Merge pull request #966 from fjl/fixup-discover-chunked-neighbors

p2p/discover: fix out-of-bounds slicing for chunked neighbors packets

p2p/discover/udp.go

@@ -363,7 +363,31 @@ const (
 	headSize = macSize + sigSize // space of packet frame data
 )
 
-var headSpace = make([]byte, headSize)
+var (
+	headSpace = make([]byte, headSize)
+
+	// Neighbors responses are sent across multiple packets to
+	// stay below the 1280 byte limit. We compute the maximum number
+	// of entries by stuffing a packet until it grows too large.
+	maxNeighbors int
+)
+
+func init() {
+	p := neighbors{Expiration: ^uint64(0)}
+	maxSizeNode := rpcNode{IP: make(net.IP, 16), UDP: ^uint16(0), TCP: ^uint16(0)}
+	for n := 0; ; n++ {
+		p.Nodes = append(p.Nodes, maxSizeNode)
+		size, _, err := rlp.EncodeToReader(p)
+		if err != nil {
+			// If this ever happens, it will be caught by the unit tests.
+			panic("cannot encode: " + err.Error())
+		}
+		if headSize+size+1 >= 1280 {
+			maxNeighbors = n
+			break
+		}
+	}
+}
 
 func (t *udp) send(toaddr *net.UDPAddr, ptype byte, req interface{}) error {
 	packet, err := encodePacket(t.priv, ptype, req)
@@ -402,6 +426,9 @@ func encodePacket(priv *ecdsa.PrivateKey, ptype byte, req interface{}) ([]byte,
 // readLoop runs in its own goroutine. it handles incoming UDP packets.
 func (t *udp) readLoop() {
 	defer t.conn.Close()
+	// Discovery packets are defined to be no larger than 1280 bytes.
+	// Packets larger than this size will be cut at the end and treated
+	// as invalid because their hash won't match.
 	buf := make([]byte, 1280)
 	for {
 		nbytes, from, err := t.conn.ReadFromUDP(buf)
@@ -504,20 +531,15 @@ func (req *findnode) handle(t *udp, from *net.UDPAddr, fromID NodeID, mac []byte
 	closest := t.closest(target, bucketSize).entries
 	t.mutex.Unlock()
 
-	// TODO: this conversion could use a cached version of the slice
-	closestrpc := make([]rpcNode, len(closest))
+	p := neighbors{Expiration: uint64(time.Now().Add(expiration).Unix())}
+	// Send neighbors in chunks with at most maxNeighbors per packet
+	// to stay below the 1280 byte limit.
 	for i, n := range closest {
-		closestrpc[i] = nodeToRPC(n)
-	}
-	t.send(from, neighborsPacket, neighbors{
-		Nodes:      closestrpc[:13],
-		Expiration: uint64(time.Now().Add(expiration).Unix()),
-	})
-	if len(closestrpc) > 13 {
-		t.send(from, neighborsPacket, neighbors{
-			Nodes:      closestrpc[13:],
-			Expiration: uint64(time.Now().Add(expiration).Unix()),
-		})
+		p.Nodes = append(p.Nodes, nodeToRPC(n))
+		if len(p.Nodes) == maxNeighbors || i == len(closest)-1 {
+			t.send(from, neighborsPacket, p)
+			p.Nodes = p.Nodes[:0]
+		}
 	}
 	return nil
 }

p2p/discover/udp_test.go

@@ -164,26 +164,21 @@ func TestUDP_findnode(t *testing.T) {
 	// check that closest neighbors are returned.
 	test.packetIn(nil, findnodePacket, &findnode{Target: testTarget, Expiration: futureExp})
 	expected := test.table.closest(targetHash, bucketSize)
-	test.waitPacketOut(func(p *neighbors) {
-		if len(p.Nodes) != 13 {
-			t.Errorf("wrong number of results: got %d, want %d", len(p.Nodes), bucketSize)
-		}
-		for i := range p.Nodes {
-			if p.Nodes[i].ID != expected.entries[i].ID {
-				t.Errorf("result mismatch at %d:\n  got:  %v\n  want: %v", i, p.Nodes[i], expected.entries[i])
+
+	waitNeighbors := func(want []*Node) {
+		test.waitPacketOut(func(p *neighbors) {
+			if len(p.Nodes) != len(want) {
+				t.Errorf("wrong number of results: got %d, want %d", len(p.Nodes), bucketSize)
 			}
-		}
-	})
-	test.waitPacketOut(func(p *neighbors) {
-		if len(p.Nodes) != 3 {
-			t.Errorf("wrong number of results: got %d, want %d", len(p.Nodes), bucketSize)
-		}
-		for i := range p.Nodes {
-			if p.Nodes[i].ID != expected.entries[i + 13].ID {
-				t.Errorf("result mismatch at %d:\n  got:  %v\n  want: %v", i, p.Nodes[i], expected.entries[i])
+			for i := range p.Nodes {
+				if p.Nodes[i].ID != want[i].ID {
+					t.Errorf("result mismatch at %d:\n  got:  %v\n  want: %v", i, p.Nodes[i], expected.entries[i])
+				}
 			}
-		}
-	})
+		})
+	}
+	waitNeighbors(expected.entries[:maxNeighbors])
+	waitNeighbors(expected.entries[maxNeighbors:])
 }
 
 func TestUDP_findnodeMultiReply(t *testing.T) {