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Fixes #1013.

Keep control-connection fallback deliberately single-keyspace. The first session that needs fallback binds the shared control connection to its keyspace, including None. Later fallback sessions may attach only with the same keyspace; a different keyspace fails immediately with InvalidRequest. Once every attached session has been shut down or collected and its fallback requests have drained, a later session can take over the binding. A session without a keyspace cannot take over while the physical connection remains in a keyspace, because CQL cannot reset a connection to no keyspace.

A fresh/reconnected physical control connection selects the bound keyspace before its first application request. Explicit USE is rejected on the fallback path so the binding cannot drift. This avoids cross-session keyspace leakage without request serialization or fallback-specific timeout coordination.

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Tests:

  • TZ=UTC uv run pytest -q tests/unit (1092 passed, 24 skipped)
  • SCYLLA_VERSION=release:2025.2 PROTOCOL_VERSION=4 uv run pytest -q tests/integration/standard/test_control_connection_query_fallback.py (4 passed)
  • uvx --from build pyproject-build (sdist and Cython wheel built)

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Control-connection fallback now binds sessions to one keyspace, including None, and rejects conflicting sessions and explicit USE queries with InvalidRequest. It sets the connection keyspace before application queries and preserves request identifiers across nested sends. Timeout handling, shutdown cleanup, retries, and keyspace reclaim behavior are covered by unit and integration tests.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Session
  participant ResponseFuture
  participant ControlConnection
  Session->>ResponseFuture: submit fallback query
  ResponseFuture->>ControlConnection: validate keyspace binding
  ResponseFuture->>ControlConnection: send USE when required
  ControlConnection-->>ResponseFuture: return SET_KEYSPACE response
  ResponseFuture->>ControlConnection: send application query
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Suggested reviewers: fruch, absurdfarce

Priority: ➖ Normal

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to ec58b

A session can switch the shared fallback connection’s keyspace while its earlier request is still active, potentially executing that request against the wrong keyspace. Resolve this before merging.

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🔴 High

1. Failed reprepares hang until timeout ✓ Resolved 🐞 Bug ☼ Reliability
Description
_query_control_connection converts a failed send's None result to False, but _reprepare and
_execute_after_prepare only retry when their return value is None. When either
control-connection send fails during reprepare, no callback or retry is scheduled and the future
retains the queue lease until its timer expires.
Code

cassandra/cluster.py[R5362-5364]

+        if control_connection._owns_application_query(self):
+            return self._send_control_connection_message(
+                message=message, cb=cb, connection=connection, host=host) is not None
Relevance

●●● Strong

Converting None to False bypasses documented retry checks and can leave fallback futures pending
until timeout.

PR-#878

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
The send helper catches capacity, busy, shutdown, and other send exceptions and returns None. The
new wrapper turns that into False, but both prepared-statement paths use identity comparison with
None, so their documented fallback call is skipped.

cassandra/cluster.py[5337-5352]
cassandra/cluster.py[5362-5364]
cassandra/cluster.py[5495-5504]
cassandra/cluster.py[5780-5788]

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## Issue description
The control-connection wrapper now returns boolean false for a failed owned send, while both reprepare callers still expect a request ID or `None`, causing them to skip their retry branches.

## Fix Focus Areas
- cassandra/cluster.py[5354-5368]
- cassandra/cluster.py[5495-5504]
- cassandra/cluster.py[5780-5788]

## Recommended Fix
Give `_query_control_connection` one consistent success/failure contract and update all callers accordingly. In particular, ensure failed PREPARE and post-PREPARE EXECUTE sends invoke `send_request()` or finalize promptly rather than leaving the future active until timeout.

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2. Stream zero falsely fails requests ✓ Resolved 🐞 Bug ≡ Correctness
Description
_send_control_connection_message returns a valid integer stream ID, but the new activation
branches use if not, so stream ID 0 immediately invokes _control_connection_failed.
Connections allocate ID 0 and keep the sent callback registered, so an in-flight query can be
reported as NoHostAvailable and later complete after the caller has already observed failure.
Code

cassandra/cluster.py[R5250-5251]

+            if not self._send_control_connection_message(connection=connection, host=host):
+                self._control_connection_failed()
Relevance

●●● Strong

Stream ID zero is valid, so truthiness incorrectly reports successful sends as failures.

PR-#878

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
Connections initialize their request-ID deque with range(initial_size), which includes zero. The
send helper registers and sends the request before returning its ID, while the new activation
branches interpret that returned ID by truthiness and finalize the future as failed without
cancelling the in-flight callback.

cassandra/connection.py[992-996]
cassandra/cluster.py[5250-5258]
cassandra/cluster.py[5292-5295]
cassandra/cluster.py[5323-5336]

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## Issue description
Control-connection sends return stream IDs, including zero, but several new callers use truthiness and mistake a successful stream ID of zero for failure.

## Fix Focus Areas
- cassandra/cluster.py[5247-5268]
- cassandra/cluster.py[5277-5295]

## Recommended Fix
Treat only `None` as a failed `_send_control_connection_message` result at every direct caller. Preserve zero as a successful request ID and add coverage exercising stream ID zero for direct requests and internal `USE` requests.

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3. Timed-out queries use another keyspace ✓ Resolved 🔗 Cross-repo conflict ≡ Correctness
Description
_on_timeout only invalidates keyspace tracking, after which _set_final_exception releases the
fallback lease and lets the next request issue USE on the same connection. When ScyllaDB or Scylla
Enterprise is still processing the timed-out request, its concurrent query path can observe the
later session's mutated client keyspace and resolve an unqualified statement against it.
Code

cassandra/cluster.py[5062]

+                    control_connection._invalidate_application_keyspace(self._connection)
Relevance

●● Moderate

The PR explicitly documents server-side timeout overlap, making this a known limitation rather than
clearly accepted scope.

PR-#878

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
The PR explicitly allows the queue to continue after invalidating only local keyspace knowledge, and
final exception handling releases the lease. Both mounted server implementations parallelize QUERY
requests, resolve queries using shared client state, and implement USE by mutating that same
connection-level state.

cassandra/cluster.py[5055-5062]
cassandra/cluster.py[5272-5294]
cassandra/cluster.py[5850-5852]
External repo: scylladb/scylladb, transport/server.cc [1317-1326]
External repo: scylladb/scylladb, transport/server.cc [1658-1684]
External repo: scylladb/scylladb, cql3/statements/use_statement.cc [62-70]
External repo: scylladb/scylla-enterprise, transport/server.cc [796-805]
External repo: scylladb/scylla-enterprise, transport/server.cc [1073-1096]
External repo: scylladb/scylla-enterprise, cql3/statements/use_statement.cc [62-70]

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## Issue description
An active fallback request can time out while Scylla is still processing it, but the driver releases the queue lease and reuses the same control connection. A later `USE` can therefore change the server-side connection keyspace before the old unqualified request has resolved its objects.

## Fix Focus Areas
- cassandra/cluster.py[5055-5062]
- cassandra/cluster.py[5826-5852]

## Recommended Fix
When an active control-connection fallback request times out, retire or close that physical connection before releasing the lease. Activate queued requests only after the control connection has been replaced, ensuring that the timed-out server operation and later sessions never share mutable server-side keyspace state.

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4. Timed-out requests can still execute 🐞 Bug ≡ Correctness
Description
_on_timeout() reads _control_connection_queued and finalizes the future without synchronizing
with the queue promotion path. If release promotes that future after the unsynchronized check,
activation can send it before finalization releases its lease, and the later response can install a
result because _set_final_result() does not reject already-finalized futures.
Code

cassandra/cluster.py[R5031-5035]

+        if self._control_connection_queued:
+            self._set_final_exception(OperationTimedOut(
+                {'control connection': 'Request timed out while waiting for the control connection'},
+                self._current_host, timeout=self.timeout))
+            return
Relevance

●● Moderate

Timeout and promotion synchronization is subtle; historical evidence does not decisively establish
team treatment of this race.

PR-#878
PR-#818

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
The timeout path tests the queue flag outside the queue lock, while release clears that flag and
assigns active ownership under the lock before calling activation outside it. Activation's event
check can occur before the timeout sets the event; it can then register a control-connection
request. A later response writes _final_result, and result() returns a final result in
preference to the previously assigned exception.

cassandra/cluster.py[5031-5035]
cassandra/cluster.py[3917-3936]
cassandra/cluster.py[5227-5230]
cassandra/cluster.py[5315-5336]
cassandra/cluster.py[5809-5828]
cassandra/cluster.py[5925-5954]

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Issue description
A future can time out while it is being promoted from the fallback queue to active dispatch, allowing a request reported as timed out to still reach Cassandra and later overwrite the future's terminal state.

Fix Focus Areas
- cassandra/cluster.py[3893-3936]
- cassandra/cluster.py[5023-5043]
- cassandra/cluster.py[5227-5230]

Recommended Fix
Make queue-state inspection, promotion, and timeout cancellation atomic under the application-query lock. Mark a promoted future as cancelled/final before dispatch can proceed, and make activation re-check that terminal state while holding or coordinating with the same lock so it cannot send a timed-out future.

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5. Queued requests can execute twice 🐞 Bug ≡ Correctness
Description
_enqueue_application_query promotes a future under _application_query_lock but dereferences the
mutable _active_application_query only after releasing that lock. If the promoted future times out
while another future is queued, timeout handling promotes and activates the second future before the
original enqueue thread resumes and activates that same second future again.
Code

cassandra/cluster.py[R3910-3911]

+        if activate:
+            self._active_application_query._activate_control_connection_query()
Relevance

●● Moderate

A plausible activation race exists, but no closely matching historical acceptance precedent confirms
this concurrency scenario.

PR-#878

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
The timer starts before request dispatch and can finalize the first active future concurrently with
the enqueueing thread. Finalization promotes and synchronously activates the next future, while the
original thread subsequently reads the replaced active field; activation has no in-progress guard,
so both invocations can borrow IDs and send.

cassandra/cluster.py[3893-3911]
cassandra/cluster.py[3917-3936]
cassandra/cluster.py[4993-5000]
cassandra/cluster.py[5023-5043]
cassandra/cluster.py[5227-5230]
cassandra/cluster.py[5315-5336]

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## Issue description
Queue activation reads the mutable active-future field after unlocking, allowing timeout-driven promotion to make two threads activate and send the same queued request.

## Fix Focus Areas
- cassandra/cluster.py[3893-3912]
- cassandra/cluster.py[3914-3936]

## Recommended Fix
Capture the future selected for activation in a local variable while holding `_application_query_lock`, then activate only that captured future after unlocking. Keep the ownership and completion checks in activation and add a race test where the first future expires while a second future is queued.

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🟠 Medium

6. Closed sessions can block fallback 🐞 Bug ☼ Reliability
Description
Session.shutdown() cancels only queued fallback futures, leaving its active fallback future
holding _active_application_query on the shared control connection. When that request is slow or
has no client timeout, every other session's queued fallback request remains blocked even though the
owning session was shut down.
Code

cassandra/cluster.py[R3329-3331]

+        control_connection = self.cluster.control_connection
+        if control_connection is not None:
+            control_connection._cancel_queued_application_queries(self)
Relevance

●●● Strong

Shutdown cancellation should release active ownership; this is a direct reliability gap in the new
fallback lifecycle.

PR-#878

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
Shutdown explicitly calls a helper that iterates only _application_query_queue; it neither
examines nor cancels _active_application_query. The active lease is released only by the
ResponseFuture's final-result or final-exception methods, so a non-returning request retains it
indefinitely when no timeout is configured.

cassandra/cluster.py[3308-3331]
cassandra/cluster.py[3914-3936]
cassandra/cluster.py[3938-3953]
cassandra/cluster.py[5809-5852]
cassandra/cluster.py[5003-5017]

Agent prompt
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Issue description
Shutting down a session removes only its queued fallback requests. An already active request for that session retains the shared control-connection lease until a response or timeout, preventing fallback work from other sessions from dispatching.

Fix Focus Areas
- cassandra/cluster.py[3308-3331]
- cassandra/cluster.py[3914-3936]
- cassandra/cluster.py[5031-5117]

Recommended Fix
Handle the active fallback future when its owning session shuts down. Safely cancel/orphan its outstanding control-connection request and release the lease, or reset/reconnect the shared control connection before releasing the lease so later requests cannot be affected by the cancelled request's connection-level keyspace state.

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7. Commented keyspace changes are rejected ✓ Resolved 🐞 Bug ≡ Correctness
Description
_is_keyspace_change_query recognizes USE only when it is the first non-whitespace text, so
leading block or line comments cause a valid keyspace change to be classified as an ordinary
request. A keyspace-less session is therefore rejected with InvalidRequest when the shared
connection is already keyed instead of being allowed to execute the commented USE statement.
Code

cassandra/cluster.py[R5215-5216]

+        return isinstance(query, str) and \
+            re.match(r'^\s*USE\b', query, re.IGNORECASE) is not None
Relevance

●●● Strong

Commented USE statements are a deterministic parsing omission affecting the PR’s
keyspace-preservation intent.

PR-#878

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
The regular expression permits only whitespace before USE. The result directly controls whether a
request bypasses the new keyspace-less rejection branch, and current coverage exercises only an
uncommented USE statement.

cassandra/cluster.py[5210-5216]
cassandra/cluster.py[5247-5263]
tests/unit/test_response_future.py[460-472]

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## Issue description
The new textual `USE` detector handles whitespace but not valid leading CQL comments, causing valid keyspace-change statements to enter the keyspace-less rejection path.

## Fix Focus Areas
- cassandra/cluster.py[5210-5216]
- cassandra/cluster.py[5247-5263]

## Recommended Fix
Classify the first CQL token after skipping leading whitespace, line comments, and block comments rather than matching only `^\s*USE`. Add tests for both comment forms when the shared connection already has a selected keyspace.

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8. Reconnects abort keyspace setup ✓ Resolved 🐞 Bug ☼ Reliability
Description
keyspace_set finalizes the application future for every exception returned by the internal USE
request instead of applying the normal request retry path. _set_new_connection closes the previous
connection after publishing its replacement, so a reconnect during keyspace setup delivers
ConnectionShutdown and fails the fallback request even though a fresh control connection is
available.
Code

cassandra/cluster.py[R5283-5286]

+            elif isinstance(response, ErrorMessage):
+                self._set_final_exception(response.to_exception())
+            elif isinstance(response, Exception):
+                self._set_final_exception(response)
Relevance

●● Moderate

Reconnect handling during internal USE setup is a plausible retry gap, but lacks close historical
precedent.

PR-#878

ⓘ Recommendations generated based on similar findings in past PRs

Evidence
Connection replacement assigns the new connection and then closes the old one. Closing a connection
errors all registered requests with ConnectionShutdown, but the new internal keyspace callback
converts that exception directly into the application's final exception rather than retrying on the
newly published connection.

cassandra/cluster.py[3873-3887]
cassandra/cluster.py[5277-5286]
cassandra/connection.py[1213-1233]
cassandra/io/asyncorereactor.py[371-390]

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## Issue description
Failures of the internal keyspace-selection request bypass normal retry handling, so replacement of the control connection aborts an application request instead of continuing it on the new connection.

## Fix Focus Areas
- cassandra/cluster.py[5272-5295]
- cassandra/cluster.py[3873-3887]

## Recommended Fix
When internal `USE` receives a connection failure or discovers that its connection is no longer current, retain queue ownership and restart activation against the current control connection within the original timeout. Continue surfacing server-side CQL errors as final failures.

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5221-5221: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Do not store the rejection status as _req_id.

The fallback rejection sets InvalidRequest, which cancels the timer before send_request stores True. No timeout, orphaning, response, or cleanup path uses this value, so stream ID 1 cannot be removed. The only effect is request_id=True in diagnostics. Assign _req_id only when a request was sent.

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In `@cassandra/cluster.py` at line 5221, Update the fallback rejection path near
the request dispatch logic so it does not assign the rejection status to
_req_id; only store a request identifier when send_request actually sends a
request. Preserve the existing InvalidRequest rejection behavior and diagnostics
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In `@cassandra/cluster.py`:
- Line 5221: Update the fallback rejection path near the request dispatch logic
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Two invariant violations in the reclaim mechanism da9a2033 introduced, both reproduced, both small fixes. The rest are minor.

The description is also stale: it still says "The binding lasts for the Cluster lifetime", but da9a2033 replaced that with reclaim-once-every-owner-is-shut-down-and-drained. The CHANGELOG describes the shipped behaviour correctly; the body -- and the two resolved threads that repeat "rejected for the Cluster lifetime" -- describe the superseded design. Worth fixing before merge so reviewers evaluate the mechanism that actually shipped.

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dkropachev force-pushed the fix/1013-control-connection-keyspace branch from ec58ba5 to 8cd12fc Compare September 22, 2026 02:37
Bind application use of the shared control connection to one keyspace so
fallback queries from different sessions cannot leak USE state into one
another. Reject explicit USE and select the bound keyspace before sending
application requests.

Reclaim the binding only after its owners are gone and its fallback requests
have drained. Track that traffic independently from control traffic, unwind a
new claim when no request is sent, and keep protocol encoding outside the
binding lock.

Fixes scylladb#1013.
Release logical fallback accounting when a request times out while retaining an orphan barrier until its late response can no longer change the physical keyspace. Prevent active self-rebinding and validate reclaimed bindings against the connection's actual keyspace.

Limit CQL USE detection to CQL statements so valid graph queries are not rejected.
Keep provisional session claims until all concurrent initial sends resolve, so a failed first send cannot release ownership claimed by another request.

Cover the overlap where one send fails while another is pending, then verify different keyspaces remain rejected and the original session can continue.
Record pooled request IDs before sending so a speculative timeout can detach the callback for the stream actually in flight.

Track active control-connection fallback callbacks and verify their identity before orphaning a stream. This keeps recycled control request IDs and fallback accounting untouched after the original response has completed.
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dkropachev force-pushed the fix/1013-control-connection-keyspace branch from 8cd12fc to ae64830 Compare September 22, 2026 16:16

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All six findings are fixed and the rework holds up.

Verified at ae648309:

  • Reclaim gates on _application_requests_in_flight, a fallback-only counter. Reproduced: reclaim now succeeds at connection.in_flight 0 and 1, and still refuses while a real fallback request is in flight.
  • The attach moved below the connection is None check, and the claim/unwind protocol covers the send-failure paths. Reproduced: a send that never leaves now leaves the binding unset.
  • _leftover_application_keyspace returns connection.keyspace. Dropping the _NOT_SET guard also closes a hole the old form had, where a keyspace-less Session over a connection left in a keyspace was let through.
  • The backtracking guard is 26 spaces, so a regression fails the assertion instead of hanging CI.

On the new machinery, checked and clean: the three decrement sites for _application_requests_in_flight are each guarded by the idempotent pop from _control_connection_requests; the orphan barrier is retired both by a late response through process_msg and by error_all_requests when the connection defuncts, so it cannot block reclaim permanently; the claim refcount handles concurrent attempts in either completion order; and moving send_msg outside the lock stays safe because _borrow_control_connection raises the count under the lock and _handle_control_connection_response holds it across cb.

pytest -q tests/unit at this head: 1127 passed, 125 skipped.

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dkropachev merged commit 4880545 into scylladb:master Sep 22, 2026
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control-connection fallback: preserve session keyspace

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