* Fix xDS deadlock due to syncLoop termination.
This fixes an issue where agentless xDS streams can deadlock permanently until
a server is restarted. When this issue occurs, no new proxies are able to
successfully connect to the server.
Effectively, the trigger for this deadlock stems from the following return
statement:
https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/v1.18.0/agent/proxycfg-sources/catalog/config_source.go#L199-L202
When this happens, the entire `syncLoop()` terminates and stops consuming from
the following channel:
https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/v1.18.0/agent/proxycfg-sources/catalog/config_source.go#L182-L192
Which results in the `ConfigSource.cleanup()` function never receiving a
response and holding a mutex indefinitely:
https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/blob/v1.18.0/agent/proxycfg-sources/catalog/config_source.go#L241-L247
Because this mutex is shared, it effectively deadlocks the server's ability to
process new xDS streams.
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The fix to this issue involves removing the `chan chan struct{}` used like an
RPC-over-channels pattern and replacing it with two distinct channels:
+ `stopSyncLoopCh` - indicates that the `syncLoop()` should terminate soon. +
`syncLoopDoneCh` - indicates that the `syncLoop()` has terminated.
Splitting these two concepts out and deferring a `close(syncLoopDoneCh)` in the
`syncLoop()` function ensures that the deadlock above should no longer occur.
We also now evict xDS connections of all proxies for the corresponding
`syncLoop()` whenever it encounters an irrecoverable error. This is done by
hoisting the new `syncLoopDoneCh` upwards so that it's visible to the xDS delta
processing. Prior to this fix, the behavior was to simply orphan them so they
would never receive catalog-registration or service-defaults updates.
* Add changelog.
Previously, we'd begin a session with the xDS concurrency limiter
regardless of whether the proxy was registered in the catalog or in
the server's local agent state.
This caused problems for users who run `consul connect envoy` directly
against a server rather than a client agent, as the server's locally
registered proxies wouldn't be included in the limiter's capacity.
Now, the `ConfigSource` is responsible for beginning the session and we
only do so for services in the catalog.
Fixes: https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/15753
OSS port of enterprise PR 1822
Includes the necessary changes to the `proxycfg` and `xds` packages to enable
Consul servers to configure arbitrary proxies using catalog data.
Broadly, `proxycfg.Manager` now has public methods for registering,
deregistering, and listing registered proxies — the existing local agent
state-sync behavior has been moved into a separate component that makes use of
these methods.
When an xDS session is started for a proxy service in the catalog, a goroutine
will be spawned to watch the service in the server's state store and
re-register it with the `proxycfg.Manager` whenever it is updated (and clean
it up when the client goes away).
Derek Menteer
Ashwin Venkatesh
John Murret
Dan Upton