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Willy Tarreau e122dc5316 MEDIUM: udp: implement udp_suspend() and udp_resume()
In Linux kernel's net/ipv4/udp.c there's a udp_disconnect() function
which is called when connecting to AF_UNSPEC, and which unhashes a
"connection". This property, which is also documented in connect(2)
both in Linux and Open Group's man pages for datagrams, is interesting
because it allows to reverse a connect() which is in fact a filter on
the source. As such we can suspend a receiver by making it connect to
itself, which will cause it not to receive any traffic anymore, letting
a new one receive it all, then resume it by breaking this connection.

This was tested to work well on Linux, other operating systems should
also be tested. Before this, sending a SIGTTOU to a process having a
UDP syslog forwarder would cause this error:

  [WARNING] 280/194249 (3268) : Paused frontend GLOBAL.
  [WARNING] 280/194249 (3268) : Some proxies refused to pause, performing soft stop now.
  [WARNING] 280/194249 (3268) : Proxy GLOBAL stopped (cumulated conns: FE: 0, BE: 0).
  [WARNING] 280/194249 (3268) : Proxy sylog-loadb stopped (cumulated conns: FE: 0, BE: 0).

With this change, it now proceeds just like with TCP listeners:

  [WARNING] 280/195503 (3885) : Paused frontend GLOBAL.
  [WARNING] 280/195503 (3885) : Paused frontend sylog-loadb.

And SIGTTIN also works:

  [WARNING] 280/195507 (3885) : Resumed frontend GLOBAL.
  [WARNING] 280/195507 (3885) : Resumed frontend sylog-loadb.

On Linux this also works with TCP listeners (which can then be resumed
using listen()) and established TCP sockets (which we currently kill
using setsockopt(so_linger)), both not being portable on other OSes.
UNIX sockets and ABNS sockets do not support it however (connect
always fails). This needs to be further explored to see if other OSes
might benefit from this to perform portable and reliable resets
particularly on the backend side.
2020-10-09 18:29:04 +02:00
.github DOC: overhauling github issue templates 2020-08-17 20:29:27 +02:00
contrib MEDIUM: proxy: replace proxy->state with proxy->disabled 2020-10-09 11:27:30 +02:00
doc MEDIUM: listeners: remove the now unused ZOMBIE state 2020-10-09 11:27:29 +02:00
examples CLEANUP: assorted typo fixes in the code and comments 2020-06-26 11:27:28 +02:00
include MINOR: protocol: add protocol_stop_now() to instant-stop listeners 2020-10-09 18:29:04 +02:00
reg-tests MEDIUM: proxy: remove start_proxies() 2020-10-09 11:27:30 +02:00
scripts REGTESTS: use "command" instead of "which" for better POSIX compatibility 2020-09-26 10:12:48 +02:00
src MEDIUM: udp: implement udp_suspend() and udp_resume() 2020-10-09 18:29:04 +02:00
tests MEDIUM: config: make str2listener() not accept datagram sockets anymore 2020-09-16 22:08:08 +02:00
.cirrus.yml CI: cirrus-ci: exclude slow reg-tests 2020-07-04 06:58:14 +02:00
.gitattributes MINOR: Commit .gitattributes 2020-09-05 16:21:59 +02:00
.gitignore CLEANUP: Update .gitignore 2020-09-12 13:11:24 +02:00
.travis.yml CI: travis-ci: help Coverity to detect BUG_ON() as a real stop 2020-10-09 09:55:53 +02:00
BRANCHES DOC: assorted typo fixes in the documentation 2020-03-09 14:45:58 +01:00
CHANGELOG [RELEASE] Released version 2.3-dev5 2020-09-25 18:40:47 +02:00
CONTRIBUTING DOC: Use gender neutral language 2020-07-26 22:35:43 +02:00
INSTALL BUILD: makefile: Update feature flags for NetBSD 2020-10-09 09:53:56 +02:00
LICENSE LICENSE: add licence exception for OpenSSL 2012-09-07 13:52:26 +02:00
MAINTAINERS REORG: include: split hathreads into haproxy/thread.h and haproxy/thread-t.h 2020-06-11 10:18:56 +02:00
Makefile BUILD: makefile: Update feature flags for NetBSD 2020-10-09 09:53:56 +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 2.3-dev5 2020-09-25 18:40:47 +02:00
VERSION [RELEASE] Released version 2.3-dev5 2020-09-25 18:40:47 +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)