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.
With main request buffered, it's possible, that a slice subrequest will send
output before it. For example, while main request is waiting for aio read to
complete, a slice subrequest can start an aio operation as well. The order
in which aio callbacks are called is undetermined.
Skip SSL_CTX_set_tlsext_servername_callback in case of renegotiation.
Do nothing in SNI callback as in this case it will be supplied with
request in c->data which isn't expected and doesn't work this way.
This was broken by b40af2fd1c16 (1.9.6) with OpenSSL master branch and LibreSSL.
Splits a request into subrequests, each providing a specific range of response.
The variable "$slice_range" must be used to set subrequest range and proper
cache key. The directive "slice" sets slice size.
The following example splits requests into 1-megabyte cacheable subrequests.
server {
listen 8000;
location / {
slice 1m;
proxy_cache cache;
proxy_cache_key $uri$is_args$args$slice_range;
proxy_set_header Range $slice_range;
proxy_cache_valid 200 206 1h;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9000;
}
}
If an upstream with variables evaluated to address without a port,
then instead of a "no port in upstream" error an attempt was made
to connect() which failed with EADDRNOTAVAIL.