GNU bug report logs - #62990
30.0.50; UDP server closes connection upon receiving an empty packet

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Package: emacs; Reported by: Vasilij Schneidermann <mail@HIDDEN>; dated Fri, 21 Apr 2023 10:38:01 UTC; Maintainer for emacs is bug-gnu-emacs@HIDDEN.

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From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@HIDDEN>
To: Vasilij Schneidermann <mail@HIDDEN>
Subject: Re: bug#62990: 30.0.50; UDP server closes connection upon receiving
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>>>>> On Fri, 21 Apr 2023 12:36:52 +0200, Vasilij Schneidermann <mail@vasil=
ij.de> said:

    Vasilij> I'm doing network programming with Emacs Lisp and one of the t=
asks was
    Vasilij> implementing a UDP server reading individual packets. I've fou=
nd that
    Vasilij> when a client sends an empty packet, the server hangs up with a
    Vasilij> connection error and no longer accepts subsequent packets. Thi=
s seems to
    Vasilij> be reasonable behavior for TCP (from what I understand, empty =
TCP
    Vasilij> messages are a sign of the connection being closed), but
    Vasilij> not for UDP.

Empty TCP messages are perfectly valid, but they should be hidden from
you. recvfrom returning 0 means the connection has been closed, but
that=CA=BCs a separate thing.

Empty UDP messages are also valid, and are indicated by recvfrom returning
0.

Could you show how you=CA=BCre generating the empty packets?

    Vasilij> I've attached test programs written in Emacs Lisp and Guile to
    Vasilij> reproduce both correctly and incorrectly functioning servers a=
nd clients
    Vasilij> respectively. One minor nitpick is that sending an empty UDP p=
acket from
    Vasilij> Emacs Lisp doesn't work either, but I'm unsure whether this is=
 a bug
    Vasilij> (socat behaves similarly).

It=CA=BCs allowed by the protocol. I guess it could be useful for people
wanting to implement their own keep-alive protocol over UDP.

Robert
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Subject: 30.0.50; UDP server closes connection upon receiving an empty packet
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I'm doing network programming with Emacs Lisp and one of the tasks was
implementing a UDP server reading individual packets. I've found that
when a client sends an empty packet, the server hangs up with a
connection error and no longer accepts subsequent packets. This seems to
be reasonable behavior for TCP (from what I understand, empty TCP
messages are a sign of the connection being closed), but not for
UDP. I've attached test programs written in Emacs Lisp and Guile to
reproduce both correctly and incorrectly functioning servers and clients
respectively. One minor nitpick is that sending an empty UDP packet from
Emacs Lisp doesn't work either, but I'm unsure whether this is a bug
(socat behaves similarly).


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   :type 'datagram
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   :service 10000
   :family 'ipv4
   :coding 'binary))

(defvar client (make-client))

(process-send-string client "hello")
(process-send-string client "")
(process-send-string client "world")

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(defun server-filter (process string)
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(defun server-sentinel (process event)
  (message "Received event: %S" event)
  (when (eq (process-status process) 'closed)
    (delete-process process)
    (kill-buffer (process-buffer process))))

(defun make-server ()
  (make-network-process
   :name "bug-server"
   :type 'datagram
   :server t
   :host "127.0.0.1"
   :service 10000
   :family 'ipv4
   :coding 'binary
   :filter #'server-filter
   :sentinel #'server-sentinel))

(defvar server (make-server))

(while t
  (accept-process-output nil 0.01))

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(import (rnrs bytevectors))

(define client (socket PF_INET SOCK_DGRAM 0))
(connect client AF_INET (inet-pton AF_INET "127.0.0.1") 10000)

(send client (string->utf8 "hello"))
(send client (string->utf8 ""))
(send client (string->utf8 "world"))
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(import (rnrs bytevectors))
(import (rnrs bytevectors gnu))
(import (srfi 18))

(define server (socket PF_INET SOCK_DGRAM 0))
(bind server AF_INET (inet-pton AF_INET "127.0.0.1") 10000)

(define buffer (make-u8vector 1024))

(let loop ()
  (let* ((len (car (recvfrom! server buffer)))
         (message (utf8->string (bytevector-slice buffer 0 len))))
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