I created a simple tftp server that only handles read requests (RRQ). Everything was working fine until I started to make a multi-threaded version of the server. In the application, I simply receive requests in the main thread and I then forward the request to a new thread that does the packet analysis. Therefore, I need to forward the socket, the received packet and the sockaddr_in struct that contains the client information to the thread. With that said, I created a struct that holds all of these and forward them to the pthread.
I suspect the problem to be in the struct clientThread
initialization part and forwarding part; since I'm certain of the correctness of the processing inside connection_handler
.
Note: You can use the tftp client that comes with linux to test it.
Here's the code I've written so far (Threaded Version). Please compile it with the -pthread
flag...
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <pthread.h>
#include <time.h>
#define TIMEOUT 5000
#define RETRIES 3
void *connection_handler(void *);
struct clientThread
{
int clientSock;
char buffer[1024];
struct sockaddr_in client;
};
int main()
{
char buffer[1024];
int udpSocket, client_socket, nBytes;
struct sockaddr_in serverAddr, client;
socklen_t addr_size;
udpSocket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
serverAddr.sin_family = AF_INET;
serverAddr.sin_port = htons(69);
serverAddr.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("127.0.0.1");
memset(serverAddr.sin_zero, '\0', sizeof serverAddr.sin_zero);
bind(udpSocket, (struct sockaddr *) &serverAddr, sizeof(serverAddr));
while(1)
{
memset(buffer, 0, 1024);
nBytes = recvfrom(udpSocket,buffer,1024,0,(struct sockaddr *)&client, &addr_size);
// Creating a thread and passing the packet received, the socket and the sockaddr_in struct...
pthread_t client_thread;
struct clientThread clientT;
strcpy(clientT.buffer,buffer);
clientT.clientSock = udpSocket;
clientT.client = client;
pthread_create(&client_thread, NULL, connection_handler, &clientT);
}
return 0;
}
void* connection_handler (void *clientThreaded)
{
char buffer[1024], filename[200], mode[20], *bufindex, opcode;
struct clientThread *cthread = clientThreaded;
int udpSocket = cthread->clientSock;
strcpy(buffer, cthread->buffer);
struct sockaddr_in client = cthread->client;
bufindex = buffer;
bufindex++;
// Extracting the opcode from the packet...
opcode = *bufindex++;
// Extracting the filename from the packet...
strncpy(filename, bufindex, sizeof(filename)-1);
bufindex += strlen(filename) + 1;
// Extracting the mode from the packet...
strncpy(mode, bufindex, sizeof(mode)-1);
// If we received an RRQ...
if (opcode == 1)
{
puts("Received RRQ Request");
struct timeval tv;
tv.tv_sec = 5;
char path[70] = "tmp/";
char filebuf [1024];
int count = 0, i; // Number of data portions sent
unsigned char packetbuf[1024];
char recvbuf[1024];
socklen_t recv_size;
socklen_t optionslength = sizeof(tv);
setsockopt(udpSocket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVTIMEO, &tv, optionslength);
FILE *fp;
char fullpath[200];
strcpy(fullpath, path);
strncat(fullpath, filename, sizeof(fullpath) -1);
fp = fopen(fullpath, "r");
if (fp == NULL)
perror("");
memset(filebuf, 0, sizeof(filebuf));
while (1)
{
int acked = 0;
int ssize = fread(filebuf, 1 , 512, fp);
count++;
sprintf((char *) packetbuf, "%c%c%c%c", 0x00, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00);
memcpy((char *) packetbuf + 4, filebuf, ssize);
packetbuf[2] = (count & 0xFF00) >> 8;
packetbuf[3] = (count & 0x00FF);
int len = 4 + ssize;
memset(recvbuf, 0, 1024);
printf("\nSending Packet #%i", count);
sendto(udpSocket, packetbuf, len, 0, (struct sockaddr *) &client, sizeof(client));
for (i=0; i<RETRIES; i++)
{
int result = recvfrom(udpSocket, recvbuf, 1024, 0, (struct sockaddr *) &client, &recv_size);
if ((result == -1) && ((errno == EAGAIN) || (errno == EWOULDBLOCK)))
{
sendto(udpSocket, packetbuf, len, 0, (struct sockaddr *) &client, sizeof(client));
printf("\nRetransmitting Packet #%i", count);
}
else if (result == -1)
{
// Handle Error
}
else
{
acked++;
printf("\nReceived ACK For Data Packet #%i", count);
break;
}
}
if (acked!=1)
{
puts("\nGave Up Transmission After 3 Retries");
break;
}
if (ssize != 512)
break;
}
}
return 0;
}
Here's my code for the Non-threaded version...
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <time.h>
#define TIMEOUT 5000
#define RETRIES 3
int main()
{
int udpSocket, nBytes;
char buffer[1024], filename[200], mode[20], *bufindex, opcode;
struct sockaddr_in serverAddr, client;
struct sockaddr_storage serverStorage;
socklen_t addr_size;
udpSocket = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
serverAddr.sin_family = AF_INET;
serverAddr.sin_port = htons(69);
serverAddr.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("127.0.0.1");
memset(serverAddr.sin_zero, '\0', sizeof serverAddr.sin_zero);
bind(udpSocket, (struct sockaddr *) &serverAddr, sizeof(serverAddr));
while(1)
{
memset(buffer, 0, 1024);
nBytes = recvfrom(udpSocket,buffer,1024,0,(struct sockaddr *)&client, &addr_size);
printf("%s",buffer);
bufindex = buffer;
bufindex++;
// Extracting the opcode from the packet...
opcode = *bufindex++;
// Extracting the filename from the packet...
strncpy(filename, bufindex, sizeof(filename)-1);
bufindex += strlen(filename) + 1;
// Extracting the mode from the packet...
strncpy(mode, bufindex, sizeof(mode)-1);
// If we received an RRQ...
if (opcode == 1)
{
puts("Received RRQ Request");
struct timeval tv;
tv.tv_sec = 5;
char path[70] = "tmp/";
char filebuf [1024];
int count = 0, i; // Number of data portions sent
unsigned char packetbuf[1024];
char recvbuf[1024];
socklen_t recv_size;
socklen_t optionslength = sizeof(tv);
setsockopt(udpSocket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVTIMEO, &tv, optionslength);
FILE *fp;
char fullpath[200];
strcpy(fullpath, path);
strncat(fullpath, filename, sizeof(fullpath) -1);
fp = fopen(fullpath, "r");
if (fp == NULL)
perror("");
memset(filebuf, 0, sizeof(filebuf));
while (1)
{
int acked = 0;
int ssize = fread(filebuf, 1 , 512, fp);
count++;
sprintf((char *) packetbuf, "%c%c%c%c", 0x00, 0x03, 0x00, 0x00);
memcpy((char *) packetbuf + 4, filebuf, ssize);
packetbuf[2] = (count & 0xFF00) >> 8;
packetbuf[3] = (count & 0x00FF);
int len = 4 + ssize;
memset(recvbuf, 0, 1024);
printf("\nSending Packet #%i", count);
sendto(udpSocket, packetbuf, len, 0, (struct sockaddr *) &client, sizeof(client));
for (i=0; i<RETRIES; i++)
{
int result = recvfrom(udpSocket, recvbuf, 1024, 0, (struct sockaddr *) &client, &recv_size);
if ((result == -1) && ((errno == EAGAIN) || (errno == EWOULDBLOCK)))
{
sendto(udpSocket, packetbuf, len, 0, (struct sockaddr *) &client, sizeof(client));
printf("\nRetransmitting Packet #%i", count);
}
else if (result == -1)
{
// Handle Error
}
else
{
acked++;
printf("\nReceived ACK For Data Packet #%i", count);
break;
}
}
if (acked!=1)
{
puts("\nGave Up Transmission After 3 Retries");
break;
}
if (ssize != 512)
break;
}
}
}
return 0;
}
Thanks in advance :)