p2p/discover: fix UDP reply packet timeout handling

If the timeout fired (even just nanoseconds) before the deadline of the
next pending reply, the timer was not rescheduled. The timer would've
been rescheduled anyway once the next packet was sent, but there were
cases where no next packet could ever be sent due to the locking issue
fixed in the previous commit.

As timing-related bugs go, this issue had been present for a long time
and I could never reproduce it. The test added in this commit did
reproduce the issue on about one out of 15 runs.

p2p/discover/udp.go

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ package discover
 
 import (
 	"bytes"
+	"container/list"
 	"crypto/ecdsa"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
@@ -43,6 +44,7 @@ var (
 	errUnsolicitedReply = errors.New("unsolicited reply")
 	errUnknownNode      = errors.New("unknown node")
 	errTimeout          = errors.New("RPC timeout")
+	errClockWarp        = errors.New("reply deadline too far in the future")
 	errClosed           = errors.New("socket closed")
 )
 
@@ -296,7 +298,7 @@ func (t *udp) pending(id NodeID, ptype byte, callback func(interface{}) bool) <-
 }
 
 func (t *udp) handleReply(from NodeID, ptype byte, req packet) bool {
-	matched := make(chan bool)
+	matched := make(chan bool, 1)
 	select {
 	case t.gotreply <- reply{from, ptype, req, matched}:
 		// loop will handle it
@@ -310,68 +312,82 @@ func (t *udp) handleReply(from NodeID, ptype byte, req packet) bool {
 // the refresh timer and the pending reply queue.
 func (t *udp) loop() {
 	var (
-		pending      []*pending
+		plist       = list.New()
-		nextDeadline time.Time
 		timeout     = time.NewTimer(0)
+		nextTimeout *pending // head of plist when timeout was last reset
 		refresh     = time.NewTicker(refreshInterval)
 	)
 	<-timeout.C // ignore first timeout
 	defer refresh.Stop()
 	defer timeout.Stop()
 
-	rearmTimeout := func() {
+	resetTimeout := func() {
+		if plist.Front() == nil || nextTimeout == plist.Front().Value {
+			return
+		}
+		// Start the timer so it fires when the next pending reply has expired.
 		now := time.Now()
-		if len(pending) == 0 || now.Before(nextDeadline) {
+		for el := plist.Front(); el != nil; el = el.Next() {
+			nextTimeout = el.Value.(*pending)
+			if dist := nextTimeout.deadline.Sub(now); dist < 2*respTimeout {
+				timeout.Reset(dist)
 				return
 			}
-		nextDeadline = pending[0].deadline
+			// Remove pending replies whose deadline is too far in the
-		timeout.Reset(nextDeadline.Sub(now))
+			// future. These can occur if the system clock jumped
+			// backwards after the deadline was assigned.
+			nextTimeout.errc <- errClockWarp
+			plist.Remove(el)
+		}
+		nextTimeout = nil
+		timeout.Stop()
 	}
 
 	for {
+		resetTimeout()
+
 		select {
 		case <-refresh.C:
 			go t.refresh()
 
 		case <-t.closing:
-			for _, p := range pending {
+			for el := plist.Front(); el != nil; el = el.Next() {
-				p.errc <- errClosed
+				el.Value.(*pending).errc <- errClosed
 			}
-			pending = nil
 			return
 
 		case p := <-t.addpending:
 			p.deadline = time.Now().Add(respTimeout)
-			pending = append(pending, p)
+			plist.PushBack(p)
-			rearmTimeout()
 
 		case r := <-t.gotreply:
 			var matched bool
-			for i := 0; i < len(pending); i++ {
+			for el := plist.Front(); el != nil; el = el.Next() {
-				if p := pending[i]; p.from == r.from && p.ptype == r.ptype {
+				p := el.Value.(*pending)
+				if p.from == r.from && p.ptype == r.ptype {
 					matched = true
+					// Remove the matcher if its callback indicates
+					// that all replies have been received. This is
+					// required for packet types that expect multiple
+					// reply packets.
 					if p.callback(r.data) {
-						// callback indicates the request is done, remove it.
 						p.errc <- nil
-						copy(pending[i:], pending[i+1:])
+						plist.Remove(el)
-						pending = pending[:len(pending)-1]
-						i--
 					}
 				}
 			}
 			r.matched <- matched
 
 		case now := <-timeout.C:
-			// notify and remove callbacks whose deadline is in the past.
+			nextTimeout = nil
-			i := 0
+			// Notify and remove callbacks whose deadline is in the past.
-			for ; i < len(pending) && now.After(pending[i].deadline); i++ {
+			for el := plist.Front(); el != nil; el = el.Next() {
-				pending[i].errc <- errTimeout
+				p := el.Value.(*pending)
+				if now.After(p.deadline) || now.Equal(p.deadline) {
+					p.errc <- errTimeout
+					plist.Remove(el)
 				}
-			if i > 0 {
-				copy(pending, pending[i:])
-				pending = pending[:len(pending)-i]
 			}
-			rearmTimeout()
 		}
 	}
 }
@@ -385,7 +401,7 @@ const (
 var (
 	headSpace = make([]byte, headSize)
 
-	// Neighbors responses are sent across multiple packets to
+	// Neighbors replies are sent across multiple packets to
 	// stay below the 1280 byte limit. We compute the maximum number
 	// of entries by stuffing a packet until it grows too large.
 	maxNeighbors int

p2p/discover/udp_test.go

@@ -19,10 +19,12 @@ package discover
 import (
 	"bytes"
 	"crypto/ecdsa"
+	"encoding/binary"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	logpkg "log"
+	"math/rand"
 	"net"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
@@ -138,6 +140,77 @@ func TestUDP_pingTimeout(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestUDP_responseTimeouts(t *testing.T) {
+	t.Parallel()
+	test := newUDPTest(t)
+	defer test.table.Close()
+
+	rand.Seed(time.Now().UnixNano())
+	randomDuration := func(max time.Duration) time.Duration {
+		return time.Duration(rand.Int63n(int64(max)))
+	}
+
+	var (
+		nReqs      = 200
+		nTimeouts  = 0                       // number of requests with ptype > 128
+		nilErr     = make(chan error, nReqs) // for requests that get a reply
+		timeoutErr = make(chan error, nReqs) // for requests that time out
+	)
+	for i := 0; i < nReqs; i++ {
+		// Create a matcher for a random request in udp.loop. Requests
+		// with ptype <= 128 will not get a reply and should time out.
+		// For all other requests, a reply is scheduled to arrive
+		// within the timeout window.
+		p := &pending{
+			ptype:    byte(rand.Intn(255)),
+			callback: func(interface{}) bool { return true },
+		}
+		binary.BigEndian.PutUint64(p.from[:], uint64(i))
+		if p.ptype <= 128 {
+			p.errc = timeoutErr
+			nTimeouts++
+		} else {
+			p.errc = nilErr
+			time.AfterFunc(randomDuration(60*time.Millisecond), func() {
+				if !test.udp.handleReply(p.from, p.ptype, nil) {
+					t.Logf("not matched: %v", p)
+				}
+			})
+		}
+		test.udp.addpending <- p
+		time.Sleep(randomDuration(30 * time.Millisecond))
+	}
+
+	// Check that all timeouts were delivered and that the rest got nil errors.
+	// The replies must be delivered.
+	var (
+		recvDeadline        = time.After(20 * time.Second)
+		nTimeoutsRecv, nNil = 0, 0
+	)
+	for i := 0; i < nReqs; i++ {
+		select {
+		case err := <-timeoutErr:
+			if err != errTimeout {
+				t.Fatalf("got non-timeout error on timeoutErr %d: %v", i, err)
+			}
+			nTimeoutsRecv++
+		case err := <-nilErr:
+			if err != nil {
+				t.Fatalf("got non-nil error on nilErr %d: %v", i, err)
+			}
+			nNil++
+		case <-recvDeadline:
+			t.Fatalf("exceeded recv deadline")
+		}
+	}
+	if nTimeoutsRecv != nTimeouts {
+		t.Errorf("wrong number of timeout errors received: got %d, want %d", nTimeoutsRecv, nTimeouts)
+	}
+	if nNil != nReqs-nTimeouts {
+		t.Errorf("wrong number of successful replies: got %d, want %d", nNil, nReqs-nTimeouts)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestUDP_findnodeTimeout(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()
 	test := newUDPTest(t)