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Sockets linger in FIN-WAIT-2 indefinitely #79

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@tklinchik

It appears that exasock won't terminate nor time out sockets in FIN-WAIT-2 state exasock process is terminated in middle of receiving data from a peer leaving those sockets lingering until system is rebooted.

Here is a simple reproducible scenario using netcat:

  • Server side: generate large ascii file to transmit to a client
    base64 /dev/urandom | head -c 10000000 > file.txt
  • Server side: start TCP server to publish generated file to the first connected client (use of exasock is not necessary)
    cat file.txt - | nc -l 10.248.194.179 12345
  • Client side: initiate TCP connection using exasock
    exasock nc 10.248.194.179 12345
  • Client side: as soon as connection is established and some data is received kill the process using Ctrl+C
  • Confirm sockets stuck in FIN-WAIT-2 state
    exasock-stat

Example:

exasock-stat
Active ExaNIC Sockets accelerated connections (servers and established):
 Proto | Recv-Q   | Send-Q   | Local Address            | Foreign Address          | State
 TCP   | 1048396  | 0        | 10.248.194.178:49765     | 10.248.194.179:12345     | FIN-WAIT-2
 TCP   | 1048556  | 0        | 10.248.194.178:35827     | 10.248.194.179:12345     | FIN-WAIT-2

In addition to ports allocated and resources leaking after reviewing the code I also discovered that kernel module will keep re-evaluating those sockets indefinitely as well.

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