The shared objects should generally be allocated from shared memory.
While peers->name and the data it points to allocated from cf->pool
happened to work on UNIX, it broke on Windows. On UNIX this worked
only because the shared memory zone for upstreams is re-created for
every new configuration.
But on Windows, a worker process does not inherit the address space
of the master process, so the peers->name pointed to data allocated
from cf->pool by the master process, and was invalid.
In http these checks were changed in a6d6d762c554, though mail module
was missed at that time. Since then, the stream module was introduced
based on mail, using "== NGX_ERROR" check.
With OpenSSL 1.1.0+, the workaround for handshake buffer size as introduced
in a720f0b0e083 (ticket #413) no longer works, as OpenSSL no longer exposes
handshake buffers, see https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/2e7dc7cd688.
Moreover, it is no longer possible to adjust handshake buffers at all now.
To avoid additional RTT if handshake uses more than 4k we now set TCP_NODELAY
on SSL connections before handshake. While this still results in sub-optimal
network utilization due to incomplete packets being sent, it seems to be
better than nothing.
If of.err is 0, it means that there was a memory allocation error
and no further logging and/or processing is needed. The of.failed
string can be only accessed if of.err is not 0.
The ev->timedout flag is set on first timer expiration, and never reset
after it. Due to this the code to stop the timer when the timer was
canceled never worked (except in a very specific time frame immediately
after start), and the timer was always armed again. This essentially
resulted in a buffer flush at the end of an event loop iteration.
This behaviour actually seems to be better than just stopping the flush
timer for the whole shutdown, so it is preserved as is instead of fixing
the code to actually remove the timer. It will be further improved by
upcoming changes to preserve cancelable timers if there are other timers
blocking shutdown.
A missing check could cause ngx_stream_ssl_handler() to be applied
to a non-ssl session, which resulted in a null pointer dereference
if ssl_verify_client is enabled.
The bug had appeared in 1.11.8 (41cb1b64561d).
Previously, an unavailable peer was considered recovered after a successful
proxy session to this peer. Until then, only a single client connection per
fail_timeout was allowed to be proxied to the peer.
Since stream sessions can be long, it may take indefinite time for a peer to
recover, limiting the ability of the peer to receive new connections.
Now, a peer is considered recovered after a successful TCP connection is
established to it. Balancers are notified of this event via the notify()
callback.
SSL version 3.0 can be specified by the client at the record level for
compatibility reasons. Previously, ssl_preread module rejected such
connections, presuming they don't have SNI. Now SSL 3.0 is allowed at
the record level.
By default, "map" creates cacheable variables [1]. With this
parameter it creates a non-cacheable variable.
An original idea was to deduce the cacheability of the "map"
variable by checking the cacheability of variables specified
in source and resulting values, but it turned to be too hard.
For example, a cacheable variable can be overridden with the
"set" directive or with the SSI "set" command. Also, keeping
"map" variables cacheable by default is good for performance
reasons. This required adding a new parameter.
[1] Before db699978a33f (1.11.0), the cacheability of the
"map" variable could vary depending on the cacheability of
variables specified in resulting values (ticket #1090).
This is believed to be a bug rather than a feature.
The variable contains a list of curves as supported by the client.
Known curves are listed by their names, unknown ones are shown
in hex, e.g., "0x001d:prime256v1:secp521r1:secp384r1".
Note that OpenSSL uses session data for SSL_get1_curves(), and
it doesn't store full list of curves supported by the client when
serializing a session. As a result $ssl_curves is only available
for new sessions (and will be empty for reused ones).
The variable is only meaningful when using OpenSSL 1.0.2 and above.
With older versions the variable is empty.
The variable contains list of ciphers as supported by the client.
Known ciphers are listed by their names, unknown ones are shown
in hex, e.g., ""AES128-SHA:AES256-SHA:0x00ff".
The variable is fully supported only when using OpenSSL 1.0.2 and above.
With older version there is an attempt to provide some information
using SSL_get_shared_ciphers(). It only lists known ciphers though.
Moreover, as OpenSSL uses session data for SSL_get_shared_ciphers(),
and it doesn't store relevant data when serializing a session. As
a result $ssl_ciphers is only available for new sessions (and not
available for reused ones) when using OpenSSL older than 1.0.2.
If proxy_pass (and friends) with variables evaluates an upstream
specified with literal address, nginx always created a per-request
upstream.
Now, if there's a matching upstream specified in the configuration
(either implicit or explicit), it will be used instead.
This fixes inconsistency in what is stored in the "host" field.
Normally it would contain the "host" part of the parsed URL
(e.g., proxy_pass with variables), but for the case of an
implicit upstream specified with literal address it contained
the text representation of the socket address (that is, host
including port for IP).
Now the "host" field always contains the "host" part of the URL,
while the text representation of the socket address is stored
in the newly added "name" field.
The ngx_http_upstream_create_round_robin_peer() function was
modified accordingly in a way to be compatible with the code
that does not know about the new "name" field.
The "stream" code was similarly modified except for not adding
compatibility in ngx_stream_upstream_create_round_robin_peer().
This change is also a prerequisite for the next change.
BoringSSL changed SSL_set_tlsext_host_name() to be a real function
with a (const char *) argument, so it now triggers a warning due to
conversion from (u_char *). Added an explicit cast to silence the
warning.
Prodded by Piotr Sikora, Alessandro Ghedini.
The IPV6_V6ONLY macro is now checked only while parsing appropriate flag
and when using the macro.
The ipv6only field in listen structures is always initialized to 1,
even if not supported on a given platform. This is expected to prevent
a module compiled without IPV6_V6ONLY from accidentally creating dual
sockets if loaded into main binary with proper IPV6_V6ONLY support.
It is to be used as a bitmask with various bits set/reset when appropriate.
Any bit set means that the peer should not be used, that is, exactly what
current checks do, no additional changes required.
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".
The ssl_preread module extracts information from the SSL Client Hello message
without terminating SSL. Currently, only $ssl_preread_server_name variable
is supported, which contains server name from the SNI extension.
In this phase, head of a stream is read and analysed before proceeding to the
content phase. Amount of data read is controlled by the module implementing
the phase, but not more than defined by the "preread_buffer_size" directive.
The time spent on processing preread is controlled by the "preread_timeout"
directive.
The typical preread phase module will parse the beginning of a stream and set
variable that may be used by the content phase, for example to make routing
decision.
