Opened 12 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

#320 assigned enhancement

nginx should reliably check client connection close with pending data

Reported by: Sergey Kandaurov Owned by: Valentin V. Bartenev
Priority: minor Milestone:
Component: nginx-core Version: 1.3.x
Keywords: Cc:
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Description (last modified by Maxim Dounin)

To detect if a connection was closed by a client, nginx uses:

  • A EV_EOF flag as reported by kqueue. This only works if you use kqueue, i.e. on FreeBSD and friends.
  • The recv(MSG_PEEK) call to test a case when connection was closed. This works on all platforms, but only if there are no pending data.

Most notably, this doesn't cover Linux and SSL connections, which are usually closed with pending data (a shutdown alert). To improve things, the following should be implemented (in no particular order):

  • SSL_peek() for SSL connections instead of recv(MSG_PEEK), likely with additional c->peek() call.
  • Support for EPOLLRDHUP, which is believed to be close to EV_EOF provided by kqueue.

References:
http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2011-June/027669.html
http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2011-November/030614.html
http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2013-March/038119.html

Change History (7)

comment:1 by Maxim Dounin, 12 years ago

Description: modified (diff)

comment:2 by Valentin V. Bartenev, 12 years ago

Owner: set to Valentin V. Bartenev
Status: newassigned

comment:3 by Valentin Bartenev <vbart@…>, 11 years ago

In 36b58ddb566d87d0a8b7dd81d633d5e4b0f54bca/nginx:

Events: support for EPOLLRDHUP (ticket #320).

Since Linux 2.6.17, epoll is able to report about peer half-closed connection
using special EPOLLRDHUP flag on a read event.

comment:4 by Valentin Bartenev <vbart@…>, 11 years ago

In 46bdbca10dfc92b0123e9f0aa657ab367e56e33c/nginx:

Upstream: use EPOLLRDHUP to check broken connections (ticket #320).

This allows to detect client connection close with pending data on Linux
while processing upstream.

comment:5 by Valentin Bartenev <vbart@…>, 11 years ago

In ef3d094bb6d351d790488e3ce222ea193903fbf2/nginx:

Use EPOLLRDHUP in ngx_http_test_reading() (ticket #320).

This allows to detect client connection close with pending data when
the ngx_http_test_reading() request event handler is set.

comment:6 by Maxim Dounin, 11 years ago

Shouldn't we close this ticket? Valentin?

in reply to:  6 comment:7 by Valentin V. Bartenev, 11 years ago

Replying to Maxim Dounin <mdounin@mdounin.ru>:

Shouldn't we close this ticket? Valentin?

I don't think so. We still lack of the SSL_peek() support.

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