While ACL args were resolved after all the config was parsed, it was not the
case with sample fetch args because they're almost everywhere now.
The issue is that ACLs now solely rely on sample fetches, so their args
resolving doesn't work anymore. And many fetches involving a server, a
proxy or a userlist don't work at all.
The real issue is that at the bottom layers we have no information about
proxies, line numbers, even ACLs in order to report understandable errors,
and that at the top layers we have no visibility over the locations where
fetches are referenced (think log node).
After failing multiple unsatisfying solutions attempts, we now have a new
concept of args list. The principle is that every proxy has a list head
which contains a number of indications such as the config keyword, the
context where it's used, the file and line number, etc... and a list of
arguments. This list head is of the same type as the elements, so it
serves as a template for adding new elements. This way, it is filled from
top to bottom by the callers with the information they have (eg: line
numbers, ACL name, ...) and the lower layers just have to duplicate it and
add an element when they face an argument they cannot resolve yet.
Then at the end of the configuration parsing, a loop passes over each
proxy's list and resolves all the args in sequence. And this way there is
all necessary information to report verbose errors.
The first immediate benefit is that for the first time we got very precise
location of issues (arg number in a keyword in its context, ...). Second,
in order to do this we had to parse log-format and unique-id-format a bit
earlier, so that was a great opportunity for doing so when the directives
are encountered (unless it's a default section). This way, the recorded
line numbers for these args are the ones of the place where the log format
is declared, not the end of the file.
Userlists report slightly more information now. They're the only remaining
ones in the ACL resolving function.
The acl_expr struct used to hold a pointer to the ACL keyword. But since
we now have all the relevant pointers, we don't need that anymore, we just
need the pointer to the keyword as a string in order to return warnings
and error messages.
So let's change this in order to remove the dependency on the acl_keyword
struct from acl_expr.
During this change, acl_cond_kw_conflicts() used to return a pointer to an
ACL keyword but had to be changed to return a const char* for the same reason.
The ACLs now use the fetch's ->use and ->val to decide upon compatibility
between the place where they are used and where the information are fetched.
The code is capable of reporting warnings about very fine incompatibilities
between certain fetches and an exact usage location, so it is expected that
some new warnings will be emitted on some existing configurations.
Two degrees of detection are provided :
- detecting ACLs that never match
- detecting keywords that are ignored
All tests show that this seems to work well, though bugs are still possible.
Proxy's acl_requires was a copy of all bits taken from ACLs, but we'll
get rid of ACL flags and only rely on sample fetches soon. The proxy's
acl_requires was only used to allocate an HTTP context when needed, and
was even forced in HTTP mode. So better have a flag which exactly says
what it's supposed to be used for.
Now that ACLs solely rely on sample fetch functions, make them use the
same arg mask. All inconsistencies have been fixed separately prior to
this patch, so this patch almost only adds a new pointer indirection
and removes all references to ARG*() in the definitions.
The parsing is still performed by the ACL code though.
ACL fetch functions used to directly reference a fetch function. Now
that all ACL fetches have their sample fetches equivalent, we can make
ACLs reference a sample fetch keyword instead.
In order to simplify the code, a sample keyword name may be NULL if it
is the same as the ACL's, which is the most common case.
A minor change appeared, http_auth always expects one argument though
the ACL allowed it to be missing and reported as such afterwards, so
fix the ACL to match this. This is not really a bug.
The file acl.c is a real mess, it both contains functions to parse and
process ACLs, and some sample extraction functions which act on buffers.
Some other payload analysers were arbitrarily dispatched to proto_tcp.c.
So now we're moving all payload-based fetches and ACLs to payload.c
which is capable of extracting data from buffers and rely on everything
that is protocol-independant. That way we can safely inflate this file
and only use the other ones when some fetches are really specific (eg:
HTTP, SSL, ...).
As a result of this cleanup, the following new sample fetches became
available even if they're not really useful :
always_false, always_true, rep_ssl_hello_type, rdp_cookie_cnt,
req_len, req_ssl_hello_type, req_ssl_sni, req_ssl_ver, wait_end
The function 'acl_fetch_nothing' was wrong and never used anywhere so it
was removed.
The "rdp_cookie" sample fetch used to have a mandatory argument while it
was optional in ACLs, which are supposed to iterate over RDP cookies. So
we're making it optional as a fetch too, and it will return the first one.
Samples fetches were relying on two flags SMP_CAP_REQ/SMP_CAP_RES to describe
whether they were compatible with requests rules or with response rules. This
was never reliable because we need a finer granularity (eg: an HTTP request
method needs to parse an HTTP request, and is available past this point).
Some fetches are also dependant on the context (eg: "hdr" uses request or
response depending where it's involved, causing some abiguity).
In order to solve this, we need to precisely indicate in fetches what they
use, and their users will have to compare with what they have.
So now we have a bunch of bits indicating where the sample is fetched in the
processing chain, with a few variants indicating for some of them if it is
permanent or volatile (eg: an HTTP status is stored into the transaction so
it is permanent, despite being caught in the response contents).
The fetches also have a second mask indicating their validity domain. This one
is computed from a conversion table at registration time, so there is no need
for doing it by hand. This validity domain consists in a bitmask with one bit
set for each usage point in the processing chain. Some provisions were made
for upcoming controls such as connection-based TCP rules which apply on top of
the connection layer but before instantiating the session.
Then everywhere a fetch is used, the bit for the control point is checked in
the fetch's validity domain, and it becomes possible to finely ensure that a
fetch will work or not.
Note that we need these two separate bitfields because some fetches are usable
both in request and response (eg: "hdr", "payload"). So the keyword will have
a "use" field made of a combination of several SMP_USE_* values, which will be
converted into a wider list of SMP_VAL_* flags.
The knowledge of permanent vs dynamic information has disappeared for now, as
it was never used. Later we'll probably reintroduce it differently when
dealing with variables. Its only use at the moment could have been to avoid
caching a dynamic rate measurement, but nothing is cached as of now.
This flag is used on ACL matches that support being looking up patterns
in trees. At the moment, only strings and IPs support tree-based lookups,
but the flag is randomly set also on integers and binary data, and is not
even always set on strings nor IPs.
Better get rid of this mess by only relying on the matching function to
decide whether or not it supports tree-based lookups, this is safer and
easier to maintain.
Using the address syntax "fd@<num>", a listener may inherit a file
descriptor that the caller process has already bound and passed as
this number. The fd's socket family is detected using getsockname(),
and the usual initialization is performed through the existing code
for that family, but the socket creation is skipped.
Whether the parent has performed the listen() call or not is not
important as this is detected.
For UNIX sockets, we immediately clear the path after preparing a
socket so that we never remove it in case an abort would happen due
to a late error during startup.
Support for server side TFO was actually introduced in linux-3.7,
linux-3.6 just has client support.
This patch fixes documentation and a code comment about the
kernel requirement. It also fixes a wrong tfo related code
comment in src/proto_tcp.c.
There were a few synchronous calls to polling updates in some functions
called from the connection handler. These ones are not needed and should
be replaced by more efficient and more debugable asynchronous calls.
Sample fetch capabilities indicate when the fetch may be used and not
what it requires, so we need to check if a fetch is compatible with
the direction we want and not if it works backwards.
The stick counters were in two distinct sets of struct members,
causing some code to be duplicated. Now we use an array, which
enables some processing to be performed in loops. This allowed
the code to be shrunk by 700 bytes.
Until now it was only possible to use track-sc1/sc2 with "src" which
is the IPv4 source address. Now we can use track-sc1/sc2 with any fetch
as well as any transformation type. It works just like the "stick"
directive.
Samples are automatically converted to the correct types for the table.
Only "tcp-request content" rules may use L7 information, and such information
must already be present when the tracking is set up. For example it becomes
possible to track the IP address passed in the X-Forwarded-For header.
HTTP request processing now also considers tracking from backend rules
because we want to be able to update the counters even when the request
was already parsed and tracked.
Some more controls need to be performed (eg: samples do not distinguish
between L4 and L6).
The tproxy and source binding code has now be factored out for
servers and backends. A nice effect is that the code now supports
having backends use source port ranges, though the config does not
support it yet. This change has reduced the executable by around
700 bytes.
Both servers and proxies share a common set of parameters for outgoing
connections, and since they're not stored in a similar structure, a lot
of code is duplicated in the connection setup, which is one sensible
area.
Let's first define a common struct for these settings and make use of it.
Next patches will de-duplicate code.
This change also fixes a build breakage that happens when USE_LINUX_TPROXY
is not set but USE_CTTPROXY is set, which seem to be very unlikely
considering that the issue was introduced almost 2 years ago an never
reported.
When connect() fails with EAGAIN or EADDRINUSE, an error message is
sent to logs and uses srv->id to indicate the server name (this is
very old code). Since version 1.4, it is possible to have srv == NULL,
so the message could cause a crash when connect() returns EAGAIN or
EADDRINUSE. However in practice this does not happen because on lack
of source ports, EADDRNOTAVAIL is returned instead, so this code is
never called.
This fix consists in not displaying the server name anymore, and in
adding the test for EADDRNOTAVAIL.
Also, the log level was lowered from LOG_EMERG to LOG_ERR in order
not to spam all consoles when source ports are missing for a given
target.
This fix should be backported to 1.4.
tcp_connect_server() resets all of the connection's flags. This means
that an outgoing connection does not have the ADDR_TO_SET flag
eventhough the address is set.
The first impact is that logging the outgoing address or displaying
it on the CLI while dumping sessions will result in an extra call to
getpeername().
But there is a nastier impact. If such a lookup happens *after* the
first connect() attempt and this one fails, the destination address
is corrupted by the call to getsockname(), and subsequent connection
retries will fail with socket errors.
For now we fix this by making tcp_connect_server() set the flag. But
we'll soon need a function to initialize an outgoing connection with
appropriate address and flags before calling the connect() function.
Commit 9b6700f added "v6only". As suggested by Vincent Bernat, it is
sometimes useful to have the opposite option to force binding to the
two protocols when the system is configured to bind to v6 only by
default. This option does exactly this. v6only still has precedence.
Commit 24db47e0 tried to improve support for delayed ACK upon connect
but it was incomplete, because checks with the proxy protocol would
always enable polling for data receive and there was no way of
distinguishing data polling and delayed ack.
So we add a distinct delack flag to the connect() function so that
the caller decides whether or not to use a delayed ack regardless
of pending data (eg: when send-proxy is in use). Doing so covers all
combinations of { (check with data), (sendproxy), (smart-connect) }.
Pure TCP checks only use the SYN/ACK in return to a SYN. By forcing
the system to use delayed ACKs, it is possible to send an RST instead
of the ACK and thus ensure that the application will never be needlessly
woken up. This avoids error logs or counters on checked components since
the application is never made aware of this connection which dies in the
network stack.
Health checks currently still use the connection's fd to know whether
a check is running (this needs to change). When a health check
immediately fails during connect() because of a lack of local resource
(eg: port), we failed to unset the fd, so each time the process_chk
woken up after such an error, it believed a check was still running
and used to close the fd again instead of starting a new check. This
could result in other connections being closed because they were
assigned the same fd value.
The bug is only marked medium because when this happens, the system
is already in a bad state.
A comment was added above tcp_connect_server() to clarify that the
fd is *not* valid on error.
Instead of storing a couple of (int, ptr) in the struct connection
and the struct session, we use a different method : we only store a
pointer to an integer which is stored inside the target object and
which contains a unique type identifier. That way, the pointer allows
us to retrieve the object type (by dereferencing it) and the object's
address (by computing the displacement in the target structure). The
NULL pointer always corresponds to OBJ_TYPE_NONE.
This reduces the size of the connection and session structs. It also
simplifies target assignment and compare.
In order to improve the generated code, we try to put the obj_type
element at the beginning of all the structs (listener, server, proxy,
si_applet), so that the original and target pointers are always equal.
A lot of code was touched by massive replaces, but the changes are not
that important.
We will need to be able to switch server connections on a session and
to keep idle connections. In order to achieve this, the preliminary
requirement is that the connections can survive the session and be
detached from them.
Right now they're still allocated at exactly the same place, so when
there is a session, there are always 2 connections. We could soon
improve on this by allocating the outgoing connection only during a
connect().
This current patch touches a lot of code and intentionally does not
change any functionnality. Performance tests show no regression (even
a very minor improvement). The doc has not yet been updated.
Thomas Heil reported that health checks did not work anymore when a backend
or server has "usesrc clientip". This is because the source address is not
set and tcp_bind_socket() tries to bind to that address anyway.
The solution consists in explicitly clearing the source address in the checks
and to make tcp_bind_socket() avoid binding when the address is not set. This
also has an indirect benefit that a useless bind() syscall will be avoided
when using "source 0.0.0.0 usesrc clientip" in health checks.
With this commit, we now separate the channel from the buffer. This will
allow us to replace buffers on the fly without touching the channel. Since
nobody is supposed to keep a reference to a buffer anymore, doing so is not
a problem and will also permit some copy-less data manipulation.
Interestingly, these changes have shown a 2% performance increase on some
workloads, probably due to a better cache placement of data.
While working on the changes required to make the health checks use the
new connections, it started to become obvious that some naming was not
logical at all in the connections. Specifically, it is not logical to
call the "data layer" the layer which is in charge for all the handshake
and which does not yet provide a data layer once established until a
session has allocated all the required buffers.
In fact, it's more a transport layer, which makes much more sense. The
transport layer offers a medium on which data can transit, and it offers
the functions to move these data when the upper layer requests this. And
it is the upper layer which iterates over the transport layer's functions
to move data which should be called the data layer.
The use case where it's obvious is with embryonic sessions : an incoming
SSL connection is accepted. Only the connection is allocated, not the
buffers nor stream interface, etc... The connection handles the SSL
handshake by itself. Once this handshake is complete, we can't use the
data functions because the buffers and stream interface are not there
yet. Hence we have to first call a specific function to complete the
session initialization, after which we'll be able to use the data
functions. This clearly proves that SSL here is only a transport layer
and that the stream interface constitutes the data layer.
A similar change will be performed to rename app_cb => data, but the
two could not be in the same commit for obvious reasons.
Navigating through listeners was very inconvenient and error-prone. Not to
mention that listeners were linked in reverse order and reverted afterwards.
In order to definitely get rid of these issues, we now do the following :
- frontends have a dual-linked list of bind_conf
- frontends have a dual-linked list of listeners
- bind_conf have a dual-linked list of listeners
- listeners have a pointer to their bind_conf
This way we can now navigate from anywhere to anywhere and always find the
proper bind_conf for a given listener, as well as find the list of listeners
for a current bind_conf.
Now proto_tcp.c is responsible for the 4 settings it handles :
- defer-accept
- interface
- mss
- transparent
These ones do not need to be handled in cfgparse anymore. If support for a
setting is disabled by a missing build option, then cfgparse correctly
reports :
[ALERT] 255/232700 (2701) : parsing [echo.cfg:114] : 'bind' : 'transparent' option is not implemented in this version (check build options).
It appears that fd.h includes a number of unneeded files and was
included from standard.h, and as such served as an intermediary
to provide almost everything to everyone.
By removing its useless includes, a long dependency chain broke
but could easily be fixed.
These flags were added for TCP_CORK. They were only set at various places
but never checked by any user since TCP_CORK was replaced with MSG_MORE.
Simply get rid of this now.
SSL need to initialize the data layer before proceeding with data. At
the moment, this data layer is automatically initialized from itself,
which will not be possible once we extract connection from sessions
since we'll only create the data layer once the handshake is finished.
So let's have the application layer initialize the data layer before
using it.
Make it more obvious that this function does not depend on any knowledge
of the session. This is important to plan for TCP rules that can run on
connection without any initialized session yet.
The last uses of the stream interfaces were in tcp_connect_server() and
could easily and more appropriately be moved to its callers, si_connect()
and connect_server(), making a lot more sense.
Now the function should theorically be usable for health checks.
It also appears more obvious that the file is split into two distinct
parts :
- the protocol layer used at the connection level
- the tcp analysers executing tcp-* rules and their samples/acls.
These ones are implicitly handled by the connection's data layer, no need
to rely on them anymore and reaching them maintains undesired dependences
on stream-interface.
We need to have the source and destination addresses in the connection.
They were lying in the stream interface so let's move them. The flags
SI_FL_FROM_SET and SI_FL_TO_SET have been moved as well.
It's worth noting that tcp_connect_server() almost does not use the
stream interface anymore except for a few flags.
It has been identified that once we detach the connection from the SI,
it will probably be needed to keep a copy of the server-side addresses
in the SI just for logging purposes. This has not been implemented right
now though.
