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Aurelien DARRAGON afcfc20e14 BUG/MEDIUM: event_hdl: fix async data refcount issue
In _event_hdl_publish(), when publishing an event to async handler(s),
async_data is allocated only once and then relies on a refcount
logic to reuse the same data block for multiple async event handlers.
(this allows to save significant amount of memory)

Because the refcount is first set to 0, there is a small race where
the consumers could consume async data (async data refcount reaching 0)
before publishing is actually over.
The consequence is that async data may be freed by one of the consumers
while we still rely on it within _event_hdl_publish().

This was discovered by chance when stress-testing the API with multiple
async handlers registered to the same event: some of the handlers were
notified about a new event for which the event data was already freed,
resulting in invalid reads and/or segfaults.

To fix this, we first set the refcount to 1, assuming that the
publish function relies on async_data until the publish is over.
At the end of the publish, the reference to the async data is dropped.

This way, async_data is either freed by _event_hdl_publish() itself
or by one of the consumers, depending on who is the last one relying
on it.

If 68e692da0 ("MINOR: event_hdl: add event handler base api")
is being backported, then this commit should be backported with it.
2023-04-05 08:58:17 +02:00
.github CI: exclude doc/{design-thoughts,internals} from spell check 2023-04-01 18:34:10 +02:00
addons MEDIUM: promex: Use the sedesc to report and detect end of processing 2023-04-05 08:57:06 +02:00
admin BUILD: halog: fix missing double-quote at end of help line 2022-11-25 11:11:41 +01:00
dev MEDIUM: ring: make the offset relative to the head/tail instead of absolute 2023-02-24 09:26:30 +01:00
doc DOC: lua: silence "Unexpected indentation" Sphinx warnings 2023-04-05 08:58:17 +02:00
examples EXAMPLES: remove completely outdated acl-content-sw.cfg 2022-05-30 18:14:24 +02:00
include BUG/MEDIUM: event_hdl: clean soft-stop handling 2023-04-05 08:58:17 +02:00
reg-tests MEDIUM: hlua_fcn: dynamic server iteration and indexing 2023-04-05 08:58:16 +02:00
scripts SCRIPTS: run-regtests: add a version check 2022-11-30 18:44:33 +01:00
src BUG/MEDIUM: event_hdl: fix async data refcount issue 2023-04-05 08:58:17 +02:00
tests TESTS: add a unit test for one_among_mask() 2022-06-21 20:29:57 +02:00
.cirrus.yml CI: cirrus-ci: bump FreeBSD image to 13-1 2022-09-09 13:30:17 +02:00
.gitattributes MINOR: Configure the cpp userdiff driver for *.[ch] in .gitattributes 2021-02-22 18:17:57 +01:00
.gitignore CLEANUP: exclude udp-perturb with .gitignore 2022-09-16 15:47:04 +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 2.8-dev6 2023-03-28 13:58:56 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2021-08-16 12:37:59 +02:00
INSTALL MINOR: version: mention that it's development again 2022-12-01 15:24:10 +01:00
LICENSE LICENSE: add licence exception for OpenSSL 2012-09-07 13:52:26 +02:00
MAINTAINERS CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2022-11-30 14:02:36 +01:00
Makefile MINOR: quic: Add a fake congestion control algorithm named "nocc" 2023-03-31 17:09:03 +02:00
README DOC: create a BRANCHES file to explain the life cycle 2019-06-15 22:00:14 +02:00
SUBVERS BUILD: use format tags in VERDATE and SUBVERS files 2013-12-10 11:22:49 +01:00
VERDATE [RELEASE] Released version 2.8-dev6 2023-03-28 13:58:56 +02:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 2.8-dev6 2023-03-28 13:58:56 +02:00

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)