2017-05-11

NECKO WEEKLY MEETING NOTES

Thurs May 11th, 2017

STICKY

  • Triage duty: dragana
  • new untriaged bugs: https://tinyurl.com/zhk9yjf
  • NECKO-ACTIVE bugs: https://tinyurl.com/j8pj35u
  • NECKO NEXT bugs: https://tinyurl.com/zjwjfee
  • NECKO-BACKLOG bugs: https://tinyurl.com/hpkcxx3

Round Table:

  • lmandel's team: Product Integrity (QA, test automation, security reviews): pi-request@mozilla.com
    • now have issue tracking system. Respond within 48 hours.
    • responsibility is on us to ask them for help
  • bug 1354796 is blocking distribution partnerships
  • "Reference hardware" so we have a standard for performance metrics

---PROJECT UPDATES--- - rust-url meeting notes: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/mozloha-rust-url - rcwn https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/mozaloha-rcwn - service workers https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/mozaloha-sw-necko

QUIC (Pat, Dragana, Daniel)

Race-Cache-with-Network (Michal, Valentin, Junior)

  • Landed telemetry for time load difference
  • Next: racing logic + improvement telemetry

Context-Driven Priority (Honza, Kershaw, Amy, Gary, Nick)

  • maybe we should give this a read? http://web.mit.edu/ravinet/www/polaris_nsdi16.pdf

PBackgroundHttp (SC, NIck)

Nick

  • NTLM Hell

Honza

Michal

  • RCWN

Patrick

last week: mpendingq, 256fd telemetry, 0.9 telemetry, namespaces, neat tls, alt-svc, immutable bug, some non-necko stuff this week: neat tls, alt-svc, immutable bug, some non-necko stuff. more reviews.

Daniel

  • 1359639 - (sec-critical) heap-buffer-overflow READ size 4 in [@ nsDirIndexParser::ParseData]
  • 1330795 - Basic HTTP auth fails on Linksys WRT120N
  • 1360164 - The first async XHR done during startup blocks the main thread while initializing nsProtocolProxyService
  • 1358932 - Firefox needs to be restarted if launched before the network connection is active
  • QUIC discussions

Valentin

Bug 1341343 - Unable to load from alternate data after re-saving it.

RCWN frontend (prefs + logic + bugs)

Bug 1326175 - crash in LoadHostFilters

Dragana

NEAT

TFO

rel=preload

Bug 1334776 - Header name interning leaks across origins

Gary

web-page-replay doesn't support HTTPS, use mitmproxy instead.

Bug 1355782 - Throttling should stop reading data from an h2 stream

Junior

Bug 711886 - Refuse connection if server replies with non-matching subprotocol(land)

Bug 1354407 - Add new telemetry probe for saved time when we rcwn(f+)

Bug 1354405 - Add new telemetry probe for bandwidth cost based on average cache hit when we rcwn(f+)

Bug 1360163 - Add test for altData of cache index(r+)

Bug 1359951 - Crash in mozalloc_abort | NS_DebugBreak | mozilla::ipc::FatalError | mozilla::net::PNeckoChild::SendPWebSocketConstructor(r+)

Amy

Bug 1331680 - Consider not doing sync IPC for document.cookie getter/setter

  • implementation part1--create & set load flag.
  • f-
  • Josh suggested some test cases to verify the accuracy.
  • implementation part2 -- data struct
  • f?
  • implementation part3 -- http channel
  • f?
  • implementation part4 -- cookie service
  • f?
  • implementation part5 --- Destroy cookie
  • f?
  • Implemented a test html page.

Kershaw

[CDP]

Bug 1312515 - Lower priority of HTTP requests coming from tracking scripts

  • WIP

Bug 1360549 - Crash in IPCError-browser | PNecko::Msg_NotifyCurrentTopLevelOuterContentWindowId Route error: message sent to unknown actor ID

  • landed

[Labeling]

Bug 1352176 - Label the use of NS_New(In|Out)putStreamReadyEvent in netwerk

  • r?

SC

[HttpChannel]

  • CDP for image prioritization
  • all 4 bugs are landed on m-c
  • need some good websites to evaluate the effect on WPT
  • PBackground-ify HttpChannel IPC
  • Bug 1015466 - PBackground-ify for ODA IPC
  • cooking the patches
  • lifecycle management looks good on try (memleak issue in previous patch is fixed), will upload for review
  • move OnStartRequest back to main thread IPC due to the corelation between PContent::SetPermissionsWithKey - use return value for async IPC to ensure HttpChannelChild receives OnStartRequest before ODA - fixing test case failure before submitting for review
  • Bug 1357682 - telemetry for retargetable successful rate
  • @bsmedberg is asking for detailed execution plan on this new data
  • @mayhemer provide some feedback
  • need discuss about how to proceed on this bug