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fix(worker): give each proxy host its own QUIC socket #1045

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fix(worker): give each proxy host its own QUIC socket
balaji-g Aug 20, 2026
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fix(worker): release the host socket on every path that drops the host
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2 changes: 2 additions & 0 deletions src/libraries/go/worker/proxy/BUILD.bazel
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Expand Up @@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ go_test(
name = "proxy_test",
srcs = [
"h3_addrlist_test.go",
"host_transport_test.go",
"proxy_e2e_test.go",
"proxy_extra_test.go",
"proxy_test.go",
Expand All @@ -82,6 +83,7 @@ go_test(
"@com_github_nats_io_nats_go//jetstream",
"@com_github_quic_go_quic_go//http3",
"@com_github_quic_go_quic_go//integrationtests/tools",
"@com_github_stretchr_testify//assert",
"@com_github_stretchr_testify//require",
"@org_golang_google_protobuf//proto",
"@org_golang_x_net//http2",
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114 changes: 83 additions & 31 deletions src/libraries/go/worker/proxy/h3.go
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Expand Up @@ -66,12 +66,32 @@ func createH3RoundTripper() *h3ConnectionCache {
return &h3ConnectionCache{wrappedTransport: h3, clients: make(map[string]*roundTripperWithCount)}
}

// newHostTransport opens a UDP socket for one proxy host.
//
// A socket per host rather than one shared by all of them, because the source
// port is what a UDP load balancer hashes on. Sharing one socket means every
// proxy pod is reached over a single balancer flow, so if that flow is pinned
// to an instance that has gone away, QUIC to every pod fails at once and keeps
// failing for as long as traffic continues: the flow never idles out and
// therefore never re-hashes. Restarting the whole worker was the only way back,
// which is why replacing function instances has been the standard remedy.
//
// Per host, a failed host is discarded together with its socket, and the next
// attempt arrives from a new source port that the balancer is free to place on
// a healthy instance. It also isolates hosts from one another.
func newHostTransport() (*quic.Transport, error) {
udpConn, err := net.ListenUDP("udp", nil)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return &quic.Transport{Conn: udpConn}, nil
}

// mostly copied from http3.Transport because we need to hijack the http3 client stream
// and when doing that we can't use the built in http3.Transport.RoundTrip function which caches
// connections.
type h3ConnectionCache struct {
wrappedTransport *http3.Transport
quicTransport *quic.Transport
mutex sync.Mutex
clients map[string]*roundTripperWithCount
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -103,9 +123,17 @@ func (t *h3ConnectionCache) getClient(ctx context.Context, hostname string) (rtc
if !ok {
ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(ctx)
removeOnce := sync.Once{}
var hostTransport *quic.Transport
if t.wrappedTransport.Dial == nil {
hostTransport, err = newHostTransport()
if err != nil {
return nil, false, err
}
}
cl = &roundTripperWithCount{
dialing: make(chan struct{}),
cancel: cancel,
dialing: make(chan struct{}),
cancel: cancel,
transport: hostTransport,
// may be called multiple times if many callers detect failure
removeFromCache: func() {
removeOnce.Do(func() {
Expand All @@ -116,7 +144,7 @@ func (t *h3ConnectionCache) getClient(ctx context.Context, hostname string) (rtc
go func() {
defer close(cl.dialing)
defer cancel()
conn, rt, err := t.dial(ctx, hostname)
conn, rt, err := t.dial(ctx, hostname, cl)
if err != nil {
cl.dialErr = err
return
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Expand All @@ -135,6 +163,7 @@ func (t *h3ConnectionCache) getClient(ctx context.Context, hostname string) (rtc
case <-cl.dialing:
if cl.dialErr != nil {
delete(t.clients, hostname)
cl.closeTransport()
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve client identity during cache removal.

Line 165 removes the entry by hostname only. A waiter in getDialedClient can later call cl.removeFromCache() for the failed client. If a retry created a new client for the same hostname first, removeClient(hostname) deletes and closes the new client's transport.

Pass the expected client to removeClient. Delete and close the entry only if t.clients[hostname] == expected. Add a concurrent failed-dial and retry test.

Proposed fix 
-func (t *h3ConnectionCache) removeClient(hostname string) {
+func (t *h3ConnectionCache) removeClient(hostname string, expected *roundTripperWithCount) {
 	t.mutex.Lock()
 	if t.clients == nil {
 		t.mutex.Unlock()
 		return
 	}
 	cl := t.clients[hostname]
+	if cl != expected {
+		t.mutex.Unlock()
+		return
+	}
 	delete(t.clients, hostname)
 	t.mutex.Unlock()

Update removeFromCache to call t.removeClient(hostname, cl).

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In `@src/libraries/go/worker/proxy/h3.go` around lines 164 - 166, Update
removeFromCache and the failed-dial cleanup in getDialedClient to pass the
expected client to removeClient; make removal delete and close the cached
transport only when t.clients[hostname] matches that client, preserving a newer
retry client. Add a concurrent failed-dial/retry test covering this identity
check.

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return nil, false, cl.dialErr
}
select {
Expand All @@ -149,7 +178,7 @@ func (t *h3ConnectionCache) getClient(ctx context.Context, hostname string) (rtc
return cl, isReused, nil
}

func (t *h3ConnectionCache) dial(ctx context.Context, hostname string) (*quic.Conn, *http3.ClientConn, error) {
func (t *h3ConnectionCache) dial(ctx context.Context, hostname string, cl *roundTripperWithCount) (*quic.Conn, *http3.ClientConn, error) {
var tlsConf *tls.Config
if t.wrappedTransport.TLSClientConfig == nil {
tlsConf = &tls.Config{}
Expand All @@ -169,24 +198,20 @@ func (t *h3ConnectionCache) dial(ctx context.Context, hostname string) (*quic.Co

dial := t.wrappedTransport.Dial
if dial == nil {
if t.quicTransport == nil {
udpConn, err := net.ListenUDP("udp", nil)
if err != nil {
return nil, nil, err
}
t.quicTransport = &quic.Transport{Conn: udpConn}
}
dial = func(ctx context.Context, addr string, tlsCfg *tls.Config, cfg *quic.Config) (*quic.Conn, error) {
network := "udp"
udpAddr, err := t.resolveUDPAddr(ctx, network, addr)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
conn, err := t.quicTransport.DialEarly(ctx, udpAddr, tlsCfg, cfg)
conn, err := cl.transport.DialEarly(ctx, udpAddr, tlsCfg, cfg)
return conn, err
}
}
conn, err := dial(ctx, hostname, tlsConf, t.wrappedTransport.QUICConfig)
// Per-dial copy: quic-go's validateConfig writes defaults back into the
// Config it is handed, so concurrent dials sharing one pointer race on it.
quicConf := *t.wrappedTransport.QUICConfig
conn, err := dial(ctx, hostname, tlsConf, &quicConf)
if err != nil {
zap.L().Warn("failed to dial quic connection", zap.Error(err), zap.String("hostname", hostname))
return nil, nil, err
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -216,11 +241,19 @@ func (t *h3ConnectionCache) resolveUDPAddr(ctx context.Context, network, addr st

func (t *h3ConnectionCache) removeClient(hostname string) {
t.mutex.Lock()
defer t.mutex.Unlock()
if t.clients == nil {
t.mutex.Unlock()
return
}
cl := t.clients[hostname]
delete(t.clients, hostname)
t.mutex.Unlock()

// Dropping the host has to drop its socket too, otherwise the source port
// is never released and every retry leaks one.
if cl != nil {
cl.closeTransport()
}
}

// Close closes the QUIC connections that this Transport has used.
Expand All @@ -233,24 +266,21 @@ func (t *h3ConnectionCache) Close() error {
}
}
t.clients = nil
if t.quicTransport != nil {
if err := t.quicTransport.Close(); err != nil {
return err
}
if err := t.quicTransport.Conn.Close(); err != nil {
return err
}
t.quicTransport = nil
}
return nil
}

type roundTripperWithCount struct {
cancel context.CancelFunc
dialing chan struct{} // closed as soon as quic.Dial(Early) returned
dialErr error
conn *quic.Conn
clientConn *http3.ClientConn
cancel context.CancelFunc
dialing chan struct{} // closed as soon as quic.Dial(Early) returned
dialErr error
conn *quic.Conn
// transport owns this host's UDP socket. Held per host rather than shared
// so that one unreachable proxy pod cannot take QUIC to every other pod
// down with it, and so that discarding a failed host also discards the
// source port it was using. See the note on newHostTransport.
transport *quic.Transport
transportOnce sync.Once
clientConn *http3.ClientConn

useCount atomic.Int64
removeFromCache func()
Expand All @@ -259,10 +289,32 @@ type roundTripperWithCount struct {
func (r *roundTripperWithCount) Close() error {
r.cancel()
<-r.dialing
var connErr error
if r.conn != nil {
return r.conn.CloseWithError(0, "")
connErr = r.conn.CloseWithError(0, "")
}
return nil
// Closing the socket is the point, not just tidiness: a new one is opened
// from a different source port, which is what lets a load balancer that
// pinned this flow to a dead target route the next attempt somewhere else.
r.closeTransport()
return connErr
}

// closeTransport releases this host's UDP socket. Idempotent, because a host is
// dropped from the cache by several paths and the socket must be released
// exactly once by whichever gets there first. Leaking it would be worse than
// the shared socket this replaced: a dial storm would leak one per failure.
//
// It deliberately does not wait on dialing. Callers hold the cache lock, and a
// dial still in flight is one whose host is being discarded anyway.
func (r *roundTripperWithCount) closeTransport() {
r.transportOnce.Do(func() {
if r.transport == nil {
return
}
_ = r.transport.Close()
_ = r.transport.Conn.Close()
})
}

// An addrList represents a list of network endpoint addresses.
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