Hi, 

That last thing is pretty interesting. It’s either the issue fixed by this 
patch [1] or sessions are somehow cleaned up multiple times. If it’s the 
latter, I’d really like to understand how that happens. 

Regards,
Florin

[1] https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/38507 

> On Mar 20, 2023, at 6:52 PM, Zhang Dongya <fortitude.zh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> After merge this patch and update the test environment, the issue still 
> persists.
> 
> Let me clear my client app config:
> 1. register a reset callback, which will call vnet_disconnect there and also 
> trigger reconnect by send event to the ctrl process.)
> 2. register a connected callback, which will handle connect err by trigger 
> reconnect, on success, it will record session handle and extract tcp sequence 
> for our app usage.
> 3. register a disconnect callback, which basically do same as reset callback.
> 4. register a cleanup callback and accept callback, which basically make the 
> session layer happy without actually relevant work to do.
> 
> There is a ctrl process in mater, which will handle periodically reconnect or 
> triggered by event.
> 
> BTW, I also see frequently warning 'session %u hash delete rv -3' in 
> session_delete in my environment, hope this helps to investigate.
> 
> Florin Coras <fcoras.li...@gmail.com <mailto:fcoras.li...@gmail.com>> 
> 于2023年3月20日周一 23:29写道:
>> Hi, 
>> 
>> Understood and yes, connect will synchronously fail if port is not 
>> available, so you should be able to retry it later. 
>> 
>> Regards, 
>> Florin
>> 
>>> On Mar 20, 2023, at 1:58 AM, Zhang Dongya <fortitude.zh...@gmail.com 
>>> <mailto:fortitude.zh...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> It seems the issue occurs when there are disconnect called because our 
>>> network can't guarantee a tcp can't be reset even when 3 ways handshake is 
>>> completed (firewall issue :( ).
>>> 
>>> When we find the app layer timeout, we will first disconnect (because we 
>>> record the session handle, this session might be a half open session), does 
>>> vnet session layer guarantee that if we reconnect from master thread when 
>>> the half open session still not be released yet (due to asynchronous logic) 
>>> that the reconnect fail? if then we can retry connect later.
>>> 
>>> I prefer to not registered half open callback because I think it make app 
>>> complicated from a TCP programming prospective.
>>> 
>>> For your patch, I think it should be work because I can't delete the half 
>>> open session immediately because there is worker configured, so the half 
>>> open will be removed from bihash when syn retrans timeout. I have merged 
>>> the patch and will provide feedback later.
>>> 
>>> Florin Coras <fcoras.li...@gmail.com <mailto:fcoras.li...@gmail.com>> 
>>> 于2023年3月20日周一 13:09写道:
>>>> Hi, 
>>>> 
>>>> Inline.
>>>> 
>>>>> On Mar 19, 2023, at 6:47 PM, Zhang Dongya <fortitude.zh...@gmail.com 
>>>>> <mailto:fortitude.zh...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> It can be aborted both in established state or half open state because I 
>>>>> will do timeout in our app layer. 
>>>> 
>>>> [fc] Okay! Is the issue present irrespective of the state of the session 
>>>> or does it happen only after a disconnect in hanf-open state? More lower. 
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Regarding your question,
>>>>> 
>>>>> - Yes we add a builtin in app relys on C apis that  mainly use 
>>>>> vnet_connect/disconnect to connect or disconnect session.
>>>> 
>>>> [fc] Understood
>>>> 
>>>>> - We call these api in a vpp ctrl process which should be running on the 
>>>>> master thread, we never do session setup/teardown on worker thread. (the 
>>>>> environment that found this issue is configured with 1 master + 1 worker 
>>>>> setup.)
>>>> 
>>>> [fc] With vpp latest it’s possible to connect from first workers. It’s an 
>>>> optimization meant to avoid 1) worker barrier on syns and 2) entering poll 
>>>> mode on main (consume less cpu)
>>>> 
>>>>> - We started to develop the app using 22.06 and I keep to merge upstream 
>>>>> changes to latest vpp by cherry-picking. The reason for line mismatch is 
>>>>> that I added some comment to the session layer code, it should be equal 
>>>>> to the master branch now.
>>>> 
>>>> [fc] Ack
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> When reading the code I understand that we mainly want to cleanup half 
>>>>> open from bihash in session_stream_connect_notify, however, in syn-sent 
>>>>> state if I choose to close the session, the session might be closed by my 
>>>>> app due to session setup timeout (in second scale), in that case, session 
>>>>> will be marked as half_open_done and half open session will be freed 
>>>>> shortly in the ctrl thread (the 1st worker?).
>>>> 
>>>> [fc] Actually, this might be the issue. We did start to provide a 
>>>> half-open session handle to apps which if closed does clean up the session 
>>>> but apparently it is missing the cleanup of the session lookup table. 
>>>> Could you try this patch [1]? It might need additional work.
>>>> 
>>>> Having said that, forcing a close/cleanup will not free the port 
>>>> synchronously. So, if you’re using fixed ports, you’ll have to wait for 
>>>> the half-open cleanup notification.
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Should I also registered half open callback or there are some other 
>>>>> reason that lead to this failure?
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> [fc] Yes, see above.
>>>> 
>>>> Regards, 
>>>> Florin
>>>> 
>>>> [1] https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/38526
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Florin Coras <fcoras.li...@gmail.com <mailto:fcoras.li...@gmail.com>> 
>>>>> 于2023年3月20日周一 06:22写道:
>>>>>> Hi, 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> When you abort the connection, is it fully established or half-open? 
>>>>>> Half-opens are cleaned up by the owner thread after a timeout, but the 
>>>>>> 5-tuple should be assigned to the fully established session by that 
>>>>>> point. tcp_half_open_connection_cleanup does not cleanup the bihash 
>>>>>> instead session_stream_connect_notify does once tcp connect returns 
>>>>>> either success or failure. 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> So a few questions:
>>>>>> - is it accurate to assume you have a builtin vpp app and rely only on C 
>>>>>> apis to interact with host stack?
>>>>>> - on what thread (main or first worker) do you call vnet_connect?
>>>>>> - what api do you use to close the session? 
>>>>>> - what version of vpp is this because lines don’t match vpp latest?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> Florin
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> > On Mar 19, 2023, at 2:08 AM, Zhang Dongya <fortitude.zh...@gmail.com 
>>>>>> > <mailto:fortitude.zh...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>>> > 
>>>>>> > Hi list,
>>>>>> > 
>>>>>> > recently in our application, we constantly triggered such abrt issue 
>>>>>> > which make our connectivity interrupt for a while:
>>>>>> > 
>>>>>> > Mar 19 16:11:26 ubuntu vnet[2565933]: received signal SIGABRT, PC 
>>>>>> > 0x7fefd3b2000b
>>>>>> > Mar 19 16:11:26 ubuntu vnet[2565933]: 
>>>>>> > /home/fortitude/glx/vpp/src/vnet/tcp/tcp_input.c:3004 
>>>>>> > (tcp46_input_inline) assertion `tcp_lookup_is_valid (tc0, b[0], 
>>>>>> > tcp_buffer_hdr (b[0]))' fails
>>>>>> > 
>>>>>> > Our scenario is quite simple, we will make 4 parallel tcp connection 
>>>>>> > (use 4 fixed source ports) to a remote vpp stack (fixed ip and port), 
>>>>>> > and will do some keepalive in our application layer, since we only use 
>>>>>> > the vpp tcp stack to make the middle box happy with the connection, we 
>>>>>> > do not use the data transport of tcp statck actually.
>>>>>> > 
>>>>>> > However, since the network condition is complex, we have to  always 
>>>>>> > need to abrt the connection and reconnect.
>>>>>> > 
>>>>>> > I keep to merge upstream session and tcp fix however the issue still 
>>>>>> > not fixed, what I found now it may be in some case 
>>>>>> > tcp_half_open_connection_cleanup may not deleted the half open session 
>>>>>> > from the lookup table (bihash) and the session index is realloced by 
>>>>>> > other connection.
>>>>>> > 
>>>>>> > Hope the list can provide some hint about how to overcome this issue, 
>>>>>> > thanks a lot.
>>>>>> > 
>>>>>> > 
>>>>>> > 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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