roachtest: reset failures on vm preemption

This change resets failures in the case of a vm preemption,
in case a timeout occurred which normally takes precedence
over all other failures. While a timeout suggests that
something should be fixed with the test (usually respecting
the test context cancellation), we see that in practice,
engineers tend to close the issue without investigating as
soon as they see the preemption.

This also removes the potential duplicate vm_preemption
failure that may have been added by the preemption polling.

pkg/cmd/roachtest/test_runner.go

@@ -1164,6 +1164,9 @@ func (r *testRunner) runTest(
 					// Note that this error message is referred for test selection in
 					// pkg/cmd/roachtest/testselector/snowflake_query.sql.
 					failureMsg = fmt.Sprintf("VMs preempted during the test run: %s\n\n**Other Failures:**\n%s", preemptedVMNames, failureMsg)
+					// Reset the failures as a timeout may have suppressed failures, but we
+					// want to propagate the preemption error and avoid creating an issue.
+					t.resetFailures()
 					t.Error(vmPreemptionError(preemptedVMNames))
 				}
 				hostErrorVMNames := getHostErrorVMNames(ctx, c, l)

pkg/cmd/roachtest/test_test.go

@@ -800,4 +800,27 @@ func TestVMPreemptionPolling(t *testing.T) {
 
 		require.NoError(t, err)
 	})
+
+	// Test that if the test hangs until timeout, a VM preemption will still be caught.
+	t.Run("test hangs and still catches preemption", func(t *testing.T) {
+		getPreemptedVMsHook = func(c cluster.Cluster, ctx context.Context, l *logger.Logger) ([]vm.PreemptedVM, error) {
+			preemptedVMs := []vm.PreemptedVM{{
+				Name:        "test_node",
+				PreemptedAt: time.Now(),
+			}}
+			return preemptedVMs, nil
+		}
+
+		mockTest.Run = func(ctx context.Context, t test.Test, c cluster.Cluster) {
+			for {
+				<-ctx.Done()
+			}
+		}
+		mockTest.Timeout = 10 * time.Millisecond
+
+		err := runner.Run(ctx, []registry.TestSpec{mockTest}, 1, /* count */
+			defaultParallelism, copt, testOpts{}, lopt)
+
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+	})
 }