objstore: wait for metadata workers after directory listing errors (#71139)

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This is an automated cherry-pick of #71139

What problem does this PR solve?

Issue Number: close #70807, close #67704

Problem Summary:

When object listing fails, UnmarshalDir closes its result channel without waiting for already scheduled metadata workers. A worker that later sends a result can panic. Also, when the error channel and closed result channel are both ready, iteration can report normal completion instead of the listing error.

What changed and how does it work?

Always join the worker group before closing the result channel, retaining the original listing error when both listing and workers fail. When observing a closed result channel, check for a pending error before returning normal completion.

The worker-lifetime regression blocks a metadata read, fails listing after the read starts, and checks that iteration cannot terminate until the worker completes. Before the fix it terminates prematurely; cleanup cancels the blocked read rather than deliberately crashing the test process with a send on the closed channel. A second repeated regression verifies that a completed failed listing cannot silently become EOF. Both regressions fail before the fix and pass afterward.

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  • I checked and no code files have been changed.

Ready validation:

make bazel_prepare
# Before the fix: premature termination and lost-error regressions fail.
./tools/check/failpoint-go-test.sh pkg/objstore -p 4 -run '^TestUnmarshalDir' -count=1
./tools/check/failpoint-go-test.sh pkg/objstore -p 4 -run '^TestUnmarshalDirReturnsWalkError$' -count=1
# After the fix: 10 repeated runs pass with no reported data races.
./tools/check/failpoint-go-test.sh pkg/objstore -p 4 -race -run '^TestUnmarshalDir' -count=10
make lint
git diff --check

Failpoints were disabled automatically after each run. Tests use a controlled storage implementation, not a live cloud account. Full-suite and end-to-end BR/PiTR tests were not run locally.

Related migration-version regression (#67704):

MigrationExt.Load passes migration decoding/version-validation errors through the same UnmarshalDir callback and returns the iterator error. Add coverage for a worker callback error after the producer has time to close the result channel. Temporarily restoring the old closed-channel branch makes this test fail with a nil error; restoring this PR's existing EOF handling makes it pass. No additional production change is needed.

The original TestUnsupportedVersion passed 200 runs both before and after the fix, so its original intermittent schedule was not directly reproduced. The callback-error regression provides the RED/GREEN evidence for the shared root cause.

make bazel_prepare
# New regression with the old closed-channel handling temporarily restored:
./tools/check/failpoint-go-test.sh pkg/objstore -run '^TestUnmarshalDirReturnsWorkerError$' -p 4 -count=1
# Existing fix restored:
./tools/check/failpoint-go-test.sh pkg/objstore -run '^TestUnmarshalDir' -p 4 -count=1
./tools/check/failpoint-go-test.sh br/pkg/stream -run '^TestUnsupportedVersion$' -p 4 -count=200
make lint
git diff --check

Final tests and lint pass; failpoints are disabled and production code is identical to the prior PR head.

Side effects

• Performance regression: Consumes more CPU
• Performance regression: Consumes more Memory
• Breaking backward compatibility

After a listing error, iteration now waits for scheduled workers as required for safe shutdown, instead of reporting an error while they are still running. Successful-listing behavior and storage formats are unchanged. Remote-failure latency was not benchmarked.

Documentation

• Affects user behaviors
• Contains syntax changes
• Contains variable changes
• Contains experimental features
• Changes MySQL compatibility

Release note

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Fix a possible panic or lost error when BR metadata loading encounters an object-storage listing or metadata decoding failure.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved directory processing so walk and file-reading errors are consistently reported.
  • Prevented directory listings from ending prematurely while background file processing is still completing.
  • Improved reliability when errors occur during iteration, including cases where processing continues after the producer finishes.

• Reliability

  • Added broader coverage for directory processing, HTTP client defaults, and in-memory storage initialization.

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UnmarshalDir error handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Worker synchronization and error propagation br/pkg/storage/helper.go	UnmarshalDir waits for workers after WalkDir errors. The iterator checks pending errors before returning normal completion.
Regression tests and test wiring pkg/objstore/storage_test.go, br/pkg/storage/BUILD.bazel	Tests cover walk errors, worker errors, worker completion ordering, HTTP defaults, and memory storage creation. The Bazel dependency block includes additional objstore targets and unresolved conflict markers.

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❌ Failed checks (2 warnings)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Out of Scope Changes check	⚠️ Warning	br/pkg/storage/BUILD.bazel contains unresolved <<<<<<<, =======, and >>>>>>> merge-conflict markers. This change is not required by [#70807] or [#67704] and makes the Bazel file invalid.	Resolve the conflict in br/pkg/storage/BUILD.bazel. Remove all conflict markers and keep the dependency declarations required by the target.
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 14.29% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 7 functions across 3 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the objstore change: waiting for metadata workers after directory-listing errors. It is concise and matches the primary production-code change.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description includes the required issue references, problem summary, implementation details, unit-test coverage, validation commands, side effects, documentation impact, and release note.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The implementation in br/pkg/storage/helper.go calls eg.Wait() before the deferred ch close and preserves the WalkDir error. The iterator checks errCh when ch is closed, so a listing or wo…

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