Run test_ipv6_egress_to_host's host server inside the test process - #1064
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The test starts an IPv6-only HTTP server on the host and has the guest fetch it with wget at the host's global IPv6 address. fcvm forwards the host's http_proxy to the guest and wget obeys it, so on a host that exports a proxy the request went to the proxy and never to the server. On an IPv6-only host whose proxy refuses the host's own addresses the test failed on every run: wget exited 8 on the proxy's "403 Forbidden", the whole exec returned in about 60 ms, and -q left no trace of the reason. Measured on that host with one VM, a capture on the namespace bridge, a capture on the server's port and strace of fcvm's connect() calls: - old command: fcvm's egress proxy connected to the proxy's port 8080 and the proxy answered 403. No packet reached the server's port and no IPv6 TCP crossed the bridge. - old command with the proxy variables unset in the guest, which is what a guest has on a host that exports none: 200 from the server. - old command with --no-proxy: fcvm connected to the host address on the server's port, 200 from the server. The fetch now passes --no-proxy. It also sets http_proxy to a port nothing listens on, so a fetch that obeys a proxy fails on every host and not only on one that exports a proxy, and it uses -nv in place of -q so that wget's error line is in the failure. The failure message no longer names pasta: the guest's rules redirect TCP for a global address to fcvm's egress proxy, so pasta does not carry this connection. Tested on the IPv6-only host, proxy exported: make _test-root FILTER="-p fcvm --test test_rootless_ipv6 -E 'test(=test_ipv6_egress_to_host)'" STREAM=1 before: TRY 2 FAIL [ 18.280s] (1/1) fcvm::test_rootless_ipv6 test_ipv6_egress_to_host with the closed-port http_proxy and without --no-proxy: failed: Connection refused. TRY 2 FAIL [ 18.384s] (1/1) fcvm::test_rootless_ipv6 test_ipv6_egress_to_host after: PASS [ 18.337s] (1/1) fcvm::test_rootless_ipv6 test_ipv6_egress_to_host
The test started its HTTP server as a python3 child and stopped it with one kill() after the fetch. The server could outlive the test in two ways: - A return before that line (a failed VM spawn, any `?`) skipped the kill, on every host. Nothing else stopped the child. - Where python3 is a launcher that runs the interpreter as its own child, the kill took the launcher and left the interpreter listening. The server exits by itself only after it has served a request, so on such a host a failing run left one server per try. A parent-death signal on the child would not have covered the second case. Measured on a launcher host: with the signal armed on the launcher and its parent killed, the launcher died and the interpreter stayed. Killing the launcher's process group stopped both, and nothing can run a group kill for a test process that is itself killed. The server is now common::LocalTestServer, a task of the test process, which test_egress.rs and test_proxy.rs already use. It stops when its handle is dropped and it cannot outlive the test process, so no path has a child to tear down. With a server whose body is known, the test also checks that the fetched body is that server's. The port is now the one the server bound, where the test used to pick a free port and release it for python3 to bind later, and the test no longer prints every listening socket on the host. host_http_server_stops_when_its_test_returns_early starts the server the way the test does, in a body that fails before its cleanup, and requires the port to be free afterwards. Tested: make _test-root FILTER="-p fcvm --test test_rootless_ipv6 -E '<tests>'" STREAM=1 The new test with the python3 child that only the explicit kill stops: Error: a server still listens on port 29308 5s after its test returned: Address already in use (os error 98) TRY 2 FAIL [ 5.135s] (1/1) fcvm::test_rootless_ipv6 host_http_server_stops_when_its_test_returns_early With the change: PASS [ 0.051s] (1/2) fcvm::test_rootless_ipv6 host_http_server_stops_when_its_test_returns_early PASS [ 16.389s] (2/2) fcvm::test_rootless_ipv6 test_ipv6_egress_to_host test_ipv6_egress_to_host made to fail (--no-proxy removed) on a launcher host: before the change each try left a python server listening; with it both tries fail and nothing listens on either server's port afterwards.
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Three review findings on the tests of the previous commit:
- host_http_server_stops_when_its_test_returns_early looked for a stopped
server by binding its port. Once the server closes its socket the port is
free for anyone, and nextest runs tests in parallel: another test's server
that took the port would have read as a server that did not stop.
LocalTestServer now hands out a weak handle to its listening socket
(`listener()`), dead once the server's task has ended, and the test waits
for that handle.
- The same test started its server on the IPv6 wildcard address, so it failed
on a host with no IPv6, where the egress test itself is skipped. The property
is LocalTestServer's whatever address it binds, so the test binds IPv4
loopback.
- test_ipv6_egress_to_host accepted any output that contained the server's
body. It compares the fetched body exactly.
Tested (x86_64), each first without its subject:
make _test-root FILTER="-p fcvm --test test_rootless_ipv6 -E 'test(=host_http_server_stops_when_its_test_returns_early)'" STREAM=1
the previous test, with another listener taking the port the moment it is free:
TRY 1 FAIL [ 5.050s] fcvm::test_rootless_ipv6 host_http_server_stops_when_its_test_returns_early
Error: a server still listens on port 41395 5s after its test returned: Address already in use (os error 98)
this test, with a LocalTestServer that keeps running when its handle is dropped:
TRY 1 FAIL [ 5.030s] fcvm::test_rootless_ipv6 host_http_server_stops_when_its_test_returns_early
Error: the server's listening socket is still open 5s after its test returned
the test binary in a process that may open no IPv6 socket
(systemd-run --user -p RestrictAddressFamilies="AF_UNIX AF_INET AF_NETLINK" <test binary> --exact host_http_server_stops_when_its_test_returns_early):
the previous test: panicked at tests/test_rootless_ipv6.rs:340:5, "the stand-in body did not start its server"
test result: FAILED. 0 passed; 1 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 3 filtered out
this test: test result: ok. 1 passed; 0 failed; 0 ignored; 0 measured; 3 filtered out
make _test-root FILTER="-p fcvm --test test_rootless_ipv6 -E 'test(=host_http_server_stops_when_its_test_returns_early) | test(=test_ipv6_egress_to_host)'" STREAM=1
PASS [ 0.047s] fcvm::test_rootless_ipv6 host_http_server_stops_when_its_test_returns_early
PASS [ 16.176s] fcvm::test_rootless_ipv6 test_ipv6_egress_to_host
Summary [ 16.223s] 2 tests run: 2 passed, 2 skipped
make fmt leaves the tree unchanged. make clippy is clean.
Not run: arm64, and a host whose kernel has no IPv6. The restriction above
refuses the socket with the error such a kernel gives, EAFNOSUPPORT.
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test_ipv6_egress_to_hostintests/test_rootless_ipv6.rs, and a third commit that answers review of its tests. Outside that file only the test helperLocalTestServerintests/common/mod.rschanges.The problem
On a development host that reaches the internet through an HTTP proxy, the test failed on every run:
Each failed try also left a
python3HTTP server listening on the host. Five failing runs had left ten.Why it failed
The test starts an HTTP server on the host and has the guest fetch it with
wgetat the host's global IPv6 address. fcvm forwards the host'shttp_proxyto the guest (README, "Host Service Access") andwgetobeys it, so the request went to the proxy. The proxy declined to connect back to the host's own address:wget -qprinted none of this and exited 8. The whole exec returned in about 60 ms: an HTTP refusal from the proxy, with no reset and no unreachable anywhere.Measured on that host with one VM started the way the test starts it, a capture on the namespace bridge, a capture on the server's port, and
straceof fcvm'sconnect()calls:--no-proxywgetwith the guest'shttp_proxy, no VMfcvm, pasta and the server were all working. The old message blamed pasta, which does not carry this connection: the guest's NAT rules redirect TCP for a global address to fcvm's egress proxy over vsock. The workflow file exports no proxy, which is why CI does not see this.
Why the server was left behind
The server was a
python3child, stopped by onekill()after the fetch.?) skipped the kill, on every host.python3is a launcher that runs the interpreter as its own child, the kill takes the launcher and the interpreter keeps listening. The server exits by itself only after it has served a request, and a fetch that fails never sends one.A parent-death signal on the child would not have covered the launcher case. Measured on such a host: with the signal armed on the launcher and its parent killed, the launcher died and the interpreter stayed. Killing the launcher's process group stopped both, but nothing can run a group kill for a test process that is itself killed.
The change
Fetch directly. The fetch passes
--no-proxy. It also setshttp_proxyto a port nothing listens on, so a fetch that obeys a proxy fails on every host and not only on one that exports a proxy; without that, dropping--no-proxywould stay green in CI.-nvreplaces-qso thatwget's error line is in the failure. The message no longer names pasta.Keep the server in the test process. The server is now
common::LocalTestServer, a task of the test process, whichtest_egress.rsandtest_proxy.rsalready use. It stops when its handle is dropped and cannot outlive the test process, so no path has a child to tear down. With a known body, the test also checks that the fetched body is exactly that server's. The port is the one the server bound (the test used to pick a free port and release it forpython3to bind later), and the test no longer prints every listening socket on the host.host_http_server_stops_when_its_test_returns_earlystarts aLocalTestServerin a body that fails before its cleanup, and requires the server's own listening socket to be closed afterwards.LocalTestServer::listener()hands out a weak handle to that socket, dead once the server's task has ended. The test does not look at the port: once it is free another test's server can take it, and a taken port would read as a server that did not stop. It binds IPv4 loopback, because the property does not depend on the address and the test then runs on a host with no IPv6.No assertion is weakened, nothing is skipped or retried, and the fetch's 5 s timeout is unchanged.
Tests
All through
make _test-root FILTER="-p fcvm --test test_rootless_ipv6 -E '<tests>'" STREAM=1, on the proxied IPv6-only host.First commit,
test_ipv6_egress_to_host:Second commit, the new test against the
python3child that only the explicit kill stops, then with the change:Third commit, the lifecycle test. The previous form of the test with another listener taking the port the moment it is free, then the new form with a
LocalTestServerthat keeps running when its handle is dropped:The test binary in a process that may open no IPv6 socket (
systemd-run --user -p RestrictAddressFamilies="AF_UNIX AF_INET AF_NETLINK" <test binary> --exact host_http_server_stops_when_its_test_returns_early, which refuses the socket with the error of a kernel without IPv6), the previous form and then the new one:Both tests of the change at the head of the branch, with the exact comparison of the body:
test_ipv6_egress_to_hostmade to fail on purpose (--no-proxyremoved) on the launcher host: before the second commit each try left a server listening; with it, both tries fail and nothing listens on either server's port afterwards.At the second commit, every test of the file (the DNS failure is the one described under "Not run, and known"):
make fmtchanges nothing andmake clippypasses.make clippyand CI's clippy step do not enableintegration-fast, so the test runs are what compile this file.Not run, and known
test_dns_resolution_in_vm, in the same file, fails on that host at this branch's base, which predates Pin a pasta that keeps the guest's address on a host without IPv4 #1059, with or without this change:diggets no answer for 15 s, and pasta at that pin logsDropping datagram with no flowfor each of dig's three attempts. One run with the pasta commit that Pin a pasta that keeps the guest's address on a host without IPv4 #1059 pins passed (PASS [ 16.122s], built without Pin a pasta that keeps the guest's address on a host without IPv4 #1059's carried patch). Not touched here, and the branch was not rebased onto Pin a pasta that keeps the guest's address on a host without IPv4 #1059.tests/test_egress_stress.rsruns apython3 -m http.serverchild the same way (onekill()at the end). Not changed here; it is test_egress_stress leaves its python3 HTTP server running after a failed run #1065.Summary by CodeRabbit