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io_uring Worker.Write on a closing driver conn returns engine.ErrUnknownFD, as epoll does, and WorkerLoop.Write says so (v1.6.0 polish item). A behaviour change (the maintainer adopted it on 2026-10-19); separate from the other io_uring driver items on purpose. Linux only for the test (build tag linux); provider.go is documentation.

Refs #884 item 54 (Worker.Write, the dc.closing branch returns nil and drops the bytes; unchecked-box count, the convention of #1056)

Decision

Decided by the maintainer on 2026-10-19: adopt ErrUnknownFD (parity with epoll). #884 item 54 asked whether a Write on a closing io_uring driver conn should return ErrUnknownFD or a closing error, or whether to state "nil, bytes dropped" in the doc; the answer is ErrUnknownFD, with no separate closing error. The in-tree callers mostly treat any Write error as a failed write: redis exec/exec2/exec3 close the conn with the error, memcached's writeAndEnqueue and postgres's writeRaw return it. Two places read ErrUnknownFD as teardown, the direction this change takes: driver/postgres/conn.go (Close) swallows it from the Terminate write and from UnregisterConn (celeris#887), and driver/redis/pubsub.go maps it to ErrPubSubConnDown. That is what they already get from epoll and the standalone loop.

User-visible change (release note)

On the io_uring engine, a driver Write on a conn that is closing (after UnregisterConn, or after the conn failed) now returns ErrUnknownFD instead of nil. redis exec/exec2/exec3 and memcached writeAndEnqueue, which used to get nil and then waited for onClose or the context, now get the error and close the conn with it (better than the hang). redisConn.closeWithErr stores its error unconditionally (the last write wins), so a later command can report ErrUnknownFD in place of the original failure cause. epoll already behaves this way, so this is parity, not a regression.

For driver authors (contract)

WorkerLoop.Write has one answer for a conn that is gone or going, on every engine worker: engine.ErrUnknownFD, for an fd that is not registered on the worker, or is registered but closing (after UnregisterConn, or after the conn failed). No further bytes are sent for it. Before this PR the io_uring worker returned nil and dropped the bytes in the closing window; epoll already returned ErrUnknownFD. The standalone driver loop answers ErrLoopClosed once the loop itself is closed, and ErrUnknownFD for a closing conn. A driver that races its own close should treat ErrUnknownFD from Write as "the conn is closed" (not as a bug, not as a retryable error) and not wait on onClose for a write it was told failed. A Write that returns nil is still not a delivery guarantee: it only means the bytes were queued. The contract is stated in the WorkerLoop.Write godoc and in the ErrUnknownFD doc in internal/engine/provider.go.

What changed

  • internal/engine/iouring/driver.go: in Worker.Write, the dc.closing branch returns engine.ErrUnknownFD instead of nil. Before: success reported, bytes dropped (the SEND uses the engine's dup, so the bytes could not reach another socket: this is a semantic gap, not a redis: a PubSub control write that races PubSub.Close goes by descriptor number to the conn that has taken the closed descriptor #929-class hazard). The branch covers the window between the unregister or the failure and finalizeDriver; finalizeDriver deletes the conn from the map before the engine's descriptor is closed and before onClose runs (celeris#763 item 2: onClose is no longer tied to the map removal), so a Write after that misses the lookup and gets the same answer. The same window means a new RegisterConn on the same number can succeed before the old onClose fires; that was already so.. Only the return value of that branch changes; the enqueue path below it is untouched.
  • internal/engine/provider.go: the WorkerLoop.Write doc says it returns ErrUnknownFD for an fd not registered on the worker or already closing (after UnregisterConn or after the conn failed), on the engines' workers (the standalone driver loop answers ErrLoopClosed once it is closed). Two stale comments in driver.go (retire, shutdownDrivers) that said a later Write is a no-op now say it fails with ErrUnknownFD. Read-only check of epoll: its Loop.Write returns ErrUnknownFD when dc.closed, which UnregisterConn and both error paths set.
  • Test TestDriverWriteAfterUnregisterReturnsErrUnknownFD884 (new file driver_write_closing_884_linux_test.go; named in the new list of ci.yml's 'celeris#691 io_uring driver tests' step, with its prose): the worker is parked, so UnregisterConn is queued and the conn is still in the map, in its closing state, when Write is called; Write must return ErrUnknownFD; after the release the peer reads EOF (the refused bytes were not sent) and a Write on the finalized number also returns ErrUnknownFD.

Evidence after the rebase onto main aa93b61 (head 9f8543e; arm64 linux, golang:1.27.2 in Docker, -race; lane dir lanes-20261019/IODRIVER-REBASE/, logs in logs/)

Evidence before the rebase (head 8ed0b06 on main a1fcd97; lane dir lanes-20261009/IODRIVER/)

  • Failing first: the test commit 796d3a8 alone on main a1fcd97 fails: Write on a closing conn = <nil>, want engine.ErrUnknownFD (logs/ff2-write-closing-on-main.log).
  • Negative controls on the fixed tree (logs/ctl2-*.log): the branch returning nil again: red, same message; the closing check dropped altogether (Write enqueues): red, same message. Neither is a compile break.
  • Fixed: 5 of 5 pass (logs/fix2-pass.log).
  • ci.yml step 'celeris#691 io_uring driver tests' exactly as written (-race -count=5, names from the edited ci.yml): 195 PASS wanted, 195 PASS, 0 FAIL, 0 SKIP (logs/ci-lists-x5-pr2.log; again after review round 2 in logs/ci-lists-x5-pr2-r2.log). The ci.yml prose says the new test is in the new list.
  • go test -race of ./driver/redis/... ./driver/memcached/... ./driver/postgres/... ./driver/internal/...: all ok (logs/drivers-pr2.log; the redis, memcached and postgres suites that do not need a server).
  • Full ./internal/engine/iouring/ ./internal/engine/ under -race: ./internal/engine ok; ./internal/engine/iouring had one failure, TestHandoffHasNothingInFlight (128 conns, read_timeout=34, logs/full-pkg-pr2.log), in a run with another lane's container on the VM. It is an HTTP handoff load test that does not call driver Write; 8 of 8 passes afterwards on this branch and 8 of 8 on main (logs/flake-handoff-wt2.log, logs/flake-handoff-wt-main.log). Not the memlock signature of the v1.6.0 polish: CI and tests #890 item on that test. Flagged for the orchestrator, not fixed here.

RULE 74

No HTTP hot path is touched, and no benchmark of internal/engine/iouring drives Worker.Write (the Write benchmarks under driver/internal/eventloop are the standalone loop's). The change is the return value of the closing branch; the enqueue path (lock, cap check, append, action) is byte-for-byte the same, so no A/B was run; if you want one, it needs a new io_uring Write benchmark first. amd64 native timing is OWED either way.

Open points

  • Owed: a real (non-linuxkit) kernel; amd64 native timing; a RULE 74 A/B for Worker.Write (no io_uring Write benchmark exists; the only changed instruction is the return value of the closing branch, which the normal path never takes, but that is an argument, not a measurement).
  • CI on 9f8543e: all checks green after one re-run. Attempt 1 failed in 'Unit steps' on TestShutdownEndsOwedOpsBeforeClosing (fd_lifetime_close_test.go:304, 1 of 8 server-side descriptors still open after shutdown), an HTTP descriptor-lifetime test that does not call driver Write; 60 of 60 passes of it under -race on this branch and on main aa93b61 in the arm64 container (logs/flake-branch.log, logs/flake-main.log), and it passed on attempt 2. Flagged as a flake for the orchestrator, not fixed here. The earlier heads 54ac82c, 97ff862 and 8ed0b06 were green before the rebase.
  • Review: round 1 found no blocker or major; its minors and nits are addressed in 8ed0b06 (the Write and WorkerLoop.Write docs no longer say a closing conn stays in the map until onClose, ErrLoopClosed named, the ci.yml prose, two stale comments, the caller list and the release note above). A separate Sonnet perf/api/security lens was not run as its own pass.
  • Review state: the two Opus approvals cover 8ed0b06. Added after them: the merge of main (ci.yml conflict only) and 9f8543e, three doc comments (the ErrUnknownFD var, epoll Loop.Write, the standalone loop's worker.Write) that now say what Write returns on a closing conn; no behaviour change in it.

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Writes to io_uring connections now return ErrUnknownFD while the connection is closing and after retirement. The write contract documentation and CI test list are updated, and a Linux regression test checks both cases.

Changes: Closing-Write Error

Layer / File(s) Summary
Document the closing-connection write contract
internal/engine/provider.go, driver/internal/eventloop/loop_linux.go, internal/engine/epoll/driver.go, internal/engine/iouring/driver.go
Write documentation specifies ErrUnknownFD for unregistered or closing descriptors. The io_uring retirement and shutdown documentation also describes this error.
Reject and test writes to closing connections
internal/engine/iouring/driver.go, internal/engine/iouring/driver_write_closing_884_linux_test.go, .github/workflows/ci.yml
The io_uring worker returns ErrUnknownFD instead of silently dropping writes to closing connections. The regression test checks writes during closing and after finalization. CI includes the test in its existing five-run tally.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested labels: bug, breaking

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 9f854

The closing-write behavior is covered, but callers could misread the documentation as a guarantee that pending sends stop. Clarify it before merge or accept this bounded documentation risk.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 3 · Failed 1

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… the driver map until onClose, the standalone loop's ErrLoopClosed is named, and two comments say Write is refused (Refs #884 item 54)
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// is already closing: after [WorkerLoop.UnregisterConn], or after the
// connection failed, no further bytes are sent, and the engines' workers
// report that rather than success (the io_uring worker used to return nil

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Limit the guarantee to writes made while closing.

If a SEND is already in flight when UnregisterConn runs, it can still complete. The statement that “no further bytes are sent” promises that earlier accepted writes also stop. State instead that Write rejects new data once the connection is closing. (man7.org)

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Merging with every required check green (Build, Conformance, Driver Conformance, Lint, Unit, Vulnerability Check). The advisory items are not code results: "CodSpeed Macro Runners" reports action_required because the org's 600 Macro Runner minutes are used up until 2026-10-31, and the "Benchmarks (arm64 macro runner)" job has no runner. Neither is a required check.

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…l does (#1058)

* iouring: a test that Write on a closing driver conn reports ErrUnknownFD, not success (Refs #884 item 54)

* iouring: Write on a closing driver conn returns ErrUnknownFD, the answer epoll gives (Refs #884 item 54)

* ci: the io_uring driver test step's prose counts the Write-on-closing test (Refs #884 item 54)

* engine: reflow the WorkerLoop.Write doc (Refs #884 item 54)

* iouring, engine: the Write docs no longer say a closing conn stays in the driver map until onClose, the standalone loop's ErrLoopClosed is named, and two comments say Write is refused (Refs #884 item 54)

* engine, epoll, eventloop: ErrUnknownFD's doc and the epoll and standalone Write docs say what Write returns on a closing conn (Refs #884 item 54)
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