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Problem

A relay caches groups in upstream arrival order, and QUIC does not order streams, so a newer group can reach the relay before an older one. The lite-05+ publisher resolved SUBSCRIBE_START from the first group to arrive and raised the floor to it, so a finished older group arriving a moment later fell below the start and was dropped for good. This happened even for a subscriber that asked for group 0 with an unbounded max age. A local publisher never hit this because its cache is in sequence order.

Found downstream on moq.pro: billing rollup tracks replay a finished history group followed by an open live group, and dashboards intermittently lost the prior period's rows.

Approach

The publisher holds the first servable group until the source resolves where its feed starts. A relay already records the upstream's SUBSCRIBE_START on its track; this PR reads it, raised to the subscriber's floor. SUBSCRIBE_START then resolves to the lower of the two. Datagrams keep flowing while a group is held.

A spliced track reads the source of the first segment that reaches the floor and has not ended. Resolving the start raises the cursor's floor and never lowers it, so a SUBSCRIBE_UPDATE that raised the floor while the group was held still applies.

Impact

  • Wire: none.
  • Public API: none. Adds a crate-private track::Subscriber::poll_start, for plain and spliced cursors.
  • Behavior: a relayed subscriber can see a SUBSCRIBE_START below its first delivered group, when the source's feed starts lower. The source's start comes from the upstream aggregate (the most tolerant subscriber), so a less tolerant subscriber's START may name a group its own max age then skips. When the source starts below the subscriber's floor, START names the floor's group, even if the source never produced that sequence. That is the same as any gap above START. Nothing is lost that it could have used.

Alternatives

  • Ordering the relay's cache by sequence instead of arrival. That would change the arrival-order semantics poll_recv_next relies on for micro-reordered bursts.
  • Always resolving the start to the requested floor. Simpler, but without a source start it names groups outside the feed and weakens SUBSCRIBE_START as a drop signal.

Follow-ups

  • A viewer that joins a relay's track later can still miss the older group through the origin's splice and park path. Tracked in the new quest quest/m1/relay-late-joiner-history.md, added in this PR.

Test

rs/moq-net/tests/history_groups.rs runs every version direct and through a relay, with the group streams delivered in order and newest first. Before this change, lite-05 and lite-07 through a relay received only the newer group. Unit tests cover a held group resolving to the floor under the source, a start stepping past a group skipped for its head, an update that raises the floor while a group is held, and a spliced start skipping a segment below the floor or one that already ended. just check passes.

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A relay caches groups in upstream arrival order, and a newer group's stream can
beat an older one. The lite-05+ publisher resolved SUBSCRIBE_START from the first
group to arrive, so a finished older group landing a moment later fell below the
start and was dropped for good, even for a subscriber that asked for group 0.

Hold the first group until the source resolves where its feed starts, and start
at the lower of the two.

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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Comment thread rs/moq-net/src/model/resume.rs Outdated
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let Some(seg) = self.segments.first_mut() else {
return Poll::Ready(None);
};
ready!(Self::poll_activate(seg, &self.last_prefs, floor, waiter));

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P1 Badge Skip irrelevant segments when resolving the start

When a spliced track's first segment ends at or below the cursor floor, that segment cannot provide any data for this subscription, but this method still waits for its source's poll_start. If the old segment remains live without ever producing a group, as a capped upstream subscription can, its START stays pending indefinitely even after a newer segment has supplied the group held by TrackRun; the available group is therefore never delivered. Skip segments whose range cannot intersect the cursor before waiting for a source start.

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Agreed, fixed in d1113f3. resume::Subscriber::poll_start now waits on the first segment whose range reaches the floor (last_group() > floor), the same skip poll_seek uses. Regression test: model::resume::test::poll_start_skips_a_segment_below_the_floor, which stayed pending before the fix.

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if let Some(group) = self.first.take() {
match self.track.poll_start(waiter) {
Poll::Ready(source) => {
self.start(group, source, stream)?;

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P1 Badge Reapply updates before serving the held group

If a SUBSCRIBE_UPDATE arrives while this group is waiting for the source's START, the update changes start_frame, end_frame, and the sequence bounds, but the already-positioned group bypasses position_group and is unconditionally served here. A narrowing update can therefore deliver frames outside the new range, while a widening update cannot restore frames discarded under the old range; same-group frame bounds are not filtered by the receiving track model. Defer positioning or reacquire and validate the held group against the latest bounds before serving it.

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Partly agreed, fixed in d1113f3.

The real bug: start() assigned the cursor floor with start_at(start). If an update raised the floor above the held group, resolving the start lowered it again, so later groups below the updated floor were served. It now calls raise_start_to, which does the same thing when there is no race, since the resolved start is never below the floor. Regression test: lite::publisher::serve_group_test::held_first_group_keeps_an_updated_floor (it served group 6 under a floor of 7 before the fix).

I disagree with repositioning the held group. The cursor already handed it out, so it is in the same position as a GroupServe waiting in Open for stream credit, which can also take arbitrarily long. SUBSCRIBE_UPDATE has never repositioned groups that were handed out before it arrived. It only changes the priority of groups in flight. The subscriber gets the same result as an update arriving just after the group was served, a race it already has to handle.

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Walkthrough

The relay publisher now waits for the subscriber’s source start before serving the first group and emitting SUBSCRIBE_START. The change adds a regression test for late subscriptions that checks receipt of finished group 5 and open group 6 across protocol versions, relay settings, and stream delivery orders. It also adds quest documentation for the late-joiner scenario.

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A subscription update can still deliver a group older than the requested start. Fix the held-group check before merging.

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Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to c8e67

The change addresses lost historical groups, but a delayed upstream start can now delay group delivery to downstream subscribers even when a group is available. The failure-containment behavior merits review.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · reliability · inferred: A relay can hold an available first group while awaiting an upstream start declaration. If that declaration remains pending without an abort or other termination, downstream group delivery remains stalled; datagram forwarding does not resolve the group stall.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — An unresolved source start can affect group delivery for downstream subscriptions relying on that source. The independently attackable scope and privileges needed to sustain that state were not established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The new model method is crate-private; the existing publisher remains responsible for peer updates and wire responses. Floor clamping limits how source-start metadata affects the subscriber cursor.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — An abort ends plain-track start polling, and the publisher continues to process peer updates or FIN while holding the first group. These paths limit, but do not establish a bound on, a still-open unresolved source.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Establish whether upstream start resolution has an enforced deadline or terminal failure path, and define the downstream behavior if an upstream source remains open without resolving it.
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Delay SUBSCRIBE_START before releasing the reversed group streams.

hold_unis() delays only group streams. TrackRun::start sends SUBSCRIBE_START before it opens the group stream, so the relay source start can resolve before group 6 arrives. The test therefore covers reversed arrival after start resolution, but not the new pending first branch. Add a control-stream gate, release it after release_unis_reversed(), and keep the (5, 3), (6, 2) assertion.

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In the history-group test, `hold_unis()` delays only group streams, so
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…loors

A spliced cursor waited on the first segment's source even when that
segment ends at or below the floor, so a source that never resolves
held the first group forever. Skip to the first segment reaching the
floor.

Resolving the held group's start assigned the cursor floor, undoing a
SUBSCRIBE_UPDATE that raised it while the group was held. Raise it
instead.

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true => Poll::Pending,
false => Poll::Ready(Ok(state.start_sequence)),
});
Poll::Ready(ready!(res).ok().flatten().filter(|start| *start >= floor))

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P1 Badge Clamp resolved starts to the cursor floor

When a relay's source declared a start below this subscriber's floor, this filter converts that useful lower bound into None. For example, if the upstream feed starts at 0, a downstream subscriber requests group 5, and group 6 arrives before group 5, TrackRun::start falls back to 6 and permanently raises the cursor past group 5, recreating the history-loss bug this change is intended to fix. Return the effective floor when the declared source start is below it rather than treating the source as having no resolved start.

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Agreed, fixed in a49f510. Both track::Subscriber::poll_start and the spliced one now raise the source's start to the cursor's floor instead of dropping it to None, so the held group resolves START to the floor's group, and a lower floor group that arrives later is still served. Regression test: lite::publisher::serve_group_test::held_first_group_resolves_to_the_floor_under_the_source (source from 0, floor 5, group 6 arrives before 5). Before the fix, group 5 was dropped.

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A source whose feed starts below the subscriber's floor serves the
floor's group, but poll_start dropped that start to None, so a newer
group arriving first resolved SUBSCRIBE_START past the floor and the
floor's group was lost.

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ready!(Self::poll_activate(seg, &self.last_prefs, floor, waiter));
match &mut seg.sub {
SubState::Active(sub) => Poll::Ready(ready!(sub.poll_start(waiter)).map(|start| start.max(floor))),
SubState::Done(_) | SubState::Pending(_) => Poll::Ready(None),

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P1 Badge Continue past drained segments when resolving the start

When an earlier segment overlaps the cursor floor but has already drained or failed, poll_recv_group can mark it Done and continue to a later segment, returning group 6 before group 5 due to stream reordering. This branch then returns None for the earlier segment instead of examining the later one, so TrackRun::start falls back to 6 and permanently raises the cursor past the late-arriving group 5. Continue searching for the first segment that can still serve data rather than treating a Done segment as an unresolved source start. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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Agreed, fixed in b34fc71. The spliced poll_start now walks the segments that reach the floor and skips any already Done, waiting on the first live one. Regression test: model::resume::test::poll_start_skips_an_ended_segment (A drained to Done by recv_group, B resolving at 5). Before the fix it resolved None from A without waiting on B.

track::Subscriber::poll_start now also shares Consumer::poll_start's rule for a closed track: it reports the start the track last declared instead of None, because an aborted track keeps its finished groups for readers to drain (#4378).

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impl<S: crate::transport::poll::Session> TrackRun<S> {
/// Send SUBSCRIBE_START for the first servable group, then serve it.
///
/// A relay caches groups in upstream arrival order, and a newer group's stream can
/// beat an older one, so the first group here need not be the oldest the source
/// serves. `source` is where the source's feed starts, raised to this cursor's floor,
/// so the resolved start is the lower of the two: resolving from the later group would
/// drop the older one for good.
fn start(
&mut self,
group: group::Consumer,
source: Option<u64>,
stream: &mut Stream<S, Version>,
) -> Result<(), Error> {
let start = source.map_or(group.sequence, |source| source.min(group.sequence));
self.start_sent = true;
// Only the group: the subscriber derives the start frame from its own request
// (see `lite::SubscribeStart`).
stream
.writer
.buffer(&lite::SubscribeResponse::Start(lite::SubscribeStart { group: start }))?;
// SUBSCRIBE_START is an implicit drop of everything below the resolved start (the
// subscriber records it as a permanent miss), so a lower group arriving late must
// not be served after all. A widening SUBSCRIBE_UPDATE re-lowers the floor,
// renegotiating the resolved start along with the demand. Raised, not assigned: an
// update that landed while the group was held may already have raised it past.
self.track.raise_start_to(start);
self.serve(group);
Ok(())
}

/// Open a group machine for `group`.
fn serve(&mut self, group: group::Consumer) {
let sequence = group.sequence;
let frame_start = group.index();
tracing::debug!(subscribe = self.ctx.id, track = %self.ctx.track_name, sequence, "serving group");

// Use the latest priority for new groups so SUBSCRIBE_UPDATE applies to them too.
let current_priority = self.ctx.track_priority_current();
// The subscribe id scopes the group tie-break: one queue serves every
// subscription on the session, and only groups of the same one may be
// ranked against each other by sequence.
let handle = self
.ctx
.priority
.insert(Priority::new(current_priority, self.ctx.id, sequence));
self.children
.push(GroupServe::new(self.ctx.clone(), sequence, frame_start, handle, group));
}
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Discard a held group below the updated start floor.

When SUBSCRIBE_UPDATE raises the floor to group 7 while group 5 is held, TrackRun::start preserves the floor but directly calls self.serve(group). This bypasses the subscriber cursor, so group 5 opens although the updated request starts at group 7. The test records this behavior: group 5 opens, while later group 6 is suppressed.

Discard the held group when its sequence is below the subscriber’s effective floor before calling serve. The resolved start argument cannot provide this check because poll_start already raises the source position to the floor and start then takes the minimum with the held group sequence.

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Update `TrackRun::start` to discard the held group when its sequence is below
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A segment that already ended serves nothing more, but the spliced
poll_start resolved None from it, so the first arriving group decided
the start and an older group from the next segment was dropped. Wait
on the first live segment reaching the floor instead.

The plain cursor's poll_start now shares Consumer::poll_start's rule:
a closed track reports the start it last declared, since an aborted
track keeps its finished groups for readers to drain.

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source: Option<u64>,
stream: &mut Stream<S, Version>,
) -> Result<(), Error> {
let start = source.map_or(group.sequence, |source| source.min(group.sequence));

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P2 Badge Advance START past a group whose head was skipped

When the source declares start N, but cached group N begins after the frame requested by this subscriber, position_group rejects and permanently consumes that group; after group N+1 arrives, this calculation nevertheless emits START N. No stream for N will follow, so a downstream splice waiting for that known-missing group cannot use START to fail over. Track the skipped floor and clamp the resolved start above groups rejected for a missing head. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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Agreed, fixed in 3727d30. Before the start resolves, TrackRun now records groups it skips for a missing head. start() then steps the resolved start past any of them, stopping at the held group at the latest, since that group was not skipped. Regression test: lite::publisher::serve_group_test::held_first_group_starts_past_a_skipped_head (source start 5, group 5 missing its head, group 6 held). Before the fix, START named 5.

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kixelated and others added 2 commits September 28, 2026 14:53
A group skipped for a missing head before the start resolved is never
served, but the source's start could still name it, so a downstream
splice waiting on it could not fail over. Step the start past skipped
groups.

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source: Option<u64>,
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let mut start = source.map_or(group.sequence, |source| source.min(group.sequence));

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P2 Badge Handle headless groups that arrive after the held group

When the source has resolved its start to group N but QUIC delivers a valid N+1 stream before a headless N stream, this commits SUBSCRIBE_START at N immediately. The late N subsequently fails position_group, but because start_sent is already true it is never added to skipped, leaving the peer promised a first group for which no stream can be opened. The current regression covers only N arriving before N+1; the reverse arrival order is fresh evidence that the prior finding remains partially unresolved. Keep the range unresolved or otherwise account for a late rejected N before committing START. (Written by GPT-5.6 Sol)

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I disagree with this one. SUBSCRIBE_START is a lower bound: nothing below it arrives. It does not promise a stream for the START group. It resolves before the groups above it have arrived, and any of them, the START group included, can still turn out headless, be evicted, or be aborted. The subscriber already handles that as an ordinary gap above START.

The previous fix only corrects what the publisher already knows when it resolves: a group it has skipped cannot be where the feed starts. Accounting for a headless N arriving after N+1 would mean holding START until every group between the source's start and the held group has arrived. That brings back the stall this design avoids, and some of those groups may never exist.

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I merged main in, including #4378, which keeps an aborted track's finished groups. It merged cleanly. poll_start on a closed track now reports the start the track last declared, matching Consumer::poll_start. I fixed each Codex finding with a regression test that failed first:

  • Spliced start skips irrelevant segments: it waits on the first segment that reaches the floor and has not ended. A segment below the floor or already Done no longer blocks the start or resolves it to None.
  • Source start below the floor: raised to the floor instead of dropped, so a subscriber asking for group 5 from a source starting at 0 keeps group 5 when group 6 arrives first.
  • Update while the group is held: resolving the start now raises the cursor floor with raise_start_to instead of assigning it, so an update that raised the floor still applies. I did not reposition the held group. It is equivalent to a handed-out group waiting for stream credit, and updates have never repositioned those.
  • Skipped head: a group skipped for a missing head before START resolves is never named by START.

Disagreed and replied: a headless START group arriving after START was sent. START is a lower bound, and a gap above it is ordinary.

CodeRabbit's nitpick (the integration test never reaches the pending branch) is covered by the new held_first_group_* unit tests, which hold the group while the source's start is pending.

Wire and public API are unchanged. The START behavior change is noted under Impact in the description.

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Carries main (through moq-dev#4387) onto dev's breaking changes: moq-dev#4350 and
moq-dev#4372 ported into rs/moq-c, main's auth fixes onto the moq-auth lease,
and main's announce and track-cache changes onto dev's event and
optional-retention APIs. Quests deleted on either side stay deleted.

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