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Reconciling the FRR configuration after a DHCP lease event was requested from the configuration daemon over the same socket a commit uses. The daemon serves one client at a time and assumes that client is the running commit. A lease event arrives while a commit holds the configuration lock, and the request is then sent the very moment that lock is released, so it collides with the commit that follows.

Two ways this goes wrong. The request is fair-queued into the middle of the multi message handshake which hands the active and session configuration to the daemon, where it is consumed as configuration data and leaves the daemon without a usable session. Or the daemon is still busy reloading FRR when the next commit starts, and does not answer within the 10ms the commit waits for it.

Either way the commit falls back to executing the conf-mode scripts directly. Those never render FRR, only the daemon does, so the commit succeeds while FRR keeps the configuration rendered before it. Nothing recovers until the next lease event. A smoketest caught this as static routes pointing to a DHCP gateway which never showed up in FRR.

A lease event now renders FRR in its own process and no longer talks to the daemon at all. A commit which could not use the daemon renders FRR itself instead of silently skipping the reload, and the daemon no longer consumes a foreign request as configuration data.

Issue introduced with the changeset from T9278.

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  • T9368 describes DHCP lease-triggered requests colliding with the config daemon’s commit handshake or 10 ms response window. The resulting commit can succeed via conf-mode scripts without rendering FRR, leaving a DHCP-gateway static route missing until another lease event; the task is open. This remains relevant to the change’s race-handling goal. (Source: vyos.dev · maniphest-get)
  • T9278 says the prior interface-list gate omitted plain address dhcp interfaces, and that removing the gate allowed lease events to request a re-render; the task is resolved. This is relevant to the changed lease-event reconciliation path. (Source: vyos.dev · maniphest-get)
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  • Legacy vyos_static_route and vyos_static_routes modules redirect to vyos.vyos collection modules in lib/ansible/config/ansible_builtin_runtime.yml:7536-7573. The search found no references to the new FRR renderer, render lock, configd updater, or DHCP hooks in Ansible’s lib and test trees.
  • VyOS is documented as an Ansible network platform in test/lib/ansible_test/config/inventory.networking.template:42-43; this PR does not appear to change that external connection contract. [::ansible/ansible::]

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  • New Features
    • FRR configuration is reconciled automatically after relevant DHCP lease and interface events, helping keep routes in sync with network changes.
    • FRR configuration is refreshed after configuration scripts complete, and unchanged configurations are not reapplied.
    • Successfully applied FRR configurations are recorded for comparison with later generated configurations.
  • Bug Fixes
    • FRR configuration updates are coordinated to prevent overlapping operations.
    • PPPoE callbacks wait for configuration commits to finish before updating interface settings.
    • PPPoE IPv6 tests now check link-local addressing separately from global autoconfiguration.

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The changes add a standalone FRR renderer, serialize FRR generation and application, and invoke reconciliation from DHCP hooks and shim paths. They also make the PPPoE callback wait for the commit lock and update PPPoE IPv6 smoke tests.

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FRR Configuration Reconciliation

Layer / File(s) Summary
FRR lock and applied state
python/vyos/frrender.py, src/services/vyos-configd, src/services/vyos-commitd
The FRR module defines shared configuration and lock paths, provides an exclusive lock, and records rendered configuration after a successful reload. Configd and commitd hold the lock during FRR generation and conditional application.
Standalone FRR renderer
src/helpers/vyos-frr-render.py
The renderer generates FRR configuration and skips application when rendered and applied files match. Script execution holds the render lock and exits with status 1 on ConfigError.
DHCP and shim triggers
src/etc/dhcp/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/98-vyos-static-routes-dhclient-hook, src/etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/98-vyos-static-routes-dhclient-hook, src/shim/vyshim.c, src/helpers/vyos-request-configd-update.py
DHCP hooks invoke the renderer instead of the configd update helper, which is removed. The shim invokes the renderer on specified last-script pass-through paths and reports renderer failures.

PPPoE Callback and IPv6 Tests

Layer / File(s) Summary
Callback synchronization and IPv6 tests
src/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/99-vyos-pppoe-callback, smoketest/scripts/cli/test_interfaces_pppoe.py
The callback waits for the commit lock before reading configuration. The link-local test waits for a link-local address, and a separate test checks global IPv6 autoconfiguration.

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FRR reconciliation may still fail or skip an application after a DHCP event or write failure. Resolve or explicitly accept those risks before merging.

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Review comments at @src/helpers/vyos-frr-render.py:
- Around line 58-59: Update FRRender.generate() to compare the new configuration
against separately stored successfully applied state, not frr_config_file, which
may contain an unapplied configuration. Advance that baseline only after
frr.apply() succeeds, and ensure the unchanged-configuration early return does
not leave newly generated, unapplied configuration behind.
- Around line 78-79: Update the args.if_idle flow around wait_for_commit_lock so
it never waits for a commit while holding the renderer lock. Wait before
acquiring the renderer lock, and if a commit begins after acquisition, release
the lock, wait again, then reacquire it before rendering.
- Around line 63-66: Serialize configd’s complete FRRender.generate()/apply()
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  • T9368 documents the failure: DHCP lease requests can collide with the config daemon’s commit handshake or FRR reload, causing fallback conf-mode execution without FRR rendering; the commit succeeds while FRR retains stale routes. (Source: vyos.dev · maniphest-get)
  • T9368’s reproduction uses a DHCP interface plus a static route with dhcp-interface; the expected route is missing from FRR after the race. (Source: vyos.dev · maniphest-get)
  • T9278 established the earlier lease-event reconciliation behavior and explains that DHCP-derived routes can become stale because the lease event occurs during FRR reload; it also removed gating so any lease event requests re-rendering. (Source: vyos.dev · maniphest-get)
  • T9368 remains open, while T9278 is resolved. (Source: vyos.dev · maniphest-get)
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  • Legacy vyos_static_route and vyos_static_routes modules redirect to vyos.vyos collection modules in lib/ansible/config/ansible_builtin_runtime.yml:7536-7573. No direct references to the changed FRR renderer, configd updater, or DHCP hooks were found. [::ansible/ansible::]
  • VyOS remains documented as a network_cli platform in test/lib/ansible_test/config/inventory.networking.template:42-43; the PR does not alter this Ansible connection contract. [::ansible/ansible::]
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src/services/vyos-configd (1)

149-152: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration

No concurrent handshake restart is reachable through the supported commit path.

vyconf_session.commit() holds the commit lock for the full commit request. The repository has one direct ZMQ_REQ client for this socket: src/shim/vyshim.c. Therefore, a second supported commit cannot send init while the first handshake is active. The restart behavior does not create a reachable repository defect.

python/vyos/frrender.py (1)

48-49: LGTM!

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

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Serialize configd's complete FRR render and apply sequence.

src/services/vyos-configd:279-287 calls FRRender.generate() and FRRender.apply() without /run/vyos-frr-render.lock. FRRender.generate() writes /run/frr/config/vyos.frr.conf, and FRRender.apply() reloads that same file. The helper's commit_in_progress() calls only inspect the commit lock; they do not reserve it. Configd and vyos-frr-render.py can therefore overwrite the shared file between generation and reload, or run overlapping reloads.

Protect configd's complete generate-and-apply sequence with the same lock. Establish a consistent commit-lock/FRR-lock order first, because the helper currently acquires the FRR lock before wait_for_commit_lock().

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Review comment at @src/helpers/vyos-frr-render.py around lines 63 - 66:
Serialize configd’s complete FRRender.generate()/apply() sequence under the same
FRR lock used by the helper, keeping the lock held through reload. Align lock
acquisition order with the helper’s commit_in_progress()/wait_for_commit_lock()
flow to prevent deadlocks.

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This identifies a real problem introduced by the mechanism of
#4622
It provides a path to a solution, with some correctable issues: there is confusion (perhaps mine) on two points (1) A Response.RETRY is introduced which is not handled by vyshim, and will require some more work to implement; however, it should not be needed after (2) as commonly seen, this solves the same collection of problems in two ways, overlapping the results: the clean-up of vyos-configd is welcome, but should at least be a separate commit; the actual solution by excluding the secondary communication makes the RETRY unnecessary, since a client-side timeout will call the script stand-alone, with the needed frrender now in place, and will re-init the handshake.

Also, the last coderabbit comment appears a legitimate source of a deadlock; the solution appears simple, but needs to be checked. The second coderabbit comment should be checked, but I'm not (yet) convinced that a full serialization is needed, as there suggested: we simply need to check/resolve the logic of the sequence of generate/apply updates.

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  • T9368 describes DHCP lease reconciliation requests sharing the config daemon’s single-client commit socket. It reports that a colliding request can disrupt the commit handshake or leave the daemon busy, causing a successful commit to fall back to conf-mode scripts without rendering FRR; the reported result is a missing static route using the DHCP gateway. The task remains open. (Source: vyos.dev · maniphest-get)
  • T9278 explains the earlier lease-event re-render behavior: DHCP-derived routes can be missed during FRR reload, and the prior interface-list gate omitted plain address dhcp interfaces. It says the gate was dropped so any lease event requests a re-render. The task is resolved. (Source: vyos.dev · maniphest-get)
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948-948: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Record the applied configuration only after the final step that persists FRR state.

This line is still a concern. The past review comment on vtysh --writeconfig no longer matches the visible code. In the shown final file, the comment block after Line 949 describes why the second save was removed. The shown range ends at Line 956, so I cannot confirm whether a vtysh --writeconfig call remains below it.

If a vtysh --writeconfig call still follows, cmdl raises OSError on a nonzero exit. In that case Line 948 has already made the applied file match the rendered file. The standalone renderer in src/helpers/vyos-frr-render.py then skips frr.apply(), and nothing retries the write.

If the call is gone, Line 948 is correct. Move the write to the end of apply() if any failing step remains.

Separate issue: write_file is not atomic. Another process can read a truncated frr_applied_config_file, and the helper then sees a spurious difference. The render lock protects the helper, but not other readers. Write to a temp file and rename it.

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Update the applied-configuration write in the apply flow to use a temporary file
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  • T9368 reports that a DHCP-triggered request on the commit socket can interrupt the multi-message configuration handshake or keep the daemon busy beyond the commit’s 10 ms wait. The commit can then succeed through conf-mode scripts without rendering FRR, leaving a DHCP-gateway static route absent until another lease event; the task is open. This describes the race the change aims to address. (Source: vyos.dev · maniphest-get)
  • T9278 explains that DHCP-derived routes may be missed during FRR reload and that the prior interface-list gate omitted plain address dhcp interfaces; its resolution removed the gate so any lease event requests a re-render. This is relevant to the lease-event behavior changed here. The task is resolved. (Source: vyos.dev · maniphest-get)
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…socket

Reconciling the FRR configuration after a DHCP lease event was requested from
the configuration daemon over the socket the commit pipeline uses. The daemon
serves one client at a time and assumes it is the running commit, so
the request either landed in the middle of the handshake which hands over the
configuration, or kept the daemon busy past the 10ms a commit waits for it.

Either way the commit fell back to running the conf-mode scripts directly.
Those never render FRR, only the daemon does, so the commit succeeded while FRR
kept the configuration rendered before it, until the next lease event.

A lease event now renders FRR in its own process, and a commit which could not
use the daemon renders FRR itself instead of skipping the reload. Both take the
same lock. A commit post-hook would remove the second case, for a full render
on every commit.
…returns

A PPPoE session is restarted from within the commit that changes it and comes
back up milliseconds later, while that commit is still running. The hook which
then configures the interface reads the running configuration, which until the
commit finishes is still the one from before it. Everything the commit adds is
missing at that point: for an interface newly set to IPv6 autoconf the hook
disabled router advertisements and autoconfiguration on the link, and nothing
turned them back on. The link kept its link-local address and never received a
global one, until the next commit or reconnect.

Which interface is hit varies with the order the commit happens to process
them, so this surfaced as an intermittent failure.

The hook now waits for the commit to finish before reading the configuration.
Two IPv6 tests waited for a global address as their synchronisation point,
although neither of them is about one. A global address only shows up once the
peer answers a router solicitation, which is best effort, so both tests failed
intermittently whenever a run was slow.

The link-local test now waits for the address it actually asserts on, and
forces the established session to be reconfigured within a commit before it
looks. Waiting for the link-local alone would race the code it guards, as the
peer assigns that address before VyOS configures the link. The autoconf test
proves the session negotiated IPv6 before asserting that no global address
exists.

Autoconfiguration itself is covered by a test of its own, with a timeout of its
own, so a slow peer no longer fails tests which do not depend on it.
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