2018-09-06

NECKO WEEKLY MEETING NOTES

Thurs Aug 30, 2018

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

Nick

Honza

Michal

Daniel

Valentin

Junior

Dragana

Kershaw <<<<<===== August 31 to September 6

Round Table:

  • sec-high bugs

Nick

  • h2ws still progressing, have on* firing (finally), still no data flowing
  • a few minor h2 issues
  • avoiding httponly cookie values in child processes (wpt failures)

Honza

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

smb proxy bypass - ni? valentin

Michal

  • 1428901 Persist TLS session tickets across browsing sessions

Daniel

  • TRR - disable in devtools
  • ECS mistake
  • URI "template"

Valentin

bug 1476996 - cross process redirect impl [landed]

bug 908413 - mime type parsing in data URIs

Dragana

hq - http for quic

Junior

Bug 1485353 - Create PHttpTransaction IPC protocol

  • HttpTransactionParent/Child is split. Fixing the testing failure.
  • TODO: (a) Implement HttpTransactionParent::Cancel/Suspend/Resume

(b) env variable off to opt-out

Kershaw

Bug 1357676 - Increase cookie count limits to match Chrome's

  • landed

Socket Process

  • Address Honza's comment
  • Use full XPCOM in socket process

Gary

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

  • landed to mozilla-inbound

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.

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