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Summary `proxyFor()`'s internal timeout for its `RLock`'d map-read goroutine was shortened from `getproxytimeout` (5s) to `minWaitPeriodSec/2` (1s) as an apparent side-effect of the `minWaitPeriodSec: 3 -> 2` tweak, with no accompanying doc-comment update and no mention in the commit message. This PR restores it to `getproxytimeout`. `go // before (regression) timeout := time.Duration(minWaitPeriodSec/2) * time.Second // after (this PR) timeout := getproxytimeout` ## Why this is a regression, not just a tuning change `ProxyFor()`'s doc-comment says: > As a special case, if it takes longer than `getproxytimeout`, it returns an error. ...but the actual code no longer uses `getproxytimeout` at all for this path - it's now silently 1s, and `getproxytimeout` is only referenced in the comment (dead/orphaned constant reference). More importantly, `ProxyFor()` only retries/waits for a missing proxy when `isWellknown(id)` is true (WG/Orbot/pip/internal/global-h1 ids - see the early-return branch and its comment about `dnsx.Default`/`dnsx.Preferred` construction). For any other, app-registered custom proxy id (e.g. a client app adding its own local proxy via `Proxies.AddProxy`), `proxyFor()` is the only lookup attempt made - there is no fallback wait/retry. `proxyFor()`'s lookup itself is a cheap `RLock`'d map read (`return px.p[id], nil`), but the paired `Lock()` in `AddProxy`/`RemoveProxy` can legitimately hold the mutex for longer than 1 second on a loaded or low-RAM device, especially for proxy implementations whose constructor performs real I/O before the map entry is inserted. Previously this guard had 5s of slack before giving up; now it has only 1s. ## Observed downstream impact We maintain a downstream Android TV app custom build derived from this project (via `celzero/rethink-app`) that registers its own local HTTP proxy (a Layer-7 ad-mitigation shim) through this same `Proxies.AddProxy`/`ProxyFor` path. After picking up this engine change (commit range `61894b7fdb..8677a52cbd`), we started seeing an intermittent, permanent "proxy not found" failure for that custom proxy id on Android TV / Fire TV Stick hardware - the calling app's connection fails and the app retries indefinitely (observed as a stuck playback/retry loop), until the VPN tunnel is fully torn down and rebuilt. Bisecting the engine commit range and reverting only this one line resolves it, with no other change in behavior. ## Fix Restore `timeout := getproxytimeout`, matching the function's own doc-comment and preserving the deadlock-recovery intent this guard already documents. The unrelated `minWaitPeriodSec: 3 -> 2` change (which only affects the separate wellknown-id retry/backoff path) is intentionally left untouched, since it is not implicated in the failure mode above - this PR is scoped to the minimal, provably-safe revert. No behavior change for the guard's actual documented purpose (an actual deadlock/hang still errors out - just with the originally-documented 5s grace period instead of 1s). ## Testing - Verified via source diff/inspection against the pinned commit range we build from (`61894b7fdb` ossrh -> `8677a52cbd` jitpack) that this is the only functional change to `intra/ipn/proxies.go` in that range. - Not able to run the Go toolchain in the environment this fix was authored in; the change is a single-line, type-safe revert to a pre-existing constant already used elsewhere in the same file, so no new compile surface is introduced. Happy to address any CI feedback. ## Summary by CodeRabbit - Bug Fixes - Increased the wait time for proxy lookups to improve recovery when access is temporarily blocked. - Ensured app-registered proxy lookups receive the same deadlock-recovery handling as other proxy requests. - Improved proxy health checks by simplifying stale-connection detection. - Changes - ICMP echo requests are now answered without the previous rate limits. - Removed ICMP flood-related response delays, allowing ping requests to proceed without intentional stalling.

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          fix(ipn/proxies): restore getproxytimeout for proxyFor lock-read guard

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proxyFor()'s internal timeout for its RLock'd map-read goroutine
(intended purely as a deadlock-recovery guard, per the ProxyFor
doc-comment: "if it takes longer than getproxytimeout, it returns an
error") was inadvertently changed from getproxytimeout (5s) to
minWaitPeriodSec/2 (1s), with no accompanying doc-comment update and
no explanation in the commit message.

Impact: ProxyFor() only retries/waits for a missing proxy when
isWellknown(id) is true (WG/Orbot/pip/internal/global-h1 ids). For any
other, app-registered custom proxy id, proxyFor() is the only lookup
attempt - there is no fallback wait. On a loaded or low-RAM device, the
paired px.Lock() in AddProxy/RemoveProxy can legitimately hold the
mutex for longer than 1s while a proxy is being registered/torn down
(especially proxies whose constructor performs real I/O). Previously
this had up to 5s of slack before proxyFor() gave up; now it has only
1s, turning a previously-recoverable, momentary lock stall into a
permanent, unretried "proxy not found" for that connection - observed
downstream (celzero/rethink-app-derived fork) as an intermittently
failing custom local HTTP proxy route on Android TV / Fire TV Stick
hardware, causing affected app connections to fail and the calling
app to retry indefinitely.

Fix: restore timeout := getproxytimeout, matching the function's
existing doc-comment and preserving the deadlock-recovery intent this
guard was designed for, without touching the minWaitPeriodSec change
(3s->2s) which only affects the separate wellknown-id retry/backoff
path and is not implicated in this regression.

No behavior change for the intended deadlock-recovery case (an actual
hang still errors out, just with the originally-documented 5s grace
period instead of 1s).

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The changes restore the proxy lookup guard, simplify proxy health checks, and remove ICMP flood stalling and rate limiting.

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Proxy and ICMP behavior

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Proxy lookup and health behavior `intra/ipn/proxies.go`, `intra/ipn/proxy.go`	`proxyFor` uses the 5-second `getproxytimeout` guard. Proxy health checks ping non-healthy proxies without transmit or receive staleness checks.
Remove ICMP stalling and rate limiting `intra/icmp.go`, `intra/netstack/icmp.go`, `intra/netstack/icmpecho.go`, `intra/netstack/stackopts.go`	ICMP flood delays and stack-wide ICMP rate-limit checks were removed. ICMP echo requests are forwarded and answered without these checks.
Remove obsolete expiring-map helper `intra/core/expiringmap.go`	The public `ExpMap.SetMin` helper was removed.

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The proxy lookup timeout is restored, but unhealthy-proxy lookups can now trigger unbounded concurrent health pings and mislabel their tracking data. Resolve the ping coalescing and non-TOK worker label before merge to avoid unnecessary proxy traffic and misleading health diagnostics.

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varunagarwal-pro added 2 commits

September 10, 2026 00:06


          Revert "ipn/proxies: ping if last good rx/tx is more than 2m"

a251584

This reverts commit f8fdaaf.

StreamShield investigation into a Zee5 playback hang (video CDN TCP
connections dying with "endpoint is closed for send" on the direct/
Exit proxy path) is bisecting this commit as one of two remaining
suspects in the celzero/firestack 61894b7..8677a52 range, after
ruling out and fixing the proxyFor lock-read timeout regression
(315d233, see StreamShield PR #248).

This commit added a periodic core.Gx("proxy.health.TxRx."+pid, ...)
health-ping trigger fired whenever a proxy's last-good rx or tx is
older than tzzTimeout (2m). Reverting to test whether this newly
introduced background Ping() call against long-idle-but-otherwise-
healthy proxies (including the Exit passthrough proxy carrying real
CDN traffic) is contributing to, or masking symptoms of, the observed
TCP write failures.

Not confirmed as root cause; reverted as part of a bisection A/B test.


          Revert "netstack/icmp: prevent icmp floods"

a419e04

This reverts commit b33dbb8.

StreamShield investigation into a Zee5 playback hang (video CDN TCP
connections dying with "endpoint is closed for send" on the direct/
Exit proxy path) is bisecting this commit as the second of two
remaining suspects in the celzero/firestack 61894b7..8677a52
range, after ruling out and fixing the proxyFor lock-read timeout
regression (315d233, see StreamShield PR #248).

This commit added a stack-wide ICMP rate limiter (10/s, burst 7) plus
a per-source ICMP echo tarpit/stall (sleeps up to 5s per ping once a
source exceeds 10 pings in a 10s window) in the netstack ICMP path.
Reverting to test whether this new rate limiting/stalling logic is
interacting badly with concurrent TCP dialing/health-probing on the
same netstack instance, or otherwise contributing to the observed
TCP write failures on unrelated connections.

Not confirmed as root cause; reverted as part of a bisection A/B test.

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intra/ipn/proxy.go

		core.Gx("proxy.health.TxRx."+pid, func() { p.Ping() })
		} else if status != TOK {
		core.Gx("proxy.health.TNOK."+pid, func() { p.Ping() })
		core.Gx("proxy.health.TOK."+pid, func() { p.Ping() })

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The event label was renamed from TNOK to TOK, but this branch still fires only when status != TOK (i.e. exactly when the proxy is NOT ok). The new label is therefore inverted relative to the guard and the surrounding semantics: proxy.health.TOK.<pid> will be recorded precisely for pings of unhealthy proxies, which will mislead anyone correlating these events/metrics with proxy health (and contradicts pxstatus, where TOK means "ok"). Either keep the original TNOK label, or — if the goal was to take over the removed TxRx branch that pinged healthy-but-idle proxies — the condition should be status == TOK rather than a label-only change.

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	core.Gx("proxy.health.TOK."+pid, func() { p.Ping() })
	core.Gx("proxy.health.TNOK."+pid, func() { p.Ping() })

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In `@intra/ipn/proxy.go`:
- Line 779: Update the health worker key in the non-TOK branch around the
core.Gx call to use proxy.health.TNOK instead of proxy.health.TOK, preserving
the distinct tracking and diagnostic identity for non-TOK health work.
- Line 779: Update the healthy path in proxyFor to restore a per-proxy staleness
or in-flight guard before invoking core.Gx, preventing repeated lookups from
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intra/ipn/proxy.go

		core.Gx("proxy.health.TxRx."+pid, func() { p.Ping() })
		} else if status != TOK {
		core.Gx("proxy.health.TNOK."+pid, func() { p.Ping() })
		core.Gx("proxy.health.TOK."+pid, func() { p.Ping() })

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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Keep the non-TOK health key distinct.

This branch runs only when status != TOK, but the worker key now uses proxy.health.TOK. core.Gx passes this key to trackwork, so non-TOK health work can appear under the TOK key in diagnostics and tracking. Keep proxy.health.TNOK unless the monitoring contract intentionally changes.

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-		core.Gx("proxy.health.TOK."+pid, func() { p.Ping() })
+		core.Gx("proxy.health.TNOK."+pid, func() { p.Ping() })

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	core.Gx("proxy.health.TOK."+pid, func() { p.Ping() })
	core.Gx("proxy.health.TNOK."+pid, func() { p.Ping() })

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In `@intra/ipn/proxy.go` at line 779, Update the health worker key in the non-TOK
branch around the core.Gx call to use proxy.health.TNOK instead of
proxy.health.TOK, preserving the distinct tracking and diagnostic identity for
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printf '%s\n' '--- all Proxy implementations and Ping call paths ---'
rg -n -C 8 'Ping\(\) bool|\.Ping\(\)' intra/ipn --glob '*.go'
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Restore health-ping coalescing

proxyFor calls healthy after each successful lookup. For eligible non-TOK proxies, this branch starts one goroutine per call because core.Gx does not deduplicate its trackwork key. wgproxy.Ping calls via.Ping() before its gate, and its gate permits calls within the five-second interval. Repeated lookups can therefore create concurrent ping chains and repeated keepalives. Restore the per-proxy staleness or in-flight guard before core.Gx, and use the non-TOK worker label.

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In `@intra/ipn/proxy.go` at line 779, Update the healthy path in proxyFor to
restore a per-proxy staleness or in-flight guard before invoking core.Gx,
preventing repeated lookups from starting concurrent ping chains; use the
non-TOK worker label for eligible proxies while preserving the existing TOK
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