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Willy Tarreau 6c539c4b8c BUG/MINOR: stream: make the call_rate only count the no-progress calls
We have an anti-looping protection in process_stream() that detects bugs
that used to affect a few filters like compression in the past which
sometimes forgot to handle a read0 or a particular error, leaving a
thread looping at 100% CPU forever. When such a condition is detected,
an alert it emitted and the process is killed so that it can be replaced
by a sane one:

  [ALERT]    (19061) : A bogus STREAM [0x274abe0] is spinning at 2057156
             calls per second and refuses to die, aborting now! Please
             report this error to developers [strm=0x274abe0,3 src=unix
             fe=MASTER be=MASTER dst=<MCLI> txn=(nil),0 txn.req=-,0
             txn.rsp=-,0 rqf=c02000 rqa=10000 rpf=88000021 rpa=8000000
             sif=EST,40008 sib=DIS,84018 af=(nil),0 csf=0x274ab90,8600
             ab=0x272fd40,1 csb=(nil),0
             cof=0x25d5d80,1300:PASS(0x274aaf0)/RAW((nil))/unix_stream(9)
             cob=(nil),0:NONE((nil))/NONE((nil))/NONE(0) filters={}]
    call trace(11):
    |       0x4dbaab [c7 04 25 01 00 00 00 00]: stream_dump_and_crash+0x17b/0x1b4
    |       0x4df31f [e9 bd c8 ff ff 49 83 7c]: process_stream+0x382f/0x53a3
    (...)

One problem with this detection is that it used to only count the call
rate because we weren't sure how to make it more accurate, but the
threshold was high enough to prevent accidental false positives.

There is actually one case that manages to trigger it, which is when
sending huge amounts of requests pipelined on the master CLI. Some
short requests such as "show version" are sufficient to be handled
extremely fast and to cause a wake up of an analyser to parse the
next request, then an applet to handle it, back and forth. But this
condition is not an error, since some data are being forwarded by
the stream, and it's easy to detect it.

This patch modifies the detection so that update_freq_ctr() only
applies to calls made without CF_READ_PARTIAL nor CF_WRITE_PARTIAL
set on any of the channels, which really indicates that nothing is
happening at all.

This is greatly sufficient and extremely effective, as the call above
is still caught (shutr being ignored by an analyser) while a loop on
the master CLI now has no effect. The "call_rate" field in the detailed
"show sess" output will now be much lower, except for bogus streams,
which may help spot them. This field is only there for developers
anyway so it's pretty fine to slightly adjust its meaning.

This patch could be backported to stable versions in case of reports
of such an issue, but as that's unlikely, it's not really needed.
2022-01-20 18:56:57 +01:00
.github CI: refactor OpenTracing build script 2022-01-19 07:37:40 +01:00
addons BUILD: opentracing: display warning in case of using OT_USE_VARS at compile time 2021-12-28 14:51:40 +01:00
admin OPTIM: halog: skip fields 64 bits at a time when supported 2021-11-08 12:08:26 +01:00
dev Revert "DEV: coccinelle: Add rule to use chunk_istcat() instead of chunk_strncat()" 2021-11-08 13:42:03 +01:00
doc DOC: management: mark "set server ssl" as deprecated 2022-01-19 15:22:05 +01:00
examples MEDIUM: proxy: remove long-broken 'option http_proxy' 2021-07-18 19:35:32 +02:00
include BUG/MINOR: stream: make the call_rate only count the no-progress calls 2022-01-20 18:56:57 +01:00
reg-tests REGTESTS: ssl: Fix ssl_errors regtest with OpenSSL 1.0.2 2022-01-11 20:02:37 +01:00
scripts CI: refactor OpenTracing build script 2022-01-19 07:37:40 +01:00
src BUG/MINOR: stream: make the call_rate only count the no-progress calls 2022-01-20 18:56:57 +01:00
tests CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2021-08-16 12:37:59 +02:00
.cirrus.yml CI: introduce scripts/build-vtest.sh for installing VTest 2021-05-18 10:48:30 +02:00
.gitattributes MINOR: Configure the cpp userdiff driver for *.[ch] in .gitattributes 2021-02-22 18:17:57 +01:00
.gitignore DOC: lua-api: Add documentation about lua filters 2021-08-15 20:56:44 +02:00
.mailmap DOC: update Tim's address in .mailmap 2021-09-16 09:14:14 +02:00
.travis.yml CI: travis-ci: temporarily disable arm64 builds 2021-08-07 07:28:15 +02:00
BRANCHES DOC: fix some spelling issues over multiple files 2021-01-08 14:53:47 +01:00
CHANGELOG [RELEASE] Released version 2.6-dev0 2021-11-23 15:50:11 +01:00
CONTRIBUTING CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2021-08-16 12:37:59 +02:00
INSTALL MINOR: version: it's development again 2021-11-23 15:48:35 +01:00
LICENSE LICENSE: add licence exception for OpenSSL 2012-09-07 13:52:26 +02:00
MAINTAINERS CONTRIB: move spoa_example out of the tree 2021-04-21 09:39:06 +02:00
Makefile BUILD/MINOR: fix solaris build with clang. 2022-01-17 17:41:08 +01:00
README DOC: create a BRANCHES file to explain the life cycle 2019-06-15 22:00:14 +02:00
ROADMAP DOC: update the outdated ROADMAP file 2019-06-15 21:59:54 +02:00
SUBVERS BUILD: use format tags in VERDATE and SUBVERS files 2013-12-10 11:22:49 +01:00
VERDATE [RELEASE] Released version 2.5.0 2021-11-23 15:40:21 +01:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 2.6-dev0 2021-11-23 15:50:11 +01:00

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)