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Unsolicited response using NetConn

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
docker, go
Domain
networking

Research direction

Start with websocket.NetConn and the linked Moby client/hijack.go location around line 86, then reproduce the sequence of ContainerExecCreate followed by ContainerExecAttach over one connection. Compare that sequence with a first-request hijack and the non-hijack requests shown in the report; done requires identifying the connection-handling conflict and a focused regression test or documented fix.

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I have the below for communicating via a websocket to a remote docker instance using Docker's Go SDK ('client' is the Docker SDK package):

	"github.com/docker/docker/api/types"
	"github.com/docker/docker/client"
	"nhooyr.io/websocket"

...


	dockerHost := "http://docker"
	wrappedConn := websocket.NetConn(ctx, c, websocket.MessageBinary)

	// Custom dial function that returns the wrapped WebSocket connection
	customDial := func(ctx context.Context, network, addr string) (net.Conn, error) {
		return wrappedConn, nil
	}
	cli, _ := client.NewClientWithOpts(client.WithDialContext(customDial), client.WithHost(dockerHost))

On the receiving end I accept the request and relay to the Docker socket:

...
	// Connect to Docker Unix Socket with context
	dialer := &net.Dialer{}
	dockerConn, err := dialer.DialContext(ctx, "unix", "/var/run/docker.sock")
	if err != nil {
		slog.Error("error connecting to Docker daemon", "error", err)
		return
	}
	defer dockerConn.Close()

	// Relay from Docker to WebSocket
	var wg sync.WaitGroup
	wg.Add(1)
	go func() {
		defer wg.Done()
		_, err := io.Copy(websocket.NetConn(ctx, wsConn, websocket.MessageBinary), dockerConn)
		if err != nil && ctx.Err() == nil {
			slog.Error("error relaying data from Docker socket to WebSocket", "error", err)
		}
	}()

	// Relay from WebSocket to Docker
	_, err = io.Copy(dockerConn, websocket.NetConn(ctx, wsConn, websocket.MessageBinary))
	if err != nil {
		slog.Error("error relaying data from WebSocket to Docker socket", "error", err)
	}

It works great out the box, brilliant feature, with one exception. When trying to connect to attach to a container, the Docker API hijacks the connection and for some reason this seems to stump the NetConn:

	execID, err := cli.ContainerExecCreate(ctx, containerID, execConfig)
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}

	// Attach to the exec instance
	resp, err := cli.ContainerExecAttach(ctx, execID.ID, types.ExecStartCheck{})
	if err != nil {
		panic(err)
	}
	defer resp.Close()

Error message:

2023/10/30 17:45:19 Unsolicited response received on idle HTTP channel starting with "HTTP/1.1 101 UPGRADED\r\nApi-Version: 1.43\r\nConnection"; err=<nil>

The error varies on each request

2023/10/30 17:52:22 Unsolicited response received on idle HTTP channel starting with "HTTP/1.1 101 UPGRADED\r\nApi-Version: 1.43\r\nConnection: Upgrade\r\nContent-Type: application/vnd.docker.multiplexed-stream\r\nDocker-Experimental: false\r\nOstype: linux\r\nServer: Docker/24.0.6 (linux)\r\nUpgrade: tcp\r\n\r\n"; err=<nil>
2023/10/30 17:53:37 Unsolicited response received on idle HTTP channel starting with "HTTP/1.1 101 UPGRADED\r\nApi-Version: 1.43\r\n"; err=<nil>

If I call cli.ContainerExecAttach it goes through, but if I call cli.ContainerExecCreate and then cli.ContainerExecAttach on the same connection consecutively it errors. Something about cli.ContainerExecAttach specifically which does a hijack and isn't happy unless it is the first request made on the websocket. Other non-hijack consecutive commands go through ok.

Managed to narrow it down to on the docker end to: https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/311b9ff0aa93aa55880e1e5f8871c4fb69583426/client/hijack.go#L86C1-L86C1

Hard to understand why it would conflict with the websocket connection only on second requests.

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