datacap: account and throttle via the sidecar instead of reporting Redis - #681
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Adds a `datacapurl` flag that points http-proxy at the local datacap sidecar, the same one lantern-box reports to. When it is set, per-device byte deltas from the existing measured pipeline are POSTed to the sidecar and the throttle verdict it returns is enforced, replacing the `_client:<deviceID>` Redis writes and the `_throttle` cohort config. Enforcement now uses one limiter per device, shared by all of that device's connections and re-rated in place as reports come back. That closes the bypass where a tunnel opened before the cap was crossed kept running at full speed until it closed, because devicefilter only attached a limiter once per CONNECT. RateLimiter rates are consequently mutable and read through an atomic, which also removes the pre-existing race between ControlMessage and the conn's Read/Write. XBQ/XBQv2 headers are preserved from the sidecar's bytesUsed/capLimit/ expiryTime. Pro gating stays server-side: pro tracks are not given a datacapurl. The Redis path is untouched and still selected when datacapurl is absent, so tracks can be flipped one at a time. Cohort segmentation, weekly/monthly cap periods and per-app settings do not carry over; datacap is daily-only, as it already is on lantern-box. For getlantern/engineering#3813
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change moves accounting and throttling to the sidecar and re-rates open connections, but idle connection state can be discarded before a connection resumes, allowing it to bypass a newly crossed cap; slow reporting can also under-count usage. The PR is not merge-ready until these bounded cap-enforcement and accounting risks are fixed or explicitly accepted. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Proxy
participant DeviceFilter
participant Tracker
participant DatacapClient
participant DatacapSidecar
participant RateLimiter
Proxy->>DeviceFilter: process proxied request
DeviceFilter->>Tracker: get limiter and usage
Tracker->>RateLimiter: provide shared limiter
DeviceFilter-->>Proxy: apply throttling and cap headers
Tracker->>DatacapClient: report batched byte deltas
DatacapClient->>DatacapSidecar: POST /data-cap/
DatacapSidecar-->>DatacapClient: return throttle and cap status
DatacapClient-->>Tracker: decoded Status
Tracker->>RateLimiter: update active device rates
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Pull request overview
This PR introduces a sidecar-backed datacap accounting + throttling path (selected via a new datacapurl flag) and changes throttling enforcement so that already-open connections are re-rated in place when a device crosses its cap (closing a long-lived tunnel bypass).
Changes:
- Add
datacapclient/tracker to aggregate per-device deltas and POST them to the local datacap sidecar, enforcing throttle verdicts via shared per-device limiters. - Make
listeners.RateLimiterrates mutable (atomic swap of rate+bucket state) so throttling updates apply to already-open connections. - Wire selection logic so
datacapurlsupersedes the Redis reporting/cohort path while keeping Redis as the fallback whendatacapurlis unset.
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| File | Description |
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| reporting.go | Selects datacap tracker reporter when present; otherwise keeps Redis/no-op reporting. |
| listeners/bitrate.go | Refactors RateLimiter to support atomic re-rating; makes conn limiter pointer atomic. |
| listeners/bitrate_test.go | Adds tests validating re-rating applies to already-open connections and unchanged rates keep buckets. |
| http-proxy/main.go | Adds datacapurl and datacapreportinterval flags and selects datacap over Redis when set. |
| http_proxy.go | Adds proxy fields and initialization for the datacap tracker; chooses datacap vs Redis devicefilter pre-hook. |
| devicefilter/devicefilter.go | Adds datacap-backed devicefilter path that attaches per-device shared limiters and emits XBQ headers from sidecar usage. |
| datacap/tracker.go | New tracker that aggregates deltas per device, reports to sidecar periodically, and re-rates shared limiters. |
| datacap/tracker_test.go | New tests for aggregation, retry behavior, and limiter re-rating on throttle transitions. |
| datacap/client.go | New HTTP client for POSTing usage deltas to the datacap sidecar and decoding status. |
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| // Some domains are excluded from being throttled. Their bytes still count | ||
| // towards the cap (accounting is per connection, not per request), they are | ||
| // just never held to the capped rate — hence a separate limiter that the | ||
| // tracker never re-rates. | ||
| if domains.ConfigForRequest(req).Unthrottled { | ||
| f.instrument.Throttle(req.Context(), true, "default") | ||
| wc.ControlMessage("throttle", f.tracker.Limiter(deviceID, true)) | ||
| return next(cs, req) | ||
| } | ||
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| if deviceID == "" { | ||
| // Old lantern versions and possible cracks do not include the device | ||
| // ID. Just throttle them. | ||
| f.instrument.Throttle(req.Context(), true, "no-device-id") | ||
| wc.ControlMessage("throttle", alwaysThrottle) | ||
| return next(cs, req) | ||
| } | ||
| if deviceID == "~~~~~~" { | ||
| // This is checkfallbacks, don't throttle it | ||
| f.instrument.Throttle(req.Context(), false, "checkfallbacks") | ||
| return next(cs, req) | ||
| } |
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Deliberate, but you are right that it reads like an oversight — I have added a comment in 85a2136 recording why.
The ordering mirrors the Redis path exactly. There, domains.ConfigForRequest(req).Unthrottled is also checked before the device-ID guards, and its throttleDefault calls rateLimiterForDevice(""), so today a missing device ID on an unthrottled domain already gets the default rate under a single shared empty-ID limiter. This PR is a parity change gating a live enforcement path, so I would rather not fold a behavior change into it: reordering would newly subject old and broken clients to alwaysThrottle (10 B/s) on domains we have specifically decided not to throttle.
On the bogus limiter — after the empty-ID rejection in the same commit, an empty ID never accumulates, so its entry keeps its creation timestamp and evictIdle reaps it after the 30m TTL. It is one shared entry for all such traffic, which is what limitersByDevice[""] already is.
Happy to change the ordering as a follow-up if we decide the current behavior is wrong, but that should be its own change with its own reasoning. Leaving unresolved for a human call.
The stats buffer only fills when the reporting loop is stalled on the sidecar — exactly when a device is most likely to be running past its cap — so dropping the delta lost usage at the worst moment. Fold it in synchronously instead: accumulate takes the tracker lock, which is never held across a sidecar call, so it cannot block a proxied connection on the network. Also reject empty device IDs at submission rather than spending buffer capacity on deltas that accumulate would discard anyway, and record why the unthrottled-domain check deliberately precedes the device-ID guards. Addresses review feedback on #681.
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datacap/tracker.go (2)
150-159: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueNote the eviction and limiter-sharing interaction.
Limitercreates a device entry for anydeviceIDvalue taken from a request header, andevictIdleremoves entries after 30 minutes. If an entry is evicted while a connection still holds its limiter, a later request for the same device creates a newdevicewith a new limiter. The old connection then keeps the pre-eviction rate and is never re-rated again.The
pendingBytes == 0and 30-minute conditions make this unlikely for active devices, so no change is required now. Track it if long-lived idle connections become common.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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108-127: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueConsider adding a
Stopmethod.
NewTrackerstartsreportPeriodicallyand nothing can stop it. The goroutine lives for the process lifetime and leaks once per tracker in tests. AStopmethod that cancels the loop and performs a final flush would also avoid losing the last pending deltas on shutdown.Also applies to: 323-332
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In `@datacap/client.go`:
- Line 94: Update the deferred response-body cleanup in the relevant client
method so the return value from resp.Body.Close is explicitly handled in
accordance with the project’s error-handling conventions, resolving the
unchecked-error lint warning while preserving deferred cleanup.
In `@datacap/tracker.go`:
- Around line 195-281: Decouple statsCh intake from reporting so accumulate
continues draining deltas while flush runs, preventing buffer overflow and lost
usage. Update flush to enforce a bounded overall reporting context and process
pendingReport entries concurrently with a bounded worker count, while preserving
restore on failures and apply on success. Anchor the changes to
reportPeriodically, flush, and pendingReport.
- Around line 215-218: Update NewTracker to handle a nil CountryLookup by
defaulting to geo.NoLookup{} or rejecting it during construction, ensuring
accumulate cannot dereference a nil t.countryLookup when common.ClientIP is
present.
In `@listeners/bitrate_test.go`:
- Around line 198-222: Handle the ignored error returns in the bitrate listener
test: explicitly discard the results of ln.Close, client.Close, io.Copy, and
res.conn.Close using blank assignments so errcheck passes. Keep the existing
test behavior unchanged.
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Nitpick comments:
In `@datacap/tracker.go`:
- Around line 150-159: The comment identifies a potential limiter-sharing issue
during device eviction but explicitly requests no code change. Do not modify
Tracker.Limiter or evictIdle; leave the current behavior unchanged.
- Around line 108-127: Add a Stop method for Tracker that signals
reportPeriodically to exit, waits for the goroutine to finish, and performs a
final flush of pending deltas. Initialize the required cancellation and
completion state in NewTracker, and ensure repeated Stop calls are safe.
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The cycle reported devices serially, each bounded only by the 10s HTTP timeout, so its duration grew with the number of active devices: a wedged sidecar and 100 pending devices would hold the reporting loop for up to 1000s, during which no throttle verdict is applied to any device. Reports now run concurrently under a bounded worker count, and the cycle as a whole carries a deadline that never drops below the per-request timeout. Deadlined reports restore their bytes and retry next tick, the same as any other failure. Also default a nil CountryLookup to geo.NoLookup rather than letting the reporting loop panic on it. Production cannot hit this — ListenAndServe normalizes the field before loadDatacapTracker runs — but nothing in the package enforced it. Addresses review feedback on #681.
devicefilter: NewDatacapPre now returns its own datacapFilterPre type instead of half-populating deviceFilterPre and branching out of Apply on a nil check — each accounting path owns its fields, and deleting the Redis path later is removing a type rather than surgery inside a live Apply. The XBQ/XBQv2 wire format and the sentinel-device policy (no device ID, checkfallbacks) are now defined once and shared by both paths, so they cannot drift while both are deployed. tracker: deltas fold into per-device state synchronously — the buffered channel was pure plumbing once its overflow path already did exactly that, and queueing the measured ctx map pinned ~12 keys per delta to read three fields. The country lookup runs at most once per device (sticky, matching the Redis Lua script) instead of walking MaxMind on every delta. Idle eviction rides along on the flush's existing map scan instead of taking a second full scan every cycle. Workers re-rate each device's limiter the moment its verdict returns (SetRates is lock-free); only the XBQ bookkeeping, which tolerates a batch of staleness, is written under a single lock. Dropped the never-set ThrottledRate option, the dead pendingReport.deviceID field, and the haveUsage flag that duplicated usage.AsOf.IsZero(). listeners: conns start with one shared unlimited limiter instead of allocating a fresh (0,0) limiter pair per accept — nothing ever re-rates it, ControlMessage replaces the pointer wholesale. client: the sidecar transport keeps only the setting that differs from stdlib defaults, sized so a full flush fan-out's connections stay reusable. No behavior changes; the applyDatacap ordering comment and all enforcement semantics carry over verbatim.
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In `@datacap/tracker.go`:
- Around line 265-271: Update the idle-device eviction in the tracker flush path
so entries with an attached active connection cannot be deleted based solely on
lastSeen; retain state until all connections release it, or disable this
eviction until lifecycle tracking is available. Preserve eviction for safely
unreferenced devices, and add a regression test covering an idle open connection
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A device idle past idleDeviceTTL is evicted, severing any still-attached connection from future re-rating — but such a connection cannot exist: every listener path wraps conns with the idleclose timeout (~70-90s), so a conn alive at the 30-minute mark is moving bytes, whose deltas refresh lastSeen and block eviction. The comment now states the invariant so a change to either timeout trips over the reasoning rather than the bug. Addresses review feedback on #681.
Phase 1 of getlantern/engineering#3813: account bytes and enforce the data cap through the local datacap sidecar instead of the reporting Redis.
What changes
A new
datacapurlflag points the proxy at the sidecar every other Lantern proxy flavor already reports to. When set, the existing measured pipeline's per-device deltas are POSTed to it and the throttle verdict it returns is enforced, replacing the_client:<deviceID>Redis writes and the_throttlecohort config.The Redis path is untouched and still selected when
datacapurlis absent, so tracks can be flipped one at a time and rolled back. When both keys are presentdatacapurlwins — a proxy must account and enforce from exactly one source. Pro gating stays server-side: pro tracks are simply not given adatacapurl(see the companion lantern-cloud PR).Throttle now applies to connections that are already open
This is the part worth reviewing closely, and it fixes a real bypass documented in this issue comment:
devicefilterattached aRateLimiteronce per CONNECT and never re-evaluated it, so a tunnel opened before the cap was crossed ran at full speed until it closed. A user could ride one long-lived download past the cap indefinitely.Each device now gets one shared limiter, held by all of its connections and re-rated in place as reports come back.
RateLimiter's rates therefore had to become mutable; they are now behind a singleatomic.Pointerthat swaps rates and token buckets together. That also removes the pre-existing data race betweenControlMessagewritingbitrateConn.limiterand the conn'sRead/Writereading it.Requests to cap-excluded domains get a second, never-re-rated limiter per device, preserving today's behavior: those bytes still count towards the cap, they are just never slowed.
Open decisions from the issue, resolved
bytesUsed(companion PR), soXBQ/XBQv2are synthesized frombytesUsed/capLimit/expiryTime.flashlight/bandwidthrequires exactly four slash-separated parts onXBQv2; the TTL component is clamped at 0 because a negative would fail itsParseUint.16 * 1024B/s, matching lantern-box'slowTierSpeedBytesPerSec. Upload stays at http-proxy's existingDefaultThrottleRate(640,000 B/s) rather than lantern-box's 655,360 — both are labelled "5 Mbps", but that constant already governs every non-pro device before it reaches the cap, so adopting lantern-box's number would have changed the speed of uncapped users too.data_cap.json's per-countryrateis not plumbed through.Accepted feature loss
Cohort segmentation (
DeviceFloor/DeviceCeil), weekly/monthly/legacy cap periods, and per-app settings do not carry over — datacap is daily-only. This is already the reality on lantern-box, and the cohort machinery has had no config writer since lantern-infrastructure was retired.Verification
Tests:
datacappackage covers aggregation, retry-on-failure, and that crossing the cap re-rates the limiter that was already handed out.listenerscovers re-rating an open conn and that an unchanged rate does not reset the buckets.Verified live on staging (route
3e1a8a1c, Linode us-east) driving real traffic through a proxy configured withdatacapurl:NLresolved from the client IP.Xbq: 275/244/335027993andXbqv2: 275/244/335027993/86335on the CONNECT response.GET /v1/datacap/<device>on the staging API reported bytesUsed 288,937,971 against bytesAllotted 256,192,000.The staging box was restored to its shipped binary and INI afterwards; the real rollout goes through a nightly release plus a reprovision.
Companion: getlantern/lantern-cloud#3153 — merge that one first, since
bytesUsedon the sidecar response is what makes XBQ work here.Summary by CodeRabbit