Previously quic_conn <target> member was used to determine if quic_conn
was used on the frontend (as server) or backend side (as client). A new
helper function can now be used to directly check flag
QUIC_FL_CONN_IS_BACK.
This reduces the dependency between quic_conn and their relative
listener/server instances.
Replace all calls to qc_is_listener() (resp. !qc_is_listener()) by calls to
objt_listener() (resp. objt_server()).
Remove qc_is_listener() implement and QUIC_FL_CONN_LISTENER the flag it
relied on.
QUIC streamdesc layer is responsible to handle reception of ACK for
streams. It removes stream data from the underlying buffers on ACK
reception.
Streamdesc layer treats ACK in order at the stream level. Out of order
ACKs are buffered in a tree until they can be handled on older data
acknowledgement reception. Previously, qf_stream instance which comes
from the quic_tx_packet was used as tree node to buffer such ranges.
Introduce a new type dedicated to represent out of order stream ack data
range. This type is named qc_stream_ack. It contains minimal infos only
relative to the acknowledged stream data range.
This allows to reduce size of frequently used quic_frame with the
removal of tree node from qf_stream. Another side effect of this change
is that now quic_frame are always released immediately on ACK reception,
both in-order and out-of-order. This allows to also release the
quic_tx_packet instance which should reduce memory consumption.
The drawback of this change is that qc_stream_ack instance must be
allocated on out-of-order ACK reception. As such, qc_stream_desc_ack()
may fail if an error happens on allocation. For the moment, such error
is silenly recovered up to qc_treat_rx_pkts() with the dropping of the
received packet containing the ACK frame. In the future, it may be
useful to close the connection as this error may only happens on low
memory usage.
qc_prep_hdshk_fast_retrans() job is to pick some packets to be retransmitted
from Initial and Handshake packet number spaces. A packet may be coalesced to
a first one into the same datagram. When a coalesced packet is inspected for
retransmission, it is skipped if its length would make the total datagram length
it is attached to exceeding the anti-amplification limit. But in this case, the
first packet must be kept for the current retransmission. This is tracked by
this trace statemement:
TRACE_PROTO("will probe Initial packet number space", QUIC_EV_CONN_SPPKTS, qc);
This was not the case because of the wrong "goto end" statement. This latter
must be run only if the Initial packet number space must not be probe with
the first packet found as coalesced to another one which must be skipped.
This bug was revealed by AWS-LC interop runner with handshakeloss and
handshakecorruption which always fail because this stack leads the server
to send more Initial packets.
Thank you to Ilya (@chipitsine) for this issue report in GH #2663.
Must be backported as far as 2.6.
STREAM frames have dedicated handling on retransmission. A special check
is done to remove data already acked in case of duplicated frames, thus
only unacked data are retransmitted.
This handling is faulty in case of an empty STREAM frame with FIN set.
On retransmission, this frame does not cover any unacked range as it is
empty and is thus discarded. This may cause the transfer to freeze with
the client waiting indefinitely for the FIN notification.
To handle retransmission of empty FIN STREAM frame, qc_stream_desc layer
have been extended. A new flag QC_SD_FL_WAIT_FOR_FIN is set by MUX QUIC
when FIN has been transmitted. If set, it prevents qc_stream_desc to be
freed until FIN is acknowledged. On retransmission side,
qc_stream_frm_is_acked() has been updated. It now reports false if
FIN bit is set on the frame and qc_stream_desc has QC_SD_FL_WAIT_FOR_FIN
set.
This must be backported up to 2.6. However, this modifies heavily
critical section for ACK handling and retransmission. As such, it must
be backported only after a period of observation.
This issue can be reproduced by using the following socat command as
server to add delay between the response and connection closure :
$ socat TCP-LISTEN:<port>,fork,reuseaddr,crlf SYSTEM:'echo "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"; echo ""; sleep 1;'
On the client side, ngtcp2 can be used to simulate packet drop. Without
this patch, connection will be interrupted on QUIC idle timeout or
haproxy client timeout with ERR_DRAINING on ngtcp2 :
$ ngtcp2-client --exit-on-all-streams-close -r 0.3 <host> <port> "http://<host>:<port>/?s=32o"
Alternatively to ngtcp2 random loss, an extra haproxy patch can also be
used to force skipping the emission of the empty STREAM frame :
diff --git a/include/haproxy/quic_tx-t.h b/include/haproxy/quic_tx-t.h
index efbdfe687..1ff899acd 100644
--- a/include/haproxy/quic_tx-t.h
+++ b/include/haproxy/quic_tx-t.h
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ extern struct pool_head *pool_head_quic_cc_buf;
/* Flag a sent packet as being probing with old data */
#define QUIC_FL_TX_PACKET_PROBE_WITH_OLD_DATA (1UL << 5)
+#define QUIC_FL_TX_PACKET_SKIP_SENDTO (1UL << 6)
+
/* Structure to store enough information about TX QUIC packets. */
struct quic_tx_packet {
/* List entry point. */
diff --git a/src/quic_tx.c b/src/quic_tx.c
index 2f199ac3c..2702fc9b9 100644
--- a/src/quic_tx.c
+++ b/src/quic_tx.c
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ static int qc_send_ppkts(struct buffer *buf, struct ssl_sock_ctx *ctx)
tmpbuf.size = tmpbuf.data = dglen;
TRACE_PROTO("TX dgram", QUIC_EV_CONN_SPPKTS, qc);
- if (!skip_sendto) {
+ if (!skip_sendto && !(first_pkt->flags & QUIC_FL_TX_PACKET_SKIP_SENDTO)) {
int ret = qc_snd_buf(qc, &tmpbuf, tmpbuf.data, 0, gso);
if (ret < 0) {
if (gso && ret == -EIO) {
@@ -354,6 +354,7 @@ static int qc_send_ppkts(struct buffer *buf, struct ssl_sock_ctx *ctx)
qc->cntrs.sent_bytes_gso += ret;
}
}
+ first_pkt->flags &= ~QUIC_FL_TX_PACKET_SKIP_SENDTO;
b_del(buf, dglen + QUIC_DGRAM_HEADLEN);
qc->bytes.tx += tmpbuf.data;
@@ -2066,6 +2067,17 @@ static int qc_do_build_pkt(unsigned char *pos, const unsigned char *end,
continue;
}
+ switch (cf->type) {
+ case QUIC_FT_STREAM_8 ... QUIC_FT_STREAM_F:
+ if (!cf->stream.len && (qc->flags & QUIC_FL_CONN_TX_MUX_CONTEXT)) {
+ TRACE_USER("artificially drop packet with empty STREAM frame", QUIC_EV_CONN_TXPKT, qc);
+ pkt->flags |= QUIC_FL_TX_PACKET_SKIP_SENDTO;
+ }
+ break;
+ default:
+ break;
+ }
+
quic_tx_packet_refinc(pkt);
cf->pkt = pkt;
}
When a STREAM frame is retransmitted, a check is performed to remove
range of data already acked from it. This is useful when STREAM frames
are duplicated and splitted to cover different data ranges. The newly
retransmitted frame contains only unacked data.
This process is performed similarly in qc_dup_pkt_frms() and
qc_build_frms(). Refactor the code into a new function named
qc_stream_frm_is_acked(). It returns true if frame data are already
fully acked and retransmission can be avoided. If only a partial range
of data is acknowledged, frame content is updated to only cover the
unacked data.
This patch does not have any functional change. However, it simplifies
retransmission for STREAM frames. Also, it will be reused to fix
retransmission for empty STREAM frames with FIN set from the following
patch :
BUG/MEDIUM: quic: handle retransmit for standalone FIN STREAM
As such, it must be backported prior to it.
