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nebula/flow_test.go
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Ryan Huber db8f9cd2e9 udp: Add ordered staged receive processing
With tun.staged.workers set, each Linux UDP listener classifies a recvmmsg
batch, hands its data packets to that many decrypt workers, and an ordered
writer commits the batch in arrival order: replay window, roaming, firewall,
control packets and tun writes go through the same helpers inline receive
uses. Six batches per routine bound memory and backpressure. Conns that cannot
hand off their buffers stay inline.

The listener's classification is speculative. Before touching replay state the
writer resolves each data packet through its own batch-local hostmap cache,
exactly where inline receive would, so data after a close in the same batch is
still delivered while data after a removal or replacement between batches is
dropped, with the same RecvError reply inline receive sends. Known replays are
marked by a precheck and skip decryption, but keep their place so that reply
stays identical when an earlier RecvError deleted their tunnel.

New API: udp.StdConn.ListenOutHandoff, and the same on TesterConn for e2e,
runs the receive loop while handing each batch's buffers to the caller in
exchange for replacements. It is found through an unexported interface in
nebula, so udp.Conn and its other implementations are unchanged.

Metrics: flow.rx.batches, and flow.stage.{rx_read,rx_decrypt,rx_write}.q<N>.busy_ns.

Tests cover both ciphers, ordering, duplicate and corrupted packets from other
addresses, window jumps, control packets mid-batch, RecvError then replay,
tunnel replacement, firewall parity, fallback, real UDP sockets, partial
batches at close, and a handshake and traffic through e2e that checks pipeline
use on Linux and the inline fallback elsewhere. No isolated receive throughput
claim is made.
2026-10-16 21:21:50 +00:00

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//go:build linux && !android && !e2e_testing
package nebula
import (
"encoding/binary"
"io"
"math"
"net/netip"
"os"
"sync"
"sync/atomic"
"testing"
"time"
"github.com/flynn/noise"
"github.com/gaissmai/bart"
"github.com/rcrowley/go-metrics"
"github.com/slackhq/nebula/cert"
"github.com/slackhq/nebula/config"
"github.com/slackhq/nebula/firewall"
"github.com/slackhq/nebula/header"
"github.com/slackhq/nebula/iputil"
"github.com/slackhq/nebula/noiseutil"
"github.com/slackhq/nebula/overlay/batch"
"github.com/slackhq/nebula/overlay/tio"
"github.com/slackhq/nebula/test"
"github.com/slackhq/nebula/udp"
"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
"go.uber.org/goleak"
)
// flowTestMSS is the segment payload size of the synthetic TSO superpackets.
const flowTestMSS = 1200
var (
flowTestLocal = netip.MustParseAddr("10.0.0.1")
flowTestRemote = netip.MustParseAddr("10.0.0.2")
flowTestUnder = netip.MustParseAddrPort("192.0.2.2:4242")
)
// flowTCPSuperpacket builds an IPv4/TCP TSO superpacket from local to remote carrying segs segments. Segment i's
// payload starts with the flow id, the superpacket seq and i, so a receiver can check what it got and in which order.
func flowTCPSuperpacket(flow uint16, seq uint32, segs int) tio.Packet {
const hdr = 40
pay := segs * flowTestMSS
b := make([]byte, hdr+pay)
b[0] = 0x45
binary.BigEndian.PutUint16(b[2:4], uint16(min(hdr+pay, 65535)))
b[8] = 64
b[9] = iputil.IPProtocolTCP
copy(b[12:16], flowTestLocal.AsSlice())
copy(b[16:20], flowTestRemote.AsSlice())
binary.BigEndian.PutUint16(b[20:22], 10000+flow)
binary.BigEndian.PutUint16(b[22:24], 80)
binary.BigEndian.PutUint32(b[24:28], seq*uint32(pay))
b[32] = 0x50
b[33] = 0x10 // ACK
binary.BigEndian.PutUint16(b[34:36], 65535)
for i := range segs {
p := b[hdr+i*flowTestMSS:]
binary.BigEndian.PutUint16(p[0:2], flow)
binary.BigEndian.PutUint32(p[2:6], seq)
binary.BigEndian.PutUint16(p[6:8], uint16(i))
}
if segs == 1 {
return tio.Packet{Bytes: b}
}
return tio.Packet{Bytes: b, GSO: tio.GSOInfo{Size: flowTestMSS, HdrLen: hdr, CsumStart: 20, Proto: tio.GSOProtoTCP}}
}
// decodedSeg identifies one segment by the marker flowTCPSuperpacket put in its payload.
type decodedSeg struct {
flow uint16
seq uint32
idx uint16
}
func decodeSeg(p []byte) decodedSeg {
return decodedSeg{flow: binary.BigEndian.Uint16(p[0:2]), seq: binary.BigEndian.Uint32(p[2:6]), idx: binary.BigEndian.Uint16(p[6:8])}
}
// flowTestBatches builds n reads of per superpackets of segs segments, across flows interleaved flows, and the
// segments they carry in order.
func flowTestBatches(n, per, flows, segs int) ([][]tio.Packet, []decodedSeg) {
var batches [][]tio.Packet
var want []decodedSeg
seq := make([]uint32, flows)
for range n {
var b []tio.Packet
for j := range per {
flow := uint16(j % flows)
b = append(b, flowTCPSuperpacket(flow, seq[flow], segs))
for s := range segs {
want = append(want, decodedSeg{flow: flow, seq: seq[flow], idx: uint16(s)})
}
seq[flow]++
}
batches = append(batches, b)
}
return batches, want
}
// flowTestPeer is one end of a tunnel: the interface, the hostinfo for the other end, and its capture points.
type flowTestPeer struct {
f *Interface
hostinfo *HostInfo
conn *flowCaptureConn
tun *flowTunCapture
}
// newFlowTestPair builds two interfaces joined by one real tunnel (keys from an actual handshake). sender sends from
// flowTestLocal to flowTestRemote, receiver is the far side.
func newFlowTestPair(t testing.TB, cipher noise.CipherFunc, sc stagedConfig) (sender, receiver *flowTestPeer) {
t.Helper()
initR, respR := runTestHandshakeWith(t, cipher)
sci, err := newConnectionStateFromResult(initR)
require.NoError(t, err)
rci, err := newConnectionStateFromResult(respR)
require.NoError(t, err)
sender = newFlowTestPeer(t, flowTestLocal, flowTestRemote, sci, 100, 200)
receiver = newFlowTestPeer(t, flowTestRemote, flowTestLocal, rci, 200, 100)
sender.f.staged, receiver.f.staged = sc, sc
return sender, receiver
}
func newFlowTestPeer(t testing.TB, me, them netip.Addr, ci *ConnectionState, localIdx, remoteIdx uint32) *flowTestPeer {
l := test.NewLogger()
hm := newHostMap(l)
hm.preferredRanges.Store(&[]netip.Prefix{})
myNets, myAddrs := &bart.Lite{}, &bart.Lite{}
myNets.Insert(netip.PrefixFrom(me, 24))
myAddrs.Insert(netip.PrefixFrom(me, 32))
myCert := &dummyCert{version: cert.Version1, networks: []netip.Prefix{netip.PrefixFrom(me, 24)}}
theirCert := &dummyCert{version: cert.Version1, networks: []netip.Prefix{netip.PrefixFrom(them, 24)}, name: "peer"}
ci.peerCert = &cert.CachedCertificate{Certificate: theirCert, InvertedGroups: map[string]struct{}{}}
fw := NewFirewall(l, time.Minute, time.Minute, time.Minute, myCert)
require.NoError(t, fw.AddRule(false, firewall.ProtoAny, 0, 0, []string{"any"}, "", "", "", "", ""))
require.NoError(t, fw.AddRule(true, firewall.ProtoAny, 0, 0, []string{"any"}, "", "", "", "", ""))
conn, tun := &flowCaptureConn{}, &flowTunCapture{}
lh := newTestLighthouse()
lh.remoteAllowList.Store(&RemoteAllowList{})
f := &Interface{
hostMap: hm,
outside: conn,
firewall: fw,
lightHouse: lh,
pki: &PKI{},
myVpnNetworksTable: myNets,
myVpnAddrsTable: myAddrs,
routines: 1,
writers: []udp.Conn{conn},
messageMetrics: &MessageMetrics{txExhausted: metrics.NewCounter()},
metricTxDropped: metrics.NilCounter{},
l: l,
}
f.ctx = t.Context()
f.pki.caPool.Store(cert.NewCAPool())
// Never promote or requery, those would put extra test packets on the wire
f.tryPromoteEvery.Store(math.MaxUint32)
f.reQueryEvery.Store(math.MaxUint32)
f.batchers = []*batch.MultiCoalescer{batch.NewMultiCoalescer(tun, l)}
f.connectionManager = &connectionManager{
intf: f,
relayUsed: map[uint32]struct{}{},
relayUsedLock: &sync.RWMutex{},
trafficTimer: NewLockingTimerWheel[uint32](time.Second, time.Minute),
}
f.handshakeManager = NewHandshakeManager(l, hm, lh, conn, defaultHandshakeConfig)
f.handshakeManager.f = f
hostinfo := &HostInfo{
ConnectionState: ci,
vpnAddrs: []netip.Addr{them},
localIndexId: localIdx,
remoteIndexId: remoteIdx,
relayState: RelayState{relayForByAddr: map[netip.Addr]*Relay{}, relayForByIdx: map[uint32]*Relay{}},
}
hostinfo.remote.Store(&flowTestUnder)
hostinfo.buildNetworks(myNets, theirCert)
hm.unlockedAddHostInfo(hostinfo, f)
return &flowTestPeer{f: f, hostinfo: hostinfo, conn: conn, tun: tun}
}
// flowCaptureConn records every packet sent, in order, as copies.
type flowCaptureConn struct {
udp.NoopConn
mu sync.Mutex
pkts [][]byte
addrs []netip.AddrPort
// delay, when set, slows every WriteBatch down so batches pile up in flight
delay time.Duration
}
func (c *flowCaptureConn) WriteBatch(bufs [][]byte, addrs []netip.AddrPort) (int, error) {
time.Sleep(c.delay)
c.mu.Lock()
defer c.mu.Unlock()
for i, b := range bufs {
c.pkts = append(c.pkts, append([]byte(nil), b...))
c.addrs = append(c.addrs, addrs[i])
}
return len(bufs), nil
}
func (c *flowCaptureConn) WriteTo(b []byte, addr netip.AddrPort) error {
_, err := c.WriteBatch([][]byte{b}, []netip.AddrPort{addr})
return err
}
func (c *flowCaptureConn) captured() [][]byte {
c.mu.Lock()
defer c.mu.Unlock()
return append([][]byte(nil), c.pkts...)
}
// flowTunCapture is a tun queue that records every plaintext write.
type flowTunCapture struct {
mu sync.Mutex
writes [][]byte
// delay, when set, slows every write down
delay time.Duration
}
func (c *flowTunCapture) Read() ([]tio.Packet, error) { return nil, io.EOF }
func (c *flowTunCapture) Close() error { return nil }
func (c *flowTunCapture) Write(b []byte) (int, error) {
time.Sleep(c.delay)
c.mu.Lock()
defer c.mu.Unlock()
c.writes = append(c.writes, append([]byte(nil), b...))
return len(b), nil
}
// segments decodes what reached the tun. The coalescer may have merged segments back into superpackets, so this
// walks each payload in MSS steps.
func (c *flowTunCapture) segments(t testing.TB) []decodedSeg {
t.Helper()
c.mu.Lock()
defer c.mu.Unlock()
var out []decodedSeg
for _, w := range c.writes {
pay := w[40:]
require.Zero(t, len(pay)%flowTestMSS, "tun write payload %d bytes", len(pay))
for off := 0; off < len(pay); off += flowTestMSS {
out = append(out, decodeSeg(pay[off:]))
}
}
return out
}
// decryptWire checks every wire packet decrypts on the receiver, in order, with strictly increasing counters, and
// returns what each one carried. It uses its own replay window and copies, so the wire can still be fed to the
// receiver afterwards.
func decryptWire(t testing.TB, receiver *flowTestPeer, wire [][]byte) []decodedSeg {
t.Helper()
peer := receiver.hostinfo.ConnectionState
ci := &ConnectionState{dKey: peer.dKey, window: NewBits(peer.window.length)}
nb := make([]byte, 12)
var last uint64
out := make([]decodedSeg, 0, len(wire))
for i, pkt := range wire {
h := &header.H{}
require.NoError(t, h.Parse(pkt))
require.Equal(t, header.Message, h.Type)
require.Equal(t, receiver.hostinfo.localIndexId, h.RemoteIndex)
require.Greater(t, h.MessageCounter, last, "wire packet %d: counter %d after %d", i, h.MessageCounter, last)
last = h.MessageCounter
plain, err := ci.Decrypt(receiver.f.l, h.MessageCounter, append([]byte(nil), pkt...), nb)
require.NoError(t, err, "wire packet %d", i)
out = append(out, decodeSeg(plain[40:]))
}
return out
}
// flowBatchQueue is a handoffQueue that hands out scripted Read batches, then fails with io.EOF. Every batch is copied
// into the current receive buffer, so a test sees the buffer ownership the Offload queue has.
type flowBatchQueue struct {
batches [][]tio.Packet
rxBuf []byte
out []tio.Packet
closed chan struct{}
// reads counts the batches handed out
reads atomic.Int64
}
func newFlowBatchQueue(batches [][]tio.Packet) *flowBatchQueue {
return &flowBatchQueue{batches: batches, rxBuf: make([]byte, 8*65536), closed: make(chan struct{})}
}
func (q *flowBatchQueue) Read() ([]tio.Packet, error) {
select {
case <-q.closed:
return nil, os.ErrClosed
default:
}
n := int(q.reads.Load())
if n == len(q.batches) {
return nil, io.EOF
}
q.out = q.out[:0]
off := 0
for _, p := range q.batches[n] {
l := copy(q.rxBuf[off:], p.Bytes)
q.out = append(q.out, tio.Packet{Bytes: q.rxBuf[off : off+l : off+l], GSO: p.GSO})
off += l
}
q.reads.Add(1)
return q.out, nil
}
func (q *flowBatchQueue) SwapRxBuf(buf []byte) []byte {
if buf == nil {
buf = make([]byte, len(q.rxBuf))
}
old := q.rxBuf
q.rxBuf = buf
// Scribble over the buffer we are handed, a staged batch that still pointed into it would be corrupted
for i := range buf {
buf[i] = 0xa5
}
return old
}
func (q *flowBatchQueue) Write(b []byte) (int, error) { return len(b), nil }
func (q *flowBatchQueue) Close() error { close(q.closed); return nil }
// delayedCipher changes scheduling through the real cipher interface, only in tests.
type delayedCipher struct {
noiseutil.CipherState
before func(uint64)
}
func (c delayedCipher) EncryptDanger(out, ad, plain []byte, n uint64, nb []byte) ([]byte, error) {
c.before(n)
return c.CipherState.EncryptDanger(out, ad, plain, n, nb)
}
func (c delayedCipher) DecryptDanger(out, ad, ciphertext []byte, n uint64, nb []byte) ([]byte, error) {
c.before(n)
return c.CipherState.DecryptDanger(out, ad, ciphertext, n, nb)
}
func delayCrypto(peer *flowTestPeer, before func(uint64)) {
ci := peer.hostinfo.ConnectionState
ci.eKey = delayedCipher{ci.eKey, before}
ci.dKey = delayedCipher{ci.dKey, before}
}
// stagedOn enables staging with n workers.
func stagedOn(n int) stagedConfig {
return stagedConfig{workers: n, tx: true, rx: true}
}
func stagedName(sc stagedConfig) string {
switch {
case sc.workers == 0:
return "inline"
default:
return "staged"
}
}
// TestFlowStagedFallback: a tun queue that cannot hand off its buffer, or a conn that cannot hand off its batches,
// keeps that direction on the inline path.
func TestFlowStagedFallback(t *testing.T) {
defer goleak.VerifyNone(t, goleak.IgnoreCurrent())
sender, receiver := newFlowTestPair(t, noise.CipherChaChaPoly, stagedOn(3))
batches, want := flowTestBatches(10, 2, 1, 4)
tx := metrics.GetOrRegisterCounter("flow.tx.batches", nil)
tx0, rx0 := tx.Count(), rxBatches.Count()
sender.f.listenIn(plainQueue{newFlowBatchQueue(batches)}, 0)
wire := sender.conn.captured()
require.Equal(t, want, decryptWire(t, receiver, wire))
require.Equal(t, tx0, tx.Count())
receiver.receive(plainConn{&rxConn{wire: wire, batchLen: 16}})
require.Equal(t, want, receiver.tun.segments(t))
require.Equal(t, rx0, rxBatches.Count())
}
// plainQueue and plainConn hide SwapRxBuf and ListenOutHandoff, so they cannot hand off their batches.
type plainQueue struct{ tio.Queue }
// wireFor produces the wire packets the sender emits for batches, inline.
func wireFor(t testing.TB, sender *flowTestPeer, batches [][]tio.Packet) [][]byte {
t.Helper()
sc := sender.f.staged
sender.f.staged = stagedConfig{}
sender.f.listenIn(newFlowBatchQueue(batches), 0)
sender.f.staged = sc
wire := sender.conn.captured()
sender.conn.pkts, sender.conn.addrs = nil, nil
return wire
}
// rxConn plays wire back to listenOut through the buffer handoff, in batches of batchLen or of the scripted sizes
// (the last one repeating), and captures what is sent back. Every buffer handed back is scribbled over before it is
// read into, so a stage still using one shows corruption. from, when set, picks each packet's source address by its
// index in wire.
type rxConn struct {
flowCaptureConn
wire [][]byte
batchLen int
sizes []int
from func(i int) netip.AddrPort
swaps int
}
func (c *rxConn) ListenOut(r udp.EncReader, flush func()) error {
return c.ListenOutHandoff(r, func(bufs [][]byte) [][]byte {
flush()
return bufs
})
}
func (c *rxConn) ListenOutHandoff(r udp.EncReader, handoff func(bufs [][]byte) [][]byte) error {
n := c.batchLen
for _, size := range c.sizes {
n = max(n, size)
}
bufs := make([][]byte, n)
for i := range bufs {
bufs[i] = make([]byte, udp.MTU)
}
for off, k := 0, 0; off < len(c.wire); k++ {
size := c.batchLen
if len(c.sizes) > 0 {
size = c.sizes[min(k, len(c.sizes)-1)]
}
end := min(off+size, len(c.wire))
for i, p := range c.wire[off:end] {
n := copy(bufs[i], p)
from := flowTestUnder
if c.from != nil {
from = c.from(off + i)
}
r(from, bufs[i][:n:n])
}
next := handoff(bufs)
if len(next) != len(bufs) {
panic("handoff returned the wrong number of buffers")
}
bufs = next
for _, b := range bufs {
for j := range b[:udp.MTU] {
b[j] = 0x5a
}
}
c.swaps++
off = end
}
return os.ErrClosed
}
type plainConn struct{ udp.Conn }
var rxBatches = metrics.GetOrRegisterCounter("flow.rx.batches", nil)
// receive runs the peer's listenOut over conn until conn runs out.
func (p *flowTestPeer) receive(conn udp.Conn) {
p.f.writers = []udp.Conn{conn}
p.f.outside = conn
p.f.listenOut(0)
}
// TestFlowStagedFirewallParity: both paths apply the same outbound and inbound policy. An authenticated inbound
// denial still consumes its replay counter, exactly as inline Decrypt does.
func TestFlowStagedFirewallParity(t *testing.T) {
for _, sc := range []stagedConfig{{}, stagedOn(2)} {
t.Run(stagedName(sc), func(t *testing.T) {
batches, _ := flowTestBatches(4, 3, 1, 8)
sender, _ := newFlowTestPair(t, noise.CipherChaChaPoly, sc)
sender.f.firewall.OutRules = newFirewallTable()
sender.f.listenIn(newFlowBatchQueue(batches), 0)
require.Empty(t, sender.conn.captured())
sender, receiver := newFlowTestPair(t, noise.CipherChaChaPoly, sc)
wire := wireFor(t, sender, batches)
receiver.f.firewall.InRules = newFirewallTable()
receiver.receive(&rxConn{wire: wire, batchLen: 64})
require.Empty(t, receiver.tun.writes)
for _, pkt := range wire {
h := &header.H{}
require.NoError(t, h.Parse(pkt))
require.False(t, receiver.hostinfo.ConnectionState.window.Check(receiver.f.l, h.MessageCounter))
}
})
}
}
// TestFlowStagedCipherFallback runs the parsed configuration with the real AES cipher: transmit falls back to inline
// when the build needs nonce-ordered encryption (BoringCrypto, FIPS), receive decryption stays staged.
func TestFlowStagedCipherFallback(t *testing.T) {
l := test.NewLogger()
c := config.NewC(l)
c.Settings = map[string]any{"tun": map[string]any{"staged": map[string]any{"workers": 2}}}
sender, receiver := newFlowTestPair(t, noiseutil.CipherAESGCM, parseStagedConfig(c, l))
require.Equal(t, !noiseutil.EncryptLockNeeded, sender.f.staged.tx)
require.True(t, sender.f.staged.rx)
batches, want := flowTestBatches(4, 8, 1, 45)
tx := metrics.GetOrRegisterCounter("flow.tx.batches", nil)
tx0, rx0 := tx.Count(), rxBatches.Count()
sender.f.listenIn(newFlowBatchQueue(batches), 0)
if noiseutil.EncryptLockNeeded {
require.Equal(t, tx0, tx.Count())
}
receiver.receive(&rxConn{wire: sender.conn.captured(), batchLen: 512})
require.Greater(t, rxBatches.Count(), rx0)
require.Equal(t, want, receiver.tun.segments(t))
}