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In stream_set_backend(), if we have a TCP stream, and we want to upgrade it
to H2 instead of attempting ot reuse the stream, just destroy the
conn_stream, make sure we don't log anything about the stream, and pretend
we failed setting the backend, so that the stream will get destroyed.
New streams will then be created by the mux, as if the connection just
happened.
This fixes a crash when upgrading from TCP to H2, as the H2 mux totally
ignored the conn_stream provided by the upgrade, as reported in github
issue #196.
This should be backported to 2.0.
The SETTINGS frame parser updates all streams' window for each
INITIAL_WINDOW_SIZE setting received on the connection (like h2spec
does in test 6.5.3), which can start to be expensive if repeated when
there are many streams (up to 100 by default). A quick test shows that
it's possible to parse only 35000 settings per second on a 3 GHz core
for 100 streams, which is rather small.
Given that window sizes are relative and may be negative, there's no
point in pre-initializing them for each stream and update them from
the settings. Instead, let's make them relative to the connection's
initial window size so that any change immediately affects all streams.
The only thing that remains needed is to wake up the streams that were
unblocked by the update, which is now done once at the end of
h2_process_demux() instead of once per setting. This now results in
5.7 million settings being processed per second, which is way better.
In order to keep the change small, the h2s' mws field was renamed to
"sws" for "stream window size", and an h2s_mws() function was added
to add it to the connection's initial window setting and determine the
window size to use when muxing. The h2c_update_all_ws() function was
renamed to h2c_unblock_sfctl() since it's now only used to unblock
previously blocked streams.
This needs to be backported to all versions till 1.8.
Recent optimization in commit 4d7a88482 ("MEDIUM: mux-h2: don't try to
read more than needed") broke the receipt of large DATA frames because
it would unconditionally subscribe if there was some room left, thus
preventing any new rx from being done since subscription may only be
done once the end was reached, as indicated by ret == 0.
However, fixing this uncovered that in HTX mode previous versions might
occasionally be affected as well, when an available frame is the same
size as the maximum data that may fit into an HTX buffer, we may end
up reading that whole frame and still subscribe since it's still allowed
to receive, thus causing issues to read the next frame.
This patch will only work for 2.1-dev but a minor adaptation will be
needed for earlier versions (down to 1.9, where subscribe() was added).
Between 1.6 and 1.7, some parts of the stream forwarding process were
moved into lower layers and the stream-interface had to keep the
stream's task up to date regarding the timeouts. The analyser timeouts
were not updated there as it was believed this was not needed during
forwarding, but actually there is a case for this which is "option
contstats" which periodically triggers the analyser timeout, and this
change broke the option in case of sustained traffic (if there is some
I/O activity during the same millisecond as the timeout expires, then
the update will be missed).
This patch simply brings back the analyser expiration updates from
process_stream() to stream_int_notify().
It may be backported as far as 1.7, taking care to adjust the fields
names if needed.
There are some situations, after sending a request or response, upon I/O
completion, or applet execution, where we end up with an empty buffer that
was not released. This results in excessive memory usage (back to 1.5) and
a lower CPU cache efficiency since buffers are not recycled as fast. This
has changed since the places where we send have changed with the new
layering, but not all cases susceptible of leaving an empty buffer were
properly spotted. Doing so reduces the memory pressure on buffers by about
2/3 in high traffic tests.
This should be backported to 2.0 and maybe 1.9.
Multiple calls to smp_fetch_fhdr use the header context to keep track of
header parsing position; however, when using header sampling on a raw
connection, the raw buffer is converted into an HTX structure each time, and
this was done in the trash areas; so the block reference would be invalid on
subsequent calls.
This patch must be backported to 2.0 and 1.9.
When the server weight is increased in consistant hash, extra nodes have to be
allocated. So a realloc() is performed on the nodes array of the server. the
previous commit 962ea7732 ("BUG/MEDIUM: lb-chash: Remove all server's entries
before realloc() to re-insert them after") have fixed the size used during the
realloc() to avoid segfaults. But another bug remains. After the realloc(), the
memory area allocated for the nodes array may change, invalidating all node
addresses in the chash tree.
So, to fix the bug, we must remove all server's entries from the chash tree
before the realloc to insert all of them after, old nodes and new ones. The
insert will be automatically handled by the loop at the end of the function
chash_queue_dequeue_srv().
Note that if the call to realloc() failed, no new entries will be created for
the server, so the effective server weight will be unchanged.
This issue was reported on Github (#189).
This patch must be backported to all versions since the 1.6.
When using a ckch we should never try to free its content, because it
won't be usable after and can result in a NULL derefence during
parsing.
The content was previously freed because the ckch wasn't stored in a
tree to be used later, now that we use it multiple time, we need to keep
the data.
This test occasionally fails on the Travis CI tests because the
"in progress" bit is sometimes still set (or set again) in the show
servers state output and is not expected in all regexes (some do
already cover it), like in this one :
https://travis-ci.com/haproxy/haproxy/jobs/221324920
Let's extend the remaining ones to accept this as well. Other tests
do not seem affected as they only expect sequences of digits there.
It happens that upon looping threads the watchdog fires, starts a dump,
and other threads expire their budget while waiting for the other threads
to get dumped and trigger a watchdog event again, adding some confusion
to the traces. With this patch the situation becomes clearer as we export
the list of threads being dumped so that the watchdog can check it before
deciding to trigger. This way such threads in queue for being dumped are
not attempted to be reported in turn.
This should be backported to 2.0 as it helps understand stack traces.
If a thread dump is requested from a signal handler, it may interrupt
a thread already waiting for a dump to complete, and may see the
threads_to_dump variable go to zero while others are waiting, steal
the lock and prevent other threads from ever completing. This tends
to happen when dumping many threads upon a watchdog timeout, to threads
waiting for their turn.
Instead now we proceed in two steps :
1) the last dumped thread sets all bits again
2) all threads only wait for their own bit to appear, then clear it
and quit
This way there's no risk that a bit performs a double flip in the same
loop and threads cannot get stuck here anymore.
This should be backported to 2.0 as it clarifies stack traces.
Recent changes use struct cert_key_and_chain to load all certificates in
frontends, this structure was previously used only to load multi-cert
bundle, which is supported only on >= 1.0.2.
The h2_recv() loop was historically built around a loop to deal with
the callback model but this is not needed anymore, as it the upper
layer wants more data, it will simply try to read again. Right now
50% of the recvfrom() calls made over H2 return EAGAIN. With this
change it doesn't happen anymore. Note that the code simply consists
in breaking the loop, and reporting real data receipt instead of
always returning 1.
A test was made not to subscribe if we actually read data but it
doesn't change anything since we might be subscribed very early
already.
In the poller code, instead of just remembering if we're currently polling
a fd or not, remember if we're polling it for writing and/or for reading, that
way, we can avoid to modify the polling if it's already polled as needed.
Now that the architecture was changed so that attempts to receive/send data
always come from the upper layers, instead of them only trying to do so when
the lower layer let them know they could try, we can finally get rid of the
fd cache. We don't really need it anymore, and removing it gives us a small
performance boost.
OPENSSL_NO_DH can be defined to avoid obsolete and heavy DH processing.
With OPENSSL_NO_DH, parse the entire PEM file to look at DHparam is wast
of time.
Load a PEM certificate and use it in CTX are now decorrelated.
Checking the certificate and private key consistency can be done
earlier: in loading phase instead CTX set phase.
cert_key_and_chain handling is now outside openssl 1.0.2 #if: the
code must be libssl compatible. SSL_CTX_add1_chain_cert and
SSL_CTX_set1_chain requires openssl >= 1.0.2, replace it by legacy
SSL_CTX_add_extra_chain_cert when SSL_CTX_set1_chain is not provided.
A problem involving server slowstart was reported by @max2k1 in issue #197.
The problem is that pendconn_grab_from_px() takes the proxy lock while
already under the server's lock while process_srv_queue() first takes the
proxy's lock then the server's lock.
While the latter seems more natural, it is fundamentally incompatible with
mayn other operations performed on servers, namely state change propagation,
where the proxy is only known after the server and cannot be locked around
the servers. Howwever reversing the lock in process_srv_queue() is trivial
and only the few functions related to dynamic cookies need to be adjusted
for this so that the proxy's lock is taken for each server operation. This
is possible because the proxy's server list is built once at boot time and
remains stable. So this is what this patch does.
The comments in the proxy and server structs were updated to mention this
rule that the server's lock may not be taken under the proxy's lock but
may enclose it.
Another approach could consist in using a second lock for the proxy's queue
which would be different from the regular proxy's lock, but given that the
operations above are rare and operate on small servers list, there is no
reason for overdesigning a solution.
This fix was successfully tested with 10000 servers in a backend where
adjusting the dyncookies in loops over the CLI didn't have a measurable
impact on the traffic.
The only workaround without the fix is to disable any occurrence of
"slowstart" on server lines, or to disable threads using "nbthread 1".
This must be backported as far as 1.8.
Load the DH param at the same time as the certificate, we don't need to
open the file once more and read it again. We store it in the ckch_node.
There is a minor change comparing to the previous way of loading the DH
param in a bundle. With a bundle, the DH param in a certificate file was
never loaded, it only used the global DH or the default DH, now it's
able to use the DH param from a certificate file.
Don't read a certificate file again if it was already stored in the
ckchn tree. It allows HAProxy to start more quickly if the same
certificate is used at different places in the configuration.
HAProxy lookup in the ssl_sock_load_cert() function, doing it at this
level allows to skip the reading of the certificate in the filesystem.
If the certificate is not found in the tree, we insert the ckch_node in
the tree once the certificate is read on the filesystem, the filename or
the bundle name is used as the key.
Split the functions which open the certificates.
Instead of opening directly the certificates and inserting them directly
into a SSL_CTX, we use a struct cert_key_and_chain to store them in
memory and then we associate a SSL_CTX to the certificate stored in that
structure.
Introduce the struct ckch_node for the multi-cert bundles so we can
store multiple cert_key_and_chain in the same structure.
The functions ssl_sock_load_multi_cert() and ssl_sock_load_cert_file()
were modified so they don't open the certicates anymore on the
filesystem. (they still open the sctl and ocsp though). These functions
were renamed ssl_sock_load_ckchn() and ssl_sock_load_multi_ckchn().
The new function ckchn_load_cert_file() is in charge of loading the
files in the cert_key_and_chain. (TODO: load ocsp and sctl from there
too).
The ultimate goal is to be able to load a certificate from a certificate
tree without doing any filesystem access, so we don't try to open it
again if it was already loaded, and we share its configuration.
This structure was only used in the case of the multi-cert bundle.
Using these primitives everywhere when we load the file are a first step
in the deduplication of the code.
This commit merges the function ssl_sock_load_cert_file() and
ssl_sock_load_cert_chain_file().
The goal is to refactor the SSL code and use the cert_key_and_chain
struct to load everything.
When the payload of a block is shrinked or enlarged, addresses of the free
spaces must be updated. There are many possible cases. One of them is
buggy. When there is only one block in the HTX message and its payload is just
before the tail room and it needs to be moved in the head room to be enlarged,
addresses are not correctly updated. This bug may be hit by the compression
filter.
This patch must be backported to 2.0.
The flag HLUA_TXN_HTTP_RDY was added in the previous commit to know when a
function is called for a channel with a valid HTTP message or not. Of course it
also depends on the calling direction. In this commit, we allow the execution of
functions of the HTTP class only if this flag is set.
Nobody seems to use them from an unsupported context (for instance, trying to
set an HTTP header from a tcp-request rule). But it remains a bug leading to
undefined behaviors or crashes.
This patch may be backported to all versions since the 1.6. It depends on the
commits "MINOR: hlua: Add a flag on the lua txn to know in which context it can
be used" and "MINOR: hlua: Don't set request analyzers on response channel for
lua actions".
When a lua action or a lua sample fetch is called, a lua transaction is
created. It is an entry in the stack containing the class TXN. Thanks to it, we
can know the direction (request or response) of the call. But, for some
functions, it is also necessary to know if the buffer is "HTTP ready" for the
given direction. "HTTP ready" means there is a valid HTTP message in the
channel's buffer. So, when a lua action or a lua sample fetch is called, the
flag HLUA_TXN_HTTP_RDY is set if it is appropriate.
Setting some requests analyzers on the response channel was an old trick to be
sure to re-evaluate the request's analyers after the response's ones have been
called. It is no more necessary. In fact, this trick was removed in the version
1.8 and backported up to the version 1.6.
This patch must be backported to all versions since 1.6 to ease the backports of
fixes on the lua code.
It is invalid to manipulate responses from http-request rules or to manipulate
requests from http-response rules. When http-request rules are evaluated, the
connection to server is not yet established, so there is no response at all. And
when http-response rules are evaluated, the request has already been sent to the
server.
Now, the calling direction is checked. So functions "txn.http:req_*" can now
only be called from http-request rules and the functions "txn.http:res_*" can
only be called from http-response rules.
This issue was reported on Github (#190).
This patch must be backported to all versions since the 1.6.
For HTX streams, when txn:done() is called, the work is delegated to the
function http_reply_and_close(). But it is not enough. The channel's analyzers
must also be reset. Otherwise, some analyzers may still be called while
processing should be aborted.
For instance, if the function is called from an http-request rules on the
frontend, request analyzers on the backend side are still called. So we may try
to add an header to the request, while this one was already reset.
This patch must be backported to 2.0 and 1.9.
This patch excludes freebsd, osx and generic targets for this vtc.
Basic tcp checks performed by haproxy on a linux system leverage the
TCP_QUICKACK option which implies that the connection is never
established from the perspective of the backend server. On other systems
a regular tcp 3 way handshake is performed immediately followed by a
reset, which from the perspective of the server is an aborted connection.
When we run this regtest on FreeBSD (or anything other than linux) there
is a race condition in the server_thread() function of the vtc_server.c
file. If we receive the reset when we are in accept() then fd is -1 and
vtest calls vtc_fatal, failing the test.
Other checks specific reg-tests were excluded on FreeBSD, osx and
generic for the same reason, but were at the time documented as being
disabled because they used TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT. These commits are
15685c791 ("REGTEST: Exclude freebsd target for some reg tests") and
03c6ab0cb ("REGTEST: exclude osx and generic targets for
40be_2srv_odd_health_checks")
In h1_rcv_buf(), don't wake the H1 tasklet to attempt to receive more data
if we got the whole request. It will lead to a recv and maybe to a subscribe
while it may not be needed.
If the connection is keep alive, the tasklet will be woken up later by
h1_detach(), so that we'll be able to get the next request, or an end of
connection.
In h1_recv(), don't subscribe if we managed to receive data. We may not have
to, if we received a complete request, and a new receive will be attempted
later, as the tasklet is woken up either by h1_rcv_buf() or by h1_detach.
Insufficiently described bug fixes are still too frequent. It's a real
pain to create each new maintenance release, as 3/4 of the time is spent
trying to guess what problem a patch fixes, which is already important
in order to decide whether to pick the fix or not, but is even more
capital in order to write understandable release notes.
Christopher rightfully demands that a patch tagged "BUG" MUST ABSOLUTELY
describe the problem and why this problem is a bug. Describing the fix
is one thing but if the bug is unknown, why would there be a fix ? How
can a stable maintainer be convinced to take a fix if its author didn't
care about checking whether it was a real bug ? This patch tries to
explain a bit better what really needs to appear in the commit message
and how to describe a bug.
To be backported to all relevant stable versions.
Since 1.9 we support sending logs to various non-blocking outputs like
stdou/stderr or flies, by using writev() which guarantees that it only
returns after having written everything or nothing. However the syscall
may be interrupted while doing so, and this is visible when writing to
a tty during debug sessions, as some logs occasionally appear interleaved
if an xterm or SSH connection is not very fast. Performance here is not a
critical concern, log correctness is. Let's simply take the logger's lock
around the writev() call to prevent multiple senders from stepping onto
each other's toes.
This may be backported to 2.0 and 1.9.
In sess_established(), don't immediately switch the backend stream_interface
to SI_ST_DIS if we only got a SHUTR. We may still have something to send,
ie if the request is a POST, and we should be switched to SI_ST8DIS later
when the shutw will happen.
This should be backported to 2.0 and 1.9.
When the number of nodes is increased because the server weight is changed, the
nodes array must be realloc. But its new size is not correctly set. Only the
total number of nodes is used to set the new size. But it must also depends on
the size of a node. It must be the total nomber of nodes times the size of a
node.
This issue was reported on Github (#189).
This patch must be backported to all versions since the 1.6.
This one was added by commit daacf3664 ("BUG/MEDIUM: protocols: add a
global lock for the init/deinit stuff") but I forgot to add it to the
include file, breaking DEBUG_THREAD.
There is no standard case for HTTP header names because, as stated in the
RFC7230, they are case-insensitive. So applications must handle them in a
case-insensitive manner. But some bogus applications erroneously rely on the
case used by most browsers. This problem becomes critical with HTTP/2
because all header names must be exchanged in lowercase. And HAProxy uses the
same convention. All header names are sent in lowercase to clients and servers,
regardless of the HTTP version.
This design choice is linked to the HTX implementation. So, for previous
versions (2.0 and 1.9), a workaround is to disable the HTX mode to fall
back to the legacy HTTP mode.
Since the legacy HTTP mode was removed, some users reported interoperability
issues because their application was not able anymore to handle HTTP/1 message
received from HAProxy. So, we've decided to add a way to change the case of some
headers before sending them. It is now possible to define a "mapping" between a
lowercase header name and a version supported by the bogus application. To do
so, you must use the global directives "h1-case-adjust" and
"h1-case-adjust-file". Then options "h1-case-adjust-bogus-client" and
"h1-case-adjust-bogus-server" may be used in proxy sections to enable the
conversion. See the configuration manual for more info.
Of course, our advice is to urgently upgrade these applications for
interoperability concerns and because they may be vulnerable to various types of
content smuggling attacks. But, if your are really forced to use an unmaintained
bogus application, you may use these directive, at your own risks.
If it is relevant, this feature may be backported to 2.0.
There is one unprotected call to stop_proxy() from the manage_proxy()
task, so there is a single caller by definition, but there is also
another such call from the CLI's "shutdown frontend" parser. This
one does it under the proxy's lock but the first one doesn't use it.
Thus it is theorically possible to corrupt the list of listeners in a
proxy by issuing "shutdown frontend" and SIGUSR1 exactly at the same
time. While it sounds particularly contrived or stupid, it could
possibly happen with automated tools that would send actions via
various channels. This could cause the process to loop forever or
to crash and thus stop faster than expected.
This might be backported as far as 1.8.
Dragan Dosen found that the listeners lock is not sufficient to protect
the listeners list when proxies are stopping because the listeners are
also unlinked from the protocol list, and under certain situations like
bombing with soft-stop signals or shutting down many frontends in parallel
from multiple CLI connections, it could be possible to provoke multiple
instances of delete_listener() to be called in parallel for different
listeners, thus corrupting the protocol lists.
Such operations are pretty rare, they are performed once per proxy upon
startup and once per proxy on shut down. Thus there is no point trying
to optimize anything and we can use a global lock to protect the protocol
lists during these manipulations.
This fix (or a variant) will have to be backported as far as 1.8.
When client-side or server-side cookies are parsed, HAProxy enters in an
infinite loop if a Cookie/Set-Cookie header value starts by a delimiter (a colon
or a semicolon). Depending on the operating system, the service may become
degraded, unresponsive, or may trigger haproxy's watchdog causing a service stop
or automatic restart.
To fix this bug, in the loop parsing the attributes, we must be sure to always
skip delimiters once the first attribute-value pair was parsed, empty or
not. The credit for the fix goes to Olivier.
CVE-2019-14241 was assigned to this bug. This patch fixes the Github issue #181.
This patch must be backported to 2.0 and 1.9. However, the patch will have to be
adapted.
