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A packet number past 24 bits no longer hangs the message system - #636

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Summary

A packet number of 2^24 or more hangs the main thread in LLCircuitData::checkPacketInID. The wire carries 32 bits and numbers wrap at 24. The distance to a number is worked out modulo 24 bits, but the walk that fills a gap wraps at 24 bits and compares with the whole number, so it never reaches one past the top. mPotentialLostPackets fills with 16.7 million entries and the loop never ends.

This came in with 5541ce25b5, which made the distance modular so that a gap could span the wrap. Before it, (index < id) && ((id - index) < 16) kept such a number out of the walk.

Such a number now takes the out-of-order path again. A gap across the wrap still fills, and a test now holds that too.

Testing

  • llcircuit_test gains two cases. On the old code, the case for a number past 24 bits was still spinning when killed after 60 s, holding 1 GB. With the fix it passes.
  • ctest -L llmessage passes 29 of 29 on Windows.
  • Not run in world. The change affects only a number no sender counts up to, and macOS and Linux are left to CI.

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The wire carries 32 bits for a packet's number, and numbers wrap at 24.
checkPacketInID works out how far ahead a number is modulo 24 bits, so
0x01000006 looks no distance from an expected 6. It then walks up from the
number expected, wrapping at 24 bits, until it reaches the number, which it
never does. mPotentialLostPackets fills with all 16.7 million numbers and the
main thread spins for good. One datagram is enough, from the simulator or from
anyone who can forge its source address.

5541ce2 brought this in when it made the distance modular, so that a gap
could span the wrap. Before it, `(index < id) && ((id - index) < 16)` kept such
a number out of the walk. It now takes the out-of-order path again, and a gap
across the wrap still fills.

The new case ran for 60 s of CPU holding 1 GB on the old code and was killed.
With the fix it passes, and so does ctest -L llmessage, 29 of 29.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved packet-gap tracking when packet sequence numbers approach or cross their numbering limit. Invalid out-of-range values no longer create misleading gaps, while ordinary missing-packet gaps continue to be tracked, including gaps that span the wraparound point. This provides more consistent packet-loss information in these edge cases.

Packet-gap tracking now excludes IDs outside the 24-bit range from the gap-filling walk. Tests cover out-of-range IDs, ordinary packet gaps, and gaps across the 24-bit wraparound.

Changes: Packet-gap tracking

Layer / File(s) Summary
Gap condition and regression tests
indra/llmessage/llcircuit.cpp, indra/llmessage/tests/llcircuit_test.cpp
checkPacketInID fills gaps only when the received ID is below LL_MAX_OUT_PACKET_ID. Tests check that out-of-range IDs do not create gaps and that ordinary and wraparound gaps are recorded.

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Suggested labels: c/cpp, llmessage

Merge Risk: Low · up to 66877

The change prevents out-of-range packet numbers from causing the gap-tracking hang. One new test accepts incorrect loss accounting across wraparound; correct it or explicitly accept this bounded follow-up before merging.

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Past the wrap, the gaps prevail.
High-bit numbers leave no trace,
Missing counts fall into place.
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