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Follow-up to #14579, from QA verification of the LE-2109 reconciliation cache
(LE-2099, Rafael's 2026-08-15 comment). Everything else in that cache checked
out — 10 identical requests reconcile once plus one confirming pass, a
20-request page load reconciles zero times, a new group set reconciles at
once — but one direction did not: revocation back to a group set that had
been cached earlier.

The defect

The cache was keyed by the exact directory state it verified, and entries were
only ever added and aged out by TTL. Nothing invalidated a user's other entries
when a reconciliation moved their state. So a group set that was cached, then
changed, then changed back still matched its old entry:

1) login with [lf-devs]           -> roles=developer
2) confirming pass                -> [lf-devs] cached
3) promotion to [lf-admins, lf-devs] -> roles=admin,developer   (reconciles: new key)
4) IdP revokes lf-admins, [lf-devs] again
     request 1..18               -> roles=admin,developer      (served from the step-2 entry)
     request 19 (60s later)      -> roles=developer

The plugin was never consulted during that window. The impact is bounded — the
cache is per-process so another replica reconciles the revocation immediately,
the window is capped by LANGFLOW_EXTERNAL_AUTH_GROUP_RECONCILE_INTERVAL_SECONDS
(default 60) and self-corrects, and 0 removes it — but it is a regression
against the pre-cache behaviour, in the one direction that must not be delayed,
and it contradicts what #14579 and the settings description promise: "a group
set that differs from the last reconciled one always reconciles immediately."

The fix

_DirectoryReconcileCache now holds one entry per user: the last state a
confirming pass verified. A request is skipped only while that entry is fresh
and carries the same state, so any claim that differs from the last
reconciled state misses by construction — including a state that was itself
cached earlier and has since been moved past. That is Rafael's second
suggested shape, and it makes the settings description true as written.

Two further rules keep an entry from outliving the state it verified when
passes for one user overlap (an old and a new token in flight together on the
same process):

  • begin() records a miss: it drops the user's entry, because the claim
    being reconciled supersedes it, and hands the pass a ticket. Only the pass
    holding the user's latest ticket may remember().
  • invalidate() runs right after a commit that changed the stored state:
    it drops the entry and revokes the outstanding ticket, so a concurrent no-op
    pass that verified the previous state can neither be served nor re-cache
    it after the change landed.

Both are per-user (an OrderedDict bounded like the entries), so first-login
churn for other users does not discard this user's cache. Everything #14579
established still holds: a pass that changed something is not cached until a
confirming pass runs, skipped requests still commit the JIT/profile
bookkeeping, and the interval setting means what it says. No EE change is
needed — the plugin is untouched; EE picks this up at its next oss-version
bump.

Test plan

  • test_group_revoked_after_promotion_reconciles_immediately — Rafael's
    sequence end to end (login, confirming pass, promotion, revocation, cache
    resumes, second promotion). Fails against the current cache at the revocation
    step (assert 3 == 4), passes with the fix.
  • test_revocation_reconciles_even_after_the_promotion_was_confirmed_and_cached
    — both the earlier and the promoted state cached; the older must not win.
    Fails before, passes after.
  • test_reconcile_cache_is_scoped_per_user — one user's entry never evicts
    or leaks into another's.
  • test_change_landing_after_a_concurrent_noop_pass_evicts_its_entry and
    test_noop_pass_that_verified_a_superseded_state_is_not_remembered — the two
    overlapping-pass interleavings. Mutation-checked: disabling invalidate()
    fails exactly the first, ignoring the ticket fails exactly the second.
  • pytest src/backend/tests/unit/services/auth src/backend/tests/unit/services/database/models/api_key/test_crud.py src/backend/tests/unit/test_login.py — 229 passed
  • ruff check / ruff format --check clean
  • Re-run the reporter's reproduction on PostgreSQL 16 with the default interval: after step 3, the first [lf-devs] request should answer roles=developer and the seam counter should show 1 plugin call for the revocation, not 0

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes

    • Fixed external group membership reconciliation so promotions and revocations take effect immediately.
    • Prevented outdated membership states from being served or cached during concurrent reconciliation.
    • Improved isolation so one user’s group changes do not affect another user’s access state.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for membership changes, per-user isolation, and concurrent reconciliation scenarios.

…ng it from cache (LE-2099)

The LE-2109 reconciliation cache was keyed by the exact directory state it
verified, and entries were only ever added and aged out. A group set that
was cached, then changed, then changed back still matched its earlier entry,
so a promotion followed by an IdP revocation kept the promoted role until
the stale entry expired - up to EXTERNAL_AUTH_GROUP_RECONCILE_INTERVAL_SECONDS
on the replica holding it, and the authorization plugin was never consulted
in that window. QA reproduced it as [devs] -> [admins, devs] -> [devs]:
the last step served admin for 60s.

The cache now holds one entry per user: the last state a confirming pass
verified. A request is skipped only when that entry is fresh and carries the
same state, so any claim that differs from the last reconciled state misses
by construction, including one that was itself cached earlier.

Two more rules cover overlapping passes for one user (an old and a new token
in flight together): a miss drops the user's entry and hands the pass a
ticket that only the latest pass holds, and a pass that changed the stored
state invalidates - dropping the entry and revoking the outstanding ticket -
so a concurrent no-op pass that verified the previous state can neither be
served nor remembered after the change landed.

The settings description already promised "a group set that differs from the
last reconciled one always reconciles immediately"; the implementation now
matches it.
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External group reconciliation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Per-user ticketed reconciliation cache
src/backend/base/langflow/services/auth/service.py
The cache stores verified reconciliation state per user. Cache misses create tickets, and only the latest ticket can write cached state.
Membership invalidation and concurrency validation
src/backend/base/langflow/services/auth/service.py, src/backend/tests/unit/services/auth/test_auth_service.py
Membership changes invalidate cached and in-flight state. Tests cover promotions, revocations, per-user isolation, and stale concurrent reconciliation results.

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The cache change addresses the revocation regression with targeted coverage; remaining concerns are limited to bounded coordination-state cleanup and test timeout robustness. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ExternalGroupReconciliation
  participant DirectoryReconcileCache
  participant DirectoryProvider
  ExternalGroupReconciliation->>DirectoryReconcileCache: Check verified state for user
  DirectoryReconcileCache-->>ExternalGroupReconciliation: Return state or ticket
  ExternalGroupReconciliation->>DirectoryProvider: Fetch external groups
  ExternalGroupReconciliation->>DirectoryReconcileCache: Store state with ticket
  DirectoryReconcileCache-->>ExternalGroupReconciliation: Accept current ticket only
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src/backend/base/langflow/services/auth/service.py (1)

161-192: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Optional: release the ticket when caching is disabled.

If ttl_seconds <= 0, remember returns before del self._tickets[user_key]. The ticket then stays until the next begin or invalidate for that user. _tickets is bounded by _max_entries, so this is residue, not a leak. Dropping the ticket first keeps the two maps consistent when the reconcile interval is configured to 0.

Also note the class relies on a single event loop for atomicity: remember checks the ticket and writes the entry in separate statements, so a threaded caller could interleave. Recording that assumption in the docstring would help future callers.

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     ) -> None:
-        if ttl_seconds <= 0:
-            return
         if self._tickets.get(user_key) != ticket:
             # A newer pass began for this user, or a change landed, after this
             # pass verified its state: that verdict is stale and must not
             # become the entry.
             return
         del self._tickets[user_key]
+        if ttl_seconds <= 0:
+            return
         self._purge_expired(now)
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In `@src/backend/base/langflow/services/auth/service.py` around lines 161 - 192,
Update remember so it removes the matching user ticket before returning when
ttl_seconds is non-positive, keeping _tickets consistent when caching is
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2066-2073: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Add timeouts to the coordination waits in the two new concurrency tests. Both tests await an asyncio.Event with no bound. If the expected branch never runs, the test hangs instead of reporting a failure.

  • src/backend/tests/unit/services/auth/test_auth_service.py#L2066-L2073: wrap await promotion_in_plugin.wait() (and await promotion) in async with asyncio.timeout(5):.
  • src/backend/tests/unit/services/auth/test_auth_service.py#L2125-L2132: wrap await developer_at_commit.wait() (and await held) in async with asyncio.timeout(5):.
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In `@src/backend/tests/unit/services/auth/test_auth_service.py` around lines 2066
- 2073, In src/backend/tests/unit/services/auth/test_auth_service.py at lines
2066-2073 and 2125-2132, bound both concurrency-test coordination waits with
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the first site, and developer_at_commit.wait() and held in the second, so
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In `@src/backend/base/langflow/services/auth/service.py`:
- Around line 161-192: Update remember so it removes the matching user ticket
before returning when ttl_seconds is non-positive, keeping _tickets consistent
when caching is disabled. Also document on the relevant class or remember method
that ticket validation and entry writes rely on single-event-loop atomicity and
are not safe for interleaved threaded callers.

In `@src/backend/tests/unit/services/auth/test_auth_service.py`:
- Around line 2066-2073: In
src/backend/tests/unit/services/auth/test_auth_service.py at lines 2066-2073 and
2125-2132, bound both concurrency-test coordination waits with async with
asyncio.timeout(5): wrap promotion_in_plugin.wait() and promotion in the first
site, and developer_at_commit.wait() and held in the second, so stalled branches
fail promptly instead of hanging.

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