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Amaury Denoyelle a96f1286a7 BUG/MINOR: connection: rearrange union list members
A connection can be stored in several lists, thus there is several
attach points in struct connection. Depending on its proxy side, either
frontend or backend, a single connection will only access some of them
during its lifetime.

As an optimization, these attach points are organized in a union.
However, this repartition was not correctly achieved along
frontend/backend side delimitation.

Furthermore, reverse HTTP has recently been introduced. With this
feature, a connection can migrate from frontend to backend side or vice
versa. As such, it becomes even more tedious to ensure that these
members are always accessed in a safe way.

This commit rearrange these fields. First, union is now clearly splitted
between frontend and backend only elements. Next, backend elements are
initialized with conn_backend_init(), which is already used during
connection reversal on an edge endpoint. A new function
conn_frontend_init() serves to initialize the other members, called both
on connection first instantiation and on reversal on a dialer endpoint.

This model is much cleaner and should prevent any access to fields from
the wrong side.

Currently, there is no known case of wrong access in the existing code
base. However, this cleanup is considered an improvement which must be
backported up to 3.0 to remove any possible undefined behavior.
2025-08-28 14:52:29 +02:00
.github CI: Update to actions/checkout@v5 2025-08-13 19:15:04 +02:00
addons MINOR: applet: Add a flag to know an applet is using HTX buffers 2025-08-25 11:11:05 +02:00
admin BUG/MINOR: halog: exit with error when some output filters are set simultaneosly 2025-07-17 17:22:37 +02:00
dev DEV: gdb: add a memprofile decoder to the debug tools 2025-07-16 15:33:33 +02:00
doc DOC: configuration: clarify 'default-crt' and implicit default certificates 2025-08-27 17:09:02 +02:00
examples MINOR: mailers: warn if mailers are configured but not actually used 2025-06-27 16:41:18 +02:00
include BUG/MINOR: connection: rearrange union list members 2025-08-28 14:52:29 +02:00
reg-tests REGTESTS: jwt: create dynamically "cert.ecdsa.pem" 2025-08-25 16:44:24 +02:00
scripts BUILD: adjust scripts/build-ssl.sh to modern CMake system of QuicTLS 2025-07-11 05:04:31 +02:00
src BUG/MINOR: connection: rearrange union list members 2025-08-28 14:52:29 +02:00
tests TESTS: Fix build for filltab25.c 2025-04-03 15:59:41 +02:00
.cirrus.yml CI: cirrus-ci: bump FreeBSD image to 14-2 2025-02-12 13:18:55 +01:00
.gitattributes MINOR: Configure the cpp userdiff driver for *.[ch] in .gitattributes 2021-02-22 18:17:57 +01:00
.gitignore MINOR: tevt/dev: Add term_events tool 2025-01-31 10:41:50 +01:00
.mailmap DOC: update Tim's address in .mailmap 2021-09-16 09:14:14 +02:00
.travis.yml MEDIUM: mworker: remove USE_SYSTEMD requirement for -Ws 2024-11-20 12:07:38 +01:00
BRANCHES DOC: fix some spelling issues over multiple files 2021-01-08 14:53:47 +01:00
BSDmakefile BUILD: makefile: commit the tiny FreeBSD makefile stub 2023-05-24 17:17:36 +02:00
CHANGELOG [RELEASE] Released version 3.3-dev7 2025-08-20 21:52:39 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2025-04-02 11:12:20 +02:00
INSTALL MINOR: version: mention that it's development again 2025-05-28 16:46:15 +02:00
LICENSE LICENSE: add licence exception for OpenSSL 2012-09-07 13:52:26 +02:00
MAINTAINERS MAJOR: spoe: Let the SPOE back into the game 2024-05-22 09:04:38 +02:00
Makefile MINOR: build: Add a new option, USE_KTLS. 2025-08-20 18:33:11 +02:00
README.md DOC: change the link to the FreeBSD CI in README.md 2024-06-03 15:21:29 +02:00
SUBVERS BUILD: use format tags in VERDATE and SUBVERS files 2013-12-10 11:22:49 +01:00
VERDATE [RELEASE] Released version 3.3-dev7 2025-08-20 21:52:39 +02:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 3.3-dev7 2025-08-20 21:52:39 +02:00

HAProxy

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HAProxy is a free, very fast and reliable reverse-proxy offering high availability, load balancing, and proxying for TCP and HTTP-based applications.

Installation

The INSTALL file describes how to build HAProxy. A list of packages is also available on the wiki.

Getting help

The discourse and the mailing-list are available for questions or configuration assistance. You can also use the slack or IRC channel. Please don't use the issue tracker for these.

The issue tracker is only for bug reports or feature requests.

Documentation

The HAProxy documentation has been split into a number of different files for ease of use. It is available in text format as well as HTML. The wiki is also meant to replace the old architecture guide.

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:

License

HAProxy is licensed under GPL 2 or any later version, the headers under LGPL 2.1. See the LICENSE file for a more detailed explanation.