salt: Problem with salt-ssh and mine.get

Description of Issue/Question

Under some circumstances highstate fails when using salt-ssh and salt['mine.get'] with error:

Jinja variable 'salt.utils.templates.AliasedLoader object' has no attribute 'grains.get'

Although I am able to successfully run each state individually, I get the above error when running highstate. The problem doesn’t occure if we:

• remove the block/state where salt['mine.get'] is called
• change the order of states in top.sls

Setup

Roster file:

murray2:
  host: 10.10.10.56
  user: dan
  sudo: True
  priv: ~/.ssh/dan.pem
  thin_dir: /opt/salt-thin
  mine_functions:
    network.interfaces: []
    grains.item:
      - roles
      - fqdn
      - applications
      - ip_interfaces
  grains:
    roles:
      - backend
    applications:
      - chuck

states/test_hosts/init.sls:

/etc/hostname:
  file.managed:
    - contents: {{ salt['grains.get']('id') }}

{%- for host, data in salt['mine.get']('*', 'grains.item').items() %}
hostsfile_{{host}}:
  host.present:
    - names:
      - {{host}}
    - ip: {{data.ip_interfaces.eth0[0]}}
{% endfor%}

states/test_apps/init.sls

{%- for app in salt['grains.get']('applications',[]) %}
{%- set app_data = salt['pillar.get']('applications:%s' % app) %}
{%- from 'test_apps/macros.j2' import this_macro  %}
/tmp/{{app}}:
  file.managed:
    - contents: {{ salt['disk.blkid']('')}}

{{this_macro(app)}}
{% endfor %}

states/top.sls:

base:
  '*':
    - test_hosts
    - test_apps

Steps to Reproduce Issue

$ salt-ssh 'murray2' state.highstate

[ERROR   ] Rendering exception occurred: Jinja variable 'salt.utils.templates.AliasedLoader object' has no attribute 'grains.get'
[CRITICAL] Rendering SLS 'base:test_apps' failed: Jinja variable 'salt.utils.templates.AliasedLoader object' has no attribute 'grains.get'
murray2:
    - Rendering SLS 'base:test_apps' failed: Jinja variable 'salt.utils.templates.AliasedLoader object' has no attribute 'grains.get'

The last lines of the master.log are:

2016-10-05 17:19:03,239 [salt.template    ][PROFILE ][6241] Time (in seconds) to render '/tmp/salt/files/base/test_hosts/init.sls' using 'yaml' renderer: 0.00873517990112
2016-10-05 17:19:03,240 [salt.fileclient  ][DEBUG   ][6241] Could not find file from saltenv 'base', 'salt://test_apps.sls'
2016-10-05 17:19:03,242 [salt.fileclient  ][DEBUG   ][6241] In saltenv 'base', looking at rel_path 'test_apps/init.sls' to resolve 'salt://test_apps/init.sls'
2016-10-05 17:19:03,243 [salt.fileclient  ][DEBUG   ][6241] In saltenv 'base', ** considering ** path '/tmp/salt/files/base/test_apps/init.sls' to resolve 'salt://test_apps/init.sls'
2016-10-05 17:19:03,243 [salt.fileclient  ][DEBUG   ][6241] Fetching file from saltenv 'base', ** attempting ** 'salt://test_apps/init.sls'
2016-10-05 17:19:03,243 [salt.fileclient  ][DEBUG   ][6241] No dest file found
2016-10-05 17:19:03,244 [salt.fileclient  ][INFO    ][6241] Fetching file from saltenv 'base', ** done ** 'test_apps/init.sls'
2016-10-05 17:19:03,244 [salt.template    ][DEBUG   ][6241] compile template: /tmp/salt/files/base/test_apps/init.sls
2016-10-05 17:19:03,245 [salt.utils.jinja ][DEBUG   ][6241] Jinja search path: ['/opt/salt-thin/running_data/var/cache/salt/minion/files/base']
2016-10-05 17:19:03,256 [salt.utils.templates][ERROR   ][6241] Rendering exception occurred: Jinja variable 'salt.utils.templates.AliasedLoader object' has no attribute 'grains.get'
2016-10-05 17:19:03,257 [salt.state       ][CRITICAL][6241] Rendering SLS 'base:test_apps' failed: Jinja variable 'salt.utils.templates.AliasedLoader object' has no attribute 'grains.get'
2016-10-05 17:19:03,362 [salt.utils.lazy  ][DEBUG   ][6232] LazyLoaded nested.output

Lastly, highstate runs successfully if I change states order in states/top.sls:

base:
  '*':
    - test_apps
    - test_hosts

Versions Report

Salt Version:
           Salt: 2016.3.3

Dependency Versions:
           cffi: Not Installed
       cherrypy: Not Installed
       dateutil: 2.5.3
          gitdb: 0.6.4
      gitpython: 1.0.1
          ioflo: Not Installed
         Jinja2: 2.8
        libgit2: Not Installed
        libnacl: Not Installed
       M2Crypto: Not Installed
           Mako: 1.0.3
   msgpack-pure: Not Installed
 msgpack-python: 0.4.6
   mysql-python: Not Installed
      pycparser: Not Installed
       pycrypto: 2.6.1
         pygit2: Not Installed
         Python: 2.7.12 (default, Jul  1 2016, 15:12:24)
   python-gnupg: Not Installed
         PyYAML: 3.11
          PyZMQ: 15.2.0
           RAET: Not Installed
          smmap: 0.9.0
        timelib: Not Installed
        Tornado: 4.2.1
            ZMQ: 4.1.4