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-rw-r--r--Documentation/public-inbox-gcf2.pod63
-rw-r--r--MANIFEST2
-rw-r--r--Makefile.PL5
-rw-r--r--lib/PublicInbox/Daemon.pm11
-rw-r--r--lib/PublicInbox/Gcf2.pm36
-rw-r--r--lib/PublicInbox/Gcf2Client.pm59
-rw-r--r--lib/PublicInbox/Git.pm31
-rw-r--r--lib/PublicInbox/GitAsyncCat.pm55
-rw-r--r--lib/PublicInbox/IMAP.pm2
-rwxr-xr-xscript/public-inbox-gcf231
-rwxr-xr-xscript/public-inbox-httpd1
-rw-r--r--t/gcf2_client.t14
12 files changed, 172 insertions, 138 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/public-inbox-gcf2.pod b/Documentation/public-inbox-gcf2.pod
deleted file mode 100644
index 813fbe7f..00000000
--- a/Documentation/public-inbox-gcf2.pod
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,63 +0,0 @@
-=head1 NAME
-
-public-inbox-gcf2 - internal libgit2-based blob retriever
-
-=head1 SYNOPSIS
-
-        This is an internal command used by public-inbox.
-        It may change unrecognizably or cease to exist at some point
-
-=head1 DESCRIPTION
-
-public-inbox-gcf2 is an optional internal process used by
-public-inbox daemons for read-only access to underlying git
-repositories.
-
-Users are NOT expected to run public-inbox-gcf2 on their own.
-It replaces multiple C<git cat-file --batch> processes by treating
-any git repos it knows about as alternates.
-
-None of its behaviors are stable and it is ALL subject to change
-at any time.
-
-Any lines written to its standard input prefixed with a C</>
-are interpreted as a git directory.  That git directory
-will be suffixed with "/objects" and treated as an alternate.
-It writes nothing to stdout in this case.
-
-Otherwise it behaves like C<git cat-file --batch>, but only accepts
-unabbreviated hexadecimal object IDs in its standard input.
-Its output format is identical to C<git cat-file --batch>.  It
-only works for L<public-inbox-v2-format(5)> inboxes and v1
-inboxes indexed by L<public-inbox-index(1)>.
-
-=head1 OPTIONS
-
-=head1 ENVIRONMENT
-
-=over 8
-
-=item PERL_INLINE_DIRECTORY
-
-This must be set unless C<~/.cache/public-inbox/inline-c>
-exists.  C<public-inbox-gcf2> uses L<Inline::C> and libgit2
-and compiles a small shim on its first run.
-
-=back
-
-=head1 CONTACT
-
-Feedback welcome via plain-text mail to L<mailto:meta@public-inbox.org>
-
-The mail archives are hosted at L<https://public-inbox.org/meta/>
-and L<http://hjrcffqmbrq6wope.onion/meta/>
-
-=head1 COPYRIGHT
-
-Copyright 2020 all contributors L<mailto:meta@public-inbox.org>
-
-License: AGPL-3.0+ L<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt>
-
-=head1 SEE ALSO
-
-L<git-cat-file(1)>
diff --git a/MANIFEST b/MANIFEST
index 91457dab..67615d4d 100644
--- a/MANIFEST
+++ b/MANIFEST
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ Documentation/public-inbox-config.pod
 Documentation/public-inbox-convert.pod
 Documentation/public-inbox-daemon.pod
 Documentation/public-inbox-edit.pod
-Documentation/public-inbox-gcf2.pod
 Documentation/public-inbox-httpd.pod
 Documentation/public-inbox-imapd.pod
 Documentation/public-inbox-index.pod
@@ -223,7 +222,6 @@ sa_config/user/.spamassassin/user_prefs
 script/public-inbox-compact
 script/public-inbox-convert
 script/public-inbox-edit
-script/public-inbox-gcf2
 script/public-inbox-httpd
 script/public-inbox-imapd
 script/public-inbox-index
diff --git a/Makefile.PL b/Makefile.PL
index 5a268362..3fe9acf8 100644
--- a/Makefile.PL
+++ b/Makefile.PL
@@ -71,11 +71,6 @@ $v->{gz_docs} = [ map { "$_.gz" } (@{$v->{docs}},@{$v->{docs_html}}) ];
 $v->{rsync_docs} = [ @{$v->{gz_docs}}, @{$v->{docs}},
         @{$v->{docs_html}}, qw(NEWS.atom NEWS.atom.gz)];
 
-# filter out public-inbox-gcf2 from the website, it's an internal command
-for my $var (qw(gz_docs rsync_docs)) {
-        @{$v->{$var}} = grep(!/-gcf2/, @{$v->{$var}});
-}
-
 # external manpages which we host ourselves, since some packages
 # (currently just Xapian) doesn't host manpages themselves.
 my @xman = qw(copydatabase.1 xapian-compact.1);
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Daemon.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Daemon.pm
index b929ec2a..1520f8f2 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Daemon.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Daemon.pm
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ use PublicInbox::Syscall qw($SFD_NONBLOCK);
 require PublicInbox::Listener;
 use PublicInbox::EOFpipe;
 use PublicInbox::Sigfd;
+use PublicInbox::GitAsyncCat;
 my @CMD;
 my ($set_user, $oldset);
 my (@cfg_listen, $stdout, $stderr, $group, $user, $pid_file, $daemonize);
@@ -652,6 +653,16 @@ sub run ($$$;$) {
         daemon_prepare($default);
         my $af_default = $default =~ /:8080\z/ ? 'httpready' : undef;
         my $for_destroy = daemonize();
+
+        # this wastes a bit of memory for non-PublicInbox::WWW -httpd users
+        # oh well...
+        eval {
+                require PublicInbox::Gcf2;
+                require PublicInbox::Gcf2Client;
+        };
+        local $PublicInbox::GitAsyncCat::GCF2C =
+                                PublicInbox::Gcf2Client::new() if !$@;
+
         daemon_loop($refresh, $post_accept, $tlsd, $af_default);
         PublicInbox::DS->Reset;
         # ->DESTROY runs when $for_destroy goes out-of-scope
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Gcf2.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Gcf2.pm
index fe76b1fd..7983c841 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Gcf2.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Gcf2.pm
@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2020 all contributors <meta@public-inbox.org>
 # License: AGPL-3.0+ <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt>
 
-# backend for public-inbox-gcf2(1) (git-cat-file based on libgit2,
-# other libgit2 stuff may go here, too)
+# backend for a git-cat-file-workalike based on libgit2,
+# other libgit2 stuff may go here, too.
 package PublicInbox::Gcf2;
 use strict;
 use PublicInbox::Spawn qw(which popen_rd);
 use Fcntl qw(LOCK_EX);
+use IO::Handle; # autoflush
 my (%CFG, $c_src, $lockfh);
 BEGIN {
         # PublicInbox::Spawn will set PERL_INLINE_DIRECTORY
@@ -54,4 +55,35 @@ use Inline C => $c_src;
 undef $c_src;
 undef %CFG;
 undef $lockfh;
+
+# Usage: $^X -MPublicInbox::Gcf2 -e 'PublicInbox::Gcf2::loop()'
+# (see lib/PublicInbox/Gcf2Client.pm)
+sub loop {
+        my $gcf2 = new();
+        STDERR->autoflush(1);
+        STDOUT->autoflush(1);
+
+        while (<STDIN>) {
+                chomp;
+                my ($oid, $git_dir) = split(/ /, $_, 2);
+                $gcf2->add_alternate("$git_dir/objects");
+                if (!$gcf2->cat_oid(1, $oid)) {
+                        # retry once if missing.  We only get unabbreviated OIDs
+                        # from SQLite or Xapian DBs, here, so malicious clients
+                        # can't trigger excessive retries:
+                        warn "I: $$ $oid missing, retrying in $git_dir\n";
+
+                        $gcf2 = new();
+                        $gcf2->add_alternate("$git_dir/objects");
+
+                        if ($gcf2->cat_oid(1, $oid)) {
+                                warn "I: $$ $oid found after retry\n";
+                        } else {
+                                warn "W: $$ $oid missing after retry\n";
+                                print "$oid missing\n"; # mimic git-cat-file
+                        }
+                }
+        }
+}
+
 1;
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Gcf2Client.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Gcf2Client.pm
index 30f85c71..42ff1bf3 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Gcf2Client.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Gcf2Client.pm
@@ -1,29 +1,62 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2020 all contributors <meta@public-inbox.org>
 # License: AGPL-3.0+ <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt>
 
-# connects public-inbox processes to public-inbox-gcf2(1)
+# connects public-inbox processes to PublicInbox::Gcf2::loop()
 package PublicInbox::Gcf2Client;
 use strict;
-use parent 'PublicInbox::Git';
+use parent qw(PublicInbox::DS);
+use PublicInbox::Git;
 use PublicInbox::Spawn qw(popen_rd);
 use IO::Handle ();
+use PublicInbox::Syscall qw(EPOLLONESHOT EPOLLOUT);
+# fields:
+#        async_cat => GitAsyncCat ref (read-only pipe)
+#        sock => writable pipe to Gcf2::loop
 
-sub new {
-        my ($rdr) = @_;
-        my $self = bless {}, __PACKAGE__;
+sub new { bless($_[0] // {}, __PACKAGE__) }
+
+sub gcf2c_begin ($) {
+        my ($self) = @_;
+        # ensure the child process has the same @INC we do:
+        my $env = { PERL5LIB => join(':', @INC) };
         my ($out_r, $out_w);
-        pipe($out_r, $out_w) or $self->fail("pipe failed: $!");
-        $rdr //= {};
-        $rdr->{0} = $out_r;
-        @$self{qw(in pid)} = popen_rd(['public-inbox-gcf2'], undef, $rdr);
-        $self->{inflight} = [];
-        $self->{out} = $out_w;
+        pipe($out_r, $out_w) or die "pipe failed: $!";
+        my $rdr = { 0 => $out_r, 2 => $self->{2} };
+        my $cmd = [$^X, qw[-MPublicInbox::Gcf2 -e PublicInbox::Gcf2::loop()]];
+        @$self{qw(in pid)} = popen_rd($cmd, $env, $rdr);
         fcntl($out_w, 1031, 4096) if $^O eq 'linux'; # 1031: F_SETPIPE_SZ
         $out_w->autoflush(1);
-        $self;
+        $out_w->blocking(0);
+        $self->SUPER::new($out_w, 0); # EPOLL_CTL_ADD (a bit wasteful :x)
+        $self->{inflight} = [];
+}
+
+sub fail {
+        my $self = shift;
+        $self->close; # PublicInbox::DS::close
+        PublicInbox::Git::fail($self, @_);
+}
+
+sub cat_async ($$$;$) {
+        my ($self, $req, $cb, $arg) = @_;
+        my $inflight = $self->{inflight} // gcf2c_begin($self);
+
+        # rare, I hope:
+        cat_async_step($self, $inflight) if $self->{wbuf};
+
+        $self->write(\"$req\n") or $self->fail("gcf2c write: $!");
+        push @$inflight, $req, $cb, $arg;
 }
 
-# always false, since -gcf2 retries internally
+# ensure PublicInbox::Git::cat_async_step never calls cat_async_retry
 sub alternates_changed {}
 
+no warnings 'once';
+
+# this is the write-only end of a pipe, DS->EventLoop will call this
+*event_step = \&PublicInbox::DS::flush_write;
+
+# used by GitAsyncCat
+*cat_async_step = \&PublicInbox::Git::cat_async_step;
+
 1;
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/Git.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/Git.pm
index 6bb82b6b..2323cecc 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/Git.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/Git.pm
@@ -185,11 +185,12 @@ sub cat_async_step ($$) {
         my $rbuf = delete($self->{cat_rbuf}) // \(my $new = '');
         my ($bref, $oid, $type, $size);
         my $head = my_readline($self->{in}, $rbuf);
+        # ->fail may be called via Gcf2Client.pm
         if ($head =~ /^([0-9a-f]{40,}) (\S+) ([0-9]+)$/) {
                 ($oid, $type, $size) = ($1, $2, $3 + 0);
                 $bref = my_read($self->{in}, $rbuf, $size + 1) or
-                        fail($self, defined($bref) ? 'read EOF' : "read: $!");
-                chop($$bref) eq "\n" or fail($self, 'LF missing after blob');
+                        $self->fail(defined($bref) ? 'read EOF' : "read: $!");
+                chop($$bref) eq "\n" or $self->fail('LF missing after blob');
         } elsif ($head =~ s/ missing\n//s) {
                 $oid = $head;
                 # ref($req) indicates it's already been retried
@@ -201,7 +202,7 @@ sub cat_async_step ($$) {
                 $type = 'missing';
                 $oid = ref($req) ? $$req : $req if $oid eq '';
         } else {
-                fail($self, "Unexpected result from async git cat-file: $head");
+                $self->fail("Unexpected result from async git cat-file: $head");
         }
         eval { $cb->($bref, $oid, $type, $size, $arg) };
         $self->{cat_rbuf} = $rbuf if $$rbuf ne '';
@@ -304,10 +305,12 @@ sub check {
 
 sub _destroy {
         my ($self, $rbuf, $in, $out, $pid, $err) = @_;
-        my $p = delete $self->{$pid} or return;
         delete @$self{($rbuf, $in, $out)};
         delete $self->{$err} if $err; # `err_c'
 
+        # GitAsyncCat::event_step may delete {pid}
+        my $p = delete $self->{$pid} or return;
+
         # PublicInbox::DS may not be loaded
         eval { PublicInbox::DS::dwaitpid($p, undef, undef) };
         waitpid($p, 0) if $@; # wait synchronously if not in event loop
@@ -315,14 +318,21 @@ sub _destroy {
 
 sub cat_async_abort ($) {
         my ($self) = @_;
-        my $inflight = delete $self->{inflight} or die 'BUG: not in async';
+        if (my $inflight = delete $self->{inflight}) {
+                while (@$inflight) {
+                        my ($req, $cb, $arg) = splice(@$inflight, 0, 3);
+                        $req =~ s/ .*//; # drop git_dir for Gcf2Client
+                        eval { $cb->(undef, $req, undef, undef, $arg) };
+                        warn "E: $req: $@ (in abort)\n" if $@;
+                }
+        }
         cleanup($self);
 }
 
 sub fail {
         my ($self, $msg) = @_;
-        $self->{inflight} ? cat_async_abort($self) : cleanup($self);
-        croak("git $self->{git_dir}: $msg");
+        cat_async_abort($self);
+        croak(ref($self) . ' ' . ($self->{git_dir} // '') . ": $msg");
 }
 
 sub popen {
@@ -352,6 +362,7 @@ sub cleanup {
         !!($self->{pid} || $self->{pid_c});
 }
 
+
 # assuming a well-maintained repo, this should be a somewhat
 # accurate estimation of its size
 # TODO: show this in the WWW UI as a hint to potential cloners
@@ -397,7 +408,7 @@ sub pub_urls {
 sub cat_async_begin {
         my ($self) = @_;
         cleanup($self) if $self->alternates_changed;
-        batch_prepare($self);
+        $self->batch_prepare;
         die 'BUG: already in async' if $self->{inflight};
         $self->{inflight} = [];
 }
@@ -413,11 +424,9 @@ sub cat_async ($$$;$) {
         push(@$inflight, $oid, $cb, $arg);
 }
 
-# this is safe to call inside $cb, but not guaranteed to enqueue
-# returns true if successful, undef if not.
 sub async_prefetch {
         my ($self, $oid, $cb, $arg) = @_;
-        if (defined($self->{async_cat}) && (my $inflight = $self->{inflight})) {
+        if (my $inflight = $self->{inflight}) {
                 # we could use MAX_INFLIGHT here w/o the halving,
                 # but lets not allow one client to monopolize a git process
                 if (scalar(@$inflight) < int(MAX_INFLIGHT/2)) {
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/GitAsyncCat.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/GitAsyncCat.pm
index 8a54c608..b9dbe0cc 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/GitAsyncCat.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/GitAsyncCat.pm
@@ -11,23 +11,49 @@
 package PublicInbox::GitAsyncCat;
 use strict;
 use parent qw(PublicInbox::DS Exporter);
+use POSIX qw(WNOHANG);
 use PublicInbox::Syscall qw(EPOLLIN EPOLLET);
-our @EXPORT = qw(git_async_cat);
+our @EXPORT = qw(git_async_cat git_async_prefetch);
+use PublicInbox::Git ();
+
+our $GCF2C; # singleton PublicInbox::Gcf2Client
+
+sub close {
+        my ($self) = @_;
+
+        if (my $gitish = delete $self->{gitish}) {
+                PublicInbox::Git::cat_async_abort($gitish);
+        }
+        $self->SUPER::close; # PublicInbox::DS::close
+}
 
 sub event_step {
         my ($self) = @_;
-        my $gitish = $self->{gitish};
+        my $gitish = $self->{gitish} or return;
         return $self->close if ($gitish->{in} // 0) != ($self->{sock} // 1);
         my $inflight = $gitish->{inflight};
         if ($inflight && @$inflight) {
                 $gitish->cat_async_step($inflight);
-                $self->requeue if @$inflight || exists $gitish->{cat_rbuf};
+
+                # child death?
+                if (($gitish->{in} // 0) != ($self->{sock} // 1)) {
+                        $self->close;
+                } elsif (@$inflight || exists $gitish->{cat_rbuf}) {
+                        # ok, more to do, requeue for fairness
+                        $self->requeue;
+                }
+        } elsif ((my $pid = waitpid($gitish->{pid}, WNOHANG)) > 0) {
+                # May happen if the child process is killed by a BOFH
+                # (or segfaults)
+                delete $gitish->{pid};
+                warn "E: gitish $pid exited with \$?=$?\n";
+                $self->close;
         }
 }
 
 sub git_async_cat ($$$$) {
         my ($git, $oid, $cb, $arg) = @_;
-        my $gitish = $git->{gcf2c}; # PublicInbox::Gcf2Client
+        my $gitish = $GCF2C;
         if ($gitish) {
                 $oid .= " $git->{git_dir}";
         } else {
@@ -41,4 +67,25 @@ sub git_async_cat ($$$$) {
         };
 }
 
+# this is safe to call inside $cb, but not guaranteed to enqueue
+# returns true if successful, undef if not.
+sub git_async_prefetch {
+        my ($git, $oid, $cb, $arg) = @_;
+        if ($GCF2C) {
+                if ($GCF2C->{async_cat} && !$GCF2C->{wbuf}) {
+                        $oid .= " $git->{git_dir}";
+                        return $GCF2C->cat_async($oid, $cb, $arg);
+                }
+        } elsif ($git->{async_cat} && (my $inflight = $git->{inflight})) {
+                # we could use MAX_INFLIGHT here w/o the halving,
+                # but lets not allow one client to monopolize a git process
+                if (@$inflight < int(PublicInbox::Git::MAX_INFLIGHT/2)) {
+                        print { $git->{out} } $oid, "\n" or
+                                                $git->fail("write error: $!");
+                        return push(@$inflight, $oid, $cb, $arg);
+                }
+        }
+        undef;
+}
+
 1;
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/IMAP.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/IMAP.pm
index 47c08aea..a861282f 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/IMAP.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/IMAP.pm
@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ sub fetch_blob_cb { # called by git->cat_async via git_async_cat
         }
         my $pre;
         if (!$self->{wbuf} && (my $nxt = $msgs->[0])) {
-                $pre = $self->{ibx}->git->async_prefetch($nxt->{blob},
+                $pre = git_async_prefetch($self->{ibx}->git, $nxt->{blob},
                                                 \&fetch_blob_cb, $fetch_arg);
         }
         fetch_run_ops($self, $smsg, $bref, $ops, $partial);
diff --git a/script/public-inbox-gcf2 b/script/public-inbox-gcf2
deleted file mode 100755
index 4a44b654..00000000
--- a/script/public-inbox-gcf2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-#!perl -w
-# Copyright (C) 2020 all contributors <meta@public-inbox.org>
-# License: AGPL-3.0+ <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt>
-eval { require PublicInbox::Gcf2 };
-die "libgit2 development package or Inline::C missing for $0: $@\n" if $@;
-my $gcf2 = PublicInbox::Gcf2::new();
-use IO::Handle; # autoflush
-STDERR->autoflush(1);
-STDOUT->autoflush(1);
-
-while (<STDIN>) {
-        chomp;
-        my ($oid, $git_dir) = split(/ /, $_, 2);
-        $gcf2->add_alternate("$git_dir/objects");
-        if (!$gcf2->cat_oid(1, $oid)) {
-                # retry once if missing.  We only get unabbreviated OIDs
-                # from SQLite or Xapian DBs, here, so malicious clients
-                # can't trigger excessive retries:
-                warn "I: $$ $oid missing, retrying in $git_dir...\n";
-
-                $gcf2 = PublicInbox::Gcf2::new();
-                $gcf2->add_alternate("$git_dir/objects");
-
-                if ($gcf2->cat_oid(1, $oid)) {
-                        warn "I: $$ $oid found after retry\n";
-                } else {
-                        warn "W: $$ $oid missing after retry\n";
-                        print "$oid missing\n"; # mimic git-cat-file
-                }
-        }
-}
diff --git a/script/public-inbox-httpd b/script/public-inbox-httpd
index b8159f3a..3befdab8 100755
--- a/script/public-inbox-httpd
+++ b/script/public-inbox-httpd
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ BEGIN {
         require PublicInbox::HTTP;
         require PublicInbox::HTTPD;
 }
+
 my %httpds;
 my $app;
 my $refresh = sub {
diff --git a/t/gcf2_client.t b/t/gcf2_client.t
index 19462379..f1302a54 100644
--- a/t/gcf2_client.t
+++ b/t/gcf2_client.t
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ use PublicInbox::TestCommon;
 use Test::More;
 use Cwd qw(getcwd);
 use PublicInbox::Import;
+use PublicInbox::DS;
 
 require_mods('PublicInbox::Gcf2');
 use_ok 'PublicInbox::Gcf2Client';
@@ -24,8 +25,8 @@ my $tree = 'fdbc43725f21f485051c17463b50185f4c3cf88c';
 my $called = 0;
 my $err_f = "$tmpdir/err";
 {
-        local $ENV{PATH} = getcwd()."/blib/script:$ENV{PATH}";
-        open my $err, '>', $err_f or BAIL_OUT $!;
+        PublicInbox::DS->Reset;
+        open my $err, '>>', $err_f or BAIL_OUT $!;
         my $gcf2c = PublicInbox::Gcf2Client::new({ 2 => $err });
         $gcf2c->cat_async("$tree $git_a", sub {
                 my ($bref, $oid, $type, $size, $arg) = @_;
@@ -36,7 +37,7 @@ my $err_f = "$tmpdir/err";
                 is($arg, 'hi', 'arg passed');
                 $called++;
         }, 'hi');
-        $gcf2c->cat_async_wait;
+        $gcf2c->cat_async_step($gcf2c->{inflight});
 
         open $err, '<', $err_f or BAIL_OUT $!;
         my $estr = do { local $/; <$err> };
@@ -52,13 +53,14 @@ my $err_f = "$tmpdir/err";
                 is($arg, 'bye', 'arg passed when missing');
                 $called++;
         }, 'bye');
-        $gcf2c->cat_async_wait;
+        $gcf2c->cat_async_step($gcf2c->{inflight});
 
         open $err, '<', $err_f or BAIL_OUT $!;
         $estr = do { local $/; <$err> };
         like($estr, qr/retrying/, 'warned about retry');
 
         # try failed alternates lookup
+        PublicInbox::DS->Reset;
         open $err, '>', $err_f or BAIL_OUT $!;
         $gcf2c = PublicInbox::Gcf2Client::new({ 2 => $err });
         $gcf2c->cat_async("$tree $git_b", sub {
@@ -66,7 +68,7 @@ my $err_f = "$tmpdir/err";
                 is(undef, $bref, 'missing bref from alt is undef');
                 $called++;
         });
-        $gcf2c->cat_async_wait;
+        $gcf2c->cat_async_step($gcf2c->{inflight});
         open $err, '<', $err_f or BAIL_OUT $!;
         $estr = do { local $/; <$err> };
         like($estr, qr/retrying/, 'warned about retry before alt update');
@@ -82,7 +84,7 @@ my $err_f = "$tmpdir/err";
                 is($$bref, $expect, 'tree content matched');
                 $called++;
         });
-        $gcf2c->cat_async_wait;
+        $gcf2c->cat_async_step($gcf2c->{inflight});
 }
 is($called, 4, 'cat_async callbacks hit');
 done_testing;