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J. Scott Miller 866e676320 feat: invalidate provisioner daemon sessions on key deletion (#26532)
## Summary

Closes PLAT-305.

When a provisioner key is deleted, the associated daemon kept operating
on its existing WebSocket connection, because authentication was only
checked at connection establishment and deletion was a bare `DELETE`
with no session invalidation.

This adds four layers of defense so a deleted key promptly stops doing
work:

1. **Publish on delete.** `deleteProvisionerKey` publishes to a new
per-key pubsub channel (`coderd/pubsub.ProvisionerKeyDeletedChannel`)
after a successful delete. Publish errors are logged but still return
`204`, since layer 3 is the durable backstop.
2. **Subscribe and tear down.** The daemon serve handler subscribes to
its key's channel and terminates the DRPC session on a deletion event.
Termination is deferred while a job claimed by the session is active:
the daemon may finish and report the in-flight job
(`UpdateJob`/`CompleteJob` have no key check), and the last active job's
completion performs the cancellation. Because Postgres `LISTEN`/`NOTIFY`
does not buffer for non-listeners, the handler also performs a
synchronous key-existence re-check immediately after subscribing to
close the race between auth and subscription. The subscription uses
`SubscribeWithErr` so that an `ErrDroppedMessages` signal (emitted when
the pubsub listener reconnects) triggers the same key re-check, closing
the listener-outage window in which a deletion notification could be
missed.
3. **Backstop on acquire.** `AcquireJob` and `AcquireJobWithCancel`
verify the key still exists before waiting for a job, and the `Acquirer`
claims jobs in a transaction that first locks the worker's deletable key
(`LockProvisionerKeyByIDForShare`, a `FOR KEY SHARE` row lock held until
commit) before running the `AcquireProvisionerJob` claim, so a claim
cannot commit after the key's deletion. This guards against a missed
pubsub message. A missing key row surfaces as its own result rather than
overloading the claim query's no-rows response: the acquire terminates
with `ErrProvisionerKeyDeleted` (terminating the session, with the same
active-job deferral) and hands the consumed wakeup to another waiting
daemon in the same domain, rather than silently re-parking and starving
peers of job postings.
4. **Heartbeat watchdog.** The per-session heartbeat loop (1m interval)
also re-checks the key, so even a session whose deletion notification
was silently lost terminates within one heartbeat interval instead of
living until the connection breaks (same active-job deferral as layer
2). Reserved keys skip the check.

A job that is claimed but never delivered (the session or connection
dies between the database claim and the stream send) is marked failed
immediately on a fresh context, instead of staying assigned to the
worker until the job reaper.

Reserved keys (built-in, user-auth, PSK) are exempt throughout, since
they are not deletable rows. The acquire-time lookup runs as
`dbauthz.AsSystemReadProvisionerDaemons`, because the provisionerd role
cannot read provisioner keys and a provisioner key's RBAC object is a
provisioner daemon.

A single key can back many daemons (and span HA replicas), so the
per-key channel fans out to invalidate all of them at once. Per-key
channels keep the `LISTEN` count proportional to distinct keys rather
than waking every daemon on unrelated deletions.

### Known limitations

- **`UpdateJob`/`CompleteJob` intentionally have no key check.** By the
time those RPCs arrive the work has already run; rejecting completion
would strand a build in "running" (until the job reaper fails it) with
real infrastructure left unreconciled. Session termination is deferred
while a job is active so the completion can be reported; the daemon may
not receive the final RPC response when the deferred termination fires,
but the job's outcome is already persisted.
- **After termination, the daemon process redials and receives 401s
until restarted.** The dial-time exit logic only triggers on 403, and
the auth middleware returns 401 for an invalid key; this dial behavior
predates this PR and is tracked as a follow-up in
[PLAT-452](https://linear.app/codercom/issue/PLAT-452) (return 403 for
invalid provisioner keys).

## Tests

- `coderd/provisionerdserver`: `TestAcquireJob_ProvisionerKeyDeleted`
(both RPC variants), `TestAcquireJob_ReservedProvisionerKey`,
`TestHeartbeat_ProvisionerKeyDeleted` (heartbeat watchdog cancels the
session after key deletion), `TestAcquirer_ProvisionerKeyDeleted` (a
dead-key acquiree exits terminally and its clearance is promoted to a
peer in the same domain), and `TestTerminateSession_Deferral`
(termination is immediate when idle and deferred until the last active
job finishes).
- `coderd/database`: `TestAcquireProvisionerJob/ProvisionerKeyLock`
covers the lock query against real Postgres: it returns the key ID while
the row exists and no rows once it is deleted. The lock-then-claim
composition is pinned by `TestAcquirer_ProvisionerKeyDeleted`.
- `enterprise/coderd`:
`TestProvisionerDaemonServe/KeyDeletionClosesSession` asserts an active
session closes after its key is deleted.
`KeyDeletedDuringSetupClosesSession` covers the post-subscribe re-check
when a key is deleted between auth and subscription, and
`DroppedMessageClosesSession` covers the `ErrDroppedMessages` re-check
when a deletion is missed during a listener outage.

## Validation

- `make` pre-commit (gen/fmt/lint/build) passed via git hooks.
- Targeted tests pass; existing acquire tests pass with no regression.
- Manual: brought up a dev deployment (coder-in-coder) with a Premium
license, created a deletable provisioner key, and started an external
daemon with `coder provisionerd start`. Confirmed it authenticated via
the key and connected, appearing as `idle` in both `coder provisioner
list` (with the key name) and the organization Provisioners UI.
- Manual, idle teardown: deleted the key while the daemon was idle. The
server logged `provisioner key deleted, terminating session`, the
daemon's session closed immediately, and it dropped from `coder
provisioner list` (then entered the known 401 redial loop, PLAT-452).
- Manual, deferred termination: ran a workspace build (tagged template,
`sleep 45` in `local-exec`) pinned to the external daemon and deleted
the key mid-build. The server logged `deferring session cancellation
until active jobs finish`; the heartbeat watchdog re-checked mid-build
and re-deferred rather than force-killing. The build ran to completion
(`Apply complete`, workspace `Started`) and only then did `canceling
session after job completion` fire. The documented caveat reproduced:
the daemon lost the final `CompleteJob` ack, and the build outcome was
still persisted correctly.

<details>
<summary>Implementation plan and design decisions</summary>

### Design

- **Per-key vs global channel:** chose per-key
(`provisioner_key_deleted:<keyID>`) so daemons do not wake on unrelated
deletions. The cost is one `LISTEN` per distinct key per replica on the
shared listener connection, which is negligible against Coder's existing
channels.
- **Missing-key behavior on acquire:** returns an error that tears down
the acquire rather than silently returning an empty job.
- **Subscribe-startup race:** ordering is `authorize ->
UpsertProvisionerDaemon -> Subscribe -> GetProvisionerKeyByID`. The
post-subscribe re-check handles a deletion that committed before the
`LISTEN` registered (Postgres does not buffer notifications for
non-listeners; the in-process buffer only smooths bursts and drops on
overflow).
- **`NewServer` change:** `KeyID` was added to
`provisionerdserver.Options` to avoid a positional signature change
across call sites. The in-memory (built-in) daemon leaves it unset and
is therefore exempt.

### Files

- `coderd/pubsub/provisionerkeydeleted.go` (new) — channel helper.
- `enterprise/coderd/provisionerkeys.go` — publish on delete.
- `enterprise/coderd/provisionerdaemons.go` — subscribe, re-check,
cancel session; pass `KeyID`.
- `coderd/provisionerdserver/provisionerdserver.go` — `KeyID` option and
acquire-time existence check.

</details>

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This pull request was created by Coder Agents on behalf of
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2026-08-11 11:04:51 -05:00
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