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fix(qmux): report a finished send stream as closed cleanly - #402

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Problem

qmux::SendStream::closed() returns Err(Closed) ("connection closed") for every stream that finished cleanly. The writer retires a stream when it puts the FIN on the wire, which drops the channel closed() waits on, and closed() read the dropped channel as a dead session. web-transport-trait says a transport without FIN acknowledgement resolves once the FIN is sent.

In moq this logs WARN failed to send goaway: transport: connection closed on every GOAWAY over WebSocket, although the peer receives it, and failed to send setup at debug on every lite SETUP stream (moq-dev/moq#4189 follow-up).

Approach

The writer sends SendSignal::Finished on the stream's channel before retiring it, and closed() returns Ok(()) for it. STOP_SENDING rides the same channel as SendSignal::Stopped. A dropped channel still means the session is gone.

Impact

  • Public API: none.
  • Wire: none.
  • Behavior: SendStream::closed() returns Ok(()) after a clean FIN instead of Err(Closed).

Tests

finished_send_stream_closes_cleanly (tests/qmux02.rs) fails before the change with Closed and passes after. cargo test -p qmux --all-features and clippy pass.

Release

Ships in the next release from main, with web-transport-trait 0.5 and qmux 0.6.0, alongside #399 and #401. Based on current main, no rebase needed. moq picks it up by bumping qmux to 0.6 in moq-dev/moq#4296. Checked against moq's websocket_upgrades_to_quic with the fix applied to 0.5.1: the GOAWAY and SETUP warnings are gone.

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Comment thread rs/qmux/src/session.rs Outdated
Frame::Stream(stream) if stream.fin => {
self.streams.lock().unwrap().send.remove(&stream.id);
if let Some(send) = self.streams.lock().unwrap().send.remove(&stream.id) {
send.inbound_signal.send(SendSignal::Finished).ok();

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P1 Badge Notify completion only after writing the FIN

When the transport write is backpressured or fails, this sends Finished before the frame is encoded or self.writer.send(bytes) completes. Consequently, SendStream::closed() can return success while the FIN is still in flight; if its caller then closes or drops the session, transmit_or_teardown may cancel that write and the peer never receives the FIN or all preceding bytes. Preserve the sender while retiring the stream, but emit Finished only after the transport send succeeds; the added test currently masks this race by reading the complete stream on the peer before awaiting closed().

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Agreed, fixed in 897865b. The writer holds the stream's signal sender across writer.send and sends Finished only after the write succeeds. A failed or abandoned write drops the sender, which closed() reports as Closed. New unit tests fin_signals_finished_after_write and failed_fin_write_does_not_signal_finished cover both outcomes; the second fails with the old ordering.

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The send-stream notification channel now carries either a peer STOP_SENDING signal or a Finished signal. After transmitting FIN, the writer removes the send state and signals completion. SendStream::closed() returns success for Finished and retains stop-error behavior for Stopped. A QMux02 integration test checks that a finished stream closes successfully while both sessions remain open.

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A send stream can appear successfully closed before its FIN is written, and later closure checks can contradict an earlier success. Correct both behaviors before merging.

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A finished stream can be reported as successfully closed before its FIN write completes. That may affect callers that rely on closure before shutting down or advancing a protocol. No new trust boundary or confirmed security exploit was established.

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  • Medium · reliability · inferred: Completion is published before the FIN write succeeds, so callers can receive a successful closure result for a FIN that never reached the transport. This weakens the completion signal used to contain send or shutdown failures.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The changed result is exposed to callers of qmux-backed send streams. The established failure mode concerns whether an individual stream's FIN was sent; no tenant, credential, or privileged sink is established in the inspected path.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred — If a caller treats closed() success as proof that a control stream's FIN was sent, a failed or interrupted write can make it advance despite incomplete delivery. No security-sensitive caller or exploitable attack path was established.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — The peer's STOP_SENDING is distinguished from local FIN completion, and a dropped channel still produces a connection-closed error.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The successful-delivery test exercises the normal FIN path, but does not establish the completion result after validation failure, transport-write failure, or interruption.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Publish successful completion only after the FIN write succeeds, and exercise write failure, interruption, and repeated closure checks against the intended terminal-state contract.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: reporting a finished send stream as closed successfully.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains the clean-FIN bug, the SendSignal::Finished fix, the behavior change, and the added test. It is fully related to the changeset.
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In @rs/qmux/src/session.rs:
- Around line 522-523: In transmit, retain the send state while encoding and
writing the FIN; emit SendSignal::Finished and remove the stream from
self.streams only after writer.send succeeds. If encoding or writing fails, do
not signal completion or discard the send state.
- Around line 2407-2409: Update the method containing this
`inbound_signal.recv()` match to cache when it receives `SendSignal::Finished`,
returning `Ok(())` immediately on later calls before reading the channel.
Preserve the existing handling for stop signals and channel closure.

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kixelated and others added 2 commits September 26, 2026 18:24
SendStream::closed() returned Err(Closed) once the writer put the FIN on
the wire, because retiring the stream dropped the channel it waited on.
The writer now signals Finished before retiring it, so closed() returns
Ok(()) as the trait documents for transports without FIN acknowledgement.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A backpressured or failed write left closed() reporting success for a FIN
the peer never received. Hold the stream's signal sender across the write
and drop it on failure, which closed() reports as Closed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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kixelated force-pushed the fix/qmux-finished-closed branch from 28fa730 to 897865b Compare September 27, 2026 01:24
…() calls

closed() consumed the Finished signal, so a second call saw the dropped
channel and reported Closed. Cache it.

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Comment thread rs/qmux/src/session.rs
Comment on lines +529 to +531
.send
.remove(&stream.id)
.map(|send| send.inbound_signal);

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P2 Badge Keep STOP_SENDING observable until the FIN write completes

When the FIN write is backpressured, removing the send state here creates a window before writer.send(...).await completes in which the reader can receive STOP_SENDING, but the handler at session.rs:1412-1413 cannot find the stream and silently discards it. If the write later succeeds, Finished is delivered and closed() returns Ok(()), even though the peer stopped the stream; this contradicts the SendStream::closed contract in web-transport-trait/src/lib.rs:247-254. Keep the entry addressable during the awaited write, then retire it and resolve the queued Stopped/Finished outcome after transmission.

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Addressed review feedback:

  • Codex P1 / CodeRabbit major (897865b): the writer now sends SendSignal::Finished only after writer.send succeeds. A failed or abandoned FIN write drops the sender, so closed() reports Closed rather than success. Unit tests fin_signals_finished_after_write and failed_fin_write_does_not_signal_finished cover both outcomes; the existing reset test shares the new writer_state helper.
  • CodeRabbit minor (9714f16): SendStream caches finished, so repeat closed() calls keep returning Ok(()). finished_send_stream_closes_cleanly asserts this.

Rebased on main. cargo test -p qmux --all-features, just check, and CI pass. #401 (version bumps) landed since and does not touch qmux sources.

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