Previously, the number of next_upstream tries included servers marked
as "down", resulting in "no live upstreams" with the code 502 instead
of the code derived from an attempt to connect to the last tried "up"
server (ticket #2096).
Similarly to ssl_conf_command, proxy_ssl_conf_command can be used to
set arbitrary OpenSSL configuration parameters as long as nginx is
compiled with OpenSSL 1.0.2 or later, when connecting to upstream
servers with SSL. Full list of available configuration commands
can be found in the SSL_CONF_cmd manual page
(https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.1/man3/SSL_CONF_cmd.html).
With the ssl_conf_command directive it is now possible to set
arbitrary OpenSSL configuration parameters as long as nginx is compiled
with OpenSSL 1.0.2 or later. Full list of available configuration
commands can be found in the SSL_CONF_cmd manual page
(https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.1/man3/SSL_CONF_cmd.html).
In particular, this allows configuring PrioritizeChaCha option
(ticket #1445):
ssl_conf_command Options PrioritizeChaCha;
It can be also used to configure TLSv1.3 ciphers in OpenSSL,
which fails to configure them via the SSL_CTX_set_cipher_list()
interface (ticket #1529):
ssl_conf_command Ciphersuites TLS_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256;
Configuration commands are applied after nginx own configuration
for SSL, so they can be used to override anything set by nginx.
Note though that configuring OpenSSL directly with ssl_conf_command
might result in a behaviour nginx does not expect, and should be
done with care.
Previously only an rbtree was associated with a limit_conn. To make it
possible to associate more data with a limit_conn, shared context is introduced
similar to limit_req. Also, shared pool pointer is kept in a way similar to
limit_req.
Now a new structure ngx_proxy_protocol_t holds these fields. This allows
to add more PROXY protocol fields in the future without modifying the
connection structure.
If a complex value is expected to be of type size_t, and the compiled
value is constant, the constant size_t value is remembered at compile
time.
The value is accessed through ngx_http_complex_value_size() which
either returns the remembered constant or evaluates the expression
and parses it as size_t.
Previously only one address was used by the listen directive handler even if
host name resolved to multiple addresses. Now a separate listening socket is
created for each address.
If ngx_pool_cleanup_add() fails, we have to clean just created SSL context
manually, thus appropriate call added.
Additionally, ngx_pool_cleanup_add() moved closer to ngx_ssl_create() in
the ngx_http_ssl_module, to make sure there are no leaks due to intermediate
code.
OpenSSL 1.1.1 does not save server name to the session if server name
callback returns anything but SSL_TLSEXT_ERR_OK, thus breaking
the $ssl_server_name variable in resumed sessions.
Since $ssl_server_name can be used even if we've selected the default
server and there are no other servers, it looks like the only viable
solution is to always return SSL_TLSEXT_ERR_OK regardless of the actual
result.
To fix things in the stream module as well, added a dummy server name
callback which always returns SSL_TLSEXT_ERR_OK.
A virtual server may have no SSL context if it does not have certificates
defined, so we have to use config of the ngx_http_ssl_module from the
SSL context in the certificate callback. To do so, it is now passed as
the argument of the callback.
The stream module doesn't really need any changes, but was modified as
well to match http code.
Dynamic certificates re-introduce problem with incorrect session
reuse (AKA "virtual host confusion", CVE-2014-3616), since there are
no server certificates to generate session id context from.
To prevent this, session id context is now generated from ssl_certificate
directives as specified in the configuration. This approach prevents
incorrect session reuse in most cases, while still allowing sharing
sessions across multiple machines with ssl_session_ticket_key set as
long as configurations are identical.
Previously, when using proxy_upload_rate and proxy_download_rate, the buffer
size for reading from a socket could be reduced as a result of rate limiting.
For connection-oriented protocols this behavior is normal since unread data will
normally be read at the next iteration. But for datagram-oriented protocols
this is not the case, and unread part of the datagram is lost.
Now buffer size is not limited for datagrams. Rate limiting still works in this
case by delaying the next reading event.
A shared connection does not own its file descriptor, which means that
ngx_handle_read_event/ngx_handle_write_event calls should do nothing for it.
Currently the c->shared flag is checked in several places in the stream proxy
module prior to calling these functions. However it was not done everywhere.
Missing checks could lead to calling
ngx_handle_read_event/ngx_handle_write_event on shared connections.
The problem manifested itself when using proxy_upload_rate and resulted in
either duplicate file descriptor error (e.g. with epoll) or incorrect further
udp packet processing (e.g. with kqueue).
The fix is to set and reset the event active flag in a way that prevents
ngx_handle_read_event/ngx_handle_write_event from scheduling socket events.
In the past, there were several security issues which resulted in
worker process memory disclosure due to buffers with negative size.
It looks reasonable to check for such buffers in various places,
much like we already check for zero size buffers.
While here, removed "#if 1 / #endif" around zero size buffer checks.
It looks highly unlikely that we'll disable these checks anytime soon.
Variables now do not depend on presence of the HTTP status code in response.
If the corresponding event occurred, variables contain time between request
creation and the event, and "-" otherwise.
Previously, intermediate value of the $upstream_response_time variable held
unix timestamp.
The directive allows to drop binding between a client and existing UDP stream
session after receiving a specified number of packets. First packet from the
same client address and port will start a new session. Old session continues
to exist and will terminate at moment defined by configuration: either after
receiving the expected number of responses, or after timeout, as specified by
the "proxy_responses" and/or "proxy_timeout" directives.
By default, proxy_requests is zero (disabled).
Previously the preread phase code ignored NGX_AGAIN value returned from
c->recv() and relied only on c->read->ready. But this flag is not reliable and
should only be checked for optimization purposes. For example, when using
SSL, c->read->ready may be set when no input is available. This can lead to
calling preread handler infinitely in a loop.
In TLSv1.3, NewSessionTicket messages arrive after the handshake and
can come at any time. Therefore we use a callback to save the session
when we know about it. This approach works for < TLSv1.3 as well.
The callback function is set once per location on merge phase.
Since SSL_get_session() in BoringSSL returns an unresumable session for
TLSv1.3, peer save_session() methods have been updated as well to use a
session supplied within the callback. To preserve API, the session is
cached in c->ssl->session. It is preferably accessed in save_session()
methods by ngx_ssl_get_session() and ngx_ssl_get0_session() wrappers.
Previously, listenings sockets were not cloned if the worker_processes
directive was specified after "listen ... reuseport".
This also simplifies upcoming configuration check on the number
of worker connections, as it needs to know the number of listening
sockets before cloning.
The variable keeps the latest SSL protocol version supported by the client.
The variable has the same format as $ssl_protocol.
The version is read from the client_version field of ClientHello. If the
supported_versions extension is present in the ClientHello, then the version
is set to TLSv1.3.
The module implements random load-balancing algorithm with optional second
choice. In the latter case, the best of two servers is chosen, accounting
number of connections and server weight.
Example:
upstream u {
random [two [least_conn]];
server 127.0.0.1:8080;
server 127.0.0.1:8081;
server 127.0.0.1:8082;
server 127.0.0.1:8083;
}
Previously, only one client packet could be processed in a udp stream session
even though multiple response packets were supported. Now multiple packets
coming from the same client address and port are delivered to the same stream
session.
If it's required to maintain a single stream of data, nginx should be
configured in a way that all packets from a client are delivered to the same
worker. On Linux and DragonFly BSD the "reuseport" parameter should be
specified for this. Other systems do not currently provide appropriate
mechanisms. For these systems a single stream of udp packets is only
guaranteed in single-worker configurations.
The proxy_response directive now specifies how many packets are expected in
response to a single client packet.
Cast to intermediate "void *" to lose compiler knowledge about the original
type and pass the warning. This is not a real fix but rather a workaround.
Found by gcc8.
In mail and stream modules, no certificate provided is a fatal condition,
much like with the "ssl" and "starttls" directives.
In http, "listen ... ssl" can be used in a non-default server without
certificates as long as there is a certificate in the default one, so
missing certificate is only fatal for default servers.
If during configuration parsing of the geo directive the memory
allocation has failed, pool used to parse configuration inside
the block, and sometimes the temporary pool were not destroyed.
This fixes segfault in configurations with multiple virtual servers sharing
the same port, where a non-default virtual server block misses certificate.
