknowledgement.

Validation

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  • go vet ./...
  • go test ./pkg/...
  • make verify
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  • gofmt and git diff --check

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A dedicated adversarial review panel was run before push. Two blocking findings were reproduced and fixed: event API failures no longer gate canonical acknowledgement, and failed ReleaseAccepted retrieval conditions are not treated as successful retrieval. The final review reported no unresolved blockers.

Tracked by OCPBUGS-115163.


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  • Improved upgrade monitoring to reliably detect when an update request has been acknowledged.

  • Prevented stale, unrelated, or failed cluster events from being mistaken for update acknowledgement.

  • Improved handling of version-only upgrade requests and requests that specify an image.

  • Tests

  • Added comprehensive coverage for update acknowledgement scenarios, including event and condition changes.

  • Added validation for baseline tracking and upgrade flow behavior.

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@redhat-chai-bot: This pull request references Jira Issue OCPBUGS-115163, which is valid. The bug has been moved to the POST state.

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Summary

Make the upgrade acknowledgement check recognize a fresh, target-matched CVO payload-retrieval signal instead of waiting only for status.observedGeneration. The change captures pre-request state so stale or unrelated conditions/events cannot satisfy the acknowledgement, and treats event access as optional so an event API failure does not itself fail the check. Failed payload retrieval conditions are not accepted as acknowledgement.

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  • go test ./test/e2e/upgrade
  • go vet ./...
  • go test ./pkg/...
  • make verify
  • make openshift-tests
  • gofmt and git diff --check

Review

A dedicated adversarial review panel was run before push. Two blocking findings were reproduced and fixed: event API failures no longer gate canonical acknowledgement, and failed ReleaseAccepted retrieval conditions are not treated as successful retrieval. The final review reported no unresolved blockers.

Tracked by OCPBUGS-115163.


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  • Bug Fixes

  • Improved upgrade monitoring to reliably detect when an update request has been acknowledged.

  • Prevented stale, unrelated, or failed cluster events from being mistaken for update acknowledgement.

  • Improved handling of version-only upgrade requests and requests that specify an image.

  • Tests

  • Added comprehensive coverage for update acknowledgement scenarios, including event and condition changes.

  • Added validation for baseline tracking and upgrade flow behavior.

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Reopening to incorporate the review feedback.

The change should avoid the false failure caused by the CVO taking longer than two minutes to retrieve and load the payload. However, the test suite still needs a bounded failure path when the payload cannot be downloaded or validated. Please clarify and implement the intended split/contract:

  • This check should detect that the upgrade or retrieval has started.
  • Another assertion/check—or this one, if appropriate—should fail when retrieval and validation do not complete within a reasonable timeout.
  • A CVO download or validation failure must not leave the test waiting indefinitely or allow it to pass without validating the payload.

The goal is to remove the false timeout without losing detection of a real CVO payload retrieval/validation failure.


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