2018-07-05

NECKO WEEKLY MEETING NOTES

Thurs July 5th 2018

TRIAGE: see https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/necko-triage-guide for how-to

Nick <<<<<===== June 15 to June 21

Honza

Michal

Daniel

Valentin

// (skip Dragana till she's back full-time)

Round Table:

  • Kershaw (Berlin, July 1st), Junior (Portland, July 15th)

Nick

  • h2 crash 1 - r+, awaiting sec-approbal
  • h2 crash 2 - seems to be enterprisey (good number during week, not so much on weekend), waiting/hoping for input from outside
  • h2 trailers - patch first round written, waiting for third-party endpoint to test against
  • server-timing - made it https-only
  • cookie limiting & batch eviction - in progress
  • h2 websockets - starting soon
  • predictor prefetch - waiting on yoathrizon

Honza

ni? 1463729 (fast net, slow logging IO -> hang socket thread in an endless loop, h2)

smb proxy bypass - ni? valentin

Michal

  • 1466577
  • 1460879 Non-secure WebSocket through proxy that does not support Upgrade fails
  • 756165 Return close code 1015 to JS when TLS setup fails
  • detecting problem when video evicts whole cache

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

  • TRR stuff
  • bug 1452436 TRR resolved addresses and websockets timeouts

Valentin

Bug 1412081 - tor & file://

*- leak was in plugin process *- about to land bug 1460537 - connectivity checker

Bug 1471280 - Do not start/stop nsHostResolver threads

Dragana

http-auth dialog

UnknownDecoder crash

TFO

QUIC

NEAT

Gary

Bug 1373708 - Convert Jar channels to stop using main thread I/O

  • landed to mozilla-inbound

Junior

Bug 1363284 - Allow some sharing of connections with different anonymous attributes

  • has a simple test, handling ntlm

Amy

Batch Eviction

  • Had confirmed the algorithm with Josh and Martin.

  • Martin had sent the mail to discuss the algorithm with Mike West. Bug 1425031 - Firefox Quantum blocks cookies when JavaScript updates them

  • Found the root cause.

  • Started to create a mochitest for this bug. Bug 1426471 - Cookies set via JS during anonymous screenshoting override real cookies

  • Can't reproduce.

Kershaw

Bug 1413999 - Add support for Server-Timing HTTP trailing header

*-Landed Bug 1423495 - Implement PerformanceServerTiming interface

*- backed out due to WPT failure Bug 1428250 - Add an API to read HTTP trailers

*- Working

SC

[Socket Process]

  • no progress this week on my part [Others]

  • Bug 1426751 - Intermittent eventsource-close.htm | application crashed [@ mozilla::net::ChannelEventQueue::FlushQueue] (Assertion failure: !mFlushing, at netwerk/ipc/ChannelEventQueue.cpp:46)

  • multiple threads trying to flush ChannelEventQueue at the same time

  • need to check and set flag at single critical section

  • r+’ed and landed on m-c

  • security bug

  • discussing my proposal with @mayhemer on bugzilla

  • trying @mayhemer's suggestion and upload my WIP, debugging test failure while running mochitest

Will Wang [Back Pressure]

Bug 1280629 - e10s breaks necko back pressure

*- discussion, tracing code *- going to discuss the experiment for min/max queue size

Cervantes

[Socket Process]

  • patch rebase and breakage fixes
  • working on pref system