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coredns/plugin/shed/fdmutex_test.go
rpb-ant 76056dd2e5 plugin/shed: add UDP overload protection plugin (#8312)
* plugin/shed: add UDP overload protection plugin

UDP responses written back through one listener socket serialize on the
Go runtime's internal fdMutex, which allows at most 2^20-1 concurrent
operations per file descriptor and panics the process when exceeded.
CoreDNS serves UDP with one goroutine per query, all writing through the
shared packet connection, so a sustained overload parks every excess
in-flight query in that wait queue until the process dies with
"too many concurrent operations on a single file or socket". Observed
in production: ~2.8M goroutines and 60GiB RSS before the panic.

The shed plugin makes the panic structurally unreachable. It installs,
via Config.UDPDecorateWriterFunc, a per-socket bounded evict-oldest
stack drained newest-first by a single writer goroutine, so the fd
never sees more than one writer and residual capacity under overload
always goes to the freshest response. While a socket's stack is full,
arriving queries are dropped before any plugin runs. Drops are silent
(the client's resolver retries elsewhere) and counted in
coredns_shed_dropped_total{server, reason}.

plugin/shed/fdmutex_test.go demonstrates the failure and the fix with
one shared flood harness. Two subprocess tests reproduce the exact
runtime panic without the plugin's write discipline - one deterministic
(a held write plus >2^20 queued writers), one with nothing held or
mocked; both exercise the Go runtime rather than the plugin, so they
are gated behind SHED_FLOOD_TEST=1. The counterfactual - the same load
through the plugin's stack, completing with every response accounted
for as written or dropped - runs in every test invocation, including
-race, at 50k responders, and at the full 1.5M with SHED_FLOOD_TEST=1:

    SHED_FLOOD_TEST=1 go test ./plugin/shed/

Signed-off-by: Ryan Brewster <rpb@anthropic.com>

* test: add shed e2e test

Query a shed-enabled server over UDP (the plugin's deferred
single-writer path) and TCP (which shed passes through), and check
that coredns_shed_dropped_total is exported with its reason label.

No-Verification-Needed: test-only change
Signed-off-by: Ryan Brewster <rpb@anthropic.com>

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Signed-off-by: Ryan Brewster <rpb@anthropic.com>
2026-07-27 12:13:25 +03:00

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package shed
// Evidence tests for the fdMutex overflow panic described in README.md.
// One flood harness, two write disciplines:
//
// - TestFdMutexPanicOneSlowWrite (SHED_FLOOD_TEST=1): one held write plus
// >2^20 queued raw writers deterministically panic a subprocess.
// - TestFdMutexPanicUDPFlood (SHED_FLOOD_TEST=1): the same panic with
// nothing held — raw writers simply outpace the serialized drain.
// - TestSingleWriterNoPanicSameLoad: the same responders through the
// plugin's stack and single writer complete with every response written
// or counted dropped. Runs at 50k responders by default (including
// -race in CI); at the full 1.5M under SHED_FLOOD_TEST=1.
//
// The panic tests re-exec the test binary (the panic is a process death),
// cost ~1.5M goroutines / a few GiB / seconds, and assert on the runtime's
// message — env-gated so no automated or casual run pays that, or breaks if
// a future Go release rewords the panic.
import (
"fmt"
"net"
"os"
"os/exec"
"strings"
"sync"
"sync/atomic"
"testing"
"time"
"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/testutil"
)
// overflowMsg must match GOROOT/src/internal/poll/fd_mutex.go.
const overflowMsg = "too many concurrent operations on a single file or socket (max 1048575)"
const (
childEnv = "COREDNS_SHED_FDMUTEX_CHILD" // "flood", "held", absent = normal run
floodEnv = "SHED_FLOOD_TEST" // set to run the panic tests and the full-size survival test
// fdMutex fields are 20-bit: the 1,048,576th concurrent op panics.
fdMutexLimit = 1 << 20
// floodWriters is comfortably above the limit, so the flood mode still
// crosses it after subtracting whatever the drain completes while
// spawning. ciWriters exercises the same code paths at a size every
// test run can afford.
floodWriters = 1_500_000
ciWriters = 50_000
nSpawners = 16
// Flood mode uses near-max UDP payloads so each serialized sendto is
// expensive — a stand-in for a response datapath slower than the
// arrival rate.
floodPayload = 63 * 1024
childTimeout = 120 * time.Second
)
func TestMain(m *testing.M) {
switch os.Getenv(childEnv) {
case "flood":
childFlood(false)
case "held":
childFlood(true)
default:
os.Exit(m.Run())
}
// The parent asserts on the exit status; this line is log-only.
fmt.Println("CHILD-SURVIVED-WITHOUT-PANIC")
os.Exit(0)
}
// spawnResponders spawns n goroutines, each calling respond once — a raw
// socket write in the panic modes, a stack push in the survival mode.
func spawnResponders(n int, respond func()) (started, completed *atomic.Int64) {
started, completed = new(atomic.Int64), new(atomic.Int64)
var spawn sync.WaitGroup
for range nSpawners {
spawn.Go(func() {
for range n / nSpawners {
started.Add(1)
go func() {
respond()
completed.Add(1)
}()
}
})
}
spawn.Wait()
return started, completed
}
// childFlood is the crash payload: pile >2^20 concurrent raw writes onto one
// UDP socket. With held=true, one in-progress write is first parked via
// SyscallConn so the pile-up is deterministic; with held=false the writers
// race a genuine serialized drain.
func childFlood(held bool) {
conn, err := net.ListenUDP("udp", &net.UDPAddr{IP: net.IPv4(127, 0, 0, 1)})
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("child: listen:", err)
return
}
sink, err := net.ListenUDP("udp", &net.UDPAddr{IP: net.IPv4(127, 0, 0, 1)})
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("child: sink listen:", err)
return
}
dst := sink.LocalAddr().(*net.UDPAddr)
payload := make([]byte, floodPayload)
if held {
payload = payload[:64] // writes only queue as waiters; size is irrelevant
// Park one write in progress: the callback holds the fd's write
// lock exactly as a write blocked in the kernel would. Everything
// arriving behind it becomes an fdMutex waiter.
rc, err := conn.SyscallConn()
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("child: syscallconn:", err)
return
}
holding := make(chan struct{})
go func() {
rc.Write(func(uintptr) bool {
close(holding)
select {} // hold the write lock for the life of the process
})
}()
<-holding
fmt.Println("child: one slow write in progress (fd write lock held)")
}
fmt.Printf("child: spawning %d concurrent UDP writers on one socket (limit %d)\n",
floodWriters, fdMutexLimit-1)
started, completed := spawnResponders(floodWriters, func() {
conn.WriteToUDP(payload, dst) //nolint:errcheck // the pile, not the result, is the point
})
// If the panic is going to happen it already has (it fires inside a
// writer's WriteToUDP). Give the drain a moment, then report survival.
deadline := time.Now().Add(childTimeout)
for completed.Load() < started.Load() && time.Now().Before(deadline) {
time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
}
}
// runCrashChild re-execs this test binary in the given child mode and
// returns its combined output. The child is expected to die.
func runCrashChild(t *testing.T, mode string) string {
t.Helper()
cmd := exec.Command(os.Args[0], "-test.run=^$")
cmd.Env = append(os.Environ(), childEnv+"="+mode, "GOTRACEBACK=single")
start := time.Now()
out, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()
t.Logf("child (%s) ran %v, err=%v", mode, time.Since(start).Round(time.Millisecond), err)
s := string(out)
// Panic output ends with a goroutine stack; keep the log readable.
if i := strings.Index(s, "goroutine "); i > 0 {
t.Logf("child output:\n%s[stack trace elided]", s[:i])
} else {
t.Logf("child output:\n%s", s)
}
if err == nil {
t.Fatal("child process survived — expected fdMutex overflow panic")
}
return s
}
func skipUnlessFloodTest(t *testing.T) {
t.Helper()
if os.Getenv(floodEnv) == "" {
t.Skipf("panic reproduction (~%d goroutines, a few GiB); set %s=1 to run", floodWriters, floodEnv)
}
}
// TestFdMutexPanicUDPFlood: >2^20 genuinely concurrent writes on one UDP
// socket kill the process. Nothing is held or mocked — the writers simply
// arrive faster than the fd's serialized writes drain, which is the
// production storm condition.
func TestFdMutexPanicUDPFlood(t *testing.T) {
skipUnlessFloodTest(t)
out := runCrashChild(t, "flood")
if !strings.Contains(out, overflowMsg) {
t.Fatalf("child died without the fdMutex overflow panic; want %q", overflowMsg)
}
}
// TestFdMutexPanicOneSlowWrite: deterministic variant — a single slow
// in-progress write plus >2^20 queued writers overflow the fdMutex waiter
// counter. No timing or throughput assumptions.
func TestFdMutexPanicOneSlowWrite(t *testing.T) {
skipUnlessFloodTest(t)
out := runCrashChild(t, "held")
if !strings.Contains(out, overflowMsg) {
t.Fatalf("child died without the fdMutex overflow panic; want %q", overflowMsg)
}
}
// countingUDPWriter is the dns.Writer handed to the plugin's stack: the raw
// wire write, counted on success (a failed write is counted by the plugin
// as a drop).
type countingUDPWriter struct {
conn *net.UDPConn
dst *net.UDPAddr
written atomic.Int64
}
func (w *countingUDPWriter) Write(p []byte) (int, error) {
n, err := w.conn.WriteToUDP(p, w.dst)
if err == nil {
w.written.Add(1)
}
return n, err
}
// TestSingleWriterNoPanicSameLoad drives the flood harness through the
// plugin's actual respStack and writer goroutine. Only that one goroutine
// ever touches the fd, so the fdMutex overflow is structurally unreachable,
// and every response is accounted for as written or dropped.
func TestSingleWriterNoPanicSameLoad(t *testing.T) {
n := ciWriters
if os.Getenv(floodEnv) != "" {
n = floodWriters
}
conn, err := net.ListenUDP("udp", &net.UDPAddr{IP: net.IPv4(127, 0, 0, 1)})
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
defer conn.Close()
sink, err := net.ListenUDP("udp", &net.UDPAddr{IP: net.IPv4(127, 0, 0, 1)})
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
defer sink.Close()
dropped := droppedTotal.WithLabelValues(t.Name(), "response")
droppedBefore := testutil.ToFloat64(dropped) // the child accumulates across -count>1 runs
rs := newRespStack(stackDepth, dropped)
writerDone := make(chan struct{})
go func() {
defer close(writerDone)
rs.writerLoop()
}()
w := &countingUDPWriter{conn: conn, dst: sink.LocalAddr().(*net.UDPAddr)}
payload := make([]byte, 64)
start := time.Now()
started, completed := spawnResponders(n, func() {
// The responder's entire write path: what the decorator installs.
(&stackWriter{stack: rs, inner: w}).Write(payload) //nolint:errcheck // always reports success
})
deadline := time.Now().Add(childTimeout)
for completed.Load() < started.Load() {
if time.Now().After(deadline) {
t.Fatalf("only %d/%d responders completed", completed.Load(), started.Load())
}
time.Sleep(10 * time.Millisecond)
}
elapsed := time.Since(start)
rs.close()
<-writerDone
written := w.written.Load()
droppedN := int64(testutil.ToFloat64(dropped) - droppedBefore)
if spawned := started.Load(); written+droppedN != spawned {
t.Fatalf("accounting: written=%d + dropped=%d != %d responders", written, droppedN, spawned)
}
t.Logf("%d concurrent responders completed in %v with ONE fd writer: %d responses written, %d evicted (counted drops), no panic",
started.Load(), elapsed.Round(time.Millisecond), written, droppedN)
}