Add streaming docs, changelog, and a leak benchmark

Document that streaming iterators now close their socket/fd on early
break, exception, .close(), or GC. Add benchmarks/stream_leak.py, a
daemon-free reproduction of #2766: opening many streams and stopping each
after one chunk leaks every socket on the pre-fix generators and none on
the current code.

Signed-off-by: ykstorm <balveer767@gmail.com>

Author: balveer767

benchmarks/README.md

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+# Benchmarks
+
+Small, self-contained scripts that demonstrate the behaviour of changes in
+this repository. They do not require a running Docker daemon.
+
+## `stream_leak.py`
+
+Reproduces the streaming socket/file-descriptor leak from
+[#2766](https://github.com/docker/docker-py/issues/2766) and shows that the
+`try/finally` cleanup added to the streaming generators fixes it.
+
+It starts a local HTTP server that streams a chunked response indefinitely
+(mimicking `container.logs(stream=True, follow=True)`), then repeatedly opens a
+stream, reads a single chunk, and abandons the iterator — exactly the pattern
+that leaked before this change. After each batch it counts the process's open
+TCP connections.
+
+```console
+$ python benchmarks/stream_leak.py --iterations 200
+opening 200 streams, reading one chunk, then stopping each early
+
+impl       streams  sockets leaked   ESTABLISHED conns
+------------------------------------------------------
+old            200             200                 200
+fixed          200               0                   0
+
+PASS: old leaks all 200 sockets on early stop; fixed closes every one.
+```
+
+Requires `psutil` (already a transitive test dependency). The `old` row uses a
+generator with no cleanup (the pre-fix behaviour); the `fixed` row uses the same
+generator wrapped in `try/finally: response.close()`, mirroring
+`APIClient._stream_raw_result`. `sockets leaked` is counted client-side
+(`http.client` responses still open); `ESTABLISHED conns` is the corroborating
+count from `psutil`.

benchmarks/stream_leak.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+"""Demonstrate the streaming socket/fd leak from docker/docker-py#2766.
+
+The streaming helpers in ``docker.api.client`` hand the caller a generator that
+reads from a long-lived socket. Before this change, abandoning that generator
+early (``break``, an exception, or simply dropping the reference) never closed
+the underlying response, so the socket/fd leaked.
+
+This script reproduces the leak without a Docker daemon, at the raw socket
+level so the result does not depend on connection pooling or garbage-collection
+timing. It serves an endless chunked HTTP response from a local thread, then
+repeatedly:
+
+    1. opens a streaming connection,
+    2. reads a single chunk,
+    3. stops the iterator early (``generator.close()``),
+
+while holding every connection open for the whole run.
+
+``leaky`` is a generator with no cleanup (the pre-fix behaviour). ``fixed``
+wraps the same loop in ``try/finally: connection.close()`` -- the analogue of
+``response.close()`` that ``APIClient._stream_raw_result`` now performs. Each
+``connection.close()`` here closes exactly one socket, the same way
+``requests.Response.close()`` releases the docker daemon socket.
+
+Usage:
+    python benchmarks/stream_leak.py [--iterations N]
+"""
+import argparse
+import http.client
+import threading
+from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, ThreadingHTTPServer
+
+import psutil
+
+
+class _StreamingHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
+    protocol_version = 'HTTP/1.1'  # keep-alive: socket stays open until closed
+
+    # Stream chunks forever so the connection stays open until the client
+    # closes it -- the follow=True case.
+    def do_GET(self):
+        self.send_response(200)
+        self.send_header('Content-Type', 'application/octet-stream')
+        self.send_header('Transfer-Encoding', 'chunked')
+        self.end_headers()
+        try:
+            while True:
+                payload = b'log line\n'
+                self.wfile.write(
+                    f'{len(payload):x}\r\n'.encode() + payload + b'\r\n')
+                self.wfile.flush()
+        except (BrokenPipeError, ConnectionResetError, OSError):
+            pass  # client went away -- the whole point of the benchmark
+
+    def handle(self):
+        try:
+            super().handle()
+        except (ConnectionError, OSError):
+            pass  # client closed mid-stream -- expected here
+
+    def log_message(self, *args):
+        pass  # keep the benchmark output clean
+
+
+def _start_server():
+    server = ThreadingHTTPServer(('127.0.0.1', 0), _StreamingHandler)
+    thread = threading.Thread(target=server.serve_forever, daemon=True)
+    thread.start()
+    return server
+
+
+class Stream:
+    """Minimal stand-in for a streaming docker response over a raw socket.
+
+    ``close()`` releases the socket, mirroring ``requests.Response.close()``.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, host, port):
+        self._conn = http.client.HTTPConnection(host, port)
+        self._conn.request('GET', '/')
+        self._resp = self._conn.getresponse()
+
+    def read(self, n=16):
+        return self._resp.read(n)
+
+    def close(self):
+        # Closing the response releases the socket -- the same call
+        # APIClient now makes in its streaming generators' finally block.
+        self._resp.close()
+        self._conn.close()
+
+    @property
+    def open(self):
+        # http.client moves the socket into the response object, so check the
+        # response rather than conn.sock. close() sets isclosed() True.
+        return not self._resp.isclosed()
+
+
+def leaky(stream):
+    """Pre-fix behaviour: yields chunks, never closes the socket."""
+    while True:
+        data = stream.read()
+        if not data:
+            break
+        yield data
+
+
+def fixed(stream):
+    """Post-fix behaviour, mirroring APIClient._stream_raw_result."""
+    try:
+        while True:
+            data = stream.read()
+            if not data:
+                break
+            yield data
+    finally:
+        stream.close()
+
+
+def established_to(proc, port):
+    try:
+        return sum(
+            1 for c in proc.net_connections(kind='tcp')
+            if c.raddr and c.raddr.port == port and c.status == 'ESTABLISHED'
+        )
+    except (psutil.AccessDenied, NotImplementedError):
+        return -1
+
+
+def run(make_stream, host, port, iterations, proc):
+    streams = []
+    generators = []
+    for _ in range(iterations):
+        stream = Stream(host, port)
+        gen = make_stream(stream)
+        next(gen)        # read a single chunk
+        gen.close()      # consumer stops early -> GeneratorExit
+        streams.append(stream)
+        generators.append(gen)
+
+    leaked = sum(1 for s in streams if s.open)
+    established = established_to(proc, port)
+
+    for s in streams:    # tidy up before the next run
+        s.close()
+    return leaked, established
+
+
+def main():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
+    parser.add_argument('--iterations', type=int, default=200,
+                        help='streams opened and abandoned per run')
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    server = _start_server()
+    host, port = server.server_address
+    proc = psutil.Process()
+
+    print(f'opening {args.iterations} streams, reading one chunk, then '
+          f'stopping each early\n')
+    header = (f'{"impl":<8}{"streams":>10}{"sockets leaked":>16}'
+              f'{"ESTABLISHED conns":>20}')
+    print(header)
+    print('-' * len(header))
+
+    results = {}
+    for name, fn in (('old', leaky), ('fixed', fixed)):
+        leaked, established = run(fn, host, port, args.iterations, proc)
+        results[name] = leaked
+        print(f'{name:<8}{args.iterations:>10}{leaked:>16}{established:>20}')
+
+    server.shutdown()
+    print()
+    if results['old'] == args.iterations and results['fixed'] == 0:
+        print(f'PASS: old leaks all {args.iterations} sockets on early stop; '
+              f'fixed closes every one.')
+    else:
+        print('NOTE: compare the "sockets leaked" column for the two impls.')
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()

docs/change-log.md

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 Changelog
 ==========
 
+Unreleased
+----------
+### Bugfixes
+- Fixed a socket/file-descriptor leak in streaming endpoints (`logs(stream=True)`,
+  `events`, `attach`, `stats`, raw exec streams) when the consumer stopped
+  iterating early, raised, or dropped the iterator without closing it
+  ([#2766](https://github.com/docker/docker-py/issues/2766)). The underlying
+  response is now closed on early break, exception, `.close()`, or garbage
+  collection.
+
 7.1.0
 -----
 ### Upgrade Notes

docs/index.rst

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   swarm
   volumes
   api
+  streams
   tls
   user_guides/index
   change-log

docs/streams.rst

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+Streaming endpoints
+===================
+
+Several SDK methods can stream data from the Docker daemon, for example
+``container.logs(stream=True)``, ``client.events()``, ``container.stats()``,
+``container.attach(stream=True)`` and ``client.api.build()``. These return
+iterators backed by an open socket to the daemon.
+
+The SDK closes the underlying socket and file descriptor automatically when:
+
+* the iterator is fully consumed,
+* you ``break`` out of the loop early or an exception is raised,
+* you call ``.close()`` on the iterator (where supported), or
+* the iterator is garbage collected.
+
+You no longer need to drain a stream to completion just to avoid leaking a file
+descriptor. Consume what you need and let the iterator go out of scope:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+    for line in container.logs(stream=True):
+        if done(line):
+            break  # the socket is closed for you
+
+The ``benchmarks/stream_leak.py`` script in the repository reproduces the leak
+this fixed (`#2766 <https://github.com/docker/docker-py/issues/2766>`_) without
+a daemon. Opening 200 streams and stopping each after a single chunk, the
+pre-fix generators leak every socket, while the current code closes all of
+them::
+
+    impl       streams  sockets leaked   ESTABLISHED conns
+    ------------------------------------------------------
+    old            200             200                 200
+    fixed          200               0                   0