Now, these actions use their own dedicated function and are no longer handled
"in place" during the HTTP rules evaluation. Thus the action names
ACT_HTTP_*_ACL and ACT_HTTP_*_MAP are removed. The action type is now mapped as
following: 0 = add-acl, 1 = set-map, 2 = del-acl and 3 = del-map.
Now, these actions use their own dedicated function and are no longer handled
"in place" during the HTTP rules evaluation. Thus the action names
ACT_HTTP_SET_HDR and ACT_HTTP_ADD_VAL are removed. The action type is now set to
0 to set a header (so remove existing ones if any and add a new one) or to 1 to
add a header (add without remove).
Now, these actions use their own dedicated function and are no longer handled
"in place" during the HTTP rules evaluation. Thus the action names
ACT_HTTP_REPLACE_HDR and ACT_HTTP_REPLACE_VAL are removed. The action type is
now set to 0 to evaluate the whole header or to 1 to evaluate every
comma-delimited values.
The function http_transform_header_str() is renamed to http_replace_hdrs() to be
more explicit and the function http_transform_header() is removed. In fact, this
last one is now more or less the new action function.
The lua code has been updated accordingly to use http_replace_hdrs().
<action> field in the act_rule structure is now an integer. The act_name values
are used for all actions without action function (but it is not a pre-requisit
though) or the action will have no effect. But for all other actions, any
integer value may used, only the action function will take care of it. The
default for such actions is ACT_CUSTOM.
Some flags can now be set on an action when it is registered. The flags are
defined in the act_flag enum. For now, only ACT_FLAG_FINAL may be set on an
action to specify if it stops the rules evaluation. It is set on
ACT_ACTION_ALLOW, ACT_ACTION_DENY, ACT_HTTP_REQ_TARPIT, ACT_HTTP_REQ_AUTH,
ACT_HTTP_REDIR and ACT_TCP_CLOSE actions. But, when required, it may also be set
on custom actions.
Consequently, this flag is checked instead of the action type during the
configuration parsing to trigger a warning when a rule inhibits all the
following ones.
The flags in the act_flag enum have been renamed act_opt. It means ACT_OPT
prefix is used instead of ACT_FLAG. The purpose of this patch is to reserve the
action flags for the actions configuration.
When TCP and HTTP rules are evaluated, if an action function (action_ptr field
in the act_rule structure) is defined for a given action, it is now always
called in priority over the test on the action type. Concretly, for now, only
custom actions define it. Thus there is no change. It just let us the choice to
extend the action type beyond the existing ones in the enum.
Info used by HTTP rules manipulating the message itself are splitted in several
structures in the arg union. But it is possible to group all of them in a unique
struct. Now, <arg.http> is used by most of these rules, which contains:
* <arg.http.i> : an integer used as status code, nice/tos/mark/loglevel or
action id.
* <arg.http.str> : an IST used as header name, reason string or auth realm.
* <arg.http.fmt> : a log-format compatible expression
* <arg.http.re> : a regular expression used by replace rules
Arguments used by actions are never released during HAProxy deinit. Now, it is
possible to specify a function to do so. ".release_ptr" field in the act_rule
structure may be set during the configuration parsing to a specific deinit
function depending on the action type.
In HTTP rules, error handling during a rewrite is now handle the same way for
all rules. First, allocation errors are reported as internal errors. Then, if
soft rewrites are allowed, rewrite errors are ignored and only the
failed_rewrites counter is incremented. Otherwise, when strict rewrites are
mandatory, interanl errors are returned.
For now, only soft rewrites are supported. Note also that the warning sent to
notify a rewrite failure was removed. It will be useless once the strict
rewrites will be possible.
the HTTP_MSGF_SOFT_RW flag must now be set on the HTTP transaction to ignore
rewrite errors on a message, from HTTP rules. The mode is called the soft
rewrites. If thes flag is not set, strict rewrites are performed. In this mode,
if a rewrite error occurred, an internal error is reported.
For now, HTTP_MSGF_SOFT_RW is always set and there is no way to switch a
transaction in strict mode.
The failed_secu counter is only used for the servers stats. It is used to report
the number of denied responses. On proxies, the same info is stored in the
denied_resp counter. So, it is more consistent to use the same field for
servers.
The stats field ST_F_EINT has been added to report internal errors encountered
per proxy, per listener and per server. It appears in the CLI export and on the
HTML stats page.
When HTTP/TCP rules are evaluated, especially HTTP ones, some results are
possible for normal actions and not for custom ones. So missing return codes
(ACT_RET_) have been added to let custom actions act as normal ones. Concretely
following codes have been added:
* ACT_RET_DENY : deny the request/response. It must be handled by the caller
* ACT_RET_ABRT : abort the request/response, handled by action itsleft.
* ACT_RET_INV : invalid request/response
Now, when HTTP rules are evaluated, HTTP_RULE_RES_ERROR must be returned when an
internal error is catched. It is a way to make the difference between a bad
request or a bad response and an error during its processing.
This counter, named 'internal_errors', has been added in frontend and backend
counters. It should be used when a internal error is encountered, instead for
failed_req or failed_resp.
Functions to deinitialize the HTTP rules are buggy. These functions does not
check the action name to release the right part in the arg union. Only few info
are released. For auth rules, the realm is released and there is no problem
here. But the regex <arg.hdr_add.re> is always unconditionally released. So it
is easy to make these functions crash. For instance, with the following rule
HAProxy crashes during the deinit :
http-request set-map(/path/to/map) %[src] %[req.hdr(X-Value)]
For now, These functions are simply removed and we rely on the deinit function
used for TCP rules (renamed as deinit_act_rules()). This patch fixes the
bug. But arguments used by actions are not released at all, this part will be
addressed later.
This patch must be backported to all stable versions.
The subscriber used to be passed as a "void *param" that was systematically
cast to a struct wait_event*. By now it appears clear that the subscribe()
call at every layer is well defined and always takes a pointer to an event
subscriber of type wait_event, so let's enforce this in the functions'
prototypes, remove the intermediary variables used to cast it and clean up
the comments to clarify what all these functions do in their context.
In practice all callers use the same wait_event notification for any I/O
so instead of keeping specific code to handle them separately, let's merge
them and it will allow us to create new events later.
For more than a decade we've kept all the sess_update_st_*() functions
in stream.c while they're only there to work in relation with what is
currently being done in backend.c (srv_redispatch_connect, connect_server,
etc). Let's move all this pollution over there and take this opportunity
to try to find slightly less confusing names for these old functions
whose role is only to handle transitions from one specific stream-int
state:
sess_update_st_rdy_tcp() -> back_handle_st_rdy()
sess_update_st_con_tcp() -> back_handle_st_con()
sess_update_st_cer() -> back_handle_st_cer()
sess_update_stream_int() -> back_try_conn_req()
sess_prepare_conn_req() -> back_handle_st_req()
sess_establish() -> back_establish()
The last one remained in stream.c because it's more or less a completion
function which does all the initialization expected on a connection
success or failure, can set analysers and emit logs.
The other ones could possibly slightly benefit from being modified to
take a stream-int instead since it's really what they're working with,
but it's unimportant here.
These ones used to serve as a set of switches between CO_FL_SOCK_* and
CO_FL_XPRT_*, and now that the SOCK layer is gone, they're always a
copy of the last know CO_FL_XPRT_* ones that is resynchronized before
I/O events by calling conn_refresh_polling_flags(), and that are pushed
back to FDs when detecting changes with conn_xprt_polling_changes().
While these functions are not particularly heavy, what they do is
totally redundant by now because the fd_want_*/fd_stop_*() actions
already perform test-and-set operations to decide to create an entry
or not, so they do the exact same thing that is done by
conn_xprt_polling_changes(). As such it is pointless to call that
one, and given that the only reason to keep CO_FL_CURR_* is to detect
changes there, we can now remove them.
Even if this does only save very few cycles, this removes a significant
complexity that has been responsible for many bugs in the past, including
the last one affecting FreeBSD.
All tests look good, and no performance regressions were observed.
CO_FL_WAIT_ROOM is set by the splicing function in raw_sock, and cleared
by the stream-int when splicing is disabled, as well as in
conn_refresh_polling_flags() so that a new call to ->rcv_pipe() could
be attempted by the I/O callbacks called from conn_fd_handler(). This
clearing in conn_refresh_polling_flags() makes no sense anymore and is
in no way related to the polling at all.
Since we don't call them from there anymore it's better to clear it
before attempting to receive, and to set it again later. So let's move
this operation where it should be, in raw_sock_to_pipe() so that it's
now symmetric. It was also placed in raw_sock_to_buf() so that we're
certain that it gets cleared if an attempt to splice is replaced with
a subsequent attempt to recv(). And these were currently already achieved
by the call to conn_refresh_polling_flags(). Now it could theorically be
removed from the stream-int.
Commit c640ef1a7d ("BUG/MINOR: stream-int: avoid calling rcv_buf() when
splicing is still possible") fixed splicing in TCP and legacy mode but
broke it badly in HTX mode.
What happens in HTX mode is that the channel's to_forward value remains
set to CHN_INFINITE_FORWARD during the whole transfer, and as such it is
not a reliable signal anymore to indicate whether more data are expected
or not. Thus, when data are spliced out of the mux using rcv_pipe(), even
when the end is reached (that only the mux knows about), the call to
rcv_buf() to get the final HTX blocks completing the message were skipped
and there was often no new event to wake this up, resulting in transfer
timeouts at the end of large objects.
All this goes down to the fact that the channel has no more information
about whether it can splice or not despite being the one having to take
the decision to call rcv_pipe() or not. And we cannot afford to call
rcv_buf() inconditionally because, as the commit above showed, this
reduces the forwarding performance by 2 to 3 in TCP and legacy modes
due to data lying in the buffer preventing splicing from being used
later.
The approach taken by this patch consists in offering the muxes the ability
to report a bit more information to the upper layers via the conn_stream.
This information could simply be to indicate that more data are awaited
but the real need being to distinguish splicing and receiving, here
instead we clearly report the mux's willingness to be called for splicing
or not. Hence the flag's name, CS_FL_MAY_SPLICE.
The mux sets this flag when it knows that its buffer is empty and that
data waiting past what is currently known may be spliced, and clears it
when it knows there's no more data or that the caller must fall back to
rcv_buf() instead.
The stream-int code now uses this to determine if splicing may be used
or not instead of looking at the rcv_pipe() callbacks through the whole
chain. And after the rcv_pipe() call, it checks the flag again to decide
whether it may safely skip rcv_buf() or not.
All this bitfield dance remains a bit complex and it starts to appear
obvious that splicing vs reading should be a decision of the mux based
on permission granted by the data layer. This would however increase
the API's complexity but definitely need to be thought about, and should
even significantly simplify the data processing layer.
The way it was integrated in mux-h1 will also result in no more calls
to rcv_pipe() on chunked encoded data, since these ones are currently
disabled at the mux level. However once the issue with chunks+splice
is fixed, it will be important to explicitly check for curr_len|CHNK
to set MAY_SPLICE, so that we don't call rcv_buf() after each chunk.
This fix must be backported to 2.1 and 2.0.
Wietse Venema reported in the thread below that we have a signedness
issue with our hashes implementations: due to the use of const char*
for the input key that's often text, the crc32, sdbm, djb2, and wt6
algorithms return a platform-dependent value for binary input keys
containing bytes with bit 7 set. This means that an ARM or PPC
platform will hash binary inputs differently from an x86 typically.
Worse, some algorithms are well defined in the industry (like CRC32)
and do not provide the expected result on x86, possibly causing
interoperability issues (e.g. a user-agent would fail to compare the
CRC32 of a message body against the one computed by haproxy).
Fortunately, and contrary to the first impression, the CRC32c variant
used in the PROXY protocol processing is not affected. Thus the impact
remains very limited (the vast majority of input keys are text-based,
such as user-agent headers for exmaple).
This patch addresses the issue by fixing all hash functions' prototypes
(even those not affected, for API consistency). A reg test will follow
in another patch.
The vast majority of users do not use these hashes. And among those
using them, very few will pass them on binary inputs. However, for the
rare ones doing it, this fix MAY have an impact during the upgrade. For
example if the package is upgraded on one LB then on another one, and
the CRC32 of a binary input is used as a stick table key (why?) then
these CRCs will not match between both nodes. Similarly, if
"hash-type ... crc32" is used, LB inconsistency may appear during the
transition. For this reason it is preferable to apply the patch on all
nodes using such hashes at the same time. Systems upgraded via their
distros will likely observe the least impact since they're expected to
be upgraded within a short time frame.
And it is important for distros NOT to skip this fix, in order to avoid
distributing an incompatible implementation of a hash. This is the
reason why this patch is tagged as MAJOR, eventhough it's extremely
unlikely that anyone will ever notice a change at all.
This patch must be backported to all supported branches since the
hashes were introduced in 1.5-dev20 (commit 98634f0c). Some parts
may be dropped since implemented later.
Link to Wietse's report:
https://marc.info/?l=postfix-users&m=157879464518535&w=2
In order to properly close connections established from Lua in case
a Lua context dies, the context currently automatically gets a flag
HLUA_MUST_GC set whenever an outgoing connection is used. This causes
the GC to be enforced on the context's death as well as on yield. First,
it does not appear necessary to do it when yielding, since if the
connections die they are already cleaned up. Second, the problem with
the flag is that even if a connection gets properly closed, the flag is
not removed and the GC continues to be called on the Lua context.
The impact on performance looks quite significant, as noticed and
diagnosed by Sadasiva Gujjarlapudi in the following thread:
https://www.mail-archive.com/haproxy@formilux.org/msg35810.html
This patch changes the flag for a counter so that each created
connection increments it and each cleanly closed connection decrements
it. That way we know we have to call the GC on the context's death only
if the count is non-null. As reported in the thread above, the Lua
performance gain is now over 20% by doing this.
Thanks to Sada and Thierry for the design discussion and tests that
led to this solution.
In tasklet_free(), to attempt to remove ourself, use MT_LIST_DEL, we can't
just use LIST_DEL(), as we theorically could be in the shared tasklet list.
This should be backported to 2.1.
In order to reduce the number of poller updates, we can benefit from
the fact that modern pollers use sampling to report readiness and that
under load they rarely report the same FD multiple times in a row. As
such it's not always necessary to disable such FDs especially when we're
almost certain they'll be re-enabled again and will require another set
of syscalls.
Now instead of creating an update for a (possibly temporary) removal,
we only perform this removal if the FD is reported again as ready while
inactive. In addition this is performed via another update so that
alternating workloads like transfers have a chance to re-enable the
FD without any syscall during the loop (typically after the data that
filled a buffer have been sent). However we only do that for single-
threaded FDs as the other ones require a more complex setup and are not
on the critical path.
This does cause a few spurious wakeups but almost totally eliminates the
calls to epoll_ctl() on connections seeing intermitent traffic like HTTP/1
to a server or client.
A typical example with 100k requests for 4 kB objects over 200 connections
shows that the number of epoll_ctl() calls doesn't depend on the number
of requests anymore but most exclusively on the number of established
connections:
Before:
% time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
57.09 0.499964 0 654361 321190 recvfrom
38.33 0.335741 0 369097 1 epoll_wait
4.56 0.039898 0 44643 epoll_ctl
0.02 0.000211 1 200 200 connect
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
100.00 0.875814 1068301 321391 total
After:
% time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
59.25 0.504676 0 657600 323630 recvfrom
40.68 0.346560 0 374289 1 epoll_wait
0.04 0.000370 0 620 epoll_ctl
0.03 0.000228 1 200 200 connect
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
100.00 0.851834 1032709 323831 total
As expected there is also a slight increase of epoll_wait() calls since
delaying de-activation of events can occasionally cause one spurious
wakeup.
For now this almost never happens but with subsequent patches it will
become more important not to uselessly call the I/O handlers if the FD
is not active.
Both flags became equal in commit 82967bf9 ("MINOR: connection: adjust
CO_FL_NOTIFY_DATA after removal of flags"), which already predicted the
overlap between xprt_done_cb() and wake() after the removal of the DATA
specific flags in 1.8. Let's simply remove CO_FL_NOTIFY_DATA since the
"_DONE" version already covers everything and explains the intent well
enough.
The function is not TCP-specific at all, it covers all FD-based sockets
so let's move this where other similar functions are, in connection.c,
and rename it conn_fd_check().
In practice it's all pollers except select(). It turns out that we're
keeping some legacy code only for select and enforcing it on all
pollers, let's offer the pollers the ability to declare that they
do not need that.
SSL_CTX_set_ecdh_auto() is not defined when OpenSSL 1.1.1 is compiled
with the no-deprecated option. Remove existing, incomplete guards and
add a compatibility macro in openssl-compat.h, just as OpenSSL does:
bf4006a6f9/include/openssl/ssl.h (L1486)
This should be backported as far as 2.0 and probably even 1.9.
LIBRESSL_VERSION_NUMBER evaluates to 0 under OpenSSL, making the condition
always true. Check for the define before checking it.
Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev <rosenp@gmail.com>
[wt: to be backported as far as 1.9]
Since 1.9 with commit b20aa9eef3 ("MAJOR: tasks: create per-thread wait
queues") a task bound to a single thread will not use locks when being
queued or dequeued because the wait queue is assumed to be the owner
thread's.
But there exists a rare situation where this is not true: the health
check tasks may be running on one thread waiting for a response, and
may in parallel be requeued by another thread calling health_adjust()
after a detecting a response error in traffic when "observe l7" is set,
and "fastinter" is lower than "inter", requiring to shorten the running
check's timeout. In this case, the task being requeued was present in
another thread's wait queue, thus opening a race during task_unlink_wq(),
and gets requeued into the calling thread's wait queue instead of the
running one's, opening a second race here.
This patch aims at protecting against the risk of calling task_unlink_wq()
from one thread while the task is queued on another thread, hence unlocked,
by introducing a new TASK_SHARED_WQ flag.
This new flag indicates that a task's position in the wait queue may be
adjusted by other threads than then one currently executing it. This means
that such WQ manipulations must be performed under a lock. There are two
types of such tasks:
- the global ones, using the global wait queue (technically speaking,
those whose thread_mask has at least 2 bits set).
- some local ones, which for now will be placed into the global wait
queue as well in order to benefit from its lock.
The flag is automatically set on initialization if the task's thread mask
indicates more than one thread. The caller must also set it if it intends
to let other threads update the task's expiration delay (e.g. delegated
I/Os), or if it intends to change the task's affinity over time as this
could lead to the same situation.
Right now only the situation described above seems to be affected by this
issue, and it is very difficult to trigger, and even then, will often have
no visible effect beyond stopping the checks for example once the race is
met. On my laptop it is feasible with the following config, chained to
httpterm:
global
maxconn 400 # provoke FD errors, calling health_adjust()
defaults
mode http
timeout client 10s
timeout server 10s
timeout connect 10s
listen px
bind :8001
option httpchk /?t=50
server sback 127.0.0.1:8000 backup
server-template s 0-999 127.0.0.1:8000 check port 8001 inter 100 fastinter 10 observe layer7
This patch will automatically address the case for the checks because
check tasks are created with multiple threads bound and will get the
TASK_SHARED_WQ flag set.
If in the future more tasks need to rely on this (multi-threaded muxes
for example) and the use of the global wait queue becomes a bottleneck
again, then it should not be too difficult to place locks on the local
wait queues and queue the task on its bound thread.
This patch needs to be backported to 2.1, 2.0 and 1.9. It depends on
previous patch "MINOR: task: only check TASK_WOKEN_ANY to decide to
requeue a task".
Many thanks to William Dauchy for providing detailed traces allowing to
spot the problem.
During H1 parsing, the HTX EOM block is added before switching the message state
to H1_MSG_DONE. It is an exception in the way to convert an H1 message to
HTX. Except for this block, the message is first switched to the right state
before starting to add the corresponding HTX blocks. For instance, the message
is switched in H1_MSG_DATA state and then the HTX DATA blocks are added.
With this patch, the message is switched to the H1_MSG_DONE state when all data
blocks or trailers were processed. It is the caller responsibility to call
h1_parse_msg_eom() when the H1_MSG_DONE state is reached. This way, it is far
easier to catch failures when the HTX buffer is full.
The H1 and FCGI muxes have been updated accordingly.
This patch may eventually be backported to 2.1 if it helps other backports.
As reported in issue #380, the state check in listener_state_str() is
invalid as it allows state value 9 to report crap. We don't use such
a state value so the issue should never happen unless the memory is
already corrupted, but better clean this now while it's harmless.
This should be backported to all maintained branches.
If a new process is started with -sf and it fails to bind, it may send
a SIGTTOU to the master process in hope that it will temporarily unbind.
Unfortunately this one doesn't catch it and stops to background instead
of forwarding the signal to the workers. The same is true for SIGTTIN.
This commit simply implements an extra signal handler for the master to
deal with such signals that must be passed down to the workers. It must
be backported as far as 1.8, though there the code differs in that it's
entirely in haproxy.c and doesn't require an extra sig handler.
We used to have wake_expired_tasks() wake up tasks and return the next
expiration delay. The problem this causes is that we have to call it just
before poll() in order to consider latest timers, but this also means that
we don't wake up all newly expired tasks upon return from poll(), which
thus systematically requires a second poll() round.
This is visible when running any scheduled task like a health check, as there
are systematically two poll() calls, one with the interval, nothing is done
after it, and another one with a zero delay, and the task is called:
listen test
bind *:8001
server s1 127.0.0.1:1111 check
09:37:38.200959 clock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, {tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=8696843}) = 0
09:37:38.200967 epoll_wait(3, [], 200, 1000) = 0
09:37:39.202459 clock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, {tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=8712467}) = 0
>> nothing run here, as the expired task was not woken up yet.
09:37:39.202497 clock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, {tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=8715766}) = 0
09:37:39.202505 epoll_wait(3, [], 200, 0) = 0
09:37:39.202513 clock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, {tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=8719064}) = 0
>> now the expired task was woken up
09:37:39.202522 socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP) = 7
09:37:39.202537 fcntl(7, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
09:37:39.202565 setsockopt(7, SOL_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, [1], 4) = 0
09:37:39.202577 setsockopt(7, SOL_TCP, TCP_QUICKACK, [0], 4) = 0
09:37:39.202585 connect(7, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(1111), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 16) = -1 EINPROGRESS (Operation now in progress)
09:37:39.202659 epoll_ctl(3, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, 7, {EPOLLOUT, {u32=7, u64=7}}) = 0
09:37:39.202673 clock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, {tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=8814713}) = 0
09:37:39.202683 epoll_wait(3, [{EPOLLOUT|EPOLLERR|EPOLLHUP, {u32=7, u64=7}}], 200, 1000) = 1
09:37:39.202693 clock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, {tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=8818617}) = 0
09:37:39.202701 getsockopt(7, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ERROR, [111], [4]) = 0
09:37:39.202715 close(7) = 0
Let's instead split the function in two parts:
- the first part, wake_expired_tasks(), called just before
process_runnable_tasks(), wakes up all expired tasks; it doesn't
compute any timeout.
- the second part, next_timer_expiry(), called just before poll(),
only computes the next timeout for the current thread.
Thanks to this, all expired tasks are properly woken up when leaving
poll, and each poll call's timeout remains up to date:
09:41:16.270449 clock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, {tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=10223556}) = 0
09:41:16.270457 epoll_wait(3, [], 200, 999) = 0
09:41:17.270130 clock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, {tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=10238572}) = 0
09:41:17.270157 socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP) = 7
09:41:17.270194 fcntl(7, F_SETFL, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
09:41:17.270204 setsockopt(7, SOL_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, [1], 4) = 0
09:41:17.270216 setsockopt(7, SOL_TCP, TCP_QUICKACK, [0], 4) = 0
09:41:17.270224 connect(7, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(1111), sin_addr=inet_addr("127.0.0.1")}, 16) = -1 EINPROGRESS (Operation now in progress)
09:41:17.270299 epoll_ctl(3, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, 7, {EPOLLOUT, {u32=7, u64=7}}) = 0
09:41:17.270314 clock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, {tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=10337841}) = 0
09:41:17.270323 epoll_wait(3, [{EPOLLOUT|EPOLLERR|EPOLLHUP, {u32=7, u64=7}}], 200, 1000) = 1
09:41:17.270332 clock_gettime(CLOCK_THREAD_CPUTIME_ID, {tv_sec=0, tv_nsec=10341860}) = 0
09:41:17.270340 getsockopt(7, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ERROR, [111], [4]) = 0
09:41:17.270367 close(7) = 0
This may be backported to 2.1 and 2.0 though it's unlikely to bring any
user-visible improvement except to clarify debugging.
Commit 0742c314c3 ("BUG/MEDIUM: tasks: Make sure we switch wait queues
in task_set_affinity().") had a slight side effect on expired timeouts,
which is that when used before a timeout is updated, it will cause an
existing task to be requeued earlier than its expected timeout when done
before being updated, resulting in the next poll wakup timeout too early
or even instantly if the previous wake up was done on a timeout. This is
visible in strace when health checks are enabled because there are two
poll calls, one of which has a short or zero delay. The correct solution
is to only requeue a task if it was already in the queue.
This can be backported to all branches having the fix above.
The global listener queue code and declarations were still lying in
haproxy.c while not needed there anymore at all. This complicates
the code for no reason. As a result, the global_listener_queue_task
and the global_listener_queue were made static.
We use it half times for the global_listener_queue and half times
for a proxy's queue and this requires the callers to take care of
these. Let's split it in two versions, the current one working only
on the global queue and another one dedicated to proxies for the
per-proxy queues. This cleans up quite a bit of code.
HAProxy doesn't need to call executables at run time (except when using
external checks which are strongly recommended against), and is even expected
to isolate itself into an empty chroot. As such, there basically is no valid
reason to allow a setuid executable to be called without the user being fully
aware of the risks. In a situation where haproxy would need to call external
checks and/or disable chroot, exploiting a vulnerability in a library or in
haproxy itself could lead to the execution of an external program. On Linux
it is possible to lock the process so that any setuid bit present on such an
executable is ignored. This significantly reduces the risk of privilege
escalation in such a situation. This is what haproxy does by default. In case
this causes a problem to an external check (for example one which would need
the "ping" command), then it is possible to disable this protection by
explicitly adding this directive in the global section. If enabled, it is
possible to turn it back off by prefixing it with the "no" keyword.
Before the option:
$ socat - /tmp/sock1 <<< "expert-mode on; debug dev exec sudo /bin/id"
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root
After the option:
$ socat - /tmp/sock1 <<< "expert-mode on; debug dev exec sudo /bin/id"
sudo: effective uid is not 0, is /usr/bin/sudo on a file system with the
'nosuid' option set or an NFS file system without root privileges?
In task_set_affinity(), leave the wait_queue if any before changing the
affinity, and re-enter a wait queue once it is done. If we don't do that,
the task may stay in the wait queue of another thread, and we later may
end up modifying that wait queue while holding no lock, which could lead
to memory corruption.
THis should be backported to 2.1, 2.0 and 1.9.
Some concerns are regularly raised about the risk to inherit some Lua
files which make use of a fork (e.g. via os.execute()) as well as
whether or not some of bugs we fix might or not be exploitable to run
some code. Given that haproxy is event-driven, any foreground activity
completely stops processing and is easy to detect, but background
activity is a different story. A Lua script could very well discretely
fork a sub-process connecting to a remote location and taking commands,
and some injected code could also try to hide its activity by creating
a process or a thread without blocking the rest of the processing. While
such activities should be extremely limited when run in an empty chroot
without any permission, it would be better to get a higher assurance
they cannot happen.
This patch introduces something very simple: it limits the number of
processes and threads to zero in the workers after the last thread was
created. By doing so, it effectively instructs the system to fail on
any fork() or clone() syscall. Thus any undesired activity has to happen
in the foreground and is way easier to detect.
This will obviously break external checks (whose concept is already
totally insecure), and for this reason a new option
"insecure-fork-wanted" was added to disable this protection, and it
is suggested in the fork() error report from the checks. It is
obviously recommended not to use it and to reconsider the reasons
leading to it being enabled in the first place.
If for any reason we fail to disable forks, we still start because it
could be imaginable that some operating systems refuse to set this
limit to zero, but in this case we emit a warning, that may or may not
be reported since we're after the fork point. Ideally over the long
term it should be conditionned by strict-limits and cause a hard fail.
Typically server line like:
'server-template srv 1-1000 *:443 ssl ca-file ca-certificates.crt'
load ca-certificates.crt 1000 times and stay duplicated in memory.
Same case for bind line: ca-file is loaded for each certificate.
Same 'ca-file' can be load one time only and stay deduplicated in
memory.
As a corollary, this will prevent file access for ca-file when
updating a certificate via CLI.
