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Johnathan Corgan fa49dc1210 Retire the mesh-public static test topology
The mesh-public profile ran in neither runner: ci-local's static suite
list carries only static-mesh and static-chain, and the GitHub matrix has
only mesh and chain. It also added no coverage over static-mesh.
ping-test.sh and iperf-test.sh branched mesh and mesh-public together and
exercised the same 20 directed pairs among node-a through node-e, and no
script referenced the external node at all. The convergence waits even
used mesh's peer counts rather than mesh-public's, so the extra link to
the public node was never counted, let alone asserted.

Running it would therefore have added a dependency on a live internet
host (test-us01.fips.network) in exchange for zero additional assertions.
Remove the topology, its five compose services, the script branches that
aliased it to mesh, and the documentation rows. An invocation using the
old profile name now fails on ping-test.sh's unknown-profile guard
instead of silently behaving as mesh.

The config generator's external-node support (external_ip,
is_external_node) stays. It has no consumer now, but it is woven into the
config path every remaining topology uses, so removing it would put the
gating suites at risk for no present gain.
2026-07-26 13:54:14 +00:00
Johnathan Corgan 6c52b0e01e Let the static test network float so concurrent CI runs cannot collide
Two local CI runs on one host both asked docker for 172.20.0.0/24 and the
second lost its whole static family to "Pool overlaps". Docker honours a
fixed subnet request verbatim, so the only robust fix is to stop making one:
fips-net now requests no subnet and docker assigns from its own pool, which
cannot hand the same range to two runs.

That means node addresses are not known before `up`, so peers address each
other by container hostname instead. The generator emits node-<id>, or the
topology's docker_host where the compose hostname differs — only the gateway
profile, whose services are gw-*. External peers keep the address the
topology gives them, since it is not ours to assign. The resolv.conf mount
stays: dnsmasq is what forwards these names to docker's resolver and .fips
to the daemon, so removing it would take out every .fips assertion.

generated-configs is now per-run as well. A shared directory let two runs
overwrite each other's node configs, which the subnet collision had been
hiding by killing runs before that window opened. The generator, the compose
bind mounts and env_file, the six scripts that read it, and teardown all
follow FIPS_CI_NAME_SUFFIX; unset, every path renders as before. Teardown
keeps the directory after a failed run, where it is the evidence of what the
failing nodes were configured with.

Three things this exposed that were wrong independently:

admission-cap built its tcpdump patterns from the topology file's docker_ip
literals. Floating the subnet makes those match nothing, which would have
left its expect-zero "no Msg2 leaked" assertion passing because it could no
longer see anything at all. It now reads addresses from the running
containers. Restarting the denied peers together also made them swap
addresses, so each peer's counts were really the pair's total; they are
restarted one at a time now, and a check fails the suite outright if two
denied peers ever share an address, because per-peer attribution is
impossible once they do.

Attribute lookups in the generator used a fixed ten-line window and read the
next node's fields when a node omitted an attribute. An external node
followed by an internal one was classified as internal, which under hostname
peering would emit a name that resolves nowhere. Lookups are bounded to the
node's own block; generated output is byte-identical for all eight
topologies.

The rekey outbound-only variant used to rewrite peer addresses to hostnames
to set up its scenario. The generator now does that everywhere, so the
rewrite matched nothing and was silently doing no work. It asserts the
premise instead, and fails if a numeric address ever reappears.

Verified by running three instances of this compose at once — tcp-chain plus
two independent meshes — which drew 10.128.2/3/4.0/24 with no overlap while
both meshes passed ping-test 20/20 over the real .fips path. tcp-chain is
run by neither CI runner, so it was checked by hand: chain peer counts 1/2/1
and multi-hop .fips reachable both directions over TCP.

gateway-lan still pins its own IPv4 and fd02:: ranges and is unchanged here,
so the gateway profile is not yet concurrency-safe.
2026-07-23 02:05:56 +00:00
Johnathan Corgan e4a854f6b0 Stop concurrent local CI runs from clobbering each other's containers
Two runs on one host destroyed each other's containers, producing
mid-test "No such container" failures that look like real defects. The
automated builder runs a full local CI on the same box every few minutes,
so the machine is contended almost always and this has red-ed both a hand
run and an automated gate.

Two independent causes are fixed here. Container names were hardcoded, and
docker names are global rather than scoped by compose project, so two runs
collided on the same name; every name now takes an optional suffix that
the harness sets from the run id. And the cleanup sweep matched a label
shared by every run, so one run's teardown force-removed another's
containers; resources now also carry a per-run label and the sweep can be
narrowed to it.

A third hazard turned up that was not in the original report: the sidecar
suite passes explicit compose project names, which override the run-scoped
project and put it outside the shared prefix entirely. Its project names,
network, and derived container references are now scoped too.

Both are default-off. With the suffix unset, names render exactly as they
do today and a bare compose invocation is unchanged, which is what keeps
the hosted CI and the documentation correct. A cleanup run with no run id
still reaps everything, which is what a manual "clear the box" wants.

The literal-name sweep was not sufficient: six scripts build container
names dynamically from node labels, and two suites create their own
containers outside compose. Those are handled at their construction sites.

Verified: syntax check on all modified scripts; compose validation on
every modified file with the suffix both set and unset; and a synthetic
two-run reproduction that shows the old cleanup destroying a bystander run
and the new one leaving it alone.

Known gap: subnets are still hardcoded, so two concurrent full runs will
still collide on address-pool overlap. That fix reaches into topology
configs, chaos scenarios, diagrams and production source, so it is left
for its own change rather than half-done here.
2026-07-19 06:41:25 +00:00
Martti MalmiandJohnathan Corgan 0a5c367edc data-plane perf overhaul: off-task encrypt + decrypt, GSO, connected UDP
Moves both AEAD layers (ChaCha20-Poly1305, one round per layer per
packet) plus the sendmsg syscall off the rx_loop task onto a per-shard
worker pool, adds per-peer connect(2)-ed UDP with SO_REUSEPORT, and
uses Linux UDP GSO (sendmsg+UDP_SEGMENT — kernel splits one super-skb
into N on-the-wire datagrams in a single TX-stack walk) when packets
in a batch are uniform-size. Same kernel primitive WireGuard's
in-kernel module and BoringTun use to hit 2.5–3.2 Gbps single-stream.

Single TCP stream on a 5-node docker-bridge mesh, 5 x 15 s x P=1:

  A→D:  1379 → 2708 Mbps  (1.96x, RTT +0.12 ms)
  A→E:  1394 → 2663 Mbps  (1.91x, RTT +0.11 ms)
  E→A:  1406 → 2624 Mbps  (1.87x, RTT +0.19 ms)

Static-peer pairs only — every CoV under 3%, 0 outliers, 0% ICMP
loss. The ~+100 µs RTT is the worker queue handoff cost; AEAD +
sendmmsg now run on a separate core in exchange.

What lands:

- src/node/encrypt_worker.rs: std::thread + crossbeam_channel
  workers; hash-by-destination dispatch pins a TCP flow to one
  worker so wire ordering is preserved; per-worker sendmmsg(2)
  batching up to 32; Linux uses sendmsg(2)+UDP_SEGMENT when
  packets in a group are uniform-size.

- src/node/decrypt_worker.rs: receive-side mirror. Each shard owns
  its session's recv cipher + replay window in a thread-local
  HashMap (no shared RwLock/Mutex). Sessions are handed off at
  promote_connection and re-registered on K-bit flip / rekey
  cutover.

- src/node/handlers/session.rs try_send_session_data_pipelined:
  FSP+FMP both seal in-place in the worker on one wire-buffer
  alloc; no intermediate inner_plaintext / fsp_payload Vecs.

- src/transport/udp/connected_peer.rs + peer_drain.rs: per-peer
  connect(2)-ed UDP socket with SO_REUSEPORT (set on the listen
  socket too — without that, EADDRINUSE on activation and every
  packet falls back to the wildcard path); the worker sends with
  msg_name=NULL and the kernel uses its cached 5-tuple. Tick-
  driven activation in handlers/connected_udp.rs, idempotent.

- src/transport/udp/mod.rs: mem::replace the recvmmsg backing buffer
  instead of buf.to_vec() per packet — single pointer swap, no
  MTU-sized memcpy.

- src/protocol/link.rs SessionDatagramRef: zero-copy borrowed view
  used by handle_session_datagram for the bulk local-delivery
  path; handle_session_payload takes the borrowed payload
  directly (no payload[35..].to_vec()).

- src/transport/mod.rs TransportAddr::from_socket_addr: collapses
  the two-alloc from_string(addr.to_string()) pattern to one.

- src/node/handlers/rx_loop.rs: decrypt-fallback drain promoted
  ahead of packet_rx in the select! (TCP ACK starvation fix);
  interleaved fallback drain every 32 packets inside the rx burst
  loop.

- noise::Session: send_cipher_clone / recv_cipher_clone /
  recv_replay_snapshot_owned / take_send_counter / accept_replay
  so off-task workers can hold a cloned cipher + reserved counter
  while the dispatcher keeps replay/counter sequencing serial.
  CipherState::cipher_clone returns a refcount-bumped LessSafeKey.
  AsyncUdpSocket: AsRawFd so workers issue raw sendmmsg / sendmsg
  without going through the tokio reactor.

- Worker pool sizing: both default to num_cpus, overridable via
  FIPS_ENCRYPT_WORKERS=N / FIPS_DECRYPT_WORKERS=N. Per-peer
  connected UDP can be disabled via FIPS_CONNECTED_UDP=0.

- src/perf_profile.rs: optional per-stage timing reporter under
  FIPS_PERF=1 (or FIPS_PIPELINE_TRACE=1). Off by default; zero
  overhead when disabled.

- All cfg(unix)-gated. Windows continues on the existing tokio-
  based send/recv.

Decrypt worker session lifecycle:

- Node::unregister_decrypt_worker_session mirrors the existing
  register helper. Wired at the two natural sites that already
  iterate peers_by_index: the rekey drain-completion block in
  handlers/rekey.rs (drops the worker entry for the old our_index
  once the drain window has expired and the cache_key is
  unreachable to any in-flight OLD-K packet), and remove_active_peer
  in handlers/dispatch.rs (drops the worker entry for each of the
  four index slots: current, rekey, pending, previous). Only
  our_index is normally registered; unregister_session is fire-
  and-forget for missing entries, so calling unconditionally on
  all four slots is correct and bounds the cleanup without per-
  slot accounting. Without these callers the per-worker sessions
  HashMap and the Node's decrypt_registered_sessions set would
  grow monotonically per rekey on long-lived peers.

Testing:

- testing/static/scripts/bench-multirun.sh: multi-run iperf3 +
  ping bench. N reruns (default 5), median / min / max / CoV % /
  per-run outlier flag, avg ping RTT, ICMP loss %, TCP retransmit
  total. Plain client→dest labels + topology header. Pre-bench
  peer-convergence check (FIPS_BENCH_CONVERGE_SECS, default 15);
  per-path route verification via stats.bytes_sent deltas — fails
  fast if traffic exits via a non-static-peer link.

- testing/static/docker-compose.yml: passes FIPS_ENCRYPT_WORKERS /
  FIPS_DECRYPT_WORKERS / FIPS_PERF through to containers for A/B
  benchmarking without rebuilds.

- testing/static/scripts/iperf-test.sh: same plain client→dest
  labels + topology header (was multihop/direct/N hop, which
  conflated topology distance with on-wire path).

- .config/nextest.toml: synthetic UDP node tests serialized
  through a max-threads=1 test group. Localhost handshakes drop
  on shared CI runners under parallel load; one-at-a-time keeps
  assertions reliable.

- src/node/tests/spanning_tree.rs: repair_missing_edge_handshakes
  — retries up to 5 times for synthetic edges whose msg1 was
  dropped, with a drain after each edge retry instead of after
  each attempt's full burst.

- src/node/decrypt_worker.rs::tests: two unit tests asserting
  WorkerMsg::UnregisterSession removes the worker-thread session
  HashMap entry (handle_msg_unregister_session_removes_entry) and
  is a no-op for never-seen cache_keys
  (handle_msg_unregister_session_idempotent_on_unknown_key), which
  is the safety invariant the unconditional unregister calls at
  the four index slots in remove_active_peer rely on.

- src/node/encrypt_worker.rs::unix_tests
  pipelined_send_wire_layout_roundtrips_canonical_decoders: mirrors
  the encoder geometry of try_send_session_data_pipelined (no
  coords, the common established-session path), runs the worker's
  real seal + send via flush_direct_batch_sync, and decodes the
  resulting wire packet using only canonical receive-side decoders
  (EncryptedHeader::parse, SessionDatagramRef::decode, FSP header
  parse, noise::open). Any divergence between the hand-rolled
  encoder offsets (fsp_aad_offset, fsp_plaintext_offset) and the
  decoders fails at one of the parse / open / decode steps before
  the inner-plaintext assertion fires. Complements the existing
  fsp_preseal_runs_before_outer_fmp_seal test which covers the
  seal-ordering invariant with synthetic headers but does not
  exercise the wire-layout invariant.

CHANGELOG.md [Unreleased] # Changed entry added describing the
worker-pool threading model, hash-by-destination dispatch,
sendmmsg/UDP_GSO, per-peer connected UDP, the operator-facing env
vars, and the bench numbers above.

Cherry-picks from mmalmi/master (paths translated from
crates/fips-core/src/ to src/): 9b7c723, 0deb5cb, 13f7339, e036c0e,
3740a68, 3792f83, 8510193, 4910b07, e53f545, e4e2896, 5fe4af5,
1d01ada, 8c37008, e12469e, 6eb2860.

Co-authored-by: Johnathan Corgan <johnathan@corganlabs.com>
2026-05-19 20:53:31 +00:00
Martti MalmiandJohnathan Corgan b05c80e5f5 testing: add boringtun throughput benchmark and iperf ref-compare harness
New testing/boringtun/ harness runs two Cloudflare BoringTun userspace
WireGuard containers with iperf3 between them, giving a single-hop
userspace tunnel baseline for comparison against FIPS throughput
numbers. Local WG key generation runs through the harness image so the
host needs no wireguard-tools.

New testing/static/scripts/iperf-compare-refs.sh builds two git refs
into separate fips-test:* images via git worktree and runs the same
static iperf topology against both, with RUNS-based repetition and
aggregate avg/min/max reporting.

testing/static/scripts/iperf-test.sh gains DURATION, PARALLEL,
SETTLE_SECONDS, IPERF_TIMEOUT env knobs and a per-path iperf timeout.
testing/static/docker-compose.yml selects the image under test via
FIPS_TEST_IMAGE; testing/scripts/build.sh respects CARGO_TARGET_DIR.

Author benchmark on aarch64 Docker Desktop:
  boringtun bob -> alice : 1000.13 Mbits/sec
2026-05-15 18:03:42 +00:00
Johnathan Corgan 66c268a564 Add static and stochastic Docker test harnesses
Move examples/docker-network/ to testing/static/ and add testing/chaos/
as a new stochastic simulation harness.

testing/static/ — Static 5-node test harness:
- Fixed mesh, chain, and mesh-public topologies with docker compose
- Manual test scripts (ping, iperf, netem)
- Build script, config generation, key derivation

testing/chaos/ — Stochastic network simulation:
- Python orchestrator generating N-node FIPS meshes with dynamic
  network conditions, driven by reproducible YAML scenarios
- Topology generation: random geometric, Erdos-Renyi, or chain
  graphs with BFS connectivity guarantee
- Per-link netem: HTB classful qdiscs with u32 filters for per-peer
  impairment (delay, loss, jitter), stochastic mutation across
  configurable policy profiles
- Per-link bandwidth pacing: HTB rate limiting with configurable
  tiers (1/10/100/1000 mbps) randomly assigned per edge
- Link flaps: tc netem 100% loss with graph connectivity protection
- Node churn: docker stop/start with netem re-application on restart,
  shared down_nodes tracking across all managers
- Traffic generation: random iperf3 sessions between node pairs
- Down-node guards: all docker exec callers check container liveness,
  auto-detect crashed containers via is_container_running() safety net
- Log collection and post-run analysis (panics, errors, sessions,
  MMP metrics, tree reconvergence)
- chaos.sh wrapper with --seed, --duration, --verbose, --list options
- Four scenarios: smoke-10, chaos-10, churn-10, churn-20
2026-02-20 13:35:57 +00:00