[EASY] [STF] stream_task: releases inside guards report a failure instead of aborting

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Description

Next cuda_safe_call batch after #11740 (graph_task) and #11748 (launch): stream_task.cuh.

Five of its eleven cuda_safe_call uses sit inside guard bodies, where a throw would terminate, so each needs an explicit policy. All five are releases of an event on the way out:

• the two timing events destroyed in SCOPE(exit) of each operator->* (two copies);
• the synchronization event destroyed in SCOPE(exit) after the wait in sync_with_stream.

Same policy as #11748: cuda_try under ON_THROW(notify), one guard per release. A failing destroy leaks that event and is reported to stderr; the guard is noexcept, so it cannot become a second exception; and a leaked event is not worth ending the program over, which is what abort() did. One policy per release, so a failure on the first destroy does not skip the second.

The other six calls are the SCOPE(success) timing blocks, which #11652 replaces with task_statistics::record_task_timing; they are left to that PR to avoid a conflict.

A pattern worth noting, now visible across the series: the "destroy the two timing events on exit" guard exists in five copies (launch, parallel_for_scope, host_launch_scope, and twice here). Once #11652 and this PR have landed, folding those into one RAII holder with the release policy in its destructor is the natural follow-up.

Remaining batches: graph_ctx.cuh (7), then the long tail.

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• New or existing tests cover these changes.
• The documentation is up to date with these changes.

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• Bug Fixes
  • Improved error reporting when CUDA event cleanup fails, while ensuring cleanup continues for other events.

Walkthrough

CUDA event cleanup calls now use cuda_try with ON_THROW(notify). Destroy failures are reported without escaping scope-exit guards. Timing events are destroyed independently.

Changes

CUDA event cleanup

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Event destroy failure handling cudax/include/cuda/experimental/__stf/stream/stream_task.cuh	Timing event cleanup attempts each destroy independently under ON_THROW(notify). Synchronization event cleanup uses the same policy.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 7fef5

A failed event destroy still terminates the application in supported no-exceptions builds rather than continuing cleanup. This is a narrow gap in the promised behavior and matches the base failure mode, so it is bounded but should be addressed or explicitly scoped.

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1. Rocky Linux wheel provisioning: CUDA repository metadata returns 404 · 2 jobs

Explanation: Both jobs fail before compiling CCCL or STF while installing GCC 13 and ccache in the same CUDA 12.9 Rocky Linux wheel image; DNF consults an enabled CUDA repository whose referenced metadata files consistently return 404. The PR diff only changes STF event cleanup, so the evidence indicates a shared container/repository provisioning failure rather than a regression in the changed source.

Evidence:

2026-09-30T20:18:09.8355374Z Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'cuda': Yum repo downloading error: Downloading error(s): repodata/0cc583ad91981de354d9382b28737f4d4a778e6432b3ad708b0f43091a740844-primary.xml.gz - Cannot download, all mirrors were already tried without success; repodata/8e1c408df690d22355e111508bfd6c244d69faf1aaab104fd8f0d3bc0657321c-filelists.xml.gz - Cannot download, all mirrors were already tried without success; repodata/d283b68767aa3198c41eaa2a74bc0c4a2b9d2f7022d255a74f89135b5689582d-modules.yaml.gz - Cannot download, all mirrors were already tried without success
2026-09-30T20:18:27.5729665Z   - Status code: 404 for https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/rhel8/x86_64/repodata/0cc583ad91981de354d9382b28737f4d4a778e6432b3ad708b0f43091a740844-primary.xml.gz (IP: 23.215.9.56)
2026-09-30T20:20:41.9949248Z Command ''dnf' '-y' 'install' 'gcc-toolset-13-gcc' 'gcc-toolset-13-gcc-c++' 'ccache'' failed after 5 attempts.

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Repository: https://github.com/NVIDIA/cccl
Workflow run: https://github.com/NVIDIA/cccl/actions/runs/36760147862
Failure group: Rocky Linux wheel provisioning: CUDA repository metadata returns 404
Affected jobs:
- Python nvcc GCC / EI / [CTK12.9 GCC13 py3.14] Build cuda.cccl(amd64): https://github.com/NVIDIA/cccl/actions/runs/36760147862/job/110076921788
- Python nvcc GCC / Ec / [CTK12.9 GCC13 py3.14] Build cuda.stf(amd64): https://github.com/NVIDIA/cccl/actions/runs/36760147862/job/110076922006

Investigate the shared Python wheel provisioning failure in `ci/build_cuda_cccl_wheel.sh` and `ci/build_cuda_stf_wheel.sh`. Reproduce narrowly by running their initial `dnf -y install gcc-toolset-13-gcc gcc-toolset-13-gcc-c++ ccache` command inside `rapidsai/ci-wheel:26.04-cuda12.9.1-rockylinux8-py3.10`, inspect the enabled repository configuration, and verify whether refreshing metadata changes the result. Because these packages do not require the CUDA repository, implement a shared or equivalent fix that adds `--disablerepo=cuda` to these initial installs while leaving the repository enabled for later CUDA-library package installation; if the pinned image itself is permanently stale, update it to a verified working tag instead. Run focused shell lint/format checks and container-level DNF smoke tests for both wheel paths, then narrowly validate the two Python wheel build scripts if the environment permits.

Jobs:

• Python nvcc GCC / EI / [CTK12.9 GCC13 py3.14] Build cuda.cccl(amd64)
• Python nvcc GCC / Ec / [CTK12.9 GCC13 py3.14] Build cuda.stf(amd64)