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This adds internal/etcp, the reconnecting encrypted packet connection the client will run its session over, plus a fake etserver to test it against. Nothing in cmd/et uses it yet; wiring it in comes next.
What's in it
internal/etcp. A Dialer connects to etserver, runs the protocol v6 handshake and returns a Conn with WritePacket and ReadPacket. Outbound packets are sealed once and kept in a replay ring. When a link drops, a supervisor redials with backoff and runs the recover exchange: each side sends its sequence number and then the packets the other side missed. The exchange runs full duplex, because upstream writes before it reads at every step and a sequential client would deadlock once both catchups exceed the socket buffers. Dead links are detected with keepalive probes, but none is sent before the caller's first packet, since etserver 7.0.0 aborts a session whose first packet is not INITIAL_PAYLOAD. WritePacket blocks while the unsent backlog exceeds ReplayLimit, so memory stays bounded during an outage. The ring is trimmed after every socket write and after every successful recover.
Fatal vs retryable. A rejected passkey, a version mismatch, a session the server no longer knows, a replay window that no longer covers the server's position, and any oversized or undecodable message from the server end the Conn. Everything else is treated as a network failure and redialed. The session passkey never appears in logs or error text.
internal/etservertest. A fake etserver written from upstream's semantics, and an in-memory net.Pipe network with cut and refuse controls. All etcp tests run inside testing/synctest bubbles, so outages lasting hours of fake time finish in milliseconds.
internal/wire.AppendFrame lets the writer frame a batch of packets into one reused buffer, so the steady state allocates nothing per packet. Reads grow their buffer as data arrives instead of trusting the length prefix. A new ErrMalformed separates "the server sent garbage" from "the connection broke".
How it was verified
go test -race ./..., go vet ./..., golangci-lint run on linux and windows, the ruleguard build, and CGO_ENABLED=0 go build ./.... Every new test was checked by removing the production line it pins and watching it fail. The suite covers long outages, slow catchups in both directions, random cuts with a property test, writes racing a recover snapshot, bad messages at every handshake step, and a link that flaps right after recovering.
Known limitation, documented on Dialer.KeepAlive: over a very slow upload with no server output, the liveness probe can declare a healthy link dead and cost a reconnect. No data is lost when that happens.
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
Added encrypted packet connections that automatically reconnect after interruptions while preserving packet order and replaying queued data.
Added configurable keep-alive and replay limits, with validation for connection settings and oversized packets.
Improvements
Improved handling of interrupted connections and queued packets, including writes waiting for available capacity.
Reduced memory use when reading large or incomplete messages, and improved handling of short writes and malformed input.
Add AppendFrame, which appends a length-prefixed frame to a caller's
buffer, so a writer can batch frames into one Write with no allocation
per frame. WriteFrame is built on it.
ReadFrame reads the 4-byte length into the caller's buffer instead of a
local array that escaped to the heap, so a reused buffer makes it
allocate nothing. When the buffer is too small, ReadFrame and
ReadMessage grow the body as bytes arrive (64 KiB, then doubling)
instead of allocating the declared length before any body byte, so a
peer that declares 128 MiB and sends two bytes costs 64 KiB.
Also: a partial length followed by a wrapped io.EOF is now a cut
(io.ErrUnexpectedEOF), not a clean end, and a writer that reports a
short count without an error yields io.ErrShortWrite instead of a
silently truncated frame or message.
Verified: go test -race; each new test fails with its guarded line
removed; go vet and golangci-lint on linux and windows; go fix -diff.
BenchmarkFrameRoundTrip drops from 2 to 1 allocs/op (the remaining one
is WriteFrame's own buffer).
An independent implementation of upstream's server side (connect
handshake, recover exchange writing its catchup first, sealed replay
log, keepalive echo, session end with INVALID_KEY) plus a net.Pipe
network with cut, cut-after-N-bytes and refuse controls, so etcp can
be tested in synctest fake time without sockets.
Verified: go test -race; each test fails with its guarded line broken;
go vet and golangci-lint on linux and windows; go fix -diff.
First retry immediately, then 250 ms doubling to a 5 s cap with
+/-20% jitter, never above the cap.
Verified: go test -race; each test fails with its guarded line
broken; go vet; golangci-lint on linux and windows.
Handshake I/O times out after 30 s without progress, like upstream's
SocketHandler. Writes go out in 64 KiB chunks with a fresh deadline
each, because net.Conn.Write sends the whole slice in one call and a
single deadline would cap the entire catchup transfer.
Verified: go test -race (synctest, fake time); the slow-peer test fails
when chunking is removed and the stalled-peer test hangs when the read
deadline is dropped; go vet; golangci-lint on linux and windows.
Holds sealed outbound packets by sequence number for the link writer
and for replay after a reconnect. Trimming never drops a packet no
link has written yet, and since() reports when a peer's sequence is
outside the retained window.
Verified: go test -race; each test fails with its guarded line broken;
go vet; golangci-lint on linux and windows.
Dial runs the connect handshake; each TCP link gets a reader and a
writer; a supervisor redials with backoff and runs the recover
exchange. Packets are sealed once at write time into a replay ring,
so replay resends identical bytes. The recover exchange reads the
peer's messages concurrently with writing ours, because upstream
writes before it reads at every step and a sequential client
deadlocks. INVALID_KEY on a redial ends the Conn with
ErrSessionEnded (wrapping io.EOF) after the last output is read. A
packet that fails authentication ends the Conn with ErrIntegrity:
the nonce has advanced, so the stream cannot be resumed.
The link writer frames a batch of ring entries into one reused buffer
with wire.AppendFrame and sends it in a single Write, so steady-state
writes allocate nothing per packet. WritePacket refuses a payload
whose sealed frame could not fit wire.MaxFrameSize.
Verified: go test -race under synctest against etservertest (cuts
mid-handshake, mid-catchup and mid-frame, both-way catchups, writes
racing recovery, backlogs spanning several write batches), each test
shown to fail when its guarded line is broken; go vet; golangci-lint
on linux and windows.
After one quiet KeepAlive period the link sends the Probe packet
(KEEP_ALIVE, which etserver echoes); after two it is declared dead and
the supervisor reconnects. Any inbound frame counts as proof of life,
and time the reader spends blocked on a slow ReadPacket caller does not
count as silence. Dial refuses a Probe whose payload could never fit a
sealed frame.
Verified: go test -race under synctest (healthy link stays up for a
minute, silent server is dropped at 10 s, slow reader is not), each
test failing with its guarded line broken; go vet; golangci-lint on
linux and windows.
WritePacket admits a packet while at most ReplayLimit bytes are
unsent and otherwise waits on a channel the link writer and the
recover exchange signal as the backlog drains, so a long outage slows
the writer instead of growing memory without bound. A blocked writer
is released by its context (with that context's cause) or by Close
(with net.ErrClosed).
Verified: go test -race under synctest (the fifth 1 KiB write blocks
against a 4 KiB limit while disconnected and completes after
reconnect; cancel and Close release a blocked writer), each assertion
failing with its guarded line broken; go vet; golangci-lint on linux
and windows.
A 500-dial outage keeps every gap at or below 5 s and resumes with
nothing lost. A 1 MiB catchup over an 8 KiB/s link recovers on the
first dial, proving the handshake idle timeout only fires on silence.
A seeded property test sends random traffic both ways while the
network is cut at random points and checks exactly-once, in-order
delivery on both sides across 20 seeds.
Verified: go test -race -count=10 on the concurrency tests; the
outage test fails when the backoff cap is raised, the throttled test
fails when the idle deadline is set once per write, and the property
test fails when the client's catchup is dropped.
etserver 7.0.0 aborts the whole server process when a session's first
packet is not INITIAL_PAYLOAD (TerminalServer.cpp:429-439), and the
liveness watcher sent a KEEP_ALIVE probe after one quiet KeepAlive
period even when the caller had not written anything yet. The watcher
now neither probes nor counts silence until a packet has been sealed;
before that, a dead link is left to TCP keepalive. The fake server
documents that it echoes probes at any time, which upstream does not.
Verified: new TestNoProbeBeforeFirstPacket fails without the gate
(the server's first packet was a KEEP_ALIVE); the liveness tests now
write a packet first and still fail when the probe or the dead-link
return is removed; go test -race, go vet, golangci-lint linux and
windows.
…rrives
Upstream writes its whole catchup before reading ours
(Connection.cpp:125-135), so our catchup write cannot progress while
the server's catchup is still arriving. The handshake idle timeout
advanced the write deadline only on write progress, so a server
catchup that took more than 30 s to arrive timed out our blocked
write, and every redial repeated it: the session never recovered and
no error reached the caller. Progress in either direction of the
handshake connection now pushes both deadlines; a peer that moves no
bytes either way still times out after 30 s.
Verified: new TestRecoverSurvivesSlowServerCatchup (512 KiB server
catchup over an 8 KiB/s downlink, non-empty client catchup) recovers
on one dial, and fails when the read-side push is removed; the idle
timeout tests still fail when the read deadline or write chunking is
removed; go test -race, go vet, golangci-lint linux and windows.
A WritePacket blocked on a full backlog that took the single c.space
wakeup and then found its own context cancelled at the top of the
loop returned without passing the wakeup on, leaving another blocked
writer parked while there was room. The caller's context is now
checked on entry and in the wait, never between waking and the room
check, so a woken writer either queues and passes the turn or finds
no room and waits again. A context already done on entry is still
refused.
Verified: new internal TestWakeupNotLostOnCancel fails on the old
check (writer B stays blocked) and TestBlockedWritersAllProceed fails
without the turn passing; 30 race runs stable; go vet,
golangci-lint linux and windows.
A negative KeepAlive fired the liveness watcher at once and redialed
forever, a negative ReplayLimit blocked every WritePacket, and an
unbounded ReplayLimit let an outage backlog build a CatchupBuffer
larger than the 128 MiB message etserver accepts
(SocketHandler.hpp:60), which was retried forever with no error
surfacing. Dial now refuses a KeepAlive that is negative or below
100 ms and a ReplayLimit outside 0 to 64 MiB (upstream's own bound),
and a catchup that would exceed the message limit ends the Conn with
ErrReplayExceeded instead of redialing. The ReplayLimit doc now
states the real bound: about twice the limit plus one packet while
disconnected.
Verified: new TestDialRejectsBadOptions (four bad options, no dial)
and TestOversizedCatchupIsFatal (limit lowered through an
export_test.go hook; ErrReplayExceeded after exactly two dials) fail
before the fix and under each of six mutations; go test -race, go vet,
golangci-lint linux and windows.
writeLoop copied every unsent ring entry into its batch under c.mu on
each pass, then framed and sent only about 64 KiB of them, so
draining a backlog of N small packets after an outage cost O(N^2)
header copies and held c.mu for milliseconds per pass, stalling
WritePacket and the probe. Each pass now takes at most the number of
minimum-size entries that fit one write buffer, which is all it can
send anyway.
Verified: new BenchmarkDrainBacklog (500k minimum-size entries)
drops from about 131 ms to 49 ms per drain, and the gap grows with
the backlog; TestBacklogSpansWriteBatches and the race suite pass;
go vet, golangci-lint linux and windows.
…livery
Only inbound frames count as proof of life and the probe queues behind
any unsent backlog, so an upload that takes longer than two keepalive
periods to drain while the server sends nothing makes a busy link look
dead. Two fixes were tried and reverted: counting completed writes as
life also counts the probe's own write, so a dead link is never found,
and watching the writer's position fails because write progress is only
visible per 64 KiB batch. The KeepAlive doc now states the limit, and
a test pins what matters: every packet of such an upload still arrives
exactly once and in order, whatever reconnects the watcher causes.
Verified: TestLivenessSlowUploadDeliversEverything fails when the
client's catchup is dropped; go test -race, go vet, golangci-lint
linux and windows.
TestPropertyExactlyOnceUnderRandomCuts claimed exactly-once delivery,
but expectNumbered stops reading at packet n-1, so a packet replayed
again after the last one passed. Once traffic and cuts are over, the
test now waits a fake minute for any late reconnect and requires that
neither side has anything but keepalives pending, and it asserts that
at least one cut actually forced a reconnect.
Verified: the test fails when recover replays one entry early and when
an extra copy of the last packet is sent after the traffic; 20 seeds
pass under -race; go vet, golangci-lint linux and windows.
…shake
Ending the caller's context closes the dialed connection so a stuck
handshake returns, and the handshake then failed with a closed-pipe
I/O error, so a caller could not tell its own timeout or cancel from
a broken server. connect now wraps context.Cause(ctx) in that case,
and when ctx ends just as the handshake finishes (the connection is
already closed) it fails with the cause instead of returning a dead
link.
Verified: new TestDialContextCauseMidHandshake (server never answers,
2 s timeout) fails before the fix with the closed-pipe error and
passes after; go test -race, go vet, golangci-lint linux and windows.
The ctx-ends-as-handshake-finishes branch has no deterministic test.
…atuses
Adds tests for paths no test reached: the largest payload whose sealed
frame fits is sent intact and one byte more is refused; a
RETURNING_CLIENT answer to the first connect runs the recover exchange
with empty state in upstream's order and the session then works;
NEW_CLIENT, MISMATCHED_PROTOCOL or an unknown status on a redial end
the Conn instead of redialing; and the zero-value Dialer dials real
loopback TCP. TestReconnectSurvivesCutsAnywhere now also checks that
its budgeted cut fired, and bounds its waits.
Verified: each new test fails on an assertion when its production line
is broken (maxPayload without the MAC overhead, skipping the first-dial
recover, accepting NEW_CLIENT on a redial, dropping ErrVersion from
isFatal, dialing udp, a CutAfter that never cuts); go test -race,
go vet, golangci-lint linux and windows.
TestBacklogSpansWriteBatches caught a batching bug only by scheduling
luck (never under -race); the server now holds its first read until
every packet is queued, so a later batch must stop short of the
backlog. TestRedialStatusIsFatal was flaky because the scripted server
closed its pipe before Dial's SetDeadline; it now drops the link only
after reading the test's first packet. Waits that could hang the
suite when a reconnect loop keeps fake time moving are bounded:
expectNumbered defaults to an hour, and new within and readPacket
helpers bound channel receives and reads.
New tests pin the backoff reset after a long-lived link, Close while
the reader is blocked on a full inbox, ReadPacket returning its
context's cause, an oversized frame from the server ending the Conn,
the Logger receiving link events without the passkey, a cancelled
write never being queued, and a write at exactly ReplayLimit being
admitted. etservertest pins that the fake writes each recover message
before reading ours, which the etcp deadlock test relies on.
FuzzReadFrame now checks the body against the framing and a reused
buffer against a fresh one.
Verified: each new or rewritten test fails on an assertion when its
guarded line is broken; go test -race -count=10 is stable; go vet,
golangci-lint linux and windows.
Three one-line guards: WriteFrame rejects an oversized frame before
allocating its output buffer (it allocated 16 MiB first); the etcp
link writer treats a short Write count without an error as
io.ErrShortWrite instead of counting the whole batch as sent; and the
fake network starts its Serve goroutine under its lock, so Close can
no longer wait on the group before the goroutine is added, and
reports an ended dial context the way net.Dialer does.
The rest is documentation. Comments that said etcp relies on
WriteFrame and WriteMessage issuing one Write were false (etcp frames
its own batches and splits handshake writes) and are corrected; the
exported etcp errors, Close and the backoff overflow clamp are
documented; upstream citations name et-v7.0.0 and point at the cited
code; the redial handling states where it is deliberately stricter
than upstream; the fake server's mismatch text copies upstream; and
comments no longer refer to private design documents.
Verified: TestWriteLoopShortWrite, TestWriteFrameLimit (allocation
bound) and TestBackoffJitterBounds (now also a lower bound) fail when
their guard is removed; go test -race, go vet, golangci-lint linux and
windows.
A ConnectResponse, SequenceHeader or CatchupBuffer from the server
that declared more than 128 MiB, or whose complete body did not
decode, was treated as a link failure and redialed forever, while the
same fault on the stream ends the Conn with ErrIntegrity. A cut or a
timeout cannot produce either error (both yield io.EOF or
io.ErrUnexpectedEOF before the length check or decoding), so they mean
a broken or hostile peer. wire.ReadMessage now wraps a decoding
failure in a new wire.ErrMalformed, connect classifies ErrTooLarge
and ErrMalformed as ErrIntegrity, and isFatal ends the Conn on it.
Verified: new TestBadHandshakeMessageIsFatal (both cases, exactly two
dials) fails before the fix and when either classification, the
isFatal entry or the ErrMalformed wrap is removed; 100 runs without
and 50 with -race; go vet, golangci-lint linux and windows.
…ck real
TestServerRecoverWritesCatchupFirst failed about one run in twelve
without the race detector: the first link's Serve could reach
takeOver after the second link's and close it. It now waits for the
first link to settle. The property test's tail check could not fail,
since no recover ever ran after the last packet; it now forces a cut
once both sides hold everything and requires no replay and no further
redial across a quiet minute (a mutant that replays only on such a
late recover passes the old check and fails the new one).
Also: TestDialRejectsBadOptions accepts the boundary values themselves;
TestIdleConnWriteProgressKeepsReadAlive pins that write progress keeps
a blocked handshake read alive; TestNetworkDialEndedContext covers the
fake's ended-context dial; an unreachable assertion and a miscounting
comment are fixed; and two tests no longer hang when an earlier
assertion fails.
Verified: each new or changed assertion fails when its guarded line is
broken; go test -count=20 without and -count=10 with -race are stable;
go vet, golangci-lint linux and windows.
…docs
When the caller's context ended while the TCP dial itself was still
running, Dial returned the dialer's generic "context canceled" rather
than the caller's cause, unlike the handshake step. It now wraps
context.Cause(ctx) at both steps, and keeps a definitive server answer
(a rejection, a version mismatch, an integrity failure) that arrived
just before the context ended instead of hiding it behind the cause.
Docs corrected to match the code: the 64 MiB ReplayLimit cap does not
by itself keep a catchup under the message limit (writeRecover's size
check does); Close keeps returning an earlier failure rather than
net.ErrClosed; before the first packet a dead link is found by a read
error or by TCP keepalive when the NetDialer enables it; the redial
strictness note covers every status it applies to; and the idleConn,
benchmark and fake-server comments say what is actually true.
Verified: new TestDialContextCauseDuringDial fails before the fix and
when the dial-step wrap is removed; 50 runs stable; go test -race,
go vet, golangci-lint linux and windows.
…timeout
A SequenceHeader or CatchupBuffer from the server that was oversized
or did not decode was still redialed forever whenever our own write
was blocked, which is the normal case since upstream reads our
messages only after writing its own: recover reported the writer's
30 s idle timeout rather than the reader's error, so connect never saw
the integrity failure. The reader now closes the conn when it fails,
so the writer stops at once, and recover reports the reader's error
when the writer's error is only that closed conn. A writer that failed
on its own (ErrReplayExceeded, an I/O error) closed the conn first, so
its error still stands.
Verified: new TestBadRecoverMessageIsFatal (bad SequenceHeader and bad
CatchupBuffer, server never reads ours) ends with ErrIntegrity after
two dials and before the idle timeout; it fails before the fix and
when either the reader's close or the error preference is removed;
go test -race, go vet, golangci-lint linux and windows.
connect keeps a definitive error (a rejection, a version mismatch, an
integrity failure) over the caller's context cause when both arrive
together; that rule had no test and was thought untestable. A conn
that cancels the dial context inside the Read delivering the
INVALID_KEY reply makes the race deterministic, and the new test fails
when the rule is removed. TestIdleConnWriteProgressKeepsReadAlive now
stops its drain goroutine when it fails, so a failure no longer
aborts the rest of the package's tests.
Comments now match the code: the property test's tail describes how a
resent packet actually surfaces, the drain benchmark states what it
measures and when it fails, connect's doc covers every definitive
error, the watcher and the bad-options test describe dead-link
detection and a negative KeepAlive accurately, and the KeepAlive doc
is reflowed.
Verified: TestDialKeepsDefinitiveAnswerOverCause stable over 100 runs
and 50 with -race, and fails when the guard is removed; go test -race,
go vet, golangci-lint linux and windows.
Over real TCP, a server that sends a bad SequenceHeader or
CatchupBuffer and drops the connection can make our blocked write fail
with a reset before the reader's close takes effect; the writer's
non-fatal reset then won and the session redialed. readerErrWins now
prefers a reader error that marks a bad message (oversized or
undecodable) over any writer error, and otherwise still prefers the
reader only when the writer merely hit the conn the reader closed.
The recover test gains rows over a net.Pipe wrapper that reports a
local close as net.ErrClosed, as a TCP conn does, and one whose failed
write reports ECONNRESET.
Verified: the reset row fails when the integrity preference is
removed; the rows are stable over 50 runs and 20 with -race; go vet
on linux, windows and darwin; golangci-lint linux and windows.
When our SequenceHeader and CatchupBuffer have both been written and
only then the server's CatchupBuffer turns out undecodable, the Conn
must still end with ErrIntegrity. A new test pins that ordering. The
remaining clause that prefers the reader's error after a successful
write matters for diagnostics only: after an ordinary read failure the
link it would otherwise start fails at once, and since recvSeq never
advanced the next exchange re-requests the replay.
Comments corrected: our own catchup never reaches connect's integrity
classification (writeRecover checks its size first), the default
constants' citations no longer overflow the line, and a test comment
says cancellation rather than deadline.
Verified: the new test is stable over 50 runs and 20 with -race;
go test -race, go vet, golangci-lint linux and windows.
A recover exchange counts our catchup as sent, which frees WritePacket to
admit another ReplayLimit of packets. Only writeLoop trimmed the ring, after
a successful Write, so a link that died right after recovering left the
catchup in the ring on every flap and the ring grew without bound. recover
now trims the same way writeLoop does.
TestFlappingLinkKeepsRingBounded drives a server that completes each
recover and drops the link at once while the caller keeps writing; without
the trim the ring reaches 13688 bytes after 12 links against a 2304-byte
bound. TestBadRecoverMessageIsFatal gains an oversized-message row, which
fails when readerErrWins stops accepting wire.ErrTooLarge. The TCP-style
test conn now relabels closed-conn errors from its deadline setters too,
since idleConn sets a deadline before every Read and Write.
Verified with go test -race ./..., go vet, golangci-lint on linux and
windows, and the ruleguard build.
TestWritePacketRacingRecovery gains a row where the packets written during
recovery exceed ReplayLimit, so recover's trim must stop at the snapshot;
trimming past it drops packets no link has sent and writeLoop panics.
TestFlappingLinkKeepsRingBounded now caps its dial wait at an hour of fake
time, so a regression that ends the Conn fails an assertion instead of
hanging the suite; counts catchup entries separately, so its guard fires
when no recover completes; and derives its one-packet slack from the
sealed entry size instead of a literal. The tcpStyleConn setter comment
now says the relabelling is for fidelity only.
Verified with go test -race ./..., -count=50 on both tests with and
without -race, go vet, and golangci-lint on linux and windows.
Two lines of recover's success path had no test: the subtraction of the
catchup from the unsent backlog, and the signal that releases a writer
blocked on backpressure. Removing the signal leaves WritePacket blocked
forever on a flapping link, and zeroing the backlog lets writers exceed
ReplayLimit after every recovery; the whole suite passed both.
TestFlappingLinkKeepsRingBounded now fails when the latest recover carried
no catchup, which is what a stalled writer looks like there, and
TestWritePacketRacingRecovery checks the backlog is exactly zero once the
new link has sent everything.
Verified with go test -race ./..., -count=50 on both tests with and
without -race, go vet, and golangci-lint on linux and windows.
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Walkthrough
The change adds an encrypted packet connection with replay, backpressure, liveness checks, and reconnect recovery. It updates wire framing and message I/O, and adds an in-process server and network for protocol tests.
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Encrypted packet transport
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Wire framing and message I/O internal/wire/*
Frame and message reads grow buffers as data arrives. Writes report short writes, and malformed decoded messages return ErrMalformed. Tests cover truncation, allocation bounds, buffer reuse, and short writes.
Packet connection and replay state internal/etcp/conn.go, internal/etcp/link.go, internal/etcp/ring.go, internal/etcp/backpressure*_test.go, internal/etcp/link_internal_test.go, internal/etcp/ring_test.go, internal/etcp/conn_test.go, internal/etcp/drain_bench_test.go, internal/etcp/lifecycle_test.go
Conn queues encrypted packets and tracks replay state. Link loops read, write, and probe the connection. Writes wait for replay space, cancellation, or connection failure. Tests cover packet ordering, replay, backpressure, and link behavior.
Dialing, recovery, and liveness internal/etcp/dialer.go, internal/etcp/recover.go, internal/etcp/backoff.go, internal/etcp/idleconn.go, internal/etcp/*_test.go
Dialer validates options and handles connection handshakes. Recovery exchanges sequence numbers and catchup data. Backoff and keepalive probing manage reconnects. Tests exercise handshake errors, connection cuts, outages, and slow transfers.
In-process server and network internal/etservertest/*, internal/etcp/helpers_test.go, AGENTS.md
The test server implements session admission, encrypted packet exchange, and recovery. The network wrapper counts dials and simulates refusal and connection cuts. The package layout table now includes internal/etcp and internal/etservertest.
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In `@internal/etcp/ring.go`:
- Around line 26-35: Update ring.trim to accept the unsent byte count and
enforce the limit against written bytes only (r.bytes minus unsent), while
retaining the keep boundary. Pass c.unsent from the callers in writeLoop and
writeRecover, and update TestRingTrimKeepsUnsent to expect first == 2 for the
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internal/etcp/backoff.go
internal/etcp/backoff_test.go
internal/etcp/backpressure_internal_test.go
internal/etcp/backpressure_test.go
internal/etcp/conn.go
internal/etcp/conn_test.go
internal/etcp/dialer.go
internal/etcp/drain_bench_test.go
internal/etcp/export_test.go
internal/etcp/handshake_test.go
internal/etcp/helpers_test.go
internal/etcp/idleconn.go
internal/etcp/idleconn_test.go
internal/etcp/lifecycle_test.go
internal/etcp/link.go
internal/etcp/link_internal_test.go
internal/etcp/liveness_test.go
internal/etcp/outage_test.go
internal/etcp/property_test.go
internal/etcp/recover.go
internal/etcp/recover_test.go
internal/etcp/ring.go
internal/etcp/ring_test.go
internal/etcp/throttle_test.go
internal/etservertest/network.go
internal/etservertest/server.go
internal/etservertest/server_test.go
internal/wire/frame.go
internal/wire/frame_test.go
internal/wire/message.go
internal/wire/message_test.go
internal/wire/wire.go
internal/wire/wire_test.go
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ring.trim compared the whole ring against ReplayLimit, unsent backlog
included, although the ReplayLimit doc promises the bound applies to
written packets and to the backlog separately. During a sustained upload
WritePacket keeps the backlog near the limit, so every trim after a Write
dropped almost all written entries: packets still in the kernel buffer or
on the network had no replay copy, and a cut then ended the session with
ErrReplayExceeded instead of recovering. trim now takes the unsent byte
count and limits only the written part.
TestWriteLoopKeepsWrittenWhileBacklogFull fills the backlog while a batch
is being written and checks the batch keeps its replay copies;
TestRingTrimKeepsUnsent now expects the written bytes to be trimmed to the
limit regardless of the backlog.
Verified with go test -race ./..., go vet, and golangci-lint on linux and
windows.
The link reader handed each packet to ReadPacket waiting only on the
Conn's lifetime, because the packet is already counted as received and
the server will not resend it. When the caller stopped reading and the
inbox filled, a link that then died could not end: the writer failed,
but runLink waited for the reader, so no reconnect ran and every write
stalled until the caller read again.
The reader now also watches the link. If the link ends first, the packet
in its hand is kept in a pending slot owned by the reader, and the next
link's reader hands it over before the peer's catchup, so it is still
delivered once and in order; a link that dies while handing over pending
packets leaves them untouched for the one after.
TestReconnectWhileCallerNotReading fills the inbox, cuts the network and
writes, twice, the second time while the pending packet is still being
handed over: the server must receive each write, and the caller must then
read every packet once and in order.
Verified with go test -race ./... (three runs), -count=30 on the new test
with and without -race, go vet, and golangci-lint on linux and windows.
A packet that a dead link left pending, because the caller had stopped
reading, was only handed over by the next link's reader. If the Conn
ended first (the session ended during the outage, or the caller closed
it), ReadPacket returned the error without it, although the packet had
arrived and ReadPacket's doc promises such packets come first; the old
reader, blocked with the packet in hand, did return it.
Once the Conn has ended, ReadPacket now waits for the supervisor (and so
every reader) to exit, then returns what is left in the inbox, then the
pending packets, which are always newer, then the error.
TestPendingPacketSurvivesSessionEnd ends the session during an outage
with a packet pending and checks all of them are read before
ErrSessionEnded; TestCloseWithFullInbox now checks the same across Close.
Verified with go test -race ./... (three runs), -count=30 on both tests,
go vet, golangci-lint on linux and windows, and CGO_ENABLED=0 go build.
WritePacket checked whether the Conn had ended before taking the queue
lock. A write that passed the check and then waited for the lock while
Close (or a fatal error) ended the Conn was still queued on the dead Conn
and returned nil, contrary to Close's doc that later writes return
net.ErrClosed. The check now runs under the lock.
TestWritePacketRefusedOnceConnEnded parks a writer on the lock, ends the
Conn and releases it: the write must fail and nothing may be queued.
Verified with go test -race ./... (three runs), -count=20 on the new test,
go vet, and golangci-lint on linux and windows.
The first-connect INVALID_KEY and MISMATCHED_PROTOCOL errors quoted the
ConnectResponse error text. That text is peer-controlled: a server that
knows the session passkey could echo it into our error, breaking the rule
that the passkey never reaches error text, or send terminal escape
sequences to a caller that prints the error. Upstream only puts fixed
sentences there, so the errors now say what happened in our own words and
name the protocol version we speak.
TestDialErrorsHidePasskey now has the server put the passkey and an escape
sequence in its error text for both statuses and checks neither reaches
the error.
Verified with go test -race ./... (three runs), go vet, and golangci-lint
on linux and windows.
…ntries
The liveness watcher queued a new probe after every quiet keepAlive
period. While the writer was stuck on a server that had stopped reading,
occasional server output kept the link from being declared dead, so a
probe was added every period; probes bypass ReplayLimit, so the ring and
the unsent backlog grew without bound. A probe is now skipped while an
earlier one is still unwritten, since that one draws the same answer.
Catchup entries arrive inside one handshake message, so they skipped the
frame size limit wire.ReadFrame applies to live frames. deliver now
refuses any packet above wire.MaxFrameSize with ErrIntegrity.
TestProbesDoNotPileUpBehindStuckWriter runs 20 minutes of fake time
against a server that sends output just slower than keepAlive and never
reads, and allows at most one waiting probe.
TestDeliverRefusesOversizedPacket hands deliver an authenticated packet
just over the frame limit.
Verified with go test -race ./... (three runs), go vet, golangci-lint on
linux and windows, and CGO_ENABLED=0 go build.
Recheck caller context after acquiring the write mutex
internal/etcp/conn.go:92
WritePacket can still enqueue after the caller's context is canceled while it is blocked acquiring c.mu: the only check under this lock is c.ctx.Err(), so an active connection takes the unsent <= limit branch and returns nil. This violates the documented cancellation behavior for a blocked write and can queue data that the caller has already abandoned. Recheck ctx.Err() after acquiring the mutex and before enqueueLocked (while retaining the existing c.ctx check for Close/fatal errors).
@copilot on the "previously missed" note about conn.go:92 (caller ctx cancelled while WritePacket waits for c.mu): I'm leaving this as is. The lock only guards short in-memory sections, so a cancel that lands while a write waits for it is concurrent with the call, and WritePacket's doc already says a write racing its context's end may still be queued, as a net.Conn write racing its deadline may complete. Checking the caller's ctx after taking the lock would also reintroduce the problem the loop is written to avoid: a writer woken on c.space that then returns without writing would leave the next blocked writer parked with room available. The Conn-lifetime check under the lock (86d2e82) is what guarantees nothing is queued after Close.
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This adds
internal/etcp, the reconnecting encrypted packet connection the client will run its session over, plus a fake etserver to test it against. Nothing incmd/etuses it yet; wiring it in comes next.What's in it
internal/etcp. A
Dialerconnects to etserver, runs the protocol v6 handshake and returns aConnwithWritePacketandReadPacket. Outbound packets are sealed once and kept in a replay ring. When a link drops, a supervisor redials with backoff and runs the recover exchange: each side sends its sequence number and then the packets the other side missed. The exchange runs full duplex, because upstream writes before it reads at every step and a sequential client would deadlock once both catchups exceed the socket buffers. Dead links are detected with keepalive probes, but none is sent before the caller's first packet, since etserver 7.0.0 aborts a session whose first packet is not INITIAL_PAYLOAD.WritePacketblocks while the unsent backlog exceedsReplayLimit, so memory stays bounded during an outage. The ring is trimmed after every socket write and after every successful recover.Fatal vs retryable. A rejected passkey, a version mismatch, a session the server no longer knows, a replay window that no longer covers the server's position, and any oversized or undecodable message from the server end the Conn. Everything else is treated as a network failure and redialed. The session passkey never appears in logs or error text.
internal/etservertest. A fake etserver written from upstream's semantics, and an in-memory
net.Pipenetwork with cut and refuse controls. All etcp tests run insidetesting/synctestbubbles, so outages lasting hours of fake time finish in milliseconds.internal/wire.
AppendFramelets the writer frame a batch of packets into one reused buffer, so the steady state allocates nothing per packet. Reads grow their buffer as data arrives instead of trusting the length prefix. A newErrMalformedseparates "the server sent garbage" from "the connection broke".How it was verified
go test -race ./...,go vet ./...,golangci-lint runon linux and windows, the ruleguard build, andCGO_ENABLED=0 go build ./.... Every new test was checked by removing the production line it pins and watching it fail. The suite covers long outages, slow catchups in both directions, random cuts with a property test, writes racing a recover snapshot, bad messages at every handshake step, and a link that flaps right after recovering.Known limitation, documented on
Dialer.KeepAlive: over a very slow upload with no server output, the liveness probe can declare a healthy link dead and cost a reconnect. No data is lost when that happens.Summary by CodeRabbit