BUG/MEDIUM: h2: properly handle and report some stream errors
Some stream errors applied to half-closed and closed streams are not
properly reported, especially after the stream transistions to the
closed state. The reason is that the code checks for this "error"
stream state in order to send an RST frame. But if the stream was
just closed or was already closed, there's no way to validate this
condition, and the error is never reported to the peer.
In order to address this situation, we'll add a new FRAME_E demux state
which indicates that the previously parsed frame triggered a stream error
of type STREAM CLOSED that needs to be reported. Proceeding like this
will ensure that we don't lose that information even if we can't
immediately send the message. It also removes the confusion where FRAME_A
could be used either for ACKs or for RST.
The state transition has been added after every h2s_error() on the demux
path. It seems that we might need to have two distinct h2s_error()
functions, one for the mux and another one for the demux, though it
would provide little benefit. It also becomes more apparent that the
H2_SS_ERROR state is only used to detect the need to report an error
on the mux direction. Maybe this will have to be revisited later.
This simple change managed to eliminate 5 bugs reported by h2spec.
This fix must be backported to 1.8.
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