This is used to enter values for stick tables. The most likely usage
is to set gpc0 for a specific IP address in order to block traffic
for abusers without having to reload. Since all data types are
supported, other usages are possible (eg: replace a users's assigned
server).
Right now we only support show/clear on a table. In order to introduce
the "set" keyword we need to get rid of the "show" boolean arg. There
is no functional change up to this commit.
fdtab[].ev was only set in ev_sepoll. Unfortunately, some I/O handling
functions now rely on this, so depending on the polling mechanism, some
useless operations might have been performed, such as performing a useless
recv() when a HUP was reported.
This is a very old issue, the flags were only added to the fdtab and not
propagated into any poller. Then they were used in ev_sepoll which needed
them for the cache. It is unsure whether a backport to 1.4 is appropriate
or not.
Commit fa7e1025 (1.3.16-rc1) introduced a minor bug by comparing req->flags
with BF_READ_ERROR instead of checking for the bit. The result is that the
error message is always returned even in case of client error. This has no
real impact but this must be fixed.
It may be backported to 1.4 and 1.3.
If haproxy is built with support for USE_VSYSCALL_DLSYM, it's very
easy to check for KML availability. So let's enable it. Tests show
a small overall performance improvement around 1%. Other tests show
that the syscall overhead is divided by 4 on a Geode LX using this
method.
This one returns the concatenation of the first Host header entry with
the path. It can make content-switching rules easier, help with fighting
DDoS on certain URLs and improve shared caches efficiency.
Doing so allows us to support sticking on URL, URL's IP, URL's port and
path.
Both fetch functions should be improved to support an optional depth
allowing to stick to a server depending on just a few directory
components. This would help with portals, some prefetch-capable
caches and with outgoing connections using multiple internet links.
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.
The destination address is purely a connection thing and not an fd thing.
It's also likely that later the address will be stored into the connection
and linked to by the SI.
struct fdinfo only keeps the pointer to the port range and the local port
for now. All of this also needs to move to the connection but before this
the release of the port range must move from fd_delete() to a new function
dedicated to the connection.
Commit 827aee91 merged in 1.5-dev5 introduced a regression causing
the srv pointer to be tested twice instead of srv then srv->cookie.
The result is that if a server has no cookie in prefix mode, haproxy
will crash when trying to modify it.
Such a config is very unlikely to happen, except maybe with a backup
server, which would cause haproxy to die with the last server in the
farm.
No backport is needed, only 1.5-dev was affected.
It was not possible to kill remaining sessions from the admin interface,
which is annoying especially when switching to maintenance mode. Now it's
possible.
This implements the feature discussed in the earlier thread of killing
connections on backup servers when a non-backup server comes back up. For
example, you can use this to route to a mysql master & slave and ensure
clients don't stay on the slave after the master goes from down->up. I've done
some minimal testing and it seems to work.
[WT: added session flag & doc, moved the killing after logging the server UP,
and ensured that the new server is really usable]
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.
httponly This option tells haproxy to add an "HttpOnly" cookie attribute
when a cookie is inserted. This attribute is used so that a
user agent doesn't share the cookie with non-HTTP components.
Please check RFC6265 for more information on this attribute.
secure This option tells haproxy to add a "Secure" cookie attribute when
a cookie is inserted. This attribute is used so that a user agent
never emits this cookie over non-secure channels, which means
that a cookie learned with this flag will be presented only over
SSL/TLS connections. Please check RFC6265 for more information on
this attribute.
This one was already taken care of in proxy_cfg_ensure_no_http(), so if a
cookie is presented in a TCP backend, we got two warnings.
This can be backported to 1.4 since it's been this way for 2 years (although not dramatic).
Cookies were mixed with many other options while they're not used as options.
Move them to a dedicated bitmask (ck_opts). This has released 7 flags in the
proxy options and leaves some room for new proxy flags.
Option httplog needs to be checked only once the proxy has been validated,
so that its final mode (tcp/http) can be used. Also we need to check for
httplog before checking the log format, so that we can report a warning
about this specific option and not about the format it implies.
bi_putchr() failed to move the buffer pointer forward. The only user
was the peer handler which was broken, it failed to sync. Thanks to
Herv Commowick for reporting the issue.
Herv Commowick reported a failure to resync upon restart caused by a
segfault on the old process. This is due to the data_ctx of the connection
being initialized after the stream interface.
Commit d1de8af362905d43bcd96e7522fcee62a93a53bf was incomplete, because
perform_http_redirect() also needs to rewind the buffer since it's called
after data are scheduled for forwarding.
No backport needed.
When "option forwardfor" is enabled in a frontend that uses backends,
"if-none" ignores the header name provided in the frontend.
This prevents haproxy to add the X-Forwarded-For header if the option is not
used in the backend.
This may introduce security issues for servers/applications that rely on the
header provided by haproxy.
A minimal configuration which can reproduce the bug:
defaults
mode http
listen OK
bind :9000
option forwardfor if-none
server s1 127.0.0.1:80
listen BUG-frontend
bind :9001
option forwardfor if-none
default_backend BUG-backend
backend BUG-backend
server s1 127.0.0.1:80
This feature relies on GCC's ability to call helpers at function entry/exit
points. We define these helpers to quickly dump the minimum info into a trace
file that can be converted to a human readable format using a script in the
contrib/trace directory. This has only been implemented in the GNU makefile
for now on as it is unsure whether it's supported on all OSes.
The feature is enabled by building with "TRACE=1". The performance impact is
huge, so this feature should only be used when debugging. To limit the loss
of performance, fprintf() has been disabled and the output is hand-crafted
and emitted using fwrite(), resulting in doubling the performance. Using the
TSC instead of gettimeofday() also doubles the performance. Around 1200 conns/s
may be achieved on a Pentium-M 1.7 GHz which leads to around 50 MB/s of traces.
The entry and exits of all functions will be dumped into a file designated
by the HAPROXY_TRACE environment variable, or by default "trace.out". If the
trace file name is empty or "/dev/null", then traces are disabled. If
opening the trace file fails, then stderr is used. If HAPROXY_TRACE_FAST is
used, then the time is taken from the global <now> variable. Last, if
HAPROXY_TRACE_TSC is used, then the machine's TSC is used instead of the
real time (almost twice as fast).
The output format is :
<sec.usec> <level> <caller_ptr> <dir> <callee_ptr>
or :
<tsc> <level> <caller_ptr> <dir> <callee_ptr>
where <dir> is '>' when entering a function and '<' when leaving.
The awk script in contrib/trace provides a nicer indented output :
6f74989e6f8 ->->-> run_poll_loop > signal_process_queue [src/haproxy.c:1097:0x804bd69] > [include/proto/signal.h:32:0x8049cd0]
6f74989eb00 run_poll_loop < signal_process_queue [src/haproxy.c:1097:0x804bd69] < [include/proto/signal.h:32:0x8049cd0]
6f74989ef44 ->->-> run_poll_loop > wake_expired_tasks [src/haproxy.c:1100:0x804bd72] > [src/task.c:123:0x8055060]
6f74989f3a6 ->->->-> wake_expired_tasks > eb32_lookup_ge [src/task.c:128:0x8055091] > [ebtree/eb32tree.c:138:0x80a8c70]
6f74989f7e9 wake_expired_tasks < eb32_lookup_ge [src/task.c:128:0x8055091] < [ebtree/eb32tree.c:138:0x80a8c70]
6f74989fc0d ->->->-> wake_expired_tasks > eb32_first [src/task.c:134:0x80550d5] > [ebtree/eb32tree.h:55:0x8054ad0]
6f7498a003d ->->->->-> eb32_first > eb_first [ebtree/eb32tree.h:56:0x8054af1] > [ebtree/ebtree.h:520:0x8054a10]
6f7498a0436 ->->->->->-> eb_first > eb_walk_down [ebtree/ebtree.h:521:0x8054a33] > [ebtree/ebtree.h:442:0x80549a0]
6f7498a0843 ->->->->->->-> eb_walk_down > eb_gettag [ebtree/ebtree.h:445:0x80549d6] > [ebtree/ebtree.h:418:0x80548e0]
6f7498a0c2b eb_walk_down < eb_gettag [ebtree/ebtree.h:445:0x80549d6] < [ebtree/ebtree.h:418:0x80548e0]
6f7498a1042 ->->->->->->-> eb_walk_down > eb_untag [ebtree/ebtree.h:447:0x80549e2] > [ebtree/ebtree.h:412:0x80548a0]
6f7498a1498 eb_walk_down < eb_untag [ebtree/ebtree.h:447:0x80549e2] < [ebtree/ebtree.h:412:0x80548a0]
6f7498a18c6 ->->->->->->-> eb_walk_down > eb_root_to_node [ebtree/ebtree.h:448:0x80549e7] > [ebtree/ebtree.h:432:0x8054960]
6f7498a1cd4 eb_walk_down < eb_root_to_node [ebtree/ebtree.h:448:0x80549e7] < [ebtree/ebtree.h:432:0x8054960]
6f7498a20c4 eb_first < eb_walk_down [ebtree/ebtree.h:521:0x8054a33] < [ebtree/ebtree.h:442:0x80549a0]
6f7498a24b4 eb32_first < eb_first [ebtree/eb32tree.h:56:0x8054af1] < [ebtree/ebtree.h:520:0x8054a10]
6f7498a289c wake_expired_tasks < eb32_first [src/task.c:134:0x80550d5] < [ebtree/eb32tree.h:55:0x8054ad0]
6f7498a2c8c run_poll_loop < wake_expired_tasks [src/haproxy.c:1100:0x804bd72] < [src/task.c:123:0x8055060]
6f7498a3095 ->->-> run_poll_loop > process_runnable_tasks [src/haproxy.c:1103:0x804bd7a] > [src/task.c:190:0x8055150]
A nice improvement would possibly consist in trying to get the function's
arguments in the stack and to dump a few more infor for some well-known
functions (eg: the session's status for process_session).
It happens that haproxy doesn't displace the task in the wait queue when
validating a connection, so if the check timeout is set to a smaller value
than timeout.connect, it will not strike before timeout.connect.
The bug is present at least in 1.4.15..1.4.21, so the fix must be backported.
This patch brings a new "whole" parameter to "balance uri" which makes
the hash work over the whole uri, not just the part before the query
string. Len and depth parameter are still honnored.
The reason for this new feature is explained below.
I have 3 backend servers, each accepting different form of HTTP queries:
http://backend1.server.tld/service1.php?q=...
http://backend1.server.tld/service2.php?q=...
http://backend2.server.tld/index.php?query=...&subquery=...
http://backend3.server.tld/image/49b8c0d9ff
Each backend server returns a different response based on either:
- the URI path (the left part of the URI before the question mark)
- the query string (the right part of the URI after the question mark)
- or the combination of both
I wanted to set up a common caching cluster (using 6 Squid servers, each
configured as reverse proxy for those 3 backends) and have HAProxy balance
the queries among the Squid servers based on URL. I also wanted to achieve
hight cache hit ration on each Squid server and send the same queries to
the same Squid servers. Initially I was considering using the 'balance uri'
algorithm, but that would not work as in case of backend2 all queries would
go to only one Squid server. The 'balance url_param' would not work either
as it would send the backend3 queries to only one Squid server.
So I thought the simplest solution would be to use 'balance uri', but to
calculate the hash based on the whole URI (URI path + query string),
instead of just the URI path.
The listener struct is now aware of the socket layer to use upon accept().
At the moment, only sock_raw is supported so this patch should not change
anything.
When the target is a client, it will be convenient to have a pointer to the
original listener so that we can retrieve some configuration information at
the stream interface level.
At the moment, all the peers are initialized to use sock_raw as the socket
layer, so use this info in peers_session_create() instead of the hard-coded
sock_raw.
This function will be called later when splitting the shutdown in two
steps. It will be needed by SSL and for remote socket operations to
release unused contexts.
The state and the private pointer are not specific to the applets, since SSL
will require exactly both of them. Move them to the connection layer now and
rename them. We also now ensure that both are NULL on first call.
We start to move everything needed to manage a connection to a special
entity "struct connection". We have the data layer operations and the
control operations there. We'll also have more info in the future such
as file descriptors and applet contexts, so that in the end it becomes
detachable from the stream interface, which will allow connections to
be reused between sessions.
For now on, we start with minimal changes.
It does not make sense anymore to wait for a session creation to process
a TCP monitor check which only closes the connection and returns. Better
to process this immediately after the accept() return. It also saves us
from counting a connection for monitor checks, which is much more logical.
It is much better and more efficient to consider that the send-proxy
feature is part of the protocol layer than part of the data layer.
Now the connection is considered established once the send-proxy line
has been sent.
This way the data layer doesn't have to care anymore about this specific
part.
The tcp_connect_write() function now automatically calls the data layer
write() function once the connection is established, which saves calls
to epoll_ctl/epoll_wait/process_session.
It's starting to look more and more obvious that tcp_connect_read() and
tcp_connect_write() are not TCP-specific but only socket-specific and as
such should probably move, along with some functions from protocol.c, to
a socket-specific file (eg: stream_sock).
It would be nice to be able to support autonomous listeners to parse the
proxy protocol before accepting a connection, so that we get rid of it
at the session layer and to support using these informations in the
tcp-request connection rules.
If the connect succeeds exactly at the same millisecond as the connect
timeout is supposed to strike, the timeout is still considered while
data may have already be sent. This results in a new connection attempt
with no data and with the response being lost.
Note that in practice the only real-world situation where this is observed
is when connect timeouts are extremely low, too low for safe operations.
This bug was encountered with a 1ms connect timeout.
It is also present on 1.4 and needs to be fixed there too.
David Touzeau reported that haproxy dies when a server is checked and is
used in a farm with only "option transparent" and no LB algo. This is
because the LB params are NULL, the functions should be checked before
being called.
The same bug is present in 1.4 so this patch must be backported.
msg->som was zero before the body and was used to carry the beginning
of a chunk size for chunked-encoded messages, at a moment when msg->sol
is always zero.
Remove msg->som and replace it with msg->sol where needed.
Since the recent buffer reorg, msg->som is redundant with buf->p but still
appears at a number of places. This tiny patch allows to confirm that som
follows two states :
- 0 from the moment the message starts to be parsed
- relative offset to ->p for start of chunk when parsing chunks
During this second state, ->sol is never used, so we should probably merge
the two.
This is a left-over from the buffer changes. Msg->sol is always null at the
end of the parsing, so we must not use it anymore to read headers or find
the beginning of a message. As a side effect, the dump of the request in
debug mode is working again because it was relying on msg->sol not being
null.
Maybe it will even be mergeable with another of the message pointers.
The recent split between the buffers and HTTP messages in 1.5-dev9 caused
a major trouble : in the past, we used to keep a pointer to HTTP data in the
buffer struct itself, which was the cause of most of the pain we had to deal
with buffers.
Now the two are split but we lost the information about the beginning of
the HTTP message once it's being forwarded. While it seems normal, it happens
that several parts of the code currently rely on this ability to inspect a
buffer containing old contents :
- balance uri
- balance url_param
- balance url_param check_post
- balance hdr()
- balance rdp-cookie()
- http-send-name-header
All these happen after the data are scheduled for being forwarded, which
also causes a server to be selected. So for a long time we've been relying
on supposedly sent data that we still had a pointer to.
Now that we don't have such a pointer anymore, we only have one possibility :
when we need to inspect such data, we have to rewind the buffer so that ->p
points to where it previously was. We're lucky, no data can leave the buffer
before it's being connecting outside, and since no inspection can begin until
it's empty, we know that the skipped data are exactly ->o. So we rewind the
buffer by ->o to get headers and advance it back by the same amount.
Proceeding this way is particularly important when dealing with chunked-
encoded requests, because the ->som and ->sov fields may be reused by the
chunk parser before the connection attempt is made, so we cannot rely on
them.
Also, we need to be able to come back after retries and redispatches, which
might change the size of the request if http-send-name-header is set. All of
this is accounted for by the output queue so in the end it does not look like
a bad solution.
No backport is needed.
Calling the init() function in sess_establish was a bad idea, it is
too late to allow it to fail on lack of resource and does not help at
all. Remove it for now before it's used.
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.
This flag indicates that we're not interested in keeping half-open
connections on a stream interface. It has the benefit of allowing
the socket layer to cause an immediate write close when detecting
an incoming read close. This releases resources much faster and
saves one syscall (either a shutdown or setsockopt).
This flag is only set by HTTP on the interface going to the server
since we don't want to continue pushing data there when it has
closed.
Another benefit is that it responds with a FIN to a server's FIN
instead of responding with an RST as it used to, which is much
cleaner.
Performance gains of 7.5% have been measured on HTTP connection
rate on empty objects.