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Summary

  • track one live non-resumable standalone GET connection per session
  • release that registration as soon as the request context ends, allowing an immediate reconnect
  • reject a genuinely simultaneous second GET with 409 Conflict
  • make DELETE cancel and join the active GET before session cleanup completes
  • validate legacy GET session IDs so invalid and terminated stateful sessions return 404 Not Found
  • join notification and heartbeat workers before reporting the connection closed

Context

This is the upstream portion of render-oss/render-mcp-server#26. A black-box trace against v1.0.0/current main showed:

  • standalone GET correctly returns 200
  • disconnect followed by reconnect succeeds once the old handler has exited
  • two simultaneous GETs for the same session are both accepted
  • DELETE returns 200 but leaves the active GET handler running
  • a GET using the terminated stateful session is not rejected before opening a new stream

activeSessions represents logical MCP session state and intentionally survives a non-resumable GET disconnect, so this patch adds a separate connection-scoped registration rather than unregistering the logical session.

The resumable event-store path is unchanged; this guard applies only to non-resumable listening GETs.

Lifecycle

The connection registration owns a derived cancelable context and a completion signal. Request cancellation removes it in the handler defer. DELETE uses a bounded context detached from the request's cancellation, cancels the active GET, waits for its workers and handler to finish, then unregisters and deletes session state. Compare-and-delete prevents an old handler from removing a newer registration.

Validation

  • deterministic tests for disconnect/reconnect, active duplicate rejection, DELETE release, stale/invalid 404, GET 200, ping heartbeat, exactly-once unregister, live cleanup context, and worker completion
  • full server package passes (aside from three pre-existing Windows zero-duration clock assertions when run unfiltered)
  • all other locally runnable packages pass; upstream's Unix-only syscall test does not compile on Windows
  • changed-diff golangci-lint: 0 issues
  • go generate ./... leaves generated code unchanged
  • git diff --check

The repository's Ubuntu go test ./... -race workflow is the definitive race gate; local WSL became unavailable after its C:-backed virtual disk entered a read-only state.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved Streamable HTTP session validation, returning clear errors for unknown or terminated sessions.
    • Prevented multiple simultaneous listening connections for the same session.
    • Ensured listening connections, heartbeats, and related resources close cleanly when sessions are deleted or connections end.
    • Improved reconnection behavior after a listening connection is closed.
    • Improved coordination between session deletion and new listening connections.
    • Ensured cleanup can interrupt stalled connections so requests shut down reliably.
    • Standardized session cleanup timing for more consistent connection termination.

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Streamable HTTP now uses a shared five-second cleanup timeout with cancellation-independent contexts. Tests cover session unregistration after disconnect, invalid sessions, per-session lock isolation, and blocked SSE write cleanup.

Streamable HTTP session cleanup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Bounded session cleanup
server/streamable_http.go
Non-resumable GET cleanup, DELETE cleanup, and general session cleanup use the shared five-second timeout with cancellation-independent contexts.
Lifecycle and blocked-write validation
server/streamable_http_connection_test.go
Tests verify live-context unregistration, 404 responses for invalid sessions, independent session locks, and cleanup that interrupts blocked SSE writes.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 9a751

Session cleanup may leave registrations behind when shutdown is canceled, and unresolved lifecycle races may allow stale or unexpectedly closed listening streams. These cleanup and connection-lifecycle risks should be resolved before merge.

Suggested reviewers: ezynda3

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In `@server/streamable_http.go`:
- Line 1070: Serialize GET validation/registration and DELETE
termination/cleanup for each session using a per-session lifecycle lock or
equivalent atomic state, preventing GET from recreating activeSessions after
DELETE completes. Update the GET path around Validate and
activeGetConnections.LoadOrStore and the corresponding DELETE cleanup path, then
add a barrier-based regression test covering the pause/resume interleaving.
- Line 1450: Update closeActiveGetConnection and the active GET connection state
so cleanup can explicitly interrupt a blocked writeSSEEvent, rather than relying
only on streamCtx cancellation. Ensure sweepExpiredSessions and every other
cleanup caller uses a bounded, timeout-based context instead of
context.Background(), preventing one stuck connection from blocking expiration
of later sessions.

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server/streamable_http.go (2)

1488-1489: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Apply the same lifecycle serialization to the sweeper and CloseSessions.

handleDelete now takes sessionLifecycleMu around Terminate, so a GET cannot register between validation and termination. sweepExpiredSessions (Line 1584) and CloseSessions (Line 550) call mgr.Terminate plus cleanupSessionState without that lock. A GET that is inside the critical section can therefore register an activeGetConnection and recreate activeSessions after the sweeper already checked for an active connection. The result is a live SSE stream whose session was deleted and unregistered, so the client receives no notifications and the activeGetConnections entry outlives the session state.

Take sessionLifecycleMu around Terminate in both callers, matching handleDelete, and keep cleanupSessionState outside the lock.

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In `@server/streamable_http.go` around lines 1488 - 1489, Update
sweepExpiredSessions and CloseSessions to acquire sessionLifecycleMu around each
mgr.Terminate call, matching handleDelete’s lifecycle serialization. Keep
cleanupSessionState outside the lock and preserve the existing cleanup flow.

1063-1064: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Consider narrowing the lifecycle lock scope.

sessionLifecycleMu is one process-wide mutex. The critical section holds it across sessionIDManager.Validate (Line 1067) and s.server.RegisterSession (Line 1107). A custom SessionIdManager can perform a remote lookup in Validate, and RegisterSession runs user OnRegisterSession hooks. Either can be slow. While one GET waits, every other session's GET registration and every DELETE termination blocks.

The correctness requirement is per-session atomicity only. A per-session lock (for example a sync.Map of session-scoped mutexes, or a keyed lock helper) keeps the same guarantee without global serialization.

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In `@server/streamable_http.go` around lines 1063 - 1064, The GET session
registration path currently holds the process-wide sessionLifecycleMu across
slow validation and registration hooks; replace this with per-session
synchronization that preserves atomicity for the same session while allowing
different sessions to proceed concurrently. Update the surrounding
sessionIDManager.Validate and server.RegisterSession flow, and coordinate
corresponding DELETE termination paths so they use the same keyed lock without
retaining the global mutex.
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In `@server/streamable_http_connection_test.go`:
- Around line 277-282: Strengthen the DELETE ordering test by signaling when
blockingValidateSessionManager.Terminate is entered, then wait for that signal
only after Validate has returned and continueValidate is released. Assert the
signal’s ordering relative to Validate before proceeding, so the test verifies
DELETE reaches Terminate after validation rather than merely reaching
ResolveSessionIdManager.

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In `@server/streamable_http.go`:
- Around line 1488-1489: Update sweepExpiredSessions and CloseSessions to
acquire sessionLifecycleMu around each mgr.Terminate call, matching
handleDelete’s lifecycle serialization. Keep cleanupSessionState outside the
lock and preserve the existing cleanup flow.
- Around line 1063-1064: The GET session registration path currently holds the
process-wide sessionLifecycleMu across slow validation and registration hooks;
replace this with per-session synchronization that preserves atomicity for the
same session while allowing different sessions to proceed concurrently. Update
the surrounding sessionIDManager.Validate and server.RegisterSession flow, and
coordinate corresponding DELETE termination paths so they use the same keyed
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Addressed both follow-up lifecycle notes in 9ab24fd. CloseSessions and the idle sweeper now serialize Terminate with GET registration using the same session key, while cleanup remains outside the lock. The process-wide mutex is replaced by a reference-counted per-session lock map, and TestSessionLifecycleLocksDoNotBlockOtherSessions proves unrelated sessions proceed independently. The GET/DELETE ordering and cross-session tests each passed 50 consecutive runs; the full server suite, vet, and changed-code lint (0 issues) also pass.

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server/streamable_http.go (1)

1513-1514: 🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Denial of Service (CWE-400): Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Reachability: External · Exploitability: Moderate

Require write interruption for custom streaming writers.

Handle accepts CanStream() writers without SetWriteDeadline. A blocked Write can prevent cleanup, retain activeGetConnections, and cause later GET requests to return 409 Conflict. Reject or bound such writers, and add a regression for Handle with a blocking writer.

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In `@server/streamable_http.go` around lines 1513 - 1514, Update Handle’s custom
streaming-writer path to require a bounded write interruption mechanism, such as
SetWriteDeadline or a usable interruptWrite callback, so blocked Write calls
cannot prevent cleanup; otherwise reject the writer before registering it as
active. Add a regression test covering Handle with a blocking writer and verify
subsequent GET requests do not remain blocked or return 409 Conflict.
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- Around line 1513-1514: Update Handle’s custom streaming-writer path to require
a bounded write interruption mechanism, such as SetWriteDeadline or a usable
interruptWrite callback, so blocked Write calls cannot prevent cleanup;
otherwise reject the writer before registering it as active. Add a regression
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Final self-review follow-up in 9a7511d: the disconnect defer for a GET-created logical session now derives a five-second cleanup context with context.WithoutCancel, rather than passing the canceled request context to UnregisterSession. TestStreamableHTTPDisconnectUnregistersWithLiveContext proves exactly one unregister call observes a live context. The disconnect, DELETE-ordering, cross-session-lock, and blocked-write regressions passed 20 consecutive runs; the full server suite, vet, and changed-code lint (0 issues) also pass.

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server/streamable_http.go (1)

1845-1848: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document the lifecycle lock concurrency contract.

sessionLifecycleLocks coordinates shared lifecycle state across request handlers and background cleanup. Add a comment that states it is safe for concurrent use and that callers must invoke the returned unlock function.

As per coding guidelines, use sync.Mutex for shared state and document thread-safety requirements in comments.

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In `@server/streamable_http.go` around lines 1845 - 1848, Add a documentation
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that callers must invoke the unlock function returned by its locking operation.
Keep the existing sync.Mutex-based implementation unchanged.

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In `@server/streamable_http.go`:
- Around line 1586-1588: In the session expiration path around
sessionLifecycle.lock and mgr.Terminate, re-read the session’s lastActive
timestamp and recompute the TTL after acquiring the lifecycle lock, skipping
termination if activity has changed since the initial check. Add a barrier test
proving a concurrent GET refresh between the pre-lock check and lock acquisition
prevents termination.
- Line 289: In the session-expiry sweeper, re-check lastActive after acquiring
sessionLifecycle and before terminating the session, so a concurrent handleGet
refresh is respected. Rename activeGetConnections and activeGetConnection
consistently to activeGETConnections and activeGETConnection across declarations
and references.

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In `@server/streamable_http.go`:
- Around line 1845-1848: Add a documentation comment for sessionLifecycleLocks
stating that it is safe for concurrent use and that callers must invoke the
unlock function returned by its locking operation. Keep the existing
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In `@server/streamable_http.go`:
- Line 1497: Update cleanupSessionState so context.WithTimeout uses
context.WithoutCancel(ctx) as its parent, allowing session cleanup and
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Addressed the current review summary and outside-diff findings in 6b14c85. Non-resumable custom GET writers passed to Handle must now provide SetWriteDeadline before any active connection is registered; TestStreamableHTTPRejectsNonInterruptibleCustomWriter proves rejection leaves no stale registration and a supported follow-up GET succeeds. The lifecycle lock now documents its concurrent-use/unlock contract. The sweeper post-lock recheck and GET acronym cleanup are covered in the resolved inline threads. Full server tests, vet, and changed-code lint (0 issues) pass.

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Closing this PR because it is marked stale. If you resume work and address any outstanding feedback, please reopen it or submit an updated PR.

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