twiddle: mux N:1, single-use tickets, measured CoverProfile - #319
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughTwiddle now multiplexes authenticated traffic over shared Yamux sessions. Inbound streams receive independent routing. Outbound sessions are cached, retired after failures or GO_AWAY, and closed explicitly. Cover host validation and stream lifecycle tests were updated. ChangesTwiddle multiplexing
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The mux lifecycle still permits traffic to recreate a tunnel after its outbound has been closed, potentially leaking resources during configuration reloads. A test also contains an intermittent data race; both issues should be corrected before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1❌ Failed checks (1 warning)
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There are correctness/security issues in the inbound close/error propagation and the documented ticket max-age default that should be fixed before merging.
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Pull request overview
This PR hardens the twiddle sing-box adapter by switching to a single long-lived outer tunnel that multiplexes multiple inner destinations (yamux), enforcing single-use ticket semantics, deriving cover parameters from measured cover profiles, and removing the embedded ClientHello-pool fallback (requiring device/config-provided pools instead). It also updates tests and E2E to validate the new behavior and configuration constraints.
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- Add yamux-based N:1 multiplexing for outbound dials and inbound stream acceptance, with a single outer tunnel shared across concurrent dials.
- Enforce measured cover profiles (
CoverHost/CoverSNI) and tighten validation (reject unknown covers, require hello pool; remove legacy cover knobs). - Update unit tests and GitHub Actions E2E to reflect the new cover/profile and hello-pool requirements.
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protocol/twiddle/outbound.go |
Reuses one outer Twiddle tunnel and opens per-destination yamux streams; enforces single-use tickets and requires configured hello pools. |
protocol/twiddle/inbound.go |
Derives the measured cover profile, adds replay cache to server config, and accepts/routs multiplexed yamux streams. |
protocol/twiddle/mux.go |
Introduces shared yamux configuration for client/server sessions. |
protocol/twiddle/twiddle_test.go |
Updates tests for measured cover profiles, pool requirements, and verifies multiplexed-tunnel sharing semantics. |
option/twiddle.go |
Updates inbound/outbound options to use measured cover profiles and removes deprecated fidelity knobs. |
.github/workflows/e2e.yaml |
Adjusts E2E to use a measured cover identity and provides a file-backed hello pool to the client. |
go.mod / go.sum |
Updates twiddle dependency and adds github.com/hashicorp/yamux as a direct dependency. |
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Added regressions for the TTL default, cover/upstream mismatch, cross-cover credentials, session close reporting, and a real yamux Credential recovery remains deliberately fail-closed: if an opening may have reached the server but no replacement ticket returns, the adapter does not replay the possibly spent ticket. Recovery in that ambiguity window requires fresh provisioning; the lantern-cloud connect-config path mints a fresh credential. Supporting offline recovery would require a protocol/config change to provision multiple independent tickets, not safe local reuse. |
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🔵 Needs a closer look
It introduces concurrent/multiplexed use of twiddle.Conn while the pinned twiddle commit appears to have a write/close concurrency bug that can lead to AEAD nonce reuse, which should be fixed upstream and pulled in before merge.
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The PR description and existing open review thread indicate a confirmed data race in the pinned getlantern/twiddle core that can lead to AEAD nonce reuse under concurrent Close/Write, which should be fixed (via dependency update) before merging muxing.
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yamux introduces concurrent use of twiddle.Conn, and the repo is still pinned to a twiddle commit with a known race/AEAD nonce-reuse risk that should be fixed (by bumping twiddle) before merging multiplexing.
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A newly added test spawns goroutines that capture and reuse the loop-scoped raw connection variable, which can make the test flaky/hang and leak conns on error paths.
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| for range 2 { | ||
| raw, err := listener.Accept() | ||
| if err != nil { | ||
| serverErr <- err | ||
| return | ||
| } | ||
| go func() { | ||
| conn, err := tw.Server(raw, tw.ServerConfig{ | ||
| TicketKey: key, Cover: cover, Replay: replay, | ||
| }) | ||
| if err != nil { | ||
| serverErr <- err | ||
| return | ||
| } | ||
| session, err := yamux.Server(conn, muxConfig()) | ||
| if err != nil { | ||
| serverErr <- err | ||
| return | ||
| } | ||
| sessions <- session | ||
| }() | ||
| } |
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Half of this is right, and I have fixed that half in 0063843.
The leak is real. Neither tw.Server nor yamux.Server closes what it was handed when it fails, and this loop closed nothing, so both error paths dropped the socket. Now closed explicitly: raw when the opening fails, conn when the mux does. Deliberately not on success — the session owns the conn there, and closing would tear down the tunnel the test goes on to use, so a blanket defer raw.Close() would break the test rather than tidy it.
The capture is not a bug. raw is not a loop variable — it is declared with := inside the for range 2 body:
for range 2 {
raw, err := listener.Accept() // fresh variable each iteration
...
go func() { ... tw.Server(raw, ...) ... }()
}Each iteration creates a new raw, so each goroutine closes over its own. Two goroutines cannot see the same "last-assigned" connection, and this holds independently of the Go 1.22 loop-variable change, which applies to the variables in the for clause rather than to ones declared in the body. (for range 2 has no loop variable at all.)
I passed raw as a parameter anyway, since it costs nothing and removes the question for the next reader — but as presentation, not a correctness fix, and the commit message says so. Leaving this thread open in case you read the scoping differently.
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The outbound currently closes the entire yamux session when stream open fails, which can prematurely terminate unrelated in-flight streams on that tunnel (notably under GO_AWAY scenarios).
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protocol/twiddle/twiddle_test.go:624
- TestConcurrentDialsShareOneMuxedTunnel leaves the Outbound open. Since Outbound now owns a long-lived yamux session (keepalive goroutines, underlying net.Conn), closing it in the test avoids leaking resources into later tests and makes failures easier to diagnose.
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There are correctness/security issues to address around stream destination IO and mux stream lifecycle handling that could cause protocol desynchronization or resource exhaustion in production.
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protocol/twiddle/outbound.go:184
- This destination write path relies on writeDestination(), which currently does a single Conn.Write and ignores the returned byte count. net.Conn (and yamux streams) may short-write without error, which can truncate the destination frame and desynchronize the stream. Consider writing in a loop here (or updating writeDestination) and treating n==0 as an error.
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The new yamux stream routing path lacks a read deadline around destination parsing, allowing stalled streams to tie up goroutines indefinitely.
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| func (i *Inbound) routeStream(ctx context.Context, stream net.Conn, metadata adapter.InboundContext) { | ||
| dest, err := readDestination(stream) | ||
| if err != nil { | ||
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Harden the adapter against the opening-transcript and identification findings in getlantern/twiddle. - Persistent yamux session so inner destinations share one outer tunnel. Concurrent dials no longer open a new TLS-shaped connection each, which is what exposed nested inner handshakes. - Tickets are consumed, never reused. An empty pool fails rather than presenting the same PSK identity with uncorrelated ages. - Cover identity is a measured CoverProfile (cipher, binder, ticket, flights). Unknown SNIs are rejected, so a microsoft egress cannot emit a 32-byte SHA-256 binder. - Hello pool: device or config only. The stale embedded snapshot is not a fallback; autoselect should pick another transport instead. - Shared replay cache on the inbound. Duplicate tickets take the cover path. Requires getlantern/twiddle@cf3c571.
twiddle#1 is merged; pin its main commit rather than the branch head this branch was developed against. The core now refuses a replay horizon shorter than the server's MaxAge -- horizon-based eviction is only sound if MaxAge rejects an over-age ticket first. TestDialRetriesAfterRemoteGoAway built its cache with a one-hour horizon and left MaxAge at the 24h default, so tw.Server failed the config before reading a byte and the client timed out on the flight. The GO_AWAY framing was misleading: the first dial was the one failing. The production inbound already derives both from the same value, so only the fixture was wrong. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017gn6KuHUL766qQNn8m1fu1
The previous round asked acceptStreams to stop discarding the reason a session ended; it now discards too little. yamux reports a clean shutdown as ErrSessionShutdown, and the conn underneath reports the same event as EOF or a closed socket -- all three arrived at onClose as errors, where mutableselector records them on the span and the autoselect health scoring demotes the outbound. Every client that simply disconnected looked like a broken tunnel. acceptEndError maps those three to nil and passes everything else through, via the FirstRealError helper the masquerade path already uses for exactly this distinction. TestAcceptStreamsReportsSessionError asserted the behaviour being removed, so it is split: a clean remote close must report nil, and a read fault that is neither EOF nor a closed socket must still reach onClose. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017gn6KuHUL766qQNn8m1fu1
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#320 landed three outbound tests that construct a client with no hello source, which main permits because the embedded snapshot is enabled there. This branch turns that off -- the whole point of "the fresh-hello path is not operational" is that a client with no fresh source fails so autoselect can choose another transport -- so those three now hit that refusal. They are given the same file-backed pool the branch's own outbound tests use. What each was written to assert (the companion ticket arrives, its absence degrades to resumption-only, disable_full_handshake drops the contact memory) is untouched; only the pool they were silently relying on is now explicit. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017gn6KuHUL766qQNn8m1fu1
Neither tw.Server nor yamux.Server closes what it was handed when it fails, and this loop closed nothing, so both error paths dropped the socket. Closed explicitly now -- raw when the opening fails, conn when the mux does. Not on success: the session owns the conn there, and closing would tear down the very tunnel the test goes on to use. raw is also passed as a parameter rather than captured. That is presentational, not a fix: it is declared with := inside the loop body, so it is already a fresh variable per iteration and the goroutines could not have shared one. The parameter just removes the question. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017gn6KuHUL766qQNn8m1fu1
dropSession closed the session on any Open failure, but the two failures it can see mean opposite things. yamux returns ErrRemoteGoAway for "no NEW streams" -- the ones already running are still live and still carrying user traffic -- while Session.Close ends the session AND every stream on it. So a dial that arrived one moment too late tore down every unrelated connection the tunnel was carrying. Multiplexing is what makes that expensive: without it the blast radius is the one connection that failed. retireSession drops the session from the cache and closes it only when there is nothing to drain. On GO_AWAY it is left open; the peer closes the socket once it has finished, which shuts the session down on its own. Every other Open failure means the session is already unusable, so the socket goes back immediately. TestDialRetriesAfterRemoteGoAway could not have caught this: it closes the first stream before triggering GO_AWAY, so there was no bystander to lose. TestGoAwayLeavesLiveStreamsAlone keeps one open across the event and requires it to still carry bytes afterwards. Reverting the fix fails it with "a live stream was torn down by an unrelated dial's GO_AWAY: stream closed". Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017gn6KuHUL766qQNn8m1fu1
This branch had turned the built-in pool off so a client with no fresh hello source would fail and let autoselect pick another transport. Reverting to what #315 shipped and argued: a pool arrives by config push, so a bad or missing one reaches every client at once, and the choice is between every client emitting a stale fingerprint and every client having no outbound at all. The first risks detection, probabilistically and recoverably; the second is a certain outage, and both need the same config push to clear. Everything that existed only to support failing closed goes with it. The two Rejects tests become main's UsesTheEmbeddedPoolByDefault and DegradesToEmbeddedOnACorruptPool, the hello_pool option doc returns to describing the built-in tier, e2e drops the pool file it had to write, and #320's three outbound tests no longer need the pool this branch had forced on them. What is left is the mux, the single-use tickets and the cover-host agreement check -- which is all this PR was ever about. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017gn6KuHUL766qQNn8m1fu1
routeStream read the destination with no deadline, so a stream that opened and then said nothing parked a goroutine for as long as the peer cared to hold it. main has the same gap, but mux is what makes it worth paying for: there one TCP connection costs the peer one blocked goroutine, and here the peer pays once for the connection while the egress pays per stream. A valid credential is still required to get this far -- an unauthenticated opening takes the masquerade path -- so this bounds what a misbehaving client can hold, not what a stranger can. Ten seconds, cleared before the stream reaches the router, which owns its own timeouts from there. The test asserts on ELAPSED TIME rather than on the error. The first version checked for os.ErrDeadlineExceeded and was vacuous: yamux returns its own timeout type, so the branch never fired and the test passed with the deadline removed. Timing separates the two cases properly -- a dropped stream returns in about destinationReadTimeout, a held one only when the client gives up -- and reverting the fix now fails it at 3.0s against a 150ms deadline. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017gn6KuHUL766qQNn8m1fu1
#321 made dialTunnel mean "open one outer twiddle connection" and pointed UoT's inner dial at it. This branch replaces that model with one session and a stream per dial, so the two had to be reconciled rather than merged textually: taken naively, every UDP association would have opened a twiddle tunnel of its own, putting a fresh TLS-shaped opening on the wire for every DNS lookup. That is the pattern muxing exists to remove. dialTunnel now means "open a stream on the shared session", and uotDialer still points at it, so UDP rides the mux with everything else. Network() keeps both protocols, Close() keeps the session teardown, and the GO_AWAY handling moves with the retry loop into dialTunnel. Two things in #321's test assumed the pre-mux lifetime. NewConnectionEx blocked there for the life of the connection; here it hands the session to a goroutine and returns, so the test's `defer conn.Close()` tore the tunnel down before the client could open a stream, and its SetDeadline bounded the whole session rather than one connection. The test now holds the tunnel open explicitly. And echoRouter called onClose unconditionally, which routeStream's nil argument turned into a panic. nil is legitimate: sing-box's own router funnels onClose through N.CloseOnHandshakeFailure, which tolerates it, and a stream has no per-stream close bookkeeping to do. The double now guards, like the production path does. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017gn6KuHUL766qQNn8m1fu1
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There is an internal contradiction in NewOutbound’s embedded-pool fallback comment vs the actual AllowEmbedded: true behavior that needs to be aligned before merging.
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In `@protocol/twiddle/outbound.go`:
- Around line 342-351: Update Outbound.Close to record a closed state under
sessMu before or while closing the cached session, and update ensureSession to
return os.ErrClosed immediately after acquiring sessMu when that state is set.
Preserve existing session cleanup and prevent late dials from creating a new
tunnel.
In `@protocol/twiddle/twiddle_test.go`:
- Line 810: Update the assertions around the tunnel-count checks in the test to
read tunnels using atomic.LoadInt64 consistently, including the checks
corresponding to lines 810 and 815, while the accept goroutine may update it
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| func (o *Outbound) Close() error { | ||
| o.sessMu.Lock() | ||
| defer o.sessMu.Unlock() | ||
| if o.sess != nil { | ||
| err := o.sess.Close() | ||
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Mark the outbound closed so a late dial cannot build a new tunnel.
Close closes the cached session, but it records no closed state. ensureSession sees o.sess == nil and builds a fresh tunnel. A dial that arrives after Close therefore opens a new TCP connection and yamux session that nothing closes afterwards. This matters in this process because outbounds are created and removed on config reload, not only at shutdown.
♻️ Proposed fix
func (o *Outbound) Close() error {
o.sessMu.Lock()
defer o.sessMu.Unlock()
+ o.closed = true
if o.sess != nil {
err := o.sess.Close()
o.sess = nil
return err
}
return nil
}Add the field and the guard:
// in Outbound
sessMu sync.Mutex
sess *yamux.Session
closed bool
// at the top of ensureSession, after locking sessMu
if o.closed {
return nil, os.ErrClosed
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| func (o *Outbound) Close() error { | |
| o.sessMu.Lock() | |
| defer o.sessMu.Unlock() | |
| if o.sess != nil { | |
| err := o.sess.Close() | |
| o.sess = nil | |
| return err | |
| } | |
| return nil | |
| } | |
| func (o *Outbound) Close() error { | |
| o.sessMu.Lock() | |
| defer o.sessMu.Unlock() | |
| o.closed = true | |
| if o.sess != nil { | |
| err := o.sess.Close() | |
| o.sess = nil | |
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In `@protocol/twiddle/outbound.go` around lines 342 - 351, Update Outbound.Close
to record a closed state under sessMu before or while closing the cached
session, and update ensureSession to return os.ErrClosed immediately after
acquiring sessMu when that state is set. Preserve existing session cleanup and
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| if pooled <= 1 { | ||
| t.Errorf("credential pool did not grow past the seeded credential (%d) after %d successful openings; rotation is not being stored", pooled, ok) | ||
| if atomic.LoadInt64(&tunnels) != 1 { | ||
| t.Errorf("opened %d outer tunnels, want 1 muxed session", tunnels) |
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Read tunnels atomically.
Line 809 reads tunnels with atomic.LoadInt64, but lines 810 and 815 read the variable directly while the accept goroutine can still call atomic.AddInt64(&tunnels, 1). Mixed atomic and plain access to the same variable is a data race that -race can report intermittently.
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- if atomic.LoadInt64(&tunnels) != 1 {
- t.Errorf("opened %d outer tunnels, want 1 muxed session", tunnels)
+ openedTunnels := atomic.LoadInt64(&tunnels)
+ if openedTunnels != 1 {
+ t.Errorf("opened %d outer tunnels, want 1 muxed session", openedTunnels)
}
if ok < n {
t.Errorf("%d/%d dials completed", ok, n)
}
- t.Logf("%d/%d dials on %d tunnel, %d streams served", ok, n, tunnels, atomic.LoadInt64(&served))
+ t.Logf("%d/%d dials on %d tunnel, %d streams served", ok, n, openedTunnels, atomic.LoadInt64(&served))Also applies to: 815-815
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In `@protocol/twiddle/twiddle_test.go` at line 810, Update the assertions around
the tunnel-count checks in the test to read tunnels using atomic.LoadInt64
consistently, including the checks corresponding to lines 810 and 815, while the
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Rebased onto
mainand reopened. Its parent (#315) merged on 2026-09-04, and deleting that base branch auto-closed this PR one second before GitHub's retarget-to-mainlanded — the close was collateral, not a decision. The five commits were intact onfisk/twiddle-hardeningthroughout.Now tracking
getlantern/twiddlemainatc78665a, which includes the record-emission fix below.Codex P1s
tw.Serverrequires a sharedReplayCache, and the egress holds one. The core gate keys on the client, not the ticket: credentials rotate every connection, so a client's newest ticket retires all its earlier ones. That makes forgetting safe and the stateO(clients in horizon)rather thanO(connections).TicketLen/PSKFirst/CoverSNIfields that PR was built against. What remains here is the agreement check: wheremasquerade_upstreamis a DNS name, acover_hostcontradicting it is refused; an explicit cover is reserved for an upstream given as an IP.Sources.AllowEmbedded); this outbound leaves it off and fails closed, so autoselect can pick another transport. This is the one place this PR reversesmain— twiddle: TLS-shaped transport from harvested ClientHellos #315 opts in, arguing a stale fingerprint beats no outbound. That holds only while no device tap exists; once one does, failing closed is strictly better because there is somewhere else to go.Multiplexing
sequenceDiagram autonumber participant A as DialContext<br/>outbound.go participant O as ensureSession<br/>outbound.go participant E as egress<br/>inbound.go A->>O: ensureSession under sessMu Note over O: takeCredential — consumed, never reused ⚠️ O->>E: one outer Twiddle plus yamux A->>O: later DialContext for another inner dest Note over O: reuse the warm yamux session A->>E: stream plus destination Note over E: acceptStreams — was one TCP per dest 🐛The core race this PR surfaced is now fixed
Giving one
twiddle.Conna yamuxsendLoopgoroutine alongside arecvgoroutine that closes the session madeConn.WriteoverlapConn.Close. Both reachedwriteRecord, which sealed with the currentsendSeqand incremented afterwards, unsynchronised — the sequence number is the AEAD nonce, so that was nonce reuse under one key rather than a decrypt failure. Fixed in twiddle#2 and pinned here.Verified end to end: the two mux tests reproduced a data race 2 times in 12 on the previous pin and 0 in 12 on this one.
Rebase notes
#320(full-handshake carrier) landed while this was closed. It added three outbound tests that construct a client with no hello source, whichmainpermits because the embedded snapshot is enabled there. This branch turns that off, so those three now hit the refusal and are given the same file-backed pool the branch's own tests use — what they assert is unchanged.Worth a reviewer's eye rather than mine:
#320'sContactMemorychooses the opening shape per connection (full on first contact, resumed after). Mux changes how often that decision is taken, since there is now one long-lived outer connection instead of one per inner destination. Nothing fails, and arguably a single long-lived connection is more browser-like than N short ones — but the intended opening distribution is a design question the two PRs jointly determine.Testing
go build ./...,go vet ./...,go test ./...clean.go test -race ./protocol/twiddle/clean, including 12 runs of the two mux tests.E2E uses
www.cloudflare.com(a measured cover) and a file-backed hello pool, since the embedded fallback is off on this branch.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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