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Review copy of the standalone fix for the disconnect race, against upstream main 2ac595d.

Not a copy of an upstream PR yet — this is the tree I intend to open upstream, put here first so CodeRabbit sees it before the maintainer does.

The bug. disconnect_server queues the connection-level Disconnect behind the channel closes, so it reaches the client in the same breath as whatever the session just said. A client handed both in one read acts on the disconnect and exits without printing what it already holds. The inactivity arm of the event loop emits its notice and calls disconnect_server() in the next statement, so that path loses its notice every time: the client sees the target's output and then nothing.

Discrimination, clean upstream main, no branch code, each cell printing grep -c channel_writer.disconnect on the file it built:

failures out of 10
without the patch 10
with the patch 0

What is not changed. The channel closes stay in the queue, so per-channel ordering holds. flushed and delay are existing variables, read rather than altered — a client that is not reading still gets cut immediately and gets no disconnect. The five-second floor on teardown arrived with warp-tech#2549 and is untouched: control release is 7.76s without this patch and 7.99s with it.

The property warp-tech#2549 exists for is intact: a stalled client's socket is still released at session close (22.91s / 22.81s, protocol_handler_dropped == session_closed), not at russh's timer.

Also repairs tests/test_ssh_proto.py::test_connection_error, which asserted returncode != 0 without waiting for the client — so it read None != 0, passed always, and never looked at the client's output. That is why this reached main uncaught.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved SSH session shutdown behavior so inactivity-based disconnects complete more reliably.
    • Ensured clients receive the full inactivity timeout message before the connection closes.
    • Improved handling and diagnostics for SSH connection errors, including clearer server output.

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The SSH server now sends application disconnects after channel closures are flushed. New and updated integration tests wait for client termination and verify the disconnect status and message output.

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SSH disconnect delivery

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Deferred SSH disconnect
warpgate-protocol-ssh/src/server/session.rs
The server no longer queues the application disconnect with channel closures. A delayed task sends it only after a successful flush and within a timeout.
SSH disconnect integration coverage
tests/test_ssh_idle_close_message.py, tests/test_ssh_proto.py
The tests configure an idle timeout, wait for SSH client termination, verify status 255, check the complete inactivity message, and validate connection-error output.

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The connection-error regression test can pass without validating the backend failure message this change is intended to preserve. Configure the created target to fail before merging so the coverage protects the intended behavior.

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535-535: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Configure the created target to fail its backend connection.

ProcessManager.start_ssh_client passes the fixture-derived value as the SSH destination. AuthSelector parses that destination into the created username and target name, and _auth_accept starts that target session after authentication. The hard-coded "user:ssh-bad-domain@localhost" value is a remote command, not a selector, so it cannot cause authentication or target selection to use another identity.

setup_user_and_target configures the selected target with a reachable localhost backend. The test therefore does not exercise the connection-error path. Keep the current destination and configure ssh_target with an unreachable host or port.

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In `@tests/test_ssh_proto.py` at line 535, Update the test setup around
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`disconnect_server` queued the connection-level `Disconnect` behind the
channel closes, so it left for the client in the same breath as whatever the
session had just said. A client handed both in one read acts on the disconnect
and exits without printing what it already holds, and the session's last words
are lost — which is the one thing those messages exist to prevent.

A session closed for inactivity says so and disconnects in the next statement,
so that path lost its notice every time: the client saw the target's output and
then nothing.

The disconnect now goes out from the task that already waits out the flush
grace before closing the socket, and only to a client that is reading; one that
is not still gets cut immediately. The channel closes stay in the queue, so
per-channel ordering is unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@coderabbitai Verified and fixed, and the finding was correct — it caught a defect in a repair I had made myself, which makes it the most useful finding of the night.

Confirmed from a run rather than by reading: the session reached the target successfully (Connection from 192.168.65.1 port 47567 on 172.17.0.2 port 22 in the sshd log), so no connection error occurred. "user:ssh-bad-domain@localhost" sat in the argument list where ssh takes the remote command, not the destination, exactly as you said.

My own repair was therefore insufficient in a second way I had not seen: I had made it assert "Warpgate" in shown, and the session banner carries that name on every connection including a successful one, so the assertion was vacuous too.

Fixed by pointing the target at a port nothing listens on (via update_target, keeping the destination as the selector) and asserting the specific message "Target connection failed". The test now discriminates: against the unpatched gateway it fails with assert 'Target connection failed' in '\\r\\n', which is the bug this PR fixes; with the patch it passes, along with all 13 SSH suites.

Pushed as f97083a.

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@janisdombr Thanks for the detailed verification.

The corrected test now validates the intended failure path. It keeps the SSH destination in the selector position, forces the target connection failure with update_target, and checks for "Target connection failed" instead of the non-specific "Warpgate" banner.

The before-and-after result confirms that the test detects the disconnect flush regression.

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Upstream warp-tech#2584 folded into warp-tech#2548; review copy retired.

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