At the moment, the struct is still embedded into the struct channel, but
all the functions have been updated to use struct buffer only when possible,
otherwise struct channel. Some functions would likely need to be splitted
between a buffer-layer primitive and a channel-layer function.
Later the buffer should become a pointer in the struct buffer, but doing so
requires a few changes to the buffer allocation calls.
This is a massive rename. We'll then split channel and buffer.
This change needs a lot of cleanups. At many locations, the parameter
or variable is still called "buf" which will become ambiguous. Also,
the "struct channel" is still defined in buffers.h.
Commit 496aa0 fixed a design issue by adding an "unresolved" flag to the
ACL arguments. Unfortunately this unresolved flag was not set when building
the fake argument some ACL need when using an implicit argument pointing to
the local proxy.
Special thanks to Michael Kearey who reported the issue with a reproducer
and the commit introducing the bug.
When passing arguments to ACLs and samples, some types are stored as
strings then resolved later after config parsing is done. Upon exit,
the arguments need to be freed only if the string was not resolved
yet. At the moment we can encounter double free during deinit()
because some arguments (eg: userlists) are freed once as their own
type and once as a string.
The solution consists in adding an "unresolved" flag to the args to
say whether the value is still held in the <str> part or is final.
This could be debugged thanks to a useful bug report from Sander Klein.
Before it was possible to resize the buffers using global.tune.bufsize,
the trash has always been the size of a buffer by design. Unfortunately,
the recent buffer sizing at runtime forgot to adjust the trash, resulting
in it being too short for content rewriting if buffers were enlarged from
the default value.
The bug was encountered in 1.4 so the fix must be backported there.
Cyril Bonté reported that passing an invalid userlist name to
http_auth_group() caused haproxy to crash at load. This was due
to an attempt to use the unresolved userlist pointer later to
resolve auth groups since we report many errors before leaving
now.
This issue does not exist in earlier versions since they immediately
abort on the first error, so no backport is needed.
Make use of the new IPv6 pattern type so that acl_match_ip() knows how to
compare pattern and sample.
IPv6 may be entered in their usual form, with or without a netmask appended.
Only bit counts are accepted for IPv6 netmasks. In order to avoid any risk of
trouble with randomly resolved IP addresses, host names are never allowed in
IPv6 patterns.
HAProxy is also able to match IPv4 addresses with IPv6 addresses in the
following situations :
- tested address is IPv4, pattern address is IPv4, the match applies
in IPv4 using the supplied mask if any.
- tested address is IPv6, pattern address is IPv6, the match applies
in IPv6 using the supplied mask if any.
- tested address is IPv6, pattern address is IPv4, the match applies in IPv4
using the pattern's mask if the IPv6 address matches with 2002:IPV4::,
::IPV4 or ::ffff:IPV4, otherwise it fails.
- tested address is IPv4, pattern address is IPv6, the IPv4 address is first
converted to IPv6 by prefixing ::ffff: in front of it, then the match is
applied in IPv6 using the supplied IPv6 mask.
We cannot currently match IPv6 addresses in ACL simply because we don't
support types on the patterns. Let's introduce this notion. For now, we
rely on the SMP_TYPES though it doesn't seem like it will last forever
given that some types are not present there (eg: regex, meth). Still it
should be enough to support mixed matchings for most types.
We use the special impossible value SMP_TYPES for types that don't exist
in the SMP_T_* space.
All parsing errors were known but impossible to return. Now by making use
of memprintf(), we're able to build meaningful error messages that the
caller can display.
This way, fetch functions will be able to tell if they're called for a single
request or as part of a loop. This is important for instance when we use
hdr(foo), because in an ACL this means that all hdr(foo) occurrences must
be checked while in a pattern it means only one of them (eg: last one).
Patterns were using a bitmask to indicate if request or response was desired
in fetch functions and keywords. ACLs were using a bitmask in fetch keywords
and a single bit in fetch functions. ACLs were also using an ACL_PARTIAL bit
in fetch functions indicating that a non-final fetch was performed, which was
an abuse of the existing direction flag.
The change now consists in using :
- a capabilities field for fetch keywords => SMP_CAP_REQ/RES to indicate
if a keyword supports requests, responses, both, etc...
- an option field for fetch functions to indicate what the caller expects
(request/response, final/non-final)
The ACL_PARTIAL bit was reversed to get SMP_OPT_FINAL as it's more explicit
to know we're working on a final buffer than on a non-final one.
ACL_DIR_* were removed, as well as PATTERN_FETCH_*. L4 fetches were improved
to support being called on responses too since they're still available.
The <dir> field of all fetch functions was changed to <opt> which is now
unsigned.
The patch is large but mostly made of cosmetic changes to accomodate this, as
almost no logic change happened.
Having the args everywhere will make it easier to share fetch functions
between patterns and ACLs. The only place where we could have needed
the expr was in the http_prefetch function which can do well without.
Previously, both pattern, backend and persist_rdp_cookie would build fake
ACL expressions to fetch an RDP cookie by calling acl_fetch_rdp_cookie().
Now we switch roles. The RDP cookie fetch function is provided as a sample
fetch function that all others rely on, including ACL. The code is exactly
the same, only the args handling moved from expr->args to args. The code
was moved to proto_tcp.c, but probably that a dedicated file would be more
suited to content handling.
These ones were either unused or improperly used. Some integers were marked
read-only, which does not make much sense. Buffers are not read-only, they're
"constant" in that they must be kept intact after any possible change.
This one is not needed anymore as we can return the data and its type in the
sample provided by the caller. ACLs now always return the proper type. BOOL
is already returned when the result is expected to be processed as a boolean.
temp_pattern has been unexported now.
The new sample types are necessary for the acl-pattern convergence.
These types are boolean and signed int. Some types were renamed for
less ambiguity (ip->ipv4, integer->uint).
This flag was used to force a boolean match even if there was no pattern
to match. It was used only by http_auth() and designed only for this one.
It's easier and cleaner to make the fetch function perform the test and
report the boolean result as a few other functions already do. It simplifies
the acl_exec_cond() logic and will help merging ACLs and patterns.
A large number of ACLs make use of frontend, backend or table names in their
arguments, and fall back to the current proxy when no argument is passed. If
the expected capability is not available, the ACL silently fails at runtime.
Now we make all those names mandatory in the parser and we rely on
acl_find_targets() to replace the missing names with the holding proxy,
then to perform the appropriate tests, and to reject errors at parsing
time.
It is possible that some faulty configurations will get rejected from now
on, while they used to silently fail till now. This is the reason why this
change is marked as MAJOR.
Proxy names are now resolved when the config is parsed and not at runtime.
This means that errors will be caught for real instead of having an ACL
silently never match. Another benefit is that the fetch will be much faster
since the lookup will not have to be performed anymore, eg for all ACLs
based on explicitly named stick-tables.
However some buggy configurations which used to silently fail in the past
will now refuse to load, hence the MAJOR tag.
This function does not rely on the keyword anymore but just on its type.
It's much cleaner and much safer. It should be extended to do the same for
all PRX type arguments.
The types and minimal number of ACL keyword arguments are now stored in
their declaration. This will allow many more fantasies if some ACL use
several arguments or types.
Doing so required to rework all ACL keyword declarations to add two
parameters. So this was a good opportunity for a general cleanup and
to sort all entries in alphabetical order.
We still have two pending issues :
- parse_acl_expr() checks for errors but has no way to report them to
the user ;
- the types of some arguments are still not resolved and kept as strings
(eg: ARGT_FE/BE/TAB) for compatibility reasons, which must be resolved
in acl_find_targets()
The ACL parser now uses the argument parser to build a typed argument list.
Right now arguments are all strings and only one argument is supported since
this is what ACLs currently support.
This change introduces the buffer's base pointer, which is the limit between
incoming and outgoing data. It's the point where the parsing should start
from. A number of computations have already been greatly simplified, but
more simplifications are expected to come from the removal of buf->r.
The changes appear good and have revealed occasional improper use of some
pointers. It is possible that this patch has introduced bugs or revealed
some, although preliminary testings tend to indicate that everything still
works as it should.
We don't have buf->l anymore. We have buf->i for pending data and
the total length is retrieved by adding buf->o. Some computation
already become simpler.
Despite extreme care, bugs are not excluded.
It's worth noting that msg->err_pos as set by HTTP request/response
analysers becomes relative to pending data and not to the beginning
of the buffer. This has not been completed yet so differences might
occur when outgoing data are left in the buffer.
The wrong byte was checked for the session_id length in the payload. This
used to work when the session ID was absent because zero was found there,
but when a session ID is present, there is 1/256 chance that the inspected
data contains 0x20 (the actual session ID length), so it fails.
Thanks to Emmanuel Bézagu for reporting this bug.
This bug does not need backporting, it is 1.5 specific.
Now strings and data blocks are stored in the temp_pattern's chunk
and matched against this one.
The rdp_cookie currently makes extensive use of acl_fetch_rdp_cookie()
and will be a good candidate for the initial rework so that ACLs use
the patterns framework and not the other way around.
IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now stored into temp_pattern instead of
the dirty hack consisting into storing them into the consumer's target
address.
Some refactoring should now be possible since the methods used to fetch
source and destination addresses are similar between patterns and ACLs.
All ACL fetches which return integer value now store the result into
the temporary pattern struct. All ACL matches which rely on integer
also get their value there.
Note: the pattern data types are not set right now.
Server Name Indication (SNI) is a TLS extension which makes a client
present the name of the server it is connecting to in the client hello.
It allows a transparent proxy to take a decision based on the beginning
of an SSL/TLS stream without deciphering it.
The new ACL "req_ssl_sni" matches the name extracted from the TLS
handshake against a list of names which may be loaded from a file if
needed.
This patch introduces hdr_len, path_len and url_len for matching these
respective parts lengths against integers. This can be used to detect
abuse or empty headers.
*_dom is mostly used for matching Host headers, and host headers may
include port numbers. To avoid having to create multiple rules with
and without :<port-number> in hdr_dom rules, change the *_dom
matching functions to also handle : as a delimiter.
Typically there are rules like this in haproxy.cfg:
acl is_foo hdr_dom(host) www.foo.com
Most clients send "Host: www.foo.com" in their HTTP header, but some
send "Host: www.foo.com:80" (which is allowed), and the above
rule will now work for those clients as well.
[Note: patch was edited before merge, any unexpected bug is mine /willy]
Both Hank A. Paulson and Rob at pixsense reported a crash when
loading ACLs from a pattern file which contains empty lines.
From the tests, it appears that only files that contain nothing
but empty lines are causing that (in the past they would have had
their line feeds loaded as patterns).
The crash happens in the free_pattern() call which doesn't like to
be called with a NULL pattern. Let's make it accept it so that it's
more in line with the standard uses of free() which ignores NULLs.
Gabriel Sosa reported that haproxy unexpectedly reports an error
when a pattern file loaded by an ACL contains an empty line. The
test was present but inefficient as it did not consider the '\n'
as the end of the line. This fix relies on the line length instead.
It should be backported to 1.4.
Some functions which act on generic buffer contents without being
tcp-specific were historically in proto_tcp.c. This concerns ACLs
and RDP cookies. Those have been moved away to more appropriate
locations. Ideally we should create some new files for each layer6
protocol parser. Let's do that later.
Just like we do on health checks, we should consider that ACLs that make
use of buffer data are layer 6 and not layer 4, because we'll soon have
to distinguish between pure layer 4 ACLs (without any buffer) and these
ones.
This ACL was missing in complex setups where the status of a remote site
has to be considered in switching decisions. Until there, using a server's
status in an ACL required to have a dedicated backend, which is a bit heavy
when multiple servers have to be monitored.
Most often, pattern files used by ACLs will be produced by tools
which emit some comments (eg: geolocation lists). It's very annoying
to have to clean the files before using them, and it does not make
much sense to be able to support patterns we already can't input in
the config file. So this patch makes the pattern file loader skip
lines beginning with a sharp and the empty ones, and strips leading
spaces and tabs.
Networks patterns loaded from files for longest match ACL testing
will now be arranged into a prefix tree. This is possible thanks to
the new prefix features in ebtree v6.0. Longest match testing is
slightly slower than exact data maching. However, the measured impact
of running at 42000 requests per second and testing whether the IP
address found in a header belongs to a list of 52000 networks or
not is 3% CPU (increase from 66% to 69%). This is low enough to
permit true geolocation based on huge tables.