Re: [PATCH] tcp: keepalive fixes

[Enke Chen]

Hi, Yuchung:

I have attached the python script that reproduces the keepalive issues.
The script is a slight modification of the one written by Marek Majkowski:

https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-blog/blob/master/2019-09-tcp-keepalives/test-zero.py

Please note that only the TCP keepalive is configured, and not the user timeout.

Thanks.  -- Enke

On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 02:48:01PM -0800, Yuchung Cheng wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 2:31 PM Enke Chen <enkechen2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: Enke Chen <enc...@paloaltonetworks.com>
> >
> > In this patch two issues with TCP keepalives are fixed:
> >
> > 1) TCP keepalive does not timeout when there are data waiting to be
> >    delivered and then the connection got broken. The TCP keepalive
> >    timeout is not evaluated in that condition.
> hi enke
> Do you have an example to demonstrate this issue -- in theory when
> there is data inflight, an RTO timer should be pending (which
> considers user-timeout setting). based on the user-timeout description
> (man tcp), the user timeout should abort the socket per the specified
> time after data commences. some data would help to understand the
> issue.
> 

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#! /usr/bin/python

import io
import os
import select
import socket
import time
import utils
import ctypes

utils.new_ns()

port = 1

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM, 0)
s.bind(('127.0.0.1', port))
s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_RCVBUF, 1024)

s.listen(16)

tcpdump = utils.tcpdump_start(port)
c = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM, 0)
c.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_RCVBUF, 1024)
c.connect(('127.0.0.1', port))

x, _ = s.accept()

if False:
    c.setsockopt(socket.IPPROTO_TCP, socket.TCP_USER_TIMEOUT, 90*1000)

if True:
    c.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_KEEPALIVE, 1)
    c.setsockopt(socket.IPPROTO_TCP, socket.TCP_KEEPCNT, 5)
    c.setsockopt(socket.IPPROTO_TCP, socket.TCP_KEEPIDLE, 10)
    c.setsockopt(socket.IPPROTO_TCP, socket.TCP_KEEPINTVL, 10)

time.sleep(0.2)
print("[ ] c.send()")
import fcntl
TIOCOUTQ=0x5411
c.setblocking(False)
while True:
    bytes_avail = ctypes.c_int()
    fcntl.ioctl(c.fileno(), TIOCOUTQ, bytes_avail)
    if bytes_avail.value > 64*1024:
        break
    try:
        c.send(b"A" * 16384 * 4)
    except io.BlockingIOError:
        break
c.setblocking(True)
time.sleep(0.2)
utils.ss(port)
utils.check_buffer(c)

t0 = time.time()

if True:
    utils.drop_start(dport=port)
    utils.drop_start(sport=port)

poll = select.poll()
poll.register(c, select.POLLIN)
poll.poll()

utils.ss(port)


e = c.getsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_ERROR)
print("[ ] SO_ERROR = %s" % (e,))

t1 = time.time()
print("[ ] took: %f seconds" % (t1-t0,))