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From: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
To: meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] http: fix pipelining during long async requests
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2023 20:54:33 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231125205435.4187895-2-e@80x24.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231125205435.4187895-1-e@80x24.org>

We must not attempt to read request bodies from the HTTP client
while processing a long request since that drains pipelined
requests.  The NNTP/IMAP/POP3 event_step callbacks follow the
same behavior when {long_cb} is present from ->long_response.

This bug has little real-world consequence since HTTP/1.1
pipelining is not widely-used, especially when behind varnish
or other reverse proxies.

I found this bug while randomly strace-ing an active -netd
process to see the kind of traffic it was seeing.
---
 lib/PublicInbox/HTTP.pm | 17 +++++------
 xt/httpd-async-stream.t | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 2 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/HTTP.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/HTTP.pm
index 85991ae7..7162732e 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/HTTP.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/HTTP.pm
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ sub new ($$$) {
 sub event_step { # called by PublicInbox::DS
 	my ($self) = @_;
 	local $SIG{__WARN__} = $self->{srv_env}->{'pi-httpd.warn_cb'};
-	return unless $self->flush_write && $self->{sock};
+	return unless $self->flush_write && $self->{sock} && !$self->{forward};
 
 	# only read more requests if we've drained the write buffer,
 	# otherwise we can be buffering infinitely w/o backpressure
@@ -230,6 +230,13 @@ sub identity_write ($$) {
 
 sub response_done {
 	my ($self, $alive) = @_;
+	if (my $forward = delete $self->{forward}) { # avoid recursion
+		eval { $forward->close };
+		if ($@) {
+			warn "response forward->close error: $@";
+			return $self->close; # idempotent
+		}
+	}
 	delete $self->{env}; # we're no longer busy
 	# HEAD requests set $alive = 3 so we don't send "0\r\n\r\n";
 	$self->write(\"0\r\n\r\n") if $alive == 2;
@@ -268,14 +275,6 @@ sub getline_pull {
 		warn "response ->getline error: $@";
 		$self->close;
 	}
-	# avoid recursion
-	if (delete $self->{forward}) {
-		eval { $forward->close };
-		if ($@) {
-			warn "response ->close error: $@";
-			$self->close; # idempotent
-		}
-	}
 	response_done($self, delete $self->{alive});
 }
 
diff --git a/xt/httpd-async-stream.t b/xt/httpd-async-stream.t
index 099ceb79..21d09331 100644
--- a/xt/httpd-async-stream.t
+++ b/xt/httpd-async-stream.t
@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@
 # Copyright (C) all contributors <meta@public-inbox.org>
 # License: AGPL-3.0+ <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.txt>
 # Expensive test to validate compression and TLS.
-use strict;
-use v5.10.1;
+use v5.12;
+use autodie;
+use PublicInbox::IO qw(write_file);
+use IO::Uncompress::Gunzip qw(gunzip $GunzipError);
 use PublicInbox::TestCommon;
 use PublicInbox::DS qw(now);
 use PublicInbox::Spawn qw(popen_rd);
@@ -23,20 +25,15 @@ diag "TEST_JOBS=$JOBS TEST_ENDPOINT=$endpoint TEST_CURL_OPT=$curl_opt";
 my @CURL_OPT = (qw(-HHost:example.com -sSf), split(' ', $curl_opt));
 
 my $make_local_server = sub {
+	my ($http) = @_;
 	my $pi_config = "$tmpdir/config";
-	open my $fh, '>', $pi_config or die "open($pi_config): $!";
-	print $fh <<"" or die "print $pi_config: $!";
+	write_file '>', $pi_config, <<"";
 [publicinbox "test"]
 inboxdir = $inboxdir
 address = test\@example.com
 
-	close $fh or die "close($pi_config): $!";
 	my ($out, $err) = ("$tmpdir/out", "$tmpdir/err");
-	for ($out, $err) {
-		open my $fh, '>', $_ or die "truncate: $!";
-	}
-	my $http = tcp_server();
-	my $rdr = { 3 => $http };
+	for ($out, $err) { open my $fh, '>', $_ }
 
 	# not using multiple workers, here, since we want to increase
 	# the chance of tripping concurrency bugs within PublicInbox/HTTP*.pm
@@ -46,10 +43,22 @@ address = test\@example.com
 	my $url = "$host_port/test/$endpoint";
 	print STDERR "# CMD ". join(' ', @$cmd). "\n";
 	my $env = { PI_CONFIG => $pi_config };
-	(start_script($cmd, $env, $rdr), $url);
+	(start_script($cmd, $env, { 3 => $http }), $url)
 };
 
-my ($td, $url) = $make_local_server->();
+my ($td, $url) = $make_local_server->(my $http = tcp_server());
+
+my $s1 = tcp_connect($http);
+my $rbuf = do { # pipeline while reading long response
+	my $req = <<EOM;
+GET /test/$endpoint HTTP/1.1\r
+Host: example.com\r
+\r
+EOM
+	is syswrite($s1, $req), length($req), 'initial long req';
+	<$s1>;
+};
+like $rbuf, qr!\AHTTP/1\.1 200\b!, 'started reading 200 response';
 
 my $do_get_all = sub {
 	my ($job) = @_;
@@ -74,16 +83,16 @@ my $do_get_all = sub {
 
 my (%pids, %res);
 for my $job (1..$JOBS) {
-	pipe(my ($r, $w)) or die;
+	pipe(my $r, my $w);
 	my $pid = fork;
 	if ($pid == 0) {
-		close $r or die;
+		close $r;
 		my $res = $do_get_all->($job);
-		print $w $res or die;
-		close $w or die;
+		print $w $res;
+		close $w;
 		_exit(0);
 	}
-	close $w or die;
+	close $w;
 	$pids{$pid} = [ $job, $r ];
 }
 
@@ -96,6 +105,31 @@ while (scalar keys %pids) {
 	push @{$res{$sum}}, $job;
 }
 is(scalar keys %res, 1, 'all got the same result');
+{
+	my $req = <<EOM;
+GET /test/manifest.js.gz HTTP/1.1\r
+Host: example.com\r
+Connection: close\r
+\r
+EOM
+	is syswrite($s1, $req), length($req),
+		'pipeline another request while reading long response';
+	diag 'reading remainder of slow response';
+	my $res = do { local $/ = "\r\n\r\n"; <$s1> };
+	like $res, qr/^Transfer-Encoding: chunked\r\n/sm, 'chunked response';
+	{
+		local $/ = "\r\n"; # get to final chunk
+		while (defined(my $l = <$s1>)) { last if $l eq "0\r\n" }
+	};
+	is scalar(readline($s1)), "\r\n", 'got final CRLF from 1st response';
+	diag "second response:";
+	$res = do { local $/ = "\r\n\r\n"; <$s1> };
+	like $res, qr!\AHTTP/1\.1 200 !, 'response for pipelined req';
+	gunzip($s1 => \my $json) or xbail "gunzip $GunzipError";
+	my $m = PublicInbox::Config::json()->decode($json);
+	like $m->{'/test'}->{fingerprint}, qr/\A[0-9a-f]{40,}\z/,
+		'acceptable fingerprint in response';
+}
 $td->kill;
 $td->join;
 is($?, 0, 'no error on -httpd exit');

  reply	other threads:[~2023-11-25 20:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-25 20:54 [PATCH 0/3] ds: event loop-related fixes Eric Wong
2023-11-25 20:54 ` Eric Wong [this message]
2023-11-25 20:54 ` [PATCH 2/3] select+poll: have caller retry on EINTR Eric Wong
2023-11-25 20:54 ` [PATCH 3/3] ds: long_step: eliminate redundant fileno call Eric Wong

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