Opened 10 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

#566 closed defect (fixed)

SPDY bug in Nginx 1.7.0

Reported by: X Ryl Owned by:
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: nginx-core Version: 1.5.x
Keywords: spdy header Cc:
uname -a: Linux MyHOST 3.2.0-4-kirkwood #1 Debian 3.2.54-2 armv5tel GNU/Linux
nginx -V: nginx version: nginx/1.7.0
built by gcc 4.7.2 (Debian 4.7.2-5)
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --prefix=/etc/nginx --sbin-path=/usr/sbin/nginx --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --pid-path=/var/run/nginx.pid --lock-path=/var/run/nginx.lock --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/body --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/proxy --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/fastcgi --user=www-data --group=www-data --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_spdy_module --with-http_sub_module --with-http_flv_module --with-http_mp4_module --with-http_gunzip_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_secure_link_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-file-aio --without-http_uwsgi_module

Description

Hi,

I've seen a recurrent bug in nginx starting from 1.5 up to 1.7 when SPDY is enabled. At first, I though it was due to SPDY/2 protocol's known race condition, but it's still here in 1.7 with SPDY/3 protocol.

Attached is an hexdump from SPDY decrypted session that can be imported by Wireshark and analyzed by spdyshark's dissector (use "Import from hexdump" in the file menu, Ethernet type, dummy TCP header, whatever ports, then right click the first packet and select "Decode as SPDY")

Typically what happens:

1) The usual connection with static content works with SPDY
2) When querying Ajax's POST request, the connection drops because Nginx tells it's about to send 12 headers but only send 8 of them.
3) In the PHP's backend, I'm sending a lot of "Set-Cookie" header when starting/stopping the different session.
4) The last header that's parsed correctly in Wireshark is the first "Set-Cookie"
5) The specification for the protocol states:

"Duplicate header names are not allowed. To send two identically named headers, send a header with two values, where the values are separated by a single NUL (0) byte. Senders must not send multiple, in-sequence NUL characters. Receivers of multiple, in-sequence NUL characters must send a RST_STREAM with code PROTOCOL_ERROR on the stream."

6) See also https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=252114
7) Not sure it's done correctly in nginx or not, but as a result, no connection works when SPDY is enabled in nginx, so it's a major bug for me.


Attachments (3)

hexD.txt (126.2 KB ) - added by X Ryl 10 years ago.
Hexdump of the SPDY dialog
parsed2.txt (14.2 KB ) - added by X Ryl 10 years ago.
parsed date human understandable
err.log (249.0 KB ) - added by X Ryl 10 years ago.
Debug log

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Change History (6)

by X Ryl, 10 years ago

Attachment: hexD.txt added

Hexdump of the SPDY dialog

by X Ryl, 10 years ago

Attachment: parsed2.txt added

parsed date human understandable

comment:1 by Valentin V. Bartenev, 10 years ago

Could you provide a debug log?

by X Ryl, 10 years ago

Attachment: err.log added

Debug log

comment:2 by X Ryl, 10 years ago

Beware that's only the first 255KB of the log, since this website does not allow more to be sent. Look for request "index.php?disconnect" to see the error.
Thanks.

comment:3 by Valentin V. Bartenev, 10 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

The issue should be fixed by 34d460c5d186.

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