kern/146845: [libc] close(2) returns error 54 (connection reset by peer) wrongly

Robert N. M. Watson rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Thu May 27 22:21:10 UTC 2010


On 27 May 2010, at 22:25, Mikolaj Golub wrote:

> We observed the same issue on our FreeBSD6 and 7 servers. I tried to reproduce
> the problem writing a simple test case but failed -- I didn't come to the idea
> of shutdown()/close() sequence (as Anton did). Although looking now at the
> code we had the issue with I see that shutdown()/close() sequence was used
> there too.

Hi Mikolaj--

Indeed, this looks very like the ENOTCONN issue in kern/144061 -- another indication that a bit more refinement is required in the synchronization for our socket-layer state machine. Unfortunately, not an issue we'll likely address in a general sense until 9.0. However, a similar workaround to kenr/144061 does sound like the solution -- I'll get this new regression test in the tree, as well as the workaround, tomorrow, with the hopes of making 8.1.

Thanks all!

Robert

> 
> It looks like SO_LINGER is not important to reproduce ECONNRESET.
> shutdown()/close() on one end and close() on the other is enough. Also,
> slowdown of one the processes (done by Anton using select()) is not important
> too. Taking this into consideration I have wrote a simplified version of a test
> to reproduce the bug (may be it worth of including to tools/regression/sockets?).
> 
> I can easily reproduce the error with this test on FreeBSD7.1 and
> 8-STABLE. Adding some prints to the kernel code I localized the place where
> the error appears and added panic() to get a backtrace.
> 
> So, the backtrace:
> 
> (kgdb) bt
> #0  doadump () at pcpu.h:246
> #1  0xc04ec829 in db_fncall (dummy1=-1064461270, dummy2=0, dummy3=-1, dummy4=0xe85e58b0 "дX^Х")
>    at /usr/src/sys/ddb/db_command.c:548
> #2  0xc04ecc5f in db_command (last_cmdp=0xc0e0af9c, cmd_table=0x0, dopager=0)
>    at /usr/src/sys/ddb/db_command.c:445
> #3  0xc04ecd14 in db_command_script (command=0xc0e0bec4 "call doadump")
>    at /usr/src/sys/ddb/db_command.c:516
> #4  0xc04f0e50 in db_script_exec (scriptname=0xe85e59bc "kdb.enter.panic", warnifnotfound=Variable "warnifnotfound" is not available.
> )
>    at /usr/src/sys/ddb/db_script.c:302
> #5  0xc04f0f37 in db_script_kdbenter (eventname=0xc0cc78ea "panic")
>    at /usr/src/sys/ddb/db_script.c:324
> #6  0xc04eec18 in db_trap (type=3, code=0) at /usr/src/sys/ddb/db_main.c:228
> #7  0xc08d9aa6 in kdb_trap (type=3, code=0, tf=0xe85e5af8) at /usr/src/sys/kern/subr_kdb.c:535
> #8  0xc0befecb in trap (frame=0xe85e5af8) at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:690
> #9  0xc0bd15eb in calltrap () at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/exception.s:165
> #10 0xc08d9c2a in kdb_enter (why=0xc0cc78ea "panic", msg=0xc0cc78ea "panic") at cpufunc.h:71
> #11 0xc08a95b6 in panic (fmt=0xc0ce6585 "ECONNRESET") at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c:562
> #12 0xc0a3d805 in tcp_usr_disconnect (so=0xc715c670) at /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp_usrreq.c:552
> #13 0xc09111bd in sodisconnect (so=0xc715c670) at /usr/src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c:810
> #14 0xc0914144 in soclose (so=0xc715c670) at /usr/src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c:658
> #15 0xc08f6459 in soo_close (fp=0xc743e230, td=0xc7023000)
>    at /usr/src/sys/kern/sys_socket.c:291
> #16 0xc086efc3 in _fdrop (fp=0xc743e230, td=0xc7023000) at file.h:293
> #17 0xc0870cf0 in closef (fp=0xc743e230, td=0xc7023000)
>    at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_descrip.c:2117
> #18 0xc0871097 in kern_close (td=0xc7023000, fd=4) at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_descrip.c:1162
> #19 0xc087123a in close (td=0xc7023000, uap=0xe85e5cf8)
>    at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_descrip.c:1114
> #20 0xc0bef600 in syscall (frame=0xe85e5d38) at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/trap.c:1111
> #21 0xc0bd1680 in Xint0x80_syscall () at /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/exception.s:261
> #22 0x00000033 in ?? ()
> Previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?)
> (kgdb) fr 12
> #12 0xc0a3d805 in tcp_usr_disconnect (so=0xc715c670) at /usr/src/sys/netinet/tcp_usrreq.c:552
> 552                     panic("ECONNRESET");
> (kgdb) list
> 547             inp = sotoinpcb(so);
> 548             KASSERT(inp != NULL, ("tcp_usr_disconnect: inp == NULL"));
> 549             INP_WLOCK(inp);
> 550             if (inp->inp_flags & (INP_TIMEWAIT | INP_DROPPED)) {
> 551                     error = ECONNRESET;
> 552                     panic("ECONNRESET");
> 553                     /* log(LOG_INFO, "ECONNRESET 3: file %s; line %d\n", __FILE__, __LINE__); */
> 554                     goto out;
> 555             }
> 556             tp = intotcpcb(inp);
> (kgdb) p/x inp->inp_flags
> $1 = 0x4800000
> 
> #define INP_DROPPED             0x04000000 /* protocol drop flag */
> 
> (kgdb) fr 14
> #14 0xc0914144 in soclose (so=0xc715c670) at /usr/src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c:658
> 658                             error = sodisconnect(so);
> (kgdb) list
> 653
> 654             CURVNET_SET(so->so_vnet);
> 655             funsetown(&so->so_sigio);
> 656             if (so->so_state & SS_ISCONNECTED) {
> 657                     if ((so->so_state & SS_ISDISCONNECTING) == 0) {
> 658                             error = sodisconnect(so);
> 659                             if (error) {
> 660                                     if (error == ENOTCONN)
> 661                                             error = 0;
> 662                                     goto drop;
> (kgdb) p/x so->so_state  
> $2 = 0x2000
> 
> #define SS_ISDISCONNECTED       0x2000  /* socket disconnected from peer */
> 
> (the code differs a bit here from original 8-STABLE version as it includes
> patch from kern/144061 to deal with ENOTCONN errors but this does not
> influence).
> 
> Actually, I think that the issue here is similar to kern/144061. In the code
> above so_state is checked for SS_ISCONNECTED and SS_ISDISCONNECTING without
> locking and then sodisconnect() is called. It looks like the following may
> happen:
> 
> 1) after shutdown() our output is closed;
> 
> 2) then we call close(), soclose() checks that we are still in SS_ISCONNECTED
> and calls sodisconnect();
> 
> 3) at this time FIN arrives from the other end, which has called close() too,
> and the kernel disconnects the socket (INP_DROPPED is set);
> 
> 4) sodisconnect()/tcp_usr_disconnect() checks for INP_DROPPED and returns
> ECONNRESET.
> 
> I am attaching the patch, which may not be a solution but rather for
> illustration to described above. Running the test with this patch I am
> observing the following messages in error logs
> 
> May 27 23:55:41 zhuzha kernel: ECONNRESET: so->state: 0x2000; file /usr/src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c; line 664
> 
> and test does not fail.
> 
> -- 
> Mikolaj Golub
> 
> <tcp_close.c><uipc_socket.c.econnreset.patch>



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