The directive configures a timeout to be used when gracefully shutting down
worker processes. When the timer expires, nginx will try to close all
the connections currently open to facilitate shutdown.
There is no need to cancel timers early if there are other timers blocking
shutdown anyway. Preserving such timers allows nginx to continue some
periodic work till the shutdown is actually possible.
With the new approach, timers with ev->cancelable are simply ignored when
checking if there are any timers left during shutdown.
The ev->timedout flag is set on first timer expiration, and never reset
after it. Due to this the code to stop the timer when the timer was
canceled never worked (except in a very specific time frame immediately
after start), and the timer was always armed again. This essentially
resulted in a buffer flush at the end of an event loop iteration.
This behaviour actually seems to be better than just stopping the flush
timer for the whole shutdown, so it is preserved as is instead of fixing
the code to actually remove the timer. It will be further improved by
upcoming changes to preserve cancelable timers if there are other timers
blocking shutdown.
Most notably, this fixes possible buffer overflows if number of large
client header buffers in a virtual server is different from the one in
the default server.
Reported by Daniil Bondarev.
Cloned subrequests should inherit r->content_handler. This way they will
be able to use the same location configuration as the original request
if there are "if" directives in the configuration.
Without r->content_handler inherited, the following configuration tries
to access a static file in the update request:
location / {
set $true 1;
if ($true) {
# nothing
}
proxy_pass http://backend;
proxy_cache one;
proxy_cache_use_stale updating;
proxy_cache_background_update on;
}
See http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2017-February/053019.html for
initial report.
Dates in ISO 8601 format are in line with what is used in nginx.org news,
and are generally less ambiguous and easier to work with.
The changes.xml was converted using sed:
$ sed 's/date="\(..\)\.\(..\)\.\(....\)"/date="\3-\2-\1"/g' changes.xml
Appropriate changes to changes.xsls were introduced.
With "proxy_ignore_client_abort off" (the default), upstream module changes
r->read_event_handler to ngx_http_upstream_rd_check_broken_connection().
If the handler is not cleared during upstream finalization, it can be
triggered later, causing unexpected effects, if, for example, a request
was redirected to a different location using error_page or X-Accel-Redirect.
In particular, it makes "proxy_ignore_client_abort on" non-working after
a redirection in a configuration like this:
location = / {
error_page 502 = /error;
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8082;
}
location /error {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8083;
proxy_ignore_client_abort on;
}
It is also known to cause segmentation faults with aio used, see
http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-ru/2015-August/056570.html.
Fix is to explicitly set r->read_event_handler to ngx_http_block_reading()
during upstream finalization, similar to how it is done in the request body
reading code and in the limit_req module.
This allows to store larger ETag values for proxy_cache_revalidate,
including ones generated as SHA256, and cache responses with longer
Vary (ticket #826).
In particular, this fixes caching of Amazon S3 responses with CORS
enabled, which now use "Vary: Origin, Access-Control-Request-Headers,
Access-Control-Request-Method".
Cache version bumped accordingly.
Previously, slice subrequest location was selected based on request URI.
If request is then redirected to a new location, its context array is cleared,
making the slice module loose current slice range information. This lead to
broken output. Now subrequests with the NGX_HTTP_SUBREQUEST_CLONE flag are
created for slices. Such subrequests stay in the same location as the parent
request and keep the right slice context.
Previously, there was no way to enable the proxy_cache_use_stale behavior by
reading the backend response. Now, stale-while-revalidate and stale-if-error
Cache-Control extensions (RFC 5861) are supported. They specify, how long a
stale response can be used when a cache entry is being updated, or in case of
an error.
The function may leave error in the error queue while returning success,
e.g., when taking a DSO reference to itself as of OpenSSL 1.1.0d:
https://git.openssl.org/?p=openssl.git;a=commit;h=4af9f7f
Notably, this fixes alert seen with statically linked OpenSSL on some platforms.
While here, check OPENSSL_init_ssl() return value.
Previously, buffer size was not changed from the one saved during
initial ngx_ssl_create_connection(), even if the buffer itself was not
yet created. Fix is to change c->ssl->buffer_size in the SNI callback.
Note that it should be also possible to update buffer size even in non-SNI
virtual hosts as long as the buffer is not yet allocated. This looks
like an overcomplication though.
The ngx_event_pipe() function wasn't called on write events with
wev->delayed set. As a result, threaded writing results weren't
properly collected in ngx_event_pipe_write_to_downstream() when a
write event was triggered for a completed write.
Further, this wasn't detected, as p->aio was reset by a thread completion
handler, and results were later collected in ngx_event_pipe_read_upstream()
instead of scheduling a new write of additional data. If this happened
on the last reading from an upstream, last part of the response was never
written to the cache file.
Similar problems might also happen in case of timeouts when writing to
client, as this also results in ngx_event_pipe() not being called on write
events. In this scenario socket leaks were observed.
Fix is to check if p->writing is set in ngx_event_pipe_read_upstream(), and
therefore collect results of previous write operations in case of read events
as well, similar to how we do so in ngx_event_pipe_write_downstream().
This is enough to fix the wev->delayed case. Additionally, we now call
ngx_event_pipe() from ngx_http_upstream_process_request() if there are
uncollected write operations (p->writing and !p->aio). This also fixes
the wev->timedout case.
The ngx_chain_coalesce_file() function may produce more bytes to send then
requested in the limit passed, as it aligns the last file position
to send to memory page boundary. As a result, (limit - send) may become
negative. This resulted in big positive number when converted to size_t
while calling ngx_output_chain_to_iovec().
Another part of the problem is in ngx_chain_coalesce_file(): it changes cl
to the next chain link even if the current buffer is only partially sent
due to limit.
Therefore, if a file buffer was not expected to be fully sent due to limit,
and was followed by a memory buffer, nginx called sendfile() with a part
of the file buffer, and the memory buffer in trailer. If there were enough
room in the socket buffer, this resulted in a part of the file buffer being
skipped, and corresponding part of the memory buffer sent instead.
The bug was introduced in 8e903522c17a (1.7.8). Configurations affected
are ones using limits, that is, limit_rate and/or sendfile_max_chunk, and
memory buffers after file ones (may happen when using subrequests or
with proxying with disk buffering).
Fix is to explicitly check if (send < limit) before constructing trailer
with ngx_output_chain_to_iovec(). Additionally, ngx_chain_coalesce_file()
was modified to preserve unfinished file buffers in cl.
Closing up to 32 connections might be too aggressive if worker_connections
is set to a comparable number (and/or there are only a small number of
reusable connections). If an occasional connection shorage happens in
such a configuration, it leads to closing all reusable connections instead
of gradually reducing keepalive timeout to a smaller value. To improve
granularity in such configurations we now close no more than 1/8 of all
reusable connections at once.
Suggested by Joel Cunningham.
A missing check could cause ngx_stream_ssl_handler() to be applied
to a non-ssl session, which resulted in a null pointer dereference
if ssl_verify_client is enabled.
The bug had appeared in 1.11.8 (41cb1b64561d).
