After configuration is reloaded, it may take some time for the
re-resolvable upstream servers to resolve and become available
as peers. During this time, client requests might get dropped.
Such servers are now pre-resolved using the "cache" of already
resolved peers from the old shared memory zone.
Specifying the upstream server by a hostname together with the
"resolve" parameter will make the hostname to be periodically
resolved, and upstream servers added/removed as necessary.
This requires a "resolver" at the "http" configuration block.
The "resolver_timeout" parameter also affects when the failed
DNS requests will be attempted again. Responses with NXDOMAIN
will be attempted again in 10 seconds.
Upstream has a configuration generation number that is incremented each
time servers are added/removed to the primary/backup list. This number
is remembered by the peer.init method, and if peer.get detects a change
in configuration, it returns NGX_BUSY.
Each server has a reference counter. It is incremented by peer.get and
decremented by peer.free. When a server is removed, it is removed from
the list of servers and is marked as "zombie". The memory allocated by
a zombie peer is freed only when its reference count becomes zero.
Co-authored-by: Roman Arutyunyan <arut@nginx.com>
Co-authored-by: Sergey Kandaurov <pluknet@nginx.com>
Co-authored-by: Vladimir Homutov <vl@nginx.com>
OpenSSL library QUIC support cannot be tested at configure time when
using the --with-openssl option so assume it's present if requested.
While here, fixed the error message in case QUIC support is missing.
The ngx_wsasend_chain() and ngx_wsarecv_chain() functions were
modified to use only preallocated memory, and the number of
preallocated wsabufs was increased to 64.
In d1bde5c3c5d2, the number of preallocated iovec's for ngx_readv_chain()
was increased. Still, in some setups, the function might allocate memory
for iovec's from a connection pool, which is only freed when closing the
connection.
The ngx_readv_chain() function was modified to use only preallocated
memory, similarly to the ngx_writev_chain() change in 8e903522c17a.
Due to structure's alignment, some uninitialized memory contents may have
been passed between processes.
Zeroing was removed in 0215ec9aaa8a.
Reported by Johnny Wang.
This part somehow slipped away from c5840ca2063d.
While it is not expected to be needed in case of lingering close,
it is good to keep it for correctness (see 2b5528023f6b).
Previously, the number of next_upstream tries included servers marked
as "down", resulting in "no live upstreams" with the code 502 instead
of the code derived from an attempt to connect to the last tried "up"
server (ticket #2096).
When doing lingering close, the socket was first shut down for writing,
so SSL shutdown initiated after lingering close was not able to send
the close_notify alerts (ticket #2056).
The fix is to call ngx_ssl_shutdown() before shutting down the socket.
The "false" parameter of the proxy_redirect directive is deprecated.
Warning has been emitted since c2230102df6f (0.7.54).
The "off" parameter of the proxy_redirect, proxy_cookie_domain, and
proxy_cookie_path directives tells nginx not to inherit the
configuration from the previous configuration level.
Previously, after specifying the directive with the "off" parameter,
any other directives were ignored, and syntax checking was disabled.
The syntax was enforced to allow either one directive with the "off"
parameter, or several directives with other parameters.
Also, specifying "proxy_redirect default foo" no longer works like
"proxy_redirect default".
After sending the GOAWAY frame, a connection is now closed using
the lingering close mechanism.
This allows for the reliable delivery of the GOAWAY frames, while
also fixing connection resets observed when http2_max_requests is
reached (ticket #1250), or with graceful shutdown (ticket #1544),
when some additional data from the client is received on a fully
closed connection.
For HTTP/2, the settings lingering_close, lingering_timeout, and
lingering_time are taken from the "server" level.
Listening UNIX sockets were not removed on graceful shutdown, preventing
the next runs. The fix is to replace the custom socket closing code in
ngx_master_process_cycle() by the ngx_close_listening_sockets() call.
When changing binary, sending a SIGTERM to the new binary's master process
should not remove inherited UNIX sockets unless the old binary's master
process has exited.
As per https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7540#section-8.1,
: A server can send a complete response prior to the client
: sending an entire request if the response does not depend on
: any portion of the request that has not been sent and
: received. When this is true, a server MAY request that the
: client abort transmission of a request without error by
: sending a RST_STREAM with an error code of NO_ERROR after
: sending a complete response (i.e., a frame with the
: END_STREAM flag). Clients MUST NOT discard responses as a
: result of receiving such a RST_STREAM, though clients can
: always discard responses at their discretion for other
: reasons.
Previously, RST_STREAM(NO_ERROR) received from upstream after
a frame with the END_STREAM flag was incorrectly treated as an
error. Now, a single RST_STREAM(NO_ERROR) is properly handled.
This fixes problems observed with modern grpc-c [1], as well
as with the Go gRPC module.
[1] https://github.com/grpc/grpc/pull/1661
The request processing is delayed by a timer. Since nginx updates
internal time once at the start of each event loop iteration, this
normally ensures constant time delay, adding a mitigation from
time-based attacks.
A notable exception to this is the case when there are no additional
events before the timer expires. To ensure constant-time processing
in this case as well, we trigger an additional event loop iteration
by posting a dummy event for the next event loop iteration.
While empty replacements were caught at run-time, parsing code
of the "rewrite" directive expects that a minimum length of the
"replacement" argument is 1.
If a rewritten URI has the null character, only a part of URI was
copied to a memory buffer allocated for path. In some setups this
could be exploited to expose uninitialized memory via the Location
header.
The "alias" directive cannot be used in the same location where URI
was rewritten. This has been detected in the "rewrite ... break"
case, but not when the standalone "break" directive was used.
This change also fixes proxy_pass with URI component in a similar
case:
location /aaa/ {
rewrite ^ /xxx/yyy;
break;
proxy_pass http://localhost:8080/bbb/;
}
Previously, the "/bbb/yyy" would be sent to a backend instead of
"/xxx/yyy". And if location's prefix was longer than the rewritten
URI, a segmentation fault might occur.
This could happen when graceful shutdown configured by worker_shutdown_timeout
times out and is then followed by another timeout such as proxy_read_timeout.
In this case, the HEADERS frame is added to the output queue, but attempt to
send it fails (due to c->error forcibly set during graceful shutdown timeout).
This triggers request finalization which attempts to close the stream. But the
stream cannot be closed because there is a frame in the output queue, and the
connection cannot be finalized. This leaves the connection open without any
timer events leading to alert.
The fix is to post write event when sending output queue fails on c->error.
That will finalize the connection.
Don't waste server resources by sending RST_STREAM frames. Instead,
reject WINDOW_UPDATE frames with invalid zero increment by closing
connection with PROTOCOL_ERROR.
Don't waste server resources by sending RST_STREAM frames. Instead,
reject HEADERS and PRIORITY frames with self-dependency by closing
connection with PROTOCOL_ERROR.
Fixed excessive memory growth and CPU usage if stream windows are
manipulated in a way that results in generating many small DATA frames.
Fix is to limit the number of simultaneously allocated DATA frames.
If a complex value is expected to be of type size_t, and the compiled
value is constant, the constant size_t value is remembered at compile
time.
The value is accessed through ngx_http_complex_value_size() which
either returns the remembered constant or evaluates the expression
and parses it as size_t.
An attack that continuously switches HTTP/2 connection between
idle and active states can result in excessive CPU usage.
This is because when a connection switches to the idle state,
all of its memory pool caches are freed.
This change limits the maximum allowed number of idle state
switches to 10 * http2_max_requests (i.e., 10000 by default).
This limits possible CPU usage in one connection, and also
imposes a limit on the maximum lifetime of a connection.
Initially reported by Gal Goldshtein from F5 Networks.
Fixed uncontrolled memory growth in case peer is flooding us with
some frames (e.g., SETTINGS and PING) and doesn't read data. Fix
is to limit the number of allocated control frames.
Before 4a8c9139e579, ngx_resolver_create() didn't use configuration
pool, and allocations were done using malloc().
In 016352c19049, when resolver gained support of several servers,
new allocations were done from the pool.
While 325b3042edd6 fixed it on MINIX, it broke it on systems
that output the word "version" on several lines with "cc -v".
The fix is to only consider "clang version" or "LLVM version"
as clang version, but this time only using sed(1).
- use normal prefixes for types and macros
- removed some macros and types
- revised debug messages
- removed useless check of ngx_sock_ntop() returning 0
- removed special processing of AF_UNSPEC
The fields "uri", "location", and "url" from ngx_http_upstream_conf_t
moved to ngx_http_proxy_loc_conf_t and ngx_http_proxy_vars_t, reflect
this change in create_loc_conf comments.