Am 27.12.22 um 21:26 schrieb Gert Doering:
TCP multipoint servers with Linux-DCO can crash under yet-unknown
circumstances where a TCP socket gets handed to the kernel (= userland
shall not acceess it again) but the socket still lands in the event
polling mechanism, and is passed to link_socket_read() with
sock->fd being "-1" (SOCKET_UNDEFINED).
This is a bug, but it happens very unfrequently so not fixed yet.
When this happens, the server gets stuck in an endless loop of
"trying recvfrom(-1, ..), getting an error, looging that error,
continue" until the server's disk is full.
The situation is being made a bit more complex by the dco-win
approach of treating "all kernel sockets as UDP", so the Linux
implementation tries to access the -1 socket as UDP, confusing
the picture more.
As a bandaid to avoid the crash, this patch changes
- socket.h: only do the "if dco_installed, treat as UDP" for WIN32
(link_socket_read())
- socket.c: add ASSERT(sock->fd >= 0); checks to all UDP socket paths
(we should never even hit those as this is a TCP specific problem,
but in the "sock->fd = -1" case, doing a clean server abort is
preferred to "the disk is full with non-helpful logfiles, and then
the server crashes anyway")
- socket.c: in the TCP read function, link_socket_read_tcp(),
check for sock->fd < 0 and trigger "sock->stream_reset = true"
(+ write to the log what happened).
This change will kill this particular TCP client instance (SIGTERM),
but leave the rest of the server running fine - and given that
in our tests this issue seems to be triggered by inbound TCP RST
in just the wrong moment, it seems to be "a properly-sized bandaid".
v2: rebase on top of "move dco_installed back to link_socket"
v3: move sock->fd check inside !residual_fully_formed clause (so
we can still handle already-read packets)
Acked-By: Arne Schwabe <a...@rfc2549.org>
The move of going the tcp read path and allowing the
residual_fully_formed path to work makes the problem non-reproducible
for me so far
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