WebDriver: Survive a WebContent crash during a navigation command - #10843
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughWebDriver navigation, back, forward, and refresh commands now use failure-tolerant typed synchronous messages. Missing replies return empty JSON values. Navigation completion also returns an empty JSON value when its IPC response is absent. Existing response handling and navigation waits remain in place. Possibly related PRs
Suggested reviewers: Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to WebDriver crash recovery can still hang indefinitely when WebContent exits during navigation or refresh, so the affected waits should be updated to accept process replacement before merging. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 3✅ Passed checks (3 passed)
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Problem: TestWebDriverSessionHistory crash-recovery scenarios failed intermittently in CI, with the WebDriver process aborting (exit status -4) rather than reporting an error. Cause: When a WebContent process is torn down before it replies to a sync WebDriver navigation request, the WebDriver process itself aborts. That happens when a cross-site navigation swaps the WebContent process out, or when the page crashes, before the reply reaches WebDriver. WebDriver forwarded its navigation commands to WebContent with send_sync, whose result is a NonnullOwnPtr guarded by VERIFY(response). When the peer disconnected before replying, that VERIFY aborted the whole WebDriver process — rather than failing only the single command. Fix: Send commands with send_sync_but_allow_failure — and treat a lost response as an empty success. A null reply can only mean the WebContent process is gone — so the recovery path already in place takes over: The window is marked as awaiting replacement, and the caller waits for and adopts the replacement process. perform_async_action pumps the event loop while it spins. So, the connection-closed handler runs and the spin exits rather than hanging. That mirrors load_url_from_ui — which already tolerated a lost reply in this same way.
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In `@Services/WebDriver/Client.cpp`:
- Around line 175-179: Update the navigation-completion action and both refresh
actions in the relevant WebDriver client methods to pass
Session::WebContentReplacement::Allow to perform_async_action, while preserving
their existing failure-tolerant behavior.
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| auto response = TRY(session->perform_async_action([&](auto& connection) -> Web::WebDriver::Response { | ||
| auto navigate_response = connection.template send_sync_but_allow_failure<Messages::WebDriverClient::NavigateTo>(move(payload)); | ||
| if (!navigate_response) | ||
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Use replacement-aware waits for all failure-tolerant navigation phases.
When WebContent closes, send_sync_but_allow_failure returns nullptr, and the lambda returns {} without invoking on_driver_execution_complete. Because perform_async_action ignores that return value, its default Disallow wait can block indefinitely.
Pass Session::WebContentReplacement::Allow to the navigation-completion action and to both refresh actions.
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Services/WebDriver/Client.cpp#L175-L179(this comment)Services/WebDriver/Client.cpp#L261-L265
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In `@Services/WebDriver/Client.cpp` around lines 175 - 179, Update the
navigation-completion action and both refresh actions in the relevant WebDriver
client methods to pass Session::WebContentReplacement::Allow to
perform_async_action, while preserving their existing failure-tolerant behavior.
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FWIW I think what I'm attempting with #11144 might also fix the issue here by making it the browser process responsibility to route commands since it's responsible for making the process swap decision |
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Problem:
TestWebDriverSessionHistorycrash-recovery scenarios failed intermittently in CI, with the WebDriver process aborting (exit status-4) rather than reporting an error.Cause: When a WebContent process is torn down before it replies to a sync WebDriver navigation request, the WebDriver process itself aborts. That happens when a cross-site navigation swaps the WebContent process out, or when the page crashes, before the reply reaches WebDriver. WebDriver forwarded its navigation commands to WebContent with
send_sync, whose result is aNonnullOwnPtrguarded byVERIFY(response). When the peer disconnected before replying, thatVERIFYaborted the whole WebDriver process — rather than failing only the single command.Fix: Send commands with
send_sync_but_allow_failure— and treat a lost response as an empty success. A null reply can only mean the WebContent process is gone — so the recovery path already in place takes over: The window is marked as awaiting replacement, and the caller waits for and adopts the replacement process.perform_async_actionpumps the event loop while it spins. So, the connection-closed handler runs and the spin exits rather than hanging. That mirrorsload_url_from_ui— which already tolerated a lost reply in this same way.