Multi-disciplinary correctness review of the batched tun / GSO-GRO / sendmmsg
rework. Each fix has a regression test; the merged tree builds on
linux/darwin/openbsd/windows/freebsd/netbsd, vets clean, passes the unit and
e2e suites, and is -race clean.
Critical:
- C1 zero-length inner UDP datagram no longer panics the process (remote DoS):
the UDP coalescer routes payLen==0 to passthrough instead of seeding a GSO
slot, and WriteGSO skips empty payload iovecs as defense in depth.
- C2 segmenter no longer corrupts inner headers when gsoSize < headerLen: the
L3+L4 header is snapshotted once and each segment stamped from the copy,
replacing the destructive overlapping in-place slide (SegmentTCP + SegmentUDP).
High:
- H1 applyOuterECN updates the IPv4 header checksum (RFC 1624 incremental) when
folding outer CE into the inner ToS, so passthrough packets are no longer
dropped by the peer stack.
- H2 the GRO reject path caps the borrowed RX segment ([:n:n]) so a reject can
no longer overrun into the next coalesced segment's Nebula header. Note:
oversized ICMPv6 rejects that need >16B beyond the segment are now refused
rather than sent under GRO (safe; see TOFIX.md for the scratch-buffer follow-up).
- H3 WriteBatch falls back to per-packet WriteTo for a chunk when writeSockaddr
fails, so one bad-family destination costs only its own packet, not the batch.
- H4 UserDevice.Readers returns N distinct queue wrappers with private buffers
(sharing the pipes) so concurrent readers no longer race/overwrite borrowed
packet bytes.
- H5 Poll.Close / Offload.Close no longer null t.fd (matching master's
tunFile.Close), removing the data race with a concurrent readOne load.
Medium/Low:
- M1 the UDP GSO 127-segment gate moved from kernel >=5.5 to >=6.9 (the real
UDP_MAX_SEGMENTS 64->128 threshold), avoiding EINVAL + per-packet fallback on
5.5-6.8 kernels.
- M2 NewMultiQueueReader replays the offload mask newTun actually negotiated
instead of the TSO-only mask, so adding a queue no longer disables USO
device-wide; the advertised USO capability derives from the same mask.
- M3 the shutdown eventfd is closed in pollQueueSet.Close / offloadQueueSet.Close
(double-close guarded), fixing the per-lifecycle fd leak.
- M4 dual-stack ECN selects the cmsg by address family, not socket family: RX
parseRecvCmsg reads both IP_TOS and IPV6_TCLASS; TX writeEntryCmsg stamps
IP_TOS for v4/v4-mapped dests and IPV6_TCLASS for v6 (on-host verified).
- L1 newPoll no longer closes the fd on failure (matching newOffload), removing
the double-close on QueueSet.Add error.
remove runtime.LockOSThread() because it makes things worse now
remove the "custom" Write() method from tun_linux.go, the stdlib path via os.File performs better
We should change our guidance around number of routines, ~2 per thread (that you wish to use for Nebula) seems to be about right now
If the host OS is already big endian, we were swapping bytes when we
shouldn't have. Use the Go helper to make sure we do the endianness
correctly
Fixes: #1189
On some systems, IPv6 is disabled (for example, CIS benchmark recommends to disable it when not used), but currently all UDP connections are using AF_INET6 sockets.
When we are binding AF_INET6 socket to an address like ::ffff:1.2.3.4 (IPv4 addresses are parsed by net.ParseIP this way), we can't send or receive IPv6 packets anyway, so this will not break any scenarios.
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Co-authored-by: Wade Simmons <wsimmons@slack-corp.com>
Nate Brown