crates/irtt-client/src/receive/linux.rs

@@ -1,3 +1,21 @@
+//! Linux ancillary receive metadata.
+//!
+//! Receive kernel timing uses `SO_TIMESTAMPING` with `RX_SOFTWARE` +
+//! `SOFTWARE` (reported via `SCM_TIMESTAMPING`), not the older
+//! `SO_TIMESTAMPNS`/`SCM_TIMESTAMPNS`. Linux documents fallback quirks when
+//! `SO_TIMESTAMP[NS]` and `SO_TIMESTAMPING` are both enabled on one socket,
+//! so this establishes one unambiguous software-timestamp facility before
+//! TX-side timing is introduced in a follow-up change. `ReceiveMeta`'s
+//! semantics — an optional observed kernel receive wall time, used for
+//! downstream one-way delay only when plausible relative to the userspace
+//! receive sample — are unchanged by this.
+//!
+//! `SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_SOFTWARE` is never requested on the production
+//! socket in [`configure_receive_metadata`]. TX flag construction,
+//! `MSG_ERRQUEUE` parsing, and extended-error classification exist as
+//! test-only primitives in [`error_queue`] for a follow-up change to build
+//! on; production does not generate or drain TX timestamp records yet.
+
 use std::{
     io::{self, IoSliceMut},
     net::{SocketAddr, UdpSocket},
@@ -6,16 +24,40 @@ use std::{
 };
 
 use nix::sys::{
-    socket::{recvmsg, setsockopt, sockopt, ControlMessageOwned, MsgFlags, RecvMsg},
+    socket::{
+        cmsg_space, recvmsg, setsockopt, sockopt, ControlMessageOwned, MsgFlags, RecvMsg,
+        TimestampingFlag, Timestamps,
+    },
     time::TimeSpec,
 };
 
 use crate::{metadata::ReceiveMeta, receive::ReceivedDatagram, timing::ClientTimestamp};
 
-const CONTROL_LEN: usize = 128;
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod error_queue;
+
+/// `SO_TIMESTAMPING` flags requested on the production receive socket.
+///
+/// `SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RX_SOFTWARE` asks the kernel to generate a software
+/// receive timestamp for each datagram; `SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE` asks it
+/// to report that timestamp back via `SCM_TIMESTAMPING`. Mixing this API with
+/// the older `SO_TIMESTAMP`/`SO_TIMESTAMPNS` on the same socket has
+/// documented fallback quirks, so the client uses `SO_TIMESTAMPING`
+/// exclusively for receive timing. Hardware and TX-side flags are
+/// deliberately excluded: this socket is receive-only.
+const RX_TIMESTAMPING_FLAGS: TimestampingFlag = TimestampingFlag::SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RX_SOFTWARE
+    .union(TimestampingFlag::SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE);
+
+/// Control buffer capacity for a normal receive: one `SCM_TIMESTAMPING`
+/// record (three `TimeSpec`s) plus one traffic-class record. Only one of
+/// `IP_TOS` (`u8`) or `IPV6_TCLASS` (`i32`) is ever requested on a given
+/// socket, but `cmsg_space` already rounds both up to the same aligned
+/// space, so sizing on the larger of the two costs nothing and covers
+/// either family.
+const CONTROL_LEN: usize = cmsg_space::<Timestamps>() + cmsg_space::<i32>();
 
 pub(crate) fn configure_receive_metadata(socket: &UdpSocket, remote: SocketAddr) -> io::Result<()> {
-    setsockopt(socket, sockopt::ReceiveTimestampns, &true)?;
+    setsockopt(socket, sockopt::Timestamping, &RX_TIMESTAMPING_FLAGS)?;
     let socket = socket2::SockRef::from(socket);
     if remote.is_ipv4() {
         socket.set_recv_tos_v4(true)
@@ -72,8 +114,8 @@ fn receive_meta<S>(msg: &RecvMsg<'_, '_, S>) -> ReceiveMeta {
 
     for cmsg in cmsgs {
         match cmsg {
-            ControlMessageOwned::ScmTimestampns(timestamp) => {
-                meta.kernel_rx_timestamp = system_time_from_timespec(timestamp);
+            ControlMessageOwned::ScmTimestampsns(timestamps) => {
+                meta.kernel_rx_timestamp = system_time_from_timespec(timestamps.system);
             }
             ControlMessageOwned::Ipv4Tos(tos) => {
                 meta.traffic_class = Some(tos);
@@ -264,7 +306,7 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(&buf[..datagram.len], b"stamp");
         let Some(timestamp) = datagram.meta.kernel_rx_timestamp else {
             eprintln!(
-                "skipping kernel timestamp assertion: kernel did not provide SCM_TIMESTAMPNS"
+                "skipping kernel timestamp assertion: kernel did not provide SCM_TIMESTAMPING"
             );
             return;
         };
@@ -273,6 +315,31 @@ mod tests {
         assert!(duration.as_nanos() > 0);
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn kernel_rx_timestamp_and_traffic_class_coexist() {
+        let (sender, receiver) = connected_ipv4_loopback_pair();
+        configure_receive_metadata(&receiver, sender.local_addr().unwrap()).unwrap();
+        apply_traffic_class_to_socket(&sender, receiver.local_addr().unwrap(), 184).unwrap();
+        sender.send(b"both").unwrap();
+
+        let mut buf = [0_u8; 16];
+        let datagram = recv_datagram(&receiver, &mut buf).unwrap();
+        assert_eq!(&buf[..datagram.len], b"both");
+
+        // Both cmsgs are requested on this socket; the parser must not
+        // depend on the order the kernel emits them in to observe either.
+        if datagram.meta.kernel_rx_timestamp.is_none() {
+            eprintln!("skipping combined assertion: kernel did not provide SCM_TIMESTAMPING");
+            return;
+        }
+        if datagram.meta.traffic_class.is_none() {
+            eprintln!("skipping combined assertion: kernel did not provide IP_TOS");
+            return;
+        }
+        assert!(datagram.meta.kernel_rx_timestamp.is_some());
+        assert_eq!(datagram.meta.traffic_class.unwrap() & 0xfc, 184);
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn ipv4_traffic_class_metadata_is_observed_when_kernel_provides_it() {
         let (sender, receiver) = connected_ipv4_loopback_pair();

crates/irtt-client/src/receive/linux/error_queue.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,450 @@
+//! Safe `MSG_ERRQUEUE` primitives for the future client TX timestamp work
+//! (see the parent module's TX-foundation note).
+//!
+//! Test-only for this PR: production sockets never enable
+//! `SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_SOFTWARE` and never drain the error queue, so
+//! nothing here runs outside `#[cfg(test)]`. It exists so the follow-up PR
+//! that wires TX timestamps into probes does not need to rediscover flag
+//! construction, error-queue parsing, or extended-error classification.
+
+use std::{
+    io::{self, IoSliceMut},
+    os::fd::RawFd,
+    time::SystemTime,
+};
+
+use nix::{
+    errno::Errno,
+    sys::socket::{
+        cmsg_space, recvmsg, ControlMessageOwned, MsgFlags, TimestampingFlag, Timestamps,
+    },
+};
+
+use super::system_time_from_timespec;
+
+/// Desired `SO_TIMESTAMPING` configuration for a future TX-timestamped
+/// socket. Combines this PR's RX flags with the TX-side flags the next PR
+/// needs: `TX_SOFTWARE` to generate a send timestamp, `OPT_ID` for automatic
+/// per-datagram correlation, and `OPT_TSONLY` so the notification does not
+/// need to retain or copy the original payload.
+///
+/// Not applied to any production socket in this PR.
+pub(crate) const TX_TIMESTAMPING_FLAGS: TimestampingFlag =
+    TimestampingFlag::SOF_TIMESTAMPING_RX_SOFTWARE
+        .union(TimestampingFlag::SOF_TIMESTAMPING_SOFTWARE)
+        .union(TimestampingFlag::SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_SOFTWARE)
+        .union(TimestampingFlag::SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_ID)
+        .union(TimestampingFlag::SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_TSONLY);
+
+/// `SCM_TSTAMP_SND`, the send-timestamp completion kind reported in the
+/// `ee_info` field of a `SO_EE_ORIGIN_TIMESTAMPING` extended error.
+///
+/// Not exposed by `libc` or `nix`. Value verified against the kernel UAPI
+/// enum in `include/uapi/linux/errqueue.h`:
+/// `enum { SCM_TSTAMP_SND, SCM_TSTAMP_SCHED, SCM_TSTAMP_ACK };`, so
+/// `SCM_TSTAMP_SND == 0`. This is a stable, long-documented UAPI value, not
+/// a guess.
+const SCM_TSTAMP_SND: u32 = 0;
+
+/// A large-enough placeholder for the offender address `sock_extended_err`
+/// is followed by in the kernel's error-queue cmsg payload (the address is
+/// present for network-originated errors, absent for local/timestamp
+/// ones). Sized generously so `cmsg_space` reserves enough control-buffer
+/// capacity for either an `IPv4` or `IPv6` offender address; never read.
+#[repr(C)]
+struct ExtendedErrWithAddr {
+    _err: nix::libc::sock_extended_err,
+    _addr: nix::libc::sockaddr_in6,
+}
+
+/// Control buffer capacity for one error-queue receive: one extended-error
+/// record (with room for the largest possible offender address) plus one
+/// `SCM_TIMESTAMPING` record.
+const ERROR_QUEUE_CONTROL_LEN: usize =
+    cmsg_space::<ExtendedErrWithAddr>() + cmsg_space::<Timestamps>();
+
+/// A classified record read from a socket's `MSG_ERRQUEUE`.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy, PartialEq, Eq)]
+pub(crate) enum ErrorQueueRecord {
+    /// A genuine send-timestamp completion: the extended error's origin was
+    /// `SO_EE_ORIGIN_TIMESTAMPING`, its kind was `SCM_TSTAMP_SND`, and a
+    /// usable software timestamp accompanied it.
+    TxTimestamp { id: u32, timestamp: SystemTime },
+    /// A timestamp-origin extended error was present, but no usable
+    /// timestamp accompanied it: either the `SCM_TIMESTAMPING` cmsg was
+    /// missing, or its value failed to convert to a `SystemTime`. An
+    /// accuracy failure, not a socket failure.
+    MalformedTimestamp,
+    /// An extended error that is not a timestamp completion: a real
+    /// network, local, or ICMP error surfaced on the error queue. Must not
+    /// be misclassified as malformed timing metadata.
+    SocketError { errno: i32, origin: u8 },
+    /// No extended error was present in this record's control data (e.g.
+    /// only unrelated/unknown cmsgs).
+    Ignored,
+}
+
+/// Classify a decoded set of cmsgs from one `MSG_ERRQUEUE` datagram.
+///
+/// Collects the extended error and any accompanying timestamp
+/// independently before classifying, so cmsg order never matters. A
+/// timestamp is only ever attached to a timestamp-origin extended error;
+/// an ID is never reported without a timestamp, and a timestamp is never
+/// accepted without a valid timestamp-origin extended error.
+pub(crate) fn classify(cmsgs: impl Iterator<Item = ControlMessageOwned>) -> ErrorQueueRecord {
+    let mut extended_error: Option<(u32, u8, u32, u32)> = None;
+    let mut timestamp: Option<Timestamps> = None;
+
+    for cmsg in cmsgs {
+        match cmsg {
+            ControlMessageOwned::Ipv4RecvErr(err, _) => {
+                extended_error = Some((err.ee_errno, err.ee_origin, err.ee_info, err.ee_data));
+            }
+            ControlMessageOwned::Ipv6RecvErr(err, _) => {
+                extended_error = Some((err.ee_errno, err.ee_origin, err.ee_info, err.ee_data));
+            }
+            ControlMessageOwned::ScmTimestampsns(observed) => {
+                timestamp = Some(observed);
+            }
+            _ => {}
+        }
+    }
+
+    let Some((errno, origin, info, id)) = extended_error else {
+        return ErrorQueueRecord::Ignored;
+    };
+
+    let is_timestamp_origin = origin == nix::libc::SO_EE_ORIGIN_TIMESTAMPING
+        && errno == nix::libc::ENOMSG as u32
+        && info == SCM_TSTAMP_SND;
+
+    if !is_timestamp_origin {
+        return ErrorQueueRecord::SocketError {
+            errno: errno as i32,
+            origin,
+        };
+    }
+
+    match timestamp.and_then(|observed| system_time_from_timespec(observed.system)) {
+        Some(timestamp) => ErrorQueueRecord::TxTimestamp { id, timestamp },
+        None => ErrorQueueRecord::MalformedTimestamp,
+    }
+}
+
+/// Reusable per-receive control buffer. `recvmsg` control data must satisfy
+/// `cmsghdr` alignment; a plain `[u8; N]` only guarantees byte alignment, so
+/// this mirrors the parent module's `ControlBuffer` rather than reading
+/// `cmsghdr`s out of unaligned storage.
+#[repr(align(8))]
+struct ErrorQueueControlBuffer([u8; ERROR_QUEUE_CONTROL_LEN]);
+
+impl ErrorQueueControlBuffer {
+    fn new() -> Self {
+        Self([0; ERROR_QUEUE_CONTROL_LEN])
+    }
+}
+
+/// Nonblocking drain of a single record from `fd`'s `MSG_ERRQUEUE`.
+///
+/// Returns `Ok(None)` when the queue is empty (`EAGAIN`/`EWOULDBLOCK`).
+/// `SOF_TIMESTAMPING_OPT_TSONLY` notifications carry no meaningful payload,
+/// so a zero-length iovec is enough: correlation is by `id`, never by
+/// payload content.
+pub(crate) fn try_recv_error_queue_record(fd: RawFd) -> io::Result<Option<ErrorQueueRecord>> {
+    let mut payload: [u8; 0] = [];
+    let mut iov = [IoSliceMut::new(&mut payload)];
+    let mut control = ErrorQueueControlBuffer::new();
+
+    match recvmsg::<()>(
+        fd,
+        &mut iov,
+        Some(&mut control.0),
+        MsgFlags::MSG_ERRQUEUE | MsgFlags::MSG_DONTWAIT,
+    ) {
+        Ok(msg) => {
+            let cmsgs = msg
+                .cmsgs()
+                .map_err(|_| io::Error::from(io::ErrorKind::InvalidData))?;
+            Ok(Some(classify(cmsgs)))
+        }
+        Err(Errno::EWOULDBLOCK) => Ok(None),
+        Err(errno) => Err(io::Error::from(errno)),
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use std::{
+        net::{SocketAddr, UdpSocket},
+        os::fd::AsRawFd,
+        time::{Duration, Instant, UNIX_EPOCH},
+    };
+
+    use nix::sys::{
+        socket::{setsockopt, sockopt},
+        time::TimeSpec,
+    };
+
+    use super::*;
+
+    fn extended_error(
+        errno: u32,
+        origin: u8,
+        info: u32,
+        data: u32,
+    ) -> nix::libc::sock_extended_err {
+        nix::libc::sock_extended_err {
+            ee_errno: errno,
+            ee_origin: origin,
+            ee_type: 0,
+            ee_code: 0,
+            ee_pad: 0,
+            ee_info: info,
+            ee_data: data,
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn timestamps_with_system(system: TimeSpec) -> Timestamps {
+        Timestamps {
+            system,
+            hw_trans: TimeSpec::new(0, 0),
+            hw_raw: TimeSpec::new(0, 0),
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn send_timestamp_error(id: u32) -> ControlMessageOwned {
+        ControlMessageOwned::Ipv4RecvErr(
+            extended_error(
+                nix::libc::ENOMSG as u32,
+                nix::libc::SO_EE_ORIGIN_TIMESTAMPING,
+                SCM_TSTAMP_SND,
+                id,
+            ),
+            None,
+        )
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn classifies_valid_send_timestamp_completion() {
+        let cmsgs = vec![
+            send_timestamp_error(7),
+            ControlMessageOwned::ScmTimestampsns(timestamps_with_system(TimeSpec::new(1, 2))),
+        ];
+
+        let record = classify(cmsgs.into_iter());
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            record,
+            ErrorQueueRecord::TxTimestamp {
+                id: 7,
+                timestamp: UNIX_EPOCH + Duration::new(1, 2),
+            }
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn classifies_timestamp_origin_without_timestamp_as_malformed() {
+        let cmsgs = vec![send_timestamp_error(3)];
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            classify(cmsgs.into_iter()),
+            ErrorQueueRecord::MalformedTimestamp
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn classifies_timestamp_origin_with_invalid_timespec_as_malformed() {
+        let cmsgs = vec![
+            send_timestamp_error(3),
+            ControlMessageOwned::ScmTimestampsns(timestamps_with_system(TimeSpec::new(-1, 0))),
+        ];
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            classify(cmsgs.into_iter()),
+            ErrorQueueRecord::MalformedTimestamp
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn classifies_non_timestamp_extended_error_as_socket_error() {
+        let cmsgs = vec![ControlMessageOwned::Ipv4RecvErr(
+            extended_error(
+                nix::libc::ECONNREFUSED as u32,
+                nix::libc::SO_EE_ORIGIN_ICMP,
+                0,
+                0,
+            ),
+            None,
+        )];
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            classify(cmsgs.into_iter()),
+            ErrorQueueRecord::SocketError {
+                errno: nix::libc::ECONNREFUSED,
+                origin: nix::libc::SO_EE_ORIGIN_ICMP,
+            }
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn classifies_timestamping_origin_with_wrong_completion_kind_as_socket_error() {
+        // Same origin byte as a send-timestamp completion, but a different
+        // `ee_info` (e.g. SCM_TSTAMP_SCHED/ACK) must not be mistaken for
+        // SCM_TSTAMP_SND.
+        let cmsgs = vec![ControlMessageOwned::Ipv4RecvErr(
+            extended_error(
+                nix::libc::ENOMSG as u32,
+                nix::libc::SO_EE_ORIGIN_TIMESTAMPING,
+                1,
+                0,
+            ),
+            None,
+        )];
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            classify(cmsgs.into_iter()),
+            ErrorQueueRecord::SocketError {
+                errno: nix::libc::ENOMSG,
+                origin: nix::libc::SO_EE_ORIGIN_TIMESTAMPING,
+            }
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn ignores_records_without_any_extended_error() {
+        let cmsgs = vec![ControlMessageOwned::Ipv4Tos(0)];
+
+        assert_eq!(classify(cmsgs.into_iter()), ErrorQueueRecord::Ignored);
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn unknown_cmsgs_do_not_affect_classification() {
+        let cmsgs = vec![
+            ControlMessageOwned::Ipv4Tos(0),
+            send_timestamp_error(4),
+            ControlMessageOwned::ScmTimestampsns(timestamps_with_system(TimeSpec::new(9, 0))),
+        ];
+
+        assert_eq!(
+            classify(cmsgs.into_iter()),
+            ErrorQueueRecord::TxTimestamp {
+                id: 4,
+                timestamp: UNIX_EPOCH + Duration::new(9, 0),
+            }
+        );
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn cmsg_order_does_not_affect_classification() {
+        let forward = classify(
+            vec![
+                send_timestamp_error(9),
+                ControlMessageOwned::ScmTimestampsns(timestamps_with_system(TimeSpec::new(5, 0))),
+            ]
+            .into_iter(),
+        );
+        let reversed = classify(
+            vec![
+                ControlMessageOwned::ScmTimestampsns(timestamps_with_system(TimeSpec::new(5, 0))),
+                send_timestamp_error(9),
+            ]
+            .into_iter(),
+        );
+
+        assert_eq!(forward, reversed);
+    }
+
+    /// Bounded poll for one error-queue record, since software TX timestamp
+    /// delivery is asynchronous even on loopback. Never sleeps hoping
+    /// delivery "probably" happened; it keeps polling until either a
+    /// record appears or the overall deadline passes.
+    fn poll_for_record(fd: RawFd, overall_timeout: Duration) -> Option<ErrorQueueRecord> {
+        let deadline = Instant::now() + overall_timeout;
+        loop {
+            if let Some(record) = try_recv_error_queue_record(fd).unwrap() {
+                return Some(record);
+            }
+            if Instant::now() >= deadline {
+                return None;
+            }
+            std::thread::yield_now();
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn tx_timestamped_loopback_socket() -> Option<(UdpSocket, UdpSocket)> {
+        let socket = UdpSocket::bind(SocketAddr::from(([127, 0, 0, 1], 0))).unwrap();
+        // Held for the caller's lifetime: if this peer socket were dropped,
+        // its port would close and subsequent sends would fail with
+        // ECONNREFUSED once the kernel reports ICMP port-unreachable.
+        let peer = UdpSocket::bind(SocketAddr::from(([127, 0, 0, 1], 0))).unwrap();
+        socket.connect(peer.local_addr().unwrap()).unwrap();
+
+        match setsockopt(&socket, sockopt::Timestamping, &TX_TIMESTAMPING_FLAGS) {
+            Ok(()) => Some((socket, peer)),
+            Err(error) => {
+                eprintln!(
+                    "skipping TX timestamping smoke test: kernel/container denied \
+                     SO_TIMESTAMPING TX flags: {error}"
+                );
+                None
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn automatic_opt_id_increments_sequentially_across_separate_sends() {
+        let Some((socket, _peer)) = tx_timestamped_loopback_socket() else {
+            return;
+        };
+        let fd = socket.as_raw_fd();
+
+        // Under heavy parallel test load, loopback UDP sends can
+        // occasionally surface a stale ICMP-derived socket error unrelated
+        // to this test's own sockets. That is an environmental condition,
+        // not a claim this test makes about kernel TX timestamp behavior,
+        // so it is a skip rather than a failure.
+        if let Err(error) = socket.send(b"first") {
+            eprintln!("skipping automatic OPT_ID assertion: first send failed: {error}");
+            return;
+        }
+        let Some(first) = poll_for_record(fd, Duration::from_secs(2)) else {
+            eprintln!(
+                "skipping automatic OPT_ID assertion: no TX timestamp record was \
+                 delivered within the poll deadline"
+            );
+            return;
+        };
+        assert!(
+            matches!(first, ErrorQueueRecord::TxTimestamp { id: 0, .. }),
+            "expected first send to report id 0, got {first:?}"
+        );
+
+        if let Err(error) = socket.send(b"second") {
+            eprintln!("skipping automatic OPT_ID assertion: second send failed: {error}");
+            return;
+        }
+        let Some(second) = poll_for_record(fd, Duration::from_secs(2)) else {
+            eprintln!(
+                "skipping automatic OPT_ID assertion: no TX timestamp record was \
+                 delivered for the second send within the poll deadline"
+            );
+            return;
+        };
+        assert!(
+            matches!(second, ErrorQueueRecord::TxTimestamp { id: 1, .. }),
+            "expected second send to report id 1, got {second:?}"
+        );
+    }
+
+    // NOTE: a deterministic test proving that a failed nonblocking `sendmsg`
+    // does not consume an automatic OPT_ID is not included here. Forcing a
+    // reliable, non-flaky `WouldBlock` on a connected loopback UDP socket
+    // (e.g. via socket-buffer saturation) has no deterministic OS-level
+    // mechanism available in this environment, and the repository's testing
+    // policy explicitly forbids faking coverage with sleep/saturation-based
+    // flakiness. This remains an open assumption for the follow-up PR that
+    // wires automatic ID correlation into production: it must verify, by
+    // construction or by a reliable test double, that a `WouldBlock` send
+    // never advances the ID the kernel will assign to the next
+    // successfully transmitted timestamped datagram.
+}