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It happens that we free servers at various places in the code, both on error paths and at runtime thanks to the "server delete" feature. In order to switch to an aligned struct, we'll need to change the calloc() and free() calls. Let's first spot them and switch them to srv_alloc() and srv_free() instead of using calloc() and either free() or ha_free(). An easy trap to fall into is that some of them are default-server entries. The new srv_free() function also resets the pointer like ha_free() does. This was done by running the following coccinelle script all over the code: @@ struct server *srv; @@ ( - free(srv) + srv_free(&srv) | - ha_free(&srv) + srv_free(&srv) ) @@ struct server *srv; expression e1; expression e2; @@ ( - srv = malloc(e1) + srv = srv_alloc() | - srv = calloc(e1, e2) + srv = srv_alloc() ) This is marked medium because despite spotting all call places, we can never rule out the possibility that some out-of-tree patches would allocate their own servers and continue to use the old API... at their own risk.
HAProxy
HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.
Installation
The INSTALL file describes how to build HAProxy. A list of packages is also available on the wiki.
Getting help
The discourse and the mailing-list are available for questions or configuration assistance. You can also use the slack or IRC channel. Please don't use the issue tracker for these.
The issue tracker is only for bug reports or feature requests.
Documentation
The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. It is available in text format as well as HTML. The wiki is also meant to replace the old architecture guide.
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)
License
HAProxy is licensed under GPL 2 or any later version, the headers under LGPL 2.1. See the LICENSE file for a more detailed explanation.