Previously flags passed by --with-ld-opt were not used when building perl
module, which meant hardening flags provided by package build systems were not
applied.
All the errors that prevent loading configuration must be printed on the "emerg"
log level. Previously, nginx might silently fail to load configuration in some
cases as the default log level is "error".
Previously, the realip module could be left with uninitialized context after an
error in the ngx_http_realip_set_addr() function. That context could be later
accessed by $realip_remote_addr and $realip_remote_port variable handlers.
If the range includes two or more /16 networks and does
not start at the /16 boundary, the last subrange was not
removed (see 91cff7f97a50 for details).
Unlike $upstream_response_length that only counts the body size,
the new variable also counts the size of response header and data
received after switching protocols when proxying WebSockets.
If PCRE is disabled, captures were treated as normal variables in
ngx_http_script_compile(), while code calculating flushes array length in
ngx_http_compile_complex_value() did not account captures as variables.
This could lead to write outside of the array boundary when setting
last element to -1.
Found with AddressSanitizer.
It fixes potential connection leak if some unsent data was left in the SSL
buffer. Particularly, that could happen when a client canceled the stream
after the HEADERS frame has already been created. In this case no other
frames might be produced and the HEADERS frame alone didn't flush the buffer.
Checking for return value of c->send_chain() isn't sufficient since there
are data can be left in the SSL buffer. Now the wew->ready flag is used
instead.
In particular, this fixed a connection leak in cases when all streams were
closed, but there's still some data to be sent in the SSL buffer and the
client forgot about the connection.
Particularly this fixes alerts on OS X and NetBSD systems when HTTP/2 is
configured over plain TCP sockets.
On these systems calling writev() with no data leads to EINVAL errors
being logged as "writev() failed (22: Invalid argument) while processing
HTTP/2 connection".
Previously, if the worker process exited, GOAWAY was sent to connections in
idle state, but connections with active streams were closed without GOAWAY.
On non-aligned platforms, properly cast argument before left-shifting it in
ngx_http_v2_parse_uint32 that is used with u_char. Otherwise it propagates
to int to hold the value and can step over the sign bit. Usually, on known
compilers, this results in negation. Furthermore, a subsequent store into a
wider type, that is ngx_uint_t on 64-bit platforms, results in sign-extension.
In practice, this can be observed in debug log as a very large exclusive bit
value, when client sent PRIORITY frame with exclusive bit set:
: *14 http2 PRIORITY frame sid:5 on 1 excl:8589934591 weight:17
Found with UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer.
Previously, when a buffer was processed by the sub filter, its final bytes
could be buffered by the filter even if they don't match any pattern.
This happened because the Boyer-Moore algorithm, employed by the sub filter
since b9447fc457b4 (1.9.4), matches the last characters of patterns prior to
checking other characters. If the last character is out of scope, initial
bytes of a potential match are buffered until the last character is available.
Now, after receiving a flush or recycled buffer, the filter performs
additional checks to reduce the number of buffered bytes. The potential match
is checked against the initial parts of all patterns. Non-matching bytes are
not buffered. This improves processing of a chunked response from upstream
by sending the entire chunks without buffering unless a partial match is found
at the end of a chunk.
This patch moves various OpenSSL-specific function calls into the
OpenSSL module and introduces ngx_ssl_ciphers() to make nginx more
crypto-library-agnostic.
When the stream is terminated the HEADERS frame can still wait in the output
queue. This frame can't be removed and must be sent to the client anyway,
since HTTP/2 uses stateful compression for headers. So in order to postpone
closing and freeing memory of such stream the special close stream handler
is set to the write event. After the HEADERS frame is sent the write event
is called and the stream will be finally closed.
Some events like receiving a RST_STREAM can trigger the read handler of such
stream in closing state and cause unexpected processing that can result in
another attempt to finalize the request. To prevent it the read handler is
now set to ngx_http_empty_handler.
Thanks to Amazon.
There is no reason to add the "Content-Length: 0" header to a proxied request
without body if the header isn't presented in the original request.
Thanks to Amazon.
According to RFC 7540, an endpoint should not send more than one RST_STREAM
frame for any stream.
Also, now all the data frames will be skipped while termination.
The ngx_http_v2_finalize_connection() closes current stream, but that is an
invalid operation while processing unbuffered upload. This results in access
to already freed memory, since the upstream module sets a cleanup handler that
also finalizes the request.
Previously, the stream's window was kept zero in order to prevent a client
from sending the request body before it was requested (see 887cca40ba6a for
details). Until such initial window was acknowledged all requests with
data were rejected (see 0aa07850922f for details).
That approach revealed a number of problems:
1. Some clients (notably MS IE/Edge, Safari, iOS applications) show an error
or even crash if a stream is rejected;
2. This requires at least one RTT for every request with body before the
client receives window update and able to send data.
To overcome these problems the new directive "http2_body_preread_size" is
introduced. It sets the initial window and configures a special per stream
preread buffer that is used to save all incoming data before the body is
requested and processed.
If the directive's value is lower than the default initial window (65535),
as previously, all streams with data will be rejected until the new window
is acknowledged. Otherwise, no special processing is used and all requests
with data are welcome right from the connection start.
The default value is chosen to be 64k, which is bigger than the default
initial window. Setting it to zero is fully complaint to the previous
behavior.
Now, the module extracts optional port which may accompany an
IP address. This custom extension is introduced, among other
things, in order to facilitate logging of original client ports.
Addresses with ports are expected to be in the RFC 3986 format,
that is, with IPv6 addresses in square brackets. E.g.,
"X-Real-IP: [2001:0db8::1]:12345" sets client port ($remote_port)
to 12345.
Previously, when the client address was changed to the one from
the PROXY protocol header, the client port ($remote_port) was
reset to zero. Now the client port is also changed to the one
from the PROXY protocol header.
Since 4fbef397c753 nginx rejects with the 400 error any attempts of
requesting different host over the same connection, if the relevant
virtual server requires verification of a client certificate.
While requesting hosts other than negotiated isn't something legal
in HTTP/1.x, the HTTP/2 specification explicitly permits such requests
for connection reuse and has introduced a special response code 421.
According to RFC 7540 Section 9.1.2 this code can be sent by a server
that is not configured to produce responses for the combination of
scheme and authority that are included in the request URI. And the
client may retry the request over a different connection.
Now this code is used for requests that aren't authorized in current
connection. After receiving the 421 response a client will be able
to open a new connection, provide the required certificate and retry
the request.
Unfortunately, not all clients currently are able to handle it well.
Notably Chrome just shows an error, while at least the latest version
of Firefox retries the request over a new connection.
