Mark QUIC address support for servers as experimental on the backend
side. Previously, it was allowed but wouldn't function as expected. As
QUIC backend support requires several changes, it is better to declare
it as experimental first.
QUIC is not implemented on the backend side. To prevent any issue, it is
better to reject any server configured which uses it. This is done via
_srv_parse_init() which is used both for static and dynamic servers.
This should be backported up to all stable versions.
Most fe and be counters are good candidates for being shared between
processes. They are now grouped inside "shared" struct sub member under
be_counters and fe_counters.
Now they are properly identified, they would greatly benefit from being
shared over thread groups to reduce the cost of atomic operations when
updating them. For this, we take the current tgid into account so each
thread group only updates its own counters. For this to work, it is
mandatory that the "shared" member from {fe,be}_counters is initialized
AFTER global.nbtgroups is known, because each shared counter causes the stat
to be allocated lobal.nbtgroups times. When updating a counter without
concurrency, the first counter from the array may be updated.
To consult the shared counters (which requires aggregation of per-tgid
individual counters), some helper functions were added to counter.h to
ease code maintenance and avoid computing errors.
proxies, listeners and server shared counters are now managed via helpers
added in one of the previous commits.
When guid is not set (ie: when not yet assigned), shared counters pointer
is allocated using calloc() (local memory) and a flag is set on the shared
counters struct to know how to manipulate (and free it). Else if guid is
set, then it means that the counters may be shared so while for now we
don't actually use a shared memory location the API is ready for that.
The way it works, for proxies and servers (for which guid is not known
during creation), we first call counters_{fe,be}_shared_get with guid not
set, which results in local pointer being retrieved (as if we just
manually called calloc() to retrieve a pointer). Later (during postparsing)
if guid is set we try to upgrade the pointer from local to shared.
Lastly, since the memory location for some objects (proxies and servers
counters) may change from creation to postparsing, let's update
counters->last_change member directly under counters_{fe,be}_shared_get()
so we don't miss it.
No change of behavior is expected, this is only preparation work.
Shareable counters are not tagged as shared counters and are dynamically
allocated in separate memory area as a prerequisite for being stored
in shared memory area. For now, GUID and threads groups are not taken into
account, this is only a first step.
also we ensure all counters are now manipulated using atomic operations,
namely, "last_change" counter is now read from and written to using atomic
ops.
Despite the numerous changes caused by the counters being moved away from
counters struct, no change of behavior should be expected.
rename _srv_postparse() internal function to srv_init() function and group
srv_init_per_thr() plus idle conns list init inside it. This way we can
perform some simplifications as srv_init() performs multiple server
init steps after parsing.
SRV_F_CHECKED flag was added, it is automatically set when srv_init()
runs successfully. If the flag is already set and srv_init() is called
again, nothing is done. This permis to manually call srv_init() earlier
than the default POST_CHECK hook when needed without risking to do things
twice.
while new_server() takes the parent proxy as argument and even assigns
srv->proxy to the parent proxy, it didn't actually inserted the server
to the parent proxy server list on success.
The result is that sometimes we add the server to the list after
new_server() is called, and sometimes we don't.
This is really error-prone and because of that hooks such as
REGISTER_POST_SERVER_CHECK() which as run for all servers listed in
all proxies may not be relied upon for servers which are not actually
inserted in their parent proxy server list. Plus it feels very strange
to have a server that points to a proxy, but then the proxy doesn't know
about it because it cannot find it in its server list.
To prevent errors and make proxy->srv list reliable, we move the insertion
logic directly under new_server(). This requires to know if we are called
during parsing or during runtime to either insert or append the server to
the parent proxy list. For that we use PR_FL_CHECKED flag from the parent
proxy (if the flag is set, then the proxy was checked so we are past the
init phase, thus we assume we are called during runtime)
This implies that during startup if new_server() has to be cancelled on
error paths we need to call srv_detach() (which is now exposed in server.h)
before srv_drop().
The consequence of this commit is that REGISTER_POST_SERVER_CHECK() should
not run reliably on all servers created using new_server() (without having
to manually loop on global servers_list)
init_srv_requeue() and init_srv_slowstart() functions are called after
initial server parsing via REGISTER_POST_SERVER_CHECK() hook, and they
are also manually called for dynamic server after the server is
initialized.
This may conflict with _srv_postparse() which is also registered via
REGISTER_POST_SERVER_CHECK() and called during dynamic server creation
To ensure functions don't conflict with each other, let's ensure they
are executed in proper order by calling init_srv_requeue and
init_srv_slowstart() from _srv_postparse() which now becomes the parent
function for server related postparsing stuff. No change of behavior is
expected.
Implement stress mode on "add server help". This ensures that the
command is fully reentrant on full output buffer.
For testing, it requires compilation with USE_STRESS and global setting
"stress-level 1".
Implement "help" as a sub-command for "add server" CLI. The objective is
to list all the keywords that are supported for dynamic servers. CLI IO
handler and add_srv_ctx are used to support reentrancy on full output
buffer.
Now that this command is implemented, the outdated keyword list on "add
server" from management documentation can be removed.
Extend "add server" to support an IO handler function named
cli_io_handler_add_server(). A context object is also defined whose
usage will depend on IO handler capabilities.
IO handler is skipped when "add server" is run in default mode, i.e. on
a dynamic server creation. Thus, currently IO handler is unneeded.
However, it will become useful to support sub-commands for "add server".
Note that return value of "add server" parser has been changed on server
creation success. Previously, it was used incorrectly to report if
server was inserted or not. In fact, parser return value is used by CLI
generic code to detect if command processing has been completed, or
should continue to the IO handler. Now, "add server" always returns 1 to
signal that CLI processing is completed. This is necessary to preserve
CLI output emitted by parser, even now that IO handler is defined for
the command. Previously, output was emitted in every situations due to
IO handler not defined. See below code snippet from cli.c for a better
overview :
if (kw->parse && kw->parse(args, payload, appctx, kw->private) != 0) {
ret = 1;
goto fail;
}
/* kw->parse could set its own io_handler or io_release handler */
if (!appctx->cli_ctx.io_handler) {
ret = 1;
goto fail;
}
appctx->st0 = CLI_ST_CALLBACK;
ret = 1;
goto end;
Last commit 7361515 ("BUG/MINOR: server: dont depend on proxy for server
cleanup in srv_drop()") introduced a regression because the lbprm
server_deinit is not evaluated anymore with dynamic servers, possibly
resulting in a memory leak.
To fix the issue, in addition to free_proxy(), the server deinit check
should be manually performed in cli_parse_delete_server() as well.
No backport needed.
In commit b5ee8bebfc ("MINOR: server: always call ssl->destroy_srv when
available"), we made it so srv_drop() doesn't depend on proxy to perform
server cleanup.
It turns out this is now mandatory, because during deinit, free_proxy()
can occur before the final srv_drop(). This is the case when using Lua
scripts for instance.
In 2a9436f96 ("MINOR: lbprm: Add method to deinit server and proxy") we
added a freeing check under srv_drop() that depends on the proxy.
Because of that UAF may occur during deinit when using a Lua script that
manipulate server objects.
To fix the issue, let's perform the lbprm server deinit logic under
free_proxy() directly, where the DEINIT server hooks are evaluated.
Also, to prevent similar bugs in the future, let's explicitly document
in srv_drop() that server cleanups should assume that the proxy may
already be freed.
No backport needed unless 2a9436f96 is.
commit 29b76cae4 ("BUG/MEDIUM: server/log: "mode log" after server
keyword causes crash") introduced some postparsing checks/tasks for
server
Initially they were mainly meant for "mode log" servers postparsing, but
we already have a check dedicated to "tcp/http" servers (ie: only tcp
proto supported)
However when dynamic servers are added they bypass _srv_postparse() since
the REGISTER_POST_SERVER_CHECK() is only executed for servers defined in
the configuration.
To ensure consistency between dynamic and static servers, and ensure no
post-check init routine is missed, let's manually invoke _srv_postparse()
after creating a dynamic server added via the cli.
Add a pointer to the server into the struct srv_per_tgroup, so that if
we only have access to that srv_per_tgroup, we can come back to the
corresponding server.
This commit implements support for idle-ping on the backend side. First,
a new server keyword "idle-ping" is defined in configuration parsing. It
is used to set the corresponding new server member.
The second part of this commit implements idle-ping support on H2 MUX. A
new inlined function conn_idle_ping() is defined to access connection
idle-ping value. Two new connection flags are defined H2_CF_IDL_PING and
H2_CF_IDL_PING_SENT. The first one is set for idle connections via
h2c_update_timeout().
On h2_timeout_task() handler, if first flag is set, instead of releasing
the connection as before, the second flag is set and tasklet is
scheduled. As both flags are now set, h2_process_mux() will proceed to
PING emission. The timer has also been rearmed to the idle-ping value.
If a PING ACK is received before next timeout, connection timer is
refreshed. Else, the connection is released, as with timer expiration.
Also of importance, special care is needed when a backend connection is
going to idle. In this case, idle-ping timer must be rearmed. Thus a new
invokation of h2c_update_timeout() is performed on h2_detach().
This commit is a direct follow-up of the previous one. It defines a new
server keyword check-pool-conn-name. It is used as the default value for
the name parameter of idle connection hash generation.
Its behavior is similar to server keyword pool-conn-name, but reserved
for checks reuse. If check-pool-conn-name is set, it is used in priority
to match a connection for reuse. If unset, a fallback is performed on
check-sni.
Without check-reuse-pool, it is impossible to perform check on server
using @rhttp protocol. This is due to the inherent nature of the
protocol which does not implement an active connect method.
Thus, ensure that check-reuse-pool is always set when a reverse HTTP
server is declared. This reduces server configuration and should prevent
any omission. Note that it is still require to add "check" server
keyword so activate server checks.
Duplicate server check.reuse_pool boolean value in srv_settings_cpy().
This is necessary to ensure that check-reuse-pool value can be set via
default-server or server-template.
This does not need to be backported.
Add two new methods to lbprm, server_deinit() and proxy_deinit(),
in case something should be done at the lbprm level when
removing servers and proxies.
This function was marked as requiring thread isolation because its code
was extracted from cli_parse_delete_server() and was running under
isolation. But upon closer inspection, and using atomic loads to check
a few counters, it is actually safe to run without isolation, so let's
reflect that in its description.
However, it remains true that cli_parse_delete_server() continues to call
it under isolation.
Now that thanks to commit c880c32b16 ("MINOR: stream: decrement
srv->served after detaching from the list") we can trust srv->served,
let's use it and no longer loop on threads when checking if a server
still has streams attached to it. This will be much cheaper and will
result in keeping isolation for a shorter time in the "wait" command.
If parse_server() is called under peers section parser, and the address
needs to be parsed but it is missing, we directly return from the function
However since 0fc136ce5b ("REORG: server: use parsing ctx for server
parsing"), parse_server() uses parsing ctx to emit warning/errors, and
the ctx must be reset before returning from the function, yet this early
return was overlooked. Because of that, any ha_{warning,alert..} message
reported after early return from parse_server() could cause messages to
have an extra "parsing [file:line]" info.
We fix that by ensuring parse_server() doesn't return without resetting
the parsing context.
It should be backported up to 2.6
The PROXY v2 TLVs were not properly initialized when defined with
"set-proxy-v2-tlv-fmt" keyword, which could have caused a crash when
validating the configuration or malfunction (e.g. when used in
combination with "server-template" and/or "default-server").
The issue was introduced with commit 6f4bfed3a ("MINOR: server: Add
parser support for set-proxy-v2-tlv-fmt").
This should be backported up to 2.9.
Maxconn is a bit of a misnomer when it comes to servers, as it doesn't
control the maximum number of connections we establish to a server, but
the maximum number of simultaneous requests. So add "strict-maxconn",
that will make it so we will never establish more connections than
maxconn.
It extends the meaning of the "restricted" setting of
tune.takeover-other-tg-connections, as it will also attempt to get idle
connections from other thread groups if strict-maxconn is set.
This creates a tasklet that only expects to be called when the LB
algorithm is under contention when trying to reposition the server
in its tree. Indeed, that's one of the operations that usually
requires to take a write lock on a highly contended area, often
for very little benefits under contention; indeed, under load, if
a server keeps its previous position for a few extra microseconds,
usually there's no harm. Thus this new tasklet can be woken up by
the LB algo to ask the server to later call lbprm.server_requeue().
It does nothing else.
For both servers and proxies, use one connection queue per thread-group,
instead of only one. Having only one can lead to severe performance
issues on NUMA machines, it is actually trivial to get the watchdog to
trigger on an AMD machine, having a server with a maxconn of 96, and an
injector that uses 160 concurrent connections.
We now have one queue per thread-group, however when dequeueing, we're
dequeuing MAX_SELF_USE_QUEUE (currently 9) pendconns from our own queue,
before dequeueing one from another thread group, if available, to make
sure everybody is still running.
For both proxies and servers, properly calculates queueslength, which is
the total number of element in each queues (as they currently are only
using one queue, it is equivalent to the number of element of that
queue), and use it instead of the queue's length.
Add a per-thread group queue and associated fields in per-thread group
field in struct server, as well as a new field, queues length.
This is currently unused, so should change nothing.
There is a small race condition, where a server would check if there is
something left in the proxy queue, and adding something to the proxy
queue. If the server checks just before the stream is added to the queue,
and it no longer has any stream to deal with, then nothing will take
care of the stream, that may stay in the queue forever.
This was worked around with commit 5541d4995d, by checking for that exact
condition after adding the stream to the queue, and trying again to get
a server assigned if it is detected.
That fix lead to multiple infinite loops, that got fixed, but it is not
unlikely that it could happen again. So let's fix the initial problem
differently : a single server may mark itself as ready, and it removes
itself once used. The principle is that when we discover that the just
queued stream is alone with no active request anywhere ot dequeue it,
instead of rebalancing it, it will be assigned to that current "ready"
server that is available to handle it. The extra cost of the atomic ops
is negligible since the situation is super rare.
Make process_srv_queue() return the number of streams unqueued, as
pendconn_grab_from_px() did, as that number is used by
srv_update_status() to generate logs.
This should be backported up to 2.6 with
111ea83ed4
pendconn_grab_from_px() was called when a server was brought back up, to
get some streams waiting in the proxy's queue and get them to run on the
newly available server. It is very similar to process_srv_queue(),
except it only goes through the proxy's queue, which can be a problem,
because there is a small race condition that could lead us to add more
streams to the server queue just as it's going down. If that happens,
the server would just be ignored when back up by new streams, as its
queue is not empty, and it would never try to process its queue.
The other problem with pendconn_grab_from_px() is that it is very
liberal with how it dequeues streams, and it is not very good at
enforcing maxconn, it could lead to having 3*maxconn connections.
For both those reasons, just get rid of pendconn_grab_from_px(), and
just use process_srv_queue().
Both problems are easy to reproduce, especially on a 64 threads machine,
set a maxconn to 100, inject in H2 with 1000 concurrent connections
containing up to 100 streams each, and after a few seconds/minutes the
max number of concurrent output streams will be much higher than
maxconn, and eventually the server will stop processing connections.
It may be related to github issue #2744. Note that it doesn't totally
fix the problem, we can occasionally see a few more connections than
maxconn, but the max that have been observed is 4 more connections, we
no longer get multiple times maxconn.
have more outgoing connections than maxconn,
This should be backported up to 2.6.
This patch is a direct follow-up to the previous one. Thanks to watcher
type, it is not safe to assume that servers manipulated via stats dump
were not targetted by a "delete server" CLI command. As such,
prev_deleted list server member is now unneeded. This patch thus removes
any reference to it.
If a server A is deleted while a stats dump is currently on it, deletion
is delayed thanks to reference counting. Server A is nonetheless removed
from the proxy list. However, this list is a single linked list. If the
next server B is deleted and freed immediately, server A would still
point to it. This problem has been solved by the prev_deleted list in
servers.
This model seems correct, but it is difficult to ensure completely its
validity. In particular, it implies when stats dump is resumed, server A
elements will be accessed despite the server being in a half-deleted
state.
Thus, it has been decided to completely ditch the refcount mechanism for
stats dump. Instead, use the watcher element to register every stats
dump currently tracking a server instance. Each time a server is deleted
on the CLI, each stats dump element which may points to it are updated
to access the next server instance, or NULL if this is the last server.
This ensures that a server which was deleted via CLI but not completely
freed is never accessed on stats dump resumption.
Currently, no race condition related to dynamic servers and stats dump
is known. However, as described above, the previous model is deemed too
fragile, as such this patch is labelled as bug-fix. It should be
backported up to 2.6, after a reasonable period of observation. It
relies on the following patch :
MINOR: list: define a watcher type
Each server is inserted in a global list named servers_list on
new_server(). This list is then only used to finalize servers
initialization after parsing.
On dynamic server creation, there is no issue as new_server() is under
thread isolation. However, when a server is deleted after its refcount
reached zero, srv_drop() removes it from servers_list without lock
protection. In the longterm, this can cause list corruption and crashes,
especially if multiple adjacent servers are removed in parallel.
To fix this, convert servers_list to a mt_list. This should not impact
performance as servers_list is not used during runtime outside of server
creation/deletion.
This should fix github issue #2733. Thanks to Chris Staite who first
found the issue here.
This must be backported up to 2.6.
If a dynamic server is added with check or agent-check, its refcount is
incremented after server keyword parsing. However, if add server fails
at a later stage, refcount is only decremented once, which prevented the
server to be fully released.
This causes a leak with a server which is detached from most of the
lists but still exits in the system.
This bug is considered minor as only a few conditions may cause a
failure in add server after check/agent-check initialization. This is
the case if there is a naming collision or the dynamic ID cannot be
generated.
To fix this, simply decrement server refcount on add server error path
if either check and/or agent-check are flagged as activated.
This bug is related to github issue #2733. Thanks to Chris Staite who
first found the leak.
This must be backported up to 2.6.
Pierre Bonnat reported that SRV-based server-template recently stopped
to work properly.
After reviewing the changes, it was found that the regression was caused
by a4d04c6 ("BUG/MINOR: server: make sure the HMAINT state is part of MAINT")
Indeed, HMAINT is not a regular maintenance flag. It was implemented in
b418c122a4d04c6 ("BUG/MINOR: server: make sure the HMAINT state is part
of MAINT"). This flag is only set (and never removed) when the server FQDN
is changed from its initial config-time value. This can happen with "set
server fqdn" command as well as SRV records updates from the DNS. This
flag should ideally belong to server flags.. but it was stored under
srv_admin enum because cur_admin is properly exported/imported via server
state-file while regular server's flags are not.
Due to a4d04c6, when a server FQDN changes, the server is considered in
maintenance, and since the HMAINT flag is never removed, the server is
stuck in maintenance.
To fix the issue, we partially revert a4d04c6. But this latter commit is
right on one point: HMAINT flag was way too confusing and mixed-up between
regular MAINT flags, thus there's nothing to blame about a4d04c6 as it was
error-prone anyway.. To prevent such kind of bugs from happening again,
let's rename HMAINT to something more explicit (SRV_ADMF_FQDN_CHANGED) and
make it stand out under srv_admin enum so we're not tempted to mix it with
regular maintenance flags anymore.
Since a4d04c6 was set to be backported in all versions, this patch must
be backported there as well.
When shutting down server sessions, the queue was not considered, which
is a problem if some element reached the queue at the moment the server
was going down, because there will be no more requests to kick them out
of it. Let's always make sure we scan the queue to kick these streams
out of it and that they can possibly find a more suitable server. This
may make a difference in the time it takes to shut down a server on the
CLI when lots of servers are in the queue.
It might be interesting to backport this to 3.0 but probably not much
further.
This reverts commit b500e84e24.
Thread isolation does not work well for this, there exists code paths
which already hold the server's lock and result in a deadlock. Let's
revert that and address it better without isolation.
Since the beginning of thread support, the shutdown of streams attached
to a server was run under the server's lock, but that's not sufficient.
It indeed turns out that shutting down streams (either from the CLI using
"shutdown sessions server XXX" or due to "on-error shutdown-sessions")
iterates over all the streams to shut them down, but stream_shutdown()
has no way to protect its actions against concurrent actions from the
stream itself on another thread, and streams offer no such provisions
anyway.
The impact is some rare but possible crashes when shutting down streams
from the CLI in cmopetition with high server traffic. The probability
is low enough to mark it minor, though it was observed in the field.
At least since 2.4 the streams are arranged in per-thread lists, so it
likely would be possible using the event subsystem to delegate these
events to dedicated per-thread tasks which would address the problem.
But server streams don't get killed often enough to justify such extra
complexity, so better just run the loop under thread isolation.
It also shows that the internal API could probably be improved to
support a lighter thread exclusion instead of full isolation: various
places want to only exclude one thread and here it could work. But
again there's no point doing this for now.
This patch should be backported to all stable branches. It's important
to carefully check that this srv_shutdowns_streams() function is never
called itself under isolation in older versions (though at first glance
it looks OK).
It's too easy to overlook the dynamic servers when adding new server
keywords, and the fields on each keyword line are totally obscure. This
commit adds a title to each column of the table and explains what is
expected and what to check for when adding a keyword.
Commit 50322df introduced the init-state keyword, but it didn't enable
it for dynamic servers. However, this feature is perfectly desirable
for virtual servers too, where someone would like a server inlived
through "set server be1/srv1 state ready" to be put out of maintenance
in down state until the next health check succeeds.
At reading the code, it seems that it's only a matter of allowing this
keyword for dynamic servers, as current code path calls
srv_adm_set_ready() which incidentally triggers a call to
_srv_update_status_adm().
Allow the user to set the "initial state" of a server.
Context:
Servers are always set in an UP status by default. In
some cases, further checks are required to determine if the server is
ready to receive client traffic.
This introduces the "init-state {up|down}" configuration parameter to
the server.
- when set to 'fully-up', the server is considered immediately available
and can turn to the DOWN sate when ALL health checks fail.
- when set to 'up' (the default), the server is considered immediately
available and will initiate a health check that can turn it to the DOWN
state immediately if it fails.
- when set to 'down', the server initially is considered unavailable and
will initiate a health check that can turn it to the UP state immediately
if it succeeds.
- when set to 'fully-down', the server is initially considered unavailable
and can turn to the UP state when ALL health checks succeed.
The server's init-state is considered when the HAProxy instance
is (re)started, a new server is detected (for example via service
discovery / DNS resolution), a server exits maintenance, etc.
Link: https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy/issues/51
Add a new field alt_proto to the server structures that
specify if an alternate protocol should be used for this server.
This field can be transparently passed to protocol_lookup to get
an appropriate protocol structure.
This change allows thus to create servers with different protocols,
and not only TCP anymore.
Add a new parameter "alt" that will store wether this configuration
use an alternate protocol.
This alt pointer will contain a value that can be transparently
passed to protocol_lookup to obtain an appropriate protocol structure.
This change is needed to allow for example the servers to know if it
need to use an alternate protocol or not.
In 8f1fd96 ("BUG/MEDIUM: server/addr: fix tune.events.max-events-at-once
event miss and leak"), we added a comment saying that
tune.events.max-events-at-once is assumed to be strictly positive.
It is so because the keyword parser forces values between 1 and 10000:
we don't want less than 1 because it wouldn't make any sense, and 10k
max because beyond that we could create contention in server_atomic_sync()
Now as the above commit implements a do..while it heavily relies on the
fact that the budget is at least 1. Upon soft-stop, we break away from
the loop without decrementing the budget. With all that in mind, it is
safe to assume that the 'remain' counter will only fall to 0 if the task
runs out of budget while doing work, in which case the task still exists
and must be rescheduled.
As seen in GH #2667 this assumption was ambiguous, so let's make it
official by adding a pair of BUG_ON() that make it explicit that it
works because remain 'cannot' be 0 unless the entire budget was
consumed.
No backport needed.
An issue has been introduced with cd99440 ("BUG/MAJOR: server/addr: fix
a race during server addr:svc_port updates").
Indeed, in the above commit we implemented the atomic_sync task which is
responsible for consuming pending server events to apply the changes
atomically. For now only server's addr updates are concerned.
To prevent the task from causing contention, a budget was assigned to it.
It can be controlled with the global tunable
'tune.events.max-events-at-once': the task may not process more than this
number of events at once.
However, a bug was introduced with this budget logic: each time the task
has to be interrupted because it runs out of budget, we reschedule the
task to finish where it left off, but the current event which was already
removed from the queue wasn't processed yet. This means that this pending
event (each tune.events.max-events-at-once) is effectively lost.
When the atomic_sync task deals with large number of concurrent events,
this bug has 2 known consequences: first a server's addr/port update
will be lost every 'tune.events.max-events-at-once'. This can of course
cause reliability issues because if the event is not republished
periodically, the server could stay in a stale state for indefinite amount
of time. This is the case when the DNS server flaps for instance: some
servers may not come back UP after the incident as described in GH #2666.
Another issue is that the lost event was not cleaned up, resulting in a
small memory leak. So in the end, it means that the bug is likely to
cause more and more degradation over time until haproxy is restarted.
As a workaround, 'tune.events.max-events-at-once' may be set to the
maximum number of events expected per batch. Note however that this value
cannot exceed 10 000, otherwise it could cause the watchdog to trigger due
to the task being busy for too long and preventing other threads from
making any progress. Setting higher values may not be optimal for common
workloads so it should only be used to mitigate the bug while waiting for
this fix.
Since tune.events.max-events-at-once defaults to 100, this bug only
affects configs that involve more than 100 servers whose addr:port
properties are likely to be updated at the same time (batched updates
from cli, lua, dns..)
To fix the bug, we move the budget check after the current event is fully
handled. For that we went from a basic 'while' to 'do..while' loop as we
assume from the config that 'tune.events.max-events-at-once' cannot be 0.
While at it, we reschedule the task once thread isolation ends (it was not
required to perform the reschedule while under isolation) to give the hand
back faster to waiting threads.
This patch should be backported up to 2.9 with cd99440. It should fix
GH #2666.
When a fallback IP address is provided in the list of methods to use to
resolve the server address, a warning is emitted if previous methods
failed. The aim is to inform this address will be used for the
server. However, it is valid use-case. It is the expected behavior. There is
no reason to emit a warning. Having a message during HAProxy startup to
inform the fallback IP address will be used is probably a good idea. But it
should be a notice not a warning. Otherwise, checking the configuration
validity will always failed, just like starting HAProxy in zero-warning
mode while the option was set on purpose.
This patch should fix the issue #2627. It must be backported to all stable
versions.
Now that mt_list v2 api was merged into haproxy's codebase in 4e65fc6 ("
MAJOR: import: update mt_list to support exponential back-off (try #2)"),
let's fix a hack in cli_parse_delete_server() which abused from mt_list
api to migrate an element from one list to another: there used to be a
tiny race there between the pop and the append operations, race that was
compensated by the fact that it was performed under full thread isolation.
However that was a bad example of the mt_list API which could have
resulted in actual bug if the code was duplicated elsewhere without thread
isolation. To fix this, we now make use of the
MT_LIST_FOR_EACH_ENTRY_LOCKED() macro which allows us to simply migrate
the current element to another list since the element is appended into
another one while still in busy state and then unlinked from the original
list.
