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[TRTLLM-16022][fix] Authenticate disaggregated subagent affinity - #19175

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Description

An ordinary aggregated chat request could supply x-trtllm-subagent-affinity-id and override its conversation-aware ADP routing key, even with the disaggregated subagent feature disabled. Aggregated servers now ignore that header; CTX/GEN workers accept affinity only with a valid signature from the edge.

The edge signs affinity using the existing internal_request_auth_key and a separate x-trtllm-subagent-affinity-auth header. The signature binds the parent routing hint to the worker role, model, child conversation ID, request type, and disaggregated request ID. Standard and Harmony chat share the validation path. The existing KV-transfer authentication signature remains unchanged.

Deployment: affinity forwarding now requires a shared internal key on the edge and workers. Upgrade edges before workers: upgraded workers reject unsigned affinity from older edges. Configuration and rolling-upgrade guidance are documented.

Follow-up to #18684 and its header-ingestion review and service-test review.

Test Coverage

  • Authentication tests cover wire round trips, aggregated-server isolation, unsigned/tampered hints, missing keys, and compatibility with the existing KV-transfer signature.
  • A service test uses real HTTP requests, worker chat handlers, and the real ADP router with two deterministic rank states. Its 16 cases cover both schedules, both scopes, standard/Harmony chat, and feature enabled/disabled. Parent/sibling placement and independent child conversation IDs are checked across repeated requests. Model execution and postprocessing are stubbed; this is not a multi-GPU execution test.
  • All applicable pre-commit hooks passed. Syntax/whitespace checks and 28 isolated source-level authentication/routing checks passed; the isolated checks bypass native package imports and do not replace pytest.
  • Pending: pytest execution and real multi-GPU validation. The local host lacks pytest and TRT-LLM runtime dependencies, and no TRT-LLM development container was available.

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  • Reviewed the applicable repository checklist: description, coding guidelines, regression tests, and documentation. No new dependencies or ownership changes.

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  • Updates openai_server.py to validate subagent affinity before scheduling.
  • Applies shared validation to standard and Harmony chat paths.
  • Keeps aggregated-server behavior and KV-transfer authentication unchanged.
  • Updates disagg_utils.py to reject affinity configuration without internal_request_auth_key.
  • Review severity counts are unavailable because no current findings were supplied.

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No test changes.

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  • tensorrt_llm/llmapi/disagg_utils.py: Adds configuration validation for internal_request_auth_key when subagent affinity is enabled. Verify top-level and server-specific key resolution.
  • tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_server.py: Changes affinity extraction and scheduling for standard and Harmony chat requests. Verify valid, missing, and invalid authentication, aggregated-server behavior, role handling, and scheduling regressions.

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Walkthrough

The change adds HMAC authentication for sub-agent affinity forwarding. Clients sign affinity headers, workers validate them, and chat scheduling uses authenticated affinity IDs. Configuration, retry behavior, serialization, and HTTP routing tests cover the change.

Changes

Authenticated sub-agent affinity routing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Affinity authentication contract
tensorrt_llm/serve/disagg_auth.py, tensorrt_llm/llmapi/disagg_utils.py, docs/source/features/subagent-routing.md, tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_disagg_internal_auth.py, tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_disagg_utils.py
Affinity forwarding uses HMAC signatures bound to request and worker attributes. Workers validate signatures, aggregated servers ignore affinity headers, and configuration requires an authentication key when affinity forwarding is enabled.
HTTP propagation and scheduling
tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_client.py, tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_server.py
The client builds authenticated affinity headers. Standard and Harmony chat paths validate affinity before creating scheduling parameters.
Retry and end-to-end routing coverage
tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_disagg_openai_client.py, tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_openai_disagg_service.py
Tests verify retry signatures, wire-level affinity handling, worker HTTP handlers, parent and child conversations, scheduling styles, and affinity-enabled placement.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related PRs

  • NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM#18684: Adds authentication to the same sub-agent affinity flow and updates related client and server scheduling paths.

Suggested reviewers: bowenfu

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant OpenAIHttpClient
  participant Edge
  participant OpenAIServer
  participant ConversationAwareADPRouter
  OpenAIHttpClient->>Edge: Send request with affinity ID and HMAC
  Edge->>OpenAIServer: Forward authenticated affinity headers
  OpenAIServer->>OpenAIServer: Validate affinity and build scheduling parameters
  OpenAIServer->>ConversationAwareADPRouter: Select context or generation placement
  ConversationAwareADPRouter-->>OpenAIServer: Return selected worker
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Affinity authentication depends on workers remaining behind a trusted boundary because the worker hop is plaintext HTTP. Confirm that deployment protection is enforced before merging.

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In `@tensorrt_llm/serve/disagg_auth.py`:
- Around line 139-140: Normalize the affinity ID consistently before signing in
build_subagent_affinity_headers, matching the stripping performed by
extract_subagent_affinity_id_from_headers; treat whitespace-only values
according to the existing invalid/absent behavior. Add regression coverage in
the disaggregated internal-auth tests for surrounding whitespace and
whitespace-only affinity IDs.

In `@tensorrt_llm/serve/openai_client.py`:
- Around line 208-216: Update _get_request_headers and the corresponding worker
authentication flow to add replay protection for affinity-authenticated
requests: require HTTPS/mTLS for the worker path, or generate a request nonce
and validate it against a replay cache before accepting the request. Ensure
validate_subagent_affinity rejects stale or previously used authentication data
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🟡 Minor · Assert schedule-specific behavior. · tests/unittest/disaggregated/test_openai_disagg_service.py:445-447

445-447: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Assert schedule-specific behavior. OpenAIDisaggregatedService uses schedule_style to select the dispatch method and propagates it through disaggregated_params. This test records only per-role affinity placement and rank. It does not record cross-role dispatch order or inspect the propagated schedule value in the worker fixture. A schedule-specific regression can therefore pass while affinity placement remains correct. Add one assertion for dispatch order or disaggregated_params.schedule_style.

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