Historically the client-fin and server-fin timeouts were made to allow
a connection closure to be effective quickly if the last data were sent
down a socket and the client didn't close, something that can happen
when the peer's FIN is lost and retransmits are blocked by a firewall
for example. This made complete sense in 1.5 for TCP and HTTP in close
mode. But nowadays with muxes, it's not done at the right layer anymore
and even the description doesn't match what is being done, because what
happens is that the stream will abort the whole transfer after it's done
sending to the mux and this timeout expires.
We've seen in GH issue 2095 that this can happen with very short timeout
values, and while this didn't trigger often before, now that the muxes
(h2 & quic) properly report an end of stream before even the first
sc_conn_sync_recv(), it seems that it can happen more often, and have
two undesirable effects:
- logging a timeout when that's not the case
- aborting the request channel, hence the server-side conn, possibly
before it had a chance to be put back to the idle list, causing
this connection to be closed and not reusable.
Unfortunately for TCP (mux_pt) this remains necessary because the mux
doesn't have a timeout task. So here we're adding tests to only do
this through an HTX mux. But to be really clean we should in fact
completely drop all of this and implement these timeouts in the mux
itself.
This needs to be backported to 2.8 where the issue was discovered,
and maybe carefully to older versions, though that is not sure at
all. In any case, using a higher timeout or removing client-fin in
HTTP proxies is sufficient to make the issue disappear.
SC_FL_EOS flag is added to report the end-of-stream at the SC level. It will
be used to distinguish end of stream reported by the endoint, via the
SE_FL_EOS flag, and the abort triggered by the stream, via the
SC_FL_ABRT_DONE flag.
In this patch, the flag is defined and is systematically tested everywhere
SC_FL_ABRT_DONE is tested. It should be safe because it is never set.
Here again, it is just a flag renaming. In SC flags, there is no longer
shutdown for reads but aborts. For now this flag is set when a read0 is
detected. It is of couse not accurate. This will be changed later.
After the flag renaming, it is now the turn for the channel function to be
renamed and moved in the SC scope. channel_shutw_now() is replaced by
sc_schedule_shutdown(). The request channel is replaced by the front SC and
the response is replace by the back SC.
After the flag renaming, it is now the turn for the channel function to be
renamed and moved in the SC scope. channel_shutr_now() is replaced by
sc_schedule_abort(). The request channel is replaced by the front SC and the
response is replace by the back SC.
The purpose of this patch is only a one-to-one replacement, as far as
possible.
CF_SHUTR(_NOW) and CF_SHUTW(_NOW) flags are now carried by the
stream-connecter. CF_ prefix is replaced by SC_FL_ one. Of course, it is not
so simple because at many places, we were testing if a channel was shut for
reads and writes in same time. To do the same, shut for reads must be tested
on one side on the SC and shut for writes on the other side on the opposite
SC. A special care was taken with process_stream(). flags of SCs must be
saved to be able to detect changes, just like for the channels.
We now directly use the proxy settings to set the half-close timeout of a
stream-connector. The function sc_set_hcto() must be used to do so. This
timeout is only set when a shutw is performed. So it is not really a big
deal to use a dedicated function to do so.
We stop to use the channel's expiration dates to detect read and write
timeouts on the channels. We now rely on the stream-endpoint descriptor to
do so. All the stuff is handled in process_stream().
The stream relies on 2 helper functions to know if the receives or sends may
expire: sc_rcv_may_expire() and sc_snd_may_expire().
The stream endpoint descriptor now owns two date, lra (last read activity) and
fsb (first send blocked).
The first one is updated every time a read activity is reported, including data
received from the endpoint, successful connect, end of input and shutdown for
reads. A read activity is also reported when receives are unblocked. It will be
used to detect read timeouts.
The other one is updated when no data can be sent to the endpoint and reset
when some data are sent. It is the date of the first send blocked by the
endpoint. It will be used to detect write timeouts.
Helper functions are added to report read/send activity and to retrieve lra/fsb
date.
This patch removes CF_READ_ERROR and CF_WRITE_ERROR flags. We now rely on
SE_FL_ERR_PENDING and SE_FL_ERROR flags. SE_FL_ERR_PENDING is used for write
errors and SE_FL_ERROR for read or unrecoverable errors.
When a connection error is reported, SE_FL_ERROR and SE_FL_EOS are now set and a
read event and a write event are reported to be sure the stream will properly
process the error. At the stream-connector level, it is similar. When an error
is reported during a send, a write event is triggered. On the read side, nothing
more is performed because an error at this stage is enough to wake the stream
up.
A major change is brought with this patch. We stop to check flags of the
ooposite channel to report abort or timeout. It also means when an read or
write error is reported on a side, we no longer update the other side. Thus
a read error on the server side does no long lead to a write error on the
client side. This should ease errors report.
This flag was the only remaining one that was inverted as a blocking
condition, requiring special handling to preset it on sedesc allocation.
Let's flip it in its definition and accessors.
Function arguments and local variables called "cs" were renamed to "sc"
to avoid future confusion. The change is huge (~580 lines), so extreme
care was given not to change anything else.
There's no more reason for keepin the code and definitions in conn_stream,
let's move all that to stconn. The alphabetical ordering of include files
was adjusted.
This file contains all the stream-connector functions that are specific
to application layers of type stream. So let's name it accordingly so
that it's easier to figure what's located there.
The alphabetical ordering of include files was preserved.