fix(ipn/proxies): restore getproxytimeout for proxyFor lock-read guard - #248
fix(ipn/proxies): restore getproxytimeout for proxyFor lock-read guard#248varunagarwal-pro wants to merge 3 commits into
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proxyFor()'s internal timeout for its RLock'd map-read goroutine (intended purely as a deadlock-recovery guard, per the ProxyFor doc-comment: "if it takes longer than getproxytimeout, it returns an error") was inadvertently changed from getproxytimeout (5s) to minWaitPeriodSec/2 (1s), with no accompanying doc-comment update and no explanation in the commit message. Impact: ProxyFor() only retries/waits for a missing proxy when isWellknown(id) is true (WG/Orbot/pip/internal/global-h1 ids). For any other, app-registered custom proxy id, proxyFor() is the only lookup attempt - there is no fallback wait. On a loaded or low-RAM device, the paired px.Lock() in AddProxy/RemoveProxy can legitimately hold the mutex for longer than 1s while a proxy is being registered/torn down (especially proxies whose constructor performs real I/O). Previously this had up to 5s of slack before proxyFor() gave up; now it has only 1s, turning a previously-recoverable, momentary lock stall into a permanent, unretried "proxy not found" for that connection - observed downstream (celzero/rethink-app-derived fork) as an intermittently failing custom local HTTP proxy route on Android TV / Fire TV Stick hardware, causing affected app connections to fail and the calling app to retry indefinitely. Fix: restore timeout := getproxytimeout, matching the function's existing doc-comment and preserving the deadlock-recovery intent this guard was designed for, without touching the minWaitPeriodSec change (3s->2s) which only affects the separate wellknown-id retry/backoff path and is not implicated in this regression. No behavior change for the intended deadlock-recovery case (an actual hang still errors out, just with the originally-documented 5s grace period instead of 1s).
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe changes restore the proxy lookup guard, simplify proxy health checks, and remove ICMP flood stalling and rate limiting. ChangesProxy and ICMP behavior
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The proxy lookup timeout is restored, but unhealthy-proxy lookups can now trigger unbounded concurrent health pings and mislabel their tracking data. Resolve the ping coalescing and non-TOK worker label before merge to avoid unnecessary proxy traffic and misleading health diagnostics. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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This reverts commit f8fdaaf. StreamShield investigation into a Zee5 playback hang (video CDN TCP connections dying with "endpoint is closed for send" on the direct/ Exit proxy path) is bisecting this commit as one of two remaining suspects in the celzero/firestack 61894b7..8677a52 range, after ruling out and fixing the proxyFor lock-read timeout regression (315d233, see StreamShield PR #248). This commit added a periodic core.Gx("proxy.health.TxRx."+pid, ...) health-ping trigger fired whenever a proxy's last-good rx or tx is older than tzzTimeout (2m). Reverting to test whether this newly introduced background Ping() call against long-idle-but-otherwise- healthy proxies (including the Exit passthrough proxy carrying real CDN traffic) is contributing to, or masking symptoms of, the observed TCP write failures. Not confirmed as root cause; reverted as part of a bisection A/B test.
This reverts commit b33dbb8. StreamShield investigation into a Zee5 playback hang (video CDN TCP connections dying with "endpoint is closed for send" on the direct/ Exit proxy path) is bisecting this commit as the second of two remaining suspects in the celzero/firestack 61894b7..8677a52 range, after ruling out and fixing the proxyFor lock-read timeout regression (315d233, see StreamShield PR #248). This commit added a stack-wide ICMP rate limiter (10/s, burst 7) plus a per-source ICMP echo tarpit/stall (sleeps up to 5s per ping once a source exceeds 10 pings in a 10s window) in the netstack ICMP path. Reverting to test whether this new rate limiting/stalling logic is interacting badly with concurrent TCP dialing/health-probing on the same netstack instance, or otherwise contributing to the observed TCP write failures on unrelated connections. Not confirmed as root cause; reverted as part of a bisection A/B test.
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| core.Gx("proxy.health.TxRx."+pid, func() { p.Ping() }) | ||
| } else if status != TOK { | ||
| core.Gx("proxy.health.TNOK."+pid, func() { p.Ping() }) | ||
| core.Gx("proxy.health.TOK."+pid, func() { p.Ping() }) |
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The event label was renamed from TNOK to TOK, but this branch still fires only when status != TOK (i.e. exactly when the proxy is NOT ok). The new label is therefore inverted relative to the guard and the surrounding semantics: proxy.health.TOK.<pid> will be recorded precisely for pings of unhealthy proxies, which will mislead anyone correlating these events/metrics with proxy health (and contradicts pxstatus, where TOK means "ok"). Either keep the original TNOK label, or — if the goal was to take over the removed TxRx branch that pinged healthy-but-idle proxies — the condition should be status == TOK rather than a label-only change.
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| core.Gx("proxy.health.TOK."+pid, func() { p.Ping() }) | |
| core.Gx("proxy.health.TNOK."+pid, func() { p.Ping() }) |
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In `@intra/ipn/proxy.go`:
- Line 779: Update the health worker key in the non-TOK branch around the
core.Gx call to use proxy.health.TNOK instead of proxy.health.TOK, preserving
the distinct tracking and diagnostic identity for non-TOK health work.
- Line 779: Update the healthy path in proxyFor to restore a per-proxy staleness
or in-flight guard before invoking core.Gx, preventing repeated lookups from
starting concurrent ping chains; use the non-TOK worker label for eligible
proxies while preserving the existing TOK behavior.
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| core.Gx("proxy.health.TxRx."+pid, func() { p.Ping() }) | ||
| } else if status != TOK { | ||
| core.Gx("proxy.health.TNOK."+pid, func() { p.Ping() }) | ||
| core.Gx("proxy.health.TOK."+pid, func() { p.Ping() }) |
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Keep the non-TOK health key distinct.
This branch runs only when status != TOK, but the worker key now uses proxy.health.TOK. core.Gx passes this key to trackwork, so non-TOK health work can appear under the TOK key in diagnostics and tracking. Keep proxy.health.TNOK unless the monitoring contract intentionally changes.
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- core.Gx("proxy.health.TOK."+pid, func() { p.Ping() })
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| core.Gx("proxy.health.TOK."+pid, func() { p.Ping() }) | |
| core.Gx("proxy.health.TNOK."+pid, func() { p.Ping() }) |
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In `@intra/ipn/proxy.go` at line 779, Update the health worker key in the non-TOK
branch around the core.Gx call to use proxy.health.TNOK instead of
proxy.health.TOK, preserving the distinct tracking and diagnostic identity for
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Restore health-ping coalescing
proxyFor calls healthy after each successful lookup. For eligible non-TOK proxies, this branch starts one goroutine per call because core.Gx does not deduplicate its trackwork key. wgproxy.Ping calls via.Ping() before its gate, and its gate permits calls within the five-second interval. Repeated lookups can therefore create concurrent ping chains and repeated keepalives. Restore the per-proxy staleness or in-flight guard before core.Gx, and use the non-TOK worker label.
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In `@intra/ipn/proxy.go` at line 779, Update the healthy path in proxyFor to
restore a per-proxy staleness or in-flight guard before invoking core.Gx,
preventing repeated lookups from starting concurrent ping chains; use the
non-TOK worker label for eligible proxies while preserving the existing TOK
behavior.
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Summary
proxyFor()'s internal timeout for itsRLock'd map-read goroutine was shortened fromgetproxytimeout(5s) tominWaitPeriodSec/2(1s) as an apparent side-effect of theminWaitPeriodSec: 3 -> 2tweak, with no accompanying doc-comment update and no mention in the commit message. This PR restores it togetproxytimeout.Why this is a regression, not just a tuning change
ProxyFor()'s doc-comment says:...but the actual code no longer uses
getproxytimeoutat all for this path - it's now silently 1s, andgetproxytimeoutis only referenced in the comment (dead/orphaned constant reference).More importantly,
ProxyFor()only retries/waits for a missing proxy whenisWellknown(id)is true (WG/Orbot/pip/internal/global-h1 ids - see the early-return branch and its comment aboutdnsx.Default/dnsx.Preferredconstruction). For any other, app-registered custom proxy id (e.g. a client app adding its own local proxy viaProxies.AddProxy),proxyFor()is the only lookup attempt made - there is no fallback wait/retry.proxyFor()'s lookup itself is a cheapRLock'd map read (return px.p[id], nil), but the pairedLock()inAddProxy/RemoveProxycan legitimately hold the mutex for longer than 1 second on a loaded or low-RAM device, especially for proxy implementations whose constructor performs real I/O before the map entry is inserted. Previously this guard had 5s of slack before giving up; now it has only 1s.Observed downstream impact
We maintain a StreamShield custom build derived from this project (via
celzero/rethink-app) that registers its own local HTTP proxy (a Layer-7 ad-mitigation shim) through this sameProxies.AddProxy/ProxyForpath. After picking up this engine change (commit range61894b7fdb..8677a52cbd), we started seeing an intermittent, permanent "proxy not found" failure for that custom proxy id on Android TV / Fire TV Stick hardware - the calling app's connection fails and the app retries indefinitely (observed as a stuck playback/retry loop), until the VPN tunnel is fully torn down and rebuilt. Bisecting the engine commit range and reverting only this one line resolves it, with no other change in behavior.Fix
Restore
timeout := getproxytimeout, matching the function's own doc-comment and preserving the deadlock-recovery intent this guard already documents. The unrelatedminWaitPeriodSec: 3 -> 2change (which only affects the separate wellknown-id retry/backoff path) is intentionally left untouched, since it is not implicated in the failure mode above - this PR is scoped to the minimal, provably-safe revert.No behavior change for the guard's actual documented purpose (an actual deadlock/hang still errors out - just with the originally-documented 5s grace period instead of 1s).
Testing
61894b7fdbossrh ->8677a52cbdjitpack) that this is the only functional change tointra/ipn/proxies.goin that range.Summary by CodeRabbit