Hi all,
I finally could make a pretty small reproducer for the uncatchable exception Unix.Unix_error(Unix.EBADF, "check_descriptor", ""). I put the sources in a gist [1]. The trick to trigger the bug is to have a persistent HTTP connection to the server and reuse it for many HTTP requests. What also seems to be important is, that the request triggers another client request to an external HTTP server. (My reproducer is a very primitive static proxy, so to say.) Also it seems to depend on the amount of data that is forwarded through the unikernel. And of course it only happens with --net=socket.
After compiling and running the unikernel, it must be tortured with the following command:
$ printf 'url="" href="http://localhost:8080" target="_blank">http://localhost:8080"\n%.0s' {1..1000} | curl -v -K -
and it should fail pretty quickly.
It's a pretty racey bug, sometimes the exception is caught by my own exception handler, sometimes it's caught by Cohttp, and sometimes it is caught by the Lwt scheduler, which terminates the whole process then.
So my guess at the moment is, that there are two problems: a memory leak when reusing HTTP connections, which again triggers an exception that is not handled properly.
So, first question would be: where to file the bug? Is it a Cohttp bug? Or Lwt? Or both?
I'm happy to investigate that further, if someone explains me how to get a useful backtrace for the exception.
Cheers,
Sven
