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srv_drop() function is reponsible for freeing the server when the
refcount reaches 0.
There is one exception: when global.mode has the MODE_STOPPING flag set,
srv_drop() will ignore the refcount and free the server on first
invocation.
This logic has been implemented with 13f2e2ce ("BUG/MINOR: server: do
not use refcount in free_server in stopping mode") and back then doing
so was not a problem since dynamic server API was just implemented and
srv_take() and srv_drop() were not widely used.
Now that dynamic server API is starting to get more popular we cannot
afford to keep the current logic: some modules or lua scripts may hold
references to existing server and also do their cleanup in deinit phases
In this kind of situation, it would be easy to trigger double-frees
since every call to srv_drop() on a specific server will try to free it.
To fix this, we take a different approach and try to fix the issue at
the source: we now properly drop server references involved with
checks/agent_checks in deinit_srv_check() and deinit_srv_agent_check().
While this could theorically be backported up to 2.6, it is not very
relevant for now since srv_drop() usage in older versions is very
limited and we're only starting to face the issue in mid 2.8
developments. (ie: lua core updates)
The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. Please refer to the following files depending on what you're looking for : - INSTALL for instructions on how to build and install HAProxy - BRANCHES to understand the project's life cycle and what version to use - LICENSE for the project's license - CONTRIBUTING for the process to follow to submit contributions The more detailed documentation is located into the doc/ directory : - doc/intro.txt for a quick introduction on HAProxy - doc/configuration.txt for the configuration's reference manual - doc/lua.txt for the Lua's reference manual - doc/SPOE.txt for how to use the SPOE engine - doc/network-namespaces.txt for how to use network namespaces under Linux - doc/management.txt for the management guide - doc/regression-testing.txt for how to use the regression testing suite - doc/peers.txt for the peers protocol reference - doc/coding-style.txt for how to adopt HAProxy's coding style - doc/internals for developer-specific documentation (not all up to date)