On Windows there are two possible error codes which correspond to
the EEXIST error code: ERROR_FILE_EXISTS used by CreateFile(CREATE_NEW),
and ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS used by CreateDirectory().
MoveFile() seems to use both: ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS when moving within
one filesystem, and ERROR_FILE_EXISTS when copying a file to a different
drive.
This fixes buffer over-read while using variables in the "proxy_pass",
"fastcgi_pass", "scgi_pass", and "uwsgi_pass" directives, where result
of string evaluation isn't null-terminated.
Found with MemorySanitizer.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Sikora <piotrsikora@google.com>
On nginx reload or binary upgrade, an attempt is made to inherit listen sockets
from the previous configuration. Previously, no check for socket type was made
and the inherited socket could have the wrong type. On binary upgrade, socket
type was not detected at all. Wrong socket type could lead to errors on that
socket due to different logic and unsupported syscalls. For example, a UDP
socket, inherited as TCP, lead to the following error after arrival of a
datagram: "accept() failed (102: Operation not supported on socket)".
It allows to turn off accumulation of small pool allocations into a big
preallocated chunk of memory. This is useful for debugging memory access
with sanitizer, since such accumulation can cover buffer overruns from
being detected.
This structure cannot be allocated as a large block anyway, otherwise that will
result in infinite recursion, since each large allocation requires to allocate
another ngx_pool_large_t.
The room for the structure is guaranteed by the NGX_MIN_POOL_SIZE constant.
The ngx_thread_write_chain_to_file() function introduced, which
uses ngx_file_t thread_handler, thread_ctx and thread_task fields.
The task context structure (ngx_thread_file_ctx_t) is the same for
both reading and writing, and can be safely shared as long as
operations are serialized.
The task->handler field is now always set (and not only when task is
allocated), as the same task can be used with different handlers.
The thread_write flag is introduced in the ngx_temp_file_t structure
to explicitly enable use of ngx_thread_write_chain_to_file() in
ngx_write_chain_to_temp_file() when supported by caller.
In collaboration with Valentin Bartenev.
This simplifies the interface of the ngx_thread_read() function.
Additionally, most of the thread operations now explicitly set
file->thread_task, file->thread_handler and file->thread_ctx,
to facilitate use of thread operations in other places.
(Potential problems remain with sendfile in threads though - it uses
file->thread_handler as set in ngx_output_chain(), and it should not
be overwritten to an incompatible one.)
In collaboration with Valentin Bartenev.
Sendfile handlers (aio preload and thread handler) are called within
ctx->output_filter() in ngx_output_chain(), and hence ctx->aio cannot
be set directly in ngx_output_chain(). Meanwhile, it must be set to
make sure loop within ngx_output_chain() will be properly terminated.
There are no known cases that trigger the problem, though in theory
something like aio + sub filter (something that needs body in memory,
and can also free some memory buffers) + sendfile can result in
"task already active" and "second aio post" alerts.
The fix is to set ctx->aio in ngx_http_copy_aio_sendfile_preload()
and ngx_http_copy_thread_handler().
For consistency, ctx->aio is no longer set explicitly in
ngx_output_chain_copy_buf(), as it's now done in
ngx_http_copy_thread_handler().
Changes to NGX_MODULE_V1 and ngx_module_t in 85dea406e18f (1.9.11)
broke all modules written in C++, because ISO C++11 does not allow
conversion from string literal to char *.
Signed-off-by: Piotr Sikora <piotrsikora@google.com>
The auto/module script is extended to understand ngx_module_link=DYNAMIC.
When set, it links the module as a shared object rather than statically
into nginx binary. The module can later be loaded using the "load_module"
directive.
New auto/module parameter ngx_module_order allows to define module loading
order in complex cases. By default the order is set based on ngx_module_type.
3rd party modules can be compiled dynamically using the --add-dynamic-module
configure option, which will preset ngx_module_link to "DYNAMIC" before
calling the module config script.
Win32 support is rudimentary, and only works when using MinGW gcc (which
is able to handle exports/imports automatically).
In collaboration with Ruslan Ermilov.
The previous code only parsed the first answer, without checking its
type, and required a compressed RR name.
The new code checks the RR type, supports responses with multiple
answers, and doesn't require the RR name to be compressed.
This has a side effect in limited support of CNAME. If a response
includes both CNAME and PTR RRs, like when recursion is enabled on
the server, PTR RR is handled.
Full CNAME support in PTR response is not implemented in this change.
Previously, a global server balancer was used to assign the next DNS server to
send a query to. That could lead to a non-uniform distribution of servers per
request. A request could be assigned to the same dead server several times in a
row and wait longer for a valid server or even time out without being processed.
Now each query is sent to all servers sequentially in a circle until a
response is received or timeout expires. Initial server for each request is
still globally balanced.
When several requests were waiting for a response, then after getting
a CNAME response only the last request's context had the name updated.
Contexts of other requests had the wrong name. This name was used by
ngx_resolve_name_done() to find the node to remove the request context
from. When the name was wrong, the request could not be properly
cancelled, its context was freed but stayed linked to the node's waiting
list. This happened e.g. when the first request was aborted or timed
out before the resolving completed. When it completed, this triggered
a use-after-free memory access by calling ctx->handler of already freed
request context. The bug manifests itself by
"could not cancel <name> resolving" alerts in error_log.
When a request was responded with a CNAME, the request context kept
the pointer to the original node's rn->u.cname. If the original node
expired before the resolving timed out or completed with an error,
this would trigger a use-after-free memory access via ctx->name in
ctx->handler().
The fix is to keep ctx->name unmodified. The name from context
is no longer used by ngx_resolve_name_done(). Instead, we now keep
the pointer to resolver node to which this request is linked.
Keeping the original name intact also improves logging.
When several requests were waiting for a response, then after getting
a CNAME response only the last request was properly processed, while
others were left waiting.
If one or more requests were waiting for a response, then after
getting a CNAME response, the timeout event on the first request
remained active, pointing to the wrong node with an empty
rn->waiting list, and that could cause either null pointer
dereference or use-after-free memory access if this timeout
expired.
If several requests were waiting for a response, and the first
request terminated (e.g., due to client closing a connection),
other requests were left without a timeout and could potentially
wait indefinitely.
This is fixed by introducing per-request independent timeouts.
This change also reverts 954867a2f0a6 and 5004210e8c78.
If enabled, workers are bound to available CPUs, each worker to once CPU
in order. If there are more workers than available CPUs, remaining are
bound in a loop, starting again from the first available CPU.
The optional mask parameter defines which CPUs are available for automatic
binding.
In collaboration with Vladimir Homutov.
The code failed to ensure that "s" is within the buffer passed for
parsing when checking for "ms", and this resulted in unexpected errors when
parsing non-null-terminated strings with trailing "m". The bug manifested
itself when the expires directive was used with variables.
Found by Roman Arutyunyan.
The code for displaying version info and configuration info seemed to be
cluttering up the main function. I was finding it hard to read main. This
extracts out all of the logic for displaying version and configuration info
into its own function, thus making main easier to read.
A configuration like
server { server_name .foo^@; }
server { server_name .foo; }
resulted in a segmentation fault during construction of server names hash.
Reported by Markus Linnala.
Found with afl-fuzz.
Iterating through all connections takes a lot of CPU time, especially
with large number of worker connections configured. As a result
nginx processes used to consume CPU time during graceful shutdown.
To mitigate this we now only do a full scan for idle connections when
shutdown signal is received.
Transitions of connections to idle ones are now expected to be
avoided if the ngx_exiting flag is set. The upstream keepalive module
was modified to follow this.
If nginx was used under OpenVZ and a container with nginx was suspended
and resumed, configuration tests started to fail because of EADDRINUSE
returned from listen() instead of bind():
# nginx -t
nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: [emerg] listen() to 0.0.0.0:80, backlog 511 failed (98: Address already in use)
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test failed
With this change EADDRINUSE errors returned by listen() are handled
similarly to errors returned by bind(), and configuration tests work
fine in the same environment:
# nginx -t
nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful
More details about OpenVZ suspend/resume bug:
https://bugzilla.openvz.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2470
If the -T option is passed, additionally to configuration test, configuration
files are output to stdout.
In the debug mode, configuration files are kept in memory and can be accessed
using a debugger.
The function is now called ngx_parse_http_time(), and can be used by
any code to parse HTTP-style date and time. In particular, it will be
used for OCSP stapling.
For compatibility, a macro to map ngx_http_parse_time() to the new name
provided for a while.
When configured, an individual listen socket on a given address is
created for each worker process. This allows to reduce in-kernel lock
contention on configurations with high accept rates, resulting in better
performance. As of now it works on Linux and DragonFly BSD.
Note that on Linux incoming connection requests are currently tied up
to a specific listen socket, and if some sockets are closed, connection
requests will be reset, see https://lwn.net/Articles/542629/. With
nginx, this may happen if the number of worker processes is reduced.
There is no such problem on DragonFly BSD.
Based on previous work by Sepherosa Ziehau and Yingqi Lu.
Two mechanisms are implemented to make it possible to store pointers
in shared memory on Windows, in particular on Windows Vista and later
versions with ASLR:
- The ngx_shm_remap() function added to allow remapping of a shared memory
zone to the address originally used for it in the master process. While
important, it doesn't solve the problem by itself as in many cases it's
not possible to use the address because of conflicts with other
allocations.
- We now create mappings at the same address in all processes by starting
mappings at predefined addresses normally unused by newborn processes.
These two mechanisms combined allow to use shared memory on Windows
almost without problems, including reloads.
Based on the patch by Sergey Brester:
http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2015-April/006836.html
Similar to ngx_http_file_cache_set_slot(), the last component of file->name
with a fixed length of 10 bytes, as generated in ngx_create_temp_path(), is
used as a source for the names of intermediate subdirectories with each one
taking its own part. Ensure that the sum of specified levels with slashes
fits into the length (ticket #731).
Example of usage:
error_log memory:16m debug;
This allows to configure debug logging with minimum impact on performance.
It's especially useful when rare crashes are experienced under high load.
The log can be extracted from a coredump using the following gdb script:
set $log = ngx_cycle->log
while $log->writer != ngx_log_memory_writer
set $log = $log->next
end
set $buf = (ngx_log_memory_buf_t *) $log->wdata
dump binary memory debug_log.txt $buf->start $buf->end
Initial size as calculated from the number of elements may be bigger
than max_size. If this happens, make sure to set size to max_size.
Reported by Chris West.
Previously, this function checked for connection local address existence
and returned error if it was missing. Now a new address is assigned in this
case making it possible to call this function not only for accepted connections.
It appeared that the NGX_HAVE_AIO_SENDFILE macro was defined regardless of
the "--with-file-aio" configure option and the NGX_HAVE_FILE_AIO macro.
Now they are related.
Additionally, fixed one macro.
This reduces layering violation and simplifies the logic of AIO preread, since
it's now triggered by the send chain function itself without falling back to
the copy filter. The context of AIO operation is now stored per file buffer,
which makes it possible to properly handle cases when multiple buffers come
from different locations, each with its own configuration.
The mtx->wait counter was not decremented if we were able to obtain the lock
right after incrementing it. This resulted in unneeded sem_post() calls,
eventually leading to EOVERFLOW errors being logged, "sem_post() failed
while wake shmtx (75: Value too large for defined data type)".
To close the race, mtx->wait is now decremented if we obtain the lock right
after incrementing it in ngx_shmtx_lock(). The result can become -1 if a
concurrent ngx_shmtx_unlock() decrements mtx->wait before the added code does.
However, that only leads to one extra iteration in the next call of
ngx_shmtx_lock().
The use_temp_path http cache feature is now implemented using a separate temp
hierarchy in cache directory. Prefix-based temp files are no longer needed.
The original check for NGX_AGAIN was surplus, since the function returns
only NGX_OK or NGX_ERROR. Now it looks similar to other places.
No functional changes.
In 954867a2f0a6, we switched to using resolver node as the timer event data.
This broke debug event logging.
Replaced now unused ngx_resolver_ctx_t.ident with ngx_resolver_node_t.ident
so that ngx_event_ident() extracts something sensible when accessing
ngx_resolver_node_t as ngx_connection_t.
In 954867a2f0a6, we switched to using resolver node as the
timer event data, so make sure we do not free resolver node
memory until the corresponding timer is deleted.
