server: fence capture writes with etcd and P2P leases

[asddongmen]

What problem does this PR solve?

Issue Number: close #6045

A network-isolated capture may write after replacement dispatchers start. This overlap can leave a MySQL sink inconsistent after checkpoint advancement.

What is changed and how it works?

Gate capture writes with etcd and coordinator P2P proofs, negotiated through node heartbeats and a remote witness. Enforce admission in transport workers and before DML is sent to downstream. Confirmed session loss exits the capture. Add metrics, deterministic tests, and a 10-second removal grace.

Already-admitted transactions remain outside the guarantee because an accepted COMMIT cannot be revoked.

End-to-end validation

A three-capture/MySQL test-infra gate sustained 20.3k DML/s, exercised lifecycle/network faults, matched ten table CRCs, and found no panic.

Dimension	Previous cdc_network_loss	New synthetic chaos
DML	100 threads; UPDATE only; no rate target	256 threads; ~20k DML/s; UPDATE/DELETE/INSERT = 50%/25%/25%
Stress	1h traffic; 10s fault every 30m	2h15m traffic; 10s fault every 2m (15x frequency)
Coverage	Random capture, network loss only	3 captures; ingress, egress, bidirectional, PD-only, PD-plus-CDC; scale 3→1→3, hang, kill
Validation	Checksum	CRC plus row-level Sync Diff for failed tables

A six-round soak is running: 12 chaos hours, about 360 faults, and up to 972 million DMLs.

Check List

Tests

• Unit test
• Integration test
• Manual E2E test

Questions

Will it cause performance regression or break compatibility?

The check is in memory; 500 ms heartbeats and capability negotiation preserve rolling upgrades.

Do you need to update user documentation, design documentation or monitoring documentation?

No user documentation change; metrics expose write-lease state.

Release note

Fix a bug that may cause data inconsistent while there is a cdc node is network partitioned with other nodes. 

Summary by CodeRabbit

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added capture-wide write-lease protection for downstream writes.
  • Added P2P witness validation and etcd lease verification.
  • Applied write protection across MySQL, Kafka, Pulsar, cloud storage, and Redo outputs.
  • Added write-lease monitoring metrics and legacy-protocol compatibility.

• Bug Fixes

  • Prevented stale captures from publishing data, checkpoints, metadata, or cleanup changes.
  • Improved recovery after temporary lease loss and rejected stale or duplicate lease responses.

• Documentation

  • Added design documentation covering write-lease behavior, safety guarantees, and failure handling.

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• tests/integration_tests/capture_write_lease/conf/changefeed-main.toml
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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

This change adds a capture-wide write-lease protocol. It combines coordinator P2P grants, etcd session proofs, local fencing, downstream sink gates, metrics, tests, and an integration scenario.

Changes

Capture write-lease protocol

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Protocol and gate contracts heartbeatpb/*, pkg/writelease/*, pkg/messaging/*, pkg/metrics/*, pkg/bootstrap/*	Adds protocol messages, a fail-closed gate, proof renewal, fencing, waiters, metrics, bootstrap-state access, and heartbeat-response messaging.
Coordinator grants and maintainer responses coordinator/*, maintainer/*	Adds request sequencing, epoch checks, witness challenges, capability negotiation, response validation, and P2P lease renewal.
Session proof and fencing server/*, pkg/orchestrator/*	Renews the etcd proof, monitors gate state, fences local writes after confirmed session loss, and exposes the capture removal delay.
Sink and transport enforcement downstreamadapter/*, pkg/sink/*, pkg/cloudstorage/*	Propagates the gate through dispatchers and blocks downstream mutations, cleanup, checkpoints, and claim-check publication when admission is unavailable.
Redo writer enforcement pkg/redo/*	Adds gate-aware interfaces and checks before redo writes, metadata changes, rotation, cleanup, and uploads.
Integration validation tests/integration_tests/capture_write_lease/*, tests/integration_tests/run_light_it_in_ci.sh	Adds fault-injection coverage for lease expiry, stale and duplicate grants, recovery, process liveness, and data synchronization.
Design documentation docs/design/capture-write-lease-*.md	Documents the protocol, safety ordering, transport boundaries, failure behavior, metrics, parameters, and test coverage.

Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to fddb9

This change adds write fencing intended to prevent isolated captures from continuing downstream writes. Outstanding concerns include changefeed-removal liveness and whether admission and downstream effects are fully fenced under failure and upgrade conditions, so these issues should be addressed or explicitly accepted before merge.

Suggested reviewers: hongyunyan

Poem

A rabbit guards the writer’s gate,
With proofs renewed before it’s late.
Witnesses hop through nonce-lit streams,
Fenced old paws abandon schemes.
Sinks wait still, then safely write.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 9.57% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 94 functions across 55 files. (3 skipped: …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the main change: fencing capture writes with etcd and coordinator P2P leases.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes the required issue reference, problem statement, implementation summary, test coverage, compatibility assessment, documentation impact, and release note.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes address issue #6045 by adding etcd and P2P write fencing, enforcing admission before downstream writes, and adding MySQL and integration tests for network-loss consistency.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes remain related to write-lease fencing, including protocol negotiation, downstream enforcement, metrics, removal grace, session-loss behavior, documentation, and supporting tests.

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