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Willy Tarreau 19920d6fc9 BUG/MEDIUM: applet: always check a fast running applet's activity before killing
In issue #277 is reported a strange problem related to a fast-spinning
applet which seems to show valid progress being made. It's uncertain how
this can happen, maybe some very specific timing patterns manage to place
just a few bytes in each buffer and result in the peers applet being called
a lot. But it appears possible to artificially cross the spinning threshold
by asking for monster stats page (500 MB) and limiting the send() size to
1 MSS (1460 bytes), causing the stats page to be called for very small
blocks which most often do not leave enough room to place a new chunk.

The idea developed in this patch consists in not crashing for an applet
which reaches a very high call rate if it shows some indication of
progress. Detecting progress on applets is not trivial but in our case
we know that they must at least not claim to wait for a buffer allocation
if this buffer is present, wait for room if the buffer is empty, ask for
more data without polling if such data are still present, nor leave with
an empty input buffer without having written anything nor read anything
from the other side while a shutw is pending.

Doing so doesn't affect normal behaviors nor abuses of our existing
applets and does at least protect against an applet performing an
early return without processing events, or one causing an endless
loop by asking for impossible conditions.

This must be backported to 2.0.
2019-10-11 16:05:57 +02:00
.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE DOC: Add 'Question.md' issue template, discouraging asking questions 2019-08-02 19:11:41 +02:00
contrib DOC: fix typo in Prometheus exporter doc 2019-10-09 04:38:15 +02:00
doc MINOR: stats: make "show stat" and "show info" 2019-10-10 11:30:07 +02:00
ebtree BUILD: ebtree: make eb_is_empty() and eb_is_dup() take a const 2019-10-02 15:24:19 +02:00
examples CLEANUP: removed obsolete examples an move a few to better places 2019-06-15 21:25:06 +02:00
include MINOR: stats: prepare to add a description with each stat/info field 2019-10-10 11:30:07 +02:00
reg-tests REGTESTS: checks: make 4be_1srv_health_checks more reliable 2019-08-01 09:53:36 +02:00
scripts BUILD: CI: install golang-1.13 when building BoringSSL 2019-09-17 13:52:39 +02:00
src BUG/MEDIUM: applet: always check a fast running applet's activity before killing 2019-10-11 16:05:57 +02:00
tests TESTS: Add a stress-test for mt_lists. 2019-09-23 18:16:08 +02:00
.cirrus.yml BUILD: CI: skip reg-tests/connection/proxy_protocol_random_fail.vtc on CentOS 6 2019-09-08 12:10:32 +02:00
.gitignore DOC: create a BRANCHES file to explain the life cycle 2019-06-15 22:00:14 +02:00
.travis.yml BUILD: travis-ci: add PCRE2, SLZ build 2019-09-23 19:08:39 +02:00
BRANCHES DOC: create a BRANCHES file to explain the life cycle 2019-06-15 22:00:14 +02:00
CHANGELOG [RELEASE] Released version 2.1-dev2 2019-10-01 18:13:09 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING DOC: improve the wording in CONTRIBUTING about how to document a bug fix 2019-07-26 15:46:21 +02:00
INSTALL MINOR: build: add linux-glibc-legacy build TARGET 2019-09-01 17:28:10 +02:00
LICENSE LICENSE: add licence exception for OpenSSL 2012-09-07 13:52:26 +02:00
MAINTAINERS DOC: wurfl: added point of contact in MAINTAINERS file 2019-04-23 11:00:23 +02:00
Makefile BUILD: makefile: work around yet another GCC fantasy (-Wstring-plus-int) 2019-09-24 09:43:34 +02:00
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 2.1-dev2 2019-10-01 18:13:09 +02:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 2.1-dev2 2019-10-01 18:13:09 +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)