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Problem

#8563 made track::Producer::give_up skip recording a final drop for a group that a copy still serves to its end (Slot::serves_end). That is also true for a fetched head that is still filling, so the upstream's final verdict was forgotten while the only copy holding the sequence was a fill in flight (Pullfrog's review thread).

If that head then died, the live copy the drop had aborted was Fall::Abandoned for Old/Cancel/Evicted/DeliveryTimeout/TooFarBehind, so it stored no cut, and Slot::cut only read the live copy. The track held neither the group nor the drop. A reader whose range starts at that sequence got nothing to start from, the same stall #8563 fixed.

Approach

The slot now keeps the verdict (Slot::dropped) instead of forgetting it, and only shows it once the head that was filling has failed:

• give_up holds a final drop on the slot when an unfinished fetched head is what keeps the group, and no copy has finished. It never goes into the track's drops, so no recorded drop ever sits beside a group readers are handed.
• Slot::verdict returns the live copy's cut, or else the held drop once the head failed (Fate::failed) and no copy finished. Slot::cut, reclaim_aborted (so reclaiming the slot keeps it as a drop) and the reader record (cut(record, ..)) all read it. A copy that finished wins for good, even after it is later freed. A head the cache lets go (Old/Timeout/Evicted) ages out like any group, as the slot it goes with does.
• Drop cursors learn of a cut only through the track's cut watchers, which a Cancel abort never notifies. A head carrying a held drop is flagged (group::Handle::carry_drop), and its failed abort notifies cut watchers as a cut would. Cache-policy aborts stay silent: they run under the track guard, and a woken cursor would take that guard.
• After ending the live copies with the guard released, give_up fences, re-reads the slots, and notifies for every held sequence whose slot now shows its cut. This covers a head, or one that replaced it, that died before the live copy ended, when a cursor could have consumed the notice while the live copy still served. A head that replaces another inherits the flag.

Tests (rs/moq-net/src/model/track.rs):

• a_final_drop_outlives_a_head_that_dies: Pullfrog's reproduction (fix(net): a lite-06 viewer joining a relay reads its first group again #8563's setup with an unfinished head, drop_groups(0..1, StreamError::Old), then head.abort(Error::Cancel)). It failed before the fix: the slot was not read and given_up(0) was None. It now gives Stream(Old).
• a_drop_cursor_hears_a_final_drop_a_dying_head_leaves: a subscription's drop cursor that scanned while the head filled reports 0..1 Old once the head dies. It fails with the carried notice disabled.
• a_head_that_finishes_wins_over_a_final_drop and a_finished_live_copy_wins_over_a_final_drop_a_head_waits_on: a copy that finishes keeps the group, with no drop recorded or surfaced, even after both copies are freed.

Impact

• No public API or wire change. Behavior change: a final drop of a group whose fetched head then dies before finishing now reaches readers as that group's cut (and is forwarded as a drop) instead of vanishing.

Alternatives

• Pullfrog's first suggestion: skip recording only once the serving copy has finished (Slot::is_settled), and clear the recorded run when a head becomes whole. Rejected: while the head fills, the recorded drop sits beside a group readers are handed, which a downstream cursor may forward before the head lands. It also needs a hook when a head finishes, which the track does not have.

Caused by

• moq-dev/moq#8563: its give_up skipped recording a final drop when slot.serves_end(), which is true for a fetched head still filling.

Decisions made without asking

• Surfaced the verdict through Slot::cut/given_up (Pullfrog's second option) rather than recording and later clearing it; see Alternatives. The local review checkpoint after round 3 suggested reconsidering the approach. I kept it, because the remaining finding needed only a small fix.
• No js/net change: JS keeps one copy per sequence and #drop aborts and records any copy still arriving, skipping only a finished one, so it has no unfinished-head exemption. a final drop leaves a finished group already pins that.
• SubscribeAccounting.tla: comment only. Its single copy never dies, and its rule (keep the record only for a "whole" copy) already matches the required outcome. The comment now says how the code handles the fetched head the model leaves out. TLC was not rerun, since no rule changed.
• Declined CodeRabbit's request to hand readers the held verdict instead of the live group. give_up already aborts that live copy with the drop's own error, so readers see the same verdict cut() reports; see the reply on its thread.
• Only abandon-class errors needed this. A final drop with a cut-class error already left the live copy's cut behind, so that case was never lost.

Verification

• cargo test -p moq-net --features async: all pass (3227 lib, 587 integration).
• On cf04155 (the fence now runs only on an abort that can carry a drop, per Pullfrog): cargo test -p moq-net --features async, cargo clippy -p moq-net --features async --all-targets -D warnings, and cargo fmt --check pass.
• just check: every module passed. rs first failed on rustfmt of one new test line, fixed in 5a24df6, then CHECK_MODULES=rs just check passed on the final head (fmt, clippy, 12969 tests).

Follow-ups

• None.

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Review

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• Head: cf04155

• Base: origin/main at 18fc33e

• Reviewer: Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, high effort

• Session: 01a1d110-6593-7d23-b338-4361ee71e298, round 6

• Score: 10/10, The change skips the fence only for aborts that cannot carry a deferred drop, preserving notification ordering; no findings arose from this source-only review.

• Findings: none

[pullfrog]

ℹ️ No critical issues — one minor efficiency suggestion inline.

Reviewed changes

I reviewed the full diff: how a final drop is held on a slot while a fetched head fills, and how it surfaces once that head dies.

• Slot::dropped / Slot::verdict: give_up now holds a final drop on the slot when an unfinished head serves it and no copy has settled. verdict surfaces the drop as the slot's cut only after the current head failed() and while no copy is settled. Slot::cut, reclaim_aborted and DropCursor::cut all read it.
• Cut-watcher notification: a head with a held drop is flagged (carry_drop). When it aborts unfinished for a non-policy reason, it notifies cut watchers. give_up fences after abort_open and re-announces every held sequence that now shows a cut. Together these form a store-buffering pair, so a cursor cannot miss the cut whichever side runs last.
• Head replacement: a head that replaces the current one inherits the flag. Replacement can only happen while the live copy is still unaborted, so the re-read in give_up covers it.
• Tests and TLA: four regression tests in track.rs. SubscribeAccounting.tla changes only in a comment.

I traced the race windows: a head dying before or after abort_open, a head that finishes and is later released, and the live copy finishing between the guard release and abort_open. I found no correctness issue.

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Walkthrough

This change updates group and track handling for final drops when a fetched head is still unfinished. The track can now keep a pending drop on a slot, carry that state into the fetched head, and expose the drop as the slot verdict if the head fails before any copy settles. Abort, reclamation, and drop-cursor paths now use that combined verdict. Tests and TLA comments were added to cover pending-drop retention, watcher notification, and precedence when a live or fetched copy finishes first.

Severity of issue fixed: Low

Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 5a24d

When a fetched head fails after a final drop, readers who take the group can see a cancel instead of the drop the track reports. That makes group and cut reporting inconsistent. Align the delivery paths with the slot verdict before merging.

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The title names the main change: a final drop that a dying fetched head outlived is kept and surfaced as a cut, in the moq-net crate. The raw summary, PR description and objectives all describe this same change in group.rs, track.rs and the TLA+ comment.

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The description is specific and on-topic. It names the touched code (track::Producer::give_up, Slot::serves_end, Slot::verdict, group::Handle::carry_drop), states the bug and the fix, lists the tests added in rs/moq-net/src/model/track.rs, and gives verification results. It also covers alternatives, impact, and the TLA+ comment-only change, which matches the raw summary.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

Nitpick comments: 1

rs/moq-net/src/model/track.rs: 1

11109-11109: Trivial · Stability & Availability · Quick win

Assert that the head abort wakes the parked drop cursor.

The first poll_drop and the post-abort poll_drop both use kio::Waiter::noop(). A wake from head.abort(...) reaches only the noop waiter, so the test cannot observe it. The explicit poll after the abort returns the drop whether or not the cursor was woken. This test would still pass if the abort never woke the cursor.

Register a flag-backed waiter for the first poll, using the Flag::waiter() helper that comparable tests in this module use. Assert that the flag is not set before the abort. After head.abort(...), assert that the flag is set, then poll again.

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Review comment at @rs/moq-net/src/model/track.rs at line 11109:
Update the test around sub.poll_drop and head.abort to use a Flag-backed waiter from Flag::waiter() for the initial pending poll; assert the flag is unset before abort, then assert it is set after head.abort(...) before polling again.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/model/track.rs:
- Line 854: Update both group-delivery paths around `self.verdict()` to return
the slot verdict when the live copy was abandoned, so a reader positioned at
frame 1 sees the same error reported by `Slot::cut()`. Add reader checks for
arrival-order and ordered delivery; preserve `Cancel` when the live copy is
still served and keep finished-copy precedence.

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Review comments at @rs/moq-net/src/model/track.rs:
- Line 11109: Update the test around sub.poll_drop and head.abort to use a
Flag-backed waiter from Flag::waiter() for the initial pending poll; assert the
flag is unset before abort, then assert it is set after head.abort(...) before
polling again.

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✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

Since the last review, one commit changed how commit_abort fences.

• Gated commit_abort fence: the SeqCst fence now runs only for an unfinished abort that is not a cache-policy abort, so released and finished groups no longer pay for it. Every skipped path already had carried == false, so the fence there ordered nothing. The store-buffering pairing with the fence in give_up is unchanged on the one path where a held drop can be carried.

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