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Summary

Fixes the reconciles subjectpermissions e2e test which fails permanently with namespaces "test-subjectpermissions" already exists after any interrupted test run.

Problem

The test creates namespace test-subjectpermissions and registers DeferCleanup to delete it — but cleanup is registered after the Create call. If Create fails (e.g., namespace left over from a prior run), the test fails before DeferCleanup is registered, so the stale namespace is never cleaned up and every subsequent run fails permanently.

Fix

Three changes in test/e2e/rbac_permissions_operator_tests.go:

  1. Move DeferCleanup before Create — cleanup is always registered regardless of whether creation succeeds
  2. Pre-delete stale namespaceclient.Delete before Create removes leftovers from prior runs (errors ignored if namespace doesn't exist)
  3. Wrap Create in Eventually — retries with 60s timeout / 2s polling to handle the case where the stale namespace is still terminating

No new imports — uses existing time, Eventually, and Succeed already in scope.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Tests
    • Improved end-to-end permission test reliability by cleaning up stale namespaces before creation.
    • Added retry handling while namespace termination completes.
    • Ensured permission data is retrieved only after successful namespace creation.

Move DeferCleanup registration before namespace Create so cleanup is
always registered even if creation fails. Delete stale namespaces from
prior failed runs before creating, and use Eventually for the Create
call to handle namespaces still terminating.

This fixes a permanent test failure where a stale test-subjectpermissions
namespace from a prior run causes Create to fail before DeferCleanup is
registered, leaving the namespace orphaned indefinitely.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The end-to-end RBAC test now cleans up stale namespaces, retries creation during namespace termination, and retrieves subject-permission data after successful creation.

Changes

Namespace setup reliability

Layer / File(s) Summary
Namespace lifecycle and RBAC setup
test/e2e/rbac_permissions_operator_tests.go
The test registers cleanup before creation, deletes stale namespaces while ignoring missing-resource errors, retries creation for up to 60 seconds, and retrieves RBAC information before listing cluster roles.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 6462c

The change improves recovery of stale test namespaces, but deletion failures other than an already-missing namespace could still be hidden and leave cleanup unreliable. The PR is otherwise mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to handle deletion errors.

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Description Check ✅ Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the namespace cleanup sequencing bug fixed by the pull request.
Docstring Coverage ✅ Passed No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 1 files.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Stable And Deterministic Test Names ✅ Passed The commit changes namespace setup and cleanup only; Ginkgo titles remain static, including It("reconciles subjectpermissions").
Test Structure And Quality ✅ Passed The changed test cleans up the namespace, bounds namespace creation and role-binding waits, and uses meaningful assertion messages; its checks remain focused on SubjectPermission reconciliation.
Microshift Test Compatibility ✅ Passed The Ginkgo test and managed.openshift.io SubjectPermission use predate this PR; the diff adds only Kubernetes Namespace cleanup and retry logic, with no new MicroShift-incompatible API or assumption.
Single Node Openshift (Sno) Test Compatibility ✅ Passed The PR modifies an existing It("reconciles subjectpermissions"); changed code only manages namespaces and RBAC objects, with no multi-node or HA assumptions.
Topology-Aware Scheduling Compatibility ✅ Passed The PR changes only an e2e test's namespace cleanup and creation flow; it adds no deployment manifests, controllers, replicas, affinity, selectors, tolerations, or topology constraints.
Ote Binary Stdout Contract ✅ Passed The diff only changes the body of a Ginkgo It test. It adds Kubernetes cleanup and Eventually calls, with no fmt/klog/stdout writes or suite-level output changes.
Ipv6 And Disconnected Network Test Compatibility ✅ Passed The diff only updates an existing It("reconciles subjectpermissions"); it adds namespace cleanup/retry logic and no IPv4 literals, IP parsing, public hosts, URLs, or external connectivity.
No-Weak-Crypto ✅ Passed The commit changes only namespace cleanup and creation retry logic; the exact diff and target file contain no weak-crypto algorithms, custom crypto, or secret/token comparisons.
Container-Privileges ✅ Passed The PR changes only a Go e2e test; no container/Kubernetes manifest or privileged setting is added, including host namespaces, SYS_ADMIN, or allowPrivilegeEscalation.
No-Sensitive-Data-In-Logs ✅ Passed The diff adds no sensitive logging; messages contain only the fixed test namespace and generic RBAC test names/errors, with no credentials, PII, hostnames, or customer data.
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In `@test/e2e/rbac_permissions_operator_tests.go`:
- Around line 69-76: Update the namespace deletion calls around the cleanup
registered by DeferCleanup and the stale-namespace removal to explicitly accept
only NotFound errors as success; propagate or fail the test for every other
deletion error. Ensure cleanup remains safe when namespace creation fails while
still surfacing unexpected API failures.
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Comment on lines +69 to +76
// Register cleanup before Create so it runs even if creation fails
ginkgo.DeferCleanup(func(ctx context.Context) {
ginkgo.By("Deleting test namespace " + testNamespaceName)
Expect(client.Delete(ctx, testNamespace)).Should(Succeed(), "Failed to test delete namespace")
})

// Delete stale namespace from prior failed runs (ignore errors if not found)
_ = client.Delete(ctx, testNamespace)

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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The github.com/openshift/osde2e-common module is a collection of helper utilities designed to reduce code duplication in Managed OpenShift testing, including clients for interacting with OCM, OpenShift, and Prometheus [1][2][3]. Regarding the pkg/clients/openshift package within osde2e-common, it provides an OpenShift client interface typically initialized via openshift.NewFromRestConfig [4]. In practice, osde2e test suites perform CRUD operations—including deletions—by accessing the standard Kubernetes/OpenShift client-go interfaces returned by the osde2e-common helper, rather than by calling a generic Delete method directly on the osde2e-common client object [5]. For example, when test suites need to delete resources such as Users or Identities, they utilize the standard client-go Delete pattern provided by the helper's underlying typed clients [5]: // Example pattern used in osde2e tests to delete a User func deleteUser(userName string, h *helper.H) error { return h.User.UserV1.Users.Delete(context.TODO, userName, metav1.DeleteOptions{}) } If you are developing new functionality that requires specific deletion logic, the project guidelines mandate implementing core client enhancements within the osde2e-common repository to ensure they are available to all consumer repositories, rather than implementing them directly within the osde2e test repository [6].

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Handle namespace deletion errors explicitly.

Treat only NotFound as success for both namespace deletes. Fail the test on all other errors. This prevents hidden API failures and avoids cleanup failures when namespace creation did not succeed.

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In `@test/e2e/rbac_permissions_operator_tests.go` around lines 69 - 76, Update the
namespace deletion calls around the cleanup registered by DeferCleanup and the
stale-namespace removal to explicitly accept only NotFound errors as success;
propagate or fail the test for every other deletion error. Ensure cleanup
remains safe when namespace creation fails while still surfacing unexpected API
failures.

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