If caching was used, "zero size buf in output" alerts might appear
in logs if a client prematurely closed connection. Alerts appeared
in the following situation:
- writing to client returned an error, so event pipe
drained all busy buffers leaving body output filters
in an invalid state;
- when upstream response was fully received,
ngx_http_upstream_finalize_request() tried to flush
all pending data.
Fix is to avoid flushing body if p->downstream_error is set.
Just using "cp" is incorrect, as it will overwrite old files
possibly used by OS, leading to unexpected effects. Changed
to "mv + cp", much like used for the main binary.
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().
If sendfile in threads is used, it is possible that multiple
subrequests will trigger multiple ngx_linux_sendfile_thread() calls,
as operations are only serialized in output chain based on r->aio,
that is, on subrequest level.
This resulted in "task #N already active" alerts, in particular, when
running proxy_store.t with "aio threads; sendfile on;".
Fix is to tolerate duplicate calls, with an additional safety check
that the file is the same as previously used.
The same problem also affects "aio on; sendfile on;" on FreeBSD
(previously known as "aio sendfile;"), where aio->preload_handler()
could be called multiple times due to similar reasons, resulting in
"second aio post" alerts. Fix is the same as well.
It is also believed that similar problems can arise if a filter
calls the next body filter multiple times for some reason. These are
mostly theoretical though.
Previously, there were only three timeouts used globally for the whole HTTP/2
connection:
1. Idle timeout for inactivity when there are no streams in processing
(the "http2_idle_timeout" directive);
2. Receive timeout for incomplete frames when there are no streams in
processing (the "http2_recv_timeout" directive);
3. Send timeout when there are frames waiting in the output queue
(the "send_timeout" directive on a server level).
Reaching one of these timeouts leads to HTTP/2 connection close.
This left a number of scenarios when a connection can get stuck without any
processing and timeouts:
1. A client has sent the headers block partially so nginx starts processing
a new stream but cannot continue without the rest of HEADERS and/or
CONTINUATION frames;
2. When nginx waits for the request body;
3. All streams are stuck on exhausted connection or stream windows.
The first idea that was rejected was to detect when the whole connection
gets stuck because of these situations and set the global receive timeout.
The disadvantage of such approach would be inconsistent behaviour in some
typical use cases. For example, if a user never replies to the browser's
question about where to save the downloaded file, the stream will be
eventually closed by a timeout. On the other hand, this will not happen
if there's some activity in other concurrent streams.
Now almost all the request timeouts work like in HTTP/1.x connections, so
the "client_header_timeout", "client_body_timeout", and "send_timeout" are
respected. These timeouts close the request.
The global timeouts work as before.
Previously, the c->write->delayed flag was abused to avoid setting timeouts on
stream events. Now, the "active" and "ready" flags are manipulated instead to
control the processing of individual streams.
This is required for implementing per request timeouts.
Previously, the temporary pool was used only during skipping of
headers and the request pool was used otherwise. That required
switching of pools if the request was closed while parsing.
It wasn't a problem since the request could be closed only after
the validation of the fully parsed header. With the per request
timeouts, the request can be closed at any moment, and switching
of pools in the middle of parsing header name or value becomes a
problem.
To overcome this, the temporary pool is now always created and
used. Special checks are added to keep it when either the stream
is being processed or until header block is fully parsed.
Since 667aaf61a778 (1.1.17) the ngx_http_parse_header_line() function can return
NGX_HTTP_PARSE_INVALID_HEADER when a header contains NUL character. In this
case the r->header_end pointer isn't properly initialized, but the log message
in ngx_http_process_request_headers() hasn't been adjusted. It used the pointer
in size calculation, which might result in up to 2k buffer over-read.
Found with afl-fuzz.
The "build" target introduced to do all build-related tasks, and
it is now used in Makefile and in objs/Makefile as a dependency for
the "install" target.
In particular, this resolves problems as observed with dynamic modules
by people trying to do "make install" without calling "make" first.
This fixes "called a function you should not call" and
"shutdown while in init" errors as observed with OpenSSL 1.0.2f
due to changes in how OpenSSL handles SSL_shutdown() during
SSL handshakes.
The install_sw target first appeared in OpenSSL 0.9.7e and is documented since
OpenSSL 1.0.0 as the way to install the OpenSSL software without documentation.
Before 7142b04337d6, it was possible to build the OpenSSL library
along with nginx, and link nginx statically with this library
(--with-openssl=DIR --with-ld-opt=-static --with-http_ssl_module).
This was broken on Linux by not adding -ldl after -lcrypto.
The fix also makes it possible to link nginx statically on Linux
with the system OpenSSL library, which never worked before.
Now we always set NGX_CC_NAME to "msvc", and additionally test compiler
version as reported by "cl" in auto/cc/msvc (the same version is also
available via the _MSC_VER define). In particular, this approach allows
to properly check for C99 variadic macros support, which previously was
not used with MSVC versions not explicitly recognized.
Now unneeded wildcards in NGX_CC_NAME tests for msvc removed accordingly,
as well as unused wildcards for owc and icc.
When the "pending" value is zero, the "buf" will be right shifted
by the width of its type, which results in undefined behavior.
Found by Coverity (CID 1352150).
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.
This script simplifies configuration of additional modules,
including 3rd party ones. The script is extensible, and
will be used to introduce dynamic linking of modules in upcoming
changes.
3rd party module config scripts are called with ngx_module_link
preset to "ADDON" - this allows config scripts to call auto/module
without ngx_module_link explicitly defined, as well as testing if
new interface is in place if compatibility with older nginx versions
is desired.
In collaboration with Ruslan Ermilov.
Additionally, HTTP_HEADERS_FILTER_MODULE now added to HTTP_FILTER_MODULES.
This avoids explict use of modules at the later stages, now only module
lists are used. This will be needed in later patches.
