fix(engine): bridge teardown releases a crashed helper's surface-share registrations

[tato123]

Summary

The explicit release_handle op pairs a registry eviction with two kind-specific cleanups: the surface-share service release (every acquire kind) and the parent texture-cache eviction (texture-backed kinds). SubprocessBridge::drop's drain ran only the cache half, so a helper that died without releasing its escalate acquires left their service entries — a dup'd memory fd plus two timeline fds each — registered until node exit. The disconnect watchdog rightly never reclaims them: the host's own connection registered them on the helper's behalf, and the watchdog deliberately skips same-process peers.

The release path's cleanup is extracted into one shared release_surface_share_and_texture_cache_for_handle, called from both the release_handle op and the teardown drain — a crash now releases exactly what an explicit release would. No escalate op changed shape; no PROTOCOL_VERSION bump.

Closes

Closes #1901

Exit criteria

• Bridge teardown releases the surface-share service registrations of every unreleased acquire, both handle kinds, mirroring release_handle ✅
• Crash-respawn cycles do not accumulate service entries or fd dups (two-cycle test) ✅
• The pool's own long-lived slot registrations survive teardown untouched (asserted, not just unbroken) ✅
• One shared cleanup path — the explicit release and the teardown drain cannot drift again ✅

Test plan

Run on this machine's RTX 3090 (GPU-marked coverage is rig-only; CI skips it).

• New test bridge_drop_releases_a_crashed_helpers_surface_share_registrations: a real SubprocessBridge reader thread against a real UnixSocketSurfaceService, two crash-respawn cycles, each acquiring a pixel buffer and a texture (the texture carries the produce/consume timeline-fd pair the ticket names) through the bridge's own escalate dispatch, then dropping the child end and the bridge with no release_handle. Asserts the post-teardown table equals the post-acquire table minus exactly the helper's two handles. Written red-first: pre-fix it failed with the helper's registrations surviving teardown; review-pr independently re-proved the red in a scratch worktree with only the production half reverted.
• Regression: bridge module 4/4, release_handle 3/3, handle_escalate_op_end_to_end, escalate module 124/124, surface_share_subprocess_crash watchdog integration test — all green.
• Gates (local-ci-runner): cargo fmt --check, clippy with CI's flags (no new warnings attributable to the diff), license headers, all 10 xtask source gates, xtask fixture tests 226/226, engine lib 1348 passed / 0 failed.
• Reviews: review-pr and rust-craftsmanship-reviewer, both APPROVE round 1; round-1 findings addressed in e2a6d472 (texture arm added to the crash cycles, dead connect-retry loop and its false comment removed, snapshot expression deduplicated, GPU-skip helper shared).

Notes for owner

1. Acceleration structures still leak on the crash path — they register against GpuContext rather than the per-bridge registry, so the teardown drain cannot see them; only the explicit release_handle reaches release_acceleration_structure. Pre-existing, out of this ticket's scope, and reclaiming them needs per-bridge tracking that doesn't exist today.
2. The teardown drain now does one blocking, un-timed service round trip per stranded handle (the store connection has no read timeout — engine-wide, release_handle has always carried the same exposure on the reader thread). A stopped service yields EOF and returns cleanly; only a wedged one would hang teardown. If that's worth closing, the fix is a bounded set_read_timeout on the store connection at connect — its own small engine change, not this ticket's.
3. Pre-existing rare exit crash, isolated with numbers: one full-suite run hit the documented "rare SIGABRT" (named as known-remaining in test.yml's comments); rerun 1348/1348 green. Pinning it down: serial runs of the pre-existing lifecycle_frame + log_frame bridge-test pair — code identical to main, the new test never executed — segfault at process exit 2/10, the same rate as pairs including the new test. The crashing shape predates this branch; likely the unjoined bridge reader threads holding GpuContext clones at process exit (Drop deliberately never joins). The new test adds instances of the same shape, not a new cause.
4. On macOS neither the explicit release nor this teardown reaches the service (release_surface_share_surface is Linux-bodied while SurfaceStore::release supports XPC) — pre-existing, MVP is Linux-only.
5. kill_child drops the bridge — now releasing service registrations — before child.kill(); traced safe by review: release_surface touches only the registration table, never the checkout leases, so a still-live child's leases keep pinning pool slots until its own connection drops.
6. A registry eviction and its paired cleanup are still two calls a future caller could split (the shape bug: a crashed helper's surface-share registrations leak until node exit #1901 was); moving the pairing onto EscalateHandleRegistry itself (remove_handle_and_release / drain_and_release_every_handle, with the raw accessors private) would make the class unrepresentable. Both current call sites are covered; flagged by the craftsmanship review as a judgement call, left as-is to keep the diff the ticket's size.
7. Pre-existing, untouched: SubprocessBridge::registry() has zero callers repo-wide; 4 clippy warnings in the touched files are unchanged bodies shifted by line offset.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Improved cleanup after GPU helper process crashes.
  • Ensured pixel-buffer and texture handles are removed correctly across repeated teardown cycles.
  • Preserved persistent pool registrations while releasing temporary surface-share and texture-cache resources.
• Tests
  • Added Linux GPU coverage to verify resource cleanup behavior.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The change centralizes surface-share and texture-cache cleanup for evicted handles. Bridge teardown now uses this cleanup path. A Linux GPU-gated regression test validates cleanup across repeated helper-failure cycles while persistent registrations remain.

Changes

Surface cleanup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Centralized handle cleanup runtime/streamlib-engine/src/core/compiler/compiler_ops/subprocess_escalate.rs	Added release_surface_share_and_texture_cache_for_handle. release_handle now uses the helper for surface-share and texture-cache cleanup.
Bridge teardown and regression coverage runtime/streamlib-engine/src/core/compiler/compiler_ops/subprocess_bridge.rs	Bridge teardown now uses centralized per-handle cleanup. GPU setup uses a reusable helper. A Linux GPU-gated test checks cleanup across two helper-failure cycles and preserves long-lived registrations.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e2a6d

The change can still miss handles acquired while bridge teardown is draining, leaving registrations, cache state, and file descriptors behind after a helper crash; it also adds logging that conflicts with repository conventions. Merge should wait for teardown synchronization and logging cleanup.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 warning)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 55.56% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 9 functions across 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the main change: bridge teardown releases surface-share registrations left by a crashed helper.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The implementation adds shared cleanup for surface-share and texture-cache resources and tests repeated crashed-helper teardown as required by [#1901].
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The helper extraction, bridge teardown change, and GPU regression test directly support issue [#1901] and its stated objectives.

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Inline comments:
In
`@runtime/streamlib-engine/src/core/compiler/compiler_ops/subprocess_bridge.rs`:
- Around line 313-318: Update the Drop teardown flow around
registry.drain_handles and release_surface_share_and_texture_cache_for_handle to
first reject new requests and synchronize with the reader thread, waiting for
any in-flight acquire to complete before draining handles; preserve cleanup of
every drained handle and ensure the reader cannot insert handles after the
drain.
- Around line 530-538: Update gpu_or_skip to replace the println! call in the
GpuContext initialization error branch with the appropriate tracing log macro,
preserving the test name, error details, and skip behavior.

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