Fix cases where edge connections can stall.

We discovered two cases where edge connections can stall during testing:
  1. Due to final data sitting in the edge inbuf when it was resumed
  2. Due to flag synchronization between the token bucket and XON/XOFF

The first issue has always existed in C-Tor, but we were able to tickle it
in scp testing. If the last data from the protocol is able to fit in the
inbuf, but not large enough to send, if an XOFF or connection block comes in
at exactly that point, when the edge connection resumes, there will be no
data to read from the socket, but the inbuf can just sit there, never
draining.

We noticed the second issue along the way to finding the first. It seems
wrong, but it didn't seem to affect anything in practice.

These are extremely rare in normal operation, but with conflux, XON/XOFF
activity is more common, so we hit these.

Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org>
This commit is contained in:
David Goulet 2023-04-02 21:18:25 +00:00 committed by Mike Perry
parent 7c70f713c3
commit 2bb8988629
3 changed files with 31 additions and 7 deletions

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@ -187,7 +187,6 @@ static int connection_reached_eof(connection_t *conn);
static int connection_buf_read_from_socket(connection_t *conn,
ssize_t *max_to_read,
int *socket_error);
static int connection_process_inbuf(connection_t *conn, int package_partial);
static void client_check_address_changed(tor_socket_t sock);
static void set_constrained_socket_buffers(tor_socket_t sock, int size);
@ -3744,10 +3743,17 @@ void
connection_read_bw_exhausted(connection_t *conn, bool is_global_bw)
{
(void)is_global_bw;
// Double-calls to stop-reading are correlated with stalling for
// ssh uploads. Might as well prevent this from happening,
// especially the read_blocked_on_bw flag. That was clearly getting
// set when it should not be, during an already-blocked XOFF
// condition.
if (!CONN_IS_EDGE(conn) || !TO_EDGE_CONN(conn)->xoff_received) {
conn->read_blocked_on_bw = 1;
connection_stop_reading(conn);
reenable_blocked_connection_schedule();
}
}
/**
* Mark <b>conn</b> as needing to stop reading because write bandwidth has
@ -3923,10 +3929,17 @@ reenable_blocked_connections_cb(mainloop_event_t *ev, void *arg)
(void)ev;
(void)arg;
SMARTLIST_FOREACH_BEGIN(get_connection_array(), connection_t *, conn) {
if (conn->read_blocked_on_bw == 1) {
/* For conflux, we noticed logs of connection_start_reading() called
* multiple times while we were blocked from a previous XOFF, and this
* was log was correlated with stalls during ssh uploads. So we added
* this additional check, to avoid connection_start_reading() without
* getting an XON. The most important piece is always allowing
* the read_blocked_on_bw to get cleared, either way. */
if (conn->read_blocked_on_bw == 1 &&
(!CONN_IS_EDGE(conn) || !TO_EDGE_CONN(conn)->xoff_received)) {
connection_start_reading(conn);
conn->read_blocked_on_bw = 0;
}
conn->read_blocked_on_bw = 0;
if (conn->write_blocked_on_bw == 1) {
connection_start_writing(conn);
conn->write_blocked_on_bw = 0;
@ -5198,7 +5211,7 @@ set_constrained_socket_buffers(tor_socket_t sock, int size)
* connection_*_process_inbuf() function. It also passes in
* package_partial if wanted.
*/
static int
int
connection_process_inbuf(connection_t *conn, int package_partial)
{
tor_assert(conn);

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@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ int connection_wants_to_flush(struct connection_t *conn);
int connection_outbuf_too_full(struct connection_t *conn);
int connection_handle_write(struct connection_t *conn, int force);
int connection_flush(struct connection_t *conn);
int connection_process_inbuf(struct connection_t *conn, int package_partial);
MOCK_DECL(void, connection_write_to_buf_impl_,
(const char *string, size_t len, struct connection_t *conn,

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@ -645,6 +645,16 @@ connection_start_reading,(connection_t *conn))
"to watched: %s",
(int)conn->s,
tor_socket_strerror(tor_socket_errno(conn->s)));
/* Process the inbuf if it is not empty because the only way to empty it is
* through a read event or a SENDME which might not come if the package
* window is proper or if the application has nothing more for us to read.
*
* If this is not done here, we risk having data lingering in the inbuf
* forever. */
if (conn->inbuf && buf_datalen(conn->inbuf) > 0) {
connection_process_inbuf(conn, 1);
}
}
}