BUG/MEDIUM: h2: improve handling of frames received on closed streams
The h2spec utility found certain situations where we're returning an
RST_STREAM while a GOAWAY is expected. While we can't always reliably
decide which one to use (eg: after a stream has been closed for a long
time), in practice we often still have the stream available until it's
destroyed at the application level. This provides the flags we need to
verify the conditions that led to its closure, namely if RST was sent
or received, or if it was regularly closed using a double ES.
The first step consists in marking all closed streams as having already
sent an RST_STREAM frame. This will ensure that we can send an RST_STREAM
for a late transmission on a stream we have forgotten about instead of
risking to break the connection. The next steps consist in re-arranging
the H2_SS_CLOSED checks so that we can deliver a GOAWAY frame for the
few cases where an unexpected frame was received after a double ES.
By carefully taking care of these specificities, we can reduce by 4 the
number of remaining compliance issues.
Note: some tests start to become a bit long and to be repeated at various
places. Probably that adding a bitmask of allowed/forbidden frame types
per state and/or per situation could significantly help. It's likely
that some deeper tests in the frame handlers could also be removed now
as they can't be triggered anymore.
This fix should be backported to 1.8.
diff --git a/src/mux_h2.c b/src/mux_h2.c
index 18d4562..16c3ba1 100644
--- a/src/mux_h2.c
+++ b/src/mux_h2.c
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@
.h2c = NULL,
.st = H2_SS_CLOSED,
.errcode = H2_ERR_STREAM_CLOSED,
- .flags = H2_SF_RST_SENT,
+ .flags = H2_SF_RST_RCVD,
.id = 0,
};
@@ -1834,6 +1834,71 @@
goto strm_err;
}
+ /* Below the management of frames received in closed state is a
+ * bit hackish because the spec makes strong differences between
+ * streams closed by receiving RST, sending RST, and seeing ES
+ * in both directions. In addition to this, the creation of a
+ * new stream reusing the identifier of a closed one will be
+ * detected here. Given that we cannot keep track of all closed
+ * streams forever, we consider that unknown closed streams were
+ * closed on RST received, which allows us to respond with an
+ * RST without breaking the connection (eg: to abort a transfer).
+ * Some frames have to be silently ignored as well.
+ */
+ if (h2s->st == H2_SS_CLOSED && h2c->dsi) {
+ if (h2c->dft == H2_FT_HEADERS || h2c->dft == H2_FT_PUSH_PROMISE) {
+ /* #5.1.1: The identifier of a newly
+ * established stream MUST be numerically
+ * greater than all streams that the initiating
+ * endpoint has opened or reserved. This
+ * governs streams that are opened using a
+ * HEADERS frame and streams that are reserved
+ * using PUSH_PROMISE. An endpoint that
+ * receives an unexpected stream identifier
+ * MUST respond with a connection error.
+ */
+ h2c_error(h2c, H2_ERR_STREAM_CLOSED);
+ goto strm_err;
+ }
+
+ if (h2s->flags & H2_SF_RST_RCVD) {
+ /* RFC7540#5.1:closed: an endpoint that
+ * receives any frame other than PRIORITY after
+ * receiving a RST_STREAM MUST treat that as a
+ * stream error of type STREAM_CLOSED.
+ *
+ * Note that old streams fall into this category
+ * and will lead to an RST being sent.
+ */
+ h2s_error(h2s, H2_ERR_STREAM_CLOSED);
+ h2c->st0 = H2_CS_FRAME_E;
+ goto strm_err;
+ }
+
+ /* RFC7540#5.1:closed: if this state is reached as a
+ * result of sending a RST_STREAM frame, the peer that
+ * receives the RST_STREAM might have already sent
+ * frames on the stream that cannot be withdrawn. An
+ * endpoint MUST ignore frames that it receives on
+ * closed streams after it has sent a RST_STREAM
+ * frame. An endpoint MAY choose to limit the period
+ * over which it ignores frames and treat frames that
+ * arrive after this time as being in error.
+ */
+ if (!(h2s->flags & H2_SF_RST_SENT)) {
+ /* RFC7540#5.1:closed: any frame other than
+ * PRIO/WU/RST in this state MUST be treated as
+ * a connection error
+ */
+ if (h2c->dft != H2_FT_RST_STREAM &&
+ h2c->dft != H2_FT_PRIORITY &&
+ h2c->dft != H2_FT_WINDOW_UPDATE) {
+ h2c_error(h2c, H2_ERR_STREAM_CLOSED);
+ goto strm_err;
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
#if 0
// problem below: it is not possible to completely ignore such
// streams as we need to maintain the compression state as well