feat(tcp): implement window scaling (RFC 7323) (rebased) (#197)

* feat(tcp): implement window scaling (RFC 7323)

The window-scale option was parsed for length validation but never applied:
the effective receive window was capped at the 16-bit field, which caps
throughput at 65535/RTT (about 4MB/s on a 15ms path) no matter how large the
receive buffer is. Worse, a receive buffer over 64KiB silently WRAPPED the
advertised window on the SYN (uint16 truncation): a 128KiB buffer went on
the wire as a near-zero window.

Design: scaling lives purely at the wire seam in Handler. The ControlBlock
always holds real octet counts; conversion happens on frame read (peer
windows shifted up by the peer's offer, never on SYN segments) and frame
write (wireWnd: our shift down, SYN never scaled, saturation instead of
wrap when the value still does not fit). The local shift derives from the
receive buffer size in SetBuffers; every active SYN offers it (a zero
shift still lets the peer scale, RFC 7323 §2.5) and a SYN-ACK echoes it
only when the peer's SYN carried the option. The ControlBlock's three
2**16 window caps move to the scaled maximum (65535<<14).

Tests: on-wire negotiation with asymmetric buffers (shift values, unscaled
saturated SYN windows, first scaled advertisement, peer scaling back up);
a transfer proving more than 64KiB genuinely in flight without a single
ACK, received intact; wire-safety corners (no echo without an offer,
saturation not wrap, so the pre-existing 128KiB SYN wrap bug stays pinned).
Fuzzers clean: 9.1M TCB execs, 4.9M full-stack HTTP execs, 7.2M TCB
actions.

* use min instead of if statement

* omitting use of min saves 8 bytes

* fix option offset bug and add OptionCodec.Next method

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Co-authored-by: Derek den Haas <d.haas@directcode.com>
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Pat Whittingslow
2026-09-07 17:15:29 -03:00
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commit 3eb1f39f1d
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@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import (
var (
errDropSegment error = lneto.ErrPacketDrop
errWindowTooLarge = errors.New("invalid window size > 2**16")
errWindowTooLarge = errors.New("invalid window size > max scaled window")
errBufferTooSmall error = lneto.ErrShortBuffer
errNeedClosedTCBToOpen = errors.New("need closed TCB to call open")
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ var (
errBadSegack = errors.New("seqs:bad segack")
errFinwaitExpectedACK = errors.New("seqs:finwait1 expected ACK")
errWindowOverflow = newRejectErr("wnd > 2**16")
errWindowOverflow = newRejectErr("wnd > max scaled window")
errSeqNotInWindow = newRejectErr("seq not in snd/rcv.wnd")
errZeroWindow = newRejectErr("zero window")
errLastNotInWindow = newRejectErr("last not in snd/rcv.wnd")