All packet header parsing is now performed by ngx_quic_parse_packet()
function, located in the ngx_quic_transport.c file.
The packet processing is centralized in the ngx_quic_process_packet()
function which decides if the packet should be accepted, ignored or
connection should be closed, depending on the connection state.
As a result of refactoring, behavior has changed in some places:
- minimal size of Initial packet is now always tested
- connection IDs are always tested in existing connections
- old keys are discarded on encryption level switch
Now flags are processed in ngx_quic_input(), and raw->pos points to the first
byte after the flags. Redundant checks from ngx_quic_parse_short_header() and
ngx_quic_parse_long_header() are removed.
Previously, when a packet was declared lost, another packet was sent with the
same frames. Now lost frames are moved to the output frame queue and push
event is posted. This has the advantage of forming packets with more frames
than before.
Also, the start argument is removed from the ngx_quic_resend_frames()
function as excess information.
Previously the default server configuration context was used until the
:authority or host header was parsed. This led to using the configuration
parameters like client_header_buffer_size or request_pool_size from the default
server rather than from the server selected by SNI.
Also, the switch to the right server log is implemented. This issue manifested
itself as QUIC stream being logged to the default server log until :authority
or host is parsed.
Initially, client certificate verification didn't work due to the missing
hc->ssl on a QUIC stream, which is started to be set in 7738:7f0981be07c4.
Then it was lost in 7999:0d2b2664b41c introducing "quic" listen parameter.
This change re-adds hc->ssl back for all QUIC connections, similar to SSL.
As per HTTP/3 draft 30, section 7.2.8:
Frame types that were used in HTTP/2 where there is no corresponding
HTTP/3 frame have also been reserved (Section 11.2.1). These frame
types MUST NOT be sent, and their receipt MUST be treated as a
connection error of type H3_FRAME_UNEXPECTED.
As per HTTP/3 draft 29, section 4.1:
Frames of unknown types (Section 9), including reserved frames
(Section 7.2.8) MAY be sent on a request or push stream before,
after, or interleaved with other frames described in this section.
Also, trailers frame is now used as an indication of the request body end.
While for HTTP/1 unexpected eof always means an error, for HTTP/3 an eof right
after a DATA frame end means the end of the request body. For this reason,
since adding HTTP/3 support, eof no longer produced an error right after recv()
but was passed to filters which would make a decision. This decision was made
in ngx_http_parse_chunked() and ngx_http_v3_parse_request_body() based on the
b->last_buf flag.
Now that since 0f7f1a509113 (1.19.2) rb->chunked->length is a lower threshold
for the expected number of bytes, it can be set to zero to indicate that more
bytes may or may not follow. Now it's possible to move the check for eof from
parser functions to ngx_http_request_body_chunked_filter() and clean up the
parsing code.
Also, in the default branch, in case of eof, the following three things
happened, which were replaced with returning NGX_ERROR while implementing
HTTP/3:
- "client prematurely closed connection" message was logged
- c->error flag was set
- NGX_HTTP_BAD_REQUEST was returned
The change brings back this behavior for HTTP/1 as well as HTTP/3.
If a packet sent in response to an initial client packet was lost, then
successive client initial packets were dropped by nginx with the unexpected
dcid message logged. This was because the new DCID generated by the server was
not available to the client.
The check tested the total size of a packet header and unprotected packet
payload, which doesn't include the packet number length and expansion of
the packet protection AEAD. If the packet was corrupted, it could cause
false triggering of the condition due to unsigned type underflow leading
to a connection error.
Existing checks for the QUIC header and protected packet payload lengths
should be enough.
From quic-tls draft, section 5.4.2:
An endpoint MUST discard packets that are not long enough to contain
a complete sample.
The check includes the Packet Number field assumed to be 4 bytes long.
During long packet header parsing, pkt->len is updated with the Length
field value that is used to find next coalesced packets in a datagram.
For short packets it still contained the whole QUIC packet size.
This change uniforms packet length handling to always contain the total
length of the packet number and protected packet payload in pkt->len.
Previously STOP_SENDING was sent to client upon stream closure if rev->eof and
rev->error were not set. This was an indirect indication that no RESET_STREAM
or STREAM fin has arrived. But it is indeed possible that rev->eof is not set,
but STREAM fin has already been received, just not read out by the application.
In this case sending STOP_SENDING does not make sense and can be misleading for
some clients.
The peer may issue additional connection IDs up to the limit defined by
transport parameter "active_connection_id_limit", using NEW_CONNECTION_ID
frames, and retire such IDs using RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID frame.
It is required to distinguish internal errors from corrupted packets and
perform actions accordingly: drop the packet or close the connection.
While there, made processing of ngx_quic_decrypt() erorrs similar and
removed couple of protocol violation errors.
quic-transport
5.2:
Packets that are matched to an existing connection are discarded if
the packets are inconsistent with the state of that connection.
5.2.2:
Servers MUST drop incoming packets under all other circumstances.
The removal of QUIC packet protection depends on the largest packet number
received. When a garbage packet was received, the decoder still updated the
largest packet number from that packet. This could affect removing protection
from subsequent QUIC packets.
As per HTTP/3 draft 29, section 4.1:
When the server does not need to receive the remainder of the request,
it MAY abort reading the request stream, send a complete response, and
cleanly close the sending part of the stream.
On QUIC connections, SSL_shutdown() is used to call the send_alert callback
to send a CONNECTION_CLOSE frame. The reverse side is handled by other means.
At least BoringSSL doesn't differentiate whether this is a QUIC SSL method,
so waiting for the peer's close_notify alert should be explicitly disabled.
The logical quic connection state is tested by handler functions that
process corresponding types of packets (initial/handshake/application).
The packet is declined if state is incorrect.
No timeout is required for the input queue.
If a client attemtps to start a new connection with unsupported version,
a version negotiation packet is sent that contains a list of supported
versions (currently this is a single version, selected at compile time).
The function ngx_http_upstream_check_broken_connection() terminates the HTTP/1
request if client sends eof. For QUIC (including HTTP/3) the c->write->error
flag is now checked instead. This flag is set when the entire QUIC connection
is closed or STOP_SENDING was received from client.
Previously the request body DATA frame header was read by one byte because
filters were called only when the requested number of bytes were read. Now,
after 08ff2e10ae92 (1.19.2), filters are called after each read. More bytes
can be read at once, which simplifies and optimizes the code.
This also reduces diff with the default branch.
Previously, such packets weren't handled as the resulting zero remaining time
prevented setting the loss detection timer, which, instead, could be disarmed.
For implementation details, see quic-recovery draft 29, appendix A.10.
The PTO handler is split into separate PTO and loss detection handlers
that operate interchangeably depending on which timer should be set.
The present ngx_quic_lost_handler is now only used for packet loss detection.
It replaces ngx_quic_pto_handler if there are packets preceeding largest_ack.
Once there is no more such packets, ngx_quic_pto_handler is installed again.
Probes carry unacknowledged data previously sent in the oldest packet number,
one per each packet number space. That is, it could be up to two probes.
PTO backoff is now increased before scheduling next probes.
In particular, this prevents declaring packet number 0 as lost if
there aren't yet any acknowledgements in this packet number space.
For example, only Initial packets were acknowledged in handshake.
