Hi Florin,

Thanks a lot, the previous patch and with reset disabled have been running
1 day without issue.

I will enable reset and with your new patch, will provide feedback later.

Florin Coras <fcoras.li...@gmail.com> 于2023年3月22日周三 02:12写道:

> Hi,
>
> Okay, resetting of half-opens definitely not supported. I updated the
> patch to just clean them up on forced reset, without sending a reset to
> make sure session lookup table cleanup still happens.
>
> Regards,
> Florin
>
> On Mar 20, 2023, at 9:13 PM, Zhang Dongya <fortitude.zh...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> After review my code, I found that I have add a flag to the
> vnet_disconnect API which will call session_reset instead of session_close,
> the reason I do this is to make intermediate firewall just flush the state
> and reconstruct if I later reconnect.
>
> It seems in session_reset logic, for half open session, it also missing to
> remove the session from the lookup hash which may cause the issue too.
>
> I change my code and will test with your patch along, will provide
> feedback later.
>
> I also noticed the bihash issue discussed in the list recently, I will
> merge later.
>
> Florin Coras <fcoras.li...@gmail.com> 于2023年3月21日周二 11:56写道:
>
>> 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> 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>
>>> 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> 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>
>>>> 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> 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>
>>>>> 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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