Firebase Auth signInWithCredentials Blocking Indefinitely/Not Failing

[GEverding]

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[REQUIRED] Step 2: Describe your environment

• Android Studio version: 4.1.1
• Firebase Component: Authentication
• Component version: com.google.firebase:firebase-bom:28.1.0

[REQUIRED] Step 3: Describe the problem

Steps to reproduce:

For 5000+ users per day signinWithCredential is never completing/erroring when using listeners. If I instead call Task.await with a 60 second timeout the TimeoutException is thrown. Since rewriting the login code hasn't changed the behaviour we need help debugging it.

If we tell them to install Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 they can log into the app. We then ask them to disable 1.1.1.1 and relogin and it works fine. Additionally at the same time we have other API requests so we don't believe the issue is network related.

We haven't figured out to reproduce it locally. Its effecting users across the globe with no patterns to OS version or phone. What I do observe is that it either completes instantly or not at all.

It feels like there is a bug getting hit inside the auth sdk that is preventing the Task from failing/completing. Are there any logs in the SDK or a way for us to debug this because its a real issue our users are facing.

Relevant Code:

Version 1

FirebaseAuth.getInstance().signInWithCredential(credential)
  .addOnCompleteListener(taskExecutor, new OnCompleteListener<AuthResult>() {
    @Override
    public void onComplete(@NonNull Task<AuthResult> task) {
      if (task.isSuccessful()) {
        RaveLogging.i(LOG_TAG, "FirebaseAuth:signInWithCredential successful");
        handleFirebaseUser(FirebaseAuth.getInstance().getCurrentUser());
     } else {
       Logging.e(LOG_TAG, task.getException(), "FirebaseAuth:signInWithCredential failed");
       FirebaseCrashlytics.getInstance().recordException(task.getException());
       onLoginFailure(FIREBASE_AUTH_ERROR_CODE, getString(R.string.auth_failed));
     }
   }
});

Version 2

try {
  Tasks.await(FirebaseAuth.getInstance().signInWithCredential(credential), 60, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
  Logging.i(LOG_TAG, "FirebaseAuth:signInWithCredential successful");
  handleFirebaseUser(FirebaseAuth.getInstance().getCurrentUser());
  RaveLogging.i(LOG_TAG, "FirebaseAuth task succeeded: signInWithFirebase");
} catch (ExecutionException | InterruptedException | TimeoutException e) {
  RaveAnalytics.sendUniqueEvenAnalytics(new PlaybackInfo(), "nonfatal", "FIREBASE_AUTH_TIMEOUT", e.getMessage());
  ogging.e(LOG_TAG, e, "Await FirebaseAuth:signInWithCredential failed with exception: " + e.getMessage());
  FirebaseCrashlytics.getInstance().recordException(e);
  onLoginFailure(FIREBASE_AUTH_ERROR_CODE, getString(R.string.auth_failed));
   Logging.i(LOG_TAG, "GoogleAuthServer task failed: signInWithFirebase");
}

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[yuchenshi]

Hi, thanks for filing this issue! We are unable to promise any timeline for this, but if others also have this issue, adding a +1 on this issue can help us prioritize adding this to the roadmap.

(Googler-only internal tracking bug: b/192411054)

[GEverding]

Exploring other Android SDK bugs and came across this issue where one of the comments is very similar to what we see.

[avolkovi]

Thanks for linking, I checked with @malcolmdeck about this and we have been unable to reliably reproduce the linked issue. Unfortunately without a way to reproduce on our side we can't identify a fix

[j22purikas]

Any updates? This issue is causing quite a problem for us, unfortunately.

[j22purikas]

@GEverding, have you fixed your issues somehow?

[LightWeek]

Is there any fix for the issue? Unfortunately still facing this in our app. But in our case, it happens while getting an id token.

val user = FirebaseAuth.getInstance().currentUser
Tasks.await(user.getIdToken(false), timeoutMillis, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)

[pistolcaffe]

I have same issue. it happens while getting an id token. It use to API Authrization key, critical our app.

FirebaseAuth.getInstance().currentUser?.getIdToken(true)?.await()?.token

[YSDC]

I also face this indefinitely blocking state, and I was able to reproduce it by proxying my connection:

• Share internet from my laptop to my mobile phone
• Use Charles Proxy and slow down to the minimum my connection (1kbps up and down)
• Set timeout to 10seconds
• Launch my Firebase Auth PhoneAuthProvider.verifyPhoneNumber
• And now you can wait forever, timeout is never triggered and you are stuck

So, what should we do? Why is timeout ignored?

[inteist]

+1 this started recently after updating auth libraries both Firebase and login providers (Google and Facebook)

[bhparijat]

@inteist What's the new version being used?

[inteist]

I did a downgrade to 21.1 (?) (BoM 31.3.0) from BoM (31.5.0) since this was the last version where it was fine BUT it did not help. It's not the version.

I think I may have gotten to what the issue is (still unconfirmed as I just released an update)

Previous (WORKING code)

    fun getToken(completion: (String?) -> Unit) {
        val currentUser = FirebaseAuth.getInstance().currentUser

        val forceRefreshParam = false
        currentUser?.getIdToken(forceRefreshParam)
            ?.addOnSuccessListener {
                completion(it.token)
            }?.addOnFailureListener {
                Timber.e(it, "Can't get FirAuth token")
                completion(null)
            }
    }

new NON working code:

    suspend fun getIdToken(): String? {
        FirebaseAuth.getInstance().currentUser?.let { firebaseUser ->
            return firebaseUser.getIdToken(false).await().token
        } ?: run {
            Timber.e("Can't get FirAuth token")
            return null
        }
    }

I wanted an improved code without the callback but apparently this seems to create an issue.

Again, I am not sure this is the problem. I am rolling out a release where I rolled back that change.

Thanks.

[bhparijat]

Hi @YSDC, could you please provide your charles proxy logs. It would be good to know what network requests are failing.

@inteist Do you have any logs for network requests?

[malenalbc]

~~This is happening to me too using Firebase version: com.google.firebase:firebase-bom:32.7.2 com.firebaseui:firebase-ui-auth:8.0.2~~

val credential = GoogleAuthProvider.getCredential(...)
FirebaseAuth.signInWithCredential(credential)
  .addOnCanceledListener(activity) { 
    // onCancel 
  }
  .addOnFailureListener(activity) { 
    // onError 
  }
  .addOnSuccessListener(activity) { 
    // Do Stuff
  }
  .addOnCompleteListener(activity) { task ->
    // Do Stuff
  }

When calling this and inmediatly putting the app in foreground, the activity gets paused but not stopped. No listener is called when resuming the app, so the process goes forever waiting for an answer. Ideally, we'd have more control and be able to cancel the task when needed.

Nevermind, the activity did get stopped. Since I'm using navigation component, I was avoiding signing in the onStart of the fragment so recreations wouldn't affect it. Coming back to the screen was waiting for listeners that were already cancelled.

[chaoshengyuan]

+1