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fix(relay): bind every listener in Relay::load so tests read ports back - #4215

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Stacked on #4198; retargets to main once it merges.

Problem

Many moq-relay tests picked a "free" port by binding 127.0.0.1:0, dropping the probe, and letting the relay rebind it later. Under parallel load another process can take the port in that gap, and the TCP readiness polls could then connect to the foreign listener. #4198 fixed smoke.rs; the rest couldn't follow because Relay::run, not load, bound the TCP stream and internal listeners, so their addresses weren't readable before serving.

Approach

  • Relay::load now calls server.listen() and binds the internal listener, like it already binds QUIC and web. run just serves.
  • Every relay test binds :0 and reads the address back. All polling/sleep readiness loops and the bogus 20-attempt retry helpers (init() never bound TCP, so they always "succeeded") are deleted.
  • Worker/io_uring tests use :0 too: a shard group shares the first member's ephemeral port, so the comments claiming otherwise were stale.

Converted: cluster_unknown, embed, auth_lifetime, session_revalidate, shutdown_signal, hidden_cluster, goaway_cluster, runtime_workers, runtime_uring, the internal.rs unit test, and moq-cli's auth.rs test.

Impact

  • Relay::tcp_addr() -> Option<SocketAddr> (new).
  • Internal::bind(self) -> Result<Self> and Internal::addr() -> Option<SocketAddr> (new, mirror Web::bind/addrs).
  • Behavior: a taken TCP/Unix or internal port now fails Relay::load instead of Relay::run. The two embed tests covering this now assert it on load.
  • No wire changes. Additive, so main.

Alternatives

  • Return bound addresses from Ready::wait() and keep binding in run: web would still bind in load and TCP in run, and nothing is known until run is spawned.
  • No API change, tests switch to QUIC: TCP/internal stay unreadable to embedders, and cluster_unknown stops exercising qmux over TCP.

Follow-ups

  • UDP probes left as-is on purpose: moq-tokio/tests/worker.rs port-lock tests need a named port (ephemeral groups take no lock), and moq-srt dial.rs would need a new API since srt-tokio exposes no bound address. Both fail loudly (EADDRINUSE), never silently.
  • Probe sites outside moq-relay (moq-tokio, moq-hls, moq-srt server.rs) are handled in a separate session.

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Comment thread rs/moq-relay/src/relay.rs Outdated
.with_versions(server_versions)
.with_sessions(sessions.clone())
.bind()?;
let server = server.listen().await.context("failed to bind listeners")?;

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P2 Badge Bind streams without starting their accept loops

When an embedder pauses between Relay::load and Relay::run to clone handles or build routes, this call already starts the TCP and Unix accept loops: StreamListeners::start spawns an accept task, and every connection can spawn a SETUP-handshake task in rs/moq-tokio/src/server.rs. Consequently, externally reachable stream endpoints can accept connections and accumulate handshake work before authentication, cluster startup, or readiness, despite Relay::load documenting that sessions are not admitted until run. Split binding from starting these loops, or otherwise keep acceptance disabled until run.

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Agreed. Relay::load now calls Server::bind, which only binds the TCP/Unix sockets. Accept loops stay stopped until run polls accept. Server::listen still starts them immediately, so existing callers are unchanged.

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Relay::load now binds configured server and internal listeners and reports bind failures during loading. The relay exposes the assigned TCP address, and the internal listener exposes its resolved address. Tests now use ephemeral ports and retrieve addresses from bound listeners instead of reserving ports and polling for readiness. The Embed documentation describes the load-time binding behavior and the address accessors.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 17e2f

Immediate reuse of a fixed listener address can intermittently fail after a loaded relay is dropped. The change is otherwise mergeable with this bounded risk understood or addressed.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 17e2f

Moving binding earlier can let peers consume relay handshake resources before the relay starts serving or passes its startup checks. Authentication still gates sessions, but the earlier resource exposure merits review.

Retained concerns

  • Medium · security · inferred: Load-time binding starts stream accept loops before the relay’s run-time admission check. Peers of a reachable configured TCP listener can initiate concurrent, pre-authentication handshakes even if the embedder has not started the relay.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The new pre-run exposure is limited to configured stream listeners and peers that can reach their bind addresses. A non-loopback TCP bind can extend that exposure beyond the host; the evidence does not establish the repository’s production bind settings.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — A peer able to reach a configured TCP listener can open streams that cause accept and SETUP-handshake tasks while the relay remains loaded but not running. Concurrent requests may consume process resources before admission; the extent is unmeasured.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The earlier handshake path does not establish an authentication bypass: Relay::run still refuses an untaken embedded-admissions capability before readiness or shared session serving. The optional internal HTTP service is bound during load but its serve future runs later.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred — Dropping the listener owner aborts its accept loops, but the shown per-connection handshake tasks are spawned separately. Their behavior during an interrupted, never-run load interval is not fully established by the inspected source.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Keep the address available after load without starting stream accept and handshake work until run, or bound that work explicitly during the pre-run interval.
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Rebased onto current origin/main (33c9c9fb) and dropped the port-probe commit already landed in #4198 (e5d1f1ce). What remains is Relay::load binding the TCP/Unix and internal listeners so tests read ephemeral ports back instead of probing.

Check and Test had failed because CI could not resolve a merge-base against the stacked base claude/relay-smoke-port-race. They should run against main on 17e2f02c.

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Comment thread rs/moq-relay/src/relay.rs Outdated
.with_versions(server_versions)
.with_sessions(sessions.clone())
.bind()?;
let server = server.listen().await.context("failed to bind listeners")?;

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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Provide awaited cleanup for a loaded relay.

Relay::load starts stream accept tasks at server.listen(). If the later internal bind()? fails, the local listener is dropped. Listener::drop calls Server::close, which only closes QUIC. StreamListeners::drop then aborts accept tasks without awaiting them. Dropping a loaded Relay before run follows the same path. An immediate reload on the same TCP or Unix address can race task cancellation and fail to bind.

Add an asynchronous relay cleanup path that awaits Listener::close() before reuse and when load fails after the shared listener starts.

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Relay that awaits Listener::close() before a loaded relay is discarded or its
addresses are reused, and invoke it if Relay::load fails after server.listen()
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Relay::load now binds the TCP/Unix stream listeners and the internal
listener, so relay.tcp_addr() and relay.internal().addr() report ephemeral
ports before run. Tests bind :0 and read the address back instead of
probing for a free port and rebinding it, and their polling readiness
loops are gone.

Stream accept loops stay stopped until run accepts. Server::bind reports
the port; Server::listen still starts those loops immediately.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Rebased again onto current origin/main (01e1e4d0, including #4216) after #4212 took the same goaway_cluster helper. Kept Relay::load binding listeners so tests read ephemeral ports back.

Codex was right that listen also started the TCP/Unix accept loops. Server::bind is the bind-only path load uses; loops start on the first accept in run.

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