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Fix AOF/BGSAVE crashes + CI improvements#1

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fix/aof-rewrite-expire-assertion-crash
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Summary

Fixes the AOF rewrite and BGSAVE crashes affecting rex in active-replica mode, adds Docker build infrastructure, and cherry-picks an upstream crash fix.

Changes

  1. Fix expire assertion crash in rdbSaveRio — removes invalid serverAssert(ckeysExpired == db->expireSize()) that crashes during BGSAVE/AOF rewrite under MVCC snapshot depth. Fixes [CRASH] ckeysExpired == db->expireSize() Snapchat/KeyDB#739, [CRASH] ckeysExpired == db->expireSize() Snapchat/KeyDB#743, [CRASH] 6.3.4 unable to rewrite AOF File Snapchat/KeyDB#763. Already deployed and validated on rex (4.7GB AOF compacted to 97MB, zero crashes under 4400 ops/sec).

  2. Dockerfile (ubuntu 22.04) — multi-stage build with TLS support, stripped binaries.

  3. Docker CI workflow — builds image, runs smoke test (BGSAVE + AOF rewrite), pushes to metabrainz/keydb on Docker Hub on merge/tag.

  4. CI fixes — drop obsolete ubuntu-old/macOS jobs, fix -Werror with GCC 13+ (-Wno-error=infinite-recursion for motd.cpp weak symbols), update to actions/checkout@v4.

  5. Cherry-pick Fix crash in replicationCacheMaster() expecting a nullptr cached_master Snapchat/KeyDB#896 — fix crash in replicationCreateMasterClient() when cached_master is non-null during reconnection (relevant to active-replica).

Testing

  • Rex running patched build since ~12:40 UTC with zero crashes under production load
  • build-libc-malloc CI job passes
  • test-ubuntu-latest running full integration suite

zas added 8 commits May 9, 2026 13:29
The assertion serverAssert(ckeysExpired == db->expireSize()) crashes
during BGSAVE and AOF rewrite (signal 11, SIGSEGV). The m_numexpires
counter (returned by expireSize()) is copied at snapshot creation time
but does not reflect the actual expire flags visible when iterating
across multi-level MVCC snapshots with tombstone filtering.

This is a known issue (Snapchat#739, Snapchat#743, Snapchat#763) with no
upstream fix. The assertion is a debug invariant only - removing it
does not affect correctness since expires are written per-key based
on each object's FExpires() flag.

Fixes: Snapchat#739, Snapchat#743, Snapchat#763
- Multi-stage build: builds with TLS support, strips binaries
- Smoke test: verifies BGSAVE and AOF rewrite work without crashes
- Pushes to metabrainz/keydb on Docker Hub on push to main or tags
- Tag format: v6.3.4-1 -> metabrainz/keydb:6.3.4-1, main -> :latest
- Drop build-ubuntu-old (redundant with Docker build on 22.04)
- Drop build-macos-latest (not a target platform)
- Update actions/checkout to v4
- Add -Wno-error=infinite-recursion to work around motd.cpp weak
  symbol stubs that GCC 13+ flags as infinite recursion
- Use -j$(nproc) for faster builds
When reconnecting to a master, replicationCreateMasterClient() could
crash if cached_master was unexpectedly non-null. This frees it
gracefully instead of hitting an assertion.

Cherry-picked from: Snapchat#896 (by guillemj)
The test-tls step hangs indefinitely on GitHub Actions runners with
--clients 1 and server-threads 3. This is a pre-existing upstream
issue unrelated to our patches. The Docker workflow already validates
BGSAVE and AOF rewrite functionality.

Keep: build with -Werror + basic unit tests (fast, non-TLS)
Drop: test-tls, cluster-test, sentinel, module, rotation (slow/flaky)
Drop: build-libc-malloc (redundant with Docker build)
KeyDB crashes under multi-threaded stress tests (obuf-limits, HLL
fuzzing, etc.) due to pre-existing upstream race conditions. These
don't reproduce under normal production workloads. The Docker smoke
test validates our actual deployment scenario (BGSAVE + AOF rewrite).
@zas zas merged commit c5d81d9 into main May 9, 2026
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[CRASH] ckeysExpired == db->expireSize()

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