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Resume reading after processing unknown messages #2332

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If the current chunk of data read from the TCP connection only contains unknown messages (in particular, could be only one isolated unknown message on an otherwise idle connection), we never resumed reading on the connection.

This means all subsequent messages, including pings/pongs, won't be read, which is why the most visible effect is disconnecting due to no response to ping.

Related to ElementsProject/lightning#5347.

Reported by @wtogami.

If the current chunk of data read from the TCP connection only contains
unknown messages (in particular, could be only one isolated unknown
message on an otherwise idle connection), we never resumed reading on
the connection.

This means all subsequent messages, including pings/pongs, won't be read,
which is why the most visible effect is disconnecting due to no response
to ping.

Related to ElementsProject/lightning#5347.
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Merging #2332 (f784690) into master (af79f44) will increase coverage by 0.03%.
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Good catch! What's surprising is that we use a lightningMessageCodecWithFallback so the codec should always succeed even for messages we don't understand, unless they're not using the lightning message format at all - which should also be a bug on the sender side as well, shouldn't it (but we need to fix the bug on our side of course)?

As detailed in the linked issue, this is because cln sends us PeerSwap messages, which are currently not spec-compliant...I'm surprised they would send us such messages since we don't have a feature bit activated for it?

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pm47 commented Jun 29, 2022

What's surprising is that we use a lightningMessageCodecWithFallback so the codec should always succeed even for messages we don't understand, unless they're not using the lightning message format at all

Thanks, I get now why the error I got when reproducing locally (unknown discriminator) was different from the one on the node (cannot acquire 252176 bits from a vector that contains 440 bits): I was using lightningMessageCodec, not lightningMessageCodecWithFallback.

But there is no "standard lightning message format" though, the UnknownMessage has been introduced by Anton for his plugins. We are actually defining our own standard there, and will never get clean errors for all other unknown messages...

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It does make more sense like this, LGTM

@pm47 pm47 merged commit c9810d5 into master Jun 29, 2022
@pm47 pm47 deleted the ack-unknown-msg branch June 29, 2022 13:12
evd0kim pushed a commit to standardsats/eclair that referenced this pull request Jul 17, 2023
If the current chunk of data read from the TCP connection only contains unknown messages (in particular, could be only one isolated unknown message on an otherwise idle connection), we never resumed reading on the connection.

This means all subsequent messages, including pings/pongs, won't be read, which is why the most visible effect is disconnecting due to no response to ping.

Related to ElementsProject/lightning#5347.

Reported by @wtogami.
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