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Vladimir Dubrovin
d613750b94 Logs: a logger for each log string, shared and closed once unused
A logger (struct logger) is identified by the string log or -l gives it:
"" stdout, "/dev/null" none, "@IDENT" syslog, "&DSN" ODBC, "radius",
anything else a file. Each type (struct logtype) has init, formatting of
a connection into a buffer, writing, close, and a periodic tick for
rotation and flushing; ODBC and RADIUS register their types from 3proxy,
which alone has them. Services and configurations hold the logger they
use; the last to let go closes it, except the standard ones (none,
stdout, stderr, syslog), which are opened at startup and kept.

-l takes every log type now, and a file named by several services or by
both log and -l is opened once. rotate and archiver are bound to the
logger of the last log command when its configuration comes into force,
and every file logger is rotated by the main loop.

Errors with no connection go to a new stderr logger; after daemon, or as
a Windows service, stdout logging writes nothing and errors go to the
last log configured. A log whose writes keep failing is closed and
reopened; while it cannot be, its lines go to stderr and it is retried
every minute. ODBC's own reconnection throttle gives way to this.

Formatting (logbuf) is separate from counting traffic and clearing the
statistics, done once by logdo(), the services' log function, so a later
step can format or copy a connection's line and write it from a thread
of its own. dologname() and timechanged() move to log.c, which the
standalone services link as well.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-23 11:44:55 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
57818ad497 UDP loop: deadlines in a heap, on a monotonic clock
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The loop went through every session three times a turn: for the nearest
deadline, to register its sockets with epoll, and for the deadlines come
and the sessions ended. A datagram cost as much as the sessions there
were, idle ones too.

- The deadlines are in a binary heap, the nearest at its top: the wait
  is until the top, and the sessions timed out are taken from the top
  down to the first not due. A datagram only moves a session's deadline
  later, which leaves the heap as it is: the session is looked at again
  when its old deadline comes, and put back where its deadline is then,
  once in its timeout however many datagrams it had. A deadline set
  earlier by a handler goes up the heap.
- A session ended is put on a list and let go at the end of the turn,
  and its sockets are registered with epoll after the loop or a handler
  had it, not every session every turn.
- Deadlines are milliseconds of monotime(), CLOCK_MONOTONIC (the
  performance counter on Windows), which the time of day being set does
  not move: before, a clock set back kept sessions for as long, and one
  set forward ended them all. The loop reads it once a turn, in u->now.

With epoll, a datagram costs the same with 20000 idle sessions as with
none (38-40 us of the proxy's CPU a round trip, ARM), where it took 59
before. poll() elsewhere still builds its set every turn.

Tests: a session heard from every half second lives through two seconds
of idle timeout, and ends two seconds after the last datagram.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-22 23:53:06 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
f69eb13e9a sockrecvfrom: poll again when a readable socket has nothing to read
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sockrecvfrom() polled once and then read in a loop for as long as the
read failed with EAGAIN. Over TLS a socket is readable when only a part
of a record has come, and the read fails with EAGAIN until the rest
does: a client sending half a record and then nothing kept a thread
taking all of a CPU, and the read never timed out. On EAGAIN the socket
is now polled again, the read repeated at once only for EINTR.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-22 16:03:21 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
2514fb3dbf TLS: a part of a record read ahead is not pending data
SSL_has_pending() is true when only a part of a record has been read
ahead, which is no data yet. ssl_poll() took it for data: poll()
returned at once, over and over and without its timeout, until the rest
came, so a peer sending half a record kept a thread spinning and its
connection from timing out. ssl_pending() is now true only when
decrypted data waits, or when what was read ahead makes a whole record
(an SSL_peek() of one byte, the sockets not blocking); otherwise the
socket is polled for the rest.

splice() over kernel TLS still needs to know of any byte OpenSSL holds,
a part of a record too: ssl_buffered() tells it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-22 12:05:02 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
3d20e1104e resolver: per service, defaultresolve, fakeresolve or sysresolve
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Each service resolves names the way the last of defaultresolve (the name
servers in force, configured or the system's with the hosts file),
fakeresolve (127.0.0.2) and sysresolve (the C library) read before it
says; the last one in the configuration also applies outside services.
defaultresolve is the new command, and the default.

The name servers and the hosts file no longer depend on the mode: nserver
lines, or the system's, are always in force, so dnspr keeps forwarding;
with fakeresolve it does not, as before. fakeresolver moves to common.c,
which the standalone services link without resolve.c.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-21 18:45:48 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
994526dbc4 resolver: sysresolve, names resolved by the system routines
The command keeps the C library's resolution which a configuration
without nserver had before the system's name servers became the
default: no hosts file imported. nserver lines, if any, are still
there for dnspr to forward to. Of sysresolve and fakeresolve the last
given applies.

Tests: sysdns, with sysresolve dnspr has no hosts file names and a
name is resolved through the system routines.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-20 19:02:37 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
d5e78a0900 resolver: the system's name servers and hosts file by default
Without nserver (or fakeresolve) names were resolved by the C library.
3proxy's own resolver is now the default, with the system's name
servers: up to 3 from /etc/resolv.conf, on Windows from the registry
(set for the system, set for an interface with an address, Tcpip6
interfaces, then those DHCP gave). With none found, the C library as
before. nserver takes up to 3 as well (MAXNSERVERS), a fourth is
warned about.

The name servers in force belong to the process, not a configuration:
nserver lines are kept aside while a configuration is read and replace
them only once it is committed, so a reload resolves with those in
force until then. Resolutions and dnspr read a copy of them.

The system's are read at start, before the configuration and a chroot
in it, and are in force while it is read, so its host names resolve
with them; read again at a commit, and checked every 5 seconds from
the main loop while the default is in force. What cannot be read then
(within a chroot) stays as last read.

The hosts file, read with them, is imported into tables of its own
while the default is in force: its first address of a family for a
name. A name is looked up as one nsrecord made first, then the hosts
file, then the name cache, then name servers. A changed file replaces
what was imported. No name cache is made for it: without nscache
nothing is cached, as before.

The name cache's keys are host names of any case now: DNS names are.

Tests: sysdns, a name of the hosts file answered by dnspr without
nserver, in any case, and not with one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-20 18:49:21 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
8517a5675b proxy: no variable named small, a macro for char on Windows
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rpcndr.h, which windows.h brings in, defines small as char, so the
buffer the rest of a request is read into, unsigned char small[256],
did not compile with MSVC. Renamed, and the splice heuristic's small
in mainconf.c too.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-19 16:50:42 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
8cc7d255af connect back: a replaced -r service stops waiting at the reload
A -r service waited up to 60 s for the go-ahead on the connection it
made, without looking at a reload. One replaced by a reload went on
waiting, holding a slot and a thread, and took a client if the far
side's go-ahead came in that time; every reload left another such
connection in the far side's queue. The wait is now a second at a time
(60 s in all, as before): at a reload the service takes a go-ahead
already there, its client going on in the service which replaced it,
and otherwise closes the connection and stops.

The far side (-R) sent its go-ahead to any connection it accepted, and
a closed one cost it a client. A connection the -r side closed, at a
reload or after its wait, is readable before any go-ahead, since that
side sends nothing first: once past the ACL it is passed over, without
counting as one of the tries for as many as the listen queue holds
(1 + maxchild/16), so that connections made to be closed or to send
something cannot keep a client's thread in the loop.

Tests: reattach's far side passes over closed connections as -R does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-19 16:28:02 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
63a736c693 proxy: request line logged up to 4 KB, added headers written in place
REQMAX is 4 KB: a log line holds 4000 characters, so a longer copy of
the request line was cut by the log before "..." could show.

The headers this proxy adds are written straight after the header
block, HDRRESERVE (2 KB, what they come to at most) asked to be free
there first: in the side's buffer that is the room hdrread() left, so
nothing is copied, and the buffer on the stack they were built in is
gone.

The scheme and authority of a request are no longer kept in a buffer
of their own: req, the line in absolute form as logged, has them, and
where the authority begins and ends in it is kept instead, for the
next request on the connection to be compared with and for a parent
proxy to be given. An authority beyond what req keeps of the line is
refused. A line a request filter rewrote is logged only when the
rewrite is applied.

Tests: a 5 KB line through a parent arrives whole in absolute form.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-19 11:20:45 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
96adc6d9cd proxy: the line for a parent put back in the buffer, req only logged
A request to a parent HTTP proxy went as two writes, the line as the
client sent it from req and then the rest of the headers from buf,
held together with TCP_CORK, which does not help over TLS nor with
headers bigger than a segment. The line now goes back to absolute form
where it is: a request's header block is read HDRFRONT (300) bytes
into clibuf, room for http://, a host name of 256 characters and a
port; the method moves down into it and the scheme and authority go
in after it, and line and headers are sent in one piece. Where they
do not fit, or the headers are in a buffer of their own by then, both
are put together in one. TCP_CORK is gone.

The scheme and authority of a request are kept for that (auth), from
its line or, for a request with a path only, its Host header; the last
one is what the next request on the connection is compared with. A
CONNECT line is kept whole in buf. The request filters are given the
line in absolute form in a buffer of their own, made only when there
are some, as req was. req is the copy logged and nothing else: at most
REQMAX (6 KB) of the line, "..." after what is cut, never a reason to
refuse the request.

The headers this proxy adds are built in a buffer on the stack, of
bounded parts, and put after the header block once there is room for
them, in a standalone proxy too, which never asked for it. HDRRESERVE
is 1 KB.

Tests: through a parent a POST arrives with its line in absolute form,
its headers and body whole; user and password in the URL; headers in a
buffer of their own (a data filter) put together with the line; a 7 KB
request line served whole and logged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-19 00:14:35 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
aee69bf679 proxy: headers read and rewritten in the connection's buffer
The HTTP proxy read each request into a buffer of 64 KB of its own,
cleared it with memset, and read the answer's headers into it again;
the header lines were copied there one by one from clibuf or srvbuf.
Now the header block of a request is read whole into clibuf, and that
of an answer into srvbuf, and worked on where it is (hdrread()):

- the block is moved to one byte into the buffer, and its lines, as
  they are kept, are moved down to its start, so the line being worked
  on, and the 0 written after it, never reach the next one; headers
  taken out are left behind;
- HDRRESERVE is left free after it, for the headers this proxy adds,
  before whatever came after it, a body or another request, from
  where the connection is read on;
- the buffer is grown only for a block bigger than it, up to the
  limits there were (512 KB for a request, 64 KB for an answer);
- the headers are copied to a buffer of their own only when they need
  more room than that, when a filter hands back one, when a body is to
  be read whole into the same buffer for a data filter, and for an ftp
  listing, which is written where the headers were.

Whether buf is the headers' own buffer is kept with it (bufown), not
found from where it points: the side's buffer may be a bigger one by
then let go of. filterswap() leaves alone a buffer in either side's
buffer, which may be one grown by malloc, not only their fixed arrays.

What took buf for a buffer of LINESIZE does no longer: the request is
logged from a copy of its line, and the rest of a request refused
before its headers were all read is drained through a small buffer of
its own, keeping track of where its lines begin.

Tests: a POST whose body comes in the same packet as its headers,
which are rewritten, with a header added and one taken out; 45 KB of
request headers; two requests pipelined in one packet; empty lines
before a request; an answer with a 30 KB header; a 600 KB header block
refused, the proxy answering after it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-18 22:49:46 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
d9b9d1b9b7 UDP loop: epoll on Linux
The UDP loop gave poll() every socket of its sessions each time round.
On Linux it now keeps them in an epoll set: the service's socket and
each session's socket and parent's control connection are registered
once and changed as the session changes, a socket replaced or other
events waited for, and an event leads straight to its session. A
handler replacing a session's socket marks it to be registered again,
as a closed socket leaves the set and its number may come back for the
new one; dnspr does so moving on to the next name server. Sessions
handed over on a reload leave the set of the old service's loop and are
registered by the one adopting them; the service's socket is left
unwatched while an older service still serves it. Elsewhere, or built
with NOEPOLL, poll() is used as before.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-18 18:57:22 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
f5e646ba86 dnspr: only the answer to the query asked is relayed, or kept
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Answers from the name servers now go into the shared name cache, so
they are checked before they are taken:

- a query goes to a name server under a random id of its own, the
  client's put back only in what is relayed to it;
- an answer over UDP is taken only from the address and port of the
  name server asked;
- the answer must have that id, be a response, and carry the question
  asked, byte for byte, over UDP and TCP alike;
- of its records only one owned by the question's name itself (a
  pointer to it) is kept in the cache;
- a name with a label of other characters than a host's, a '.' or a
  NUL among them, reads as another name once made text, so its answer
  is relayed but not kept.

Tests: an answer with another id is neither relayed nor kept, and a
name with a '.' inside a label is answered but not cached under the
name its text reads as.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-18 17:06:42 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
58334cb51c dnspr: name servers asked from the loop, nothing waits in it
dnspr answered an A or AAAA query missing from the name cache with
udpresolve(), which waited for the name servers in place, and a name
server over TCP was waited for in place too, holding up every query of
the service. Now only the name cache is looked at in place; anything it
does not have goes to the name servers from the loop: over UDP the query
is sent on a socket the loop waits on, over TCP the socket is connected
without waiting, the query written once the loop sees it writable, and
the answer read in as many pieces as it comes. A name server silent for
DNS_TO is followed by the next one, as udpresolve() did; the last ends
the query with 821. An address in an answer is kept in the name cache,
unless -s says not to use it.

The UDP loop lets a session say what it waits for on its socket
(events) and a service handle a session's deadline itself (timeout).

Tests: an A query not in the cache answered by the name server and then
from the cache with the server gone, an A query waiting for a silent
name server while another is answered, a name server over TCP whose
answer comes in pieces, and the second name server asked when the
first is silent.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-18 16:50:34 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
f28552fc6f UDP loop: a session found by hash is checked against the client's address
The sessions of a keyed UDP service were found by a hash of the
client's address with a fixed seed, so an address crafted to collide
with another client's would have its datagrams taken as that client's.
The hash is now seeded with the table's random entropy, and a session
found is used only if its client's address, port and family are the
datagram's; otherwise the datagram is a new client's.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-18 16:32:49 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
5cbc72d289 Split proxymain.c into its parts
proxymain.c stays the one unit built for 3proxy and included by each
standalone service, and now includes its parts:

  mainconf.c	services from their configuration lines: options,
		srvprepare(), mainprepare(), srvinit(), srvfree(), and
		copying and freeing access lists and authentication
  mainlisten.c	listening sockets, shared and taken over on a reload,
		and reattach()
  mainclient.c	threads for the clients of TCP services, their pool,
		srvspawn(), releaseparam(), and the filters' hooks
  maintcp.c	the main loop of a TCP service, tcploop(), taken out of
		srvrun(), with tcpnext() and cblisten()
  mainudp.c	the main loop of a UDP service

proxymain.c keeps srvstart, srvrun() and main(), and declares the
functions of file scope of the parts so that they can be in any order.
The code is moved, not changed, but for tcploop(). The parts are
dependencies of the objects that include proxymain.c in Makefile.inc.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-18 16:11:46 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
58424770aa tests: udploop, UDP services in one thread
udppm: 20 clients at once each answered with their own datagrams, -s
ending a session with its first answer, STRING_LONG of silence ending
it (92), maxconn leaving a client without a slot unanswered, and a
session adopted on a reload and ended when the new rules deny its
client. dnspr: a query sent on to the name server and its answer
relayed, and a query answered while another waits for a silent name
server, which ends at DNS_TO (821).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-18 15:03:31 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
7cdfd87aa6 UDP services in one thread: udppm and dnspr without client threads
A UDP service now runs in its own thread alone (udploop()): it reads the
service's socket and the sockets of its sessions towards their
destinations, keeps their deadlines, and answers every client from the
service's socket. A session is a struct clientparam as a client thread's
would be, with a slot of maxchild, among the service's children and
counted on its listener, but without a thread. The services supply
handlers (struct udpservice, childdef.udp): udppm keeps a session per
client address, forwarding its datagrams, behind the headers of a
parent chain, from a socket of its own and answering what comes back,
until STRING_L of silence or, with -s, the first answer; dnspr makes a
session of each query, answered at once from the fake address, the
name cache or the resolver, or sent on to the first name server over
UDP, whose answer is waited for in the loop up to DNS_TO (a name server
over TCP is still waited for in place). Authentication stays in the
loop for now; datagrams over a bandwidth limit, or of a client without
a free slot, are dropped.

On a reload the old service goes on serving the socket until it sees
its configuration replaced, then hands its sessions to the listener;
the newest service of its kind there, which until then does not read
the socket so that no client gets two sessions, adopts them: a slot of
its own, the old one given back, its filters and limits, and
re-authentication. A session is ended with 26 if the newest service is
of another kind, 27 without a slot, or with what the authentication
says; sessions nobody is left to adopt are ended by the last service to
stop on the listener.

On Windows a send on a socket waited while another thread polled it,
which delayed udppm's answers by up to a second, and old UDP services
did not exit after a reload; with one thread per socket neither
happens, and the second socket bound to the service's address
(NO_SHARE_UDP_SOCKET) is gone from the code and the build files.

udpinit, the global udp_table, udpnext(), udppmchild() and
dnsprchild() are gone; udpsockmap() serves SOCKS5 UDP ASSOCIATE only.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-18 14:57:35 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
7efc23cdf2 Revert "udppm: answer through a socket of the session's own without SHARE_UDP_SOCKET"
This reverts commit be2ad06dba.
2026-10-18 13:25:55 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
537d089be8 tests: parent_ports tells an ephemeral port from the window by several
On Linux the port windows lie within net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range, as
the kernel honours no other, so the ephemeral port of a request the
range does not apply to falls into the 50-port window now and then
(CI saw 34001 in 33968-34017). The case now makes five such requests
and wants one of them outside the window: bound to it, all would be in.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-18 12:58:43 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
be2ad06dba udppm: answer through a socket of the session's own without SHARE_UDP_SOCKET
A build which does not share the UDP listening socket (NO_SHARE_UDP_SOCKET,
which Makefile.win, Makefile.watcom and CMake set for Windows, as Windows
does not take a recv and a send on one socket from two threads) has
dnspr answer from a socket of its own, bound to the service's address,
but udppm still answered through the service's socket. Since sockets
are taken over on a reload, that socket is now also read by the new
services while old sessions write to it. A udppm session in such a
build now makes its own socket too, as dnspr does and as udppm did
before; it is only written to, and closed when the session ends.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-18 12:51:09 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
5c19e6368f Unix sockets: remove on closing only the file this socket bound
When a reload cannot take a listening Unix socket over (a bind-time
-ol option changed), the new service binds the path anew, and the old
listener, closing after it, removed the file, the new socket's by then,
leaving nothing to connect to. The socket's file (device and inode) is
now noted on binding and the path removed on closing only if it is
still that file.

structures.h includes <stddef.h> for offsetof() in SASIZE(), which
needs it wherever the header is used.

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2026-10-18 12:38:11 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
9612bbdd22 Unix sockets: no addresses on streams, abstract names, tcppm port 0
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On Linux a proxy listening on a Unix socket relayed only the first
bytes of an answer (result 95): sockmap() read with recvfrom() into the
client's address, which for a Unix stream socket Linux fills with an
empty AF_UNIX one, and then sent with sendto() to that address, which a
connected Unix stream socket refuses. A TCP connection has no use for
addresses: sockmap() now sends and receives with NULL ones, and
connect-back sends its command with socksend() and reads the answer
with sockrecvfrom() without an address, which a NULL sin now allows.

An abstract socket name (-iunix:@NAME) was bound with the whole size of
struct sockaddr_un, padded with zeros, so a client naming it by its
bytes, as most do, reached another name. SASIZE() now gives an abstract
address its exact size; getsockname() calls that took SASIZE() of the
old contents as the buffer size take the buffer's size instead.

tcppm refused port 0 for a unix: target, though the manual gives
"tcppm 8080 unix:/var/run/app.sock 0" as the example: the port of a
Unix socket target is ignored, so 0 is allowed.

A test case covers a proxy on a Unix socket and on an abstract one on
Linux, tcppm to a Unix socket, a parent reached through one, and a
listening Unix socket across reloads: taken over each time, its file
kept, and removed once no service listens on it.

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2026-10-18 12:05:27 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
6428c4423f tests: reload cases that hold on slow runners
The downloads spanning a reload asked httpsrv for 64 KB blocks 60 ms
apart, meant as two seconds; but httpsrv sends at most 8 KB a block, so
they took 245 waits, some 15 seconds, and on the CI runners, whose
timers stretch, more than the 20 the cases waited. They now ask for
400 KB in 8 KB blocks 40 ms apart, two seconds indeed, and are waited
for up to a minute.

The UDP part of the takeover case slept 1.5 s after the reload adding
its udppm and then counted every datagram unanswered as lost; it now
asks until the service answers first, and wants more than 20
datagrams through the reloads rather than 100, what a slow runner can
send. That none is lost is the check.

On a failure, run.py prints every log line with a result code other
than 0, not only the last lines, so the reason a connection ended is
shown wherever it was logged.

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2026-10-18 11:25:07 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
67a73a4132 Count the traffic of each listener
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A listener counts the traffic of its clients as it is logged: bytes from
servers (%I) and from clients (%O). clearstat(), which every log writer
calls once a line is logged, as well as lognone and logradius, adds the
counts to the client's listener before clearing them, through
listenertrafficfunc, set where services have listeners and NULL in the
standalone binaries.

The admin services page shows them as listenertrafin and
listenertrafout. The takeover case checks that they go on through three
reloads.

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2026-10-15 16:02:14 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
6e12c2ce63 Name the HTTPSRV service in the string table
S_HTTPSRV, the type of admin and httpsrv services, was added before
S_ZOMBIE without a name in the string table, so its index held
"ZOMBIE": the admin services page, %N in logs and RADIUS named admin
and httpsrv services and their clients ZOMBIE, and a zombie service had
no name at all (NULL). Index 21 is now "HTTPSRV", 22 "ZOMBIE"; 22 was
unused.

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2026-10-15 15:36:13 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
113c9eaebe Count the clients of each listener
A listener counts its clients, whichever of its services they came to,
old or new: those connected now, raised when a client is spawned, and
those done with, raised as one leaves its service. As the listener
outlives a reload, so do the counts.

The services page of the admin interface shows them for each service as
listenerclients and listenerprocessed; services sharing a socket show
the same counts. The takeover case checks that the count goes on
through three reloads and that no client is left counted.

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2026-10-15 14:52:06 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
d83a48fe18 Share one listening socket among services on one address
Services of one configuration on the same address, port, network
namespace and device now share one listener and its socket, all
accepting on it, instead of each binding its own: on Linux the second
bind failed unless SO_REUSEPORT was set. A listener keeps a list of the
services accepting on it; the first to start opens the socket under the
listener's open_mutex, as binding may take long, and the others use it
("Accepting connections, shared"). The socket is closed once the last of
them stops.

Such services must be of one type with the same -ol options: otherwise
the configuration is refused ("a service of another type listens
there", "a service with other socket options listens there").

mainclaim() now runs for every service, at startup too: it joins the
listener of its configuration for the address, takes over one of an
older configuration (one of its type first), or makes a new one, under
one hold of listener_mutex so that a listener found is not freed before
it is joined.

Services connecting back (-r) to one place share a pseudo-listener
without a socket, of any type. After a reload a client moves to one of
the newest services of its type on its listener with a slot free: 26 if
there is none of its type, 27 if none has a slot.

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2026-10-15 12:31:50 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
d33e2d76c0 Listeners: socket options, several services on one address, connecting back
Only the -ol options which act when a socket is bound (SO_REUSEADDR,
SO_REUSEPORT, SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE, SO_PORT_SCALABILITY,
SO_REUSE_UNICASTPORT, IP_TRANSPARENT, TCP_FASTOPEN) must be the same
for a socket to be taken over. The others are set on the socket taken
over, those no longer given turned off; TCP_MAXSEG, whose default is
not 0, still needs a new socket when it is dropped.

Several services may still share an address, in one configuration or
across reloads: each new one takes over a listener of its own, one of
an old service of its type first, or opens another.

A service connecting back (-r) has no socket to share, but now a
listener without one for the place it connects to: on a reload the new
service connecting to the same place takes it over, and the old
service's clients are re-authenticated as its clients, as a listening
service's are.

Nothing moves from srvparam to the listener: its socket is what accept
and UDP sessions use, and the rest is the service's configuration,
which the listener only copies to compare.

Tests: a live option changed keeps the socket, a bind-time one makes
another, two services on one address are both taken over, and a
download through a connect-back service goes on or is cut as its user
is kept or removed. 3proxy(8) describes the takeover and
re-authentication.

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2026-10-15 11:09:57 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
dfee08ded4 Authorize FTP commands and data connections by the rules in force
An FTP control connection authorizes each OPEN or USER and each data
connection while it lasts, which may be across a reload: these go
through clientauth() too, as a client of the newest service on its
listener after a reload.

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2026-10-15 00:49:53 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
ae27a5cf90 Apply the new configuration to UDP sessions and kept-alive requests
UDP sessions check for a reload in udpsockmap() as TCP connections do
in sockmap(): unless noforce, a session goes by the newest service on
its listener, re-authenticated as its client, or is dropped.

A request on a connection that outlives a reload, an HTTP one kept
alive, is authorized by clientauth(): it moves the connection to the
newest service on its listener first if a reload came since, then
authorizes as the service whose rules apply (PSRV). The proxy uses it
for every request, so a request of a user the new configuration
removed is answered 407 rather than authorized by the old rules and
cut while relayed. reattach() takes whether to authenticate: sockmap()
and udpsockmap() move and authenticate at once, clientauth() moves and
then authorizes the request.

A test case covers the drops: with one slot free in the new service one
of two downloads moves on and the other is cut (27; a service keeps one
of its maxconn slots for the next connection it accepts), and a proxy
download is cut when a socks service takes its port (26). The reload
case checks the kept-alive request.

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2026-10-15 00:46:20 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
df09565fe4 Hand UDP sockets over on a reload too
A UDP service's socket is kept as a listener like a TCP one, the
protocol part of what must match: on a reload a new UDP service on the
same address takes it over. It is the way the old service's sessions
answer as well, and they go on answering through it; the new service
reads what comes, a datagram of an old session forwarded to it as
before, sessions being found by the service's and the client's
addresses whichever service made them. The socket stays open while the
old sessions do.

The takeover case keeps a udppm session going through three reloads
and wants every datagram back; with the build before this datagrams
were lost.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-14 23:30:52 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
724c92f3f6 Re-authenticate clients of old services against the new configuration
After a reload, unless noforce, a client of an old service goes by the
rules of the newest service on its listener, the one accepting there
now. It takes one of that service's maxconn slots, which counts it
there and keeps that service and its configuration alive until the
client is done, and is re-authenticated as its client: access lists,
users, authentication, bandwidth limits and traffic counters come from
the new configuration. A later reload moves it on, giving the slot
back. The client stays its own service's child, which keeps its
filters and TLS state.

It is dropped if its service was removed or is of another type now
(26), or if the newest service has no free slot (27); what the
re-authentication refuses ends it as before. A service without a
listener (UDP, connecting back) keeps its clients as they are.

This restores what force did before the configuration was kept per
service: since then a client compared its version with its own
service's configuration, which never changes, and was never checked
again. Services now take their configuration's version as it is: a
reload numbers the new configuration before reading it, and so does
startup now, where services were numbered one ahead.

A listener now stays with its old service until that service's last
client is gone, those clients looking the newest service up through
it; the socket itself is still closed as soon as nobody accepts on it.
Connection limits are given back in the configuration they were taken
in. PSRV() is the service whose rules apply to a client.

The reload case checks that a download of a user the new configuration
keeps finishes under it, and that one of a user it removes is cut.

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2026-10-14 23:16:00 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
3520e6e7cf Hand listening sockets over on a reload
A service's TCP listening socket is kept as a listener: when a reload
commits, before the old services are told to stop, each new service
takes over the listener of an older configuration's service on the same
address, port, network namespace and device with the same -ol options.
It skips socket() and bind(), calling only listen() again for its own
backlog, and logs "Accepting connections, taken over". The old service
stops accepting at its next poll and lets go of the socket; whoever
lets go last closes it, unlinking a Unix socket's path.

So a service staying where it was no longer leaves a gap: before, the
old one closed its socket and the new one opened another, and a
connection queued on the old socket was reset. UDP services, whose
clients read from the service's socket, and two services of the same
configuration on one address keep their own sockets as before.

A test case makes requests nonstop through three reloads and wants none
refused or reset; against the build before this, connections were
reset. The reload case no longer waits out the switch. SIGUSR1 in
3proxy(8) describes how a reload behaves now.

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2026-10-14 22:14:04 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
06ba6570f8 bench: the TLS splice() threshold, 4K against 8K and 16K
New TLS scenarios with 2000 clients, a 2K POST and a 50K answer each.
Over 20, 10 and 5 Mbit/s links the default 4K is as good as 8K and 16K,
a little better at 5 Mbit/s: it stays.

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2026-10-14 20:49:57 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
cf3c491eec bench: splice() heuristics in the mix, 8K against the default 16K
Splicing after two 8K reads instead of 16K is never better in the mix
scenarios and costs 20% more CPU as an HTTP proxy on the 20 Mbit/s link:
the default stays.

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2026-10-14 20:19:49 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
21ba6e9d0c Reload the configuration atomically
A reload reads the file into a new configuration, allocated from the
defaults, and prepares its services without starting them. Only if the
whole file is read without an error does it come into force: the old
configuration's services stop accepting, the new ones start. On an
error everything prepared is dropped and the old configuration, which
never stopped, stays in force.

Each service holds its configuration until it is freed, after its last
client; a configuration no longer in force is released when the last
holder lets go (confhold/confput). freeconf() now only releases what a
configuration holds, touching nothing global.

What runs without a service of its own reads the configuration in
force, runconf, rather than conf, which a reload points at the one
being read: the resolver, which holds it while it waits (a client
resolves with its own service's), the log, the thread pool, the admin
pages, which walk the services under config_mutex, and the signal
handlers.

The users table, havelog and the resolver choice are per configuration
now, the resolver applied when the configuration comes into force, so
a refused file leaves the users as they were. The log file, the
configuration file name, the string table, daemon mode and the filter
list belong to the process and are handed from one configuration to
the next. Settings left out of a new file go back to their defaults,
where before they kept the old values.

The gap between the old and the new listening sockets remains: a
connection queued on an old service's socket when it closes is reset.
Handing the socket over is the next phase.

A test case reloads a broken file (nothing changes, alice still gets
in, bob from the refused file does not) and a good one (bob only, the
service on its new port, the old one closed, a download through the
old service finishing whole). 40 reloads, a third refused, under load
show no memory errors under AddressSanitizer.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-14 20:15:14 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
796e9f8156 Fix memory leaks found under AddressSanitizer
- readconfig() kept its line buffer and argument array on every error
  return, so each refused reload leaked them.
- A filter refusing a connection in filter_client (TLS: a failed
  handshake) was not kept, so its filter_clear never ran and the state
  it made was lost. makefilters() now clears it, and empties the slot
  first: a pooled worker's slot may hold the previous connection's.
- ssl_filter_close() freed the client CA paths but not the server ones,
  for every TLS service set up.
- Compiled patterns were never freed: an ACL's (pcre: and regex: host
  names), an httpsrv rule's. copyacl() shared them between the
  configuration's ACL and each service's copy; each copy now compiles
  its own, and freeacl() and freehttprules() free them.

What LeakSanitizer still reports is OpenSSL's per-thread random
generator state of pooled threads, released only by OpenSSL at exit.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-14 20:15:01 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
1a193eb82d highload.html: kernel TLS, splice() heuristics, grace delay by traffic
A section on ssl_ktls: what it needs, how 3proxy reports it, and that
it pays with splice() for TLS connections carrying large transfers.
The splice() section gets the :MIN,STREAK,SMALL tuning and says TLS
services splice where the kernel does TLS. Grace delay is recommended
by the clients' speed for steady streams only: for web traffic it
saved nothing on any of the links measured, nor with the second CPU
the HTTP proxy needed on the 5 Mbit/s one.

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2026-10-14 19:14:46 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
f834e0134b bench: kernel TLS, with and without splice(), and CONNECT at 10 Mbit/s
bench.py takes ktls among 3proxy's options (ssl_ktls before the TLS
services) and for nginx (nginx::ktls, nginx::halfclose+ktls: Options
KTLS on both sides).

On Intel, whose OpenSSL and nginx have kernel TLS: 3proxy splicing over
it moves bulk data 6-17% faster at 5-34% less CPU per gigabyte, with 1K
requests 0-11% slower; before splice() over kernel TLS, and for nginx,
which relays through user space either way, kernel TLS was slower.

CONNECT at 10 Mbit/s, 10 ms, 0.5% loss: -s takes about 9% off the CPU
per exchange, grace delay matched to the rate changes nothing.

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2026-10-14 19:14:46 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
61041ebe7d Make the automatic splice() mode's heuristics a service option
-s[N]:MIN,STREAK,SMALL sets where the automatic mode splices, as -g
does for grace delay: a direction is spliced after STREAK reads in a
row of MIN bytes or more (SMALL from a TLS socket), copied again after
more than STREAK splices in a row of less than SMALL, and a body of
known length is spliced if MIN or more of it is left. The defaults,
16384,2,4096, are what was built in; a value left out or 0 keeps its
default.

The man page describes it, and its HTML copy, which still said splice()
was not built by default, now has the current text. A test case relays
answers of every size, chunked ones and a 3 MB upload through every
mode, two of them with heuristics set, and compares them byte for byte.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-14 19:02:23 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
cfe52878d0 splice() over kernel TLS
A service with ssl_ktls keeps its splice() mode. A connection whose TLS
sockets all got kernel TLS both ways may splice, as a plain one does when
no data filters apply; one where the kernel did not take TLS (nosplice)
copies as before.

TLS may hold data for a socket that a splice() from it would not see:
OpenSSL reads more from a kernel TLS socket than it is asked for. sockmap
asks the TLS code (splicetls) and reads that through TLS into the buffer
first, once the pipe has drained, so the order is kept, then splices on.
A read from a TLS socket counts as large at 4K, TLS handing out a record
at a time, and the short read collecting what TLS left from the last one
does not end a run of large ones. A splice() refused because a record is
not data (an alert, a key update, a ticket) falls back to reading it
through TLS instead of ending the connection.

The kernel TLS test compares the bodies with the origin's.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-14 18:50:02 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
44e372649a Fix the Watcom build, and UNC paths in httpsrv on Windows
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Open Watcom has no struct _stat64 or _wstat64: its 64-bit stat is
struct _stati64 and _wstati64, so httpsrv.c did not compile there and
the 1.0.1 lite build had no binaries.

widepath() compared and wrote '\\\\', a two-character constant, for a
backslash: a UNC path (\\server\share) never took the \\?\UNC\ form,
and forward slashes became backslashes only because the constant was
truncated to its last byte.

The Watcom workflow passed although nmake failed; it now fails when
the build does or leaves no 3proxy.exe.

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(cherry picked from commit 9651848bf1)
2026-10-14 17:40:16 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
d0e88a7b88 Optional kernel TLS with OpenSSL (ssl_ktls)
ssl_ktls asks OpenSSL to hand TLS to the kernel (SSL_OP_ENABLE_KTLS)
on the connections of the services which follow, both to clients and
to servers; ssl_noktls, the default, keeps it in 3proxy. Where the
library, the kernel and the cipher allow it, the kernel then encrypts
and decrypts, and SSL_read/SSL_write go on working over it. What a
service got is logged on its first TLS connection.

Reading ahead is left off where the kernel took receiving, which reads
a record at a time. A build whose library has no kernel TLS (wolfSSL,
OpenSSL before 3.0 or without it) warns and ignores the command.
splice() is not used for TLS services yet.

Tested on AlmaLinux 10 (OpenSSL 3.5.8, tls module): both directions
of both legs of a TLS chain in the kernel, the suite passing.

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2026-10-14 17:29:21 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
07fd3083fa bench: the slow link with two CPUs for the proxy
The 5 Mbit/s, 25 ms, 1% loss run again with a second proxy CPU, so
the HTTP proxy is not held by its CPU: it then keeps 3000 exchanges a
second in every configuration, and the grace delay settings rank as
with one CPU.

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2026-10-14 17:10:17 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
0917b02314 highload.html: grace delay and splice() with measured figures
Grace delay is described as it works: NUM small reads in a row in one
direction within a second start the wait, larger reads end it. It
saves CPU on connections carrying data in small pieces and caps a
connection at one read per DELAY, 16K copying and 64K (the pipe) with
splice(); a table gives the caps for 1-10 ms, another the measured
gains per client link, and DELAY is to be matched to the clients'
speed. It does not help once the CPU is exhausted. The example becomes
-g8000,2,2: the old -g8000,3,10 capped copying at 13 Mbit/s.

splice() gets measured figures: 3 times the speed at 60-70% less CPU
for large transfers on a fast network, within 0-12% for web traffic
in the mix over emulated links. -s, the automatic mode, is the
default; the paragraph still said -s0 was. splice() is not used where
3proxy has to see the data: while data filters apply, and by services
ending or beginning TLS.

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2026-10-14 17:06:47 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
5a7399450b bench: grace delay and splice() over emulated client links
Results on both machines over per-connection emulated links: seven
grace delay settings with a fifth client CPU; the promising ones over
three link qualities (100 Mbit/s 2 ms 0.1%, 20 Mbit/s 5 ms 0.5%,
5 Mbit/s 25 ms 1%); copying against splice() with and without grace
delay, the CONNECT mix included; and the slow link with waits matched
to its rate (10 and 20 ms).

Grace delay saves 35-46% of 3proxy's CPU per gigabyte on streams at
20 Mbit/s and 21-29% at 5 Mbit/s with a 10 ms wait, does nothing on
fast links, and costs CPU with waits too short for the rate or once
the CPU is exhausted. Over these links splice() and copying cost about
the same in the mix scenarios. A caveat says that every scenario but
the mix ones is synthetic.

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2026-10-14 17:06:47 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
4ab9eb7c2b bench: grace delay on an emulated slow link
The grace delay section, measured on plain veth links, is replaced by
one over an emulated client link: 20 Mbit/s per connection, 5 ms and
0.5% loss each way, devel with four -g settings and nginx, streams
through a relay and the fixed-rate mix scenarios. The README says where
the mix profile's shape comes from and that its parameters are chosen.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-14 11:39:20 +03:00
Vladimir Dubrovin
7140ffb43d bench: 90th percentile latency, per-connection link emulation
wrk's and mix's 90th percentile is recorded (p90_ms) and shown in the
report.py --latency tables when present.

--flow-rate limits each connection between the client and the proxy
(fq maxrate), under --netem when both are given, now with a large netem
queue. Both directions are shaped in the client's namespace, the
incoming one through an ifb, so the emulation runs on the client's CPUs;
segmentation offload and GRO are off on that link so that netem drops
single packets.

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2026-10-14 11:02:30 +03:00