fix(spend_counter): seed Redis counter via SET NX to prevent cross-pod double-seed (#27854)

* fix(spend_counter): seed Redis counter via SET NX to prevent cross-pod double-seed

Symptom
-------
Customers on multi-pod deployments see team `spend` jump to ~2x (or N x
the pod count) shortly after a Redis cache miss / TTL expiry, triggering
spurious "Budget Crossed" alerts and blocked requests until the value is
manually reset.

Root cause
----------
`SpendCounterReseed.coalesced` warmed the primary spend counter by
calling `redis.async_increment(key, value=db_spend, refresh_ttl=True)`,
which lowers to Redis `INCRBYFLOAT`. That is additive, not idempotent.

The per-counter `asyncio.Lock` only coalesces seeders inside one
process. With N pods sharing one Redis, on a cold key (cold start, TTL
expiry, manual delete) every pod independently passes its lock + Redis
re-check, reads the same `db_spend`, and issues `INCRBYFLOAT db_spend`.
Final value: N x db_spend.

Fix
---
Use `redis.async_set_cache(key, value=db_spend, nx=True)` for the seed.
SET NX is atomic across pods: exactly one writer initializes the key;
losers read the winner's value via `async_get_cache`. This is the same
idiom already used by `coalesced_window` in the same file, so the two
seed paths are now consistent.

Per-request deltas continue to use `INCRBYFLOAT` (correct - additive
behaviour is what we want for increments, not for initial seed).

Verification
------------
Live two-process repro against the same Postgres + Redis (DB
spend = 506):

  Unpatched: 4/4 runs -> Redis counter = ~1012  (~2 x db_spend)
  Patched:  12/12 runs -> Redis counter = ~506

Unit tests (`test_proxy_server.py`):

- New `test_primary_spend_counter_redis_concurrent_seed_does_not_double_seed`
  patches `_get_lock` to return a fresh lock per caller (otherwise the
  per-process lock masks the race), races two `coalesced` calls, and
  asserts final = 506 with exactly one of two SET NX attempts winning.
- 4 existing tests updated for the new seed contract (SET NX for the
  seed, INCRBYFLOAT only for the per-request delta).
- Full `spend_counter or reseed or budget` slice: 22 passed.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* test(spend_counter): make SET NX mock atomic so loser branch is exercised

Greptile flagged that `redis_set_cache` in
test_primary_spend_counter_redis_concurrent_seed_does_not_double_seed
placed `await asyncio.sleep(0)` AFTER the NX membership check. Both
concurrent tasks observed an empty `redis_store`, passed the guard, and
both returned True - so the loser branch (else: read back winner's value)
was never exercised.

Fix the mock to model real atomic Redis SET NX:

- Yield BEFORE the membership check so two concurrent callers interleave
  the way real SET NX does (first to resume runs check + write atomically
  and wins; second resumes after the key exists and loses).
- Track set_cache return values; assert sorted([loser, winner]) so we
  know exactly one task wins and one loses.
- Track async_get_cache calls that happen AFTER at least one SET NX has
  completed; assert at least one such read - that is the loser-path
  fallback (`current_value = float(cached)` when seeded is False).

Verified by temporarily reverting the mock to the old order: the test
now fails with `expected exactly one SET NX winner and one loser, got
[True, True]`, exactly the failure mode Greptile described.

No production code change.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

* test(spend_counter): mock async_set_cache to populate redis_store in concurrent read+write test

`test_concurrent_read_and_write_paths_share_one_db_query` mocks
`async_increment` to populate the in-memory `redis_store`, but did not
mock `async_set_cache`. After the SET-NX seed change in `coalesced()`,
the seed step writes via `async_set_cache(nx=True)` (default AsyncMock,
no `redis_store` write), so the simulated Redis stays empty after the
first reseed. The second `get_current_spend` then sees a clean Redis
miss, re-enters the DB read path, and the test fails with
`expected 1 DB query, got 2`.

Fix: add a `redis_set_cache` side_effect that updates `redis_store` on
`nx=True` (and rejects when the key already exists), matching the
pattern used by the four sibling tests fixed in this branch's first
commit. Pre-existing assertions are unchanged.

Full `tests/test_litellm/proxy/test_proxy_server.py`: 158 passed.

Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>

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Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
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milan-berri
2026-05-20 10:57:08 -07:00
committed by GitHub
co-authored by Cursor
parent 99a63d5180
commit 0fb710400f
2 changed files with 176 additions and 18 deletions
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@@ -178,15 +178,28 @@ class SpendCounterReseed:
if db_spend is None:
return None
# Warm even when 0 so subsequent reads hit cache, not DB.
#
# Seed via SET NX (cross-pod safe): only one pod initializes the
# Redis key with db_spend; concurrent seeders read the winner's
# value. INCRBYFLOAT-of-db_spend from N pods would multiply the
# counter (N x db_spend) and trigger spurious budget alerts.
current_value: float = float(db_spend)
try:
if spend_counter_cache.redis_cache is not None:
current_value = (
await spend_counter_cache.redis_cache.async_increment(
key=counter_key,
value=db_spend,
refresh_ttl=True,
)
seeded = await spend_counter_cache.redis_cache.async_set_cache(
key=counter_key,
value=db_spend,
nx=True,
)
if seeded:
current_value = float(db_spend)
else:
cached = await spend_counter_cache.redis_cache.async_get_cache(
key=counter_key
)
current_value = (
float(cached) if cached is not None else float(db_spend)
)
spend_counter_cache.in_memory_cache.set_cache(
key=counter_key,
value=current_value,
@@ -202,7 +215,7 @@ class SpendCounterReseed:
)
if require_cache_warm:
raise
return db_spend
return current_value
@staticmethod
async def window_from_spend_logs(
+156 -11
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@@ -5708,6 +5708,7 @@ async def test_init_and_increment_spend_counter_reseeds_from_db_on_counter_miss(
fake_redis = AsyncMock()
fake_redis.async_increment = AsyncMock(side_effect=record_increment)
fake_redis.async_get_cache = AsyncMock(return_value=None) # counter missing
fake_redis.async_set_cache = AsyncMock(return_value=True) # SET NX wins
counter_cache.redis_cache = fake_redis
# Prisma returns spend=42.0 (authoritative) while the stale cached
@@ -5744,16 +5745,131 @@ async def test_init_and_increment_spend_counter_reseeds_from_db_on_counter_miss(
fake_prisma.db.litellm_teamtable.find_unique.assert_awaited_once_with(
where={"team_id": "team-9"}
)
# Two increments keyed on the counter: seed ($42) then request ($1.50).
# Seed uses SET NX with db_spend (42) — cross-pod safe, no INCR of 42.
# Only the per-request delta (1.5) goes through INCRBYFLOAT.
fake_redis.async_set_cache.assert_awaited_once_with(
key="spend:team:team-9", value=42.0, nx=True
)
writes = [(c["key"], c["value"]) for c in recorded_increments]
assert ("spend:team:team-9", 42.0) in writes
assert ("spend:team:team-9", 1.5) in writes
assert writes == [("spend:team:team-9", 1.5)]
finally:
ps.user_api_key_cache = orig_user
ps.spend_counter_cache = orig_counter
ps.prisma_client = orig_prisma
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_primary_spend_counter_redis_concurrent_seed_does_not_double_seed():
"""Two pods both observing a missing Redis counter must not both
INCRBYFLOAT the full DB spend. SpendCounterReseed.coalesced uses SET NX
so the loser reads the winner's value; final Redis = db_spend, not
2 * db_spend.
The per-counter asyncio.Lock is per-process, so it does NOT coordinate
across pods. We simulate two pods by patching _get_lock to return a
fresh lock per call (each "pod" has its own lock registry in real life).
"""
from litellm.caching.dual_cache import DualCache
from litellm.proxy.db.spend_counter_reseed import SpendCounterReseed
counter_key = "spend:team:team-concurrent-seed"
redis_store: dict = {}
db_read_count = 0
set_results: list = []
get_after_set_count = 0
set_completed_count = 0
async def redis_set_cache(key, value, nx=False, **_):
# Yield BEFORE the membership check so two concurrent callers
# interleave the way real atomic Redis SET NX does: the first
# to resume runs check + write atomically and wins; the second
# resumes after the key exists and loses. Yielding *after* the
# check would let both callers pass the empty-store check before
# either writes, so neither would ever lose.
await asyncio.sleep(0)
if nx and key in redis_store:
set_results.append(False)
return False
redis_store[key] = float(value)
set_results.append(True)
nonlocal set_completed_count
set_completed_count += 1
return True
async def redis_get_cache(key):
# Track reads that happen after at least one SET NX has completed
# — those are the loser-path fallback reads we want to verify.
if set_completed_count > 0:
nonlocal get_after_set_count
get_after_set_count += 1
return redis_store.get(key)
fake_redis = AsyncMock()
fake_redis.async_get_cache = AsyncMock(side_effect=redis_get_cache)
fake_redis.async_set_cache = AsyncMock(side_effect=redis_set_cache)
async def slow_find_unique(**_):
nonlocal db_read_count
db_read_count += 1
# Both pods read DB before either's SET NX lands.
await asyncio.sleep(0)
row = MagicMock()
row.spend = 506.0
return row
fake_prisma = MagicMock()
fake_prisma.db.litellm_teamtable.find_unique = AsyncMock(
side_effect=slow_find_unique
)
pod_a = DualCache()
pod_a.redis_cache = fake_redis
pod_b = DualCache()
pod_b.redis_cache = fake_redis
# Each "pod" has its own per-process lock registry. Patch _get_lock to
# always return a fresh lock so the two coalesced calls do not serialize
# via one in-process lock (which is what would happen across pods).
async def fresh_lock(_counter_key):
return asyncio.Lock()
with patch.object(SpendCounterReseed, "_get_lock", side_effect=fresh_lock):
results = await asyncio.gather(
SpendCounterReseed.coalesced(
prisma_client=fake_prisma,
spend_counter_cache=pod_a,
counter_key=counter_key,
),
SpendCounterReseed.coalesced(
prisma_client=fake_prisma,
spend_counter_cache=pod_b,
counter_key=counter_key,
),
)
assert all(r == 506.0 for r in results), results
assert redis_store[counter_key] == pytest.approx(506.0), redis_store
# Both pods read the DB and both attempted SET NX; exactly one wrote
# (winner) and one was rejected (loser).
assert db_read_count == 2
assert fake_redis.async_set_cache.await_count == 2
nx_writes = [
call
for call in fake_redis.async_set_cache.await_args_list
if call.kwargs.get("nx") is True
]
assert len(nx_writes) == 2
assert sorted(set_results) == [False, True], (
f"expected exactly one SET NX winner and one loser, got {set_results}"
)
# Loser path executed: after the winner's SET NX returned True, the
# losing coalesced() call falls back to async_get_cache to read the
# winner's value rather than re-seeding.
assert get_after_set_count >= 1, (
"loser branch (else: read back winner's value) was never exercised"
)
@pytest.mark.asyncio
async def test_reseed_spend_from_db_user_and_org_prefixes():
"""User and org counters reseed from their own DB tables.
@@ -5877,9 +5993,16 @@ async def test_init_spend_counter_redis_clean_miss_skips_stale_in_memory():
redis_store[key] = (redis_store.get(key) or 0.0) + value
return redis_store[key]
async def redis_set_cache(key, value, nx=False, **_):
if nx and key in redis_store:
return False
redis_store[key] = float(value)
return True
fake_redis = AsyncMock()
fake_redis.async_get_cache = AsyncMock(return_value=None)
fake_redis.async_increment = AsyncMock(side_effect=redis_increment)
fake_redis.async_set_cache = AsyncMock(side_effect=redis_set_cache)
counter_cache.redis_cache = fake_redis
db_row = MagicMock()
@@ -5907,6 +6030,7 @@ async def test_init_spend_counter_redis_clean_miss_skips_stale_in_memory():
fake_prisma.db.litellm_teamtable.find_unique.assert_awaited_once_with(
where={"team_id": "team-stale-local"}
)
# Seed via SET NX (42) + delta via INCRBYFLOAT (1.5) = 43.5.
assert redis_store[counter_key] == pytest.approx(43.5)
assert counter_cache.in_memory_cache.get_cache(
key=counter_key
@@ -6297,14 +6421,14 @@ async def test_get_current_spend_reseeds_from_db_when_counter_missing():
from litellm.proxy.proxy_server import get_current_spend
counter_cache = DualCache()
recorded_warms: list = []
recorded_seeds: list = []
async def record_increment(key, value, ttl=None, **kwargs):
recorded_warms.append({"key": key, "value": value})
return value
async def record_set_cache(key, value, nx=False, **kwargs):
recorded_seeds.append({"key": key, "value": value, "nx": nx})
return True
fake_redis = AsyncMock()
fake_redis.async_increment = AsyncMock(side_effect=record_increment)
fake_redis.async_set_cache = AsyncMock(side_effect=record_set_cache)
fake_redis.async_get_cache = AsyncMock(return_value=None)
counter_cache.redis_cache = fake_redis
@@ -6329,9 +6453,9 @@ async def test_get_current_spend_reseeds_from_db_when_counter_missing():
f"expected DB reseed to return 362.0, got {spend} "
f"(fallback would have returned 30.0 and caused bypass)"
)
# Counter warmed so subsequent reads are fast
assert ("spend:team_member:user-1:team-1", 362.0) in [
(w["key"], w["value"]) for w in recorded_warms
# Counter warmed via SET NX so subsequent reads are fast.
assert ("spend:team_member:user-1:team-1", 362.0, True) in [
(s["key"], s["value"], s["nx"]) for s in recorded_seeds
]
assert counter_cache.in_memory_cache.get_cache(
key="spend:team_member:user-1:team-1"
@@ -6408,8 +6532,15 @@ async def test_get_current_spend_coalesces_concurrent_reseeds():
redis_store[key] = (redis_store.get(key) or 0.0) + value
return redis_store[key]
async def redis_set_cache(key, value, nx=False, **_):
if nx and key in redis_store:
return False
redis_store[key] = float(value)
return True
fake_redis.async_get_cache = AsyncMock(side_effect=redis_get)
fake_redis.async_increment = AsyncMock(side_effect=redis_increment)
fake_redis.async_set_cache = AsyncMock(side_effect=redis_set_cache)
counter_cache.redis_cache = fake_redis
fake_prisma = MagicMock()
@@ -6516,9 +6647,16 @@ async def test_concurrent_read_and_write_paths_share_one_db_query():
redis_store[key] = (redis_store.get(key) or 0.0) + value
return redis_store[key]
async def redis_set_cache(key, value, nx=False, **_):
if nx and key in redis_store:
return False
redis_store[key] = float(value)
return True
fake_redis = AsyncMock()
fake_redis.async_get_cache = AsyncMock(side_effect=redis_get)
fake_redis.async_increment = AsyncMock(side_effect=redis_increment)
fake_redis.async_set_cache = AsyncMock(side_effect=redis_set_cache)
counter_cache.redis_cache = fake_redis
fake_prisma = MagicMock()
@@ -6621,9 +6759,16 @@ async def test_reseed_warms_cache_even_on_zero_db_spend():
redis_store[key] = (redis_store.get(key) or 0.0) + value
return redis_store[key]
async def redis_set_cache(key, value, nx=False, **_):
if nx and key in redis_store:
return False
redis_store[key] = float(value)
return True
fake_redis = AsyncMock()
fake_redis.async_get_cache = AsyncMock(side_effect=redis_get)
fake_redis.async_increment = AsyncMock(side_effect=redis_increment)
fake_redis.async_set_cache = AsyncMock(side_effect=redis_set_cache)
counter_cache.redis_cache = fake_redis
db_call_count = 0