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Willy Tarreau 6ee9f8df3b BUG/MEDIUM: listener/threads: fix an AB/BA locking issue in delete_listener()
The delete_listener() function takes the listener's lock before taking
the proto_lock, which is contrary to what other functions do, possibly
causing an AB/BA deadlock. In practice the two only places where both
are taken are during protocol_enable_all() and delete_listener(), the
former being used during startup and the latter during stop. In practice
during reload floods, it is technically possible for a thread to be
initializing the listeners while another one is stopping. While this
is too hard to trigger on 2.0 and above due to the synchronization of
all threads during startup, it's reasonably easy to do in 1.9 by having
hundreds of listeners, starting 64 threads and flooding them with reloads
like this :

   $ while usleep 50000; do killall -USR2 haproxy; done

Usually in less than a minute, all threads will be deadlocked. The fix
consists in always taking the proto_lock before the listener lock. It
seems to be the only place where these two locks were reversed. This
fix needs to be backported to 2.0, 1.9, and 1.8.
2019-08-26 11:07:09 +02:00
.github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE DOC: Add 'Question.md' issue template, discouraging asking questions 2019-08-02 19:11:41 +02:00
contrib BUG/MINOR: Fix prometheus '# TYPE' and '# HELP' headers 2019-08-12 08:51:28 +02:00
doc DOC: fixed typo in management.txt 2019-08-23 11:35:58 +02:00
ebtree CLEANUP: fix typos in comments in ebtree 2018-11-18 22:23:15 +01:00
examples CLEANUP: removed obsolete examples an move a few to better places 2019-06-15 21:25:06 +02:00
include BUILD: trace: make the lockon_ptr const to silence a warning without threads 2019-08-22 20:26:28 +02:00
reg-tests REGTESTS: checks: make 4be_1srv_health_checks more reliable 2019-08-01 09:53:36 +02:00
scripts CLEANUP: removed obsolete examples an move a few to better places 2019-06-15 21:25:06 +02:00
src BUG/MEDIUM: listener/threads: fix an AB/BA locking issue in delete_listener() 2019-08-26 11:07:09 +02:00
tests CLEANUP: fix a misspell in tests/filltab25.c 2018-11-18 22:23:15 +01:00
.cirrus.yml BUILD: enable freebsd builds on cirrus-ci 2019-05-16 09:27:51 +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: trigger non-mainstream configurations only on daily builds. 2019-08-20 08:13:00 +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-dev1 2019-07-16 19:15:28 +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 DOC: this is a development branch again. 2019-06-17 13:35:23 +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 MINOR: trace: start to create a new trace subsystem 2019-08-22 20:21:00 +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-dev1 2019-07-16 19:15:28 +02:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 2.1-dev1 2019-07-16 19:15:28 +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)