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Brad Fitzpatrick 18a95394df ipn/ipnlocal: shut down old control client before starting new one
LocalBackend.Start previously shut down the previous control client in
a goroutine, letting it run concurrently with the new one. An in-flight
lite map update carrying stale Hostinfo.RequestTags could then be
processed by the control plane after the new client had already changed
the node's tags. Control treats such a request as an invalid tag
transition and expires the node key to force a reauth, so retagging a
node with "tailscale up --advertise-tags" intermittently logged the
machine out.

Instead, detach the old client under b.mu and shut it down
synchronously with the lock released, before creating the new client.
Shutdown cancels the old client's in-flight requests and waits for its
goroutines to exit, so the cancellation of any stale update reaches the
server before the new client sends its first request. Per the deadlock
history in #18052, Shutdown must not be called with b.mu held; this
uses the same pattern as DisconnectControl.

Also teach the testcontrol server to model the control plane's tag
transition handling (including expiring the node key on an invalid
transition and ignoring updates from canceled requests), add an
integration test reproducing the race, and add an ipnlocal test
verifying that Start waits for the old client to shut down.

Updates #20365
Updates #18052

Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Change-Id: If8c8e145bdadcef1b1b8fe6209453cf5f5a8d616
2026-07-13 08:28:23 -07:00
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