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fix(iouring): read an async conn's header deadline before its dispatch goroutine runs, under detachMu (celeris#722) - #743
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…d through the async feed (celeris#722) Two engine-level tests drive an h2c upgrade on an async route: one as the connection's first request (promoteConnToAsync), one whose body arrives in a second recv (handleRecv's async feed). Under -race each fails on main: the worker reads cs.h1State after the dispatch goroutine is running, and that goroutine sets it to nil in switchToH2Local.
…spatch goroutine runs, under detachMu (celeris#722) promoteConnToAsync and handleRecv's async feed re-armed the slowloris header timer from cs.h1State after they had started or fed the connection's dispatch goroutine, which sets cs.h1State to nil when the request is an h2c upgrade (switchToH2Local): a data race, and between the nil check and the dereference a nil pointer on the worker. Both now read the deadline before the goroutine can run, through snapshotH1Deadlines (detachMu, TryLock, as #548/#593 do for the sweep), and arm from the value (armHeaderTimerAt). handleHeaderTimer's early-fire re-arm arms from its own snapshot too instead of re-reading cs.h1State unlocked.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe io_uring worker snapshots the HTTP/1 header deadline before asynchronous dispatch and uses that value for timer arming. Linux tests cover async h2c upgrades with a complete request and a body delivered across two receives. A benchmark compares the deadline helper with an unlocked check. ChangesAsync header deadline handling
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engine/iouring/async_h2c_h1state_race_linux_test.go (1)
151-151: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winReplace the sleep with promotion synchronization.
The 100 ms sleep is the only ordering mechanism before the second write. If the worker is delayed, both writes can arrive in one recv, so the test can pass without exercising the second-feed path. Wait for an observable promotion or async-handler readiness signal instead.
This is a test-coverage gap, not a production failure. It also violates the no-sleep synchronization rule.
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Review comments at @engine/iouring/async_h2c_h1state_race_linux_test.go:
- Line 151: Replace the fixed sleep in the race test with synchronization on an
observable promotion or async-handler readiness signal, and send the second
write only after that signal confirms the first feed has reached the required
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Summary
On an async route, the io_uring worker read
cs.h1Stateafter it had handed the connection to its dispatch goroutine. That goroutine setscs.h1State = nilwhen the request is an h2c upgrade (switchToH2Local), so the read raced the write. The read is a nil check followed by a dereference, so the worker could also take a nil pointer between the two.Fixes #722
The defect
There were two sites, both re-arming the slowloris header timer:
promoteConnToAsync, which reads aftergo w.runAsyncHandler(cs). This is the connection's first request, and it is the site the issue names.handleRecv's async feed, which reads after it appends the recv toasyncInBufand signals the goroutine. This is the same line, reached by a later recv of a promoted connection. One way to reach it is an upgrade request whose body arrives in a second recv.A third read of the same kind was in
handleHeaderTimer's early-fire re-arm. It went througharmHeaderTimer, which re-readcs.h1StateaftersnapshotH1Deadlineshad released the lock.Failing-first
The tests were committed on their own as bacaf90, which is main dccb839 plus the test file only. They were run from a detached worktree at that commit, on Docker linux/arm64 with 4 CPUs.
The race detector reports a given pair of stacks only once per process. So each test ran 20 times, each time in its own process built from one
-racetest binary (tools/repeat_procs.sh).TestAsyncH2CUpgradeOnPromotionLeavesH1StateToTheGoroutineTestAsyncH2CUpgradeOnFeedLeavesH1StateToTheGoroutineThe first report is the issue's pair of stacks. The write is
switchToH2Local(worker.go:2631) on the dispatch goroutine, and the read ispromoteConnToAsync(worker.go:4205) on the worker.The race detector is the tests' only oracle. Without
-racethey pass on main, so only a-racerun (CI's engine/iouring step is one) says anything about #722.The fix
The worker now reads the deadline before the goroutine can run, and arms the timer from that value:
asyncHeaderDeadlinereads the deadline throughsnapshotH1Deadlines. That read is underdetachMu, the lockswitchToH2Localruns under, and it takes the lock withTryLock, as io_uring: the timeout paths read cs.h1State without detachMu, against an invariant the file states twice #548 and io_uring: checkTimeouts locks cs.detachMu for every live conn while runAsyncHandler holds it across ProcessH1, so a slow async handler pins the whole worker #593 do for the sweep.checkTimeoutssweep remains the fallback, as it already is for an arm the SQ ring dropped.promoteConnToAsyncreads beforego runAsyncHandler, and the feed reads before it appends toasyncInBuf.armHeaderTimerAt(cs, dl), which does not readcs.h1State.armHeaderTimeritself is nowarmHeaderTimerAt(cs, cs.h1State.HeaderDeadlineNs.Load()), for the sites where the worker owns the H1 state (accept, the sync path).handleHeaderTimer's early-fire re-arm arms from its own snapshot.Where the timer gets armed is unchanged. This rests on reading the code: the new tests reach both sites with the deadline already clear, so they test the read, not the arm (the review of this PR found that a mutant which never arms at either site survives the whole package; a test of the arm is follow-up #762).
Controls
The controls use
go test -overlayfiles over the fix head'sworker.go, so the source is never edited (722/make_mutants.sh). Each ran 10 processes per test, in m8.worker.go)cs.h1Stateafter starting the goroutinecs.h1Stateafter the feedEach test catches its own site and nothing else.
Fixed head d178f3a
The new tests. Each ran 20 processes under
-race. Both tests PASS 20/20, with 0 data races, in both shapes. Every process logged the worker count of its shape:workers=1in m8 (40/40) andworkers=2in unl (40/40).The whole
./engine/iouringpackage,-race -v, arm64. Main's rows are the same package at dccb839, in the same shapes (base/base_suite_pkg.sh). Tallies count anchored--- PASS/FAIL/SKIPlines, subtests included.tools/compare_full.pycompares the two heads name by name, in each shape. They share 323 names, with 0 outcome differences. The only names on the branch alone are the two new tests, both PASS (722/logs/compare-pkg-{m8,unl}.txt).amd64. The emulated
--platform linux/amd64container runsgo vetand the two tests. vet is clean, and the tests SKIP there because io_uring is not emulated ("io_uring not available on this system"). CI's x86 runner is the amd64 run of record.CI x86, run 36340643644 at d178f3a: all 11 jobs succeeded on the first attempt. I read every job log (
722/ci/TALLY-36340643644.txt, fromtools/ci_tally.sh).Host checks.
go build ./...,go vetandgo test -call pass for GOOS=linux on both amd64 and arm64. golangci-lint v2.13 with the repo's config reports 0 issues on./engine/...for both arches (722/logs/lint.txt).Cost on the request path
The async feed now takes an uncontended
TryLockandUnlockofdetachMuonce per recv. That happens only when a header timeout is configured and no timer is in flight. It replaces an unlocked read.BenchmarkAsyncFeedHeaderDeadlinecompares the check main made (impl=unlocked) withasyncHeaderDeadline(impl=trylock). It measures the steady state: a timeout configured, no timer in flight, and the deadline clear. The run was-count=10in a linux/arm64 container under the laptop's timing lock, with no other container running (722/bench.sh), and compared withbenchstat -col /impl.Neither variant allocates.
That is +5.4 ns once per recv of a promoted async connection. The same feed already takes
asyncInMuand signals or starts the dispatch goroutine, and the request then crosses to that goroutine and back.The benchmark has one goroutine and a mutex no other thread touches, so it is the cache-hot, uncontended cost. In production the dispatch goroutine locks and unlocks
detachMuaround everyProcessH1on another OS thread, so the worker's CAS usually has to take the cache line from another core. The benchmark cannot show that cost. A contended two-P benchmark is follow-up #762.A cluster row bounds the end-to-end cost at the next perf checkpoint, on the io_uring async columns (
evidence/_queue/cluster.tsv, status "queued (lane EP-1)"). Its detectable floor is about 1.5 to 2.7%, far above 5 ns per request, so it can rule out a regression the checkpoint can see, but it cannot check the 5.4 ns number itself.Follow-ups
The review's minor findings and nits are in #762. The main one is a sibling race on epoll, which this PR does not touch:
checkTimeoutsreadscs.h1StatewithoutdetachMu, and it has not been reproduced yet.Evidence
Every number above comes from a saved script and its log, under the lane's evidence directory
evidence/lanes-20260927/EP-1/:722/ff.sh,722/suite.sh,722/make_mutants.shand722/bench.sh;base/base_suite_pkg.sh;tools/.Logs are in
722/logs/, and each one starts with its worktree, HEAD, porcelain, shape and image.Test Plan
Tested on: [ ] std [ ] epoll [x] io_uring — [x] amd64 (CI) [x] arm64 (laptop Docker, both memlock shapes)
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