to either enqueue or free their mbuf chains, but tcp_usr_send() was
dropping them on the floor if the tcpcb/inpcb has been torn down in the
middle of a send/write attempt. This has been responsible for a wide
variety of mbuf leak patterns, ranging from slow gradual leakage to rather
rapid exhaustion. This has been a problem since before 2.2 was branched
and appears to have been fixed in rev 1.16 and lost in 1.23/1.28.
Thanks to Jayanth Vijayaraghavan <jayanth@yahoo-inc.com> for checking
(extensively) into this on a live production 2.2.x system and that it
was the actual cause of the leak and looks like it fixes it. The machine
in question was loosing (from memory) about 150 mbufs per hour under
load and a change similar to this stopped it. (Don't blame Jayanth
for this patch though)
An alternative approach to this would be to recheck SS_CANTSENDMORE etc
inside the splnet() right before calling pru_send() after all the potential
sleeps, interrupts and delays have happened. However, this would mean
exposing knowledge of the tcp stack's reset handling and removal of the
pcb to the generic code. There are other things that call pru_send()
directly though.
Problem originally noted by: John Plevyak <jplevyak@inktomi.com>
This makes it possible to change the sysctl tree at runtime.
* Change KLD to find and register any sysctl nodes contained in the loaded
file and to unregister them when the file is unloaded.
Reviewed by: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>,
Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> (well they looked at it anyway)
code when examining their fix, which caused my code (in rev 1.52) to:
- panic("soaccept: !NOFDREF")
- fatal trap 12, with tracebacks going thru soclose and soaccept
where select(2) can return that a listening socket has a connected socket
queued, the connection is broken, and the user calls accept(2), which then
blocks because there are no connections queued.
Reviewed by: wollman
Obtained from: NetBSD
(ftp://ftp.NetBSD.ORG/pub/NetBSD/misc/security/patches/19990120-accept)
flag means that there is more data to be put into the socket buffer.
Use it in TCP to reduce the interaction between mbuf sizes and the
Nagle algorithm.
Based on: "Justin C. Walker" <justin@apple.com>'s description of Apple's
fix for this problem.
by bde, a few other tweaks to get the patch to apply cleanly again and
some improvements to the comments.
This change closes some fairly minor security holes associated with
F_SETOWN, fixes a few bugs, and removes some limitations that F_SETOWN
had on tty devices. For more details, see the description on the PR.
Because this patch increases the size of the proc and pgrp structures,
it is necessary to re-install the includes and recompile libkvm,
the vinum lkm, fstat, gcore, gdb, ipfilter, ps, top, and w.
PR: kern/7899
Reviewed by: bde, elvind
another specialized mbuf type in the process. Also clean up some
of the cruft surrounding IPFW, multicast routing, RSVP, and other
ill-explored corners.
writes of size (100,208]+N*MCLBYTES.
The bug:
sosend() hands each mbuf off to the protocol output routine as soon as it
has copied it, in the hopes of increasing parallelism (see
http://www.kohala.com/~rstevens/vanj.88jul20.txt ). This works well for
TCP as long as the first mbuf handed off is at least the MSS. However,
when doing small writes (between MHLEN and MINCLSIZE), the transaction is
split into 2 small MBUF's and each is individually handed off to TCP.
TCP assumes that the first small mbuf is the whole transaction, so sends
a small packet. When the second small mbuf arrives, Nagle prevents TCP
from sending it so it must wait for a (potentially delayed) ACK. This
sends throughput down the toilet.
The workaround:
Set the "atomic" flag when we're doing small writes. The "atomic" flag
has two meanings:
1. Copy all of the data into a chain of mbufs before handing off to the
protocol.
2. Leave room for a datagram header in said mbuf chain.
TCP wants the first but doesn't want the second. However, the second
simply results in some memory wastage (but is why the workaround is a
hack and not a fix).
The real fix:
The real fix for this problem is to introduce something like a "requested
transfer size" variable in the socket->protocol interface. sosend()
would then accumulate an mbuf chain until it exceeded the "requested
transfer size". TCP could set it to the TCP MSS (note that the
current interface causes strange TCP behaviors when the MSS > MCLBYTES;
nobody notices because MCLBYTES > ethernet's MTU).
Define a parameter which indicates the maximum number of sockets in a
system, and use this to size the zone allocators used for sockets and
for certain PCBs.
Convert PF_LOCAL PCB structures to be type-stable and add a version number.
Define an external format for infomation about socket structures and use
it in several places.
Define a mechanism to get all PF_LOCAL and PF_INET PCB lists through
sysctl(3) without blocking network interrupts for an unreasonable
length of time. This probably still has some bugs and/or race
conditions, but it seems to work well enough on my machines.
It is now possible for `netstat' to get almost all of its information
via the sysctl(3) interface rather than reading kmem (changes to follow).
so_error is set, clear it before returning it. The behavior
introduced in 4.3-Reno (to not clear so_error) causes potentially
transient errors (e.g. ECONNREFUSED if the other end hasn't opened
its socket yet) to be permanent on connected datagram sockets that
are only used for writing.
(soreceive() clears so_error before returning it, as does
getsockopt(...,SO_ERROR,...).)
Submitted by: Van Jacobson <van@ee.lbl.gov>, via a comment in the vat sources.
Distribute all but the most fundamental malloc types. This time I also
remembered the trick to making things static: Put "static" in front of
them.
A couple of finer points by: bde
detail is passed back and forwards). This mostly came from NetBSD, except
that our interfaces have changed a lot and this funciton is in a different
part of the kernel.
Obtained from: NetBSD
socket addresses in mbufs. (Socket buffers are the one exception.) A number
of kernel APIs needed to get fixed in order to make this happen. Also,
fix three protocol families which kept PCBs in mbufs to not malloc them
instead. Delete some old compatibility cruft while we're at it, and add
some new routines in the in_cksum family.
Specifically, don't allow a value < 1 for any of them (it doesn't make
sense), and don't let the low water mark be greater than the corresponding
high water mark.
Pre-Approved by: wollman
Obtained from: NetBSD
This commit includes the following changes:
1) Old-style (pr_usrreq()) protocols are no longer supported, the compatibility
glue for them is deleted, and the kernel will panic on boot if any are compiled
in.
2) Certain protocol entry points are modified to take a process structure,
so they they can easily tell whether or not it is possible to sleep, and
also to access credentials.
3) SS_PRIV is no more, and with it goes the SO_PRIVSTATE setsockopt()
call. Protocols should use the process pointer they are now passed.
4) The PF_LOCAL and PF_ROUTE families have been updated to use the new
style, as has the `raw' skeleton family.
5) PF_LOCAL sockets now obey the process's umask when creating a socket
in the filesystem.
As a result, LINT is now broken. I'm hoping that some enterprising hacker
with a bit more time will either make the broken bits work (should be
easy for netipx) or dike them out.
all of the configurables and instrumentation related to
inter-process communication mechanisms. Some variables,
like mbuf statistics, are instrumented here for the first
time.
For mbuf statistics: also keep track of m_copym() and
m_pullup() failures, and provide for the user's inspection
the compiled-in values of MSIZE, MHLEN, MCLBYTES, and MINCLSIZE.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
pr_usrreq mechanism which was poorly designed and error-prone. This
commit renames pr_usrreq to pr_ousrreq so that old code which depended on it
would break in an obvious manner. This commit also implements the new
interface for TCP, although the old function is left as an example
(#ifdef'ed out). This commit ALSO fixes a longstanding bug in the
TCP timer processing (introduced by davidg on 1995/04/12) which caused
timer processing on a TCB to always stop after a single timer had
expired (because it misinterpreted the return value from tcp_usrreq()
to indicate that the TCB had been deleted). Finally, some code
related to polling has been deleted from if.c because it is not
relevant t -current and doesn't look at all like my current code.
(PR #1178).
Define a new SO_TIMESTAMP socket option for datagram sockets to return
packet-arrival timestamps as control information (PR #1179).
Submitted by: Louis Mamakos <loiue@TransSys.com>
the obsolete soqinsque and soqremque functions as well as collapsing
so_q0len and so_qlen into a single queue length of unaccepted connections.
Now the queue of unaccepted & complete connections is checked directly
for queued sockets. The new code should be functionally equivilent to
the old while being substantially faster - especially in cases where
large numbers of connections are often queued for accept (e.g. http).
(maximum size of a socket buffer) tunable.
Permit callers of listen(2) to specify a negative backlog, which
is translated into somaxconn. Previously, a negative backlog was
silently translated into 0.
argument is now more than just a single flag. (kern_malloc.c)
Used new M_KERNEL value for socket allocations that previous were
"M_NOWAIT". Note that this will change when we clean up the M_ namespace
mess.
Submitted by: John Dyson