Eliminate client race condition in convergence delete

Previously when doing a delete in convergence, we spawned a new thread to
start the delete. This was to ensure the request returned without waiting
for potentially slow operations like deleting snapshots and stopping
existing workers (which could have caused RPC timeouts).

The result, however, was that the stack was not guaranteed to be
DELETE_IN_PROGRESS by the time the request returned. In the case where a
previous delete had failed, a client request to show the stack issued soon
after the delete had returned would likely show the stack status as
DELETE_FAILED still. Only a careful examination of the updated_at timestamp
would reveal that this corresponded to the previous delete and not the one
just issued. In the case of a nested stack, this could leave the parent
stack effectively undeletable. (Since the updated_at time is not modified
on delete in the legacy path, we never checked it when deleting a nested
stack.)

To prevent this, change the order of operations so that the stack is first
put into the DELETE_IN_PROGRESS state before the delete_stack call returns.
Only after the state is stored, spawn a thread to complete the operation.

Since there is no stack lock in convergence, this gives us the flexibility
to cancel other in-progress workers after we've already written to the
Stack itself to start a new traversal.

The previous patch in the series means that snapshots are now also deleted
after the stack is marked as DELETE_IN_PROGRESS. This is consistent with
the legacy path.

Change-Id: Ib767ce8b39293c2279bf570d8399c49799cbaa70
Story: #1669608
Task: 23174

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/heat/engine/stack.py b/heat/engine/stack.py
index 6a1e954b9..7dab91a7d 100644
--- a/heat/engine/stack.py
+++ b/heat/engine/stack.py
@@ -1300,7 +1300,8 @@ class Stack(collections.Mapping):
         updater()
 
     @profiler.trace('Stack.converge_stack', hide_args=False)
-    def converge_stack(self, template, action=UPDATE, new_stack=None):
+    def converge_stack(self, template, action=UPDATE, new_stack=None,
+                       pre_converge=None):
         """Update the stack template and trigger convergence for resources."""
         if action not in [self.CREATE, self.ADOPT]:
             # no back-up template for create action
@@ -1354,9 +1355,10 @@ class Stack(collections.Mapping):
 
         # TODO(later): lifecycle_plugin_utils.do_pre_ops
 
-        self.thread_group_mgr.start(self.id, self._converge_create_or_update)
+        self.thread_group_mgr.start(self.id, self._converge_create_or_update,
+                                    pre_converge=pre_converge)
 
-    def _converge_create_or_update(self):
+    def _converge_create_or_update(self, pre_converge=None):
         current_resources = self._update_or_store_resources()
         self._compute_convg_dependencies(self.ext_rsrcs_db, self.dependencies,
                                          current_resources)
@@ -1373,6 +1375,8 @@ class Stack(collections.Mapping):
                          'action': self.action})
             return
 
+        if callable(pre_converge):
+            pre_converge()
         if self.action == self.DELETE:
             try:
                 self.delete_all_snapshots()