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The poller pipes needed to communicate between multiple threads are
allocated in init_pollers_per_thread() and released in
deinit_pollers_per_thread(). The former adds them via fd_insert()
so that they are known, but the former only closes them using a
regular close().
This asymmetry represents a problem, because we have in the fdtab[]
an entry for something that may disappear when one thread leaves, and
since these FD numbers are very low, there is a very high likelihood
that they are immediately reassigned to another thread trying to
connect() to a server or just sending a health check. In this case,
the other thread is going to fd_insert() the fd and the recently
added consistency checks will notive that ->owner is not NULL and
will crash. We just need to use fd_delete() here to match fd_insert().
Note that this test was added in 2.7-dev2 by commit 36d9097cf
("MINOR: fd: Add BUG_ON checks on fd_insert()") which was backported
to 2.4 as a safety measure (since it allowed to catch particularly
serious issues). The patch in itself isn't wrong, it just revealed
a long-dormant bug (been there since 1.9-dev1, 4 years ago). As such
the current patch needs to be backported wherever the commit above
is backported.
Many thanks to Christian Ruppert for providing detailed traces in
github issue #1807 and Cedric Paillet for bringing his complementary
analysis that helped to understand the required conditions for this
issue to happen (fast health checks @100ms + randomly long connections
~7s + fast reloads every second + hard-stop-after 5s were necessary
on the dev's machine to trigger it from time to time).
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)