The behavior of calloc() when being passed `0` as `nelem` is implementation
defined. It may return a NULL pointer.
Avoid this issue by checking before allocating. While doing so adjust the local
integer variables that are used to refer to memory offsets to `size_t`.
This issue was introced in commit f91ac19299. This
patch should be backported together with that commit.
This is the replacement of failed attempt to add thread safety and
per-process sequences of random numbers initally tried with commit
1c306aa84d ("BUG/MEDIUM: random: implement per-thread and per-process
random sequences").
This new version takes a completely different approach and doesn't try
to work around the horrible OS-specific and non-portable random API
anymore. Instead it implements "xoroshiro128**", a reputedly high
quality random number generator, which is one of the many variants of
xorshift, which passes all quality tests and which is described here:
http://prng.di.unimi.it/
While not cryptographically secure, it is fast and features a 2^128-1
period. It supports fast jumps allowing to cut the period into smaller
non-overlapping sequences, which we use here to support up to 2^32
processes each having their own, non-overlapping sequence of 2^96
numbers (~7*10^28). This is enough to provide 1 billion randoms per
second and per process for 2200 billion years.
The implementation was made thread-safe either by using a double 64-bit
CAS on platforms supporting it (x86_64, aarch64) or by using a local
lock for the time needed to perform the shift operations. This ensures
that all threads pick numbers from the same pool so that it is not
needed to assign per-thread ranges. For processes we use the fast jump
method to advance the sequence by 2^96 for each process.
Before this patch, the following config:
global
nbproc 8
frontend f
bind :4445
mode http
log stdout format raw daemon
log-format "%[uuid] %pid"
redirect location /
Would produce this output:
a4d0ad64-2645-4b74-b894-48acce0669af 12987
a4d0ad64-2645-4b74-b894-48acce0669af 12992
a4d0ad64-2645-4b74-b894-48acce0669af 12986
a4d0ad64-2645-4b74-b894-48acce0669af 12988
a4d0ad64-2645-4b74-b894-48acce0669af 12991
a4d0ad64-2645-4b74-b894-48acce0669af 12989
a4d0ad64-2645-4b74-b894-48acce0669af 12990
82d5f6cd-f6c1-4f85-a89c-36ae85d26fb9 12987
82d5f6cd-f6c1-4f85-a89c-36ae85d26fb9 12992
82d5f6cd-f6c1-4f85-a89c-36ae85d26fb9 12986
(...)
And now produces:
f94b29b3-da74-4e03-a0c5-a532c635bad9 13011
47470c02-4862-4c33-80e7-a952899570e5 13014
86332123-539a-47bf-853f-8c8ea8b2a2b5 13013
8f9efa99-3143-47b2-83cf-d618c8dea711 13012
3cc0f5c7-d790-496b-8d39-bec77647af5b 13015
3ec64915-8f95-4374-9e66-e777dc8791e0 13009
0f9bf894-dcde-408c-b094-6e0bb3255452 13011
49c7bfde-3ffb-40e9-9a8d-8084d650ed8f 13014
e23f6f2e-35c5-4433-a294-b790ab902653 13012
There are multiple benefits to using this method. First, it doesn't
depend anymore on a non-portable API. Second it's thread safe. Third it
is fast and more proven than any hack we could attempt to try to work
around the deficiencies of the various implementations around.
This commit depends on previous patches "MINOR: tools: add 64-bit rotate
operators" and "BUG/MEDIUM: random: initialize the random pool a bit
better", all of which will need to be backported at least as far as
version 2.0. It doesn't require to backport the build fixes for circular
include files dependecy anymore.
This reverts commit 1c306aa84d.
It breaks the build on all non-glibc platforms. I got confused by the
man page (which possibly is the most confusing man page I've ever read
about a standard libc function) and mistakenly understood that random_r
was portable, especially since it appears in latest freebsd source as
well but not in released versions, and with a slightly different API :-/
We need to find a different solution with a fallback. Among the
possibilities, we may reintroduce this one with a fallback relying on
locking around the standard functions, keeping fingers crossed for no
other library function to call them in parallel, or we may also provide
our own PRNG, which is not necessarily more difficult than working
around the totally broken up design of the portable API.
As mentioned in previous patch, the random number generator was never
made thread-safe, which used not to be a problem for health checks
spreading, until the uuid sample fetch function appeared. Currently
it is possible for two threads or processes to produce exactly the
same UUID. In fact it's extremely likely that this will happen for
processes, as can be seen with this config:
global
nbproc 8
frontend f
bind :4445
mode http
log stdout daemon format raw
log-format "%[uuid] %pid"
redirect location /
It typically produces this log:
551ce567-0bfb-4bbd-9b58-cdc7e9365325 30645
551ce567-0bfb-4bbd-9b58-cdc7e9365325 30641
551ce567-0bfb-4bbd-9b58-cdc7e9365325 30644
551ce567-0bfb-4bbd-9b58-cdc7e9365325 30639
551ce567-0bfb-4bbd-9b58-cdc7e9365325 30646
07764439-c24d-4e6f-a5a6-0138be59e7a8 30645
07764439-c24d-4e6f-a5a6-0138be59e7a8 30639
551ce567-0bfb-4bbd-9b58-cdc7e9365325 30643
07764439-c24d-4e6f-a5a6-0138be59e7a8 30646
b6773fdd-678f-4d04-96f2-4fb11ad15d6b 30646
551ce567-0bfb-4bbd-9b58-cdc7e9365325 30642
07764439-c24d-4e6f-a5a6-0138be59e7a8 30642
What this patch does is to use a distinct per-thread and per-process
seed to make sure the same sequences will not appear, and will then
extend these seeds by "burning" a number of randoms that depends on
the global random seed, the thread ID and the process ID. This adds
roughly 20 extra bits of randomness, resulting in 52 bits total per
thread and per process.
It only takes a few milliseconds to burn these randoms and given
that threads start with a different seed, we know they will not
catch each other. So these random extra bits are essentially added
to ensure randomness between boots and cluster instances.
This replaces all uses of random() with ha_random() which uses the
thread-local state.
This must be backported as far as 2.0 or any version having the
UUID sample-fetch function since it's the main victim here.
It's important to note that this patch, in addition to depending on
the previous one "BUG/MEDIUM: init: initialize the random pool a bit
better", also depends on the preceeding build fixes to address a
circular dependency issue in the include files that prevented it
from building. Part or all of these patches may need to be backported
or adapted as well.
pattern_finalize_config() uses an inefficient algorithm which is a
problem with very large configuration files. This affects startup, and
therefore reload time. When haproxy is deployed as a router in a
Kubernetes cluster the generated configuration file may be large and
reloads are frequently occuring, which makes this a significant issue.
The old algorithm is O(n^2)
* allocate missing uids - O(n^2)
* sort linked list - O(n^2)
The new algorithm is O(n log n):
* find the user allocated uids - O(n)
* store them for efficient lookup - O(n log n)
* allocate missing uids - n times O(log n)
* sort all uids - O(n log n)
* convert back to linked list - O(n)
Performance examples, startup time in seconds:
pat_refs old new
1000 0.02 0.01
10000 2.1 0.04
20000 12.3 0.07
30000 27.9 0.10
40000 52.5 0.14
50000 77.5 0.17
Please backport to 1.8, 2.0 and 2.1.
Commit 3c79d4bdc introduced the use of errno in pattern.c without
including errno.h.
If we build haproxy without any option errno is not defined and the
build fails.
We need to do some error handling after we call fgets to make sure everything
went fine. If we don't users can be fooled into thinking they can load pattens
from directory because cfgparse doesn't flinch. This applies to acl patterns
map files.
This should be backported to all supported versions.
As reported in issue #335, a lot of contention happens on the PATLRU lock
when performing expensive regex lookups. This is absurd since the purpose
of the LRU cache was to have a fast cache for expressions, thus the cache
must not be shared between threads and must remain lockless.
This commit makes the LRU cache thread-local and gets rid of the PATLRU
lock. A test with 7 threads on 4 cores climbed from 67kH/s to 369kH/s,
or a scalability factor of 5.5.
Given the huge performance difference and the regression caused to
users migrating from processes to threads, this should be backported at
least to 2.0.
Thanks to Brian Diekelman for his detailed report about this regression.
gcc-3.4 fails to compile pattern.c :
src/pattern.c: In function `pat_match_ip':
src/pattern.c:1092: error: unrecognizable insn:
(insn 186 185 187 9 src/pattern.c:970 (set (reg/f:SI 179)
(high:SI (const:SI (plus:SI (symbol_ref:SI ("static_pattern") [flags 0x22] <var_decl fe5bae80 static_pattern>)
(const_int 8 [0x8]))))) -1 (nil)
(nil))
src/pattern.c:1092: internal compiler error: in extract_insn, at recog.c:2083
This happens when performing the memcpy() on the union, and in this
case the workaround is trivial (and even cleaner) using a cast instead.
Now we atomically allocate the my_regex struct within function
regex_comp() and compile the regex or free both in case of failure. The
pointer to the allocated my_regex struct is returned directly. The
my_regex* argument to regex_comp() is removed.
Function regex_free() was modified so that it systematically frees the
my_regex entry. The function does nothing when called with a NULL as
argument (like free()). It will avoid existing risk of not properly
freeing the initialized area.
Other structures are also updated in order to be compatible (the ones
related to Lua and action rules).
The allocated regex is not freed properly and can cause a memory leak,
eg. when patterns are updated via CLI socket.
This patch should be backported to all supported versions.
A previous commit 8d85aa44d ("BUG/MAJOR: map: fix segfault during
'show map/acl' on cli.") was provided to address a concurrency issue
between "show acl" and "clear acl" on the CLI. Sadly the code placed
there was copy-pasted without changing the element type (which was
struct stream in the original code) and not tested since the crash
is still present.
The reproducer is simple : load a large ACL file (e.g. geolocation
addresses), issue "show acl #0" in loops in one window and issue a
"clear acl #0" in the other one, haproxy crashes.
This fix was also tested with threads enabled and looks good since
the locking seems to work correctly in these areas though. It will
have to be backported as far as 1.6 since the commit above went
that far as well...
This patch replaces a number of __decl_hathread() followed by HA_SPIN_INIT
or HA_RWLOCK_INIT by the new __decl_spinlock() or __decl_rwlock() which
automatically registers the lock for initialization in during the STG_LOCK
init stage. A few static modifiers were lost in the process, but since they
were not essential at all it was not worth extending the API to provide such
a variant.
A null pointer assignment was missing after free() in function
pat_ref_reload() which can lead to segfault.
This bug was introduced in commit b5997f7 ("MAJOR: threads/map: Make
acls/maps thread safe").
Must be backported to 1.8.
Now all the code used to manipulate chunks uses a struct buffer instead.
The functions are still called "chunk*", and some of them will progressively
move to the generic buffer handling code as they are cleaned up.
Chunks are only a subset of a buffer (a non-wrapping version with no head
offset). Despite this we still carry a lot of duplicated code between
buffers and chunks. Replacing chunks with buffers would significantly
reduce the maintenance efforts. This first patch renames the chunk's
fields to match the name and types used by struct buffers, with the goal
of isolating the code changes from the declaration changes.
Most of the changes were made with spatch using this coccinelle script :
@rule_d1@
typedef chunk;
struct chunk chunk;
@@
- chunk.str
+ chunk.area
@rule_d2@
typedef chunk;
struct chunk chunk;
@@
- chunk.len
+ chunk.data
@rule_i1@
typedef chunk;
struct chunk *chunk;
@@
- chunk->str
+ chunk->area
@rule_i2@
typedef chunk;
struct chunk *chunk;
@@
- chunk->len
+ chunk->data
Some minor updates to 3 http functions had to be performed to take size_t
ints instead of ints in order to match the unsigned length here.
The bug happens with an existing entry, when you try to overwrite the
value with wrong data, for example, a string when the type is INT.
The code path was not secure and tried to set *err and *merr while
err = merr = NULL when performing an http action.
Must be backported in 1.6, 1.7, 1.8.
pat_ref_newid() is lacking a spinlock init. It was probably forgotten
in b5997f740b ("MAJOR: threads/map: Make acls/maps thread safe").
Signed-off-by: Aurlien Nephtali <aurelien.nephtali@corp.ovh.com>
This macro should be used to declare variables or struct members depending on
the USE_THREAD compile option. It avoids the encapsulation of such declarations
between #ifdef/#endif. It is used to declare all lock variables.
To be thread safe, the function pattern_exec_match copy data (the pattern and
the inner sample) in thread-local variables. But when the sample is duplicated,
we must check its type and not the pattern one.
This is specific to threads, no backport is needed.
locks have been added in pat_ref and pattern_expr structures to protect all
accesses to an instance of on of them. Moreover, a global lock has been added to
protect the LRU cache used for pattern matching.
Patterns are now duplicated after a successfull matching, to avoid modification
by other threads when the result is used.
Finally, the function reloading a pattern list has been modified to be
thread-safe.
The bug: Maps/ACLs using the same file/id can mistakenly inherit
their flags from the last declared one.
i.e.
$ cat haproxy.conf
listen mylistener
mode http
bind 0.0.0.0:8080
acl myacl1 url -i -f mine.acl
acl myacl2 url -f mine.acl
acl myacl3 url -i -f mine.acl
redirect location / if myacl2
$ cat mine.acl
foobar
Shows an unexpected redirect for request 'GET /FOObAR HTTP/1.0\n\n'.
This fix should be backported on mainline branches v1.6 and v1.7.
The reference of the current map/acl element to dump could
be destroyed if map is updated from an 'http-request del-map'
configuration rule or throught a 'del map/acl' on CLI.
We use a 'back_refs' chaining element to fix this. As it
is done to dump sessions.
This patch needs also fix:
'BUG/MAJOR: cli: fix custom io_release was crushed by NULL.'
To clean the back_ref and avoid a crash on a further
del/clear map operation.
Those fixes should be backported on mainline branches 1.7 and 1.6.
This patch wont directly apply on 1.6.
pattern_new_expr() failed to free the allocated list element when an
out-of-memory error occurs during initialization of the element. As
this only happens when loading the configuration file or evaluating
commands via the CLI, it is unlikely for this leak to be relevant
unless the user makes automated, heavy use of the CLI.
Found in HAProxy 1.5.14.
Ignore samples that are neither SMP_T_IPV4 nor SMP_T_IPV6 instead of
matching with an uninitialized value in this case.
This situation should not occur in the current codebase but triggers
warnings in static code analysis tools.
Found in haproxy 1.5.
The union name "data" is a little bit heavy while we read the source
code because we can read "data.data.sint". The rename from "data" to "u"
makes the read easiest like "data.u.sint".
This patch remove the struct information stored both in the struct
sample_data and in the striuct sample. Now, only thestruct sample_data
contains data, and the struct sample use the struct sample_data for storing
his own data.
This patch removes the 32 bits unsigned integer and the 32 bit signed
integer. It replaces these types by a unique type 64 bit signed.
This makes easy the usage of integer and clarify signed and unsigned use.
With the previous version, signed and unsigned are used ones in place of
others, and sometimes the converter loose the sign. For example, divisions
are processed with "unsigned", if one entry is negative, the result is
wrong.
Note that the integer pattern matching and dotted version pattern matching
are already working with signed 64 bits integer values.
There is one user-visible change : the "uint()" and "sint()" sample fetch
functions which used to return a constant integer have been replaced with
a new more natural, unified "int()" function. These functions were only
introduced in the latest 1.6-dev2 so there's no impact on regular
deployments.
Now, When a item is committed in an LRU tree, you can define a function to free
data owned by this item. This function will be called when the item is removed
from the LRU tree or when the tree is destroyed..
They're caused by the cast to long long from ptr in 32-bit.
src/pattern.c: In function 'pat_match_str':
src/pattern.c:479:44: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size [-Wpointer-to-int-cast]
The principle of this cache is to have a global cache for all pattern
matching operations which rely on lists (reg, sub, dir, dom, ...). The
input data, the expression and a random seed are used as a hashing key.
The cached entries contains a pointer to the expression and a revision
number for that expression so that we don't accidently used obsolete
data after a pattern update or a very unlikely hash collision.
Regarding the risk of collisions, 10k entries at 10k req/s mean 1% risk
of a collision after 60 years, that's already much less than the memory's
reliability in most machines and more durable than most admin's life
expectancy. A collision will result in a valid result to be returned
for a different entry from the same list. If this is not acceptable,
the cache can be disabled using tune.pattern.cache-size.
A test on a file containing 10k small regex showed that the regex
matching was limited to 6k/s instead of 70k with regular strings.
When enabling the LRU cache, the performance was back to 70k/s.
This will be used to detect any change on the pattern list between
two operations, ultimately making it possible to implement a cache
which immediately invalidates obsolete keys after an update. The
revision is simply taken from the timestamp counter to ensure that
even upon a pointer reuse we cannot accidently come back to the
same (expr,revision) tuple.
ACL or map entries are not deleted with the command "del acl" or "del map"
if the case insentive flag is set.
This is because the the case insensitive string are stored in a list and the
default delete function associated with string looks in a tree. I add a check
of the case insensitive flag and execute the delete function for lists if it
is set.
This patch must be backported in 1.5 version.
Dmitry Sivachenko <trtrmitya@gmail.com> reported that commit 315ec42
("BUG/MEDIUM: pattern: don't load more than once a pattern list.")
relies on an uninitialised variable in the stack. While it used to
work fine during the tests, if the uninitialized variable is non-null,
some patterns may be aggregated if loaded multiple times, resulting in
slower processing, which was the original issue it tried to address.
The fix needs to be backported to 1.5.
A memory optimization can use the same pattern expression for many
equal pattern list (same parse method, index method and index_smp
method).
The pattern expression is returned by "pattern_new_expr", but this
function dont indicate if the returned pattern is already in use.
So, the caller function reload the list of patterns in addition with
the existing patterns. This behavior is not a problem with tree indexed
pattern, but it grows the lists indexed patterns.
This fix add a "reuse" flag in return of the function "pattern_new_expr".
If the flag is set, I suppose that the patterns are already loaded.
This fix must be backported into 1.5.
Just like previous patch, this is a remains of an early implementation. Also
fix the outdated comments above. The fix may be backported to 1.5 though the
bug cannot be triggerred, thus it's just a matter of keeping the code clean.
This patchs rename the "regex_exec" to "regex_exec2". It add a new
"regex_exec", "regex_exec_match" and "regex_exec_match2" function. This
function can match regex and return array containing matching parts.
Otherwise, this function use the compiled method (JIT or PCRE or POSIX).
JIT require a subject with length. PCREPOSIX and native POSIX regex
require a null terminted subject. The regex_exec* function are splited
in two version. The first version take a null terminated string, but it
execute strlen() on the subject if it is compiled with JIT. The second
version (terminated by "2") take the subject and the length. This
version adds a null character in the subject if it is compiled with
PCREPOSIX or native POSIX functions.
The documentation of posix regex and pcreposix says that the function
returns 0 if the string matche otherwise it returns REG_NOMATCH. The
REG_NOMATCH macro take the value 1 with posix regex and the value 17
with the pcreposix. The documentaion of the native pcre API (used with
JIT) returns a negative number if no match, otherwise, it returns 0 or a
positive number.
This patch fix also the return codes of the regex_exec* functions. Now,
these function returns true if the string match, otherwise it returns
false.
Being able to map prefixes to values is already used for IPv4/IPv6
but was not yet used with strings. It can be very convenient to map
directories to server farms but large lists may be slow.
By using ebmb_insert_prefix() and ebmb_lookup_longest(), we can
insert strings with their own length as a prefix, and lookup
candidate strings and ensure that the longest matching one will
be returned, which is the longest string matching the entry.
Last fix did address the issue for inlined patterns, but it was not
enough because the flags are lost as well when updating patterns
dynamically over the CLI.
Also if the same file was used once with -i and another time without
-i, their references would have been merged and both would have used
the same matching method.
It's appear that the patterns have two types of flags. The first
ones are relative to the pattern matching, and the second are
relative to the pattern storage. The pattern matching flags are
the same for all the patterns of one expression. Now they are
stored in the expression. The storage flags are information
returned by the pattern mathing function. This information is
relative to each entry and is stored in the "struct pattern".
Now, the expression matching flags are forwarded to the parse
and index functions. These flags are stored during the
configuration parsing, and they are used during the parse and
index actions.
This issue was introduced in dev23 with the major pattern rework,
and is a continuation of commit a631fc8 ("BUG/MAJOR: patterns: -i
and -n are ignored for inlined patterns"). No backport is needed.
These flags are only passed to pattern_read_from_file() which
loads the patterns from a file. The functions used to parse the
patterns from the current line do not provide the means to pass
the pattern flags so they're lost.
This issue was introduced in dev23 with the major pattern rework,
and was reported by Graham Morley. No backport is needed.
Dmitry Sivachenko reported that nice warning :
src/pattern.c:2243:43: warning: if statement has empty body [-Wempty-body]
if (&ref2->list == &pattern_reference);
^
src/pattern.c:2243:43: note: put the semicolon on a separate line to silence
this warning
It was merged as is with the code from commit af5a29d ("MINOR: pattern:
Each pattern is identified by unique id").
So it looks like we can reassign an ID which is still in use because of
this.