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Fixes #576

Root cause: real store bug, not a test-timing artifact

Diagnosis required actual reproduction, not code-reading alone. I ran tests/run-control-option-store-integration.php against a live, heavily-contended local MariaDB instance (a shared production database, not a clean CI container) and the failure reproduced in roughly 70-80% of runs — far above the "1-in-30" rate reported in the issue, but the same failure mode.

Instrumenting acquire_lock() to log the underlying error on false === $created showed:

DEBUG lock creation failed errno=1213 error=Deadlock found when trying to get lock; try restarting transaction

Two connections racing INSERT IGNORE against the same unique option_name lock row can make InnoDB report a deadlock (1213) instead of the clean "0 rows affected, key already exists" outcome the retry loop is written to expect. acquire_lock() treated any query failure on that statement as fatal and threw WP_Agent_Run_Control_Store_Exception immediately, with no retry — even though a deadlock here is exactly the same admission race the surrounding do {} while loop already retries for the duplicate-key case. The same failure class applies to the conditional takeover UPDATE used for expired-lock recovery.

This directly explains both failing assertions:

• site option mutex serializes two independent connection mutations — one of the two concurrent mutate_state() calls threw on the deadlock, so only one increment ever landed (final counter = 1, not 2).
• enqueue concurrent with claim succeeds (the assertion named in Flaky: run-control-option-store-integration 'enqueue concurrent with claim succeeds' #576) — queue_message() catches \RuntimeException and converts it to a WP_Error (agents_chat_run_atomic_unavailable), so the same deadlock surfaces as queued => false.

This is a genuine correctness/robustness gap in the store's own lock acquisition, not a test synchronization problem — the existing fork/ready/go barrier already guarantees real overlap, and the two-worker mutex model is architecturally sound. The bug is that the retry loop didn't recognize a transient storage-engine outcome of its own contention.

Fix

acquire_lock() now treats an INSERT IGNORE (or takeover UPDATE) failure as retryable when $db->last_error indicates a transient InnoDB deadlock or lock-wait timeout, reusing the loop's existing retry/backoff primitive (usleep(50000) + the existing 5s deadline) instead of failing closed immediately. Non-transient failures (real connectivity/schema errors) still throw immediately, unchanged.

private function is_transient_lock_contention( \wpdb $db ): bool {
    return str_contains( $db->last_error, 'Deadlock found' ) || str_contains( $db->last_error, 'Lock wait timeout' );
}

The test file is unchanged and now serves as the regression coverage.

Verification

• Reproduced pre-fix: 25/30 and then multiple further runs failing locally (site option mutex... and enqueue concurrent with claim succeeds), consistently with errno=1213 on the lock-creation INSERT IGNORE.
• Post-fix: 50/50 passes of php tests/run-control-option-store-integration.php against the same contended local MariaDB (run in a background loop; each run includes a ~16.5s intentional sleep in the lease-race test, so 50 runs took roughly 14 minutes).
• composer smoke — pass (exit code 0).
• composer phpstan — [OK] No errors.

AI disclosure

AI assistance: Yes
Tool: OpenCode
Used for: diagnosis (reproduction, instrumentation, root-cause isolation of the InnoDB deadlock), fix implementation, and test verification (50-run loop, smoke, phpstan).