Since commit f9ce57e ("MEDIUM: connection: make conn_sock_shutw() aware
of lingering"), we refrain from performing the shutw() on the socket if
there is no lingering risk. But there is a problem with this in tunnel
and in TCP modes where a client is explicitly allowed to send a shutw
to the server, eventhough it it risky.
Not doing it creates this situation reported by Ricardo Fraile and
diagnosed by Christopher : a typical HTTP client (eg: curl) connecting
via the config below to an HTTP server would receive its response,
immediately close while the server remains in keep-alive mode. The
shutr() received by haproxy from the client is "propagated" to the
server side but not acted upon because fdtab[fd].linger_risk is set,
so we expect that the next close will immediately complete this
operation.
listen proxy-tcp
bind 127.0.0.1:8888
mode tcp
timeout connect 5s
timeout server 10s
timeout client 10s
server server1 127.0.0.1:8000
But since the whole stream will not end until the server closes in
turn, the server doesn't close and haproxy expires on server timeout.
This problem has already struck by waking up an older bug and was
partially fixed with commit 8059351 ("BUG/MEDIUM: http: don't disable
lingering on requests with tunnelled responses") though it was not
enough.
The problem is that linger_risk is not suited here. In fact we need to
know whether or not it is desired to close normally or silently, and
whether or not a shutr() has already been received on this connection.
This is the approach this patch takes, and it solves the problem for
the various difficult modes (tcp, http-server-close, pretend-keepalive).
This fix needs to be backported to 1.8. Many thanks to Ricardo for
providing very detailed traces and configurations.
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