fix(ssh): bound tunnel client handshake timeout - #1254
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 1 included review per hour; 0 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe SSH client now detects stalled handshakes with an idle timeout and returns a transient error. Retry handling repeats these failures. Tests cover stalled, successful, and slow handshakes. SSH server startup adds debug logs. ChangesSSH handshake reliability
Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes Change: Bug fix Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant SSHClient
participant ClientFromConn
participant handshakeWithIdleTimeout
participant activityConn
participant ssh.NewClientConn
SSHClient->>ClientFromConn: provide network connection
ClientFromConn->>handshakeWithIdleTimeout: start timed handshake
handshakeWithIdleTimeout->>activityConn: wrap connection
handshakeWithIdleTimeout->>ssh.NewClientConn: perform SSH handshake
activityConn-->>handshakeWithIdleTimeout: report read/write activity
handshakeWithIdleTimeout-->>ClientFromConn: return client or HandshakeTimeoutError
ClientFromConn-->>SSHClient: return result
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When a silent peer keeps the read side open, this timeout closes the connection and returns without waiting for the goroutine running ssh.NewClientConn. StdioStream.Close closes only its output writer, so it cannot interrupt that goroutine when it is blocked reading from stdin. Each retry can therefore leave another handshake goroutine and its connection resources alive. The cancellation path should guarantee that the read is interrupted or wait for the handshake goroutine to exit.
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On the P2 (handshake goroutine can leak on conns whose Close does not interrupt a blocked Read, i.e. StdioStream): accepted tradeoff, documented here rather than "fixed", because the available fixes are worse.
If a future change makes StdioStream's reader safely closable, the watchdog here needs no changes - Close will simply start unblocking the read there too. |
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Correction to one sentence in my P2 reply above: "x/crypto itself leaves the conn alone on handshake error" is wrong. Verified in the vendored source (golang.org/x/crypto/ssh/client.go:83-86): when clientHandshake returns an error, NewClientConn calls c.Close() - upstream closes the conn on handshake failure, exactly what the watchdog here does on timeout. The accurate statement: upstream never has a parked goroutine because its handshake runs synchronously in the caller's goroutine, and - like this PR - conn.Close is the only available interrupt; on StdioStream that close does not unblock a read parked in in.Read (pkg/stdio/conn.go: Close closes only the writer), which is the bounded park already described. The conclusion is unchanged. |
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In `@pkg/ssh/helper.go`:
- Line 135: Update activity timestamp handling in activityConn.Read,
activityConn.Write, and handshakeWithIdleTimeout to retain monotonic time
instead of storing Unix nanoseconds. Use one retained time.Now reference to
store elapsed nanoseconds, then compare current monotonic elapsed time with the
last recorded elapsed duration in the timeout branch without reconstructing time
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🟡 Minor · Use a generic message for an insufficient retry budget. · retry.go:121-124
e2e/framework/retry.go:121-124
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isRetryableSSHError(lastErr, lastStderr)marks an SSH handshake failure as retryable, this branch can return it with"retryable Docker error". Change the message to"retryable transient error"or select it from the matched error type.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 121-124: Update the retry error construction in the retry flow to
avoid the Docker-specific label when isRetryableSSHError identifies an SSH
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Bound existing-connection SSH handshakes by idle progress with a two-minute backstop, classify stalls as transient, and retry setup failures. Add coverage and SSH server startup diagnostics. Signed-off-by: Samuel K <skevetter@pm.me>
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The e2e SSH flake: after inject reports "done", the tunnel's SSH handshake to the host
ssh-server --stdioprocess can stall forever. Nothing bounds it -x/crypto/sshClientConfig.Timeoutcovers only the TCP dial, not the version exchange / key exchange over an existing conn - so a stalled peer hangs the spec until the framework timeout kills it, and the existing retry machinery never engages because retries only fire on errors, not hangs.Design: progress-based idle timeout
An absolute deadline is the wrong shape here: conn deadlines are unsupported or silently ignored on most DevSy conn types (processConn and sessionConn return
os.ErrInvalid, StdioStream is a silent no-op), and a fixed absolute bound can kill a slow-but-valid handshake. The handshake is tiny (~5KB total) but takes ~8 sequential round trips, so wall time scales with RTT (~2s at 250ms RTT, ~16s at 2s RTT, measured).So
ClientFromConninstead watches progress:activityConnwrapper records the last successful read/writeHandshakeIdleTimeout(15s), the conn is closed and aHandshakeTimeoutError(implementsnet.Error, transient) is returned so error-driven retry machinery can engageClose)Stuck = zero bytes for 15s (the flake had 141s of silence and would now fail in ~15s). Slow = bytes keep flowing, always completes.
No blanket retries, no e2e timeout inflation.
cmd/internal/ssh_server.goalso gains three debug milestones (startup, post-init, serve-stdio entry) so CI logs can distinguish host ssh-server startup from handshake stalls; the existing pre-handshakessh conn opencallback completes the chain.Test plan
TestClientFromConn_StalledHandshakeReturnsError: silent peer errors as anet.Errortimeout in ~50ms (idle param), no conn deadlines set, conn closedTestClientFromConn_SuccessfulHandshake: real x/crypto server over loopback; no deadlines ever set on the connTestClientFromConn_SlowPeerStillCompletes: 30ms read-latency link completes under a 500ms idle bound - slow-but-alive is never cut offgo test ./pkg/ssh/...,go vet, gofmt all cleanSummary by CodeRabbit
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