tree aca11972a941b59b240947fbbae6775144422f2b
parent 0154edc96f6bef1a78f53c45735805983b7b1828
author Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> 1526463305 +0200
committer Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> 1526463305 +0200
encoding latin1

BUG/MEDIUM: http: don't always abort transfers on CF_SHUTR

Pawel Karoluk reported on Discourse[1] that HTTP/2 breaks url_param.

Christopher managed to track it down to the HTTP_MSGF_WAIT_CONN flag
which is set there to ensure the connection is validated before sending
the headers, as we may need to rewind the stream and hash again upon
redispatch. What happens is that in the forwarding code we refrain
from forwarding when this flag is set and the connection is not yet
established, and for this we go through the missing_data_or_waiting
path. This exit path was initially designed only to wait for data
from the client, so it rightfully checks whether or not the client
has already closed since in that case it must not wait for more data.
But it also has the side effect of aborting such a transfer if the
client has closed after the request, which is exactly what happens
in H2.

A study on the code reveals that this whole combined check should
be revisited : while it used to be true that waiting had the same
error conditions as missing data, it's not true anymore. Some other
corner cases were identified, such as the risk to report a server
close instead of a client timeout when waiting for the client to
read the last chunk of data if the shutr is already present, or
the risk to fail a redispatch when a client uploads some data and
closes before the connection establishes. The compression seems to
be at risk of rare issues there if a write to a full buffer is not
yet possible but a shutr is already queued.

At the moment these risks are extremely unlikely but they do exist,
and their impact is very minor since it mostly concerns an issue not
being optimally handled, and the fixes risk to cause more serious
issues. Thus this patch only focuses on how the HTTP_MSGF_WAIT_CONN
is handled and leaves the rest untouched.

This patch needs to be backported to 1.8, and could be backported to
earlier versions to properly take care of HTTP/1 requests passing via
url_param which are closed immediately after the headers, though this
is unlikely as this behaviour is only exhibited by scripts.

[1] https://discourse.haproxy.org/t/haproxy-1-8-x-url-param-issue-in-http2/2482/13