[#17755][fix] Reject padded model registry identifiers

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Description

Fixes #17755.

AutoDeploy registry validation accepted non-empty name and config_id values with leading or trailing whitespace, which can bypass duplicate checks and create lookup mismatches that are hard to see in YAML. This change rejects padded identifiers and avoids registering invalid values in duplicate tracking.

Test Coverage

Adds CPU-only tests for padded model names and config IDs, including duplicate-tracking behavior for invalid padded values.

The test file lives under tests/unittest/scripts/, and that whole directory is already scheduled by tests/integration/test_lists/test-db/l0_cpu.yml via its unittest/scripts entry, so the new coverage is included in the CPU pre-merge suite without an additional per-file test-list entry.

Checklist

• Validator-only change
• Regression tests added
• Covered by the existing l0_cpu unittest/scripts entry
• DCO sign-off included in commits

Dev Engineer Review

• scripts/check_model_registry.py now rejects leading and trailing whitespace in name and config_id.
• Invalid identifiers are excluded from duplicate tracking.
• The change has limited scope and preserves public declarations.
• No configuration or test-list files changed.

QA Engineer Review

• Added CPU-only regression tests in tests/unittest/scripts/test_check_model_registry.py.
• Tests cover padded model names, padded configuration IDs, duplicate tracking, and valid interior spaces.
• No integration test-list updates apply.
• Coverage verdict: sufficient.

Per-File QA Perspective

• scripts/check_model_registry.py: Verify that padded name and config_id values fail validation and do not enter duplicate tracking. Verify that valid identifiers, including values with interior spaces, remain accepted.
• tests/unittest/scripts/test_check_model_registry.py: Covers rejection and duplicate-tracking behavior for padded identifiers, plus valid and empty yaml_extra cases. This unit test is not required in the integration test lists.

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Walkthrough

The model registry validator now rejects yaml_extra paths with leading or trailing whitespace. It reuses the validation result during duplicate tracking. Tests cover padded paths, interior spaces, empty lists, and duplicate-tracking behavior.

Changes

Registry validation

Layer / File(s)	Summary
yaml_extra validation and duplicate tracking scripts/check_model_registry.py, tests/unittest/scripts/test_check_model_registry.py	The validator rejects empty or padded yaml_extra paths. Invalid paths do not enter identical-configuration tracking. Tests preserve valid interior spaces and empty lists.
Existing identifier validation coverage scripts/check_model_registry.py, tests/unittest/scripts/test_check_model_registry.py	The config_id validation expression is reformatted without behavior changes. Existing padded-name and padded-config-ID tests receive annotations, documentation, and assertion formatting updates.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 986d6

The validator now rejects padded registry values and prevents invalid entries from affecting duplicate tracking. Focused tests cover the changed behavior, with no concrete merge-blocking risk identified.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage	⚠️ Warning	Docstring coverage is 77.78% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 9 functions across 2 files.	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly identifies the fix for padded model registry identifiers and references issue #17755.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the problem, solution, test coverage, and checklist items. It provides sufficient information for review.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes address issue #17755 by rejecting padded model registry identifiers, preventing invalid values from entering duplicate tracking, and adding focused regression tests.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The changes are limited to validator behavior and related regression tests. Test annotations, docstrings, and assertion formatting support the test changes and are not unrelated scope.

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tests/unittest/scripts/test_check_model_registry_whitespace.py (1)

16-20: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Confirm the typing policy for this new test module.

The coding guidelines require annotations on every Python function. This file leaves _load_module, test_validate_models_rejects_padded_name, and test_validate_models_rejects_padded_config_id unannotated. If this module is not covered by a permissive typing configuration, add -> types.ModuleType to _load_module and -> None to both tests.

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In `@tests/unittest/scripts/test_check_model_registry_whitespace.py` around lines
16 - 20, Add return annotations to _load_module and both test functions: use
types.ModuleType for _load_module and None for
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In `@tests/unittest/scripts/test_check_model_registry_whitespace.py`:
- Around line 23-36: The validation tests currently cover only trailing
whitespace for name and leading whitespace for config_id and do not verify
duplicate tracking. Extend the tests around validate_models to cover both
leading and trailing whitespace for each identifier, then add duplicate
padded-entry cases asserting the corresponding duplicate error is absent,
confirming invalid identifiers are excluded from seen_model_configs and
seen_model_yaml_configs.

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In `@tests/unittest/scripts/test_check_model_registry_whitespace.py`:
- Around line 16-20: Add return annotations to _load_module and both test
functions: use types.ModuleType for _load_module and None for
test_validate_models_rejects_padded_name and
test_validate_models_rejects_padded_config_id, unless the module’s typing
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Approving — the comments below are optional touch-ups, not blockers.

The name/config_id fix is right, but it leaves the same hole open one field over: yaml_extra items are still only checked with .strip() truthiness, and tuple(yaml_extra) is used verbatim as the dedup key at [scripts/check_model_registry.py:122](https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM/pull/17756/files#diff-918a6c69b12cc8666d009e326395dc92f8aac19bd128f33b9daa4d3e3a22dc94R122). So [" world_size_1.yaml"] vs ["world_size_1.yaml"] still hash to different keys and escape the identical-yaml_extra check — the same failure mode the PR description cites, and the padded path doesn't resolve to a real file either. Worth covering in the same PR since it's one predicate.

Two added lines are over the repo's 100-column ruff limit ([scripts/check_model_registry.py:111](https://github.com/NVIDIA/TensorRT-LLM/pull/17756/files#diff-918a6c69b12cc8666d009e326395dc92f8aac19bd128f33b9daa4d3e3a22dc94R111) at 102, :115 at 101), so ruff-format will rewrite them — please run pre-commit run --all-files and re-commit.

Notes on lines outside the diff:

• scripts/check_model_registry.py:103: yaml_extra items are validated for non-emptiness but not for padding, while the raw list becomes the dedup key at line 122. [" world_size_1.yaml"] therefore passes validation, doesn't collide with ["world_size_1.yaml"] in seen_model_yaml_configs, and names a path that doesn't exist. Suggest tightening the same way:

    if not isinstance(yaml_extra, list) or not all(
        isinstance(item, str) and item.strip() and item == item.strip() for item in yaml_extra
    ):
        errors.append(
            f"{entry_label}: 'yaml_extra' must be a list of non-empty strings "
            "without leading or trailing whitespace."
        )

(the same predicate is repeated at line 119, so both sites need it)

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Addressed the remaining yaml_extra suggestion in 05bdd76 and applied the repository formatter in 986d66e. Padded paths are rejected and excluded from identical-configuration tracking; empty lists and interior spaces remain supported. All 20 focused tests pass, six new cases fail against the previous code, and pre-commit passes. Missing DCO sign-offs were also repaired without changing the earlier code.

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Closing as obsolete after #19028 removed AutoDeploy from TensorRT-LLM, including the model-registry checker and its tests. The validation path changed by this PR no longer exists on current main.