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Stop Bypass.Instance correctly in dispatch_awaiting_callers/1 #141

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@c-brenn c-brenn commented Mar 11, 2024

At the moment it appears that dispatch_awaiting_callers/1 attempts to shut down the current instance using GenServer.stop(:normal). This causes a crash as the first argument to GenServer.stop/3 is meant to be a PID or name, rather than a reason. For example:

** (stop) exited in: GenServer.stop(:normal, :normal, :infinity)
    ** (EXIT) no process: the process is not alive or there's no process currently associated with the given name, possibly because its application isn't started
    (elixir 1.16.0) lib/gen_server.ex:1061: GenServer.stop/3
    (bypass 2.1.0) lib/bypass/instance.ex:385: Bypass.Instance.dispatch_awaiting_callers/1
    (bypass 2.1.0) lib/bypass/instance.ex:62: Bypass.Instance.handle_info/2
    (stdlib 5.2) gen_server.erl:1095: :gen_server.try_handle_info/3
    (stdlib 5.2) gen_server.erl:1183: :gen_server.handle_msg/6
    (stdlib 5.2) proc_lib.erl:241: :proc_lib.init_p_do_apply/3
Last message: {:DOWN, #Reference<0.1124410943.1226571777.107399>, :process, #PID<0.6661.0>, :shutdown}

This appears to happen when the ExUnit test that spawned the bypass instance has exited, but the bypass instance is still awaiting a request. For example if the test spawned an async process that will make a request to a bypass stub.

This commit refactors dispatch_awaiting_callers/1 so that it now returns either {:noreply, state} or {:stop, ...} so that it can handle any awaiting callers and then shut down the GenServer which seems to be the intended behaviour of the current code.

At the moment `dispatch_awaiting_callers/1` it appears that
`dispatch_awaiting_callers/1` attempts to shut down the current instance
using `GenServer.stop(:normal)`. This causes a crash as the first
argument to `GenServer.stop/3` is meant to be a PID or name, rather than
a reason. For example:

```
** (stop) exited in: GenServer.stop(:normal, :normal, :infinity)
    ** (EXIT) no process: the process is not alive or there's no process currently associated with the given name, possibly because its application isn't started
    (elixir 1.16.0) lib/gen_server.ex:1061: GenServer.stop/3
    (bypass 2.1.0) lib/bypass/instance.ex:385: Bypass.Instance.dispatch_awaiting_callers/1
    (bypass 2.1.0) lib/bypass/instance.ex:62: Bypass.Instance.handle_info/2
    (stdlib 5.2) gen_server.erl:1095: :gen_server.try_handle_info/3
    (stdlib 5.2) gen_server.erl:1183: :gen_server.handle_msg/6
    (stdlib 5.2) proc_lib.erl:241: :proc_lib.init_p_do_apply/3
Last message: {:DOWN, #Reference<0.1124410943.1226571777.107399>, :process, #PID<0.6661.0>, :shutdown}
```

This appears to happen when the ExUnit test that spawned the bypass
instance has exited, but the bypass instance is still awaiting a
request. For example if the test spawned an async process that will make
a request to a bypass stub.

This commit refactors `dispatch_awaiting_callers/1` so that it now
returns either `{:noreply, state}` or `{:stop, ...}` so that it can
handle any awaiting callers and then shut down the GenServer which seems
to be the intended behaviour of the current code.
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c-brenn commented Apr 26, 2024

@bszaf apologies for the ping, saw you had recently been reviewing PRs so you seemed like the best person to ask 😇

At work we've run into this bug a few times now in our codebases and are wondering if you would consider incorporating this change

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grzuy commented Sep 10, 2024

For example if the test spawned an async process that will make a request to a bypass stub.

We're exactly having this issue (mimiquate/tower_rollbar#36) because of the reason quoted here ☝️

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grzuy commented Sep 10, 2024

For what is worth, changes in this PR fixes the flakiness for us.

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